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Betty White's age — she is 90 and still going strong — was the topic of much discussion Wednesday at the Sheraton New York in Midtown Manhattan, where Ms. White was the target of a Friars Club roast.
The comedian Jeff Ross called Ms. White the "ghost of honor" and said the event was organized as a lunch "because we didn't think she'd make it till dinner."
"She's so old, the color white is named after her," he said.
Harsh? This is the gentle stuff. Friars Club Roasts, which date back decades (as do some of the jokes) are not for the easily offended, and if things go right, no one in the room is spared. Hundreds of guests packed into a large ballroom where the jokers on the dais included Joy Behar, Regis Philbin, Valerie Bertinelli, Valerie Harper and Liza Minnelli.
A video tribute by Don Rickles included some kind words for Ms. White, but at the end, Mr. Rickles muttered, "I never liked that woman."
Then Ms. Minnelli took the lectern in a loud orange blouse, and sang a ribald rewrite of Cole Porter's "You're The Top," which began with the lines, "You're the top, you're a high colonic," and got bawdier.
Mr. Ross went up and tore into many of his colleagues on the dais, a lineup he said could pass for "Barbara Walters's least fascinating people."
Ms. Walters was the M.C. Mr. Ross cracked that she was covering news "since before they called it news — they just called it hearsay back then."
He looked over the dais from Larry King to Mr. Philbin, and said, "This is the first-ever roast that's covered in The New York Times's obituary section."
He called the Friars "the only place Ms. White could meet older men" and announced that her parents were miraculously in attendance.
"Give it up for Adam and Eve back there," he joked.
The crowd groaned loudest after Mr. Ross turned to Ms. White and said, "I'm looking forward to your next appearance — in that vase above your mantel."
Following that was David Letterman — by video — reciting a Top 10 list dedicated to Ms. White, with No. 1 being that Ms. White "has no idea where she is right now."
It should be noted that this was hardly the case. Ms. White was sharp, and howling at every joke made at her expense, as well as when Ms. Walters introduced Mr. King, remarking, "He has so many accomplishments — my favorite was when he retired."
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Finally, Ms. White stepped up to the lectern. She is known for her capacity to get as down and dirty as anyone. But she said very little, claiming Ms. Lampanelli had stolen her best material. She chided the roasters for keeping their attacks tame and called the lunch to a close.

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Food in So Far From God
The food mentioned in So Far From God by Ana Castillo, is an important part of the setting–it definitely sets the book squarely in New Mexico. And it's authentic, homemade New Mexican fare–no Frito pies here! However, I do have to admit that I was a little frustrated by it. It's mentioned so matter-of-factly that it's little more than background noise. I really wanted to know more. Now, don't get me wrong–there were some wonderful tidbits and descriptions.
It was that month in the "Land of Enchantment" when it smelled of roasted chiles everywhere. Fresh red ristras and sometimes green ones were hung on the vigas of the portales throughout–all along dusty roads, in front of shops and restaurants to welcome visitors and to ward off enemies. Propane-run chile roasters were hand-rotated by bag-boys in front of local supermarkets and everyone who didn't grow their own lined up to get their chiles, women were packing them up, whole, dried, and in sauces, to send off to homesick boys stationed in Panama and to wayfaring relatives in Wyoming and Washington, D.C., but mostly to feed their families right there and to freeze for the winter.
This passage was wonderful! Ristras are the seemingly-ubiquitous strings of chiles, and this image evokes New Mexico wonderfully!
But the fact that I had to do my own research to find out that ristra is Spanish for string, and that "that month" referred to is September, and that there is a perennial debate over which New Mexico chile is the best, "Red or Green?", is exactly what I mean when I say I was a little frustrated. In lots of ways, this is fine–I'm intrigued by what I read, so I go off and do my own research and come away flooded with images of red chile ristras. And that's not what the book is about–this kind of background information is just that–background–not really essential to the story. But it is what makes the setting come alive–and the setting is absolutely an essential part of who these people are.
So, in the end, I'm torn. I get why it was glossed over, and it totally serves an appropriate purpose in the book, but I'd have loved a little more explanation of some of the food images Castillo gives–even the parts of the story where La Loca is teaching Fe to cook leave a lot to be desired in terms of description!
Most meals contained corn so it was necessary first to prepare the nistal by boiling it in lime water until the skin peeled off. Then it was washed two or three times; if you wanted to be an especially meticulous preparer of corn, you would follow with the ever-so-tedious task of "de-spiquando" the little black off the corn with a penknife, so that if you were going to make tamales, they would come out nice and white and smooth.
Although I had troubling finding the word "nistal" anywhere, I was able to find some wonderful information on making your own corn masa, including some information on the various types and colors of corn.
Incidentally, the talk about different colors of corn reminded me of visiting the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, which is decorated each year in murals made entirely out of different shades of corn, with a base of other grains and grasses.
But back to our book! Several times various characters were mentioned as having a breakfast of blue corn atole with a side of eggs, so we have to include a photo of it, as well as a link to some simple instructions for making it!
Posole is another dish that's mentioned a number of times throughout the book–it's a wonderful soupy stew made with hominy and red chiles and meat (often pork, though chicken is also traditional). I've occasionally made vegetarian versions, since my husband and son are vegetarian. La Loca teaches Fe her recipe in the book, using homemade hominy–which is the masa corn boiled in lime but not ground. In most places, hominy is only available canned, but the final texture of posole made with "fresh" or dried hominy is apparently different to that made with canned hominy.
Prepare the corn as she had been taught to make nistal for tamales, but she should not grind it! For every pound of stew pork, one cup of the whole nistal corn was boiled until half done, and then the meat was added and enough water to cover everything. Then you just let it cook until tender. Meanwhile, you added salt, chopped onion, and two whole red chiles–with the stems and seeds removed, of course, Fe!
There seem to be a million recipes for posole on the web, but I found this link to a traditionally prepared posole from the New York Times Cooking site, and this link for a "budget" quick-cooking version of posole which still looks like it would be pretty flavorful, and which could be made more "authentic" depending on your choice of certain prepared ingredients!
Carne adovada is another recipe La Loca shares with Fe in So Far From God, and if you scroll down past the recipe, this site has some wonderful background info on the dish.
Doña Felicia's fried papitas tacos with green chiles are mentioned a couple of times. I found this lovely (and healthier) baked and vegetarian version. But I also found this version of tacos de papas that looks good and has some good info about the tacos as well. (By the way, the recipe in the second link calls for "1/2 can of rotel" preferably with lime and cilantro. Ro-tel is a common Mexican brand of canned tomatoes, often with seasonings.) And, while not all diminutives in Spanish mean the same thing (and that's a different post!), "papitas" in this case does mean potatoes.
Last but not least, "biscochitos are Spanish cookies or Mexican cookies, depending on who you talk to."
In any case, they are made from rich pie pastry dough, to which you add baking powder, sugar to sweeten, and–here's the trick, you know, Fe–a bit of clean aniz seed.
I tried to figure out the shape that is described in the book, but I'm having a very hard time with it.
Then you cut it into long strips about two-thirds inches wide, and then across into two-inch lengths. Finally, you cut little narrow strips about an inch long on the sides, pull along, and roll back each strip into a curlicue shape.
The narrator does acknowledge that the cookies were also cut into hearts and stars, but the most common shape I found pictures of was a simple disc. If anyone knows what kind of a shape Castillo is talking about in the quote above, please leave a comment below!
This Santa Fe site has a recipe, with some interesting background info (and a lengthy explanation of why these cookies must be made with lard).
I'll leave you with one other food quote from the book that I think speaks to mothers from all settings and cultures.
Sofi prepared Esperanza's favorite foods that weekend, like posole and sopa and lots of chili, because feeding is the beginning and end of what a mother knows to do for her offspring, even when she doesn't know what to say.


