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EDITORIAL: Today's terrorism and how we react
We've been lucky since 9/11, and maybe we haven't appreciated it.
Although Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly murdered 13 people in a terror rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, this nation hasn't really experienced the sort of onslaught of politically motivated terror attacks that a number of experts predicted in the wake of 2001.
Other countries have suffered major blows -- from Britain and Spain to Indonesia, with multiple points in between. But for the most part, thanks often to terrific police work that has foiled literally dozens of terrorist close calls, we've been mostly immune to such events.
And thus very fortunate.
Indeed, the bloodiest mass murders in the U.S. lately, such as the one last July in Aurora, have been committed by domestic lone wolves whose motives remain either largely mysterious or bizarre.
But the Boston Marathon bombing and its extraordinary aftermath is likely to jolt us back to reality. It could well fit a more familiar mold.
To be sure, we don't yet know what motives might have propelled suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev into the marathon bombings and later murder of a MIT police officer. However, at the very least their motives are likely to be more coherent than what we've seen, for example, from the likes of Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner, whose demented worldview hardly fits into any known template.
And the Tsarnaevs' purpose may be more ideological, too, given their background and what little we know of their interests.
Even if it turns out the Tsarnaevs were acting upon some idiosyncratic grudge, their actions are a chilling reminder that repeated call for vigiliance in our post-9/11 world are not an empty mantra. Moreover, the means of helping police these days can be as close as your smartphone.
It is hard to believe that terrorists with social media accounts would be oblivious to the likelihood that their actions might be tracked by cameras at a major public event. Yet it wasn't just a surveillance camera at Lord & Taylor that captured them. For example, a runner from Florida who took a picture with his iPhone caught a remarkably sharp image of the younger Tsarnaev, too.
So another lesson from Boston, it seems, is that people who instinctively turn to take photos of a tragic event aren't being busybodies. They're establishing a record that may help authorities solve a crime.
It remains true, of course, that most communities in America are extremely safe, and terrorism itself is not a new phenomenon. As The New York Times reminded readers this week, such attacks have "actually been in a steady decline since [their] peak in the 1970s."
Still, the lockdown of Boston Friday after crimes causing more than 175 casualties reminds us that the tranquility in our own communities must never be taken for granted.
Editorial courtesy of the Denver Post, denverpost.com.

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GASTONIA � It was no cakewalk this time, but Ashbrook again got past North Buncombe to open the boys soccer playoffs.
GASTONIA � It was no cakewalk this time, but Ashbrook again got past North Buncombe to open the boys soccer playoffs.
Playing the Black Hawks for a second straight postseason, the Green Wave overcame an early deficit and scored two goals in the second half to pull away for a 3-1 win Wednesday at Eccles Field.
�They are a strong team that just plays in a tough conference,� Ashbrook coach Joel Webb said of the Mountain Athletic Conference�s No. 3 seed. �They started off stronger than we did and put one away early. I was a little worried there but we kept fighting and Ronnie scored a great goal to tie it up 1-1, then we opened it up just a little bit.�
Ashbrook (18-2-1) advances to play Fred T. Foard (15-7-1) or East Henderson (17-3-1) in the second round, likely on Saturday. Game time wasn�t immediately set, but the Green Wave will be at home throughout the playoffs.
Ashbrook had cruised past North Buncombe 7-0 to open last year�s postseason but found itself trailing 1-0 after Sam Childers scored off a Wesley Alderfer assist 15 minutes into the match.
North Buncombe (8-13) held that lead until Ronnie Hernandez tied it 5 1/2 minutes before halftime following a shot by Ross Taylor that deflected off the goal.
Following a spirited speech by Webb, who was battling the flu, Ashbrook began pulling away after halftime. Taylor converted a penalty kick nine minutes into the second half to make it 2-1. Then, 17 minutes into the period, Nick Fuller gave Ashbrook a 3-1 lead when he sped past the defense, kicked the ball just past the approaching goalkeeper and watched it trickle into the net.
�We knew we had to stop (Hernandez), we knew we had to stop (Fuller) and I thought we did a really good job first half controlling that,� North Buncombe coach Chris Zimmerman said. �Our goalkeeper Alex Destino is going to keep us in every game. He�s done it all year and given us a chance to win and he did it tonight.�
Destino, a junior who plans to play collegiate baseball at South Carolina, saved between seven and 16 shots. Ashbrook earned nine corner kicks to North Buncombe�s 1. Josh Cloyd saved four shots in goal for Ashbrook.
Ashbrook, winner of four straight Big South Conference titles, advanced to second round for a fourth consecutive year and is once again on a collision course with Hickory. The Red Tornadoes have eliminated Ashbrook the past three postseasons (twice in the second round and once in the fourth), and those two would meet in the third round if both survive.
Phillip Gardner: 704-869-1843; twitter.com/gazettephil
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- Provide for evaluating and adjusting the program in light of relevant circumstances
- Ensure that all new and existing employees who are involved in activities covered under the Act receive safeguarding training
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CFI includes any paper or electronic record containing non-public personal information about a customer that the University, or its affiliates, handle and maintain. CFI includes any personally identifiable information provided by students or others (such as loan applications, credit card numbers, account histories, and related consumer information) in order to obtain a financial product or service from the University (such as financial aid).
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- Errors introduced into the system by authorized or unauthorized persons
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- Disposal of Records
- Oversight of Service Providers and Contracts
Employee Training and Management
All University employees that will have access to CFI shall receive proper training on the importance of confidentiality of certain records, such as student records, student financial information, credit card numbers, credit checks, bank accounts, tax records and any other CFI maintained by the University, and the proper storage of CFI materials. All University employees with access to computers shall be trained in the proper use of CFI and the use of passwords to prevent the transmission or communication of CFI to unauthorized persons. Protecting Financial Privacy in the New Millenium Training Module.
