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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a long-term condition where the kidneys don't work as well as they should.
It's a common condition often associated with getting older. Anyone can get it, although it's more common in black people and people of south Asian origin.
CKD can get gradually worse over time and eventually the kidneys may stop working altogether, but this is uncommon. Many people with kidney disease are able to live long, largely normal lives.
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Symptoms of CKD
There are usually no symptoms of kidney disease in the early stages. It may only be picked up if blood or urine tests carried out for another reason detect a possible problem with your kidneys.
When it reaches a more advanced stage, symptoms can include:
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See your GP if you have persistent or worrying symptoms that you think could be caused by kidney disease.
Read more about the symptoms of CKD ↗.
Causes of CKD
Kidney disease is usually caused by other conditions that put a strain on the kidneys. Often it's the result of a combination of different problems.
CKD can be caused by:
- high blood pressure ↗ – over time, this can put strain on the small blood vessels in the kidneys and stop the kidneys working properly
- diabetes ↗ – too much glucose in your blood can damage the tiny filters in the kidneys
- high cholesterol ↗ – this can cause a build-up of fatty deposits in the blood vessels supplying your kidneys, which can make it harder for them to work properly
- kidney infections ↗
- glomerulonephritis ↗ – kidney inflammation
- polycystic kidney disease ↗ – an inherited condition where growths called cysts develop in the kidneys
- blockages in the flow of urine – for example, from recurrent kidney stones ↗ or an enlarged prostate ↗
- long-term, regular use of certain medicines – such as lithium and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) ↗
You can help prevent CKD ↗ by making healthy lifestyle changes and ensuring any underlying conditions you have are well controlled.
Tests for CKD
CKD can be diagnosed using blood and urine tests. These tests are used to look for high levels of certain substances in your blood and urine that are signs your kidneys aren't working properly.
If you're at a high risk of developing kidney disease – for example, you have one of the conditions mentioned above – you may be advised to have regular tests to check for CKD so it's picked up at an early stage.
The results of your blood and urine tests can be used to tell the stage of your kidney disease. This is a number that reflects how severe the damage to your kidneys is, with a higher number indicating more serious CKD.
Read more about how CKD is diagnosed ↗.
Treatments for CKD
There's no cure for CKD, but treatment can help relieve the symptoms and stop it getting worse.
Your treatment will depend on how severe your kidney disease is.
The main treatments are:
- lifestyle changes to ensure you remain as healthy as possible
- medication to control associated problems such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol
- dialysis ↗ – treatment to replicate some of the kidney's functions; this may be necessary in advanced CKD
- kidney transplant ↗ – this may also be necessary in advanced CKD
You'll also be advised to have regular check-ups to monitor your condition.
Read more about how CKD is treated ↗ and living with CKD ↗.
Outlook for CKD
CKD can range from a mild condition with no or few symptoms, to a very serious condition where the kidneys stop working, sometimes called kidney failure.
Most people with CKD will be able to control their condition with medication and regular check-ups. CKD only progresses to kidney failure in around 1 in 50 people with the condition.
But if you have CKD, even if it's mild, you're at an increased risk of developing other serious problems, such as cardiovascular disease ↗. This is a group of conditions affecting the heart and blood vessels, which includes heart attacks ↗ and strokes ↗.
Cardiovascular disease is one of the main causes of death in people with kidney disease, although healthy lifestyle changes and medication can help reduce your risk of developing it.
Want to know more?
- British Kidney Patient Association ↗
- infoKID: children's kidney conditions ↗
- Kidney Research UK: chronic kidney disease ↗
- National Kidney Federation: about the kidneys ↗
Social care and support guide
If you:
- need help with day-to-day living because of illness or disability
- care for someone regularly because they're ill, elderly or disabled - including family members
Our guide to care and support ↗ explains your options and where you can get support.


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Jordan Kovacs was stuck in the stands as a fan at Michigan Stadium as a freshman, stewing about having his dream delayed by a lingering knee problem.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) ? Jordan Kovacs was stuck in the stands as a fan at Michigan Stadium as a freshman, stewing about having his dream delayed by a lingering knee problem.
"It ate at me because I knew I was so close to making it on the team," Kovacs recalled recently in an interview with The Associated Press. "It made me hungrier."
Four years later, Kovacs will start the 45th game of his storybook career Saturday when the 20th-ranked Wolverines travel to his home state to play No. 4 Ohio State.
"I'm still pinching myself," Kovacs told The AP. "It's quite a story and it's been quite the ride, but I don't want it to end and thankfully the story isn't over yet."
He grew up in Curtice, Ohio, about 15 miles southeast of the Michigan state line, hoping to follow his father's footsteps onto the field at the Big House.
College football's winningest program, though, didn't recruit him. Smaller schools such as Hillsdale, a Division II program in Michigan, didn't even want to offer the undersized safety without blazing speed a scholarship.
Kovacs sent in an application to attend Michigan and his father sent a highlight tape to Schembechler Hall, where Rich Rodriguez was getting ready for his first season as coach, and was put on a waiting list by the school's admissions office.
In June of 2008, running out of time to find a place to take classes and play football, Kovacs accepted an offer to be a preferred walk-on at Toledo. Remarkably on the very same day, then-Michigan director of football operations Brad Labadie called his father to say his son could get into the school and would have a shot to try out for a spot on the team.
"Jordan's tape didn't make him a slam-dunk to be on the team, but what helped him was it was obvious that his dream was to play at Michigan when he called or emailed me," Labadie, who now works in the insurance business, said Tuesday night. "With walk-ons, we'd ask the question internally, 'Does the kid or the dad want this?' And without a doubt, Jordan wanted it as much as much as any walk-on ever at Michigan."
Kovacs then went through walk-on tryouts and earned a spot on the team.
Another obstacle, though, turned his dream into a nightmare.
Kovacs told Michigan's head athletic trainer, Paul Schmidt, who he knew as a kid, that he was still having problems with his surgically repaired left knee and that knocked him off the roster.
"He let me walk out the back door because he could tell how upset I was," Kovacs recalled. "That was probably the most disappointing moment of my life because I reached my ultimate goal, my dream, and it was taken away from me just like that because I was honest about my knee."
Kovacs walked back to his dorm, tears rolling down his cheeks, and called his parents to schedule another surgery on his knee in the hopes of getting healthy enough for another tryout the following spring.
When he and his mother showed up for the appointment in October of 2008, they were told that he wasn't scheduled for surgery, but she wouldn't take no for an answer and the procedure was done that day.
"So many weird things like that happened along the way," Kovacs said.
Kovacs made it through tryouts a second time in 2009 ? and passed his physical ? and quickly went from backup to key contributor that fall when safety Mike Williams left a game against Notre Dame.
"I remember standing on the sideline right next to him, he grabbed his helmet and had that deer-in-the-headlights look on his face," senior center Elliott Mealer recalled this week. "You were kind of like, 'Geez, I don't know how this guy is going to take this.' But he went out there and he hasn't looked back since."
Kovacs ended up starting eight games as a freshman and has stayed on the field as a starter ? earning All-Big Ten honorable mention recognition as a sophomore and junior ? and earned the honor of being voted as a captain this season.
Lou Kovacs said he played only in "mop-up duty" from 1980-82 for Bo Schembechler at Michigan and is beyond proud of what his son has been able to accomplish at the same storied program three decades later.
