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Spying Scandal Reinforces Fears of National Gun Registry
By Carl Golden
In the debate over legislation to require universal background checks for prospective gun purchasers, a central argument of guns rights groups was that it would lead inevitably to creation of a national registry to identify and track firearms owners.
Supporters pointed out that the legislation contained specific language prohibiting a registry, but their point did little to mollify opponents or eliminate the paranoia felt by gun owners who continued to believe that the government could and would subvert the law, establish a registry, and take the first steps toward confiscation of their weapons.
With the revelation that government agencies have for years been engaged in snooping on a breathtaking scale, suddenly the idea of a national gun registry doesn't seem so far-fetched anymore.
Is it that much of a leap in logic to suspect that amassing billions of telephone records of private citizens, tracking e-mails and visits to internet sites, and reviewing credit card purchases is evidence that sooner or later gun ownership would come under the same scrutiny?
Despite the protests of everyone from the President to the Attorney General to leading members of Congress that the government would not compile a registry of gun owners, the disclosure of the massive collection and retention of the personal data of private citizens in the name of national security has undercut their argument.
If anything, it has stoked the paranoia surrounding the gun control issue.The vast majority of gun owners are law-abiding individuals, but so are the hundreds of millions of people whose phone records have been seized.They've not been suspected of any crime, either.
Defenders of the secret data mining argue it is an invaluable tool in the war on terrorism and, provided it is carried out with proper oversight, will guarantee a safer and more secure nation.They are hampered in offering evidence in support of their position because the highly classified nature of the material prevents any public discussion.
Fair enough, but no one should be surprised at the level of skepticism which has been produced or the anger and outrage expressed across the political ideological spectrum over the intrusion into personal privacy.
The President's political supporters pointed out that the data collection began under former President George W. Bush, a contention that seems to suggest that the current program can be justified because it's merely continues that of his Republican predecessor. As a Senator, however, Obama was critical of the Bush Administration's surveillance activities and pledged that transparency would be the order of the day in his White House.
The Administration's credibility is in tatters with the latest revelations coming hard on the heels of the court-approved seizure of telephone records of the Associated Press, the labeling of a Fox News reporter as a potential criminal co-conspirator for obtaining leaked classified information from a State Department source, and the actions of the Internal Revenue Service in prolonged delays in granting applications for tax exempt status from conservative organizations.
Nothing has emerged thus far to suggest the IRS targeting scheme was directed by anyone in the White House or the President's 2012 re-election campaign.At most, it appears that personnel in the Service headquarters in Washington were involved and aware of the agents' activities in the Cincinnati office.
The secret surveillance program, however, is fully owned by the Obama Administration, just as it was by the Bush White House.The President has defended it as tightly-monitored and controlled and said there are no plans to curtail it.
In all likelihood, the hope for Congressional action on gun control legislation of any significance pretty much ended with the defeat of the universal background check proposal in April.Despite overwhelming public support for extending the background review, the issue has faded from the public consciousness and support has ebbed steadily as the images of death and gun violence carnage have dimmed over time.The National Rifle Association, by rallying its members and associated gun rights groups, can chalk up another victory and came out of the fight in an even stronger position.
Moreover, the Obama Administration, by its own actions, has handed the anti-gun control forces a great gift by reinforcing the suspicion that it believes expanding government control over private activity is its proper and legitimate role.
Should there come a time when an argument erupts again over a national registry of gun owners, this Administration will be defenseless.
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Food and eating practices are central to current sociological and anthropological concerns about the body, health, consumption, and identity. This study explores the importance of these themes as they intersect with processes of globalization and cultural production within a specific group of consumers, British Sh'ite Iranians. Through the analysis of the consumption practices of this particular migrant group, this book illustrates how both the nutritional value and symbolic significance of food contribute to its health-giving properties and how gender and ethnic identities are preformed and reinforced through the medium of food-work in public and private spheres. At the same time, as this study demonstrates, migration modifies and transfigures such identities and produces hybrid cultures and cuisines.
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Boac (Lat: Dioecesis Boacensis) is a Roman Rite diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. It has jurisdiction over the province of Marinduque.
Created suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lipa, separating from the Mother Diocese of Lucena on 2 April 1977, the Diocese of Boac comprises the whole civil province of Marinduque. It has a total area of 959.2 km2. In his book, "Historico Religioso Estado Geografico," 1865, Fr. Felix de Huerta says that the first apostle to Marinduque was the Franciscan Missionary Fray Estevan Cruz, who planted the first cross in 1579 that paved the way for the evangelization of the people. The first "visita" was established in 1580 and it was called "Monserrat de Marinduque" (now Boac) with Fray Alonzo Banol as its minister. In 1609 two other "visitas" were instituted, "San Juan de Marinduque" (now Sta. Cruz) and San Bernardo de Marinduque (now Gasan) with Fray Pedro de Talavera and Fray Juan Rosado as their first pastors, respectively. Later on, the Franciscans ceded the administration of the island to the Archbishop of Manila in 1613.
The Jesuits in the Philippines 1581-1768, a book written by Fr. Horacio de la Costa, states that Archbishop Miguel Garcia Serrano of Manila entrusted the island of Marinduque to the care of the Society of Jesus in 1621. The Jesuits stayed in the province and founded the town of Boac on 8 December 1622 and later on the towns of Sta. Cruz and Gasan. By virtue of a Spanish Royal Decree dated 19 May 1864, the Augusti-nian Recollect Fathers took over the spiritual administration of Boac in exchanged for the Curacies they left behind to the hands of the Jesuit missionaries in Mindanao.
