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Does Gender Inequality Cause More Girls to Get HIV?
It is no coincidence that in countries and regions with high HIV/AIDS prevalence, women tend to have a lower position in society. But exactly what are the linkages between how women and girls are valued and their risk for HIV/AIDS? A significant factor is the ability to make choices. Women's lack of power relative to men gives them less bargaining power in negotiating the use of condoms to protect themselves. Poverty and lack of alternative options lead women to use survival strategies, including prostitution and exchange of sex for resources. To improve women's position in society and give them more control over their life choices, the perceived value of women and girls must change.


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Pirates to open 2014 slate at home vs. Cubs
In 2014, the Pirates will once again be Opening Day hosts -- welcoming the Cubs to PNC Park on March 31 -- and be challenged by a 20-game Interleague schedule featuring the loaded American League East.
Next season's pennant fight will pick up right where this one apparently will leave off: The Bucs will have 13 meetings in April with the Cardinals and the Reds, kicking off with an April 4-6 set at PNC Park. The Reds will visit for four games on April 21-24.
The Pirates' first 26 games will be within the National League Central, and they will have met each division team before venturing out for their first Interleague forays. Pittsburgh will play a two-game set in Baltimore on April 29-30, then return home to host Toronto in a three-game series May 2-4.
The early-season schedule represents a significant departure from those of the past two seasons, when the Pirates stumbled out of the gate on West Coast trips that forced them to play catch-up from the get-go. After opening the 2012 season at home, Pittsburgh went 2-4 in Los Angeles and Arizona; in 2011, also after a season-opening series at home, the Bucs went 3-6 at those two stops plus San Francisco.
The Pirates' initial West Coast swing of 2014 will not be until May 29, when they will open a three-game set in Dodger Stadium.
Pittsburgh will make a May 16-18 visit to the Bronx to meet the Yankees. The other high-profile AL East team, the Red Sox, will make a late-season (Sept. 16-18) sojourn to PNC Park.
That visit by the Red Sox will kick off a difficult 13-game stretch to the wire, including a season-wrapping road trip to Atlanta for four and to Cincinnati for three. This means the '14 Pirates will be ending the season in the same place these '13 Bucs are.
The Pirates will also recreate this season's home-and-home two-game sets with the Tigers, hosting the AL Central powerhouses on Aug. 11-12 and visiting Detroit on Aug. 13-14.


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Aug. 6, 2013 -- Crime Stoppers
Authorities asked for help finding two fugitives.
In the first case, police said they are looking for James D. Fugate, 29.
Authorities said Fugate is wanted on a federal probation violation warrant issued by the U.S. Marshals Service for being a felon in possession of a firearm and distribution of marijuana.
Fugate is black, 6 feet 1 inches tall, 155 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes. He has tattoos on his hands, arms and neck.
Investigators said his last known address was in the area of 92nd Street and Marsh Avenue in southeast Kansas City, Mo. Police said he has been known to use the alias Leo Wright and he should be considered armed and dangerous.
In the second case, police said they are looking for Storm M. Bellamy, 26.
Bellamy is wanted on two Wyandotte County, Kan., probation violation warrants on charges of possession of methamphetamine and attempting to elude law enforcement officers.
Bellamy is white, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 180 pounds, and has blond hair and green eyes. Police said he sometimes goes by the alias Willie Pickett.
His last known address was in the area of North 32nd Street and Orville Avenue in Kansas City, Kan., police said.
Anyone with information on either case is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.


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text: Dark Souls II offers gamers the sickest of challenges set in a menacing open world. Sequel to the 9.0 (IGN) & 9.5 (GameSpot) rated breakout hit Dark Souls, this is the game that gamers have been talking about. Powered by an all new game engine that has enhanced graphics and vastly improved the hallmark combat physics that has made this franchise one of gaming's most anticipated. Globally regarded as the hardest, deepest & most intense experiences you'll ever have - go beyond death.


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Con men used to travel town to town hawking medical remedies said to be made of Chinese snakes. Snake oil was useless and dangerous. So the FDA was created to put a stop to it and other food and drug scams.
But, today, quack medicine has never been bigger. In the 21st century, snake oil has been replaced by bogus therapies using stem cells. Stem cells may offer cures one day, but medical charlatans on the Internet are making outrageous claims that they can reverse the incurable, from autism to multiple sclerosis to every kind of cancer.
Desperate people are being bilked out of their life's savings.
We've been looking into this surging crime and we found there is no better window on how it works than the practice of a man who calls himself "doctor," a man named Lawrence Stowe.
Stowe has been unaware that, lately, some of his patients have been working with 60 Minutes.
Full Segment: 21st Century Snake Oil Part 1
Full Segment: 21st Century Snake Oil Part 2
Web Extra: The Promise of Stem Cell Treatment
Web Extra: A Warning About Stem Cell Fraud
Web Extra: Living with Lou Gehrig's Disease
One of those patients is Steven Watters, a college administrator in Lufkin, Texas, who, six months ago, received maybe the worst diagnosis imaginable: he has ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
About 30,000 Americans have ALS at any given time. And like Watters, they all will die, most within five years, as their nervous system gradually disconnects from their muscles.
"Everything just takes a little longer. I just set things up to where it requires minimal, manual effort," Watters told correspondent Scott Pelley. "Just handling personal hygiene is difficult - teeth brushing, flossing, very difficult, time consuming. So you just make the adaptations that you can and go on."
Eventually Watters will be able to move nothing but his eyes.
The same fate is ahead of Michael Martin who also has ALS. Martin has nearly lost any ability to speak, and very soon he won't be able to walk.
"I wonder what it was that your regular doctor back home told you about your disease and what your prospects were?" Pelley asked Martin.
"He said I had about two years," he replied.
No patient has ever been cured of ALS, and no patient has ever seen the symptoms reversed, even temporarily. But, still, desperate people find themselves drawn to a place that promotes the impossible: Stowe Biotherapy in La Mesa, Calif., near San Diego, which bills itself as a "medical oasis."
We asked a multiple sclerosis patient to go in with a hidden camera to hear Larry Stowe's pitch for his miracle treatment.
Stowe told our MS patient that he can reverse her disease with his program of herbs and vitamins to boost the immune system, custom vaccines and stem cell injections. Medical experts say it's nonsense but it's the same pitch that we secretly recorded again and again as Stowe claimed to reverse cancer, ALS, MS, Parkinson's disease and more.
"We're the only ones who's been able to get any body that's down here back up to here, and they stay back up to here. If we were a major pharmaceutical drug company, you know, we'd be talking about all of our research associating getting Nobel Prizes in medicine and things of that nature," Stowe said.
Larry Stowe is not a medical doctor. He claims two PhDs, but we found he only has one in chemical engineering. He had a career at Mobil Oil and holds patents in the oil industry.
But by the 1980s Stowe had taken a strange turn into pseudoscience. For a time, he promoted something called Eon Water which, he said, slowed the aging process. And by 2003, he had created the Stowe Foundation to advocate unproven stem cell therapies.
Michael Martin, one of the ALS patients helping with our story, had heard about Stowe from a friend. And before we ever met Martin, he had already given Stowe a down payment of $47,000 to start the treatment.
"When Dr. Stowe said that he could reverse this disease with stem cells, you thought what?" Pelley asked.
"Oh, I wanted to believe," Martin replied.
How does Stowe make believers of the desperate? We wanted to see.


