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|Temeritus Shanks
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- Temeritus: "Ere, blimey, if it isn't Harry Potter! Read all about you I has. Everything. Always in the paper you are."
- Harry: "Er, yeah. Only, most of it's not true."
- Temeritus: "Not true?! Not true?! Aw, it's in black and white innit? Got to be true."
- — Termeritus Shanks's portrait and Harry Potter in 1995.[src]
Temeritus Shanks[1] was a wizard. He seems to like reading newspapers, and is interested in knowing the headlines of the day. He believed every word he read on the Daily Prophet, including the stories about Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore published during the 1995–1996 school year. There are portraits of him hung on the walls of Hogwarts Castle.
1992–1993 school yearEdit
In early 1993, Shanks had a portrait at the Grand Staircase, hung immediately below the ground-floor landing. [2]
1993-1994 school yearEdit
In September of 1993, Shanks had a portrait on the seventh floor.
1995–1996 school yearEdit
By 1995, Shanks had a portrait hung at the Hogwarts Library, guarding a shortcut to the fourth-floor corridor, under the password "No news is good news". Said shortcut was reserved to the staff only. When Harry Potter, who was being highly discredited by the Daily Prophet at the time, asked if he could use this secret passageway, Shanks made an exception for the student was constantly featured on the paper. The portrait agreed to give the student the password in exchange for the headline of the day ("TRAGIC DEMISE OF MINISTRY OF MAGIC WORKER", concerning Broderick Bode's assassination).[3]
Shanks had another portrait at the Grand Staircase, concealing a secret passage to the Clock Tower Courtyard. Its password was "Audaces fortuna iuvat"[4]
1996–1997 school yearEdit
Shanks's portrait was kept at the same place at the Library, but hiding a different shortcut, leading to the Grand Staircase. The new password was "Happy Headlines".[5] The same shortcut could also lead to the second-floor corridor[6]. When Shanks heard Harry Potter talking to Hermione Granger about Draco Malfoy's mysterious endeavours at the seventh floor, he gladly told him the new password in order to help him on what he deemed a "big scoop".[5]
Personality and traitsEdit
Temeritus Shanks was quite a naive wizard, believing everything he read on the papers.[3] Despite this he was brave, speaking Lord Voldemort's name out loud when he was at large.[5] He would gladly help students in matters he deemed to be sensational, to the point of giving his password to them despite the passageway being reserved only to the staff.[5]
Behind the scenesEdit
- Shanks may have passed away sometime prior to 1991 as many portraits hung at Hogwarts Castle depict deceased individuals.
- Temeritus was voiced in both the video game version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince video games by Jonathan Kydd.
- Shanks's portrait was based on a real-world portrait of a young King James I of England[1].
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (First appearance) (Appears in portrait(s))[7]
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) (Appears in portrait(s))
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (PS1 version only) (Appears in portrait(s))
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Appears in portrait(s))
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (Appears in portrait(s))
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) (Appears in portrait(s)) (First identified as Temeritus Shanks)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter Limited Edition
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) - Chapter 22 (The Diary)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) - GBA version
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) - NDS version
- ↑ Seen under the entrance to the Grand Staircase.
Armoury · Charms Corridor · Class 34 · Classroom 2E · Classroom 3C · Clock Tower Entrance · Gunhilda of Gorsemoor Corridor · Hesperius Hall · Jinx Rooms · Library · One-Eyed Witch Passage · Storeroom · Third Floor Corridor · Trophy Room · Turret Stairwell · Vastus Vestibule
Basil Fronsac · Brutus Scrimgeour · Damara Dodderidge · Drunk Monks · Google Flange · Gunhilda of Gorsemoor · Helena Ravenclaw · Merwyn the Malicious · Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington · Shepherdess · Temeritus Shanks · Valeria Myriadd · Witch in green · Witch in Pompadour hairstyle · Wizard in black · Wizard in red
Class 67 · Cuthbert Binns's office · Fourth Floor balcony · Fourth Floor Corridor · Fourth Floor hospital tower corridor · Hogwarts Library · Mirror of Erised storage room · Restricted Section · Study Area
Barking Mad Male Gargoyle · Brutus Scrimgeour · Edward Rabnott · Hengist of Woodcroft · Landscape with trees · Temeritus Shanks
Classroom 6A · Classroom 6B · Corridor · Disused bathroom · East Wing · Empty classroom · Glanmore Peakes' Corridor · Horace Slughorn's office · Room of Rewards · Storeroom · Writing Supplies Room
Damara Dodderidge · Edgar Stroulger · Eoessa Sakndenberg · Glanmore Peakes · Selina Sapworthy · Skeleton in a top hat · Portrait in storeroom · Temeritus Shanks · Vindictus Viridian · Wendelin the Weird


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Mix up these wild classic cocktails
Cusp bar manager Nate Howell shares recipes for a deliciously strong trio
Some of the most popular recipes of today were rescued from dusty archives.
To wit: Gimlets and Manhattans are the biggest-selling cocktails at Cusp Dining & Drinks, Hotel La Jolla's loosely chic lounge and restaurant.
There, on the window-wrapped 11th floor, you'll find cocktail revivalist and bar manager Nate Howell. He's the bearded, easy-mannered Midwesterner making declarations ("Beefeater, it's the gin of gins!") and giving cocktail descriptions like "It's not gonna punch you in the face. It's all balanced, it's all light."
Howell played a big role in Chicago's liquid culture before this Kimpton-owned hotel lured him to our shores. Recently, he introduced a spring cocktail menu to complement chef Donald Lockhart's fresh Cali-Mediterranean plates. (One holdover from fall: Howell's award-winning, baking-spice flavored A State of Grace, an $18 cocktail with barrel-aged Templeton Rye that's gassed up with Carpano Antica, Licor 43, absinthe and Peychaud's Bitters.)
And to freshen up your shake-and-strain routine with some oldies but goodies, Howell suggests you make these:
Cusp Dining and Drinks
Hotel La Jolla, 11th floor, 7955 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla. (858) 551-3620 or cusprestaurant.com
The Vieux Carré
1 ounce rye whiskey
1 ounce sweet vermouth
1 ounce cognac
1/8 ounce Bénédictine herbal liqueur
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
2 dashes Peychaud's Bitters
Lemon peel
Preparation: Combine all spirits in a mixing glass and fill with ice. Stir well and strain into chilled Nick and Nora glass — barware familiar to fans of "The Thin Man" films. Express the lemon peel (aka squeeze) over your rim and tuck the peel into the drink.
Go over-the-top with your French pronunciation when making, ordering or presenting a Vieux Carré (VIEW ka'ray). It's a New Orleans invention, named after the city's famed "old quarter," the French Quarter. It'll go great with a beef-braised stew, Howell said. "It's rich. It's more than 3 ounces of booze!"
The Journalist
2 ounces a London dry gin
1/2 ounce dry vermouth
1/2 ounce sweet vermouth
1/8 ounce lemon juice
1/8 ounce Orange Curacao liqueur
Dash of Angostura Bitters
Lemon peel
Preparation: Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake to chill. Strain into a chilled Nick and Nora glass. Squeeze lemon peel over the top and discard.
Sweet up front, slightly acerbic by the finish, the Journalist is a media critique in a glass. But this throwback drink, popularized in the 1930 "Savoy Cocktail Book," is not on the Cusp menu. Howell uses it as a "dealer's choice," a drink he unveils if someone says they're a fan of "perfect" martinis (equal parts sweet and dry vermouth), or if they gripe about the jagged juniper flavors of most gin drinks. "I'll make you love gin," he told a gin-averse reporter, handing her this refreshing, citrus-driven libation.
