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Mail Filtering
There are many ways to filter your e-mail with Perl. Two of the more popular and interesting ways are to use
PerlMx or
Mail::Audit. I took a long look at both, and this is what I thought of them.
PerlMx is a server product from ActiveState that uses the milter support in recent versions of sendmail to hook in at almost every stage of the mail-handling process.
PerlMx comes with its own copy of Perl, and all the supporting modules it needs - it can't run from a normal Perl, as it needs Perl to be built with various options such as ithreads support and multiplicity. This means you need to install any modules you want to use with
PerlMx twice if you already have them installed somewhere else on your system.
PerlMx provides a persistent daemon that processes e-mail for an entire mail-server - it avoids the overhead of starting a Perl process to handle each e-mail by running forever, and by using threads to ensure it can service more than one e-mail at a time.
PerlMx ships with two main filters - the Spam and Virus filters. The Virus filtering looks interesting, but ultimately I don't receive that many viruses in e-mail, so I was unable to test it beyond establishing that it didn't mangle my e-mail.
The Spam filtering in PerlMX is much more interesting - it seems to be based on Mail::SpamAssassin, a popular spam filtering module often used with Mail::Audit, procmail, or other ways of processing e-mail.
In two weeks of testing with
PerlMx, using it to process a copy of all my personal e-mail, I found a lot useful functionality, and a few minor problems.
The first hassles were setup - I don't normally use sendmail, but
PerlMx requires it for the milter API, so I installed sendmail, set it up, and hooked it into
Once you have sendmail setup, and built with milter support (as the default build from Debian Linux I used was), it's easy to add a connection to
PerlMx with one line in your sendmail.mc file:
INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`C<PerlMx>', `S=inet:3366@localhost, F=T,
PerlMx essentially works out of the box - it asks a number of simple questions when you install and set it up, and assuming you get these right, no further configuration will be required.
INPUT_MAIL_FILTER line also sets several key options, including the timeouts for communication between sendmail and
PerlMx - I had to raise these significantly to deal with a problem I found where
PerlMx was taking too much time to process spam (it appear to be doing DNS lookups), sendmail was timing out the connection to
PerlMx, and refusing to accept mail.
PerlMx 2.1, it even ships with its own sendmail install, pre-configured for use with
PerlMx, but you can choose to ignore this and use an existing system sendmail.
Once you've done this, suddenly all the mail that goes through your mail-server is spam filtered, and virus checked. Mail that looks likely to be spam, or that contains a virus is stopped and held in a quarantine queue, the rest are sent to the user, possibly with a spam header added to indicate a score representing how likely to be spam they are. The quarantine queue is a systemwide collection of messages which, for one reason or another, weren't appropriate to deliver to the user - this will be normally as they are either suspected to contain viruses or spam.
If the filters supplied with
PerlMx aren't to your tastes, then it comes supplied with an extension API, and extensive documentation and samples to allow you to write your own.
While testing
PerlMx, I never managed to bounce or accidentally lose my e-mail - I made many configuration errors, which meant mail wasn't processed and a lot of stuff was somewhat over-enthusiastically marked as spam when it was actually valid. But as far as I can tell, nothing bounced or disappeared into the system - this is pretty impressive, as when configuring most new bits of e-mail I usually manage to delete everything I send to it in the first few attempts, or, worse, make myself look stupid by sending errors back to random people unfortunate enough to be on the same mailing list as me.
Mail::Audit is very different from
PerlMx. For starters, once you've installed it, by default it doesn't do anything.
Mail::Audit is just a Perl module - it's a powerful tool for implementing mail filters, but mostly you have to write them yourself.
PerlMx ships with spam filtering and virus checking configured by default,
Mail::Audit provides duplicate killing, a mailing list processing module (based on Mail::ListDetector), and a few simple spam filtering options based on Realtime Blackhole Lists or Vipul's Razor.
Mail::Audit is not designed to be used with an entire mail-server in the same way as
PerlMx. Instead, it allows you to easily write little e-mail filter programs that can be triggered from the .forward file of a particular user.
Mail::Audit can be easily configured and used on a per-user basis, whereas
PerlMx takes over an entire mail-server and is an all-or-nothing choice.
The default
Mail::Audit configuration starts one Perl process for each mail handled - normally this won't be a problem, but if you're processing large volumes of mail, or have a system which is already at or near capacity, it may be enough to tip the balance and cause performance problems (Translation: Long ago I installed
Mail::Audit on an old, spare machine I was using as a mail-server, received 200 e-mails in less than a minute, and spent quite a while waiting for the system to stop gazing at its navel and start responding to the outside world again). If your mail comes to you via POP3, or can be made to do so (possibly by installing a POP3 daemon if you do not have one already), then a simple script supplied with
Mail::Audit called popread provides a base you can use to feed articles from a POP3 server into
Mail::Audit in a single Perl process, improving performance. I didn't do this myself, as I wanted to use what appeared to be the 'recommended' approach to
Mail::Audit setup - the one that is, if not actively promoted in the documentation, most strongly suggested by it, of running a
Mail::Audit script from a user's .forward file.
A popular
Mail::Audit addition is SpamAssassin (the same codebase as
PerlMx's mail processing is loosely based on) - this comes as a
Mail::Audit plugin, among other forms.
Mail::Audit makes it easy to write mail filters that work on a per-user basis, whereas
PerlMx by default applies to all mail processed on a given mailserver.
If you wanted to install
Mail::Audit systemwide, then many mail-servers (such as exim) provide a way to configure a custom local delivery agent on flexible criteria. For example, this article (archived site) provides some documentation on how to do this with exim.
Testing … 1 … 2 … 3 …
I decided to do an extended comparison of both
PerlMx and
Mail::Audit. As one of the most common applications of mail filtering tools is for spam filtering, I set up recent versions of both the tools on my personal e-mail, by various nefarious means, ran them for a week, and compared the results on two main criteria:
- False positives (legitimate email recognized as spam)
- False negatives (spam not recognized as spam)
Mail::Audit doesn't come with much spam filtering technology by default, so I decided to add SpamAssassin (http://www.spamassassin.org/) to the testing, as it can be used as a
Mail::Audit extension.
I used procmail to copy all my incoming e-mail to two pop3 mailboxes setup for the purposes of testing - one would contain mail to be processed by
Mail::Audit, the other mail to be processed by
PerlMx's spam filtering. fetchmail was used to pull the mail down into the domain of
Mail::Audit and
Once I had
Mail::Audit and SpamAssassin setup, I started feeding mail into the test box with fetchmail, and was reminded that as the
Mail::Audit approach of setting up a perl program to run from a .forward file has … unpleasant effects if you receive more than a few e-mails in quick succession. As my test mail-server collapsed under the load, I checked the
PerlMx machine, started at roughly the same time, and found that while it was working through the e-mail more slowly, it hadn't put any serious load on the machine.
Due to a
PerlMx configuration error on my part, of the first 171 messages processed, 10 were quarantined as spam AND delivered to the inbox of my test user.
PerlMx runs by default in 'training mode' when processing spam - in this mode, mail is spamchecked as normal, but even if it is found to be spam and quarantined, it is also delivered to the user.
I decided to keep track of any mail lost or mislaid during initial setup problems, so I could see what problems could arise from the tools being misconfigured. An important aspect of any software is not only how it behaves when configured right, but how much it punishes you when you get the configuration wrong.
Waking up the next morning, I found I'd bounced several hundred e-mails back to the account from which I was forwarding all the test e-mails, someone of which appeared to have gone back and forth, or found their way into the
PerlMx test mailbox. Most of the problems appeared to be internal errors from within SpamAssassin. My mail-server still hadn't recovered.
I later found this was because of an compatibility issue with SpamAssassin /
Mail::Audit, and there was a recommended fix in the SpamAssassin FAQ involving the nomime option to
Mail::Audit (but not, sadly, in the documentation for the Mail::SpamAssassin module itself).