Before the creation of the Diocese of Lipa by St. Pius X, the island of Marinduque, since 14 August 1595 till 10 April 1910, belonged to Archdiocese of Manila. When the Diocese of Lucena was created on 20 August 1950, Marinduque became a part of her. In 2 April 1977, by virtue of the Apostolic Bull "Cum Tempore Maturare" issued by Pope Paul VI, Marinduque was created as an independent Diocese. It was called Diocese of Boac.
On 10 May 1978, carried by the effect of the Papal Bull, the Diocese of Boac was canonically erected according to the Decretum Executorium signed by Most. Rev. Bruno Torpigliani, the Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines. Most Rev. Rafael M. Lim, the former Bishop of Laoag since 1971 and a native of Boac, was appointed on 26 January 1978 by Paul VI as the first Bishop of the new Diocese.
Boac is a poor Diocese in the island province of Marinduque. Its geographical location contributes greatly to this situation driving Marinduquenos (the inhabitants of the island) to seek for greener pasture outside of its provincial confine. Seeking excellence through God given talents, some have defied poverty by going out of the island and engaging into a multi-faceted business world. Many have succeeded; others have worked hard and achieved the prestige of national positions in government offices; while the majority has remained in the island-province contented with the kind of life they had since birth. Marinduquenos are peace-loving, simple, religious and hardworking.
Through the loving guidance of the Most Rev. Rafael M. Lim, the first bishop of the diocese, a diocesan vision is made in 1981: Marinduque, Simbahan ng mga Dukha na may Katarungan, Pag-big at Kapayapaan. Through a concerted effort of the faith community and upon the leadership of the Clergy, the local Church of Marinduque tried to realize this dream for the diocese. Programs and activities were focused towards this vision. Many of them have succeeded and have been continuously implemented within the diocese. In one of the monthly recollections in 1998, the members of the Clergy affirmed that the Diocese is a Church that is materially poor but with a deep grasp and sense of the Lord. Poverty exists because of sinful structures and those who are socially poor are marginalized. The diocese aims towards a participatory Church where both poor and rich people share each other's time, talent and treasure; where harmonious relationship exists between them thereby giving witness to the spirit of pastoral charity. As the Church denounces the sinful causes and structures of poverty, she at the same time designs programs and plans to alleviate the condition of the poor and inspires her ministers to the real witnessing of the spirit of poverty.
Although the Diocese is materially poor, giving and sharing have a great place in the minds, hearts, and practices of the people. There is a remarkable atmosphere of sensitivity, cooperation and responsibility towards one's neighbors and to the Church's programs and activities. Poverty has become an occasion for sensitivity among the people of God in the Local Church of Marinduque. On 10 September 1998, Most Rev. Rafael M. Lim, the first Bishop of the diocese passed away. Concerted efforts of the members of the Clergy and the collaboration of the faith community towards achieving a diocesan vision have not been hampered by his death. Through an unending support of the successors of Bishop Lim, the diocese edged towards achieving its vision. Their dedication and zealousness have paved and cemented the areas of concerns for the benefit of the people of Marinduque especially in their faith and belief in God.
On 10 May 2003, the Silver Anniversary Foundation of the Diocese of Boac was celebrated. Prompted by the creative thinking and pastoral concern of the new Bishop Jose F. Oliveros, the First Diocesan Synod was held on 4–9 May 2003 whose objectives include: to thank God for all the graces the Diocese received from Him for the past years; to assess and evaluate the life of faith and pastoral activities in the past up to the present; and to plan for the better future of the Diocese. This ecclesial activity is based on the admonition of Pope John Paul II in his Apostolic Letter entitled Tertio Millennio Ineunte which says that: "We do all these things in order to discover and reflect on the face of Christ. Because our witnessing would be nothing if we would not discover and reflect the face of God." Synodal decrees came out after a weeklong deliberation and reflection of the appointed delegates from the fourteen parishes of the diocese. Participated also by government and civil servants and together with the different sectoral leaders from the local communities, the progress of the Synod edged slowly towards its historic culmination wherein decrees based on the diocesan vision: Marinduque Simbahan ng mga Dukha na may Katarungan, Pag-ibig at Kapayapaan were finally voted and ratified. In her journey towards a new way of life as a church, after the advent of the Diocesan Synod 2003, the local church of Marinduque is once again sent by Christ: "Duc in altum, ecclesia pauperum, in iustitia, in caritate et in pace." This is a new call that demands a new response and sharing in the mission of Christ. As a Diocese, she cannot accomplish all the necessary changes expected of her as a people of God, all by herself. There will be no significant implementations of all the Synodal Decrees towards the realization of her vision: "Marinduque, church of the poor with justice, love and peace", without the much needed support and cooperation of all the faithful to this new endeavor.
After the Synodal Decrees were solemnly voted by the delegates at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Boac and canonically ratified by the Local Ordinary of the Diocese, much remained for their eventual implementation. This has become the main task handed over to the new Bishop-elect Most Rev. Reynaldo G. Evangelista by the former Bishop Oliveros who was transferred to shepherd the Diocese of Malolos in 5 August 2004. Having in mind the value of the Sy- nodal Decrees, Bishop Evangelista expressed his desire to continue with the existing programs and activities in the diocese. Equipped with pastoral experiences and engaged in the formation of seminarians in the Archdiocese of Lipa before becoming a Bishop of Boac, Bishop Evangelista called for a Pastoral Assembly in September 2006 to look into the Decrees and its implementation in the diocese. A Diocesan Pastoral Plan was unanimously approved based on the Synodal Decrees.
