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The Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment system allows responders to engage in simulated environments to build communication and coordination.
First responders need as much training as they can get to deal with catastrophic events, but government agencies don't have the time and money to stage full-scale exercises as often as they would like.
But the federal government's deployed new gaming technology that could solve this problem for police and fire personnel — all they need is a computer, nimble fingers and an open mind.
The Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment (EDGE) system allows responders to engage in simulated environments without endangering civilians or themselves. The technology puts them inside a video game for virtual disaster mitigation, but the purpose is to educate, not entertain. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) partnered with the U.S. Army to develop it.
EDGE is a government-owned prototype built on the popular Unreal Engine, the same platform behind many consumer first-person shooter and online role-playing games. In law enforcement's case, however, EDGE allows players to control an in-game avatar, navigate terrain and also use vehicles, equipment and tools to apprehend suspects, evacuate bystanders and perform other site-specific actions.
The players communicate with each other through gaming controls and headsets while training on the system. The communication and coordination required during the simulation is designed to prepare them to build those skills so that they are better prepared for when an actual crisis occurs.
The DHS S&T partnered with the Sacramento, Calif., Police Department on Nov. 20 for a live demonstration of the system inside a police building. Officers, firefighters, emergency medical professionals, dispatchers and unified command center operators worked together to respond to a virtual active-shooter event inside a model of the Sheraton Grand hotel in downtown Sacramento. In the game, terrorists had taken control of the building and the chaos started fires.
It was up to Sacramento's finest to remediate the situation, while unified command center operators coordinated first responder activity.
Assistant Fire Chief Niko King told Fox40 news that EDGE forces law enforcement and emergency management divisions to start thinking about how they'd collaborate during real-life scenarios.
"It's driving the conversations that need to take place. It takes a lot to go out and re-create something like this on the street, but to bring individuals to a controlled environment, to a room, and then create this chaos in the virtual world, it forces the training and thought process and conversations that need to take place," he said.
Players must perform their specific functions in the game in order to complete the mission successfully. Firefighters, for example, use virtual extinguishers to put out flames. EDGE had a fire propagation model inside the virtual Sacramento hotel that could spread throughout the game unless players handled it.
Officer Todd Edgerton's character got wounded in the game. He thought EDGE was useful to learn building layouts but said there were things in real-life police operations that a game just wouldn't be able to capture. "I think it'd be good to train me for a building that I've never been in because I do have some familiarization now with parts [of the building] that I've never been in," he said. "There's stuff that I can't do that I would do in a real tactical situation."
The DHS and U.S. Army had spent roughly $15 million for EDGE's development at the time of the demonstration. An additional pilot demonstration is planned for a simulated school shooting at a Sacramento district. If reception of these pilot demonstrations is positive enough, the federal government hopes to make EDGE available for all law enforcement agencies as an online service.


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One of my favorite meals in the world is Leo Maya's Chicken with Green Sauce, a recipe Mario Batali shared with Serious Eaters a few years ago. It's simple, direct, and aggressive. Tomatillos are blended up with lime juice, cilantro, and serranos, then poured into a large pot with a chicken thighs. It's a perfect dish for those tired of bland chicken dishes. It works better as a humble family meal than some kind of elegant feast.
So I nearly lost it when I came across this recipe in Rick Bayless's Mexican Everyday, because it seemed like the grownup, elegant cousin. The ingredients don't differ too much, but the process of cooking them does.
The chicken is well-browned. The onions are cooked to a golden brown. Overall, it's more balanced, and there is a pleasant glow instead of a fierce burn. It's kind of missing that unhinged gluttony of Leo Maya's—but sometimes this is what I'm in the mood for.
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- 2 fresh poblano chiles
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts ( about 1 1/2 pounds total)
- Salt
- 1 large white onion, sliced 1/4 inch thick
- 1 1/2 pounds tomatillos, husked and rinsed
- 1 cup cilantro, roughly chopped
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 2 to 3 tablespoons Mexican crema, heavy cream, or creme fraiche
Blacken the skin of the pobanos by sitting them over the burner on your stove. Turn regularly until evenly blackened, about 5 minutes total. Transfer to a plastic bag to steam for 15 minutes.
Pour the oil into a large skillet set over medium-high heat. Season the chicken breasts with salt, and then place in the skillet. Cook until well browned, about 2 minutes a side. Set aside.
Meanwhile, blend the tomatillos and cilantro. Pour this into the skillet when the onions are done. Cook until it is very thick, about 8 minutes.
Add the broth, poblano strips, and the crema. Stir well, and season with a teaspoon of salt. Return the chicken breasts to the skillet. Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook until the chicken is completely cooked, about 8 to 10 minutes.
Serve the chicken with the chile and onion sauce.
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Russell Norman: Pearls of Wisdom
I've got more [restaurant] ideas than there are days in a month. If I had it my way I'd open a new restaurant every week.
A recession forces you to be frugal. If you can make it work in tough times it'll be easier when times are better. I'd recommend a recession – although I wasn't gleefully rubbing my hands when I opened Polpo. There was a chance it would bomb.
Selfishly, every idea I have starts with me. It's never about me thinking what will make money and be commercially successful or viable. The starting point is always, 'how does it tickle me?'
I admire [Hawksmoor's] Will and Huw. Those guys tried a couple of ideas before and they didn't work. Hawksmoor was their last attempt to do something that satisfied them. And my goodness, didn't it?
When I look at a potential site I stalk it. I'm there at 8am, at lunchtime, in the afternoon. I like to see the sort of people who live, work and play in the area and who's just walking by.
One thing I've learnt over the years is that my taste is quite normal. If I like something it usually follows that others will like it too. It was slightly terrifying opening Polpo three years ago because at the time I didn't know my tastes were so universal.
I never think about trends. They don't preoccupy me.
When I joined Caprice Holdings I had no doubt in my mind that I would retire there. I may have stayed there if two things hadn't happened. Firstly, the recession kicked in and my day-to-day activity changed, it became more about maintenance and efficiency rather than looking at new ideas. Secondly, I started to realise a lot of the ideas I was having weren't appropriate for Caprice Holdings.
I had the idea for Polpo even before I was at Caprice. The version then was very different, but thank goodness I waited as it wouldn't have worked. It was to faithfully recreate a Venetian bàcaro where you'd come in, stand, eat, drink and be gone in 15 minutes. London is not ready for that.
Working for Caprice instilled a discipline in mathematics and back-of-house mechanics. All those boring spreadsheets have stood me in good stead.
