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Senate, House Leaders Introduce Legislative Response to NLRB Ambush Election Rule
Posted on March 27, 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27 – Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN), House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN), today introduced legislation that will protect the rights of workers and employers by rolling back the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) controversial ambush election rule.
"The National Labor Relations Board ought to be an umpire," said Senator Alexander, "but under this administration has lunged so far to the side of union advocacy that they're willing to sacrifice every worker's right to privacy and every employer's right to free speech. Congress must act, first to stop this rule, second to reform this board."
"The Obama NLRB is on a mission to rush union elections that will stifle employers' free speech and cripple workers' free choice," said Chairman Kline. "At a recent meeting with board Chairman Mark Pearce, we laid out our concerns with the proposal and its consequences for workers and job creators. However, it's exceedingly obvious the board is determined to advance this radical scheme no matter the damage inflicted on our nation's workplaces. Congress cannot just stand by and do nothing. The commonsense legislative approach we are proposing today will strengthen the rights workers and employers have enjoyed for decades."
"Republicans have said time and again if there are ways to improve the current union election process, we are more than happy to do that," said Rep. Roe. "Unfortunately, the board's regulatory proposal upends decades of labor policies to fix a problem that doesn't exist. Even more disturbing, it will make workers and their families vulnerable to harassment and intimidation at home or on the jobsite. Our legislation will empower workers to protect their personal privacy and help modernize the election process. This is a win-win for workers that deserves the support of our colleagues."
Background: In February the NLRB proposed sweeping changes to long-standing labor policies in an attempt to speed up union elections. Nearly identical to a rule introduced in 2011, the board's proposal provides employers only seven days to find legal counsel and appear before an NLRB regional officer at a pre-election hearing. During those seven days, employers will have to identify every legal concern or basically forfeit the ability to raise additional concerns during the course of the hearing. The rule also delays answers to important questions, including voter eligibility, until after the election has occurred. Finally, the proposed rule jeopardizes worker privacy by providing employees' names, home and email addresses, work schedules, phone numbers, and other personal information to union organizers.
As a result of these changes, union elections could occur in as few as 10 days, providing employers no time to communicate with their employees and undermining the ability of workers to make an informed decision, and worker privacy will be compromised. The legislative response proposed by Senator Alexander, Chairman Kline, and Representative Roe would:
To learn more about the legislation introduced in the House, click here.
To learn more about the legislation introduced in the Senate, click here.


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The variable star T Tauri was discovered on an October night in 1852 by John Russell Hind. Hind, a noted asteroid hunter, is credited with having discovered 11 minor planets, as well as Nova Ophiuchi 1848 and R Leporis (also known as Hind's Crimson Star). On this particular night, however, while scanning the sky with his telescope through the Pleiades and in the direction of the Hyades, Hind spotted a tenth magnitude star that was missing from the charts that he was using. The missing star, as it turns out, was the variable now known as T Tauri - the third variable to be discovered in the constellation of Taurus.
|Hind's Nebula can clearly be seen as the ghostly figure to the west of T Tauri in this STScI Digitized Sky Survey [1] image.
Observers have since found that T Tauri is not the only interesting object in the area. Not far from T Tauri is Hind's Nebula (NGC 1555), a reflection nebula that is illuminated by its variable neighbor. As a result, the brightness of the nebulosity varies with changing illumination given by the star itself. The nebula was observable between 1852 and 1861, but then began to fade from view. Only faint traces of the nebula were visible with the largest telescopes of the time up until the mid-1860s, and by 1868 it disappeared completely from telescopic view. The nebula was not seen again until 1890 when it was observed by E.E. Barnard and S.W. Burnham. It again vanished, but traces were seen only with photographic means in 1899. In 1920, the phantom nebula began to again brighten gradually. The nebula has steadily brightened since the 1930s, but still remains a challange for many to observe.
Then in 1890, nearly 40 years after the discovery of T Tauri, Shelburn Wesley Burnham found that T Tauri itself is situated within a very small nebula. At the time, T Tauri had been feebly shining at 14th magnitude - at the limit of most telescopes of the time. The condensed nebula appeared to be about 4 arcseconds in size in its longest dimension. T Tauri has been brighter than 10th magnitude since the early 20th century making this feature near impossible to detect. Burnham's Nebula, as it has come to be called, can be detected in an overexposed image of the star as a bulge extending about 10 arcseconds from the variable. Unlike NGC 1555, Burham's nebula is not believed to be a reflection nebula.
|Click image to enlarge. This image of Herbig-Haro (HH) object 30 shows a disk and jet of a newborn star. This type of scenario may be similar to what happened with our own Sun and solar system during formation. Image credit: A. Watson (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), K. Stapelfeldt (JPL), J. Krist and C. Burrows (ESA/STScI), and NASA.
Scanning the sky just 30 arcseconds west of the brightest point in Hind's nebula we find another interesting object: a filament or jet known as a Herbig-Haro object. Jets of such type are commonly linked with "young, mass-ejecting stars." Although these objects are mainly detectable in the infrared, those from which visible spectra can be obtained suggest that the source star could be a very active T Tauri star.
So far we have the variable star T Tauri positioned in the constellation of Taurus, not far from the Pleaides open star cluster, but closer to the star cluster of the Hyades, near a Herbig-Haro object, next to a reflection nebula, and enshrouded in a smaller nebula. But wait, there's more...
In 1981 it was discovered that T Tauri has a companion star. Through use of the Very Large Array it was found that the companion, which makes itself visible in the infrared, sits somewhere between 0.5 to 0.7 arcseconds south of the visible mate. Thus, the optical star is refered to as T Tau N and the infrared companion as T Tau S. Further research has revealed that T Tauri may in fact be a triple system.
Interest in T Tauri-type stars is peaked even further since they have been found to represent a very early stage in the the process of stellar evolution. As such, they are commonly surrounded by a dusty disk that could conceivably harbor a nascent planetary system and may provide clues into the formation of our own solar system!
|Click image to enlarge. This ROSAT-based image shows several hundred new T Tauri stars that have been found. This surprising result has shown that T Tauri stars may be found outside of regions with continuing star formation. It is believed that perhaps these stars have been ejected from their birthplaces or that the clouds that they formed from may have already dissipated. Image credit: ROSAT and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. [4]
T Tauri stars are named for the prototype of the class, T Tauri. These objects are pre-main sequence stars and have recently emerged from the opaque envelope of stellar formation. Having recently coalesced from their dusty and gaseous surroundings, these stars now become visible at optical wavelengths. The clouds of dust and gas that condense are composed of mainly Hydrogen, some Helium, and some other trace elements. The clouds also contain small amounts of Lithium which is usually destroyed as the star evolves to the main sequence stage of life. Hence, Lithium is often an indicator of stellar youth. This spectral feature is seen in the atmospheres of the T Tauri stars, which implies, in the astronomical sense, that T Tauri stars are a young, low-mass stars that are contracting as they evolve toward the main sequence stage of stellar evolution. These stars often have large protoplanetary accretion disks left over from stellar formation. The general belief is that T Tauri stars are newly forming stars in the galaxy and may be growing in size through accretion. Brightness changes detected in these stars are not due to evolutionary effects, per se, but may be due to such processes as instabilities in the disk, violent activity in the atmosphere of the star, and may also be due in part to moving clouds of dust and gas from which they were conceived. "Stars with masses roughly 0.2 to three times the Sun's and with ages 100,000 to 1,000,000 years typify the T Tauri regime" (Cohen 1981).
Many of the T Tauri stars are found to reside in or near areas that are hidden by the Milky Way clouds. "We now know why this is so: those stars were born in those dark clouds, within the last 10 million years or so, and there has not been enough time for them to move very far from their birthplaces" (Herbing 1987). The Taurus-Auriga dark cloud is a known hot-bed of such stars.
