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THE DYNAMIC RELATIONSHIP OF EMERGING ADULTHOOD AND SUBSTANCE USE by Nadra Erin Lisha A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PREVENTIVE MEDICINE: HEALTH BEHAVIOR) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Nadra Erin Lisha
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|The present dissertation project examined emerging adulthood in the context of substance use behavior. It is presently recognized that individuals pass through a transitional period between adolescence and young adulthood - "emerging adulthood." Continuation high school youth have demonstrated to show early entry into emerging adulthood-type developmental tasks. The first study examined the psychometric properties of the Inventory of Dimensions of Emerging Adulthood (IDEA) in a population of continuation high school students of Southern California. The IDEA was developed in an attempt to capture the psychosocial attributes of this unique developmental period. A 21-item version of the IDEA was evaluated, and it was determined that the measure was composed of three dimensions and demonstrated high internal consistency. In addition, construct validity was assessed and indicated that the measure, as expected, was correlated with demographic characteristics, risk behaviors, and other psychological measures. It was concluded that the IDEA is a practical instrument for measuring emerging adulthood in at-risk populations. Not every individual experiences emerging in the same fashion; emerging adulthood is characterized by its great heterogeneity. As such, the second study used a shortened 8-item IDEA measure to examine trajectories of emerging adulthood. The items were examined for factorial invariance across three time points of data collection. A shortened 5-item measure was found to be factorially invariant and was used in subsequent analysis. A latent growth curve model analysis indicated a sample that was growing in emerging adulthood status over time. Next, a latent class growth analysis was used to identify distinct trajectories. Three such trajectories were extracted from the data. These latent classes were then examined in terms of baseline characteristics as well as Time 3 behavioral outcomes. Large differences were found at baseline, but appeared to dissipate over the two-year period. These findings are expected to provide valuable implications for drug prevention programs directed at at-risk populations. It appears that this population is entering emerging adulthood earlier than other normative youth. As such, it might be beneficial to target these students earlier for risk behavior prevention efforts. Future research should examine emerging adulthood over a longer period of time, over additional developmental periods, and among diverse populations. If over longer periods of time differential outcomes are exhibited, it might be possible to distinguish these groups based on baseline characteristics, and perhaps to target those with the initial most risky trajectory.
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|THE DYNAMIC RELATIONSHIP OF EMERGING ADULTHOOD AND SUBSTANCE USE by Nadra Erin Lisha A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PREVENTIVE MEDICINE: HEALTH BEHAVIOR) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Nadra Erin Lisha


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I feel like I've been using lots of homemade story cards lately. I sometimes get stuck on something like that when it comes to my lessons. Ah well. It always works great and the kids have fun with it. That's all that matters. Let's slice up this card stock!
Bucket o' crayons? There you are! I'll keep with the color scheme used in the book and use black, brown, and red. Sorry carnation pink and cerulean. Maybe next time!
Whew! That took way less time than fussing with felt, and accomplishes the same thing... perhaps even better than the left would have. I'm more than satisfied with how these story cards turned out.
I'll snip the end off this broken jump rope, and grab some clothespins...
Throw everything in my bag and I'm all ready to go for tomorrow!

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In Class A debut, Appel hurls scoreless start
No. 1 overall Draft pick goes four innings, issues first Minor League walk
The No. 1 overall selection in this year's First-Year Player Draft pitched up to his billing in his Midwest League debut.
Mark Appel, who was selected by Houston and signed soon thereafter, threw four scoreless innings for Class A Quad Cities on Sunday, helping the team beat Dayton, 9-2, in Davenport, Iowa.
Appel had already zoomed through short-season ball and said he didn't see much of a difference in his first shot at full-season competition.
"I think it's pretty similar in regards to talent," Appel told MiLB.com. "In short-season, most are college guys who signed this year, compared to younger guys here in [Class A]. But they're very talented. In regards to differences, it's still baseball. You still have to throw strikes -- that's my focus."
Appel's command had been spotless before his Midwest bow. On Sunday, however, he walked a batter for the first time in three Minor League starts.
"I left some of my off-speed stuff up more than I wanted to, and I missed with some pitches I usually like to see strikeouts on," Appel told MiLB.com. "But considering it was my third start in about seven weeks, I'm not overly concerned about anything."
Appel, a product of Stanford University, will celebrate his 22nd birthday on Monday. With his recent promotion to Quad Cities, he is a teammate of last year's No. 1 overall pick, Carlos Correa, marking the first time consecutive top selections have been on the same Minor League team.
"I think it's cool," Appel told MiLB.com. "Hopefully, it's something for the fans to get excited about. Houston fans can be excited about the future of the Astros. There's talent at the big league level and there's a lot of guys coming up in the next couple years."


