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The N.C. House approved a bill Thursday, co-sponsored by Rep. Chuck McGrady (R-Henderson), to ensure commercial dog-breeding facilities treat their animals humanely.
The N.C. House approved a bill Thursday, co-sponsored by Rep. Chuck McGrady (R-Henderson), to ensure commercial dog-breeding facilities treat their animals humanely.
House Bill 930 passed by a vote of 100-15, a strong bipartisan showing that McGrady called "sort of surprising." Even the state's first lady got involved, writing to a House judiciary committee Wednesday thanking them for approving the measure.
"It's unusual to get a shout out from the governor's wife," McGrady said.
In her first foray into political advocacy, Ann McCrory sat in the House gallery Thursday while the chamber debated and voted to set minimum care standards at large commercial dog-breeding operations. The bill would make breaking the rules a misdemeanor.
The law requires what McGrady called a "common-sense sort of standards" for breeding operations, including giving dogs access to water, food, exercise, shelter, bedding and appropriate veterinary care. It applies only to breeders with 10 or more female dogs over six months old.
"I'm sure there's going to be some number of people who look at this and say, 'Gee, there are a lot of breeders that have five (females), so this isn't going to catch them,'" McGrady said. "But you have to start somewhere. If, after a period of time, the problem across the state isn't being addressed, we'll see where we go with it."
The owner of two goldendoodles, McGrady got involved with the bill as part of a working group with Rep. Nathan Ramsey (R-Buncombe) and several other junior Republican representatives concerned about puppy mills. Their work garnered support from the Humane Society of the United States, N.C. Voters for Animal Welfare and other groups.
In the past two years, the Humane Society has helped law enforcement rescue mistreated dogs from 13 large-scale commercial dog breeding operations across the state. North Carolina joins Vermont and West Virginia, which also recently passed laws against irresponsible dog-breeding practices.
"It's not an issue that's a concern, that I'm aware of, in Henderson County, but the experiences I heard from my colleagues and some of the pictures and tales from a range of people about the problem, led me to lend a hand in crafting the bill," McGrady said.


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NAMI Alert: FDA Requires "Black Box" Warnings and Patient Medication Guide for Antidepressant Medications
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On October 15, 2004, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) directed manufacturers of antidepressant medications to revise the labeling on their products to include a "black box" warning that notifies healthcare providers and consumers about an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in youth being treated with these medications. The FDA also called for closer monitoring of children and adolescents prescribed these medications.
In addition to the "black box" warning, the FDAs notice also requires that a patient medication guide be given to patients receiving these medications to advise them of the risks and precautions that can be taken to help minimize those risks. The agency is in the process of developing this guide.
These labeling changes are consistent with recommendations made to the FDA during a recent pediatric drug advisory committee meeting.
NAMI applauds the FDA for calling for close monitoring of youth living with depression and for providing families and young consumers with better information about medications for treating depression in youth. Providing both doctors and families with complete information is part of sound clinical practice. Also essential is the need for open discussion about the benefits and risks in prescribing any medications or other courses of treatment.
At the same time, NAMI is concerned that the "black box" warning may lead to primary care providers refusing to prescribe these medications out of fear of liability. Families are often forced to see a primary care provider because of the severe shortage of child psychiatrists. This could worsen the existing crisis in depression and suicide among youth. Therefore, the "black box" warning must be accompanied by increased training and better education for physicians treating children and adolescents with major depression.
The "black box" warning also fails to acknowledge that untreated depression in youth is directly linked to suicide and that antidepressant medications can be effective in treating many adolescents with depression. If families and providers are not warned about the real risk of untreated depression and suicide, they will be hampered in their ability to accurately understand all of the risks.
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Hmmm....My lowly 10 posts per day will get me easily overtaken by TS (20/day) and bacon (13/day) in short order i'd imagine....But, back to the topic at hand!
ET huh? Lessee....
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Cardinals coach Bruce Arians filled out his coaching staff Tuesday, with the team announcing the addition of 13 assistants.
Some of the names have trickled out previously, but, with a deep breath, here's the complete list: Special teams coordinator Amos Jones, outside linebackers coach James Bettcher, defensive line coach Brentson Buckner, linebackers coach Mike Caldwell, tight ends coach Rick Christophel, wide receivers coach Darryl Drake, offensive assistant Kevin Garver, assistant special teams/assistant tight ends Steve Heiden, running backs coach Stump Mitchell, pass rush specialist Tom Pratt, defensive backs coach Nick Rapone, cornerbacks coach Kevin Ross and assistant offensive line Larry Zierlein.
They also moved tight ends coach Freddie Kitchens to quarterbacks coach, and outside linebackers coach Ryan Slowik to defensive assistant/assistant defensive backs.
Along with defensive coordinator Todd Bowles, offensive coordinator Harold Goodwin and assistant head coach/offense Tom Moore, the staff includes more experience at the college level (196 years) than NFL (191), but 66 years of playing experience in the league.
Most of that playing experience comes from Buckner (12 years), Caldwell (11), Heiden (11) and Mitchell (nine).
Mitchell still holds the Cardinals franchise record for all-purpose yards, and is second on their all-time rushing list. And I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that in his playing days with the Panthers, Buckner once said "Pressure will make a monkey eat a hot pepper," so his wisdom will obviously benefit the Cardinals.


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Some holes are simply too deep to dig out of. Some holes are a grave.
And that's what the Dolphins feel like they've dug for themselves today.
They got down 27-0 and then had a good comeback. But for the second week in a row, the comeback fell short.
"Pretty despicable," Jason Taylor called it.
"Embarrassing," linebacker Reggie Torbor said.
This team simply hasn't been ready to play at the start of the game the past two weeks. And the start of the game is kinda sorta important if you want to finish with a victory.
So the Dolphins are 7-8. They are not eliminated from playoff contention. But they are on life support. It doesn't look good.


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PHOENIX (AP) — For all the declarations of victory, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to preserve the "show me your papers" provision in Arizona's immigration law means the state can enforce the statute only with the help of its chief critic: the federal government.
The court's decision Monday struck down parts of the law, but preserved one that requires local police to check the immigration status of people stopped for various reasons and whom officers believe are in the country illegally.
There was a catch, however. The court decided that officers cannot detain anyone on an immigration violation. That is, unless federal immigration officials say so.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the controversial lawman known for his anti-immigration raids, said he was concerned whether federal agents will decline to pick up some illegal immigrants who are stopped by his deputies.
"I have my suspicions," he said.