Positive outlook of the future is heightening based on the optimism of the people of Marinduque since the First Diocesan Synod in 2003. The positive gestures of the Bishop and the entire Clergy are encouraging and thus ushering in great hope for a brighter future of the Church in Marinduque. God is so good to the Diocese through the witnessing of the priests and the Bishop of Boac. The Diocese of Boac aspires to become a witnessing community of the Church of the Poor where justice, love and peace reign. Moving towards the task of continuous evangelization of the people, the diocese propels towards the vast ocean to fish for its constituents in her local Church bringing and putting into mind the imperative of Jesus Christ: "Duc in altum, ecclesia, pauperum, in iustitia, in caritate, et in pace."
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President Barack Obama introduced a cybersecurity executive order in his state of the union address that offered a broad outline of how the government plans to deal with cyber threats.
The eight-page document outlines a process that allows government agencies to work with private industry to combat cyber threats, while seemingly addressing concerns of citizen privacy. Past legislative attempts at cybersecurity have been criticized by groups who believe bills like Cispa violate privacy by allowing information-sharing between private industry and the government.
Gregg Housh, an internet activist associated with the hacking collective Anonymous, told the Guardian that while the executive order is broad, "of everything we've seen so far, this is about the best we could hope for".
In the next four months, the attorney general, the secretary of homeland security and the director of national intelligence will start looking at specific ways to improve cybersecurity. The government is due to produce a preliminary cybersecurity framework draft later this year and have a final version ready a year from 12 February.
"The biggest and most important thing to me right now is that while we have a basic framework here, and some of it is surprisingly positive looking, we don't know exactly what this is going to end up being," Housh said.
One thing Housh is concerned about is the way the government aims to protect citizen privacy and civil liberties. The order says the Department of Homeland Security is set to provide recommendations for how to minimize and mitigate privacy and civil liberties risks in a public report to be released February of next year.
"The very idea that the DHS will be policing itself is the thing that frightens me the most," Housh said. "The people who were tasked with actually protecting the privacy and civil liberties are the people who work for the DHS. It seems counter-intuitive to me that they are allowed to police themselves."
Housh has been following Anonymous since 2006, and was involved in their campaign against Scientology, though he says he has never taken part in any of their illegal acts. He called the government's tactics for dealing with the hacking collective and other other online hacktivists as "old-school".
"It seems no matter how many people they put behind bars, no matter how many people they arrest and ban from computers, somehow, government websites, the Fed and everything else are perfectly free game for people like Anonymous," Housh said. "So the very idea that you can take down a few people, scare everyone away, and that you've got the only really talented people is ludicrous. It's proven to be ludicrous."
He said that form of dealing with hacking "is only pissing off more people and making more people want to join up".
Housh does think the executive order is an improvement on previous cybersecurity legislation, though.
"Unlike Cispa, this is going to not give these people immunity for sharing tons and tons of information with the government, and I think that is one key difference," Housh said.
His statement echoes those of other open-internet advocates, including the ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation, who are happy with the broad order because of how it addresses civilian privacy.
Michelle Richardson, a legislative counsel for the ACLU, said she hopes the order can fend off legislation like Cispa. "With all of the horrible things out there, we're really glad that they are focusing on those sort of programs instead."
Richardson called the order privacy neutral because it sets up the processes for the government to work with critical infrastructure to determine cybersecurity standards at a later date.
"The good news is: it really encourages information-sharing from the privacy-sharing from the government to the private sector, instead of the opposite direction, which is the scary part," Richardson said. "It's more problematic when it's about companies turning over their customers' records."
The order does make room for the government to temporarily hire private-sector cyber threat experts to provide information to critical infrastructure owners on how to reduce and mitigate threats.
Amy Mushahwar, a counsel at Ballard Spahr with more than 15 years experience in cybersecurity, said that by calling for legislation, Obama displayed his recognition of industry's desire to have research and development and liability protection included.
"The executive branch anticipates that without some sort of liability protection, one-way information sharing is all you can expect from industry, until we do something about the potential liability of companies if they share cyber threats," Mushahwar said.


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Remember how we spotted the HTC BlinkFeed app on the virtual shelves of Google Play yesterday? Well it turns out that HTC won't just be using the Play Store to update BlinkFeed on its own hardware, as the company has revealed that the news reader app will also be made available to other Android devices.
In its announcement of the One (M8), HTC revealed that it plans to make BlinkFeed available to non-HTC Android devices "following its popularity with HTC users." The app is expected to be made available soon. HTC has confirmed that its Zoe app will be offered to non-HTC devices through Google Play as well.
HTC isn't the first Android device maker to place its apps in the Play Store for quicker updating, as Motorola did the same thing several months ago with its Camera, Touchless Control and Assist apps, among others. However, Motorola's apps can only be downloaded by a select batch of the company's own devices.
HTC is doing things a tad differently than Moto, allowing non-HTC users to install BlinkFeed and Zoe. The company probably hopes that this move will get users interested in its other exclusive apps and eventually its hardware as well. Whether or not this decision will actually result in a sales boost for HTC remains to be seen, but hey, it's worth a shot.
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As part of our occasional series of interviews with members of Congress, MedPage Today News Editor Joyce Frieden sat down with Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) last week at his office to discuss his views on repealing the Affordable Care Act, high drug prices, and other healthcare issues. Farenthold, who was initially backed by Tea Party Republicans although he does not always vote with them, is vice chairman of the House Oversight & Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Technology and is also a member of the House Judiciary Committee, where he serves as vice-chairman of the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law.
For Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas), repealing the ACA isn't just a goal: it's a mission.
The ACA, or Obamacare, as Republicans like to call it, "was the reason I ran for Congress in the first place," Farenthold, now in his third term, told MedPage Today. "I didn't like the fact that our previous Congressman [Solomon Ortiz, a Democrat] was such an adamant supporter of it. If you were to list the top five reasons I'm here, that would be one of them."
