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Q: What is the .NET Framework?
A: The .NET Framework is a new computing platform that simplifies application development.
- What are the objectives of the .NET Framework?
- To provide a consistent object-oriented programming environment whether object code is stored and executed locally, executed locally but Internet-distributed, or executed remotely.
- To provide a code-execution environment that minimizes software deployment and versioning conflicts.
- To provide a code-execution environment that guarantees safe execution of code, including code created by an unknown or semi-trusted third party.
- To provide a code-execution environment that eliminates the performance problems of scripted or interpreted environments.
- To make the developer experience consistent across widely varying types of applications, such as Windows-based applications and Web-based applications.
- To build all communication on industry standards to ensure that code based on the .NET Framework can integrate with any other code.
- What type of applications can I develop using the .NET Framework?
You can use the .NET Framework to develop the following types of applications and services:
- Console applications.
- Windows GUI applications (Windows Forms).
- ASP.NET applications.
- XML Web services.
- Windows services.
- What are the components of the .NET Framework?
The .NET Framework consists of these two components:
- The Common Language Runtime (CLR)
- The .NET Framework class library
- Can I have more information on the Common Language Runtime?
You can think of the runtime as an agent that manages code at execution time, providing core services such as memory management, thread management, and remoting, while also enforcing strict type safety and other forms of code accuracy that ensure security and robustness. In fact, the concept of code management is a fundamental principle of the runtime. Code that targets the runtime is known as managed code, while code that does not target the runtime is known as unmanaged code.
- What are the features and benefits of the Common Language Runtime?
- The common language runtime manages memory, thread execution, code execution, code safety verification, compilation, and other system services. These features are intrinsic to the managed code that runs on the common language runtime.
- The runtime enforces code access security. For example, users can trust that an executable embedded in a Web page can play an animation on screen or sing a song, but cannot access their personal data, file system, or network. The security features of the runtime thus enable legitimate Internet-deployed software to be exceptionally feature rich.
- The runtime also enforces code robustness by implementing a strict type-and-code-verification infrastructure called the Common Type System (CTS). The CTS ensures that all managed code is self-describing. The various Microsoft and third-party language compilers generate managed code that conforms to the CTS. This means that managed code can consume other managed types and instances, while strictly enforcing type fidelity and type safety.
- In addition, the managed environment of the runtime eliminates many common software issues. For example, the runtime automatically handles object layout and manages references to objects, releasing them when they are no longer being used. This automatic memory management resolves the two most common application errors, memory leaks and invalid memory references.
- The runtime also accelerates developer productivity. For example, programmers can write applications in their development language of choice, yet take full advantage of the runtime, the class library, and components written in other languages by other developers. Any compiler vendor who chooses to target the runtime can do so. Language compilers that target the .NET Framework make the features of the .NET Framework available to existing code written in that language, greatly easing the migration process for existing applications.
- While the runtime is designed for the software of the future, it also supports software of today and yesterday. Interoperability between managed and unmanaged code enables developers to continue to use necessary COM components and DLLs.
- The runtime is designed to enhance performance. Although the common language runtime provides many standard runtime services, managed code is never interpreted. A feature called just-in-time (JIT) compiling enables all managed code to run in the native machine language of the system on which it is executing. Meanwhile, the memory manager removes the possibilities of fragmented memory and increases memory locality-of-reference to further increase performance.
- Finally, the runtime can be hosted by high-performance, server-side applications, such as Microsoft® SQL Server and Internet Information Services (IIS). This infrastructure enables you to use managed code to write your business logic, while still enjoying the superior performance of the industry's best enterprise servers that support runtime hosting.
- Can I have more information on the Class Library?
The class library, the other main component of the .NET Framework, is a comprehensive, object-oriented collection of reusable types that you can use to develop applications ranging from traditional command-line or graphical user interface (GUI) applications to applications based on the latest innovations provided by ASP.NET, such as Web Forms and XML Web services.
The .NET Framework class library is a collection of reusable types that tightly integrate with the common language runtime. The class library is object oriented, providing types from which your own managed code can derive functionality. This not only makes the .NET Framework types easy to use, but also reduces the time associated with learning new features of the .NET Framework. In addition, third-party components can integrate seamlessly with classes in the .NET Framework.
For example, the .NET Framework collection classes implement a set of interfaces that you can use to develop your own collection classes. Your collection classes will blend seamlessly with the classes in the .NET Framework.
As you would expect from an object-oriented class library, the .NET Framework types enable you to accomplish a range of common programming tasks, including tasks such as string management, data collection, database connectivity, and file access. In addition to these common tasks, the class library includes types that support a variety of specialized development scenarios.
