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MAGNETOM Amira
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When it comes to clinical capabilities, MAGNETOM Amira provides a comprehensive application portfolio as standard. Its trendsetting innovations are designed to help you achieve better outcomes for patients and meet the increasing demands in clinical healthcare. Combined with Tim 4G and DotGO, this application portfolio brings even the most complex exams into your clinical routine.
Clinical Image Gallery
See the full application range in the MAGNETOM Amira Image Gallery:
Experience high resolution and benefit from fast protocols and quieter exams for uncooperative patients. Your MAGNETOM Amira's Neuro Suite includes advanced protocols for diffusion imaging, perfusion imaging, and fMRI. And the Brain Dot Engine helps increase consistency, even when conditions change during the course of the examination.
With Ortho Suite comes a comprehensive collection of protocols for joint imaging including the spine. Tim 4G's ultra high-density coils for MSK imaging improve SNR and anatomic coverage. Dot's customizable workflows feature AutoAlign and AutoCoverage for knee, hip, and shoulder and MPR planning for fast 3D measurements and Inline 3D multiplanar reformatting. WARP4 offers a comprehensive suite of techniques to provide susceptibility artifact reduction functionality.
Body Imaging
The new certainty in Body MRI: FREEZEit helps you overcome motion and opens up many diagnostic possibilities. With the Abdomen Dot Engine, standardized, efficient, and comprehensive workflows for the upper abdomen with excellent image quality are provided. And with LiverLab you can perform quantitative liver evaluation, non-invasively, on the fly.
The Cardiac Suite covers comprehensive 2D routine cardiac applications, ranging from morphology and ventricular function to tissue characterization. MyoMaps provides an additional layer of valuable diagnostic information about even subtle changes in tissue composition – on the fly. Dot's on-board guidance helps make cardiac part of your clinical routine. The Cardiac Dot Engine simplifies complete cardiac localization with AutoAlign Heart.
With the Angio Suite, excellent MR Angiography can be performed to visualize arteries and veins with or without contrast agent. For scans with contrast media, the Angio Dot Engine helps realize optimized bolus timing at every examination. Real-time graphics and AutoVoice Commands assist the user in organizing the ideal timing of breathing, scanning, and contrast media.
Breast MRI
From clinical imaging to biopsy guidance, MAGNETOM Amira offers a wide selection of breast coils and enables outstanding image quality. Excellent soft tissue differentiation, customized protocols, as well as flexible multiplanar visualization allow for fast, simple, and reproducible evaluation of MRI breast examinations. The Breast Dot Engine offers different workflows for optimized image quality and consistency.
Prostate MRI
With the combination of the high-density spine and body matrix coils alone MAGNETOM Amira enables excellent multiparametric imaging of the prostate in terms of morphology, physiology, and function. Together with dedicated solutions for reading and reporting, the workflow for prostate MRI is comprehensively covered.
Pediatric MRI
Tissue relaxation times in pediatrics1 are very different compared to those of adults. The reasons for these differences are: developing tissues, body size, faster heart rates, and compliance with breathhold commands. With MAGNETOM Amira, protocols are available to be adapted for imaging infants.
MAGNETOM Amira's Onco Suite features a collection of sequences, protocols, and evaluation tools that guide users through the detailed assessment of a variety of oncological conditions. Together with Dot's on-board guidance, this innovative technology improves patient throughput and provides superb image quality.
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1The safety of imaging infants under two years of age has not been established. The responsible physician must evaluate the benefits of the MR examination compared to those of other imaging procedures.


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For someone who wants to be left alone by the general public, Amanda Bynes sure knows how to command attention. The "retired" actress, who hasn't been seen in weeks since she fled Los Angeles for New York in September after a string of bad driving incidents, came out of hiding on Wednesday looking better than she has in a while … but still acting very strangely. Bynes, whose dark hair is now a golden hue and extra long thanks to extensions, accidentally stumbled upon a group of photographers waiting to snap a picture of Justin Bieber while walking down a New York City sidewalk. Once she realized her mistake, she immediately tried to cover her face with her scarf, but it was too late.
Luckily for the "What a Girl Wants" actress, she was able to hail a taxi and extract herself from the situation … yet moments later, she made the cabbie pull over so she could go back and give the photogs a piece of her mind. According to E! Online, Bynes scolded them for acting illegally – even though they were not – and then hopped back in the cab and headed straight to Bergdorf Goodman for a shopping spree.
My phone got taken twice but I got it back & am waiting to get reverified. I love my fans! Xox Follow me on instagram I'm amandabynes4386 :)— Amanda Bynes (@AmandaBynes) November 23, 2012
Although this was the first time she had been seen in public for some time, Bynes has made her presence known on the Internet. On November 23, she reappeared on Twitter – where she had begged President Obama for his help with her DUI earlier this year – to tell her 285,000 followers that her phone "got taken twice but I got it back" and to ask them to follow her on Instagram, where she posted the same self-taken pic of herself wearing a turban and sunglasses three times in a row with different captions. "What up doe?" read the first, followed by "<3 my turban!" and "Bout to get my nails done. What color should I get? I want to long and pointy!" Soon after, Bynes uploaded a dark photo of her skinny thighs and wrote: "losing weight is hard to do! I love jeans with sexy holes." She certainly has a way with words!
More celebrity features on Yahoo!:
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- Kelsey Grammer, Wife Fail to Put Baby in Car Seat
- Mariah Carey's Head-Turning Holiday Dress (Video)

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It's a baby step, but still a step in the right direction: California's unemployment rate fell to 11.9 percent in September from 12.1 percent in August. In the process, the state added 11,800 jobs, bringing the total for 2011 to just under 140,000.
These numbers are hardly robust, but they suggest the possibility that California is climbing out of the economic hole the state has occupied for the past three years.
Over that time, the state budget has been pared by one-third, forcing drastic cuts in every area from public education to in-home services for the aged and infirm.
Local governments have been hit particularly hard as well. Still, the new employment data couldn't come at a better time because time is not on the side of the state budget.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
The budget for the 2011-2012 fiscal year calls for revenues of $4 billion more than the amount anticipated by the Legislative Analyst.
Revenues for the first three months of the fiscal year are $700 million below those projections, leaving many to fear massive cut-backs beyond the massive cut-backs that have already taken place. You can't spend money if you don't have it because California, unlike the federal government, must operate with a balanced budget.
But for the moment, there is a glimmer of hope.
Each one of those new employees is collecting a pay check, which means that most will be paying state and local taxes. Moreover, many of these new employees will no longer be collecting unemployment, which reduces the state outlay.
Of course, one month is just that--one month. California's unemployment rate remains stubbornly high, in fact the second highest of the fifty states. But at least there's some hope, and these days, we'll take all the hope we can get.
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Public Educators Are Fighting for Their Professional Lives
2011 ESP of the Year asks delegates to unite.
July 04, 2011
By John Rosales
Public educators are in a war for their professional survival, said Ernest "Jameel" Williams, the 2011 National Education Association Education Support Professional of the Year.
"Our enemies want to strip us of collective bargaining, deny us a living wage, tie our evaluations and raises to students' test scores, and cut school budgets," Williams said Monday to more than 8,000 delegates attending the NEA 2011 Representative Assembly in Chicago.
"And then they have the nerve to turn around and blame us for all of the negatives occurring in public schools," he told the crowd of NEA K-12 teachers, school support staff (known within NEA as "education support professionals"), higher education faculty, college students, and other educators.
"We must put aside our personal and petty differences based solely on job titles," Williams stressed. "We must concentrate on uniting for our professional survival. We don't need to show division in the ranks."
A bus driver and paraeducator from Henderson, North Carolina, Williams has taught at L.B. Yancey Elementary School for all 23 years of his education career. At Yancey, he has served as a teacher's assistant with at-risk youth and in the art and music department.
"Over the years, my job titles and duties have changed," said Williams, an NEA director and member of the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE). "But one thing remains the same – I enjoy what I do."
NCAE President Sheri Strickland said Williams is a strong leader who was the first non-certified member to be elected local unit president of his local, the Vance County Association of Educators. For five years, Williams also served as the state president of the North Carolina ESP Association.
"Jameel is a champion for the rights of ESPs," Strickland said. "Under his leadership, ESP membership increased statewide – in fact, the ESP membership increase surpassed the certified membership increase two years in a row."
In his introduction, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel said he could not think of anyone else but Williams as this year's ESP of the Year.
"He is a man of unrelenting passion for education," said Van Roekel. "He believes way down deep that every child has the right to learn."
When people ask him what "ESP" means to him, Williams told delegates that 'E' stands for "excellence," 'S' stands for "service," and 'P' stands for "purpose."
"ESPs demonstrate excellence in our jobs to provide a quality education to our students," he said. "ESPs volunteer countless of hours to our local, state, and national Associations, and to the communities we live in . . . (we) have a strong sense of purpose to serve students and advocate for professional respect, professional pay, and professional rights."
Williams was named 2011 ESP of the Year last March at the NEA National ESP Conference in Washington, D.C. He was presented with a $10,000 check from the Gardner Rich Foundation of Chicago of which he will donate $5,000 to a charity of his choice.