He took his son to Ohio State for a few games against Michigan when he was a kid and will be in the stands at the Horseshoe with mixed emotions as he watches his him play the Buckeyes in his last regular-season game.
"Jordan had a great career, but it's a little sad that it's coming to an end," Lou Kovcas said Tuesday. "He's a determined young man ? and always has been ? and has been very focused on reaching his dream. And the attributes that helped him do it, will serve him well for the rest of his life."


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Chick-fil-A broke the Guinness World Record for "largest gathering of people dressed as cows" Tuesday at George Mason University.
With a final tally of 470, Chick-fil-A set a new record of the most people dressed as cows at one place.
The previous record was set by Holy Trinity Catholic High School in Ontario last year when 298 people came together in full cow costumes. Eighteen Chick-fil-A franchises around Northern Virginia organized the event, which began at 10 a.m. at the Patriot Center with the official count beginning at 11 a.m.
A representative from Guinness World Records was there to count the human "cows", which will become official when those in attendance stay in position for five minutes.
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Sparta, Modern Greek Spartí, historically Lacedaemon, ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern Peloponnese, southwestern Greece. Along with the surrounding area, it forms the perifereiakí enótita (regional unit) of Laconia (Modern Greek: Lakonía) within the Peloponnese (Pelopónnisos) periféreia (region). The city lies on the right bank of the Evrótas Potamós (river). The sparsity of ruins from antiquity around the modern city reflects the austerity of the military oligarchy that ruled the Spartan city-state from the 6th to the 2nd century bce.
Reputedly founded in the 9th century bce with a rigid oligarchic constitution, the state of Sparta for centuries retained as lifetime corulers two kings who arbitrated in time of war. In time of peace, power was concentrated in a Senate of 30 members. Between the 8th and 5th century bce, Sparta subdued Messenia, reducing the inhabitants to serflike status. From the 5th century the ruling class of Sparta devoted itself to war and diplomacy, deliberately neglecting the arts, philosophy, and literature, and forged the most powerful army standing in Greece.
Sparta's single-minded dedication to rule by a militarized oligarchy precluded any hope of a political unification of Classical Greece, but it performed a great service in 480 bce by its heroic stand at Thermopylae and its subsequent leadership in the Greco-Persian wars. The Battle of Salamis (480) revealed the magnitude of Athenian naval power and set in motion the deadly struggle between the two powers that ended in Athenian defeat at the close of the Peloponnesian War in 404 and the emergence of Sparta as the most powerful state in Greece. In the Corinthian War (395–387) Sparta had two land victories over Athenian allied states and a severe naval defeat at Cnidus by a combined Athenian and Persian fleet. Sparta's involvement in Persian civil wars in Asia Minor under Agesilaus II (ruled 399–360) and the subsequent Spartan occupation (382) of the Theban citadel, Cadmea, overextended Spartan power and exposed the state to defeat at Leuctra (371) by the Theban Epaminondas, who went on to liberate Messenia. A century-long decline followed.
Sparta's continued agitation spurred Rome's war on the Achaeans (146) and the Roman conquest of the Peloponnese. In 396 ce the modest city was destroyed by the Visigoths. The Byzantines repopulated the site and gave it the ancient Homeric name Lacedaemon. After 1204 the Franks built a new fortress city, Mistra, on a spur of the Taygetus range southwest of Sparta; after 1259 Mistra was capital of the Despotate of Morea (i.e., the Peloponnese) and flourished for about two centuries. From 1460 until the War of Greek Independence (1821–29), except for a Venetian interlude, the region was under Turkish rule.
The present-day city was built in 1834 on the ancient site; it is called Néa (New) Spartí locally to distinguish it from the ruins that were excavated in 1906–10 and 1924–29. A small commercial and industrial centre of the European plain, the city trades in citrus fruits and olive oil. As in antiquity, it is served by the small port of Githion (Yíthion), 28 miles (45 km) southeast, to which it is linked by a paved road. Pop. (2001) city, 17,503; (2011) 16,239.


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We are a company with 100 years of broadcast experiences, from producing daily newscasts to creating documentry broadcasts. We are content driven and now we are focusing on helping the unemployed not only find jobs or start businesses, but also help them create balance in their lives.
This is an internet broadcast so the logo will be used on our website, in our studio and in promotional and sales pieces.
Nobody else in the country is doing a broadcast anything like ours. We feature guests who talk about preping for job interviews, trends in HR to give our audience an edge, advice on starting and maintaining a business, tips on life and wellness to help relieve stress, fitness tips and other lifestyle information.
The hosts are smart, well read, experienced interviewers yet easy going and the show, at times, has a breezy feel about it. The hosts are also share their opinons on the news of the day and how it effects the unemployed.
While based in Minneapolis, the show is national in scope with experts from all across the country appearing as guests.
The target audience is simple: people across America who are looking for work or looking to start their own business.
Job Talk America needs a logo that gives you the feel of America (the flag, red/white/blue) without being jingoistic or like Fox News. This is the most important aspect. America without feeling like we're flag waving.
It needs to reflect the national scope of the program. Since it is an internet radio program (available only at jobtalkamerica.com) it could inculde a certain web feel or it could include a broadcast feel (a mic, for example).
I've attached a flyer we created and the logo we created with free clip art. While I like it, I'm not in love with it and open to all creative applications.