I'm incredibly fussy when it comes to sites. I've probably turned down 30 to 40 restaurants for every one I've opened.
I find it quite painful to sit in a restaurant that considers itself fine dining. Polpo was the antidote to the sort of restaurants I was used to at Caprice.
The dining scene in London will never catch up with New York. London starts in the centre and moves outwards – the intensity in zone one is diluted as you move out and it gets more and more suburban. Manhattan and Brooklyn are made up of neighbourhoods, they have a vibrancy and urban feel London will always struggle to have. London is not as visceral as New York.
I get envious when I see great restaurants in spaces I never thought to explore. I had lunch at Caravan in King's Cross and it was heaving. I would never in a thousand years have thought you could fill up a restaurant in King's Cross on a Monday.
I don't like it when imitation is unthinking and total. If someone comes in here [Polpo] and replicates it wholesale it really pisses me off. But we are all magpies. I'm a firm believer that there is no such thing as an original idea. I've picked up every single one of my ideas from somewhere.
The effort and manpower required to open a 70-cover restaurant is identical to the effort and manpower required to open a 170-seater one. It's just a question of scale.
We turned down a site on Great Newport Street in Leicester Square and every time I walk past it I get a little pang of regret. It's a constant reminder to be a little bit more imaginative about site selection. If it doesn't tick all the boxes, sometimes it's enough that it ticks most of them.
I have a strong urge to open a pizza restaurant. It won't reinvent the wheel, but there will be plenty to make people smile.


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Skopje is the capital city of Macedonia, and it is filled with diverse cultures from several centuries. With plenty of statues, bridges, museums, and other structures that showcase the city's rich heritage, Skopje is a quirky European city of style.
Start your Skopje story at the majestic Kale Fortress. This is where you'll find the historic Strength, Glory and Victory Monument. And here at the highest hill in the Skopje valley, you'll get fantastic views over the city.
Another iconic statue in Skopje is the impressive Alexander the Great high above its fountain at Macedonia Square. You can also go shopping and experience the local way of life here too.
Cross the lovely Stone Bridge and visit the incredible Archaeological Museum of Macedonia. Soak up the culture of the city and see the amazing exhibits at the National Gallery of Macedonia, which is a former double hammam.
Are you a fan of Picasso, Alechinsky, Gaitis, and various other masters of the arts? Then you can't miss the breathtaking collection of over 4,000 artworks in Skopje's Museum of Contemporary Art. You can also spend an arvo at the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle.
Wander around the lovely Kapan Han and Suli Han and get a glimpse of Skopje's heritage. Visit the Mother Theresa House. Have an architecture tour in Skopje and stop by St Clement of Ohrid Cathedral, St Saviour Church, Mustafa Pasha Mosque, and the Ishak Bey Mosque. And if you're feeling hungry right about now, check out this Skopje food guide so you can have a food trip around the city.
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Bristol Palin Tries Abstinence… Again ???
You know that saying, "You can never go home"? Apparently Bristol Palin does not. The former unmarried pregnant teen daughter of the former half-term ex-quitting Governor of Alaska has vowed to abstain from sex until she and her oil-pipeline worker boyfriend have tied the knot, reports The New York Daily News. the Palin said in an interview with In Touch magazine:
"Gino and I are going to wait until marriage. I'm doing what's best for me. It's between me and God, and I know it's right."
What a joke! sometimes you just can't make this stuff up. Palins and abstinence go together like Herman Cain and monogamy. Besides, hasn't the abstinence door already been slammed shut on Bristol?
Mama Grizzly, Sarah Palin has been denouncing sex education and contraception since she was disastrously thrust upon the American people by John McCain. She has been one of the nation's foremost advocates of abstinence-only education. Of course Sarah Palin did not personally practice abstinence. It would appear that oldest son Track was conceived prior to her wedding on August 29, 1988 inasmuch as he was born on April 20, 1989.
The former ex-quitting half-term Governor of Alaska was also apparently not a very good teacher when it came to instilling the virtues of abstinence on her own children either. First, teen daughter Bristol gave birth out of wedlock. She claims that her "virginity was stolen" (rape?) by her boyfriend one night while she got drunk while on a camping trip. The veracity of that statement is called into question however, inasmuch as Bristol continued to have sex with the same boy for a long time after that. Now we have eldest son Track who also seems to have violated the abstinence only rule. Track was married May 2011, yet wife gave birth to a baby girl in August 2011.
This brings us back to Bristol Palin who has thrust herself, in true Palin fashion, into the media spotlight once again by launching yet another Palin family reality television series (see "Sarah Palin's Alaska" and "Dancing With The Stars"). This time it's "Life's a Tripp", in which the single mother runs around aimlessly with her toddler. But really, aren't there a million 21 year old single mothers doing the same thing? Do we really need a reality television show on the subject?
All of this is as ridiculous as when Bristol Palin became an abstinence-only spokesperson for the "dress like a teen-ho" company known as Candies a few years ago. Palin belonged to the Candies Foundation who's stated mission is "to educate America's youth about the devastating consequences of teenage pregnancy". How's that for a mixed message between product and message? Here are examples of some wholesome Candies advertisements:
Please remember to click on the song link below to familiarize yourselves with the tune and to have more fun singing along with today's topical song parody.
I Want Candy song link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMICD3aMZpw
(sung to the Bow Wow Wow song "I Want Candy")
I know a girl who'll take some heat
Candies pays this gal to speak
She's got a mother that is a liar
Sarah sucks like a vampire
She wears Candies
She wears Candies
Bristol's preachin' all over town
She should shut-up and sit down
She don't know squat about abstinence
She's got a big case of arrogance
She wears Candies
She wears Candies
(musical interlude)
Bristol is a gal that should know better
She should be sporting a scarlet letter
She left school cuz she was failin'
Just like almost every Palin
She wears Candies
She wears Candies
She wears Candies
She wears Candies
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
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Several years ago, I met Kendra when I spoke at an RWA chapter in Washington. I honestly can't remember which came first, meeting her or judging her contest entry in the Daphne. Or maybe it was another contest. (This was 2006. Or 2007. I'm over 40. Forgive my memory loss.)
What I didn't forget was her story. Of course I didn't know it was her at the time! And I don't know if I signed the scoresheet (something I rarely do) or if I she finaled in a contest and I saw her name attached to the title and remembered the story, but whichever it was, I told her to get thee an agent! I thought it was edgy and dark and very, very good. It was an opening that had stuck with me.