"We've got to get back to something that's actually affordable," he said of the law. Farenthold said he generally supports most of the reform ideas that came out of the Republican Study Committee -- such as making insurance portable and allowing plans to sell across state lines -- with a few exceptions.
Comprehensive Repeal
The bulk of what Republicans have been talking about in terms of replacing Obamacare "have been bullet points" rather than a comprehensive repeal plan, Farenthold said. He said he agrees with House Speaker Paul Ryan's (R-Wisc.) goal to see a replacement for the ACA passed out of the House this year. "To me that's the top priority for getting done this year. It's really important to show the American people there's an alternative."
The Congressman, a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and St. Mary's University School of Law, did note that there are a couple of pieces of the law that he likes, including its focus on strengthening community health centers. "I have seen a lot of success with community health centers," he said. "We've got to find a way to keep them working. They really serve the underserved."
He also wants to maintain much of the protection against discrimination given in the law to people with pre-existing medical conditions. "There is going to have to be some solution there," Farenthold said. "[I see it] ending up looking more like a risk pool," similar to the way auto insurance works.
Bigger Supply of Providers
Increasing the supply of healthcare providers is one thing he said isn't discussed often enough in Republican alternatives to the ACA. This could be done by increasing residency programs -- and reallocating them to where the need is -- and helping with the cost of college and medical school, Farenthold said.
"There are opportunities with student loan repayment and other incentives to drive people to particular fields [in healthcare] in the government's interest," said Farenthold, citing as an example the Clay-Hunt Act passed by Congress; one provision of that law reduces medical school debt for clinicians providing mental healthcare for veterans. "Generally I think the market will sort it out," he added.
Healthcare leaders also need to look at the scope of practice for nonphysician providers, he continued. "I do think we need to look at scope of practice and see what [duties] can be pushed down to less trained folks," he said. "I'm not sure you need to see a doctor for a runny nose. You've got to have increased use of nurse practitioners and physician assistants to take the load off."
In terms of a bigger change, the Congressman noted that the U.S. currently has four different healthcare delivery systems: Medicare, Medicaid, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and private insurance. "Do we need that many concurrent delivery systems?" he asked. "What if we said we were going to shut down the VA and roll it into something like Medicare?"
Reimbursement for VA patients could be at 110% of Medicare, so veterans "would move to the top of the line where they belong," he said. There could still be a medical subspecialty focused on veterans' healthcare, but it would be outside of the VA itself, he said. Or, rather than rolling the system into Medicare, it could be collapsed into private insurance. Either way, the U.S. could "completely do away with a government bureaucracy."
Skin in the Game
On the consumer side, "I'd like to see everybody skin in the game" when it comes to paying for healthcare, said Farenthold. "Even if you are uninsured or underinsured, you ought to pay $5 -- everybody should pay something."
Farenthold said he learned a lesson about the value of being monetarily invested in a service when he was working as a computer system developer. "Every quarter we gave away a free website to a charity," he explained. 'They were the worst clients -- they never made a deadline, they were just very hard to work with."
Then the company switched from giving away the websites for free to giving them at a 75% discount. "All of a sudden [the charity clients] met their deadlines and were a joy to work with. I came to learn that something you get for free has no value to you, and I think that translates to healthcare. If you go in and get your healthcare basically for free, there's no incentive to take care of yourself or follow the doctor's instructions."
Farenthold also got experience with electronic health records (EHRs) while running his own computer consulting business. "We wrote a medical records-type program for a group of urgent care clinics. We actually developed a fairly decent system for under $100,000, customized to their needs," he said. "But HIPAA was getting in our way and we couldn't provide the physical security needed, so we ended up bailing out."
"Why don't we come up with an EHR that fits the way doctors practice, whether that's them dictating their notes and somebody in India putting them in the computer [or something else]?" he said. "The degree of micro-regulation of how that's done is actually having an adverse effect. We need good standards to get good data, but I think we're focusing on the front-end standards instead of back-end standards."
Medical liability reform is another area of interest for Farenthold, a lawyer, who noted that his state was a leader is passing tort reform legislation. "You've got to strike the right balance where victims of true negligence are compensated but not where [a physician] is sued and ends up settling because of the potential high liability and time and money it takes to defend a lawsuit ... My law school professor once told me, 'You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride.'"
High drug prices are another concern. "Pharma and I don't get along well because I am an advocate for patent reform and they're not," he said. "I would also streamline the process for getting generics approved." The latter is especially important "because a [brand-name] company could buy up generic competitors so that they're the only ones making that drug, so I think there's a real issue there."
Today's high drug prices are due in part to FDA and part to "bad actors" in the pharmaceutical industry, he continued, adding, "I told them in the [recent House hearing on high drug prices] -- or I meant to if I didn't -- 'If you don't behave yourself and do the right thing, the government is going to come in and try to make you do it, and you're not going to like what the government does.'"
Farenthold would also like to see more transparency in healthcare pricing. "If I bought groceries the way I bought healthcare, it would be steak and lobster every day" because I only pay the deductible and don't worry about the actual price, he said. "And it's worse in medicine because you don't know the price ... People need to have more say in their healthcare and there needs to be more transparency in pricing."


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Injustice 2 Officially Announced
NetherRealm Studios has been hard at work to bring you Injustice 2 the sequel to their fighter based on the DC Universe. Injustice 2 will be featuring many more heroes then its predecessor, so players can expect their favorites and many more from DC catalogue of heroes. Here's a bit more info from the press release:
-Injustice 2 offers the latest DC fighting game experience that expands on the previous title's larger-than-life showdowns. Every battle defines you in a game where players personalize iconic DC characters with unique and powerful gear earned throughout the game. For the first time gamers can take control of how their characters look, fight and develop across a variety of game modes.