Our own Sun presumably passed through the T Tauri stage some 4 1/2 billion years ago. Therefore, these stars may be able to offer us a peek into the evolution of our own Sun, solar system, as well as other planetary systems.
|The above images [6] show bubbles of emerging gas leaving the young XZ Tauri binary star system (of T Tauri type) that resides in the Taurus star forming region. Studies of such areas could give astronomers a glimpse into the development of these systems. Image credit: J. Krist (STScI) [7], the WFPC2 [8] Science Team, and NASA [9].
Unlike many other types of variable stars, classification of T Tauri variables cannot be based upon their lightcurves. The behavior of these young stars is just too erratic as found by Alfred Joy in 1945: "The variations in light of the T Tauri stars are so irregular and unpredictable that classification by means of their lightcurves is practically impossible. Thus far, observations have been insufficient to determine definite sequences of light changes which are uniquely characteristic of the group." The belief still holds true today since the lightcurves of T Tauri stars continue to show variability over a wide range of amplitudes and durations.
Based on historical records, the behavior of T Tauri varied irregularly between 9.3 and 14 between 1864 and 1916, with a deep minimum between 1888 and 1891 (Isles 1997). During this time, the deep minimum resembled the lightcurves of the R Coronae Borealis [10] stars. In 1916, AAVSO observers began monitoring this curious star and have been diligently watching it ever since. The long-term lightcurve of T Tauri (see the AAVSO Lightcurve Generator [11]) shows that variability takes place over several time scales. The overall long-term trend shows that the star brightened a bit in 1967, followed by a slight dip, with a return to the brighter state in 1984. On a short-term basis, the star varies by a few tenths on nearly a daily basis and without any discernable pattern. Currently the star can be found flip-flopping between magnitude 9.3 and 10.7.
|The above plot shows a typical 200-day oscillatory interval of the variable T Tauri, as taken from the AAVSO International Database [12]. The plot is based upon one-day means, and lines connecting the observations have been added as a visual aid.
Just when one thinks that there seems to be order within the disorder of the lightcurves, a non-conformist arises from the mix. One curious T Tauri-type star worthy of mentioning is that of VY Tauri. Herbig notes that this variable is "an odd variety of T Tauri star, having a lightcurve rather like SS Cygni at first glance, but with maxima from one to many years apart: a very interesting object." Who really knows what these young stars will be up to next?
Since T Tauri-like stars cannot be classified based on their lightcurves, astronomers have scrambled to find a common link between these unusual stars. In 1945, Alfred Joy was the first to systematically study and categorize these stars. The common denominator, he found, is their peculiar spectra. He chose T Tauri to be the protoype of the class since "it is best known, is among the brightest, and represents the group with respect to both emission and absorption spectra." Up to this point, these stars had been classified as irregular variables. Hundreds of T Tau stars are now known, and have been mainly found through spectroscopic searches.
In Joy's 1945 paper, he states the following:
"Eleven irregular variable stars have been observed whose physical characteristics seem much alike and yet are sufficiently different from other known classes of variables to warrant the recognition of a new type of variable stars whose prototype is T Tauri. The distinctive characteristics are: (1) irregular light-variations of about 3 mag. (2) spectral type F5-G5 with emission lines resembling the solar chromosphere, (3) low luminosity, and (4) association with dark or bright nebulosity...They are situated in or near the Milky Way dark clouds in the direction either of the center of the anticenter of the galaxy...Although little or nothing is known as to the cause of the light-variations, characteristics 1-4 are probably physically interrelated and together form a distinct stellar type which may be readily recognized. These stars differ from other known variables, especially in their low luminosity and high in the intensity of bright H and K in their spectra. The well-known variable T Tauri is one of the brightest stars of the group and may properly be considered as the prototype, although there are marked differences among the stars and no two are exactly alike."
Herbig later refined Joy's criteria on the spectroscopic basis which included emission lines of H and K, as well as CaII, the FeI lines of 4036 Å and 4132 Å, the [SII] lines of 4068 Å and 4076 Å, and also with Lithium in the absorption spectra (Kuhi and Cram 1989). With Lithium, again, being an indicator of stellar youth.
T Tauri stars can further be divided into two types and are based on spectroscopic characteristics that arise from their disk properties: the classic T Tauri and weak T Tauri stars. Classical T Tauri stars possess extensive disks that result in strong emission lines in their spectra. Weak-lined T Tauri stars are surrounded by a disk that is very weak or no longer in existence. The weak T Tauri stars are of particular interest since they provide astronomers with a look at early stages of stellar evolution unincumbered by nebulous material. Where has the disk material gone? Perhaps into planetesimals, which could collide together to form planets.
The small group of stars named after the FU Orionis prototype are also very interesting. First classified as a slow nova in 1939 when it emerged from a small dark cloud not too far from Betelgeuse, it is now believed that the activity of FU Orionis (and similar stars) is related to the T Tauri variables. While T Tauri variations may result from instabilities within and interactions with the surrouding accretion disk, FU Orionis (also known as FUors) activity results from a dramatic increase in instability and the dumping of large amounts of matter on the accompanying star (Kaler 1999). "Roughly half of the 11 commonly accepted FUors have been observed to rise 3-5 magnitudes in optical or near-IR brightness on timescales of 1-10 yr" (Kenyon et al. 2000). The remaining half show some additional features including association with optical jets and HH objects. It is speculated that perhaps all T Tauri stars probably go through FU Orionis-type behavior one or more times in their development (Herbig 1987).
|Click image to enlarge. Image credit: Jerry Lodriguss [14]
T Tauri's location can be found relatively easily in the night sky. Starting from the Pleides then jumping to the "V"-shape feature of the Hyades, T Tauri is located near epsilon Tauri - the star that forms the opening of the "V" figure with the bright star Aldebaran. Magnitude estimates can then be made with AAVSO star charts [15].
Given T Tauri's unpredictable state, observers should plan to observe T Tauri and alike once a week.
Good observing!
This month's Variable Star of the Month was prepared by Kerri Malatesta, AAVSO Technical Assistant.
[1] http://archive.stsci.edu/dss/
[2] https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1999/news-1999-05.html
[3] http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/gallery/stars_ttauri.html
[4] http://www.mpe.mpg.de/
[5] http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/2000/32/content/4x5aw.jpg
[6] https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0032b/
[7] http://www.stsci.edu/top.html
[8] http://www.stsci.edu/instruments/wfpc2/wfpc2_top.html
[9] http://www.nasa.gov/
[10] http://www.aavso.org/vsots_rcrb
[11] http://www.aavso.org/LCGv2
[12] http://www.aavso.org/aavso-international-database-aid
[13] http://www.aavso.org/sites/default/files/images/m45.jpg
[14] http://www.astropix.com/
[15] http://www.aavso.org/vsp
[16] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987JAVSO..16....1H/abstract
[17] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1945ApJ...102..168J/abstract
[18] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/308515
[19] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19900009028.pdf
[20] http://www.aavso.org/category/tags/vsots
[21] http://www.aavso.org/category/tags/t-tau

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Just a quick note: the best way to buy your MotionPlus hardware is to get a game with it: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 adds the peripheral for only $10 over the normal cost of the game. If you'd like to equip multiple controllers with the hardware, just keep one thing in mind: don't buy at GameStop.
The hardware should cost you just $20; Nintendo has the peripheral listed as having a suggested retail price of $19.99. Of course, that's just a suggestion, and as you can see GameStop has decide to ignore that suggestion and sell the MotionPlus for $25. No real reason, just a nice chance to puff up the margin on the sale.