The SpamAssassin /
Mail::Audit script I ended up using in the end was:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use C<Mail::Audit>;
use Mail::SpamAssassin;
# create C<Mail::Audit> object, log to /tmp, disable mime processing
# for SpamAssassin compatibility, and store mail in ~/emergency_mbox
# if processing fails
my $mail = C<Mail::Audit>->new(emergency=>"~/emergency_mbox",
log => '/tmp/audit.log',
loglevel => 4, nomime => 1);
my $spamtest = Mail::SpamAssassin->new;
# check mail with SpamAssassin
my $status = $spamtest->check($mail);
# if it was spam, rewrite to indicate what the problem was, and
# store in the file ass-spam in our home directory
if ($status->is_spam) {
# if if wasn't spam, accept it as normal mail
} else {
exit 0;
After clearing down all my mail, and losing two days of testing, I started again. It was only the nature of the testing setup that meant the bounce mail went to me and not the original sender. So, at 23:25 on Tuesday, I had another go. This time I knew enough to limit SpamAssassin to receiving messages in batches of five (using fetchmail) - something I could do in testing, but wouldn't be an easy option in most production setups. This meant my test machine could just about cope with delivering mail using SpamAssassin.
At 10 p.m. Sunday, I declared the testing closed, and examined the accuracy or otherwise of each system.
During the testing between Aug. 6 and 11,
Mail::Audit marked 16 pieces of e-mail as spam. Seven of these e-mails proved to be false positives - mail that I had actually solicited and would have liked to have received. Six spam emails were accepted into my Inbox. There were 874 e-mails received in all.
Mail::Audit appeared to receive 15 pieces of spam mail in total.
PerlMx marked 14 e-mails as spam. Two of these e-mails proved to be false positives - mail that was not spam. Impressively, it received 886 e-mails in the same period that
Mail::Audit received 874 e-mails. I was unable to work out the exact cause of this, although the power-cut in the middle of the testing period will always be a major suspect. Eleven spam messages were incorrectly allowws through into my Inbox.
PerlMx appeared to receive 23 pieces of spam mail in total.
The sample was small, as all I had was my own personal e-mail to work with, and I get what I'm told is surprisingly little spam, but it shows that
Mail::Audit / SpamAssassin seems to decide more mail is spam than
PerlMx does, but is also wrong more of the time.
PerlMx marked slightly less e-mail as spam, and let more spam through, but when it did claim e-mail was spam it was right more of the time.
These tests would benefit significantly from being re-run during a long period of time on a larger mail-server, but I had neither the time nor the mail-server available.
Both tools can be extensively configured in terms of what is considered spam, and are likely to need regular updating to ensure they keep up to date with new tricks of the spammers. Here I only considered the behavior with the default configuration of the latest release at the time I ran my tests.
Feature Comparison
To help you choose, I've summarized the basic characteristics of both systems below. Some of the points are quite subjective and are more my impressions of the tools rather than hard facts - these are marked separately.
|Yes - persistent server
|Maybe - depends on config - obvious default configurations scale poorly
|Ships with wide range of existing filtering functionality
|Limited range, more available from third-parties
|Target use
|System-wide mail filtering for mailservers
|Per-use mail filtering as a replacement for programs like procmail
|Mail Server Compatibility
|Almost any mail server
|Spam filtering
|Third-party extension
|Virus filtering
|Easy to setup
|Not so easy, requires custom code
|Efficient and Scalable
|Very scalable - easily separated from the mailserver, and no noticable performance impact during testing
|Performance problems during testing in default configuration
During testing,
PerlMx was significantly more reliable, both in terms of the amount of mail bounced due to configuration problems (none), and in terms of the load put in the mailserver (minimal) than
Mail::Audit. Although
Mail::Audit appears able to be setup for good performance, the obvious suggested configuration showed extremely poor scalability during testing. Also, as
Mail::Audit requires writing some filtering code, bugs, mostly in this code, resulted in nontrivial quantities of mail being bounced during testing due to code/configuration errors, a problem that simply didn't occur with
PerlMx's more pre-supplied, configuration file based system.
PerlMx and
Mail::Audit provide good mail filtering solutions using Perl, but are targeted at entirely different markets.
PerlMx is a systemwide solution providing drop-in functionality on mailservers, with Perl extensibility as well, whereas
Mail::Audit is a more low-level tool, mostly focused on use by individuals, designed to let users build their own mail processing tools more easily.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman today said he believes President Obama's budget proposal for next year makes the right investments in New Mexico's military installations.
The president today unveiled his 2011 budget, which Congress will use as a blueprint for the spending bills it will pass later this year to fund the federal government. The proposal ensures that New Mexico's Air Force Bases, White Sands Missile Range, and the Army National Guard and Reserves have the support what they need.
"With this budget proposal, it is clear President Obama is making our nation's security a top priority. The White House is making the necessary investments in our state's military installations, ensuring that they can meet their missions," Bingaman said.
Cannon Air Force Base:
• $14 million for 96-room dormitory
• $20 million for Squadron Ops Facility
• $13.287 million to Add/Alter Simulator Facility for MC-130J
• $26 million for C-130 Parking Apron Phase I
• $12.636 million for Aircraft Parking Apron (MC-130J)
• $24.622 million for Hanger/AMU (MC-130J)
• $39.674 million for Operations and Training Complex
Holloman Air Force Base:
• $15.47 million to Add/Alter Maintenance Hanger
• $22.5 million for Maintenance Hangar
Kirtland Air Force Base:
• $3.8 million for Aerial Delivery Facility Addition
• $6.46 million for Armament Shop
• $14.142 million for HC/MC-130 Fuel System Maintenance Facility
White Sands Missile Range
• $29 million for barracks
• $22.9 million for TRICARE Health and Dental Clinics
Army National Guard
• $8.5 million for Readiness Center in Farmington
Army Reserves
• $11.4 million for Army Reserve Center/Land in Las Cruces

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We Just Sent the Mona Lisa to the Moon ... With Lasers
The first time anyone has achieved one-way laser communication at planetary distances
The first time anyone has achieved one-way laser communication at planetary distances
Since mid-2009, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been, as its name would suggest, circling the moon. As its name would also suggest, the little satellite -- skimming the lunar service at a distance of 31 miles -- is also doing some scouting on our behalf: In its two-and-a-half years of lunar orbit, the satellite has created valuable gravitational maps of the moon, documented the trash humans have left on the lunar surface, and otherwise increased our knowledge about our nearest planetary neighbor.
Now, the lunar satellite has done something else, too: served as a surface for art. Specifically, for the most iconic piece of art we have: the Mona Lisa.
And the spacecraft has done that, unsurprisingly, in the service of science. Researchers at NASA Goddard wanted to test the capabilities of lasers as conduits for interplanetary communication -- and the LRO, as it turned out, was the only satellite orbiting around a body other than Earth that is currently tracked by laser. (For the most part, satellites orbiting non-Earth planets rely on radio waves for tracking and other communications.) And the Mona Lisa, for its part, was both easily recognizable and appropriately epic for some interplanetary artwork.
"Precise timing was the key to transmitting the image," NASA notes. The scientists first divided the Mona Lisa image into an array of 152 pixels by 200 pixels, converting each pixel into a shade of gray -- each shade, in turn, represented by a number between zero and 4,095. Each of those pixels was then transmitted from Earth (specifically, from NASA's Next Generation Satellite Laser Ranging, or NGSLR) by a laser pulse -- and that pulse was fired in one of 4,096 possible time slots during a brief time window allotted for laser tracking. This all meant that the complete image was transmitted at a data rate of about 300 bits per second.
The LRO's LOLA instrument used the pixels' arrival times from Earth as data points, reconstructing them based on those times back into ... the familiar half-frown of the Mona Lisa. The space-based version.
