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MERANO, Italy — A line of goats walked toward us, their bells ringing. A waterfall gurgled. The steeply pitched mountain farm angled down sharply below us. The goats headed downhill, then leaped over a stream through the grass, which looked like green velvet.
"Really?" Julia said, voicing our communal disbelief. "Really?"
Not that it looked real. In fact, the snow-dusted mountains towering over verdant meadows, the medieval castles and the riotous colors of flowers tumbling from Bavarian guest houses looked so perfect that my friend Amy, an artist who paints theater sets, took to claiming it was the work of a colleague.
That's what you see in South Tyrol (English), Alto Adige (Italian) or Sudtirol (German), all names for the same spectacular province on the south side of the Alps that was part of Austria until the end of World War I, when it became part of Italy.
What it seemed I didn't see were Americans — whether because it's an additional half-day's travel from the nearest airport or because it's simply off our travel radar.
Americans who do go are welcomed by some of the friendliest folks I've traveled among.
Those who don't are missing a walker's paradise.
If you wanted to create the best walking trip on Earth, you would come up with South Tyrol. In addition to scenery worthy of "The Sound of Music," the region is laced with a stupendous number and variety of trails for everyone from relaxed ramblers to expert rock climbers.
But it is ordinary walkers who are in the most amazing luck, because South Tyrol, which includes the craggy rock spires of the Dolomites, offers a rare dream: mountaineering-level trails that can be done by the nonmountaineer.
No climbing up mountains is necessary; you can be whisked up by funicular instead. No backpacking required; even if you want to do multiday hikes into backcountry, you can stay overnight in an alpine lodge and carry just a day pack.
And there are so many trails, many accessible from main roads serviced by the excellent SAD bus system, that you can pop into eye-popping scenery for just a few miles, then pop out and take a bus back to your home base for dinner.
Your biggest challenge will be choosing hikes. I tormented myself for months over the choices and still made last-minute changes during our trip.
For my three gal pals and myself — this is a safe and superb trip for women friends — I sought out the best of several kinds of walks. I can only imagine the ones we missed. But look at the ones we walked.
We strolled the roads around Tyrol Castle, the ancestral seat of Tyrolean counts, which loomed high above our lodgings in the spa town of Merano. The roads were lined with so many wildly fertile blackberries, hops, vineyards, fig trees and apple orchards that "we could just graze our way to the castle," Dianne remarked.
Another day, while the others were shopping in Merano — hey, shopping is walking too — I walked the famed Tappeinerweg, a lush promenade overlooking the medieval town and dotted with palm trees and scuttling lizards, courtesy of the city's Mediterranean microclimate. The path is so easy that people walk it with baby strollers.
But Merano was only our base. From there, we headed out for other hikes.
Being obsessed with cows wearing bells, I had to have an alpine farm walk. So one day we drove to the tiny hamlet of Pfelders and hiked up a hill beneath the shadow of snow-patched mountains.
We passed a farmer cinematically scything a field, and 45 minutes later were sitting at a farm walkers' hut eating apple strudel as cows grazed, their bells clanging.
We had to have a serious walk too. For that one I picked the Merano High Mountain Trail, a spectacular 62-mile trail through the mountains of the Texel Group Nature Park.
It takes four to six days, staying overnight in alpine huts, to do the whole thing. But multiple access points let you bite off a small section, and we walked the one between Naturns and Parcines.
We took a funicular up to the trail, gliding through mist. When the clouds burned off, we were looking down at the valley from an altitude of 4,500 feet. It was like the view from an airplane window.
The walk and the views were mind-boggling, as were the goats. And it was on this hike that we comprehended the genius of alpine huts.
Just as we were starting to tire two hours into our walk, we came upon an Alpine hut named the Pirch hut. We settled into a cozy room decorated with stuffed marmots and equipped with German Monopoly (you can land on the Reichstag) and relaxed over a delicious lunch of house-made sausage, roasted potatoes and apple strudel.
When we set out again, I was so rested it was like starting a new hike.
And after we climbed 100 steps up and down a ravine, there was the Hochforch hut, with a sunny patio, English-speaking fellow hikers and the next apple strudel. By the time we finished our hike, 51/2 hours after we started, we were tired but well-fed, and I had a German email pen pal.
Our final hike was through what looked like heaven.
After taking a funicular up from Ortisei, Amy and I — the others having headed off to nearby Venice — walked to an overlook above the trail's start and were dumbstruck.
The Alpe di Siusi, or Seiser Alm, the largest meadowland in Europe, stretched out before us, a vast open land rolling out toward jagged Dolomite peaks silhouetted against a perfect blue sky.
We walked across the expanse, past white cows grazing on green grass and periwinkle-blue butterflies flitting over small purple flowers, the sun drenching it all and turning the gray Dolomite rock into a subtly changing color show.
Did I mention that the entire walk is downhill?