Every other major retail seems to be selling it for the "correct" price, so just keep your eyes open when buying. No need to blow an extra $5 if you don't need to.


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MINNEAPOLIS — Members of Minnesota's sizeable Liberian community say an Ebola outbreak that has killed hundreds of people in West Africa, including a local woman's husband, has them worrying about relatives and scrambling to raise money to help prevent the virus from spreading.
Minnesota Department of Health officials met with West African community leaders Monday in Brooklyn Park to try to address concerns.
"It is killing people like crazy," said Prudence McCabe, of Brooklyn Park. "Everyone is trying to call family members … we are trying to send money right away. … All we can do is pray and be helpful."
There have been no confirmed cases of Ebola in the U.S. But there has been much anxiety in Minnesota after Nigerian health officials reported Friday that Liberian government official Patrick Sawyer died from the disease after traveling from Liberia. Sawyer's wife and children live in suburban Minneapolis, said Zubah Kpanaku, board chairman for the Organization of Liberians in Minnesota, who knows the family.
Patrick Sawyer had planned to come home for two of his three daughters' birthdays next month, his wife, Decontee Sawyer, told KSTP-TV in Minnesota.
"It's a global problem because Patrick could have easily come home with Ebola, easy," Decontee Sawyer said. The Associated Press left phone and email messages for Decontee Sawyer on Monday.
Minnesota is home to about 17 percent of Liberians in the U.S. The Census Bureau estimates there are between 6,000 and 10,000 people with Liberian ancestry in the state, according to data gathered between 2010 and 2012.
The Minnesota Department of Health said officials are providing information to health providers, West African community members and local West African media. At Monday's meeting, officials discussed more community meetings and said they would take out advertisements promoting travel safety and when to seek medical attention.
Asked what visitors from West Africa should do if they become sick, Dr. Aaron DeVries, medical director of the health department's infectious diseases division, said they should go to their regular doctor.
"The majority of the time, in fact, almost always, it will be another problem that needs addressing — not Ebola," he said.
Sakui Malakpa, a professor at the University of Toledo, Ohio, said he has a ticket to travel to Liberia Aug. 12, but is considering postponing his trip.
"My children are especially concerned," he said. "All of us Liberians are very, very worried about people, because this stuff is so infectious and it's very deadly. … The last thing we want is for people here to be worried about us going there."
Kpanaku said his wife is currently in Liberia, helping build a house for family. He said she is a registered nurse, so knows how to protect herself, but she still may try to come back to Minnesota sooner than planned.
Community members say they raised more than $700 during the weekend. Kpanaku said the money may go toward masks, gloves and other supplies that will help prevent people from getting infected, or it could be used to help another group transport supplies they already have collected. More fundraisers are being discussed.
Bea Wilson, president of the Organization of Liberian Women in Minnesota, said she's advising her family members in Liberia to use proper hand-washing techniques and avoid hugging or getting close to people.
"Everybody is affected. Everybody's got families there," she said, adding: "We are all afraid."
Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2014/07/28/3571730/liberians-in-minnesota-worry-about.html#storylink=cpy


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We applied as an organisation to take part in the Google Summer of Code program, but got rejected mainly due to the project name. As this was not the first time people where uncomfortable with the name, we renamed the project – buzztard is now called buzztrax. The homepage with the wiki and wordpress already got moved. The renamed codebase is online at github. The mailing lists have been migrated to buzztrax.org. A few things still need to be fixed (e.g. file releases).
Besides the renaming there are also some improvements on the code side. I am probably the last one to discover the g_signal_handlers_disconnect_by_* macros. Using these made the code a bit leaner. I also worked on the level-meter features. I did some cleanups on the widget. The syncing code is more efficient as we listen to sync-messages on the gstreamer side to avoid another thread round trip. Song rendering can disabled the level-meters for less noise on the screen and some performance savings. The song-rendering now uses the TOC support in gstreamer-1.0. That means that the labels of a song (intro, chorus, break, …) will end up in wav and flac files right now. When other formats support toc, this will automatically work for those formats too. The flag in ogg muxing got fixed in upstream and now works for us again.
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I am not very good at eating vegetables. I'm just not a fan. BUT I'm doing weight watchers and most veggies are zero points. Which means – I can eat all of them I want to, until I'm full, with no guilt! So, I need to find some more creative ways that make vegetables taste better without using fatty dips.
At one of my weight watcher meetings someone mentioned roast vegetables and I thought I'd try it – and it was so worth it!
Preheat the oven to 350-degrees.
All you do is cut up whatever vegetables you have (I happened to have cauliflower, broccoli and snap peas in my frig) put them in a bag or a sealable container. Add enough olive oil to coat the vegetables and whatever seasoning you want (salt, garlic, etc). Seal the container and shake the veggies in the oil and seasoning so they're evenly coated.
Put the veggies in a roasting pan, with the lid off bake for 45-minutes. Remove and Enjoy! This was seriously a treat!
Later I'll give you a great way to use whatever veggies you have left to make a delicious soup!
OPERATION Fruits and Vegetables
I spent my morning representing farmers on the 'Farm To School Advisory Committee' As I listened to the different groups reporting in to all the work that is being done to not only get our locally grown and produced food into the schools, but also making sure the kids EAT the food I had a realization. These kids NEED to be exposed to more fruits and vegetables at home – at as young of an age as possible.
We really need to expose our children to fruits and vegetables in the home. One of the study's showed that students who already had at least a year of the 'farm to school' program under their belt were more likely to take the fruit and/or vegetable and try it than the schools just starting with the program. This says to me that if we can familiarize our children to fruits and vegetables before they are in the lunch line, afraid to try something they aren't sure thy like. And I don't mean just feeding them the same old broccoli, cauliflower, beans and potatoes. I mean we need to expose them to all kinds of fruits and vegetables, in all different forms, and cooked differently. Maybe then when they see it in line they won't be afraid to try it – heck, they might be excited to try it.
Yes, it's winter here in Wisconsin so fresh fruits and veggies are not plentiful. But, let's work with what we have. Let's find ways to eat more healthfully year round. I'll be the first to admit – I'm not an adventurous eater, not a huge fan of fruits and vegetables – but I am trying. And I plan on continuing to try, to experiment and show my kids that eating fruits and vegetables is just as satisfying as eating sweets.
But I need YOUR help! Do you have a favorite way to prepare a fruit or vegetable? A great recipe you want to share with us? And I'm not necessarily asking how you 'hide' these things in your kids food so they don't know they're eating it.
I (and Diane) will be sharing our findings with you in the weeks and months to come and hopefully I'll be able to share some of your stories as well! And even if we can get a kid to discover one new fruit or vegetable that they actually like – well, I will consider that a success!
2012 Fifth Annual Valentine's Craftacular – TOMORROW!
I'll be vending at the 5th Annual Valentine Craftacular at the East Side Club in Madison, WI tomorrow from 10 to 4. Please stop by to visit me if you're in the area!1. Swarvoski Heart Hoop Earrings, 2. 'Paper' Doll Cowboys - Interactive, Dress UP, 3. Matryoshka Worry Dolls, 4. Braided Hand-Dyed Fabric Memory Wire Bracelets Created with fd's Flickr Toys
Above is a sneak peak of a few of the new items I've created for the show. I will also have my candy drop jewelry, flower jewelry, typewriter rings, a few quilts, some fun hair accessories, apple butter, NEW Chocolate Raspberry Topping and MORE!
Hope to see you tomorrow!