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text: Economy 7 January 2013 The Shadow State: probation chiefs voice doubts about outsourcing Payment by results might work, but not the way this government is doing it, writes Alan White. Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up The Daily Mail carried an excoriating attack on the probation service last month under the headline "Nearly 50,000 criminals spared jail offend again within a year: MPs claim 'shocking' figures show failure by probation officers". Priti Patel MP was quoted: "There is clearly a problem with the probation service which is not working well to deal with this issue". The story was based on the Ministry of Justice's quarterly reoffending statistics. The only problem was that this short-term picture didn't show reoffending has in fact slightly decreased, every year, since 2000. And the figures included criminals who had received sentences under 12 months, for whom the probation service has no statutory responsibility. Did the briefing for this story come from the opposition? Surely not: Patel is a Tory. One couldn't help but notice these lines: "Justice Secretary Chris Grayling is set to announce within weeks that charities and businesses will be brought in to tackle entrenched reoffending as part of the 'rehabilitation revolution'. Yesterday he said the majority of probation work would be outsourced." Yes, the Government is laying the ground for another outsourcing "revolution". Grayling was, of course, the man who initiated the Department for Work and Pension's Work Programme, which operates on Payment by Results (PbR) lines. There's been much made of the Work Programme's failings: perhaps most relevant is the argument that it was simply wheeled out too quickly in comparison with Labour's New Deal. I'm bemused after asking Mark Ormerod, Chief Executive of the Probation Association, about this latest initiative. What's the next step in the process? "Well," he replies, "a Government announcement would be helpful. We've been waiting for a response to the consultation since June. It's not even clear who's supposed to implement what, but we know it's supposed to happen in 2014/5. We're not opposed to the idea of PbR, but it doesn't seem very far away and the only way we can see it happening is some kind of central contracting process but that cuts across a tremendous amount of work that's being done at a local level." And there's another reason it may play out this way: PbR requires contractors to put money on the table themselves at the outset (I've previously written about how this has put small charities out of business). Sebert Cox, Chairman of both the Probation Association and Durham Tees Valley Probation Trust, tells me it's likely to put off smaller charities: "We're lead to believe, by ministers and officials, that they want voluntary organisations to be an integral part of delivery. What I can tell you from a local perspective is that there'll be few small voluntary organisations that could become involved. They don't have the money – they're squeezed because of the climate in which we live. One has to be sceptical about who'll be coming forward to do this." Despite claims that the Work Programme won't be the model, it seems inevitable the likes of G4S and Serco will once again step into the vacuum. Various sources have given a vague idea of how the changes will be implemented – it appears as if the outsourced work will be targeted on those serving 12 months or fewer; giving them mentors to make sure they have homes, are signed up to drug-treatment programmes and are generally supervised as they make their way in the outside world. But it seems odd that those with a serious stake in how the changes are enacted know little more than these basic details. "There were some proposals put in the consultation paper, but how it'll mesh together isn't clear," says Ormerod. "We have concerns about the splitting of offender management and with the Probation Chiefs' Association we put in a joint response to the consultation paper, saying if you have different organisations responsible for it you lose accountability and transparency. You have that potential situation where various organisations look at each other and say 'I thought you were responsible for that' or 'That's not in our contract.'" Savas Hadjipavlou, Business Director of the Probation Chiefs Association, expands on this: "If you compare probation work with other areas that have been outsourced, it tends to work where the business is transactional and clearly defined – things like civil service pensions. If you look at probation work it involves the courts, the police, local mental health services, drug addiction workers, local authorities – half a dozen agencies at least have to come together. We're talking about behavioural change and monitoring: the idea it can be easily mapped into a simple PbR model is rather difficult to understand." He sees the probation officer's primary role as pulling together the contributions of these other agencies. "You have to preserve that, as against the purity of the PbR model which says you're not interested in the contents of what's done, you're only going to pay for the result. We've been looking at how you assess risk and it's a volatile process. It's not a precise science. High risk people can be low risk if they're taking their medication, if they've got mental health problems that are managed and so forth – that takes us back to measuring success. All those who go into prison with a Class A drug problem, for example, have a reoffending rate of 90 per cent. Government aggregates large groups and looks at the average but no sensible way of looking at success would do it by that measure." For Ormerod this leads to a central question – how can you pay by results, when the results are so hard to measure? "With the Work Programme, getting someone in a job stops benefits being paid so you get an immediate cash reward. The immediate aim with this is to close prisons because you've got reoffending down, but that's a very protracted cycle. We're talking about making a long term behavioural change – there's no point saying we'll pay you after a week. It's a far more inchoate environment in terms of working out whether success has been achieved and then saying we can pay you something." And this begs the question of whether the programme will end up being PbR in name only, in fact tending closer to a conventional outsourcing project; thus negating the transparency the Government hopes to introduce. Like many public service leaders, none of the people to whom I spoke had an issue with the fundamental idea of PbR. But when it's being introduced in such a chaotic and seemingly rushed fashion, they can hardly be forgiven for wondering if ideology is trumping pragmatism. › Microfinance shouldn't do the government's job Chris Grayling arrives at the Guildhall to attend The Lord Mayor's Banquet. Photograph: Getty Images Alan White's work has appeared in the Observer, Times, Private Eye, The National and the TLS. As John Heale, he is the author of One Blood: Inside Britain's Gang Culture. Subscribe £1 per month


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I think I have finally understood these, thanks to a blog post by Tomas Petricek on the subject.
In this post I'll try to formulate my own understanding, and how I got there using functions instead of classes.
Step 1: valuesLet us start easy, with simple values. Consider a base type, for instance IPrintable, and two derived types MyString and MyInt.
I can use a string with any function that accepts a printable object.
type IPrintable =
type MyInt() =
interface IPrintable
type MyString() =
interface IPrintable
// Step 1: simple value
let ``expects an IPrintable``(x : IPrintable) = ()
let n = MyInt()
let s = MyString()
``expects an IPrintable`` n // OK
``expects an IPrintable`` s // OK
Step 2: Parameterless functionsThe next step deals with a function that takes another function which doesn't take any parameter and returns an IPrintable. If that's confusing, think of a generic function that creates a new random printable object, then prints it. This function would let the caller be responsible for providing a function which creates the random printable object.
The code below illustrates this, but I've removed the random part. Note also that F# does not support covariance, which forces me to use flexible types.
// Step 2: a function without arguments
// No covariance in F#, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233198.aspx
let ``expects a constructor``(f : unit -> #IPrintable) = ()
let mkInt() = MyInt()
let mkString() = MyString()
``expects a constructor`` mkInt // OK
``expects a constructor`` mkString // OK
Step 3: Functions of a single parameterLet us now consider a variation of the function described above where the function responsible for creating a random object takes a MyInt (it could be the seed, for instance). Assume I have two functions newRandomMyIntWithSeed and newRandomMyStringWithSeed that both take an IPrintable. Importantly, these two functions are safe to call with any instance of IPrintable. One can imagine that such a function would use the printable representation to generate some number, used as the seed for the random generator.
I can use newRandomMyIntWithSeed and newRandomMyStringWithSeed where a function with signature MyInt -> IPrintable is expected. Notice how the relationship on types for the parameter has been inverted, compared with the case of a value or a return type. This is an example of contravariance.
No code here, but see below for a more complete example.
Step 4: Functions of multiple parametersIt's possible to keep adding more parameters, and currying helps understand which functions are safe to use.
For this last example, I'll switch to another set of types: IScalar and IVector, with their respective implementations Float32 and Vector3. We can imagine there might be other implementations, e.g. Float64 and Vector4. A function which computes the product of a scalar and a vector must return a vector. Using currying, it can also be seen as a function takes a scalar and returns a function which takes a vector and returns a vector.
If I have a function with signature Float32 -> Vector3 -> Vector3, where can I use it?
I can use it where the exact same signature is expected, obviously.
I can use it where a Float32 -> Vector3 -> IVector is expected:
- The final return types match, as shown in step 1.
- The other parameters obviously match.
A more general function with signature IScalar -> IVector -> Vector3 can be used where a Float32 -> Vector3 -> IVector is expected:
- Vector3 as a simple value can be used anywhere any IVector is expected.
- A function accepting any IVector accepts in particular Vector3, meaning such a function can be used where a function expecting a Vector3 is expected (!), provided their return types match (which was shown above).
- By the same reasoning applied on the first (and only) argument of the function with signature IScalar -> (IVector -> Vector3), we conclude that the more general function can be used.
The code below illustrates this example.
// Step 4: a function with arguments
type IScalar =
type IVector =
type Float32() =
interface IScalar
type Vector3() =
interface IVector
let prodGeneral (s : IScalar) (v : IVector) : Vector3 =
failwith "..."
// Interesting: flexible types are needed for the return type (no covariance),
// but not for the parameters (contravariance)
let apply prod (s : Float32) (v : Vector3) : #IVector = prod s v // OK
let k = Float32()
let v = Vector3()
let u = apply prodGeneral k v
ConclusionI hope that wasn't excessively complex. Other explanations on the subject which I have seen often use container classes instead of functions, which is confusing, as it brings in read-only vs writable and reference-type vs value-type into the picture. Another problem is that using containers tends to mislead readers into thinking that T<B> can always be used where T<A> is expected if B inherits from A. Although that makes sense when T is IEumerable, it doesn't work when T is Action.