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Comedian/actor Mike Epps gets semi-serious in this wide-ranging fan Q&A on his career in Hollywood, his advice to up-and-coming comics, and why Richard Pryor wasn't too impressed with his backyard. His new memoir is "Unsuccessful Thug: One Comedian's Journey from Naptown to Tinseltown."
Michael Elliot Epps is a stand-up comedian, actor, film producer, writer, and rapper. He is best known for playing Day-Day Jones in "Next Friday" and its sequel, "Friday After Next," and also appearing in "The Hangover" as "Black Doug". He was the voice of Boog in "Open Season 2." As of 2010, Epps was the executive producer on a documentary about the life story of a former member of Tupac Shakur's Outlawz, "Napoleon: Life of an Outlaw." He is also known for playing Lloyd Jefferson "L.J." Wade in "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" and "Resident Evil: Extinction."


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TORONTO – While opening night helped put fashion fans in a festive mood, Day 2 collections at Toronto's World MasterCard Fashion Week allowed those seeking respite from kicking up their heels to kick them off – at least for a little while.
While there were plenty of upscale offerings during presentations of spring-summer 2014 collections on Tuesday, there was a decidedly more chilled, laidback vibe evoked by the sheers, knits, breezy tanks and tunics on display.
Sid Neigum: From the sculptural halter and draped cowl neck looks to the iridescent suiting, there was a slightly futuristic feel to the Toronto-based designer's latest line of carefully crafted creations.
Neigum set out to explore themes within architecture which he put to strong effect with use of intricate, laser cut geometric patterns adorning dress fronts and the use of asymmetry in leather-trimmed wrap coats, skirts and dresses. The collection included some of the most vibrant hues featured so far, with rich eggplant and coppery shades featured within the range.
Melissa Nepton: Inspired by Japanese culture and style, the Montreal-based designer infused a little international influence into her collection of refined, relaxed separates.
She played with volume and proportion with loose-fitting tank dresses and ultra-wide legged pants. Making use of silk, viscose and quilted cotton, there was a strong graphic element to the line with stripes, florals and geometric prints which coloured the range. A strapless, sequinned mini dress with a flared hem dotted with swirls of navy and gold ranked among the standouts.
Mercedes-Benz Start Up: A pair of womenswear designers with labels based in Alberta and Quebec are sharing grand prize honours in the latest edition of the Mercedes-Benz Start Up competition.
With the judging panel deadlocked, Edmonton's Malorie Urbanovitch and Celine Raizonville of Montreal-based Matiere Noire were both named as winning recipients – a first for the contest, which is devoted to recognizing emerging designers from across Canada.
The duo were among eight finalists vying for the top prize. They will return to the Fashion Week runway in Toronto next year for a fully produced runway show, and will also receive editorial support from Fashion Magazine and continued mentoring from industry experts.
Urbanovitch has an eye towards use of natural and innovative fabrics in her ready-to-wear line. The French-born Raizonville – who studied and worked in design in Barcelona, Paris and New York before settling in Montreal – cites curiosity and interest in other cultures as central elements to her brand.
Both designers opted for a minimalist approach in their collections. Urbanovitch's line featured materials described as soft sueded silks with a collection encompassing yellow and charcoal hues. The range showcased graphic knit tanks and toppers, sleek pants and skirts in addition to an array of dresses in sleeved and tank-styles, notably a delicate, dusty rose number with tie-front detailing.
Raizonville showcased a contrast of both the refined and raw within her line, from the bold horizontal striping and peaked shoulders on sleeved dresses to the visible fraying on a sleeveless woven vest. Fitted jackets, a richly-hued burgundy shirtdress and shorts and a prim black sleeveless collared shirt adorned with white trim rounded out her collection.
Along with Urbanovitch, P.E.I. sibling duo Hilary and Louanna Murphy of clothing and accessories brand Dreamboat Lucy were also finalists in the 2012 contest. Iranian-born, Montreal-based Pedram Karimi, Eliza Faulkner of Vancouver Island, Toronto's Hussein Dhalla of HD Homme and Jonathan Shimoni of Toronto-based lifestyles brand Faded rounded out the list of contenders.
JNBY: Short for Just Naturally Be Yourself, the JNBY label, which originated in China, featured a largely spare selection of unadorned separates on the runway for spring-summer.
Save for a few colourfully patterned silky dresses, criss-cross patterned emerald blouse and a sharp green textured blazer with three-quarter pant, the collection was largely mired in an earthy palette of mocha and olive tones. There was a lived-in, ultra lax feel conjured by the frayed edges on sheer blouse and wrinkled texture to the gauzy shirts and lightweight jackets which featured within the line.
Travis Taddeo: In the introductory short film which screened prior to his runway show, Taddeo perfectly encapsulated his brand signature in one emphatic phrase: "It's always got to be edgy."
The Montreal-based designer held true to his style mantra, albeit with a slightly softer approach. Dubbed the Matinee collection – a nod to the movement in colour gradiation from darkness to light – the ballcap-sporting models sported a succession of layered streetwear styles in a mostly muted palette of white, black, dusty grey and pale and midnight blue hues.
Among the cosy tees, long-sleeve shirts, drawstring pants and relaxed strapless jumpers, there were more than a fair share of form-fitting and revealing creations for women not shy about showing a little skin: barely-there boy shorts, sheer black blouses, racerback tank dress and slinky jersey dress with side cutouts. But Taddeo showed a deft touch and a softer side with a chic quilted cropped vest, a classic shirtdress layered over tank and an ethereal look which showcased soft, sheer draping over a white tank dress.
There was a relaxed vibe to the menswear, which encompassed sleeveless leather vests, hoodies, tanks, baggy and fitted shorts.
Day 2 also featured presentations from Tatsuaki and Laura Siegel.
Fashion Week continues until Friday.


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Since the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the importance of ensuring that human rights are protected under the rule of law has been emphasized by the United Nations and has guided its activities for the promotion and protection of human rights. Accordingly, the United Nations Technical Cooperation Programme in the Field of Human Rights has been engaged since 1955 in assisting States, at their request, in the building and strengthening of national structures that have a direct impact on the overall observance of human rights and the maintenance of the rule of law.
The programme is comprehensive, providing practical assistance for the building of national and regional human rights infrastructures.
Components of the programme focus on the incorporation of international human rights standards in national laws and policies; on the building or strengthening of national institutions capable of promoting and protecting human rights and democracy under the rule of law; on the formulation of national plans of action for the promotion and protection of human rights; on human rights education and training; and on promoting a human rights culture. Such assistance takes the form of expert advisory services, training courses, workshops and seminars, fellowships, grants, provision of information and documentation, and assessment of domestic human rights needs.
Technical cooperation is a key area of activity of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), an area in which the Office makes a substantial contribution to integrated development cooperation, realization of the right to development and "international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all".
Technical cooperation activities are seen by the United Nations as a complement to, but never a substitute for, the monitoring and investigating activities of the human rights programme. As emphasized in various reports of the Secretary-General on the subject and in Commission on Human Rights resolutions, the provision of advisory services and technical assistance does not reduce a Government's responsibility to account for the human rights situation in its territory and, where applicable, does not exempt it from monitoring through the various procedures established by the United Nations.
The Programme is funded from the regular budget of the United Nations and from the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights. The Voluntary Fund became operational in 1988 and is administered by a Board of Trustees.
Programme development, implementation, support and follow-up are carried out by the Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division of the OHCHR in close cooperation with relevant Divisions. A coordinator of technical cooperation activities, in cooperation with the geographic desk officers, ensures the maintenance of a programmatic framework for the technical cooperation programme and consistency in the application of existing technical cooperation practices and procedures.
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As the official beer sponsor for OnPoint Bend WinterFest, Deschutes Brewery has created a special brew just to celebrate this annual festival. The beer is whimsically entitled "Giraffe on Ice Skates" and will only be available at the two Deschutes Brew Pubs (Bend and Portland) on January 29th. Deschutes is so excited about WinterFest they've created a day to honor it, and a beer to enjoy for the occasion!
About "Giraffe on Ice Skates": Named for some experimental hops which were marooned in our cooler, along with high strength and color, this Belgian style beer brewed with hibiscus may just keep you stranded here longer than you predicted! (IBU's 16 Alcohol 13.7%).
With any purchase of a "Giraffe on Ice Skates" on January 29th, Deschutes will also donate $1 to Saving Grace, the official charitable beneficiary of Bend WinterFest. At the Bend pub, anyone who orders a pint of Giraffe on Ice Skates will be entered to win a contest for some cool Deschutes swag.


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Making dal in our home is day-to-day affair. Everyday in the afternoon, mom will make dal chawal and some sabzi for lunch. And after coming from school we used to have this meal. While working, when I used to get home for dinner, I have to have some dal chawal to complete my meal. Dal makhani is an exotic version of simple dal dish. Whenever we used to have some guests at home, this will surely be on the menu. Its something different than usual dals.
Usually dal makhani is made with whole urad dal but mom also combines small kidney beans and channa dal to make this. obviously I am going to follow the same recipe which always taste wonderful with hot rotis and rice.
- 1/2 cup whole urad dal
- 3 tablespoon small kidney beans/Rajma
- 2 tablespoon bengal gram(Channa dal)
- 2 whole dried red chillies
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1 medium white onion, chopped
- 1 green chilli, chopped
- 3 tablespoon crushed tomato
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- 1/4 teaspoon garam masala powder
- 2 tablespoon heavy cream
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- Soak all of the lentils (urad, rajma and channa dal) in water for 6 hours, or preferably overnight.
- Drain the water and pressure cook the lentils in about 2 cups of water, salt to taste for 3 whistles.
- Let the pressure cooker cool down and then open the lid, see if the rajma is soft and cooked throughly.Mash the lentils lightly with the back of a ladle.
- Heat oil in a pan over medium high heat, add cumin seeds, red chilli and when they begin to change color, add chopped onion, garlic, ginger and green chillies and saute until the onions are translucent.
- Add crushed tomatoes, turmeric powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder, salt to taste and cook for 3-4 minutes more.
- Add the cooked dal along with the cooking liquid. Add some water if the dal is too thick.
- Cook on low heat for about 2-3 minutes. Add the cream and mix everything.
- Garnish with fresh cilantro leaves to serve.


