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2013 Chinese Horoscope for people born in Cow years: 1901, 1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009.
2013 Chinese
Horoscope - The Year of Black Snake
Predict Your 2013 Chinese Astrology by Birthday
2014 Easy Chinese Zodiac - Year of Horse
If your birthday is before February 4, then your astrological sign is Rat, not Cow. (Verify Your Sign)
Cow is an animal that lives in the farm. Snake might hide on the ground around the farm. They don't bother each other. So they can get along fine. In Chinese horoscope, Cow is in Earth Group and Snake is in Fire group. Fire is the mother element of Earth, since Fire can generate more Earth. That means Cow will receive the caring, protection and support from Snake. Therefore Cow people will have good fortune in 2013, specially in career, education and love area.
Career: Snake to Cow is the Parent Star. More people will care about you in year of Snake than year of Dragon. Your job will be much easier than 2012, since people around you are happy to help you. You boss might appreciate your work. New task assignment, job promotion, business traveling are all possible. Job responsibility will increase. Because Cow is a working animal with very little complaint, they will receive the compliment and applause for their job performances. Also, Snake year is also a good time for Cow people to start your own business. However, Cow people shouldn't be greedy on money, otherwise bad reputation or lawsuit might arrive to bother you in 2013.
Money: The money luck of Cow people is connected to career in 2013. Basically, Cow people will have a stable income. The wealth have good chance to increase. It's a good moment for Cow people to think about their financial plan and money management. Although, it's not the time for Cow people to pursuit a luxury life. If you have enough saving, then it's the time to plan about to purchase a new or better home. But, if you want to invest your money on risky business for higher return, then you might encounter the money scam. The reason is that Cow people are too nice and are easily deceived.
Love: The love relationship of Cow people in 2013 is good. Cow people have good temper and can get along with people easily. For Cow people look for love relationship, February, June, August and September are good months to find the true love. If you are in love, then you can develop deeper relationship in the first half of Snake Year, since the Happiness Star, Marriage Star and Romantic Star are around those months. If you are single, then you should increase the social activities in the year of Snake. You might fall in love at first sight, especially in September. But married Cow people should beware not get trouble from additional love relationship.
Health: Cow people will take care their health well in the Snake year. Also, Cow people should have a good mood all year long, since they have good luck in career, wealth and love. But this doesn't mean you don't get sick this year. Your health might be provided by medicine or medical care. To do the regular exercise and take enough time to rest and relax in 2013 is a good approach for a healthy year of Snake.
The above prediction of 2013 Chinese Horoscope for Cow people is based on people's birthday. Using the birth year to tell people's fortune was far away before Chin Dynasty (221 B.C.), which is the first Dynasty in China. During the Tang Dynasty (618 A.D.), Chinese began to use birth year, month and day to predict the fortune. To add birth hour to study the fortune like today started in Sung Dynasty (960 A.D.). The reason to make these changes is simple. It's more accurate. Therefore, for more accurate 2013 prediction, please go to 2013 Chinese Five Element Astrology.
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Welcome to the Big Data space in the Pentaho Community wiki. This space is the community home and collection point for all things Big Data within the Pentaho ecosystem. It is the place to find documentation, how-to's, best practices, use-cases and other information about employing Pentaho technology as part of your overall Big Data Strategy. It is also where you can share your own information and experiences. We look forward to your participation and contribution!
Expectations - If you are unfamiliar with open source, this article is a good place to start. The open source community thrives on participation and cooperation. There are several communication channels available where people can help you, but they are not obligated to do so. You are responsible for your own success which will require time, effort and a small amount technical ability. If you prefer to have a relationship with a known vendor who will answer questions over the phone, help you during your evaluation and support you in production; please visit www.pentaho.com.-
Pentaho's Big Data story revolves around Pentaho Data Integration AKA Kettle. Kettle is a powerful Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) engine that uses a metadata-driven approach. The kettle engine provides data services for and is embedded in many of the applications within the Pentaho BI suite. Kettle comes with a graphical, drag and drop design environment for designing and running Kettle Jobs and Transformations.
A quick 2 min video of PDI in action
Kettle Transformations
A Kettle transformation consists of one or more steps that perform core ETL work like reading data in the form of rows from a file or database, filtering rows, calculating new columns and sending the new data stream somewhere else. All steps in a transform execute simultaneously (usually in separate threads) and data is passed from step to step in parallel. The data is operated on in a continuous stream without having to be fully read into memory or staged. The image to the right demonstrated a very simple kettle transformation - Read from a data source, do some transformation, in this case a filter and then write the data stream to another data source.
This is a closed wiki space
The only people with access are Pentaho Employees and Dave Reinke (Chris will need to sign up for the wiki and send me his user id)
This is a first shot at getting an open source collaboration space for Big Data. It will eventually be open but is currently a work in progress and a place to put the use cases, demo's etc. I completely pulled the structure and initial content from my arse and am not in love with any of it. It is a round lump of clay, waiting to be molded by the brilliant minds of the Big Ass Data Team.

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Patty from South Dakota writes:
Recently I had to ask for help installing a printer. He asked me if he could go to assist and I said yes. Got everything going except now my task bar and background when I go to my start menu are a dull gray and I don't like that. I don't know what he did. Can you help me to go back the way it was when I got my computer?
Thank You
Patty, you don't say which version of Windows you're using, so I'll walk you through it on my Windows 7 Computer. You'll want to go to that dull gray Start Menu and select Control Panel:
A new window will open. Choose Appearance and Personalization.
Another Window will open offering you Personalization options.
Here, I've selected Change Window Glass Colors, but your option might be Change the color of your taskbar and window borders, depending on what version of Windows you're using.
Right now, the colors are gray and opaque.
I'm switching them to blue and transparent. (transparent may not be an option, depending on your operating system.) You can also adjust the intensity of the color to your liking.
Don't forget to Save Changes.
As you can see, my Start Menu is now my preferred shade of blue.
So is the Taskbar.
Hope this helps you get some color back to your desktop.
~ Cynthia


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Picturing pain could help unlock its mysteries and lead to better treatments
Understanding the science behind pain, from a simple "ouch" to the chronic and excruciating, has been an elusive goal for centuries. But now, researchers are reporting a promising step toward studying pain in action. In a study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, scientists describe the development of a new technique, which they tested in rats, that could result in better ways to relieve pain and monitor healing.
Sandip Biswal, Frederick T. Chin, Justin Du Bois and colleagues note that current ways to diagnose pain basically involve asking the patient if something hurts. These subjective approaches are fraught with bias and can lead doctors in the wrong direction if a patient doesn't want to talk about the pain or can't communicate well. It can also be difficult to tell how well a treatment is really working. No existing method can measure pain intensity objectively or help physicians pinpoint the exact location of the pain. Past research has shown an association between pain and a certain kind of protein, called a sodium channel, that helps nerve cells transmit pain and other sensations to the brain. Certain forms of this channel are overproduced at the site of an injury, so the team set out to develop an imaging method to visualize high concentrations of this protein.