Looking at the problem with a functional mindset really helped clarify the picture.
I was a bit disappointed when I first saw F# did not support covariance, but flexible types do the job with very little additional syntax (a single # before the type). I was surprised to notice F# does support contravariance for function parameters, as it's often heard that F# supports neither covariance nor contravariance. That's not quite true, as it turns out.
If functions are powerful enough to model all other types, it may be interesting to see what kind of variance one should expect for unions, tuples, records and eventually classes. That's probably already been done, but it would be an interesting exercise.


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This may represent the final time Paul McCartney tours; don't miss the chance to see him live and hear your favorite Beatles songs performed as only their author can.
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Born in Liverpool England, McCartney's prodigious talent with the guitar brought him to the attention of John Lennon, who promptly invited McCartney to join his band; the addition of George Harrison and Ringo Starr, marked the completion of the Beatles. McCartney and Lennon formed the most successful song-writing partnership in popular music, generating a score of number one hits around the globe. McCartney alone penned the heartfelt lyrics of classics like Yesterday, Penny Lane, Hey Jude, and Let it Be.
After the breakup of the Beatles, McCartney formed Wings with his wife, Linda McCartney, and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine. Over the next decade, Wings released a string of smash hits including My Love, Live and Let Die, Band on the Run, and Silly Love Songs. As Wings disbanded in the early 80's, McCartney concentrated on his solo career but remained open to collaboration. A champion of racial equality, he released the worldwide smash Ebony and Ivory with Stevie Wonder; and two duets with Michael Jackson – The Girl is Mine, and Say, Say, Say. In total, McCartney has written more number one pop songs than any other artist in history.
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I was reading another post on destroying IDE drives, and how you could remove data, wipe it, or just destroy the drive. The removed data would still be there in some state, although not easily reachable without software. Wiped data is just removed data, but it has been overwritten and is essentially gone. A destroyed disk, if done well enough, will remove everything, or make it nearly impossible to recover anything. (These are from my understandings)
What about a solid state drive? Can the data on one of these be recovered once deleted? It seems that this would be the way to go if you constantly dealt with and removed sensitive data, but they only have so long of a life span (As I understand, again =p). So can data from a SSD be recovered in any way once it is removed, even if it has not been overwritten?


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That is why the Bloomberg administration turned to San Francisco-based startup developer Nextdoor.com with their locals-only approach to social media, explained Field Organizer Nick Saint at a recent campaign drive.
"Nextdoor is a two-year-old company based out of San Francisco, and we've recently entered a partnership with the city," Saint said. "Mayor Bloomberg was interested in the site after Hurricane Sandy, when it became clear that in one neighborhood, everything is okay, and another neighborhood needs to evacuate."
With most social media, the aim is broadcast and mass sharing. It is easy to miss important information if too many posts are flooding the newsfeed. What's more, it can be hard to know who is looking in on what one may be posting, since community groups are for the most part open access through most social media platforms.
That is why a small team of techies created Nextdoor.com, a social media platform where information is only visible to people who live within a certain distance of the user.
"By going ultra-local, and essentially having separate sites for each neighborhood," said Saint, "Nextdoor can become more than just a time pass for its users. This website can be used to stop crime, find health information and connect neighbors."
The outgoing mayor recognized how this website could be an asset to the city.
"Partnering with Nextdoor is another step forward in our adoption of strategic technology that better serves New Yorkers," Bloomberg said in a June press release announcing the partnership. "Nextdoor gives New York neighbors an easy way for members to connect and communicate with those who live around them."
There are more than 1,800 neighborhood pages in the city, and only members who verify physical address via snail mail can participate on community pages.


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USN-2018-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
8 November 2013
linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Software Description
- linux-ti-omap4 - Linux kernel for OMAP4
A denial of service flaw was discovered in the Btrfs file system in the Linux kernel. A local user could cause a denial of service by creating a large number of files with names that have the same CRC32 hash value. (CVE-2012-5374)
A denial of service flaw was discovered in the Btrfs file system in the Linux kernel. A local user could cause a denial of service (prevent file creation) for a victim, by creating a file with a specific CRC32C hash value in a directory important to the victim. (CVE-2012-5375)
Dan Carpenter discovered an information leak in the HP Smart Array and Compaq SMART2 disk-array driver in the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. (CVE-2013-2147)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- linux-image-3.2.0-1440-omap4 - 3.2.0-1440.59
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.
ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. If you use linux-restricted-modules, you have to update that package as well to get modules which work with the new kernel version. Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic, linux-server, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform this as well.


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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Easter 2010
So I am almost caught up. We are all the way up to Easter. We came back from spring break and had a short week with Good Friday off. Chad officially started baseball on that Monday. He had great weather until Saturday when he was suppose to have a game. Thursday night also started Ben-A-Polooza (Ben's Bachelor Party). You might be wondering why so early, well the Tigers were in town for exhibition game on Friday and Saturday and so of course they were there on Friday. So Thursday they hung out up in Germantown, Friday we went to church and then the boys all went to the game. Saturday Chad went to school for his game, but the field was too wet, so we met him and went out to Oconomowoc for the JV game.
Easter morning came, Maddie had asked me earlier in the week about the Easter bunny. We were at the mall and she looked at me and her exact words were "So mom, that easter bunny is he for real or just a guy dressed up in a costume?" What a smart little girl. They did get easter baskets, but Maddie knew that the Easter bunny didn't really leave them. We went to church at Mount Olive, had a little Easter Breakfast and then headed up to Germantown where everyone was for the day. We had the egg cracking contest, which uncle Ben beat Emma in the championship. We played some dominos, laughed, talked, you know all the normal stuff.
Easter Monday Chad and that girls had off. He was on dad duty while Amy and I went to Opening Day. We had a beautiful day. The rest of the week while Chad was suppose to be having games, not so much.
We are in full swing of baseball. Games a few nights a week, practice and the like. The Lutheran Special School Golf Outing is May 17th and so that is what I am working on. We are keeping ourselves busy, enjoying the nice weather (for now at least) and can hardly believe that there are only 33 days left of school for Maddie and Emma.
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A young and inexperienced priest encourages a family to declare their long-missing son dead, but once they do, the boy mysteriously returns, testing the priest's commitment to church doctrine over the laws of the natural world.
Nor'easter addresses the ever-developing idea of what it means to be a spiritual individual in a society that measures value through ownership, control, and bottom-line results rather than through sacrifice and intent. Though Nor'easter's priest, Erik, means well for his community, he finds that his pursuit of a controlling, powerful, Earthly manifestation of Christianity is at odds with his fundamental beliefs in Biblical scripture and Christ's word. In turn, he effects change within the parish to increase its number of worshippers, and only through the catastrophic fallout of his actions is the literal nature of his faith revealed to him: that of sacrifice, patience, and resolve.