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Racial, Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Sentencing: Evidence from the Us Federal Courts
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Racial, Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Sentencing: Evidence from the Us Federal Courts
This paper examines 77,236 federal offenders sentenced under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 and concludes the following. First, after controlling for extensive criminological, demographic and socioeconomic variables, I found that blacks, males and offenders with low education and low income receive substantially longer sentences. Second, disparities are primarily generated by departures from the guidelines, rather than differential sentencing within the guidelines. Departures produce about 55% of the black-white difference and 70% of the male-female difference. Third, although black-white disparities occur across offenses, the largest differences are for drug trafficking. The Hispanic-white disparity is generated primarily by those convicted of drug trafficking and firearm possession/trafficking. Last, blacks and males are also less likely to get no prison term when that option is available, less likely to receive downward departures, more likely to receive upward adjustments, and conditioned on having a downward departure, receive smaller reductions than whites and females.
Keywords: Sentencing, federal courts, Sentencing Reform Act, Race, Gender, Disparities, US Sentencing Commission, sentencing guidelines
JEL Classification: K4
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The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics has gone to members of the LIGO consortium for the detection of gravitational waves, namely to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish. But the contributions of many hundreds of people were necessary for the success of LIGO and so it can be argued that the restriction to three people is wrong and that future Nobel Prizes should go to teams.
Professor Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, told BBC correspondent Pallab Gosh that: "LIGO's success was owed to hundreds of researchers. The fact that the Nobel Prize committee refuses to make group awards is causing increasingly frequent problems and giving a misleading impression of how a lot of science is actually done".
Rees is right, of course, but would changing it be a good thing? It would mean that nearly all future Nobels in physics would go to teams, either simply to a named team or to a list of team members that could amount to hundreds.
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Mentor: Daoyun Ji, Ph.D.
Undergraduate major: Biology
Undergraduate school: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
Research Interests: Cognition, Neuroplasticity, Systems Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence
Why did you choose Baylor College of Medicine?
First and foremost, the Neuroscience research is outstanding. The faculty and students were so bright and welcoming, and I felt a sense of a diverse community unique to the school. I was also struck by the feeling that I would be well taken care of while facing the struggles of mental illness and the many challenges of grad school, which really influenced my decision that this was the right place for me.
What is your research interest?
Currently, my main research interest is focused on my thesis project which studies the plasticity underlying Contextual Fear Memory in the Schaffer collateral synapse. Basically, our experiment is designed to probe the changes in synaptic strength of CA3-CA1 synapses (i.e. Schaffer collaterals) that occur during CFM acquisition and Slow-Wave-Sleep-mediated consolidation. This is done through tetrode recordings in freely moving mice so we can observe the behavior at the same time as we record from CA1 place cells while concurrently stimulating the Schaffer collaterals. Please feel free to ask me all you want about it: email@example.com.
Why did you choose your mentor?
He's a brilliant scientist with a honed critical eye for experimental design and data analysis. I wanted to learn how to think about experiments the way he does. Moreover, he is an understanding and easy-going mentor with a "you get out as much as you put in" kind of mentoring style, which very much suits me.
What aspects of training have been most influential in preparing for your intended career?
Having to design my project and structure my efforts and time effectively in order to stay on track despite the inevitable myriad pitfalls and setbacks. Also, networking with other people within and without my field.
Did Baylor's location in the Texas Medical Center enhance your experience?
Yes! It has definitely helped me network.
What are your career plans?
I am currently very interested in Science Policy, but plan B would be to become a translational clinical researcher while studying to get a counseling license and afterwards work as a mental health professional.
What do you enjoy about living in Houston?
It's diverse, friendly (for the most part), and I actually like the weather (being from Puerto Rico and all).
What advice do you have for prospective students?
You should begin to try to accept that your graduate experience is going to be unique to you and your circumstances, those within your control (i.e. which lab you choose) and those without (i.e. sudden illness). But persevere. And be compassionate with yourself. Always keep trying. You are worth it and so is the effort.


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Contents | Guideline 1 | Guideline 2 | Guideline 3 | Guideline 4 | References
Copyright © 2003 W3C ® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio), All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply.
@@Notes while editing@@
@@Should we include specific examples for the well known XML applications (SVG, SMIL, MathML, VRML, WAP, etc)? -> make sure to keep up to date with WCAG@@
@@Editor note: As part of the techniques writing process, changes are being made to the text of success criteria and checkpoints. Once approved, these changes need to be made back in the guideline document.@@
This guideline requires that authoring tools must promote accessible authoring practices within the tool as well as smoothly integrate any functions added to meet the other requirements in this document. The checkpoint requirements for this section include ensuring the priority for accessible means of completing an authoring tasks (Checkpoint 4.1), ensuring the availability of accessibility-related functions (Checkpoint 4.2), and ensuring that accessibility-related functions fit into the appearance and interactive style of the tool (Checkpoint 4.4).
Rationale: Authors are most likely to use the first and easiest options.
Technique 4.2.1: If there are
two or more authoring options for performing the same authoring task (e.g.
setting colour, inserting multimedia, etc.), and one option results in
content that meets WCAG and the other does not, the more accessible option
can be given
Example 4.2.1: This illustration shows an authoring tool that supports
text formatting tasks via two options: using CSS and using
|Technique 4.2.2: Completely removing less accessible options can simplify the task of meeting this success criteria.
Rationale: If the features that support accessible authoring are difficult to find and activate, they are less likely to be used. Ideally, these features should be turned on by default.
@@BAF: "logical" grouping rules should take precedence. If necessary the accessibility options can be on separate pages if easily accessed through the many flow of the application. Typically this will not be the case. For example, have an "description" field as a part of an image selection dialog is both natural and appropriate.@@
|Technique 4.3.1: Optrional continuously active processes controlled by preference settings can br on be default.
Example 4.3.1: This illustration
shows the preference setting area of an authoring tool, open to an "Accessibility"
section. Settings that control continuously active processes are circled
in red. (Source: mockup by AUWG)
|Technique 4.3.2: The tool can inform the author that disabling any continuously active process may cause problems to develop that might not otherwise.
Example 4.3.2: This dialog box might be activated if the author unchecks
a "highlighting accessibility related fields" feature, as shown
in figure 4.3.1. Notice that the wording
used in this example makes reference to the possibility that documents
will be "less accessible to many users" and that "in some
jurisdictions accessibility is a legal requirement". (Source: mockup
by AUWG)
@@JR: the techniques here are pretty weak - we must ensure they relate to success criteria@@
Technique 4.3.3: Considerations for accessibility, such as short text label and long description attributes, can appear on the same dialog as the source attribute, rather than buried behind an "Advanced..." button.
@@BAF: "can" should be "must" here.@@
|Technique 4.3.4: Efficient and fast access to accessibility-related settings with as few steps as possible needed to make any changes that will generate accessible content. (@@KM concerned about this@@)
@@BAF spelling is an example of a verification action. this may lead one to think its the only one (ie if no spell check, we can ignore this).@@
|Technique 4.3.6: Sometimes several input fields must be filled in order to make a single element accessible. Instead of dispersing these prompts over multiple dialog boxes, it can be more effective to draw them together into one group of controls with a visible tab or other method for accessing the group.@@new-from intro text@@
Rationale: A configurable tool is more likely to be adatpable to the work habits or more authors.
Technique 4.X.1: Consider how much author configurability to provide.
Author acceptance of the accessibility features of an authoring tool will likely depend on the degree to which these features can be integrated into the existing workflows of authors. That is why the ATAG 2.0 definition of "prompting" clearly states that: "the form and timing that this prompting takes can be author configurable". In other words, the author should be able to control of how and when assistance in avoiding accessibility problems is rendered by the tool. This author configurability will help reconcile the additional accessibility authoring tasks with the regular work pattern of the author. To achieve this, tools may offer the author a range of checking and prompting options (see Figure 3.1.1), including: [@@new@@]
Example 3.1.1(a): This
illustration shows an accessibility preferences dialog that allows the
author to customize the nature of accessibility checking, highlighting
and help as well as set the accessibility standards the tool will check
against. (Source: mockup by AUWG)
Example 3.1.1(b): This illustration shows shows a different preferences
layout, in which accessibility checking is just one of the checkers available
as the author enters text in a code-level authoring tool. Other checkers
are shown for spelling, syntax and usability. (Source: mockup by AUWG)@@added
due to BAF comment@@
All functions that support accessible authoring practices should allow author preferences to be configurable to allow for different authoring styles. Custom configurations should improve use of the tool and make authors more receptive to assistive interventions from the authoring tool.