-The game boasts the biggest DC roster ever in a fighting game, including Batman, Superman, Supergirl, Aquaman, Atrocitus and Gorilla Grodd. Battles will be states in large iconic arenas including Metropolis, Gotham City and Atlantis.
But we didn't want to stop there. At NetherRealm, we always want to make games that are fun, challenging and innovative. We strive to give players a level of control that makes playing our games a truly personal experience. For that reason, we have introduced a brand new Gear System, allowing players to build their own version of Superman, their Batman and ultimately, their Injustice Universe.
The Gear System uses RPG-like mechanics to reward you with loot drops every time you play the game. With each loot drop, you will earn character-specific gear to outfit and power up your roster – changing not only the look of each character, but your fight strategy and your personal approach to every match. As you gear up your characters, you're building a roster of DC Super Heroes and Super-Villains that reflects your choices, and your preferences, which can be vastly different than your opponents. A few play sessions in, you can expect your Aquaman to look and play different than anyone else's Aquaman you may come across.
Injustice 2 will be releasing on Playstation 4 and Xbox One in 2017. No word on PC release, check out the announcement trailer below and stay connected with Dual Pixels for more news on Injustice 2.


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Dr. Ben Goldacre joins us from TED to give a sobering look at the state of medical research, specifically the publication bias that journals have to push positive results, rather than negative. He starts with a story about a precognition study that *was* published, and how immediately ten more studies showed it to be erroneous […]Continue Reading... Comments Off on TED Talk Highlight: What Doctors Don't Know
Human life expectancy has increased from 48 to 79 in the last 100 years, thanks to us mapping the molecular basis of about 4000 diseases. So why have we only found treatments for about 250 of them? Francis Collins – an American physician-geneticist noted for his discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the […]Continue Reading... Comments Off on TED Talk: Francis Collins
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The presidential election at the beginning of the month attracted a lot of media attention, and was the culmination of over a year of aggressive campaigning by both candidates. In Arizona, however, the Maricopa County sheriff election was a landslide victory for the incumbent Republican, Joe Arpaio.
Arpaio, arguably the most well-known sheriff in the country, won a sixth term on November 6th. His Democratic opponent Paul Penzone campaigned hard, but "Sheriff Joe" won easily, even predicting a seventh term in 2016.
Known for his firm stance on immigration and Maricopa County DUIs, the 80 year old incumbent has faced much controversy over the course of his career. Most recently, his office has been accused of ignoring the lower-profile investigations, and instead focusing on Arizona crimes that bring the highest amount of public attention.
Phoenix sex crime cases often took a back seat to immigration issues, and over 400 have been reopened after it was found that they received insufficient investigation. In several of the cases, the victims had moved away, rendering the cases that they were involved in unable to be investigated further.
Sheriff Arpaio's primary selling point is also his most widely argued across the nation—his enforcement of immigration. While this likely won the election for him among Arizonans, it has also attracted a large share of criticism, including lawsuits accusing him of racially profiling during his immigration patrols.
Arpaio's reelection affects us all as Phoenix residents. The Arizona criminal defense lawyers at Curry, Pearson &Wooten are committed to protecting the rights of those who have been accused of, or are the victims of, a crime in Arizona.


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For SS amps, I find that the pure class A First Watt amps are very good, if you can DIY at all they are almost unbeatable.
Tyson, didn't you write that you liked the Folsom as much or more than the First Watt? Am I remembering that wrong?Gustavo, have you heard the amp you cited?Greyhound, Can you say more? At quadriple the price of a Dodd or 15X the price of the Folsom, what does it do better?
I did try out the Folsom out, and it was very impressive sounding and I gave a sort of "hot take" of how it sounded. After listening to it a bit longer, I actually down rated it quite a bit (it was hyper detailed but very in-your-face sounding). Overall the First Watt F5 I had at the time ended up sounding better (a lot better) to me, and then when I built the First Watt Burning Amp 3 (BA3), well it spanked BOTH the Folsom AND the F5. I've heard several other First Watt designs, they are all quite good in their various ways. But for my tastes the BA3 is the home-run product of the FW amps.
I could see how the Folsom could be called "in your face" due to the high detail. There is a reason I use my larger Dodd (6L6GC amp) in the cooler months, but was having a hard time describing why I was partial to it. It's more a difference in style than one being flawed compared to the other.
We are throwing out a lot of amps, but little discussion of them. What do you like about them? What did they replace and how are they better?
Yes, the Folsom does that - everything is pushed forward, toward you. It's an exciting sound. But one that I found fatiguing over time (and also annoying because I've come to love depth in the soundstage). If I listened to mainly rock, the Folsom might be a great little amp. But for me, the much greater level of refinement, tonal balance, depth, etc... all make the First Watt amps just better. Of course they are also HOT and probably not great for a home in the summer if cooling is an issue
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Intel is out to accelerate the commoditisation of the notebook market, sources close to Taiwan's manufacturers have claimed.
To that end, the chip giant has recruited five key notebook OEMs - Quanta, Compal, Asustek and First International - to help it launch a scheme to encourage resellers to offer notebooks sourced direct from the manufacturers, DigiTimes reports.
Taiwan's OEMs already produce almost all of the world's notebooks, for no-name brands as well as the usual suspects. Yet over 80 per cent of notebooks sold are provided by 'name' vendors.
That's not the case in the desktop arena, where half of the machines sold come from second-tier and lesser vendors, many of whom buy in stock systems from the likes of Quanta, Compal, Asustek, First International and co., add memory and perhaps wireless options, stick on their own badge and sell the machine as their own.