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Last year, Twitter went over to OAuth; SuperTweet allows you to still use basic authentication.
In 2008 (just as the U.S. economy began circling the drain) here in Gearhead I wrote about updating Twitter with cURL, a free, open source, command line utility that allows you to transfer data with URL syntax using, and I quote, "DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP [along with] SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, [user name and password] authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, Kerberos ...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks."
In short, cURL is a Swiss Army knife on steroids for data transfers over TCP/IP and is available for just about any OS you can think of, which includes the usual suspects -- OS X, Windows, Linux -- as well as many others including Amiga, Syllable, VMS and z/OS.
So, way back in those heady days when we were all slowly but certainly losing our shirts, you could post a tweet using a command in the form of:
curl -u username:password -d status="I had a chicken sandwich for lunch" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
This method, using basic authentication, worked great and it was easy to arrange, for example, for your machines to use Twitter as a messaging system to let you know when they had problems or completed something. But on Aug. 30, 2010, Twitter stopped allowing access via basic authentication and switched to another method called OAuth or "Open Authentication."
BACKGROUND: Twitter API has new third-party sign-on method
Wikipedia explains that "OAuth allows users to hand out tokens instead of credentials to their data hosted by a given service provider. Each token grants access to a specific site ... for specific resources ... and for a defined duration. ... This allows a user to grant a third party site access to their information stored with another service provider, without sharing their access permissions or the full extent of their data."
The concept of separating and limiting access to a service for specific applications by separating that from the user's login is a powerful one. For example, it makes revocation of access for a single application very simple so in the case of Twitter, with so many third-party applications providing alternative ways to access the service, switching to OAuth made a lot of sense.
The only problem with Twitter's switch was that all of the simple ways to update Twitter such as using cURL stopped working once Aug. 30 rolled around. Worse still, getting the likes of cURL to use OAuth turns out to be a real bear. Luckily, there is a service called SuperTweet, which acts as a proxy for applications so they can still access Twitter via basic authentication.
To use SuperTweet you simply sign into Twitter using SuperTweet and authorize the service to have access (the only thing SuperTweet won't be able to do is access your Twitter password). You then provide SuperTweet with some simple details about your application including an email address and the application name and you're good to go ... or rather, good to tweet.
Now SuperTweet can transparently handle OAuth for you and, using the SuperTweet interface instead of Twitter's, you can do most of the things you used to be able to do. Thus, using cURL:
curl -u username:password -d status="I had a chicken sandwich for lunch" http://api.supertweet.net/1/statuses/update.xml
If you are going to be performing a large volume of Twitter transactions you should download the SuperTweet proxy (which is written in Java) and run it on your own server.
SuperTweet is a brilliant idea that works great and solves an otherwise irritating problem brilliantly! I award SuperTweet a Gearhead rating of 5 out of 5!
@quistuipater tweets in Ventura, Calif. Twitter away to email@example.com.
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When the person who raised you, someone you've always looked up to, someone you love, begins to struggle at home, it is a painful and surreal experience. But when it happens, it's up to your family to make important decisions about senior care.
When your parent, or another elderly relative, can no longer manage basic aspects of daily life, like grocery shopping, preparing meals, or bathing and getting dressed, it can have a detrimental effect on their quality of life. Over time, it may eventually put their health and safety at risk.
At this point, one of the biggest decisions families face is whether or not their loved one is still able to live at home. Families are often left wondering if it would be best for their loved one to move into a family member's home, assisted living facility, or nursing home.
Many factors should be considered as you strive to make the best choice for your family member. Some of the most significant senior care concerns families grapple with include:
Ultimately, though, your family must face the reality of your loved one's condition and make the best choice for their continued safety and quality of life. But as isolated and overwhelmed as you may feel at this moment, your family doesn't have to tackle this choice alone.
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Big cave church with columns in the upper Güllüdere valley between Göreme and Çavuşin. Seen from the outside it is only a big tuff rock with some holes.
Cappadocia is a part of central Turkey. Eruptions of several volcanoes (e.g. Erciyes Dag, Hasan Dag) had covered the area with tuff. Erosion dug valleys and created an uncountable number of different shaped rocks. The tuff's ability to store water made the valleys much more fertile than the higher surroundings. After the arrival of the first people, they soon started to dig caves into the soft stone. By the time they developed the ability to dig cities into the underground with tunnels of several kilometers. A sophisticated pipe- and tunnel-system cared for fresh air and water, to enable the people to hide from enemies for a long time. In the 5th century hermits started to settle in the valleys and to paint their caves. In the next centuries more and more hermits and monks arrived and a rich cave-architecture with colourfull wallpaintings developed. The most famous are the churches of Goereme and the Peristrema Valley (=Ihlara Valley) between Ihlara and Selime. Today thousands of tourists from all over the world are visiting the area.


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An Interview with a Reptilian Alien (The 'Lacerta Files')
And how things go,
In Hollywood.
At one time,
Italian 'organizations', controlled
The majority of mainstream entertainment.
Had I not married a woman of Italian descent,
I might not have realized this.
Starting in the 1940's,
This began to change.
Another group of people,
Began to take over, the mass entertainment industry.
As ww3 progresses,
This Corona virus,
This is one of the major points on the curve.
Helping bankrupt the banksters
As most of the battles are being fought
In the financial arena,
This is resulting in many fewer deaths
and much less destruction.
The people who control the money system,
Are the targets of this war,
When they are removed from authority,
Updated March 16th, 2020 at 04:09 AM by tomt
Those that realize how,
unintelligent the masses really are,
Are the ones running this world.
And they have done, literally,
A bang up job.
Economic downturns, wars,
And bioweapons, have stunted
Human Development, ever since.
We are actually on the leading edge,
Of the next truly great civilization.
Changing so slowly, most don't see it.
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Warren: 'I'll work with anyone'
Elizabeth Warren, whose status as a liberal icon helped her raise a record-setting amount in her successful effort to unseat Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, on Wednesday sounded a bipartisan note the day after her victory.
"I come in not just to be a senator, c'mon, that's not what this is really about," Warren said Wednesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "I come there for all the people who said 'Look, this country has got to work for us.' Working people, for the carpenters, for the teachers, for all the people who said 'We're out there, we work hard, we play by the rules, we just want a chance. We just want a chance to build a little economic security."
( Also on POLITICO: Warren wins Mass. Senate race)
She added, "We're willing to pull tighter on our belts if we feel like we're building a future for our kids.'"
Warren, a Harvard Law professor who helped create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, raised more than $40 million. She won 54 percent of the vote versus Brown, who made bipartisanship and independence the center of his political identity in the heavily liberal state. But Warren emphasized she was willing to work with Republicans.
On CBS's "This Morning," she explicitly acknowledged Brown's appeal and pledged to reach out to his supporters.
"People who voted for Senator Brown, I think a lot of them were saying: 'You got to be willing to reach across the aisle,'" Warren said. "And I want them to know I heard them loud and clear, and it's what I want to do. … I want to go to Washington because I want to help get something done."
( Also on POLITICO: The new Senate: More compromise, less filibuster?)
"This isn't about party," Warren said. "I'll work with anyone, and I really do mean that. Democrat, Republican, independent, Libertarian, contrarian, vegetarian, I don't care."
"That's a big tent," host Joe Scarborough quipped.
Warren also celebrated the record number of women elected to the Senate in 2012. The upper chamber will contain at least 18 female members. The previous record was 17. When CBS host Norah O'Donnell first presented the statistic to Warren, the senator-elect joked: "Hubba Hubba."
"You know, it's time," Warren continued. "C'mon. There was still this year, a big debate over equal pay for equal work? No. It's time. It's time."