When she sold, I read the entire book and offered a quote because the rest of the book was just as good as the beginning. I don't remember the old title, but it was published as HIDDEN.
I happily invited Kendra to blog with us today, and was thrilled when she brought a friend with her! Especially this friend, Melinda Leigh, whose debut novel SHE CAN RUN finaled for Best First Novel in the Thrillers sponsored by the International Thriller Writers. So clap your hands and welcome Kendra and Melinda, talking about two of my most favorite things: writing and dogs.
On Writing and Dogs
Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot are Montlake romantic suspense authors who discovered they share a love of dogs, writing, and vodka. Today they're talking about the first two topics…but are always happy to go off on tangents about the third.
MELINDA: Animals have always been a big part of my life. I was a dorky kid, an undersized bookish misfit. My best friend growing up was my border collie. Peanuts and I had many adventures together. She was Godzilla to a Lincoln Log town. G. I. Joes rode on her back. (I had an older brother, and G. I. Joe was way better than Barbie. Her stupid legs didn't bend. How the hell were you supposed to do anything with her?) My dog was my buddy and playmate and confidant. I carried this connection into adulthood. I've never been without pets. To me, a house without a few furry family members isn't a home.
KENDRA: I've always been a cat person. We had an Irish Setter until I was twelve, and I always felt sorry for her, because she slept outside in a cold doghouse. I didn't live with another dog until my husband insisted on getting a dog two years ago. My husband's a big guy with a dozen tattoos, but he has a mushy spot for small animals. He picked out a tiny fluffy Pomeranian, Max, who my girls immediately loved, and I was happily transformed into a dog person.
MELINDA: In She Can Run, one of my characters, a police dog reject, struck a chord with readers. In fact, Henry nearly stole the show from my hero. When I wrote the book, I had no idea how much my love of dogs would influence his character. Nor did I anticipate how much readers would fall in love with him.
KENDRA: The first dog I wrote about was in Chilled. The heroine is a search and rescue team member and always has her dog with her. The Alaskan malamute helps draws my hero out of his shell and has a key role in the black moment. In Buried, I use a cadaver dog. I loved researching these dogs. Did you know some can smell a corpse hidden below 20 feet of water?
MELINDA: My kids gave me endless grief that I wrote a fictional dog into my book when we had two perfectly good dogs in our house. They suggested (read: demanded) that I write one of our dogs into my next book. I accepted the challenge. Bandit received a starring role in She Can Tell, the loose sequel to She Can Run. Bandit is a dog of many breeds we rescued from the local animal shelter two years ago. There's a large dog trapped inside his small body, a Rottweiler crammed into a spaniel's skeleton. At a mere 18 pounds, he would fight to the death to defend the ones he loves. He might be small in stature, but his heart and soul are enormous. Bandit is devoted to his family and hates strangers with equal passion, just ask the USP man or those people who came to deliver a religious pamphlet last week. He scared the bejeesus out of them. I had a blast writing him into the story while keeping his quirky personality true to life.
Now, of course, my kids insist our aging collie, Sunshine, get her due. She will be completely different. While Bandit is on guard duty, Sunshine's main functions are shedding, licking company, and sprawling in awkward places to keep us agile. Seriously, how does a 70 pound dog manage to be underfoot all the time? Her disposition is true to her breed. She has nothing but wags for everyone and everything she meets, and I'm currently bringing her to life on the pages of my work-in-process, She Can Scream.
If you're looking to add a canine companion to your household, please visit your local animal shelter. Adult dogs make great pets. They're often house trained and past the high-maintenance puppy stage. Dogs don't deserve to be discarded after all they do for us.
KENDRA: I don't know if I'll ever write a Pomeranian into a book. I do know if Max was on a cover, that book would be a bestseller. They say placing a dog on a contemporary romance cover always gives the sales a good boost. Wendy Corsi Staub tells a cute story about how her publisher's art department placed a dog on her novel. But there wasn't a dog in the book. Everyone loved the cover so much, she wrote a dog into the story. Our Max is a girly dog. He sits on my husband's lap while he works, prances when he walks, and will always pick the fluffiest pillow on the bed to sit on. But he doesn't know he's only eight pounds and will challenge the biggest dog in the neighborhood. He always greets us with wild enthusiasm whether we've been gone for five minutes or five days.
Do you love it when a dog appears in a novel you're reading? Tell us what makes your dog the best dog ever…because we understand how we all feel about our four-legged kids.
Comment for a chance of winning! One lucky winner will receive a print or digital copy of CHILLED by Kendra Elliot, and another lucky winner will receive a print or digital copy of SHE CAN RUN by Melinda Leigh. Open to readers in the US and Canada only.
Melinda Leigh is a fully recovered banker, wife, mom, lifelong dog lover, and second degree black belt in kenpo karate. She is the author of SHE CAN RUN, a 2012 Thriller Award nominee and a 2012 top 100 Kindle Bestseller. Her next book, SHE CAN TELL, releases in December 2012. Find out more about Melinda: website / facebook / twitter
Kendra Elliot grew up in the lush Pacific Northwest and still lives there with her husband, three daughters, two cats, and a Pomeranian. She's always been fascinated with forensics, refuses to eat anything green, and loves a strong Mai Tai on the beach on Kauai. Her debut novel, HIDDEN, sold more than 100,000 copies in less than four months. Her next book, BURIED, releases in March 2013. Find out more about Kendra: website / facebook / twitter


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Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday Caitlin, happy birthday to me!
So.. I'm 26. I honestly am now at the age where I'm feeling my age, feeling older. I no longer feel like an 18 year old. Let me stay young & youthful forever please 😩😩
We went to a wedding reception on Saturday evening so we celebrated my birthday on Sunday by going out for dinner. We went to the goldings, which is run by the people who own my favourite place, market bistro. We both had scampi & I had a few cocktails too 🍹 I can't resist. The food was so yum!
On my birthday, yesterday, Sam made me breakfast while I opened my cards. I had dippy eggs, it's like my only tradition ever 😂🙈 I love them! I opened all my presents & got myself ready as I went out for lunch with my mum & Sam's mum. We went to prezzo & enjoyed my free bottle of prosecco (bloody love prezzo) 🍾
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It is that time of year again even though we are in season denial here in the desert Southwest, as usual. The leaves on the trees finally decided to turn sort-of tepid colors and fall off. It is not unusual to have the old leaves falling off about the same time the new leaves come on in January. We do live in a time warp here with nine months of Summer and a few days of Autumn and Spring and a couple of weeks of Winter. There are days when the weather is perfect and skies are blue and soft breezes blow. Fortunately, we have had several of those in December.