Hours after the ruling, the Department of Homeland Security canceled agreements with seven Arizona police departments that deputized officers to arrest people on immigration violations while on street patrol.
Federal immigration officers will help, but only if doing so conforms to the department's priorities, including catching repeat violators and identifying and removing those who threaten public safety and national security, the department said.
If federal agents decline to pick up immigrants, the state doesn't have any way to force federal authorities to pick them up and will likely have to let them go unless they're suspected of committing a crime that would require them to be brought to jail, said Peter Spiro, a Temple University law professor who specializes in immigration law.
In that sense, the law is symbolic, Spiro said. "(The questioning requirement) is useful to the extent that it allows states to give notice of hostilities to undocumented immigrants," Spiro said. "It allows for a formal expression of the state's hostilities toward undocumented immigrants."
Meanwhile, if local police get the chance to enforce the law and are not blocked by a federal injunction, they will be closely watched not just by immigrant rights advocates who are on the lookout for racial profiling.
They will also face scrutiny from residents who have been frustrated by and blamed the federal government for a porous border and can under the immigration law sue police departments that don't follow the "show me your papers" provision.
A federal hotline was set up for the public to report potential civil rights concerns.
Immigrant rights advocates plan to launch a public relations campaign in hopes of quelling fears about the law and hold public meetings across the state to explain the law. A hotline run by a civil rights group will take questions about the law and document reports of abuses by police.
About 50 immigrant rights supporters rallied peacefully outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office near downtown Phoenix.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer called the decision a victory for all Americans, but said she expected lawsuits to challenge the implementation of the law.
"It's certainly not the end of our journey," she said.
And responding to criticism that the law would lead to racial profiling, Brewer said that any officer who violates a person's civil rights will be held accountable. Even while upholding the provision, the justices said the status check could be challenged.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a written statement that the Supreme Court's ruling will make her agency's work more challenging, but she was pleased that the court ruled state laws can't dictate the federal government's immigration enforcement priorities.
Immigration rights groups said they were surprised and disappointed by the court's decision, and planned to ask the lower courts to block the law.
"The opinion invites the challenges that we are bringing. It's going to cause racial profiling. It will cause prolonged detentions," said Linton Joaquin of the National Immigration Law Center, one of the groups pushing a separate challenge to the law.
Kansas attorney Kris Kobach, who helped draft the law and has advised officials in other states wanting to crack down on illegal immigration, called the ruling "a big victory for Arizona" while acknowledging that "it's not a complete victory."
The ruling gives states "a green light" to enact "check your papers" laws, as well as other initiatives, such as requiring employers to use the federal E-Verify database to check the status of new workers, said Kobach, a Republican who is the Kansas secretary of state.
Arizona passed the law in 2010, with lawmakers arguing that that federal government wasn't adequately preventing illegal immigration. The Obama administration sued to block it, saying that enforcing immigration laws was a federal responsibility.
Federal courts had refused to let the four key provisions take effect.
Five states — Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah — have adopted variations on Arizona's law. Parts of those laws also are on hold pending the outcome of the Supreme Court case.
Kobach said the decision was not a 100 percent victory for Arizona because "some of the less important provisions of the law were struck down." He added: "The reason can be summed up in two words: Justice Kennedy."
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinion for the court, a unanimous decision on allowing the status check to go forward. The court, however, was divided on striking down the other portions.
They were the sections that required all immigrants to obtain or carry immigration registration papers and allowed police to arrest suspected illegal immigrants without warrants.
Arizona has spent almost $3 million defending the law for the last two years, the Arizona Republic reported Monday.
In the Phoenix area, some residents were pleased that most of the law was tossed out.
Audrey Pulido, who owns The Garage Bike Shop in the predominantly Hispanic town of Guadalupe, also said that it was unfair that police can check a person's immigration status.
"Actually what you're doing is you're stereotyping a person," said Pulido, whose husband was in the U.S. illegally before they were married. "It's like judging a book before you even read it, just by what they are. They are human beings, first of all."
Pulido said residents do not talk much about the law but that it has instilled fear in them and factors into how they plan their lives.
Pulido said a waitress in the restaurant next door asked her if she would sign a notarized document to care for her son if the woman got deported. "I would do it in a heartbeat," she said. "I would not hesitate.
"You don't get that all the time," Pulido said. "They have to think that way — 'What's going to happen to me?'"
Associated Press writers Mark Sherman in Washington; Terry Tang and Felicia Fonseca in Phoenix; and John Hanna in Topeka, Kan., contributed to this report.


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Seemingly few people who participate in any organized cycling event in the continental United States remain unaware of the race made famous from a certain ProTour rider's experience, chronicled in the 2009 film "Race Across the Sky." The Leadville Trail 100, a 100 mile mountain bike race held in the high mountains of Colorado, annually tests the grit and mettle of more than a thousand brave souls who take to the start. This year, Performance Bicycle Racing Team elite rider Cara Applegate will tackle the race on August 14, but in a slightly unusual fashion – on a tandem mountain bike with her husband, Andy Applegate.
While the couple has been racing tandem bikes on the road for more than seven years – and share four elite national time trial titles and three masters road race and time trial titles – they have been riding the mountain bike tandem for a relatively short period of time, slightly more than a year and a half.
"We've both been racing bikes for a good long while – Andy 25 years and me 14 or so – and every year we seem to tweak our goals to include a new experience that will challenge our collective fortitude. A 100 mile off road endurance race in the high mountains seems to fit that bill," explained Cara, a subtle smile of determination on her face.
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First off the packaging is nicely minimal and unboxing went smoothly and was quite easy. Then I realized they could pull that off because Amazon designed the device, the service it runs, the site I bought it from, and finally the packing and shipping of the item. The people at UPS were the only only non-Amazon hands that ever touched my device (and Amazon drones could have prevented it :). That kind of complete end-to-end control from soup-to-nuts on devices is something very few companies on earth can do, so it's worth mentioning that Amazon capitalized on it by making some nice simple packaging that was easy to get into and get rid of.
Setup was a cinch, with just a plugged in cable from an existing HDMI port on my A/V unit. The first thing it needed to do was connect to my WiFi network, and then we were off. It was a bit of a downer to see even though the device was less than 48 hours past the announcement/launch, it required a lengthy software update as soon as I powered it up. It took about 15 minutes on my very fast fiber line to download a patch and then install it. Following the install, a nice little animated how-to video played to teach you how the controller worked and how Voice Search operated. Voice search works a lot like Siri on an iPhone and tested well.
Convenience, at a price?