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Week Two of COP 18: Moving Forward with 7 Key Issuesby -
As we move into the second week of the UN climate talks, the desert sand is swirling around the conference center in Doha, Qatar. Countries spent the first week tying up some loose ends on several issues, but there are still many details to be worked out before the sand settles and Parties head home. It's hard to tell whether this meeting will turn into a full sandstorm or clear up.
The uncertainty here in Doha contrasts greatly with the increasingly clear (and grim) climate picture that we're seeing around the world. Yet another report was just published finding that global carbon emissions are at an all-time high. This publication comes on the heels of the recent UN Environment Programme report showing that the gap in emissions is growing even wider. And, recent World Bank analysis reinforced the potential catastrophic impacts of moving beyond 2 degrees Celsius of global temperature rise. The warnings are clear, but it's hard to tell if negotiators are ready to respond with the urgency that's needed.
The Current State of COP 18
Indeed, it is fair to say that most of the critical issues on the table at COP 18 are not yet resolved. All the questions around the Kyoto Protocol and a second commitment period are still open. Issues surrounding finance – including medium-term pledge levels, the long-term work plan, and how to track countries' climate finance commitments – have yet to be worked out. Roundtables on the Durban Platform resulted in a good exchange of views, but it's still unclear whether there will be a firm work plan for 2013 or whether it will remain vague. The most vulnerable countries are understandably asking for more action now – even before a new 2020 agreement kicks in – but most countries haven't put forth specific proposals.
While it's not surprising that so many topics are stuck after the first week, the lack of action puts additional focus on the role of Ministers. Many are already in Doha, and they have their work cut out for them if they want to make progress in the remaining week of the conference.
7 Areas Where Progress Is Needed
While there are solutions available for every critical issue on the table, the complexity and level of detail is huge. As in the past, it's likely that Ministers will be called on to lead the negotiations on the key issues.
These issues include:
Transparency: While Parties have made some progress on measuring and reporting countries' emissions-reduction commitments and actions, the issue of accounting is still open. The question at hand is whether a common set of rules for developed countries to measure and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions should be developed. Meanwhile, there's also a question of whether developing countries will move forward on a detailed work plan to increase the level of transparency of their emissions-reduction pledges.
Finance: Developing countries continue to be concerned that developed countries' fast-start finance pledges run out in 2012, and there's still no certainty on what will come next. This issue, combined with questions on how to track current climate finance and how to meet the long-term finance goal of $100 billion per year, make it clear that the Ministers who lead on this issue will be very busy.
Pre-2020 Ambition: Moving forward, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and the EU would like to have specific sectoral initiatives on ambition. However, other countries are looking for a more general approach where businesses, cities, states, and others can report on their own emissions-reduction progress. There is also still hope that Qatar, the host country – and perhaps others in the region – will put forward pledges to reduce their own emissions, thus helping close the emissions gap and limit average global temperature rise to 2 degrees C.
Equity: There are a number of proposals on the table on how to address the issue of "equity" in the negotiations around the 2015 international climate agreement. It's clear that there will be no international agreement if countries do not think it's fair, but they are grappling with how best to integrate equity into the negotiations. (Read more about WRI's equity work with the Mary Robinson Climate Justice Foundation.)
Durban Platform Work Plan: While the deadline of establishing an international climate agreement by 2015 is set, the roadmap to get there is not. Roundtable discussions will continue on this issue generally, but some countries are pushing for more specific discussions to kick-start negotiating a work plan. Three years to negotiate a plan may sound like a long time, but the level of complexity – both technically and politically – is immense. It's imperative for negotiators to establish a clear process now to chart a firm course of action.
Carbon Markets: There are quite a few areas where the future of the global carbon market is being debated. One of these areas includes Kyoto Protocol discussions, where a decision has to be made whether countries that did not put their targets into the second commitment period (e.g. Japan, Russia, Canada, and New Zealand) have access to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). In addition, the shape and function of a "new market mechanism" is under negotiation, as well as how other national market mechanisms might be part of a common framework.
Rules for the Kyoto Protocol's Second Commitment Period: Countries still need to agree on a long list of details about the Kyoto Protocol's second commitment period, including: the length of the second commitment period (five vs. eight years); what happens to excess units (carry-over of "assigned amount units," or AAUs); and how countries will provisionally adopt the amendments while the ratification process is underway. As a legally-binding agreement with strong accounting rules and a carbon market, the Kyoto Protocol is an important instrument for global emissions reductions--even if only a small number of countries participate.
We understand that Parties want to take a deliberate approach to design an effective, durable agreement in 2015 that facilitates cooperation amongst all countries and sets up a sustained, ambitious agreement after 2020. However, there can be no compromise on short-term ambition. As the UNEP and World Bank reports show, we cannot afford to be patient on pre-2020 ambition, whether on mitigation, adaptation, or climate finance.
While none of these issues is easy, they are all solvable if countries bring the determination and will to find common ground. Indeed, it's critical that these core issues are resolved this week to get the world on track to prevent the climate change's worst impacts. Ministers arriving in Doha will need to wipe the sand from their eyes and make their way through the sandstorm.


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Drew goes from slump to surge
ST. PETERSBURG -- It's hard to believe Stephen Drew's slump was such a big topic of conversation earlier in the season. These days, he is one of the most productive hitters the Red Sox have.
Fresh off his grand slam on Wednesday, Drew was elevated to the seventh spot in the batting order in Thursday's series finale. It was the third time Drew has batted seventh this season. He has started most games in the eighth or ninth spots.
"If it gets him another at-bat tonight, all the better," said Red Sox manager John Farrell. "He's in a three-week run here where he's been swinging the bat well. It wasn't just the matter of the grand slam here [Wednesday] night. It's more a reflection of what's been taking place over time. He's had good at-bats against left-handed pitching, so if they bring in a lefty to turn Daniel [Nava] around and to face [Stephen], I feel like he's equipped to handle that."
Drew headed into Thursday's action leading all American League shortstops with a .609 slugging percentage during May.
And it isn't as if Drew is just an offensive weapon. He has also played strong defense at the vital position of shortstop.
Even if Drew isn't a highlight-reel defender like Red Sox prospect Jose Iglesias, he still manages to get the job done.
"When they see him over a long period of time, they'll recognize how good he is, because he's in many ways a very dependable defender," said Farrell. "Sometimes that doesn't show as flashy, where it might catch the average fan's eye, but when you look up after a hard-hit ball and he's standing right there, he's ranging up the middle to his glove side, he's a very good defender. And he's got a very accurate throwing arm.
"The one play he can make very well is the ball he'll charge to his backhand side and throw the ball back across his body. He's a damn good player."


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I am currently interested in job prospects outside of my own area of programming. Specifically, I'm a web developer but want to make the transition to desktop application programming. How should I tailor my resume to show that I am capable of this type of software development when I have had no prior experience with it? This question can also be generalized for any other programmer making a leap to a different area (for example a programmer mostly experienced in finance software that wants to go into embedded systems programming).
In short, I've used HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and Javascript at work. For a short while I also used ColdFusion. I'm very familiar with OOP concepts and frameworks. In the meantime I've moonlighted for over 3 years on my personal hobby projects in C# and C++.
I know it's bad focusing too much on the tools than their application as a metric to measure your abilities, but for making a transition in my career, would emphasizing knowledge in these tools be good idea to put on your resume? Problem is that a lot of jobs put programming languages as strict job requirements (see here). My resume currently shows 5 years of web development experience. I know general programming concepts well enough, and at this point my experience counts much more than my degree.
I want to know how I can make a potential employer of a software company look at my resume with cautious optimism, and not instantly reject it when it shows I have 5 years web experience with PHP and zero desktop software experience.