2013 was an interesting year for me and my wife. We spent a significant amount of time preparing for, traveling to and presenting at seminars, conferences and expos around the country. One of our trips was over 3000 miles driving. Now it is time to look forward to another year of some of the same experiences since I already have six presentations at conferences planned for January and we leave for Salt Lake City and RootsTech 2014 at the end of the month.
So what happened in genealogy this past year? I thought I would set down my perceptions of some of the most important developments. Here I go. I won't try to put them in chronological order or even in the order of importance.
The most far reaching development of the year was the announcement by FamilySearch.org of three strategic arrangements with the other large online database companies; Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com and findmypast.com (D. C. Thomson Family History). Although the details of these agreements have not yet been made public, it has certainly created a lot of discussion and speculation. I am certain that we will hear more at RootsTech 2014 that will be related to this subject. One effect will undoubtedly be the increased availability of records around the world as the four entities share technology and record collections.
From my personal perspective, I view the developments with FamilySearch.org's Family Tree program and the abandonment of New.FamilySearch.org to read only status as a major development with extraordinary consequences for the entire genealogical community. Because of the shared nature of Family Tree, our family has already become involved in discussions with relatives we didn't even know existed. Because we are all looking at the same data and see all the changes made by everyone else, we are now acutely aware of issues that have smoldered for years. Whether you are aware or indifferent to the development of Family Tree does not matter, the fact that this unified family tree exists is set to change the face of genealogical research in fundamental ways that the fragmented user contributed family trees has not been able to accomplish. If someone in my remote family puts up their "family tree" online and make some outrageous claims and I learn about their tree with some kind of matching program, I can conveniently ignore anything they say. But with FamilySearch Family Tree, all those changes are right there in my face and cannot be ignored. Either I deal with the issues or I retire from the field. There is no longer a blissfully ignorant middle ground. If you are not involved in Family Tree yet, you are not yet in the game. In fact, you are not even watching the game from the bleachers.
Throughout 2013, technology hung over genealogy like a threatening cloud in the tornado belt. During the year I held my first Google Hangouts and then those became common and ordinary. The movement of the entire computer world to mobile devices put a few more nails in the coffins of desktop computers. There weren't any monumental changes but the evolutionary changes were persistent and unstoppable. I did venture into a few stores during the holiday season and noted that in the BestBuy stores that the tablets had been moved from the back of the store to the front, right as you enter the store. Hmm. Does that tell you something? We spent some time traveling around the East Valley trying to find an iPad Mini to buy and going to four different stores. In every one of the stores the tablet display areas were a mob scene. Have you stopped to think what handing a powerful Internet connected computer to a five year old child will do for the world? Good or Bad? The genealogical community is definitely lagging far behind the curve in moving into the tablet world. Presently, there is only one program that I am aware of that will synchronize your data over both OS X and Windows and all devices, desktop, tablets and smartphones, and that is a program from France called Heredis. Where are the other software developers? Have you looked at Heredis 2014? Probably not. But that is where genealogy programs are going.
Speaking of genealogy programs, I wish there were a bright spot to talk about other than Heredis. Almost all the programs implemented a major update during the year, most of them in the last month or so. But the changes have been decidedly incremental. There are some developments out on the edges of the genealogy software community, but the big movement was towards integration of the desktop programs through synchronization with an online family tree. At this point, this development is still in its infancy and it may never get beyond the third grade, but the fact is that synchronization with an online family tree is an issue that will not go away.
As I mentioned, there were a lot of conferences and society meeting around the world. I saw some renewed interest in local genealogy clubs and societies, many of which are beginning small steps towards integrating their activities locally and online. But it appears that the new year will bring an even more important development with RootsTech 2014 being broadcast over the Internet to hundreds of separate locations around the world in 10 different languages. The fact that this is coming has already had an effect on the scheduling of smaller conferences around the world. It will probably be next year at this time before I can get any perspective on the effect of this world wide genealogy conference.
The elephant in the living room of genealogy is the huge worldwide digitization effort for primary source records. The number of digitized records released online during the year was phenomenal. This availability finally impacted my wife directly when she found that the Swedish records she has been searching for years were mostly available online. The number of records that are being put online each day are beyond comprehension. The huge numbers of records has created a digital divide in the genealogical community between those who can and do search the records and those whose computer skills do not reach to that level. Choosing any one of the websites as an example of the huge increases in records online is an impossibility. All four of the major online database websites and their associated websites announced huge increases in record availability. One development that has gone mostly unnoticed is the Digital Public Library of America. During the year, this portal into the Unites States online records has gone from zero to almost 5.5 million online records in its first half year of activity. The importance of this site is not its present size, but the fact that it exists at all.
On genealogy's legal front, there were some unsettling events during the year involving record access issues. It appears that whether or not genealogists are going to have access to fundamental resources for research is still under siege. Right at the end of the year there was significant U.S. legislation that limited access to the Social Security Death Index. This is an area the needs careful attention from the genealogy community.
If I think of some more things to talk about I might do a follow up, but that looks like most of the major developments during the year. Isn't that enough?


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In 1964, a physics teacher named Robert Ettinger published The Prospect of Immortality, a book which promoted the concept of cryonics to a wide audience. Ettinger subsequently founded his own cryonics organization.
In 1972, Alcor was incorporated as the Alcor Society for Solid State Hypothermia in the State of California by Fred and Linda Chamberlain. (The name was changed to Alcor Life Extension Foundation in 1977.) The nonprofit organization was conceived as a rational, technology-oriented cryonics organization that would be managed on a fiscally conservative basis by a self perpetuating Board. Alcor advertised in direct mailings and offered seminars in order to attract members and bring attention to the cryonics movement. The first of these seminars attracted 30 people.
On July 16, 1976, Alcor performed its first human cryopreservation. That same year, research in cryonics began with initial funding provided by the Manrise Corporation. At this time, Alcor's office consisted of a mobile surgical unit in a large van. Trans Time, Inc., a cryonics organization in the San Francisco Bay Area, provided long-term patient storage until Alcor began doing its own storage in 1982.
In 1977, articles of incorporation were filed in Indianapolis by the Institute for Advanced Biological Studies (IABS) and Soma, Inc. IABS was a nonprofit research startup led by a young cryonics enthusiast named Steve Bridge, while Soma was intended as a for-profit organization to provide cryopreservation and human storage services. Its president, Mike Darwin, subsequently became a president of Alcor. Bridge filled the same position many years later. IABS and Soma relocated to California in 1981. (Soma was disbanded while IABS merged with Alcor in 1982.)