The most surprising aspect to me during setup was I didn't have to tell the device who I was by logging into Amazon (which is a pain since I use a password manager and would have to look up and enter a 20-digit mis-mash of characters). All my recent Prime Video plays were shown, and I checked the Settings screen to see that in fact the Fire TV knew I was Matt Haughey and I was already logged into my account and it knew I already had Amazon Prime. I'm flat-out impressed that the device shipped to me with me logged in already.
During setup, I was asked about "Parental Controls" on purchasing (it would require a PIN) and I skipped it, not thinking much about it, until later when testing out purchasing, I noticed buying a show/game is the most painless true one-click experience. It just says something may cost "$4.99" and you click it, and it is downloading. No confirmation, no "are you sure?" just one click and sold. Now I understand why Parental Controls were presented earlier. It's easy to imagine my young daughter accidentally clicking any show she wants without realizing she is racking up a bill for me, as my AppleTV requires a confirmation even if you store your password permanently on it.
The Content
As you can guess, the content that is offered for free Amazon Prime streaming is a hodge-podge of various shows and movies that are mostly older and reminds me of the first time I logged into a new Netflix account and couldn't find any recent movies I wanted to see. Despite trying out nearly every set-top and streaming device, I've never owned a recent Roku device so this is the first easy way I have on my TV to watch Amazon Video, which is why I purchased this device. I usually only search for things on Amazon Prime Video when I'm sure they can't be streamed on Netflix or Hulu Plus.
The biggest failing is that end users (that's us!) don't get a truly Universal Search. If you search for "Bob's Burgers" (arguably the best network animated comedy show today) on Amazon's Fire TV, you get results that you can buy any single episode from their 4 season run for $1.99 each or a full season for $29.99. I'm a member of Hulu Plus and Netflix as well, and installed the apps on the Fire TV, but there's no mention of them in the search results or even after clicking the "more ways to watch" button. On Netflix, you can stream the first couple seasons of Bob's Burgers for free. On Hulu, you can watch the latest episodes from the current fourth season for free as well.
Now, I know Amazon is in the business of making money and would of course want you to buy the episodes from them, but Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos got famous for putting a customer's needs first (The Bezos Doctrine) before profits. Of course, Apple doesn't offer this kind of search on AppleTV either, but if anyone would have been crazy enough to give free streaming options before paid downloads, I would have hoped that Amazon Fire TV could be the first, but sadly it's not.
The Gaming
I was curious enough to see what Amazon Fire TV's gaming was going to be like that I sprang for the extra $40 controller to find out. Overall after having played just a handful of games I'd say it's a pretty nice port of an Android game store to a TV. It's fast and fun and reminds me of the Ouya gaming device, but much more slick and faster to buy, download, and play. You can use the default remote on simple games and it worked fine for turn-based board games that only require a button and direction input. I played a few rounds of the racing game Asphalt 8 and was impressed with the speed, graphics, and playback. There was no stuttering and the graphics look and feel as good as maybe a Playstation 2 game from several years ago. The controller is pretty close to a Xbox360 controller, with plenty of buttons (almost too many) and there's no lag on the controller or the screen.
Does it Blend?
Overall, it's a pretty slick, simple device that I'll use to stream stuff when I can't find it anywhere but Amazon Prime streaming video, but I wish it were a little cheaper and I'm frankly a bit surprised it wasn't priced way below AppleTV or similar Roku devices. I'll probably try out the games a bit more, but I can't see it becoming a huge platform I'd play for hours at a time.
Google Fiber, which is Google's insanely fast gigabit network recently announced they're potentially expanding to a few more markets. I have a friend in Kansas City that got connected to it last Summer and he says the speed is really incredible, with no delays on streaming HD video instantly from almost any site.
This being PVRblog, and me being near Portland, Oregon, I was happy to hear it might be expanding to my area soon. In addition to the blistering network speeds, I'm happy to see a cheap HD TV alternative to cable being offering for just $50 more. I pay more to Frontier for a slower fiber connection with fewer channels.
The Verge published a hands-on with the hardware early during the development of Google Fiber TV, but the system sounds pretty powerful. It's all network based, with storage for 500 hours of HD, 8 tuners that can record simultaneously, along with a free Nexus 7 tablet that can be used as a remote.
My first question was whether or not Google Fiber TV supports the CableCARD standard, so I can continue using my Roamio if I were to ever get this system at home, but unfortunately, due to the FCC rules around cable, it sounds like Google Fiber TV technically doesn't have to follow digital cable rules (being delivered over the network pipes instead), so that means no, you can't use a TiVo and you'll have to stick with Google's Fiber TV DVR hardware.
The problem looks like this on any channel that isn't a major TV network:
I went through a couple back and forths with Verizon tech support (who insisted this was a bad coax or HDMI cable issue) and eventually @brennokbob on Twitter pointed me to a thread on the TiVo Community forum where a user reported similar issues with HBO not working on their new Roamio TiVo on FiOS. Design VP of TiVo Margret Schmidt pointed out the issue is with CableCARDs that aren't the latest and greatest version.
My own multistream CableCARD is two years old (shown below), and carries one of the "bad" serial numbers listed in those posts, so I'm getting scrambled cable on my new TiVo until a technician can help me replace it.
Hopefully anyone else with a similar problem stumbles onto this post and can get it remedied.
The above image is reportedly what the lower end models will look like, and the specs on new models have been bumped up impressively, with two different 4 tuner models and one 6 tuner top end recorder. The hard drive sizes look like they will go from 1Tb to 3Tb in size, both of which are ample recording capacity for HD. Rumored release looks to be in the Fall of this year.
It sounds like updated chipsets will offer a lot more processing power for better software functionality, streaming possibilities, and (finally) built-in WiFi. Personally, this might be the first TiVo box I don't pre-order on day one (as I have with previous versions going all the way back to the series 2 box) since my 4-tuner, 1Tb TiVo XL Premiere is pretty rock solid and working fine for my needs. But if the added computing power makes for more interesting applications and uses for the box, I could be convinced to try the upcoming iterations out.
Google released the Chromecast today for just $35, a small item that connects via HDMI and runs a virtual AirPlay-like service, allowing you to send video from apps and Chrome browsers to your TV. Getting video from the Internet to your TV isn't the easiest problem to solve (I can do it in one of three somewhat clunky ways), but a simple plug 'n play option for $35 seems like a great solution. The video above shows a few common uses.
I've ordered one myself and I'm curious how useful it will be, and I expect to post a review in a few weeks after I get it up and running. Last year's kickstarter PocketTV was also a HDMI smart tv adapter that I haven't heard much about ever since it got funded, so it might be an uphill battle for Google Chromecast.
