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IPv4 calculations
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Refresh on TCP/IP model
When the ARPANet (a packet oriented network) was born in those good old seventies, engineers had to solve the problem of making computers being able to exchange packets of information over the network and they invented in 1974 something you are now using to view this page: TCP/IP! TCP/IP is a collection of various network protocols, being organized as a stack. Just like your boss does not do everything in the company and delegates at lower levels which in turn delegates at an even more lower level, no protocol in the TCP/IP suite takes all responsibilities, they are working together in a hierarchical and cooperative manner. A level of the TCP/IP stack knows what its immediate lower subordinate can do for it and whatever it will do will be done the right way and will not worry about the manner the job will be done. Also the only problem for a given level of the stack is to fulfill its own duties and deliver the service requested by the upper layer, it does not have to worry about the ultimate goal of what upper levels do.
<illustration goes here TCP/IP model>
The above illustration sounds horribly familiar : yes, it is sounds like this good old OSI model. Indeed it is a tailored view of the original OSI model and it works the exact same way: so the data sent by an application A1 (residing on computer C1) to another application A2 (residing on computer C2) goes through C1's TCP/IP stack (from top to bottom), reach the C1's lower layers that will take the responsibility to move the bits from C1 to C2 over a physical link (electrical or lights pulses, radio waves...sorry no quantum mechanism yet) . C2's lower layers will receive the bits sent by C1 and pass what has been received to the C2's TCP/IP stack (bottom to top) which will pass the data to A2. If C1 and C2 are not on the same network the process is a bit more complex because it involves relays (routers) but the global idea remains the same. Also there is no shortcuts in the process : both TCP/IP stacks are crossed in their whole, either from top to bottom for the sender or bottom to top for the receiver. The transportation process in itself is also absolutely transparent from an application's point of view: A1 knows it can rely on the TCP/IP stack to transmits some data to A2, how the data is transmitted is not its problem, A1 just assumes the data can be transmitted by some means. The TCP/IP stack is also loosely coupled to a particular network technology because its frontier is precisely the physical transportation of bits over a medium and so the physical network's technology, just the same way A1 does not care about how the TCP/IP stack will move the data from one computer to another. The TCP/IP stack itself does not care about the details about how the bits are physically moved and thus it can work with any network technology no matter the technology is Ethernet, Token Ring or FDDI for example.
The Internet layer and the IP protocol
The goal of this article being more focused on calculation of addresses used at the Internet layer so let's forget the gory details about the TCP/IP stack (you can find an extremely detailed discussion in How the TCP/IP stack works... still to be written...). From here, we assume you have a good general understanding of its functionalities and how a network transmission works. As you know the Internet layer is responsible to handle logical addressing issues of a TCP segment (or UDP datagram) that has either to be transmitted over the network to a remote computer or that has been received from the network from a remote computer. That layer is governed by a set of strict set rules called the Internet Protocol or IP originally specified by [RFC 791] in september 1981. What is pretty amazing with IP is that, although its original RFC has been amended by several others since 1981, its specification remains absolutely valid! If have a look at [RFC 791] you won't see "obsoleted". Sure IPv4 reached its limits in this first half the XXIst century but will remains in the IT landscape for probably several years to not say decades (you know, the COBOL language....). To finish on historical details, you might find interesting know that TCP/IP was not the original protocol suite used on the ARAPANet, it superseded in 1983 another protocol suite the Network Control Program or NCP. NCP looks like, from our point of view, prehistoric however it is of big importance as it established a lot of concepts still in use today : protocol data units, splitting an address in various components, connection management concept (TCP) and so on comes from NCP. Historical reward for those who are still reading this long paragraph: first, even a user was addressable in NCP messages second even in 1970 the engineers were concerned by network congestions issues (this page) :-)
Enough of historical background, packet networks history is super interesting but would make this article would just too long. So let's go back to the Internet Protocol! In those good old seventies the engineers who designed the Internet Protocol retained a 32 bits addressing scheme. Why 32 bits and not 64 or 128? In that decade, computers were rare with very limited resources and everyone at that time found that using 32 bits to express the a computer's address on the network would be way far more than enough : 2^32 gives 4,294,967,296 or roughly 4.3 billions (even some briliant visionaries like J.C.Lickleider would probably never have imagined the growth and popularity of computer networks at that time).
A story of cake
From the beginning, engineers were aware that, also their address pool was a priori gigantic, it had to be used wisely and address pool depletion issues had always been in the landscape: between 1977 and 1984, the number of interconnected hosts grew from roughly a hundred to more than a thousand and it was clear that this would not reach any limit. Indeed even at this time the problem was more when the pool will be depleted rather than if it would become depleted. Seen from those good old eighties, the IPv4 pool depletion was not an immediate problem especially altough the issued started be be a bit more critical a decade later (IETF forecasted an IPv4 depletion between 2010 and 2017 in 1993).
Just like you divide your birthday cake in slices of various sizes depending on your guests' appetite to minimize the waste, the engineers choose to divide the initial IPv4 pool in several slices of various size, each one of those slices were then exclusively attributed to a given organization who wanted to connect to the ARPAnet by the Government of the United States (ICANN/IANA and Regional Internet Registries came much later at the end of nineties). How the assigned block was used by an organization was not a concern for the US Government, it assigned address blocks depending on how many hosts would be on an organization network not on how many hosts were on a given organisation's network.
Okay the ARPAnet became defunct with the split of MILNET in 1984 giving NSFNet later replaced with the Internet as we still know today but the principle of exclusively attributing IPv4 blocks remained the same.
Those addresses follows the thereafter logic:
|32 bits (fixed length)
|Network part (variable length of N bits )
|Host part (length : 32 - N bits)
- The network address : this part is uniquely assigned amongst all of the organizations in the world (i.e. No one in the world can hold the same network part)
- The host address : unique within a given network part
So in theory we can have something like this (remember the network nature is not to be unique, it hs to be be a collection of networks :
- Network 1 Host 1
Just like your birthday cake is divided in more or less smaller parts depending on how guests' appetite, the IPv4 address space has also been divided into more or less smaller parts just because organizations needs more or less computers on their networks. How to make this possible? Simply by dedicating a variable number of bits to the network part! Do you see the consequence? An IPv4 address being always 32 bits wide, the more bits you dedicate to the network part the lesser you have for the host part and vice-versa, this is a tradeoff, always. Basically, having more bits in :
- the network part : means more networks possible at the cost of having less hosts per network
- the host part : means less networks but more hosts per network
It might sounds a bit abstract but let's take an example : imagine we dedicate only 8 bits for the network part and the remaining 24 for the hosts part. What happens? First if we only
Is the network part assigned by each organization to itself? Of course not! Assignment are coordinated at the worldwide level by what we call Regional Internet Registries or RIRs which, in turn, can delegate assignments to third-parties located within their geographic jurisdiction. Those latter are called Local Internet Registries or LIRs (the system is detailed in RFC 7020). All of those RIRs are themselves put under the responsibility of now now well-known Internet Assigned Numbers Authority or IANA. As of 2014 five RIR exists :
- ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) : covers North America
- LACNIC (Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre): covers South America and the Caribbean
- RIPE-NCC (Réseaux IP Européens / or RIPE Network Coordination Centre): covers Europe, Russia and middle east
- Afrinic (Africa Network Information Center) : covers the whole Africa
- APNIC (Asian and Pacific Network Information Centre) : covers oceania and far east.


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Although she knew nothing of its history, she reasoned that this was a great historic building.
The McLaughlins settled in Loveland as a place to live and raise their family because of its friendly atmosphere.