In 1978, Cryovita Laboratories was founded by Jerry Leaf, who had been teaching surgery at UCLA. Cryovita was a for-profit organization which provided cryopreservation services for Alcor in the 1980s. During this time Leaf also collaborated with Michael Darwin in a series of hypothermia experiments in which dogs were resuscitated with no measurable neurological deficit after hours in deep hypothermia, just a few degrees above zero Celsius. The blood substitute which was developed for these experiments became the basis for the washout solution used at Alcor. Together, Leaf and Darwin developed a standby-transport model for human cryonics cases with the goal of intervening immediately after cardiac arrest and minimizing ischemic injury. (Leaf was cryopreserved by Alcor in 1991; since 1992 Alcor has provided its own cryopreservation as well as patient-storage services.) Today, Alcor is the only full-service cryonics organization that performs remote standbys.
Alcor grew slowly in its early years, before the concept of nanotechnology helped to legitimize the possibility that future science could repair cell damage caused by freezing. The organization counted only 50 members in 1985, which was the year it cryopreserved its third patient.
Alcor personnel prepare patient A-1068 for cryopreservation in Fullerton, California, 1985. See full case report
In 1986 some of Alcor's members formed Symbex, a small investment company which funded a building in Riverside, California, for lease by Alcor. That same year, Eric Drexler introduced the concept of nanotechnology in his landmark book, Engines of Creation. Alcor moved from Fullerton, California, to the new building in Riverside in 1987.
Alcor cryopreserved a member's companion animal in 1986, and two people in 1987. Three human cases were handled in 1988, and one in 1989.
By 1990 Alcor had grown to 300 members. In response to concerns that the California facility was too small and vulnerable to earthquake risk, the organization purchased a building in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1993 and moved its patients to it in 1994 (see page on Why Scottsdale?).
In 1997, after a substantial effort led by then-president Steve Bridge, Alcor formed the Patient Care Trust as an entirely separate entity to manage and protect the funding for cryopatients. Alcor remains the only cryonics organization to segregate and protect patient funding in this way.
In 2001 Alcor adapted cryoprotectant formulas from published scientific literature into a more concentrated formula capable of achieving ice-free preservation (vitrification) of the human brain ("neurovitrification").
Near the end of 2002 Alcor embarked on an ambitious expansion project, taking over another unit in its Scottsdale building (where remaining units currently are rented to other tenants). The first issue of an online newsletter, Alcor News, was distributed late in 2002. During 2003, new staff members joined the organization and work continued to create a new patient care bay, operating room, and laboratory area. A custom ambulance was built that was large enough to permit surgical procedures. During this time, Alcor also updated its medications to take advantage of the latest data coming from resuscitation research, and purchased a pioneering intermediate temperature storage device to reduce the risk of fracturing in cryopatients.


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Hey, As the World Turns fans -- don't miss this Friday's episode. Dec. 21 is a special Christmas episode that brings a turn-of-the-20th-century dollhouse to life and depicts the residents of Oakdale in situations that might or might not be reminiscent of their own.
Sounds strangely weird, so I am definitely going to tune in, if only for the spectacle of it. Much like Guiding Light's superhero tie-in, the results of this should be interesting!


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Social scientists have long argued documentary films are powerful tools for social change.
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A new study finds some surprising ways in which women's health at midlife is connected to when they had their first child and to their marital history. Researchers found that women who had their first child in their early 20s didn't report better health at midlife than those who had their first baby as a teen.
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Do police treat religious-based protest events differently than secular ones? Drawing on data from more than 15,000 protest events in the United States (1960 to 1995) and using quantitative methods, we find that law enforcement agents were less likely to show up at protests when general religious actors, actions, or organizations were present. Rather than reflecting privileged legitimacy, we find that this protective effect is explained by religious protesters' use of less threatening tactics at events.
Recent scholarship highlights the importance of public discourse for the mobilization and impact of social movements, but it neglects how cultural products may shift discourse and thereby influence mobilization and political outcomes. This study investigates how activism against hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") utilized cultural artifacts to influence public perceptions and effect change. A systematic analysis of Internet search data, social media postings, and newspaper articles allows us to identify how the documentary Gasland reshaped public discourse.
Despite evidence that first-birth timing influences women's health, the role of marital status in shaping this association has received scant attention. Using multivariate propensity score matching, we analyze data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 to estimate the effect of having a first birth in adolescence (prior to age 20), young adulthood (ages 20–24), or later ages (ages 25–35) on women's midlife self-assessed health.


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by Shaun Chamberlin on December 21st, 2011
"Untitled, 2010" was written by artist Maria Elvorith for The Future We Deserve, a book project about collaboratively creating the future we deserve, set for publication in January 2012.
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"The war that matters is the war against the imagination, all other wars are subsumed in it." ~ Diane Di Prima
With each day we move towards a necessary revolution. Resource depletion, mass species extinction and the risk of runaway climate change highlight the great flaws in our current worldview and the society it has built. It is in this nebulous inner realm of intuition and story that a revolution quietly gathers strength.


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TBS will now air national semifinals in 2014, '15
TBS will be involved with the Final Four two years earlier than expected. (Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
In a tweak to the original agreement when they partnered together on a new 14-year broadcast deal for the NCAA tournament, CBS and Turner announced Tuesday that the 2014 and 2015 national semifinals would be aired on TBS rather than CBS.
Originally, all three games of the Final Four were supposed to be shown on CBS in those two years before they moved to TBS in 2016 and alternated each year after that through 2024. Now, TBS has exercised an option in the contract to get involved with the Final Four two years earlier. As part of that process, CBS is being allowed to retain the championship game for the next two seasons, as what executives involved termed a "transition."
"We both win in this scenario," CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus said during a conference call, according to the Associated Press.
TBS also will now be involved in coverage of the regional finals. Previously, CBS televised all four of them.
The reaction to the news, at least on Twitter, was predictably grumpy -- another sports institution gets moved to a cable channel, and that cable channel isn't ESPN -- but that reaction is probably misguided. As of last summer, TBS was actually available in more homes than ESPN and they have done a nice job carrying a significant tournament load (at least the game broadcasts) for three years already. It may also mean a shakeup of Final Four broadcast teams, with many preferring someone like Marv Albert or Kevin Harlan on the play-by-play call instead of the more conservative Jim Nantz.
