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A Fredericksburg doctor suffered a slip and fall while in a Wal-Mart and is now struggling with a permanent back injury. The doctor decided to seek representation from a Virginia (VA). personal injury law firm and was able to secure an $11.25 million jury verdict.
The doctor reportedly stepped on a recently treated patch of floor and fell hard on the floor.
The doctor slammed his elbow, but he had no idea that he actually suffered extensive spinal damage. In fact, spinal fractures were not discovered until a year and half later, according to valawyersweekly.com.
It was discovered that the slip and fall injury was caused by a Wal-Mart employee who had just stripped or waxed the floor and had gone to get safety cones to warn customers. In that time, there was no sign or tools to indicate that the floor was slippery and the doctor's injury was the result.
The Virginia Injury Lawyers' Perspective
It's good to see a seriously injured victim secure restitution for the pain and suffering they had to endure due to the company's negligence. This case provides a prime example of why it is so important to consult with a Virginia personal injury attorney. It turns out that, before the trial, Wal-Mart's legal representatives only offered $750,000 to settle the case. That's not a small amount of money by any means, but given the fact that a jury reasonably determined that $11 million was an adequate amount of damages, it shows the value of taking a case all the way to a jury trial.
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Talented rock climber, budding academic star earns national research opportunity with respected PSU professor
Story and Photos by James Hill. Climbing Photos by Shane Murdoch.
For this 17-year-old rock climber, last summer wasn't all fun and games in the great outdoors. It involved important research.
As Sonja Johanson puts it, "I built a simulator to compare multiple scheduling algorithms with the goal of finding the most efficient and scalable algorithm for security monitoring workloads."
It's a mouthful, but essentially Johanson tested ways for computers to conduct security checks on their systems.
The Portland Community College student and Southwest Portland resident earned a prestigious, national award from the Computer Research Association – Women organization for its Distributed Research Experience for Undergraduates Program, or known as DREU. It is a highly selective program that matches students with a faculty mentor for a summer research experience at the mentor's institution.
Johanson spent last summer working at Portland State University on a project called EPA-RIMM, which is a security monitoring tool concerned with the detection of kernel rootkits that compromise operating system kernels and hypervisors. That can be a lot to digest from a layperson's perspective, so here's Johanson's final report that explains the science.
"The opportunity to experience a full summer in a research lab with a mentor is similar to language immersion experience," she said. "You could take classes a couple of times a week or you could go and live the topic surrounded by others who can help you along. I recommend full time summer research to everyone who is interested in a STEM career."
Her faculty mentor was Karen Karavanic, a 15-year PSU professor within PSU's Maseeh College of Science and Engineering. Karavanic focuses her research on diagnosing and characterizing the runtime performance of large-scale systems and applications.
The objective of the DREU program is to increase the number of people from underrepresented groups including women, minorities, or persons with disabilities who are enrolled in undergraduate studies in the fields of computer science and computer engineering. Interns have the opportunity to be directly involved in a research project and interact with graduate students and professors on a daily basis.
"I believe that in the decades to come, the number of female graduates in computing science will increase in the same way as in the fields of medicine and law," Johanson said. "This summer, while I did discover limits to my knowledge and experience, Professor Karavanic and her graduate students helped me see that part of becoming educated is deciding and then discovering how to push your limits. I did not find anything this summer in computing science that says to me 'only for men to think about.'"
If you haven't guessed, Johanson isn't your typical PCC student. She is an early college student at Summit Learning Charter High School, taking classes at PCC and Portland State University. Officially, she is in grade 12, but has a declared college major of computer science and plans to graduate from university in 2022.
"I believe with a strong foundation in computing science I could manage internet security issues for many organizations," she said. "With graduate studies, I can imagine myself doing research on more effective information security procedures, tools and policies."
Her journey began in the ninth grade, when she took a PCC night class to see if she'd like it. And she did. To be exact, Johanson really enjoyed the classroom discussions, flexible schedules and the ability to meet new and different people.
"I discovered that I wanted to have accelerated classes for high school so instead of taking biology all year long, I could do the entire high school equivalent course in one quarter," she said.
Sporting an impressive 4.0 grade-point average, Johanson has thrived in the collegiate learning environment. She expects to finish her associate degree in 2018 and is looking at universities where she can work on a double major in computer science and French.
And when she isn't training to be a computer scientist, Johanson dog sits and participates in rock climbing competitions. Last September, she competed in Austria for the World Youth Climbing Championship, finishing 20th overall in the speed climbing category.
"I volunteer on the Post58 steering committee, manage its website and lead climbing trips," she said of the youth mountaineering organization. After winter term, she plans on leading a group of high school students on an expedition to Pinnacles, Calif.
"Climbing is all about 'solving problems' and 'projects' in minutes, or seconds," said her father Aaron. "We have noted how Sonja's climbing progress is both visible and incremental, which is similar to the work of studying and learning. To make time for her substantial training sessions, Sonja has had to focus and organize her personal and academic life. In many ways, competitive climbing has helped Sonja become a stronger student."
Sonja Johanson credits PCC in providing her with the challenging preparation that has opened the doors to opportunities in her targeted field and made her that stronger student her dad speaks of. Through her college life, she has discovered that computer science, particularly cybersecurity, is a good combination with humanities for her academic ambitions.
"I've had so many fantastic teachers in my three years at PCC," Johanson said. "Dr. Martha Henning and Dr. Christopher Brooks in the Honors Program have helped me speak and write more clearly. Math teachers Vincent Rupp and Shane Horner have a terrific way to teaching math. Their expectations of me have helped me prepare for whatever comes next."
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Sequel to: We need a Unity Candidate in Central Devon for the General Election on 8 June
Since proposing this on Friday afternoon, I know of nearly 100 emails that have been sent by Central Devon voters to the constituency Labour and Lib Dem offices supporting the idea of a 'unity' candidate on 8 June. There may be many more. I hope to share some of them soon, for they put forward great arguments about why we need to do this now. In some, they admit that it's not how they would normally like to do things – naturally, people who get involved in politics tend to think carefully about the issues, and there are good reasons why they choose one party rather than another. In deciding to join the Green Party several years ago, I did exactly the same. But the common theme is that right here, right now, in Central Devon in 2017, having to choose between three parties, when you'd essentially be very happy for any one of them to represent you in Westminster, and where all three are far preferable to an having a Conservative MP who has been a loyal supporter of everything that the Tory government has done since he was first elected in 2010. As a fellow voter, this is how I feel too.
I'm NOT trying to create a back room deal here. There is no 'quid pro quo' being discussed here. It's also as public as possible and the response I've seen so far has been very encouraging. Over the weekend I discovered that it's possible to register a candidate so that they appear on the ballot form as 'joint', ie representing 2 or more parties. This has happened in the past between Labour and the Cooperative Party, and Green and Plaid Cymru. I'm sure I saw a reference to a Green + Lib Dem joint candidate somewhere too. The law was made clear under the coalition government, though as far as I know, there's never been a joint candidate representing three parties. We have the opportunity here to take our broken 'First Past The Post' electoral system, and do something different; to take a grown-up approach to politics rather than the usual childish tribal warfare, that really serves nobody well.
I believe that if we could make this happen here – BY 4pm this Thursday, 11 May! – it could have a truly renewing effect on politics here in Central Devon.
Under 'normal' circumstances, I would agree with those who say that everyone should have the opportunity to cast their vote for the candidate or party which most closely reflects what they want to see happen in this country. It's why I stood here in 2015 for the Green Party, knowing that the best I could hope for was to increase the size of the Green vote, and perhaps to take our arguments to the half a dozen public hustings which happened. But this election is not a 'normal' one. It is being held at a time when our country is in a state of turmoil and division beyond anything I could have imagined. The governing party faces allegations of criminal electoral malpractice in the last election in 20 constituencies – a greater number than its parliamentary majority. It is now dealing with Brexit – the consequence of incompetent legislation and campaigns – which has now replaced the real important issues of our times (eg climate change and the global refugee crisis), and which risks breaking up the countries of the United Kingdom. All for what? So David Cameron could win a few votes from UKIP?