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Sky looked at the bright side of Bradley Wiggins' abandon today when the Giro d'Italia rolled on without him. It opens the door for the other eight riders, said sports director Dan Hunt, especially Rigoberto Uran in third overall.
"We've had our ups and downs, and our problems, but if you don't want problems, don't come to the Giro," Hunt told Cycling Weekly.
He spoke while sitting in Sky's black Jaguar team car this morning. The sun cut through the rain clouds, giving hope for the next week and half of racing.
"It's not a situation that anyone wanted, but at the end of the day, we still have guys up on GC," he continued.
"We're not a team that gets a problem and sits and sulks, we have enough fire power to make life uncomfortable for everyone else. In 2011 when Wiggins dropped out of the Tour with a broken collarbone, we had no one for the overall. Now, we have numbers when it comes to the mountains, we are probably one of the strongest mountain teams. We will go down fighting."
Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) leads the overall classification by 41 seconds over Cadel Evans (BMC Racing). Uran sits in third at 2-04 minutes.
Three others – Robert Gesink (Blanco), Michele Scarponi (Lampre-Merida) and Mauro Santambrogio (Vini Fantini-Selle Italia) – are also two minutes back from Nibali.
Today's stage to Cherasco, the longest of the race at 254 kilometres, offers calm before the storm. This weekend, weather permitting, the Giro climbs to Bardonecchia and Galibier.
Uran won the first summit finish stage to Montasio. Last year, claimed the best young rider's white jersey while placing seventh overall.
"He's a tough little f****r, he's a great bike rider, a great handler, he knows where to be in the bunch," Hunt added. "It's hard to say what's possible because we've never had him in this position, but he looks great."
Bradley Wiggins climbs into the Sky team bus, his Giro over
Wiggins' health a priority
Wiggins lost ground on yesterday's rain-soaked stage to Treviso and finished 3-17 minutes back. He climbed immediately on the bus and effectively closed the door on his Giro d'Italia.
Last winter, he targeted the Italian Grand Tour. With Chris Froome given the right to lead the Tour de France team, little is known of Wiggins' next move.
Pulling out of the Giro d'Italia early, said Hunt, gives Wiggins options.
"Our priority as a team has to bee the health of our riders, without your health, nothing else matters really. You can't ride your bike if you're not healthy. There's not point of ruing the next four to eight weeks for the sake of trying to push on for a couple more of days."
Related links
Bradley Wiggins withdarws from Giro due to illness
Rigoberto Uran takes over Sky leadership at Giro after Wiggins withdraws
Giro d'Italia 2013: Previews and race info
Giro d'Italia 2013: Coverage index
Giro d'Italia 2013: British TV schedule
Giro 2013: 10 things you need to know
Giro d'Italia 2013: The Big Preview
Giro d'Italia 2013: Stage reports
Stage 12: Cavendish takes 100th win as Wiggins' Giro bid faltrs
Stage 11: Navardauskas wins as favourites enjoy day off
Stage 10: Uran wins as Wiggins and Hesjedal lose time
Stage nine: Belkov takes solo win as Wiggins put under pressure
Stage eight: Dowsett wins as Nibali takes race lead
Stage seven: Wiggins crashes as Hansen wins
Stage six: Cavendish wins stage six of Giro
Stage five: Degenkolb avoids crash to take win
Stage four: Battaglin sprints to first Giro stage win
Stage three: Paolini takes charge
Stage two: Sky wins team time trial
Stage one: Cavendish wins opener
Giro d'Italia 2013: Photo galleries
Photos by Graham Watson
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If you like your exchange … you can keep your exchange? And if you don't like your state ObamaCare exchange — because it hasn't functioned properly in six months despite endless promises that Maryland would fix it — you don't have to keep your exchange. The state will finally throw in the towel on its $125 million web portal, and will replace it with a copy of Connecticut's:
Maryland officials are set to replace the state's online health-insurance exchange with technology from Connecticut's insurance marketplace, according to two people familiar with the decision, an acknowledgment that a system that has cost at least $125.5 million is broken beyond repair.
The board of the Maryland exchange plans to vote on the change Tuesday, the day after the end of the first enrollment period for the state's residents under the 2010 Affordable Care Act. …
It was not immediately clear how much more money Maryland may have to invest to get a fully functioning system, according to the two individuals, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the changes.
How much more money will Maryland taxpayers have to cough up? Well, let's take a look at results first. Maryland spent $125.5 million on the existing exchange. That was supposed to enroll 150,000 people by Monday's deadline. They just recently cut their goal in half to 75,000, but the Washington Post reports that fewer than 50,000 have enrolled in private plans through the exchange, as of today. It's not clear, though, that the Post confirmed these as actual enrollments where a premium has been paid, or just sign-ups to private plans without confirmation of actual enrollment. Given the way the media has reported on the government figures, it's presumably the latter.
With those results in mind, one might imagine that it will take several hundred million dollars in order to salvage the database from this system while buying another system entirely from Deloitte, who built the Connecticut system. Of course, most of the original exchange database software and hardware can simply be converted to the new system to save taxpayers significant start-up costs, right? Wrong:
Some of the hardware that Maryland bought for its system, such as servers, can be salvaged, but the software and coding that are the guts of its online marketplace will be replaced, said the individuals familiar with the decision.
Only some of the hardware will work in a new system? Shouldn't the web portal and database have been designed to be platform-independent? Maryland taxpayers had better brace themselves for another big bill. Maybe this time their money will actually buy a system that works.


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Sony's 2013 portable Bluetooth wireless speaker offerings are pretty varied. At the low end -- or entry level, as companies prefer to describe it -- you have the ball-style SRS-BTV5 ($69). Then there's the purse-style SRS-BTM8, which retails for $99. And finally, at the high end you have the SRS-BTX300 ($199.99) and the SRS-BTX500 ($299.99).
I'm most impressed with the X-series line -- especially the subject of this review, the SRS-BTX500, which has a very slick design and delivers excellent sound for a compact Bluetooth speaker. At around $300, it competes against such products as Bose's SoundLink Bluetooth Mobile Speaker II and the Jawbone Big Jambox and should be on your short list if you're looking for a premium portable Bluetooth speaker.
Design and features
Like a lot of these Bluetooth speakers that don't feature any sort of dock, the SRS-BTX500 has a clean, sleek look, and the speaker is a classic example of Sony's design prowess. If there's a fault, it's that the matte finish on the back scratches pretty easily if you rub it up against a rough or sharp surface. But otherwise it's really nice. It has a bit of brushed metal on the sides and measures 15.1 inches wide and 6 inches tall, and has a depth of 2.5 inches.
I liked how there's a slot for on the back to fit your fingers into when carrying the speaker (it's sort of like a handle without being a handle). And there's a kickstand for propping up the speaker -- it retracts and folds flat when you want to stow the speaker in the included protective neoprene carrying case.
At 4 pounds, 7 ounces, the SRS-BTX500 has some heft to it, and it's probably not something you want to be carrying around in your luggage, though it will certainly fit. The speaker seems better suited to moving from room to room and outside onto the patio. Sure, you can carry it wherever you want, but with its more executive styling I don't see this as a speaker you'd want to bring to the beach.
To add a little flair, Sony's designers equipped the base of the speaker in front with a glowing, thin blue light. There are few buttons on the side of the speaker (power on/off, auxiliary input, sound mode, and pairing mode), as well as a couple on top -- a call end/answer button for speakerphone calls and a volume control -- but overall the design is fairly minimalist.
The notable extras here are the speakerphone capabilities, an integrated USB charging port for juicing up your smartphone -- the AC adapter has to be plugged in for this feature to work -- and NFC pairing for compatible devices.
In case you don't know what NFC (near-field communication) is, it's available in only certain smartphones, including recent Sony Xperia smartphones, as well as the Samsung Galaxy S3, S4, and Galaxy Note 2; here it allows you to tap your phone or tablet on the speaker to automatically pair with it and to disconnect. I don't find that terribly compelling -- it doesn't really save you more than a second or two -- but NFC is a hot feature these days and more companies are adding it to their Bluetooth speakers.
In order for NFC pairing to work, you'll have to first download the free NFC Easy Connect app from the Google Play Store. I loaded it onto a Galaxy S3 and was able to pair without a problem. I had some trouble using NFC pairing with the Sony SRS-BTV5, but it worked flawlessly with this speaker.
I also had no trouble pairing the old-fashioned, non-NFC way with an iPhone 4S and an iPad Mini.