This is just the latest piece in the well-established trend of major sports properties moving to cable. Affordability was the reason CBS partnered up with Turner on the current deal to begin with, in shades of when ABC had to give up a money-losing Monday Night Football property that was eagerly gobbled up by sister company ESPN for multiple times the cost. Cable subscription fees, which over-the-air networks don't collect, are a driving factor in who can afford these rights and why prices for them keep climbing. As long as all cable viewers, regardless of interest in sports, continue to subsidize sports watchers, this is how things are going to work. Turner, which already had a very significant stake in this arrangement (explaining the ample use of NBA analysts in studio on their coverage and TruTV being utilized), can now use these additional properties as even more leverage for subscription fee increases.
Ratings for the 2013 tournament were the strongest in over a decade. The first weekend drew an average 5.8, despite splitting games across CBS, TBS, TNT and lesser-known (and less available) TruTV. The second weekend averaged a 7.0 on CBS and TBS.


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NBC's Brian Williams reports on a video assembled from Grail lunar imagery.
Even though NASA's twin Grail probes are history, the mission is far from finished. MIT planetary scientist Maria Zuber, who serves as Grail's principal investigator, says the educational part of the mission will continue for more than a year.
Zuber's update comes in the wake of last week's release of a video combining almost 2,500 images captured by the MoonKam camera aboard one of the probes, called Ebb. (The other probe was named Flow.) Ebb and Flow mapped the moon's gravity field over the course of several months last year, and were brought down for a controlled crash in a spot on the lunar far side now known as the Sally K. Ride Impact Site.
The late Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, helped organize the MoonKam project through her educational program, Sally Ride Science. Students around the world got to select MoonKam's photographic targets over the course of the mission. Late Friday, I asked Zuber in an email whether MoonKam imagery was still being delivered to the schools. Here's the reply she sent today:
"We don't send the imagery to the schools; rather, we post it to an open website for the students and everyone else to use and enjoy. I believe the last of the imagery was posted yesterday.
"Although we are not collecting images (or gravity data) anymore because the Grail spacecraft have completed their mapping, the MoonKam program continues. We've had such positive feedback regarding the value of the images as an educational tool that we have extended Sally Ride Science funding until June 2014, so that they can develop classroom exercises so that students for years to come can analyze the images. We are scheduling a teacher's workshop this spring to get feedback from current participants on what kinds of activities have been most valuable, so that we can extend those — and of course, we are seeking new ideas as well.
"MoonKam was designed totally for education, and there were no scientific requirements, but students have been pretty clever in using them to study the geology of the moon. I fully expect that there will be scientific advances from study of the images. I note that while other recent missions to the moon, most notably the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, carry calibrated, higher-resolution cameras, the resolution of the MoonKam images is comparable to the global imaging of Mars from the Viking orbiters.* Pretty good for a student education experiment!
"*Viking flew in the mid- to late 1970s, and of course there are much higher-resolution images now. But for orbital imagery, Viking was state of the art at Mars until the mid-1990s."
I also asked Jennifer Blue at the U.S. Geological Survey about the status of the impact site's name. At one time, it was thought that the International Astronomical Union would have to give its blessing to the "Sally K. Ride Impact Site," but Blue set me straight in an email today:
"After the announcement about the naming of the Grail impact site for Sally Ride, the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) amended the Web page [on planetary naming conventions, as follows]:
"'During active missions, small surface features are often given informal names. These may include landing sites, spacecraft impact sites, and small topographic features, such as craters, hills and rocks. Such names will not be given official status by the IAU, except as provided for by Rule 2 above [relating to features having 'exceptional scientific interest']. As for the larger objects, official names for any such small features would have to conform to established IAU rules and categories.'"
"Hopefully this clarifies for the community that impact sites generally are not formally named."
Thanks so much to Maria Zuber and Jennifer Blue for clearing up these questions.
More about the Grail mission:
- Grail impact site named after Sally Ride
- Gravity map reveals our battered moon
- Kids get their very own 'Earthrise'
Alan Boyle is NBCNews.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ presence. To keep up with Cosmic Log as well as NBCNews.com's other stories about science and space, sign up for the Tech & Science newsletter, delivered to your email in-box every weekday. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.


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The verdict has come back on the trial of two officers charged in the beating death of schizophrenic homeless man Kelly Thomas. Not guilty on all charges. The Orange County jury heard three weeks of testimony and returned this verdict in less than a day.
The incident, which began with Officer Ramos putting on gloves and announcing to Thomas that his "fists" were getting ready to "fuck him up," and ended with Thomas in an irreversible coma, was caught on surveillance tape and synched to Ramos' body mic recording. The tortured screams and gasps of the 135-lb. Thomas were unable to convince the jury find one of the cops guilty of lesser charges (Officer Cicinelli -- charged with involuntary manslaughter and use of excessive force). Even Cicinelli's own words -- "I ran out of options and just started bashing the hell out of [Thomas'] face [with the butt end of his taser]" -- failed to persuade the jury that the force used was excessive.
But as the Orange County Register presciently noted a couple of weeks ago, juries in Orange County tend to be "law and order" juries.
Orange County juries historically have given police officers carte blanche to use deadly force even against unarmed citizens and to lie in official reports that cover up police corruption.The defense argued that Thomas died of causes unrelated to the physical force applied by six responding officers. They also argued that any force that might have been "excessive" was demanded by Thomas' supposedly violent resistance. But that seems a little unlikely when you take into account the defense's medical expert, who maintained Thomas died of a "weakened heart" brought on by "years of meth abuse." How does a 135-lb. man with a "weak heart" (who "could have died sitting in a closet" according to the medical expert) put up enough of a struggle that officers (six of them) fear for their safety? It doesn't add up, especially when you consider the fact that Officer Ramos, who initiated the attack and spent most of the incident on top of Kelly Thomas, outweighed the homeless man by at least 100 pounds. Add to that the weight of other officers who responded to calls for backup. Suddenly, this guy with a heart so weak he could have died "at any time" looks almost superhuman.
If there's anything that seriously undercuts the arguments that these officers responded with appropriate force to a threatening situation, it's the comparison of post-altercation photos of Kelly Thomas [warning: photo is extremely gruesome] and Officer Ramos, who sustained the following injury during the "dangerous" struggle.
The jury's verdict sends a message to Orange County law enforcement: you can threaten a person with a beating, follow that threat up with a six-officer beatdown -- including "beat[ing] the hell" out of them with the butt of your Taser -- all while being caught on tape and walk out of the courtroom free men. Kelly Thomas' father rightfully calls this a "miscarriage of justice."