The Conservative Party has managed to govern this country on its own since 2015 having won just 37% of the popular vote, from 24% of the electorate. Never mind 'strong and stable' – in that time it has lurched from one disaster to another, endangering our education system, our NHS, our 'United' Kingdom and the respect we've always had from the rest of Europe and the rest of the World. Everything right now points towards them winning this General Election in a similar way. We have an opportunity here to make a stand against that by creating a clear choice, where normally there would not be one. Vote Conservative or vote for something different.
So far, the Labour Party has said publicly, and in an email yesterday to its members in Central Devon that it will not be part of a Unity candidate agreement. So far, the Lib Dems have in private made promising noises and say they are actively considering this suggestion. Both parties surely know that it is the only way for the people of Central Devon to have a clear choice where every vote will count. We don't have much time. The deadline for nomination papers to be lodged is 4pm on Thursday. Where this has been done already, it's still possible to change things so that a single joint candidate appears on the ballot paper. If you haven't already, email the parties to let them know what you think – post about it on social media (here's the Facebook version of this post). If you know other people who agree, then ask them to do this too.
Secretary of Central Devon Labour: Paula Frisby: email@example.com
Central Devon Liberal Democrats: firstname.lastname@example.com
South Devon Green Party: firstname.lastname@example.com (I'll see this one – so copy us in).


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Artist Bill Galvani, whose professional background is as a museum director, carves using the traditional tools of drawknife, spokeshave, wood rasp, and knife. He prefers basswood, a hardwood that holds detail and takes a blade well. Carving shorebirds and ducks has encouraged him to study them, which has led him to participate in conservation activities that preserve birds and their habitats.
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Carving gives me pleasure and relaxation: the smell of freshly-cut chips, the finish of the wood, and the feel of the form as it takes shape. I enjoy learning about birds, watching them, and trying to understand them.
I have carved shorebirds, ducks, and whales for some forty years. I appreciate the work of the old masters of this craft, carvers such as the Ward Brothers of Maryland's Eastern Shore and Elmer Crowell of Massachusetts. The wildlife creations of contemporary carvers including Larry Barth and Rich Smoker also inspire me. In my shorebird carvings I attempt to present a stripped-down form that projects the independence, spirit, and rugged nature of these remarkable feathered creatures.
I served as Director of the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Washington, for nineteen years. I also conducted museum accreditation visits for the American Alliance of Museums. Interestingly, those visits often gave me a chance to see the work of other carvers which I always enjoyed.


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Here's Why a Terrorist Attack in Paris Gets More Attention Than One in Beirut
We're going to have to do this, aren't we? We're actually going to have to explain the obvious (and not at all nefarious) reasons why a terrorist attack in one city provokes a different national response than an attack in another. Because social media is never truly firing on all cylinders unless it's being used to transmit sanctimonious indignation over something or another, we're going to have to attempt to answer a ghoulish "grief-off" that seems to have developed over the past 24 hours, with advocates for different countries competing for attention in the wake of the most recent terrorist tragedy.
Surely you've seen it: memes,articles, and Twitter and Facebook posts all wondering aloud why the media goes to 24/7 coverage and the world lights its landmarks blue, white and red when dozens of people are killed by terrorists in Paris but terrorist deaths in Beirut, Baghdad, Kenya and Nigeria feel like they're met with barely a raised eyebrow. Supposedly, it's a double-standard -- likely a racist double-standard -- that explains the glaring discrepancy and it proves that we as a society value certain lives over others. White faces covered in blood get attention -- black or brown faces don't. That's how the theory goes.
First of all, let me say that it's truly awful to be having a debate like this at all right now given that the blood has barely dried in Paris. There are people trying to come to terms with the loss of their loved ones and others still fighting to survive this massacre and meanwhile Facebook is lit up with people self-righteously scolding -- or in other cases melodramatically lamenting -- the grief so many feel in response to this particular attack against this particular city. While the death of anyone in any act of terror is a tragedy, regardless of race or ethnicity, there's something extraordinary about Paris and its citizens and an attack on them strikes an especially raw nerve with the progressive world.
Paris isn't just a city -- it's in so many ways the castle keep of Western culture. It's a place that for centuries has represented the ideals that the Western world is founded on: freedom, equality, philosophy and introspection, knowledge, love for fellow man, and a belief in the absolute good of artistic expression. Paris has always stood for the embrace of life and all that it offers. An assault by Islamist jihadis on the city is a knife through the heart of those values and the West in general, which is exactly why it was chosen by Daesh (ISIS). Friday's coordinated attacks struck at everything we as a liberal democracy celebrate. They hit a concert hall where music was playing; a football stadium where thousands were enjoying a game; and a series of sidewalk cafes where people had gathered for dinner and drinks. These are all things that Daesh despises and has stricken from its ultra-fundamentalist caliphate -- they're the things that make up our way of life.
The attacks of November 13th also represent the first time that Daesh has extended its theater of operations beyond the Middle East -- and that's more than newsworthy. True, the group hit a market in Beirut on Thursday, killing almost 150 people, but no matter how harsh this may sound, to the media and the rest of the world a terrorist attack in Beirut just isn't all that surprising (which is admittedly a tragedy in and of itself). You're talking about a place that's historically been a hotbed of terrorist activity and which has had nearly 60 bombings in or around it within the last decade.
What makes news is, as they say, man-bites-dog. Well, Beirut -- and for that matter Kenya, another country whose deadly terrorism people are complaining has been overlooked in the wake of Paris -- is unfortunately nothing more than the usual dog-bites-man. This certainly isn't to say that the lives of the people of either of those places matter less than the people of Paris, it's simply that terror there doesn't have the kind of impact on the imagination of the media and Western cultures that a massacre in the peaceful cradle of the Enlightenment does. And that's somewhat understandable.
Daesh specifically brought its lethal evangelism to Paris because it needed to target an iconic place deep within the body politic of the West where its values were most prided. It needed to make a statement and hit us close to home, in an accepting, cosmopolitan city that we could see ourselves in and whose beauty and permissive, humanistic values have captured the public's imagination for centuries. It also needed a city we here in the U.S. could imagine as New York, or Los Angeles, or Washington, DC, a city where we could be dining and drinking or watching a football game or hanging out at a rock show. The free world thinks Paris is special and it always has. This is exactly why Daesh thought it was special.
Put it this way: We typically see terrorist attacks in different cities around the world. Friday we saw a terrorist attack on a city and all that it stands for.


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Ninja 3D Carousel
This project was just a simple conversion for a client initially. The job was to make the Moolet MooTools 3D Image Carousel to work natively on Joomla 1.5, but we got carried away because we wont settle with a module before it's as good as it can possibly get.
Therefore there is nothing left from the Moolets code, we actually went to the source of Moolets code, instead of simply using theirs.
We also went more deeply into making it easier to use. We went so far that there comes a editable fireworks PNG with it that allows you to prototype settings and see what it would look like with your settings. And even more importantly, make you understand what exactly each setting do, and how they relate to one another.
These are simple instructions. For more advanced details, look in the module's back-end.
- Install Module
- Input minimum one image source. Both absolute (http://ninjaforge.com/feedblue.png) and relative (../feedblue.png) paths are accepted.
- Input an Alt/Title text (the text you input is displayed on both the images title and alt fields). If you use JS Tooltip, input in the following format "Tooltip title :: Tooltip main body content".
- Publish the module.
Version: 1.6.2 Date: September 2009 State: Bugfix and feature release
- 3D positions caching, much better performance
- Recoded javascript into a fully native mootools plugin
- Native Joomla! 1.5.
- Shadowbox support
- Removed basespeed and speed settings, added rpm setting instead.
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Buttocks injection death trial set for January
JACKSON, Miss. - An adult entertainer goes to trial this month for what authorities say was her role in arranging unlicensed buttocks injections that killed a Georgia woman in 2012.