The Brown Derby
2 ounces bourbon
3/4 ounce fresh grapefruit juice
3/4 ounce honey syrup (2 parts honey, 1 part water)
Preparation: Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake to chill. Strain into a chilled coupe glass.
Quite possibly San Diego's perfect cocktail — easy to make, affordable, and plays well with fish tacos and ceviche. And Howell explained that this bourbon-based, foamy-and-fresh creation comes from 1930s L.A. — the barmen at the Vendome Club made a beverage in honor of the Brown Derby, a famous Los Angeles restaurant nearby. "They called it 'Hollywood in a glass.' " Reach for Buffalo Trace Bourbon if you want a caramel-y progression of flavors, the alcohol expert advised.

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Getting there: Pace Bend Park takes up most of Pace Bend, one of the
many folds of land around which Lake Travis flows. From the intersection of RR 620 and
Hwy. 71, take Hwy. 71 west 11 miles to RR 2322 (a.k.a Pace Bend Park Road). Turn right
on RR 2322 and travel 4.6 miles to the park entrance. From there, proceed straight on
the main park loop road and park at the intersection of the loop road and the feeder road
that continues north to the tip of Pace Bend. There's not much in the way of parking,
though this spot provides the most parking at a trailhead and we did not have any other
vehicle with which to contend.
The Hike: Pace Bend Park juts into Lake Travis providing lots of land with
a premium on lake access. Much of the park is dedicated to getting down to the water and
hiking seems to be an afterthought. In some respect this is a blessing since it means that
very little of the park away from the shoreline has any development or visitors.
We got pretty good at seeing the web before running into them as we progressed along the
trail. Sometimes we just walked around them, but occassionally we had to use a stick to
clear the path. Sometimes it's a choice between tearing down a spider's web and
trampling on some of the vegetation just off the trail.
Just past the waypoint marked "Y-Right2" the trail comes to a "T" section. We turned to
the right as that seemed to offer us the greatest opportunity to extend the hike longer.
Further south at the waypoint marked "Side Trail" there is yet another excursion that we
mean to investigate in the future. Chances are that this trail joins up with the "Pack
Trail" drawn out on the topo map to the west of our trail.
When we returned to the large "T" in the road near "Y-Right2" we continued to the east to
see where the trail ended. At "Road3" we found yet another trailhead than runs right into
the main park road.
Pace Bend hiking is not supported by an intensive support program that includes convenient
parking, detailed park tails maps and guided tours. For some, that may make this park all
the more interesting and challenging. During our hike of 6 miles and 4 hours we saw only
other group, a man and two children on the entire trail. For solitude, Pace Bend is hard
to beat.
I hiked Pace Bend as a part of a group and, frankly, I was a little disappointed. There wasn't a lot to see or to take photos of. I had hoped to see more views of Lake Travis, but there weren't many, although we did have lunch on some high cliffs that did provide a nice view.
Most of the trails are rocky, so it is advisable to wear good footwear and/or use hiking poles for support/balance. The trails are shared with mountain bikers, so you have to be on the lookout. Most of the trails are numbered, but some trails were missing signs. The trail map they provide you at the park entrance is fairly accurate, but there are some places where the map is either outdated or incomplete.
The $10/vehicle entrance fee seemed high to me for a county park, but it gained us free admission to the Hamilton Pool, which we visited later in the day, since it is also part of the Travis County Park system.
We hiked Pace Bend on February 18th and I didn't wear a shirt. You have to love Austin! We did not pass anyone else, but it was a weekday. The hike was supposed to be an up and back, but we ended up making it a loop by going down the road for the last mile to get back to our car. There are a couple of minor hills that give pretty good views, but with Lake Travis low, it is not particularly pretty. These trails are inside the road loop so there is never any water.
Brian Spross
very nice spot to go if you want a nice sized cliff to jump off of. Trails were dry with not much to look at.
This hike is disappointing -- there is very little tree cover and not much else to see nature-wise. The camping isn't much better. What is good, however, is the swimming in Lake Travis. There are a couple areas where it is safe to jump off the cliffs. This, in my opinion, is the main reason to visit the site.


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Writing for free doesn't have to mean betrayal
The US blog-led news site The Huffington Post launched its UK edition today.
It launched a Canadian version in May, but the UK edition will be the first one outside North America.
The Huffington Post was set up by Arianna Huffington in 2005 and bought by AOL earlier this year for $315m (£222m).
Since the acquisition took place complaints have been made by disgruntled unpaid bloggers on The Huffington Post who argue that some of the cash from the AOL deal should trickle down as fair compensation to those who have volunteered writing during the site's enormous growth period.
In April, The Huffington Post was hit with a class action lawsuit by a group of bloggers who claim the massively popular site mistreats those who enrich it with content. Noted freelance journalist Jonathan Tasini is leading the proposed class action filed in New York's federal court.
Journalist Kat Brown debates the value of writing for free in her blog on Huffington Post UK : http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/kat-brown/writing-for-free-yeah-and_b_889706.html
*Arianna Huffington remains the president and editor-in-chief of Huffington Post Media Group.


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Using the tado° Geolocation Feature
I'm Chris and I have been using all versions of tado° since winter 2010.
This article is meant to share my personal insights but also the experience of other customers.
A few years back my heating was running 24/7, despite the fact that I was hardly ever there. I hated the idea of wasting energy when I was away for work or on a weekend trip.
Life has become much better since I started using tado°. When I'm away from home, I see on the app that tado° has lowered the temperature to save on energy. It really feels good to know that somebody else is taking care of things and making sure energy is used efficiently. As soon as I start heading home, tado° turns on the heating. It's a great moment when I walk in and I feel that the air has recently been heated up - just for me. I hope you guys have a similar experience.
Continue reading to understand how tado° works best in your personal situation.
Balancing energy savings & comfort
Did you know that there's a slider in the settings that allows you to set your preferences from "Full Comfort" to "Maximum Savings"?
Read more
I have set mine to "Maximum Savings" (leaf symbol), It saves more energy however my room temperature is usually about two degrees below my set point the moment I arrive at home. I personally don't feel it, and by the time I sit down on the couch, the temperature has reached its "optimum" level.
However, if you prefer you can move the slider towards "Full Comfort" (person symbol). Try experimenting with these comfort settings yourself.
Tip for your daily life: when you've had a long day in the office and you're already looking forward to your warm pillow, change tado° to "Full Comfort". It will be warm and cosi when you arrive back home -but don't forget to set it back to "Maximum Savings" as soon as you get home.
The technology behind the geolocation feature
In a nutshell: the further you are away from home, the lower the temperature at home.
The parameters which best work for your home are determined by the tado° algorithm and are optimised on a daily basis.
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- Distance to cell towers (triangulates your position)
- Nearby Wifi networks to determine the position
- GPS signal (occasionally) to obtain your exact location
Making it work on your phone
A few customers encountered problems with the precision of the geolocation service. This may have the following reasons:
Read more on possible reasons and what you can do
If all else fails, call our help line and we will adjust the home zone radius for you (in the near future, you'll actually be able to do this yourself).
What's next for you in development
We are continuously improving the geolocation algorithm for you with every update.
Rest assured that we will further improve usability and include ways to manually adjust the control.