They turned to a small molecule called saxitoxin, produced naturally by certain types of microscopic marine creatures, and attached a signal to it so they could trace it by PET imaging. PET scanners are used in hospitals to diagnose diseases and injuries. When the researchers injected the molecule into rats, often a stand-in for humans in lab tests, they saw that the molecule accumulated where the rats had nerve damage. The rats didn't show signs of toxic side effects. The work is one of the first attempts to mark these sodium channels in a living animal, they say.
Both chronic and neuropathic pain conditions are associated with increased expression of certain voltage-gated sodium ion channel (NaV) isoforms in peripheral sensory neurons. A method for noninvasive imaging of these channels could represent a powerful tool for investigating aberrant expression of NaV and its role in pain pathogenesis. Herein, we describe the synthesis and evaluation of a positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracer targeting NaVs, the design of which is based on the potent, NaV-selective inhibitor saxitoxin. Both autoradiography analysis of sciatic nerves excised from injured rats as well as whole animal PET-MR imaging demonstrate that a systemically administered [18F]-labeled saxitoxin derivative concentrates at the site of nerve injury, consistent with upregulated sodium channel expression following axotomy. This type of PET agent has potential use for serial monitoring of channel expression levels at injured nerves throughout wound healing and/or following drug treatment. Such information may be correlated with pain behavioral analyses to help shed light on the complex molecular processes that underlie pain sensation.


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Apple Uncrates New $1,099 Education-Only iMac
Without fanfare, Apple this week rolled out a new iMac, a machine targeted at a market the company likes to say is "in its DNA": Education.
The new machine features Apple's latest iMac design, with leaner specs that drop its price below that of the entry-level consumer iMac. It boasts the same 21.5-inch display, but its innards are quite different: A 3.3GHz dual-core Intel i3 processor, instead of a 2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5, four gigabytes of RAM instead of 8GB, and a hard drive with 500GB of storage instead of one terabyte.
At $1,099, the new education-only iMac is $100 more than its predecessor. But it remains $150 cheaper than an entry-level consumer iMac purchased with an educational discount.
So, a reasonable lower-price option for educators on tight budgets, though on its face the new edu iMac might not seem the best value. Sure, you save $150, but you also end up with a dual-core i3 instead of quad-core i5, and half the RAM and hard-drive storage of the entry-level iMac. Of course, if you're budget-constrained and looking to trick out a computer lab with a row of new iMacs, it's not specs that you're looking at so much as volume discounts.


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Tupac Shacorgi Instagram Pictures
All Eyez on Him: Tupac Shacorgi Lives the Thug Life
All Eyez on Him: Tupac Shacorgi Lives the Thug Life
His name is Tupac Shacorgi — enough said. Based in LA (where else?), this little Instagram star is not your average Pembroke Welsh Corgi. While most Corgis would paw at the opportunity to have tea and biscuits with Queen Elizabeth, Tupac prefers doing shots of Patrón Silver and chilling in hoodies with his main homie, Sir Cornelius Kirby. He may be short in stature, but he's big on attitude (hey, a dog's gotta survive on those mean streets). So just sit back, put on some "California Love," and learn what it means to be West Side for life when you click on.


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I am horrible at this blogging ting lately.... my appologies.
but in my defense
In the past 5 weeks we have been home two of them.
we went to the beach
then we were home for a week.
Then the hubs went to Haiti on a mission trip so i went home cause there ain't no way i'm stayin in this house alone for a week. or a night.
then we were home a week
Then the hubs had work back home building an awesome deck and farmhouse table for his sis and her family,so i of course went with him.
the deck.
The farmhouse table
He's stinkin talented. He is gonna be selling these tables so if you want one let me know!
In the meantime we found out that we are having another sweet little boy!
So of course i'm already redecorating the nursery
It's my favorite thing to do.
Zi has been doing a lot of new things lately too
He feeds himself with a spoon, kinda
He got his first goose egg, and popsicle
he's sitting on the counter on his own
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Historical Period:
The 19th Century
Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836) was a philosophe and one of the founders in the 1790s of the classical liberal republican group known as the Idéologues (which included Cabanis, Condorcet, Constant, Daunou, Say, Madame de Staël), a politician under several regimes spanning the Revolution and the Restoration, and an influential author. His writings particularly impressed Thomas Jefferson, who translated an published 2 of them in America. While a member of the Senate, he opposed Napoleon, and also spoke out against the subsequent constitutional monarchy, and in support of American-style laissez-faire republicanism. He coined the term "ideology" while he was at the Institut National.


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A state-by-state look at the East Coast superstorm
The massive storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast and morphed into a huge and problematic system, putting more than 8.4 million homes and businesses in the dark and causing at least 38 deaths in the U.S. Here's a snapshot of what is happening, state by state.
North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue expanded a state of emergency to western North Carolina, which could see a foot of snow. A woman who was pulled from the Atlantic after abandoning a tall ship was among two dead. Power outages: 6,600.
The Long Island Sound flooded roads as the storm toppled trees and power lines Three people died, including a man last seen swimming in heavy surf. Power outages: More than 615,000.
Nearly all residents of flood-prone coastal communities in Kent County heeded calls to evacuate. The Rehoboth Beach and Dewey Beach resort communities were flooded. Power outages: More than 45,000.
High wind warnings and a lakeshore flood warning are in effect Tuesday and Wednesday in Chicago. City officials said Lake Shore Drive is expected to remain open.
A winter storm warning is in effect for three southeastern counties until Wednesday. Up to a foot of snow fell at high elevations along the West Virginia border.
Wind gusts topped 60 mph, shutting down the port of Portland and knocking out power to homes and businesses. Power outages: More than 86,000.
Floodwaters swamped touristy Ocean City. In western Maryland, snow tied up traffic. Two people were killed, including a man who died when a tree fell on a house in Pasadena. Power outages: 290,000.
Strong winds and heavy surf led to mandatory evacuations in sections of coastal Dartmouth and Fall River and voluntary evacuations in other coastal communities. Power outages: About 290,000.
High winds knocked out power to about 79,000 homes and businesses. School canceled in several communities, including Clarkston and Pontiac in Oakland County.
Politicians canceled visits to the presidential swing state on Monday. Power outages: 210,000.
The center of the storm came ashore Monday evening near Atlantic City, which was cut off from the mainland by the storm surge along with other barrier islands, stranding residents who ignored warnings to evacuate. A tidal surge sent water into the streets of two northern New Jersey towns, setting off a frantic rescue effort. Power outages: More than 2.5 million.
A record storm surge that was higher than predicted along with high winds damaged the electrical system and plunged millions of people into darkness. Utilities say it could be up to a week before power is fully restored. A fire burned 50 houses in one flooded section of Queens. There were 17 storm-related deaths, 10 of them in New York City. Power outages: 2.3 million.