Authorities say 37-year-old Karima Gordon of Atlanta paid $200 to Natasha Stewart, a model and adult entertainer who uses the name Pebbelz Da Model, for a referral to the alleged injector. She's charged with depraved-heart murder and other charges.
Authorities say Gordon died from blood clots in her lungs days after being injected with a silicone substance in March 2012 at a house in Jackson, Miss.
A deadline for Stewart to reach a plea agreement is Jan. 10. Trial begins Jan. 27.
Tracey Lynn Garner, also known as Morris Garner, is charged with giving the injections and goes to trial in March.


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Fresh off of his lookalike finally going for an old Westeros swing on the most recent Game Of Thrones, Ridley Scott has announced that he'll be directing an adaptation of Wraiths Of The Broken Land, a Western novel written by Bone Tomahawk writer/director S. Craig Zahler. The Martian screenwriter Drew Goddard will be handling the script, with a bunch of Martian producers reuniting with Scott as well. Presumably, that means Scott and 20th Century Fox are hoping Wraiths will manage to pick up some of that same prestige (and box-office revenue) that The Martian managed to collect from Matt Damon farming for poop potatoes.
This comes from Deadline, which notes that Wraiths won't be a weirdly joke-filled drama like The Martian, though. Set near the U.S./Mexico border in the early 1900s, Zahler's original book is about a pair of sisters who are captured and forced into prostitution. To rescue them, their brothers and father put together a gang of outlaws that includes a former slave, a Native American, and an expert gunman (who is called a "wraith" for some reason). Deadline says that "lives, ethics, and sanity are imperiled during the wild, brutal struggle that ensues," so sounds like it should be a pretty fun time for everyone involved.
There's no word on when Scott will manage to fit Wraiths Of The Broken Land into his busy schedule, but he'll have to make room for it among Alien: Covenant, The Cartel, Blade Runner 2, and the TV medical drama he's producing.


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The Miniature Pinscher is a dog that looks like a smaller version of the Doberman Pinscher breed. However, the two breeds are unrelated, and, in fact, the Miniature Pinscher breed is older than the Doberman Pinscher. The Miniature Pinscher is a hardy little fellow who is proud and courageous. He is loyal, spirited and alert with high energy, intelligent, lively and brave. They are generally good with other pets and children. Typically Miniature Pinschers weigh 8-12 pounds and stand 10-12 inches tall at the shoulders. If these sharp looking little guys are your thing, ask TLC Kennel what variety of colors they may have available in the Miniature Pinscher.


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Dynavector DV10x5 MC phono cartridge Page 3
And most of all, it made Guided by Voices' Bee Thousand (Scat 35) sound messy and fun, which it is. What else is there?
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• Top of the list, I liked the way it played music, which it did with pitch and timing accuracy and a fine, organic sense of flow.
Finishing it
The only other thing that comes to mind is the issue of vinyl noise, be it steady-state (groove grunge) or not (tics and pops), said performance being a function of stylus profile, stylus condition (the extent to which it's been properly polished), and the cantilever's ability to shrug off rather than store resonant energy. Here the DV10x5 gets a solid "Good" rating: It was better than all the MM cartridges I know and even some of the MCs, pricier ones included, although severe record damage could still trip it up. (Lyra's cartridges remain the best I know in this regard, for whatever combination of reasons.)
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Here's a list of things I liked about the Dynavector DV10x5:
• Top of the list, I liked the way it played music, which it did with pitch and timing accuracy and a fine, organic sense of flow.
• I liked the way the Dyna did textures. As I said above, the first Dyna I heard did textures like that when I didn't even know my LPs contained such a thing. Feel free to think me merely nostalgic, but it's not only that: This cartridge had the same kind of magic.
• I liked the way the Dyna imaged. It had depth, but not so much that my attention went there instead of to the notes and beats. Ditto image placement and solidity.
• I liked the fact that the Dyna had color without being colored.
• I liked that it didn't sound tiny. It wasn't as big as could be, but it wasn't puny, either.
• God help me, but I love the way it looks. I'm glad the DV10x5 looks pretty much the same as the old DV10, which itself was somewhat anachronistic, being so big and all. The big, translucent red housing is beyond cool, I think, and while Dynavector makes better cartridges, none is prettier than the DV10x5.
• I liked the fact that the DV10x5 is a high-output MC cartridge that didn't sound hard. Sorry to paint with so broad a brush, but the sounds of most such products—even expensive examples of the breed—have struck me as having an edgy or hard quality. It has never been explained to my satisfaction why most high-output cartridges sound worse in this regard than their low-output brethren, all other things being equal; and while it's not difficult to imagine how a more massive coil former or even more massive coils can present certain performance shortfalls, I have a hard time accepting that as the culprit. Whatever: The important thing is that Dynavector's cheap, high-output cartridges have never sounded harsh to my ears, and the DV10x5 carried on that fine tradition.
• I love the price. While Dynavector makes better cartridges, none is a better value than the DV10x5.
Here's a list of things I didn't like:
• When Dynavector designed their new mounting plate, they could have threaded the holes. They didn't.
Finishing it
What does a megabuck cartridge give you that the Dynavector DV10x5 doesn't? Those Lyras and most van den Huls are quieter in the groove, and while the DV10x5 was no slouch in that respect, it can be bettered. Some more expensive phono cartridges can also sound more open and transparent than this one, and they and others will deliver a little more imaging precision and depth, if that's your bag, and a more realistic sense of scale.
But if you want something that does everything better—sound and music—you have to buy something like a Linn Akiva or a Tubaphon TU-2 ($2950 and $2150, respectively). And from there up, improvements cost crazy money—like the $3950 Miyabi 47. Go ahead: It's your kids' education, so what do I care?
The first entry-level Dyna I ever heard was the first DV10x cartridge—which I bought, sound unheard, on a dealer's recommendation back in 1979. It was the first MC cartridge I'd ever owned, and I was knocked out. I remember especially listening to Leonard Cohen's New Skin for the Old Ceremony and being astounded at how much rich detail and texture that Dynavector pulled out of the grooves: Voices and stringed instruments sounded like themselves, the latter sounding especially...well, stringy—just as they do in real life. I remember playing "Who By Fire" and "The Bells" over and over, so mesmerized was I by the beauty of both the sound and the music-making.
The Dynavector DV10x5 more than lives up to my memory of its predecessor. This colorful, well-balanced, chunky-sounding cartridge played music extremely well, with a bonus of very fine stereo imaging. In other words, it's a great all-arounder. More money can buy more drama, impact, scale, and transparency, just as more money can buy a slightly faster car or torquier tractor. But the Dynavector DV10x5 should give you most of what I think you need at a bargain price. Wildly, highly recommended.


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Hello HVAC Readers, Customers, and Competitors!
We're launching a new Chapter for Procure Inc. Over the past few months, we've worked to develop a new site from scratch. We wanted to deliver a better experience, better pricing, and streamline our internal operations. Unfortunately, we hit a roadblock. For years, we've devised workarounds and setup clever tricks to make our eCommerce platform work. We took a system designed for a few thousand products and made it work with hundreds of thousands of products. Last Spring, we came to the decision that this was no longer sustainable.
In order to move forward, we had to abandon pretty much everything. Our developers crafted a new site. Our sales and procurement teams re-processed all of our raw vendor pricing and data into a new format. We automated what we could and trained our team in the aspects of running a bigger, more complex site by hand. We even broke the site a few times, just to confirm that we could recover from a catastrophic failure in minutes and hours, instead of days as it had in the past.
There are some caveats, for you, our dear customers. Your passwords are gone. When you make a secure system, it takes your passwords to its grave. We can happily say: We couldn't pry, convert, or otherwise make your passwords work on our new system. Luckily, that is really the only big loss. Your correspondences with us, shipping addresses, and order history are intact. You can login to our new site with your old username after you reset your password. Our sales team has documented all your orders in our accounting system (but not the new site), shoot us an email and we can tell you anything you need to know.