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Silly question - why reweld when bending blanks is so much easier? Awesome project though. I haven't done an AK build before so A+. I did always wonder about this sort of thing on sheet metal receivers.
because when this started there were VERY few or NO receivers for these guns. This was done to make building available on the cheap kits. Then as more people started dong it they liked the history and keeping all the markings of the original guns.
Stamped receivers are for stamped guns and reweld is for milled guns. just my thoughts.
What are the measurements and grade of steel for those plates that you used for the reweld on the yugo m70 type rifle? I would love to not pay 300 bucks for a new milled reciever.Or can I purchase the plates from you?
is the (remove) bit part of your email address?
No, use everthing but that
Great job, looks a lot of work.
I was wunderin how they used the plates, cool
VZ58's plates, and tutorial are GTG.
Thanks again for the tutorial VZ58, and also for making the plates available to us guys that want to re-weld milled receivers.
My Yugo M-70 that I used your plates on is by far my favorite AK build (and there have been many).


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Emmy-award winning reporter Amy Davis is passionate about helping people.
Her persistent pursuit of justice has landed scam artists in prison, changed state laws and city ordinances, and has resulted in businesses refunding thousands of dollars owed to customers who couldn't otherwise get their money.
Amy is a native Houstonian and thinks it's pretty cool that she lives just miles from the hospital where she was born. She attended Aldine Senior High School and the University of Houston, where she majored in Journalism and received a minor in Political Science.
Amy is a long-time member of Investigative Reporters & Editors.
Her investigations have won accolades and honors from the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters, Society of Professional Journalists, the Houston Press Club, the Harris County Medical Society and the Lone Star Emmy Chapter.
After Amy started her TV news career as an intern at KPRC 2 News, she went on to work as an anchor and reporter in Beaumont, Asheville, North Carolina, and San Antonio before she came back home to KPRC 2 in May 2005.
People always ask Amy if she has a favorite story. Actually, she has two.
While in Beaumont, Amy reported on racial discrimination at a small town swim club. Her investigation got the attention of the Justice Department, which promptly closed the pool. The story also won her the 1998 Texas Associated Press Broadcasters Award for Best Investigative Report.
In Asheville, she uncovered deplorable living conditions at an assisted living facility. The state fined the business and moved many of the residents to more appropriate homes.
Amy said the best part of her job is helping people, righting wrongs, exposing wrongdoing and letting the little guy's voice be heard.
"I love asking the questions viewers at home are shouting at their TVs," she said.
Amy is married with a son, Jackson Five, and has two cats named Bear and Grover.
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SCEE's answered criticism of LittleBigPlanet's apparently lacklustre performance at retail by saying the game has sold "really well" and would have charted higher if it wasn't for such a crowded time of year.The game debuted at number four in the UK chart than droppped out of the top ten in its second week."Our industry is […]


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-- Produced by BBC's award-winning PLANET EARTH team --
(Silver Spring, Md.) Continuing its tradition of groundbreaking, blue-chip natural history programming, Discovery Channel is once again partnering with the BBC Natural History Unit � the same team that produced the globally successful PLANET EARTH series � to co-produce a new landmark documentary called FROZEN PLANET. This highly ambitious eight-part series is set to air in 2012 and will be shot entirely in high definition using cutting edge technology -- the Cineflex, manufactured by Axsys � to allow for undisturbed observation of animal behavior. The project will chronicle the eco systems and animals of the Arctic and Antarctic, which is extremely timely given that both Polar Regions are at the front-line of climate change research.
The Arctic and Antarctic remain the greatest wilderness on Earth. The sheer power of the elements and the resilient animals that inhabit the poles are unmatched anywhere else on our planet. Much of these regions and animal behaviors have never been filmed before. Until recently the Russian Arctic has been closed to filmmakers, and most of Antarctica's most spectacular scenery has never been recorded. Almost all polar wildlife feeds in the sea, and yet the whole under ice world remains unseen.
"Core to Discovery Channel's mission is to educate viewers about the world around us and show them things that have never been seen before through new technologies," said John Ford, President and General Manager of Discovery Channel. "It is exciting to be working with the BBC on a project that takes a deeper look at two of the most extreme areas on the planet. FROZEN PLANET will amaze viewers in its majesty and inform viewers about the Arctic and Antarctic as the climate changes and the plant and animal life has to evolve or perish."
Commented Susanna Pollack, SVP Sales, Co-productions and Children's, BBC Worldwide America: "Co-productions are a great way for broadcasters to invest in quality productions right from the start. We are so thrilled that Discovery - a valued partner in this landmark production - will once again be working with the hugely talented BBC Natural History Unit on another ground breaking series."
Following each episode, three minutes of exclusive behind-the-scenes footage will show viewers exactly how FROZEN PLANET filmmakers secured the series' most memorable images. Additional behind the scenes stories and video, and in-depth information about our planet and its animals and habitats, will be available in the FROZEN PLANET website on Discovery.com. The site will also include a news feed, photo gallery, and informative games and puzzles.
FROZEN PLANET is a BBC, Discovery Channel, Discovery Channel Canada, Antena 3 (Spain), ZDF (Germany) and Skai (Greece) co-production. The global partnership was facilitated by BBC Worldwide. Vanessa Berlowitz is the Series Producer and Alastair Fothergill is the Exec Producer for the BBC. Discovery Channel was a co-production partner with the BBC for the award-winning natural history series PLANET EARTH and BLUE PLANET.
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I am not really a techie person. But I admit, I'm into gadgets, that RSS and a couple of his friends claim that I am in fact a "biktima ng teknolohiya".
Except with mobile phone units, I usually ask advice and help from RSS, my bros, or friends when I encounter problems with any gadget (camera, laptop, pda, etc.). Because I am so ignorant when it comes to these things.
On Sunday, I planned on adding more songs and a couple of movies to my Zen. Impatient that I've always been, I easily got irritated when my transfer would literally hang and make me wait. So I would disconnect the USB, remove the battery, and wait. And everytime I would turn it on, it goes directly to "recovery mode". I did this about three times and I was really frustrated in the end. I tried to "scan disk", and to "reboot", even stopped myself from choosing "format disk" coz I knew I would loose my files by doing so. But there was one option that's been picking on my curiosity -- it said "reload firmware".


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Secretary Duncan Announces Five New Members of His Leadership Team
Secretary Duncan Announces Five New Members of His Leadership Team
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced five new members to his leadership team. Each brings valuable skills and experience in their fields to different offices within the Department of Education.
"I am proud to welcome five individuals with diverse experience and expertise from the private and public sectors," Duncan said. "They will make valuable contributions to the department as it drives a strong reform agenda, and provides unprecedented resources to states and school districts."
Michael Roark, Chief Administrative Officer, Office of the Deputy Secretary
Roark will join the department after he concludes his work as the chief financial officer for AOL Europe. Based in London, he led a broad range of functions across multiple countries, including finance and accounting, strategic and operational planning, and business intelligence. He also led change initiatives to centralize and make profitable European operations. Roark started at AOL as director of its operational effectiveness program in 2006 in northern Virginia, identifying and delivering opportunities to increase advertising revenue, grow audience and reduce expenses. For the decade prior to joining AOL, Roark was the chief financial and administrative officer for the Corcoran Gallery of Art, a museum and art college in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. In the early 1990s, he worked on Capitol Hill for U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro and with the American Association of Museums. Roark has an MBA from Northwestern University and a bachelor's degree from Stanford University.