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The Shedd's annual August classic Songbook festival, Oregon Festival of American Music features classic musical theatre, cabaret, and standards-based jazz.
The Emerald City Jazz Kings
The Shedd Institute's resident historic jazz & classic American Songbook ensemble is now in its 22nd season, offering 4 all-new programs each year in Eugene, Florence and Corvallis.
Shedd Classical
The Shedd Institute's classical music series, featuring both self-produced local and national artists. Shedd Classical touches on the full extent of the European art music tradition, with a special interest in the Americas and 20th c.
Shedd Theatricals
Shedd Theatricals offers full, live-orchestra productions of the best of classic Broadway from the 1940s-60s and the fun-loving, witty, and totally sparkling musical comedies of the 1920s and '30s.
Mr. Tom's Magical Moombah!
Mr. Tom's Magical Moombah is a musical vaudeville for kids! Filled with skits, songs and contests, the Moombah introduces youngsters to the great songs that everyone should know!
Now Hear This
The Now Hear This presents 35 to 40 concerts each year in a broad variety of genres from jazz and classical to bluegrass, world music and country, and more.
Shedd Presents
Shedd Presents offers a fascinating mix of special projects by top local artists. It regularly premieres projects that subsequently become permanent ongoing features in the Shedd mix.
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Each year The Shedd Institute welcomes a wide range of concerts and special events presented by other community cultural, educational and social institutions.
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The Shedd Community Music School's home page is the place to start for newcomers to get oriented on what we have to offer currently and throughout the year.
Private Lessons at The Shedd
Interested in private lessons? Over 40 Shedd faculty members offer private lessons in a variety of musical instruments, voice and dance and in different styles. All ages are welcome and lessons can begin any time.
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Music and dance classes are offered on a term-by-term basis and most can be joined in-progress. Also don't miss our summer camps. Follow this link for a list of current and future terms.
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Born in Mexico City, Alejandro Alvarez Mendiola began to study guitar at 13. In high school, he formed a musical group with his friends. Together, they composed their own songs for guitar, cello and diverse Latin American string instruments (charango and cuatro venezolano) and also played regional folkloric music. Beginning in 1978, Alejandro studied classical guitar and cello at the famous National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA). Between 1981 and 1985 he attended the Escuela de Perfeccionamiento "Vida y Movimiento". During this period Alejandro began playing in youth, chamber and symphonic orchestras. He was also an award-winning participant at the International Festival of Chamber Music, held each year in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. There he was coached by Wolfgang Laufer, member of New York's Fine Arts Quartet. Alejandro's most important teachers were Laszlo Frater, principal cellist in one of Mexico's best symphonies, and Alvaro Bitrán, one of the founders of Cuarteto Latinoamericano. Both Frater and Bitrán were taught by world-renowned cellist Janos Starker. 1985 marked the beginning of Alejandro's fulltime career as a professional cellist. Over the course of 28 years, he played in three of the top national symphonies in Mexico: Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México, Orquesta Filarmónica del Bajío de Guanajuato, and Orquesta Filarmónica de Querétaro. Alejandro has been a resident of Eugene since December of 2013.
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"I am convinced that any person is capable of learn an instrument. I teach the different classical techniques for guitar and cello being relaxed and with humor. Playing an instrument is a joy thing, like a game. I used to teach people of any age."
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Alejandro teaches cello, classical guitar, cuatro venezolano, and charagno.
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Monarchs Fifth After Two Days At NIKE Cup Championships
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CHAPEL HILL, NC (Nov. 20) - Old Dominion's men's swimming and diving team currently stands in fifth-place overall at the Nike Cup Swimming and Diving Championships at the University of North Carolina. The #23 Tar Heels lead the event with 776 points, followed by LSU (621), Texas A&M (494.50), Syracuse (257) and Old Dominion (194.50).
The women's team is currently in ninth-place, tied with CAA foe East Carolina with 76 points. The #18 Lady Tar Heels lead the women's event with 910 points, followed by LSU (541), Kentucky (321), U Conn (269) and Syracuse (223).
The Monarchs have been paced by solid individual performances in both swimming and diving and by the Monarch relay teams which have posted several top-10 finishes. Leading the way with the best individual finish is freshman Matt Morrisette (Virginia Beach, VA), who finished third in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 50.05. Senior Jimmy Sullivan (West Palm Beach, FL) finished fifth in the men's 500 free (4:33.30).
The women's team has been paced by freshman freestyle specialist Jamie D'Agostino (Ardsley, NY), whose best performance was a fourth-place finish in the women's 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:58.26.
Kevin Harrison (Bethpage, NY) has posted top-ten's in both the one and three meter diving events, finishing sixth in the one meter (407.05) and eighth in the three meter (407.40). The Monarch relay team of Greg Cardillo (Providence, RI), Mike Coley (Niskayuna, NY), Morrisette and John Sax (Memphis, TN) has finished in fourth-place in the 200-yard free relay (1:25.14) and eighth-place in the 200-yard medley relay (1:34.75), while the team of Morrisette, Mark Guisto (Virginia Beach, VA), Coley and John Wall (Hoover, AL) finished in fourth-place in the 800 free relay (6:57.32).
The event concludes on Saturday night, with finals beginning at 6:30 pm and extending through 10:30 pm.
Men's Standings Through 40 Events 1. North Carolina 776 2. LSU 521 3. Texas A&M 494.50 4. Syracuse 257 5. Old Dominion 194.50 6. Kentucky 132 7. Connecticut 108 8. NC State 83 9. UNC Wilmington 46 10. East Carolina 22 Women's Standings Through 40 Events 1. North Carolina 910 2. LSU 541 3. Kentucky 321 4. Connecticut 269 5. Syracuse 223 6. Richmond 139 7. UNC Wilmington 136 8. NC State 79 9. East Carolina 76 Old Dominion 76 11. Davidson 16


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ESPN helpfully publishes an audio podcast of its popular Pardon The Interruption program daily for viewers who can't find their way to a television at 5:30 p.m. Eastern. Yesterday, though, we received numerous emails alerting us to the bizarre nature of yesterday's podcast. For one, it was more than three and a half hours long instead of the usual 22 minutes; for another, it started with audio of a man talking about brining turkeys and continued with sometimes inaudible, bizarre chatter. (Nine minutes of an Al-Jazeera broadcast and an advertisement for computer security also make an appearance.)
For reasons we're still trying to figure out, that chatter is from the Washington, D.C. studio where ESPN tapes Around The Horn and broadcasts PTI. It allows the listener not only to eavesdrop on what hosts Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon talk about during commercial breaks, but to observe how the production of the program comes together—from debating which side of an argument each co-host will take, to the clever editing of pre-taped interview segments (in this case, with Peter King) to excise anything ESPN doesn't want on-air. At one point, Wilbon drops a "goddamn" and "bullshit."
As of this writing, the full audio file is still in its place and pretending to be the podcast of yesterday's episode. But to save you the hassle of listening to a very, very long audio file, we've broken it down into its best, and occasionally profane or suggestive, moments. Listening to the whole recording is somewhat like those bootlegged tapes from the Beatles' Get Back sessions: long periods of silence punctuated by people saying things that may or may not be interesting. Here's the interesting stuff.
0:00:00-0:13:49: This is audio from The Chew, an ABC cooking show. It's followed by a lot of creepy noises and footsteps that sound like one of those CDs you play outside your house to scare trick-or-treaters.
0:36:00: A female (producer?) remarks on Mitch Albom's having appeared on the network earlier in the day, and calls him "phony sweet."
0:41:33: Kornheiser discusses his upcoming trip to Florida, and complains about the hotel rates at The Breakers.
0:42:30: Peter King and Kornheiser discuss the latter's recent knee surgery.
0:52:50: In the pre-taped "Five Good Minutes" segment, Peter King discusses Jon Gruden's future and remarks that ESPN would be unhappy if he were to leave, having just kicked Ron Jaworski out of the booth. This was edited out of the broadcast on television.
0:55:17: Wilbon rants about how "goddamn offensive players" aren't held responsible during helmet-to-helmet hits for lowering their head, and asks, "What kind of bullshit is that?"
1:09:00: Tony Kornheiser discusses his drinking preferences, and states, "You can drink the cheap stuff so long as you drink the good stuff first."
1:24:45: Tony Reali praises Wilbon's performance during a soccer discussion, to which Wilbon responds, "Soccer blows."
1:34:25: Kornheiser elaborates on hot actresses and plastic surgery, specifically Marlo Thomas.
1:46:30: Reali names some actresses he'd like to see on pay cable, i.e., naked.
There's about 50 minutes of silence after that, followed by nine minutes of Al-Jazeera. After that, 40 more minutes of silence before the Carbonite ad that closes the program.
Less provocative, but interesting, moments include Kornheiser discussing which side he'd take during the Ed Reed debate (revealing the not-so-shocking news that the show's hosts aren't always speaking their actual opinions on the program) and Reali recording what sounds like a patch-in edit for Around The Horn to address the news that Reed's suspension had been lifted—news that arrived after the show was taped, but before it aired. ESPN's been airing its sausage production inadvertently a lot lately, but we can't figure out for the life of us how this file came to be yesterday's podcast episode. If you know anything, drop us a line.