- What namespaces are included in the .NET Framework?


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Thanks !
The Jonas Brothers ?
Dude, Kenny, what the hellis wrong with you ?
Aren't they those queermoson the Disney channel ?
Yeah, Jonas Brothers,dude, they get Tammy all hot
and then she'llgive me a BJ.
You want Tammyto give you a BJ ?Of course, dude !
Kenny, you'regonna let a girl
put her mouth onyour wiener ?
Do you know howdisgusting that is ?
Girls' mouths arefull of germs.
Yeah, dude, that's gross.
It's okay, I'm gonnahave protection.
What kind ofprotection ?
Can I have a box ofcondoms, please ?
Box of condoms.
Certainly, little boy,what kind would you like ?
Uh... I'll take thoseover there.
These here ?Well, certainly.
Kenny, aren't youa little young for this ?
No, I'm not young,I want a BJ !
Just becauseyou have condoms
doesn't mean you'resafe, Kenny.
Statistically speaking,
the most bacteria-riddenplace on the planet
is the mouth ofan American woman.
And you're gonna let thatnear your penis ?
Yup !Woo-hoo !
Concert Tickets and Condoms
The Ring s13e01
Kenny gets ready for his big night out with Tammy with some Jonas Brothers tickets and condoms.

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By Karen
My eyes boinged out of their sockets this morning at the news Anthony Bourdain is finally — FINALLY! — coming to Richmond. He's gracing us with his Guts & Glory at the newly-renovated Landmark Theater April 23, 2013.
I can hardly wait.
Moving on to chocolate, the rumor of Bourdain taking the merchandising plunge — with Eric Ripert — is true. Their Good & Evil bar hit the market November 9.
Last April, Eric hacked his way through the jungles of Peru with Pennsylvania chocolatier Christopher Curtin to reach rare trees that produce cacao beans long believed extinct, and he helped harvest them.
The result is a delicacy that's 72% cacao, weighs 2.6 ounces, and retails for $18. Each.
If anybody splurges and orders one, please let us 99-Percenters know if you could detect its dark cherry notes.
A blogger at The New Yorker recently ripped Tony a new one for his very existence, accusing him of "brutishness" and leaving a "crude hickey on food culture." Tony shot back promptly in the third comment. He must get Google alerts on himself.
As you probably know, No Reservations wrapped forever with Tony's visit to Brooklyn. Especially poignant was the thought that his locales may have been doomed by Hurricane Sandy. (I wondered what happened to one man's collection of vintage cars? And will Zamir follow Tony to CNN?)
Bourdain blogged what he considers his best and worst episodes of No Res. I have to agree that Rome, even in black and white, sticks in my mind. Tony in suit and tie tooling around with Ottavia glammed up like Sophia Hepburn was so Roman Holiday.
His remaining Travel Channel series, The Layover, debuts its second (and last) season November 19. I'm waiting to see to what new lows TC will sink to stretch the illusion of a Bourdain association.
But maybe they won't be sorry to see the last of Tony after his cuss-filled Twitter tirade when they secretly spliced gratuitous shots of Cadillacs into Brooklyn show promo, making it look like his endorsement.
It took me right back to the days they had him flash a Chase Sapphire card to pay for his meals in exotic places.
UPDATE: Just discovered that Tony blogged at length about the Cadillac incident. He's STILL pissed with Travel Channel, and rightly so, by the sound of it.
Travel Channel is such a clusterfuck on so many levels, you have to give them credit for creative underhandedness in advertising. I just realized they recently started duplicating episodes out on Verizon On Demand to trick hapless viewers into watching the longer one laced with commercials.
Almost forgot… I caught the first 4 half-hour episodes of Tony's PBS series, The Mind of a Chef, starring David Chang. It came on at 2 a.m. here. Thanks to Bourdain, I've got this obsession with finding the perfect noodle, and that's what the first episode was about. I didn't expect the series to hold my attention, but it totally did. Highly recommend it.
And finally, Tony's still writing for the HBO series Treme, and did a scene for Emeril Lagasse that reveals him in a light (and with a mouth) you've probably never seen before.
UPDATE: This will teach me not to read Twitter before I post. Bourdain's new CNN series is called Parts Unknown. I like that. Here's the promo.