For what it's worth, the federal government seems to find this verdict questionable.
"With the conclusion of the state court trial, investigators will examine the evidence and testimony to determine whether further investigation is warranted at the federal level," FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller in Los Angeles said in a statement.
While it's somewhat encouraging to see that the FBI thinks something is amiss here, there's really no reason for the federal government to step in and find some other way to punish these two cops. The only thing that should be looked for is evidence of misconduct that occurred during the trial which would stipulate throwing the verdict out and retrying the case. Anything else would be the government sending the unwelcome message (one it has sent previously, following the trial of George Zimmerman) that if the administration doesn't like a verdict a jury has reached, it will subvert the judicial system and render one of its own.
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A New York state trooper testified Tuesday at Kerry Kennedy's drugged-driving trial that he was concerned she might have suffered a seizure or stroke after her car swerved into a truck in 2012.
Trooper Bradley Molloy said the daughter of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy passed several drug tests that he administered at the police station. The tests included having Kennedy follow the tip of a pen with her eyes, stand on one leg and touch the tip of her finger to her nose, Molloy said.
On Monday, a North Castle town police officer, Joel Thomas, said he had administered four field sobriety tests, involving eye movements, walking and turning, reciting part of the alphabet and standing on one leg. Kennedy only passed one, reciting the alphabet from J to T, he said.
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Kennedy told the trooper that she had consumed some carrots and a cappuccino that morning and had slept about eight hours the night before. Molloy said Kennedy also told him she was concerned that she might have accidentally taken a sleeping pill instead of her thyroid medication. She said she had Ambien and the thyroid pills next to each other in her medicine cabinet.
"The defendant was not impaired by any drug," Molloy said. "I feel she may have suffered a medical condition while driving."
Molloy said Kennedy was polite and cooperative.
A forensic toxicologist testified later Tuesday that most people experience the effects of Ambien within 15 to 45 minutes of taking it. But Elizabeth Spratt, a prosecution witness who works for the Westchester County Department of Laboratories and Research, said it can take up to two hours for the drug to take effect.
Spratt said the effects include sleepiness, poor motor coordination and headaches. The drug can also cause amnesia, meaning that many people don't remember much after they've taken Ambien, she said.
Kennedy is the ex-wife of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and niece of President John F. Kennedy. Her mother, Ethel Kennedy, and a sister, Rory Kennedy, were both in the courtroom. Rory Kennedy took the stand as the defense began its arguments.
On Monday, motorists testified that Kennedy swerved her Lexus into a truck, damaging the car and blowing a tire, but kept driving and later was slumped at her steering wheel and disoriented.
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QB: Andre' Woodson
Kentucky, Sr.
Boasting a strong and accurate arm, Woodson enters the season with a school record streak of 162 consecutive passes without an interception. Last season, he led the SEC with 270.4 passing yards per game and 31 touchdown passes. He threw for 3,515 yards while completing 63 percent of his attempts.
RB: Darren McFadden
Arkansas, Jr.
Last year's Heisman Trophy runner-up and Doak Walker Award recipient as the nation's top running back, McFadden has posted consecutive 1,000-yard rushing seasons. He rushed for 1,647 last season despite starting the year with a severely injured toe. He has exceeded 100 yards in a game 12 times in his career.
RB: Felix Jones
Arkansas, Jr.
One of the most overused quotes in sports is that a backup player "could start for any other team." In Jones' case, it's the truth. Despite playing behind McFadden, Jones was second in the SEC in '06 with 1,168 rushing yards and he averaged 7.6 yards per carry.
WR: Earl Bennett
Vanderbilt, Jr.
As a freshman he caught 79 passes for 876 yards and improved to 82 catches for 1,146 yards as a sophomore. There is no reason not to expect that upward trend to continue.
WR: Early Doucet
LSU, Sr.
A game-winning touchdown grab in the final seconds against Tennessee was one of his 59 catches a year ago. He amassed that many catches despite playing alongside two receivers that were first-round NFL draft choices. This year he will be the Tigers' top target.
TE: Jacob Tamme
Kentucky, Sr.
In 2006, Tamme led all SEC tight ends with 32 catches for 386 yards and two touchdowns.
OT: Michael Oher
Ole Miss, Jr.
Considered by many the SEC's best run blocker, Oher helped pave the way for BenJarvus Green-Ellis to rush for 1,000 yards.
OT: Chris Williams
Vanderbilt, Sr.
A starter in 21 consecutive games, Williams only allowed one quarterback sack all of last season. That sack came against Michigan in the first game of the year.
G: Will Arnold
LSU, Sr.
If not for health issues, he'd likely be named All-American. Knee and ankle injuries forced him to miss more than half of last season, yet Arnold still notched three 'pancake' blocks and 20 knockdowns.
G: Robert Felton
Arkansas, Sr.
Equally adept and run and pass blocking, he posted 57 knockdown blocks and graded out at 84 percent last season. He recorded at least five knockdown blocks in six games, and six times he graded 100 percent for pass blocking.
C: Jonathan Luigs
Arkansas, Jr.
A finalist for last year's Rimington Award, which is presented to the nation's top center, Luigs was the anchor for an offensive line that paved the way for two 1,000-yard rushers.
DE: Derrick Harvey
Florida, Jr.
Although not starting every game in '06, Harvey still collected 11 sacks. He plays best in big games, which was obvious when he had three sacks against Ohio State in the national championship game.
DE: Quentin Groves
Auburn, Sr.
Posted 9 1/2 sacks in 2006 and needs just four this season to break Auburn's all-time career record of 26.
DT: Glenn Dorsey
LSU, Sr.
A returning All-American, Dorsey posted 64 tackles in 2006, including 8 1/2 for losses. He was the most dominant force for a defensive unit which ranked third in the nation.
DT: Josh Thompson
Auburn, Sr.
A very productive interior lineman, the stocky Thompson registered 44 tackles a year ago. He made 4 1/2 tackles for losses, including one sack
LB: Jerod Mayo
Tennessee, Jr.
Managed 83 tackles a year ago despite being slowed with a knee injury. He recorded three sacks in a season-opening victory over California.
LB: Jasper Brinkley
South Carolina, Sr.
A junior college transfer who played his first Division I-A season last year, he posted the second most tackles in the SEC with 207. He also had 85 solo tackles, which is the most of any returning player in the SEC.
LB: Jonathan Goff
Vanderbilt, Sr.