The Cleveland area and northeast Ohio were being slammed with rain and high winds. Snow was reported in some parts south of Cleveland and south of Columbus. Power outages: More than 250,000.
Wind and flooding closing more than 200 bridges and roads. Five people died, including an 8-year-old boy who was killed when a tree limb fell on him. Power outages: 1.2 million.
Howling winds and storm surges forced mandatory and voluntary evacuations in low-lying and coastal communities. Providence's hurricane barrier performed well in one of its biggest tests. Power outages: 110,000.
Snow expected in higher elevations, where a freeze warning has been issued. High winds expected in many areas.
Winds knocked down trees and power lines, and schools were closed. Power outages: More than 10,000.
Utilities brought in crews to help restore power after high winds and snow. A curfew was ordered Monday on Chincoteague Island. Two people died in storm-related traffic accidents. Power outages: More than 180,000.
Federal and local governments were closed Tuesday along with the courts and public schools. Power outages: 25,000.
Some areas were buried under more than a foot of snow. A woman was killed in a traffic crash. Power outages: More than 271,000.
A village along Lake Michigan suggested residents evacuate Tuesday morning because of the possibility of dangerously high waves and flooding.


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Lyla Grandstaff graduated from Fairmont State University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. After working in various capacities for FSU and sister institution, Pierpont Community & Technical College, she decided to feed her entrepreneurial spirit and open her own business. "Attending Fairmont State and then working on campus gave me the experience and confidence necessary to take a leap of faith and, for the first time, be my own boss," Grandstaff said. Almost two years later, Elements of Etiquette is helping business professionals realize the small changes they can make to improve their first impressions and business relationships through proper business etiquette. Grandstaff has worked with several area civic organizations and was the keynote speaker for the FSU School of Business Etiquette Dinner, passing along her tips of the trade to students, faculty, staff and business leaders.
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Standard & Poor's placed The New York Times Co.'s BBB- rating (the lowest investment grade rating) on CreditWatch negative on Wednesday, following the release of the publisher's second-quarter earnings. In addition, a report out Wednesday from Goldman Sachs predicted that the company would be downgraded to noninvestment grade (junk status) within the next six to 12 months. During an earnings call, Times executivessaid the company intends to keep its investment-grade status, noting that it has historically been the case.
The economic downturn and changing media landscape are hitting the Times hard. The publisher's net income sank 82 percent during the second quarter, compared with the same period a year ago, to $21.1 million. Total revenues decreased 6 percent to $741.9 million. Executives weren't able to predict how advertising will fare for the remainder of the year, and Janet Robinson, president and chief executive officer, added that ad budgets remain tight. She noted that categories directly impacted by the price of oil, such as airline, hotel and automotive, will continue to be a struggle.
Last month alone, ad revenue for the New York Times Media Group decreased 18.3 percent due to dips in studio entertainment, technology, telecommunications and media advertising. Retail ad revenue fell because of softness in the department store, mass market, national retail and cosmetic manufacturer categories. Luxury print advertising was a bright spot, though, up in the low-single digits from last year in part due to the "T" supplements, which are becoming increasingly important to the ailing Times. A spokeswoman said fashion jewelry was strong with increases from fashion and watch advertisers. Online revenues are on the rise, up 13 percent, thanks to strong display advertising.
To make up for the tough times, the paper is again boosting its cover price. Starting Aug. 18, the Times will increase its Monday-Saturday newsstand price by 25 cents to $1.50. This announcement comes only a week or so after The Wall Street Journal said it was raising its newsstand price by 50 cents to $2, starting July 28. During the call, Robinson noted that the two newspapers share only an 11 percent overlap in circulation.


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Situationism is a theory in psychology that began in 1968 when a Person-situation debate was triggered by the publication of a monograph by Walter Mischel. [1]
It refers to an approach to behavior which holds that general traits do not exist (perhaps apart from Intelligence). Behavior, then, is seen as being influenced by external, situational factors rather than internal traits or motivations. It therefore challenged the position of trait theorists, such as Hans Eysenck or Raymond B. Cattell.
Situationists based their claims on experiments in which traits such as extraversion were estimated based on behavior in different situations. They found that a particular person's ratings in one situation were not highly predictive of that person's score in another situation. However, in response to such evidence, Hans Eysenck has pointed out that the correlations, while low, are typically still high enough to reach statistical significance. A midrange position, which holds that personality is best understood as resulting from "subtle interplay" of internal and external factors, is known as "interactionism".
Some notable situationist studies include: Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment, bystander experiments, obedience experiments like Milgram experiment and Heat and aggression experiments. The term is popularly associated with Walter Mischel, although he himself does not appear to like the term.
In 1968, Walter Mischel published a book called Personality and Assessment claiming that behavior is too cross-situationally inconsistent to be classified with personality traits. He stated:
"…with the possible exception of intelligence, highly generalised behavioral consistencies have not been demonstrated, and the concept of personality traits as broad dispositions is thus untenable" [2]:146
His book was a non-systematic meta-analysis of some of the research on the relationship between behavioral and personality traits (assessed by either self-report or peer-report). The book also assessed studies regarding measurements of behavior from one situation to another.[3] This book generated a formidable dispute between social psychologists and trait theorists because trait questionnaires had been used to measure personality for many decades. Behaviorism had dominated the field of psychology up until this time, making Mischel's claim devastating to the mainstream consensus amongst personality psychologists and causing many psychologists to question and doubt whether personality exists.[4]
According to David C. Funder, Mischel's book posed three main questions:
- Is personality consistent and does it overcome situational influences? Most people's response to this is yes, people do have consistent personalities.
- Are people's intuitions about each other's personalities generally flawed or generally correct?
- If personality is really that consistent, why are psychologists continuing to argue about this issue?[3]
More recently, Mischel has retracted some of his original claims, protesting that some psychologists misinterpreted his argument to mean he believes personality does not exist.[5]
Situationist argumentEdit
Situationists had a number of arguments, but they can be generally summarized into four:[3][4]
- Low correlations between measures of behavior and personality: In psychological research, whether relationships between variables exist are compared by the correlation coefficient. Mischel argued that in his literature review of personality research, the correlation between personality and behavior, or behavior across situations, rarely exceeded .30-.40. Because the correlations are close to zero, Mischel concluded that personality traits have little to no relationship to shaping behavior. This claim was especially detrimental to personality psychology and continues to haunt many fields of psychology research today.[6][3][4]
- The validity of self-report measures and clinical assessment procedures: Most of the studies that Mischel reviewed had taken place in laboratory settings. Rarely was behavior analyzed in natural settings. The claim was that trait psychologists did not adequately combat issues of method variance,[7] social desirability and response sets,[8] and construct validity [9] when they constructed their measures of traits. The practical utility of trait measurements in predicting behavior was also questioned.[6] Even when observation studies were conducted, there was observer bias (e.g., traits are in the eye of the beholder).[4]
- The type of behavioral assessment and treatment procedures that were becoming popular at the time: These treatments and behavioral assessment methods focused on the situational influences on behavior, rather than personality traits.[6][10]
- Stability: behavior is not cross-situationally consistent, and any stability can be attributed to the consistency of the situation, not the person. Situationists questioned whether personality traits exist when behaviors are not consistent across situations; after all, why spend time studying a construct that has no validity? [4]
Because of the aforementioned points, situationists argued that the predictive ability of personality traits is severely limited. Opponents of the trait approach claimed that the idea of personality traits is fundamentally flawed and that behavior would be better understood through conditioning and learning processes.[6][3]
See alsoEdit
- ↑ Andrew Colman, What is Psychology?, p.98
- ↑ Mischel, Walter. (1968). Personality and Assessment, London, Wiley.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Funder, D.C. (2010). The Personality Puzzle. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Roberts, B.W. (2009). Back to the future: Personality and Assessment and personality development, Journal of Research in Personality 43. 137–145.