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Mathematics Pronunciation Guides
- VÄliaho's guide to Pronunciation of Mathematical Expressions: This is the place to start. It covers many important rules in a 3 page document
- Handbook for Spoken Mathematics: If VÄliaho's guide did not meet your requirements, check out this extensive resource. It covers many major branches of mathematics such as logic and set theory, geometry, statistics, calculus, and linear algebra. It is the most comprehensive guide that I have found with around 100 pages and around 500 symbols with pronunciation. I'd recommend studying all the symbols if mathematical pronunciation is an issue for you. The symbols are distributed over many pages making it a little difficult to look up a single symbol of interest. Also, when a choice exists, the guide often chooses a more verbose and less ambiguous form of pronunciation. For example, it suggests for "x_i", "x sub i" instead of "x i". This emphasis on unambiguous verbal communication is sometimes more than required when verbalising the symbols in your head or when verbalising symbols in a context where the actual symbolic math is also displayed.
- RPI's Saying Mathematics Guide
- Oanca et al's Reading Mathematical Expressions
- Wikipedia guide to mathematical symbols: meaning of common mathematical symbols with links to their meaning.
- Greek letters: Lower and upper case Greek letters with pronunciation
- Tips on displaying formulas can even be useful for some obscure mathematical symbols
Books on mathematical pronunciation
- Lawrence Change (1983). Handbook for Spoken Mathematics: (Larry's Speakeasy).


text: Most people see nature. Bernie Krause hears it. For three decades, he's collected the sounds of the natural world, from Amazon jungles to Antarctic glaciers and even ant colonies. For Krause, the sounds are more than ambience: They're a sonic manifestation of ecologies, at once beautiful and information-dense. "If we lived in a culture that was more sonically oriented, rather than visually oriented, what kinds of things would we experience?" Krause wonders. In his newly published The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places, Krause answers that question. He describes and plays highlights from three decades of work, and calls for a deeper appreciation of soundscapes that he considers central to humanity's evolution. "Natural soundscapes are one of the most fertile unexplored sources of information we have. They contain secrets of our origins, our past, our cultural present," he writes in Orchestra. On the following pages, Krause talks with Wired and shares some of his favorite recordings. Headphones are highly recommended. Introducing the Biophony In the early 1980s, Krause -- who in previous decades had moved from popular to avant-garde music, and then to nature recording -- was sent by the California Academy of Sciences to Kenya, where he would make recordings for an upcoming exhibit. Krause had long thought that nature's sounds were not cacophonous, but possessed an almost orchestral level of organization. New technological tools gave substance to his intuitions. "I was doing a lot of audio forensics at the time. I had new software to generate spectrograms -- graphic illustrations of sounds, their time and frequency -- and I found exactly what I heard: this bandwidth discrimination between all the types of creatures. Insects found their niches, birds found theirs, mammals found theirs. Each had their own place," Krause recalled. He coined the term "biophony," or the sonic patterns of life, to describe this phenomenon. "Natural voices are the sounds of whole ecosystems," he writes in The Great Animal Orchestra. In this nighttime recording from the Central African Republic, forest elephants gather at a bai -- a pondside clearing made by elephants where upwelling groundwater leaves deposits of salt-rich mud. Their voices and grunts intermingle with the synchronized sounds of insects and frogs. <object data="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/ElephantsBai_Eco.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF" height="20" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200"><param name="bgcolor" value="FFFFFF"></param><param name="movie" value="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/ElephantsBai_Eco.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF"></param></object> Image: Noel Feans/Flickr Audio: Pijanowski et al./BiosciencePrimeval Voices When scientists speculate on the evolution of human vocalization, communication and especially music, two habits abound. They tend to emphasize utility -- mate preference, social reinforcement, cognitive development -- and conceive of humans and other hominids in isolation from other animals and natural environments. To Krause, humanity's evolutionary environments and musical development are intertwined, with local biophonies likely shaping the sounds of different groups. "It would depend on where we lived, how far language had evolved, and how far music had evolved. When we emerged onto the plains, we probably had no formal language, but were imitating -- because we're great imitators -- the sounds we heard," Krause said. "That was who we had to communicate with. We had to reconcile the state of our lives in that particular environment." In this dawn chorus recording from an old-growth dry forest in Zimbabwe, a fantastic complexity of sounds can be heard: 30 different bird species in the first minute, and at 1:15 the booming echoes of baboons. <object data="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/ZimDryForest_GAO.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF" height="20" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200"><param name="bgcolor" value="FFFFFF"></param><param name="movie" value="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/ZimDryForest_GAO.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF"></param></object> Image: Baboons in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. (Laura/Flickr) Audio: Bernie Krause/The Great Animal OrchestraThe Natural Orchestra <object data="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/WomenGatheringPayu_GAO.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF" height="20" type="appli cation/x-shockwave-flash" width="200"><param name="bgcolor" value="FFFFFF"></param><param name="movie" value="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/WomenGatheringPayu_GAO.