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Paul Bennett's job as a mechanic at Miami International Airport clearly isn't enough to satisfy his tinkering instinct. Using a 1983 Nissan Maxima as a basis (canvas? unwitting volunteer?) he's created this rolling tribute to wrenching and insanity.
Bennett's mechanical-artistic odyssey started with the best of intentions: he wanted to keep his dogs cool while his car was parked. He rigged up two ventilation fans and powered them with a slab of solar cells attached to the Maxima's trunklid. More ambitious was a graywater-recirculation system for the air conditioner. A generator took up much of the trunk space, so a cargo box now hangs off the rear end.
From there the crazy developed apace: a hood sculpture (the word "ornament" is wholly inadequate), a Class 8-aping vertical exhaust pipe, "TIME MACHINE" badges, and more. Bennett estimates that he has invested $15,000 in various additions and one can only imagine what homemade intricacies lie within that angular white body.
Should you wish to support this noble art-machine endeavor, Bennett is selling ad space on the back of the cargo box.


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Game 32
Game Dates: Saturday, March 16, 2013
Opponent: #7 N.C. A&T
Site: The Scope Arena, Norfolk, Va.
Game Time: 5 p.m.
Television: ESPNU
Record: MSU 17-14; NCAT 18-16
Series Record: NCAT leads 48-34
Last MSU Win: 55-52 (A) Jan. 26, 2013
Last NCAT Win: 61-62 (H) Jan. 21, 2012
MSU Coach: Todd Bozeman (126-99 – 7th yr)
No. 5 seed Morgan State (17-14) posted an 82-71 win against No. 8 seed Bethune-Cookman and will face No. 7 seed N.C. A&T on Saturday, March 16 at 5 p.m. in Norfolk Scope Arena in the Finals. The Bears have had unprecedented success in the MEAC Tournament under head coach Todd Bozeman. The Bears have won two titles and appeared in four and have improved its MEAC Tournament record to 14-4 under Bozeman.
The Bears will enter the Saturday night's contest against the Aggies having won its last eight games, including 11 of its last 12. The game will be televised nationally on ESPNU.
Live stats are available for all home games and most MSU road games by its opponents.
MSU men's basketball fans can follow their favorite team, or any of the other MSU athletics programs on Twitter through the handle @MorganStBears.
• Morgan State has won three MEAC Tournaments (1977, 2009 & 2010) and made four straight championship appearances from 2008 to 2011 under Coach Bozeman.
• Todd Bozeman has led Morgan State to 14 of the school's 30 MEAC Tournament wins.
• Morgan State coach Todd Bozeman was the 2009 and 2010 Outstanding Coach of the MEAC Tournament.
• Morgan State has had four MVP's of the MEAC Tournament: Marvin 'The Human Eraser" Webster (1975); Eric "The Pencil" Evans (1977); Reggie Holmes (2009); and Kevin Thompson (2010).
• Morgan State legendary center Marvin Webster averaged 21.3 rebounds per game during the 1975 MEAC Tournament.
• Coach Todd Bozeman has directed the Bears to the most regular-season conference wins with 105.
• Morgan State defeated High Point in large part as a result of collecting16 offensive rebounds that led to 24 second chance points.
• Senior forward DeWayne Jackson eclipsed the 500 rebound mark – he ranks No. 8 in school history with 555 career rebounds.
• After opening the season with a 71 point effort in a win against UTSA, the Bears have gone 17-14 while averaging 68 points and 45 percent shooting.
• Morgan State shot 67.5 percent from the line last season, and so far through the 31 games the Bears are shooting 59 percent (409-688 FT).
• The Bears, who held Delaware State to 3 of 15 from 3-point range on March 4th in Baltimore, have allowed an average of 65 points and opponents are shooting 30 percent from 3-point territory.
• Morgan State shot a season-high 59.7 percent against Md.-Eastern Shore, including a season best 63.6 percent from 3-point territory, with 12 steals and nine blocked shots.
• Justin Black has scored 446 points in 31 games and ranked No. 4 among the MEAC's scoring leaders … he's currently averaging 14.4 ppg.
• Justin Black was just shy of posting a triple-double at Liberty. The junior guard finished with a career-high 12 rebounds to go along with nine points and nine assists … he leads the team in scoring.
• DeWayne Jackson ranks among the top theft artists in school history. Jackson has collected 169 steals with the Bears and currently ranks No. 2 (finished No. 4 in the MEAC). The school record for career steals is held by Terrence Wright (1992-96) with 186 career steals … Jackson is 18 steals away from becoming the school's new leader.
• Shaquille Duncan leads the Bears in blocked shots. The sophomore ranked No. 5 in the MEAC and currently has 60 blocks (2.2 bpg).
• The combination of DeWayne Jackson, Anthony Hubbard and Justin Black have provided almost 60 percent of the scoring for the Bears so far this season.
• The Bears' first 10 games of the 2012-13 season were on the road where they finished 3-7.
• The Bears used nine different lineups this season, but Coach Bozeman has used a lineup 12 times this season that puts DeWayne Jackson at forward with Justin Black, Blake Bozeman, Anthony Hubbard and Ian Chiles.
• Redshirt junior Ian Chiles, who stands at 7-foot-2, 270-pounds, had a career night against Florida A&M by recording18 points (9-13) with six rebounds and two blocks against Florida A&M … he's currently averaging 9.4 ppg, 5.2 rpg and 1.6 bpg.
January 26, 2013 — — Senior swingman DeWayne Jackson and redshirt-junior center Ian Chiles led Morgan State to a hard fought 55-52 victory over North Carolina A&T at Corbett Sports Center. Jackson finished with 14 points and a career-high 12 rebounds, while Ian Chiles posted 14 points and 10 boards. Chiles was 7 for 8 from the field as the Bears post play continued to keep the Bears close, despite a poor perimeter shooting night. Anthony Hubbard, who chipped in 10 points, also scored on a fastbreak layup with 34 seconds left to give Morgan State a 53-52 advantage. The Bears held A&T scoreless in the final moments to improve its record to 6-10 overall and 3-2 in the MEAC.
The Aggies welcomed back nine veterans, including four starters, from a squad that posted a 12-20 overall record, finished 7th in the MEAC with a 7-9 ledger. Lamont Middleton leads the Aggies averaging 12.2 points and is shooting 37 percent from the field. Adrian Powell is also posting double-figures for A&T by averaging 12.2 points and shooting 34 percent from 3-point range. Austin Witter, the MEAC Defensive Player of the Year, is the team's leading rebounder by averaging 7.2 rpg to go along with 6.2 ppg. Head coach Cy Alexander (Catawba '75) enters his first season as the Aggies head coach and he currently holds a 362-324 record in his 24th year of coaching.
Morgan State was picked to finish third in the 2012-13 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference men's basketball preseason poll behind Savannah State and Delaware State.
Morgan State senior DeWayne Jackson was selected to the Preseason All-MEAC First Team by the conference head coaches and sports information directors. Junior center Ian Chiles was selected to the Second Team.
MSU senior DeWayne Jackson enters his final MEAC Tournament in the Orange & Blue. The 6-foot-8 swingman has been a major contributor at Morgan State where he has won a MEAC Championship, played in the NCAA Tournament and has received a number of postseason honors, including MEAC Rookie of the Year. Jackson is the only player in school history to have the combination of over 1,500 points (1,576 – No. 5), 500 rebounds (555 – No. 8), 150 steals (169 – No. 2) and 150 assists (185).
Ian Chiles is another Bear that finished the regular season with a top-10 MEAC ranking as the redshirt-junior center is No. 9 in the conference with his .534 field-goal percentage and No. 9 in blocks averaging 1.6 per game.
Justin Black ranked No. 10 in assists at 3.0 per game and No. 7 with his 1.0 assist-to-turnover ratio amongst all MEAC players.
The Bears have rebounded from last year's dismal season in which the Bears recorded a 9-20 finish. It marked Todd Bozeman's worst season as a head coach, and it was Morgan State's worst season since going 4-26 in 2005-06.
Morgan State senior DeWayne Jackson was selected to the Preseason All-MEAC First Team by the conference head coaches and sports information directors. Junior center Ian Chiles was selected to the Second Team.
During the Bears opening round victory against S.C. State, DeWayne Jackson (1,576 pts, 555 rebs., 185 asts) surpassed Ernest Garrett (1,540 points – 1952-55) to become the school's No. 5 all-time leading scorer. Jackson is one of three Bears on MSU's all-time scoring list who have been coached by Todd Bozeman. Kevin Thompson (2009-12) ranks No. 9 (1,487 points) and Reggie Holmes (2007-10) is the school's all-time scoring leader with 2,051 points.
Morgan State has eight players from the Metropolitan-D.C. area, including one from Baltimore. Senior DeWayne Jackson (Bowie High) and sophomore Blake Bozeman (Solebury Prep) are both from Bowie. Transfer guard Daryl Traynham is from Melwood (Wise High), walk-on Daon Riley is from Severn (Old Mill High), and Cedric Blossom is from Columbia (Montrose Christian). Anthony Hubbard is a product of Woodbridge (Va.), while junior Justin Black attended DeMatha High, Willis Turnipseed played at City High, and Donte Pretlow was a standout at Dunbar High in Baltimore.
Todd Bozeman, now in his seventh season as head coach of the Bears, has an overall win percentage of .562 (127-99) after 225 games at Morgan State. That winning mean is the second highest among 15 head coaches in the history of the Morgan State men's basketball program. Nathaniel Frazier's winning percentage of .578 (166-121) is the highest percentage in Morgan State history.
During his tenure in Baltimore, Todd Bozeman has coached seven (7) different players to All-Conference honors, including four Players of the Year selections: Ron Timus (2007 2nd Team), Boubacar Coly (2008 Defensive POTY, 1st Team), Jamar Smith (2008 Offensive POTY, 1st Team), Marquise Kately (2008 & 2009 2nd Team), Reggie Holmes (2007 All-Rookie, 2008 2nd Team, 2009 Offensive POTY, 2009 & 2010 1st Team), Kevin Thompson (2009 All-Rookie, 2010 Defensive POTY, 2010 1st Team, 2011 2nd Team), DeWayne Jackson (Rookie of the Year, 2011 1st Team).
In the first 31 games of the season, three Bears average more than 12 points a game Justin Black leads with by averaging 14.4 ppg, DeWayne Jackson averages 13.5 points per game, while Anthony Hubbard is averaging 11.5 points and 6.7 rebounds on the boards.
Morgan State ranked No. 1 in the MEAC averaging 14.1 offensive rebounds per game and has recorded double-digit offensive boards in 23 of 30 games. MSU averaged 12.1 offensive rebounds.
One area where the Bears have been consistent is under the basket. Morgan State ranked No. 4 in the league in total rebounding at 35.9 per game, No. 2 in offensive rebounds at 37.1, No. 2 in field goal percentage at 44.6 and No. 2 in blocked shots (5.2).
Senior DeWayne Jackson is filling the stat sheet this season, averaging 13.5 points (ranked No. 7), 5.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.8 steals (ranked No. 4) per game. Jackson has also registered 26 blocks. He has recorded 26 double-digit scoring games, including a season-high 32-point effort at Virginia (Dec. 19).