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McLaughlin, Sharon Anhorn and others were driving to work and lamented over the impending demolition. Someone in the car said, "Something should be done." McLaughlin waited for a reply but none came. When she returned home, she prayed and read the Bible pondering her potential involvement.
She started a massive publicity campaign as a last minute reprieve for Loveland Feed and Grain by creating an email media list. This campaign led to a series of articles and television coverage.
McLaughlin passionately presented her case before the Historical Preservation Commission as well as the Loveland City Council. She cited the municipal code on historic preservation and emphasized that she did not want to infringe on the Andersons' property rights to sell the structure to the highest bidder. She demonstrated that there were potential sources of funding.
A poll was taken on public sentiment on preserving one of Loveland's last remaining connections to its agricultural economy. With overwhelming support by the community, others joined the cause as her email list grew. Over the course of 13 months, she sent out 75 notifications keeping residents up to date on fund raising events and progress.
To provide a nonprofit for fundraising, McLaughlin and her husband formed Novo Restoration.
In July 2006, Barry Floyd purchased the building from the Andersons.
A study of the building by architectural students led to a book on its design. During the summer of 2007, the many broken windows were covered by sheets of plywood.
Megan Tracy started using the building for her installation shows, drawing in a number of different artists and introducing a new form of art to the Loveland community.
All of this activity drew the attention of ArtSpace as it became interested in expanding its holdings into Colorado.
ArtSpace has restored and managed historic buildings throughout the United States dedicated to the arts. It plans to purchase Loveland Feed and Grain. Part of the development will include low cost housing for artists (in a new separate structure) as well as restoration of the old mill for events and studio space.

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作詞:R. Chambers, K. Gamble, Thom Bell, Steven Johnson, A. Gonzalez & Jay Z
作曲:R. Chambers, K. Gamble, Thom Bell, Steven Johnson, A. Gonzalez & Jay Z
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With so many different flows, this one's for this song
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I'm not the one to score points off, in fact
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Tee hee: Get someone else to do it
Q. Can you tickle yourself into a fit of laughter? –Elmo
A. "I'm aware of no one who can do this," says
University of Maryland Baltimore County psychologist Robert R. Provine. Tickling is a form of communication, and your nervous system cancels out touch stimuli that you yourself produce. For ticklishness, stimuli must come from someone or something that is "non-self."
An element of suspense may also be at play: Where's the tickler going to tickle next? "But don't take my word for it. Get together with a playful partner and test for yourself which kind of touch tickles and which does not," Provine says.
Q. You wouldn't think a dead body capable of doing very much. Think again? B. Stoker
A. Much folklore over the centuries traces to people's lack of knowledge of the natural processes surrounding corpses, says Paul Barber in Vampires, Burial, and Death:
* The classic theme of a sinner's hand reaching up out of the grave has its origins in common shallow burials of the past and the presence of scavenging animals that latch onto whatever body part can be dragged up, usually an arm.
* Pregnant women who die reportedly may expel the fetus a few days later, making it appear they were buried alive and gave birth in the coffin.
* The limbs of a lifted corpse can react in frightening ways once rigor mortis passes and they're free to "flail about" under the force of gravity.
* Chewing and suckling sounds are not uncommon in mortuaries and graveyards. "When a corpse bursts as a result of bloating, the emission of gases, body fluids, and maggots– present in astonishing numbers– may be audible." One 19th century gravedigger said he heard ghastly noises for three weeks following a shallow burial.
* A body may "cry out" when a stake is driven into the chest, not because it is a vampire coming to life but because this forces a rush of air past the glottis.
* The restless dead will rise in water as decompositional gases build up. One murder victim surfaced in a river despite encasement in a 145-pound cast-iron generator housing, "five pounds more than the body itself."
Q. When will a flying speck of paint no bigger than a grain of salt hit with the force of a bullet? A. Shepherd
A. When it's orbiting Earth at 18,000 mph amid thousands of tons of space litter including defunct satellites, exhaust particles, space station trash, and fragments of weapons tests, says Sharon McGrayne in 365 Surprising Scientific Facts, Breakthroughs, and Discoveries. A paint chip left a pea-sized cavity in the front window of the space shuttle Challenger on its second flight.
Radar and optical telescopes now track some 10,000 large objects, but there are another 70,000-150,000 untrackable fragments from 1 to 10 centimeters across, according to the Second European Conference on Space Debris.
An orbiting marble-sized object carries energy equivalent to a 400-pound safe falling off a ten-story building, says University of North Carolina astronomer Wayne Christiansen. "However, the safe would crush you flat like a bug, the marble would likely explode on impact, leaving a ghastly crater."
Q. When sleeptalkers get to talking, what's it all about? M.J. Oblinger
A. Some three-quarters of people have somniloquized at one time or another, from brief meaningless mumblings to pseudo speeches or dialogues lasting several minutes, says Dr. Michael Perlis in the Encyclopedia of Psychology. There may also be laughing, crying, humming or groaning.
Things can get so loud neighbors call to complain, adds psychologist Jodi Mindell. Triggers are emotional stress, illness, fever. Other sleep disorders often are present.
Stories of nocturnal mutterings usually provoke mirth or mild embarrassment, but sometimes damaging confessions can be extracted by suspicious spouses, though these would hardly hold up in court, says Harvard's J. Allan Hobson in Dreaming as Delirium.
At times the talker seems out of character, as when electrician Frank M. surprised his new bride with his "foul tongue that led a life of its own when he was asleep." Dr. Hobson advised using a bedside recorder to monitor frequency, and soon Frank returned beaming. "This tape recorder you prescribed is wonderful. The swearing has stopped." But the doctor hadn't really "prescribed" anything– just assessing the problem.
"I had unwittingly used the power of suggestion on Frank. He had responded positively to the social pressure of a monitoring device."
Finally, psychologist Arthur Arkin told how the mother of mathematician L.E. Dickson once solved a school geometry problem in a dream, then spoke the answer in her sleep. Next day in class her eavesdropping sister got the credit; Dickson's mother (awake) had no idea how to solve it.
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The pilot who was badly burned but walked away from the flaming wreckage of his small plane that crashed near Teterboro Airport in New Jersey last month reportedly died of his injuries yesterday.
George Maddox, 54, of Sinking Spring, Pa., suffered burns over 20 percent to 30 percent of his body after he and co-pilot Sanil Gopinath, 42, aborted their landing and clipped a tree on Aug. 21, The New York Post reported. The pilot died last night at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., said his wife, Lisa Roach Maddoxx.
The two were attempting to land their twin-engine Beechcraft at the New Jersey airport when the plane, which was carrying medical specimens for Quest Diagnostics, went down just a few hundred yards short of the runway. Maddox's wife said her husband wasn't at the controls at the time of the crash.
U.S. & World
Maddox and Gopinath staggered out of the fiery wreckage and stunned first responders who arrived outside the New Jersey based airport after the crash.
Little Ferry police officer Adam Warne, who was among the first to respond to the scene, said he was taken aback to find the men alive and talking after the crash.
"They were sitting at the curb at the bus stop. Both of them were alert and conscious and answering questions,'' Warne said.
At the time, Warne said one man was "severely burned."
Relatives of Maddox were by his bedside when he passed away, according to a Facebook page created in his memory.
"He was a very good pilot. He was a wonderful father and husband, a great friend to many, many people who loved him," Lisa Roach Maddox said in a telephone interview last night, according to NJ.com. "We're all heartbroken."
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.