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF"></param></object> In The Great Animal Orchestra, Krause asserts that the pentatonic scale played by the first known musical instruments and ubiquitous in global musical traditions was inspired by nature, where it's sung by birds like the musician wren and common potoo. That the pentatonic scale is so common, however, obscures the richness of other possible musical forms. "It fits with the musical paradigm we're familiar with. If you listen to the sounds of a particular biophony from a tropical forest, the rhythmic structure and tonal structure of soloists is much more complex than the designations we've given to music," Krause said. In the music of indigenous people, Krause hears reflections of the sonic environments that shaped their everyday lives. "Watching them, seeing how they interact with the natural world, it becomes clear that they're taking a lot of their cues from these biophonies," he said. "They use the sounds of the natural world as a karaoke orchestra with which they perform. It connects them to the natural world." The BaBenzele, heard in this recording, live in the Dzanga-Tsonga rain forests of the Central African Republic. "When you look at the spectrograms of the music, compared to forest sounds in the background, it fits like a glove," said Krause. A recording from Dzangha-Tsonga is depicted in the spectrogram above, with time plotted on the X-axis and audio frequencies on the Y-axis. Where there is white space is where BaBenzele music fits. Image: Bernie Krause Audio: Bernie Krause/The Great Animal OrchestraOrchestral Peaks Dawn is the sonically richest time of day, the peak of any biophonic orchestra, and to Krause's ears it's the denouement of an evolutionary narrative's daily retelling. "The species enter the performance in order of evolution," he said. "The insects begin at two in the morning. The reptiles and amphibians then enter. Birds come in at dawn, and mammals after that. It follows evolutionary patterns in a way that's astonishing." This dawn chorus was recorded in a tropical forest in Madagascar, an island that separated from Africa 150 million years ago and is celebrated for the extraordinary diversity of plants and animals that evolved there and nowhere else. In a 2011 Bioscience paper, Krause and co-authors say the recording "most likely represents some of the greatest acoustic niche separation in the world." <object data="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/MadagascarDawn_Eco.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF" height="20" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200"><param name="bgcolor" value="FFFFFF"></param><param name="movie" value="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/MadagascarDawn_Eco.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF"></param></object> Image: Madagascar pygmy kingfisher. (Luc Legay/Flickr) Audio: Pijanowski et al./BioscienceScales of Sound Soundscapes are inevitably perceived from a human auditory perspective, but of course they exist at many scales. An elephant's soundscape may extend for miles in every direction, and a sperm whale's across entire oceans, while that of an ant colony -- recorded below -- can be crossed in a stride. <object data="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/Ants_Eco.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF" height="20" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200"><param name="bgcolor" value="FFFFFF"></param><param name="movie" value="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/Ants_Eco.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF"></param></object> Image: Steve Jurvetson/Flickr) Audio: Pijanowski et al./BioscienceThunderous Voices Just as animal voices evolved in concert with a symphony of other biological sounds, they also evolved in relation to the sounds of wind and water, or what Krause calls the geophony. "They had to find their niche within the geophonic bandwidth," he said. "It was the first sound. There are still animals today that learned their voices from the geophony." Such a claim is necessarily speculative, and may seem unjustifiably subjective, but for skeptical ears Krause plays the calls of Weddell seals from Antarctica and bearded seals from the Arctic. "Thunderstorms at the equator put out electric energy that's carried through Earth's magnetic field to the poles. It's the electric energy from those storms that, somehow, the seals pick up and translate into a vocalization that's extremely similar," he said. "How do they do that? These are migratory mammals with a lot of magnetite in their heads. So there's a way of receiving a signal. Whether or not it actually happens, we don't know. But the sounds are so similar, I have a hard time not accepting it." Equatorial thunderstorm: <object data="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/WhistlerThunderstorms.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF" height="20" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200"><param name="bgcolor" value="FFFFFF"></param><param name="movie" value="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/WhistlerThunderstorms.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF"></param></object> Bearded seal: <object data="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/BeardedSeal.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF" height="20" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200"><param name="bgcolor" value="FFFFFF"></param><param name="movie" value="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/BeardedSeal.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF"></param></object> Weddel's seal: <object data="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/WeddellsSeal.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF" height="20" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200"><param name="bgcolor" value="FFFFFF"></param><param name="movie" value="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/WeddellsSeal.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF"></param></object> Image: Bearded seal. (Kerry Ritz/Flickr) Audio: Bernie KrauseMeeting a Jaguar While Krause focuses on the collective sounds of entire habitats rather than individual animals, it's impossible not to be captivated by some. One such sound is the rumble of a jaguar heard but not seen during a nighttime recording session in the Amazon jungle. "The incident lasted no more than a minute, but it seemed like a couple of hours as I sat mesmerized by the power of the animal's voice, its breathing, and the sounds of rumbles in its stomach," Krause writes in The Great Animal Orchestra. "Then, as suddenly as it appeared, the jaguar moved silently off into the forest, leaving behind rhythmic waves of frog and whirring insect choruses, and what remained of my pounding heart." <object data="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/JaguarGAO.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF" height="20" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200"><param name="bgcolor" value="FFFFFF"></param><param name="movie" value="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/JaguarGAO.