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By: Robert S Zeigler
Science-based improvements in agricultural technology have been at the forefront of alleviating hunger and poverty. The first Green Revolution that started in the 1960s, GR1.0, converted India from being a basket case to a bread basket.
The science of GR1.0 basically built high-yielding semi-dwarf rice and wheat plant architecture adapted to low-stress environments, which benefited mostly farmers in favourable irrigated areas. The science of GR2.0, the second Green Revolution, has gone one better by 'leaving no farmer behind', especially poor rice farmers growing their crop in marginal environments.
GR2.0 in rice started in 2008 when farmers began adopting flood-tolerant rice, which can withstand total submergence for more than two weeks. Since then, these Sub1 varieties — named after the Sub1 gene discovered and deployed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and Indian scientists — have spread in eastern India and other regions where flooding is a perennial problem.
Around 2030, GR3.0 will commence when farmers start planting yield-plateau-busting C4 and nitrogen-fixing rice. These varieties will be extraordinarily environmentally friendly as, to produce higher yield, they will need half the amount of water and nitrogen currently used. However, this vision could be delayed or thwarted altogether.
The anti-science, anti-technology and anti-genetically modified organism (GMO) movements hindering the use of transgenic crops in India, such as Bt brinjal and pro-vitamin A-fortified Golden Rice (GR), are having a chilling effect on students who are now wondering if they should devote any time at all to studying agriculture and biology.
India is home to the world's largest population of vitamin Adeficient (VAD) people, most of whom are pregnant women and children. For more than a decade, the IRRI has had a close relationship with the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in Delhi, the Indian Institute of Rice Research in Hyderabad and the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in developing GR varieties adapted to local conditions. One hopes policymakers will allow this crop to proceed and not suffer the same fate as Bt brinjal.
When one considers the large amount of pesticides applied to brinjal in India, the release of the Bt version would bring tremendous environmental benefits. Its availability would be a health benefit to farmers, economically attractive to them, and a big win for the environment. Consumers won't have to eat brinjal with pesticide residue on it.
Interestingly, Bangladesh approved Bt brinjal based on the data generated in India. Many countries, like India, already have rigorous approval processes for genetically engineered products, crops, food, etc. Countries in South Asia could mutually recognise those approval processes, much as they recognise the food standards in the Codex Alimentarius rather than insisting that each test be repeated locally.
In October 2014, agriculture ministries of India, Bangladesh and Nepal signed an agreement to fast-track the release of any rice variety undergoing proper evaluation protocols in any one of their countries. India has already directly released four rice varieties from Bangladesh and two from Nepal for Indian farmers growing rice in similar agroecologies. The poor are depending on scientists and policymakers to work together. We really don't have time to keep reinventing the wheel.
The writer is director general, International Rice Research Institute, the Philippines
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We live on a beautiful planet but in an ugly world. It is aesthetic with all it's serenity yet grotesque because of terror. When trees are chopped like cutlets, it is terrorism. When little hands are made to hold begging bowls, it is terrorism. When autonomy to express is snatched, it is terrorism. When demands are fulfilled at gunpoint, it is terrorism. When innocent souls have to do away with their lives, it is terrorism. Terrorism has no religion yet is done in the name of religion. Nothing can ever justify terrorism; it can never be accepted. Below are a handful tales of terrorism that will give you goosebumps.
1. Wall Street Bombing
Date- September 16, 1920.
Time- 12:00 pm.
Scene- It was a busy district. People were out with their colleagues to have lunch. A horse-wagon walks in street and stops near JP Morgan Bank, 23 Wall Street.
Time- 12:02 pm
Scene- Blood spilled on concrete road, corpses lying around. Howling, shrieking and crying is the only babel to be heard.
What happened in that one minute became a historic affair. For the first time in history, an animal butchered humans. Investigations revealed that the horse wagon contained 45kg of dynamite that blew up killing 38 people and injuring several others. It annihilated property worth $2 million. It surpassed the deadliest terror attack till that date on the US soil, Bombing of Los Angeles Times. It is still a curious case that could never be solved but the US Bureau of Investigation remains highly suspicious of Gelleanist anarchists for this brutal felony.
9. Beirut Barracks Bombing
The plot of this delinquency is no less than a movie's storyline. Two trucks collided into two buildings at two different locations, on the same day, targeting the same contingent. It was a part of the series of attacks by Israeli army on the American soil and proved to be the deadliest terror attack on American citizens killing 305 victims and 2 suicide bombers. The responsibility for this attack was taken by a shrouded gang branding itself "Islamic Jihad". The results were politically wretched. The UN withdrew it's peacekeeping force from Lebanon following this raid storm.
8. Irish Airspaces ( Indian Aircraft- Kanishka Bombing)
Touted as the deadliest air attack in Canadian history, the Boeing 747 named Kanishka, a part of Indian territory, tattered into pieces in Irish airspace at an altitude of 31,000 feet. It was the first of it's kind as the world had never witnessed a jumbo jet bombard midway. Worn out carcasses of humans were drained out of Atlantic Ocean, south Ireland. As per investigations, one Manjit Singh was indicted with getting the bomb on the plane. However, he never boarded the plane but his luggage did, that allegedly had the bomb. It is said that this mass murder could have been prevented had the Canada Government acted more sincerely against the likely threats that Indian Government informed it about. It was suspected that Sikh extremists had their hand behind this deed and that it was a repercussion of the then ongoing Hindu-Sikh violence.
7. World Trade Centre Attack
"Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.", said George W. Bush at 9 p.m. from Oval Office after this lethal attack on 9/11. Not just one, four planes of American Airlines were hijacked by Taliban terrorists. While two of these went past the 110 floor tower, puncturing it, one of them ploughed into the Pentagon. The fourth one rammed into a field in Pennsylvania. All this mania claimed lives of 343 innocent humans and those who were fortunate enough to live, went through Post Traumatic Disorder. Whilst many civilians died inside the skyscraper, some passengers died inside the plane and a few died from the heavy building debris showering on streets. This attack will always remain a dent in American Security Services.
6. Bali Bombing
Imagine yourself in a nightclub, grooving to crazy beats, sipping your tequila. Suddenly out of nowhere, an uncanny man enters with a backpack and then what awaits is the most dreaded of the things- a bomb blast. That was what exactly happened in Paddy's Pub, Bali on October 22, 2002. The militants belonged to the extremist group- Jemaah Islamiah. This blast took lives of citizens of 21 countries around the globe, including 88 Australians, 39 Indonesians and 28 Britons. One of the plotters remarked that Bali was bombed because it was frequently visited by American tourists. Initially it was planned to be executed on 11th September to mark the anniversary of 9/11. This carefree hangout place was rocked to it's core that night, the barring music changed into clamouring sirens and the visitors looking forward to an amazing night vowed never to return.
5. Madrid Train Bombing
10 bombs exploded in Spain, three days prior to the National elections, leave a gaping perforation in a Madrid train. It killed 190 and injured about 2000 commuters, leaving the nation stunned. It was a thunderclap to the Spanish security from an Al Qaeda inspired group. The city was on the hop when a cacophony that initially felt like a firecracker transformed into a bomb blast. 10 bombs blew up one after the other in the same train, in the same coach, in closed gym bags, in closed backpacks, leaving a closed train open and a country trembling.
4. Beslan, Russia (School Hostage)
Classes were being held, it was all peaceful, students running ajure in playground, teachers sprinkling rays of knowledge on pupils and as the minute changed, classrooms became battlefield, students still ran but for their lives and instead of knowledge, bullets were showered. This is a snapshot of what happened in School Number One on the first day of the session, traditionally called "First Bell", and continued for three days. Since it was the "Knowledge Day", many parents visited the school and hence the number of people was also more. So technically, it was the ideal day for propagating terror. The aftermath was death of 330 people, mostly children. A Chechen liberation group was behind this atrocious act. This assault resulted in a number of legislative changes in Russia, which hasn't witnessed any such attack since then.