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January 1, 2012 6:37 pm
Big loopy cowls like that are so deceptive! They seem like quick knits, but they end up taking longer than expected and eating up yardage.
It looks like it was worth it. Are you keeping it for yourself?
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what pattern did you use for this cowl? I'm a cowl freak, and I love this one!


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Sunday, December 28, 2008
Day after Christmas
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Christmas Night
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Christmas Morning
I think P.J. was a little overwhelmed, Pete thinks he was just thinking, "great, what do I do with these boxes?", either way it makes for a funny moment.
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Snow Angel P.J.
Henry is always asking to have a snowball fight. He looks ready doesn't he?
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Taylor Family Christmas Party
All of the cousins and Santa himself.
When we first got to Matt's house for the party he had a cozy little fire going and all of us thought how nice it was until we couldn't breath anymore. The flue was clogged and the smoke just started pouring inside the house, Matt thought it would be a good idea to just take the log out of the fire so he got a metal garbage can and the fire poker thing. It was a good attempt but the log broke into a bunch of tiny pieces, so at this point we had a burning garbage can out front and little pieces of burning wood in the fire place all the while with smoke pouring into the family room. Again Matt thought it would be a good idea just to get this fire out so he poured water on it and if you think that made the smoke problem better boy are you wrong. All of this happened within minutes before Santa got there so we all had to apologize for the smoke as he walked in. It all turned out fine, the kids had fun, the adults had a laugh and nobody caught on fire themselves.
Weston and Chloe
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Monday, December 22, 2008
The Big Birthday Bash!
Indiana Jones was the them of this party, I think Papa thought is was "Psycho". Oh well, we will make sure he gets the memo next time.
All the kids were given these little Indiana Jones party hats, Jamie thought they were for everyone and ended up wearing one all night long. I don't know why we didn't get a picture of that, little hat, big head, makes for a pretty funny picture.
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We are in UTAH!!!!!
Nana's happy and P.J.'s happy.
Now for those of you who just like to look at the pictures I am sorry this is an abnormally long post. Melanie this is especially for you.
What more can I say? Well....... It was quite the struggle getting here. On Monday morning the movers came and that was very stressful to me for some reason so after a few breakdowns, a walk and a box of Twinkies I was very happy the day was over. Waking up the next morning I was so happy to have that day behind me and to get on the plane and fly home. If it were only that easy. We took off fine and the fact that we had our good friends the Allens with us was a saving grace for all of the kids. When we were supposed to land in Chicago we suddenly hear the pilot telling us that the airport is closed and we have to fly around until it opens, well after an hour of flying he comes back on and says we have to fly to Kentucky and land there until further notice. WHAT!!! Kentucky? So we finally land but are stuck on the tarmac for about 45 minutes, with starving children. Again the Allens came to the rescue, McRae had little boxes of cereal for us all to eat while we waited. We were finally able to get off the plane to go get some real food and they told us we would have a long time until we took off again so we thought we would let the kids run around to get some energy out and get some food for us all and go back. I had a feeling I needed to go back to our gate just to see what was going on so I left McRae and her kids in line at Quizno's and headed back. Good thing I went back because they were about to give our seats away, so the boys and I got on the plane and called McRae to hurry back. Whew, we made it. Flew back to Chicago, then into Salt Lake, and at around 3:00 in the morning got home. Needless to say it was a long night but we are here now and so happy to be spending time with our families.
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Early Birthday Celebration
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P.J.'s self portrait!
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Sunday, December 7, 2008
Sunday Morning laying around.
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Singing Time
Somehow Mr. Mark (the music man) can always make my kids dead silent. He turns on a tape of some sound and tells the kids to cover their mouths to listen, no matter how crazy they are being they always stop and cover their mouths.
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree!
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Kernicterus is a rare neurological condition that occurs in some newborns with severe jaundice.
Bilirubin-induced neurologic dysfunction (BIND); Bilirubin encephalopathy (BE)
Kernicterus is caused by very high levels of bilirubin. Bilirubin is a yellow pigment that is created as the body gets rid of old red blood cells. High levels of bilirubin in the body can cause the skin to look yellow ( jaundice).
If levels of bilirubin are very high or a baby is very ill, the substance will move out of the blood and collect in the brain tissue. This can lead to serious complications, including brain damage and hearing loss. The term "kernicterus" refers to the yellow staining caused by bilirubin. This is seen in parts of the brain on autopsy.
Kernicterus most often develops in the first week of life. However, but may be seen up until the third week. Some newborns with Rh hemolytic disease are at high risk for severe jaundice that can lead to this condition. Rarely, kernicterus can develop in seemingly healthy babies.
The symptoms depend on the stage of kernicterus.
Early stage:
Mid stage:
Late stage:
A blood test will show a high bilirubin level (greater than 20-25 mg/dL).
Note: Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
Treatment depends on how old the baby is (in hours) and whether the baby has any risk factors (such as prematurity). It may include:
Kernicterus is a serious condition. Many infants with late-stage nervous system complications die.
Get medical help right away if your baby has signs of this condition.
Treating jaundice or conditions that may lead to it can help prevent kernicterus. Infants with the first signs of jaundice have bilirubin level measured within 24 hours. If the level is high, the infant should be screened for diseases that involve the destruction of red blood cells (hemolysis).
All newborns have a follow-up appointment within 2 to 3 days after leaving the hospital. This is very important for late preterm or early term babies (born more than 2-3 weeks before their due date).
American Academy of Pediatrics. Committee on Fetus and Newborn. Hospital stay for healthy term newborns. Pediatrics. 2010; 125: 405.
American Academy of Pediatrics, Subcommittee on Hyperbilirubinemia Management of hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn infant 35 or more weeks of gestation. Pediatrics. 2004;114: 297-316.
Johnson L, Bhutani V. The clinical syndrome of bilirubin-induced neurologic dysfunction. Seminars in Perinatology. 2011; 35(3):101-113.
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Time is Muscle: How to Handle a Heart Attack
By Dr. Beth Renwick, Emergency physician at Lexington Medical Center
A heart attack is caused by a blockage of blood flow in the arteries that supply the heart muscle. Most often, blockages are caused when plaque ruptures within the artery. Plaque, which builds up over many years, does not cause any symptoms unless it suddenly breaks open. This rupture forms clot within the artery and halts blood flow, and therefore oxygen delivery, to the muscle cells supplied by that artery.
If not treated quickly, heart muscle can begin to die, leading to heart failure, dangerous abnormal rhythms (called arrhythmias) or death. It is of the utmost importance to be immediately evaluated at your nearest emergency department if you are having any symptoms of a heart attack. These symptoms may include chest pain, shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, lightheadedness, dizziness or sweating. Chest pain may be described as a discomfort, pressure or squeezing. People sometimes feel this pain in other locations such as the neck, jaw, back, one or both arms or upper stomach.
Generally, men experience the classic symptoms of a heart attack. Women may experience more atypical symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath and weakness. Fewer than 43% of women will actually experience chest pain during an attack. A new study by the National Institute of Health states that women can show signs up to a month before a heart attack of sleep disturbance, unusual fatigue or shortness of breath.
If you or someone you know may be having a heart attack, call 9-1-1 immediately. Do not drive yourself or have someone drive you to an emergency room. Paramedics can begin lifesaving therapy on the way to the hospital and treat life-threatening arrhythmias. If you have time, chew a 325mg aspirin, which will absorb faster than a whole pill. Take a nitroglycerin pill if you have a prescription. If the patient loses consciousness while waiting on an ambulance, perform compression-only CPR at a rate of 100 compressions per minute. If you are unsure of what to do, 9-1-1 operators can instruct you by phone. If you have access to an automatic external defibrillator (AED), begin CPR until you can turn on the AED and apply it to the patient. If you saw the patient collapse, apply the AED right away. If not, attach it after one minute of CPR.
On the way to the hospital, you will likely have an electrocardiogram (EKG). Sometimes changes on the EKG will indicate that you need to skip the emergency room and go directly to the cardiac catheterization lab, where they can use equipment to open blocked arteries expediently.
When you arrive at the hospital, expect a flurry of activity. Emergency staff will attach an oxygen monitor and cardiac monitor by applying stickers to your skin. They will also draw your blood, obtain an EKG and place one or two IV lines. You will receive an aspirin if you haven't taken one already and possibly medications to alleviate pain or lower high blood pressure. You may receive a chest X-ray or other tests depending on your symptoms. Be prepared to tell the nurse or doctor about your medical history, current medications and allergies. It is imperative to know if you took any medications for erectile dysfunction as treatment for chest pain may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure.
The most important thing to remember is that time is heart muscle! Immediately call 9-1-1 if you or someone you know is experiencing symptoms of a heart attack. Prompt treatment can prevent or minimize any permanent heart damage and subsequent complications.
Keep in mind that not all chest pain is caused by heart disease. Evaluation by a doctor along with medical tests can help determine the cause of your chest pain and based on that, appropriate treatment can be given.