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Access to CFI through the University's computer network shall be limited to those University employees who have a valid legitimate reason to have such information. All CFI that may be accessed through the University's computer network shall be protected by, and each University employee that needs to have access to CFI shall be assigned, a user name and password. Such user names and passwords shall expire periodically and shall not be posted in public spaces. The University will take all reasonable and appropriate steps consistent with current technological development to ensure that all CFI remains secure.
Information systems include network and software design, information processing, storage, transmission, retrieval, and disposal.
Network and software systems will reasonably limit the risk of unauthorized access to covered data.
Safeguards for information processing, storage, transmission, retrieval and disposal may include:
- requiring electronic data (covered by the GLBA) be entered into a secure, password-protected system
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- permanently erasing covered data from computers, diskettes, magnetic tapes, hard drives, or other or other electronic media before re-selling, transferring, recycling, or disposing of them
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Systems will be implemented to regularly test and monitor the effectiveness of information security safeguards. Monitoring will be conducted to reasonably ensure that safeguards are being followed, and to quickly detect and correct breakdowns in security. The level of monitoring will be appropriate based upon the potential impact and probability of the risks identified, as well as the sensitivity of the information provided. Monitoring may include sampling, system checks, reports of access to systems, reviews of logs, audits, and any other reasonable measures adequate to verify that information security's controls, systems and procedures are working.
Physical Security of Paper Records
Only employees who have a legitimate and valid reason to have CFI shall have access to any physical paper records. The records should be kept in a secure place, such as a locked office or file drawer, to prevent unauthorized access. Such records should be secured in locked cabinets whenever an authorized employee is not present with the records, particularly overnight.
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Santana wants to catch, but focused on winning
CLEVELAND -- More often than not these days, Carlos Santana heads into the Indians' clubhouse and sees his name listed as the team's designated hitter. Santana would prefer to remain the starting catcher for Cleveland, but that role has been taken over by Yan Gomes in the past six weeks.
Indians manager Terry Francona has discussed the change in roles with Santana, but that has not necessarily made it an easy transition.
"This is a little hard for me, or for any player," Santana said on Tuesday. "For me, I want to win. The manager put Yan behind the plate and he's done a good job, so we're better hitting and catching, too. It's hard for me, but I'm not thinking about that. I'm confident in the manager about the lineup he puts out every day.
"We're still fighting, fighting for the Wild Card. And we're 4 1/2 games back of Detroit. It's affected me a little bit, but I'm thinking about winning. I'm thinking about trying to help my team, and trying to be patient. I'm thinking about just staying in the lineup every day."
In the first four months of the season, Santana caught 61 percent of the innings (572) compared to 38 percent for Gomes (358). Since Aug. 1, though, the pair of backstops have reversed course in terms of playing time behind the plate, with Gomes handling 63 percent (212) of the innings compared to 37 percent (124 2/3) for Santana.
Gomes (.302 average with 10 home runs and 34 RBIs in 72 games) and Santana (.264 with 18 homers and 64 RBIs in 136 games) have both handled themselves well offensively, but Gomes has been the better of the two on defense.
Gomes entered Tuesday leading the American League with a 46.9 (15-for-32) caught-stealing rate, while Santana had thrown out just 15.5 percent (9-for-58) of would-be basestealers, according to STATS. Cleveland's pitchers had a 4.13 ERA with Santana behind the dish compared to a 3.67 mark with Gomes.
"He's good, and he's getting better," Francona said of Gomes. "That's exciting. You start to catch more and the hope is just what's happened, that he's gotten better. You see some guys start to get banged up, or their legs get a little heavy, arm doesn't have quite as much carry. That hasn't happened in this instance. This kid is getting better."
Gomes' swift learning curve has been a great development for the Indians, but it has left Santana working through the adjustment of serving more as a DH and part-time first baseman.
"This is my position," Santana said of catching. "Right now, it's changed a little bit, because Yan is having a good year. I'm playing every day. It's a little hard for me, but I want to be a good teammate. I don't worry about that. ... The most important thing for me is staying in the lineup every day."


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In the early 1900s, a radioactive ceramic water jar marketed to the U.S. public as a health boon turned out to be, well, a load of crock.
But according to a new study, radiation from the jug wasn't the biggest problem. Makers of the Radium Ore Revigator promised the jug would enrich drinking water left inside overnight with "the lost element of original freshness—radioactivity." The "treated" water was supposed to relieve everything from arthritis and senility to flatulence.
Such a seemingly wacky belief came from the fact that spring water naturally contains radioactive radon gas, said study leader Michael Epstein, an analytic chemist at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
It wasn't too big a leap to assume that radioactive water would be a healthy elixir, Epstein said. In the early 20th century, the Revigator sold by the hundreds of thousands in the U.S.
"Unfortunately for them, they were wrong," Epstein said. By the 1930s scientists had realized that exposure to radiation can cause cells in the body to go haywire, triggering cancer.
However, Epstein and colleagues were curious just how big a risk radiation played compared to the ore itself.
What they found is that the jar's uranium-ore lining released surprising amounts of toxic elements, such as arsenic and lead, into the drinking water.
Arsenic can also cause cancer, and lead can severely damage the nervous, urinary, and reproductive systems.
Toxic Water
For their study, Epstein and colleagues bought four Revigators from antique stores or on eBay. The jars still exude the same amount of radiation as they did in the early 1900s.
Uranium ore contains some amounts of the highly radioactive metal radium, which decays into radon gas.
The team first used a Geiger counter to measure the amount of radon gas the jars emitted. Though radon levels were higher than an average person's exposure, the risk of death from the jars' radiation was relatively low.
Epstein's team also used a highly sensitive instrument called a mass spectrometer to analyze the concentration of toxic elements in the radon-infused water.
If a person had followed the Revigator company's advice to "drink freely when thirsty and upon arising and retiring," the toxic water would have drastically exceeded healthy exposure levels currently recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
For instance, the maximum level of exposure to uranium set by the EPA is 0.030 parts per million—one of the Revigators expelled up to 0.056 parts per mllion of the substance.