3. Super Ferry 14 Bombing
Many boarded Super Ferry on 27th February 2004, looking forward to a frolic sojourn, little did they know that they will never reach their destination. It was a rendezvous of water and fire when this ferry smouldered into flames. Initially assumed to be an accident, this fire succumbed to the ocean water only after taking 116 lives and injuring 300 others. Investigations revealed that it was a planned attack by Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). It is the most deadly sea attack in the world history that left many families and a nation traumatised.
2. Al Qataniuah, Iraq, Bombing
The milieu had debris on ground, darkness in sky and shrieks in the air. There were rescue forces and corpses, superficial above and latent below the debris.The governor of Nineveh province, Duraid Kashmoula, said on a visit to the scene: "This is a catastrophe that cannot be described in words."the governor of Nineveh province, Duraid Kashmoula said. What exactly happened that was heinous. Two trucks rammed over huts at the stroke of midnight when denizens were peacefully having their night's sleep. Neither children nor senior citizens, they exempted none. This attack was a means of revenge from Sunni Muslims from Yazidi community after they pelted stones at a Sunni boy for marrying a Yazidi girl.
1. 26/11 Mumbai Attacks
The shores were always busy with vendors calling out to customers, children playing, lovers cuddling and senior citizens strolling. Nobody had ever thought that the same shore will become the ground zero of terror, until when it became. Terrorists shipped themselves into the metropolitan city of Mumbai and went on a violent spree. They were 10 in number instigating an equal number of attacks. They started by bombing a cafe, then Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Station. As if the havoc wasn't enough they headed towards Taj Hotel and The Oberoi Trident, concluding this series with Cama Hospital and Nariman House. This devilish act took lives of 164 people and injured 600 including many tourists. Reminiscing that day is enough to send shivers of pain through city.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. – AASHTOWare, a division of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and Utah-based Numetric, Inc., announced today that they have formed an alliance to release a co-branded safety software product that will be available for licensing to customers on July 1, 2020.
AASHTO and Numetric are now working together to deliver a comprehensive toolset in the traffic safety analytics space built on a "software-as-a-service" or SaaS platform that will provide customers with a more robust, user-friendly experience and faster introduction of new features – all while enabling far more rapid implementation compared to the traditional "on-premise" software delivery model.
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The timing of the alliance will enable AASHTO to begin an orderly two-year sunset period for the existing AASHTOWare Safety Analyst software package, which is 18 years old and nearing the end of its lifecycle. The new AASHTOWare Safety "powered by Numetric" co-branded software is not only functionally equivalent to AASHTOWare's existing offering, it includes enhanced navigation, a geographic information system interface, faster calculations, and new tools such as Google Street View, which provides the capability to view an individual site. The new product's SaaS platform will also allow agency personnel to access it without having to download software onto their computers, allowing for far wider usage across any licensing organization.
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Users transitioning to the new safety software will receive substantial assistance during the implementation period. Under the alliance agreement, Numetric will conduct site visits to ensure the software has been properly uploaded and that the agency can utilize the software right away without utilizing staff resources to clean and organize data.
Look for details about the AASHTOWare Safety "powered by Numetric" co-branded software in the new 2021 AASHTOWare product catalog, which will be available at https://www.aashtoware.org/, or contact AASHTOWare Program Manager Ryan Fragapane at 202-624-3632 for more information.


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The linear depressions that cross this HiRISE image are geological features called "graben." In this part of Mars, graben such as these are collectively named Memnonia Fossae.
Graben can form when the ground is stretched apart due to tectonic forces and can also form when magma is injected underground along long vertical fractures called dikes. The magma forces the dikes open, causing the extension of the ground surface. Both tectonic and dike-related graben are found in Iceland, where tectonic forces both stretch apart the island and enable magmatic dikes to form.
By studying the topography of graben, scientists are able to discern between tectonic and magmatic origins. This part of Mars is especially well suited for this kind of analysis because the ground surface prior to graben formation was relatively flat, making graben-related topography easier to identify and study. Topographic analyses of graben in Memnonia Fossae has revealed that these features formed over magmatic dikes. This means that the Memnonia Fossae are indicators of underground magmatic activity, rather than regional tectonic extension. These kinds of details are key to interpreting the geologic evolution of the surface of Mars.Written by: ChrisO (12 October 2007)
More info and image formats at http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_005376_1575
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The search for Asian carp in Lake Erie has moved to the Sandusky River and Sandusky Bay, where 20 of 150 water samples collected in early August tested positive for the presence of silver carp environmental DNA, or eDNA.
Samples were also taken from the Maumee River, Maumee Bay and Western Lake Erie. The results of those samples should be available in September.
The Sandusky Bay-area positive samples prompted the Ohio Division of Wildlife fisheries experts to intensify their search for live carp.
Researchers report eDNA evidence can't determine whether live Asian carp are swimming in Sandusky Bay, or if the eDNA was brought to the area in the bilge water of freighters or other boats, storm sewers or fish-eating birds.
The large number of positive results surprised fisheries experts, especially the makeup of the results. In water samples taken in August 2011, positive samples from Sandusky Bay were of bighead carp. This time, it was all silver carp, the invasive Asian carp that leap from the water when disturbed.
"Our responsibility is to continue the search for the source of the eDNA, and that includes additional eDNA sampling," said Rich Carter, ODOW executive administrator of fish management and research. "The potentials are that there are live fish to be found, or that there is some other source of the eDNA.
"We'll move forward with the next round of sampling, and we'll expand our gear to include targeting smaller juvenile Asian carp," said Carter.
In addition to the water samples taken earlier this month, Ohio, Michigan and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel used electrofishing techniques and put trawl and gill nets in the water to try to capture an Asian carp. That effort failed, but Carter said Ohio can't assume there were no carp to net or shock.
Carter said that while trawl nets will catch fish of all sizes, the gill-net mesh used to target Asian carp wasn't small enough to catch juvenile fish.
The most positive eDNA hits were in an area of Sandusky Bay near the mouth of the Sandusky River, said Carter. He plans to have survey crews focus on that area, as Ohio crews were on the water this week collecting more water samples. Netting should resume Sept. 17.
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Thom Yorke's former partner Dr Rachel Owen has died aged 48.
Owen passed away on Sunday (December 18) after a battle with cancer.
According to an obituary posted to the website of Pembroke College – University of Oxford, where she taught as a Retained Lecturer in Italian, Owen had been in declining health for the last year. Despite her illness, she continued teaching up until recently.
Owen received a PhD on the illustrations of the early manuscripts of Dante's Divine Comedy. She was also a renowned artist and printmaker, who recently staged an exhibit of prints inspired by the Cantos of Divine Comedy.
Owen and Yorke were partners for 23 years and had two children together, a son named Noah and daughter Agnes.
The couple split in August 2015 and the demise of their relationship heavily influenced Radiohead's recent album, 'A Moon Shaped Pool'.
Earlier this year, the band made their entire discography available to stream on Spotify.
Meanwhile, guitarist Jonny Greenwood recently announced he will be performing his There Will Be Blood score at special screenings of the film around the UK next year.
Greenwood will be accompanied live at the events by the London Contemporary Orchestra, who recently worked on 'A Moon Shaped Pool'.
The stint includes screenings in London, Birmingham, Brighton and Bristol. See the full schedule below.
London, Southbank (January 30, 2017)
Birmingham, Symphony Hall (February 5)
Brighton, The Dome (February 6)
Bristol, Colston Hall (February 7)
Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood was released in 2007, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano. It was the first time Greenwood worked with the director on a movie score, having since provided the score for The Master and Inherent Vice.
Radiohead have also been announced as the first headliner for Glastonbury 2017, as well as a run of other huge European festival dates for 2017.


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Education reporter Toni Konz's decision to leave The Courier-Journal and join WDRB is a terrible but predictable blow to the local daily newspaper. Konz, who announced her move Monday, broke big stories, frequently contributed to the front page, and is very popular on Twitter, where thousands of JCPS students, parents and teachers follow her every word (especially when it comes to school closings).