Read on to learn about the new features
Usage of mobile data & battery power
We are striving to minimise data and battery consumption with each update of the app.
Read more
How much data does tado° use?
The answer is: 5 - 15 MB per month.
For some Android phones we had some traffic issues in the past. We have fixed these issues in the latest update.
How much battery power does tado° consume?
This is difficult to answer since it depends on what you compare it to.
If you always had your location services and Wifi switched on, then tado° is not draining your battery significantly faster. If you had these service switched off before using tado°, you will need about 20% more battery power. The next iOS and Android version will consume even less power.


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There is quite a bit of debate heating up lately, even over at ATDT parents are sharing their thoughts on this topic, regarding recent legistlation created by France lawmaker Valerie Boyer that France is passing towards imposing strict fines, even imprisonment against the proliferation and promotion of "pro-ana/mia" within websites, media images, the fashion industry and beyond that continue to hightlight clearly unhealthy anorexic/ED'd-looking, emaciated ultra-thin bodies– "legislating body weight" some are finger-waging.
The reviews and feedback are certainly mixed, some downright misinformed– stiil -and so sorely one-sided which to me only illuminates just how complex these issues are; and more importantly how much more of this conversation and dialogue needs to keep happening and developing.
I haven't delved into a full exploration of my opinions on this yet, but I do think while we can't police every site, ban every image, twisted ideal there certainly is something that we are all responding and reacting to when we see someone who looks so severely malnourished, skeletal and unwell.
As a mother of a daughter who suffers from Anorexia Nerovsa I do have an immediate heartwrenching reaction to this issue, and do believe there is not just a "personal" responsiblity but public and social conscience we all need to be connected to and address at some basic level without turning a blind-eye and pretending none of this has any impact on society whatsoever– clearly it does.


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Big Stories Of The Month?
Later today three big-time education journalists -- the Post's Jay Mathews, the LA Times' Beth Shuster, and USA Today's Greg Toppo -- are going to weigh in on what they think are the big stories of the past month, what got too much coverage (or not enough), and what the big stories are going to be in June.
But what do they know, anyway? you can get a head start by looking over the cheat sheet that I sent them -- a list of stories and blog posts -- and see what you think. Let us know, or listen along when I post the audio from the conversation later today and see what we missed.


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Vancouver Canucks give prize prospect Nicklas Jensen green light to play exhibition games in Sweden
First-round draft choice in 2011 expected to skate this weekend for Stockholm's AIK
Top Vancouver Canucks prospect Nicklas Jensen will hit the ice with AIK of Stockholm starting this weekend.
Photograph by: Jason Payne, PNG , Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have given prospect Nicklas Jensen permission to start playing pre-season games with AIK of the Swedish Elite League.
Jensen, Vancouver's first-round pick (29th overall) in the 2011 entry draft, has been training with AIK, a Stockholm-based team, since late July, but was not expected to play in any pre-season games before attending the Canucks' training camp.
"There has been a slight change in plans and that took effect today (Tuesday)," said Jensen's agent, Anton Thun. "Up until this point in time Nicklas was not playing in exhibition games for AIK. As of today the Vancouver Canucks have given him permission to play in games."
Jensen is expected to see his first action this weekend when AIK plays in a pre-season tournament in Sundsvall, Sweden The 19-year-old Dane told AIK's website that he is excited about playing.
"It has been frustrating to sit on the sidelines," Jensen said. "It was nice to watch the first game, but since then I have been sick of just watching."
Thun said Jensen will attend the Canucks training camp next month, provided it is not postponed due to a NHL lockout. Some Swedish media reports had suggested Jensen was not planning on attending the Vancouver camp.
"In relation to training camp and him coming over, there has been no change," Thun said. "Hopefully he makes the team and doesn't have to go back to play for AIK. That wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. But that's the plan, he comes to camp."
Thun said the only scenario where Jensen might not attend Vancouver's training camp would be if the season was shortened because of a lockout.
"If the season doesn't start until February maybe he won't come over," Thun said. "But at this point, that is purely conjecture."
The Swedish Elite League begins its regular-season schedule in mid-September, at about exactly the same time Vancouver's training camp is scheduled to start.
After discussions with his family and the Canucks this past spring, Jensen decided that he would play this coming season in Sweden if he did not crack the Vancouver roster during training camp. As a 19-year-old drafted out of the CHL, he is not eligible to be assigned to the AHL's Chicago Wolves.
"If he's not in a position to play for the Canucks we wanted him to be in a circumstance that would provide him the best development opportunity next to playing in Vancouver," Thun said. "That probably normally would be the Chicago Wolves, but because of the way the CBA works and the fact he was drafted from Oshawa they are prohibited from assigning him to the Wolves because of his age. The next best alternative was going to Sweden, which is a great league."
Jensen received a number of offers, but chose to sign with AIK.
"He is pumped about playing," Thun said. "I was talking to him this morning and he is looking forward to getting into some games. He has really enjoyed his experience and the coaches have been great, but not playing in games when everyone else is not only limits you on game days but also the day before games because you know you are not practising on the top three lines.
"He loves Stockholm, he has an apartment literally a five-minute walk from the main arena they play in."
Jensen impressed at last year's Canucks camp, where he was a late cut and sent back to Oshawa. He had 25 goals and 58 points in 57 games with the Generals last season. He impressed in a late-season call-up to the Chicago Wolves, where he had four goals in six regular-season games. He had two goals in two playoff games with the Wolves before suffering a concussion.
ICE CHIPS: Canucks staff will be asked to take a 20-per-cent pay cut should a lockout delay the start of the season … AIK is the only Stockholm team in the Elite League this season. Djurgardens, the Stockholm club where Mats Sundin once played, was relegated after a disappointing 2011-12 season.
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"Kelly Crown is a 48 year old woman presenting with a history of rhabdomyosarcoma in her right leg. She's in the hospital today for her third cycle of chemotherapy."
In the medical world, this is how almost any patient presentation begins. Medical students across the country learn how to introduce their patients to more experienced physicians in a set fashion, starting with the identification (ID) and chief complaint (CC).
What was incredible about this particular presentation was that it was only our second week of medical school. We'd just received our white coats, and already, we were going up to the hospital and learning to interview patients as part of our Foundations of Patient Care course.
The main purpose of this inaugural interview was to elicit what doctors call the patient's explanatory model of illness. As we took the elevator to the 14th floor of the hospital, I reviewed the key parts in my head. Don't forget to ask her if she'd prefer Ms. Crown or Kelly; try to understand her perspective of being in a hospital; and be sure to ask her what she thinks caused her disease!
As my eight colleagues and I filed into the small room, our patient watched us with weary blue eyes.
"Hi, Ms. Crown, I'm Jeff Chen, a first-year medical student learning to interview patients, and these are my classmates and instructors. First off, what do you prefer to be called?"
She smiled, reaching out to my extended hand. "You can call me Kelly."
With the initial rapport established, I went on to ask what brought her to UCSF. As the interview went on, our patient revealed her story, bit by bit, unraveling the steps she took to get to the hospital. Kelly first started feeling pain in her right leg about a year ago while walking up some steps near her home. At first, she ignored it, but the pain eventually got so bad that she went to her doctor.
However, her doctor only added to the problem. Kelly had a history of abusing drugs and using methamphetamine. Her doctor, she state, passed off her pain as an attempt to get prescription painkillers, leaving the tumor in her leg to grow for nearly half a year. Finally, a local surgeon diagnosed her cancer and sent her to UCSF for treatment.