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF"></param></object> Image: Jaguar in Central Suriname Nature Reserve, Suriname. (Conservation International/Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network/Conservation International Suriname) Audio: Bernie Krause/The Great Animal OrchestraSoundscape Science In the early 1980s, when Krause first suggested to the California Academy of Sciences that an ecosystem's sounds could be analyzed as rigorously as species distributions and nutrient gradients, he was politely ignored. "The way we've listened to the natural world, and seen the natural world, is by taking things out of context. We name it, label it, put it in a drawer. People had gone out and recorded with parabolic dishes these individual animals," Krause said. "It's much less easy to quantify holistic patterns and structures and biophonies." A few scientists, however, heard the potential in Krause's suggestion. Others came to the idea on their own. In recent years, soundscape ecology has become a full-fledged field of study, with researchers using sound to investigate and understand natural systems. The Purdue Soundscape Ecology Project is a leader in this research. In the image above, unexpected spatial variations in the day-to-day soundscape of a Tuscan beech forest plot can be seen. The sonic richness of a Tuscan forest's dawn chorus can be heard in the clip below. <object data="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/Tuscany_Eco.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF" height="20" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200"><param name="bgcolor" value="FFFFFF"></param><param name="movie" value="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/Tuscany_Eco.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF"></param></object> Image: Pijanowski et al./Bioscience Audio: Pijanowski et al./BioscienceUnnatural Noise The impact of human noise on animal behaviors and communities is a fast-growing area of research. Few parts of the industrialized world are free of human noise, which often crowds sonic niches occupied by other animals. The Purdue Soundscape Ecology Project collected the recording below at 10 p.m beside a busy intersection near Purdue University. Nighthawks can be heard calling in the gaps between passing cars and a computerized campus bell. <object data="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/PurdueNight_Eco.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF" height="20" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200"><param name="bgcolor" value="FFFFFF"></param><param name="movie" value="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/PurdueNight_Eco.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF"></param></object> Image: At left, measurements of noise along the Going to the Sun road in Glacier National Park. At right, a map of road cover in the United States. An estimated 83 percent of U.S. land area is within a half-mile of a road. (Barber et al./Landscape Ecology) Audio: Pijanowski et al./BioscienceSound Diagnosis Soundscape ecology can be used as a tool for habitat analysis and resource management. "When a habitat is viable, the patterns in that structure will be very clear," said Krause. "When a habitat is stressed or badly compromised, either there will be no sound, or the structure will be non-existent. It will be fragmented, fractured, splintered, completely deconstructed." The difference is starkly evident in these recordings of healthy and dying coral reefs in Fiji. <object data="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/ReefAliveDead_GAO.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF" height="20" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200"><param name="bgcolor" value="FFFFFF"></param><param name="movie" value="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/ReefAliveDead_GAO.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF"></param></object> Image: Coral reef ecosystem at Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. (Jim Maragos/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Audio: Bernie Krause/The Great Animal OrchestraPolitical Sounds Studying nature's sounds would seem a non-partisan pastime, but the microphones of Krause and colleagues have at times been controversial. In the late 1990s, the National Parks Service started the Natural Soundscape Program with the hope of teaching park visitors to appreciate unique soundscapes as they would a photogenic vista or scenic landmark. To congressmen Don Young of Alaska and Richard Pombo of California, however, this represented an environmentalist threat to noisemaking in national parks. Young, who in a radio interview said that environmentalists "are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans," and Pombo pressured the Department of the Interior to cease the Natural Soundscape Program. It was renamed the Natural Sounds Program, a denatured term denoting a new focus on individual animal sounds, and reduced in scale and funding. Krause said the program has recovered in recent years, with its 2011 publication of The Power of Sound marking a resurgence in treating wild soundscapes -- like this recording of a Yellowstone field in autumn -- as treasures. <object data="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/YellowstoneFallGAO.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF" height="20" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200"><param name="bgcolor" value="FFFFFF"></param><param name="movie" value="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/YellowstoneFallGAO.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF"></param></object> Image: Bison grazing beside Yellowstone Lake. (Richie Diesterheft/Flickr) Audio: Bernie Krause/The Great Animal OrchestraSonic Celebration Krause describes his appreciation of soundscapes as a "celebration of life as expressed through the vocal biota of the world." In this recording, ambient night sounds are a backdrop to gray wolves howling in Canada's Algonquin National Park. <object data="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/Wolves_Eco.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF" height="20" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200"><param name="bgcolor" value="FFFFFF"></param><param name="movie" value="http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/wp-content/plugins/dewplayer-flash-mp3-player/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/03/Wolves_Eco.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF"></param></object> Image: Tambako the Jaguar/Flickr Audio: Pijanowski et al./Bioscience


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B.C.'s Human Rights Tribunal will hear a complaint from a soccer coach who alleges the University of B.C. terminated his employment and refused to rehire him because he is male.