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Citing Data
This page presents Dryad data citation guidelines, as well as some from other repositories and organizations.
Dryad Data Citation Guidelines
Detailed data citation guidelines for Dryad are described in the FAQ. We suggest: When citing data found in Dryad, please cite both the original article, as well as the Dryad data package. Both of these citations are found on the Dryad page for each data package.
Recommendations for formatting the Dryad DOI are to present it with the web prefix http://doi.org. This is described on the Depositing page here. (Note: The "dx" is no longer needed, as of Aug. 2013.)
Data citation practices are actively evolving and vary considerably among journals. Many organizations and guidelines, such as the FORCE11 Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles, the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines, Digital Curation Centre, CrossRef, Springer and BioMed Central, recommend reporting the data both in the text (e.g., within a Methods or a dedicated Data Resources section) and in the References.
An example of how to reference the data in the text would be:
- Data deposited in the Dryad repository: http://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.585t4
An example of a full citation to the Heneghan et al. (2011) data package would be:
- Heneghan C, Thompson M, Billingsley M, Cohen, D (2011) Data from: Medical-device recalls in the UK and the device-regulation process: retrospective review of safety notices and alerts. Dryad Digital Repository. http://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.585t4
Regardless of where the data citations are placed, it is important that the DOI be included. Also note that while this may be written as doi:10.5061/dryad.585t4, the full URL address http://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.585t4 is generally preferred.
Other Standards and Proposals for Data Citation
- Goodman, Laurie, Rebecca Lawrence, and Kevin Ashley. 2012. "Data-set visibility: Cite links to data in reference lists." Nature 492(7429): 356. http://doi.org/10.1038/492356d.
- 2012 blog post from GigaScience on data citation
- How to Cite Datasets and Link to Publications by Alex Ball and Monica Duke, Digital Curation Centre (DCC), 2011.
- Peter Buneman's thoughts on making identifiers citable.
- A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data by Micah Altman and Gary King.
- Summary of article: Citations to numerical data should include, at a minimum, six required components. The first three components are traditional, directly paralleling print documents. They include the author(s) of the data set, the date the data set was published or otherwise made public, and the data set title. The other three are: a unique global identifier, a universal numeric fingerprint, and a bridge service. They are also designed to take advantage of the digital form of quantitative data.
- Sample citation based on minimum recommended components:
- Micah Altman; Karin MacDonald; Michael P. McDonald, 2005, "Computer Use in Redistricting", hdl:1902.1/AMXGCNKCLU UNF:3:J0PkMygLPfIyT1E/8xO/EA== http://id.thedata.org/hdl%3A1902.1%2FAMXGCNKCLU
- Useful comments on versioning: "We recommend versions of the same data set be given new identifiers and treated as separate data sets, with links back to the prior version kept in the metadata describing that data set. Forward links to new versions from the original are easily accomplished via a metadata search on the unique global identifier. New versions of very large data sets (relative to available storage capacity) can be kept by creating a new object that contains only differences from the original, and describing how to combine the differences with the original on the object's metadata description page. Version changes should be reflected by a change in the date, and may also be noted in the title, or by using the extended citation elements."
- We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables - White paper from OECD publishing.
- Advocates a slightly more verbose citation standard than Altman & King. (includes a comparison table for the two standards)
- In the new system being built by OECD, "All the DOIs for the datasets and tables will be deposited with CrossRef, ready for other publishers to use."
- MIT Libraries - Social Science Data Services
- STD-DOI project from the German Science Foundation
- Citation of Data
- Nozawa, Toru (2004): IPCC-DDC_CCSRNIES_SRES_B2: 211 YEARS MONTHLY MEANS, National Institute for Environmental Studies and Center for Climate System Research Japan, WDCC. doi:10.1594/WDCC/CCSRNIES_SRES_B2
- Kamm,H; Machon, L; Donner, S (2004): Gas Chromatography (KTB Field Lab), GFZ Potsdam. doi:10.1594/GFZ/ICDP/KTB/ktb-geoch-gaschr-p
- Stein, R.; Fahl, K. (2003): Distribution of grain size and clay minerals in surface sediments of the Kara Sea, PANGAEA, doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.119754.
- ORNL DAAC users cite both the paper and the dataset.
- Dataverse has a model citation format
- Pangaea:
- From the About page: Each dataset can be identified, shared, published and cited by using a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Data are archived as supplements to publications or as citable data collections. Citations are available through the catalog of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIBORDER).
- There is a statement at the top of most pages: Always quote citation when using data! When looking at a record, the following is listed:
- Citation: Barker, Peter F; Kennett, James P; Shipboard Scientific Party (2005): Core section summary of Hole 113-690C, doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.253771
- Reference(s): Barker, Peter F; Kennett, James P; et al (1988): Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, College Station, Texas (Ocean Drilling Program), 113, 785 pp
ODP/TAMU (2005): Janus Database (data copied from JANUS to PANGAEA February to June 2005), Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77845-9547, USA, http://odp.pangaea.de/database/
- Example: Stein, R.; Fahl, K. (2003): Distribution of grain size and clay minerals in surface sediments of the Kara Sea, PANGAEA, doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.119754.
- Encyclopedia of Life citation recommendations
- Listed example: Hancock, John. 2009. "Xysticus posti: Diagnostic description." Edited by David Shorthouse. In The Nearctic Spider Database. Accessed 15 January 2009, available from Encyclopedia of Life, http://eol.org/pages/1210360.
- NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Data Citation
- Example:
- General form for citing published World Data Center for Paleoclimatology Data: Anderson, D.W., W.L. Prell, and N.J. Barratt. 1989. Estimates of sea surface temperature in the Coral Sea at the last glacial maximum. Paleoceanography 4(6):615-627. Data archived at the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
- Related: Notices when using National Climate Data Center data:
- "Please acknowledge contributors and where appropriate, data cooperatives (e.g. International Tree-Ring Data Bank), when using these data."
- Also offered by NCDC:
- SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Shen, G.T. and E.A. Boyle. 2004.
Lead in Corals Data.
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology
Data Contribution Series #2004-096.
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.
- ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Shen, G.T. and E.A. Boyle. 1987.
Lead in corals: reconstruction of historical industrial fluxes to the surface ocean.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 82: 289-304.
- SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Shen, G.T. and E.A. Boyle. 2004.
- Example:
- U.S. Geological Survey's Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center/NASA's Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC)
- Only request acknowledgement, i.e., "Data available from the U.S. Geological Survey" or "These data are distributed by the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC), located at USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, SD. http://lpdaac.usgs.gov."
- SIMILARLY: the Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center requires a statement like: "The data used in this study were acquired as part of the activities of the NASA Earth-Sun System Division, and are archived and distributed by the Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC)"
- SIMILARLY: PO.DAAC - Crediting PO.DAAC Data Products, Images and Services
- "Please provide acknowledgement of the use of PO.DAAC data products, images, and services in publications or presentations."


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And the Babe of the Month is…Megan Bernard!
Judging from this video, she seems pleased with her victory.
This Babe of the Month competition had an extra babe, making April an even tougher win. Despite the tough odds and the stunning babe competition, the beautiful Megan Bernard swept it, with almost 1/2 of the votes. We can't say we're surprised. She now moves on to battle for Babe of the Year 2013. Think she has a shot? We sure do:
Here's the deal: At the end of the week, each Babe of the Day will compete for your votes and the winner will become Babe of the Week. Each week's winner will then face off to become Babe of the Month, and those winners will then duke it out for – you guessed it – the Babe of the Year title. Only those lucky ladies will be inducted into GuySpeed's Hall of Fame, an honor reserved for the hottest of babes.


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After T. Rowe Price executives recapped last year's highlights at Tuesday's annual meeting, a shareholder raised concerns about the loss of a top money manager, competition from exchange-traded funds and an Obama Administration tax proposal that could dampen Price's retirement business.
President and CEO James A. C. Kennedy said that Kris Jenner, the former manager of T. Rowe Price Health Sciences Fund, left "millions" in deferred compensation on the table by leaving the company in February. Jenner and two Price analysts who left with him plan to launch a hedge fund in Baltimore with a similar investment strategy to the Health Sciences Fund.
Kennedy said the Baltimore-based money manager has considered adding non-compete agreements so employees wouldn't leave and take co-workers or clients with them, but decided it preferred to have its workers serve freely.
Edward Bernard, Price's vice chairman, fielded the question about competition from exchange-traded funds, most of which passively mimic an index. He said passive ETFs have largely replaced passive mutual funds and haven't been a threat to the business of active managers.
Price received approval from regulators last year to launch active exchange-traded funds, whose managers can hand-pick securities. It's unclear when Price would launch them.
"We may at some point. We don't currently have active plans to do it," Bernard said in an interview afterward. One of Price's concerns is that ETFs have greater transparency of their holdings, which can be a drawback for managers who don't want competitors to see their investment ideas, he said. Any Price ETF would not mimic an existing mutual fund, he added.
Price has few clients with large enough retirement accounts to be hit by President Barack Obama's proposal to limit the amount socked away in tax-advantaged retirement accounts to $3 million. Still, Price Chairman Brian Rogers called the policy "insane," because it takes away an incentive for workers to save, especially at a time when the future of pensions and Social Security are in question.
During the meeting, shareholders approved the company's executive compensation and reelected a slate of directors.
At the end of March, Price employed 5,408, an increase of 178 over the previous year. Kennedy noted after the meeting that Price has about 300 open positions and expects to fill most of them this year.
The company also announced a quarterly dividend of 38 cents per share, payable on June 27. Its stock rose $1.30 to close Tuesday at $76.29 a share.