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Kadhi Pakodi
KADI PAKODI (No-Fry)
For the Pakodas:
Besan - 2/3 cup
Chopped Frozen Spinach - 1/4 cup, thawed
Onion - half, chopped
Green bell pepper - 1/4 cup, chopped
G. chillies - 3, chopped
Chilli powder - half tsp
Salt - to taste
Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
For the Kadhi:
Sour Yogurt - 2 cups
Besan - 1/3 cup to 1/2 cup
Water - 1 cup
Chilli powder - 1.5 tsp
Turmeric Powder - quarter tsp
Salt - 1.5 tsp, or to taste
Ginger - quarter inch piece, minced
Garlic - 1 clove, minced
Jeera seeds - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Asafoetida - a pinch
Curry leaves - few
Dried Red Chilli - 1
Oil - 1 tbsp
Coriander leaves - for garnish
For the Pakodas:
1) Mix all the ingredients listed under the pakodas list and add water little by little to make a batter that's not too thick or thin... mine was almost like bajji batter, maybe a tad thicker. This consistency works great when using a kuzhipaniyaram/abeskiever pan to make the pakados. If you are deep frying them instead, sprinkle water and make it really thick so it doesn't absorb too much oil.
2) Heat a drop of oil in each depression of the kuzhi paniyaram pan and drop teaspoonfuls of the batter in each. Cover and let cook on a medium flame till light brown, flip over and cook uncovered till done. Keep these aside.
For the kadhi:
1) Blend the besan with the cup of water to a smooth paste. Whisk this in with the sour yogurt, chilli powder, salt & turmeric.
2) Heat the oil in a pan and the tempering ingredients - mustard seeds, cumin seeds, asafoetida (hing), curry leaves, red chilli broken in two, followed by the minced ginger and garlic.
3) It will brown pretty fast so watch out... immediately add the blended besan-yogurt mixture. Keep whisking this mixture so it doesn't separate for the first 5 minutes or so... When it's hot enough.. allow to simmer for a about 10 minutes or so till smooth and thickens lightly.
4) Add the cooked pakodas at this point and allow to simmer for 2 more mins.. before switching off the stove and adding coriander leaves. Tasty and easy kadhi is now ready to serve. Keep in mind that it will thicken a bit more upon standing.
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Tim Ellis exits HMV games division as organizational changes are implemented
Tim Ellis, head of HMV's games division, has left the company after over six years in the position.
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HMV: GTA V will "inject huge excitement" into market
HMV games boss Tim Ellis has said yesterday's announcement of Grand Theft Auto V will bring a new boost to the market. Ellis told MCV a new GTA launch is "a fantastic development that would inject huge excitement into the games market for fans, retailers and media alike," adding Rockstar would "face the challenge of […]
HMV to open multiplayer gaming centres across UK
HMV has acquired multiplayer gaming outfit Gamerbase, with plans to expand its in-store gaming concept across the UK.Gamerbase has been running as a concession in HMVs Trocadero store in London's Piccadilly Circus since late last year."Where we roll them out, we'll be looking to locate the Gamerbase centres next to our games departments to bring […]