Jacqueline Jones, Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Early Learning, Office of The Secretary
Jones joins the department from the New Jersey State Department of Education where she served as assistant commissioner for the Division of Early Childhood Education. Prior to state government, Jones worked for 16 years at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) as a senior research scientist and director of early childhood research and development. Jones also has been a visiting associate professor at Harvard University and a visiting scholar for the National Assessment of Educational Progress at ETS. Jones has directed numerous federally- and foundation-funded projects on early childhood learning. She has many published writings and conference presentations on the topic and has lectured extensively on the subject. Jones earned her doctorate and master's degrees in communication science and disorders from Northwestern University, and has a Bachelor of Arts in speech pathology from Hunter College.
Katherine Tobin, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Performance Improvement, Office of Management
Katherine Tobin comes to the Department of Education having served three years as a governor of the U.S. Postal Service, appointed by the president in 2006. In that role, she provided strategic vision to its executive team, helped direct and control expenditures, review business practices, conduct long-range planning, and set policies on all postal matters. Tobin also chaired the board's Audit & Finance Committee. Tobin has 18 years of experience in education, having served as a college and university administrator, a member of university and college faculties, and a trained social scientist, leading research teams at organizations such as Catalyst, a non-profit dedicated to the advancement of women in business. She also worked as a manager and social scientist at Hewlett-Packard and IBM and created and ran her own company for four years. Tobin earned a Ph.D. and Master of Arts degree from Stanford University's School of Education. She earned a Master of Arts in teaching from the University of Massachusetts' School of Education, and a Bachelor of Arts in English with honors from Skidmore College.
Emma Vadehra, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development
Vadehra comes to the department from U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy's office, where she served as senior education counsel for the senator and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. She provided counsel to both on K-12 and postsecondary education, and national service issues. Previously, she worked with Uncommon Schools, a charter management organization that starts and manages urban charter schools. She has a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Bachelor of Arts dual degree in public policy and education policy from Brown University.
Nia Phillips, Deputy General Counsel for Departmental And Legislative Services, Office Of The General Counsel
Phillips comes to the department after serving as then-Sen. Barack Obama's deputy political director and constituency director for Georgia in the 2008 general election, and working as the constituency director for Jim Martin's U.S. Senate bid in Georgia. Prior to that, she taught first grade for three years at a Brooklyn, N.Y., public school. Between 2002-2004, she provided legal counsel to Viacom Inc., in New York, after serving as a corporate associate for the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. Phillips earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Spelman College in 1994, and then worked in several positions in the national tour of the Johnson Publishing Company's Ebony Fashion Fair for two years. She earned a J.D. from New York University Law School in 1999 and a master's degree in education from Brooklyn College in 2008. Phillips also brings valuable experience from her internships with the United Nations Institute of Training and Research, former U.S. Rep. Ron Dellums' office, and the Joint Center for Political Studies.


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Travel on the cheap: 5 times to go
By Stephanie Oswald, Special to CNN • Updated 6th November 2012
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If your passport is gathering dust and your suitcase desperately needs a workout, don't throw away thoughts of a thrilling vacation just because your wallet doesn't match your wanderlust. Supply and demand dictate pricing in nearly every industry, and travel is no exception.
When things are less than perfect, they cost less. So Europe is cheaper in the fall, when the weather can be sketchy and the landscape isn't quite as alluring. When school's in session, it's a challenge to take the kids out of class, but your Disney vacation will be a lot less expensive.
In addition to costing less, these trips have other perks: A theme park with fewer crowds means that your kids are more likely to get some face time with Mickey and Cinderella. And if you opt for Europe right after Thanksgiving, you'll be there during prime time for the Christmas markets.
Here are five times when bargain-hungry globetrotters can get their fill:
Need a deal
? Head for the ocean.
If you want to take advantage of the cheapest time to be afloat, you should be reading this from your cabin aboard a cruise ship. October and pre-Thanksgiving November is the time when you can sail through the Caribbean on a last-minute deal that's oh-so-easy on the wallet. It's the fringe of hurricane season (officially, it's June 1st - November 30th) but remember that cruise ships can alter their routes when a storm hits, whereas a resort cannot move from the path of danger.
"The itinerary might change slightly, but you still get your cruise," said Chris McGinnis, director of
Travel Skills Group
. "The best time to be on vacation in the Caribbean is actually when there's a hurricane someplace else in the region, because if you're not in the path, the storm sucks all the bad stuff out of the way and you're left with perfectly gorgeous weather."
And even though many people book cruise vacations during the first three months of the year (known as "wave season"), seaworthy travelers looking for a deal should hold off in order to scoop up last-minute savings, McGinnis said.
"As long as you don't have your heart set on a specific destination or specific ship, there is sure to be a plethora of great last-minute deals."
Just be sure to purchase travel insurance if you're heading to Mexico or the Caribbean in the fall, just in case of bad weather.
Go between the expensive holiday travel periods.
One of the cheapest times to pack your bags is just around the corner: It starts about the same time the final leftovers from Thanksgiving are gobbled up and lasts until just before the airports fill up with Christmas travelers.
"We always recommend the three weeks after Thanksgiving," said
Travel Leaders
travel agent Kristy Osborn. "The airports are not crowded, the cruise ships are not full of holiday travelers, and there are no hurricanes."
McGinnis concurs. "The cheapest time to travel, to pretty much anywhere, falls between the two most expensive travel times. The only exception to that rule is New York City because everyone wants to go shopping then," said McGinnis.
You may think "Disney" and "deal" don't go together, but if you can finagle a way to get there when school is in session, you'll reap the financial benefits. If your children have unexpected time off from school, or the academic calendar shifts for some reason, that's the time to book your Disney trip. If your kids are pre-school age or you can take their studies with you, those weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas offer the same Disney magic, for much less.
These same rules apply between New Year's Day and spring break.
Enjoy the white stuff without spending so much green stuff.
The end of ski season in the spring is the time to enjoy the slopes without splurging.
"There are world-class hotels in famously pricey ski destinations offering amazing deals," said Jaime Freedman, a deals specialist at
It happens at the beginning of the season too for domestic and international ski meccas, and Freedman said Canada is one place to find some frosty deals. "Mont-Tremblant and Whistler, for example, have great deals a few weeks prior to ski season and then again at the tail end once the weather warms up."
Turn up the heat, turn down the price in "hot" cities.
If you've always wanted to see Las Vegas but need a sure bet on low pricing, visit Sin City in July and August when hotels are clamoring for guests.
"Don't let 115 degrees on the thermometer scare you," said
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owner Renee Werbin, who points out that "Everything is air conditioned and you can take trams between hotels."
Miami is also a good bet for cheap travel in the summertime, and the traditionally hot and humid summers of New Orleans mean you can also find some fabulous deals in the Big Easy.
Winter is easy on the wallet and full of options.
There may be a gray sky behind the Eiffel Tower or Big Ben when you take your vacation photos, but that's nothing a little photo editing can't fix. Nothing beats Europe in the fall and winter if you want more bang for your buck.
"Common sense is always your guide. Travel to Europe in the winter months and stay in deluxe accommodations that would cost substantially more in spring and summer seasons," said Werbin.
A Canadian (non-ski) holiday is also something to consider if you can handle the cold temperatures that usually freeze the prices at lower-than-normal numbers. And if you're looking for something exotic, Asia is usually on sale as well.
"Asian prices always drop during winter months; even Tokyo can be a bargain prospect in January and February," said Travelzoo Senior Editor Gabe Saglie.
Of course there's an exception to the winter discounts: unless you're extremely flexible, it's usually hard to find a deal between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
You'll also be hard-pressed to find a safari on a clearance rack, but if you want to do it for the lowest price possible, go during the hotter, rainier season in southern and central Africa between November and February. But keep in mind that there's a school holiday in December, so November, January and February are the best bets.
"Our winter time is hot, hot, hot down in South Africa, which is when you'll see some savings," said Freedman.
Werbin said she reminds her clients, "Animals are never on vacation."