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Discussion Timeline
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Mar 18-23rd
Discuss Urban and the SDGs
- 1 Which are the challenges for reaching these goals and targets in your community (city, state, country) ?
- 2 Which are the opportunities for the implementation of these goals and targets in you community (city, state, country) ?
Urban Related SDGS
SDG 6: Clean water and sanitation Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all... »
6.3 By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally
SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable... »
11.b By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, holistic disaster risk management at all levels
Mohammad Faiz Alam said:
Dear All,I would like to thank you all for your partcipation. Many important issues, solutions and local perspectives were brought forward and discussed. They definetly helped me understand things better and I am sure did the same for other who read or will read them. The content from these discussions will be presented to the Forum in a special session. I will try to make sure that as much representation of your views at WWF as possible. regardsFaiz
João Victor Nun... said:
Olá, meu nome é João victor, aluno do CEMTN e estou sendo orientado pelo professor Davi Silva Fagundes
Na minha concepção, a culpa de o Distrito Federal estar enfrentando uma crise hídrica é do governo. Eles já tinham o entendimento de que as barragens do rio Descoberto e a de Santa Maria estavam secando, mas não fizeram nada para impedir que chegassem a niveis alarmantes.
Se o governo brasileiro enfrentasse os problemas assim que detectados, o Brasil seria um ótimo lugar para morar.
Luciano Valadar... said:
Olá meu nome é Luciano sou estudante, eu fazendo diversas pesquisas pude perceber que Aki no DF o índice da criminalidade do so vem aumentando dos últimos anos pra cá. Vou compartilhar experiências de diversas pessoas que aconteceu no decorrer da vida delas aki no DF....Read more
Thaiane said:
A cada dia que se passa surge uma nova invasão em alguma área pública ou ambiental do Distrito Federal, isso vem crescendo a cada ano, cerca de uma taxa de 2,3% a 2,5% segundo o Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e estatística (IBGE). Isso bem causando muitos problemas, tanto para o ambiente e para o governo é ainda dificultam o desenvolvimento urbano, a ocupação do território começar de forma sutil, mas vai se espalhando rapidamente com a ação do grileiros que agem de má fé para obter lucr...Read more
Carlos Henrique... said:
Sou Carlos Henrique Aluno do CEMTN e estou sendo orientado pelo professor Davi Silva Fagundes
Hoje em dia no Distrito Federal temos essa escassez de água por que a população do DF vem aumentando a cada dia e não temos água suficiente para abastecer essa grande população, a falta de chuva criticar e muito no racionamento.
Isso tudo que esta acontecendo hoje no DF é tudo culpa do governo de uma má gestão hídrica e que não soube investir em propagandas para incentivar a população a economiza água de maneira correta.
Maria Eduarda said:
Letícia said:
Olá, sou Letícia, aluna do CEMTN e estou sendo orientada pelo Prof Davi Silva Fagundes.
Na minha concepção o principal motivo do Distrito Federal ter chegado a essa situação de precisar fazer racionamento de água é o crescimento urbano.
A densidade populacional aumentou muito em Brasília, especialmente nas cidades satélites, e a capacidade para fornecer água não acompanhou na mesma proporção.
Tatiany Sousa Alves said:
maria bernardet... said:
Demographic growth and migration will transform metropolitan cities and regions in the next decades and for this it is necessary to better plan public spaces with leisure and greener areas, humanization of public spaces (bridges, crossings, cycle paths) and generate a feeling to the water resources in these areas (recover and preserve), after all the rivers, springs are part of the story of the place as well. As opportunities we will have partnerships with universities and researchs centers, generation of new jobs and new urban planning laws, respecting vocations for tourism, leisure and sports in some areas....Read more
maria bernardet... said:
Demographic growth and migration will transform metropolitan cities and regions in the next decades and for this it is necessary to better plan public spaces with leisure and greener areas, humanization of public spaces (bridges, crossings, cycle paths) and generate a feeling to the water resources in these areas (recover and preserve), after all the rivers, springs are part of the story of the place as well. As opportunities we will have partnerships with universities and researchs centers, generation of new jobs and new urban planning laws, respecting vocations for tourism, leisure and sports in some areas....Read more
Mohammad Faiz Alam said:
Dear All,I would like to thank you all for your partcipation. Many important issues, solutions and local perspectives were brought forward and discussed. They definetly helped me understand things better and I am sure did the same for other who read or will read them. The content from these discussions will be presented to the Forum in a special session. I will try to make sure that as much representation of your views at WWF as possible. regardsFaiz
Davi Silva Fagundes said:
Mohammad Faiz Alam replied:
Davi Silva Fagundes said:
Mohammad Faiz Alam replied:
Thanks Dave Silva,
It is definitely a wonderful initiative, bringing youth to such events and having them activily participate is essential to develop the sense of respnsibility and preparing them to take the lead. I highly appreciate you shared this and I will try my best to bring it in WWF.
EDUARDO PRADO said:
Bah-Clozel said:
Davi Silva Fagundes said:
Mohammad Faiz Alam replied:
Alex Nunes de O... said:
Pergunta fora da temática. Qual será o idioma utilizado durante as sessões e atividades oficiais do Fórum Mundial?Perdoe-me por levantar a questão, mas como nunca participei e desejo muito, gostaria de saber se o Fórum será realizado no todo em inglês, espanhol ou português.
Angelo Lima replied:
Alex Nunes de O... replied:
Mohammad Faiz Alam replied:
Mohammad Faiz Alam said:
Haroldo Cesar F... said:
O Brasil terá neste momento do 8º Fórum Mundial da Água um papel de fundamental importância no aprimoramento das SDGs, pois desde o ano de 1992 com a Rio 92 e em 2012 com a Rio+20 foi definida a agenda do desenvolvimento sustentável, onde dois temas discutidos na época; ("A economia verde no contexto do desenvolvimento sustentável e a erradicação da pobreza"; e ainda "A estrutura institucional para o desenvolvimento sustentável") resultaram na formulação da Lei 12.305/2010 PNRS, que trata legislativamente sobre o gerenciamento dos resíduos sólidos e é tida como uma das leis mais bem elaboradas do planeta....Read more
Mohammad Faiz Alam replied:
Hi Haroldo,
Thanks for the comment. You are right in pointing out that Brazil has largest resources in world but equally important is the distribution within country which might not be equal. Though, I am sure if manage efficiently, it can be sufficient in any part. Brazil with forests also would play a big role in climate action thus it is encouraging to see Brazil government eager to make/amend laws and interested in organising events such as WWF 2018.
Alicia Raffaele said:
Masroor Ahmad replied:
Dear Alicia
Many large countries have one regulator (Brazil) with state/provice wide set ups. Countries also have state level regulators to address diversity and geographic problems. In many countries the concept of multi regulators "water, energy and forest" is also functional to achieve economy of scale. But without regulator I doubt as regulator is like a referee of football match. Imagine Football World Cup final 2018 between Uruguay and Brazil without a referee!!
Masroor Ahmad
Pakistan...Read more
Alicia Raffaele replied:
Dear Masroor,
Of course the regulator is important. What I said that I think is not enough only the regulator, but also have to consider other aspects.
And by the way, I would love that final of Uruguay - Brazil in the 2018 World Cup .... And FIFA considers that the referee is not enough, and maybe the VAR (video arbitration) is implemented ... ..
Montevideo - Uruguay
Masroor Ahmad said:
Mohammad Faiz Alam replied:
Masroor Ahmad replied:
Dear Faiz
Few main reasons
- Politicians don't want to lose control as in many countries "Water" win elections;
- Lack of knowledge about importance of regulator and its function and how it (regulator) can turn table around in their favor;
- Weak or no advocacy on part of development partners who keep on funding projects after projects but with little impetus on "services" and "quality" which are two important functions of regulator.
Masroor Ahmad
Dr.P.S.Navaraj said:
India's role is considered to be crucial in addressing global issues on mitigating climate change,"Systemic thinking is urgently needed to build cities and their infrastructure to increase resilience to cope with the challenges they face. Inda faces huge challenges in their municipalities, from inadequate infrastructure to vulnerability to disaster ris...Read more
Neha Patwardhan said:
Mohammad Faiz Alam replied:
Thanks Neha for your comment. I have also read about some of the good work being done in Pune specially Pimpri-Chinchwad. I have seen the waste segregation but is STP are also being establish and if so, who bears the responsibility of maintaining the quality as it requires expertise ?
Also, does Pune have existing STP capacity to treat waste from city ? As in most of the Indian cities, it is lacking so I am curious to know where pune stands on this aspect and new measures being taken.
Masroor Ahmad replied:
Dear Neha
In addition to Faiz question I think you should also share the some initial results of JNNURM which was great boost to improve municipal services through ULBs and also the "City Ranking" concept which again is a great initiative to infuse a spirit of competition among cities. Thanks
Masroor Ahmad
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Flávio Medeiros... said:
Na cidade em que moro, Caicó, RN, existe uma obra de saneamento que há mais de cinco anos se arrasta a passos de tartaruga, mas acredito que quando chegar a sua conclusão, será solucionado alguns problemas inerentes ao esgotamento sanitário, várias lagoas de captação e de tratamento começarão a funcionar, com isso, melhorará a vida da população municipal e regional, pelo menos em relação a saúde e mais qualidade ambient...Read more
Mohammad Faiz Alam replied:
Thanks Flavio for the comment and sharing the project that is being carried out. Nice to know that innovatinve and active action is being taken foe water pollution which is one area where urbanisation is having a significant impact. Do you have any project website/document to share that can be read by other participant too ?
Haroldo Cesar F... said:
Um dos maiores problemas referentes a água aqui no Brasil esta na má gestão e controle dos poluentes que contaminam os corpos hidricos. A gestão de resíduos urbanos, principalmente a forma de descarte que os municipios adotam que é o aterramento em aterros controlados e lixões tem contribuido para a contaminação e a consequente má qualidade das aguas utilizadas para consumo das pessoas....Read more
Gholam Abbas KAZEMI replied:
Thank you for your reply. It seems to me that you are facing mainly quality related problems in Brazil. Here in Abadan the problem stems from the high quantity of water, namely elevated groundwater levels as mentioned in my initial comment; but it then leads to quality issues. Specifically I am very keen to know about the ways to stop the seepage of seawater into urban areas through subsurface path. If we pump out the groundwater, which is actually intruded seawater, it is then replaced by incoming seawa...Read more
Gholam Abbas KAZEMI said:
Mohammad Faiz Alam replied:
Thanks Gholam for your comment and sharing experience from your region.
I think more cities will face this issues as we enter the era of climate change with rising sea levels so it becomes important to realise, understand and act on it.
I would like to ask if you think integrating SDGs in city/country planning could be one of solving and tackling the issues ? How government sees SDGs ? and what are the challenges involved ?
Gholam Abbas KAZEMI replied:
Dear Faiz,
Thank you for your comment. Of course integrating SDGs is a solution. However the lack of awarness among both government officials and public, the inadequaty of funds, the harshness of geological, topographical and hydrogeological settigs and transboudary issues (because the city I am taking about is located close to border) all complicate the solution and make it difficult. In a foreseable future I do not see much hope of alleviating the issue I raised, i.e. consequences of elevated groundwater level in coastal cities.
Thank you
Madiha Asif said:
Masroor Ahmad replied:
Ms. Madiha
Greetings from Islamabad Pakistan
There is no question on importance of Integrated plans, master plans and plans BUT one has to take the stock that how many plans have seen the light and implemented in letter and spirit. There are, in my opinion, two main reasons, for non-implementation of such plans 1) quality of plans and capacity of institutions to understand and implement these plans 2) political interference. Many plans are non-sensitive to politics and politics and political interference is a reality. So why don't we engage politicians in preparing plans so there is a ownership from top.
happy to discuss more
Masroor Ahmad
Pakistan...Read more
Madiha Asif replied:
Bilal Javed replied:
Hi Madiha,
Glad to see a healthy discussion going on with some wonderful ideas floating around. In my view CSM also requires political will as the people in one way or the other are connected to poiltics and politicians. I have seen motivated communities fail in self-driven initiatives due to lack of the political will. And further adding to Masroor's words "we have played enough of the planning game" lets try the next level "implementation"
Madiha Asif replied:
Hello Mr.Bilal,
Good to hear from you.
Yes i am totally agree with you and Mr. Mansoor. This is right any stakeholder is a part of CSM including politicions. They are very important stakeholder, no doubt. I have also involved in replicating CSM in Lahore's marginalized community through the platform of MUAWIN. In that process, politicions were involved in multiple interventions in their areas but they are still missed in many processes. We really need to realize their importance.
Mohammad Faiz Alam replied:
Thanks Madiha for sharing orangi town story, reading about it gives a good perspective on how stakeholders involvement can make a big difference.
Agreeing with Masroor that we should keep in mind politics and work with politicians rather then shying away from it as they are the elected representatives and their cooperation can go a long way in sustaining the work/developement.
Mohammad Faiz Alam replied:
Thanks Madiha,
I agree that lack of integrated planning is one of the main issues facing developing world and as you said, its more of concern when they have limited resources.
But is any government/state/region in Pakistan looking at SDGs to make their future plans or activities ? As this incorporating SDGs mught be one way of integrating all development activities.
Madiha Asif replied:
Dear Mr.Faiz,
Yes, SDGs are being part of future development projects in Pakistan. Even , SDGs are being taught in academic institutions also. Many government institutions have realized its importance and considering it. But, to achieve these goals, strategies and procedure need to be more focused, intellegent and effective.