Getting Konz is a coup for WDRB's general manager Bill Lamb, who has publicly predicted that his station is "going to be the dominant digital address" in the Louisville area. Lamb seems to understand that people want content from journalists they know and trust, which is why he hires veteran local reporters instead of either scooping up cheap newbies fresh out of journalism school or bringing in reporters from other cities with plenty of experience but no sense of our community.
As Konz described it, the "seemingly endless waves of layoffs, restructurings or reorganizations" at The C-J have had a terrible impact on morale and on the company's news product. The recent layoffs of metro editor Mike Trautmann, managing editor Jean Porter and others no doubt made Konz's decision much easier. Back in October I wrote that "the reporters and editors still working for Gannett can read the writing on the wall." Konz got the message after Trautmann was laid off. Will the rest of the experienced journalists at Gannett get it too? Nine months ago, I mentioned Konz and Matt Frassica as examples of "good people … who can turn out good stories," and now both of them are gone, along with several other people who really did make the Courier-Journal worth reading.
When it comes down to it, no amount of web videos, social media outreach, or cross-platform promotion can replace solid local journalism produced by experienced, knowledgeable human beings. The C-J is now sliding down a slippery slope: as readers find their news elsewhere, revenue decreases, which means staff layoffs (and departures due to low morale).
Fewer staffers with less experience means a decline in quality and quantity of content, which in turn means fewer readers, and the whole cycle starts over. The C-J's executive editor Neil Budde and publisher Wes Jackson must find a way to halt this downward spiral as soon as possible.
Earlier: Editor Neil Budde Discusses Courier-Journal Newsroom Layoffs
Step one should be a public acknowledgment of The C-J's problems, written in plain English—not Gannett public relations doubletalk. Step two should be to set public goals for success that, once achieved, will let the Louisville community know that The Courier-Journal is no longer in the process of slow-motion collapse.
In his interview last month with me, Budde wouldn't discuss goals, but how else could the public know and trust that The C-J's health is improving? Clearly Gannett's stock price is no indicator of local quality. All types of politicians, athletic directors, CEOs, school superintendents, clergy and other leaders set public goals in order to build trust and demonstrate progress. The Courier-Journal should do the same, because our local newspaper shouldn't be just another shameless, attention-harvesting media conglomerate. It should be the memory, the conscience and the imagination of our community, and it cannot fulfill those functions while its editorial and news departments slowly crumble before our eyes.
Disclosures: James Miller previously worked for The Courier-Journal, as did Joseph Lord, the editor of this piece. John Mura, the Courier-Journal's former multimedia manager who was part of last week's layoffs, is the father of one of Miller's students.
Miller is WFPL's media critic and a journalism teacher at duPont Manual High School. You can find his past work here and find him on Twitter at @jaymills.


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Specification Overview
Models of memory
1. (a) The multi-store model, including the concepts of encoding, capacity and duration.
(b) Strengths and weaknesses of the model.
2. The working memory model, including its strengths and weaknesses
3. Memory in everyday life:
(a) Eyewitness testimony (EWT) and factors affecting the accuracy of EWT, including anxiety, age of witness
(b) Misleading information and the use of the cognitive interview
(c) Strategies for memory improvement
Try this interactive memory test first.
Now work through the following powerpoint slides, kindly provided by Sabah Bandoui
The Basic Structure of Memory
Memory is generally thought to be made up of three parts:
1. Sensory Register (your senses).
2. Short-term memory.
3. Long-term memory.
Both short-term memory (STM) and Long-term memory (LTM) are studied in terms of their ability to encode (make sense of) information, capacity (how much information) and duration (how long information can be stored).
By way of a short introduction to this topic take a look at the following BBC video resources from the One Show.
Click on the following resource for access to BBC Radio 4's In our Time series podcast.
Short-Term Memory
Encoding in short term memory
Conrad (1964) suggested that short-term memory codes all information acoustically, that is, according to sound. Visual information is encoded (transformed) to its acoustic (sound/language) codes.
Participants were presented with a list of consonants.
For example: P J N R Z D for about 3⁄4 of a second.
Participants were then asked to recall what they had seen.
Conrad found that errors of recall were linked to letters which had a similar sound.
Bs were mistaken for Ps 62 times, Vs were mistaken for Ps 83 times but Ss were mistaken for Ps only 2 times. This suggests that visually presented information is encoded according to acoustics/sounds. Conrad referred to these errors as acoustic confusion or substitution errors
Shulman (1970) disagreed and thought that short-term memory also coded information visually and according to semantics (meaning).
This research suggests that Conrad was incorrect in proposing that all encoding in short term memory was acoustic.
Shulman presented participants visually with lists of 10 words. Recall was then tested using cue or probe words which were one of three types.
Firstly, some of the probe words used were homonyms (words which sound the same but have different meanings, for example: ball and bawl).
Secondly, some probe words were synonyms (different words with same/similar meaning, for example: talk and speak).
Thirdly some of the probe words used were identical to the ones on the original stimulus list.
Similar numbers of errors of recall from the stimulus list was made for homonym and synonym probes. This suggests that the semantic encoding (meaning) as well as acoustic encoding occurs in the short term memory.
Heyer and Barrett (1974) suggested that visual images that are difficult to acoustically code may also be stored briefly in short term memory.
Both the Conrad and Shulman research were laboratory experiments. They therefore lack ecological validity due to controlled artificial environments. Participants were undergraduate students and therefore unrepresentative of the general population. They may have exhibited demand characteristics and experimenter bias may have occurred as the experiment did not employ blind conditions.
The results may also have been influenced by individual differences or participant variables. The research has good reliability.
Capacity of short term memory
Capacity refers to the amount of information that can be stored in the short-term memory.
Miller (1956) suggested that most people store about seven independent or discrete items in short term memory. These items may be numbers, letters or words etc. Miller referred to each of these items as chunks.
For example: 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 = Seven discrete chunks
Miller further suggested that the capacity of the short term memory may be enlarged by grouping items together by associations/links they have with each other.
Eg; 1+1 2+2 3+3 4+4 5+5 6+6 7+7 = Seven discrete chunks but combined according to same numbers therefore increasing capacity of short term memory. Items are chunked according to the meanings they have in long-term memory.
Miller therefore suggested that about seven chunks of information may be stored in short term memory whether in single or combined forms give or take one or two chunks, "The magical number seven plus or minus two"____________ 7 +/- 2.
Research into capacity in short term memory Miller (1956)
Participants were given 'sentences' of varying lengths that approximated 'true' English. They were asked to recall words in the correct order given in the sentence.
The more sense the sentence made, in terms of grammar, the better the recall. This suggests that the semantic (meaning) and grammatical structure, which is probably stored in LTM, is used to help increase amount of information stored in STM by combining items to create larger chunks. Participants still recalled about seven pieces of information.
Criticisms of this laboratory experiment include ecological validity, demand characteristics, experimenter bias, participant variables/individual differences. The experiment has good reliability, but the research is dated.
Research into capacity in short term memory Bower & Springton (1970)
Participants were presented with one of two letter sequences. The first sequence was made up of well-known groups of letters for example; mfi, plc, aeb. The second sequence contained the same letters but not in the well known order: imf, lcp, eba. The first sequence was better recalled suggesting that chunking according to meaning increases the capacity of the short-term memory.
Criticisms of this laboratory experiment are as above for Miller's research.
Duration of short term memory
Brown & Peterson & Peterson (1959) devised a technique that prevents information from being continually repeated in the STM in order to test how long information will be retained. This continual repetition of information in order to hold on to it is referred to as Maintenance Rehearsal. Brown & Peterson suggested that the short-term memory can store information for approximately 15 to 30 seconds if maintenance rehearsal is prevented.
Reitman (1974) suggested that this short duration is due to displacement; as new information is coming into the short-term memory it is kicking out the previous information due to its limited capacity (7 +/- 2 chunks).
Peterson & Peterson suggest that information decays (fades away) rapidly in short term memory unless rehearsal of that information occurs.
