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Is Hacking Good or Bad? Well Hack the TouchPad and Get A Prize. First Come, First Served!
You've probably heard of HP's TouchPad going on a really big cut deal from $500 to $100. After losing to the iPad 2, HP decided to give up on the TouchPad, but before that kick it out into the failure box, they're going to make a price cut to make at least some people buy it for $100. The question is, if HP discontinues this TouchPad, can anyone do whatever they want to this TouchPad?
I guess I would answer yes to that question. After HP had decided to discontinue the TouchPad, the prices dropped more than the stock market crash. That's about a 20% discount that you get. More like 20% downfall for the TouchPad. While more people come to buy this low costing gadget, there are people who are out there thinking about hacking the TouchPad to get the Android OS. Lets see why. Recently, a hardware modification site had just announced that they were giving away $1,500 to the first person who can get the Android OS on the TouchPad. Remember, first comes, first served.
Hacknmod.com had recently made news that anyone that had first hacked their own TouchPad to run on any thing based on Android, then that they would receive $1,500. I still have a feeling that something bad is going to happen to someone that hacks the TouchPad, kind of like geohot, the famous iOS device hacker. Hacknmod.com is setting out prizes for who does which type of hacking and what they will receive. If you hack the system and get the Wi-Fi, camera, multitouch screen, and audio, your just going to get another $1,050 to the bag.
While the whole Android modding groups are already up on their computer screens, scrunching up their eyes towards the computer screen and getting their best shot in hacking this device at all costs. This isn't really the first challenge that Android modders have gotten in years. They have had Android up and running on the Nook, the iPhone, and even certain Nokia smartphones. The Rootzwiki website is already up and ready for this and they are picking out some really smart people to use for their team called the TouchDroid. If you want to try, check out their website: http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?t=3327. These guys already like, have an entire pack for the job. There main man: Thomas Sohmers. This guy is a 15 year old hacker who has gotten Ubuntu on the Xoom and has been the first guy to ever hack into the Google TV. I probably bet that this guy is going to do the job, short and simple. Their official website: http://www.touch-droid.com/.
Now HP, has a few things to look out for. People using Android instead of their OS, will just get them mad. After all Android is an open source software that actually allows people to contribute and use the Android to hack. I mean hackers hack because they can. If they have the power to do so, they will, and this world can be full of these type of people. Even I'm kind of a hacker, but not one that's too into to it. We just now wait and see.
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Tiny Pocketbots Are Not Your Children's Toy!
When our US military ever came up with the idea of having robots to do all the dangerous stuff, we took it seriously. Maybe way to serious. We had huge robots that messed up and when it flipped over. MISSION ABORTED. The main problem: the weight. You really won't want to carry around a 50 pound robot and tossing it through windows and running away to get set up for the robot mission. I mean, come on man! That's just a burden that you carry (literally) on your back.
The US military has finally developed something new. The new Pocketbots or called the iRobot 110. This new robot is just a start in the advances of our military and in the advances of technology. Don't worry this robot doesn't shoot you down with missiles and have huge alarms. This is just short and sweet. This is a robot that has great grip, can go on hard terrain and pass through all sorts of obstacles. If it falls upside down, it just pushes itself back up. Here we go. Ready for this?
The army has planned to use 3,500 to 5,000 of these "toys" for use in battlefields and other rough and tough missions that have great danger towards human lives. How? he basic principle is to use this little robot to be tossed into a building and search through it before a soldier breaks through the door and watches out for any treacherous people or things. Precautions will also be shown with the camera on the micro machine. If theses work perfectly, the US army could have a perfect place for this little bugger.
This little machine is planned to be equipped with ever soldier so they can take an extra precautionary to know what's coming for them when we bring out the bring guns at the battlefield. The video on top explains about this pocketbot and some examples in what situation this is used in.
Remember kids, this isn't a simple remote controlled car you can use to play around. This is something that you probably don't want to use. If you want it, then get a LEGO Mindstorm for it. This isn't your everyday day children's toy.
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What's What? Social Networking For Kids!
Have you ever had a problem with kids using Facebook and you think that it may not be for their age? That's the worlds number one problem for people steal information from kids on Facebook. May be a big problem for them, but there is a solution ready for you.
What's What beta, is a website where kids have their own social networking website. This is a website that basically allows no adults. If you think you can hack in , you're wrong! What's What beta, has face recognition software for you to login, so you may know the password, but your still not going to get in buddy. Don't worry parents, this is not only for kids, but it also has a parental monitoring system for your kids, and all friends requests have to be approved by the parent!
If you still can't get a facebook, What's What beta, is the perfect social networking site for all kids and only kids! What's What beta makes sure that you give them a photo of you and then you use your webcam to show your face and get facial recognition to let you sign in into your account. It's has the exact same features as Facebook, but the only thing that is restricted is adults and your explicit language.
What's What beta, is safe and secure and no information can get leaked out. No adults are even allowed to use this program as facial recognition technology comes into place once again. You have your backgrounds for your wall and you're the one who decides who can be your friends and your the one who can decide to write stuff on your wall. You can play games and gain points for yourself and compare with people all over the world. Don't worry everything is private in this website. You won't be asked for permission to give information to play games at all. You just play them, get high scores, and you get ranked with the world. Watch out Facebook because your going to have a pretty tough competition with this website and many more who are coming to compete!
website: www.whatswhat.me
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ATM Pins Are Read with Thermal-Imaging Cameras!
Courtesy: http://www.wired.com
You might want to make sure that there aren't any cameras behind you looking at your ATM pin or doing anything else. You'll probably also make sure that no one can see you type your pin, but you probably never wondered what would happen after you left and someone used their thermal camera to figure out your pin (most of the time).
It's official. Security experts have confirmed that newer ATM thefts happen when thieves use thermal cameras to figure out someone's ATM pin. How? Well, on most ATM's, the keypads are usually made of plastic pads. As you know metal keypads are immune to this problem because they don't store heat, but plastic pads store heat so well that you can even tell the order the pin was typed in! Even the reading of the numbers can be figured out with many computer programs!
While this can be a problem to many people. I just suggest to stay out of this problem, use ATM's with metal pads to keep your self safe from any sort of hacking. Hacking with ATM's have been much more easier as people improve technology with software and as ATM's stay the same. Want to prevent all this hacking? I suggest we should rest our fingers on the other keys just to be safe.
If you've ever though about it, what are the odds of getting your pin hacked? Pretty high when 4 digits are found. But how many pins are there to test? This can put up a suspicion to all banks if they find out a person trying to type in a pin 16 times. Eventually they won't allow you to try anymore, but what if the person will get it on the first attempt? It can always happen, so that's why, just try to place your fingers on ever key.
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Inside Look: The Fast and the Furious Chromebook
They've done it again. Yeah it's the same. It's Google. They've done it. Google's new Chromebook that was released on June 15,2011. Google, which already has many products running all on the web, now have their own operating system that runs and lives on the internet. Yeah, it's true.
Google believes that people use the internet on the computers the most. Would you believe this or not? The Chromebook is a computer for the people who only use the internet on their computers. You might have to write some documents or something that involves in Microsoft Office software. Google has that all covered. If you have a Google account then you can basically use that for your needs of documentation or presentation with Google documents. So it's pretty useful I guess.
Specifications (Samsung Chromebook also with Acer and few others)
• 12.1″ (1280×800) Display
• 3.26 lbs / 1.48 kg
• Up to 8.5 hours of continuous usage*
• Intel Dual-Core Processor
• Built in dual-band Wi-Fi and World-mode 3G**
• HD Webcam
• 2 USB 2.0 ports
• 4-in-1 memory card slot
• Mini-VGA port
• Fullsize Chrome keyboard
• Oversized, fully-clickable trackpad
Price: $499
Features: The Google Chromebook has a quite of lot of features that all run on the internet. Unlike other computers, the Chromebook only takes 8 seconds and you'll be on the web. That's because the Chromebook doesn't have to run on any BIOS to get that started and booted. It's just a browser that opens up and asks for you to sign up to you Google account and you're up and running. On regular computers you have to run many things before you get to the desktop and in which getting the desktop running takes a little while. While on the Chromebook you just take 8 seconds to boot the browser and get it up and running. Don't worry you'll always be connected no matter where you are. With the Chromebook, you can basically take it anywhere you want to and still be connected to the internet. The Chromebook has both Wi-Fi and 3G connections with Verizon Wireless. Just don't to do enthusiastic about the 3G because it may not be as fast as you wish it to be. Remember there's the Wi-Fi model and 3G model so you'll get 100 MB free from Verizon 3G every month. Battery supply has a great amount and can last long for many days. The Chromebook has your online storage all on the cloud (But I wonder where that cloud is!). So, if you lose your laptop and get another one, you'll work will be right there just as you left it. Another one of the features are that you can allow friends and family access their accounts through your Chromebook without doing anything to your account. There's is also a Guest feature for people who don't have a Google account and just want to use the internet. The Chromebook is always fresh. It updates itself everyday with security, OS, and many other things without even bothering you with those annoying pop-ups saying update ready. Security isn't a problem with the Chromebook at all. Updates keep the computer fresh from viruses and malware. The sandbox environment also keeps away the viruses from your computer. So when you have 2 things your working on, each one is protected by the sandbox, so if you ever get a tab that has viruses then that page may crash, but it won't affect anything else on the computer or on the 2 things you were working on. The guest mode also helps keep people from accessing your account and work. The verified boot will detect anything wrong when booting the Chromebook. If there's anything wrong, then the computer will recover it self and you can go on doing your work. Data encryption will safely store your work and web apps and other memory in the cloud away from anyone's access at all.
So the Chromebook seems pretty useful, but it just may not be the best computer for the people who are more into computers with programming, creating software, and working with web development. So if you're a main web user I think you have a great reccomendation: The Chromebook.
sources: http://www.google.com/chromebook
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Exclusive: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and now Jupiter. It's the new Juno probe. The next space mission to Jupiter.
There was once the biggest project that NASA funded to get more information on Pluto. That's old school. We are now looking at something else bigger. I mean literally it's bigger in size and it's bigger in Science. Here's the biggest challenge though. How to build a probe that can withstand one planet's greatest threats. The Juno probe is the next step in science and engineering.
The Atlas V rocket carrying Juno was launched on August 5th, 2011 and is now looking forward in meeting our our friend, Jupiter. The mission has already been launched at Kennedy Space Center, and all the NASA officials are scrunching their eyes towards large computer screens showing a plethora of information, 24/7. Recording information on paper, phones, or anything that they appear to have in hand. Watching and watching every single day for a small sight of Jupiter.
Carefully engineered by NASA scientists. The Juno spacecraft was a project that had a budget of $1.1 billion. With careful scientist, resources were used properly and had a bill of $700 million. The Juno spacecraft was named after the Roman god Jupiter's wife, so you can see the big connection. This space probe was launched with the Atlas V rocket that was designed in a special way to withstand the harsh radiation out in space. The probe is around 4,000 kg, including all the equipment that was added on top of the probe.
Now on the specifications on the project: The Juno probe is expected to reach into Jupiter's orbit around July 4th, 2016, and in the beginning stages of the transport it will run on kerosene and liquid oxygen to give it some boosts. After that Juno will have to run on solar panels to get the lithium ion batteries charged for the big project. I guess that day we'll have 2 celebrations, Independence Day and Jupiter Day. A wait that will take 4 years really isn't that long compared to our Pluto project that will reach Pluto in 2015. After Juno reaches the orbit, Juno will have to stay at least 2,672 miles away from Jupiter to prevent being sucked in by it's gravity immediately. Juno and the Atlas V rocket will have to stay in the outer orbit. 33 orbits around Jupiter and we just pray that the probe won't be pulled in completely into Jupiter's orbit and be crushed like a pancake. 1 more year of orbit. Why? Well each one of the orbits take 11 days. So, you can do the math. 33 x 11 = 363. That's more than a year. The project is planned to conclude on October 2017 and the probe is planned to be sucked into the orbit of Jupiter and be destroyed or eliminated if you don't want to say it that harsh.
Watch video: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/video/nasas-juno-probe-prepared-jupiter-voyage-14240109
The Juno probe has basic goals and some of them are to observe Jupiter's gravity field, magnetic field , and polar magnetosphere. Juno will also be looking at the physical features of the planet and is ready to get information in which if Jupiter has a rocky core and see how fast and other information on Jupiter's wind. The increasing wind speeds and severe hurricanes of Jupiter make it interesting to know more on it and Juno has instruments to record that information too. Juno and the NASA scientists will be keeping a eye on Jupiter for any signs of water at all. Though one of Jupiter's moons, Europa has evidence of having salt water, which is a step closer to evidence of extra-terrestrial life. After all these objectives that Juno has to complete, it will begin to get more into Jupiter's orbit and then eventually get sucked into it's orbit, and you know the basic process, it gets crushed like a pancake, again.
Atlas V, the rocket carrying Juno will make history as it approaches Jupiter which is just a next step in the mysteries and unknown of the deep, dark abyss of the space that is unknown.