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Banana Cream Pie Recipe
This is my go-to recipe for banana cream pie. I promise that you won't be sorry that you took the time to make the pudding by hand—it blows boxed pudding away, there is simply no comparison. I like to blind bake the crust to a crispy golden brown, then remove it from the pie plate for a freestanding pie that is easy to slice or give away.
- Yield:serves 8
- Active time: 1 hour
- Total time:6 hours
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- One half recipe Easy Pie Dough, shaped and chilled in a pie plate
- 16 ounces whole milk
- 1 vanilla bean (split and scraped) or 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 5 ounces sugar, divided evenly
- 2 eggs
- 3 egg yolks
- 2.5 ounces cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons butter, cut into half inch pieces
- 4 bananas, sliced into 1/8 thick rounds
- 6 ounces heavy cream, whipped to soft peaks and chilled
- Topping: 1 cup heavy cream whipped with 2 tablespoons confectioner's sugar
Shape and chill the pie crust. Wet the surface of a sheet tray with sides and line it with plastic wrap, with additional plastic wrap close at hand. In a large saucepan, whisk together the milk, vanilla (pod and seeds if using the vanilla bean), and half the sugar. Set aside. In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, yolks, and salt until lightened. In a separate bowl, whisk together remaining sugar and cornstarch, then add to the eggs, whisking constantly. Whisk for two minutes, until egg mixture is pale and fluffy.
Place the milk mixture over medium heat and bring it just to a boil. Turn off the heat, and temper the egg mixture with the hot milk mixture in four additions, whisking constantly as you add the hot liquid to the egg mixture. Return the mixture to the pot and whisk constantly over medium-low heat until it begins to thicken and sputter. Once it begins to sputter, whisk two additional minutes, then turn off the heat and continue whisking as you add the butter. Whisk until the butter is completely melted and combined, then pour the pudding into the lined sheet tray. Spread it evenly to cool, then cover the surface directly with plastic wrap. Allow it to come to room temperature, then transfer to a sealed container and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
Preheat the oven to 425°F. Line the chilled pie crust with parchment or foil and fill with weights (I reuse dried beans for this purpose). Bake the pie for 15 minutes, rotating halfway through, then remove the weights and lining and bake on the lower rack until the bottom of the crust is a golden brown. Remove from the oven and allow the shell to cool completely.
When ready to assemble, whisk the pudding until it becomes smooth and supple. Fold in the cold whipped cream. Spread a third of the pudding over the bottom of the crust, then top with a layer of bananas, then repeat, reserving bananas for garnish (do not make the top layer bananas, they will become brown and unsightly). Top with additional whipped cream and bananas, sliced right before serving.
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Do you like artichoke hearts? We do! Please welcome Hank Shaw as he shares this delectable artichoke salad recipe. ~Elise
One of my favorite artichoke heart recipes, this is a simple salad that is great on a warm spring afternoon.
Yes, it does use a lot of oil, but you can reuse it. Just put it in the fridge and use the oil for salad dressings or to fry something else in – it will add a certain "artichokiness" to your next dish.
Oil keeps its heat well, so use that to your advantage here: Undercook the artichoke hearts, then keep them in the hot oil until it cools. You run a far less risk of turning them into mush that way.
Oil-Poached Artichoke Heart Salad Recipe
The seasonings are a guide here: If you'd rather toss the 'chokes with something else, go for it.
- 3 large artichoke hearts
- Salt
- Lots of extra virgin olive oil
- 2 smashed garlic cloves
- Juice of 2 lemons
- 1 tablespoon minced parsley
- 1 tablespoon minced chives
- Black pepper
1 Trim your artichokes: (see How to Trim an Artichoke). Once they are trimmed, slice lengthwise into pieces roughly ¼ inch thick. You want them to look like silhouettes of an artichoke heart.
2 Bathe the slices in a bowl of lemon juice.
3 Heat garlic in olive oil: Get a large, heavy pot with a lid and pour in a layer of olive oil. Add the smashed garlic cloves and turn the heat to low.
4 Add salted artichoke heart slices to the oil: Take some artichoke heart slices out of the lemon juice and salt them well. Slip them into the olive oil in layers, adding more olive oil to cover. You will probably need about a pint or so of olive oil – it is very important they are completely covered.
Do not use cheap vegetable oil (corn, canola, etc) as a substitute because you will definitely taste the olive oil in the final dish. You could use melted butter, though…
5 Heat on low: Cover the pot and cook on the lowest heat of your weakest burner for 45 minutes. Turn off the heat and let the oil cool for another 20-30 minutes.
6 Remove from oil and toss with remaining ingredients: To make the salad, just remove the artichokes from the oil and toss with the remaining ingredients. You can eat the garlic or not, but it is just there to flavor the oil.
Serve at room temperature. It keeps for several days in the fridge.
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Most people, even many business people, are not aware of the possibilities available with a well done and efficient Internet website. Whereas most people think about the net as a place to make your presence known and offer different information to people it's a lot more attractive to think of it as a piece of software, just like your accounting software, Customer Relationship Management software, or any other software you run on your local network or stand-alone computers. A dynamic website has serious advantages espacially in relation to the external partners of your business - partners which today requires much care to maintain a good and cost-effective network.
But web systems also require professional developers that can foresee the implications of their work and any changes to it and hence ensure that the security is tight. Together with the Danish national television station DR, WinterNet Studio revealed a large security hole in the DSB online booking system (the national railroad company). It made the top story of
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If Lil Buck, the sensational star of the Memphis street dancing style called "jookin,'" has any bones in his feet - or legs, or arms - there is little evidence of that.
Instead, it seems like this compelling dancer is made of a durable and graceful rubber, so easily does he bend and twist his body into impossible poses. That natural gift, plus an ebullient spirit and a ready smile, was on full display in "Lil Buck at the Poisson Rouge," a set of two shows Tuesday night that celebrated his singular talent.
The dancer, still in his early 20s, has been on quite a journey in the last two years, ever since he caught the eye of Damian Woetzel, the former New York City Ballet principal who is fast becoming a dance impresario (and who produced and directed the shows at the Poisson Rouge club.)
A video of him dancing to "The Swan" - with none other than cellist Yo-Yo Ma playing the slow and somber Camille Saint-Saens music - went viral. He performed at festivals in Vail and at New York's City Center. He went to China to display his "jookin'" (pronounced like "book-in") along with Ma and Meryl Streep. He danced with Madonna at her concerts. He even performed on "The Colbert Report."
At the first of Tuesday's packed, sold-out shows, with Vogue editor Anna Wintour sitting in the front row, Lil Buck (aka Charles Riley) was accompanied by an eclectic group of musicians, including Ma, the trumpet player Marcus Printup, the folk string quartet Brooklyn Rider, drummer John Hadfield, and the energetic Galician bagpipe player Cristina Pato. He was also joined by his cousin, the terrific jooker Ron "Prime Tyme" Myles, for some sizzling duet work.
The music was a vibrant mix of classical, modern (there was a premiere by composer Philip Glass), folk and traditional. There was even some ballet: Woetzel asked Lil Buck, who has trained with a ballet teacher, to perform a version of the George Balanchine piece "Agon," to Stravinsky.
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Red Sox right-hander, a two-time All-Star, hasn't pitched since June 8
NEW YORK -- In a perfect world, Clay Buchholz could have spent All-Star media day talking about the best pitching stretch of his life, when he reeled off a 9-0 record and a 1.71 ERA in 12 starts.
Instead, the right-hander was asked mostly about his frustrating neck injury, which continues to leave great uncertainty about when he will take the ball again for the Red Sox.
Buchholz threw a bullpen session on Sunday in Oakland and admitted that he still doesn't feel right.