- ↑ Mischel, W. & Shoda, Y. (1995). A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: Reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure. Psychological Review, 102, 246-268.
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- ↑ Campbell, D. T, & Fiske, D. W. (1959). Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix. Psychological Bulletin, 56, 81-105.
- ↑ Edwards, A. L. (1957). The social desirability variable in personality assessment and research. New York: Dryden Press.
- ↑ Cronbach, L. J., & Meehl, P. E. (1955). Construct validity in psychological tests. Psychological Bulletin, 52, 281-302.
- ↑ Bandura, A. (1967). Behavioral psychotherapy. Scientific American, 216, 78-86.


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John Kerry Condemns Global Anti-Gay Violence
Secretary John Kerry has been a longtime proponent of LGBT rights so it's no surprise, in light of Gay Pride Month, that he applauded the progress LGBT activist have made since Stonewall.
In a new statement issued by the White House Tuesday, Kerry also condemned anti-gay global violence, saying, "we still have a long way to go."
"All over the world, people continue to be killed, arrested, and harassed simply because of who they are, or who they love," Kerry said. "There are LGBT people of all ages, all races and all faiths, citizens of every country on Earth. In too many places, LGBT people and their supporters are still attacked if they just attempt to stand up for their rights and participate in peaceful rallies or marches, or simply for being who they are."
He went on to say that members of the LGBT community in the United States "must be free to exercise their human rights -- including freedom of expression, freedom of religion and freedom of assembly and association -- without fear of reprisal."
Kerry concluded that the U.S. must continue to progress human rights for all people during Gay Pride month and throughout the year.
Kerry served as Massachusetts senator from 1985 to 2013 before becoming the current Sectary of State. In 2004, he was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 Presidential Election, but lost to incumbent George W. Bush.
He spoke out on the Senate floor against the Defense of Marriage Act and voted against in 1996. In 2004, when Massachusetts legalized gay marriage, Kerry was against it, favoring civil unions. He reversed his views, however, in July 2010 in an op-ed he penned for the Boston Globe, under the title "Kerry Acknowledges Gay Marriage Change."
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Why we're fat? Food is easier to get, harder to resist
Having once worn a dress made entirely of raw meat, the pop singer Lady Gaga is famous — or notorious, depending upon how you feel about food as frockery — for her extravagant, often risqué, outfits.
But when 26-year-old Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta hit the concert scene this year, watchers went wild for different reason: Her skimpy costumes revealed that there was more of her to reveal.
The singer had added about 30 pounds to her 5-foot-1, formerly 100-pound frame, spawning a storm of magazine stories, blog posts and snarky jokes. It was a Gaga brouhaha.
Americans worry a lot about body weight, theirs and everybody else's. Gaga's Body Mass Index still falls within the "normal" range, but in a July Gallup poll, 81 percent of Americans said obesity was an "extremely serious" or "very serious" social problem. Smoking came in a distant second at 67 percent.
"For the first time," observed writer Daniel Engber in Slate, "respondents have shown that they're more worried about jiggly thighs than blackened lungs."
To be sure, there are a lot more jiggly thighs out there than blackened lungs, not to mention bouncing bellies and wobbly arms. More than two-thirds of American adults (and one-third of their children) are overweight or obese. More than half of our pet dogs and cats are, too.
The causes and effects of obesity thread through the fabric of America, a tangle of confusions, contradictions and controversies. Billions of dollars are spent to persuade us to eat and eat often. Food is continuously reinvented so that it is easier to consume — and harder to resist. For a fattened nation, the ramifications spill out in ways far more troubling than Lady Gaga's midriff.
Americans eat one-third more processed food than fresh; more packaged food per person than just about anybody else on Earth. This convenient fact contains an inconvenient truth: The more a food is processed, the less it tends to resemble actual food.
Ten ounces of real strawberries, for example, has 90 calories, 5 grams of fiber, abundant vitamins and minerals and myriad phytochemicals believed to promote good health. One ounce of Betty Crocker's Strawberry Splash Fruit Gushers also contains 90 calories, but zero fiber and almost no measurable nutrients. No actual strawberries, either.
Eating right — and smart — is hard to do. It's a big part of why so many Americans are so fat. Many things make eating right difficult, even for the well-intentioned. Two cases in point:
How many times a day can mom counter by saying, "Carrots are good for you."
The majority of the studies were funded, at least in part, by the food and drink industry, though many studies did not explicitly say so. The researchers found a strong association between the type of funding and the conclusions drawn: Studies funded exclusively by industry were four to eight times more likely to have conclusions favorable to the financial interests of the sponsoring company than articles not funded by food or drink companies.
"If a study is funded by the industry," Ludwig told US News & World Report, "it may be closer to advertising than science."
Everything around us encourages overconsumption. "More food, more often, in more places than we need," said Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University.
Americans have access to more calories per day per capita — 3,800 — than anyone else in the world. Roughly one-third of these calories are lost to things like spoilage and plate waste, but each of us still manages to gobble down an average of 2,700 calories per day, about 530 more than we did in 1970.
This easy abundance is a relatively new phenomenon, according to Margaret Schoeninger, a professor of anthropology at UC San Diego who studies the evolution of the human diet. "Even a generation or so ago, we didn't eat like we do now, walking, driving, at any time," she said.
"Humans are omnivores so we'll eat whatever we can get, but we're not really set up biologically to consume food all of the time. In that, we're not alone. Dogs are omnivores too, but if you let them eat whenever they want, they get obese as well."
One reason we eat so much involves how we cook food. As late as the 1960s, the vast majority of meals were prepared and eaten at home. Now, it's less than half. In 1965, a married woman who didn't work spent, on average, more than two hours per day cooking and cleaning up after meals.
Then a sort of revolution in the mass food preparation occurred, according to Harvard University economists David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser and Jesse M. Shapiro. Technological innovations like vacuum packing, artificial flavors and microwave ovens dramatically cut the time and effort needed to prepare meals. The ability to cheaply manufacture food for the masses meant greater quantity and variety.