- section on configurability in techniques for checkpoint 3.1 could be used as starting point for techniques for this checkpoint (4.X)
Rationale: Accessible design as an afterthought or separate process is much more onerous and therefore costly than when accessibility is considered from the start. If the authoring tool supports a workflow in which the author considers accessibility before and/or during the authoring process it is more likely that accessible authoring practices will become a common practice. This is analogous to internationalization, which is much easier when it is considered from the beginning rather than handled last.
@@ BAF: Wizards are the way to go: . Repair tools can address pre-existing content or content edits after use of a wizard (assuming you cannot reenter the wizard). @@ @@BAF: wizards etc should be a major prompting mechanism. Many samples should be shown such as the table example.@@
@@JT: Maybe have an example showing a template....?NTS?@@
@@JT: We need to have new techniques for tools that could try to get author to put down structure first and seperately than presentation - swappable styles@@
Technique 4.1.1: Prompting can be integrated into sequencing mechanisms (e.g. design aids, wizards, templates) at a point early enough in the authoring process that there is less chance that it will be bypassed.
Example 4.1.1: This illustration shows a wizard (indirect authoring) interface
that prompts the author for a few key pieces of information that will
then be used to generate a complete page; a gallery page in this case.
Since this step of the wizard includes a "Finish" button, this
is a suitable place to add the accessibility-related prompts ("label"
and "description"). Placing these prompts later in the process
would allow the author to bypass them. (Source: mockup by AUWG)
Technique 4.1.2: Checking that is automated or semi-automated can be integrated into sequencing mechanisms (e.g. design aids, wizards, templates)
Example: See 4.1.5(b)
Technique 4.1.3: Repair that is automated or semi-automated can be integrated into sequencing mechanisms (e.g. design aids, wizards, templates)
Example: This illustration shows ... @@PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING CONTENT AND STRUCTURE BEFORE STYLING@@
Technique 4.1.4: Immediate access to some basic accessibility documentation and one-step access to more comprehensive documentation can be provided to provide support to the author as needed.
Example 4.1.4: This illustration shows an accessibility
checker with some limited short label authoring tips listed beneath the
text entry area as well as a button linking to the full documentation.
(Source: mockup by AUWG)
|Technique 4.1.5: A tight coupling between all of the accessibility-related functions leads to a more seamless authoring experience.
Example 4.1.5(a,b,c): This illustration shows a sequence of steps through
a WYSIWYG interface in which prompting, checking, repair and documentation
of accessibility issues are all integrated into the process of creating
a table. In the first step (Figure 4.1.5(a)), the author has requested
that a table be inserted. The tool prompts the author for accessibility
information (i.e. caption and summary) at the same time as it prompts
for the number of rows and columns, etc. The tool assists the author by
filling both fields with known information (i.e. that this is the 3rd
table in the document). In the second step (Figure 4.1.5(b)), as the author
finishes filling in the top row of cells, the tool has checked the structure
of the table and found a lack of header cells. To address this problem,
the tool asks whether this "is a row of table headers". If the
author answers "Yes", then the tool can make the repair automatically.
In the third step (Figure 4.1.5(c)), the author has added a new row to
the top of the table and merged two cells in this new top row. The tool
again checks the table and asks the author whether this "merged cell
is a header for the column headers below it". If the author answers
"Yes", then the tool can repair the table structure accordingly.
In all three steps, key terms are linked directly to the help documentation.
(Source: mockup by AUWG)
Rationale: Most authors are reluctant to use features that depart from the conventions of a tool. Detached accessibility modules also decrease the likelihood authors will check for and repair accessibility problems with their code.[@@added by MM@@]
@@BAF: This one tends to be the default case (one would rarely use a different style for accessibility prompting vs other prompting) so wee need to make this more a thing to look out for vs a conscious design action. We should include other samples in the pattern below.@@
|Technique 4.4.1: In some cases, accessibility prompting can be equivalent to prompting for information that is required for proper functioning.
Example 4.4.1: This illustration shows a dialog box in which the form
taken by accessibility prompting, for a text label and a long description,
and that taken by prompting for a required
|Technique 4.4.2: In some cases, accessibility checking and repair mechanism can be equivalent to a code syntax checking mechanisms or spell checking mechanisms.
Example 4.4.2(a,b): This illustration compares a syntax checker and an
accessibility checker in a code-level authoring tool. (Source: mockup
by AUWG )
Example 4.4.2(c,d): This illustration compares a spell checker and an
accessibility checker. (Source: mockup by AUWG )
|Technique 4.4.3: In most cases, accessibility-related documentation can be equivalent to other documentation in the tool.
Example 4.4.3: This illustration
shows how the accessibility documentation for a tool might look within
the main documentation feature. (Source: mockup by AUWG)
|Technique 4.4.4: Consider providing a common toolkit to aid in designing additional tool functionality modules. This might be used internally or by third party developers to develop accessibility plug-ins with the same look and feel as other parts of the tool.
|Technique 4.4.4: Consider designing accessibility features as integral components of the authoring tool, not components that need to be separately installed or executed.
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Review: Springsteen's Remarkable 'Darkness' Movie
There's a throwaway bit in the 1977 studio footage at the heart of The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town where co-producer Jon Landau points to Bruce Springsteen's fat song notebook and blames it for everyone's exhaustion. "The only thing that can come out of this book is more work!" he announces, only half-joking.
Behind the scenes at Springsteen's Darkness sessions
It's a telling moment in the documentary, which begins airing on HBO tonight (and will be released as part of the forthcoming Darkness box set). Sure, the singer and his band worked obsessively on Born to Run's eight songs — a process captured on a documentary included with that album's recent reissue. But its follow-up, 1978's Darkness on the Edge of Town, was recorded under different circumstances. Born to Run made him a star beyond anyone's wildest dreams. At the same time, a lawsuit between Springsteen and his then-manager Mike Appel effectively prohibited any follow-up recording for the next 18 months.
Photos: See vintage shots of Bruce Springsteen
Springsteen dealt with the roadblock by gigging and working on new songs at his house in Holmdel, New Jersey. The Promise has some priceless footage of one session there: a 27-year-old Bruce, stripped to the waist, hair exploded into a near-afro, working the E Street band through "Candy's Boy" and "Something In The Night." When the lawsuit was finally settled in June 1977, everyone piled into the Record Plant in New York City to begin work on Darkness with Landau and a young engineer named Jimmy Iovine. The ambitious bandleader had around 70 new songs in his book.
At this point, the narrative arc of The Promise becomes the carving of Springsteen's vision from that songbook, like statue from marble. The vision was a dark one. "I felt a sense of accountability to the people I had grown up alongside," Springsteen says in the film, reflecting back. "It's a reckoning with the adult world … with a life of limitations and compromises."
The songs that made the final cut, hardbitten tales of struggle and dashed dreams, did not make for a mega-hit album. Yet, influenced by both the punk rock exploding in New York City at the time, and the classic country music that Springsteen was beginning to explore, they have proved quite durable; if anything, being less over-exposed than the material from Born to Run, they've only accrued power over the years.