Fun Fact: On board on Juno, there's 3 LEGO mini figures that are taped to the probe to represent Galileo, Jupiter, and his wife Juno. These LEGO pieces were made out of aluminum to prevent radiation damage and the survive the outer space. There is also a plaque that gives dedication to Galileo on his discovery of the planet Jupiter. These 2 facts are pretty cool.
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MW3: Modern Warfare 3! AR3 YOU R3ADY?
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's recent poster for the promotion of the game.
The biggest Call of Duty franchise has once again done it. It's new hit sequel to it's blockbuster Modern Warfare 2, Modern Warefare 3, will be the next big thing for all gamers. I'm predicting that this will probably become the greatest game to make a record to beat Call of Duty: Black Ops. Modern Warfare 3 is now ready for all sorts of action packed fun and everyone is ready for it.
As said later last week, Activision and Infinity Ward sent out news for pre-orders for the new games. Within the next day already half the country had pre-ordered the game. That was fast. Not much people are ready to pre-order the game until the game really comes out on November 8th, 2011, and when reviews are to be released for the game. Everyone is just waiting and waiting until the game finally comes out.
This isn't the best part of just the game. Activision had taken it another step. Check out Call of Duty: Elite. An online game service to check maps, guns , and everything else. Right know it's in the beta testing mode so don't get too excited about it. You can currently go and check this out at http://www.callofduty.com/elite. It is a really cool beta and has some really great features along with the game too.
MW3 is also coming with some more action packed features to feed off of Modern Warfare 2. Here you're in the situation of a the same person from MW2 (forgot his name), but here you're in the situation of a big war where USA is involved of being bombed in some of it's cities. Germany, France, and England are in the stage of war. That's pretty much all the teasers and trailers tell us. There's nothing else we know from this game. Get ready guys for a ride that will take you into some deep, deep, addicting gaming for probably the rest of your year.
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Sony plans to open PlayStation Store May 24th
Sony has recently planned to open the PlayStation Store today. They have said to have opened it, yet I have not checked whether they really have done it.
PlayStation Network was down since April 20th due to recent security breaches into it's major PSN network. They had shut down all systems of the PSN and had opened the online gameplay but the store hadn't opened yet. They had gave news out that it would be open by today. I don't know so I can't tell you for sure that it will be open.
Sony had lost about $171 million dollars in the security breach and is currently recovering from it. They had reassured that all the systems would be back up and just working fine.
After the breach and when they opened up part of it's online gaming services, Sony had promised that once they had fixed the store that they would give 30 free days of PlayStation Plus access and would allow you to select 2 games for free from this list of games: LittleBigPlanet, Wipeout HD, Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty, and Dead Nation. You can select only 2 and remember that.
All the other games that were planned to release on the weeks of the outage will now be postponed to a different day where then the games will be released accordingly.
Will you still use PSN even after so many days of outage?
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Top 5 Web Browsers For You ☺♣♠
Web browsers are designed for users to basically use the internet in style, with customization and many other features that you think would suit you. Now days we mostly use our web browsers more than anything else on our computer. A web browser would probably be used at least every day. Trust me, you will feel internet sick if you don't/not allowed to use use the internet. I have created a list of the top 5 web browsers that I think are very interesting and are things that I use everyday. (These are not facts, but only opinions.
1. Google Chrome: Google has probably created the most dynamic web browser of all time. Google has mainly tried everything to make it satisfactory. Google's main purpose in their browser was to make it light. No bugging downloads screen and messed up plugins with a bunch of pop ups. Google has made it convenient to search up basically anything in a flash. The basic structure of this web browser is very simple for people to use it. Just by looking at it, you'll probably know how to use it. It's a special browser that has the power to do what you choose. Personalized themes and basically everything that a web surfer would need. http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/make/download.html?brand=CHKZ
2. Mozilla Firefox: Firefox is basically the safest browser that you could find. It has great features, great themes, and it's very attractive just when you set your eyes on it. Probably one of the best browsers that you could find, but it really isn't a light browser like Chrome. Though unlike Chrome, Firefox, has many security options and a lot of widgets that you could get off like a basic plug-in. Firefox is also very dynamic in it's add-ons billions of plug-ins are always available at mozzila.com. Firefox is a great a recommended browser. (I use both firefox and chrome!) http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/
3. Opera: Opera is a good browser. It's not the best yet it's not the worst ,but there's no other browser like Opera which is fast. Opera has great features and has supported internet in the Wii and many other game consoles. The code behind it makes it more available to other type of operating systems. It has also been available to many portable handheld devices including the iPhone which usually uses Safari. It's open to the community with development, feedback, and great support. It deserves a spot for the top 3.
4. Safari: Apple has once again done it. They have created something that is very easy to use and attractive at the same time. Not the best browser you could find but It's an OK type of browser. I would rather use this than IE8. Safari is a fast browser that can help you search quickly and get a lot of sneak peaks of movies on it's Apple home page. It can be a slow browser but it's still usable for web surfers. Not the fastest but it's still pretty safe with great web filtering and keeps you safe from malware etc. http://www.apple.com/safari/
5. Internet Explorer 9: IE9 is not the best web browser in the world. Out of probably 5 nice web browser it would be rated as the last rank. It's slow, buggy, but you know when you download a new operating system, you at least have something to surf the web on. It's better than nothing. Microsoft, this is not a great web browser. I was praying for it to download Google Chrome when I first got my new computer. It's amazingly slow and buggy with a bunch of useless things that first pop up when you boot it up. You'll probably slap you're head when you start Internet Explorer. 'Sigh', this browser is just………….bad. If you prefer it you can download new versions @ http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/products/ie/home
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Got LunaTik? Got TikTok?
Apple's iPods are a new tech frenzy gadget, but sometimes, to check the time, it can be a big problem. Shoving your hand down a tight pocket to look at the time isn't worth it. How about making is like a watch so you could check the time, play games, check music, and feel pocket free. Take a step ahead and you'll meet the LunaTik and TikTok. The products that are made by the same company have caught the eye of Apple. A simple idea to make you're iPod nano into a watch and entertainment display. Just think of a way of how you could sneak that into school. The mastermind behind it, Scott Wilson.
TikTok: The TicTok was probably the simpler version for the idea of putting the iPod nano safely into int's case and can be compaitable with the Nike Zoom. You basically take the nano and push it into the slot. That was it. You could also take it out by pushing it out through the brand hole. It was that easy. Imagine your self just running around with a really cool watch. TikTok is $39.95 and you can buy it off of www.lunatik.com. The genius behind it was Scott Wilson and Chicago-based designer. He had thought of this idea and had worked and engineered this for a while and expected only a little when instead $1 million dollars was poured on him!
LunaTik: The LunaTik is probably just like the TikTok except that it has some new engineering for people who would like to keep their iPod nano like a watch/running watch. (You can watch the video below for some further details on the TikTok and LunaTik.) It's basically engineered so that people who would like to keep it like a watch, it would stay in place for a while with 2 small metal sticks. The LunaTik is pretty cool if you go and check it out. It's only at the price of $79.95. You can't get it any better than that. For further information go to: www.lunatik.com
TikTok+LunaTik from Visere on Vimeo.
TikTok and LunaTik are both cool new gadgets that are pretty cheap. Remember the requirements are 1 or more iPod nanos. I'm pretty sure Apple is going to be like it was their idea. If they can't think of anything this is what they do sometimes. Just like the thing about jailbreaking. Scott Wilson and his company: MINIMAL, have already made sooooooo much money in just early release of their products. Future improvement for the company's economy and success should be in the positives. Just saying: the name also sounds pretty cool 🙂 .
Thanks to: http://www.lunatik.com
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"Imagine what we now call Uptown in 1840. What you'd see would be farmland poised for the next decade's migration of the more posh to a lakefront suburb away from the hustle and bustle of the city…"
That's how Chicago Architecture Foundation tour guide and docent Polly Sippy began our special look at Uptown as part of the Pivot Arts Festival. In part, Pivot Arts Festival hopes to reclaim Uptown's Vaudevillian past to the present day.
Our tour started at the former TCF bank on Wilson, where in fact, festival workers were readying for that evening's performance by punk marching band Mucca Pazza among others.
This former TCF Bank was used as a vaudeville theater from 1909-1922, before becoming a bank.
To many Uptown visitors, its history of hosting more single room occupancy hotels than anywhere else in the city may be what stands out. But look farther back in history and you learn that Uptown's origins, and many of its structures, trace back to a time when having a summer place there was akin to Northerners having a winter place in Sarasota.
Today Uptown can claim to be the most diverse community in the city. Its more recent past as the place where Chicago's Native Americans and worn out miners located is barely seen in the mix of races and ethnicities that now inhabit Uptown. Sippy shares that in the 50's and 60's Uptown was uncharitably called 'hillbilly haven'.
According to Sippy, things are rapidly changing in Uptown now as then, with real estate values climbing 58% since 2002.
If the more progressively minded people who want to steer this gentrification in more humane directions have their way the local denizens of Uptown will not be displaced. Hmmm…. A laudable goal but not one we've seen realized elsewhere in the city.
But to understand the architecture we find in Uptown we do need to dial back to that before when Uptown was the place "to be". The secret of Uptown's prior "hipness" from the 1800's through the 20's of the last century had a lot to do with the four-mile dry zone around Evanston. Rumor had it that Al Capone's crew kept booze on Lake Michigan ships and simply piped it into the Uptown "watering holes".
It was the fashionable Uptown Store created by Loren Miller, a contemporary of Marshall Field, which gave Uptown its name. Miller was an innovative merchandizer who made sure to change the windows quite often in what later became the Goldblatt Department Store. This means to drive foot traffic to his store was at that time a relatively innovative concept.
The largest building in Uptown is restored and in good repair, the McJunkin Building formerly housing an ad agency.
Many entertainment centers remain in Uptown. For starts we see the promise of the UptownTheater (in the Register of Historic places since 1986), which brags an acre of seats
and the nearby Riviera and Aragon Ball Rooms—both concert halls to this day.
Almost as soon as Uptown was established Vaudeville's decline began, and the area lost a main driver of its growth. Post WW2, changing tastes in music also fed the decline, with the nail through the coffin probably being the invention of TV.
If today's aldermen in the area and Pivot Arts have their way we will see the rebirth of an entertainment-centered community revival. Take a good look at the buildings and you can see that there is still a lot to work with.
Especially keep an eye on the ubiquitous terra cotta decorative detail that speaks to Uptown's former and potential future glory. Terra cotta was seen as THE way our city could compete with the much-marbled fashionable centers of Europe. When you study these terra cotta details you are seeing the dreams of our forebears who wanted Uptown and Chicago to be the "Paris on the Prairie".
Sound farfetched? With a gorgeous lakefront steps away and Millennium Park, Picassos and more just down the road apiece, and the abundant creative energies of the Pivot Arts organization and it could very well be that Uptown will get a second chance…
Note: Special thanks to Linda Winke, Chicago Architecture Foundation's Uptown Tour Director for fact checking this article
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Study finds new targets for drugs to defeat aggressive brain tumor
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) researchers have identified over 125 genetic components in a chemotherapy-resistant, brain tumor-derived cell line, which could offer new hope for drug treatment to destroy the cancer cells.
The results will be reported in the cover story of December's issue of the journal Molecular Cancer Research, to be published Dec. 18 and currently available online.
The potential drug targets were identified after testing more than 5,000 genes derived from glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive brain tumor. The genes were evaluated for their role in responding to the chemotherapy drug temozolomide.
"The current standard of care for people with this type of cancer is to remove as much of the tumor as possible, and then treat with radiation and temozolomide," said lead author David Svilar, Ph.D., a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "However, glioblastoma multiforme is highly resistant to this chemotherapy drug, so we need to find better treatments to improve the patient survival rate."
According to the National Cancer Institute, glioblastoma multiforme is the most common type of brain tumor in adults. It accounts for about 15 percent of all brain tumors, and typically occurs in people between the ages of 45 and 70 years.
Patients with glioblastoma multiforme usually survive less than 15 months after diagnosis, and there are no effective long-term treatments for the disease.
Temozolomide, also known by the brand name Temodar, works by modifying the cancer's DNA in a way that triggers cell death. It has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in brain tumors and is in clinical trials for other cancers, such as melanoma and leukemia. It is well-tolerated in most patients.
"Unfortunately, some cancers - particularly glioblastoma multiforme – are able to repair the DNA damage done to the tumor by Temozolomide before the cancer cells are destroyed," said senior author Robert W. Sobol, Ph.D., a scientist at UPCI and an associate professor in the departments of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology and Human Genetics. "Clinical trials are underway to test drugs and chemotherapy dosing schedules to inhibit this repair, but none have proven effective to date."
Dr. Sobol and his colleagues identified multiple "druggable" targets that could make the cancer more sensitive to temozolomide, as well as the processes that allow the tumor to survive the onslaught of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
"Our hope is that drug companies will use our findings to develop adjuvant chemotherapy drugs that will vastly improve patient survival from this deadly cancer," said Dr. Sobol.