I asked her how she'd been getting to the hospital. She began to explain how her two kids would drive her and sometimes bring their children along. "But I can't stand to watch my grandkids see me in so much pain…." she stammered, tears beginning to roll down her face.
Who would have thought my first-ever patient interview would be so charged with emotion? But here we were—Kelly quietly sobbing, the whole room somber. I put a hand on her shoulder, comforting her while struggling to hold back my own tears.
For the rest of the interview, our patient told us about her triumphs and her fears regarding her treatment. There were no guarantees that all the chemotherapy would work, but she was trying her best to stay strong, even in the face of a potential amputation. Her parents were coming to visit every now and then, and she was going home the following day.
As time ran out, Kelly ended with a clinical pearl on the doctor-patient relationship for us: "Be sure not to distrust your patients. We're not all just after drugs." We thanked her for sharing and went back to the classroom to debrief.
"When I was in first year, the curriculum was all basic sciences; no real patient contact," recalled Sandy Mills, MD, a preceptor in our course small group. "So once third year started, many were not comfortable with the patent care team." I realized how lucky we are to be given the opportunity to have these early experiences. I was struck with utter humility—for the privilege of hearing Kelly's story, for the guidance from my classmates and preceptors, for the ability to take the lessons learned and better care for my future patients. Before the proverbial fire hose of medical knowledge, before learning the alphabet soup of the rest of the medical history (HPI, PMH, MEDS/ALL, SOC Hx, etc), we were given the chance to connect with real patients and to learn from them.
Since that first interview, we've learned the remaining parts of the medical history. The five other students in my group have had a chance to interview a patient, debrief, and receive feedback from fellow students and preceptors. Over the next year and a half, we'll be working together to hone these skills in the best way possible: by talking to patients.
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My friend Bill West made this blog post and challenge the other day
I like his idea, but more specifically what he has suggested in what you do in the mean time. Or what to do while you are not using Ancestry.com for that week, or as Michael John Neill suggests, a month.
Taking the time to clean up your database, using other web sites, Google Books, are great ideas.
I am, and have been for the past months, going back and doing just what you have suggested. Two major areas, Cleaning up my Citations to bring them into the Family Tree Maker template feature so they are Evidence Explained format. I have been blogging about that.
I have used another genealogy program, Evidentia! and have blogged about it in another blog
I mention this, because it is Evidence based and you start by really looking at your research material. For me, it was relooking at what I already have and taking the time to Cite my sources correctly. A couple of examples of taking this time are here.
That last one, I had nicely cited, but in reviewing the citation, I realized that there should have been two images.
As I am teaching at two local adult care centers in my area, I have shared with them my search strategy. In one case, I am doing a "Who Do You Think You Are?" type of class, BUT they get to help me with the research or final product. The real life version of WDYTYA.
Because I use FTM2014, have an Ancestry Member Tree (AMT), AMT's in my clase, I am very closely linked to Ancestry.com. BUT, I also use the other suggested sites that Bill West talked about.
As the image at the top of this blog post shows, I have 6,000 hints to work on. One at a time, gives me a little more information to fill in missing information. However, Ancestry.com doesn't have everything. Many times I find information on Ancestry, but need to look elsewhere to help fill in the blanks.
Unless Bill West will allow me to use the two weeks last year that I didn't have internet access for this Challenge, I'll have to postpone the Challenge until this summer, when our grandkids come to visit. Afterall, he didn't put a time frame on this Challenge.
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2015 Jaguar F-Type R Coupe Review
Sinewy stance, sharp claws, sinister look: the 550-hp Jaguar F-type coupe is the baddest big cat of them all.
186 mph!
The numbers on the billboard are more than two feet tall. Below the triple-digit eye-catcher, set in brackets and printed too small to be deciphered from a distance, the banner ad reads "Electronically Limited."
What kind of car is this new 2015 Jaguar F-Type R Coupe? Why does a high-performance coupe need a governor to stop it from going faster than 186 mph? To prevent it from taking off like an airplane? From disintegrating at meltdown speed? From driving us dizzy on its way into orbit?
"The R is the sharpest, hottest, and most focused variation of the F-type," states Mike Cross, chief vehicle integration engineer, a.k.a. senior test driver. "The R version does everything a little better than the 495-hp convertible -- accelerate, brake, steer, change lanes, curve through cones, redefine the limit."
After a brief pause, the seasoned driftmeister adds laconically: "Okay, perhaps it doesn't set new standards in the ride department. But on the track, it certainly sifts the men from the boys after only a handful of laps."
Which is exactly why our second encounter with the ultimate hot rod from Whitley took place in sunny Spain on the Circuito de Catalunya, which will host major F1 and Moto GP events later this year. The 2.4-mile-long circuit contains the complete Fear and Loathing in Barcelona compendium: at the end of the longest straight, the speedo reads a white-knuckle 165 mph, the awe-inspiring mid-section roller-coaster corners are dotted with blind turn-in and braking points, the famous double-apex right-hander is the stuff instantaneous depressions are made of, the slow chicane before the entrance to pit lane disciplines you with ankle-high curbs and ultra-short runoff areas.
The Jaguar F-Type coupe offers a smidgen more scalp clearance than the roadster with the top erect, but it, too, is a tight fit compared with its German, Italian, Japanese, and American competition. On the credit side, we note new body-hugging bucket seats with inflatable side bolsters, g-force-defying wraparound backrests, and extended thigh support. Although the R is generally quite well equipped, you still need to pay extra for the neat glass roof, a navigation system, and such street-cred enhancing goodies as the full carbon-fiber pack and dark gray 20-inch alloy wheels. Driver assistance systems? Not at this point, and probably not for some time, since the current electronic platform would struggle to digest the flood of data that most of these radar, infrared, laser, ultrasound, or camera-based devices seem to require.
Although we have already experienced this engine in the XKR-S, XFR-S, and XJR, the supercharged V-8 sounds particularly untamed and aggressive in the Jaguar F-Type, where the switchable exhaust turns every lift-off maneuver into a loud acoustic statement, Hyde Park Corner-style. The performance figures reflect the slightly more favorable curb weight of the compact two-seater: 0 to 60 mph in 4.0 seconds flat, 50 to 75 mph in 2.4 seconds (even though that exercise requires an upshift from second to third gear). While the 5.0-liter powerhouse will happily spin to its redline at 7000 rpm again and again, what you really register with a broad smile and with growing excitement is the massive maximum torque of 502 lb-ft, which crests from 2500 to 5500 rpm. As a result, full-throttle mid-range upshifts can feel suspiciously close to whiplash.
All F-type models feature the same ZF eight-speed automatic transmission, but each version has its own final drive ratio. The rear axle of the R is so short that the car storms through the first three gears like a hurricane on wheels. Even though the transmission responds quickly to throttle inputs when in the regular Drive setting, it is invariably more involving to change gears with your fingertips. In Sport mode, the fast-acting torque converter feels every bit as efficient as a good dual-clutch transmission. One of these days, Jaguar will introduce all-wheel drive to the F-type, but right now we depend on the familiar blend of Pirelli licorice, traction control on alert, and a superfast limited-slip differential that can switch from open to locked in less than 200 milliseconds.