If all The Promise did was revisit that material, it would be a worthy project. But many of the doc's best moments involve songs that never made the album. Patti Smith tells a touching story of completing the lyrics to "Because the Night," a half-finished song begun during the Darkness sessions but given away because it didn't fit the album's theme. (Smith's version, ironically, became a bigger hit than anything on Darkness.) And the film's most electric moment captures Springsteen, in a tight white v-neck tee, pounding out a rough sketch of The River's "Sherry Darling" on piano while Stevie Van Zandt, in headscarf and tracksuit jacket, drums on a packing blanket, howling jive-talk backing vocals. It's two close friends goofing around, cracking up, totally stoned on invention.
The 90-minute film drags a little near the end, dawdling in studio-wonk territory. Springsteen scholars, though, may feel questions remain unanswered. The specifics of the lawsuit with Mike Appel (who, surprisingly, appears in the film) are a bit fuzzy. And it's never quite clear why the titular song "The Promise" — long speculated to be about Springsteen's relationship with Appel, a notion untouched here — was cut from the final album when it had once been its lynchpin.
In the end, Van Zandt delivers the film's most startling line. "It's a bit tragic, in a way," he muses in hindsight, referring to Springsteen's decision to make concept-album art like Darkness on the Edge of Town at the expense of hits. "'Cause he would have been one of the great pop songwriters of all time."
Well, it's a thought. But as The Promise shows, and Van Zandt surely knows, greatness takes many forms.


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On T2 weighted imaging, hematomas got a central hyperintense sign surrounded with a hypointense sign at day time 1 (Fig. 1 A; top sections). On T2* weighted imaging, an iso- and hyperintense sign in the heart of hematoma was also noticed obviously (Fig. 1 A; lower sections). The hypointense sign in the periphery of hematoma was even more apparent on T2* weighted imaging than on T2 weighted imaging. At times 3 or 7 after ICH, an identical appearance design was noticed (Fig. 1 B). We quantified the percentage of iso- and hyper-intense sign quantity (non-hypo-T2* lesion quantity) to total T2* lesion quantity. This is 165% at day time 1, 2110% at day time 3 (Fig. 1 C) and 375% at day time 7 after ICH. Open up in another window Shape 1 Representative consecutive T2 and T2* MRIs at day time 1 (A) and day time 3 (B) after ICH in adult male Sprague-Dawley rats. The percentage GRB2 of non-hypo-T2* quantity to total T2* lesion quantity was established (C). Ideals are mean SD, n = 6. Heterogeneity in hematoma appearance on H & E staining in Sprague-Dawley rats To know what pathological adjustments in the hematoma led to the non-hypo T2* region, H & E staining was performed. In the periphery of hematoma (hypo-T2* lesion Rocilinostat novel inhibtior region) most erythrocytes got normal disk-shaped information and had been intensely stained by H & E (Fig. 2). On the other hand, in the heart of the hematoma (i.e. non-hypo T2* region), erythrocytes dropped their normally disk-shape & most from the erythrocytes had been ghosts (little, pale pink, circular form; Fig. 2). Fig 2A displays a good example of the boundary between your two areas. These different erythrocyte information had been bought at both day time 1 and day time 3 (Fig. 2). We hypothesize these adjustments in erythrocyte profile reveal early erythrolysis using the launch of intracellular hemoglobin in the heart of the hematoma. Open up in another window Shape 2 Representative types of T2 and T2* MRIs and H&E staining at the same degree of the hematoma at day time 1 (A) and day time 3 (B) after ICH in adult male Sprague-Dawley rats. Higher magnification micrographs from the hypo-T2* (1, periphery), the boundary of non-hypo-T2* and hypo-T2* (2, boundary), the non-hypo-T2* region (3, middle) from the hematoma will also be shown. Scale pubs are 1 mm for top level sections and 10 m for lower sections. Erythrolysis and neuronal reduction in the ipsilateral basal ganglia DARPP-32 can be a neuronal marker in the basal ganglia (24). In this scholarly study, DARPP-32 staining was utilized to assess ICH-induced neuronal reduction in the ipsilateral basal ganglia. Three areas at different degrees of hematoma of every rat had been useful for H & E staining, and adjacent areas had been useful for DARPP-32 immunohistochemistry. There is a positive relationship between the examples of hematoma erythrolysis and neuronal reduction (Fig. 3, r=0.791, n=18, em p /em 0.01). This trend was noticed both at day Rocilinostat novel inhibtior time 1 and day time 3 after ICH. Open up in another window Shape 3 H & E staining and DARPP-32 immunoreactivity in adjacent areas at different degrees of the hematoma (A). DARPP-32 staining was utilized to quantify neuronal reduction in the ipsilateral basal ganglia and H&E staining the amount of erythrolysis as well as the correlation between your two guidelines after ICH established (B). Early Compact disc163 upregulation in the ipsilateral basal ganglia after ICH Compact disc163 can be a hemoglobin scavenger receptor that's proposed to truly have a part in clearing hemoglobin after erythrolysis. Immunoreactivity of Compact disc163 was up-regulated considerably in the ipsilateral basal ganglia after ICH in Sprague-Dawley rats by day time 1 (Fig. 4). Compact disc163 positive cells in the ipsilateral basal ganglia risen to 303128 cells/mm2 at day time 1 and 45357 cells/mm2 at day time 3 (p 0.01; Fig. 4). Just a few Compact disc163 positive cells had been seen in the ipsilateral basal ganglia of sham settings and in the contralateral basal ganglia.


text: Opioid drugs are essential tools to ease pain of different origins, however they have solid addictive potential and their abuse at higher doses often leads to significant health complications. relevant behaviorally, to high, apt to be self-administered by medication users. These data allowed us to evaluate the effects of the medications on brain air with regards to their strength, time-course, and their potential risk when utilized at high dosages via rapid-onset administration routes. Some data talked about within this ongoing function had been attained in rats, we think that these data possess clear individual relevance in handling the alarming rise in lethality from the opioid mistreatment. solid course="kwd-title" Keywords: opiates, health Epibrassinolide complications, brain hypoxia, metabolic brain activation, nucleus accumbens, rats 1.?Introduction Adam23 Opioids are widely used as therapeutic drugs to alleviate pain of different origins. In addition to their pain-relieving effects, opioid drugs have strong addictive potential, predisposing individuals for their repeated, nonmedical use. The abuse of opioid Epibrassinolide drugs typically results in progressive increases in drug doses, well above the usual analgesic or exploratory range. While the short-term therapeutic use of opioids usually does not result in any serious health complications, opioid drugs used at higher doses have a true amount of unwanted effects, including sedation, inhibition of gastro-intestinal activity, and respiratory despair (Baud, 2009; Jaffe et al., 1997; Simon, 1997). The last mentioned impact is certainly harmful specifically, getting in charge of the introduction of severe human brain hypoxia mainly, lethality and coma following overdose of the medications. While respiratory despair is certainly a minor issue during healing usage of opioid medications such as for example morphine and oxycodone and maybe it's well managed in clinical configurations, respiratory despair is apparently a quite harmful symptom following nonmedical use of extremely efficacious opioid medications such as for example heroin and fentanyl. Heroin provides extremely speedy and solid psychoactive and physiological effects and it is usually self-administered via rapid-onset, intravenous (iv) route and often at high doses. Despite the extensive use of fentanyl for general anesthesia and analgesia (Peng and Sandler, 1999; Dahan em et al /em , 2005; Jaffe em et al /em , 1997; Pattinson, 2008; Yeadon and Kitchen, 1989), this drug emerged as a recreational drug only recently due to its availability in clandestine drug markets and relatively low prices. This drug is usually often used by habitual heroin users in combination with heroin (Compton et al., 2016; McLaughlin, 2017). Since fentanyl is much more potent than heroin (Wade et al., 2015), illicit fentanyl use can result Epibrassinolide in dramatic health complications, including death during overdose (Compton em et al /em , 2016; Suzuki and El-Haddad, 2017). Road heroin is normally polluted with unidentified levels of fentanyl frequently, Epibrassinolide making a medications impact especially unstable if a person believes that he / she is normally eating a known, regular dose of heroin but is normally consuming the a lot more powerful drug combination actually. Opioid medications tend to be coupled with alcoholic beverages and benzodiazepines also, the medications that have solid sedative potential. Such multi-drug combos, attempted by adults frequently, you could end up unpredicted health complications also. Considering the function of respiratory unhappiness as the utmost dangerous effect of opioid medicines, we recently carried out a serious of studies, in which we employed oxygen sensors coupled with high-speed amperometry to examine how different opioid medicines affect brain oxygen levels in awake, freely-moving rats (Solis em et al /em ., 2017a, b, c; Solis em et al /em ., 2018a, b, c). While the executive manifestations of deep breathing, i.e., changes in rate, tidal volume, and regularity, are usually measured in animal studies using whole body plethysmography to assess drug-induced respiratory major depression (Kuo et al., 2015; Emery et al., 2016), this approach employed in rats requires expensive instrumentation Epibrassinolide and it is not very accurate, failing to detect very shallow breathing and its rapid changes (Kabir et al., 2010). Pulse oximetry, a noninvasive method to monitor blood oxygen saturation in pores and skin, is definitely another approach to detect changes in blood oxygen levels and this approach is definitely widely used in humans (Bowes et al., 1989). However, it is also quite hard to adopt this technology in freely-moving rats. In contrast, our approachdirect, high-speed monitoring of oxygen levels in the extracellular space within a discrete mind areaallowed us to examine a functionally significant end result of respiration. Along with monitoring mind oxygen changes, we also carried out oxygen measurements in the subcutaneous space, a densely-vascularized area with no metabolic activity of its own. Measurements from this location provide a proxy for changes in systemic blood oxygen.