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I'm a Psychotherapist – Here's What I've Learned From Listening to Children Talk About Climate Change
By Caroline Hickman
Eco-anxiety is likely to affect more and more people as the climate destabilizes. Already, studies have found that 45 percent of children suffer lasting depression after surviving extreme weather and natural disasters. Some of that emotional turmoil must stem from confusion — why aren't adults doing more to stop climate change?
Talking with children gives a fresh perspective on the absurdity of doing so little about climate change, but it also exposes a troubling disconnect between what we say and what we do.
Adults are often guilty of cognitive dissonance when it comes to climate change. The UK parliament declares a climate emergency after voting to expand an airport. Scientists conclude that the Amazon rainforest is one of the world's best assets for storing climate-warming gases while large swathes of it are burnt deliberately to make room for methane-belching cattle. A vast coal mine is approved near Australia's Great Barrier Reef while its condition is downgraded from "poor" to "very poor."
Perhaps young people are simply less cynical and more capable of seeing clearly how irrational these decisions are. When I interviewed teenagers in the Maldives, one said:
We saw online that people in Iceland held a funeral for a glacier today, but who is going to do that for us? Don't they see that we will be underwater soon and our country will be gone? No one cares. How can you grieve for ice and ignore us?
Because of sea level rise, people in the low-lying Maldives have more to fear from climate change than most. The sense of injustice that young people felt here was palpable.
Climate change is like Thanos, wiping out half the world so the rest can survive … we are being sacrificed.
There's moral clarity in the things young people say about climate change, but even at their age, there's a weariness. After all, young people use social media and are bombarded with bad environmental news as much as adults. Some may begin to normalise the mass extinctions they read about. A 10-year-old in the UK told me:
It's normal for us now to grow up in a world where there will be no polar bears, that's just how it is for us now, it's different than it was for you.
My dilemma was in trying talk to children about climate change without upsetting them even more. But I also wanted to know how they really felt, subconsciously. Rather than hearing them repeat what they're told in school or hear from adults, I wanted to hear what this generation — people who have never known a world without the looming threat of climate catastrophe — thought about what's happening to the planet and their futures.
Healing the Generational Rift
I asked the children to personify climate change — to see it as an animal and give it a voice. If climate change could talk, what would it say? I hoped that by externalizing that voice, they could talk more honestly than they otherwise would. Even so, I wasn't fully prepared for their responses.
You created me, and now you must face the consequences… You spoilt the planet for the children and animals, now I'm going to spoil it for you… Adults have made the world a worse place, so now I'm here for revenge.
Anger was the most common emotion that surfaced with this technique. These complicated emotions about climate change — perhaps difficult to express or articulate in conversation — surprised me, but they probably shouldn't have. Given the severity of climate change and biodiversity loss predicted in their lifetimes, anger seems appropriate.
What was also uncovered in these conversations was an enduring empathy for the creatures they share the world with. These children could recognize their own vulnerability in the face of climate change, but it didn't eclipse their concern for the natural world. Instead, they expressed solidarity and empathy with other species. One said:
Climate change is like the bug spray of nature, and people are the bugs.
I believe children are bearing the emotional burden of climate change more courageously than adults, but we owe it to them to share it. Listen to your children when they talk about climate change, you'll learn more about how we should take responsibility for the mess, say sorry, and start to act.
This story originally appeared in The Conversation. It is republished here as part of EcoWatch's partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.
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While the nation overall struggles with rising COVID cases, New York State is seeing the opposite. After peaking in March and April and implementing strict shutdowns of businesses, the state has seen its number of positive cases steadily decline as it slowly reopens. From coast-to-coast, Governor Andrew Cuomo's response to the crisis has been hailed as an exemplar of how to handle a public health crisis.
By Gavin Naylor
Sharks elicit outsized fear, even though the risk of a shark bite is infinitesimally small. As a marine biologist and director of the Florida Program for Shark Research, I oversee the International Shark Attack File – a global record of reported shark bites that has been maintained continuously since 1958.
A Big, Diverse Family
Not all sharks are the same. Only a dozen or so of the roughly 520 shark species pose any risk to people. Even the three species that account for almost all shark bite fatalities – the white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) and bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) – are behaviorally and evolutionarily very different from one another.