What's more, if people added a slightly acidic beverage such as wine or fruit juice to the jar, the resulting fluid contained 300 times more than the maximum arsenic intake recommended by the EPA.
Before Ephedra
There's no data on whether Revigator users were more sickly than non-users, mostly because people died from so many poorly understood ailments in the early 20th century, Epstein said.
But in a way, the Revigator is a forerunner to modern-day alternative medicines peddled on the Web, some of which could also be dangerous, Epstein said.
"The world doesn't change," he said. "We're always looking for something to make our lives better—and sometimes we make mistakes."
Research appeared in the December issue of the journal Applied Spectroscopy.


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The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs are Smarter than You Think by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods c.2013, Dutton $27.95/$29.50 Canada 370 pages, includes index
Some days your dog has a species identity crisis. He's a copycat and it's like monkey see, monkey do around your house. Other days, he's stubborn as a mule, eats like a little piggy, is fearless as a lion, and he runs through the house like a herd of elephants.
You're beginning to wonder what other souls lay inside the body of your canine. Is he part horse, part goat, part cheetah? Or, as you'll learn in The Genius of Dogs by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods, is he really part Einstein?
Your dog is the smartest pooch on the planet. He can sit, beg, roll over, and shake. He also has a rudimentary grasp of physics, math, and language.
That's because dogs are "arguably the most successful mammal on the planet, besides us." They evolved from wolves to canine lupus familiaris and quickly, firmly glommed onto humans but researchers have only recently determined how that bedrock-to-bedroom voyage happened.
For canine cognition expert Hare, learning how was a worldwide journey.
As a grad student trying to determine what makes us human, Hare began with chimps and bonobos but soon noticed that his dog was better at many tasks than were our closest evolutionary relatives. His research took him to Russia (with foxes) and to a German lab where he tested dogs to see what happens inside their furry little heads.
Dogs have lousy GPS, he learned. There are exceptions, but most lost pups who find their way home are "lucky." Pooches have problem-solving skills but most have a hard time figuring out new methods for old habits.
Conversely, as any astute puppy parent knows, dogs are masters of body language and have the basic skills of a human infant, socially and cognitively. They make decisions based on inference and grasp language in the same way as do babies. Their owner-attachment is similar to that of babies to their mothers. Dogs know how to recruit help, communicate needs, and offer comfort.
What we got out of the deal, Hare says, is love and a domesticated animal that may have domesticated us.
I'm a really big science fan and I completely geeked-out on The Genius of Dogs but there was one curious thing I noticed: authors Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods present some highly fascinating research results but they don't acknowledge dog owners have probably already seen it all.
Still, it's awfully good to know where that behavior comes from and how inherent doggy-actions can be altered from cute parlor trick into something that enhances your fun with Fido. This book does tend to meander off the dog-path quite a bit, but I thought that off-topic-ness enhanced the puppy parts. Overall, I loved what I learned and I loved knowing that even the most mixed-up mutt can be a master at something.
This book also contains several enjoyable tests that you can do with your pup, so grab a handful of treats and get going. For you, The Genius of Dogs is something to get your paws on.


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Remember the Jamaican Bobsled team? Of course you do. They kicked up some snow back in the 1988 Olympic Games, made a movie, and then kept going.
Until they slid to a stop.
But now, they're back, with a new way to get back to the Games: Crowdfunding. With a boost from crowdfunders like Indiegogo, Crowdtilt, and Reddit, the Jamaican Bobsled Team is well on its way to booking another round of flights, this time to Sochi Russia.
At last check, the team is closing in on its goal of $80,000 to cover expenses and supplies. The team says it also wants to raise cash to make sure future generations of Jamaican Bobsledders can hit the mountains as well.
If you're interested in helping, check one of the sites, and be a part of the team.
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Event: Hello Kitty Go Around (Malaysia) Canival
>> Thursday, December 24, 2015
Venue: 2nd Floor, Viva Home Expo Hall, Kuala Lumpur
Dates Available: 19 December 2015 - 19 January 2016
Opening Hours: 11.00a.m. – 10.00p.m.
(Admission is allowed up to 45 minutes before closing time)
Ticketing Counters Opening Hour: 10.00a.m. – 9.00p.m.
Online Ticket Purchase: Click here
The Hello Kitty Go Around (Malaysia) Carnival is finally in town! It's on-going for an entire month throughout this school holidays/year end right up to mid January next year. The carnival is certainly something that Hello Kitty fans wouldn't want to miss!
Enthusiasts & fans will need to purchase their entrance tickets to enter the carnival. Each weekday & weekend ticket includes 2 Game Vouchers and each special day ticket includes 5 Game Vouchers. Additional game vouchers can be purchased at the carnival as well, so do check out the price list as below:
Each normal ticket comes with a special design lanyard while for special day e.g. Christmas, Christmas eve, new year and Melody day, there are different limited edition designs of lanyard and a non-woven bag included that you can't find else where.
I'm grateful to receive 2 weekday complimentary tickets (does not include any game vouchers/name tag with Hello Kitty landyard) from Heyday PR, which I gladly entered the carnival together with my mum after some shopping in KL.
Here we go....!
As per all carnivals, you'll find various games booths, activity corners & photo-taking corners, where you can happily snap photos along the way...
One of the most fascinating yet 'shocking' thing that I came across was at the "Apple Temple". Carnival atmosphere at this part of the event was definitely non-evident that I didn't realize it's a games booth!
I seriously thought that it's just an area for photo opportunity & what made my eyes pop was the Hello Kitty right at the center of the 'altar'...hahaha...since when was Hello Kitty a god that's worshiped?? Anyway, I just found out that it's a games booth where you can win a Hello Kitty "ema" (traditional Japanese wishing plate), which you can hang it on a designated wall, of which, this silly me didn't snap a photo of it since I didn't know what's this whole area about! *lol* I actually saw like 1 or 2 ema hanging on a wall, but that's about it...feels kinda sad!