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Saints vs. Dolphins: Gameday forecast
If you're heading out to the Dome tonight for the Saints game against the Dolphins, you may want to carry the umbrella.
View Monday afternoon hour-by-hour radar
If you're tailgating, find the poncho because you're going to need it periodically during the late morning and afternoon hours.
A stalled boundary to our west and steady onshore flow will bring scattered showers and an isolated thunderstorm or two.
The most likely time to see some rain will be a window roughly between noon and 5 p.m.
As the rain moves in a brief heavy downpour will be possible, and be sure to safely secure the tent because it could get a little windy if you get caught underneath a bout of heavy rain.
After 5 p.m., whatever rain is in the area will start to wane, and as we near the kickoff time of 7:30 p.m., most of the rain should have diminished except for a few isolated sprinkles.
The same holds true after you leave the Dome with hopefully another check in the Saints' win column.
Chalk talk: Saints vs. Dolphins: How the units stack up
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Police use tear gas on Ferguson crowd protesting unarmed teen's death
FERGUSON, Mo. >> Authorities in a St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black teen was fatally shot by police have used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse a large crowd.
Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson says a group gathered throughout the day Monday at a burned-out convenience store turned rowdy at nightfall.
Jackson said members of the crowd threw rocks at police and gunfire came from the crowd. He says officers used tear gas and by shot "beanbag rounds" meant to stun them.
An Associated Press photographer said police were telling people to go home, but authorities had blocked exit streets off.
Looting and unrest had broken out Sunday following a vigil for 18-year-old Michael Brown, who police said was shot multiple times Saturday after being confronted by an officer.


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In November Alex Groß (http://therightstuff.de/) was in Uganda for holidays and we hijacked him to speak to us on some .NET geek stuff.
In the image above you see Allan Rwakatungu, Jude Opima, Myself and Alex Groß. More pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/malisancube/sets/72157628494938909/
These are some of the topics that were discussed.
[Download] the PowerPoint presentation about his talk on BDD and MSpec.
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Winning three out of five games isn't very hard. Winning three of five twenty times in a row is very hard. That's where the Pirates find themselves after 100 games: 60-40, second best record in baseball. If the team can keep up this pace through the rest of the season they'll win 97 games. If they only win half their games they'll finish with 91 wins. Six wins isn't much of a difference of the course of a baseball season, but it could mean the difference between winning the division or playing in the wild card game. The inescapable truth here is that these Pirates are a very good team this season. Better than we hoped, almost as good as we dreamed.
Jeff Locke takes the mound tonight in Miami. 100 games down, 62 to go. Enjoy the ride.
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If you are a European citizen and travel within Europe you are generally partly covered for health care within the EES agreement.
Some host universities may require you to purchase their own campus insurance. Make sure to verify the conditions of the insurance since it may not cover medical repatriation, which you may have to purchase separately.
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"I can make things happen!" That's what your baby may be figuring out now. Here are some toys and activities to help your six-month-old learn about cause and effect, and encourage other learning through play.
She can sit up with only a little support—or maybe none at all
When he drops something, he looks for it
She enjoys simple games like peek-a-boo or pat-a-cake
He can bang a toy and shout at the same time
She participates in activities that center around her
At around six months, your baby acquires fine motor skills, which leads to the milestone of learning to manipulate fingers. Babies go from grasping with a whole hand to holding small things between thumb and forefinger.
Between six and eight months, your baby's memory develops. He anticipates events based on his past experience. He thinks before he acts. He makes associations. He knows that his toy will make a sound when he drops it.
Research has shown that the first few years of a child's life provide the foundation for future learning.


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Bob Cooper and Landscape Entertainment to Produce Script from Harley Peyton
New York, NY - March 16, 2010 - Syfy has ordered the 90-minute pilot Three Inches from writer Harley Peyton (Twin Peaks) it was announced today by Mark Stern, Executive Vice President of Development for Syfy. The action-adventure/fantasy will be produced by Fox Television Studios and Executive Producer Bob Cooper, whose Landscape Entertainment is producing. J.J. Jamieson heads up television for Landscape Entertainment. Peyton also serves as executive producer.
In Three Inches, professional daydreamer and underachiever, Walter, is struck by lightning, and develops a unique "super" power -- the ability to move any object using just his mind... but only a distance of three inches. He's soon recruited by a covert team of superheroes each gifted with their own extraordinarily ordinary abilities. Together, the unlikely band of heroes proves that "super" is simply a state of mind.
"'Three Inches' is a fun, smart, off-beat spin on the superhero genre. It introduces a new group of crime fighters who possess some imaginative - if not all that super - powers," said Stern. "We look forward to working with Harley, Bob, and Fox Television Studios on this project."
David Madden, executive vice president, Fox Television Studios, said, "We felt there was something special and particularly twisted about this script, both in tone and in its sense of imagination. We could not be more thrilled to be working on it with Syfy."
Harley Peyton was producer and/or writer of more than 20 episodes of David Lynch's groundbreaking television hit Twin Peaks, for which he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for Drama Series (1990). He also wrote the screenplay for Less Than Zero based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. He is currently working on a follow up to the feature film The Thomas Crown Affair.
Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in 95 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. (Syfy. Imagine greater.)


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New elements in HTML 5
Structure and semantics
Recently, the beast came back to life. Three major browser vendors—Apple, Opera, and the Mozilla Foundation—came together as the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WhatWG) to develop an updated and upgraded version of classic HTML. More recently, the W3C took note of these developments and started its own next-generation HTML effort with many of the same members. Eventually, the two efforts will likely be merged. Although many details remain to be argued over, the outlines of the next version of HTML are becoming clear.
This new version of HTML—usually called HTML 5, although it also goes under the
name Web Applications 1.0—would be instantly recognizable to a Web designer frozen in
ice in 1999 and thawed today. There are no namespaces or schemas. Elements don't have to be
closed. Browsers are forgiving of errors. A
p is still a
p, and a
table is still a
At the same time, this proverbial unfrozen caveman Web designer would encounter some new
and confusing elements. Yes, old friends like
div remain, but now HTML includes
footer, and
nav as
code, and
strong are still present, but so
time, and
img and
embed continue to be used, but now there are
video and
audio too. However, closer inspection by the caveman designer would reveal
that these elements aren't that different. Many of them might be things the designer needed
back in 1999 but didn't have. All these new elements are easily learned by simple analogy
with elements the designer already understands. In fact, they're a lot easier to learn than
Ajax or CSS.
Finally, when the caveman fired up the 300MHz laptop running Windows 98 that was also frozen in 1999, they might be astonished to realize that the new pages display fine in Netscape 4 and Windows® Internet Explorer® 5. Sure, the browser wouldn't recognize or do anything with the new elements, but the page still displays, and the content is all there.
That's not a happy coincidence. HTML 5 was explicitly designed to degrade gracefully in browsers that don't support it. The reason is simple: We are all cave people. Browsers now have tabs, CSS, and XmlHttpRequest, but their HTML renderers are stuck in 1999. The Web can't move forward without accounting for the installed base. HTML 5 understands this. It offers real benefits to page authors today while promising even more to page readers tomorrow as browsers are slowly upgraded. With that in mind, let's look at what HTML 5 brings you.
Even well-formed HTML pages are harder to process than they should be because of the lack
of structure. You have to figure out where the section breaks go by analyzing header levels.
Sidebars, footers, headers, navigation menus, main content sections, and individual stories
are marked up by the catch-all
div element. HTML 5 adds new elements to
specifically identify each of these common constructs:
section: A part or chapter in a book, a section in a chapter, or essentially anything that has its own heading in HTML 4
header: The page header shown on the page; not the same as the
footer: The page footer where the fine print goes; the signature in an e-mail message
nav: A collection of links to other pages
article: An independent entry in a blog, magazine, compendium, and so forth
For example, consider a typical blog front page with a header at the top, a footer at the bottom, several entries, a navigation section, and a sidebar, as shown in Listing 1.
Listing 1. A typical blog page today
  <title>Mokka mit Schlag </title>