The tiger shark and bull shark are genetically as different from each other as a dog is from a rabbit. And both of these species are about as different from a white shark as a dog is from a kangaroo. The evolutionary lineages leading to the two groups split 170 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs and before the origin of birds, and 110 million years before the origin of primates.

White, tiger and bull sharks are distinct species that diverged genetically tens of millions of years ago. Gavin Naylor / CC BY-ND
Yet many people assume all sharks are alike and equally likely to bite humans. Consider the term "shark attack," which is scientifically equivalent to "mammal attack." Nobody would equate dog bites with hamster bites, but this is exactly what we do when it comes to sharks.

So, when a reporter calls me about a fatality caused by a white shark off Cape Cod and asks my advice for beachgoers in North Carolina, it's essentially like asking, "A man was killed by a dog on Cape Cod. What precautions should people take when dealing with kangaroos in North Carolina?"

Know Your Species
Understanding local species' behavior and life habits is one of the best ways to stay safe. For example, almost all shark bites that occur off Cape Cod are by white sharks, which are a large, primarily cold-water species that spend most of their time in isolation feeding on fishes. But they also aggregate near seal colonies that provide a reliable food source at certain times of the year.

Shark bites in the Carolinas are by warm-water species like bull sharks, tiger sharks and blacktips (Carcharhinus limbatus). Each species is associated with particular habitats and dietary preferences.

Blacktips, which we suspect are responsible for most relatively minor bites on humans in the southeastern United States, feed on schooling bait fishes like menhaden. In contrast, bull sharks are equally at home in fresh water and salt water, and are often found near estuaries. Their bites are more severe than those of blacktips, as they are larger, more powerful, bolder and more tenacious. Several fatalities have been ascribed to bull sharks.

Tiger sharks are also large, and are responsible for a significant fraction of fatalities, particularly off the coast of volcanic islands like Hawaii and Reunion. They are tropical animals that often venture into shallow water frequented by swimmers and surfers.