Boxee is one of my favorite video apps in my home theater and I'm actually glad to hear they've been acquired by Samsung. The software Boxee created looks and works great, and is simple to use (here's my old review of the Boxee box). Samsung's own connected TV apps are another story entirely.
Samsung's software design is mostly poor, buggy, and hard to use, while Boxee's team comes from the world of nice looking easy-to-use websites and I have high hopes that they can make a bunch of user interface improvements on Samsung apps/devices as a result. In my perfect world, Samsung would scrap their SmartTV apps and instead let you run an instance of Boxee on every new Samsung TV. Boxee is really great for managing downloaded video, running various web video apps to watch stuff on your TV, and for browsing the web on your TV.
Boxee Software for the Mac
In early 2012, Boxee stopped developing their Mac/PC app when the Boxee box by D-Link took off. They also quietly removed it from their site, which annoyed me because I found the D-Link Boxee box eventually stopped working reliably for me and I replaced it with an old Mac mini. I tracked down the last release version of the Mac OS X software when I set up my Mac mini, and have been running it ever since. Now that Boxee has been acquired, I'm providing a link here in case anyone else needs a copy of this old software to run on home theater connected Macs:
Boxee 22.214.171.12496 (87 Mb .dmg)
(Google Code has this version and others for Linux and Windows here)
I've noticed that bloggers descending on CES this year is a bigger thing than ever, but most of them are going for quantity over quality. Right now I'm checking The Verge's CES coverage once a day for highlights (they are posting about 100 items a day during CES so it is best to scan), and I'm also enjoying the Wired Gadget Blog's take on CES since it's half joking, and I'm most enjoying Dave Zatz blogging just the few things that interest him each day instead of trying to go all Engadget and just blog every single thing there.
Overall, most of the home theater news seems to be 4K resolution TVs coming from every manufacturer (ignoring of course there is currently no real sources of 4K content to watch on them), every company releasing some sort of iPad app functionality for their existing product, and general home automation products coming out. At the end of this week, I'll make a post of my favorite things I've seen on these and other CES coverage blogs.
Thanks to a friend being at one of his parties, I was lucky enough to interview him a few years ago on this very blog, asking him what the early prototypes of TiVo were like and how he came up with the name and mascot. Michael definitely made an impact on the technology industry and will be missed.
Two great articles on TVs just showed up on Wired's site, both by my friend Mat Honan. In the first, Mat nails the problem with new TVs, and why you don't really need one since video technology is outpacing the user interfaces of finding anything worth watching. Sure 4K video sounds impressive but there's no content out there for it, and even more important, no good content. The kind of interface Mat envisions sounds like a nice evolution of a Harmony-style remote. Give me an app tied to my TV that lets me say "Play the last episode of Mad Men" and have the app not only figure out what components in my cabinet to power on, but also where to search/download/rent/buy the program.
I was thinking about interfaces the other day at a Christmas party when I spent a bit of time trying to get Spotify songs to play on my home theater system (which features GoogleTV, Boxee, a Mac mini, TiVo Premiere, and an AppleTV). It took some fussing and finagling to get it right and I wondered how on earth a normal non-geek could venture through these waters. I would guess half my friends (mostly technology geeks themselves) don't regularly send internet video to their TV screen due to the interface difficulties.
That brings us to the second article at Wired, concering Smart TVs. Their user interfaces are mostly terrible and are such a chore to use that most people don't use them. The article is based on this recent study of Smart TV owners, showing that very few of them regularly use any of the internet features.
Last Spring I bought the newest latest, greatest Samsung Plasma for my home theater and it featured tons of SmartTV features. What I quickly found was that setup was difficult (I had to change the plug the main HDMI cable when into, to return sound to my A/V unit) and the experience was much like buying a Windows PC in the late 90s. My "desktop" home screen on the samsung featured half a dozen apps I don't use or need and couldn't delete, presumably put there by advertising partner deals that ensured their visibility. The apps were also slow to load, buggy to use, and added several minutes to the time you put down a computer and say "boy, I want to watch this on the couch instead, let me just go bring it up there."
Marc Andreesen has famously said a TV from Apple is coming possibly next year or the year after that should re-invent interfaces and how we interact with shows, but given the complexities of movie studios and cable company deals, I'm not entirely optimistic that they can solve it.


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PALAU, August 2009 (IUCN)– A local program is encouraging investment in energy efficient homes to help green Palau and save people money at the same time.
Palau, like many small developing islands in the Pacific, is focused on moving in the direction of a more sustainable energy path and reducing its dependency on fossil fuel. Being one of the highest per-capita energy users in the Pacific Island Countries with a population of 20, 000 people, Palau is taking firm steps to lower their energy consumption and promote energy efficiency and conservation through their Energy Efficiency Subsidy Program (EESP).
The EESP is a voluntary program aimed at providing home loans that specifically targets the inclusion of energy efficiency measures in new homes to lower household electricity consumption. It is estimated that through this program, electricity usage in new homes will drop by 15%. This new innovative program by the National Development Bank of Palau (NDBP) promises to lift the standard of living in Palau while embracing environmentally sound practices.
Since its inception in October 2008, the program has received a total of thirty two applications with two energy model homes completed in Koror State and construction already commencing for another two: one in Airai State and another in Koror state. In addition six energy efficient standard homes are under construction with twenty-two more applications being processed.
How it works:
Through this Energy Efficiency home loan program, the NDBP helps moderate income families build new homes, with choices of energy saving features suitable for the Palau environment. The bank provides subsidies to the borrower ranging from a minimum of $3,000 to $10, 000 (US Dollars), depending on the type and number of features selected by the new home owner.
It's more than just using energy saver lights and using energy star appliances. Home owners will have a range of energy saving options to choose from including: tinted or high performance glass, solar water heaters, hot water piping insulation, exterior window shading or awnings and more.
Invest more to save more!
The concept of energy efficiency is usually associated with higher costs. In terms of initial costs the energy-efficient house could cost 2% to 10% more than a house without energy efficient features. However, you'll pay less in electricity bills each month, usually more than enough to offset any increase in your mortgage payments.
Awareness has been a major tool for the program and the team at NDBP has been working tirelessly to promote this concept which is new to many Palauns.
"We have placed a lot of effort in our awareness campaigns and have been working with our Energy Office, local partners, other leading agencies and the communities to help people understand energy efficiency and the Energy Efficiency home loan program," says Clarinda Ziegler, the Project Manager for the EESP.