The proof is in the potato. "Before World War II, Americans ate massive amounts of potatoes, largely baked, boiled or mashed," the economists wrote in their 2003 study. "French fries were rare, both at home and in restaurants, because the preparation requires significant peeling, cutting and cooking."
But machines were invented that could peel, cut and cook potatoes almost automatically at central locations, then freeze and ship them to any place in the country where they could be quickly reheated in deep fryers, ovens or microwaves.
"Today, the French fry is the dominant form of potato and America's favorite vegetable," the economists wrote. Total potato consumption has risen more than 30 percent since 1977. So has the related national calorie count: A medium serving of fast-food french fries these days packs between 390 and 450 calories, roughly half from fat. The medium, unadorned baked potato of yore contains a comparatively paltry 160.
Food makers and purveyors aren't particularly interested in changing (i.e., reducing) American consumption patterns. It's not in their financial interest. That leaves government policymakers and regulators to act as, well, mom.
Everyone knows that's a hard and thankless job.
Take New York City's recent ban on the sale of large, sugar-sweetened drinks such as sodas, "sports" beverages, sweetened teas and coffees, and fruit and energy drinks. The ban limits maximum beverage size to 16 ounces.
That sound you hear is Americans everywhere gulping, big time. The average American consumes 222 calories a day in the form of soda or other sugary beverages. Male teens drink an average of 868 cans of soda a year; more than half of all 8-year-olds drink at least one can a day. The consumption of sugary drinks over the last 40 years has paralleled the obesity rate, though the American Beverage Association dismisses the correlation, noting that soda consumption has declined in recent years (though other sugary drinks have not).
New York's beverage ban aroused great ire and controversy. In defending it, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, "All we're doing here is educating. It forces you to see the difference."
It may not make a difference. The ban doesn't necessarily ban anything.
"One hundred and fifty years of research in food economics tells us that people get what they want," Brian Wansink, a professor of marketing and director of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University told The Wall Street Journal. "Someone who buys a 32-ounce soft drink wants a 32-ounce soft drink. He or she will go to a place that offers fountain refills, or buy two."
But many nutrition and health activists laud the ban as a step in the right direction. They point to the connection — correlation to causal — between excessive body weight and scores of diseases and health conditions.
"Some of the most important public health measures — those that have saved millions of lives — were accomplished through government intervention: chlorinated water, vaccination, seat belts, helmets and anti-smoking measures," Nestle said.
"Taxpayers are responsible for the health care costs of self-interested individual behavior, so taxpayers have a vested interest in keeping people healthy."
The problem with fat is that it doesn't spread evenly — on people or in nations.
Wansink says New York's soda ban will affect poor people much more than rich, noting that soft drinks are purchased by one-third of the city's poorest 2 million, but by just one-sixth of the city's richest top million people.
Associations between weight and socioeconomic status are controversial. In economically developed countries, conventional wisdom holds that obesity is lower among the wealthy because they can afford more nutritious food, they feel greater social pressure to remain slim and they have better access and resources for staying fit.
Among the most widely cited reasons for why some Americans are obese is because they live in poorer neighborhoods dubbed "food deserts," places where cheap fast-food joints and convenience stores outnumber full-service supermarkets. These are neighborhoods where it's presumed to be easier or cheaper to eat badly than well.
"We all grew up in communities with grandmothers who cooked two, three vegetables that you had to eat," said first lady Michelle Obama last year at a Chicago conference on food deserts. "There were no ifs, ands or buts about it. But that's because many of our grandparents, they had community gardens; there was the vegetable man that came around. There were many other resources that allowed them to have access. So it's not that people don't know or don't want to do the right thing; they just have to have access to the foods that they know will make their families healthier."
Food deserts have been broadly linked to the obesity problem — and they may be — but there is some evidence to argue otherwise. A pair of new studies published this year, for example, found that poor, urban neighborhoods actually have lots of everything: fast-food joints, convenience stores, supermarkets and full-service restaurants.
"You can get basically any type of food," Roland Sturm, lead author of one of the studies, told The New York Times. "Maybe we should call it a food swamp."
Swamp or not, without real changes on all scales, obesity may be our just dessert.


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Women's DI hockey team remains No. 1 in nation
February 4, 2013 | Lynchburg, Va.
Liberty University's women's Division I hockey team retained its No. 1 national ranking in Saturday's third of four American Collegiate Hockey Association Division I polls. It is the first time the Lady Flames (21-2) have been ranked No. 1 in two consecutive polls. Liberty has held the top spot since the second ranking came out Dec. 17.
The Lady Flames received their first No. 1 ranking in Dec. 2011 but did not maintain that position in the next poll.
In voting done by the DI women's coaches, who ranked their top 15 teams based on games played through Jan. 27, Liberty received all but three first-place votes. Minnesota (11-2), which split a pair of games against the Lady Flames at Wisconsin on Nov. 16 and 17, came in at No. 2 followed by Rhode Island (18-4), which was swept by the Gophers, at No. 3.
Robert Morris-Illinois, which split two games against Liberty Jan. 18 and 19 in Chicago, is the No. 4-ranked team followed by No. 5 Massachusetts, No. 6 Michigan and No. 7 Northeastern, the defending ACHA DI national champion. Liberty knocked off Northeastern 4-3 on Oct. 14.
The fourth and final ranking will be released Feb. 23, based on games through Feb. 17, and will determine seedings for this year's DI national tournament, set for March 7-10 at the Ashburn Ice House in Loudoun County, just outside of Washington, D.C.
If the rankings stay the same, and Liberty's should since it has completed conference play, the top-seeded Lady Flames would meet No. 8 Grand Valley State in the quarterfinal round. In that scenario, ninth-ranked Ohio State and No. 10 Michigan State, the 2011 national champion, would miss the cut for the tournament.
Liberty has received bids to nationals in five of the program's first six years of existence, by finishing ranked in the top eight.
Injuries prevented the Lady Flames from playing their best in the postseason last year, but head coach Paul Bloomfield believes they are prepared to peak in next month's tournament.
"I feel like we're in good shape," he said. "We have some injuries, but they all should be ready to go by nationals."
The Lady Flames swept three games from 11th-ranked Colorado State over the weekend at the LaHaye Ice Center, outscoring the visiting Rams 17-1.
Liberty's defense is anchored by sophomore goalie Samantha Rupp, who has saved 93 percent of opponents' shots, posting three shutouts and boasting a goals-against average hovering around 1.00.
The Lady Flames' offense is sparked by forwards Stacey McCombe, Carrie Jickling, Carly Peleshok, and Amanda Grainger, who each have scored more than 20 points on the season.


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Pandemic Flu History
Flu pandemics have occurred throughout history. There have been four since 1918, each with different characteristics.
1918 – 1919
Illness from the 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, came on quickly. Some people felt fine in the morning but died by nightfall. People who caught the Spanish Flu but did not die from it often died from complications caused by bacteria, such as pneumonia.