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Atlanta: Pizza That Glitters at Ammazza
591 Edgewood Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30312 (Map); 404-314-7300; ammazza.com
Pizza type: Neapolitan-style
Oven type: Wood
The Skinny: Everything about this hip and hot newcomer glitters, and most of it is top-notch... save for a few nitpicks
Price: Margherita, $19; Bolognese, $22; Glitter Pizza, $6; Carnosa Pizza Fritta, $16
Glitter. Pizza.
As the build-up to the hotly-anticipated opening of Ammazza reached its crescendo in late September, this was the thing that seemed to make for the most buzzworthy tease.
Yes, the city's pizza faithful were eager about a new pie palace in Atlanta's hot-and-happening Old Fourth Ward, and rightfully psyched that it would come from two brothers with ties to Antico. There was talk of the funky/weird/cool warehouse space and the asymmetrical layout that would have customers order up front in an all-but-empty lobby, and then walk down a loooooong hallway, and then turn to hit the dining room with its communal tables built from reclaimed wood. But it almost always came back to wondering with bated breath, "What is glitter pizza???" The answer, I discovered, sort of sums up Ammazza in a nutshell for me.
The twin wood-fired ovens are behind glass at one end of the dining room. While the impression at times is that of an exhibit at the zoo, it seemed to me to actually encourage gawkers (in a good way) more than a true open kitchen concept. Without that window pane, it's easy to feel like you're intruding on the pizzaioli at work and more than a little in the way of the foodrunners. But the glass makes it clear that what's happening on the other side is a show that's meant to be watched and observed, from the hand-stretching of the dough to the saucing (there are two sauceless varieties) to the baking, which seemed to hover around the three-minute mark for the pies I watched.
Ammazza means "amazement," a lofty adjective for food to live up to. The Margherita ($19) did have some surprises, though not all of them hit that mark. On the plus side, the crust is stellar. The rim had a nice bubble structure, and the underside sported lovely char (no decent pics, sorry), even if the topside ring looked somewhat monochromatic. The daily-made dough starts with San Felice 00 flour and boasts sour notes within its chewy makeup. I also loved the chunky sauce, as well as the gooey housemade mozzarella.
I deducted points for the basil: not nearly enough of it for my tastes, and what was here was burnt and shriveled. And while I enjoyed the flavor of Ammazza's crust, all of the pies I tried were so liquefied in the center that it was impossible to pick up a slice one-handed.
The Bolognese ($22) features Italian sausage (the kitchen brings in meat from The Spotted Trotter) and housemade meatballs, along with mozz, basil, and ricotta. It's a 16-incher, like all of Ammazza's grown-up pies, though this one was more oblong in shape.
The meats are spectacular, with nice spice all around. The meatballs in particular are worth seeking out, with a dense, meaty chew that helped make this my favorite pie of the evening. But then there's this:
That's a Pizza Fritta, which the menu describes as, "The real street food of Naples." There are two to choose from; the Carnosa ($16) has the same Italian sausage and meatballs, plus pepperoni folded up in the kitchen's dough and fried to a lovely golden brown. It's topped with that chunky tomato sauce, and despite some minor leakage issues on the tray, exploded with flavor in the mouth (once you figure out how to attack it) with a crisp outer shell and chewy, gooey goodness inside.
Fried pizza hasn't permeated many of the pizza menus in Atlanta (actually, I can't think of anyone else in town doing it, although someone must be...), and the sensation of a stuffed state-fair elephant ear may turn off some, but I found it to be a nice change of pace and something I would definitely order again.
But what about that ballyhooed glitter pizza? The owners' pedigree, the big-time bar, the high-hip factor of the food, and the high-end prices of everything left many to assume that glitter pizza would be some super-cheffy revelation that would turn the Atlanta pizza scene on its cornicione. Turns out, Glitter Pizza ($6) is just the kids' pizza.
Does it succeed in getting the young, hip family crowd in? You bet. Ammazza is totally child-friendly (ask for a mini Etch-a-Sketch at the counter), but with a serious pizza-snob menu that makes Mom and Dad happy, too. But the initial oohs and aahs at multi-colored flecks sprinkled over a 12-inch pie won't disguise the fact that this is, simply, a cheese pizza with edible sparkles. Here's the one-liner from my nine-year-old: "I mean, it looks cool and all, but the glitter doesn't taste like anything."
There's a little bit of that style-over-substance thing all over at Ammazza. Did I like it? Absolutely. Was I amazed? Hmm. It's still new, and there's a trendy you-gotta-go-because-it's-new-and-quirky vibe to it. (A DJ! Circular sugar-cane pizza boxes that elevate takeout pies off the bottom! You have to go get your own plates and silverware, only no one will tell you that!) And while there was an awful lot that I also found to be cool and all, much like my daughter and that glitter, I wanted all the details to live up to the hype. (Slices I can pick up! More tableside attention! A Margherita pie—with basil I can taste—that's not $19!) But as the hype and the newness taper off, the kinks will be worked out, the expectations will be more realistic, and I believe Ammazza will find itself on the shortlist of the city's top pizza joints.
...And maybe even find a way to make glitter pizza taste like something.
About the Author: Todd Brock lives the glamorous life of a stay-at-home freelance writer in the suburbs of Atlanta. Besides being paid to eat cheeseburgers for AHT and pizzas for Slice, he's written and produced over 1,000 hours of television and penned Building Chicken Coops for Dummies. When he grows up, he wants to be either the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys or the drummer for Hootie & the Blowfish. Or both.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., and Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll addressed more than 400 workers Monday at the Kaman Aerostructures facility in Jacksonville to warn about the threat to U.S. economic and military strength posed by $500 billion in sequestration budget cuts scheduled for January.
A study commissioned by Aerospace Industries Association last year found that Florida could lose more than 39,000 jobs if Congress does not act to stop the cuts.
In addition to Crenshaw, a member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, and Carroll, workers also heard from Textron Inc. Chairman and CEO Scott C. Donnelly, Sohacki Industries President Tom Sohacki, Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Marion C. Blakey and Kaman Corporation Chairman, President and CEO Neal J. Keating. The speakers warned that with only 225 days until the cuts begin, Congress needs to act this summer to stop the clock on sequestration and enact alternative means of deficit reduction.
"We're here because there's a real crisis brewing for our company, for our industry and for our country," Keating said. "We need to do something about it. Together we'll make sure that this company stays strong and that this country is always second to none."
Aerospace and defense supports more than 167,000 jobs in Florida, bringing $14 billion in revenue and fueling $5 billion in exports -- an economic powerhouse that has needlessly been placed at risk, officials said.
"The aerospace and defense industry now supports more than 3.5 million American jobs, and drives two and a quarter percent of U.S. GDP," Blakey said. "This industry -- and especially its workers -- is a critical national asset. Does anyone think we can afford to lose these jobs?"
AIA said it began its Second to None campaign to educate leaders, elected officials and the general public about the threat sequestration cuts pose to national security, economy and industrial base capabilities. Rallies like Monday's event are being scheduled across the nation to bring home the risk to innovative companies like Kaman Corporation and to urge Congress to find an alternative to sequestration cuts as soon as possible to avoid massive disruptions in workforce and businesses, officials said.
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More than 11 years after Michael Bloomberg became mayor, some major business figures are said to wonder -- and worry -- about what will follow the billionaire entrepreneur's Dec. 31 departure from New York City Hall.
Republican Joseph Lhota won early billing as the "business-backed" mayoral candidate, having held prominent executive posts for Madison Square Garden, the Giuliani administration and the MTA.