One of the nation's premier middle linebackers, Goff is excellent against the run and pass. Last season he posted double-digit tackle totals in three games and never had fewer than five. He also had an interception and forced two fumbles.
CB: Simeon Castille
Alabama, Sr.
A returning All-SEC selection. Last season Castille grabbed six of his 10 career interceptions. He also posted 71 tackles.
CB: Chevis Jackson
LSU, Sr.
Entering his third season as a starter, Jackson is coming off a 2006 campaign in which he posted 46 tackles and two interceptions. He also led he team with 14 passes defended.
S: Jonathan Hefney
Tennessee, Sr.
He's started every game but one of his collegiate career. Last season he posted 96 tackles, second most on the team.
S: Derek Pegues
Mississippi State, Jr.
A converted cornerback, Pegues earned second team all-conference recognition in 2006 after posting four interceptions – two of which were returned for touchdowns – and nine pass deflections.
K: Brandon Coutu
Georgia, Sr.
Though a torn hamstring caused him to miss most of the 2006 season, Coutu converted 10 of 11 field-goal attempts - including two from beyond 50 yards. He also was perfect on 17 extra point attempts.
P: Britton Colquitt
Tennessee, Jr.
As a sophomore Colquitt ranked seventh nationally with a 44.9-yard average per punt. He had 11 punts cover at least 50 yards and 18 kicks were downed inside the 20-yard line.
RET: Mikey Henderson
Georiga, Sr.
Ranked sixth nationally in 2006 with a 14.7-yard average on 25 punt returns. He returned punts for touchdowns against Tennessee and Western Kentucky.
UTIL: Percy Harvin
Florida, So.
Harvin could be a selection at running back or receiver if he specialized. But he's so effective, he can be used anywhere. As a freshman he gained 427 yards rushing, 428 yards receiving and averaged 11.4 yards for the 75 times he touched the ball. He's going to touch it more frequently this year.
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Comment #3 Friday, April 7, 2006 2:31 PM
Comment #4 Friday, April 7, 2006 3:06 PM
Also, I seem to be missing the details on how to align the bar with the top of the screen, versus the bottom.
Comment #5 Friday, April 7, 2006 3:28 PM
|Also, I seem to be missing the details on how to align the bar with the top of the screen, versus the bottom.
Yes wondering Same Thing. Other than that very cool.
Comment #6 Friday, April 7, 2006 3:32 PM
Lol Took me like to seconds to figure it out. Again Very Cool
I have one more question. How are the programs stored? Are they like in SD Shortcuts, in a Configuration. I want to edit the shortcuts in the file instead of adding the shortcuts to the bar. Its easyer to edit them in the file because you can copy and paste. Just wondering.
Comment #8 Sunday, April 9, 2006 4:49 PM
Big Thanks for your comments.
Today I have solved majority of remained problems with LaunchBar adaptation for English Windows XP. All functions are works very quickly and correctly. Now you'll be able not only to create and modify any Shortcuts but to change their positions inwardly the Floating Bars also.
The last little problem is the auto hide of LaunchBar when Left or Right mouse buttons are pressing on the desktop (outside of device borders). Please wait one day while I'll solve it, will test this and send here. Hope it will be very useful tools for Windows XP users.
To jlaj1989: Alas I could not save this device as a widget because it works correctly only as a gadget. The scripts of LaunchBar Buttons are much complex than in SD Shortcuts (because there are not the examples). However you'll can edit some variables in the *.ini file.
LaunchBar temporary directory is:
"C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Stardock\LaunchBar"
Launch data is: "Launch32|program|DirectX|C:\WINDOWS\system32\dxdiag.exe|C:\Documents and Settings\Vadim\Local Settings\Application Data\Stardock\LaunchBar\Icons\dxdiag.ico" where:
"Launch32" - Shortcut ID (don't change it manually)
"program" - type of Shortcut (don't change it manually)
"DirectX" - name of Shortcut (possible to change)
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\dxdiag.exe" - path to file or folder (possible to change)
"C:\Documents and Settings\Vadim\Local Settings\Application Data\Stardock\LaunchBar\Icons\dxdiag.ico" - Shortcut Icon ID (don't change it manually).
Best Regards.
P.S. The color changer is already added.
Comment #11 Monday, April 10, 2006 8:38 AM
i use putty a lot of time to different hosts so i want to put a hostname after the putty.exe.
Comment #12 Monday, April 10, 2006 9:21 AM
Certainly this is free gadget which I can't save as a widget for a lot of objective reasons. Moreover I'll never place here trial versions. SD Media Player was my first and last mistake.
For ikku:
I have not understood well the essence of this problem. Can you show an example of program which you want to run?
Best Wishes.
Comment #13 Monday, April 10, 2006 10:43 AM
Rated 5 stars
Comment #14 Monday, April 10, 2006 12:05 PM
Big thanks. But I nearly finished the testing of update and can say that this is duck soup with a contrast how will work this device Tomorrow.
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Comment #18 Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:00 AM
This is much interesting. Nearly one hour I tried to get such result but have not got nothing...
So it's need find the "launchbar.set" file in the work folder to open it with notepad and edit two lines:
Then restart the gadget. If it will not help you need delete this file and restart gadget.
Best Regards.
P.S. It seems me that you'll find a new version of LaunchBar in your mail box Tonight.
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Comment #20 Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:25 PM
Hi, I'll send the update in a hour. This is not a beta version already. It will be nearly true copy of Desktop Interface which I use more then half of year without any problems. Hope this tool will work on the English Windows XP not worse than on Russian Windows. So wait a little time please.
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On Monday, the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released "Health Implications of Perchlorate Ingestion," a report assessing the health effects of perchlorate a chemical used in rocket fuel, munitions and fireworks.
Jack Hoffbuhr, executive director of the American Water Works Association (AWWA), issued the following statement regarding this report.
"The drinking water community takes nothing more seriously than its responsibility to safeguard the public health. Drinking water professionals have been researching the occurrence of perchlorate in water supplies and continue to pay close attention to relevant health effects research.
"Drinking water professionals have taken many proactive steps to protect against any possible health effects associated with perchlorate. The American Water Works Association (AWWA) is currently sponsoring a national perchlorate occurrence study that should yield useful information for the development of protective federal drinking water regulations. In addition, the independent American Water Works Association Research Foundation (AwwaRF) has conducted several scientific studies on the presence and treatment of perchlorate that will assist utilities in reducing the publics exposure to the substance."
Background information on perchlorate is available through AWWAs On Point section at www.awwa.org/advocacy/yourwater/.