Mokka mit Schlag

 Spring Comes (and Goes) in Sussex County

Yesterday I joined the Brooklyn Bird Club for our annual trip to Western New Jersey, specifically Hyper Humus, a relatively recently discovered hot spot. It started out as a nice winter morning when we arrived at the site at 7:30 A.M., progressed to Spring around 10:00 A.M., and reached early summer by 10:15.

 But does it count for your life list?

Seems you can now go bird watching via the Internet. I haven't been able to test it out yet (20 user limit apparently) but this is certainly cool. Personally, I can't imagine it replacing actually being out in the field by any small amount. On the other hand, I've always found it quite sad to meet senior birders who are no longer able to hold binoculars steady or get to the park. I can imagine this might be of some interest to them. At least one elderly birder did a big year on TV, after he could no longer get out so much. This certainly tops that.

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Even with proper indenting, it's a fairly confusing mass of nested
divs. In
HTML 5, you can replace these with more direct semantic elements, as shown in Listing 2.
Listing 2. A typical blog page in HTML 5
  <title>Mokka mit Schlag </title>
Mokka mit Schlag

 Spring Comes (and Goes) in Sussex County

Yesterday I joined the Brooklyn Bird Club for our annual trip to Western New Jersey, specifically Hyper Humus, a relatively recently discovered hot spot. It started out as a nice winter morning when we arrived at the site at 7:30 A.M., progressed to Spring around 10:00 A.M., and reached early summer by 10:15.

 But does it count for your life list?

Seems you can now go bird watching via the Internet. I haven't been able to test it out yet (20 user limit apparently) but this is certainly cool. Personally, I can't imagine it replacing actually being out in the field by any small amount. On the other hand, I've always found it quite sad to meet senior birders who are no longer able to hold binoculars steady or get to the park. I can imagine this might be of some interest to them. At least one elderly birder did a big year on TV, after he could no longer get out so much. This certainly tops that.

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divs are needed any more. Rather than using site-specific class
attributes, the meaning of the different sections can be inferred from standard names. This
is especially important for audio, cell-phone, and other nonstandard browsers.
Block semantic elements
As well as the structural elements, HTML 5 adds some purely semantic block-level elements:
I use the first two all the time in articles like this one and in my books. The third I don't use so much myself, but it's common in much written text.
aside element represents a note, a tip, a sidebar, a pullquote, a
parenthetical remark, or something that's just outside the main flow of the narrative. For
example, in developerWorks articles, you often find sidebars encoded as tables, as shown in
Listing 3.
Listing 3. A developerWorks HTML 4 sidebar

.xf-value

 The .xf-value selector used here styles the input field value but not its label. This is actually inconsistent with the current CSS3 draft. The example really should use the ::value pseudo-class instead like so:

input::value { width: 20em; } #ccnumber::value { width: 18em } #zip::value { width: 12em } #state::value { width: 3em }

 However, Firefox doesn't yet support this syntax.

In HTML 5, you can write this much more sensibly, as shown in Listing 4.
Listing 4. A developerWorks HTML 5 sidebar

.xf-value

 The .xf-value selector used here styles the input field value but not its label. This is actually inconsistent with the current CSS3 draft. The example really should use the ::value pseudo-class instead like so:

input::value { width: 20em; } #ccnumber::value { width: 18em } #zip::value { width: 12em } #state::value { width: 3em }

 However, Firefox doesn't yet support this syntax.

The browser can figure out where to put the sidebar, possibly with a little help from CSS.
figure element represents a block-level image, along with a caption. For
example, in many developerWorks articles, you find markup like Listing 5; the results are
shown in Figure 1.
Listing 5. A developerWorks HTML 4 figure
Figure 2. Install Mozilla XForms dialog

Figure 1. Install Mozilla XForms dialog
In HTML 5, you can write this more semantically, as shown in Listing 6.
Listing 6. A developerWorks HTML 5 figure

 <legend>Figure 2. Install Mozilla XForms dialog</legend>

Most important, browsers—especially screen readers—can clearly and unambiguously associate the caption with the picture.
figure element isn't limited to pictures. You can also use it to caption
object, and
embed elements.
dialog element represents a conversation between several people. The HTML
dt element is overloaded to indicate the speaker, and the HTML 5
dd element is overloaded to indicate the speech. This gives reasonable
display even in legacy browsers. Listing 7 shows a bit of famous dialogue from Galileo's
"Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems."
Listing 7. A Galilean dialogue in HTML 5
<dialog>
Simplicius

According to the straight line AF, and not according to the curve, such being already excluded for such a use.

Sagredo

But I should take neither of them, seeing that the straight line AF runs obliquely. I should draw a line perpendicular to CD, for this would seem to me to be the shortest, as well as being unique among the infinite number of longer and unequal ones which may be drawn from the point A to every other point of the opposite line CD.

Salviati

 Your choice and the reason you adduce for it seem to me most excellent. So now we have it that the first dimension is determined by a straight line; the second (namely, breadth) by another straight line, and not only straight, but at right angles to that which determines the length. Thus we have defined the two dimensions of a surface; that is, length and breadth.

 But suppose you had to determine a height—for example, how high this platform is from the pavement down below there. Seeing that from any point in the platform we may draw infinite lines, curved or straight, and all of different lengths, to the infinite points of the pavement below, which of all these lines would you make use of?

 </dialog>
The exact syntax of this element is still being argued over. Some people want to embed
additional nondialogue text (such as stage directions) inside the
element, and others aren't happy with the overloading of
dt and
dd. However, most everyone agrees that some such semantic representation of
dialogue is a good thing, even if they haven't yet agreed on the exact syntax.
Inline semantic elements
HTML 4 has five different inline elements to represent subtly different variations of
computer code:
tt, and
samp. However, it doesn't have any way to indicate such basic qualities as
time, numbers, or sarcasm. HTML 5 aims to rectify this imbalance between techies and normal
writers with several new inline elements.
m element indicates text that is "marked" somehow but not necessarily
emphasized. You can imagine it as being like highlighted passages in a book. The canonical
use case is Google's cached pages. When you follow a link to the cached copy, the search
terms are marked. For example, if you searched for "Egret", then a cached Google page might
be marked up like this:
The Great <m>Egret</m> (also known as the American <m>Egret</m>) is a large white wading bird found worldwide. The Great <m>Egret</m> flies with slow wing beats. The scientific name of the Great <m>Egret</m> is Casmerodius albus.
The name of this element is currently subject to some debate. It might be changed to
mark instead of
m before the spec is released.
time element indicates a specific moment in history, such as 5:35 P.M.,
EST, April 23, 2007. For example,

I am writing this example at <time>5:35 P.M. on April 23rd</time>.

time element helps browsers and others recognize times in HTML pages. It
doesn't require any particular format for the element's content. However, each
time element should have a
datetime attribute that includes the
time in a more machine-recognizable form, like this:

I am writing this example at <time datetime="2007-04-23T17:35:00-05:00">5:35 P.M. on April 23rd</time>.