"My mindset going into that one since I had the break to work with was to go in, try to up the intensity, see where we're at," Buchholz said. "And it's still a little sore. I didn't want to push it too far. So I slowed it back down, finished the number of pitches that I wanted to get to. And moving into the break that was our deciding factor, just take a break and take it as a break and not really mess with it and get back to it when we get back there."
The right-hander would like to pitch a simulated game before he makes a rehab start. But he can't do that until all the symptoms clear.
"This is all going on feel, how I feel, whenever I throw another bullpen, how it leads up to that," said Buchholz. "The first day that I feel like, 'OK, I'm pretty much normal now,' that's when I'm going to ramp up and do what I got to do."
Originally, the Red Sox thought they'd have Buchholz back in the rotation by around July 24. But that might be optimistic at this point.
The last time Buchholz pitched for Boston was June 8.
"Pretty tough, frustrating for sure," Buchholz said. "I said it all along, at least all the other guys are going out there and doing their jobs, like the [Brandon] Workmans that come up and throw. That was awesome to watch yesterday. It would be a lot tougher if everything wasn't going as we want to.
"If all the guys are going out there and not throwing the ball well or getting hit around a little bit, that would make it a little bit tougher to sit back and watch. We got everybody going out there and doing their job. That's why I'm going to keep it to being 100 percent before I come back."
In the meantime, Buchholz thinks he will be able to enjoy his second All-Star experience, even though he can't pitch in the game.
"That's why I came here," said Buchholz. "People were like, 'Are you still going to go?' You can't not go to this. You don't know how many times this is going to happen in your career. I never expected it to happen the first time. To happen twice, it's definitely a special feeling to be around the guys that you watch on TV or been watching on TV for a long time. It's something that not everybody gets to experience, and I'm going to have fun with it."
Buchholz just hopes that he'll also be able to experience the fun of pitching sooner rather than later.
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Digital Living Network Alliance
|June 2003[1][2]
|February 2017[3]
|Trade organization
|Lake Oswego, Oregon US
|200 companies[4]
Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) (originally named Digital Home Working Group, DHWG) was founded by a group of PC and consumer electronics companies in June 2003 (with Intel in the lead role) to develop and promote a set of interoperability guidelines for sharing digital media among multimedia devices under the auspices of a certification standard. DLNA certified devices include smartphones, tablets, PCs, TV sets and storage servers.
The group published its first set of guidelines in June 2004.[2] The guidelines incorporate several existing public standards, including Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for media management and device discovery and control, and widely used digital media formats and wired and wireless networking standards.[5]
DLNA works with cable, satellite, and telecom service providers to provide link protection on each end of the data transfer. The extra layer of digital rights management (DRM) security allows broadcast operators to communicate digital media to certain devices (e.g., to those of their customers) in such a manner that further, unauthorized, communication of the media is difficult.[6][7] In March 2014, DLNA publicly released the VidiPath Guidelines, originally called "DLNA CVP-2 Guidelines." VidiPath enables consumers to view subscription TV content on a wide variety of devices including televisions, tablets, phones, Blu-ray players, set top boxes (STBs), personal computers (PCs) and game consoles without any additional intermediate devices from the service provider.
As of September 2014,[8] over 25,000 different device models had obtained "DLNA Certified" status, indicated by a logo on their packaging and confirming their interoperability with other devices.[9] It was estimated that by 2017 over 6 billion DLNA-certified devices, from digital cameras to game consoles and TVs, would be installed in users' homes.[10]
As of June 2015[update] the organization claimed membership of "more than 200 companies".[4] On January 5, 2017, DLNA announced on its web site that "the organization has fulfilled its mission and will dissolve as a non-profit trade association." Its certification program will be conducted by SpireSpark International of Portland, Oregon.
Intel established the DLNA along with Sony and Microsoft in June 2003 as the Digital Home Working Group, changing its name 12 months later, when the first set of guidelines for DLNA was published.[1] Home Networked Device Interoperability Guidelines v1.5 was published in March 2006 and expanded in October of the same year; the changes included the addition of two new product categories — printers, and mobile devices — as well as an "increase of DLNA Device Classes from two to twelve" and an increase in supported user scenarios related to the new product categories.[1]
The DLNA Certified Device Classes are separated as follows:[11]
Home Network Devices[edit]
- Digital Media Server (DMS): store content and make it available to networked digital media players (DMP) and digital media renderers (DMR). Examples include PCs and network-attached storage (NAS) devices.
- Digital Media Player (DMP): find content on digital media servers (DMS) and provide playback and rendering capabilities. Examples include TVs, stereos and home theaters, wireless monitors and game consoles.
- Digital Media Renderer (DMR): play content as instructed by a digital media controller (DMC), which will find content from a digital media server (DMS). Examples include TVs, audio/video receivers, video displays and remote speakers for music. It is possible for a single device (e.g. TV, A/V receiver, etc.) to function both as a DMR (receives "pushed" content from DMS) and DMP ("pulls" content from DMS).
- Digital Media Controller (DMC): find content on digital media servers (DMS) and instruct digital media renderers (DMR) to play the content. Content does not stream from or through the DMC. Examples include tablet computers, Wi-Fi enabled digital cameras and smartphones.
- Generally, digital media players (DMP) and digital media controllers (DMC) with print capability can print to DMPr. Examples include networked photo printers and networked all-in-one printers.
Mobile Handheld Devices[edit]
- Mobile Digital Media Server (M-DMS): store content and make it available to wired/wireless networked mobile digital media players (M-DMP), and digital media renderers. Examples include mobile phones and portable music players.
- Mobile Digital Media Player (M-DMP): find and play content on a digital media server (DMS) or mobile digital media server (M-DMS). Examples include mobile phones and mobile media tablets designed for viewing multimedia content.
- Mobile Digital Media Uploader (M-DMU): send (upload) content to a digital media server (DMS) or mobile digital media server (M-DMS). Examples include digital cameras and mobile phones.
- Mobile Digital Media Downloader (M-DMD): find and store (download) content from a digital media server (DMS) or mobile digital media server (M-DMS). Examples include portable music players and mobile phones.
- Mobile Digital Media Controller (M-DMC): find content on a digital media server (DMS) or mobile digital media server (M-DMS) and send it to digital media renderers (DMR). Examples include personal digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones.
Home Infrastructure Devices[edit]
- Mobile Network Connectivity Function (M-NCF): provide a bridge between mobile handheld device network connectivity and home network connectivity.
- Media Interoperability Unit (MIU): provide content transformation between required media formats for home network and mobile handheld devices.
The specification uses DTCP-IP as "link protection" for copyright-protected commercial content between one device to another.[1][12]
DLNA guideline versions[edit]
- 1.0: released June 2004; 2 volumes: Architecture & Protocols, Media Formats; 2 Device Classes: DMP, DMS; About 50 media format profiles[citation needed]
- 1.5: released March 2006; 3 volumes: Architecture & Protocols, Media Formats, and Link Protection; 12 Devices Classes and 5 Device Capabilities; About 250 media format profiles[citation needed]
- 2.0: released August 2015; Includes topics like EPG, Content Sync, RUI, WPS, Media Formats, Scheduled recording, DRM[13]
- 3.0: released August 2015; enhanced response time, improved power efficiency, HEVC support[14]
- 4.0: released June 2016; solves the "media format not supported" problem between PCs, TVs and mobile devices while supporting Ultra HD TV content streaming[15]
Member companies[edit]
As of November 2015, there are 13 promoter members and 171 contributor members. The promoter members are:[16]
Arris, AwoX, Broadcom, CableLabs, Comcast, Dolby Laboratories, Intel, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics, Sony Electronics, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon.