I wanted to stop time.
I'll settle for coming back.
If you go
Getting there
The nearest airports are Munich, Venice and Milan. You can take trains to the larger cities like Merano and Bolzano and either stay there or go on to one of the countless charming small towns.
We rented a car in Bolzano but consider doing without. Most hikes are accessible by the excellent bus system known as SAD.
The Sud Tirol tourist agency (suedtirol.info) has extensive resources, from interactive lodging searches to hike recommendations. For information on Merano, including accommodations and the Merano High Mountain Trail, visit meranerland.com.
The spa city of Merano is a worthy destination on its own. We loved our lodgings at Bamguat, a working apple orchard with mountain-view balconied apartments and a pool (bamguatmeran.it).
A tip
Hiking shoes are highly personal. Guidebooks urge ankle-high boots, but Dianne was perfectly happy with hiking sandals. And use trekking poles. European walkers all do, and after our hilly mountain trek we understood why.


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Bay Area Hospital is a tobacco-free campus.
We provide some of the most advanced and compassionate care in the region.
Whether you are receiving care or visiting a loved one, our goal is to make your stay with us a positive one.
Bay Area Hospital offers a wide variety of support groups and programs to improve the health of our community.
We are continually looking for opportunities to improve our organization and keep our community informed.
Rectal prolapse surgery — Overview covers definition, risks, results of surgery for rectal prolapse.
Rectal prolapse surgery is a procedure to repair rectal prolapse. Rectal prolapse occurs when the last several inches of the large intestine (the rectum) becomes abnormally stretched and protrudes from the anus. Rectal prolapse surgery moves the rectum back to its proper place.
There are a number of ways to do rectal prolapse surgery. Your surgeon will suggest the appropriate one for you based on your condition and your overall health. Rectal prolapse surgery requires anesthesia and a hospital stay of one to several days.
Rectal prolapse surgery is performed in people troubled by chronic symptoms, including difficulty pushing the rectum back in place, leakage of stool or inability to control bowel movements (fecal incontinence), or obstructed bowel movements. The problem is most common in elderly women.
For some people, minor rectal prolapse occurs occasionally when they strain to have a bowel movement. In these people, rectal prolapse may go away on its own. Rectal prolapse may be prevented by eating a high-fiber diet, drinking plenty of liquids, and taking laxatives, stool softeners and stool-bulking agents.
Rectal prolapse surgery carries a risk of serious complications. Each technique for repairing rectal prolapse has its own risks. But in general, rectal prolapse surgery risks include:
To prepare for rectal prolapse surgery, your doctor may ask that you:
You''ll spend one to several days in the hospital after rectal prolapse surgery. Plan ahead so that you''ll be as comfortable as possible during your stay. Consider bringing:
Rectal prolapse surgery can be done through the abdomen — either with a large incision (open surgery) or laparoscopic methods — or through the region around the anus (perineum).
Which approach your surgeon uses depends on a number of factors, such as the suspected cause of rectal prolapse, your other health problems, and your surgeon''s experience and preferences. There is no clear-cut advantage to any approach. Discuss your options with your surgeon.
Types of rectal prolapse surgery comprise:
In a procedure sometimes called rectopexy, the surgeon pulls the rectum back inside the body and, to keep it in place, attaches the rectum to the tissue around the sacrum — the bony structure above your tailbone and below your spine. The surgeon may secure the rectum with sutures or with a mesh sling that supports the rectum. In some cases, the surgeon may also remove a portion of the colon in a procedure called resection rectopexy.
Rectal prolapse surgery may also be performed using several smaller incisions in the abdomen. This procedure is sometimes called laparoscopic rectal prolapse surgery. The surgeon inserts special surgical tools and a tiny camera through the abdominal incisions to repair the rectal prolapse.
The abdominal approach to rectal prolapse surgery requires general anesthesia to put you in a sleep-like state during the procedure.
Rectal prolapse surgery through the area around the anus (perineum) is sometimes called perineal rectosigmoidectomy. During this procedure, the surgeon removes a portion of the rectum and sigmoid and attaches the remaining rectum to the large intestine (colon). This procedure is also called the Altemeier surgery.
Another method for repairing a rectal prolapse through the perineum is called the Delorme procedure. This surgery is typically only done for short prolapses. The lining of the rectum is removed and the muscular layer folded to shorten the rectum.
Some people who have rectal prolapse also have other health issues such as vaginal prolapse or pelvic organ prolapse. If this is the case, surgery to repair a rectal prolapse can be combined with surgery to treat problems such as a cystocele, uterine prolapse or rectocele.
Perineal rectosigmoidectomy can be performed using regional anesthesia, during which you remain awake. It is most often used with frailer older people who may not tolerate the abdominal operation.