Machine-readable times are potentially useful for search engines, calendar programs, and the like.
meter element represents a numeric value in a specified range. For
example, you can use it for salaries, percentage of the French electorate that voted for Le
Pen, or test scores. Here, I use
meter to mark up some data I got from a Google
programmer at Software Development 2007:

An entry level programmer in Silicon Valley can expect to start around <meter>$90,000</meter> per year.

meter element helps browsers and other clients recognize amounts
in HTML pages. It doesn't require any particular format for the element's content. However,
meter element can have up to six attributes offering information about
this amount in a more machine-recognizable form:
Each of these should contain a decimal number indicating the relevant range. For example, a final exam grade might be marked up like this:

Your score was <meter value="88.7" min="0" max="100" low="65" high="96" optimum="100">B+</meter>.

This indicates that the student's score was 88.7 out of a possible 100. The lowest possible grade was 0, but the lowest actual grade anyone got was 65. The highest grade anyone got was 96, although of course the ideal score was 100. User agents can display this information using some sort of meter control or give the extra data in a tooltip, but most will probably style it like any other inline element.
progress element represents the state of an ongoing process, like the
progress bar in a graphical user interface (GUI) application. For instance, it can show you
what percentage of a file is downloaded or how far you are into a movie. This progress
control says that a download is 33% complete:

Downloaded: <progress value="1534602" max="4603807">33%</progress>

value attribute shows the current state of the operation. The
max attribute shows the total amount toward which the progress is moving.
Here the element indicates that 1,534,602 bytes out of a total 4,603,807 bytes have been
You can display indefinite progress bars by omitting the
max attribute.
You should use the JavaScript language to dynamically update the progress bar as the operation continues. Statically, this element isn't very interesting.
Embedded media
Video on the Web is booming, but it's almost all proprietary. YouTube uses Flash,
Microsoft uses Windows Media®, and Apple uses QuickTime. Markup that works for
embedding such content in one browser doesn't work in the next. Consequently, the WhatWG has
proposed a new
video element that allows the embedding of arbitrary video
formats. For example, I might embed my QuickTime movie of a Sora in Prospect Park like so:
<video src="//www.cafeaulait.org/birds/sora.mov" />
Whether any one format and codec will be preferred is still under debate. Probably Ogg
Theora support at least will be strongly recommended, if not required. Support for
proprietary formats such as QuickTime and patent-encumbered formats such as MPEG-4 will be
optional. Most likely, the actual formats will be decided in the marketplace, much as GIF,
JPEG, and PNG became the preferred formats for
img elements over contenders
like BMP, X-Bitmap, and JPEG 2000.
A complementary
audio element is also proposed. For example,you might attach
background music to a Web page like this:
<audio src="spacemusic.mp3" autoplay="autoplay" loop="20000" />
autoplay attribute tells the browser to begin playing as soon as the page
is loaded, without waiting for an explicit user request. It then loops 20,000 times before
shutting off (or until the user closes the window or goes to another page). Of course,
browsers can and should offer users the ability to mute and pause embedded media, whether
the page author has done so or not.
Browsers must support the WAV format. Browsers can also support other formats such as MP3 if they like.
Because these elements aren't supported by legacy browsers and can be inaccessible to
blind and deaf users, the
audio and
video elements might contain
additional markup describing the content of the audio and video. This also helps search
engines. Ideally these would be full transcripts of the content of the audio and video. For
example, Listing 8 shows how you might mark up John F. Kennedy's inaugural address.
Listing 8. John F. Kennedy's inaugural address in HTML 5
<audio src="kennedyinauguraladdrees.mp3">
 Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, Reverend Clergy, fellow citizens:

 We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom -- symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning -- signifying renewal, as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.

 The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.

 ...
 </audio>
HTML 5 also goes under the rubric of Web Applications 1.0. Toward that end, several new elements are focused on more interactive experiences for Web pages:
These elements all have the potential to change what is displayed based on user action and choice without loading a new page from the server.
details element represents further information that might not be shown by
default. An optional
legend element can summarize the details. One use for
details is for footnotes and endnotes. For example:
The bill of a Craveri's Murrelet is about 10% thinner than the bill of a Xantus's Murrelet.  <legend>[Sibley, 2000]</legend>
Sibley, David Allen, The Sibley Guide to Birds, (New York: Chanticleer Press, 2000) p. 247

The exact rendering isn't specified. One browser might use a footnote, another an endnote, and a third a tooltip.
details element can have an
open attribute. If it has this
attribute, then the details will be initially shown to the reader. If it doesn't have such
an attribute, then they will be hidden until the user asks for them. In either case, the
user can click an icon or other indicator to show or hide the details.
datagrid element serves the role of a grid control. It's intended for
trees, lists, and tables that can be updated by both the user and scripts. By contrast,
traditional tables are mostly intended for static data.
datagrid gets its initial data from its contents: a
select, or other group of HTML elements. For example, Listing 9 shows a
datagrid that contains a grade sheet. In this example, the datagrid is
populated from a
table. A simpler one-dimensional
datagrid might
be populated by a
select element. If other HTML elements are used, then each
child element becomes a row in the grid.
Listing 9. A grade sheet datagrid
<datagrid>

Jones	Allison	A-	B+	A

Smith	Johnny	A	C+	A

Willis	Sydney	C-	D	F

Wilson	Frank	B-	B+	A

 </datagrid>
What distinguishes this from a regular table is that the user can select rows, columns,
and cells; collapse rows, columns, and cells; edit cells; delete rows, columns, and cells;
sort the grid; and otherwise interact with the data directly in the browser on the client.
The JavaScript code monitors the updates. The
HTMLDataGridElement (Listing 10)
interface is added to the Document Object Model (DOM) to support this.
Listing 10. HTMLDataGridElement
interface HTMLDataGridElement : HTMLElement { attribute DataGridDataProvider data; readonly attribute DataGridSelection selection; attribute boolean multiple; attribute boolean disabled; void updateEverything(); void updateRowsChanged(in RowSpecification row, in unsigned long count); void updateRowsInserted(in RowSpecification row, in unsigned long count); void updateRowsRemoved(in RowSpecification row, in unsigned long count); void updateRowChanged(in RowSpecification row); void updateColumnChanged(in unsigned long column); void updateCellChanged(in RowSpecification row, in unsigned long column); };
The DOM can also be used to load data into the grid dynamically. That is, the datagrid
doesn't have to have children that provide the initial data. Instead, it can be set with
DataGridDataProvider object, as shown in Listing 11. This enables you to load
data from databases, XmlHttpRequest, or anything else JavaScript code can talk to.
Listing 11. DataGridDataProvider
interface DataGridDataProvider { void initialize(in HTMLDataGridElement datagrid); unsigned long getRowCount(in RowSpecification row); unsigned long getChildAtPosition(in RowSpecification parentRow, in unsigned long position); unsigned long getColumnCount(); DOMString getCaptionText(in unsigned long column); void getCaptionClasses(in unsigned long column, in DOMTokenList classes); DOMString getRowImage(in RowSpecification row); HTMLMenuElement getRowMenu(in RowSpecification row); void getRowClasses(in RowSpecification row, in DOMTokenList classes); DOMString getCellData(in RowSpecification row, in unsigned long column); void getCellClasses(in RowSpecification row, in unsigned long column, in DOMTokenList classes); void toggleColumnSortState(in unsigned long column); void setCellCheckedState(in RowSpecification row, in unsigned long column, in long state); void cycleCell(in RowSpecification row, in unsigned long column); void editCell(in RowSpecification row, in unsigned long column, in DOMString data); };
menu and command
menu element has actually been present in HTML since at least version 2.
It was deprecated in HTML 4, but it comes roaring back with new significance in HTML 5. In
HTML 5, a
menu contains
command elements, each of which causes an
immediate action. For example, Listing 12 is a menu that pops up alerts.
Listing 12. HTML 5 menu
<menu> <command onclick="alert('first command')" label="Do 1st Command"/> <command onclick="alert('second command')" label="Do 2nd Command"/> <command onclick="alert('third command')" label="Do 3rd Command"/> </menu>
Commands can also be turned into check boxes with a
attribute. You can turn check boxes into radio buttons by specifying a
radiogroup attribute whose value is the name of the group of mutually
exclusive buttons.
In addition to simple lists of commands, you can use the
menu element to
create a toolbar or pop-up context menu by setting the
type attribute to
toolbar or
popup. For example, Listing 13 shows a toolbar such
as you might find in a blog editor like WordPress. It uses the
icon attribute
to link to button pictures.
Listing 13. HTML 5 toolbar
<menu type="toolbar"> <command onclick="insertTag(buttons, 0);" label="strong" icon="bold.gif"/> <command onclick="insertTag(buttons, 1);" label="em" icon="italic.gif"/> <command onclick="insertLink(buttons, 2);" label="link" icon="link.gif"/> <command onclick="insertTag(buttons, 3);" label="b-quote" icon="blockquote.gif"/> <command onclick="insertTag(buttons, 4);" label="del" icon="del.gif"/> <command onclick="insertTag(buttons, 5);" label="ins" icon="insert.gif"/> <command onclick="insertImage(buttons);" label="img" icon="image.gif"/> <command onclick="insertTag(buttons, 7);" label="ul" icon="bullet.gif"/> <command onclick="insertTag(buttons, 8);" label="ol" icon="number.gif"/> <command onclick="insertTag(buttons, 9);" label="li" icon="item.gif"/> <command onclick="insertTag(buttons, 10);" label="code" icon="code.gif"/> <command onclick="insertTag(buttons, 11);" label="cite" icon="cite.gif"/> <command onclick="insertTag(buttons, 12);" label="abbr" icon="abbr.gif"/> <command onclick="insertTag(buttons, 13);" label="acronym" icon="acronym.gif"/> </menu>
label attribute gives a title for the menu. For example, Listing 14 might
be an Edit menu.
Listing 14. HTML 5 Edit menu
<menu type="popup" label="Edit"> <command onclick="undo()" label="Undo"/> <command onclick="redo()" label="Redo"/> <command onclick="cut()" label="Cut"/> <command onclick="copy()" label="Copy"/> <command onclick="paste()" label="Paste"/> <command onclick="delete()" label="Clear"/> </menu>
Menus can be nested inside other menus to create hierarchical menus.
HTML 5 is part of the future of the Web. Its new elements enable clearer, simpler markup
that makes pages more obvious.
Div and
span still have their
places, but those places are much more restricted than they used to be. Many pages will no
longer need to use them.
Although not all browsers will support these new elements at first, the same has been true
for most elements introduced after HTML was first invented:
object, and many more. Support will come with time. In
the meantime, HTML's must-ignore behavior for unrecognized elements means that users with
legacy browsers will still be able to read HTML 5 pages. They can do so today. Users with
more modern browsers will get an enhanced experience, but no one will be left out.
Eight years is a long time to wait for new features, especially in the fast-moving world of the Web. HTML 5 restores some of the excitement of the early days when Netscape, Microsoft, and others were introducing new elements every other week. At the same time, it takes a much more careful approach to defining these elements so that everyone can use them interoperably. The future looks bright.
Downloadable resources
Related topics
- Web Applications 1.0: Review the current working draft of the HTML 5 specification.
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Read this version, as translated by Stillman Drake and annotated and condensed by S. E. Sciortino.
- Ogg Theora: Try the next-generation open video format.
- IBM certification: Find out how you can become an IBM Certified Developer.
- IBM trial software: Build your next development project with trial software available for download directly from developerWorks.