The program had also launched an intensive village outreach program earlier in April of this year reaching out to 16 states in the country. According to Ms Ziegler the concept and the meaning of energy efficiency is now becoming a familiar lingo within the communities and the people. "We are very pleased with the responses from the communities"
The Energy Efficiency Subsidy Program is supported by the Governments of Italy and Austria through the technical and managerial expertise of The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
"Palau's Energy Efficiency home loan program is one of its first to be implemented in the Oceania region and offers valuable lessons for all," says Anare Matakiviti, IUCN's Energy Programme Coordinator.
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Ah, why not?
These were some of my images that were recovered from a corrupted CF card.
These are all at Enchanted Rock in Fredericksburg, Texas. It is a nice ol' German town.
All of these were taken with my Sigma 20mm f/1.8 mostly at f/11.
You gotta love circular polarizers.
A panorama of the small batholith dome from the big dome.


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Says Taffy Anderson, the mother: "It is a comic book, but that's not funny. Not at all," Anderson said. "I don't care if your kid is 16, 17, 18. It's wrong." (Emphasis mine.)
This is what I ultimately find disturbing about any attempt to ban books: an overdeveloped need to protect everyone else. She's not protecting her kid; she's protecting your kid. Isn't that kind? I respect and defend a parent's right to say to their own offspring, "No, Johnny, I don't want you reading that." But when that parent decides that nobody's child should read that... that's where there's a problem.
I'm reminded of an incident three years ago where the head of a private school in Texas had the guts to return a three million dollar donation when the previously announced gift suddenly came with strings attached: the donor wanted Anne Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain" removed from the library. The YA community rallied and many authors donated signed copies of their books to the school as a show of support. That incident started ASIF (Authors Support Intellectual Freedom), an online community of primarily YA authors speaking out against censorship.
The upside to the Bunny Suicides saga? (Because, you know, there's always an upside.) The school has been inundated with offers to replace the book (as well as other challenged books). Oddly enough, I really hope her 13-year-old son who attends that school is 100% behind his mom's decision to challenge the book. If not, he could be in for some major hazing. (Although the fact that HE'S the one who checked it out of the library in the first place suggests to me he might not be on board with Mom's crusade.)
*=Bonus points if you sang along with the title of the post.
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text: Technology Journal January 2013 January 4, 2013 08:52 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Ben Potter AgWeb Social Media and Innovation Editor Email Mobile Apps Make Machine Management Easier AGCO Corporation announced that its telemetry service, AgCommand, is now available on the iPhone and iPad as a mobile app. Designed for farmers and the dealer networks that support them, the app helps to increase productivity by focusing on fleet management, vehicle health and overall machine uptime, says Martin Richenhagen, chairman, president and CEO of AGCO. By providing real-time machine information, AgCommand allows for remote monitoring of Challenger, Massey Ferguson and Valtra tractors, harvesting and application equipment. Features include weather conditions, history of machine status and data, and user-defined alerts. It can be downloaded free at the Apple App Store. For more information, visit www.agcotechnologies.com. The newest app from John Deere is also available at the Apple App Store. Mobile Farm Manager allows an iPhone or iPad to connect to Apex software. Functions include field maps, historical reports, GPS tracking, field navigation and soil sampling grids. The app is "designed to help make producers more efficient by making it easier to access and share relevant information," says Tyler Hogrefe, senior product marketing manager with John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group. Visit www.johndeere.com for more details. Research Trends Shift USDA has published a study of research and development (R&D) investments and their importance to agricultural inputs. Recent growth in private R&D has helped offset sluggish growth in public R&D. This is significant, officials say—the growth in ag production in the past 50 years is primarily attributed to better crop and livestock yields rather than increased acres. "Agriculture is more dependent on scientific innovation than any other industry," says Catherine Woteki, USDA chief scientist and undersecretary for research, education and economics. "This study shows the great job that private industry is doing in research, much of which was built on the genetic technology USDA scientists have been working on for decades." Among the key findings: More than half of all global private agriculture R&D investment has gone toward food manufacturing, not toward inputs and other agriculture production industries. Farm machinery and biofuel investments have grown significantly more than livestock-related research and crop protection chemicals. Biofuels have enjoyed a total R&D investment of approximately $1.47 billion. Intellectual property protection, regulatory frameworks and public investments in base science have been especially important in private R&D growth. "It's crucial that we continue supporting this kind of R&D," Woteki says. High-Tech Insect Traps The insect trap is the latest agricultural tool to get a high-tech makeover. Purdue University, in conjunction with Spensa Technologies Inc., has developed the Z-Trap—a device that automatically monitors insect pest populations and forwards the data it collects to a farmer's mobile phone or computer. "Tracking insect populations is a fundamental part of any pest management program," says Johnny Park, president and CEO of Spensa and a Purdue research assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering. "Being able to track those numbers in real time through a smartphone or computer helps growers choose how to use insecticides more judiciously." Park says the device could help farmers reduce the amount of insecticides they apply, as well as other inputs and labor costs. Z-Trap can be used in conjunction with www.MyTraps.com, an online subscription service. The technology currently focuses on several apple lepidopteran pests, but the company hopes to expand into corn, soybean, tree, nut and vine crops. Back to news


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Outdoor Idaho "Adventure Racing" The Funtastics Adventure Racing Team of Coeur d'Alene joins fellow adrenaline-seekers who take part in Adventure Sports Week at Farragut State Park. The two-day competition offers 63 miles of biking, 22 miles of running, 19 miles of kayaking, and a swim across a bay on Lake Pend Oreille.G
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Seeking Water from the Sun After 30 years off the Navajo Nation, Rosie Sekayumptewa returned to the homestead where three generations of her family have lived. She found the beauty and serenity she remembered-and the scarcity that had shaped her childhood. In Sekayumptewa's corner of the reservation, there is no access to safe, clean water. D
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Civil rights advocates say the arrests are invalid because the SCAT station is on county-owned property. Police officials say they are fine-tuning their trespass ordinance
Civil rights advocates have discovered that another homeless person has been languishing in the county jail after being arrested by Sarasota police for trespassing at the downtown bus terminal — an invalid arrest, according to police officials.
According to police reports, Misty Mae Goldy, 36, was "trespassed" last Thursday by Sarasota police around 7:10 p.m. at the SCAT bus station. About an hour later, a security guard told police she had returned.
Officer Todd Perna arrested Goldy for trespass and took her to the county jail where she remains, unable to secure $500 needed for bail.