But no mainstream candidate calls himself "anti-business," and most seek support at least from individual developers, executives and proprietors.
Kathryn Wylde, who heads the business-oriented Partnership for New York City, which doesn't endorse candidates, says: "Ultimately, the business community is concerned about continuing the quality-of-life priorities of the Bloomberg administration -- safety, improving the education system, and having decent, attractive neighborhoods. At the same time, there's concern that the mayor and the city be generally pro-growth," and avoid the temptation to hike taxes, Wylde says.
Boldface names backing Lhota include Peter Kalikow, a midtown-based fixture in real estate; James Tisch, CEO of Loews Corp.; and Kenneth Langone, chairman of Invemed Associates investment firm. More of Lhota's contributors will surface next week with a new round of required disclosures.
John Catsimatidis, the self-made supermarket billionaire who's also seeking the GOP nomination, often speaks of $7,000 worth of tickets issued each week to trucks serving his stores. Says his spokesman Rob Ryan: "The campaign is looking for support in two main segments of the business community -- civic leaders and financial leaders in Manhattan, and the small-businessmen and women of all five boroughs, the backbone of our city's neighborhoods."
Also seeking the GOP nod is Independence Party designee Adolfo Carrion, the former Bronx borough president, who envisions boosting tourism. "About 350,000 jobs are associated with the tourism industry," Carrion said at a recent forum. "We should set a goal for 70 million tourists by 2015."
Among Democrats, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has won plaudits from Steve Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, who said "she clearly recognizes that business is an important partner in the future of the city. And I'm grateful for her strong leadership on not only lower Manhattan and [superstorm] Sandy, but for so many issues."
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A Philadelphia father has been accused of beating his 3-month-old son to death.
Samuel Cabrera, 27, was arrested and charged with murder.
Cabrera's neighbor, Rashawn Reddick, didn't hold back her disgust when she learned of the accusations.
"It makes me sick to my stomach," she said. "A 3-month-old innocent baby. It makes me want to cry."
Last Tuesday, 3-month-old Samuel Cabrera Jr., of the 600 block of North 63rd Street, was rushed to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in critical condition.
Doctors say the baby had suffered two broken bones, a ruptured spleen and liver and that all of his abdominal organs had been crushed. The child later died from his injuries.
When Cabrera and the child's mother were questioned, sources close to the investigation say the couple gave conflicting stories.
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Cabrera allegedly told police however that he was trying to knock the family dog off the bed and accidentally hit the baby.
Sources told NBC10's Nefertiti Jaquez that Cabrera eventually confessed to killing his own child. He was arrested and charged with murder.
Cabrera's 15-month-old daughter as well as three other children his partner had from a previous relationship also lived with the couple, according to sources close to the investigation. All of the children are currently living with relatives.
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One of the most perplexing and troubling criminal cases in New London's history is drawing to a close with news that the last of the six defendants charged in connection with the 2010 murder of Matthew Chew has entered a guilty plea.
There is no satisfaction in this. On Oct. 29, 2010, Matthew Chew, 25, a musician and artist, was walking home from his job as a pizza cook when the six young thugs set upon him. He became the victim of a random act of violence. It could have been any of us. Stabbed, his dying words were a question, "Why? Why is this happening to me?"
There is no good answer to that question and likely never will be.
All the attackers were teenagers at the time, their lives forever altered by their perplexing decisions to take part in such a cold-blooded attack on a person they did not even know. Some of the sentences they face are distressingly light, but given the number of defendants, the prosecution faced a difficult challenge in assessing culpability.
This is the reality of our justice system. The prosecution knew that gaining convictions for some of the defendants was far from a certainty. Those defendants, conversely, realized they faced far steeper sentences if convicted at trial. So deals were cut. But all involved will be going to prison, the most responsible and uncooperative of them receiving the steepest penalties. The prosecution did its job.
Idris Elahi, just 17 at the time of the killing and identified as the attacker who stabbed Mr. Chew, is serving a 35-year sentence for murder after pleading guilty.
Rahshad Perry and Matias Perry, both 17 at the time, refused to cooperate with police and face 15-year sentences after entering guilty pleas to manslaughter. They are not related.
Brian Rabell, 18 when he participated in the attack, Tyree Bundy and Marquis Singleton, both 17 then, expect to receive eight-year prison terms after pleading to manslaughter. Prosecutors cited their cooperation in explaining the proposed lighter sentences.
In a commendable act of compassion, New London Superior Court Judge Susan B. Handy plans to schedule the sentencings for consecutive days in February or March, making it easier for Mr. Chew's parents to attend. They live in California.
The story of what happened the night of the killing has changed little since police made arrests a few weeks after the attack. Mr. Elahi and the other teens were hanging out at his home. Something they were watching on TV turned their thoughts and discussion to violence. Rahshad Perry chided Mr. Elahi about whether he would be willing to stab someone. The challenge was accepted. The six teens set out for a victim. They confronted Mr. Chew on Huntington Street, circling and preventing his escape.
Why did none of them speak up about the insanity, cruelty and likely repercussions of this hunt for an innocent victim? Was it peer pressure? Fear of appearing weak? Desensitizing caused by immersion in violent entertainment?
Revenge, jealousy and robbery are at least comprehensible as motivations for violence. But a group of boys setting out to attack someone for no more reason than a dare? That is truly terrifying.
Terror and hopelessness cannot be allowed to win.
Mr. Chew's family and friends continue to recall a kind and energetic soul. New London's downtown streets remain active. Since that awful day, increased youth activities and extended school days have provided more opportunities for the city's young people to keep active.
Continuing to work to improve the community, remembering a wonderful life cut far too short and punishing the guilty are the best a city, and a society, can do.
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Every morning when I walk downstairs, I face the choice between two keyboards.
The first, of course, is the one on my laptop, stashed out of sight for aesthetic reasons, but ever beckoning. I feed the cats, heat the water for coffee and within 5 minutes I'm online, jumping back into a marathon I have little chance of ever finishing.
It's because of my laptop that I no longer even notice the second keyboard, even though it's the size of a piano.
Actually it is a piano, a baby grand at that, a 1934 Baldwin that I've loved ever since we met at a liquidation sale, even if it is nicked and stained and in sore need of a new sound board (just ask anyone who's ever tuned it). For several years after we bought it, Mr. Baldwin and I had quite a thing going. I played him nearly every day, relearning classical pieces I'd tackled in high school and noodling through my favorite movie soundtracks and cheesy pop hits.
But for the past several years — ever since we got home access to work email — Mr. Baldwin does little more than fill the corner of the living room that had cried out for it 16 years ago when we bought our house.
In that corner was stationed another piano, one I'd once loved — a small, inexpensive spinet I'd bought years earlier with a birthday check from my grandparents. It was an enormous extravagance at the time. It also turned out to be the best investment I ever made for my sanity.
I was in my early 30s, with a house, a husband, young daughters and a newspaper job I'd worked hard to get. Settling into life as a grown-up, I missed playing. It was also starting to really bother me that my 8-year-old was already years older than I was when I'd started lessons. At one point, my dad passed on an electronic keyboard, but it just wasn't the same. A real piano, with lessons for the kids, was something I'd always assumed would be part of our lives.
I'd been lucky enough to grow up in a house full of music, whether it was my mom playing guitar for our Brownie troop singalongs and listening to Bob Dylan on the "hi-fi," or my dad pounding out a feisty version of "Take Five" on the upright he'd bought for $40 as a college student (a price that jumped to $60 when, in his excitement, he got a speeding ticket on the way home).