Fans, enthusiast & children will enjoy this part of the carnival as you get to purchase a tote bag (I think it costs RM20.00/tote bag) & stamp all sorts of Hello Kitty images on your bag! You can even stamp your name on the tote. Sounds like some fun here, eh?
You'll find an Official Goods Shop inside the carnival grounds as well as official merchandises upon exiting the carnival. I'm not entirely sure if the items sold at both shops are the same, but from what I glanced through, it doesn't seem to be the same.
How about some Hello Kitty printed sweets as well? I reckon Hello Kitty fans won't want to miss this.
To add to the fun, you can also spend some time to get yourself more Hello Kitty goodies here at the workshop. Craft work was part of the workshop; you can check out the prices at the workshop itself.
Before leaving the carnival, you can collect/purchase photos that you have taken earlier at the "Hello-Kitty-Go-Round" or random photos taken of you around the carnival at the Photo Shop.
So what's PerutBesi's verdict?
Ok, I have to admit that I'm not an avid fan of Hello Kitty, although I love Hello Kitty since I was young. The fact that all genuine Hello Kitty merchandises were too costly probably dampened my mood & chances of getting hold of any merchandises since my childhood. My only recollection was my sister's Hello Kitty plushie (quite a hugable size), my My Melody jewellery box & the few Hello Kitty plushies that my sister used to buy from McDonald's. Yeap, it seems as if she's more of a Hello Kitty fan than I am, also because I'm not very generous when it comes to buying toys for myself since they're of no major use apart than decorative purposes.
I guess Hello Kitty fans will still find this carnival rather enjoyable since they would be willing to spend on Hello Kitty merchandises & games. The carnival has quite a number of photo opportunity areas as well, although I still feel that compared to the carnival in Singapore, this is probably just 3/4 of all the colorful icons/figurines.
From a stand-point of need vs want & value vs total amount of money-spent (considering the current volatile economy of Malaysia), I personally will think twice (or thoroughly) before spending my finances on this carnival.
Such things are certainly one's choice & decision, according to financial abilities, so if you really fancy Hello Kitty & you're willing to spend the money for it, go all out to enjoy the carnival as it'll only be around 'til 19th January 2016! Get your tickets asap before they're sold out!


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NFL draft watch: Jonathan Cooper
The main starter for the Chargers at left guard last year, Tyronne Green, is an unsigned free agent. Right guard Louis Vasquez signed with the Broncos. Back after missing his rookie season with a pre-draft injury is Johnnie Troutman. In free agency, Tom Telesco signed two guards, Chad Rinehart and Rich Ohrnberger, who've each averaged fewer than six starts per season in four-year NFL careers.
If Telesco invests the No. 11 pick in North Carolina senior Jonathan Cooper, he would be presumed the starter once he signed his rookie contract.
The year was 1963 when the Chargers last chose a guard in the first round and 1997 when a guard last went within a draft's top 10.
Nobodies can become Pro Bowlers at guard, as an undrafted tough guy from Indiana, Kris Dielman, showed after the Chargers signed him for their special teams in 2003.
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"Chance Warmack from Alabama is the best football player I saw on tape this year," the NFL Network's Mike Mayock said of another senior left guard named a first-team All-American last year. "And Jonathan Cooper from North Carolina is just a tiny notch behind him. As a matter of fact, Cooper's probably a better athlete.
"So," Mayock said, "if either of those players are on the board at 10, I'd jump all over them. I could not care less about whether or not that's a position of value or not."
Looking for reasons to quibble, some NFL scouts wonder if the 6' 2'' Cooper will be able to hold sufficient weight over an NFL season. At the NFL Combine he weighed 311 and said he played at 290 last year, up several pounds from his previous seasons in Chapel Hill.
Video study reveals Cooper as capable of making all the blocks. "I'd say I'm a combination of power and athleticism," Cooper said, as quoted by the Kansas City Star.


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I asked for a short break from the writing job because I need to attend to family for now. See, our Tatay (Dad's father) passed away in the wee hours of the morning yesterday. I was getting ready to check out designs of faucets for a friend when Mom said we should go to the hospital at around midnight. I wish I can say I have the energy to share the experience; we were there when the doctors could not revive him anymore at 259am. Needless to say, I will write about it soon. The memory will forever be etched in my mind and heart (it was pretty stressful and kinda traumatic but I was thankful I was there to say goodbye even if he could not hear me anymore) but I guess I need to write it down as my way of letting go.
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June 29th found me, as it usually does, doing archaeology. Some years I'm excavating, some years I am lecturing to groups who are visiting sites like the ones I've excavated, and some years, like this one, I am working away on the publication of finds from all those years of excavating.
Glass is a beautiful, seductive material and a rich source of evidence about technical and aesthetic aspects of a culture and about the complex processes of exchange and influence between cultures. Glass — luxurious, expensive, and resource intensive — reflects the decision-making of the elites and their sense of style. The production of glass is a fundamental technology based on complex technical knowledge and specialized skill. Glass, discovered by accident, grew to transform the environment of daily life by brightening tables and structures. The story of the coming of age of glass is one of the fascinating stories in the history of technology. One you should check into.
I am currently working on the glass from three sites: Aila and Humaya in Jordan, and Gordion in Turkey. The glass recovered from these three sites covers the gamut of glass forming technologies (molded, core-formed, mosaic, blown) and ancient periods of production (Iron Age through early Islamic). So working on archaeological glass asks for a dedication to the material itself in all its life phases and permutations. Ever since I worked at the Jamestown Glasshouse during my undergraduate years, it's been glass for me just as it's coins or bones or pottery for someone else.
Today, on the Day of Archaeology, it's Roman glass from Gordion, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Phrygia. I am beginning to write up the chapter on Roman glass for a final report.
Gordion had an interesting Roman period, one until recently mostly overlooked, and has produced interesting Roman glass that reveals periods of economic prosperity, a taste for luxury glass tablewares, and information about Gordion's connections to the outer world in the period.