According to the complaint, Marc Rizzardo said that on Dec. 4, 2012, he was offered and accepted the position of head coach of the UBC women's soccer team. The university publicly announced the decision on Dec. 6, two days later.
Immediately after this announcement, the university received complaints from other applicants about problems with the hiring process.
Upon review, the university's human resources department determined that it had erred in appointing Rizzardo before the job posting's stated closing date of Dec. 7, not considering candidates other than Rizzardo, and improperly treating Rizzardo as an internal candidate when he was, in fact, a contractor. As a result, UBC said it rescinded the offer of employment on Dec. 7, apologized to Rizzardo, and guaranteed him an interview in the new hiring process.
In early January, Rizzardo said he was advised by a UBC official that the decision was a result of letters the university received, some of which lamented the lost opportunity to hire a female coach.
UBC then launched a new hiring process and shortlisted three candidates: Rizzardo, another male candidate, and a female candidate, eventually offering the position to the latter.
Rizzardo claimed his gender was a factor in the university's decision to terminate his employment and not rehire him, based on letters written to the university criticizing his employment and encouraging UBC to hire a female coach, as well as conversations with officials involved in the hiring process indicating the selection committee had discussed gender.
"The whole process has just been disappointing for me. I'm a UBC alumni," said Rizzardo, a physiotherapist who worked with the Canadian Olympic teams in both Vancouver and London.
"I have nothing against women furthering themselves in sport or work or anything else they do," Rizzardo said on Friday, noting that he has three daughters and has coached women for years. "But there's times you have to stand up and say, 'This is not right.' And this is one of those times."
The selection committee's choice was unanimous, based exclusively on experience and qualifications, and had nothing to do with gender, the university stated in responding documents.
"Regrettably, some administrative errors occurred in the initial hiring process, and it was necessary for UBC to take corrective measures to ensure that the ultimate hiring decision was made in a manner that was fair to all candidates," university spokesman Randy Schmidt said in a statement. "To be clear, these errors were administrative in nature and had nothing to do with gender."
In her Jan. 31 decision to deny UBC's application to dismiss the complaint, tribunal member Enid Marion said the university failed to prove Rizzardo's complaint had no reasonable chance of success.
"There is no dispute that Mr. Rizzardo was offered and accepted an appointment as head coach, that UBC received complaints about his appointment, including reference to the fact that he was male and not female, and that UBC subsequently rescinded the offer or terminated his employment and then hired a female candidate," she wrote. "Against this background, it is my view that an evidentiary hearing is necessary to determine the complaint."
A hearing has been scheduled to begin on Oct. 6.


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You have just a few more months to visit Bao Bao at the National Zoo.
The 3-year-old giant panda is moving to China within the first few months of 2017 to enter the its panda breeding program, the National Zoo said Thursday.
All panda cubs born at the zoo move to China by the time they turn 4. Bao Bao will turn 4 Aug. 23, 2017.
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"We are sad to see her go, but excited for the contributions she is going to continue to make to the global giant panda population," said Brandie Smith, associate director of animal care sciences at the zoo in Washington, D.C.
Bao Bao's keepers are already preparing her for the trip by getting her acclimated to a travel crate. While an exact date for her departure was not given, the zoo says Bao Bao will move in late winter.
The zoo says it's better for pandas to travel in the winter months when its cool. A team will travel with Bao Bao to ensure she's comfortable throughout the trip.
The zoo is planning a farewell party for Bao Bao, but details about the public celebration have not been released.
Bao Bao is the second of three surviving cubs born to Mei Xiang during her time at the zoo. She now weighs 180 pounds and is classified as a "sub-adult.'' Pandas can begin breeding between the ages of 4 and 6.