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Will Sarah Palin be the first reality television star to become president?
We'll find out in two years. In the meantime, she'll be halfway there on Nov. 14 when her TLC show "Sarah Palin's Alaska" debuts. The program will run for eight weeks, following Sarah and her clan up mountains, down rivers and on to the back deck of her Anchorage home.
In a new clip for the show, the Thrilla from Wasilla has her folksiness levels cranked up to 11.
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"Oh, gosh," the 46-year-old chirps, while climbing a gorgeous, snow-packed mountain. "We are somewhere that people -- ahhhhhh -- dream about."
It will be interesting to see how many viewers follow her up the hill. A CBS News poll from earlier this month pegged her favorability at 22 percent. That could actually help with reality TV fans who love a good train wreck.
At least one critic has already expressed concern that small-screen stardom may not be appropriate for a potential leader of the free world.
"I don't know if doing a reality show is necessarily the most presidential behavior," Meghan McCain said to Jay Leno in September, before adding: "But Obama made anything possible so I don't know."
Palin fans likely see things a little differently. This could, after all, be seen as merely the modern version of Ronald Reagan's run from the big screen to the Oval Office.
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BAKER � Whether you�re snaking through a corn maze, firing a corn cannon or taking a haunted trail, you can get into the Halloween spirit starting this Friday in Baker.
BAKER � Whether you�re snaking through a corn maze, firing a corn cannon or taking a haunted trail, you can get into the Halloween spirit starting this Friday in Baker.
Residents can visit a corn maze presented by the Crestview Rotary Club and a haunted trail presented by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Posse.
See dates, times and ticket prices for the Crestview Rotary Club's corn maze and the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Posse's"Nightmare on the Old Spanish Trail">>
Both organizations have collaborated with Gum Creek Entertainment for events at a field with no address off Buck Ward Road. Direction signage for the event will be located on Buck Ward Road and U.S. Highway 90.
This is the second year the rotary club has presented the corn maze, member Bill Barnhill said.
"Last year, our maze was 5 acres and (the design) was the rotary emblem," Barnhill said. "This year it's 7 acres and it's an F-35 (fighter jet)."
The military jet design shows the club's support for the military and the F-35 program, Barnhill said.
Like last year, attendees can fire ears of corn through a corn cannon. The maze will also include a neighboring petting zoo.
Ropin' the Truth, a youth-focused outreach ministry, will have pony rides available.
For a spooky experience, the posse will present "Nightmare on the Old Spanish Trail."
"It recognizes a period of time when the (Spanish) conquistadors came through and fought the Creek Indians, and encountered wolves and other wild animals," Barnhill said.
One of those animals is the legendary Florida skunk ape. The ape, known for its skunk-like odor, is dangerous to humans.
"There have been rumors of a skunk ape roaming the trail," Barnhill said.
Also roaming the haunted trail are ghosts, zombies and large scary animals. The haunt is for attendees 13 and up.
Food and refreshments will be available.
Residents can experience the "Nightmare at the Old Spanish Trail Haunt" from dusk to 11 p.m. Friday at a field off Buck Ward Road. Tickets are $16 each or $15 per person for groups of 20 or more.
A corn maze, hay ride, petting zoo and a corn cannon open 10-6 p.m. Saturday at the same location. Tickets are $8.50 each, $7.50 per person for groups of 20 or more and pony rides are $5.
For more dates, times and ticket prices for both the Baker corn maze and the visit the Gum Creek Entertainment website at bit.ly/16BMMdt>>
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Q: How do I use the Microsoft CLR Debugger?
A: The Microsoft CLR Debugger is intended as an interim tool for debugging applications written and compiled for the common language runtime. The Microsoft CLR Debugger, and the accompanying documentation, is based on work being done for the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET debugger. As a result, the documentation refers mostly to the Visual Studio debugger rather than to the Microsoft CLR Debugger. In most cases, the information is applicable to both debuggers. However, you will find sections of the documentation describing some features that are not implemented in the Microsoft CLR Debugger (see the next paragraph). You can simply ignore these features and sections.
- What are the main differences between the Microsoft CLR Debugger tool and the Visual Studio Debugger?
- The Microsoft CLR Debugger does not support the debugging of Win32 native code applications. Only applications written and compiled for the common language runtime can be debugged with the Microsoft CLR Debugger.
- Remote debugging is not implemented in the Microsoft CLR Debugger. The Registers window is implemented in the Microsoft CLR Debugger, but no register information appears in the window. Other operations that involve registers or pseudoregisters, such as displaying or changing a register value, are not supported.
- The Disassembly window is implemented in the Microsoft CLR Debugger but shows the disassembly code that would be generated for the application if it were compiled as Win32 native code rather than .NET runtime code.
- The Microsoft CLR Debugger does not support F1 help
- What is Microsoft CLR Debugger Solution Model?
The Microsoft CLR Debugger uses solutions to associate source files and the applications being debugged. A solution is created automatically when you open a compiled application and its associated source file or files. The next time you debug the same application, you can open the solution instead of having to load the source file and the compiled application separately.
- How do I Use the Microsoft CLR Debugger (DbgCLR.exe)?
To open an application for debugging (the first time):
- Start the CLR Debugger; run 'DbgCLR.exe', which is in the 'GuiDebug' directory of your .NET Framework installation.
- From the Debug menu, select 'Program to Debug'.
- In the 'Program to Debug' dialog box, go to the 'Program' box and click the ellipsis button (...). The 'Find Program to Debug' dialog box appears.
- Navigate to the directory containing the application you want to debug and select it.
- Click Open. This takes you back to the 'Program to Debug' dialog box. Notice that the working directory has been set to the directory containing your application.
- In the 'Arguments' box, type any arguments that your application requires.
- Click OK.
- From the 'File' menu, choose 'Open', then click 'File'.
- In the 'Open File' dialog box, choose the source file you want to open.
- Click OK.
- To open additional source files, repeat steps 8-10.
- To open an existing solution
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The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game (German: Das Glasperlenspiel, pronounced [das ˈɡlaːspɛʁlənˌʃpiːl] (listen)) is the last full-length novel of the German author Hermann Hesse. It was begun in 1931 and published in Switzerland in 1943 after being rejected for publication in Germany due to Hesse's anti-Fascist views.[1] A few years later, in 1946, Hesse won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In honoring him in its Award Ceremony Speech, the Swedish Academy said that the novel "occupies a special position" in Hesse's work.[2]
First German edition
|Hermann Hesse
|Original title
|Das Glasperlenspiel
|Mervyn Savill (1949), Richard and Clara Winston (1969)
|Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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"Glass Bead Game" is a literal translation of the German title, but the book has also been published under the title Magister Ludi, Latin for "Master of the Game", which is an honorific title awarded to the book's central character. "Magister Ludi" can also be seen as a pun: ludus is a Latin word meaning both "game" and "school". However, the title Magister Ludi is misleading, as it implies the book is a straightforward bildungsroman. In reality, the book touches on many different genres, and the bulk of the story is on one level a parody of the biography genre.[3]
The Glass Bead Game takes place at an unspecified date centuries into the future. Hesse suggested that he imagined the book's narrator writing around the start of the 25th century.[4] The setting is a fictional province of central Europe called Castalia, which was reserved by political decision for the life of the mind; technology and economic life are kept to a strict minimum. Castalia is home to an austere order of intellectuals with a twofold mission: to run boarding schools, and to cultivate and play the Glass Bead Game, whose exact nature remains elusive and whose devotees occupy a special school within Castalia known as Waldzell. The rules of the game are only alluded to—they are so sophisticated that they are not easy to imagine. Playing the game well requires years of hard study of music, mathematics, and cultural history[citation needed]. The game is essentially an abstract synthesis of all arts and sciences. It proceeds by players making deep connections between seemingly unrelated topics.
The novel is an example of a bildungsroman, following the life of a distinguished member of the Castalian Order, Joseph Knecht, whose surname means "servant" (and is cognate with the English word knight). The plot chronicles Knecht's education as a youth, his decision to join the order, his mastery of the Game, and his advancement in the order's hierarchy to eventually become Magister Ludi, the executive officer of the Castalian Order's game administrators.[5]
The beginning of the novel introduces the Music Master, the resident of Castalia who recruits Knecht as a young student and who is to have the most long-lasting and profound effect on Knecht throughout his life. At one point, as the Music Master nears death in his home at Monteport, Knecht obliquely refers to the Master's "sainthood". Knecht also develops another meaningful friendship with Plinio Designori, a student from a politically influential family, who is studying in Castalia as a guest, and holds vigorous debates with Designori, who views Castalia as an "ivory tower" with little to no impact on the outside world.
Although educated within Castalia, Knecht's path to "Magister Ludi" is atypical for the order, as he spends a significant portion of his time after graduation outside the boundaries of the province. His first such venture, to the Bamboo Grove, results in his learning Chinese and becoming something of a disciple to Elder Brother, a recluse who had given up living within Castalia. Next, as part of an assignment to foster goodwill between the order and the Catholic Church, Knecht is sent on several "missions" to the Benedictine monastery of Mariafels, where he befriends the historian Father Jacobus – a relationship which also has profound personal impact for Knecht.
As the novel progresses, Knecht begins to question his loyalty to the order, gradually coming to doubt that the intellectually gifted have a right to withdraw from life's big problems. Knecht, too, comes to see Castalia as a kind of ivory tower, an ethereal and protected community, devoted to pure intellectual pursuits but oblivious to the problems posed by life outside its borders. This conclusion precipitates a personal crisis, and, according to his personal views regarding spiritual awakening, Knecht does the unthinkable: he resigns as Magister Ludi and asks to leave the order, ostensibly to become of value and service to the larger culture. The heads of the order deny his request to leave, but Knecht departs Castalia anyway, initially taking a job as a tutor to his childhood friend Designori's energetic and strong-willed son, Tito. Only a few days later, the story ends abruptly with Knecht drowning in a mountain lake while attempting to follow Tito on a swim for which Knecht was unfit.
The fictional narrator leaves off before the final sections of the book, remarking that the end of the story is beyond the scope of his biography. The concluding chapter, entitled "The Legend", is reportedly from a different biography. After this final chapter, several of Knecht's "posthumous" works are then presented. The first section contains Knecht's poetry from various periods of his life, followed by three short stories labeled "Three Lives". The stories are presented as exercises by Knecht imagining his life had he been born in another time and place. The first story tells of a pagan rainmaker named Knecht who lived "many thousands of years ago, when women ruled".[6] Eventually the shaman's powers to summon rain fail, and he offers himself as a sacrifice for the good of the tribe. The second story is based on the life of St Hilarion and tells of Josephus, an early Christian hermit who acquires a reputation for piety but is inwardly troubled by self-loathing and seeks a confessor, only to find that same penitent had been seeking him.
The final story concerns the life of Dasa, a prince wrongfully usurped by his half brother as heir to a kingdom and disguised as a cowherd to save his life. While working with the herdsmen as a young boy, Dasa encounters a yogi in meditation in the forest. He wishes to experience the same tranquility as the yogi, but is unable to stay. He later leaves the herdsmen and marries a beautiful young woman, only to be cuckolded by his half brother (now the Rajah). In a cold fury, he kills his half brother and finds himself once again in the forest with the old yogi, who, through an experience of an alternate life, guides him on the spiritual path and out of the world of illusion (Maya).
The three lives, together with that as Magister Ludi, oscillate between extroversion (rainmaker, Indian life – both get married) and introversion (father confessor, Magister Ludi) while developing the four basic psychic functions of analytical psychology: sensation (rainmaker), intuition (Indian life), feeling (father confessor), and thinking (Magister Ludi).
Earlier plansEdit
Originally, Hesse intended several different lives of the same person as he is reincarnated.[7] Instead, he focused on a story set in the future and placed the three shorter stories, "authored" by Knecht in The Glass Bead Game, at the end of the novel.
Two drafts of a fourth life were published in 1965, the second version being recast in the first person and breaking off earlier.[8] Dated 1934, they describe Knecht's childhood and education as a Swabian theologian. This Knecht has been born some dozen years after the Treaty of Rijswijk in the time of Eberhard Ludwig, and in depicting the other characters Hesse draws heavily on actual biographies: Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, Johann Friedrich Rock, Johann Albrecht Bengel and Nicolaus Zinzendorf make up the cast of Pietist mentors. Knecht is heavily drawn to music however, both that of the acknowledged master Pachelbel and the more exotic Buxtehude. The fragment breaks off as the young contemporary of Bach happens upon an organ recital in Stuttgart.
Central charactersEdit
- Joseph Knecht: The story's main character. He is the Magister Ludi for a majority of the book.
- The Music Master: Knecht's spiritual mentor who, when Knecht is a child, examines him for entrance into the elite schools of Castalia.
- Plinio Designori: Knecht's foil in the world outside.
- Father Jacobus: Benedictine monk and Joseph Knecht's antithesis in faith.
- Elder Brother: A former Castalian and student of various Chinese scripts & ideologies.
- Thomas van der Trave: Joseph Knecht's predecessor as Magister Ludi.
- Fritz Tegularius: A friend of Knecht's but a portent of what Castalians might become if they remain insular.
Castalia, where most of the novel is set, is described in English translation as the 'pedagogical province'. It forms part of a large and prosperous state whose leaders are broadly but not uncritically sympathetic to the Castalian ideal of scholarship.
Castalia is an entirely male community, whose members are or aspire to be members of a secular Order similar to monastic orders. Prospective members are recruited in their pre-/early teens from the most promising scholars in its host state's regular schools. One of Castalia's roles (not explored in depth in the book) is provision of schoolteachers to its host state. Another is the advancement of learning, primarily in the fields of mathematics, musicology (of Western music up to the 18th century), philology and the history of art. This role is entirely analytical: creativity and scientific research appear to be dead. A third role is to cultivate and develop the Glass Bead Game.[9]
The gameEdit
The Glass Bead Game is "a kind of synthesis of human learning"[10] in which themes, such as a musical phrase or a philosophical thought, are stated. As the Game progresses, associations between the themes become deeper and more varied.[10] Although the Glass Bead Game is described lucidly, the rules and mechanics are not explained in detail.[11]
Many characters in the novel have names that are allusive word games.[11] For example, Knecht's predecessor as Magister Ludi was Thomas van der Trave, a veiled reference to Thomas Mann, who was born in Lübeck, situated on the Trave River. Knecht's brilliant but unstable friend Fritz Tegularius is based on Friedrich Nietzsche, while Father Jacobus is based on the historian Jakob Burckhardt.[12] The name of Carlo Ferromonte is an italianized version of the name of Hesse's nephew, Karl Isenberg, while the name of the Glass Bead Game's inventor, Bastian Perrot of Calw, was taken from Heinrich Perrot, who owned a machine shop where Hesse once worked after dropping out of school.[12] The name of the pedagogic province in the story is taken from Greek legend of the nymph Castalia, who was transformed into an inspiration-granting fountain by the god Apollo.
As utopian literatureEdit
Freedman wrote in his biography of Hesse that the tensions caused by the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany directly contributed to the creation of the Glass Bead Game as a response to the oppressive times.[13] "The educational province of Castalia, which provided a setting for the novel, came to resemble Hesse's childhood Swabia physically while assuming more and more the function of his adopted home, neutral Switzerland, which in turn embodied his own antidote to the crises of his time. It became the "island of love" or at least an island of the spirit."[13] Freedman opined that in the Glass Bead Game "contemplation, the secrets of the Chinese I Ching and Western mathematics and music fashioned the perennial conflicts of his life into a unifying design."[14]
In 2010, The Glass Bead Game was dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw for BBC Radio 4. It starred Derek Jacobi as the Biographer, Tom Ferguson as Knecht and David Seddon as Plinio.[15]
See alsoEdit
- ^ Liukkonen, Petri. "Hermann Hesse". Books and Writers. Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 4 December 2007.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1946 – Hermann Hesse: Award Ceremony Speech". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ^ Theodore Ziolkowski, Foreword to The Glass Bead Game, p. xix. Picador. ISBN 0-312-27849-7. Ziolkowski cites Thomas Mann's recognition of the source of the book's humor as "the parody of biography and the grave scholarly attitude."
- ^ Theodore Ziolkowski, Foreword to The Glass Bead Game, p. xii. Owl Books. ISBN 0-8050-1246-X
- ^ Hesse, Hermann (1943). The Glass Bead Game. Owl Books. pp. 352–354. ISBN 0-8050-1246-X.
- ^ Hermann Hesse. The Glass Bead Game. Penguin. Hammondsworth 1975 p 416.
- ^ Theodore Ziolkowski, Foreword to The Glass Bead Game, p. xiv-xv. Picador. ISBN 0-312-27849-7
- ^ Prosa aus dem Nachlass (Suhrkamp 1965), translated by Ralph Manheim in Tales of Student Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1976)
- ^ Hesse, Hermann. The Glass Bead Game. Vintage Classics. p. passim. ISBN 978-0-09-928362-1.
- ^ a b "Books: Master of the Game", Time Magazine, 1949-10-17, retrieved 2010-02-07
- ^ a b Clement, Samuel (1970-01-17), "An act of mental synthesis", Montreal Gazette, p. 17, retrieved 2010-02-07
- ^ a b Theodore Ziolkowski, Foreword to The Glass Bead Game, p. ix. Owl Books. ISBN 0-8050-1246-X
- ^ a b Ralph Freedman. Hermann Hesse. Pilgrim of Crisis. Jonathan Cape. London. 1979. p 348.
- ^ Ralph Freedman. Hermann Hesse. Pilgrim of Crisis. Jonathan Cape. London. 1979. p 350.
- ^ BBC Radio 4 listing, bbc.co.uk
- Hermann Hesse. The Glass Bead Game. Vintage Classics. ISBN 978-0-09-928362-1
External linksEdit
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- The Glass Bead Game Paul Pilkington's implementation remains close to Hesse's original conception which grew from the connections between music and mathematics.
- A wiki exploring playable variants of the glass bead game and what an ideal glass bead game might be.
- The Glass Plate Game A playable variant invented by Adrian Wolfe and Dunbar Aitkens in 1976. Wooden cubes and small colored transparencies are used to map and record a conversation on a mosaic of "idea cards" as players find and discuss connections among ideas represented by the cards.
- Hermann Hesse: Das Glasperlenspiel. Essay in German: www.Signaturen-Magazin.de