With warm tires and on dry blacktop, take-off often is a brief and shrill shouting match, but as soon as the first raindrops fall, the chip-controlled guardian angels work overtime by means of diligent torque distribution (between the rear wheels) and cautiously dosed torque vectoring (by momentarily decelerating those two wheels that are closest to the apex). Although it is possible to spice up the engine, transmission, steering, and dampers via the dynamic mode selector, those who prefer grand gestures will want to adjust the dynamic stability control (DSC) calibration. One stab at the button permits drift angles of up to 30 degrees, which doesn't sound like much but looks fab. Keep the button pushed for more than five seconds, and a gong will sound to announce that the car is now skating on very thin ice. With DSC off, the F-Type R is ready to go through the entire hooligan spectrum, from livid street painting to smelly, slide-n-smoke antics.
The R has the quickest steering ever fitted to a production-model Jaguar, blending spontaneous turn-in with delicate weighting and low effort. Having said that, the direction finder could still do with a bit more self-centering, a bit more concentration around the straight-ahead position, and a bit more feedback when held on (opposite) lock. Extra money buys extra-large carbon-ceramic disc brakes, which promise even faster response, stronger deceleration, and less wear. In addition, the pedal pressure allegedly never varies, and the system is claimed to be immune to extreme working temperatures. On the racetrack, the lightweight CCM rotors may indeed gain a tenth here and there, but for everyday use the steel brakes suffice. We compared the two applications and found that they both suffered from some at-the-limit judder and pronounced tramlining, and they both required the driver to really hammer the pedal for that final make-it-or-dive-straight-on effort.
Tipping the scales at 3671 pounds, the F-Type R is lighter and significantly stiffer than the open-top version. The cargo space has increased from nearly useless to 11.0 cubic feet. Despite the earlier remark by Mike Cross, the 550-hp coupe actually rides with a charming mix of casual compliance and occasional grumpiness. Despite the fat 20-inch ultra-high-performance tires, the adaptive dampers, and the marginally stiffer springs, directional stability does not always follow the line drawn by a ruler. What the F-type really hates with a vengeance are mid-corner bumps, surface variations, and ridges and potholes.
We are not sure whether the top-of-the-line F-type is really worth five figures more than the base 340-hp model with big brakes and 19-inch tires. But we know that putting the 550-hp Jag through its paces is a serious challenge, so be careful with that DSC button because, unlike some cats, no human being has seven lives.
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The Dodgers shed a third catcher from their camp roster in as many days Tuesday by re-assigning Jesus Flores to the minors. That effectively hands the backup backstop's job to Tim Federowicz.
Federowicz was the front-runner to be the number-two behind A.J. Ellis, but not a shoo-in when the Dodgers invited four more experienced catchers — Flores, Ramon Castro, Wilkin Castillo and Eliezer Alfonzo — as non-roster invitees. Alfonzo never reported to camp. Castro and Flores never hit. Castillo did (.333/.333/.389) but it wasn't enough to unseat Federowicz, a 24-year-old who has never been on an Opening Day roster.
The bullpen picture became more clear when Shawn Tolleson was optioned to the Dodgers' minor-league camp. The 25-year-old right-hander only allowed one run in seven appearances, but the team appears intent on giving a bullpen job to a more experienced righty such as Peter Moylan, Mark Lowe or Kevin Gregg, or rookie Josh Wall. The 34-year-old Gregg, who's allowed two hits and no runs in six appearances, looks like the front-runner among that group. Left-hander Paco Rodriguez also remains in camp.
Justin Sellers was the third camp casualty Tuesday. The infielder was optioned to the minor-league camp after batting .150/.150/.190, with 3 hits and no walks in 21 plate appearances.
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Dylan Avery has a theory that he says casts doubts on Mark Bingham's actions on Sept. 11, 2001. According to Avery, the San Francisco public relations executive never called his mom on a cell phone from the cabin of Flight 93, and never told her that "some of us here are going to try to do something." Instead, says Avery, someone using a voice synthesizer -- possibly a government official -- called Alice Hoglan on the morning that Flight 93 -- and Bingham -- became part of Sept. 11 lore.
"The cell phone calls were fake -- no ifs, ands or buts," Avery says in "Loose Change," a film he wrote and directed that's one of the most-watched movies on the Internet, with 10 million viewers in the past year. "Until the government can prove beyond a shadow of doubt that al Qaeda was behind Sept. 11, the American people have every reason to believe otherwise."
Avery is one of perhaps millions of Americans who believe the U.S. government -- or rogue elements within it -- either orchestrated the attacks or tacitly supported them for nefarious reasons.
As the five-year anniversary of the attacks approaches, the clamor of Avery and other conspiracy theorists has gotten stronger -- and more widely accepted. According to a poll by Ohio University and Scripps Howard News Service, 36 percent of Americans believe that government officials "either assisted in the 9/ 11 attacks or took no action to stop the attacks because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East." Twelve percent of Americans believe a cruise missile fired by the U.S. military -- not an American Airlines jet hijacked by Arab terrorists -- slammed into the Pentagon. Sixteen percent of Americans, the survey indicates, believe that "secret explosives" -- not two planes and the resulting damage -- brought down the World Trade Center towers.
Conspiracy fans are viewed by most people as gullible, opportunistic, disgruntled or simply suspicious. It's widely believed that conspiracy theorists emanate from the margins of society, that they're a combination of paranoid, powerless, undereducated and desperate (at least desperate to assign blame). But Avery and other prominent Sept. 11 conspiracy theorists claim to represent society's mainstream, which is skeptical of the Bush administration's rationale for the Iraq war and Washington's version of what really happened that day.
Some of them reject the term "conspiracy theorist," instead calling themselves "truth activists" -- people who want to expose hidden facts that the major media ignore or downplay because of their corporate ties. While many conspiracy theorists are politically liberal, they also include people on the right, including members of the John Birch Society, who imply that the Sept. 11 attacks were part of a continuing plan by U.S. elites to create a "New World Order" and impose greater control over Americans.
Some conspiracy theories are fantastical (CIA agents orchestrated the attacks; Israel planned them.) -- the epitome of preposterous beliefs that start with a conclusion and work backward to find evidence. Each new month brings a deluge of crackpot theories, but a growing number of people say there are too many improbabilities -- too many illogical holes -- in the government's version of what happened.
Robert Bowman, who directed the "Star Wars" defense program under Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, reached his own conclusion after questioning (among other things) why the American military hadn't intercepted the hijacked planes before they hit the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, why the FBI had ignored repeated pre-Sept. 11 warnings that Zacarias Moussaoui wanted to fly a plane into the World Trade Center, why the Pentagon didn't release surveillance tapes of American Airlines Flight 77 hitting the military complex, and how, within hours after the attack, the government could so quickly produce the names and photos of the 19 hijackers.
A former U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel with a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology, Bowman says Vice President Dick Cheney and other top government officials may have had advance knowledge of the attacks. Bowman theorizes that Cheney and other officials stood to benefit financially (in Cheney's case, through Halliburton). Labeling these officials "neo-cons," Bowman says they had a long-standing desire to control Iraq's oil and to use the country as a strategic hub for controlling the entire Middle East. The Sept. 11 commission, he says, neglected to investigate these possible connections, leaving a huge gap in the official account.
"It's hard to believe that somebody at some (government) level wasn't complicit in this thing," Bowman said in a phone interview from his home in Florida. Bowman, who publicly turned against the "Star Wars" system because he believed the Reagan administration secretly considered it a first-strike option and not merely a defensive weapon, says, "How could someone in the FBI turn down requests 70 times from somebody (FBI agent Harry Samit) who said he thought Moussaoui was going to fly a hijacked plane into the World Trade Center? ... I'm calling for a (new) independent investigation that will clear up everything. If the investigation shows that there were people in the United States who were involved in some way, that's the story of the century, and the American people need to know it."