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If you have decided to educate your child at home, there are many resources to help you meet the standard requirements and educational needs of your child. Listed below are links to valuable information to assist you in making this experience a success for both you and your child.
For a more complete list of books, visit our library catalog and search for these subject headings:
Useful Websites
Florida Department of Education, Home Education
Florida Parent Educators Association
Home Education Office, School District of Palm Beach County
Local Support Groups for Home Schoolers
For a current list of support groups in the Palm Beach County area, visit Florida Parent-Educators Association


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In cases of prostate cancer, the use of active surveillance (or 'watchful waiting') can delay or prevent entirely the need for a radical operation that – despite improved surgical techniques – can cause incontinence and impotence. It should not be underestimated, however, how stressful it can be knowing you have cancer but not actively doing anything about it.
Ulm University Hospital is both an innovator and a partner in the healthcare field, offering specialist departments, institutes, central services, numerous interdisciplinary centres and a total of around 1,130 beds. As a university hospital, it provides patients with top-level, cross-departmental medical care that brings treatment and research together.
At Hamburg-Eppendorf University Medical Centre (UKE), Professor Margit Fisch heads up the Department and Clinic of Urology, which offers modern, patient-oriented medical care tailored to individual needs.
The Urology Department at Mainz University Medical Centre is highly experienced in performing operations using the daVinci® robotic surgical system. Professor Thüroff and his team have been using the system on a routine basis since 2007. Professor Thüroff is highly regarded around the world as a specialist surgeon for treating cancers of the kidneys, bladder and prostate.
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Michael Novak
American Enterprise Institute
Experts Meetings
Theologian, author and former U.S. ambassador, Michael Novak held the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the 1994 recipient of the million-dollar Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. He graduated from Stonehill College (BA, Philosophy and English) and the Gregorian University (BA Theology). He continued theological studies at Catholic University of America and then at Harvard, where he received an MA in 1966 in History and the Philosophy of Religion. Mr. Novak has written 26 influential books on the philosophy and theology of culture, especially the essential elements of a free society. His writings have appeared in every major Western language, and in Bengali, Korean and Japanese. His masterpiece, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, was published underground in Poland in 1984 and after 1989 in Czechoslovakia, Germany, China, Hungary, Bangladesh, Korea, and many times in Latin America. His wife, Karen Laub-Novak, is a professional artist and illustrator.


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Top Items:
USA Today:
Introducing the first Android prototype — NEW YORK — A small software developer today plans to unveil a suite of applications — browser, camera, games and more — based on the new Google-endorsed operating system, Android. — A La Mobile, based in San Ramon, Calif. …
Discussion: InfoWorld, VoIP Blog and TechCrunch
Jason Snyder / InfoWorld: First Google Android phone suite completed
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch: A La Mobile First To Pimp Android
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Firm shows off functional Android build on ancient HTC hardware
Firm shows off functional Android build on ancient HTC hardware
Discussion: mocoNews.net and Mashable!
Rafat Ali / mocoNews.net: First Android-Based Prototype Launched
Dave Ambrose / All Facebook:
Lessons Learned from 60 Minutes' Interview with Zuckerberg: Brandee Barker is a Genius and Zuck Wears Nice Moccasins — To say that the Lesley Stahl's profile of Mark Zuckerberg tonight on 60 Minutes was "groundbreaking" would be a great exaggeration. Hell, to me, the most groundbreaking discovery …
Discussion: Texas Startup Blog
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Notes From Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg on 60 Minutes - NO IPO in 2008!
Notes From Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg on 60 Minutes - NO IPO in 2008!
Discussion: TechCrunch, WebProNews, The Drama 2.0 Show, Mashable!, Lost Remote and ResourceShelf
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch: Mark Zuckerberg Tells 60 Minutes: "Beacon Makes Facebook Less Commercial"
Paul Glazowski / Mashable!: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Treads Lightly In 60 Minutes Interview
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote: Did you see the Facebook interview?
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Netflix expands Internet viewing option — SAN FRANCISCO - Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections.
Discussion: Download Squad, TechCrunch, paidContent.org, Scripting News, Silicon Alley Insider, Online Video Watch and Mashable!
Dave Winer / Scripting News: The place on the Net for Flix
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider: Report: Netflix To Offer Unlimited Movie Streaming
Ben Homer / Online Video Watch: Netflix Offers Unlimited Streaming
Sean P. Aune / Mashable!: Netflix To Lift Limits For Online Viewing
EMI managers will have to sing for their supper — Guy Hands will this week pledge to invest tens of millions of pounds recruiting new talent scouts and managing EMI's existing acts. — But alongside the investment in so-called A&R - artist and repertoire - he will also unveil plans to cut …
Discussion: Financial Times, Silicon Alley Insider, BloggingStocks and Mashable!