The greatest difficulties in developing such a story are, frankly, easy to see coming, but impossible to avoid. In placing a priest in a flawed, potentially criminal position, it is easy to slide into a cynical, critical position on the church and the sometimes unfortunate practical results of its teachings. Yet it is my hope and earnest goal that Erik and his pursuit of a more pragmatic view of Christianity is reflective of my own tolerant, progressive ideal for others and myself. With that in mind, the greatest priority in Nor'easter's creation has been to show that despite Erik's mistakes and shortcomings, he is more capable after suffering the hardships he has caused, and he is no less Christian for having suffered them. On the contrary, he is a more capable, experienced priest and is ultimately more able to promote the idea of God as all-powerful, benevolent, and never ending.
Though I feel the film is fundamentally supportive of spiritual pursuit in modern society, it addresses the idea from the point of view of the secular world. Erik interprets his position in what are largely secular terms and measures his own self worth in terms separate from literal scripture. Nor'easter is intended for both secular and religious audiences, but its ultimate goal is to find those who want to take part in a spiritually minded narrative while engaging the idea that Christianity and Christians can be examined apart from each other.
—November 9, 2009
Andrew Brotzman is the director of MY MOM AND DAD, winner of the Global Anarchy award for Best Short in its category at Slamdance 2006, and DARJEELING, which played in Slamdance's 2007 Anarchy competition. In 2008 he was a national finalist in Disney & ABC's DGA Directing Fellowship Program.
He is also the producer of SMALL COLLECTION, an official selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and winner of the Best Narrative Short award at the Crossroads Film Festival in Jackson, Mississippi. SMALL COLLECTION has also played at the Palm Springs, Woodstock, Raindance UK, Cleveland, Boston, and AFI Dallas film festivals.
He served as assistant to directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel on their Fox Searchlight picture BEE SEASON from February 2005 to February 2006, and was the director's assistant on BOOK OF LOVE, the 2004 Sundance Film Festival dramatic competition entry.
He received his B.A. in Computer Science in 2003 and his M.F.A. in Film Directing in 2011, both from Columbia University.
See Andrew's short films at brandnewmozart.com
Veronica Nickel is an independent producer based in New York. Nickel recently completed principal photography on her second feature film. In 2010, Nickel was chosen to take part in the prestigious Sundance Producing Summit.
In 2009, she was awarded the Arthur Krim Endowment Award for excellence in producing at Columbia University. Nickel completed her MFA in film production at Columbia where she produced numerous award winning short films.
She was the Executive Producer of a web video campaign that was the result of a partnership between Equal (sweetener) and Columbia University, and oversaw production of six videos. Currently, Nickel runs her own production company llluminaria Productions.
Prior to embarking on a career in production, Nickel was an HR Consultant, based in the U.S. and Australia.
Nor'easter was shot in the coastal and Fox Islands regions of Maine, primarily in Rockland and Vinalhaven. The script was written specifically for this area not only because of its natural beauty, but because of its continuous presence in the minds of those who live there. Location plays a primary role in Nor'easter, and its role in the story is part and parcel with the main character and his circumstances. The low sun and early evenings of Maine's winter and early spring lend a unique quality to the film.
Nor'easter was named one of the best films of 2012 by Jigsaw Lounge.
Ian Bloom won the Haskell Wexler Award for Best Cinematography at the 2012 Woodstock Film Festival for his work on Nor'easter.
We are also the recipient of a 2009 Jesse Thompkins III Foundation for Young People in the Arts award.
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2013 Bradford International Film Festival, Bradford UK
2013 Arizona Film Festival
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About Mr Claypole
I run a digital product site, and we have always allowed our customers to re-download their purchases for free, as many times as they wish. Stuff the bandwidth costs, it seems so anti-consumer to make them pay extra for access to something they've already bought. And it's not like the file isn't always sitting on our servers anyway. Seems like just another way to gouge money from people.
I just never understand putting artificial limitations on these things, like stock image companies who make a download link valid for 1 hour. Why do that? Or only allowing you 3 download attempts before the link locks out. It doesn't stop piracy, it just makes genuine customers pissed off.
Anyone have a link that is not region-restricted?
Regarding a minimum, I've always argued that if I'm on an 'up to' 20 meg package, and the next package down is an 'up to' 10 meg, then I should always be getting speeds above 10 meg, otherwise, why pay the extra in the first place?
Unfortunately, that logic doesn't really work with your typical ISP.
"why didn't PayPal just tell them that in the first place?"
Have you ever dealt with Paypal customer services? They are incapable of answering ANY question directly - they have a set template of answers they give to any question and seem to go out of their way to not answer your specific question. And no matter how many times you say 'I did not ask that question, I asked this...', they still don't address your specific query.
I agree, the entire situation is serious, and clearly something suspicious happened with GCB LTD, most likely to enable someone to hide their identity.
But too many people are talking about stuff that is quite frankly irrelevant. An incorrect SIC code is meaningless - the company was set up years ago, which is when the SIC code was most likely set up as relevant at the time. To my knowledge, there is no legal requirement to update SIC code.
Again, what is this 'Business Charter' you refer to, with this 90 days limit? That just sounds made up. Companies have to adhere to the 'Companies Act'.
I'm in no way trying to defend any of this, I'm well and truly appalled by the entire ASC Law/Media CAT scummy fiasco from start to finish, but people on forums seem to be just making stuff up now, and then too many people assume its fact.
You say their director is barred from trading? I assume you mean the director has been barred from being a director of any company - can you provide a URL where this has been discussed? If this is true, then that IS something Companies House will want to know about ASAP.
"This is a direct violation of the Business Charter, that all businesses MUST sign up to within 90 calendar days of starting for the correct area of business. "
'Nature of business' in the companies house info simply refers to the _primary_ business activity of the company - the company is free to pursue other business interests (including extortion), without declaring it in their Annual Return each year. SIC codes are typically used for statistical purposes only.
It is not a requirement to complete the SIC code for all activities you engage in. Nor is it a requirement to complete it when setting up a company, this form entry is frequently left blank when forming a company.
What is this Business Charter you refer to?
I also believe that there is no SIC code for 'extortion' or 'speculative invoicing'...
Clearly there are many issues with this company, however, focussing on an incorrect SIC code isn't really one of them. It's a bit like everyone getting all OTT about their address being that of their accountant, when in reality it is very common practice for an accountant to offer 'registered office' services for their clients, it indicates nothing dodgy whatsoever from the accountant's POV.
I've been following the slyck forum discussion about this, and unfortunately there's a lot of mis-information and ludicrous conspiracy theories being spouted. Thankfully, there's forum member Mullard47, who seems to be a very intelligent person with a healthy knowledge of IP law to keep it all together.
The main problem I have with all this case will collapse due to legal technicalities and sloppy practices, rather than addressing the current legal grey area of speculative invoicing, which is all about income generation and intimidation, and nothing about stopping copyright infringement.
T-mobile have now backtracked on this, and will now only limit new and upgrading customers, so people who signed up for 3gig plans will keep it for the duration of their contract.
Nice to see customer backlash have some impact on these things. However the arrogance of t-mobile throughout has been an eye-opener. One (more) company to avoid - the list grows ever longer.
They insist changes to the acceptable usage policy are not significant enough to be considered breach of contract. Whether or not a court would agree is another matter.