Humans Are Not Targets
Sharks do not "hunt" humans. Data from the International Shark Attack File compiled over the past 60 years show a tight association between shark bites and the number of people in the water. In other words, shark bites are a simple function of the probability of encountering a shark.

This underscores the fact that shark bites are almost always cases of mistaken identity. If sharks actively hunted people, there would be many more bites, since humans make very easy targets when they swim in sharks' natural habitats.

Local conditions can also affect the risk of an attack. Encounters are more likely when sharks venture closer to shore, into areas where people are swimming. They may do this because they are following bait fishes or seals upon which they prey.

This means we can use environmental variables such as temperature, tide or weather conditions to better predict movement of bait fish toward the shoreline, which in turn will predict the presence of sharks. Over the next few years, the Florida Program for Shark Research will work with colleagues at other universities to monitor onshore and offshore movements of tagged sharks and their association with environmental variables so that we can improve our understanding of what conditions bring sharks close to shore.

More to Know
There still is much to learn about sharks, especially the 500 or so species that have never been implicated in a bite on humans. One example is the tiny deep sea pocket shark, which has a strange pouch behind its pectoral fins.

Only two specimens of this type of shark have ever been caught – one off the coast of Chile 30 years ago, and another more recently in the Gulf of Mexico. We're not sure about the function of the pouch, but suspect it stores luminous fluid that is released to distract would-be predators – much as its close relative, the tail light shark, releases luminous fluid from a gland on its underside near its vent.

Sharks range in form from the bizarre goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni), most commonly encountered in Japan, to the gentle filter-feeding whale shark (Rhincodon typus). Although whale sharks are the largest fishes in the world, we have yet to locate their nursery grounds, which are likely teeming with thousands of foot-long pups. Some deepwater sharks are primarily known from submersibles, such as the giant sixgill shark, which feeds mainly on carrion but probably also preys on other animals in the deep sea.

Sharks seem familiar to almost all of us, but we know precious little about them. Our current understanding of their biology barely scratches the surface. The little we do know suggests they are profoundly different from other vertebrate animals. They've had 400 million years of independent evolution to adapt to their environments, and it's reasonable to expect they may be hiding more than a few tricks up their gills.

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Should Plants and Animals That Relocate Because of Climate Change Be Considered Invasive?
By Jenny Morber
Caribbean corals sprout off Texas. Pacific salmon tour the Canadian Arctic. Peruvian lowland birds nest at higher elevations.
Known and anticipated changes in species distribution due to climate change around the world have implications for culture, society ecosystems, governance and climate change. Figure used with permission from Gretta T. Pecl, originally published on 31 Mar 2017 in Science 355(6332).
How we define species is critical, because these definitions influence perceptions, policy and management. The U.S. National Invasive Species Council (NISC) defines a biological invasion as "the process by which non-native species breach biogeographical barriers and extend their range" and states that "preventing the introduction of potentially harmful organisms is … the first line of defense." But some say excluding newcomers is myopic.

"If you were trying to maintain the status quo, so every time a new species comes in, you chuck it out," says Camille Parmesan, director of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, you could gradually "lose so many that that ecosystem will lose its coherence." If climate change is driving native species extinct, she says, "you need to allow new ones coming in to take over those same functions."

As University of Florida conservation ecologist Brett Scheffers and Pecl warned in a 2019 paper in Nature Climate Change, "past management of redistributed species … has yielded mixed actions and results." They concluded that "we cannot leave the fate of biodiversity critical to human survival to be randomly persecuted, protected or ignored."

Existing Tools
One approach to managing these climate-driven habitat shifts, suggested by University of California, Irvine marine ecologist Piper Wallingford and colleagues in a recent issue of Nature Climate Change, is for scientists to adapt existing tools like the Environmental Impact Classification of Alien Taxa (EICAT) to assess potential risks associated with moving species. Because range-shifting species pose impacts to communities similar to those of species introduced by humans, the authors argue, new management strategies are unnecessary, and each new arrival can be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Karen Lips, a professor of biology at University of Maryland who was not associated with the study, echoes the idea that each case is so varied and nuanced that trying to fit climate shifting species into a single category with broad management goals may be impractical. "Things may be fine today, but add a new mosquito vector or add a new tick or a new disease, and all of a sudden things spiral out of control," she says. "The nuance means that the answer to any particular problem might be pretty different."

In recent years, northern flying squirrels in Canada have found themselves in the company of new neighbors — southern flying squirrels expanding their range as the climate warms. Public Domain / USFW
Laura Meyerson, a professor in the Department of Natural Resources Science at the University of Rhode Island says scientists should use existing tools to identify and address invasive species to deal with climate-shifting species. "I would like to operate under the precautionary principle and then reevaluate as things shift. You're sort of shifting one piece in this machinery; as you insert a new species into a system, everything is going to respond," she says. "Will some of the species that are expanding their ranges because of climate change become problematic? Perhaps they might."

The reality is that some climate-shifting species may be harmful to some conservation or economic goals while being helpful to others. While sport fisherman are excited about red snapper moving down the East Coast of Australia, for example, if they eat juvenile lobsters in Tasmania they could harm this environmentally and economically important crustacean. "At the end of the day … you're going to have to look at whether that range expansion has some sort of impact and presumably be more concerned about the negative impacts," says NISC executive director Stas Burgiel. "Many of the [risk assessment] tools we have are set up to look at negative impact." As a result, positive effects may be deemphasized or overlooked. "So that notion of cost versus benefit … I don't think it has played out in this particular context."

Location, Location, Location
In a companion paper to Wallingford's, University of Connecticut ecology and evolutionary biology associate professor Mark Urban stressed key differences between invasive species, which are both non-native and harmful, and what he calls "climate tracking species." Whereas invasive species originate from places very unlike the communities they overtake, he says, climate tracking species expand from largely similar environments, seeking to follow preferred conditions as these environments move. For example, an American pika may relocate to a higher mountain elevation, or a marbled salamander might expand its New England range northward to seek cooler temperatures, but these new locations are not drastically different than the places they had called home before.

Climate tracking species may move faster than their competitors at first, Urban says, but competing species will likely catch up. "Applying perspectives from invasion biology to climate-tracking species … arbitrarily chooses local winners over colonizing losers," he writes.

The marbled salamander, a native of the eastern U.S., is among species whose range could expand northward to accommodate rising temperatures. Seánín Óg / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Urban stresses that if people prevent range shifts, some climate-tracking species may have nowhere to go. He suggests that humans should even facilitate movement as the planet warms. "The goal in this crazy warming world is to keep everything alive. But it may not be in the same place," Urban says.

Parmesan echoes Urban, emphasizing it's the distance that makes the difference. "[Invasives] come from a different continent or a different ocean. You're having these enormous trans-global movements and that's what ends up causing the species that's exotic to be invasive," she says. "Things moving around with climate change is a few hundred miles. Invasive species are moving a few thousand miles."

In 2019 University of Vienna conservation biology associate professor Franz Essl published a similar argument for species classification beyond the native/non-native dichotomy. Essl uses "neonatives" to refer to species that have expanded outside their native areas and established populations because of climate change but not direct human agency. He argues that these species should be considered as native in their new range.

They Never Come Alone
Meyerson calls for caution. "I don't think we should be introducing species" into ecosystems, she says. "I mean, they never come alone. They bring all their friends, their microflora, and maybe parasites and things clinging to their roots or their leaves. … It's like bringing some mattress off the street into your house."

Burgiel warns that labeling can have unintended consequences. We in the invasive species field … focus on non-native species that cause harm," he says. "Some people think that anything that's not native is invasive, which isn't necessarily the case." Because resources are limited and land management and conservation are publicly funded, Burgiel says, it is critical that the public understands how the decisions are being made.

Piero Genovesi, chair of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Invasive Species Specialist Group, sees the debate about classification — and therefore about management — as a potential distraction from more pressing conservation issues.

"The real bulk of conservation is that we want to focus on the narrow proportion of alien species that are really harmful," he says. In Hawaii "we don't discuss species that are there [but aren't] causing any problem because we don't even have the energy for dealing with them all. And I can tell you, no one wants to remove [non-native] cypresses from Tuscany. So, I think that some of the discussions are probably not so real in the work that we do in conservation."