My mom turned her energies to art, but my dad's still a talented pianist who has self-recorded several CDs and still gets paid to do gigs. His mother had also been a versatile musician. She, too, played the piano by ear, sang in Stanford's Glee Club in the early 1930s, and was the go-to soloist at any church she ever belonged to. When her longtime opera teacher died, he left her his Steinway.
For several years, I'd been trying to talk my husband at the time into getting a piano, but he had concerns — completely legitimate concerns — about where could we possibly squeeze it into our living room, a tiny shoebox that barely held a couch, chair and dining room table. He loved listening to albums, too, but his own experience didn't go beyond playing grade-school clarinet.
In an act of defiance that was the beginning of the end of that marriage, I told him I was going shopping and did so — at a used piano store in downtown Oakland. I found something serviceable, delivery included, for close to the exact amount of my birthday gift. A bookshelf was emptied and moved. I found a piano teacher for the girls, asked my parents to mail me my old sheet music, and was soon fumbling my way through Bach's "Solfeggietto" for the first time in 15 years.
Which, come to think of it, is what I really should be doing right now, on this cloudy Sunday afternoon, rather than tap, tap, tapping at this keyboard that makes no music. And these days, I have no one to blame but myself.
The problem is, I may love my piano, but it's my laptop I'm wedded to. Maybe that's because I didn't inherit my father and grandmother's music gene. How my father, who reads music well can also play by ear, shifting keys on a dime to suit a singer's voice, for example, is one of the great mysteries of my life. That I will never play by ear, and have no talent for jazz, is one of its disappointments. If I were a better musician, perhaps the lure of my laptop wouldn't be so incredibly seductive these days.
Still, when I make time, Mr. Baldwin and I have a great time together. And on the rare occasions we do, the man I married a few years after that first marriage fell apart couldn't be happier. In fact, he's the one who bought him for me, in part because a piano that size was exactly what our living room needed. He also enjoys a predinner glass of wine, his book and some live music — even with lots of wrong notes — in the background.
Besides, he'd by far prefer me to be spending time with Mr. Baldwin — rather than my laptop, iPad or phone — any day of the week.
Lisa Wrenn is the Executive Features Editor for the Bay Area News Group. Contact her at lwrenn@bayareanewsgroup or Twitter.com/lwrenn.


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Adrian Tomine can draw, think, write and feel. He sees everything, he knows everything; he's in your apartment, he's on the subway, he's in your dreams. He knows about aging baseball fans and delusional horticulturists, he knows hapless fathers and awkward nerd-girl stand-ups, he knows the single and the married, the mad and the sane, knows when to use a speech a bubble and when silence is enough. He has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime.Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth and NW
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After enjoying over six months on the New York Times Bestseller list and receiving a rave review from the same institution, acclaimed cartoonist Adrian Tomine's Killing and Dying is now available in paperback, with an updated cover and French flaps. With this work, Tomine (Shortcomings, Scenes from an Impending Marriage) reaffirms his place not only as one of the most significant creators of contemporary comics, but as one of the great voices of modern American literature. His gift for capturing emotion and intellect resonates: the weight of love and its absence, the pride and disappointment of family, the anxiety and hopefulness of being alive in the twenty-first century.
"Amber Sweet" shows the disastrous impact of mistaken identity in a hyper-connected world; "A Brief History of the Art Form Known as Hortisculpture" details the invention and destruction of a vital new art form; "Translated, from the Japanese," is a lush, full-color display of storytelling through still images; the title story, "Killing and Dying," centers on parenthood, mortality, and stand-up comedy. In six interconnected, darkly funny stories, Tomine forms a quietly moving portrait of contemporary life.
Adrian Tomine is a master of the small gesture, equally deft at signaling emotion via a subtle change of expression or writ large across landscapes illustrated in full color. Killing and Dying is a fraught, realist masterpiece.
Praise for Killing and Dying
No one uses minimalism to grab your heart quite like Tomine.Vulture: Top 10 Graphic Novels 2015
This new collection of six interconnected graphic stories is as masterfully wrought as past achievements like Sleepwalk and Summer Blonde, and just as hauntingly evocative of modern American loneliness, anxiety, and hope...Tomine pays attention to the minute gestures: a nervous cross-and-re-cross of the arms, the brief moment when someone glances down at their feet between sentences.Village Voice
"The question looming is: What are we doing with our lives? Tomine offers no easy answers, but his virtuosic touch enriches the exploration."Max Winter, The Boston Globe
Adrian Tomine has established himself as one of the nation's greatest and most versatile cartoonists.Salon
Tomine has created a deft, deadpan masterpiece filled with heartache interspersed with the shock of beauty.Publishers Weekly, starred review
Imagine Raymond Carver's writing sensibilities overlaid with Edward Hopper's art (or vice versa) and the end result might be Adrian Tomine's graphic short stories: they are serious literature in a graphic form. Tomine's work is spare yet dense and every image and word counts. His new collection brings together six interconnected, yet stylistically diverse stories.Phoenix New Times
Tomine may be my favorite comics artist — deft and subtle, with a bittersweet understanding of the tension between aspiration and loss...Moving, sharply rendered, these are comics where the real action takes place between the lines.Los Angeles Times
Graphically, Tomine excels at imbuing every figure—big or small—with individualized traits (hands on hips, cocked shoulder), giving the sense that the story's focus could shift deep into the background and still find rich, full life. Achingly human and divinely rendered.Kirkus Reviews
Tomine's lines are so clean and precise, his compositions so natural-looking, that it's easy to treat his images as transparent vessels of meaning, the cellophane wrapper enfolding the tart, bright candy of the plot. But even his smallest, plainest panels are heavy with subtext, thick with unstated emotion and full of the kind of information that can never quite be conveyed in language.New York Times Book Review
As a serious cartoonist, one secretly hopes to create "That Book": a book that can be passed to a literary-minded person who doesn't normally read comics; one that doesn't require any explanation or apology in advance and is developed enough in its attitude, humanity and complexity that it speaks maturely for itself... Adrian Tomine's Killing and Dying may finally be That Book, and I'm amazed and heartened by it.Chris Ware
One of art comic's most revered talents returns with his latest collection of emotionally haunting tales of American life. Think the best of what '90s independent cinema was going for, but with better a better aesthetic.Details.com
... Every panel is crisp, almost painfully clean in its rendering, and evocative of the emotions it doesn't actually show.Douglas Wolk, Artforum


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Ms. Faliks has performed numerous recitals and concerti in prestigious venues in the US and internationally. She has been featured on radio and international television broadcasts, and has performed in major venues such as Carnegie Hall's Weill Concert Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paris' Salle Cortot, Chicago's Orchestra Hall, Moscow's Tchaikovsky Hall and in numerous important festivals.
As part of the series, Faliks will perform her special lecture/concert titled Three Jewish Composers, Three Centuries with compositions by Arnold Shoenberg (19th century), George Gershwin (20th century), and Lev "Ljova" Zhurbin (21st century).


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Fachbereich Mathematik
Year of publication
- 1999 (1) (remove)
Transition from Kinetic Theory to Macroscopic Fluid Equations: A Problem fo Domain Decomposition and a Source for New Algorithms (1999)
In the paper we discuss the transition from kinetic theory to macroscopic fluid equations, where the macroscopic equations are defined as aymptotic limits of a kinetic equation. This relation can be used to derive computationally efficient domain decomposition schemes for the simulaion of rarefied gas flows close to the continuum limit. Moreover, we present some basic ideas for the derivation of kinetic induced numerical schemes for macroscopic equations, namely kinetic schemes for general conservation laws as well as Lattice-Boltzmann methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.