Like many on the left and the right, Bowman points to pre-Sept. 11 documents he says foreshadowed the attacks, including a paper published in 2000 by the Project for a New American Century, a conservative think tank whose members have included Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. The paper, titled "Rebuilding America's Defenses," talked about the fact that a "catastrophic and catalyzing event -- a new Pearl Harbor," would strengthen the American military because lawmakers would, given the urgency, green-light funds to continue the military's dominance over U.S. adversaries. For conspiracy theorists, the Project for a New American Century document is a smoking gun. Its reference to Pearl Harbor is both scary and damning, they say, because some historians believe President Franklin Roosevelt knew that an attack on U.S. soil was imminent but let it happen to rally American public opinion behind going to war.
If that isn't enough evidence to convince you that Sept. 11 was an inside job, conspiracy theorists say, there's more. What about the fact that NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) quickly intercepted golfer Payne Stewart's wayward Learjet in 1999 but didn't intercept the hijacked planes that crashed in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pa.? What about the fact that witnesses at the World Trade Center reported hearing multiple explosions before the buildings' collapse, indicating to some that the towers were brought down by planted explosives? What about the fact that Building 7 of the World Trade Center -- the 47-floor structure housing offices of the CIA, the Secret Service and the Department of Defense -- collapsed even though it wasn't hit by planes?
Rebuttals have emerged to explain some of the biggest question marks. Last month, Popular Mechanics magazine published a full-length book, "Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts," which refuted 20 claims widely held by conspiracy theorists. For example, the belief that a missile hit the Pentagon was based partly on the visible damage to the building: at the point of impact, a relatively small portion of the wall was knocked over -- it wasn't the horizontal damage to be expected from a large-winged Boeing 757.
Popular Mechanics, which interviewed more than 300 sources for its book, quotes witnesses who said at least one wing of Flight 77 smashed into an on-ground generator before the plane struck the Pentagon. An engineering expert says the plane's outer wings likely sheared off before impact. "A jet doesn't punch a cartoonlike outline into a concrete building upon impact," the book says, citing an engineering professor.
What about a witness who supposedly told CNN that he saw a missile hit the Pentagon? Popular Mechanics interviews the witness, Mike Walter, who says his original words ("I looked out my window and saw this plane, this jet, an American Airlines jet, coming. ... I mean, it was like a cruise missile with wings") were truncated and distorted by conspiracy theorists. One of those theorists was French author Thierry Meyssan, whose 2002 best-seller, "The Horrifying Fraud," claimed the U.S. military instigated Sept. 11 as part of its plan to start new wars around the world.
In his film "Loose Change," Avery says Bingham and other passengers on Flight 93 could not have called from the doomed jetliner because cell phones rarely work at high altitudes. He cites a research paper by A.K. Dewdney, an emeritus professor of computer science at the University of Western Ontario. But in "Debunking 9/11 Myths," Popular Mechanics interviews experts who explain why Bingham's cell phone would have worked that day (the plane's low altitude helped, as did the fact it flew over rural areas, which often have cell-phone towers with powerful signal capacities).
Not surprisingly, conspiracy theorists have attacked "Debunking 9/11 Myths," saying that Popular Mechanics is a front for the CIA. They that one of its researchers, Benjanim Chertoff, is related to Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff, which they say is an indication of the magazine's co-mingling with a government that was behind the attacks. (The magazine says the two Chertoffs might be distant cousins, but that they've never spoken.)
Conspiracy theorists might even look at this article as part of the conspiracy, because Hearst Corp., which owns Popular Mechanics, also publishes The Chronicle.
What sets "Loose Change" apart from other Sept. 11 works is that it's visually appealing, slickly edited (with hip music) and free to watch on the internet video site YouTube. It has an anti-authoritarian edge (Avery is 22 years old) that might appeal to someone who admires Michael Moore or Jon Stewart. The film has inspired a critical response, "Screw Loose Change," which repackages Avery's film with rebuttals interspersed.
Conspiracy theorists often cite "facts" that really are facts, but whether they really add up to anything is another question.
In his new book, "The Terror Conspiracy: Deception, 9/11, and the Loss of Liberty," author Jim Marrs points out that former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski admitted that the United States began funding Afghan rebels in July 1979. Why is this important? Because, for many years, the official American version was that funding started after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979. Brzezinski now says the United States hoped the 1979 funding would draw in the Soviets and lead to a wider war, contributing to the demise of the Soviet Union. If the U.S. government would lie in 1979, why wouldn't it lie again in 2001? In 1979, says Marrs, it was about gaining access to oil and gas in Central Asia. Twenty-two years later, he says, it was about Iraq's oil.
Agreeing with Marrs is Scholars for 9/11 Truth, an organization that believes the U.S. government "permitted 9/11 to occur." Among the group's members are Paul W. Rea, a humanities lecturer at St. Mary's College in Moraga; Tracy Belvins, a research scientist in bioengineering at Rice University; Kevin Barrett, a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose Sept. 11 views caused national controversy in July and prompted some lawmakers to insist he shouldn't be teaching at the university; and Stephen LeRoy, an economics professor at UC Santa Barbara who has been a visiting economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
"Conspiracists (come) from all parts of the population, they (come) from all racial and religious groups," says Bob Goldberg, a history professor at the University of Utah and the author of "Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America." "The fact that people who have advanced degrees believe in conspiracy theories does not surprise me because it's not an issue of whether you're smart or dumb. In fact, when you look at conspiracy theories, what distinguishes them is how rigorously logical they seem to be, that they are so intensely structured and that there's a belief that every single fact is important and connects to another fact. There's a rigor to (their) logic."
"But," says Goldberg, "there's (an inflexibility to) the logic that denies things you can't deny -- whether it's accidents, whether it's bureaucratic process, whether it's miscalculations, whether it's simply mistakes. In these theories, there are no mistakes, no accidents, no bureaucracy -- everything is crystal clear."
"Debunking 9/11 Myths" makes the case that mistakes, miscommunication and bureaucratic bungling contributed to the U.S. government's lack of immediate response to the Sept. 11 hijackings. Barrett and other conspiracy theorists will have none of it. They say the U.S. government's version of the events is itself a conspiracy theory -- a collection of assumptions bolstered by evidence, but nevertheless assumptions that are open to debate.
"After studying this fairly intensively over the past 2 1/2 years," says Barrett in a phone interview, "I'm convinced that 9/11 was orchestrated by top U.S. officials and presumably perpetrated by members of what could be called the American allied intelligence community."
Goldberg says conspiracy theorists -- especially those fearful and distrustful of a powerful, centralized government -- have existed in the United States since its founding. The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Goldberg says, created a perfect storm for conspiracy theorists of every political and religious persuasion.
Five years afterward, the storm isn't abating.
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For the past few months (it seems) Debian Testing will install just fine on system. On the first boot, however, neither (internal or external) mouse nor keyboard will be responsive and to a casual observer it will appear that the system has hanged. This is fairly well documented and the solution is simple if you have an EXTERNAL keyboard and mouse available (but I'll show it here anyway):
1. Disconnect and reconnect your mouse and keyboard, or, on a laptop, connect a usb keyboard, so that you can log in.
2. Open the terminal or a console (e.g. ctrl+alt+f1) and proceed to rename /run e.g. sudo mv /run /xrun
You could also delete the folder instead of renaming it. At this point you simply have to reboot and everything should be working without any reconnecting.