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider: Report: EMI Set To Cut 2,000 Jobs
Douglas McIntyre / BloggingStocks: Warner Music looks on as EMI readies huge cuts
Sean P. Aune / Mashable!: Report: EMI Records To Cut Workforce By 36%
Thomas Mennecke / Slyck:
EMI Employment Prospects Bleak
EMI Employment Prospects Bleak
Discussion: paidContent.org and Associated Press
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org: EMI Restructuring: 2,000 Jobs May Be Cut; Dropped Artists; $391M Raise: Reports
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Trying to Fine-Tune Yahoo — Jerry Yang began his biggest public presentation since becoming chief executive of Yahoo with something of an apology. — "I'm guessing that a lot of you are here today to see what the new look and new face of Yahoo is all about," he told an audience …
Discussion: paidContent.org
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org: CES: Interview: Jeff Weiner, EVP-Network Division, Yahoo …
Tom Hodgkinson / Guardian:
With friends like these ... Facebook has 59 million users - and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site — I despise Facebook.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
"U.S. Economy Screwed" — The recession-deniers were muzzled by a horrendous last two weeks of December, and the gloom-and-doomers are now out in force. Their key arguments: — Plummeting housing will now drag down the rest of the economy. — The "bad debt" problem is not just …
Discussion: WebMetricsGuru, Insider Chatter, Bloggers Blog, Texas Startup Blog, Joe Duck and HipMojo.com
Marshall Sponder / WebMetricsGuru: "U.S. Economy Screwed" - Henry Blodget
Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter: Henry Blodget Braces For 'Harder Times': Silicon Alley Insider 'Screwed'?
Alexander Muse / Texas Startup Blog: VCs and Angels to Tighten Wallets
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Negativity Breeds Negativity — Some of the worst financing …
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
ULTIMATE LIVEBLOGGING TOOL: COVERITLIVE — CoverItLive is a new, hosted service for blogging events in real-time, or "liveblogging." It's a useful tool for people covering major industry events, speeches, sports, and the like. I first saw the product in use when I was watching …
Discussion: mathewingram.com/work
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Wallstrip Star Leaves Show to Start Moblogic.tv for CBS — Wallstrip star Lindsay Campbell has left the daily financial news web show and moved on to a new project within CBS Interactive, according to Wallstrip founder Howard Lindzon. CBS bought Wallstrip for $4 million last May.
Discussion: Howard Lindzon, Silicon Alley Insider, CenterNetworks and Mashable!
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!: Wallstrip Host Leaves for Another CBS Project
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Things Are Looking Good At Startup Schwag — It's been a few months since we wrote about Startup Schwag, a service that sends users startup-branded tshirts and stickers every month. — You'll either think this is lame (not target market) or so cool you've wet your pants (target market) and act accordingly.
Kerry A. Dolan / Forbes:
Andy Grove's Last Stand — The former Intel chief, now battling Parkinson's, is on a crusade to speed progress in treating the disease. Can he make a difference? — Andy Grove noticed an occasional tremor in the index finger of his right hand. it was 1999, when Grove was 63 and had just stepped …
Discussion: bytes|genes
Deepak Singh / bytes|genes: Is Andy Grove putting his money where his mouth is?
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Bloomberg News Launches CEO Show as New Video Strategy Emerges — Bloomberg News has launched CEO Spotlight, a new Web video series of CEO interviews produced in Bloomberg bureaus around the globe. It is the first step by the media behemoth to bring a vast amount of business news video clips to the public Internet.
Discussion: Mashable!
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!: Bloomberg's Online Video Push Won't Get Past Windows
Alec Saunders .LOG:
Skype with High Quality Video — Periodically a vendor sends me a pretty good toy to try out. The Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks is one such item. The folks at Skype's PR agency shipped it to me because they wanted me to see the high quality video features in the latest version of Skype.... more on Skype in a minute.
Discussion: Skype Journal
Jim Courtney / Skype Journal: Alec Saunders on Skype's High Quality Video
John Markoff / New York Times:
Two Views of Innovation, Colliding in Washington — AS the Senate prepares to tinker with the nation's patent laws this spring, it's worth recalling the law of unintended consequences. — From the vantage point of a half-century, for example, it's clear that the formation …
Discussion: Patent Troll Tracker, Trends in the Living Networks and Wikinomics
Troll Tracker / Patent Troll Tracker: New York Times Article Sets the Stage for Upcoming Patent Reform Debate Renewal
Denis Hancock / Wikinomics: The wikinomics weekend news scroll