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Man robbed at gunpoint along Highway 71
When deputies got on scene, they found out the man was robbed at gun point and his truck was gone
Deputies with the Sebastian County Sheriff's Office said they received several reports of a man trying to flag people down here at the Howard Hill Road and Highway 71 South interchange.
When deputies got on scene, they found out the man was robbed at gun point and his truck was gone.
Investigators said it was just after 10:30 p.m. Saturday when deputies made contact with 37-year-old Edgar Scott Barnes of Fort Smith.
Deputies said Barnes was driving south on Highway 71 and saw a woman trying to flag him down.
Barnes pulled over and deputies said the woman ended up pointing a gun at him through the passenger side window.
Deputies said Barnes gave up his truck and $300 to the gun-wielding woman.
According to the report filed by deputies, the woman took off in the truck and possibly stopped on the side of the road to pick someone else up.
Deputies said the stolen truck was a 2006 Dodge Ram pickup.
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Cook the Book: Cuba Libre Brownies
Cooking and baking with cola is a fairly common practice in the South. It's used as a glaze for ham, a braise for brisket, and a not-so-secret ingredient in cola cake. But with a title like The Boozy Baker, it's not a surprise that Lucy Baker adds a little bit of rum to make these Cuba Libre Brownies.
The richess of the cola and rum works exceptionally well with the moist chocolate brownies, which fall on the side of cakey brownies rather than dense, chewy ones. Instead of the white rum called for in the recipe, I used dark rum, since I thought that the richer more caramel flavors would be even better with the cola.
The brownies came out of the oven moist and springy with plenty of rum and cola flavors to compliment the chocolate. But it was the frosting that finished the brownies that really won me over. It was the perfect birthday cake icing kicked up with the heady aroma of rum. Once spread over the brownies, the frosting is finished with lime zest—just like a cuba libre isn't complete without a slice of lime for garnish.
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As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of The Boozy Baker to give away this week.
- Yield:24 brownies
- Rated:
- For the brownies:
- 11/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 10 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 3/4 cup carbonated cola
- 1/4 cup white rum
- For the frosting:
- 1/4 pound (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1/3 cup white rum
- Freshly grated zest of 2 limes
To make the brownies, position a rack in the bottom third of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter a 9x13-inch baking pan or spray it with nonstick spray. Dust with flour and tap out the excess. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and salt.
Place the chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of gently simmering water. Stir constantly until the chocolate is almost melted. Remove the bowl from the heat and stir until the chocolate is completely melted.
In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the melted chocolate and beat until well incorporated, about 2 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary.
With a wooden spoon or a spatula, gently stir the flour mixture into the chocolate mixture just until combined. Gently stir in the cola and the rum; then pour the batter into the prepared pan, smoothing it to the edges.
Bake the brownies until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 35 minutes. Cool the brownies in the pan completely.
To make the frosting, in a large bowl beat the butter, cocoa powder, and rum with an electric mixer until smooth. Slowly add the confectioners' sugar, one cup at a time, beating until incorporated after each addition.
Spread the frosting over the cooled brownies. Sprinkle with the grated lime zest, cut into squares, and serve.
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The import and from-import statements are a constant cause of serious confusion for newcomers to Python. Luckily, once you've figured out what they really do, you'll never have problems with them again.
This note tries to sort out some of the more common issues related to importand from-import and everything.
There are Many Ways to Import a Module
Python provides at least three different ways to import modules. You can use the import statement, the from statement, or the builtin __import__ function. (There are more contrived ways to do this too, but that's outside the scope for this small note.)
Anyway, here's how these statements and functions work:
- import X imports the module X, and creates a reference to that module in the current namespace. Or in other words, after you've run this statement, you can use X.name to refer to things defined in module X.
- from X import * imports the module X, and creates references in the current namespace to all public objects defined by that module (that is, everything that doesn't have a name starting with "_"). Or in other words, after you've run this statement, you can simply use a plain name to refer to things defined in module X. But X itself is not defined, so X.namedoesn't work. And if name was already defined, it is replaced by the new version. And if name in X is changed to point to some other object, your module won't notice.
- from X import a, b, c imports the module X, and creates references in the current namespace to the given objects. Or in other words, you can now use a and b and c in your program.
- Finally, X = __import__('X') works like import X, with the difference that you 1) pass the module name as a string, and 2) explicitly assign it to a variable in your current namespace.
Which Way Should I Use?
Short answer: always use import.
As usual, there are a number of exceptions to this rule:
- The Module Documentation Tells You To Use from-import. The most common example in this category is Tkinter, which is carefully designed to add only the widget classes and related constants to your current namespace. Using import Tkinter only makes your program harder to read; something that is generally a bad idea.
- You're Importing a Package Component. When you need a certain submodule from a package, it's often much more convenient to write from io.drivers import zip than import io.drivers.zip, since the former lets you refer to the module simply as zip instead of its full name. In this case, the from-import statement acts pretty much like a plain import, and there's not much risk for confusion.
- You Don't Know the Module Name Before Execution. In this case, use __import__(module) where module is a Python string. Also see the next item.
- You Know Exactly What You're Doing. If you think you do, just go ahead and use from-import. But think twice before you ask for help 😉
What Does Python Do to Import a Module?
When Python imports a module, it first checks the module registry (sys.modules) to see if the module is already imported. If that's the case, Python uses the existing module object as is.
Otherwise, Python does something like this:
- Create a new, empty module object (this is essentially a dictionary)
- Insert that module object in the sys.modules dictionary
- Load the module code object (if necessary, compile the module first)
- Execute the module code object in the new module's namespace. All variables assigned by the code will be available via the module object.
This means that it's fairly cheap to import an already imported module; Python just has to look the module name up in a dictionary.
Import Gotchas
Using Modules as Scripts
If you run a module as a script (i.e. give its name to the interpreter, rather than importing it), it's loaded under the module name __main__.
If you then import the same module from your program, it's reloaded and reexecuted under its real name. If you're not careful, you may end up doing things twice.
Circular Imports
In Python, things like def, class, and import are statements too.
Modules are executed during import, and new functions and classes won't appear in the module's namespace until the def (or class) statement has been executed.
This has some interesting implications if you're doing recursive imports.
Consider a module X which imports module Y and then defines a function called spam:
# module X import Y def spam(): print "function in module x"
If you import X from your main program, Python will load the code for X and execute it. When Python reaches the import Y statement, it loads the code for Y, and starts executing it instead.
At this time, Python has installed module objects for both X and Y in sys.modules. But X doesn't contain anything yet; the def spam statement hasn't been executed.
Now, if Y imports X (a recursive import), it'll get back a reference to an empty Xmodule object. Any attempt to access the X.spam function on the module level will fail.
# module Y from X import spam # doesn't work: spam isn't defined yet!
Note that you don't have to use from-import to get into trouble:
# module Y import X X.spam() # doesn't work either: spam isn't defined yet!
To fix this, either refactor your program to avoid circular imports (moving stuff to a separate module often helps), or move the imports to the end of the module (in this case, if you move import Y to the end of module X, everything will work just fine).
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CATHERINE GALASSO-VIGORITOSee yourself as God sees you, and you'll be blessed
The air was cool, but with the rising temperatures and the days growing longer, there was plenty of sunlight as I began clearing my flower garden. I looked around, and it was a joy to see the delicate leaf buds on the trees. "It's a natural clock," I thought to myself, telling us that springtime is here.
I slipped on my gardening gloves and first uprooted the old plants and weeds. Over the next hour, with a bag of potting soil next to me, I mulched new life into the tired dirt. Then, I nestled pink and purple pansies into the new soil around a birdbath, and I added an angel garden stone. The vision I had of my garden was coming to life before me.
One hour turned into two hours. And as I toiled, my mind traveled to a story I had once heard. It was about a businessman who was working in his home office. However, every few minutes, his six-year-old son would ask a question and disrupt his chain of thought.
After several interruptions, the man heaved a sigh. After that, he picked up the newspaper on his desk and had a clever thought. He saw that on one of the pages there was a map of the world printed on it. The businessman took the map and ripped it into a few pieces. He looked at his son who was sitting cross-legged on the floor next to him and uttered, "Put this map together."
He slipped it to his son and eagerly, the boy buried his nose in the paper and began putting the pieces together. Yet, in five minutes the boy was finished.
Surprised, the businessman turned to his son and asked, "How did you complete the project so quickly?" The boy answered simply, "There was a picture of a man on the other side. So I turned it over and put the man together. When I got the man right, the world was right," the boy blurted.
How we see ourselves is the way we tend to see the world.
What is the view that you have of yourself? Are you tapping into all of the potential that God has given to you? What have you been conditioned to believe?
Perhaps, you've had some negative events or missed opportunities in your past. And, like weeds in a garden, destructive thoughts can creep into your mind and take root. Then, you might be apt to focus on so-called flaws, weaknesses or mistakes, rather than seeing yourself the way God sees you.
Try this: Hold a small stone in your hand and imagine that the stone has something contained within it that you need to release--a painful past incident, self-doubt, bitterness toward someone, or an unfair or worrisome circumstance. Next, acknowledge the hurt, and cast the stone away. And with it go all those negative feelings.
Do you know that you are valuable? For when your everlasting Father looks at you, He sees you as His masterpiece and His beloved child: "'I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty." (2 Corinthians 6:17-18).
God created you to be unique. There is no one else exactly like you. I'm reminded how my daughter always glances at clothing labels to see where the items are manufactured. The other day, she looked inside her jacket and questioned, "Mom, guess where this was produced?" Promptly, I exclaimed, "The USA!" My daughter replied, "You're right, mom." The label that God has for you says, "Fearfully and wonderfully made." (Psalm 139:14)
You were born and gifted with natural skills, inner resources, and abilities. You're worthy of great things. It's not too late for you to be victorious. Keep trying. You can prevail over challenges. You can achieve your goals and make a difference in the lives of others. Thus, don't allow self-doubt, fears, or a past disappointment to keep you from God's best plan for you.
Some time ago, I received a letter from a woman who, after 25 years, found herself out of work because her job was eliminated. Instead of being bitter and thinking her career was over, she prayed for strength. Then, she asked herself, "What do I really want to do with my vocational life?" In her heart, God gave her the answer.
She described that when she was a teenager, over 40 years ago, she loved music and acting. But, a family member told her to forget that profession. It was a long shot and wouldn't provide any security. So, she didn't pursue her dream and after college, she got 'a real job.'
Now, this woman had another chance. With faith in God and confidence in herself, she decided to follow her long-forgotten dream. Immediately, she started to implement a plan, and in her mind's eye, she saw herself succeeding. When she hit bumps in the road, "I tackled obstacles one at a time," she wrote. Today, she is the proud owner of a theater company, blessing others and thoroughly enjoying her life.
Back at my flower garden, I believe God can speak to us through nature. And in this season of renewal, God is saying to you:
o "I want to take you to new places this year."
o "The right people will be drawn to you and bless your future."
o "You have amazing gifts, so use them to serve others."
o "If you can see your dream fulfilled and work towards it, I will help you accomplish it."
So step forward with a new confidence. See yourself as God sees you, "His treasured possession." (Deuteronomy 7:6) Always show kindness to others and reach forth to your dreams. God's hand is upon you. There are so many possibilities in your future. And if you just look, you'll see the open window before you.