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The Tribal Law and Order Act of 2008, designed to lower sexual violence against American Indian and Alaskan Native women, was introduced July 23 by the Senate of Indian Affairs Committee. The bill would enable tribal police to enforce violations of federal laws on Indian lands and offer them greater access to criminal history information.
Amnesty International, which in a 2007 report found the rate of rape and other sexual violence for this population of women 2.5 times higher than that for other U.S. women, hailed the bill.
On July 17, the committee also held a hearing on the implementation of the Adam Walsh Act for tracking sex offenders, which the U.S. Congress passed in 2006 without tribal consultation. The law requires tribal governments to include all convictions for qualifying sex offenses in their registries and register offenders in the places where they live and work. Those that don't comply will automatically cede jurisdiction to the state, reported the indianz.com July 11.
The majority of tribes that are now working to create their own tracking systems face a 2009 deadline. The National Congress of American Indians has said that tribes that opt to implement the Adam Walsh Act should have the same rights and access to criminal databases as U.S. states.
More News to Cheer This Week:
- One hundred members of Congress wrote a joint appeal to President Bush to urge him to stop any action on last week's proposal limiting women's access to birth control, ABC reported July 21. The administration's draft proposal of a policy for the Department of Health and Human Services would require hospitals that receive federal funding not to discriminate against hiring clinicians who refuse to provide contraception due to personal religious beliefs.
- Italy's highest criminal court, Court of Cassation, overturned a ruling that women wearing tight jeans "cannot be raped." In a controversial 1999 court decision a 45-year-old man in Potenza–convicted of raping an 18-year-old—was let off when the judge ruled that it would have been impossible to have taken her jeans off "without the collaboration of the person wearing them." This month a 37-year-old man convicted of sexually assaulting a16-year-old based his appeal on that case. But the court ruled that "jeans cannot be compared to any type of chastity belt."
- Jordan's Ministry of Health will begin dispensing free condoms and birth control pills through public hospital and health centers, military hospitals and family planning organizations, reported the Jordan Times July 18.
- Auckland, New Zealand, is promoting national cervical screening among Asian women, only 44 percent of whom have the test every three years, compared to 71 percent of other women nationwide, reported the stuff.nz July 23.
- Two organizations working on sexual orientation and gender identity have been granted consultative status by The U.N. Economic and Social Council, which will allow them to deliver oral and written reports at U.N. meetings and organize events on U.N. premises, Human Rights Watch reported July 23. This will grant the COC Netherlands and the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals of Spain the same access as other nongovernmental organizations in the U.N . system.
- The U.S. House of Representatives reauthorized a program that urges states to process nearly 400,000 untested rape kits nationwide, reported the Washington Post July 22. The Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program started in 2004. It is named for Debbie Smith, a rape victim, who gave congressional testimony about untested rape kits in 2001. The bill awaits Senate authorization.
High food and fuel prices have pushed more than 130 million people across Africa, Asia and Latin America deeper into poverty.
a Washington Post feature story on July 20 finds female caretakers in Burkina Faso bearing the brunt in that country. Women interviewed there are eating last and least in their families.
A study by the aid group Catholic Relief Services, cited by the Post, indicates the majority of people in Burkina Faso now spending around 75 percent of their income on food and having little left for medical care, school fees and clothes. Higher costs have also increased the pressure on some women to turn to prostitution to survive.
A July 16 story by the Humanitarian News and Analysis looks at a similar situation in Afghanistan, finding that a combination of high food prices and drought there is driving women and girls into sex work. The majority are widows with little education who lack training for alternative employment..
More News to Jeer This Week:
- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit lifted the preliminary ban on South Dakota's new law requiring doctors to tell women seeking an abortion that the procedure ends a human life, the Washington Post reported July 20. Doctors will have to state that the procedure "will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique living human being."
- Same-sex marriages will not appear on the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau since the federal Defense of Marriage Act bars the agency from counting those unions, reported the Associated Press July 19. Same-sex marriages are legal in Massachusetts and California.
- Photos of two drowned Roma girls covered in towels and surrounded by relaxing Italian sunbathers has drawn international attention to the country's negative attitude towards Roma, reported the Sydney Morning Herald July 22. The incident occurred three weeks after U.N. experts denounced Italian politicians for seeking to fingerprint all Romani citizens, including children, as part of a crackdown on street crime. Roma are also widely known as gypsies, a term some in the group consider a slur.
- At least eight women and one man have been sentenced to death by stoning in Iran after being convicted of adultery and sex offenses, reported the BBC July 20. Their lawyers say the execution could occur at any time even though Iran's judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi imposed a moratorium on stoning in 2002.
- Members of Parliament in Northern Ireland have tabled an amendment to the Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill to lift the country's ban on abortion, reported the AP July 23. Abortion in Ireland is allowed only if the mother's life is in danger. Each year around 1,000 women pay for private procedures in Britain.
- Eight Hispanic women filed a Superior Court discrimination lawsuit against the San Luis Obispo County's probation department in California seeking unspecified compensatory and general damages, the AP reported July 23. According to the lawsuit, the women were denied training and promotion opportunities available to white co-workers.
- Taboos about sex in Pakistan—where Islamic law prohibits extramarital sex–are hindering safe-sex educational efforts in a country where at least 85,000 citizens have contracted HIV/AIDS, according to researchers at two Pakistani universities, the New York Times reported July 22.
Besa Luci, a native of Kosovo, is a recent graduate of the University of Missouri's Graduate School of Journalism.
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I read this article the other day on the ABC News Site: An Acceptable Level of Dishonesty
The article made many good points, but at the end of the day, a lie is a lie, and dishonesty is still dishonesty, regardless of how much whitewash you try to paint over the top of it.
We here in Queensland are currently being governed by a Labor Govt, captained by Oz's first female Premier, Anna Bligh. Anna picked up the job after Peter Beattie flew the coop, and after a couple of years in office, the 'Worker's Party' is so on the nose that many of my workmates have gone beyond asking 'Who do we vote for at the next election?' to asking, 'Maybe it's time we dump the State Govt. system altogether?'
The thing that is sticking in many Qld. voters' throats is that not once during the last state election campaign did we hear anything from Labor about the sale of Qld Rail Coal division. So imagine our surprise (or shock) when Anna made that announcement after getting elected.