That's been one of the reasons why desktops have become so much cheaper over the years, as many of them sell on price rather than brand name.
Not so the notebook market, and that's what Intel and friends apparently want to change.
Intel's motivation is to drive sales of higher margin mobile processor, particularly now while the desktop market is stagnating. For the manufacturers, success will depend on whether the margins are better on machines they build for themselves to sell as opposed kit built to the big guns' specifications and sold under their brands.
It also depends on end users coming to accept that no-name kit is as safe a purchase as a machine bought from a well-known brand. ®


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The battle continues between the FBI and tech industry giant, Apple. The FBI are wanting to access the contents of an iPhone belonging to a terrorist known as the San Bernadino shooter who shot 14 people in the United States. Apple CEO, Tim Cook, is warning against allowing such a bypass of security services because of the prescedent it might set and is also warning against the criminal hackers that could get their hands on the software that would need to be invented to make such a backdoor possible.
In a recent Apple release, they say, "The government says: "Just this once" and "Just this phone." But the government knows those statements are not true; indeed the government has filed multiple other applications for similar orders, some of which are pending in other courts."
In more recent developments, other tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft have vowed to file briefs to the courts to try and prevent a magistrate's order of forcing Apple's hand and strongarming them into developing the software to allow access to the contents of the phone. It is rumored that Twitter will join the fight as well.
Along with companies voicing their support for Apple, the situation could escalate to a future of hardware and software engineers who would have to build backdoors into devices so that security of state can be ensured in the future.
"Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices. In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks—from restaurants and banks to stores and homes. No reasonable person would find that acceptable," Tim Cook said.


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This well-established Rancho Cucamonga Area tanning salon, which is likely the most established in the area, is firing on all cylinders with respect to its ideal location, its freeway access, its customer parking and its varied service offering. This salon provides its client the best in late model high, medium and low pressure indoor tanning beds and stand-up units, as well as a custom airbrush tanning option. In addition, the salon has established a formidable electronic fund transfer (EFT) to provide its owners a steady monthly recurring revenue base, while allowing its customers a hassle free payment plan. To complete its full suite of customer service offerings this salon also offers its loyal customers day spa services, body wraps and massages.
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This 2,000 square foot facility leases for $6,500 per month including common area maintenance expense (CAM) on a lease valid until June 2017. All of the salon's furniture, fixtures and equipment are owned and will transfer in the sale. One bed lease has a $20k balance with monthly payments of $714 for 2.5 yrs. This lease may be assumed by a buyer or paid off in the sale (in addition to purchase price).
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The title is a paraphrase of the great Ralph Kiner.
My father is a great man. Whenever I hear those Old Testament Bible verses about there being "giants in the earth," I think of my dad. Not because he's descended from the Nephilim, necessarily, but because that's the kind of stride his life has had across the landscape of my own.
So I decided to write up some stats for him for "In Her Majesty's Name."
Why? My dad's not a gamer -- he'll neither understand nor be able to appreciate what I've done here. It'll just join the other million, million things I've done during my life that he'll have to shrug at and go, "OK, if that's your thing ..."
I've left the era particularly vague. If you wanted to run him as a Victorian character, as I certainly do, he'll work, but you could just as easily drop him into his actual modern era using the stats and description I've written. My web fu doesn't feel particularly strong right now, but offhand I think the figure I might use for him as a Victorian mechanic/tinkerer would be Capt. Arland Strangewayes from the Cygnar faction of Warmachine. (Although then you'd need to up his Armor from jack/lined coat.)
The human field mechanik in the unit set might work as well, although Dad's not bald. He just has a mustache.
If you want to use him as a modern survivor, the nearest analogue as far as the kit he's carrying would be Raoul from Zombicide. Here's his picture. Just make him older and give him a mustache, but no beard, and that's a pretty close image for how my dad might face the zombie apocalypse.
Here's a Google Docs link to the pdf: My Dad
And in Dropbox: My Dad
So Happy Father's Dad, although I doubt you'll see this, unless one of your granddaughters points it out to you. Love you much!
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Saturday, June 6, 2015
"I'm a joker, I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight toker"
A while back I stumbled across this great thread in the Workbench section of the Lead Adventure Forum.
A group was rounding up orders for, or gauging interest in, a Victorian version of a certain nemesis of a caped nocturnal vigilante.
Well I was in for it immediately. The sculptor, who goes by Vermis but is, I believe, named Warren, was even doing alternate heads -- one based on Conrad Veidt, the star of the German Expressionist silent film "The Man Who Laughs," from the Victor Hugo novel (and a big inspiration for Bob Finger's original design of The Joker), and the other with the skinned and reattached face we've seen in recent comics.
There had apparently been an earlier drive to craft the Gentleman Vigilante himself. I opted not to purchase one of these, but they do look good.
There had apparently been an earlier drive to craft the Gentleman Vigilante himself. I opted not to purchase one of these, but they do look good.
So I had to get two of Mr. Grins, and they arrived at my secret base in the heart of a dormant volcano yesterday. And they are every bit as wonderful as anticipated.
Here's a pic of my two minis in the metal. These are really clean casts. There was one tiny piece of flash attached to one of the top hats, but I took care of that with a judiciously applied fingernail. The only mold line of any significance runs along the underside of the figure's right arm, but a file should get rid of that with minimal effort.
I don't exactly have a plan to slot him into the world of "Brass & Blood" yet, but it'll come to me, no doubt. I mean, every setting can use a psychopath disfigured by a Glasgow smile, right?