In these situations, you need to have a detailed history of your usage over the past few months; if you regularly use over 500MB then you can argue that in your case, the changes will affect you 'significantly' and you should be able to get out of the contract. Of course, one suspects such historical data is most likely not available to download :)
Regardless, it simply highlights so many reasons why you should never sign up to a 2 year contract with any mobile operator, as any of them can turn on you at a moments notice. They advertise high usage quotas, get you to sign up with them for 2 years, then pull the quotas, claiming most people don't go anywhere near them. Which IMO is beside the point - the high quota was used as a competitive advantage and would sway many people to sign up, even if the rest of the deal wasn't quite as good as the competition. Really should be investigated by the powers that be, but of course, won't be.
Anyway, just more reason to stick to PAYG or 30 day 'sim only' contracts, which these days are pretty decent and give you the power to switch providers without too much hassle.
He doesn't appear to be making anything up; he posted a bad review based on the fact that they failed to repair his product, and by all accounts actually made it worse. He then asked for a new unit, and they refused. If those are the facts, then how can he be sued for defamation?
As for his rights under Greek law, I suspect it may be related to his insistence that they actually caused more damage to the unit while attempting to repair it. If they've further damaged the computer, perhaps Greek Law decrees that they should replace it entirely.
this is pretty much what you expect from most big tech companies these days. When it's all going well, everyone is happy and the money flows. When something goes wrong, you enter 'autobot' world, where no one is willing to give you a straight answer and you spend your days receiving boiler plate responses to questions you didn't ask.
So all you want to do is talk to someone. With Google, there's no chance. But even the companies with a phone number still manage to fail miserably. Take paypal - their phone staff must be trainee politicians as they never give a straight answer, anything other than low level account enquiries are given the response 'I'll have to look into that, and will send you an email when I am ready'. Then you re-enter autobot email world, where quite often they even forget to replace the 'insert boilerplate text here' tags.
Even when I've tried to report customer fraud, I get given such a run around by the autobot system, that I give up. Basically, these companies are now so big, they think they can do pretty much as they please, and unfortunately they seem to be correct.
This is why you should withdraw funds your paypal account daily, only leave a small float to cover chargebacks and expenses etc. And this is why Dylan Winter should have moved over to monthly bank transfer payments rather than taking his commissions in cheque form. That way if they pull your account, the most you can ever lose is a few weeks commissions, and bank transfers cannot be recalled like cheques.
the people who were caught out for downloading the files were the ones who downloaded the files. No question about it, and you really dont know what your talking about if you think otherwise..
Except these people are not being accused of 'downloading'. They are being accused of 'making the files available', i.e. sharing them.
Because as with all these speculative invoicing systems, they rely on coercing people into unnecessarily parting with useful information that can be used against them.
Any response, written or verbal is logged in a database and picked apart for possible weaknesses. Cases get built and the most probable 'slam dunks' get identified.
'Slam dunks', of course, are the people who are most likely to pay up without requiring actual court action against them
the musictechpolicy site appears to be gone. Just a google 'not found' error page now.


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A former top executive for JPMorgan Chase is blaming last year's $6.2 billion trading loss on other executives at the firm, telling a Senate panel Friday that they undermined her oversight at the firm.
Ina Drew, the firm's former chief investment officer overseeing trading strategy, told the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that executives under her watch failed to control risks out of the London office and that kept her from preventing the losses.
The hearing occurred a day after the Senate panel issued a report that ascribed widespread blame to key executives at the firm. The report said they ignored growing risks and hid losses from investors and federal regulators.
Drew blamed executives in two units that reported to her. She says her risk management team failed to flag the risks, while her finance executives did not properly review the values assigned to transactions.
After the trading loss came to light, Drew resigned after 30 years with the firm and voluntarily paid back two years of salary.
She said Friday that while she doesn't believe she bore personal responsibility for the losses, she decided to step down to make it easier for JPMorgan "to move beyond these issues." Her comments were her first public remarks since leaving the firm.
The report noted that executives at JPMorgan understated the trading losses to federal examiners by hundreds of millions of dollars and dismissed questions raised about the trading risks. It also suggested that key executives, including CEO Jamie Dimon, were aware of huge losses at the bank, even while they were downplaying the risks publicly.
The "trading culture at JPMorgan ... piled on risk, hid losses, disregarded risk limits, manipulated risk models, dodged oversight and misinformed the public," Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the subcommittee's chairman, said Friday at the hearing.
On Thursday, JPMorgan acknowledged it made mistakes but rejected any assertions that it concealed losses or risks. A spokesman declined to comment directly on the accusation that Dimon knew of the trading loss in April.
In April, news reports said a trader in JPMorgan's London office known as "the whale" had taken huge risks that were roiling the markets. Dimon immediately dismissed the reports as a "tempest in a teapot" during a conference call with analysts.
But in May, Dimon acknowledged that the bank had lost roughly $2 billon. And during testimony to a separate Senate panel in June, Dimon said the bank showed "bad judgment," was "stupid" and "took far too much risk."
The figure was later revised to more than $6 billion.
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There's a reason only kids ride shopping carts.
You can bet the guy in this video will be more cautious during his future shopping trips. That, or he needs to wheel himself around the parking lot some more to hone his skills.
And maybe when he does practice he won't be hauling any beverages around with him to make it less messy.


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In the past few years the design community has taken sustainability from a mere
buzzword into a call for action. Eli Belvis, Tony Fry and Cooper's own
David Fore have all championed the idea that the practice of
interaction design must promote and encourage sustainable decision-making. The Designer's Accord
has emerged as a mandate to turn the the goodwill into commitment and a
plan of action, improving the role of design in sustainability.
This is all good, it's all needed, but we also need to get down to brass tacks. A cursory survey of the
internets reveals a hunger for actionable discourse about sustainable interaction design. What does sustainable interaction design look like in the wild? What does sustainable mean when it comes to designing software? What are practical design choices that encourage sustainable behavior on the part of the end user of software?
So what might this tactical, on the ground design look like? I'll venture a few possibilities:
Make the hidden visible
Surfacing previously hidden data about the impact of people's behavior can encourage and empower people to make different choices.
Google Maps now includes a cost estimate when it delivers public transit directions. The cost of driving is compared to the cost of taking public transportation.
Presenting this information when someone is still in the planning stages increases their ability to make a more informed, and perhaps eco-friendly decision. By including this, Google has taken a great first step, and they could take it further. Instead of burying the cost comparison on the public transportation page, which is used primarily by people already considering an alternative mode of transportation, include the cost comparison on every set of driving directions. In this way all users could begin to consider the savings of using alternative ways of getting around.
Interaction designers are in a position to advocate for the gathering and display of data which may lead to behavioral change. Look for opportunities to make comparisons of cost, or of impact.
Default the more sustainable choice
An overwhelming majority of the time, people go along with whatever is the default choice. It is easier to do nothing, than to make a choice. Use people's complacency to help them take more sustainable action.
Google has an opportunity to default the more sustainable choice when people use it to look for local businesses.
The default sort order should be that more sustainable businesses are listed higher in the search results. Many users will not change the sort order and make a selection within the first few pages of search results, resulting in increased support for sustainable businesses.
While seemingly small, design decisions like this can have significant cumulative effect. Making conscious decisions about default settings or sorting orders is a good start, but do you have more time or budget? Spend a few design cycles reviewing your assumptions, identify where choices and actions could be better put in the context of sustainability. For example, what if Amazon helped you to visualize your shipping options in terms of the tax on the environment?