Now, technically she didn't lie (a sin of commission), she just didn't tell us everything (a sin of ommission). Either way, she still knowingly let us believe a lie, and that is plain wrong. Keeping people ignorant of your real motives is still lying. Just ask Tigers' wife.
A Labor insider explained very carefully to me that if we (the citizens of this State) want world class hospitals, schools at the cutting edge, and better policing, then we are going to have to make a few sacrifices. When I asked why this was not raised before the election so we, the voters, could make an informed choice on the matter of funding these vital services, he merely shrugged. My exact words after that were, "Mate, every election we hear the same promises regarding, Health, Education, and Policing, and every year we see those services cut back, or cut off." Again, another shrug, and a little smile.
Which left me wondering, "What else aren't you telling us?" And if you're thinking that about someone, then it is going to be pretty hard to trust them again. Just ask Tigers' wife, again…
Anna's (and Tigers') legacy is the loss of trust, and this is possibly the reason why my workmates are wanting to ditch the State Govt. system. If Govt., at all levels, is going to lie to us, then limit the amount of Govt. governing us. And it seems that Govt. at State level is the most expendable. And, I've got to admit, I've been swinging round to their point of view as well. I wonder how many Australians would agree with us on this point?
To add fuel to the fire, yesterday the Qld. opposition announced they'll be keeping their policies quiet until the election is announced. They've obviously learned how the 'land lies' in Queensland's political landscape, but then they've had a lot of practice…


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Will Smith has climbed the greatest heights for his movie roles but this time he's going to space to bring us one far-out conversation. NASA and the National Geographic have once again teamed together for the first-ever Instragm Live conversation from International Space Station, where One Strange Rock host, Will Smith will have a conversation Drew Feustel, an astronaut on the International Space Station.
Set to start at 11:45 AM – 12:05 PM EST Thursday on the National Geographic Instagram account.


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The artist currently featured at the Serpentine Gallery in London is the Turner Prize-winning Mark Leckey, whose most famous work is Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, a video piece that distills two decades of English club culture into 15 minutes. It was an early influence on Raf Simons, and he returned to it today with a men's collection for Jil Sander that aimed to similarly telescope the style of each of the postwar decades into one disorienting whole. If in theory, that meant forties to noughties; in practice, it resulted in a collection as fragmented as the soundtrack, which mashed together shards of Bowie, Bauhaus, and Teutonic electronica in an aural assault. Maybe it was that sound that provoked the hard-edged images of Berlin in the early eighties that defined the look and style of the show. Simons himself envisaged something like Blade Runner, with its uncomfortable collision of cultures.
Time was as fluid as gender in a collection that saw one model dressed in the kind of high-waisted rah-rah shorts last seen on forties pinups, another in shorts in an oil-slick techno fabric that came from tomorrow. There were plenty more shorts—Simons felt they added dynamism to the show. A crocheted sweater, with all its connotations of folksy home crafts, was covered with a clear PVC jacket from a perv-y sci-fi movie. A straight-from-film-noir navy suit with a tightly tailored jacket and baggy pants shared runway space with second-skin coats in lacquered eelskin. The models had body bags strapped across their chests, the kind of thing a surfer might wear to keep his stuff dry, or a traveler might keep documents in. Maybe that hint of the young global nomad spurred the sense that the collection was somehow unfinished. "The Generation of Today is a Generation of All Times," announced the press notes, but youth itself is unfinished, which is why Simons is perpetually drawn back to it as the central preoccupation of his work. Today's show suggested it might be time to move on.


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A free-to-play version of Blizzard Entertainment's chart-topping massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft "makes sense" eventually, lead designer Tom Chilton has said.
Speaking with Polygon , Chilton said Blizzard Entertainment is not against the idea of morphing the subscription-based game to a free-to-play model, but continues to have issues with such a business mode switch.
"For Blizzard, it makes sense [to go free-to-play] at some point," Chilton said. "But a lot of the risk is in making that transition. You hear stories about developers going free-to-play and getting double the number of players, but you don't always know it works out that way and how long it stays that way. We really don't know what the rate is before people drop off and lose interest."
World of Warcraft is the biggest subscription-based MMO game on the market. It launched in 2004 and had 7.7 million subscribers as of June 30.
Earlier this week, Bethesda announced that its upcoming fantasy MMO game The Elder Scrolls Online will carry a $15/month subscription fee . Elsewhere in the interview, Chilton said the casual-themed Mists of Pandaria expansion for World of Warcraft, released in September 2012, has proven "very successful" for Blizzard Entertainment. So much so that the game would have suffered if the company had not launched the expansion, Chilton said. "We would have been in bad shape had we not done that," Chilton said. He acknowledged that many fans saw the expansion as a departure from World of Warcraft's roots, but said it was necessary to grow and expand the game.
"People who played Vanilla always say 'if it had stayed the same, I would have the same fun now as I did then.' But that's not true. Audiences always evolve," Chilton said.
World of Warcraft's next major update, Siege of Orgrimmar, will be released on September 10.
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What an awesome couple of days at the recent Calgary edition of the Rocky Mountain Food and Wine show.
With Brian from Whistling Andy on site we were locked and loaded with an array of delicious whisky and a couple of additional treats.
For those of you that have never been to this event it was held at Stampede over 2 days with 3 sessions for consumers to choose from. 4 till 10 on Friday the 16th and 12 till 4 and 6 till 10 on Saturday the 17th.
Always enjoyable for me, I love the interaction and to get a chance to basically rabbit on about my passion for hours on end with an endless array of interested whisky lovers making the pilgrimage to our booth.
Sporting the kilt and with the addition of the amazing Angel's Share glassware we were definitely a draw card for the whisky faithful throughout the show.
Brian from Whistling Andy distillery in Bigfork Montana was awesome and one of the most passionate individuals you could ever meet when it comes to high quality small batch distilling. In a future blog we will be sure to interview Brian to try and give you some insight into their amazing family story. Brian was pouring their Straight Bourbon, Harvest Select Whiskey, Cucumber Gin and Hibiscus Coconut Rum.
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Also on offer was the 3 great Stalk and Barrel whiskies from Still Waters Distillery. Their 1+11 Canadian Blended Whisky, The Single Cask 100% Rye and the Single Cask Single Malt. From A.D Rattray we had the Stronachie 10, Stronachie 18 and Cask Islay. Last but definitely not least was the silky smooth Hyde 10 Year old Sherry Finished Single Malt.
On display and for sale at the Sobey's on site store was the 2nd Edition Scotch Whisky Advent Calendar and as a teaser we also had the prototype Collector's Edition which stopped passing festival goer's in their tracks and really helped to keep us extremely busy the entire weekend.
I would highly recommend going to one of these events for a great night out and the opportunity to try some really amazing products that you might not otherwise ever have in your glass.
One of the topics of discussion was the $ 7000 bottle of Ledaig being poured which had people searching all over the show trying to find the booth and ante up for this rare taste.
For whisky lovers, the Gold Medal table was again at it with a huge array of whisky from Gordon & McPhail, Benromach, Kilchoman, Springbank and Tullibardine.
If you live in Edmonton there is still time to get your tickets for the upcoming Rocky Mountain Show on the 6th and 7th of November. I look forward to seeing you all there. Please come along and say hi and grab a taste of something you have never had before.
A big thanks to Mike, Cathy, Nicole and the rest of the team for putting on another professional show. Tired and extremely happy with the response it was really fun to enjoy one of Calgary's must visit late night eating spots at UNA Pizza on 17th.
There is nothing better than that first cleansing pint after talking non stop for 8 hours. Add prosciutto pizza drizzled with truffle oil and arugula and an amazing glass of Blue Mountain Gamay and the night is perfect.
Thanks for all your support and for making this whisky journey that I am on so interesting.