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President Obama voted in person in Chicago yesterday but also showed up later in day virtually on social news aggregation site Reddit to urge stragglers to get to the polls and perform their civic duty.
NATIONAL SECURITY: Obama to compromise on cybersecurity executive order
VIRAL REDDIT: Stiffed waitress receipt on Reddit makes Web rounds
That marked a return to Reddit for Obama, whose Ask Me Anything (AMA) appearance on Reddit in August during which he answered 10 questions in 30 minutes wound up making the site impossible to access for many due to overwhelming traffic.
Tuesday's Reddit visit involved Obama (or a staffer...) posting an item titled "Reddit, this is important," and including a link to guide citizens to find out where to vote in their area.
The post continued: "I want to thank you all again for the reception you gave me in August for my AMA. Good questions. Definitely not bad.
I'm checking in because polls will start closing in this election in just a few hours, and I need you to vote.
Millions of Americans have stepped up in support of this campaign over the last 19 months, and today we decide what the next four years look like -- but only if we show up.
I ask that you go out there and cast your vote, whatever your political persuasion.
You can confirm your polling location here: https://www.barackobama.com/lookup
If you've voted already, don't stop there -- spread the word to your friends, roommates, and neighbors. Think of it as upvoting."
Obama's post received more than 2,300 upvotes, and obviously, things went his way.
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Gaige's ECHO recording journeys continue today with a newly released episode by developer Gearbox Software.
Today's digital journey reveals that Deathtrap got some upgrades: no legs, more hover. But not everyone shares Gaige's love for flying robots with laser beams attached to their friggin' heads.
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What makes a top workplace in the Lehigh Valley? Turns out it's not all about the size of your paycheck.
That's the takeaway from The Morning Call's inaugural Top Workplaces survey, performed in partnership with Philadelphia-based WorkplaceDynamics, an employee survey firm. Of 506 area companies invited, 51 participated in the study. More than 7,000 employees responded, either on paper or online.
The workplaces that received the highest scores from their employees are remarkably diverse. They represent a variety of industries, from manufacturing to health care, and included a college, a boutique hotel and a Presbyterian church.
What these businesses and nonprofit organizations have in common, survey results suggest, is they give their employees a sense of purpose and the feeling that their contributions are truly valued. In the survey's comment section and in subsequent interviews, employees didn't have all that much to say about money. But they were effusive about all the other ways their employers show they care — really care, as corny as that may sound.
"No matter how large we get, you always get the feeling that this is a family company," Roberta Gaines said of her employer, Prudential Patt, White Real Estate of Allentown. "When I win an award, I get a call or an email from the owners, and they remember your birthday."
Jeanine Metzler, an assistant professor of accounting at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem Township, put it this way: "People here really care about me as an individual. … I never worked with a group of people who wanted me to succeed more than they want to themselves."
WorkplaceDynamics' survey asked employees whether they agreed with 19 statements about their workplaces. The statement with the strongest correlation to a high ranking was, I believe this company is going in the right direction. (If employees tended to agree with that statement, they were likely to rate their workplace favorably in other areas too, resulting in an overall high ranking for their workplace.) As the adage goes, everybody loves a winner — and, apparently, especially so when one feels like an important part of that winning effort.
"You aren't looked at as just like a tool to be used," said medical assistant Aaron Harlacher of his work at Advanced Dermatology Associates of Allentown. "You are a valued piece of the puzzle."
Phedra Fishbein, 35, shared similar sentiments about working as the webmaster of Muhlenberg College in Allentown. "It really is just a caring place to work. It is not just a job," she said. "It is not like this strict hierarchy, your opinion is valued. You are not just looked at as, do your job and that's it."
The survey statement with the second-highest correlation to a high ranking was, I feel genuinely appreciated at this company. Of course, making employees feel this way takes more than words. It takes actions, small and large. It takes policies, official and unofficial.
For example, American Bank in South Whitehall Township paid employees whether they reported to work or not after Hurricane Sandy. And Muhlenberg College has extended benefits to same-sex domestic partners.
Last year, WorkplaceDynamics partnered with 32 newspapers and surveyed 1.5 million employees nationwide as part of its research into what environments are best for employees. The Lehigh Valley results were similar to those from elsewhere, according to Denise LaRue, manager of client engagement at WorkplaceDynamics. In other words, people everywhere want to feel as though their workplaces are heading in the right direction. And nowhere is money the main driver of workplace satisfaction. "Everything looks pretty normal," LaRue said, summing up the Valley's profile.
In the comment section of the survey, there was a recurring theme — and it seemed to suggest something noteworthy, if not unique, about this region. Over and over again, employees cited their workplaces' family-friendly ways. The highest-ranked workplaces, it turns out, recognize that many of their employees also are caregivers, and they help them strike the right balance between the two roles.
"I never have to worry that my family will come second," wrote one employee of HindlePower, an Easton company that makes battery chargers. "HindlePower believes in family first. If needed, I can make up any time lost ... to deal with any family or personal matters."
Company owner Bill Hindle explained why he encourages employees to take time off for important family events or emergencies: "The real importance of life is family. …That's where you need to be. …We understand that 100 percent without question."
That so many of the Lehigh Valley's top workplaces would be family-friendly makes perfect sense, considering the region's reputation as a good place to raise a family. Indeed, many professionals settle in the Valley — with its robust economy and relatively low cost of living — precisely because it promises a good balance between work and home life.
Let's face it, if you're married to your job, you're more likely to end up in New York, Philadelphia or some other big city, where you'll be surrounded by plenty of like-minded people. But if your marriage actually involves a spouse, and perhaps offspring as well, then the Lehigh Valley is probably more your speed.
And so it seems for the employee of Bethlehem medical devicemaker OraSure Technologies, who in her survey comments wrote: "My manager is very down to earth [and] lets us put our family first, which is huge to me when it comes to being a working mom. …I am grateful to have a job with a good salary and over six weeks of paid time off."