Neither Google nor Apple are members. Apple's proprietary Digital Audio Access Protocol preceded DLNA's UPnP protocols.
The board of directors oversees the activity of the four following committees:
- Ecosystem Committee, planning the future development of DLNA guidelines
- Compliance & Test Committee, overseeing the certification program and its evolutions
- Marketing Communication Advisory Council, actively promoting DLNA worldwide
- Technical Committee, writing the DLNA guidelines
Products supporting DLNA[edit]
DLNA-certified devices[edit]
There are over 25,000 DLNA-certified products on the market,[8] up from 9,000 in 2011.[17] This includes TVs, DVD and Blu-ray players, games consoles, digital media players, photo frames, cameras, NAS devices, PCs, mobile handsets, and more.[18] According to a study from Parks Associates,[10] nearly 3 billion products are on the market in 2014 reaching up to over 7 billion by 2018. Consumers can see if their product is certified by looking for a DLNA logo on the device or by verifying certification through the DLNA Product Search.[19]
Manufacturers can seek certification testing from a DLNA Accredited Independent Certification Vendor such as the UNH InterOperability Laboratory,[20] Allion Labs, CESI Technology Co., Digital TV Labs,[21] XXCAL or Testronic.[22]
DLNA technology components[edit]
As the past president of DLNA pointed out to the Register in March 2009:[23]
The vendors of software are allowed to claim that their software is a DLNA Technology Component if the software has gone through certification testing on a device and the device has been granted DLNA Certification. DLNA Technology Components are not marketed to the consumer but only to industry.
DLNA Interoperability Guidelines allow manufacturers to participate in the growing marketplace of networked devices and are separated into the following sections of key technology components:[24]
- Network and Connectivity[25]
- Device and Service Discovery and Control[26]
- Media Format and Transport Model[27]
- Media Management, Distribution and Control[28]
- Digital Rights Management and Content Protection[29]
- Manageability[30]
DLNA-certified software[edit]
In 2005,[31] DLNA began a software certification program in order to make it easier for consumers to share their digital media across a broader range of products. DLNA is certifying software that is sold directly to consumers through retailers, websites and mobile application stores. With DLNA certified software, consumers can upgrade products from within their home networks that may not be DLNA certified and bring them into their personal DLNA ecosystems. This helps in bringing content such as videos, photos and music stored on DLNA certified devices to a larger selection of consumer electronics, mobile and PC products.[32]
DLNA-certified products[edit]
Some examples:[33]
- AwoX mediaCTRL[34] is a commercial server. It is based on AwoX DLNA Technology component software development kits.[35]
- CyberLink SoftDMA 2.[36] Appears to be just a DMP.
- ARRIS Whole Home Media Gateway is a DLNA Certified DMS.[37][38]
- ARRIS Whole Home Media Player is a DLNA Certified DMP.[37][38]
- Most Smartphones share multimedia including music, pictures or videos.
- Microsoft Xbox 360[39] is a DLNA Certified DMP.
- Sony PlayStation 3[40] is a DLNA Certified DMP.
- AllShare[41] (UPnP, DLNA), a Samsung-branded media server for MS Windows. Clients are also available for mobile Android devices. Effective for streaming content over a local network to Samsung devices, notably televisions.
- Ampache[42] started in 2001 as an OpenSource project at Oregon State University and continues active development as streaming media server of UPnP/DLNA compatible devices and your own music collection.
- ArkMC[43] is a wireless media server application (iOS/Android) oriented on UPnP/DLNA compatible devices.
- Asset UPnP (DLNA compatible) from Illustrate. An audio specific UPnP/DLNA server for Windows (including Windows Home Server), QNAP, Apple OS X (Mountain Lion or newer), Debian Linux and Raspberry Pi. Features music library, album art, audio WAVE/LPCM transcoding from a huge range of audio codecs, ReplayGain, support for streaming audio in many formats including lossless FLAC, WAV, MP3 and playlists, and a customizable browse tree. Companion products "dBpoweramp CD Ripper" for CD ripping and "dBpoweramp Music Converter" for converting digital music formats can be used in compiling a digital music library.
- Coherence is a framework written in Python to enable applications to access digital living network resources. As a stand-alone application it can act as a UPnP/DLNA media server, in combination with a supported client as a media renderer.
- CyberLink Media Server 2.[44] Appears to be just a DMS.
- Home Media Center,[45] a free and open source media server compatible with DLNA. Includes web interface for streaming content to web browser (Android, iOS, ...), subtitles integration and Windows desktop streaming. This server is easy to use.
- Jamcast,[46] a DLNA-compliant media server for Microsoft Windows that is capable of streaming any audio playing on the PC to DLNA devices.
- JRiver Media Center,[47] a DLNA media server for Windows and Mac. Also includes Renderer and Controller.
- KooRaRoo Media[48] (UPnP, DLNA, HTTP), a multimedia organizer and media server for Windows. On-the-fly transcoding, supports multiple video/audio streams in files, includes a DMS (server) and a DMC (controller) with "play to" functionality. Works with all DLNA-compatible devices.
- Mezzmo[49] is a feature-packed UPnP/DLNA media server with on-the-fly transcoding and media organizing features.
- Nero Media Home[50] is a UPnP/DLNA media server on the Windows platform, streaming music, videos, photos, and TV shows, It allows to play back your media files on most popular devices including Xbox and PlayStation.
- Pixel Media Server[51] is a DLNA-compliant digital media server for Android platform. It turns your phone/tablet into a DLNA media server for publishing content (image, audio, video) from your device to the DLNA home network.
- PlayOn from MediaMall[52] appears to be a DMS, also capable of serving streamed internet media such as Netflix, Hulu, Google YouTube, CNN, ESPN.
- Plex Media Server, the back-end media server component of Plex software suite.
- PS3 Media Server,[53] an open source (GPLv2) DLNA-compliant UPnP media server for the Sony PS3, written in Java, with the purpose of streaming or transcoding any kind of media files, with minimum configuration.
- ReadyMedia (formerly known as MiniDLNA)[54] is a simple open source media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with UPnP/DLNA clients.
- Rygel[55] is an open source media server software, written in Vala programming language.
- Serviio[56] is a UPnP/DLNA media server that works with any DLNA-compliant device with the purpose of streaming or transcoding any kind of media files (TV, Sony PlayStation 3, etc.) and some other (MS Xbox 360). Frequently updated, has a good support community. Available on Windows, Apple Mac OSX, Linux and Synology NAS platforms.
- Subsonic Music Streamer[57]
- TwonkyMedia server runs on Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and Android and enables media sharing of local and online media among a large variety of devices.
- TVMOBiLi[58] – A shareware DLNA/UPnP media server for MS Windows, Apple Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. Appears to be just a DMS.
- TVersity, a DLNA media server with strong device support and on-the-fly transcoding.[59] Appears to be just a DMS.[60]
- Wild Media Server,[61] a media server for Windows, Linux, macOS, individual device settings, transcoding, external and internal subtitles, restricted device access to folders, uploading files, Internet-Radio, Internet-Television, Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), DMR-control and "Play To", Music (Visualization), Photo (Slideshow), support for 3D-subtitles, support for BitTorrent files, web navigation with HTML5 player, Digital Media Renderer (DMR) emulation for AirPlay and Google Cast devices.
See also[edit]
- UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) AV standards
- Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) (lets audio/video equipment cooperate through HDMI connections.)
- Devices Profile for Web Services
- DigiOn
- Digital Rights Management
- Digital Transmission Content Protection
- List of UPnP AV media servers and clients
- Comparison of UPnP AV media servers
- Miracast
- WiFi Direct
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