Monday, June 1, 2015
This week's "Penny Dreadful"
Having now seen episode 5 of Penny Deadful season 2, "Above the Vaulted Sky," I don't think I'd amend anything in my company list based on any of this week's revelations.
(Unless there were a roll to put Barry White music behind everyone's actions. Almost everybody got to break off a little sumpn-sumpn.)
The only thing I might add would be giving Madame Kali/Evelyn Poole the Curse spell from IHMN Gothic, based on how she's got Sir Malcolm ensorcelled. It's a 12-point spell, which would push her total to 83 points. Given Madame Kali's age and apparent level of power in the show, I'm OK with that.
If you wanted, you could swap Curse in for the Chameleon Skin spell, which I gave her for consistency's sake with the other Nightcomers, but we've never seen her use that particular talent. That exchange would leave her as a 71-point character.
If you need them again, here are links to the company list: Google Drive or Dropbox.
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AI Picture Explorer Is A Dual-Window Image Viewer, Editor & Manager
The native image viewer of Windows allows you to view images, set them as desktop background, rotate them and delete them, but that is where its functionality pretty much ends. Personally, I feel that the default Windows 7 Photo Viewer is not up to the mark, as it does not provide any image editing options, and even lags a bit when quickly switching between images. This can be especially annoying when you are trying to locate a particular image by browsing through an album. Previously, we have covered some great image viewing and editing applications such as Zoner Photo Studio and Fast Stone ImageViewer that serve as great alternatives to Windows 7 Photo Viewer. AI Picture Explorer is another Windows app that provides you with a two-window interface to manage and view your images. It features batch image editing, fixing and conversion, while allowing you to extract images from archives without having to use another tool. Moreover, you can create file and folder lists, and view the images in a slideshow with up to 173 transition effects. The tool also supports playing some common audio and video formats, in addition to images of resolutions exceeding 80 megapixels.When you launch the tool, two separate windows open up on your desktop – one dealing with file and folder navigation, while the other one acting as the viewer itself. Just browse for an image and left-click it once to open it instantly in the viewer window.
In addition to all the normal copy, cut, paste functions and different viewing modes like Thumbnails, Icons, List, etc. that you would expect, the app provides provides you with some extended options to create image catalogs, directory trees and unzip archives etc. from the Tools menu.
Right-clicking an image reveals the set of actions that can be performed on it including, copy, move, delete, rename, comment, view properties and start instant slideshow.
The other window of the application i.e. the image viewer allows you to view and edit the image using various tools. The File menu features batch conversion options to JPG, BMP, PNG, TIF, TGA and PCX formats, as well as batch renaming, moving and deletion.
You can trim and crop images using options available in the Edit menu, select different viewing modes from the View menu, and perform other functions such as viewing image EXIF data, adding comments, compressing the image, viewing a histogram of the image data, resizing, rotating etc. from the Image menu.
The Enhance menu offers several image correction tools, allowing you to perform both manual and automatic correction of image contrast, lightning, saturation, balance, gamma, color temperature and more.
Each correction tools provides you with a several parameters to get that perfect look for your favorite images.
AI Picture Explorer works on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.


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Nominees have been announced for the third annual Time Out Melbourne Pub Awards.
Thirty one pubs from all over Melbourne have been nominated in seven categories including Best Pub Food, Best Live Music Pub, Publican of the Year and People's Choice. Three mystery awards with no nominees will also be presented in categories like the Old School Pub Award and the Legend Award.
Of course, the night's top gong is the Pub of the Year award.
"The pubs of Melbourne remain integral to our sports, craft beer, food and live music scenes," says Fred Siggins, Time Out's Pubs Editor.
"They're a huge part of what makes this the best city in the world.
"There's a freshness in the way we're approaching pubs, with many who've managed to modernise while retaining the essence of what a good pub is all about – good banter and a casual, comforting atmosphere free of pretension."
"Melbourne is blessed with hundreds of good pubs and beer halls and they keep getting better," says Time Out's CEO, Michael Rodrigues.
"It's difficult narrowing the field to the best of the best, but the pubs we celebrate in the awards and in the new edition of the Time Out Melbourne Pub Guide edge out the competition this year."
Although many great pubs got the nod of a nomination, a lucky few got nominated in multiple categories.
To see the full list of nominees, visit Time Out Melbourne's website.
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Ad Targeting Alone Is Not Enough: Advertisers Need Appropriate Context
The recent brouhaha surrounding Google's inability to provide 100% assurance that brand advertisers won't find their ads adjacent to objectionable content is just a dramatic manifestation of a long-simmering problem. As digital advertising moved out onto the Long Tail, advertisers traded some certainty about brand safety for lower ad prices. The problems accelerated as programmatic trading increased the reliance on complex data stacks and impenetrable targeting algorithms, with all of the opacity that results from such a technically complex ecosystem. For more than two years now, the industry has grappled with the problems of fraud and "bad actors" who exploit that opacity – with only fitful success. Now with the "discovery" that some ads follow their target consumers to dreadful places, the question of brand safety has become Topic A.
To some degree, the outrage is disingenuous since advertisers always knew that advertising on the Long Tail entailed more risk – especially when dealing with gigantic volumes of uploaded user-generated content. Mama always said that you get what you pay for, and she was right. This is not to say that Google couldn't do a better job of opening its walled garden in the interest of brand safety reassurance. It surely could.
The incident ought to focus the industry more squarely on the neglected subject of valuing advertising context. Context is defined simply as the environment or situation in which the ad is experienced. In recent years, targeting has gotten nearly all of the excitement and attention, a reflection of the big advances in targeting technologies. We want to serve the ad to just the right person at just the right time. But the focus on targeting has tended to set the value of the context at zero, despite decades of research indicating that context has a big influence on advertising recall, brand perception, and persuasiveness.