The American Civil Liberties Union is working to secure her release.
Sarasota police said Tuesday they are fine-tuning their trespass ordinance after another homeless man spent 11 days in jail for a trespass arrest at the SCAT terminal.
The problem with both arrests, according to the ACLU, is that the SCAT terminal is county property, and Sarasota police lack the authority to issue a trespass warning on county property.
Since the trespass warning was invalid, subsequent arrests become invalid.
Police Chief Bernadette DiPino sent out a memo to her staff last week, the day after Goldy's arrest, clarifying police authority to "trespass" people on public property, as well as the requirements to issue them a written notice.
The ACLU filed suit against the city and its police department last year over the trespass ordinance, which they said was a tool to roust the homeless.
"The City needs to acknowledge that its strategy to use the criminal justice system to deal with the homeless has failed miserably," said Michael Barfield, chair of the ACLU's legal panel. "Sarasota can do much better than this. It's difficult to imagine how it could do any worse."
City Manager Thomas Barwin could not be reached for comment Wednesday.


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Is Your Privacy Harmed If You Believe Others May Have Seen Private Info... Even If They Haven't?
from the privacy-questions dept
The question of whether the defendants recorded or broadcast the web cam is highly relevant to whether there has been a privacy violation. Yet it is hardly relevant at all to the question of whether there has been a privacy harm.Calo is making an interesting, yet important, distinction here, between a privacy harm and a legal privacy violation. But it also highlights how the "harm" can come from a few different ways as well, including just the feeling of a loss of control, even if the information is not actually used negatively:
What matters is what Clementi believed. If it turns out that Clementi killed himself because he believed the entire campus watched him have gay sex, then he suffered a severe subjective privacy harm. This is true whether or not the belief was accurate. Just as likely is that Clementi had no idea one way or another who saw the footage. The uncertainty could have been nearly as horrible to this desperate, mortified young man as an affirmative belief.
Clementi's suicide forces us to confront the dual nature of privacy harm. Privacy harm is the objective consequences that flow from the loss of control over personal information. But it is also the subjective experience of that loss of control. This is so not only in the terrible case of Clementi, but in the everyday experiences of the consumer who is worried she will suffer identity theft following a data breach or the citizen who avoids making jokes about terrorism for fear that the NSA is reading his emails.


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Bird Poop Chandelier by Wyatt Little
I can't help but laugh at the name — and when you look closely at this whimsical chandelier, it's actually quite fitting!
Designer Wyatt Little pulled his inspiration from a seemingly insignificant childhood memory to create this beautiful, delicate chandelier. While standing below an oak tree one day, a passing bird pooped on his head. He turned this lighthearted moment into a literal idea for the Bird Poop Chandelier, which — despite the name — no one will mind sitting under.
Read More: Bird Poop Chandelier by Wyatt Little at Design Milk
• Experiment in Design: Pani Jurek's Test Tube Chandelier
• Wow Factor: Turquoise Chandeliers
• Not Your Mother's Chandelier
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Three more blocked kicks along with three Luther College fumbles gave the Central College football team nearly all the offense it needed in grinding out a 22-12 Iowa Conference victory Saturday.
The Dutch defense held the dangerous Luther option attack to a season-low 208 yards and Central running back Josh Osborn (junior, Burlington) did the rest, topping the 100-yard mark for the second time this year, gaining 106 yards on 26 carries.
A flurry of early miscues put Luther (2-5 overall, 1-3 conference) in a bind from which it never escaped. The Norse fumbled on their first play from scrimmage and defensive end Danny Samson (senior, Baxter, CMB HS) recovered. Two plays later Osborn took it in from 9 yards out. Luther fumbled the ensuing kickoff on its own 2-yard line and after being stymied there, a blocked punt by linebacker Nick Henry (junior, Solon) bounced out of the end zone for a safety and Central was up 9-0 less than 3 minutes into the contest.
"We needed to get off to a fast start," coach Jeff McMartin said.
Central (4-3 overall, 2-2 conference) has blocked seven kicks for the year. Cornerback Eric Larson (junior, Waverly, Waverly-Shell Rock HS) knocked down an extra point for his third block of the season. Henry has two.
The blocks and Luther miscues allowed Central to play it close to the vest on an afternoon when fierce northwest winds made the passing game an adventure. The Dutch were limited to 239 yards total offense but that was still 31 yards better than Luther.
"Our defense did a great job and we had a good scheme," McMartin said. "Fortunately for us, we've played against teams that are similar, yet this offense is different. They do a really good job with it. We got a great effort and our guys played really hard. We did a good job getting off blocks and that's very important."
Following the safety, a Kevin Sheldon (junior, West Des Moines, Valley HS) field goal made it 12-0 Central midway through the first quarter.
Yet the game was not without some anxious moments as the Luther ground game found its way in the second quarter. Quarterback JJ Sirios ripped off back-to-back runs of 35 and 20 yards, respectively, then wrapped up a seven-play, 81-yard drive with a 6-yard TD scamper. The point after try sailed wide, leaving it a 12-6 game.
But another Luther fumble was recovered by sophomore linebacker Grant Gustafson (Pella) with 2:25 left in the half at the Dutch 45. Central capitalized, moving to the Luther 11 with 13 seconds left. Sheldon booted a 28-yard field goal for a 15-6 advantage at intermission.
Central's offense struggled throughout the third quarter and Luther took its opening possession 68 yards in a 15-play TD drive that consumed 7:50.
But special teams ensured the lead shrunk no further. Larson's block kept Central up 15-12 and at the end of Luther's next possession, a snap sailed over the head of punter Jon Cochrane. Freshman linebacker Drew Carlson (Ankeny) pounced on it in the end zone to complete the day's scoring.
"We scored multiple times (on special teams)," McMartin said. "If you're going to score on special teams, you've got a great chance to win."
Central put the game away in the final two minutes, as Osborn barreled up the middle for a decisive first down with a nine-yard run on third and eight.
"Josh did a great job," McMartin said. "That last run was one of his best runs of the day. We did a nice job of managing the clock."
The Luther offense stalled following a third-quarter injury to Sirios, who was the team's top rusher with 79 yards. The Norse finished with 188 yards rushing but two Luther quarterbacks combined to complete just three of eight passes for 20 yards.
"They're going to get some stuff, but to keep them where they were was a good effort by our defense," McMartin said.
Central rushed for 138 yards overall. Quarterback Aaron Eiseler (junior, Mesa, Ariz., Red Mountain HS) completed 15 of 25 passes for 101 yards with no interceptions. Grant McArdle (senior, Red Oak, Stanton HS) and Osborn each had four catches.