Research into Duration in STM: The Brown-Peterson Technique (1959)
This illustrates what Brown & Peterson referred to as a Distractor Task or Interpolated Task and should have prevented you from rehearsing the information – the trigrams.
This experiment shows that in the absence of rehearsal the short-term memory can only hold on to information for about 15 to 30 seconds.
Brown & Peterson suggested that where information is continually rehearsed it can be stored in the short-term memory indefinitely but is lost as soon as interference blocks rehearsal.
Ever been given a telephone number and had to keep repeating it avoiding all distractions until you wrote it down to prevent forgetting it? Then you were experiencing Maintenance Rehearsal.
Brown & Peterson employed a laboratory experiment and therefore may be subject to the criticisms above.
Long-Term Memory
Capacity in long term memory
Capacity (amount of information which may be stored) of the long-term memory is unknown. It is impossible to measure and may be limitless. The brains ability to store information is greater than the world's most powerful computer memory.
Duration in long term memory
Information is thought to be stored permanently – for your entire lifetime. It is now thought possible that some memories may be genetically inherited and therefore last longer than a lifetime.
The issue with duration in long-term memory relates to recall and forgetting.
Encoding in LTM
Two types of encoding are thought to operate in LTM.
Research into semantic encoding in long term memory Baddeley (1966). Baddeley presented participants with four lists to remember:
List 1: man map can cap
List 2: try pig hut pen
List 3: great big huge wide
List 4: run easy tug end
Participants had to recall as many words as possible immediately after presentation of lists and then try again 20 minutes later
Baddeley found that the immediate recall was better for list 2 than for list 1 and with little difference in recall between lists 3 and 4.
List 1 contains similar sounding words and list 2 contains non-similar sounding words. When participants were then asked to recall words after twenty minutes they recalled list 4 better than list 3, list 4 contains words with non-similar meaning words and list 3 contains words with similar meanings.
There was little difference in recall for lists 1 and 2. This shows that the short-term memory tends to store information according to sounds rather than meaning and that the long-term memory tends to store information according to semantics (meaning) rather than simply sound.
Baddeley used a laboratory experiment and can therefore be criticised in terms of ecological validity, demand characteristics, participant variables/individual differences, experimenter bias and representativeness (Baddeley used undergraduate students as participants). Although it has good reliability.
The following table is a summary of what you have learnt about encoding, duration and capacity in the STM and LTM.
7 +/- 2 Chunks
The magical number seven plus or minus two
|Brown & Peterson suggest 15 to 30 seconds
|Conrad suggested only acoustic process. Shulman suggested also visual and semantic processes.
|Unknown and impossible to measure. Maybe limitless.
|Relatively permanent. Relates to theories of recall and forgetting.
|Declarative and/or Procedural. Declarative may be Semantic and/or Episodic (Tulving). Baddeley showed process was largely semantic.
Models of Memory
Multistore Model – Atkinson and Shiffrin ('68)
Akinson and Shiffrin suggested that memory was comprised of three separate stores, the Sensory Memory Store, the short-term memory and the long-term memory. Each store had a specific and relatively inflexible function.
Information is simply rehearsed in the STM and if rehearsed sufficiently is transferred to LTM. Information to be recalled from LTM passes back through STM producing the associated response. This model is represented below as a diagram.
The Multi-store Model
Evidence for Multi-store model:
1. Primacy-Recency Effect – Atkinson (1970). When presented with lists to remember we recall first and last items best. First items rehearsed into LTM and last items recalled from STM. Ones in middle less likely to be recalled. This is evidence for existence of several stores.
2. Brown –Peterson Technique suggests that if rehearsal of items is prevented then information does not enter LTM.
3. Amnesiacs caused by Korsakoffs Syndrome brought on by chronic alcoholism display sound STM functioning but impaired LTM. This suggests separate and distinct memory stores.
4. Shallice and Warrington (1970). Case study of K.F. who suffered brain damage because of motorbike accident. STM impaired but LTM intact.
Evidence against Multi-store Model:
1. De Groot (1966) showed how expert chess players had phenomenal STM for chess positions as long as they fitted in with known rules. When pieces were randomly arranged their recall was no better than non-chess players therefore STM and LTM may not be so separate and distinct.
2. The working memory model suggests that the short term store is active, dynamic and complex, rather than simple, passive and unitary.
Multi-store model is basic and limited in explaining such a complex phenomena as memory.
Working Memory – Baddeley & Hitch (1974)
An alternative to the Multi-store Model. Emphasises workings of STM. It is a far more complex explanation of STM.
Rather than the STM being a single inflexible store, Baddeley and Hitch suggested that the STM was made up of several subsystems, each having a specialised function.
They suggested that these subsystems were involved in complex cognitions/thought processes, including analysis and judgements about information input.
Baddeley and Hitch (1974) provide evidence for this by people being able to carry out more than one task at once where both tasks involve STM functions.
Therefore the STM is more complex and may have several subsystems that can operate simultaneously.
Baddeley & Hitch suggested the existence of several subsystems in STM but they studied the possibility of two in particular which were governed by a central controlling mechanism which they termed the Central Executive .
This fat controller is the boss and supervises and coordinates the other subsidiary systems. The central executive decides which information is attended to and which parts of the working memory to send that information to be dealt with.
The two subsystems studied were named the Visuo-spatial Sketchpad and the Phonological/Articulatory Loop.
The Visuo-spatial Sketchpad deals with what information looks like and how it is laid out – it deals with visual and spatial information.
The Phonological Loop holds spoken information for about 1.5 to 2 seconds. Written words must be converted to spoken words to enter phonological loop. The Articulatory loop rehearses the spoken/acoustic information from the phonological store and also converts written material to acoustic material so that the phonological loop can deal with it.
There is little empirical evidence to support the Working memory Model but the recognition of the complexity of the STM makes sound theoretical sense. However some brain damaged patients appear to suffer impairment to some functions of STM and not others (Shallice & Warrington, 1974) therefore suggesting existence of several specialised systems within STM.
Forgetting in Short-Term Memory
Decay in STM
Trace decay theory in STM relates to theories of Duration in STM. The theory suggests STM can only hold information for between 15 and 30 seconds unless it is rehearsed Brown & Peterson (1959). After this time the information Decays (fades away). Waugh & Norman (1965) used the Serial Probe Technique to test the theory.
Displacement in STM
The idea of displacement in STM causing forgetting relates to the Capacity of STM as proposed by Miller (1956). It simply suggests that if the capacity of STM is limited to 7 plus or minus 2 items or chunks of information then STM is full then some of that information must be kicked out or displaced in order for new information to enter.
Retrieval Failure in LTM
This theory suggests that all information received is stored in LTM but that some information is difficult or impossible to access.
This idea is characterised by the Tip-of-the-Tongue Effect (TOT) where we know something but just cannot recall it. Retrieval of such information is thought to be dependent on three factors:
1. Firstly Context-Dependent Retrieval which suggests that recall of information depends on replicating the situation or context in which that information was originally encoded.
Godden & Baddeley (1975) provided evidence for this by asking participants to learn a list of words either on land or 15 ft underwater. They were better able to recall words if asked to do so in the setting in which they originally learnt them.
2. Secondly, State-Dependent Retrieval suggests that recall is improved if the individual is in the same physical and/or psychological state as when they first learnt the information.
Godwin (1969) investigated the effect of alcohol on recall and found individuals were better able to recall information learnt when drunk if they were drunk. Other drugs seem to affect memory similarly. Bower (1981) however found that the same principle applied to mood did not have such a convincing effect but only a tendency to produce State-Dependent Retrieval.
3. Thirdly, recall may be by the presence of cues or probes, clues or associations. This is referred to as Cue-Dependent Retrieval, Tulving & Pearlstone (1966).
Interference in LTM
This idea suggests that information in LTM may become confused or combined with other information during encoding thus distorting or disrupting memories.