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|Image Sensor
|Super 35 mm, MOS sensor
|General Specification
|DC 7.28 V (battery operation) DC 12 V (AC adapter operation)
|Power Consumption
|19 W (with LCD/HDMI/SDI ON)
|Operating Temperature
|0 °C to 40 °C (32°F to 104°F)
|Operating Humidity
|10% to 85% (relative humidity)
|Storage Temperature
|-20 °C to 60 °C (-4°F to 140°F)
|Body: Approx. 1.2 kg (2.65 lb) (excluding accessories) Shooting: Approx. 2.05 kg (4.52 lb) (with accessories)
|135 mm (W) x 133 mm (H) x 170 mm (D) (excluding protrusions and accessories) (5-5/16 inches x 5-1/4 inches x 6-11/16 inches)
|Camera Unit
|Number of Pixels
|Total pixels: Approx. 20.49 megapixels, 6340 (H) x 3232 (V) Effective pixels: Approx. 17.25 megapixels, 5720 (H) x 3016 (V)
|Sensor Area and Max Frame Rate
|S35: 4K/UHD 60 fps/50 fps 2K/HD 120 fps/100 fps 4/3": 2K/HD 240 fps/200 fps
|14 stop
|eV-Look Gamma (2 types) Video Gamma Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG)
|V-Gamut (V-Log)
|EI Settings
|[ISO] mode: NATIVE ISO: 800, 2500 800 Base: 200 to 2000 2500 Base: 1000 to 25600 [dB] mode: (Normal) -12 dB to 8 dB (High) -8 dB to 20 dB
|Shutter Speed
|[deg] mode: 1.0 deg to 358 deg (0.5 deg step) 12 presets [sec] mode: 1/24.1 sec to 1/8000 sec (23.98p) 12 presets
|Color Temp
|ATW, AWB, 2000 K to 15000 K ±10.0 GMg 12 presets
|Lens Mount
|EF mount
|Image Stabilization
|Electric Image Stabilization (EIS)
|Auto Focus
|One push auto focus
|ND Filter
|CLEAR, 0.6ND, 1.2ND, 1.8ND, Electrical driven
|IR Cut Filter
|USER assignable IR shooting (filter ON/OFF)
|Memory Card Recorder
|Recording Media
|SDHC memory card (4 GB to 32 GB) SDXC memory card (32 GB to 128 GB) UHS-Ⅰ/UHS-Ⅱ UHS Speed Class3 is supported, Video Speed Class V90 is supported
|Recording Slot
|SD memory card slot x 2
|Recording Resolution
|4096 x 2160 (4K), 3840 x 2160 (UHD), 2048 x 1080 (2K), 1920 x 1080 (FHD), 1280 x 720 (HD)
|Recording System Frequency
|59.94p, 50p, 29.97p, 25p, 24p, 23.98p 59.94i, 50i (AVCHD only)
|2slot Functions
|Simul Rec, Relay Rec, Loop Rec*1, Background Rec*1
|Other Rec Functions
|Pre Rec, Interval Rec*1, One Shot Rec*1
|Digital Video
|MOV: 4:2:2 10 bit/4:2:0 8 bit AVCHD: 4:2:0 8 bit
|Video Compression Format
|H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile
|Digital Audio
|Recording Audio Format
|MOV: 48 kHz/24 bit, 2 CH, Linear PCM AVCHD: 48 kHz/16 bit, 2 CH, Dolby Audio™
|18 dB/20 dB (menu switchable)
|Video Output
|Video Output | SDI OUT
|BNC x 1, SDI REC REMOTE is supported 0.8 V [p-p], 75 Ω, 4K (6G), HD (3G/1.5G) Output format (4:2:2 10 bit): ・4096 x 2160: 29.97p, 25p, 24p, 23.98p ・3840 x 2160: 29.97p, 25p, 24p, 23.98p ・1920 x 1080: 59.94p, 50p, 59.94i, 50i, 29.97p, 29.97PsF, 25p, 25PsF, 24p, 24PsF, 23.98p, 23.98PsF ・1280 x 720p: 59.94p, 50p RAW* output format (10 bit): ・5760 x 3072: 29.97p, 25p, 24p, 23.98p ・4096 x 2160: 59.94p, 50p, 29.97p, 25p, 24p, 23.98p
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|HDMI x 1, TypeA, HDMI REC REMOTE is supported, Viera Link is NOT supported Output format (4:2:2 10 bit): ・4096 x 2160: 59.94p, 50p, 29.97p, 25p, 24p, 23.98p ・3840 x 2160: 59.94p, 50p, 29.97p, 25p, 24p, 23.98p ・1920 x 1080: 59.94p, 50p, 59.94i, 50i, 29.97p, 25p, 24p, 23.98p ・1280 x 720: 59.94p, 50p ・720 x 480: 59.94p ・720 x 576: 50p Output format (4:2:0 8 bit): ・4096 x 2160: 59.94p, 50p ・3840 x 2160: 59.94p, 50p
|Audio Input/Output
|Internal Mic
|Stereo microphone
|XLR (3-pin) x 2 (INPUT1/2), input high impedance, LINE/MIC/MIC +48 V (menu switchable) MIC: -40 dBu/-50 dBu/-60 dBu (menu switchable) LINE: +4 dBu/0 dBu (menu switchable)
|Audio Input/Output | SDI OUT
|Linear PCM 2 CH
|Audio Input/Output | HDMI
|Linear PCM 2 CH
|3.5 mm stereo mini jack x 1
|20 mm diameter, round x 1
|Other Input/Output
|TC In/Out
|BNC x1 for IN/OUT (menu switchable) IN: 1.0 V [p-p] to 4.0 V [p-p], 10 kΩ OUT: 2.0 V [p-p] ±0.5 V [p-p], low impedance
|40-pin (Dedicated)
|2.5 mm Super Mini Jack
|USB 2.0 (Host)
|Type-A, 4-pin for Wireless Module (AJ-WM50)
|EF Mounting Contact
|DC In 12V
|DC 12 V (10.5 V to 13.5 V) EIAJ type 4
|LCD Monitor
|3.5-type LCD monitor (approx. 1,150,000 dots) Touch panel (MENU control, Shooting assist functions)
|LCD Monitor | Switches
|Hand Grip
|Mounting Mechanism
|One touch rotatable/Detachable
|Hand Grip | Switches
|REC, MENU/IRIS dial, User switch x 2
|Included Accessories
|Battery (5900 mAh), Battery charger, AC adapter, AC cable, Shoulder strap, Microphone holder, Microphone holder adapter, LCD monitor (with hood and mounting attachment), Handle, Grip, Grip belt, Mount cap
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Over the past three decades women's median income has increased 63%, and now more than a third of working wives earn more than their husbands. It's no surprise when, although they were once discouraged from pursuing higher education, women now surpass men in achievement of bachelor's and master's degrees.
Across sectors, women continue earning only 82 cents for every dollar earned by men, but more and more they are landing high-paying professional jobs and narrowing the gap. An analysis of the median weekly earnings of full-time American workers in 2011 by occupation and gender, as tracked by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows the top 20 jobs where women are earning the most. All require some college and most are concentrated in health care, science and technology, and business fields.
At No. 1, pharmacist is the best-paying job for women, where they earn a median of $1,898 a week or approximately $99,000 a year. Women comprise more than half (56%) of all pharmacists and earn nearly as a much as men in the job. Moreover, the field offers more than 10,000 annual openings and is expected to grow 25% by 2020.
"Pharmacy is known for paying very well straight out of school and all the way through your career," says Katie Bardaro, lead economist at compensation research firm PayScale. "It's a very good return on investment in terms of money and time spent on education."
While pharmacists must achieve a four-year professional degree and pass licensing exams, physicians and surgeons attend four years of medical school and complete three to eight years of internship and residency. Yet, for women, doctor comes in as the fourth highest paying job—behind pharmacists, lawyers (No. 2) and computer and information systems managers (No. 3)—with median weekly earnings of $1,527 or about $79,000 a year. They also earn 21% less than male doctors.