Defensive back Jacob Tune (junior, Mesa, Ariz., Red Mountain HS) had a team-high 11 tackles for the Dutch, including six solos. Linebacker Mike Young (senior, Country Club Hills, Ill., Hillcrest HS) and Larson each made seven stops. Young also had four tackles for loss for 20 yards, including an eight-yard sack. The Dutch had 10 tackles for loss overall.
Central is on the road the next two weeks, traveling to Dubuque to take on Loras College in a 1 p.m. game. The Duhawks (1-6 overall, 0-4 conference) were blanked by Buena Vista 34-0 Saturday at Storm Lake.


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Liberty News
Flames logos painted along University Boulevard
As Liberty University revs up for Alumni Weekend and the big Homecoming game next month, eight road logos are being painted along University Boulevard this week. Beginning near the Williams Stadium scoreboard and leading down to the Vines Center on Main Campus, each traffic lane-sized emblem dons the trademark red eagle with "Liberty Flames" emblazoned in white underneath.
Designed to promote school spirit, the logos are composed of thermoplastic paint, making them a permanent fixture on campus. Once the symbols are in place, an insignia resembling LU's monogram will be painted at the Liberty Lane intersection across from the Elmer L. Towns Religion Hall.


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Blast you, sentient arthropod! BLAST YOU! (Translation: Badass work, Bluebug.)
Hey, how'd your image to show up on the boards? The first time I uploaded mine, it showed up... but then after that, ba-bam! BLANK!
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Warg. Good news! The Keenime Hearts site is up and running at:
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FOX Business: Capitalism Lives Here
U.S. stock-index futures were flat as traders looked for any clues on when lawmakers will strike a bargain to halt a week-long government shutdown and lift the debt ceiling.
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As of 8:10 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures climbed 12 points, or 0.09%, to 14863, S&P 500 futures gained 2.3 points, or 0.13%, to 1670 and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 5.5 points, or 0.17%, to 3211.
Congress triggered a partial government shutdown more than a week ago. Since then, essentially nothing has changed. The legislative body remains deadlocked and without a clear path forward. Meanwhile, the deadline to boost the debt ceiling looms fewer than 10 days away.
"Overall, markets continue to trade tepidly in the shadow of the ongoing US fiscal policy impasse," analysts at Nomura wrote to clients.
The shutdown has also halted most government-issued economic reports. Generally, the Commerce Department would release data on U.S. trade at 8:30 a.m. ET. However, the furlough of non-essential federal workers has made that impossible.
The National Federation of Independent Business' gauge of small business sentiment fell to 93.9 in September from 94.1 in August.
"The change in this month's Index was little more than 'statistical noise,' but the drop in outlook for future economic conditions is evidence that many owners are keeping an eye on Washington," NFIB chief economist Bill Dunkelberg wrote in the report.
"Prospects for politicians and policymakers 'getting it right' are low, and job creators are rolling their eyes and shaking their heads thinking, 'This is certainly not the way to run the largest enterprise in the world.'"
On the corporate front, aluminum giant Alcoa (NYSE:AA) unofficially kicks off earnings season in its first quarterly reports since being dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Taco Bell parent Yum Brands (NYSE:YUM) also posts its quarterly figures after the bell.
J.C. Penney (NYSE:JCP) shares surged in early trading after the struggling retailer said same-store sales would be higher in September than August, hinting at a potential recovery.
In commodities, U.S. crude oil futures rose 57 cents, or 0.55%, to $103.60 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline gained 0.86% to $2.647 a gallon. In metals, gold dipped $6.60, or 0.48%, to $1,319 a troy ounce.
Foreign Markets
The Euro Stoxx 50 dipped 0.28% to 2915, the English FTSE 100 fell 0.76% to 6389 and the German DAX slipped 0.11% to 8592.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei rose 0.3% to 13895 and the Chinese Hang Seng climbed 0.89% to 23179.


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I'm going to have mom over for turkey day.
I ordered all the food (because I don't have time to cook it all).
Turkey, ham, stuffing, cranberry sauce, green beans, and all that good stuff.
Then might go and see a movie - like James Bond.
You know, a movie sounds like a good idea that weekend. Maybe Lincoln.
Not sure about what my brother and I will be doing this year. We may go to our sister's new apartment on the Illinois side of St. Louis for Thanksgiving with the rest of the family (including, I think, our dad), but that's not set in stone (or even wet cement) yet. If not, we may wind up going to one of the casino buffets or a nearby cafeteria for Thanksgiving dinner. My brother has to work at 8.45 Thanksgiving night at Target, however - they're opening at 9 pm (yeah, playing Walmart's game).
Thanks Steph! =) And to update: We ARE going to the new place in Illinois; time to be determined, but I'm sure it'll be early to mid-afternoon. Not sure if dad will be there; he's still in the nursing home, but I think they may spring him from there for the afternoon.
I like the looks of that plan.
You actually cook such fancy dishes? I'm too lazy for all of that kitchen work.
But I get your strategy. I'm low salt and low carb, so I often have to take my own food to events.
We do Thanksgiving for the foreign teachers in our program. Not everyone's from the US, so it's a chance to share the meal with our Japanese and other foreign friends. Turkey's a rare bird on the menu here, unless you're getting a leg from Disneyland or USJ (United Studios Japan) and gravy isn't typical either. It's catered through a restaurant that has done this meal for groups of teachers in this program over many years, now. It's a bit expensive, but it's a good way to lift our spirits and fight off homesickness, as well as share our culture and appreciate the friendships we've made here in Japan. :)
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In the LAN, WAN, or datacenter network, edge devices do most of the work. The network edge has more features and performs more functions than other layers of the network topology.
As we move from the edge to the core, we expect more throughput but fewer features, because core devices should involve little except packet forwarding. Fewer protocols and features should be deployed, requiring less configuration and keeping control plane states at a minimum.
Datacenter networks, POPs, LANs, the branch, and the core can be thought of as different segments of networks. The features of these networks and their implementation might be different for enterprises, service providers, mobile operators, and for telcos, but the general theory remains the same. If we look at each segment separately, we can see why edge devices have to do more intelligent jobs, and why choosing the correct edge devices may be more critical than devices at other layers.
LAN edge
In the LAN, for example, we enable first-hop security on the access layer switches -- which make up the edge devices of the LAN. As a best practice, we also start to enable QoS as close as possible to the source. So implementing QoS policy at the edge of the network is important.