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Embrace human nature at 3T
MAGNETOM Vida, the first MRI scanner with BioMatrix Technology, embraces human nature at 3T. In addition to the revolutionary technology, MAGNETOM Vida has an all-new magnet and system architecture as well as various revolutionary features to serve the increasing demands in high-end clinical imaging and in clinical research.
Embrace full 3T performance with unparalleled magnet and gradient power
3T MRI is synonymous with high-performance clinical MRI. With 3T MRI, the expectation is to push and redefine the limits of what is possible in diagnostic imaging. MAGNETOM Vida achieves a new level of performance with a completely new magnet and system architecture to support the clinical, operational, and financial requirements MRI is facing today.
An all-new 3T magnet
MAGNETOM Vida comes with an all-new 3T magnet, which provides excellent homogeneity throughout the entire measurement volume and a large Field-of-View of 55 x 55 x 50 cm3. The result: fast examinations with robust and reliable fat saturation throughout the entire imaging volume, which is especially important in abdominal or off-center applications.
A new level of gradient power
With a gradient strength of up to 60/200 simultaneously for up to 25% higher SNR in diffusion weighted imaging, MAGNETOM Vida offers MR research power – but now in a patient-friendly 70 cm setting.
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2Compared to reconstructions with CPU alone.
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ARE YOU FIT to DRIVE an Automobile? (Aug, 1934)
ARE YOU FIT to DRIVE an Automobile?
Modern cars have become engines of destruction in hands of unsafe drivers. Here is the story of what science is doing to rate drivers' abilities and make streets and highways safe.
by JOHN C. HARPER
THIRTY thousand people—one every fifteen minutes—were killed by automobiles in the United States last year.
During the same period 850,000 others were injured—an amazing average of one casualty every thirty seconds of the entire year.
In the hands of the unsafe driver, the modern automobile has become a terrible engine of potential destruction. Speeds of 80 and 90 miles an hour are virtually standard in all present cars; yet a speed only slightly higher—100 miles an hour—was condemned last year by the rules committee of the Indianapolis Speedway as having "gone beyond the physical limitations of the track for safe driving."
Unsafe Drivers Menace Public
Yet despite mounting casualty lists and high speed warnings men and women unfit to drive continue to roar down the highways headed for disaster. Some of these drivers cannot tell red from green; others see two cars where there is only one; still others become panicky and "freeze" when confronted with an emergency.
To halt this senseless slaughter and stem the casualty flood, Dr. Alvah R. Lauer, associate professor of psychology at Iowa State College, has recently perfected a series of tests which determine, with remarkable accuracy, the limits of a motorist's driving ability.
Dr. Lauer's experiments cover every possible contingency. His "driving dozen" tests the motorist's field of vision, depth perception, ocular dominance, glare resistance, color blindness, length of vision, strength of grip, speed of movement, reaction to noise, motor control, nervousness and general manipulation. In forty minutes he can find out as much about the subject's ability to operate an automobile safely as might bo revealed in several years' actual driving.
There is the matter of field of vision, for example. A driver with normal sight may look through the windshield and yet, without changing the focus of his eyes, detect moving objects at either side. This gives him a total field of about 190 degrees, a margin of safety permitting him to watch crossroads and passing drivers. Other motorists, however, have an extremely narrow field, known as "tunnel vision." They see only as much as the normal person might if he were looking through a length of pipe.
Dr. Lauer tests the field by placing a large cardboard protractor in a horizontal position in front of the driver's eyes with the center of the flat edge at the bridge of the nose. While the driver's gaze is focused straight ahead, a pencil is moved along the curved edge of the protractor from front to back until it passes out of the driver's sight. The points of disappearance on either side give the measurement of the field.
The reader can test his own field of vision in a rough way by focusing his eyes on some object directly in front of him and wiggling his fingers at each side of his head. If he can see them when they are well to the side, he can be reasonably sure that his field is about normal. Dr. Lauer's tests have shown that a field of less than 140 degrees is dangerous for the motorist.
Serious crashes await the driver who lacks depth perception. A motorist thus afflicted cannot see depth or distance.
Many people are right or left eyed just as they are right or left handed, although few of them know it.
To test for this failing, Dr. Lauer uses a metal instrument shaped like a flattened cone. The driver looks with both eyes through the large end while the examiner moves a pencil back and forth at the other end. The driver is required to focus on the pencil. If he does this to the right of a center sight on the instrument, his left eye is dominant, and vice versa.
Dr. Lauer uses what is known as a "glare-ometer" to test the driver's resistance to sun and headlight glare. The instrument consists of a light behind a circular, frosted glass and a diffusing lens. In the center of the glass is the word "out" printed plainly on a white background which is impervious to light. As the intensity of the light is increased the probationer is required to say "out" when the word goes out to him.
The Ishihara test is used for color blindness. This consists of a series of circular areas made up of colored dots so arranged that one numeral is read by the normal eye while another is seen by the person suffering from color blindness. Ten per cent of men and one per cent of women drivers are blind to this combination of colors.
Following the examination of vision the driver's strength of grip is tested, an important test because of the power required to hold a car in the road in case of a blowout.