Educate where possible
Feedback is pervasive in software, so find opportunities to make it about the bigger picture; include feedback about the larger impact of actions, not just the immediate one. Sometimes it is how all the little things add up. Provide an interface which gives users a summary of the impact of seemingly isolated and harmless activities.
When users plan to get directions using Google Maps, they could take the opportunity to save the search as a trip. At the end of the year, the ecological impact of all of the trips which they planned using Google Maps could be calculated and displayed in a summary screen.
does something like this with their
Personal Annual Report
and it provides significant insight into an individual's travel impact.
Identify opportunities to reinforce sustainable behavior
Google Map users could be shown how much their choices to take public transportation saved in money and CO2. Providing feedback that educates users about the deeper impact of their decisions supplies people with the information they need to make better choices in the future.
Are there examples sustainable interaction design are you familiar with? What other practical ways can we as a practice use design to promote more sustainable behavior?


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Although Samsung released an annual report saying that its Chinese suppliers didn't use child labor, human rights watchdog China Labor Watch reported that there are several instances of the suppliers using underage workers.
China Labor Watch alleges that there was child labor at the Shinyang Electronics factory in Dongguan and insults Samsung's reports as ads "that don't have any real value for the workers," according to the Verge. From the China Labor Watch statement:
During the busy season and in urgent need of labor, Shinyang hires child labor and underage student workers. These minors will usually only work for a period of three to six months, toiling for 11 hours every day without overtime pay, and the factory does not purchase social insurance for them as required by law. These young workers usually leave when the factory as it enters the off-season, and the factory does not need to provide any sort of severance pay.
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Under the water you can't hear the phone ring.
That's Jane Katz's view of aquatics — it gives her class participants, and herself, a way to get away from life, get a good workout and have some fun. A professor of physical education and athletics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a member of the 1964 U.S. Synchronized Swimming Performance Team in Tokyo, Katz spends her day in the pool showing students the benefits of water fitness and teaching New York City's police and firefighters about fitness and swimming. She says that in the water, the possibilities are endless.
"Mostly, I like to do a bit of everything. If someone likes one particular thing, that's fine, but this way I expose them to everything," Katz says. "I go into Pilates and yoga and Tai Chi, and even cross training with sports and partner water boxing."
Katz, like many in the fitness industry, is recognizing that fusion goes beyond the group exercise studio. Aquatics directors and instructors are taking land-based classes out of the club floor and into the pool. Practically any exercise on terra firma can be moved into the water including kickboxing, Tai Chi, Pilates and yoga.
"I think that [fusion programs] are unique, and for the people who are doing it, it isn't new and novel, but I wouldn't be surprised to see more and more of it around the country," Thomas Lachocki, chief executive officer of the National Swimming Pool Foundation, says.
One such example is Poolates, and if you couldn't guess from the title, Rebecca Pfeiffer created the format by adapting Pilates movements to the pool. She developed the movements after having clients who, she felt, needed a water-based workout. One was a swimmer who resented leaving the pool for mat class, two heavier participants had problems getting up and down from the mat and equipment comfortably, and another had no range of motion.
"I wanted to find ways to bring them the benefits of Pilates while still meeting their needs," Pfeiffer says. "So, I began to try water adaptations, and, in the process, I found that, not only is the water well suited to Pilates because of the principle of fluidity, but it also creates more challenge for the body to stabilize in the ultimate unstable environment."
With water's gentle nature and ability to be welcoming of all ages, sizes and exercise backgrounds, water can be a great way to get people moving whether they are a novice exerciser, weekend warrior or professional athlete.
There is some merit to doing some exercises in the water to take advantage of the buoyancy, and water can minimize the range of motion limitations that some people face, Dr. Cedric X. Bryant, chief exercise physiologist for the American Council on Exercise, says.
"It can allow people to feel comfortable before moving to land-based activities, or it can be a nice way to increase the intensity level of these activities by using the water resistance offered while reducing joint loading," he says.
Jumping in Headfirst
With all of water's benefits, jumping in headfirst in the aquatic-fusion-class pool is tempting. However, before taking the plunge, a number of things should be considered: to whom you should market, how to ensure participants' safety and the level of your instructor's education.
Many facilities already have a loyal base for their aqua aerobics programs, but before developing a fusion class you need to decide which of the many possible markets you want to coax into the water. For example, Lachocki says the water is a great place for obese members because there's less stress on their joints, and Katz emphasizes that the baby boomers and older members will find the water more "comfortable" and "forgiving" than other forms of traditional exercise. Also, the water can be great for rehabilitation and athletes.
Posting information about the benefits and gentle nature of water can be a good way to get the word out to these groups. And once you get people in the pool, word of mouth can be a great ally to encourage increased participation.
"It's really for anyone at any age, and that will help increase memberships," Katz says. "You might have someone who isn't ready for a boxing class, but they might be willing to try a water-box class."
So, marketing to your members who are cautious of high-impact exercise is a natural fit, but there is promise for your hard-core, high-impact exercisers if you can first get them into the water. Offering a few free classes and having land group exercise instructors promote the water classes as a "good workout" can encourage this group to try out the pool.
"Once they find out that they aren't doing their grandma's aqua aerobics, they are usually pleasantly surprised," Pfeiffer says. "Many people, while they are in the water, just report feeling good, not necessarily overworked. Then they try to walk on land and find out their legs feel like Jell-O and realize how hard they actually were working while in the water."
Making Sure the Waters Are Safe
The next step is to make certain your fusion class is safe. Mary Sanders, an adjunct professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Nevada, Reno, researches functional training and water exercise and says although each program should be evaluated specifically, most are safe, although many times classes are more effective if movements are adapted with water in mind.
"One study by Ellen Evans indicated that simply performing land-based step moves in the pool was not as effective as step moves designed to engage the properties of water — which resulted in higher intensities when compared to a land step," Sanders says.
Other safety concerns involve instructor knowledge and training. To quickly get classes started, facilities may be tempted to give their water instructors a quick tutorial on Pilates or yoga poses or throw their land instructors in the water, but that might not be the best idea.
"Unfortunately, what happens sometimes is that you have people who have a good base of knowledge with aquatic activity, and they take this popular land activity and use it to reinvigorate the class. That could be potentially problematic," Bryant says. "Ideally, you want them trained in both."
Bryant says instructors should have knowledge in both forms of exercises, especially since some of the fusion classes involve a fair amount of technique and skill to teach effectively and safely. The instructor should also feel comfortable in the water.
On the flip side, facilities should also be cautious of putting their land exercise instructors in the water. According to John Spannuth, president and CEO of the U.S. Water Fitness Association, comparing land instructors to water instructors is like comparing grapes to watermelons.
"One of the problems is that a number of facilities have their land-exercise people in charge of their water-fitness people. That is a terrible mistake because how many times do water people try to tell land people what to do?" he says. "Our opinion is that land people do a fabulous job [on land], but they shouldn't be in water — they are different animals."
He is also wary of trends that start out extremely popular, but eventually fade with the times leaving classes and clubs with low attendance numbers. He points to programs such as water step that started strong but have become less popular in recent years.