For today, a closer look at a heavily weathered fragmentary mosaic bowl.
As with the study of other artifact, the study of this glass has several stages. Because we are not permitted to remove the glass from Turkey, I have carefully examined, measured, described, and drawn each artifact in the depots at the excavation house near Gordion. Here in my lab at Bucknell University this summer I am working from my drawings, notes, and from photographs I have taken in Turkey (some of which are below).
This fragmentary bowl was excavated in 1951 and had received relatively little (no?) attention over the years. Several years ago we moved the fragments from a candy box with tissue paper padding into a beautifully designed container created by Ariel O'Connor, a Gordion conservation intern. It has been a puzzling vessel for me because of the heavy weathering, but seemed clearly to be a mosaic bowl of some sort. I have worked with conservators on site to remove some of the weathering layers to see what lay below. What you see in the following photos is what we found.
Great excitement as we uncover gold!
Quite a difference from those gray, filmy pieces in the first picture!
Here's a photo of part of the rim of the bowl:
Today, in my library full of studies of excavated glass and museum collections, I have been trying to figure out the technique, color scheme, and date of the vessel. I am also trying to locate comparable excavated pieces or pieces in collections that will give me hints to the origin and date.
A final entry on this piece in my field notebook says the fragments appear to show that the vessel was fashioned from tooled strips of canes with a repeating sequence of turquoise blue, yellow edged in purple, opaque white edged in dark blue, and colorless encasing shattered gold leaf.
A wonderful aspect of my job is spending a pleasant hour or so leafing through likely museum catalogues and that thrill of discovery when I find, just now, what I was looking for – a parallel in profile, technique, and color scheme, in a favorite publication – David Grose's catalogue of early ancient glass in the Toledo Museum of Art (1989).
And the answer is: The vessel is very likely a gold-band mosaic bowl of the early to mid-first century BCE. The profile is that of a broad shallow bowl with an upright rim with a narrow rounded edge. It was likely assembled in sections from tooled, fused strips, molded, then rotary polished. It is one of two bowls (some of the fragments are definitely from a second bowl).
New problem(!): The bowl appears to come from a securely dated context – a destruction level – that's a century earlier than that. Hmm. Well, this is how we make progress. Stay tuned for the final publication!


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Brazil and China have jointly reinforced their financial reserves with a $30bn swap arrangement that aims to offset further economic instability in Europe and the United States.
The deal was announced on Thursday as a first step towards the creation of a financial bloc of emerging economies that are trying to become less reliant on the dollar as a trading currency and on developed nations as markets.
Under the bilateral swap arrangement, Brazil is entitled to take 190bn yuan from the Chinese central bank, while China can take 60bn real from the equivalent body in Brazil. The money can be used for trade or to boost reserves during times of crisis.
The swap arrangement was at the centre of a wide ranging new partnership with China that also includes joint satellite launches, shared research on nanotechnology and cooperation in the field of oil and gas.
In unveiling the deal, Brazil's finance minister Guido Mantega said it was a move towards closer intergration of the five BRICS (Brazil, Russian, India, China and South Africa), which together have $4tn of foreign exchange reserves.
Closer ties are designed to make emerging economies more resilient to financial shocks such as that in 2008, when, he said, world trade almost froze for two months.
"This reinforces our financial reserves at a moment when the global economy is stressed," he said. "We recognise that developed economies are still in crisis. The BRICS are the most dynamic and we'll continue to expand.
China has overtaken the US as Brazil's major trading partner with a 17% share of the total. Critics say the trade is unbalanced because China buys commodities and sells higher-value goods.
Mantega said the new deal would involve more trade diversification, including Chinese purchases of aircraft made by Embraer, a Brazilian manufacturer and Chinese investment to build oil drilling platforms in Brazil. The two countries will also jointly launch two satellites, one this year and another in 2014 and set up culture centres and language networks in each other's countries.
Trade will also continue to focus heavily on China's demand for commodities, which have helped Brazil resist the downturn in the global economy.
"The expansion of trade with China can be infinite," said Mantega, who was speaking on the sidelines of the Rio+20 sustainability conference.
"China is fast growing and wants to stimulate consumption so they will continue to buy our commodities. There are no limits."


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by Joe on Nov.17, 2011, under Crafts, Electronics, Events, Meetings, Presentations, Projects
We discussed briefly whether we would have a 4th Wednesday meeting in December (We WILL NOT have a 4th Wednesday meeting in November). As the 4th Wednesday falls in the holiday doldrums on December 28th it might be fine for an informal, project show and dream and tell meetup. Roy will be there no matter what.
Rick showed the programmable LED artwork he made with pool concrete, LEDs and film canisters.
Roy showed the LED t-shirt he screenprinted (his first) and lit with the knowledge he got from Rick's LED class. Roy also showed my first steps with Arduino — a PWM sketch that faded in, then faded out an LED. Woo hoo!
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ALEC is Pushing Climate Denial to Kids in Three More States
Science education is a problem in the United States. Studies consistently show the U.S. ranking poor in science education testing in industrialized countries.
Exxon, Koch Industries, Duke Energy and other profiteers of global warming inaction are not helping. Through the American Legislative Exchange Council, these companies are working to ensure that in certain states, children and young adults will be taught that certain myths are scientifically credible. Steve Horn at DeSmogBlog broke the ALEC connection:
January hasn't even ended, yet ALEC has already planted its "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act" - which mandates a "balanced" teaching of climate science in K-12 classrooms - in the state legislatures of Oklahoma, Colorado, and Arizona so far this year.
In the past five years since 2008, among the hottest years in U.S. history, ALEC has introduced its "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act" in 11 states, or over one-fifth of the statehouses nationwide. The bill has passed in four states, an undeniable form of "big government" this "free market" organization decries in its own literature.
Each of the three new bills were sponsored by paying ALEC-member legislators - the Arizona bill was exclusively co-sponsored by six ALEC politicians.