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Figueroa puts Leones in the driver's seat
D-backs right-hander tosses eight shutout innings in Dominican League Finals
Escogido 9, Aguilas 0
D-backs right-hander Nelson Figueroa struck out seven and allowed four hits over eight innings as the Leones took a commanding 3-0 lead in the best-of-9 Championship Series. Jorge Cantu drilled a two-run homer and Mets utility man Jordany Valdespin and Tigers infielder Ramon Santiago also had two RBIs apiece for Escogido. Manny Ramirez accounted for half of the Aguilas' hits. Box score
Puerto Rican Winter League
Mayaguez 2, Caguas 1
Twins prospect Daniel Ortiz and Major League veteran Randy Ruiz hit back-to-back homers in the opening inning and the Indios held on to get within 2-1 in the best-of-7 Championship Series. Mets prospect Randy Fontañez allowed two hits over three innings of scoreless relief to get the win, while Minor League veteran Miguel Abreu drove in the Criollos' lone run with a sacrifice fly. Box score
Mexican Pacific League
Mexicali 12, Guasave 4
Major League veteran Chris Roberson doubled twice, drove in three runs and scored once out of the leadoff spot as the Aguilas won the decisive seventh game of their semifinal series. Jorge Guzman hit a three-run homer and former Angels farmhand Ricky Alvarez contributed two RBIs while falling a triple shy of the cycle for Mexicali, which will face Obregon for the title. Red Sox newcomer Mark Hamilton smacked a three-run homer and Freddy Sandoval added a solo shot for the Algodoñeros. Gameday box score
Venezuelan Winter League
Lara 7, Caracas 4
Robert Perez smacked a three-run homer to cap a four-run first inning as the Cardenales prepped for the Championship Series by handing the Leones their third straight loss. Blue Jays newcomer Luis Jimenez went 2-for-4 with a walk, an RBI and two runs scored for Lara, while Padres infielder Jesus Guzman had two hits, including a solo homer, for Caracas. Gameday box score
Caribes 3, Zulia 2, 11 innings
Cardinals prospect Ildemaro Vargas capped a three-hit day with an RBI single in the 11th inning as the Caribes outlasted the Aguilas. Former Rays farmhand Cesar Suarez chipped in two hits and drove in a run for Anzoategui, which got eight strikeouts over seven innings from Indians right-hander Paolo Espino. Eduardo Perez homered and walked twice for Zulia. Box score


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The Soldier
100% SYNCH Optional Objectives
- Limit Detection time - 0:15
- Prevent snitches from calling reinforcements
- Perform sequential combo kills - 3
After the cutscene, follow Charles around the fort until you reach General Braddock to trigger another cutscene. From there, Haytham and Charles will have to tail Braddock.
LIMIT DETECTION TIME TO 0:15: This means that Haytham must not be spotted by Braddock gang for more than 15 seconds! To avoid this, follow Charles as he hides from corner to corner. Rotate the camera so that you don't lose sight of the patrol. Once Haytham gives the signal ("Now!"), Charles will run up to Braddock to trigger a cutscene.
PREVENT SNITCHES FROM CALLING REINFORCEMENTS: Follow Braddock and Charles to a secluded alleyway to trigger a battle. In the crowd of Redcoats, it's difficult to ID who the snitch is but if you look closely, the snitch is actually the Redcoat drummer! To eliminate him, quickly drop a smoke bomb to stop him (and a few others) and then whack that snitch!
SMOKE BOMB NOTESmoke Bombs are available in Haytham's inventory only during a Replay. If you are just starting the mission for the first time, you need to purchase the Smoke Bombs from the General Store before doing this mission.
PERFORM THREE SEQUENTIAL COMBO KILLS: If you successfully used the smoke bomb tactic, there should still be enough time to use a streak kill on the other incapacitated Redcoats after killing the snitch for the streak kill. After all the Recoats are dead, approach Braddock to complete the mission.
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by Todd Walker
"To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day." Lao Tzu
I use to look at all the preparedness blogs and books and turn green drooling over all the cool stuff these folks say I needed to survive an emergency, SHTF situation, or TEOTWAWKI.
I'd wake up at crazy hours of the night wondering how I'd get my family to safety in an emergency. I still envy some of my self-reliant heroes and heroine. It's addictive. But I've come to realize that only makes me more stupid.
I'm no expert on anything. I'm a self-professed serial multi-tasker. I consider myself the stupidest survivalist on the planet. I've added lots of preparedness knowledge to my brain, but I have to balance my knowledge with wisdom. Taking away things like prepper envy adds wisdom. It's so unwise to envy what many in…
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It is finally time for the My Favorite Things August release! All the new products are now available in the MFT Boutique, but first I hope you'll take our New Product Tour. You never know…you might see something you just can't live without. 😉
I have two cards to share tonight, both using one of my favorites of the new Pure Innocence sets, Picture Perfect.
Is this not one of the cutest concepts ever? She's adorable!
I colored with Copics, then pieced her dress. I used W00 and W1 markers to add the "pleats" to her dress.
One of the Mini Tabs Foursome Die-namics was used for the "smile" tab.
I used a second sentiment on the inside. This was not the sentiment I *wanted* to use, however. One of my hardfast rules of using acrylic stamps is to N-E-V-E-R remove a stamp from the plastic sheet without immediately adhering it to a clear block. (Do you know where this is going?) I pulled the sentiment I wanted to use, set it on my paper, did …something…I don't know what. And when I came back to stamp my sentiment, it was gone. Nowhere to be found. It's stuck to something…somewhere. I was so mad at myself. I wanted to use "You're picture perfect" but now can't…until I order a second set. Grrr… (Still cute though.)
On my second card, I used the same set, the smallest of Traditional Tags and our new Layered Rose Die-namics.
Again, I used Copics to color, then paper-pieced the dress, adding pleats with the same gray markers.
To "hang" the tag, I poked a hole on each side of the frame, inserted string and tied.
Here's a close-up of our pretty Layered Rose. I placed a red die-cut on the bottom of the stack, slightly off center, to help the flower stand out from the same pattern behind. (It's a nifty little trick I often use.)
On the inside, I stamped the little head, minus the frame, along with a sentiment from Pure Innocence All Occasion Sentiments.
Don't forget to head on over to the MFT blog for direct links to more samples using this month's stamp and Die-namics sets!
Thanks for visiting! 🙂
Smile 1: MFT "Picture Perfect" (Pure Innocence) Ink: Memento Tuxedo and Desert Sand Paper: MFT Hot Fudge cardstock, X Press It Blending Card, My Mind's Eye Six by Six "Gnome Sweet Gnome" (6×6) Accessories: Copic markers (E00, E11, BV000, R20, Y21, E31, E33, E35, BG53, W1, W00, BG70), Prismacolor pencils, MFT Mini Tabs Foursome Die-namics, Melissa Frances trim, ribbon. Finished size 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″.
Smile 2: MFT "Picture Perfect" and "All Occasion Sentiments" (Pure Innocence) Ink: Memento Tuxedo Paper: MFT Red Hot cardstock, X Press It Blending Card, My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Things "Lavender" (6×6) Accessories: Copic markers (E00, E11, BV000, R20, Y21, YR14, E35, E40, E41, E50, E51, E31, E33, G21), MFT Traditional Tags STAX and Layered Rose Die-namics, mini pom-pom trim, string, button. Finished size 5″ x 5″.