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Wendy Paszkiewicz, Psy.D.
Wendy Paszkiewicz, Psy.D.
Vice President of Academic Affairs
Wendy B. Paszkiewicz is the Vice President of Academic Affairs and has been with Adler University since 2004. Dr. Paszkiewicz earned her Bachelor's of Science in Psychology from Michigan State University and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology.
Dr. Paszkiewicz is a licensed clinical psychologist and her primary area of interest is the integration of socially responsible practice in the education and training of future mental health professionals. Other interest areas include child and adolescent well-being and development, advocacy, leadership, and women's issues. She has been in higher education for 15 years and has served in administrative/faculty positions including Director of Clinical Training and Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs prior to her current role.
Her current activities include serving as a peer-reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission, a site visitor for the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association and a Federal Education Advocacy Regional Coordinator (FEDAC) for the American Psychological Association (APA) Education Government Relations Office.
Dr. Paszkiewicz has been selected to receive the 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award from Argosy University/Chicago and the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. Dr. Paszkiewicz received the 2011 Education Advocacy Grassroots Distinguished Service Award from the American Psychology Association (APA) Board of Educational Affairs. She is also involved in her local community and serves as a member of the Board for the Hoffman United Soccer Club.
- Psy.D., Clinical Psychology , Illinois School of Professional Psychology/ Chicago
- B.S., Psychology, Michigan State University
Professional Memberships
- Past-President, National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology (NCSPP)
- Co-Founder and Past-President, Association of Chicagoland Externship and Practicum Training Sites (ACEPT)
- Member, Association for the Advancement of Psychology (AAP)
- Member, American Psychological Association
- Member, Illinois Psychological Association
Select Presentations
- Campbell, C.D., Paszkiewicz, W.B. & Smith-Acuna, S. (2015, January). Interdisciplinary and Leadership Competencies: Preparing Students for Diverse Roles. Presented at the annual conference of the National Council of Schools and Programs in Professional Psychology, San Diego, California.
- Lally, S.J., & Paszkiewicz, W.B. (2011). Are there fish in the sea as good as ever came out of it? A response to using the common-pool resource paradigm to resolve the internship imbalance. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 5, 205 – 208.
- Paszkiewicz, W.B. & Steil, J. (2009, January). Balancing work and family. Presented at the annual convention of the National Council of Schools and Programs in Professional Psychology, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
- Paszkiewicz, W.B. (2009, August). Women in the academy: Prospects and promises. Discussion leader, Oxford Round Table, Oxford, England.
- Barve, C., Paszkiewicz, W.B., & Khan, A. (2007, April). Strengthening the Social Consciousness of Psychology Trainees. Presented at the annual conference of the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers, San Diego, California.
- Gruba-McCallister, F. & Paszkiewicz, W.B. (2006, May). Using Service Learning to Train Socially Responsible Graduate Students. Presented at the annual convention of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology, Chicago, Illinois.
- Gruba-McCallister, F. & Paszkiewicz, W.B. (2006, April). Using Service Learning to Train Socially Responsible Graduate Students. Presented at the annual convention of the Higher Learning Commission, Chicago, Illinois.
- Paszkiewicz, W.B. (2005, January). Presentation of data from the 2005 NCSPP Self Study, and complementary data from the 2006 Graduate Study in Psychology and 2004-05 Faculty Salary Survey. Presented at the annual conference of the National Council of Schools and Programs in Professional Psychology, Las Vegas, Nevada.


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Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott face a common challenge before the September 14 election - to win the trust of disengaged voters who neither like nor trust them.
There may have been occasions when two leaders who inspire such negative reactions in the suburbs have faced off, but they do not come readily to mind.
Mr Abbott starts as favourite, with the national polls pointing to an emphatic Coalition victory, but he has one big problem - a seemingly entrenched disapproval rating of more than 60 per cent across all age groups and states at the end of 2012.
Ms Gillard is the underdog, but seems fortified by having survived all manner of threats, internal and external, in the past 12 months.
Her decision to remove one source of speculation - the election date - is all about restoring credibility and rebuilding a sense of certainty among the disaffected and the cynical. There are enough of them in a handful of seats in western Sydney alone to sweep Labor from power.
This was an unprecedented call for an almost unprecedented challenge, as bold as exercising her ''captain's pick'' to secure Nova Peris in the Senate. In ceding tactical advantage to Mr Abbott she is hoping to win strategic reward.
The common ground is a recognition that what voters want is cause for optimism and confidence in the face of rising cost of living pressures and job insecurity. Hence, the early slogans - Mr Abbott's ''Hope, Reward and Opportunity'' versus Ms Gillard's ''Jobs, Opportunity and Fairness''.
Ms Gillard's challenge is to give credibility to her slogan by detailing how she intends to pay for the big-ticket items - her ''crusade'' on education and the national disability insurance scheme - and to convince voters that Mr Abbott is a risk.
Mr Abbott's past success has been singularly focused on attacking the government's - and Ms Gillard's - record. He has to make this contest about more than the past and spell out how he would deliver less tax and regulation and more competence in government - and, yes, how he would stop the boats.
Geographically, the picture is complex. Labor's vote in 2010 was at historical lows in Queensland and Western Australia, suggesting some scope for gains if Ms Gillard is seen to deliver. While this potential is greater in Queensland because of the early unpopularity of Campbell Newman's government, it is at least matched by the prospect of Labor sustaining heavy losses in New South Wales and Tasmania, where some observers predict a wipeout.
This was always going to be a year that promised surprises and uncertainty, including leadership speculation on both sides of politics. This is why it makes sense for Ms Gillard to remove one source of instability - and why Mr Abbott welcomed a dose of certainty.
Michael Gordon was one of Australia's most respected journalists. He won many honours, including the Graham Perkin award for Australia's most outstanding journalist and the Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism. His reporting turned an unflinching spotlight on the treatment of asylum seekers and the injustices faced by many Indigenous Australians. He suffered a fatal heart attack in 2018, a week after filing his last story.


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Jun 22, 2012 6:56 PM GMT
NY TimesTHE bereaved reactions on Twitter came from all over: Kim Hastreiter, the editor of Paper Magazine; Bruce LaBruce, the independent film director; and Jake Shears of the Scissor Sisters, who called his recently departed friend "brave" and "honest."
The source of their grief?
Erik Rhodes, 30, a 6-foot-4, 258-pound gay pornographic-film star who died last Thursday in Manhattan from a heart attack after a nearly decade-long career that had made him an unlikely celebrity in some New York social circles. He appeared regularly on Page Six, spent time with the designer Marc Jacobs, was profiled in magazines that had nothing to do with pornography, and shot an ad campaign for Loehmann's.
Over the last few years, he had also been the author of a harrowing (and frequently clever) Tumblr feed, on which he detailed his escapades escorting, his rampant steroid use and his stories of winding up in psychiatric wards after crystal meth binges. (The blog was taken down last weekend, shortly after news of his death ricocheted around the Internet.)
Mr. Rhodes, whose given name was James Naughtin, was signed to Falcon Video in 2004, and became one of a handful of recognizable faces in an era when the industry was going through a painful economic contraction, thanks to online file sharing and free pornography sites like Xtube.
"The gay porn audience often looks to a hulking macho fantasy, and he provided that," said Michael Musto, the Village Voice gossip columnist who was friendly with Mr. Rhodes. "He was Thor, the Hulk and the rest of the 'Avengers' cast wrapped in a gay package. And the fashion connection and the fact that he had a brain elevated him from your everyday escort-slash-porn-god and gave him texture."