Interference in LTM is thought to be either proactive where old memories disrupt new memories or retroactive where new memories disrupt old memories. Both Proactive and Retroactive Interference is thought to be more likely to occur where the memories are similar, for example: confusing old and new telephone numbers.
McGeoch (1932) tested these ideas using laboratory experiments involving lists of single words or binary associations. The findings therefore can be criticised for their ecological validity including demand characteristics and representativeness thus making generalisations impossible.
Flashbulb Memories
Flashbulb memories involve the vivid recall of what individuals were doing when a major event occurred. This event may be a public or a private occurrence.
Is the memory vivid and distinct in time?
Brown & Kulik (1977) asked people a series of questions about 10 major events. Participants remembered where they were, what they were doing and the emotional impact it had. These memories may be seen as 'special' and are thought to involve special brain mechanisms.
Rubin & Kozin (1984) showed that flashbulb memories are particularly powerful for personal events, such as love at first sight.
McCloskey (1988) suggested that flashbulb memories are as prone to forgetting as ordinary memories. Bohannon (1988) suggested that flashbulb memories are not prone to forgetting when the event produced strong emotional reactions.


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Preliminary research suggests that the second-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) dacomitinib (see right structure)may improve progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations.
Noting that the majority of patients develop resistance to the first-generation TKIs, such as gefitinib and erlotinib (below structures from left and right side respectively), Pasi Jänne (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) and co-workers explain that alternative agents are needed to improve patient outcomes.
The open-label, phase II trial included 89 treatment-naïve patients with stage IIIB or IV NSCLC who were selected for dacomitinib once-daily treatment on the basis of clinical markers (never or former light smokers) or molecular markers (absence of KRASmutation in non-Asian patients or EGFR mutation).


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by Michael Dorf
My latest Verdict column tries to make sense of Donald Trump's announcement during last week's State of the Union address that he plans to keep open the US prison at Guantánamo Bay. As I note in the column, the per-prisoner cost in dollars of holding alleged foreign fighters and terrorists at Gitmo is orders of magnitude higher than holding them in a US maximum-security prison, while the moral and PR costs are even higher. Accordingly, I conclude that Trump's decision--supported broadly by other Republicans and some Democrats--needs to be understood as based on something other than a calculation of costs and benefits. That other something, I suggest, is the value of Gitmo as a symbol.
For President Obama, Gitmo was a symbol of how the US lost its way under President GW Bush, a loss of faith in the rule of law. I argue in the column that Trump doesn't merely place less emphasis on the rule of law than Obama did, but that Gitmo is valuable as a symbol to Trump precisely because it symbolizes tough-guy tactics over the rule of law. For Trump, lawlessness and brutality are not regrettable costs of an otherwise justifiable policy. Lawlessness and brutality are the point. They are features, not bugs.
Once I came to understand Trump's support for Gitmo that way, I started to wonder where else this framework might have explanatory force. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the short answer is: just about everywhere. Across a range of policy areas, Trump touts as benefits what just about every sane person from the left to the center-right should regard as costs. I can't exactly prove the point, but I think I can give enough examples to make the claim plausible.
Trump frequently touts how his administration is cutting regulations. He presents this fact as an unalloyed good. He doesn't say that many regulations are well intentioned and do some good but impose costs that outweigh their benefits. Not even with respect to industries--like coal--where the benefit of regulation is obvious. He doesn't say "coal causes localized air pollution and contributes to global warming but we need to absorb those costs to promote economic growth and to protect the jobs of people whose communities are collapsing." One could then disagree with Trump's cost-benefit analysis (as I would), but at least one would have some sense that he recognizes tradeoffs. But instead one gets the sense that for Trump the very harm that coal inflicts counts as a benefit, because people who don't like Trump are the ones complaining about that harm.
Thus, my claim isn't just that Trump doesn't recognize tradeoffs. It's that he frequently counts the costs on the benefit side of the ledger. He comes to think of countervailing considerations as the enemy, much in the way that he thinks of pundits and politicians who criticize him as the enemy of the people or those who don't applaud him as guilty of treason. Or how he thinks of sharks.
One sees the cost-as-benefit side of Trump most clearly in his racism, which makes sense, as it is his core value and the core of his appeal.
Consider that for most of the period since the Civil Rights movement, mainstream politicians knew enough to code their appeals to racism in ways that were plausibly deniable. The goal was to appeal to whites who harbored racist or quasi-racist views without turning off minority voters and the minority of white voters who would be put off by open racism. But the key to this strategy working is the plausible deniability. For example, Bill Clinton "triangulated" on crime and welfare--both issues where stereotypes held by racist and quasi-racist white voters would have worked for him but where there was at least a plausible case to be made for the policies on their merits. One could deny the existence of coded appeals by arguing for the policy merits.
Trump sometimes seems to employ this strategy of saying just enough to appease white voters who might be uneasy about supporting an open racist. For example, during the campaign, he gave speeches to pretty close to all-white audiences touting how he cared about and was going to do great things for African Americans. Perhaps some people at those rallies believed him, but no one who was paying any real attention to "the least racist person you'll ever interview" would think that these performances were anything but a misdirection play.
Why? Because unlike other politicians, Trump doesn't stop at dog whistles. The way he talks about immigrants, Muslims, African American athletes, and neo-Nazis leaves very little doubt that Trump is a racist. And, as Ta-Nehisi Coates has persuasively argued, explicit racism--previously thought to be a liability in a national politician--mobilizes not only Trump's "base" but the disturbingly large number of white voters for whom racial resentment is a highly salient motivator.
Trump's Muslim travel ban is especially informative. As I noted a couple of weeks ago, there remains a possibility that the Supreme Court will uphold version 3 of the travel ban, because the government did some homework in determining which countries to keep on the list. However, as I and others have repeatedly noted, all versions of the travel ban are so grossly over (and under) inclusive as to call into question the national security justification. The addition of North Korea and some government officials from Venezuela to the list in version 3 provides a fig leaf of cover for the argument that the ban is based on screening in the relevant countries rather than Muslim population, but the cover is so thin that one wonders whether the administration meant for it to be taken seriously.
If not, that would nicely fit the theory I'm advancing--as would Trump's occasional expression of regret that his travel ban has gotten slightly less irrational over time. The point of the travel ban is to make a visible example of Muslim travelers; while that is a cost if one is trying to defend the ban in a court in which religious discrimination is unlawful, it is a benefit for the (non-Muslim mostly white) public that wants to see Trump standing up to Muslims and politically correct liberals.
I'll end with the obvious caveat that while I think the Trumpian jujitisu operates in a great many places, I'm not offering it as a theory of everything. But I am offering it as a theory of nearly everything that makes the appeal of Trump's execrable policies and behavior otherwise inexplicable.


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QUIPTEL selects Verimatrix as its leading revenue security partner
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For Laison's spring collection, Indonesian designer Aurelia Santoso turned her eye toward the military unrest and political conflict faced daily on a global scale. As she sees it, these problems stem from pushing ideals on others, and the solution, as she said after the show, is making allowance for "different perspectives and points of view, and a different way of translating things."
That philosophy came through in her feminized military garb, and in the reinterpretation of camouflage print with three-dimensional shapes cut out and sewn atop pants pockets as well as protruding from bustier tops. The pattern was also digitally printed, embroidered or beaded straight onto some pieces. Too much volume and poor styling got the best of Laison at times; two looks, one an ample white jacket over a shapeless mint-colored dress, the other, rolled-up ochre pleated pants paired with one of the 3-D bustiers, did nothing for the models, and would likely not flatter regular women, either. On the other hand, the bustier as part of the flowing mint-colored finale dress worked.
Santoso, who also showed this collection during New York Fashion Week, attended the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles before graduating from the Raffles Design Institute in Singapore. The designer said showing in L.A. felt like coming full circle. Although the opportunities for any designer showing in New York may be greater than in L.A. in terms of the number of press and buyers in attendance (Laison is not yet in any U.S. doors), Santoso said, "I wouldn't say no if given another chance to show here again."


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