The three states considering ALEC's climate denial law are already struggling to teach quality science. While Colorado scores an "average" ranking among states in science education, both Arizona and Oklahoma score "far below average," according to a 2011 ranking by the Statistical Research Center at the American Institute of Physics.
Unfortunately, as this attack on science education is considered in Oklahoma, Colorado and Arizona, there at least four states that already passed the ALEC bill. From DeSmogBlog last March:
First it was Louisiana, back in 2009, then Texas in 2009, South Dakota in 2010 and now Tennessee has joined the club, bringing the total to four U.S. states that have mandated climate change denial in K-12 "science" education.
It's unfortunate that these students won't be told how much scientific literature concludes that human-induced global warming is occurring:
ALEC and the Heartland Institute: Selling Doubt to Students
The Heartland Institute and American Legislative Exchange Council have long been buddy-buddy on rejecting climate science. Heartland is driving much of ALEC's interference policies on climate change with support from other members of ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force. An oil industry apologist with ties to both ALEC and Heartland named Sandy Liddy Bourne facilitated the creation of the "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act." DeSmogBlog refreshes our memories:
ALEC's Natural Resources Task Force, now known as its Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force, adopted this model at a time when the Task Force was headed by Sandy Liddy Bourne. Bourne, who served in this capacity from 1999-2004, would eventually ascend to the role of Director of Legislation and Policy for ALEC in 2004.
Upon leaving ALEC in 2006, Bourne become Heartland's Vice President for Policy Strategy. Today she serves as Executive Director of the American Energy Freedom Center, an outfit she co-heads with Arthur G. Randol. Randol is a longtime lobbyist and PR flack for ExxonMobil, a corporation which endowed the climate change denial machine for years.
Heartland's website still lists Bourne as one of its "experts," stating that "Under her leadership, 20 percent of ALEC model bills were enacted by one state or more, up from 11 percent."
ALEC and Heartland's focus on injecting fossil fuel public relations into science curriculum is picking up where another front group left off. A disbanded organization called the Environmental Literacy Council, set up by the Koch- and Exxon-funded George C. Marshall Institute, was established to be a resource for any teachers willing to misinform their students on climate science.
Unfortunately, Koch, Exxon and ALEC's other supporters seems less interested in maintaining a habitable planet for the upcoming generation and more interested in profiting from their ignorance.


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Apple Wants a Hearing Before Judge in Samsung Case to Talk Damages
Apple has asked the judge overseeing its patent case with Samsung to hold a hearing to discuss her recent moves to uphold part of a jury's billion-dollar verdict and order a new trial on other parts of the damages.
In a filing on Wednesday, Apple made the case that it shouldn't have to wait to collect on the $600 million in damages that the judge upheld. Judge Lucy Koh had encouraged both sides to exhaust any appeals before returning to discuss the damages issues.
"Apple takes seriously the Court's encouragement, but after careful analysis, Apple believes that until the damages retrial is held and supplemental damages are decided, appellate review of the March 1 Order will not be obtainable," Apple wrote in its court papers.
Plus, Apple said, "Samsung benefits enormously from any delay, even delay resulting from a failed attempt at an immediate appeal."
"Samsung must now pay $600 million, and it faces the prospect that it will be liable for hundreds of millions more following a new trial," Apple wrote. "Moreover, despite the jury's verdict and Samsung's representations to the Court that an injunction was unnecessary because Samsung was discontinuing all infringing products and implementing design-arounds, Samsung continues to sell the same and additional infringing products without making any payment to Apple. Every day that a final judgment is deferred, Samsung benefits."
Samsung not only opposes the request, but in paperwork filed on Thursday, the company asked for more than its allotted five pages because of the substantive issues raised in Apple's motion.
"Samsung respectfully submits that Apple's motion, which involves fundamental questions involving the scope and timing of any new trial, is not a proper use of the rule governing Motions for Administrative Relief, which may address 'miscellaneous administrative matters,'" Samsung said in its filing on Thursday. "Samsung respectfully requests that it be allotted 10 pages for response."
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When it comes to travel insurance claims, Hannah Yun was about as sure as anyone that hers would be successful.
Shed bought a gold-plated cancel for any reason policy for a trip to South Korea. When her boyfriend proposed and she decided to call off the trip to start planning her wedding, she thought that collecting a check would be just a formality.
Travel Guard, the company shed purchased the policy through, turned down her claim on a technicality. Yun, a college student in Salt Lake City, originally told the company that her plane ticket cost $1,090; she actually paid $1,092.50.
Denied because of a $2.50 price difference? You bet.
It just doesnt make sense, says Yun, a refrain I hear often. Complaints about seemingly arbitrary rejections cross my desk at regular intervals. No surprise: Travel insurance is a $1.8 billion-a-year industry, according to the US Travel Insurance Association (www.ustia.org), an industry trade group. And it has been growing steadily, from $1.3 billion in 2006 to $1.6 billion two years later to the latest figure, from 2010.
Its no shocker in another sense, too: The travel insurance business is generally profitable, the occasional volcanic eruption or tsunami notwithstanding, and critics say that the only way it stays that way is by rejecting most claims, particularly the expensive ones. Thats difficult to prove or disprove. The industry insists that its rejection rates are low. About one in six policyholders will file a claim on their insurance, according to the association, and fewer than 10 percent of those claims are denied.
Yun was among that unhappy minority. When I asked about her claim, Carol Mueller, a vice president at Travel Guard, said the company had reviewed the case carefully and that according to its records, Yun had claimed and repeatedly verified the $1,090 ticket price.
The full cost of all nonrefundable prepaid trip arrangements is insured at the time of purchase, Mueller said. Ms. Yun did not insure her full trip cost as listed on her itinerary at the time of her insurance purchase, and that was the criterion for her denial.
Seriously? The rejection seems absurd to the average traveler, until you take a little time to understand how the travel insurance business works. Ive spent the last year studying it, in part because Ive been hearing about so many policy rejections and in part because a lot of my readers buy travel insurance hoping it will protect them from some of the unbelievably awful things that I write about every day on my blog.