Although no one can really know for certain if fusion classes that blend on-land movements with aquatic exercise will have lasting popularity, the possibilities for creativity do seem to be endless.
"More people are going in the water, and more innovators are going to bring activities people enjoy into the water," Lachocki says. "Who knows what someone will come up with?"
One thing that's certain is that right now these types of fusion classes, if done correctly, have the potential to draw more people into the water to get fit — and that's always something to make a big splash about.
Four Steps to Start A Water Fusion Class
Understand the Pool Can Be a Gold Mine — "The big decision maker, owner, general manager, etc., has to understand that this swimming pool can be a gold mine. That person has to understand that they deserve a return on their investment," John Spannuth, president and CEO of the U.S. Water Fitness Association, says. Once the big dog of the facility knows his aquatic center can make money, the time, staff and resources are more likely to be funneled into the programming.
Have a Talented Aquatics Director and Treat Them Well — Having the right person in this position can make or break your aquatics program. However, Spannuth warns that pay in this field tends to be limited, so if your budget is limited, be sure to reward their hard work in other ways you can afford. "Show your appreciation and how important they are. They don't always leave for more pay if they feel they're appreciated. You can even give them free family or individual memberships," he says.
Get the Right Instructors — Make sure to get certified and trained instructors that know both the land-based class and the dynamics of water exercise. "Some people just have a knack for getting many people in the water. Maybe it's his enthusiasm or his knowledge, but the water program has to be a party. It has to be fun," Spannuth says.
Spread the Word — No one will know about your new classes if you don't tell them. Post fliers, get your personal trainers and other group exercise instructors talking about it, invite the general public in for a few free classes or allow class participants to bring a friend. Spannuth says word of mouth can really help create excitment.


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Computerworld: OpenChange, KDE bring Exchange Compatibility to Linux
Computerworld covers progress in OpenChange, the Microsoft Exchange server and client replacement. He looks at integration work being done in Akonadi and how that will arrive in KDE 4.3. "Speaking at the Linux.conf.au conference in Hobart last week, Canberra-based OpenChange and KDE developer Brad Hards said 'We're working with the Microsoft Exchange protocols and work it mostly does. Mail is easy, the stuff which is hard is the address book, calendar, free-busy lists, and notes. These are a big deal in the enterprise.'"
This is what I've been hoping for in the last 3 years. Yeah, we all know that Exchange is bad for the soul, but there are a lot of people like me who are forced to use it. If this will allow me access to the GAL, shared calendars, public folders, free/busy, and also correct daylight savings I am sold! (Kmail/Oorganizer does some of this to some degree, but it's been flakey and very buggy).
Way to go guys, this thankful soul appreciates your work.
By sarathmenon at Sat, 2009/01/31 - 3:52pm
mee too
I am waiting for this too. It would be great for some webdevs who are using linux and kde for work and still need a virtaul machine running the M$ to access the Exchange for their companies pim.
By kde4.de at Sun, 2009/02/01 - 3:28pm
This is amazing! When I first read about akonadi a bit over a year ago, I realized that its is an exceptionally good concept, allowing for a whole new level of integration. But implementing the OpenExchange protocols beyond mail is something that could make akonadi a huge success. I am really impressed by the PIM team. Thanks to all of you for your excellent work!
By Mutlu Inek at Sat, 2009/01/31 - 5:16pm
This is great news! In our company this is one of the main reasons we don't succeed very well in a move from Windows to Linux. Maybe for us geeks this is a no-brainer, but for office users Exchange/Outlook is their primary tool and suggesting to get another PIM suite is simply out of the question.
I've been trying for the last 6 months to use Evolution on a daily basis but it's... not my thing. I find it a very annoying application that crashes often.
So KDEPIM with Exchange calendaring would be great!
By Spockfish at Sat, 2009/01/31 - 5:26pm
You ain't the only one
You ain't the only one thinking Evolution is unstable. It's also heavy on resources, and at least on the exchange connector, cumbersome and clumsy. I'd much rather use KMail, or Thunderbird for what's worth.
By NabLa at Sat, 2009/01/31 - 8:31pm
Very important feature
This is the main reason stated by people resisting Linux as their office computer OS in our organization. Thank you very much.
By yzg at Sun, 2009/02/01 - 10:18pm
Good work!
Good work Brad!
Yet another small step to world domination. :-D
'am starting to wonder about FD.o thought.
By James Tyrer at Mon, 2009/02/02 - 10:41pm
its good for knowledge given
its good for knowledge given us...
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"Winter's Bone" was the big winner at Sundance, taking home two of the top awards, including the coveted Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film, in a year when the festival tried to reclaim its indie cred.
"In the telling of a primal story of a quest, one film achieved in all aspects a rural Gothic realism that blew us all away," said juror Parker Posey. "The cinematography, the screenplay, the casting in this movie – I'm so excited and moved that it's out there at this time right now, and if it doesn't get the attention and respect, I'm gonna stab myself. We gotta support movies like this that won the grand jury prize, 'Winter's Bone.'"
In addition, Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini shared the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for their script to "Winter's Bone," based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, about a young girl who must find her bail-hopping, meth-dealing father in order to save her family's home.
The big night came as no surprise, as throughout the week "Winter's Bone" and "Blue Valentine" were the two films that came up most often when folks were asked to name their favorites.
"Winter's Bone" got a distribution deal with Roadside earlier in the day, Deadline Hollywood reported, a day after it was learned that "Blue Valentine" had been picked up by Weintstein.
With the festival over, people will naturally want to size up whether or not new director John Cooper's stated goal of bringing Sundance back to its indie roots was a success or not.
Eric Mendelsohn, a who was named best director for his work on "3 Backyards," a dense, arty look at the quiet desperation that grips three strangers, whipped the crowd into a frenzy with his speech in defense of the festival.
"A lot of people in the press take potshots at this festival. You know, it's gotten this, it's gotten too big, it's gotten too small – you go make your own festival and then bring it here. Who in America Robert Redford in my mind is single-handedly doing what other governments do for filmmakers. And my mother would want to say that ever since 'The Way We Were,' he can do no wrong."
Still others will want to measure Sundance's success by the number and size of distribution deals that emerge. But with the economy still scuffling, and the uncertain future of what "distribution" will entail in the immediate future, dollars and sense seem a foolish measure.
There was certainly no "Little Miss Sunshine" this year. "Hesher," though very good, will be tough to market. "Blue Valentine" is a serious bummer, however brilliant it may be. For all the excitement around "Buried," how many people do you think will line up to watch Ryan Reynolds in a coffin for 90 minutes? "Winter's Bone," for all the praise heaped on it, was sold for less than a million.
What the independent movie scene needs more than anything is a way to turn their art into money. Thankfully, there are innovative men like Steven Soderbergh, who try anything, like releasing "Bubble" in theaters, and on TV and DVD within the span of four days.
And the movement needs to stop complaining about how expensive movies are to make. You need a pantload of cash to make "Avatar." To make a film like "A Woman Under the Influence," you just need a pantload of talent.
What was not a success was the painful rap done by awards ceremony MC David Hyde Pierce and festival director John Cooper to the beat of the Black-Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow."
"It was Redford's Idea," quipped Pierce.
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The most important measure of this year's Sundance is that there was no shortage of quality films on display and there's every reason to think there will be plenty more next year.