Traditionally, advertisers used the context for targeting. Consumer packaged goods advertisers bought TV spots in the daily soap operas in order to reach housewives. Fashion advertisers bought pages in Vogue in order to reach fashion-oriented affluent women. Contextual targeting ruled and the media were quick to alert advertisers to potentially embarrassing situations that might arise, giving them the option to reschedule their ad to avoid problematic adjacencies.
However as targeting evolved in the digital space, ad calls were based on cookies, device IDs, 3rd party data overlays, and ever-more complex sets of supposedly person-level attributes. What's more, the real contexts in which ads were seen multiplied dramatically. Contexts came to include not just editorial environments but also different contexts provided by platforms and devices, widely varying rational and emotional contexts (at work, standing in line, multitasking), and different social contexts. The proliferation of context abetted an expanded number of ads – with current estimates being that we are now, on average, exposed to 5,000 ads a week. So any individual ad now is more apt to be affected by the context set by the ad(s) that preceded it.
At last week's annual meeting of the Advertising Research Foundation (an organization which provides education and research on advertising and where I was recently appointed CEO), a number of presentations dealt with this timely issue. Several sessions dove into research that used up-to-the-minute neuroscience tools to measure consumer attention, memory transfer, and emotional response. Most importantly, the ARF's own research staff presented initial results of a multi-pronged, multi-year inquiry into context effects. This research engaged more than 25 ARF member companies in a partnership to measure the advertiser value of contemporary contexts.
Initial results align closely with the older literature. Some context effects work through attention transfer – a fancy way of saying that advertisers benefit when consumers are paying closer attention (ie. are engaged). Other context effects work through halo effects, in effect transferring some of the authority, legitimacy, coolness, or style of the context onto the advertised product. Consumer mood can be very important and also very volatile. One intriguing part of the study looked at the negative impact of having your ad follow a (negative) political ad from the recent Presidential campaign. Regardless of whether the ad was for Trump or Clinton, regardless of the political views of the consumer, the mere fact of being adjacent to the negative ads set a context that reduced consumer willingness to take the ad to heart.
The results presented last week are only the opening volley. A deeper dive is promised in the next installment to be delivered at the ARF's Audience Measurement conference in June. But the timing is excellent since recent events have served as a useful reminder that targeting isn't everything. Advertisers need to pay attention to context – now more than ever.
Scott C. McDonald is president of Nomos Research. Scott has more than 30 years of leadership in the media and advertising industries and teaches popular courses on media economics and measurement at Columbia University.


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Stooki Sound releases his latest tune 'Shut Up?' and brings a fun and fresh element to this trap classic. loving the complex basslines and percussion in this track.
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Cost Sheet Paper
Chapter Module-1 - Introduction to Cost Accounting
Cost: - Generally cost refers to all expenses incurred in producing a product or rendering service. But, from the cost accounting point of view "Cost is a normal sacrifice of resources in the creation of product or services".
Costing: - Costing is defined as "the technique and process of ascertaining cost of a given thing". According to CIMA it is defined as "the establishment of budgets, standard, costs and actual costs of operations, processes, activities or products and the analysis of variances, profitability or the social use of funds".
Cost Accounting: - Cost accounting is defined as "the process of accounting for cost from the point at which expense is incurred or committed to the establishment of its ultimate relationship with cost centers and cost units. The institute of Cost and Works Accountant ICWA defines "Cost accounting is the technique and process of ascertainment of cost. Cost accounting is the process of accounting for cost, which, begins with recording of expenses or the basis on which they are calculated and end with preparation of statistical data.
Cost Accountancy: - Cost accountancy is used to describe the principles, conventions, techniques and systems which are employed in a business to plan and control the utilization of its resources. It is defined as "the application of costing and cost accounting principles, methods and techniques to the science, art and practice of cost control and the ascertainment of profitability. It includes the presentation of information derived there-from for the purpose of marginal decision making".
Cost Centre: - Cost centre is defined as "a place or location or machine or person or thing for which cost can be ascertained". It is the segment of activity or area of responsibility for which costs are accumulated". Cost Unit: - Cost unit is defined as "a unit of a product or service or combination of them in relation to which costs are ascertained or expressed".
Objectives of Cost Accounting: - The main objectives or purposes of Cost accounting are as follows:
1. Ascertainment of Cost: - It enables the Management to ascertain the cost of product, job, contract, services etc. The cost is calculated, by aggregating expenses subject to certain concepts and conventions.
2. Analysis of Cost: - Total cost is broken down into several constituent parts according to some basis for eg. Material labour expenses. The detail information about these parts helps to know the significance of each in the total cost.
3. Cost control: - The object is to minimize the cost of manufacturing, comparison of actual cost with standards, reveals the discrepancies, variances. If the variances are adverse the management enters into investigation so as to adopt corrective action immediately.
4. Reduction of cost: - Reduction of cost refers to the permanent reduction in the cost of a product or service without impairing the quality and without affecting the purpose for which it is intended to be used. Due to an instance competition in the market, the management has little scope to vary the sales price. In such situation, it becomes necessary to look into the activities that reduce the cost component.
5. Fixation of selling price: - Cost accounting provides cost information on the basis of which selling prices of products or services may be fixed. In periods of depression cost accounting guides in deciding the extent to which the selling prices will be reduced to meet the special situation.
6. Guide to business policy: - Cost accounting aims at serving the needs of management in conducting the business with more efficiency. Cost data provides guidelines for various managerial decisions, like make or buy, selling below cost, utilization of idle plant capacity, introduction of a new product etc.
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