During the 1918 pandemic:
- Approximately 20% to 40% of the worldwide population became ill
- An estimated 50 million people died
- Nearly 675,000 people died in the United States
Unlike earlier pandemics and seasonal flu outbreaks, the 1918 pandemic flu saw high mortality rates among healthy adults. In fact, the illness and mortality rates were highest among adults 20 to 50 years old. The reasons for this remain unknown.
- We Heard the Bells
Watch this film and explore the personal experiences of a diverse group of Americans during the 1918 flu pandemic.
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Learn how the 1918 pandemic affected life in 1918 and the nation's health care system. See historical artifacts from the pandemic, including ads, newspapers, and photographs. Read stories and anecdotes of the impact of the Great Pandemic in individual states.
- Pandemic Influenza Storybook
Read personal recollections of the 1918 and 1957 flu pandemics.
- The Deadly Virus: The Influenza Epidemic of 1918
View the National Archives and Records Administration's documents and photos from the 1918 flu pandemic.
- Toxic Traces: What Made the 1918 Influenza Virus So Deadly?
Read how National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease-supported researchers are looking to the 1918 flu pandemic for ways to fight future pandemics.
- Pandemic Influenza––Past, Present, Future: Communicating Today Based on the Lessons from the 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic (PDF – 1.72 MB)
Learn how the 1918 pandemic affected daily life in the United States and which lessons can be used to prepare for pandemics today.
- The American Experience: Influenza 1918 (Public Broadcasting Service)
Watch PBS's documentary on "the worst epidemic in American history."
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Read about the Navy medical professionals who fought the 1918 flu pandemic in stories collected by the Navy Department Library.
1957 – 1958
In February 1957, a new flu virus was identified in the Far East. Immunity to this strain was rare in people younger than 65. A pandemic was predicted. To prepare, health officials closely monitored flu outbreaks. Vaccine production began in late May 1957 and was available in limited supply by August 1957.
In the summer of 1957, the virus came to the United States quietly with a series of small outbreaks. When children returned to school in the fall, they spread the disease in classrooms and brought it home to their families. Infection rates peaked among school children, young adults, and pregnant women in October 1957. By December 1957, the worst seemed to be over.
However, another wave of illness came in January and February of 1958. This is an example of the potential "second wave" of infections that can happen during a pandemic.
Most influenza–and pneumonia–related deaths occurred between September 1957 and March 1958. Although the 1957 pandemic was not as devastating as the 1918 pandemic, about 69,800 people in the United States died. The elderly had the highest rates of death.
- Pandemic Influenza Storybook
Read personal recollections of the 1918 and 1957 flu pandemics.
1968 – 1969
In early 1968, a new flu virus was detected in Hong Kong. The first cases in the United States were detected as early as September 1968. Illness was not widespread in the United States until December 1968. Deaths from this virus peaked in December 1968 and January 1969. Those over the age of 65 were most likely to die. The number of deaths between September 1968 and March 1969 was 33,800, making it the mildest flu pandemic in the 20th century. The same virus returned in 1970 and 1972.
There could be several reasons fewer people in the United States died due to this virus:
- The Hong Kong flu virus was similar in some ways to the 1957 pandemic flu virus. This might have provided some immunity against the Hong Kong flu virus.
- The Hong Kong flu virus hit in December of 1968, when school children were on vacation. This caused a decline in flu cases because children were not at school to infect one another. This also prevented it from spreading into their homes.
- Improved medical care and antibiotics that are more effective for secondary bacterial infections were available for those who became ill.
2009 – 2010
In the spring of 2009, a new flu virus spread quickly across the United States and the world. The first U.S. case of H1N1 (swine flu) was diagnosed on April 15, 2009. By April 21, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was working to develop a vaccine for this new virus. On April 26, the U.S. government declared H1N1 a public health emergency.
By June, 18,000 cases of H1N1 had been reported in the United States. A total of 74 countries were affected by the pandemic. H1N1 vaccine supply was limited in the beginning. People at the highest risk of complications got the vaccine first.
By November 2009, 48 states had reported cases of H1N1, mostly in young people. That same month, over 61 million vaccine doses were ready. Reports of flu activity began to decline in parts of the country, which gave the medical community a chance to vaccinate more people. 80 million people were vaccinated against H1N1, which minimized the impact of the illness.
The CDC estimates that 43 million to 89 million people had H1N1 between April 2009 and April 2010. They estimate between 8,870 and 18,300 H1N1 related deaths.
On August 10, 2010 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the global H1N1 flu pandemic
- Influenza A(H1N1): Lessons Learned and Preparedness
Read keynote speech by Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization.
- Situation Updates – Pandemic (H1N1) 2009
Access archived updates on H1N1 from WHO's Global Alert and Response.
- Timeline of Influenza A (H1N1) Cases
See the spread of H1N1 human cases across the world with WHO's interactive map.
- The H1N1 Pandemic: Summary Highlights, April 2009–April 2010
Get a summary of key events of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic and CDC's response activities.
Pandemic Flu Threats
When the 1976 swine flu was identified at Fort Dix, New Jersey it was called the "killer flu." Experts were concerned because they thought the virus was similar to the 1918 Spanish flu.
To prevent a major pandemic, the United States launched a vaccination campaign. In fact, the virus––later named "swine flu"––never moved outside the Fort Dix area. Later, research on the virus showed that it would not have been as deadly as the 1918 flu if it had spread.
- Swine Influenza A Outbreak, Fort Dix, New Jersey, 1976
Learn how Fort Dix soldiers were affected by the 1976 swine flu outbreak in this CDC report.
In May 1977, a new flu virus was found in northern China. The virus spread quickly and became a worldwide epidemic in people under 23. Because the virus was similar to flu viruses found before 1957, people born before 1957 had been exposed to it and had some immunity.
By January 1978, the virus had spread around the world, including the United States. This outbreak was not considered a pandemic because most patients were children. To prevent future outbreaks, the virus was included in the 1978–1979 vaccine.
1997 and 1999
In 1997, at least a few hundred people caught H5N1 (avian flu) in Hong Kong. Like the 1918 pandemic, most severe illness affected young adults. Eighteen people were hospitalized. Six of those people died. This avian flu was unlike other viruses because it passed directly from chickens to people. Avian flu viruses usually spread from chickens to pigs before passing to humans.
To prevent the virus from spreading, all chickens in Hong Kong—approximately 1.5 million— were slaughtered. Because this flu did not spread easily from person to person, no human infections were found after the chickens were killed.
In 1999, a new avian flu virus appeared. The new virus caused illness in two children in Hong Kong.
Neither of these avian flu viruses started pandemics.
- H5N1 Avian Influenza Timeline (PDF – 229KB)
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Titans Send Lone Wrestler To State
MILFORD – The Titans of Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire brought three wrestlers to Saturday's Class 1A District tournament in Milford, but only one Titan would earn advancement to the State Wrestling Tournament this week in Des Moines.