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Spicy Rice Flour Dough Balls (My Very Popular Khichi)
Hot summer days during the school holidays, mother and aunties (in the broader sense, meaning women of mum's age) in the kitchen boisterous and rosy. The wooden fence between us and the neighbours has been worn down to stubble from ever frequent visits by the neighbours kids indelicately climbing over them and aunties leaning over the fence, chit-chatting languidly after a hard day's work.
The kitchen was spicy-steamy even though the windows and doors were wide open; the gleeful kids were darting between kitchen and garden. My mum would pick the hottest and least breezy days to make rice flour poppadum's and I was the contented assistant; these goings-on were tradition for summer holidays. Mum and aunts simmered the chillies and spices in hot water leaving us all coughing, before adding the flour to make dough. It's OK; we had strawberries and fresh fruit juices to distract our throats. They rolled the oiled dough to poppadum shapes; just a couple of millimetres thick and it was my starring role to lay them onto cleaned (but unwanted) wafting saris in the garden. I collected heavy stones and bricks, full of purpose in my loud yellow and green floral dresses, to ensure the saris were controlled and I lay the papdi (the particular variety of poppadum) neatly, not overlapping them. Barefoot in on the summer garden slabs, I enjoyed the heat under my feet. I'd find a shady spot to intermittently paint under, whilst I safeguarded the poppadum's from birds and insects too, or maybe it was the Bollywood music booming (and women singing) from the kitchen that did that!
The plan was to let the sun dry the dough out completely. Once dried out and microwaved or fried they taste impressively crunchy and crispy. They are deeper and slightly chewier than the poppadums you will find in restaurants, but they remain my favourite variety. The smooth and slippery dough itself is delectably Moorish. When steamed its spongy, a little chewy, overflowing with punch and undeniably gutsy. Funnily enough the steamed dough is often eaten as a snack, with a little oil that's infused with salt and chilli powder. Greasy fingers are typically all that remain once a plate of these gently green balls are served. Try it; tell me how you like it.
Deena's Spicy Rice Flour Dough Balls; My Very Popular Kichi
3-4 green chillies, minced
800ml of water
1 ½ tsp. of cumin seeds
1 tsp. of carom seeds/ajwain
Salt to taste
½ tsp. of ground cinnamon
375g of rice flour
Method serves 4-5
- Pour the specified amount of water into a deep pan, before adding the spices and seasonings with the minced chillies and bring it to a gentle simmer. Turn the heat down and continue to simmer for 3-4 minutes
- Take a long wooden spoon and gently pour in the rice flour and beat into the water, avoiding clumps forming. Do this quickly, before removing the dough from the heat
- Pour the dough into a large plate and grease your palms. Form flattened balls of about 5-6cm diameter and dip your thumb in the centre to create a well (keep the well empty though) and then steam for about 15 minutes.
- Remove onto a plate and serve with oil infused with chilli powder and salt.