Bardaro explains that physicians face a much wider range of specialty and practice type. Men trend toward high-risk, high-paying areas like plastic and brain surgery, she says, while women are more likely to move into lower-paying specialties like general practice and pediatrics.
Even so, health-care jobs feature some of the best salaries, highest female representation and figure prominently on this list. Female nurse practitioners (No. 6) earn a median of $1,432 a week and hold 85% of positions. Women are also the majority of psychologists (No. 10), physical therapists (No. 12), occupational therapists (No. 13) and medical and health services managers (No. 16), and all earn more than $60,000 a year.
"It pays to be in a field that's female-dominated," says Caren Goldberg, a management professor at American University's business school in Washington, D.C., who studies gender and pay, "because in a large group of women you're less likely to be seen as a 'typical' female and thus less likely to experience discrimination."
The STEM fields—science, technology, engineering and math—also feature strong projected growth, high salaries and narrower gender wage gaps, but women are less likely to pursue them. Female software developers (No. 7) earn a median of $1,388 a week, and female computer programmers (No. 11) earn $1,238. Yet women make up just 18% and 20%, respectively, of these workers.
"STEM fields offer a lot of job opportunities, and we should encourage more women to move into them," says Bardaro. She speculates that extremely male-dominated fields, like technology, feel less welcoming and open to women. "It's hard to go against the grain."
Traditionally male leadership positions have also been tougher for women to catch up in. Chief executive (No. 5) is one of the top-paying jobs for women, with median weekly earnings of $1,464, or about $76,000 a year. However, women hold just a quarter of these titles and earn 31% less than their male peers—a difference of $658 each week. Similarly, female marketing and sales managers (No. 19) make 32% less than men in the job.
In Bardaro's research into these occupations, even when factors like education, experience, location, industry and firm size are considered there remains a large wage gap that is likely only explained by discrimination. "When there's a boys club, women don't have strength in numbers," she says. "Women are also known for being less successful at salary negotiations, and that gets even more pronounced as you move up the ladder."
The good news, says Bardaro, is women's high educational attainment has dramatically shifted the jobs and salaries available to them. "It takes time to see major change, but I think we're finally seeing the fruits of our mothers' labor."
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See Also:
The Best Jobs For Women In 2012
The 20 Best-Paying Jobs For People Persons
Jobs Outlook 2012: Careers Headed For The Dustbin


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Accessibility is the curse of Warcraft at the moment. Whatever the designers do, they can never seem to please all of the people; even offering a range of content from chilled out casual daily quests and farming, to high speed challenge dungeons with a leaderboard and ranked battlegrounds will not stop players complaining when they try content that was aimed at a different group and find it wasn't tuned for them. It must be frustrating for devs who are trying to entertain the masses, and World of Warcraft has never tried harder to provide entertainment than it is right now, with Mists of Pandaria. The new expansion is terrifically endearing, like a puppy that just wants to be loved.
If you have enjoyed WoW PvE in the past but burned out on lack of content or high end raiding or the frustration of being bottlenecked by group content, there has never been a better time to come back to the game. The new continent is beautiful, the zones are stunning, the storytelling is classic Blizzard (spotty in parts, but lively and likeable, and the good parts are really exciting), and the company has also made real efforts to tweak the gameplay with modern updates.
For example, the picture above shows Spinks (who is in the foreground, bottom right) fighting a big elite mob. You can see the shiny spell effect wings of the paladin who is helping her, behind the mob. That character is Alliance. That elite quest mob was not tagged to either one of us, we both got the kill. Now anyone who has been playing GW2 will be au fait with this, because it's a game where no mob is ever tagged. In Pandaria, only the named quest mobs get this treatment, but they have done it fairly consistently. So while you will still be competing with other players (unless you group) for mobs in farmed out daily zones, when you go for the bosses, everyone can pile in.
I quite like the interplay of both different types of fight. Sometimes you have to compete and others you cooperate.
The world feels very vibrant compared to some previous expansions. I couldn't say exactly why this is, but there is something very lively and lived in about Pandaria. They've really taken the Chinese inspiration, put a fantasy twist on things, and run with it. As far as the storytelling goes, I will have more to say in future, but the goal has clearly been to make the player feel like a hero. And not just the murdering zillions of kobolds kind of hero. The kind of hero who helps people who need heroes. There are thrilling set pieces where your character helps to defend a village from bandits, in classic wuxia style, or takes part in larger battle scenes, and these offer much better actual gameplay than previous set pieces such as Wrathgate (however cool it was).
And maybe it's because I play a warrior, but the wuxia storytelling style really plays to the warrior as a class. It felt very appropriate that Spinks might just take a feisty young panda girl under her wings and teach her a bit of warrioring along the way (I hope that panda grows up to be panda Mulan, just saying). So it felt more personal to me than Cataclysm, and more meaningful also.
Accessibility to a fault
Now the expansion seems to be trying to train people to play the game, even though anyone who has managed to get to level 85 probably already has a clue or two about that. So the introductory quests are quite streamlined and don't encourage you to explore much. You could, but its not encouraged. Later on, the world does open up more, but throughout the first three zones I never had any fights that left me below about 80% health. I was thinking, "This is fun and all but surely they didn't mean it to be THIS undertuned?"
However, by the time you get to the level 90 content, mobs will put up more of a fight and there is a definite trend for requiring movement in fights. There are mobs which put damage down on the floor, or have an attack which will do loads of damage if you are standing in front of the thing, or need you to run out of melee range, etc. All of this is very well telegraphed (well I thought so, but I'm an experienced raider), and I'm sure the idea is to train players for instance and raid bosses. Which is great, and all very well, but not very satisfying to players who already knew that.
The panda starting zone, to my mind, is even worse. It's very fun, very in genre (with nods to Ranma, for example), very railroaded and easy up until the last few encounters. The intent is very clearly to be an introduction to both the pandas and to the gameplay for new players. And as above, this is great and all, but the majority of people rolling pandas are probably not new players.
For my money, the best starting zones currently in the game are the Blood Elf and Draenei areas, and it's because they open up very quickly and encourage you to wander around, explore the areas, and smell the roses. I would have enjoyed a Pandaran area more in that style, with more quest hubs, more hints about the culture (maybe for the various classes, like Pandaran magi et al) and less about 'you will follow this questline until it ends.'
Crafting actually feels coherent in this expansion. The goal is clearly to make it easy for people to train Pandaria crafting skills, but characters who are actively played will have access to more recipes, and more specialist materials. This is made easy by the baseline materials being incredibly plentiful. 'Actively played' doesn't mean that they need to do hard group content (there may be raid recipes and materials in future I guess), they just need to be levelled through the content and after that can amble around doing the odd daily quest or anything else that involves a bit of random killing. So a casual solo player will have better access to crafting and recipes in this expansion than ever before.
In some crafts, such as Blacksmithing, if you want to raise the skill above 575, you will need recipes that are accessed from a vendor that you will have to open up by completing a questline. But it is a questline that can comfortably be done solo. I think this is a nice balance between gating content and still making it accessible in a non-frustrating way for more casual players.
Accessible Progression
I think Blizzard are aiming for an accessible form of progression in MoP. This is good news for all those players who do enjoy the progression aspects of WoW but have felt frustrated or gated in the past when hitting a progression brick wall that only raiders could pass. There are still 'gates' (or things you have to do before you can access other content you want to see), but people who enjoy working on progression goals but prefer a more casual or solo style will also have cool things to work towards.
See, it was never attunements themselves that were the issue, and people who argued in favour of them were always pretty much on the money. A lot of people enjoy planning out how they will attune a new character. Just now you can largely do it with less frustration. Not 'no frustration' because sometimes someone else beats you to that rich trillium node, or you wish you could just skip the dailies, but mild frustration is also a part of the genre. For a lot of players, it adds to the sense of achievement when you stick at it and finally get the thing/key/content/progression that you want. And I think Blizzard realise that, and have embraced it.