NOTE that everything will be responsive during the inital part of the boot - the mouse and keyboard do not stop working until startx/gdm3 starts.
If you do not have an external keyboard you would be advised to install openssh-server during the installation of Debian. This way you should be able to ssh to your laptop from another computer and fix it remotely.
I've set up four systems - three desktops and one laptop - using this approach, and all has been well. The past week a laptop that was set up this way suddenly booted into gdm3 with an unresponsive mouse and keyboard. Plugging in an external keyboard (which I do anyway to slow down the onset of carpal tunnel from using a keyboard at weird angles - I'm not much of a fan of touchpads either) made my laptop usable, but the problem has been annoying - a system which you use for work should be in, well, working order.
At any rate, the /run folder was back. I tried just removing /run/udev, and it didn't help. I couldn't easily remove /run, since it was locked, but by attaching the hdd to another system I could remove it. On boot I got a number of error messages saying that various folders under /var/run/ could not be accessed, and I never made it to either gdm3 or a console. Booting by selecting the 'rescue/recover' option in grub dropped me into a terminal, but I could little beyond creating a /run folder (sudo mkdir /run).
ls /var/run -lah showed that /var/run was linked to /run. /var/lock had also shown up in various error messages. I renamed the /var/run and the /var/lock files (xrun and xlock), made sure that there was no /run folder, and rebooted. Still not happy and no console - complains about various things missing. Booting using the recover option (or is it rescue? Whatever, you'll know when you see it) created the necessary files, but did not create a /run folder. Rebooting and selecting the normal startup option in grub now went off without a hitch, with gdm3 behaving and the touchpad working. It took a few nervous seconds after the start of gdm before the mouse became responsive, but work it did.
So, if you're having the same problem, and you haven't had much luck deleting /run, have a look at /var and see if there are any links.
Now, the big question is: why was /run recreated in the first place?
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This imaginative fake ear plug will give you the look of ear taper / expander without the pain.
- Fake expander with a 18G ( 1.2mm) stem
- Looks real like a 0G (8.0mm) stretcher
- Rubber O-rings make these look authentic from the front and back
- Can be worn comfortably without ever stretching your ears
- Screw-on closing keeps earrings securely on
- Material: Acrylic and stainless steel
- Pin Length: Approx. 7mm
- Color: Black
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Ha! I was so fucking right! About eight months ago I told to all my friends how fantastic the Creative Commons project is and the probability of its populatity growing a lot. So we have right now a nice CC-GPL licence thanks a brazilian initiative. Also, check out this amazing commercial, winner of the CC's Moving Image Contest: [Creativity Always] Building on the Past (.mov, 8mb). To see the others featured movies, go to the contest page. So, did you notice that when I have no news to write about, I always put a lotta links here?
Mozilla Brasil
Pretty obvious, uh? [...] Actually I'm helping out the Mozilla Brasil team to organize the project and you can browse my personal directory through the home page link in top. In the last weeks I've spent some time playing with POT files (type man gettext inside your terminal emulator baby) because I knew that anyone can convert Mozilla's DTD files to the POT format so you can easily translate the T-rex :) while testing it with the Translate kit, the descendant of mozpotools, originally created by a couple of guys from a south african translation group I wanted to write a localized manual of Translate (this version in english). I strongly recomend you to try it! Lets retire the Mozilla Translator ;)
Yes, scalable vector graphics rules. I made some convertions from bitmap images to the SVG format and the theme is basically about... hmm, Mozilla! My Mozilla's SVG images.
Femtologger & Designing
Femtologger is almost finished, yay! I just need to clean up the code and make finally the CLI using Dialog. Now it exports RSS feeds, XBEL bookmarks, have a nice text version of the page for accessibility purposes and a lot of CSS themes for colorblind folks. The page built by Femtologger now is compliant with Bobby/US 508 guideline but hmm 80% against W3C WAI. I used to try to validate it against the W4 Dogma (W4D) group, but it's a little hard to do so, because there isn't a validator for that. Anyway, I think it's fine unless for the part about font sizes... I really like to use px instead of % or even pt :P ...and yes, Femtologger is based on Bowie Poag's MicroBlogger, specifically on 1.9 release and it is a very simple, easy-to-use and standards compliant web log system (or just blogger) that runs with no need of any kind of dependencies; no CGI, no PHP, no SQL. Femto is 100% made using Bash script and a menu-driven system. Another good reason to use Femto is because it builds a valid XHTML 1.1 page plus valid CSS 2.1 to style the elements. Also, you can use to-be-converted tags for bold, italic, blockquote, links etc and boy, it's so awesome to hear the Festival system speeching my Femtologger page!
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's insurance watchdog said Thursday that Anthem Blue Cross has agreed to reduce its rate increase for 630,000 policyholders.
Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced Anthem has voluntarily agreed to reduce its premium increase for the individual market after his department conducted a review.
Jones estimated the move will save policyholders $54 million.
The insurer had proposed an average increase of 17.9 percent, but is now reducing that to 13.8 percent. The rate increase was effective Feb. 1.
Jones lauded Anthem's move as health insurance premiums continue to soar. Even with this decrease, Jones said Anthem policyholders still experienced an average 22 percent rate increase in the previous 12 months.
"Health insurance has become unaffordable for far too many Californians," Jones said in a written statement. "The department thoroughly reviewed the rate filing and then I asked Anthem Blue Cross to lower their rates.
"I appreciate that Anthem Blue Cross has agreed to lower these rates so policyholders will pay $54 million less than they otherwise would have," Jones added.
While the state's Insurance Department reviews proposed rate increases, health insurance carriers can implement increases without approval from the insurance commissioner, who lacks the authority to reject excessive rate increases.
Darrel Ng, a spokesman for Anthem, said Thursday that the agreement reflects the fact that the health insurance industry continues to face rising costs.
See also:
WellPoint weighs in on California rates
California: Keep 2014 PPACA fee out of 2013 rates
California Health Insurers Reduce Rate Increases to Tune of $48 Million


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Spice & honey salmon with couscous
Nutrition and extra info
- Dairy-free
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal506
- fat22g
- saturates4g
- carbs47g
- sugars8g
- fibre1g
- protein34g
- salt0.21g
- 2 lemons
Oval in shape with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile…
- 2 tsp ras-el-hanout spice (we used Bart - or see Know-how, below)
- 1 large or 2 small garlic cloves, crushed
- bunch spring onions, thinly sliced
Spring onionsp-ring un-yun
Also known as scallions or green onions, spring onions are in fact very young onions, harvested…
- 3 tsp olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 2 boneless, skinless salmon fillets
- 140g couscous
Consisting of many tiny granules made from steamed and dried durum wheat, couscous has become a…
- 2 tsp clear honey
- handful mint, leaves finely sliced
There are several types of mint, each with its own subtle difference in flavour and appearance.…
Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Zest and juice 1 lemon, then mix the zest and ½ the juice with the spice, garlic, ½ the spring onions and 2 tsp oil. Season well. Put the salmon into a shallow dish, spoon over the marinade, then leave for 10 mins to let the flavours mingle.
Meanwhile, put the couscous in a large bowl. Tip in the remaining lemon juice and oil, spring onions and 150ml boiling water, then cover and leave to stand.