I should also note that my website attracts a fair number of sponsorships from travel insurance companies and sellers of insurance. Consider this my disclosure. Id like to think that it doesnt affect the fairness of my coverage, but Im sure that youll let me know what you think once youve finished reading.
To understand why a travel insurance company does the often confounding things it does, you have to know more about the policies and talk with insiders who are familiar with the claims process. Travel insurance policies are set by underwriters, the entities that take on the risk of insuring you on your vacation. For example, Travel Guard is underwritten by the National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, and that company gets to tell Travel Guard how to word its policies. The verbiage doesnt leave much to the imagination.
Take trip interruptions, for instance. When you buy a policy, your travel agent might tell you that youll be covered if your trip is interrupted. But the policy itself will strictly define the terms.
For example, an interruption can be covered if its caused by an unforeseen circumstance. A sample Travel Guard policy defined that as the sickness, injury or death of an insured person, or of an immediate family member, traveling companion or business partner. Injury or sickness must be so disabling as to reasonably cause a trip to be canceled or interrupted, it adds.
Few travelers bother to read that language before buying a policy. Slightly more will review it when they need to make a claim, but its still a considerable minority. Even when their claim is turned down, they try to appeal it by referring to their travel agents promises or arguing with the rejection letter without knowing what their policy actually says.
Dan Skilken, who runs the travel insurance website TripInsurance.com, says insurance companies play it by the book when a traveler files a claim. They consider the facts of the claim at face value; If the policy covers it, they cut a check. If it doesnt, they wont.
The reason for a denial is usually pretty simple, Skilken says.
It was in the case of David and Mary Phillips, who bought a $387 policy through Allianz Global Assistance for a recent cruise to Brazil. Unfortunately, they ran afoul of one small detail: Neither the cruise line, Azamara, nor their travel agent had told them that U.S. citizens must have visas to travel to Brazil. As a result, they were denied boarding on the boat, and they lost their $6,739 cruise.
David Phillips, a retired doctor in San Mateo, Calif., was upset about his ruined vacation and even unhappier that Allianz rejected his claim. But the Phillipses insurance policy is clear: It doesnt cover trip interruptions that result from visa or passport problems.
To claims adjusters, such denials are as obvious as the quickest way from their cubicle to the water cooler. But to outsiders such as Yun and Phillips and me, too theyre not. You start to understand why some travelers are angry. Some feel victimized by the travel agents and online retailers who sell these policies and dont always explain them as thoroughly as they should. Upon reflection, theyre also angry with themselves for ignoring policy details and assuming the insurance would cover anything that could go wrong with their trip.
Which brings us back to Yun, who had every reason to believe her insurance company would pay for her cancellation, no questions asked. Travel Guard seemed surprised that she hadnt bothered to review the details of her policy; if she had, she wouldnt have wasted her time with a claim.
Weve listened to all the calls with Ms. Yun, and while there were three opportunities when she could have corrected the total cost of her trip, this did not happen, says Mueller, the Travel Guard representative. As part of our commitment to providing astonishing customer service, we could have asked her a second and third time to double-check her exact trip cost, though we are not required or obligated to do so.
Still, Travel Guard agreed to make one of those high-level exceptions to its rules and honored the claim.
Mueller was quick to add that I should let consumers know that they ought to read their policy carefully and make sure to fill out their paperwork correctly.
I agree. But maybe some travel insurance companies need to spend a little more time talking with their customers outside the claims process, if for no other reason than to understand why travelers are so disappointed when their policy doesnt work as expected.
Christopher Elliott is the ombudsman for National Geographic Traveler magazine. Email him at email@example.com, or troubleshoot your trip through his website, www.elliott.org. Distributed by Tribune Media Services.


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In August, 2009, Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy were arrested for the abduction of Jaycee Dugard. The abduction occurred in 1991, when Jaycee was only eleven. She was held captive for nearly two decades. During that time, Jaycee was sexually assaulted on a regular basis, and gave birth to two daughters.
Phillip Garrido brought the young girls that he fathered with Jaycee Dugard to the UC campus in Berkeley on August 24. While there, he met a police officer named Lisa Campbell who asked him to return for a meeting the next day. Campbell was suspicious of his unusual behavior, and noted that the girls should have been in school.
Later that night, Officer Campbell ordered a Comprehensive Background Check and discovered something disturbing. Phillip Garrido was a registered sex offender who was still required to check in with a parole officer.
The following day Campbell brought a colleague, Officer Allison Jacobs, to the meeting with Phillip Garrido. When he left, the women called Garrido's parole officer to report his actions and ask about his daughters. They were stunned to be told that he did not have any children.
Based on this call, the parole officer set up a meeting with Garrido, which led to an investigation and arrest. Since then, Phillip and Nancy Garrido have been held in custody awaiting a trial. The prosecution intends to prove that Phillip Garrido is a highly manipulative individual who brain-washed Jaycee Dugard, but his public defender, Susan Gellman, hopes to prove otherwise.
Gellman's plan is to state that Phillip Garrido suffers from severe mental illness. She will insist that he did not have the capacity to realize that he was doing wrong and he should be treated as a patient, not a criminal.
One of the points Gellman is expected to emphasize is that Garrido claims to have communicated with angels who live underground for many years. He proclaimed that these angels frequently spoke to him at night and even self-published a manifesto about their conversations, which he personally delivered to the FBI a few days before he was arrested.
Whether or not this defense will hold up in court remains to be seen. The prosecution asserts that since Garrido and his wife lived a somewhat normal life while detaining Jaycee Dugard in a backyard shanty for so long, their actions must have been calculated. They are also expected to point out that Garrido had plans in place to hide Dugard and the children if the police or unexpected visitors ever arrived.
We'll be watching closely as the trial against Phillip and Nancy Garrido begins. Our hopes are with Jaycee Dugard and her family, and that the end of this hearing will bring them peace and comfort.