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It would take a set of Britannicas to say all there is to say about the Island Gallery and Christmas Shop. Experiencing a Renaissance, the original shopkeepers retired briefly to open the doors again in 2008. They worked hard to bring the grand dame back to her glory. A true wonderland, and locals' favorite, the 15 plus rooms and meandering halls are filled with Christmas décor, jewelry, art, crafts, linens, toys, books and antiques. Every room is decorated with antique furniture to create a one-of-a-kind ambiance.
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BASIS, Birkbeck College
Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck,
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX
United Kingdom
Participant's Lead
Project Staff
Dr. Emily Jones
Research Fellow
EU-AIMS Work Package 4 Task 1
(Coordinator-Eurosibs www.eurosibs.eu/)
Phone: +44 20 7631 6323
Fax: +44 20 7631 6587
Partner Presentation
The British Autism Study of Infant Siblings (BASIS) is a collaborative research network for the study of infants at-risk for autism that was established in 2008. The network has grown rapidly in the UK, and now also includes a number of European and Australian researchers. BASIS recruits families with an infant at-risk by virtue of having an older sibling already ASD diagnosed. Using state-of-the-art techniques for studying brain and behaviour in infants, BASIS scientists investigate the earliest emerging brain and behavioral signs of autism over the first 3 years, potentially enabling both a clearer understanding of basic biomarkers and identifying targets for earlier and more effective intervention. BASIS is Europe's largest program for studying infants at-risk for ASD with over 270 families recruited to date.
BASIS is based at the Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development (BC) at Birkbeck, University of London. Established in 1998, the BC is housed in a purpose-designed building that contains extensive laboratory space with state-of-the-art EEG, ERP, NIRS, eye-tracking and behavioral testing facilities. BC has an international reputation for training and research in human functional brain development using these methods, resulting in it being designated a EU Marie Curie Training Centre of Excellence in 2006 (renewed for 2011-14). Members of the BC have won various international awards, including the Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2006. The BC maintains a database of over 2,000 infants allowing for carefully selected low-risk controls. BC is part of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Birkbeck that is very highly rated for its research (5th/76 in RAE 2008).TOP


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Azure Stack does not "Everything" that public cloud Azure does. Only a subset of services are available today but this is a growing list. Many customers confuse over this and it is important to clarify before any Azure Stack conversations begin.
Azure Services on Azure Stack includes PAAS and IAAS. Ideally, Azure stack is best used when you want these PAAS services on your on-prem datacenter.
Azure App Services – All your websites, easy to host service
Azure Functions – Serverless deployment of your code
Service Fabric – Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers.
Kubernetes – Deploy Kubernetes clusters and manage them.
Cloud Foundry – Pivotal cloud foundry on Azure stack.
Virtual Machines – Linux and Windows virtual machines including VM scale sets.
Docker Containers -Linux and Windows containers
Networking – Virtual network, load balancer, and VPN Gateway.
Storage – Blobs, Tables, Queues and Disks.
Key Vault – Application keys and secrets for password encryption and checkouts.
Hope this quick write up helps.


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Yes, gentle reader, most of us think of brisket as the quintessential Jewish American meat delicacy but more than just us, members of the tribe like it. It's long been a holiday staple of Ashkenazi cuisine, but it is also extremely popular in the Orient (China, Korea, Thailand, Viet Nam), as well as in Mexico where it's known as suadero.
When I came across this recipe chow.com I knew that you'd all enjoy this variation on a theme:
Chinese Brisket and Turnip StewIngredients
- 1 (4- to 5-pound) beef brisket, trimmed of excess fat and cut into 2-inch pieces
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 10 (1/4-inch-thick) slices fresh, unpeeled ginger
- 8 medium garlic cloves, smashed
- 1/4 cup Hoisin Sauce *
- 2 cups low-sodium chicken broth
- 2 cups water, plus more for blanching the brisket
- 3 star anise pods
- 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt, plus more as needed
- 2 pounds turnips or daikon radish
- 1 bunch scallions
- Steamed white rice or cooked rice noodles, for serving
* The original recipe calls for "chu hou paste," since I could not find a kosher certified brand, after some research I came up with hoisin sauce which is very similar but less spicy. There are two kosher brands Gefen and Joyce Chen.
- Fill a large heavy-bottomed pot or Dutch oven halfway with water and bring to a boil over high heat. Add the brisket pieces and return the water to a boil. Immediately drain the meat through a colander and rinse any scum off of it with cold water; set aside.
- Wash and dry the pot. Heat the oil in the pot over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add the ginger and garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until fragrant and starting to brown, about 1 minute. Return the meat to the pot, add the chu hou paste, and stir to coat. Add the chicken broth, measured water, star anise, sugar, and measured salt and stir to combine.
- Bring the mixture to a boil. Cover with a tightfitting lid, reduce the heat to low, and simmer until the meat is tender, about 2 1/2 to 3 hours.
- Meanwhile, peel and cut the turnips or daikon into 1-1/2-inch cubes, place in a large bowl, and cover with a damp paper towel or plastic wrap. Trim and cut the scallions into 1-inch pieces, place in a small bowl, and cover with a damp paper towel or plastic wrap. Refrigerate the vegetables until the meat is tender.
- Add the turnips or daikon to the pot and stir to combine. Cover and simmer, stirring halfway through the cooking time, until tender, about 30 to 40 minutes.
- Remove the pot from the heat, stir in the scallions, and let sit uncovered for 5 minutes to allow the scallions to soften slightly. Remove and discard the star anise pods. Taste and season with salt as needed. Serve with steamed rice or rice noodles.
Enjoy, gentle reader, enjoy!


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Window management with a twist... or an explosion
Desktop computing technology has evolved considerably since the first graphical user interface was developed by researchers at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in 1973. Thirty years after the conception of the window and the cursor, developers are now challenging conventional interface paradigms in order to provide users with a whole new generation of visually responsive and aesthetically provocative software technologies. Microsoft's Aero Glass, Apple's Quartz 2D Extreme, and Sun's Project Looking Glass are all poised to transform the way that users interact with computers. Also at the forefront of innovation, the Linux community has some prodigiously impressive new user interface technologies of its own. Beryl, a new open-source window manager for Linux, features compelling visual enhancements like support for transparent windows and elaborate window animations. Based on David Reveman's Compiz window manager, Beryl leverages hardware-accelerated rendering to provide support for unique and innovative graphical functionality.
On the Linux platform, window management software is generally responsible for controlling the size and position of windows and drawing window borders. Window managers are what allow users to minimize, maximize, close, resize, and move the windows that appear on their desktops. Most desktop environments, like KDE and GNOME, come with a supported window manager that is designed for the environment. KDE, for instance, uses the KWin window manager. When used as a replacement for conventional window managers like KWin or Metacity, Beryl adds a lot of exciting new functionality and amazing 3D effects to standard Linux desktop environments.
Installing Beryl
In the past, setting up Beryl or Compiz was a relatively arduous process because users had to manually install complex X11 server replacements like Xgl. Fortunately, the recently released Xorg 7.1 includes integrated AIGLX support and is available in the latest releases of several mainstream Linux distributions, including Ubuntu and Fedora.
To install Beryl on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft), users can simply add the official Beryl repository to APT and install the relevant packages. Those of you who aren't using Ubuntu may be able to find installation instructions for your own distribution at the Beryl wiki. The Beryl wiki provides installation instructions for a relatively broad selection of mainstream distributions, but there are some popular distributions that aren't included. If you can't find installation instructions for your distribution on the wiki, you can ask for help in the Beryl forum.
Keep in mind that Beryl is still experimental, and it won't work properly on all hardware. Additionally, some users may need to install proprietary graphics drivers in order to use Beryl. I have tested Beryl on a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop with embedded Intel graphics hardware and on my desktop computer, an Athlon 64 X2 with two NVIDIA GeForce cards.