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About Michael
The problem is a reasonable limit depends on the combination of weather, traffic, driver, and vehicle conditions.
Someone in a more nimble car with great breaks and plenty of alternate route windows who knows the road well may be able to safely do 75-80 mph. At the same time even the most professional trucker with a loaded rig probably can't do more than 70 mph safely, and they'd have to have even more free space or highly predictable traffic around them.
Then there are adverse conditions; dense traffic, high winds, dust storms, mirror-like water after a rainstorm with bright sun, even black ice.
As a driver I feel that there should only be 'speed advisories' which tell what the lowest-common consumer denominator car should be able to safely do; and maybe in cases where there is some inherent limit due to blind corners or other design failures a literal speed /limit/ above which the driver could not safely know about future conditions in time to react (say 3-4 seconds).
Yeah, and things will just be super-good when you use an alternative communication model based around pre-shared one time pads (lots of data) or one time keys with say AES256 on a nicely minimal redundancy audio codec.
Even if you do have a targeted list of subjects to monitor the only information that you are assured are the two endpoints of that particular connection.
The regulation gains little of substantial value; aside from what stupid criminals provide. Anyone I should actually be worried about will already be using more advanced methods.
Yes, SMS is a silly basic network feature that happens to also occasionally carry messages for the user instead of just phone network data.
That doesn't change the fact that it would probably only take a minor change in tower hardware to have it relay the same message to each connected phone in the case of an emergency. Which would also be a great way of notifying all affected users that emergency services calls could disrupt regular service.
Copyright Infringement: a clear sign that potential consumes aren't being offered a service at a tolerable value.
As I consumer I can vouch for the later half of this.
Valuable scarcities:
Early access to new content
The first three are why an official, but realistically priced (very extreme marginal profit per sale) business model will work.
Users will know exactly where to go and be directed by search engines to, the highest quality and fastest methods of obtaining the content they desire; the ready access to them will satisfy the convenience factor as well.
Value is attained by the small marginal profit; it simply wouldn't be cost effective to infringe on the copyright (which is why it wouldn't even be necessary for that kind of restriction; merely the competing service provider perspective).
The main reason to buy at all would be a shared community experience, and the network effect of connecting with both the fans and creators of the content. Your input may even help shape the course of events as it provides another perspective to those creating the story.
Valuable scarcities:
Early access to new content
The first three are why an official, but realistically priced (very extreme marginal profit per sale) business model will work.
Users will know exactly where to go and be directed by search engines to, the highest quality and fastest methods of obtaining the content they desire; the ready access to them will satisfy the convenience factor as well.
Value is attained by the small marginal profit; it simply wouldn't be cost effective to infringe on the copyright (which is why it wouldn't even be necessary for that kind of restriction; merely the competing service provider perspective).
The main reason to buy at all would be a shared community experience, and the network effect of connecting with both the fans and creators of the content. Your input may even help shape the course of events as it provides another perspective to those creating the story.
I agree, for a LICENSE to the track it's too much. However charing 1 cent (or whatever the most minimal traceable currency unit is) to cover the transaction cost of providing the high grade source and a 'clearsign' style validation that you do indeed have an authenticated copy isn't too much.
Though charging that for each track is a bit much, if you wanted to buy an entire 10-50 track album it would make more sense to have the license work fee be about a base currency unit and then bill something sane for the transfer costs. It probably shouldn't every cost more than 0.05 USD even for a raw ultra-high-grade uncompressed transfer. (As if anyone would want that though; lossless compression is quite possible for such data.)
With some things this makes sense, however there is a solution that's obvious to me. It's probably some financial regulation mis-incentive mucking things up, but I'm surprised I haven't seen something like the following.
Sort of a combination of micro-payments and investing. Instead of funding a project only by corporate interests anyone is free to make an initial 'investment' in the work. When the funding goal is reached production begins; for multi-result units, like songs, videos, or chapter style media investment might be more incremental.
After production of a unit has been funded additional buyers pay less for a copy of it. Likely degrading along a decay curve. Former investors also get a small cut of the 'profit' but it would be too small to waste with fees transferring around.
Instead the 'profit' could only be re-invested in new works, since the investor made a sound decision about what was of value to their community.
For popular works the very first investors would probably get all of their input investment back to use for other projects. After a pre-agreed profit limit is reached the entire work would shift in to promotional mode, the cost only enough at that point to cover distribution.
Dead end works would occur as well, but in those cases the investors would at least receive the work they'd paid for, which should have been at a price they were willing to pay to see said result.
Production houses that fail to deliver the expected quality would also quickly be sorted out and taken care of by the market and network effects.
'investors' would all end up paying similar prices eventually, at least for a given work. (The price would trend like a very flattened bell-curve. Those investing in the middle paying only about what their convenience factor was for seeing the content earlier.)
Additionally the inherent transparency requirement would ensure competition among both production houses and content proposers.
Maybe instead of causing sensational moral panics CNN could actually do some /real/ investigative research and reporting.
I want *accountability*, both from news outlets to the public, AND for the news outlets to do their *job* and actually hold politicians, lobbyists, corporations, and even people accountable for their actions or lack there of.
I want *depth*, don't just report that something happened, tell us why it happened, what impact it has on others, and what sorts of reactions others can and are taking.
I want *discussion*, not 140 character twit-headed sound-bytes, but real comments and summaries of comments compiled in to bin-counts that reflect actual public opinion.
To use a metaphor: Let's stop ALLCAPS online by outlawing the use of the shift key for any message. However completely ignoring the use of the Capslock key even though it's harder to use that wisely.
Watermarking process:
Take stream A, modulate by instance variant pattern.
Result: unique A'.
Inverse Watermarking process:
Obtain multiple copies of A'.
Any common data is by definition non-identifying; copy as is.
Any data locations for which there is not a perceptibly common point take the average of and then add a random but imperceptibly different value to.
The resulting stream should still be within perceptible tolerance and lack the watermarks.
It's even worse than that. The Good stuff might be unable to change facts, such as the names of islands, people, historic event titles; all of which could potentially contain improper language. Even for example factual descriptions of ethnic hate, cleansing, and various barbaric acts committed by the persecuting sides.
The bad stuff meanwhile has the freedom of being completely polymorphic.
White-listing things won't work because there's simply too much and it would overload the system.
Black-listing doesn't work either because you're back to the game of whack-a-mole.
The only way to win the game is to have a real, live, human monitoring the situation in the real world.
I think that by the time 5th or 6th grade rolls around there isn't any information that should be taboo or restricted; it dangerously creates a distorted world view, endangers the child to real world threats via willful enforcement of their ignorance, and doesn't actually stop them from accessing that same information elsewhere.
It's ineffective, harmful, and wasteful of resources; just outright a silly idea.
50 million monkeys filing infringement lawsuits? Yeah, the odds seem high at least one would percolate up that far.
Agreed on the entire post.
To word your last sentence another way:
There are factors that are non-negotiable.
There are two issues here. First is a quote I'll paraphrase; If you aren't using a web of trust, you aren't using real security. Second is that the current system is centralized. It forces people to trust others because that is easier.
The solution is obviously based on a completely de-centralized system that involves everyone in security. You can trust that your bank's employees hand out the proper certificate on official paper. You can see that it's signed by all of them, and you can inform your browser that it is indeed the signing authority for your money.
The caches would be like current DNS servers at ISPs, middle-men that simply cache the records provided by others. They might even be smart and do some basic sanity checks so they can dump errant records.
The post office should not eliminate Saturday delivery. That is a scarcity that the other services charge more for. Keeping that day actually increases the value of using the post-office.
Where the post-office really needs to compete is with the package services that free/cheep shipping use.
2-3 day delivery is far faster, but my guess is that there is something like a $1-2 difference in cost for a typical package. I however, would typically love to choose the $1-2 option, esp since the packages would then get delivered to the nice LOCKED box instead of my porch.
The only other area that USPS is lacking is the tracking. Consumers don't necessarily need a per-package validation at every step. Merely watching their package getting closer and having a valid expected delivery date is probably sufficient.
In summary:
* Keep Saturdays
* Provide expected delivery dates
* Provide a 'best effort' "It's in a shipping block (info withheld for security), which was scanned as departing where-ever 2 hours ago headed for this new place."
The number one reason I mail things at the post office versus using FedEx or UPS IS the Saturday delivery. That is often times the only feature that makes 2-3 day priority mail a better bet time/money wise than just FedEx or UPS.
What the post office really needs to do is compete in the same areas that UPS and FedEx do; really cheep stupidly slow package delivery.
I could see paying a dollar per pound extra to get my package in 4 business days or less instead of the 5-7 it takes UPS or whatever similar slowness it is for FedEx.
While on the subject of features, how about adding one that reduces miss-delivery?
Create a Globally Unique ID for each individual and corporate position in the US. Allow me to change the address at will, with the expectation for mail to follow within the week. Now all my relatives only need send first class mail to one 'address' reference regardless of how often I have to update it. My bills and anyone else that wants to communicate can just mail to that.
Plus as an added bonus, a one time boost to the economy would occur as various mail-product vendors would suddenly have to connect to the online database and query to find the current real-address associated with a target's identifier. A massive upgrade to equipment, or more jobs for those manually looking up addresses.
Just to prevent spammers abusing the system, a bunch of fictitious names and locations should be randomly generated based on invalid entries.
A useful example to provide clarification:
Harry Potter is a successful book series, but what would allow the author to be recognized and paid when the movies are made? The copyrights would likely have been sat on and then the movies made; what would have worked however would be the /trade mark/ on 'Harry Potter'. A similar movie could still have been made, but it wouldn't have been able to use the same name, nor receive the fan support as part of the same author's works. It would have been better for the studio and author to reach an amicable agreement that is mutually beneficial than to skirt around the trade mark.
It would be nice if this was about the various IP types in general, however to preface about copyright:
I think /MOST/ things should be covered by copyright, as long as they are not public works or work paid for by the public.
Patents should be an extreme rarity and independent invention should disprove that it was worthy of patent (or that the terms were so outrageous cleanroom development of the same idea made sense).
Trade marks should probably be about as they are now in the US; a branding/logo enforcement for consumer protection. A possible exception would be a two-class system, one for 'Well known' brands and another for 'local' brands (You'd want to register in to the well known, but it'd cost more).
Back to copyrights: Even LIFETIME is insane, lifetime + 70 years is some kind of broken handout. Copyrights are about encouraging the production of /useful/ information. In todays far faster paced world if you haven't made your money in 10 years you're probably doing it wrong. Past that decade it should become part of public domain culture so that the future can be built instead of the past enshrined in tombs no one may enter within their lifetimes.


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I am in Snowmass and have a pair of 2010 K2 Obsetheds, I think they are the 189's, a friend gave them to me when he left snowmass and was going to leave them here (he had bought a replacement set this year while here and couldnt fit two pairs in his luggage). I am hoping to use them if we ever get a decent powder day but can't see the point in carting them back to Oz with my family's 5 sets of skis as they won't get used there. I am leaving on the 23rd so if anyone wants to pick them up from Snowmass around that time I am happy to hand them over and hope they can get some powder to use them in. They are in ok condition but have been used for a couple of seasons and have a few scratches. No downside as they are free .


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by John milton » June 27th, 2012, 4:00 am
The true light ( τὸ φῶς) that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him (αὐτοῦ), the world did not recognize
It seems obvious that the antecedent of αὐτόν ( verse 10) is τὸ φῶς (verse 9). Am I correct ? αὐτόν is a masculine pronoun but τὸ φῶς is a grammatically neuter noun. Is this an example of Constructio ad Sensum in the prologue of John ?
JM,John milton
Perhaps in v.5, John has in mind the life and light that emanates from the Word, not the Word Himself. And perhaps in v. 9-10 John has in mind the source of that emanating light, which he calls the true Light, The Word Himself.5 καὶ τὸ φῶς ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει, καὶ ἡ σκοτία αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν.
This seems to suggest to me that the author did not imagine (either consciously or subconsciously) τὸ φῶς to be personal at this time.
JM,John milton