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Connecticut bill attempts to target "knockout game"
HARTFORD >> Connecticut lawmakers are considering a bill that would increase criminal penalties for sucker-punch attacks.
A bill before the General Assembly's Public Safety Committee would make a so-called "knockout game" assault a Class D felony. It is the least serious felony, punishable by one-to-five years in prison and up to a $5,000 fine.
Assailants in such attacks attempt to knock out random victims with a single punch and often place video of the attacks online.
Lawmakers have scheduled a public hearing on Tuesday to hear testimony on that and other bills.
Stamford police in February arrested a 15-year-old boy in connection with an attack that left a 63-year-old Stamford High School employee with several broken bones. Officials expressed concern that the incident was an example of the "knockout game."


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Arm-waver: Prof lives to teach... and write
As UVA students converge on Charlottesville, English prof Mark Edmunson is working on his latest project, a book about the last year in the life of Sigmund Freud. He says he's just finishing the manuscript, due at Bloomsbury Press within the next five or six weeks.
"Of course, Freud had to think about death without the comforts of religion, in an unafraid and forthright way," says Edumundson. "While his view was different from mine, I admire his candor and courage."
Edmundson's a big fan of candor and courage.
"The best students are the most individual," says the scholar of Romantic poetry. "You can tell who they are on the first day of class they want to have interesting conversations. They're continually surprising."
"Continually surprising" could also apply to Edmundson himself, whose 1997 essay in Harper's, "On the Uses of a Liberal Education as Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students," touched off a national debate about the current state of academia.
As promised in that essay, Edmundson will be enthusiastically "arm waving" in his classes again this fall as he leads his students on a favorite exploration into the world and work of Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, and Blake– in his undergraduate Romantic poetry course.
The name of Edmundson's own favorite teacher is no secret: Franklin Lears, his philosophy teacher his senior year at Medford High School in Massachusetts. Unlike most of us, content to think nostalgically of our mentor once in a while, Edmundson wrote a book in honor of Lears and the influence he had on the lives of his students.
That book is Teacher, published last September. While Teacher earned mixed reviews as a memoir, the New York Times lauded its "animated prose," and the Washington Post called it "rich with metaphoric prose and inlaid with lovely storytelling."
Teacher helped Edmundson reconnect with Lears, who had left teaching for law school and was working to establish a legal system in the Federal Republic of Kurdistan.
"His response to the book was warm and generous," Edmundson says, explaining how Lears subsequently came to Charlottesville to visit. Although they had fallen out of touch over the years, their friendship is now reestablished and vital. Such is the power of teaching and writing.
Age: 51
What brought you here? I came to Charlottesville in 1984 to teach Romantic poetry at the University.
What's worst about living here? It can be too close to paradise– which sometimes gives you a warped sense of what's out there in the world.
Favorite hangout? Yoga classes at Studio 206: My down-dog, triangle, and back bridge are flawed enough, but I get a lot of instructor praise for being a precocious sweater.
Most overrated virtue? Being nice
What would people be surprised to know about you? T.S. Eliot talks about the writer's "necessary laziness." I take this quality to some remarkable heights.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I'd ask for a good left-hand shot in basketball (I'm addicted to pick-up games); in fact, I'd ask for a half decent right-hand shot.
What accomplishment are you proudest of? Getting through graduate school at Yale and an assistant professorship at Virginia and still being able to laugh.
What do people find most annoying about you? I'll skip this one in the interest of space.
Whom do you admire? William Blake– grand isolate and inspired Romantic poet, late 18th century.
Favorite book? I'll unilaterally claim the right to three: Emerson's Essays, Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy, Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents.
What subject causes you to rant? The contrast between our horrid current administration (Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, and the Front Man) and an America full of lots of decent , energetic, life-loving, inventive, etc. people
What thrills you about life in the 21st century? The prospect of seeing my son Willie keep on playing electric guitar and singing; the prospect of seeing my son Matthew surf and snowboard and invent new computers.
What creeps you out about life in the 21st century? The fact that the odds of my seeing it through to the end are not terribly high.
What do you drive? A 1990 BMW, old but beautiful
What's in your car CD/tape player right now? Tupac Shakur, All Eyez on Me, The Rolling Stones, Forty Licks, Bob Dylan, Rolling Thunder Tour: that is, the Romantic performers of the present, for better and worse
What's your next journey? I've been lucky: In the past few years, I've gotten to see The Great Wall of China and the Pyramids, two things I dreamed of seeing since I was a boy. Anything after that will be gravy.
What's the most trouble you've ever gotten in? There are about a dozen things all tied for first.
What do you regret? Not learning to play electric guitar.
Favorite comfort food? Campbell's chicken noodle soup (almost daily); Anchor Steam beer (less often than that)
What's always in your refrigerator? Weird white boxes with gravy stains on them, two percent full juice bottles, fossilized fruit: My wife Liz and I are preoccupied writer-types: We forget to clean the thing out.
Must-see TV? I like NFL Prime Time, the best footage from Sunday's football games, with the marvelous Chris Berman, soon to be sullied, I understand, by the presence of Rush Limbaugh.
Favorite cartoon? Zap Comix. R. Crumb rampant.
Describe a perfect day. One where I get to talk with my wife, Liz, for the requisite two or three hours.
Walter Mitty fantasy? Lead guitar for the Stones, a drink with Shakespeare.
Who'd play you in the movie? If there's one thing you can say pretty confidently about being an English professor it's that There Will Not Be a Movie. (Scene 4– paper grading; scene six– more grading: not a promising scenario.)
Most embarrassing moment? Can't think of any. (I perhaps don't embarrass as easily as I should.)
Best advice you ever got? One of my dissertation directors, Hillis Miller, told me to try to write a little every day– even if it's only 10 or so minutes. Over time, the stuff mounts up.
Favorite bumper sticker? I'm a poetry fan– not enough room for due complexity on the bumper.