Beryl uses the Emerald window decorator to draw window borders and title bars. Emerald is highly flexible and supports theming. Users can make, install, and configure Emerald themes with the Emerald Theme Manager. To launch the theme manager, click the Beryl icon in the notification area of your panel and select Emerald Theme Manager from the context menu. The Themes tab contains a list of all of the themes currently installed on your computer. To switch to a specific theme, you can simply click its entry in the theme list. The Edit Themes tab provides complete access to all of the settings used to construct the currently active theme. Users can change the images used for the title bar buttons, change the size and color of the window drop shadows, alter the font and layout used by the title bar, and alter the settings used by the decorator theme engine.
The Repositories tab provides two buttons that will automatically download and install new themes from the Internet. Additional themes can be found in the Themes section of the Beryl forums, and on the official Beryl themes page at the Beryl web site. Users can also find new Beryl themes at the GNOME-Look.org web site in the recently added Beryl section.
To import a theme downloaded from the Internet, go to the Themes tab in the Emerald Theme Manager, click the Import button, select a file with the .emerald extension, and then click the Open button. The new theme will be added to the Emerald Theme Manager theme list. The latest version of Beryl, 0.2.0, also supports existing KWin and Metacity themes with the Aquamarine and Heliodor window decorators.
In most of the screenshots included in this article, I'm using Zammi Khan's Murrine Glass theme modified to use the Truglass engine.


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I laid down this base color in tribute to avocado green, harvest gold and almond, the kitchen colors of my youth. Now everything seems to be black, white and stainless steel. Drawn with a bamboo pen and india ink.
Jack and I are heading out on a road trip along the Crooked Trail today. I will be drawing on the trip and hope to continue tackling the challenges each day but I doubt I'll be able to scan and upload for the next week or so. If I get decent wi-fi, I'll try, so stay tuned.


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A widely used pesticide – banned in homes but still commonly used on farms – appears to harm boys' developing brains more than girls', according to a new study of children in New York City.
In boys, exposure to chlorpyrifos in the womb was associated with lower scores on short-term memory tests compared with girls exposed to similar amounts.
The study is the first to find gender differences in how the insecticide harms prenatal development. Scientists say the finding adds to evidence that boys' brains may be more vulnerable to some chemical exposures.
"This suggests that the harmful effects of chlorpyrifos are stronger among boys, which indicates that perhaps boys are more vulnerable to this type of exposure," said Virginia Rauh, a perinatal epidemiologist at Columbia University and co-author of the study published in July.
Chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate insecticide, a powerful class of pesticide that has toxic effects on nervous systems. It was widely used in homes and yards to kill cockroaches and other insects, but in 2001 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned its residential use because of health risks to children. Since then, levels inside U.S. homes have dropped [PDF], but residue remains in many homes. In addition, many developing countries still use the pesticide indoors.
Known by the Dow trade name Lorsban, chlorpyrifos is still sprayed on some crops, including fruit trees and vegetables, and also is used on golf courses and for mosquito control. About 10 million pounds of chlorpyrifos are applied to agricultural fields annually, according to the EPA.
"There's mounting evidence now from epidemiological studies that prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides, and chlorpyrifos in particular, may be associated with detriments with IQ in children," said Kim Harley, an environmental epidemiologist with the University of California, Berkeley who has studied effects of pesticide exposure on children in California farm towns. She was not involved in the New York City study.
The environmental group Earthjustice has sued the EPA in an effort to ban all remaining uses of chlopyrifos.
"The exposures are to farmworkers and farmworker families, and people who live in those rural areas that are abutting the fields where chlorpyrifos is applied," said Earthjustice attorney Kristen Boyles.
The 2007 lawsuit is still pending, although the EPA announced last month that it will require reductions in application rates and buffers to protect children and other bystanders. An EPA spokesperson said that the agency is re-evaluating chlorpyrifos and expects to make a decision in 2014.
Representatives of DowAgroSciences, a major manufacturer of pesticides containing chlorpyrifos, did not return requests seeking comment.
The 335 pairs of mothers and children in the new study were not farmworkers, but are part of a large group of Latino and African American children from low-income neighborhoods of Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx. Columbia University researchers have been tracking more than 700 of these kids since they were born, between 1998 and 2006. Children there have a history of health problems, including asthma rates that are among the nation's highest, and low birth weight. Many were born before the residential ban on chlorpyrifos.
An earlier study of the children found that chlorpyrifos was linked to delayed mental and motor skill development even after controlling for poverty, dilapidated housing and other community factors. The scientists, in a more detailed follow-up, then found that IQs and memories were reduced in 7 year olds with higher prenatal exposure. Those with the highest exposures scored on average 5.3 points lower on a short-term memory test, and 2.7 points lower on an IQ test, than children with the lowest exposures.
In the new study, published last month in the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology, umbilical cord blood was collected from the newborns, who were born before and slightly after the 2001 chlorpyrifos restrictions. When the kids were 3 years old, the researchers studied how well the mothers nurtured and educationally stimulated them. Then, at age 7, the children's short-term memory ¬¬¬was tested, for example, by having them repeat a sequence of numbers. Memory is an important component of IQ tests.
Chlorpyrifos exposure had a larger association with working memory scores in the boys, who averaged three points lower than the girls with similar exposures, the study found.
"There are adverse effects overall, but you see that the effects are bigger in boys," Rauh said. "The notion is that boys might be more vulnerable, for whatever reason."
The researchers also looked to see if the parents could make up for the memory deficiencies. When the kids were 3 years old, the researchers measured the mom's attentiveness, displays of affection, ability to control her negative reactions and other parenting skills. The study found "in terms of working memory, males benefit more from a nurturing environment than females," the researchers wrote.
Rauh said the findings suggest that boys seemed to be "modestly" more influenced by environmental factors, whether chemical (chlorpyrifos) or social (the mother).
"It suggests that there may be some room for intervention," Rauh said. "There's a little wiggle room there, and that's the good news."
Why chlorpyrifos might affect boys more than girls is not fully understood, but a 2012 study of rats found that the pesticide reduced testosterone, which has a critical role in male brain development.
The new finding is consistent with what is known about how other chemicals affect boys more than girls, said David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany.
"There's such a variety of different chemicals that all do the same thing," Carpenter said. "They reduce IQ, they appear to shorten the attention span and reduce the ability to deal with frustration."
Lead, for example, seems to cause a greater IQ deficit in boys than girls, and some evidence suggests that polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs, may have similar consequences, Carpenter said.
Previous research has shown that low to moderate exposure to chlorpyrifos during pregnancy can lead to irreversible changes in a child's brain. According to a 2012 study of the New York City children, magnetic resonance imaging of 40 children, from about 6 to 11 years old, found that those with high exposures had more abnormalities in regions of the brain associated with memory. They also were significantly more likely than children exposed to low levels to experience attention problems and delays in cognitive and motor skills [PDF].
The new study is the first to measure chlorpyrifos in umbilical cord blood, which unequivocally shows if a mother and her fetus were exposed. Researchers do not know how those kids' exposures, which occurred between 1998 and 2006, compare with levels in kids today because there are no data for comparison.
Dana Barr of Emory University, an expert in chemical exposure and a co-author of the new study, said chlorpyrifos exposure in the New York City children apparently has declined. The researchers did not detect it in the umbilical cord blood of babies enrolled in the study after the 2001 ban.
Data from California, which keeps detailed records of annual pesticide use, show that chlorpyrifos use on farm fields decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2010. It is sprayed on corn, cotton, citrus and nut trees, alfalfa, grapes and other crops. Organophosphate exposure has been shown to have similar effects on children from farmworker families. In California's Salinas Valley, Latino children whose mothers had the highest exposures to organophosphates, including chlorpyrifos, had a 7-point drop in IQ compared with children of moms with the lowest exposures.
"I think there's no reason to believe that the exposure levels are very different" between the farm and the urban communities before the residential ban, Rauh said.