Cody Thompson, the Titans' 285 pounder, captured the championship in his weight division to earn the trip to his first State Tournament. Thompson started his trip to state with a 1:10 win by fall over Nolan Geerdes of Central Lyon/George Little Rock, setting up his championship match with Alex Bruch of Carroll Kuemper.
In the final, Thompson and Bruch would battle to a 1-1 tie at the end of the regulation three periods. Moving into the sudden death period, Thompson made a shot that caught the Kuemper wrestler and allowed Thompson to score the takedown to earn the championship with a 3-1 decision.
The Titans also brought Alex Hoffman and Austin Thompson to the District meet, but both would be denied in their bids to make it to the big dance.
At 113 pounds, Alex Hoffman received a bye in his first round match after his initial opponent, Kyle Vierck of West Lyon, forfeited due to illness. Automatically advancing into the finals match, Hoffman went up against Mitch Brinkman of Pocahontas Area in a repeat of the Sectional title match.
However, for Hoffman, Brinkman would earn the championship with a 4-1 decision over the Titan wrestler.
Hoffman would then have to wrestleback for the true second place finish, meeting Jose Montes of West Sioux in the crucial wrestleback, but Hoffman was unable to score and came up short in the 2-0 decision to finish third.
At 126 pounds, Austin Thompson would start his day on a down note as he was pinned in 3:25 by Colby McIntire of Central Lyon/George-Little Rock.
Moving into the consolation bracket, Thompson earned a 7-2 decision victory over Kaleb Vanderpool of Okoboji to place third.
But, Thompson would not get an opportunity for a wrestleback and settled for third place to cap off the Titans' efforts.


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ABOUT Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll (born August 1, 1950 in New York City) is an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll is best known for his 1978 novel The Basketball Diaries, which was made into a movie in 1995 starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Raised in New York City, Carroll attended several Catholic Grammar Schools from 1955 to 1963. In fall 1963, he entered public school, but was soon rewarded a scholarship to the elite Trinity High School (a private school). He entered Trinity High School in 1964.
Apart from being interested in writing, Carroll was a passionate basketball player throughout his grade school and middle school career. He entered the "Biddy League" at age 13 and participated in the National High School All Star Game in 1966, hence the title of his most famous book.
As a teenager, Carroll was a heroin addict who sometimes prostituted himself to afford his habit. The novel The Basketball Diaires concerns his life in New York City's hard drug culture and his struggle to rid himself of his addiction.
Carroll published his first book, Organic Trains, at age 17. Several of his poems have been published in such magazines as Paris Review and Poetry. In 1970, his second collection of poems, 4 Ups and 1 Down was published. That same year, Carroll started working for Andy Warhol. At first, he was writing film dialogue and inventing character names; later on, Carroll worked as the co-manager of Warhol's Theater. Carroll's first above-ground publication, the collection Living At The Movies was published in 1973.
He formed the Jim Carroll Band, a New Wave/punk rock group, in 1980. Their biggest commercial success was the single "People Who Died," from their debut album, Catholic Boy. He has also collaborated with many influential punk and hard rock musicians, including Lou Reed, Blue Öyster Cult, Boz Scaggs and Rancid.
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The latest twist on the selfie is a photo of your stuff artfully arranged on a shelf-like surface. Self-indulgent ego trip—or a thoughtful way to show off your great taste on social media?
BEFORE SOCIAL MEDIA existed, people had far fewer chances to show off—and soliciting a little praise could leave you completely drained. If you wanted to flaunt your good taste and your enviable eye for design, for instance, you were required to decorate a two-story Colonial or at least throw a dinner party, folding napkins into fetching shapes and masterminding a sublime centerpiece. You had to vigorously vacuum, admit people into your home and clean up their hors d'oeuvre crumbs.
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Blumenthal happy to have Obama headline his fundraiser
Presidential endorsement: Commander in chief to stump in Stamford for Blumenthal
Democratic Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has tried to distance himself from some of President Barack Obama's policies as he competes with Republican Linda McMahon for the U.S. Senate.
But Blumenthal's campaign made it clear late Friday the candidate is not running away from Obama.
The White House on Friday announced that the president, who was anticipated to be visiting Connecticut this month to assist Democratic candidates, will headline a fundraiser for Blumenthal at a to-be-disclosed Stamford location Sept. 16.
The president will also be in Blumenthal's and McMahon's hometown of Greenwich for an event for the Democratic National Committee.
"I look forward to welcoming the president of the United States to Connecticut," Blumenthal said soon afterward in a statement. "It is an honor to have his support and his assistance. His visit will make a difference for us, energizing our supporters and helping us raise the resources we need against my opponent, who is spending an unprecedented $50 million on her campaign."
Blumenthal and McMahon are vying for the seat being vacated after 30 years by Democrat Chris Dodd, who is not running for re-election.
During her primary campaign and now in the general election race against Blumenthal, McMahon has portrayed herself as a political outsider, despite, as her critics have observed, having a campaign orchestrated by veteran consultants with close ties to GOP national and state politics.
A new Spanish-language radio advertisement, for example, does not mention McMahon's affiliation, referring to her instead as "independent, not a politician."
Blumenthal, who has served as attorney general for the past 20 years, has been mocked by McMahon and other Republicans for attempting to portray himself as an outsider ready to take on the Washington establishment.
He has criticized both the bailout of Wall Street and the federal stimulus, saying the latter legislation -- a hallmark of Obama's first year in office -- "was poorly structured and failed to do enough to create jobs and put paychecks in people's pockets."
And in a speech last month to the AFL-CIO in Hartford, Blumenthal railed against Washington, saying, "It's preoccupied with the special interests. It's gridlocked by partisan acrimony. Washington isn't listening, and Washington isn't working for ordinary people."
McMahon has in turn described Blumenthal as being a late-to-the-dance opponent of some of Obama's policies.
Gary Rose, chairman of the department of government and politics at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, said that if Blumenthal was worried the president will hurt his campaign, Obama would not be coming.
"This is supposedly `the year of the outsider,' but at the same time, they need him to mobilize the urban vote," Rose said. "And this is Connecticut. Whether he would be welcomed in some other states might be a different situation, but in Connecticut, I think he still has quite a bit of appeal."
Obama had come to Connecticut for a Dodd fundraiser last year.
While Connecticut has been for years a reliably blue state, Obama's job approval rating here has dipped from 72 percent to 50 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released in July. And in response to rumors about a September visit by the president, former state Democratic Party Chairman John Droney last week caused some controversy when he suggested on WFSB-Channel 3's "Face the State" that Obama should not come.
During that same taping, GOP Chairman Chris Healy said he hoped Obama would appear on Blumenthal's behalf.
The McMahon campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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District Leader Walter Mosley has formally filed for the race to replace Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, setting up one of the more contentious Democratic primaries this cycle against his fellow District Leader Ola Alabi, who has already announced her campaign. Mr. Jeffries is in a contentious race of his own as he seeks to unseat veteran Congressman Ed Towns.