Mickey Boardman, the editorial director of Paper, said, "We would see him out all the time," adding: "He was hilarious. He was totally self-aware, and the stories he would tell me were unbelievable."
Mr. Rhodes grew up with his identical twin, Jon Naughtin, in Massapequa, N.Y., two children whose parents had a long and nasty divorce. Only Mr. Naughtin went to college, and Mr. Rhodes took a stream of low-paying jobs, working at a CVS and a sex-toy store, before moving into stripping and then pornographic films at 22.
At first, Mr. Naughtin, who is straight, was inclined to be open-minded about his brother's new career. "I thought it was fine," he said. "And I was a little naïve about how much money he was making. I thought, 'If it pays the bills, why not?' "
But as the Web replaced video stores as the delivery mechanism for adult content, Mr. Rhodes found his salary shrinking, even while his celebrity rose. And there were other problems.
"People faulted him for doing steroids, which was the thing that allowed him to be the ideal they wanted," said Samuel Colt, an actor who appeared with Mr. Rhodes on-screen and was a friend for the last several years of his life. "And people were always trying to push drugs onto him."
Things went from bad to worse. Mr. Rhodes got into fights with boyfriends, and the police would be called. Famous friends like Mr. Jacobs, who did not respond to calls for comment for this article, fell away. Mr. Rhodes went from using steroids to dealing them. And then, a few years ago, he tested positive for H.I.V.
According to Mr. Colt, Mr. Rhodes found this out when he went to shoot a scene for Randy Blue, a company that requires testing. "They said, 'Your test results came back, and you're H.I.V. positive,' " Mr. Colt said. Nevertheless, Randy Blue still managed to get Mr. Rhodes to film a solo scene that day, Mr. Colt said.
As the novelty of being in pornographic films wore off, Mr. Rhodes turned increasingly to the Internet, using his Tumblr feed and his Facebook page to discuss his sense of anguish. "I feel so left out ... so alone," he wrote in a post just weeks ago.
On June 13, after a night in which Mr. Rhodes was hired along with another escort to perform for a wealthy client (according to text messages later read by his brother), the two men continued the evening on their own, having sex and doing drugs. But Mr. Rhodes quickly realized that he was not feeling well and cut the evening short.
Once home, he apparently went into cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead in a hospital shortly thereafter, his brother said.
For many years, Mr. Rhodes talked of an early death, sometimes joking, sometimes not. Now it was here.
Mr. Naughtin looks back with regret at the casual attitude he took when his brother told him he was going into pornography. "I wouldn't have let him get into it," he said. "I would say that's not a direction that can lead anywhere good."


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Eeeee, a new character. I hope he's reoccuring.
He has a really nice attitude even though Alice is being really out of it.
(Also, it's awkward typing this because I keep mentioning Alice in my head and wanting to draw fanart of her as Alice, Leaf as the Mad Hatter, May as the queen and Ivory as the Cheshire Cat.. I need a life.)


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Principal Proposed Natural Treatments
Other Proposed Natural Treatments
Scleroderma, technically called systemic sclerosis or SSc, is a disease of unknown cause that affects the connective tissues of the skin and various organs. Common symptoms include thickening and tightening of the skin (beginning with the extremities), Raynaud's phenomenon (a condition characterized by an exaggerated reaction in the fingertips to cold exposure), joint pain (especially in the fingers and knees), esophageal reflux (heartburn), calcium deposits under the skin, and telangiectasias (mats of enlarged small blood vessels). Scleroderma can lead to serious complications, such as fibrosis of the lungs, heart, and kidneys; for this reason, medical supervision is essential. There is no cure as yet for scleroderma, although drugs may be used to alleviate the various individual symptoms of the disease.
Proposed Treatments in Scleroderma
The supplement PABA has been suggested as a treatment for scleroderma.1,2 A 4-month, double-blind study of 146 people with longstanding, stable scleroderma failed to find any evidence of benefit. However, half of the participants in this trial dropped out before the end, making the results unreliable.3
The herb gotu kola has a long history of use for various skin conditions; for this reason, it has been tried as a treatment for scleroderma.4 However, as yet there is no meaningful evidence that it is effective. Other herbs and supplements proposed for treatment of scleroderma (but that do not have any significant supporting evidence) include boswellia, thymus extract, MSM, antioxidants (e.g. the antioxidant vitamins vitamin C, vitamin E, and beta-carotene, and the mineral selenium, which supports the body's own antioxidant defense system), and danshen root. (One study failed to find vitamin C helpful for the treatment of Raynaud's phenomenon associated with scleroderma.5
One highly preliminary study suggests that acupuncture might have value for this condition.6
Finally, several herbs and supplements have shown promise for treating the individual symptoms of scleroderma. For more information, see the articles on Raynaud's phenomenon, rheumatoid arthritis, and esophageal reflux.
Herbs and Supplements to Avoid in Scleroderma
Combination therapy with the supplement 5-HTP and the drug carbidopa has reportedly caused skin changes similar to those that occur in scleroderma.7–9 Furthermore, L-tryptophan, a supplement closely related to 5-HTP, has been taken off the market because it caused numerous cases of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome, which is sometimes regarded as a close relative of scleroderma. It is thought that this outbreak was due to a contaminant in a certain batch of the supplement, but some controversy about this explanation remains.
Finally, various herbs and supplements may interact adversely with drugs used to prevent or treat scleroderma. For more information on this potential risk, see the appropriate individual drug articles in the Drug Interactions section of this database.
1. Zarafonetis CJ, Dabich L, Skovronski JJ, et al. Retrospective studies in scleroderma: skin response to potassium para-aminobenzoate therapy. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 1988;6:261–268.
2. Zarafonetis CJ, Dabich L, Negri D, et al. Retrospective studies in scleroderma: effect of potassium para-aminobenzoate on survival. J Clin Epidemiol. 1988;41:193–205.
3. Clegg DO, Reading JC, Mayes MD. Comparison of aminobenzoate potassium and placebo in the treatment of scleroderma. J Rheumatol. 1994;21:105–110.
4. Kartnig T. Clinical applications of Centella asiatica (L.) Urb. Herbs Spices Med Plants. 1988;3:145–173.
5. Mavrikakis ME, Lekakis JP, Papamichael CM, et al. Ascorbic acid does not improve endothelium-dependent flow-mediated dilatation of the brachial artery in patients with Raynaud's phenomenon secondary to systemic sclerosis. Int J Vitam Nutr Res. 2003;73:3–7.
6. Maeda M, Kachi H, Ichihashi N, et al. The effect of electrical acupuncture-stimulation therapy using thermography and plasma endothelin (ET-1) levels in patients with progressive system sclerosis (PSS). J Dermatol Sci. 1998;17:151–155.
7. Sternberg EM, Van Woert MH, Young SN, et al. Development of a scleroderma-like illness during therapy with L-5-hydroxytryptophan and carbidopa. N Engl J Med. 1980;303:782–787.
8. Joly P, Lampert A, Thomine E, et al. Develoment of pseudobullous morphea and scleroderma-like illness during therapy with L-5-hydroxytryptophan and carbidopa. J Am Acad Dermatol. 1991;25:332–333.
9. Auffranc JC, Berbis P, Fabre JF, et al. Sclerodermiform and poikilodermal syndrome observed during treatment with carbidopa and 5-hydroxytryptophan [translated from French]. Ann Dermatol Venereol. 1985;112:691–692.