Indigenous frameworks offer another way to look at species searching for a new home in the face of climate change. According to a study published in Sustainability Science in 2018 by Dartmouth Native American studies and environmental studies associate professor Nicholas Reo, a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, and Dartmouth anthropology associate professor Laura Ogden, some Anishnaabe people view plants as persons and the arrival of new plants as a natural form of migration, which is not inherently good or bad. They may seek to discover the purpose of new species, at times with animals as their teachers. In their paper Reo and Ogden quote Anishnaabe tribal chairman Aaron Payment as saying, "We are an extension of our natural environment; we're not separate from it."

The Need for Collaboration
The successful conservation of Earth's species in a way that keeps biodiversity functional and healthy will likely depend on collaboration. Without global agreements, one can envision scenarios in which countries try to impede high-value species from moving beyond their borders, or newly arriving species are quickly overharvested.

In Nature Climate Change, Sheffers and Pecl call for a Climate Change Redistribution Treaty that would recognize species redistribution beyond political boundaries and establish governance to deal with it. Treaties already in place, such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which regulates trade in wild plants and animals; the Migratory Bird Treaty Act; and the Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora, can help guide these new agreements.

"We are living through the greatest redistribution of life on Earth for … potentially hundreds of thousands of years, so we definitely need to think about how we want to manage that," Pecl says.

Genovesi agrees that conservationists need a vision for the future. "What we do is more to be reactive [to known threats]. … It's so simple to say that destroying the Amazon is probably not a good idea that you don't need to think of a step ahead of that." But, he adds, "I don't think we have a real answer in terms of okay, this is a threshold of species, or this is the temporal line where we should aim to." Defining a vision for what success would look like, Genovesi says, "is a question that hasn't been addressed enough by science and by decision makers."

At the heart of these questions are values. "All of these perceptions around what's good and what's bad, all [are based on] some kind of value system," Pecl says. "As a whole society, we haven't talked about what we value and who gets to say what's of value and what isn't."

This is especially important when it comes to marginalized voices, and Pecl says she is concerned because she doesn't "think we have enough consideration or representation of Indigenous worldviews." Reo and colleagues wrote in American Indian Quarterly in 2017 that climate change literature and media coverage tend to portray native people as vulnerable and without agency. Yet, says Pecl, "The regions of the world where [biodiversity and ecosystems] are either not declining or are declining at a much slower rate are Indigenous controlled" — suggesting that Indigenous people have potentially managed species more effectively in the past, and may be able to manage changing species distributions in a way that could be informative to others working on these issues.

Meanwhile, researchers such as Lips see species classification as native or other as stemming from a perspective that there is a better environmental time and place to return to. "There is no pristine, there's no way to go back," says Lips. "The entire world is always very dynamic and changing. And I think it's a better idea to consider just simply what is it that we do want, and let's work on that."

Biologist Egor Kirillin is on a special mission. Deep in the Siberian wilderness in the Russian Republic of Sakha, he waits on the Olenjok river until reindeer come thundering into the water.
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The Central Connecticut men's basketball team dropped to 2-6 overall with a 74-56 loss on the road at #5 Ohio State on Saturday afternoon. Junior Faronte Drakeford led the offense with 12 points. Freshman Matt Mobley set a new career-high with 12 points in the loss. Ohio State improves to 7-0 on the season with the victory.
LaQuinton Ross led the Buckeyes with 23 points in the game.
Central returns home on Tuesday night hosting Hartford beginning at 7 p.m.
Ohio State built a big lead early, leading 22-8 with 12:30 minutes left in the first half. But the Blue Devils responded, cutting the lead to five, 28-23, with a 15-6 run over the next seven minutes.
The Buckeyes quickly pushed the lead back to 16 but Central responded again before the half. The Blue Devils scored the final four points of the first half to cut the lead to 38-29 at the break. McMillan led Central with seven points but five Blue Devils had at least four in the first half. Central had a 17-13 rebound edge over the Buckeyes, with five Blue Devils registering at least two.
CCSU shot 52 percent from the field before halftime, hitting 13-of-25, including 12-of-19 inside of three point land.
Central stayed close for much of the second half before the Buckeyes pulled away in the final minutes for the victory. It was an eight point game, 47-39, with 15:04 on the clock in the second half. It was 49-41 before the Buckeyes scored 10 straight points to push the lead to 18 with 9:57 on the clock.
The Blue Devils would get no closer than 13 the rest of the way.
Central finished with a 29-28 edge in rebounding, including 10 offensive rebounds and 11 second chance points. Ohio State was just 4-of-17 from three in the game.
Drakeford finished the game with 12 points and five rebounds in 32 minutes of action. Mobley had 12, including 8-of-8 from the free-throw line. Senior Matt Hunter had nine points and six rebounds and junior Kyle Vinales had eight. Vinales added four assists but was just 4-of-12 from the field. Central had nine assists and 20 turnovers in the loss.
The Blue Devils shot 46 percent from the field in the game, but hit only 2-of-11 from three. they were 8-of-8 from the line, all coming from Mobley.
The Blue Devils are back in action at home on Tuesday night hosting Hartford beginning at 7 p.m. The game will be televised live on CPTV Sports, and fans can listen live on Fox Sports Radio 1410, ESPN Radio 1300 and online at www.iHeartRadio.com.


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Woman makes fake 911 calls to avoid traffic tickets
A Waukesha County woman is accused of placing fake 911 calls so officers who pulled her over would have to respond to the fake calls.
According to court documents, Aisha Jackson pulled the stunt seven times in 2011.
Police said after officers pulled Jackson over, she would intentionally dial 911 to report an emergency, knowing that the situation which she was calling to report did not exist.
According to the criminal complaint, one time she said three masked men were entering a gas station. Another time, she reported a possible burglary in progress at a video store.
Police said Jackson was deliberately directing police attention to other sites to avoid citations.
Jackson is charged with seven counts of false emergency phone use. She faces up to $350 in fines and possible jail time.


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The private sector failed to prevent the financial collapse. Can agencies do better?
The private sector failed to prevent the financial collapse. Can agencies do better?
Many of the financial firms that saw their foundations crack during the past two years had extensive risk management programs in place. Using a variety of processes developed by risk management professionals, the firms identified problems that could threaten their business plans. They had procedures to ensure those risks were factored into the decisions of top executives.
In 2007, a video that was posted on FederalERM.com, a Web site for enterprise risk management professionals in government, showed one executive explaining his firm's rigorous risk management process. He sounded impressive, but it turns out the executive was from Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored enterprise that made very risky financial decisions that led to the worst crisis in its existence in 2008. Obviously, something was wrong with a process that failed to identify and prevent a giant management catastrophe.
Now that the feds have started a variety of programs to reverse the economic meltdown caused by Freddie Mac and other financial firms' imprudent decisions, the government's risk managers get to see if they can do a better job than their private sector counterparts.
Government risk management professionals will hold their second national conference later this year. They also gather at FederalERM.com to discuss ways to prevent public sector risks from becoming public sector catastrophes. And they are contemplating forming an association. "All agencies manage some level of risk, but usually the traditional approach is to carry out the process in silos and within specific functional areas and not across the entire organization," says Karen Hardy, a federal enterprise risk management analyst. ERM brings "all those risk management activities within an organization under one umbrella, cutting across silos and managed within a strategic setting," she says.
Financial firms tended to follow a dot-the-i and cross-the-t approach to risk management. They complied with financial control requirements in the federal 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, set up committees and shuffled papers purporting that risk was indeed being managed.
The federal government doesn't fall under Sarbanes-Oxley, but agencies do follow Office of Management and Budget Circular A-123 to demonstrate the internal controls they maintain to reduce financial risks.
But that kind of compliance-based model did not prevent major failure in the private sector, so it won't avert management disasters in the government. Instead, federal risk professionals are trying to develop management models that identify all sorts of systemic threats to their agencies' missions.
The Troubled Asset Relief Program and the economic stimulus program will be major tests of agencies' ability to identify and manage risk. Both involve massive amounts of money that must be spent quickly. Lots of money and not much time are ingredients for waste, fraud and mismanagement. Most of this money is being doled out to private firms, state and local governments, contractors and other third parties. Federal managers could quickly lose control as the money moves further away from them. Risk management professionals in government are just now formally organizing, but they're already facing a giant test.
Brian Friel covered management and human resources at Government Executive for six years and is now a National Journal staff correspondent.