Lift the salmon onto a foil-lined baking tray, spoon over any leftover marinade, then roast for 15 mins. With 5 mins to go, pull out the baking tray and spoon 1 tsp clear honey over each fillet.
Add the mint to the couscous and fluff it up with a fork. Serve the salmon with the couscous, spoon over the juices from the baking tray and add lemon wedges.
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Know-howTo make your own Ras-el-Hanout spice mix, stir together equal parts mixed spice, ground coriander and paprika, then add a pinch of cayenne and black pepper.


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The Avengers are a superhero team, consisting of many of Marvel Comics' most popular heroes. Known for their rallying cry "Avengers Assemble!" and the nickname of "Earth's Mightiest Heroes", the team originally featured Ant-Man, Wasp, Thor, Iron Man, and the Hulk, all of whomwere popular, established superheroes.
Continuing the epic big-screen adventures started in Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger, Marvel's The Avengers is the super hero team up of a lifetime. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster.


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From the archives: CEO Jacques Nasser and CEO Jerry Yang celebrating the Ford-Yahoo OwnerConnection program in 2000. It's nine years later. Which concept seems sadder through the prism of history?
This is from the Ford image archives, which is actually full of hilarious photos. Here's the caption:
Jac Nasser, CEO and president of Ford Motor Company, and Jerry Yang, cofounder and chief of Yahoo!, Inc., laugh in a Yahoo!-wrapped 2000 Ford Focus, Sunday, January 8, 2000, outside Cobo Hall at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan.
This photo, of course, was taken pre Carpocalypse, before Yahoo!, Jac Nasser, Jerry Yang, the Ford Focus and the Detroit Auto Show all took a nose dive into total crapdom.
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As the Toastmaster of this year's Worldcon, I feel it is incumbent upon me to remind you that you have only until Sunday, March 11, 2012, 11:59pm Pacific, to get in your Hugo (and Campbell!) Award nominations in for this year. If you are able to nominate but don't, I'm pretty sure that the rest of your life will be lived with the bitter taste of regret ashen in your mouth. Yes, that's exactly how it will be.
Here is the online nominating ballot. You will need your membership number and your Hugo Voting PIN. Check your e-mail queue; there's likely to be an e-mail about it in there (presuming you are a qualified nominator).
Here's a list of works/people eligible, from authors/creators. Here's a list of recommendations from fans. And, if you need it, here's what stuff of mine is eligible this year.
Go forward and nominate, my friends!


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President Obama and Dr. King
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President Barack Obama tours the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C., Oct. 14, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
It's been 29 years since President Reagan signed the law to create a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
This year for the first time, however, those who wish to honor Dr. King on the holiday will be able gather in celebration at his memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
Seven years ago, then-Senator Obama spoke at the groundbreaking for the memorial.
And back in October, the President spoke at its dedication, where he described the way that Dr. King continues to inspire new generations to work to fulfill his legacy:
He would not give up, no matter how long it took, because in the smallest hamlets and the darkest slums, he had witnessed the highest reaches of the human spirit; because in those moments when the struggle seemed most hopeless, he had seen men and women and children conquer their fear; because he had seen hills and mountains made low and rough places made plain, and the crooked places made straight and God make a way out of no way.
And that is why we honor this man –- because he had faith in us. And that is why he belongs on this Mall -– because he saw what we might become. That is why Dr. King was so quintessentially American — because for all the hardships we've endured, for all our sometimes tragic history, ours is a story of optimism and achievement and constant striving that is unique upon this Earth. And that is why the rest of the world still looks to us to lead. This is a country where ordinary people find in their hearts the courage to do extraordinary things; the courage to stand up in the face of the fiercest resistance and despair and say this is wrong, and this is right; we will not settle for what the cynics tell us we have to accept and we will reach again and again, no matter the odds, for what we know is possible.
From the Archives: Dr. Martin Luther King at the White House
Source: WH, 1-16-12
Martin Luther King, Jr. leaves the West Wing after meeting with President Johnson. August 5, 1965. Abbie Rowe, NPS: National Archive and Records Administration. (by Abbie Rowe, NPS: National Archive and Records Administration)
President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Civil Rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr., Whitney Young, and James Farmer in the Oval Office. January 18, 1964. . (by Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library)
To mark Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the White House Historical Association has searched their archives and created a slideshow of historic images that show the impact the civil rights leader has had on several administrations. Dr King's interactions with Presidents Kennedy and Johnson leading up to the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the Voting Rights Act in 1965 and the 1968 Civil Rights Act are well documented, but his first visit to the White House was actually in 1958, when he and other prominent civil rights leaders met with President Dwight Eisenhower. Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr's Life and Legacy features images of Dr. King himself at the White House and also includes photos of President Reagan signing the King Holiday Bill in 1983 with Coretta Scott King at his side, and President Obama and his family at the national memorial that was dedicated just last year.
From the Archives: President Reagan Designates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a Federal Holiday
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President Ronald Reagan signs legislation to create a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Rose Garden of the White House on November 2, 1983. (by National Archives)
Only three people have a national holiday observed in their honor: Christopher Columbus, George Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, celebrated on the third Monday of January each year, marks the birthday of the civil rights leader and nonviolent activist. The call for a national holiday to honor Dr. King's legacy began soon after his assassination in 1968—U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) introduced legislation to establish the holiday just four days after Dr. King was killed, but Congress took no action on the bill.
In the years that followed, millions of people signed petitions in support of the holiday. Coretta Scott King testified before Congress multiple times, calling for a federally recognized day to honor the life and work of her late husband. In 1980, Stevie Wonder released a song, "Happy Birthday," which became both a hit and a rallying cry for supporters of the holiday, and civil rights marches in Washington in 1982 and 1983 only served to amplify their mission.
A bill to establish the holiday successfully passed through both houses of Congress in 1983, and President Reagan signed it into law on November 20 of that year. The first Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was celebrated in 1986.
Many Americans now honor Dr. King's legacy by participating in a community service event in their own neighborhood andhis vision of service and volunteering is more critical than ever during this economic recovery. President Obama has called on the nation to participate in a service event in their own community this Monday, January 16, 2012.
The First and Second Families, numerous members of the President's cabinet, and thousands of other Americans across the country have committed to serve, and you can, too. Visit MLKDay.gov to find a service opportunity in your neighborhood and learn more about the Martin Luther King Day of Service.


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The Rise and Haul of Hot Rodding - A History
A Short Overview of America's Four-Wheel Phenomenon
Hot rodders love affair with Fords didnt just happen. Henry, with the help of his driver Frank Kulick, caused it to happen! The most influential man of the 20th century shrewdly perceived that successfully racing his products would increase their salability: Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday. The racing success of Fords cut-down, hopped-up Model Ts wasnt lost on the youth of the teens and twenties. Their collective demand for go-fast goodies spawned what would become a hugely diverse performance-parts aftermarket for model Ts.
However, this homegrown phenomenon reached its zenith in Southern California. The Southlands combination of year-round summer, high-tech industries (both movie and aircraft), hungry race-car builders, wide streets and dry lakes generated what were called hot jobs, essentially denuded Model T roadsters augmented by the offerings of Ed Winfield, Harry Miller and Pierre Bertrand. Because of Southern Californias remoteness, ensured by the physical barrier of the San Gabriel mountains and the high desert, hot rodding remained virtually undetected until the 1940s when two events occurred: World War II and HOT ROD magazine. With that short introduction in place, we will commence with our pictorial overview of the rise and haul of hot rodding.