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Student or Learner
Adding together the numerical values that denote the length of his lifespan in years and minus one times mine, we would get a number bigger than zero.
You indicate that "He is older than I" requires another word, such as "thought." If that were the case, then it would equally be true of "He is older than me."
Of course, that would sound very incorrect. The reality is that "He is older than me" is actually incorrect for that very reason. The sentence requires a subject ("I") and not an object ("me.)
Now, you will hear people use "me" but most people will know it is a colloquialism and not, in fact, grammatically correct.
To many people, both versions sound incorrect. Hence, we would say "He is older than I am."
"He is older than me" is grammatically incorrect? Then most of us are wrong.
He is correct to state that after 'I' there has to be something. He might not know, however, that something is there, actually, that something is understood but has been removed via resort to ellipsis of the whole predicate. The preposition 'than' followed by a pronoun in objective case, on the other hand, makes the sentence complete, he might think with partial, if not full, justification, especially if we take into account that the only minute detail that Nightmare, our indomitable warrior, is missing is the fact that by origin, 'than' is a subordinating conjunction and not a preposition. Even though it is ill-founded, I have to hand it to Nightmare that his logic has its moments.
Same case must be compared in a sentence.
He is older than I.
"He and "I both are Nominative
He is older than me
"He" is nominative while "I " is Accusative.
It actually does become clearer when we consider that the sentence is actually short for "He is older than I am." We can very naturally and correctly drop off the "am." But what if we try to then complete the sentence: "He is older than me"? What word would you use: "am" or "is"? Clearly we can't use either one. The original sentence is simply incorrect.
I'd appreciate your further thoughts on this. You may well have a better command of the language than me.
But your point about what should be taught as being correct on this forum is a good one. Consistency is also always a good thing.
But where is the virtue in teaching that "He is older than me" is wrong when everybody says it? It's similar to the singular "they". If learners are going to actually speak English (rather than just doing grammar exams) they want to know how they should say something.
Since "He is older than me" is accepted by educated people in all major English speaking countries (on present evidence), then this should be considered an exception to the rule, rather than being called "incorrect".
Grammar describes how a language works. Although grammar has a useful prescriptive function, and one that teachers and students should respect, the majority usage of a term such as this makes it idiomatic, and hence not "incorrect".
At least that's my viewpoint.


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This 3 inch 8 ohm member of the PLS family sets a high standard for compact full range drivers intended for applications such as television soundbars and compact music systems. Design features in this family include a damped plastic basket with venting under the spider to aid cooling of the motor, a neodymium magnet motor with copper cap to lower coil inductance, providing low distortion at low frequencies and extended high frequency response. A black anodized aluminum cone is employed on the driver, along with a black anodized aluminum dust cap coupled directly to the voice coil. Additionally, the cones come equipped with special-designed large roll rubber surrounds, which allow for a dynamic linear response to high excursion input signals.
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Brian Dennehy missed the first Saturday night and Sunday afternoon preview performances of "The Iceman Cometh" at the Goodman Theatre.
The Goodman said Sunday that Dennehy had become exhausted and dehydrated following the long technical rehearsals for the show, and was taking the weekend to rest. He is expected to be back for Tuesday night's show. Dennehy's place was taken by his understudy, Tom McElroy.


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If people who have been unemployed for 27 weeks or longer all moved to the same place, the new city would have some 843,000 residents and be the fourth-largest municipality in California -- bigger than San Francisco, smaller than San Jose.
That statistic was unearthed by Michael Bernick of the Milken Institute, a former director of the California Department of Economic Development. In crunching state unemployment data, Bernick found that long-term unemployment (defined by the 27-week figure) has grown far faster than either the unemployment rate itself or measures of under-employment (people who take part-time work involuntarily).
To pull out a couple of figures from Bernick, who published his findings at the web site Fox & Hounds Daily (full disclosure: I'm a contributor there too): In March 2006, 37.5 percent of the unemployed had been unemployed for less than 5 weeks. Only 19.2 percent -- or about 176,000 people then -- were long-term unemployed. In March 2010, those numbers had reversed. Only 19 percent of the unemployed had been without work for less than 5 weeks, and 39 percent had been unemployed for 27 weeks or more.
Why does this matter? In general, the longer people remain unemployed, the less employable they become. Digging out of this recession will require more than the return of jobs. It will require the very difficult task of returning these long-term unemployed into workforce.


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PIMCO is participating in Le Velo Virtuel to raise funds for JDRF.
Set in two velodromes across Australia on 27 July 2019, this first-of-its-kind experience uses cycling and virtual technology to link participants not only to a Stage of the Tour de France, but also to each other. Come and experience the atmosphere of a night cycling event surrounded by music and food as you are cheered on by your team and your supporters whilst raising funds to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs for type 1 diabetes research.


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Free spirit Tea Happiness is org. 27 g, double chamber bag
Happiness is…a cup of tea!
Our five new varieties are pure happiness in the cup. Enchanting fresh designs combined with a beautiful little message for you on each teabag – different teas for different personalities, but all of them bringing harmony to body and soul.


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From floral arrangements to fall feast, the dangers posed to pets around Thanksgiving are as bountiful as the bread stuffing. Even though it is a time for giving thanks for family, friends and four-legged companions, there are a few things every pet owners needs to be aware of, look out for and avoid – no matter how much the pets purr or paw.
In general, pets' stomachs are not accustomed to handle the heavy seasoning we use to cook and prepare our foods. Raw or undercooked turkey may contain salmonella bacteria and fat trimmings or very fatty foods can trigger pancreatitis in dogs and cats. Even if it is just a scrap from the table, it may be enough to cause an upset stomach in our pets, resulting in vomiting or diarrhea.
Some of the foods commonly found on the Thanksgiving menu are dangerous to pets and may result in pet owners giving thanks to a veterinarian rather than for passing the cranberries.
Bones – Many pet owners want to hand over left over bones from the turkey, ham or steak to the dog, but these small bones can become lodged in the throat, stomach, or intestinal tract or break into splinters, causing extensive damage to the stomach and gastro-intestinal tract if swallowed, even puncturing the small intestines.
Dough and Cake Batter – The combination of raw bread dough and the pet's body heat can cause the dough to rise inside the stomach, resulting in vomiting, severe abdominal pain and bloating. The batter used in cakes and pies usually contains raw eggs which could contain salmonella bacteria that may lead to food poisoning.
Onion and Garlic – These ingredients contain sulfides, which are toxic to animals and can cause the destruction of red blood cells, especially in cats, causing Heinz body anemia.
Sage – This, as well as many other herbs, contain essential oils and resins that can cause gastrointestinal upset and central nervous system depression to pets, especially in cats.
Raisins and Grapes – Aside from posing a choking hazard to pets, ingestion of either can cause significant kidney damage.
Walnuts and Macadamia Nuts – These can cause weakness, depression, incoordination, and tremors. In addition, the high fat levels of these nuts may cause pancreatitis in dogs, resulting severe vomiting and diarrhea.
Chocolate – Just like during Halloween, giving your pet chocolate can be toxic, or even fatal, due to a substance called theobromine found in chocolate.
Mushrooms – These can produce damage to a number of internal organs, including kidneys, liver, and the central nervous system. If a dog eats mushrooms, seizures, coma, vomiting, even death can occur.
Chewing Gum and Candy – Many contain Xylitol, an artificial sweetener that can cause a severe drop in blood glucose in dogs and as soon as 30 minutes after ingestion, dogs can begin to show signs of depression, loss of coordination, and seizures. Xylitol may also lead to delayed onset damage to the liver occurring days to weeks after ingestion. Xylitol toxicity in pets may be fatal and requires immediate medical attention.
Beer – Alcohol, especially the hops in beer, can be particularly harmful to dogs, causing intoxication, panting, fever, racing heart, liver damage, even coma, seizures and death.
By remembering to take a few common sense precautions, we can ensure a much happier holiday and be thankful for the continued health of all of our family members.


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Harris Girls' Academy East Dulwich
Academy Specialisms
Health Sciences and Sport
Academy Description
Harris Girls' Academy East Dulwich is an 11-18 school for 1000 girls which opened as an Academy in September 2006. The Academy benefits from a recent £20million investment in new facilities and equipment.
Harris Girls' offers a wide ranging and rigorous curriculum with specialisms in Enterprise and Sport with Health Sciences. The Academy has been recently judged by Ofsted to be 'Outstanding'. The Academy offers a co-educational Post 16 with Harris Boys', together comprising capacity for 400 Sixth Formers.
Academy Ethos
Our motto is 'Aspire, Learn, Succeed'. We want our students to be aspirational; we want them to think about what they want to do with their lives, to explore the world and think about where they fit into it, what they can get from it, and what they can offer as well.
We therefore try to give students as many different experiences and opportunities as we can – to broaden their horizons so that they begin to really understand and engage with different cultures, ideas and countries.
PrincipalCarrie SeniorHarris Girls' Academy East Dulwich
Academy Contact
Homestall Road
London SE22 0NR