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White anger
It was friday afternoon on a road from a popular neighbourhood into the park. I think a mosque had just finished prayer because many traditionally dressed Moroccans were there and so was I, dressed in business style on my way to a business appointment. A white Dutch woman came along on her bike, with a dog attached to the side of her bike on a one meter leash. Usually dog owners on a bike keep their dog on a leash that they hold in their hand, to be more flexible in Amsterdam's dense traffic.
At the entrance of the parc stood some poles on the road (see the photograph), meant to keep cars out of the parc. The woman biked into the parc on one side of the pole, her dog took the other side but the leash attached to the bike was in between. So the dog was stopped and almost thrown against the pole and the bike was also stopped abruptly, the woman almost fell, just almost: bikers in Amsterdam have incredible skills for all kinds of situations.
A Moroccan guy wanted to help her to get herself upright and the dog past the pole but she started to shout in anger. This happened to her, she said, because on the left side a young guy was walking on the biking path and on the right side there was also a couple walking. They left her no space to go and that is why she and her dog ran into the pole.
It is one of those irrational situations that can easily go out of hand. The woman had enough space and she had no damage. Her behaviour was very injust and impolite, even agressive and I couldn't ignore the impression that she was shouting because they were Moroccans. This was the hidden white anger that people say and know is there, but you don't see or hear it except in moments like this. Also I had the impression that the woman was waiting for a fight, scolding at random, hoping to be a victim and see her prejudices confirmed. Interesting were the doubts of the Moroccans around, I think they had the same impression: so should they take the scolding and get hurt, or defend themselves and get the blame?
The funny thing of appearances is that they can work for you. I was wearing business clothes for a completely different reason, but I could use it to have authority at that moment and solve some things. I took the attitude of a person in charge and told the woman that the men she was shouting at had nothing to do with her nearby accident – and that she had to be more aware herself of the dog stuck on a leash to the bike. That solved it, not for the woman who didn't stop shouting out her anger but for the men who were shouted at. We continued our walk and when the woman was out of sight, we laughed about it together because it was also funny, the way she and her dog got stuck on a pole, blaming the rest of the world for it.
Still, this type of everyday situations worry me: the step to a situation that runs out of hand is all too small. White anger, directed to innocent passengers, seems to lie just below the surface in Amsterdam 2011.
This might be interesting blogs for you too:
Naziha's spring
Simone Veil: une vie
'Why are people like this?' Boualem Sansal


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One in three UK firms hit by cyber-crime
Don't Panic
One in two senior IT managers believe the future survival of their organisations "could be put at risk by a major network security breach".
And a third of large organisations have fallen victim to cybercrime in some form, a survey reveals.
The study, compiled from anonymous responses from 172 large organisation in the UK, was conducted by the Communications Management Association. It follows a warning last week by Foreign Secretary Robin Cook that hackers pose a greater threat to Britain than a military attack.
David Harrington, of the Communications Management Association (CMA), whose 2,000 individual members work in Britain's largest public and private sector firms, said that Cook was right on the button" with his warning.
"If there is a glitch affecting the nation's computers or communication infrastructure it might have a major effect on consumers or cause a commercial disaster," said Harrington.
The concern is that leading UK organisations are at present ill-equipped to deal with the problems crackers, s'kiddies and cyber-terrorists pose for the smooth running of business in the UK. These include issues such as financial crimes, information theft, money laundering, tax evasion, credit card frauds, invasion of privacy, theft of identity, virus attacks and hacking.
In response, the CMA has created a division called the Institute for Communications Arbitration and Forensics (ICAF) which will encourage business to give security a higher priority.
ICAF will forge links with Universities to promote training and make alliances with others in the security field and aims to pool best practice and help with the prevention and detection of cyber-crime.
Greg Smith, technical director of ICAF, said it would also act as an honest broker in dispute resolution about computer security issues, such as the damage caused by Web site defacement.
Companies are often reluctant to take security-related disputes through a civil court, due to fear of publicity and uncertainity about the outcome of cases, according to Smith, who suggested dispute resolution might offer a better approach. ®
Related Stories:
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Win-NT/IIS admins made April Fools by hackers
Gartner invents new type of cybercrime
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DelveInsight has launched a new report on "Sepsis-Market Insights, Epidemiology, and Market Forecast-2030".
DelveInsight's "Sepsis–Market Insights, Epidemiology, and Market Forecast-2030" report delivers an in-depth understanding of the Sepsis, historical and forecasted epidemiology as well as the Sepsis market trends in the United States, EU5 (Germany, Spain, Italy, France, and United Kingdom) and Japan.
Some of the key facts of the Report:
In 2020, the total 7MM cases of sepsis was estimated to be 3,400,940. These cases are expected to increase in 2030 growing at a CAGR of 2.11% for the study period of 2018–2030.
Assessments indicate that 57% of all cases were sepsis without organ dysfunction followed by septic shock (24.63%) and severe sepsis (18.37%) in the United States in 2018.
The US is the major contributor (55.01%, in 2020) to the incident population of Sepsis in the 7MM.
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Anyone affected by an infection, severe injury, or serious non-communicable disease can progress to Sepsis, but vulnerable populations are at higher risk, including older persons, pregnant or recently pregnant women, neonates, hospitalized patients, patients in intensive care units, etc.
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- Sign up to to team Dasher using the form above
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- Link your fundraising page to a popular tracking app or track your miles manually. In a team of 15 you should aim to complete 86 miles before the run closes
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- 1st November – Registration Opens
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- 14th December – winners are announced
In a team of 15 you need to aim for 86 miles each, that can be made up by running, walking or cycling. But don't worry if you feel you can't reach that, remember you are playing as a team, so your strength may be fundraising where another member may storm through the miles in no time!
Yes, we ask that all participants aim to raise a minimum of £100 in sponsorship. But don't worry there are plenty of ways you can gain donations, and with our helpful fundraising pack you will be on our way to the £100 in no time!
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DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — The federal government says a program that sells scallops to pay for marine science will include a study of how shellfish harvesting impacts sea turtles in this year's projects.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the Atlantic Sea Scallop Research Set-Aside will help pay for 13 projects in 2019 and 2020. Regulators use the program to set aside more than a million pounds of scallops, which generates millions of dollars for the science projects.
Fishermen and scientists collaborate on the program. This year's awards include a pair to the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth to use underwater cameras to get a better handle on East Coast scallop population health.
The award to study sea turtles is slated to go to the Coonamessett Farm Foundation and Roger Williams University.
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The libtcpcsm software is designed to facilitate the analysis of TCP sending behaviour, i.e. detecting loss and reordering events or tracking congestion window size, in packet header traces. It is based on the libtrace trace processing library.
The software consists of both libtcpcsm, a library that passively detects TCP congestion events in network traffic traces, and analysis tools built using libtcpcsm.
Another rather fragmented week. Continued helping out where I could with the funding proposals, particularly finding references and tidying up some of the wording. Now we just have to wait and see if we actually get any of the funding we're asking for.
Taught 513 this week - we covered the recently published libtrace paper. I think I did a reasonable job of selling the students on libtrace. Wrote a possible libtrace programming assignment for the class which will be set if Richard gives it the go-ahead.
Prepared a 1.0.3 release for libtcpcsm. I've sent the release candidate off to a user who has been using the library quite a bit for testing prior to an actual release.
Started preparing for a new libprotoident release as well.
On the time series front, decomposing the time series seems to produce a trend line that can highlight genuine events in the data but there are still some caveats. In particular, none of our existing detectors work that well with the resulting data and it isn't clear that we can do the decomposition reliably when running live.
Re-ran my CAA analysis using the updated libprotoident and updated the results in my paper accordingly.
Made a few tweaks to libtcpcsm, based on suggestions from a user. Looking towards rolling out a new release soon.
Set up a build environment for BSOD client on BIGMAC. This took a bit longer than expected due to the move to Xcode 4. Managed to find and fix a bug in libwandevent that was preventing looping input from working properly. Also got the client building and running on tkn as well after a painful Windows 7 + Visual Studio install.