QoS might be implemented in different network segments for different reasons, but the place where you do it does not change. In the LAN, QoS might be implemented to protect voice traffic at the network edge. In the datacenter, you might use it at the virtualization layer to protect Fibre Channel traffic -- which is also at an edge of the network. In addition, we enable multicast features, such as IGMP and IGMP snooping, at the edge of the network. These are CPU-intensive processes if not handled by ASICs at the edge.
Access layer devices can supply power over Ethernet (PoE) to IP phones, wireless access points, and other devices in the LAN, so power negotiation is done at the edge of the network. If access lists, distribution lists, or filtering mechanisms need to be implemented, the best place again is the access layer. With the increased popularity of TrustSec and ISE deployments for user and device identification, this type of downloadable access list is a good example. Enforcement is done at the access layer, based on the policy on the ISE.
Service provider edge
When it comes to service providers, such as those supplying VPN services, provider edge (PE) devices always offer more in the way of configuration, policy, and control plane state. For MPLS VPN service, MP-BGP is necessary to distribute the VPN labels and neighborship between PE devices at the edge. The core of the network does not keep state, cannot be configured for BGP, and doesn't keep customer prefixes in its memory.
If a service provider offers multicast MPLS L3VPN service, let's say with Rosen GRE implementation, almost all the configuration is done at the PE devices.
We want core devices to be simple from a configuration point of view. When configuration increases, it's more likely that operational mistakes will increase as well. A higher mean time between mistakes increases your rate of high availability, so the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle should be kept in mind.
Datacenter edge
In the datacenter network, the edge may not be defined clearly, especially after virtualization. However, the edge can be thought of as the virtual access switch -- for example, a VMware distribution switch or Cisco Nexus 1000V. The general theory is the same for both.
Virtual PortChannel, FabricPath, or TRILL can be implemented at the aggregation layer and core of the network. But for all of these technologies, the aggregation layer must handle more processes and keep more states in the control and data plane, when compared to the core. For example, while the FabricPath leaf layer is implemented at the aggregation layer, the spine might be at the core. While the spine only knows how to route at Layer 2 to the leaf switches, the leaf nodes can learn the addresses from both the classical Ethernet side and from the FabricPath core.
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Once Again, Blocking Ads And Automating Clicks Isn't 'Stealing'
from the explaining-it-nicely dept
Amusingly, in that same post, he argues that he never expects people to actually click on the ads from his site, but he relies on the revenue those ads bring in. So... let me get this straight. If people use AdBlock, they're stealing from you. But... if, instead, people come to your site and totally ignore the ads, but those advertisers have to pay you anyway, that's okay? Based on this guy's own logic, isn't he "practically stealing" from the advertisers? After all, he's granting them a service and then telling his readers to ignore the ads. Those advertisers rely on people buying stuff after clicking the ads, right? So, it's okay if people don't help out those advertisers, but if your own readers don't help you out by allowing the ads, it's theft? Yeah... okay.
Taking this concept to an even greater extreme, the EFF has stepped in on a legal dispute, where file hosting provider MediaFire is demanding Mozilla remove a plug-in that lets people skip the ad that MediaFire tries to show people before they can access the file they're trying to download. As the EFF notes:
It's my browser, and I can ignore your ads if I want to.MediaFire's claims are like the people who claim that anyone using AdBlock is "stealing" from them and breaking their user agreement -- but as the EFF notes, there's no stealing of anything going on here, and the user agreement is never actually agreed to, and thus not particularly enforceable or even relevant.
So, once again, with feeling, it's worth reminding people that your business model is not sacred. You have no right to a business model, and if some technology comes along that undermines your business model, that shouldn't be illegal. It just means the market has changed, and it's time you change along with it. And yes, for those who ask, please feel free to use AdBlock on this site if you want to. It's totally up to you, of course. You don't need my permission.


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Personal Data Sheets and Resumes: What You Need to Know as a Job Seeker with Vision Loss
It's important to understand the differences and similarities between a personal data sheet and a resume. Examples of both for a fictitious job seeker are included here: Sample Personal Data Sheet | Sample Resume
Personal Data Sheets for Visually Impaired Job Seekers
A personal data sheet (PDS) is a document used by someone with a visual impairment or other impairment that inhibits his or her ability to read or write using a standard print format. The PDS contains all of the information that you would typically be asked to supply to complete an application:
- Name
- Address
- Telephone number
- Details about your academic and work history
- Supervisors' names
- Reference names and contact information
On the PDS, you include everything; you try to anticipate any question that might pop up on an application. You then have all the information handy for a scribe—someone who writes for you to complete an application form manually. The advantage of having the information in a hard copy format is that the scribe can simply copy from one sheet to another, and she or he is less likely to commit errors of omission, transpose numbers, or misspell words.
Resumes for Job Seekers with Vision Loss
A resume is tailored to suit you and the job for which you are applying. You don't need to include all of the details—you can pick and choose what you want to share!
There are no hard and fast rules with resumes like there are with applications. The resume is typically used to supplement an application—it highlights your strengths and draws attention to what you have to offer an employer in a way an application may not. When printed out, the resume and the PDS look quite similar, although the PDS is typically longer.
Do you need both? It's your choice. Ideally, job seekers with visual impairments have both a PDS and a resume.
The PDS can be printed and laminated for multiple uses by anyone helping you complete applications. The resume can vary according to your immediate needs and may best be left in an electronic format until you are ready to apply for a specific job.
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Release date: 2004-08-18
This release contains one serious bug fix over 7.4.4. For information about new features in the 7.4 major release, see Section E.311.
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.
Repair possible crash during concurrent B-tree index insertions
This patch fixes a rare case in which concurrent insertions into a B-tree index could result in a server panic. No permanent damage would result, but it's still worth a re-release. The bug does not exist in pre-7.4 releases.
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Hiker who fell to death near Mount Adams identified as Texan
RANDOLPH, N.H. (AP) � New Hampshire authorities are identifying the hiker who fell to his death during an outing near Mount Adams as a 64-year-old man from University Park, Texas.
The Fish and Game Department says Richard Gabrielle was near the top of what's known as the Great Gully in King's Ravine when he lost his footing and fell down the ravine, near Randolph, on Saturday afternoon.
Officials said Sunday that Gabrielle tumbled more than 1,500 feet down the steep slope before coming to rest, and sustained significant injuries that killed him instantly.
Gabrielle was part of a group of seven climbers. Officials said they were properly equipped for the conditions.
Gabrielle was the last in line among the climbers who had set out to reach the summit of Mount Adams.