Virginia Ruiz, director of occupational and environmental health for Farmworker Justice, said chlorpyrifos is one of the most dangerous pesticides that farmworkers are exposed to. Her group is pushing for an end to all uses as soon as possible.
"Most farmworkers are foreign-born immigrants and have low levels of education and English proficiency," Ruiz said. "Farmworkers don't get a lot of education on the chemicals they're working around."
This article originally ran at Environmental Health News, a news source published by Environmental Health Sciences, a nonprofit media company.


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I did a quick and dirty job. Base coat of Greatcoat Grey. Two coats of Nuln Oil wash. One coat did not darken enough the recesses to my liking. After that, I did some dry brushing with some darker gray, white and blue. For the green glow on the runes, I used successive glazes of Iosan Green and a wash of Morrow White in the recesses. It's not as glowing as I would have wanted but for a job under 3 hours, I'm fairly happy with the result.
Well it's been a while since my last post because I've been busy working on a side project related to Warmachine that I will talk about in the future. I've also been reading some books on color theory just to educate myself a bit and help me understand how to mix color.
Anyway, I almost finished my Stalker. The base and the final varnish are not done yet.
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HIV test urged for 7,000 Oklahoma dental patients
TULSA, Okla. - Health officials on Thursday urged an Oklahoma oral surgeon's patients to undergo hepatitis and HIV testing, saying filthy conditions behind his office's spiffy facade posed a threat to his 7,000 clients and made him a "menace to the public health."
State and county health inspectors went to Dr. W. Scott Harrington's practice after a patient with no known risk factors tested positive for both hepatitis C and the virus that causes AIDS. They found employees using dirty equipment, reusing needles and administering drugs without a license.
Harrington voluntarily gave up his license and closed his offices in Tulsa and suburban Owasso and is cooperating with investigators, said Kaitlin Snider, a spokeswoman for the Tulsa Health Department. He faces a hearing April 19 where his license could be permanently revoked.
"This is an unprecedented event," Susan Rogers, executive director of the state Board of Dentistry, said in an interview. "To my knowledge, this has never happened before as far as a public notification of a (hepatitis C) case involving a dental office."
The Oklahoma Board of Dentistry said the inspectors discovered multiple sterilization issues at Harrington's offices, including the use of a separate, rusty, set of instruments for patients who were known to carry infectious diseases.
"The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has determined that rusted instruments are porous and cannot be properly sterilized," the board said in a 17-count complaint against the dentist.
Officials are sending letters to 7,000 people who are known to have been patients of Harrington, but they noted that they do not have information for patients before 2007. The letters urge the patients to be tested for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV. - viruses typically spread through intravenous drug use or unprotected sexual contact, not occupational settings.
"It's uncertain how long those practices have been in place," Snider said. "He's been practicing for 36 years."
Harrington could not be reached for comment Thursday. A message at his Tulsa office said it was closed and the doctor's answering service referred callers to the Tulsa Health Department. Phone numbers listed for Harrington were disconnected. A message left with Harrington's malpractice attorney in Tulsa, Jim Secrest II, was not immediately returned.
Harrington's practice in Tulsa is in a tony part of town, on a row of some of the city's most upscale medical practices. The white-and-green stucco, two-story dental clinic has the doctor's name in fancy letters on the facade.
Inside, the Dentistry Board said, Harrington ran a clinic that paid little attention to ensuring items were sterile. Dental assistants needing an extra dose of an anesthetic would re-insert used needles into drug vials, drug vials were used on multiple patients, the office had no written infection-protection procedure and Harrington told officials he left questions about sterilization and drug procedures to his employees.
"They take care of that, I don't," the board quoted him as saying.
The doctor is also accused of letting his assistants perform tasks only a licensed dentist should have done. Also, the complaint says that the doctor's staff could not produce permits for the assistants when asked for them.
Rogers said that as an oral surgeon, Harrington routinely does invasive procedures that involve "pulling teeth, open wounds, open blood vessels." The Dentistry Board complaint said Harrington and his staff told investigators that a "high population of known infectious disease carrier patients" received dental care from him.
According to the complaint, a device used to sterilize instruments wasn't working properly. A test is supposed to be performed monthly and sent to a lab to determine that the equipment is successfully sterilizing instruments, but "no such test had ever been performed in the 6 years one dental assistant had been working at the office," the complaint said.
The doctor also apparently used outdated drugs, as one vial found this year had an expiration date of 1993, and didn't properly keep track of drugs, the complaint said. It noted that a drug cabinet was unlocked and unattended during the day and that dental assistants administered IV sedation for procedures without the doctor being present.
It also said that although U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration records show Harrington had not received morphine from a distributor since 2009, the drug logs kept by his assistants said morphine had been used on patients intermittently throughout 2012.
Officials said patients will be offered free medical testing at the Tulsa Health Department's North Regional Health and Wellness Center.
Most people who become infected by hepatitis C get it by sharing needles or other equipment to inject drugs, according to the CDC's website. The infection can last a lifetime and lead to scarring of the liver or liver cancer.
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When one of my best friends, David, told me I needed to listen to a band called The Decemberists last summer, I was in a sufficiently good mood to heed his advice. From my first listen of The King is Dead, I was hooked. And I'm still hooked.
What do you call this music? Nerd Folk Pop? Literate Rock? Regardless, it's all interesting. Whether lead singer and songwriter, Colin Meloy, is writing and singing about Japanese Folk Tales, Shakespearean dramas or composing whole folk-rock operas, it's all riveting. And rarely is it not ringed with beauty.
Recently, my wife and I have been listening to the new live album chronicling their last year's tour. We were too late to the party to see them live, but this is certainly one of those cases where we're just glad to have arrived.
I would say this is music for all of us who have been spoiled by Masterpiece Theater and Downton Abbey and can no longer enjoy network television programming.
Now, the music…
This first video is just the lead singer, Colin Meloy, singing all three parts of "The Crane Wife." Based on a Japanese folk tale, it's 16 minutes of getting lost in wonder.
This second video is them running straight through their latest studio album, The King is Dead. The only album I listened to more last year was Adele's 21. This is worth an hour of your time.
And this last video is a rough one of "Grace Cathedral Hill." Rough but awesome. It's the kind of song you want to enter into, experience all he's singing about first hand. You don't know where Grace Cathedral Hill is but you wanna be there.


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LAS VEGAS — Elizabeth Alvisar is exactly the sort of voter Mitt Romney needs.
A victim of the brutal economy in this swing state, the 30-year-old tax preparer has been out of work for months. She's a foe of abortion and gay marriage, and was naturally drawn to the Republican ticket.
But Alvisar has switched her support to President Barack Obama because of his support for legislation known as the DREAM Act. While Democrats failed to get the bill through Congress, Obama in June announced a change in policy to implement its key provision — allowing young people brought into the country without authorization as children to avoid deportation if they graduate high school or join the military.
"I have a lot of friends who've taken advantage of that opportunity," Alvisar said.
In the heavily Hispanic neighborhood where Alvisar lives, unemployment is high and home values are down. But Obama's immigration stance, and especially his executive order, has locked in support from a fast-growing demographic group that has been trending sharply Democratic in the wake of increasingly hard-line Republican positions on immigration.
Obama's campaign is counting on Hispanics providing the margin of victory not just in Nevada, but also in other swing states such as Colorado, Iowa, Virginia and North Carolina
"They know that he's on the right side of the immigration issue and wants to work with Congress for comprehensive immigration reform," deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said. "They know he wakes up every day and thinks about how to secure the middle class and make it easier for young people to enter the middle class."
The importance of Hispanics as a voting bloc and immigration as an election-year issue was brought home during last week's presidential debate. Obama reminded viewers that Romney, who went hard to the right on the issue during the GOP primaries, had argued for "self-deportation" to solve the illegal immigration problem and took advice on the issue from the law professor who helped write Arizona's controversial immigration statute. The Republican challenger noted that Obama had promised to pass an immigration overhaul and had failed.