Finished the week by adding WASD movement back into BSOD client and an option to the server that forces it to wait for a client to connect before reading from the input
Detailed passive analysis of TCP sender behaviour requires accurate
identification of congestion events. Previous tools that attempt to
provide such information do not incorporate the behaviour of recent operating
systems and TCP features and are therefore of little use to researchers
analysing contemporary TCP traffic. In this paper, we present a new tool for
identifying and classifying TCP congestion events from a passive packet trace,
called tcpcsm, which understands modern operating system TCP behaviour.
We discuss the major problems that occur when passively identifying TCP
congestion events and describe how tcpcsm solves them. We also show that
tcpcsm is more accurate than previous tools using a series of controlled
experiments involving a variety of operating systems.
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Village Water - Zambia
Hygiene education and safe water
Village Water supports and helps communities in Zambia to help themselves. They support training so that people have the skills and tools needed to look after their new water point, practise good hygiene and working in partnership.
Years: 2015
This project will support three schools in Zambia and up to 15 feeder communities. Village Water start by providing hygiene education so that pupils understand the link with ill health and to encourage them to change their habits to reduce waterborne diseases. They then install a safe water point with parents helping with labour and contributing sand and stones.
The pupils take part in a number of activities and build simple tippy tap hand washing stations throughout the school. The children become the new hygiene promoters in their home village, raising standards in a way that does not happen when adults relay the message. There has been a massive impact using this method – the pester power of the children has led to a growth in latrines and hand washing in the villages around schools.
And then, when they become parents, the culture of good hygiene will be second nature together with all the health benefits that we take for granted.


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The Thames Festival Trust has announced the full programme for its September-long celebration of the river, Totally Thames.
While Fire Garden at Battersea Power Station will be literally the hottest ticket in town and the new and extraordinary sculpture on the Thames at Nine Elms by Florentijn Hofman — he of massive rubber duck fame — will be the centre of attention, poke further into the huge programme of events and you'll find us, afloat, running a riverine quiz and a weekend of fun talks on the Thames.
Quiz on a Boat
Continuing our tradition of running pub quizzes in places that aren't pubs it's all aboard a City Cruises vessel for a mobile quiz along the Thames. From Westminster to Thames Barrier and back quizmaster and Londonist editor Matt Brown will test your London knowledge with 50 factastic questions, part-based on the passing scenery.
The floating quizzery takes place on Friday 12 September departing from Westminster Pier at 7pm and returning around 10pm. Tickets are £15 per person, we recommend teams of four as that's the size of the tables on the boat.
To book tickets, go to City Cruises website and click the 'Experiences' tab. Select 'Totally Thames Quiz on a Boat' from the drop down menu.
Terrific Tales of the Thames
We've also put together a programme of lively and interactive talks about the Thames, featuring some of our most interesting friends, and it's all taking place aboard HMS President on the weekend of 20-21 September.
On Saturday, Tom Bolton and Tom Chivers will joust in a 'lost rivers of London' geek-off. Swimming in the Thames will be tackled by author Caitlin Davies and Chris Romer-Lee of the Thames Baths Project. Finally, a cavalcade of Thames Oddities will be brought to you by our own Matt Brown and Westminster Guide, Pete Berthoud.
On Sunday, we uncover mysteries and rituals of the river with Fortean London founder Scott Wood and paganism expert Rob Stephenson, followed by a look at two of London's docks — St Katharine and West India — by, respectively, local expert Christopher West and Museum of London contemporary curator Georgina Young. To finish, London Dreamtime takes a family-friendly voyage through sea shanties, comedies, music hall songs and folklore, suitable for the littlest Londonists and their grown-up friends.
Here's our programme, book your places at the Totally Thames website.
Londonist is proud media partner to Totally Thames, which takes place throughout September 2014.


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President Obama just doesn't get it. When asked about Syria, Obama said today:
This is something that is going to require America's attention and hopefully the entire international community's attention.
To have meaning, to influence others, power requires more than words. When the world's only superpower says something, it has to mean it. Tyrants pay little heed to eloquent oratory, but they take notice in the face of resolve. Yet, in Syria, in "red lines" that have almost certainly been breached without answer, America's word has fallen into a moral and strategic abyss. America's friends are fearful, America's enemies are emboldened and the Middle East stands on the edge of a political disaster.
Alongside the evidence already gathered, President Obama's statement suggests that the US intelligence community believes a chemical weapons attack did indeed occur. So, why the hesitation? Why the carefully calibrated spin? Some suggest it's because the President wants to gather all the intelligence he can so that America can gather plans for action and then pursue them with confident endeavor.
I think not. This isn't about foreign policy management. This is about an American president who has allowed his words to run out ahead of him. Obama gambled that his "red line" would prevent Assad from crossing the Rubicon. But just as Caesar gambled that the Roman Senate would be unable to restrain his advance, so too has Assad called Obama's bet and found it wanting. Obama has been openly defied across the Middle East, and all have taken notice. It couldn't have happened at a worst time.
Take Egypt. There, the Obama administration's policy is already a disaster. Perceiving a policy devoid of both courage and honesty, the US is hated and ignored. The young men of the Muslim Brotherhood believe that America has shown its true colors – as a dominion that uses the fiction of democracy to pursue its own narrow self-interests. The generals believe America needs them far more than they need America. As if this weren't already bad enough, now, following Assad's gambit, perceptions of American power have suffered a hammer blow.
Next, there's Iran. Continuing its longstanding strategy of deception, the Ayatollahs have found a new reason to continue their nuclear development. With their PR savvy front man, President Rouhani, the theocrats feel emboldened. They begin to see that regardless of what the American president says, US threats to use force against their nuclear program are a bluff. You can bet that Israel's Netanyahu is also taking notice. If the Israelis consider that America cannot be trusted, their patience for diplomacy may well come to an end.
Then there's the broader storm of sectarian instability that's ravaging the Middle East. Evidenced in the relationships that define the Syrian civil war, a toxic mix of sectarian hatred and political ambition is infecting the region. With Syria as their proxy war, Iran and the Sunni Arab monarchies are funding violent extremists in a fight for the future of the Syrian state. The Syrian people are caught in the middle. But it doesn't end here.
Despised for supporting Assad, Hezbollah appears under attack at home. Today, in the form of explosions at Sunni Mosques in Tripoli, Lebanon, we've seen the potential for a return to civil war. At the Israeli-Lebanese border, perhaps precipitated by Hezbollah's desire for distraction away from Assad, tensions are again boiling over. Every day in Syria, Salafi jihadists wage an unrestrained campaign of terrorism and intimidation.
It's true, in facing these challenges the prospective impact of American power is inherently limited. Yet, limitation does not excuse inaction. The need for American leadership is desperate.
Sadly, even if Obama responds to the latest outrage in Syria, his existing record suggests that American leadership will be far from profound. From the moment he took office, it's been fashionable to declare that Obama is the heir to Bush. That in predator drones and Guantanamo Bay, US foreign policy has remained largely consistent. I disagree. There's a major difference between Bush and Obama. Where, for right or wrong, Bush sought to re-shape the political makeup of the Middle East, his successor has been far more reluctant to utilize American power in bold ways. Unfortunately however, by relinquishing American leadership, Obama has jeopardized American standing. In short, when it comes to his strategic vision, no one knows where Obama stands. He's become largely irrelevant.
Ultimately, President Obama needs to fundamentally re-appraise how he approaches the Middle East. Firing a few cruise missiles at Assad won't be enough. Assad hasn't simply crossed the Rubicon, he's set up a camp that straddles both sides of the red line river. He's dancing in a vacuum of American resolve and he's doing so in a very public way. This cannot stand. To confront Assad's brutality and to restore American influence; to help shape a more peaceful region, Obama must take the initiative. He must embrace risks that jeopardize his domestic popularity. He must be willing to challenge allies and enemies into tempered action.
He must remember that humility and absence are not the same thing.