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Kent State Professor to Host American Library Association Youth Media Awards on Jan. 28
Carolyn Brodie, Ph.D., associate professor in Kent State University's School of Library and Information Sciences, will serve as emcee for the 2013 American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards. The event takes place Monday, Jan. 28, at 8 a.m. Pacific Time (11 a.m. Eastern time) in the Washington State Convention Center.
Brodie is president of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association. The ALSC is the world's largest organization dedicated to the support and enhancement of library service to children. ALSC's network includes more than 4,200 children's and youth librarians, children's literature experts, publishers, education and library school faculty members, and other adults dedicated to creating a better future for children through libraries.
More than 1,300 onsite audience members and an unlimited number of virtual participants will join a webcast to see the recipients of top honors among children's and young adult authors and illustrators, as well as producers of children's audio and video materials.
Among the 19 awards presented at the Youth Media Awards program are the prestigious Caldecott Medal (75th anniversary), which honors the illustrator of the year's most distinguished American picture book for children; Coretta Scott King Book Award for African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults that communicate the African American experience; John Newbery Medal, honoring the author of the year's most outstanding contribution to children's literature; Michael L. Printz Award for the best book written for young adults; Pura Belpré Award, honoring Latino writers and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in a work of literature for youth; and the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award, for both the author(s) and illustrator(s) of an outstanding book for beginning readers.
You can follow along in real time by logging in to the ALA Youth Media Awards Facebook page or via Twitter by following #ALAyma.
For more information, visit the ALA Youth Media Awards page atwww.ala.org/news/mediapresscenter/presskits/youthmediaawards/alayouthmed.... The site includes 12 video presentations titled ALA Youth Media Awards in Motion, which are clips from past award announcements and events.


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Did you know…
- On average in the United States in 2009, someone died in a fire every 175 minutes, and someone was injured every 31 minutes (Karter 2010).
- About 85% of all U.S. fire deaths in 2009 occurred in homes during the winter months (Karter 2010).
- Approximately 4 out of 10 home fire deaths occur in homes without smoke alarms (Aherns 2009).
- On February 22, 2010- 'Amanda's Law' took effect. The law requires carbon monoxide detectors in every 1-2 family property, apartments, and multiple dwellings.
- It is also NYS law that all homes have working smoke detectors installed.
Q: How does a smoke alarm work?
A: Smoke alarms are devices that recognize when there is smoke in the air. A loud beeping sound is activated if smoke is detected in your home to warn you of a fire.
Q: How do we know where to put smoke alarms in our homes, so we are safe?
A: You should install and maintain smoke alarms in your home on every floor and near all bedrooms.
Q: Do we need to check our smoke alarms to make sure they are working?
A: YES. Test smoke alarms once a month to make sure they are working properly. This is easy; just use the 'test' button on the smoke alarm to make sure it sounds an alarm.
You should change smoke alarm batteries once a year.
Children can help their parents remember to check smoke alarms and change batteries by marking dates on the calendar.
Q: What do we do if the smoke alarm goes off?
A: You and your family should leave the house immediately if a smoke alarm goes off. You need to have an escape plan. Parents and children should create and then practice a family escape plan. Your family should make a plan that has two ways to get out of every room and a meeting place outside of your home.


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mercoledì 23 novembre 2011
Infos: The Humble Introversion Bundle
It's time for a new Humble Bundle! This time, it's about the Introversion team, and it contains 4 great indie games: "Uplink", multi-awarded game "Darwinia", "Multiwinia" (a multiplayer version of Darwinia) and "Defcon". BUT... If you pay more than the average cost of the bundle (now 3.63$), you will get also the multi-awarded "Crayon Physics Deluxe" and "Aquaria"!!
So... What are you waiting for?
This offer ends in 14 days, so don't be stupid and be quick!
Pay as you want for some awesome games and enjoy them!
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lunedì 21 novembre 2011
Infos: Wine 1.3.33 released
The Wine development release 1.3.33 is now available. What's new in this release (see below for details): - Support for text output in the DIB engine. - Improved support for HTTP proxies. - New version of the Gecko engine. - A number of cursor fixes. - Some fixes in bidirectional text layout. - Various bug fixes. The source is available from the following locations: http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.3.33.tar.bz2 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.3.33.tar.bz2
For more details (and the complete list of bug fixes) follow this link:
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giovedì 10 novembre 2011
Infos: Wine 1.3.32 released
The Wine development release 1.3.32 is now available. What's new in this release (see below for details): - BiDi text support in the multi-line edit control. - Support for pattern brushes in the DIB engine. - A number of MSXML fixes. - Improvements to the PostScript driver. - Various bug fixes. The source is available from the following locations: http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.3.32.tar.bz2 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.3.32.tar.bz2
For more details (and the complete list of bug fixes) follow this link:
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lunedì 7 novembre 2011
Let's Play: P-UAE
Welcome everybody again to a new Let's Play! This time, i want to talk about P-UAE. What's P-UAE? P-UAE is a Commodore Amiga emulator for Linux. It's easy to use, free, and highly customizable. Well... Let's go!
A hard choice... Or not?
P-UAE is a native linux Commodore Amiga emulator, so there's no choice.
Talking about performances...
First of all my hardware:
agp_aperture_size: 256
cpu: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor
cpu_ghz: 0.80
distro: Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric
kernel: 3.0.0-13-generic
machine_bitness: 64
memory: 3960
soundcard: HDA ATI SB at 0xfbcf4000 irq 16
soundcard_driver: ALSA Version 1.0.23
videocard_direct: True
videocard_driver_version: 4.1.0 NVIDIA 280.13
videocard_manufacturer: NVIDIA Corporation
videocard_ram: 1024
videocard_type: GeForce GTX 550 Ti/PCI/SSE2
x_version: X.Org X Server 1.10.1
This time there's no comparison because being an old games emulator, performances depend by the emulator itself and not by the OS.
Anyway, performances are great on Ubuntu (this time, 11.10 64-bit version)!
The process takes about 10 minutes (including program download, alien download, rpm to deb converting and program installation).
The site at the beginning of the video is "http://pkgs.org/download/p-uae".
Feel free to send me an email or leave a comment if you got some problems or if you just wanna ask me a question. I will always answer you!
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martedì 1 novembre 2011
Infos: The Humble Voxatron Debut (+ contest)
Joy! A new humble bundle is here! Well... This is not a real "bundle", but it's humble for sure!
This time, Humble Bundle team has created this package which includes the very first alpha version of a cute platform indie game called "Voxatron".
From the site:
"Jump into the Voxatron alpha and shoot your way through twenty challenging areas filled with blocky baddies, destructible toys, and palliative powerups."
That's not all: every update will be free for the Humble Voxatron Debut customers! Pay what you want for this game!
UPDATE: Humble Bundle team has just added 2 games! They are "The Binding of Isaac" and "Blocks that matter". If you pay more than the average price (4 dollars) you get these 2 games AND Voxatron!
UPDATE #2: Yes! Added other 4 games! From Cryptic Sea, here's "Gish"! And then from the same creators of Voxatron, there are 3 new mini-games called "Jasper's Journeys", "Chocolate Castle" and "Zen Puzzle Garden"! Enjoy :)
Hey! Don't go away! Please enjoy my first "Humble Bundle UGP contest"!!!
What's that?
Well, it's simple: like my facebook page, follow my twitter account and leave a comment in this thread. The best comment will receive a free Humble Voxatron Debut from me!
So please, put your facebook and your twitter nickname into your comment, so i can recognize you!
Good luck everyone!
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