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This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed description of data analytics in health care. Big data in health care has sparked a lot of interest in applying large-scale data analytical techniques for acquiring new information about existing data. In order to become proficient in data analytics one must first understand the foundational component of how the data is stored and acquired. Therefore, the first part of the course will focus on database design and executing structured query language (SQL) scripts in MySQL workbench for acquiring data. Once the data is in hand, the next step is to analyze that data. Commonly, statistical techniques are utilized for testing hypothesis and determining if there are statistically significant observations. However, with the expansion of big data there is an opportunity to move away from hypothesis testing and acquire new knowledge using data mining modeling. In this course, statistical analyses and data mining techniques will be discussed along with methods for deploying these techniques using the open-access analytical software, R. After taking this course, you will have a better understanding of the nature of big data and the methods used for acquiring, analyzing, and ultimately discovering new information from data. Download course syllabus.
Upon completion of the course students will be able to:
This program has been approved for 12 continuing education unit(s) for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).
David Marc is an adjunct faculty at the College of St. Scholastica in the Department of Health Informatics and Information Management where he teaches courses on databases in healthcare, data analytics, and research design. Mr. Marc has a master's degree in biological sciences and as extensive experience working with large healthcare datasets. Previously, a biotech company employed Mr. Marc where he conducted research on the development of predictive models for psychiatric diseases utilizing medical history and laboratory data. Currently, Mr. Marc is pursuing a PhD in health informatics at the University of Minnesota where he is working on the development of a patient information system for ICU clinicians.
The course includes four assessments in the form of multiple choice quizzes. The quizzes are meant to test your knowledge on SQL, statistics, data mining, and the use of R. All quizzes are administered online and should be completed without any aid from other persons.
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Navy Yard shooter said 'low frequency attacks' drove him to kill
(CNN) -- Aaron Alexis was under "the delusional belief that he was being controlled or influenced by extremely low frequency electromagnetic waves" before he embarked on a bloody shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard, an FBI official said Wednesday.
The 34-year-old contractor, who until a few years ago had served in the Navy, spelled out this belief -- with the words, "My ELF weapon" -- in the sawed-off Remington 870 shotgun he brought into the military facility's Building #197 on the morning of September 16.
"ELF" refers to low-frequency electromagnetic waves, a technology used for submarine communications that conspiracy theorists believe the government employs to monitor and manipulate unsuspecting citizens, the FBI said.
"Ultra low frequency attack is what I've been subject to for the last 3 months," read a message obtained by federal authorities from Alexis's thumb drives, phones and computers. "And to be perfectly honest, that is what has driven me to this."
"This" is the incident that left the Navy, Washington and the nation in shock. Alexis was quickly tabbed as the shooter. Still, big questions loomed as to why he did it, as well as whether he'd gotten help or told anyone about his plans.
Valerie Parlave, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington field office, stated unequivocally Wednesday "the investigation has determined that Alexis acted alone." Asked whether he talked to or e-mailed anyone ahead of the attack, Parlave responded simply: "No."
The public also got the first chance Wednesday to see Alexis in action that day, through surveillance video and photos.
They start with Alexis driving his rented blue Toyota Prius, with New York plates, around 7:53 a.m. into a parking garage, and then 15 minutes later carrying a backpack into Building #197. A still photo, taken afterward, shows that backpack hung on the inside wall of a fourth-floor bathroom stall -- where he'd put his shotgun together, authorities say.
The most chilling footage shows Alexis, dressed in a short-sleeve polo shirt and pants, prowling the building's halls and stairwells. Most of the time, his gun is cocked -- ready to fire.
Alexis went on to kill 12 people that day and wound four others.
The same shotgun on which he written "My ELF" contained other etchings as well. The words: "End to the torment!" "Not what y'all say!" And "Better off this way!"
At some point during his rampage, Alexis picked up a Beretta handgun. He exchanged gunfire with law enforcement officers a few times during the more than hourlong ordeal, which ended at 9:25 a.m. with Alexis shot dead on the third floor.
Alexis had arrived in the capital area on August 25 for a contracting project, a few weeks after he told police in Newport, Rhode Island, that he'd heard "voices" emanating from the walls of hotels he'd been staying at.
Once in Washington, he stayed at two suburban hotels before settling into a Residence Inn in the city on September 7.
Two days later, Alexis began his contracting job based at the Navy Yard. On the first Saturday after that, he was at a Northern Virginia shooting range and gun store -- where he purchased the Remington 870.
FBI: Shooter did not target specific victims
A manager raised a performance-related issue with Alexis the previous Friday, but Parlave said that there is no indication this incident spurred any notable reaction. In fact, when he began shooting, it appears he wasn't picky about his victims.
"We have not determined there to be any previous relationship between Alexis and any of the victims," the FBI official said.
With his contractor status -- not to mention he was a former Navy reservist -- few questioned that Alexis legitimately gained access to the Navy Yard the morning of the fateful shooting.
Still, some have asked whether he should have had such access, given his mental health and criminal history.
The latter includes a 2004 arrest in Seattle, when he was accused of shooting the tires of a man's truck in an anger-fueled "blackout," according to a police report. Alexis' father told police his son had anger management problems associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, which he suffered after working "as an active participant in rescue attempts" during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York.
Another arrest came in August 2008 in DeKalb County, Georgia, on a disorderly conduct charge. Two years later, Alexis was arrested in Fort Worth, Texas -- but never charged -- over an allegation that he fired a gun through the ceiling of his apartment.
That was the year, 2010, that the Navy moved to discharge Alexis due to what military officials described as a "pattern of misconduct" including insubordination, disorderly conduct, unauthorized absences from work and at least one instance of drunkenness. But due to a lack of evidence, he was instead given an honorable discharge.
Then there was his mental state, including last month's incident in Newport, Rhode Island. Alexis also sought help at two Veterans Affairs hospitals in and around Washington for sleep-related issues, according to law enforcement sources.
HP drops subcontractor Alexis worked for
Despite all this, Alexis still managed to find work at The Experts for about six months over the past year. That company said the last of two background checks it conducted in June on Alexis "revealed no issues other than one minor traffic violation."
Like the military, The Experts has come under criticism for not recognizing Alexis as a potential problem or threat.
A Hewlett-Packard spokesman told CNN on Wednesday the technology company -- citing its policy of adhering "to the highest standards of business practices and ethics" -- had dropped The Experts as a subcontractor.
"Based on what we now know about The Experts' conduct, including its failure to respond appropriately to Aaron Alexis' mental health issues and certain incidents recently reported in the press, HP has terminated its relationship with The Experts," the spokesman said.
The Experts responded, in a statement, saying it was "disappointed' by HP's decision and insisting it has met "all of our contractual obligations."
"The Experts had no greater insight into Alexis' mental health than HP, particularly given that an HP site manager closely supervised him, including during the events in Rhode Island," the company said.
FBI gets heat over video release
The FBI was criticized Wednesday night, both by Defense Department officials and victims' families following the release of the video.
"People in DoD are furious that FBI and other law enforcement officials unnecessarily put out this video footage today. It only adds to the pain of the families and brought life back to a killer," a senior Pentagon official told CNN. "Outside of law enforcement channels, the video was not viewed".
Another Defense Department official described the release as "gratuitous", indicating there was nothing to be gained from the release.
But officials at the FBI argue that the video clarifies various conflicting reports about the timeline of events, and would help to dispel various pieces of misinformation, including one incorrect story that the shooter was looking for specific victims.
Navy leadership said that while officials knew the footage would be released, they were not told of the content. It is not known if anyone in Pentagon leadership had expressed their views with the FBI or Justice Department.
Sources also told CNN that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, an arm of the Navy, was part of the decision regarding the distribution of the video, and saw the footage before it was released.
One victims' family reacted with equal dismay.
"I'm in total shock after reviewing the video. We have not even had time to begin to grieve," Theodore Hisey told CNN Wednesday evening, saying his family did not know the FBI was about to release the video.
His sister-in-law, Mary Francis Knight, was one of the 12 killed by Alexis.
The FBI did not respond to inquiries as to whether any of the families had been alerted in advance to the images being released.
CNN's Greg Seaby and Leslie Bentz contributed to this report.