The Romney campaign says Hispanics, enduring a 9.9 percent jobless rate, which is more than 2 points higher than the national average, are a natural draw for the GOP ticket. "Hispanics are hurting almost more than any other demographic group under the Obama economy," Romney's Spanish-speaking son Craig, a frequent surrogate in the Hispanic community, said in a brief interview. "They're really struggling and they understand that this president has failed them and we need someone who understands how to create jobs."
The Romney campaign opened an office here in September and last week hosted New Mexico's popular Hispanic governor, Susana Martinez, in an effort to cut into Obama's edge in East Las Vegas, home to 42 percent of Nevada's Hispanic population.
But even some Romney supporters are pessimistic that Republicans can make inroads with a population that, many polls show, favors Obama by a 2-to-1 margin.
"It's going to take several years because we haven't engaged this community at all," said Joel Garcia, a conservative who formed a coalition to recruit Hispanics here. "You've got a lot of Hispanics who are conservative in how they live their lives and their values, but there's this hook in their mouth pulling them left called immigration."
Much like any other group, Hispanics often list the economy, jobs and education as top issues in polls. But the acrimonious immigration debate of the past decade has given that issue extra weight for them. "What started as a war on illegal immigration is now being perceived as a war on Latinos," said Matt Barreto, who polls Hispanics for the company Latino Decisions.
Nevada is a prime example of that dynamic. In 2010, Hispanics helped Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid win re-election against a tea party candidate who promoted her staunch anti-illegal immigration stance. Republican Brian Sandoval, a Hispanic who was elected governor at the same time, only won 33 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Until Obama's executive order, Hispanic activists were frustrated that Obama had not pursued plans to legalize more illegal immigrants. Instead, his administration was deporting them in record numbers.
"Before President Obama made his decision to go forward with deferred action, it was pretty dismal," said Vicenta Montoya, an immigration attorney and Democratic activist. "I was going to vote for Obama but it wasn't going to be with grand enthusiasm."
Now Obama's order has fired up Montoya and others in East Las Vegas, a swath of shopping centers, tire shops and weathered ranch houses sprawling east from the Strip. It's the neighborhood of the often-unionized people who make Sin City function — housekeepers, card dealers and taxi drivers.
For some, Obama's order pulled them into politics. Earlier this month, Hector Rivera's father asked him what he was going to do with his future. Rivera, a high school senior who was brought into the United States without authorization when he was 5, went to the East Las Vegas Obama campaign office and volunteered.
The teenager already has applied for documents allowing him to work under Obama's program. "It's an opportunity for me and future generations," said Rivera, 17, imagining how his own unborn children could benefit someday. "Even though they'll be born here, I want to get a better job to give them a better opportunity so they can live a better life."
Others, like Sergio Solis, have suffered economically but see the president as on their side. Solis had to close a restaurant in Southern California and move here to work as a salesman for an energy company. But, after approvingly mentioning the DREAM Act, Solis said it will take time to correct the country's course following the eight years of the George W. Bush administration.
"This building here, I can dynamite it and destroy it in five minutes," Solis said, gesturing to a supermarket where he was handing out brochures. "But I can't build it back up in five minutes."
The Romney campaign's East Las Vegas office shares a strip mall with a bail bond company and a tortilleria. It opened after volunteers in the neighborhood urged the campaign to set up shop closer to their homes, so they didn't have to drive to the suburbs to phone-bank or collect yard signs.
Susana Loli, 56, is thrilled. The hotel housekeeper didn't vote for Obama in 2008. But as the economy collapsed before his inauguration, she hoped he could keep the country healthy. Now her side business fixing garage doors has shriveled, and she had to sell family property in Peru to stave off foreclosure on her Nevada house.
"With Mitt Romney, we'll have a better future for my children and grandchildren," Loli said. "The Latinos who are going to vote for Obama haven't studied the problem. When you talk to them and explain the situation, then they understand."
Ana Maria Gonzalez, 50, was disappointed that some Hispanics support Obama because of his executive order. She backs Romney because of her faith in his business acumen and moral values, but also because she thinks he's more likely to deliver a humane overhaul of the country's immigration system.
"In four years, President Obama did nothing," Gonzalez said, adding, that she was certain Romney would come up with a way to let DREAM Act youth and other deserving illegal immigrants stay in the country.
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A popular (and quite possibly the first) Disney theory argues that Disney's Aladdin is set in the distant future, rather than the past, and that this can be proven by a handful of hints dropped by Genie in the movie.
I already have my own theories about Genie and his flexible approach to linear time, but since this idea has so many supporters it's at least worthy of some consideration.
Is Aladdin Actually Living In A Post-Apocalyptic World?
The theory goes like this…
In the middle of Aladdin's make-over in to Prince Ali (fabulous he) Ali Ababwa, Genie declares that his fez and vest combo is 'much too third century'.
But on emerging from the lamp, Genie has already announced that 'ten thousand years will give you such a crick in the neck'.
Since Genie has been locked in the lamp for all that time and would be in no position to observe current fashions, this would mean that Aladdin is set in the year 10,300 at the earliest.
In fact, since Genie is voiced by the ridiculously versatile Robin Williams, he can't help but impersonate a variety of 20th Century personalities (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Groucho Marx, Rodney Dangerfield, Jack Nicholson – to name a few). This would put the date back even later – meaning Aladdin takes place some time after the year 11,970.
This can then be used to rationalise many of the 'magical' elements in Aladdin's world (though ironically not Genie himself).
Carpet isn't just a 'magical carpet', he's a remnant of hover-technology that has been hidden in the Cave of Wonders, presumably to keep it safe from the coming nuclear war that turned the world in to a big empty desert
Similarly, Iago isn't just another anthropomorphic Disney character. He's either the result of a society so obsessed with its pets they developed technology to understand their animal's every thought (why anyone would want these thought expressed in the voice of Gilbert Godfrey is another question entirely) or a mutation caused by nuclear fallout (slightly more likely, assuming that as the daughter of a Sultan, Jasmine would almost certainly get a translator to understand her beloved tiger Rajah).
Agrabah isn't even a real place in the history of the Middle East. Instead it's assumed this is some form of future corruption of the names Egypt, Arabia and Afghanistan, used as a generalisation since specific nation states are largely irrelevant in the post-apocalyptic wastes.
Advocates of the theory have also looked beyond the motion-picture to the Aladdin videogame for more evidence. Finding bones of the nuclear war's dead, buried 20th Century road signs and even unexploded nuclear devices to support the futurist theory.
Finally, some have suggested that there is a monolith to the incredibly historically relevant Nintendo Wii in Aladdin's Cave of Wonders, which doesn't seem to make any sense at all but makes for an entertaining image.
So what do we make of this theory?
Well obviously it's nonsense. The theory tries to tie Genie to one time and place when clearly he's a being with a perception of time very unlike ours.
It's also odd that he would reference the 3rd and 20th Centuries and nothing in between. We could assume that the connecting years were another period of time he spent imprisoned in the lamp, but what are we supposed to make of his obvious trip to Disney World on being granted his freedom?
I've written plenty about Genie and his crazy time-bending in my 30 Disney Movies That Share A World and Wreck-It Ralph Proves The Disneyverse Is One Giant Computer articles, so I'll save you by not reiterating them now.
Instead, I would like to present two theories that I find much more believable than this Aladdin Theory.
Alternative Theory 1:
Aladdin is definitely set in the past because Belle is reading a book about him in Beauty and the Beast.
'Here's where she meets Prince Charming. But she won't discover that it's him 'til chapter three!"
Alternative Theory 2:
The entire story of Aladdin is made up by the merchant at the beginning to sell you an old lamp.
'Look at this! Yes! Combination hookah and coffee maker, also makes julienne fries. Will not break!'
Which is your favourite Aladdin theory? Comment below.