Mr. Mosley, who's also a former Senate aide, was long thought to be interested in the seat. His newly registered committee will allow him to raise funds and place the tangible wheels in motion for an actual campaign.
A Brooklyn Democratic insider told The Politicker Mr. Jeffries is thought to be supportive of Mr. Mosley's efforts while Ms. Alabi is seen as more closely aligned with Mr. Towns.


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Internet Explorer 9 promises to have first-rate HTML5 support when it eventually ships—at least for the features it will support. But HTML5 has become a label for a big set of interrelated Web authoring specifications, and Microsoft's new browser won't cover them all. Features whose specifications are currently unstable and still undergoing extensive changes won't be found in Internet Explorer 9, because Microsoft wants its browser to support only those features that have stable specifications. This forces developers who are interested in the new, unstable features to look at browsers other than Internet Explorer.
That could change starting today, with Microsoft's launch of HTML5Labs. Microsoft will release prototype implementations for HTML5 features that are currently in flux. These prototypes will slot into the browser, extending its HTML5 support to cover new and unstable specifications, giving developers the opportunity to try them out and provide feedback to W3C, the Web standards body, to help guide their development and future progress. The first two prototypes, launched today, give Internet Explorer 9 support for WebSockets, which allows scripting to engage in complex bidirectional communication with servers, and IndexedDB, which gives scripts access to a simple database so that they can store and retrieve data in the browser.
Standard in flux
Technically, HTML5 covers only the core markup language used for webpages—the one with all the angle brackets—but it has come to be used as a broad catch-all, a collective label applied to new versions of CSS, used for applying formatting and styling to Web content, JavaScript, webpage APIs like DOM, Canvas bitmapped graphics, WOFF Web fonts, and lots more. This naming is largely due to a quirk of history; the groundwork for much of this new development was done by a breakaway group named WHATWG, and initially much of it was done as part of a single HTML5 specification. WebSockets and IndexedDB are two of these additional specifications, designed for use by JavaScript within webpages, that fall into this broader "HTML5" category.
These changes have caused headaches for browser developers and Web developers alike. The two most recent protocol versions, 75 and 76, are incompatible. Version 75 was supported by Chrome 4 and Safari 5.0.0. Version 76 is supported by Firefox 4, Chrome 6, Safari 5.0.1, and Opera 11. Unfortunately, version 76 is broken (it can cause hangs for users behind certain kinds of Web proxy), and suffers certain intrinsic security flaws—it will have to be revised at some point, and that revision will probably be incompatible again. As a result of this security issue, both Firefox and Opera have disabled support for WebSockets in the latest versions of their browsers (Firefox 4 beta 8 and Opera 11).
IndexedDB (formerly known as WebSimpleDB) was first proposed in 2009. In fact, it's the second database-like API proposed for HTML5. Development of the first, Web SQL Database, reached an impasse and was all but abandoned in December last year, even though it was supported in a range of browsers. The problem was that every browser supporting it used essentially the same implementation, leaving the standard inextricably linked to the vagaries of a particular SQL-like database engine. W3C requires multiple independent implementations to avoid this kind of problem. IndexedDB is a kind of successor—it covers similar ground to Web SQL Database, but does so in a more general way, to avoid the problem of being tied in to a specific implementation.
IndexedDB doesn't have the same kind of security problems as WebSockets currently do, but it's nonetheless a specification in flux, and the current draft has many outstanding issues still to be resolved. Resolution of these issues may result in broken applications if the resolution is contrary to what developers expected.
The desire for stability
This kind of instability—not to mention mandated security flaws—is why the Internet Explorer team has refrained from implementing WebSockets in the core browser. For good or ill, Microsoft wants its browser to offer a stable platform to developers—one in which new versions of the browser will not break things that used to work. With WebSockets and IndexedDB, there is a very real prospect that applications written today, against the current published versions of the specifications will be broken by future iterations. That's not a burden that Microsoft wants to place on developers—if a feature makes its way into Internet Explorer, it needs to be stable.
There is certainly some sense in this. WebSockets, for example, is not production-ready, and developers should not be creating (nonexperimental) content that depends on them. Incorporating these features into the browser may lead developers to use them even if their specifications aren't really ready for that. Worse, developers might even start using features like Web SQL Database, which are an evolutionary dead end.
The flip-side to this is that the only way to develop solid, robust specifications is to use those specifications in realistic (albeit experimental) scenarios, to see how well they work and what problems they have. By sticking with only stable specifications in Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft may be avoiding springing unpleasant surprises on developers down the line, but the company is also denying them the ability to experiment with more cutting-edge specifications to see how well they work.
The HTML5Labs, and its prototype implementations, should fill that gap—they will give access to this new technology without causing long-term problems. The fact that developers will have to explicitly install the prototypes will make their experimental status obvious, and should prevent any production sites from depending on unstable features. Microsoft says that the prototypes will be updated regularly, and that they will track the latest specification changes aggressively; the company also says that WebSockets and IndexedDB are just the first two such prototypes to be released, and that more will follow.
Culture clash
As well as providing valuable access to future web standards, these prototypes go some way towards resolving some of the inconsistencies between Microsoft's approach to development, and the standardization process. Incomplete specifications can undergo rapid updates—over the period of about 18 months, the WebSockets wire protocol was revised more than 70 times—and Microsoft isn't set up to deal with that kind of turnover. Internet Explorer 9's development has certainly been an improvement over previous versions of the browser, with preview releases made every eight weeks or so, but it still falls short of the nightly builds offered by other browsers. While this "stable platform" culture is not a huge problem for stable specifications, it leaves the company unable to keep pace with unstable specifications.
By decoupling these unstable specifications from the browser and offering them as extensions, they're no longer tied to the browser's release schedule. They can track the specifications, or even experiment with new proposals of their own, keeping pace with HTML5 development. The corporate culture no longer needs to stand in the way of giving developers access to cutting-edge technology.
That's a big step forward for Microsoft, and it should allow Redmond to become as responsive as the other browser authors—at least to an extent. The company was unfortunately tight-lipped when it came to describing what happens after the prototypes. WebSockets and IndexedDB will, eventually, stabilize and solidify. At this point they should be eligible for incorporation into the browser proper. If they become stable before Internet Explorer 9 is finished, then that shouldn't be a big issue; they can be rolled into Internet Explorer 9 and shipped with that.
The question is, what happens if they stabilize after Internet Explorer 9 ships? Microsoft still hasn't indicated that it's going to move away from releasing the browser on a two- to three-year schedule—the promise of stable platforms still excites the company—but there's little value in creating these prototypes (or, indeed, in the company's commitment to Web standards) if WebSockets stabilize three months after Internet Explorer 9 is released, and we then have to wait a year or more for Microsoft to actually incorporate them into its browser. The progress that has been made will be for naught.


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