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July 26
Experience the strategy of Go, an ancient game that is popular in Japan and East Asia.
Every Friday Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden will set up our patio for board game enthusiasts of all ages to try their hand at Go. Rent a board game for $5/person and play it on our patio outside the Visitor's Centre. The rules are simple and our staff would love to teach you how to play! Admission to the garden is not necessary but can be purchased if you wish to bring the game inside the garden or take a tour before or after your game.
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Parent wants White Sox to play with more attitude
Bench coach prepared to take on responsibility of raising club's energy level
CHICAGO -- Mark Parent serves as the White Sox bench coach, preparing for his third season as part of Robin Ventura's coaching staff.
But if the White Sox manager wants Parent to add an extra job responsibility to his list of duties, a task something along the lines of attitude developer, for lack of a better description, then Parent is ready to be that guy. In a recent interview with MLB.com, Parent talked about this basically immeasurable but important intangible missing from last year's 99-loss squad.
"As far as the whole clubhouse, we lost a little bit of [edge]," Parent said. "You have to have that element: that guy who is ready to fight, who is ready to fight for the team, fight you, fight whatever, and keep people in line.
"We've got to look for something like that. We've got to have that. That's something I know [executive vice president] Kenny [Williams] and [general manager] Rick [Hahn] have mentioned a few times in meetings we've had.
"If Robin wants me to be that guy, I'll be that guy," Parent said. "I have no problems with it. You would like for the players to police themselves like other good teams do."
Parent focused much more on the addition of energy than confrontation attitude-wise, although the two work hand and hand on rare occasions. The White Sox had these sorts of presences in the form of Jake Peavy, Orlando Hudson, Eduardo Escobar, their late pregame instructor Kevin Hickey, and of course, A.J. Pierzynski, to name a few. Peavy was the only one of the players still on the roster at the outset of 2013 and was moved to Boston in a three-player trade at the non-waiver Trade Deadline.
That topic of clubhouse attitude can be argued like the old chicken and the egg conundrum. Williams has talked about having players with that "Chicago tough" persona helping to build a winner, while Hahn readily acknowledges that aspect but also stresses that good clubhouses often come from successful teams.
Fixing what arguably was Major League Baseball's worst squad in terms of defense and fundamentals becomes a more hands-on project for the front office and coaching staff. Parent pointed out that after the '12 team stood out as one of baseball's best in these categories, the group did more work to improve during Spring Training '13.
So, it might be a case of quality over quantity when players arrive in February at Camelback Ranch.
"You still have to have your quantity, but you just need to make sure everything is quality," Parent said. "This [past] year is going to be a prime example to remind these guys that come back of why we do this stuff in the spring.
"From PFP [pitchers' fielding practice] to pickoffs to rundowns, there's not a facet in this game that we didn't screw up that should never happen at this level and the things that we didn't mess up last year. It was really disappointing. The reason why? I have no idea. We were so good at it last year and so bad at it this year.
"They [prepared] well [during Spring Training '13]," Parent said. "I guess when you come off of a good year, you relax a little bit. As a player, you think, 'We've got this and we can do this every year.' But there are 14 other teams in this league over there that are trying to win and you have to go do your job every day. You have to be focused on what the team needs to do each day to help them win."
Fundamentals include moving a runner from second to third with less than two outs and scoring a runner from third with less than two outs. The White Sox struggled in all areas last year, needing to improve situational hitting and take an occasional walk.
New hitting coach Todd Steverson will be entrusted with this particular challenge, placed among a group of free swingers dotting the White Sox roster.
"Well, you remind them," said Parent when asked about changing the free-swinging culture. "It's the definition of insanity: continue to do the same thing and come up with the same results. It's not good.
"There are certain guys who had pretty good numbers for the year, but they could have had better numbers. Some guys had bad numbers and this is why: your approach to hitting and your approach to the game. Hopefully next year our bench will be even better that if a guy is not getting it done, we can sit him for a day or three or a week. Nowadays you have to sit them. That's the only way you can get to a guy."
Hahn and his staff continue to put together the '14 roster. Parent is ready for improvement, whether it includes that clubhouse edge or is in the middle of a modified rebuild.
"There's nothing good about losing 99 games," Parent said. "So you just wait to wake up every morning and read the transactions or hear something at night where we acquired this guy or traded this guy for this guy and see how the front office goes about it.
"I have all the faith in the world that they will want to be competitive and being competitive isn't going at it halfway, either. If you want to compete, you've got to compete. If they decide they want to rebuild some more and let our younger kids catch up or learn at this level, then so be it. We'll have to teach more at this level."


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Sardami Lala 375
KurdMax TV – Dramai Sardami Lala 375 Sorani dramay Sardamy Lala dramaiaki Komalaity Romasi Dramaia Xezania Serdemi Lale. Serdemy Lale Kan ali Kurd Max ba hardw zaraway Sorani u Badini peshkashy akat 2017.
Lale Devri (English: Tulip Age) is a Turkish television drama series, originally aired on Show TV and FOX from 2010 to 2014.
Genre Drama
Created by Şebnem Çitak
Written by Sema Ergenekon . Eylem Canpolat
Directed by Onur Tan
Starring: Tolgahan Sayışman, Selen Soyder, Hatice Aslan ,Kenan Bal, Aykut Yılmaz
Theme music composer İskender Paydaş
Composer(s) İskender Paydaş
Country of origin Turkey
Original language(s) Turkish
No. of seasons 4
No. of episodes 135
Production company(s) Avşar Film
Release : Original network Show TV (2010)
Original release September 14, 2010 – February 8, 2014


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Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Mo., has announced the hiring of Dr. Peggy Ellis as the dean of its planned Nursing and Allied Health Sciences Program, which is slated to launch in fall 2013 at the former site of Barat Academy in Dardenne Prairie, which was purchased by the university last month.
The program will begin with Post-Associate Degree Coursework in Nursing for students who already possess a two-year RN degree from a community college. Dr. James D. Evans, president of the university, said a Master of Science in nursing and programs for occupational therapy assistant, physical therapy assistant, and emergency medical technician are also being considered conceptually.
Ellis holds a baccalaureate degree in nursing from Southeast Missouri State University, a master's degree in nursing with a focus on nursing education from the University of Central Arkansas, and a PhD in curriculum and instructional design from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill. She completed post-master's programs as an adult nurse practitioner and later family nurse practitioner at the University of Alabama Birmingham, and has been in nursing education for over 35 years at all program levels including associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctor of nursing practice degree programs and has experience in program development.
She has taught at Southeast Missouri State University, University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and University of Missouri-St. Louis and, most recently, served as the Associate Dean for Graduate Education at Saint Louis University. Her experience includes teaching in the classroom and online. Ellis is an active member of nursing's honor society Sigma Theta Tau, the American Nurses Association, and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. She serves as a program evaluator for the Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education, which accredits baccalaureate and higher degree programs.
Ellis states she is excited about launching a nursing program at Lindenwood University.
"Lindenwood's mission of concern for the worth and integrity of the individual, along with its reputation for innovation, makes it a great environment for educating nurses," she said. "Nationally, we need nurses who can provide high quality health care with concern for the worth and value of the individual patient. We also need to consider innovative ways of providing that education in light of the limited resources of faculty and clinical sites in nursing today. Lindenwood University can provide the foundation needed for building quality nurses for the future."
Evans applauded the choice of Ellis to head the new program.
"I could not have asked for a better dean to launch Lindenwood's Programs in Nursing and Allied Health Sciences," Evans said. "Dr. Ellis has impeccable credentials, and she understands both the challenges and the opportunities we face as we develop much-needed nursing programs. Dr. Ellis shares the vision of our administration and Board of Directors for this exciting new development."