You''ll spend a brief time in the hospital recovering and regaining your bowel function. You may begin by drinking clear liquids and eventually transition to solid foods. How much time you spend in the hospital will depend on what procedure was used for your rectal prolapse surgery. For most perineal procedures, it could be just an overnight stay.
Your doctor will likely recommend drinking lots of fluids, use of stool softeners and a diet rich in fiber in the weeks following surgery, to avoid constipation and excessive straining that may lead to recurrence of the rectal prolapse. Most people will be able to return to normal activities within four to six weeks after surgery.
Some people may need help from a physical therapist in relearning how to properly use the pelvic floor muscles.
In studies of the different ways of performing rectal prolapse surgery, no procedure has proved to be optimal for all people. Each has advantages and disadvantages, but all have similar results in terms of safety, effectiveness and recurrence rates.
For most people, rectal prolapse surgery relieves the symptoms of rectal prolapse and improves fecal incontinence. It may take a year to assess how surgery has affected bowel function.
Most published studies of results of rectal prolapse surgery report improvement in constipation for most people. But they also indicate that constipation can get worse and become a problem when it wasn''t one before. If you have constipation issues, it''s important to address them before having surgery.
Recurrence of rectal prolapse after surgery occurs in about 2 to 5 percent of people. It appears to be slightly more common in people who have the perineal procedure compared with an abdominal one. Talk with your doctor about your risk of recurrence and what you can do to reduce your risk.

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Nearly fifteen years after a freelance journalist was found dead in a Sydney laneway, the man who callously left her to die in the gutter has been jailed for at least five years and eight months by a Supreme Court judge.
Last week, Wayne Castle, 54, bent over double in the dock and sobbed as he apologised to the family of Jennifer Maree Smith, whom he robbed and punched in a Newtown laneway on January 17, 1998, causing massive head injuries.
But in the Supreme Court in Sydney on Thursday, Castle remained expressionless as he was sentenced to a maximum term of seven-and-a-half years by Justice Robert Allan Hulme, who said he doubted the genuineness of Castle's remorse.
"The offender thought only of himself when he callously left her lying in the gutter, literally, for dead," Justice Hulme said.
The judge said Castle only confessed to the crime after fresh DNA evidence came to light and police "tricked him into giving a confession".
Castle, from Forest Lodge, pleaded guilty earlier this year to the manslaughter of Ms Smith, 32, who was found unconscious in a lane beside the Coopers Arms Hotel at Newtown.
The freelance journalist, from Elizabeth Bay in Sydney's east, died a short time later of severe head injuries.
The court heard Castle punched Ms Smith in the face during a robbery, causing her skull to fracture when she hit the ground.
Although he was the chief suspect and gave evidence at an inquest into Ms Smith's death in 1999, Castle was only charged after the unsolved homicide unit reopened the case.
"Clearly (the family's) suffering has been made manifestly worse by the delay in not knowing what happened to Ms Smith and who was responsible," Justice Hulme said.
The court heard Ms Smith, one of six children, was "intelligent, bright, with quick wit, politically active, compassionate and kind".
"She was obviously a remarkable and much-loved woman," Justice Hulme said.
Justice Hulme accepted Castle's actions were "more opportunistic than planned" and that he now "realises he has done a dreadful thing".
"But he is looking for absolution and to assuage his own feelings of guilt," the judge said.
"His primary concern is for himself."
Ms Smith's mother and siblings cried as the sentence was handed down.
Speaking to reporters outside the court, they paid tribute to the police officers "who never gave up".
"We're incredibly relieved that this is now over after a long period of 14 years of not knowing what really happened to Jen," her sister, Kate Smith, said.
"We feel we now have the opportunity to move on with our lives and remember her the way we want to, as our beautiful sister and my mother's beautiful daughter."
Taking into account time already served, Castle will be eligible for parole in January 2017.


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Give a Kid a Keyhole
My oldest son Mac loved school from the start. When my husband walked him into the classroom on the first day of first grade, Mac turned to him at the door and said "I got it from here," then walked in and found his desk alone. Mac made great friends at school. His teachers loved him. But school wasn't easy for him, and by high school his ADHD was a major factor.
Band was Mac's salvation. He loved marching band, jazz band and concert band and never got less than an A grade in any music class. The other academic subjects were sometimes easy and fun (if there were writing involved, and/or if a teacher was warm and encouraging) and sometimes grueling. Senior year was dicey. Once, a counselor called me in to talk about Mac's grades. "He can get As in band classes," she said. "Why can't he get As in everything?"
"Band is his thing," I said.
"If it were up to me, he wouldn't be allowed to do band at all," she said. "Band should be a privilege for kids who focus on academics." I said goodbye and left that meeting. Mac helped organize pep band, was a section leader in marching band and won soloist awards. What academic subject is that kind of experience secondary to, exactly?
Mac started at Front Range Community College after graduation, and a little miracle happened. He walked into History of Jazz class and met Michael DeLalla, a Front Range instructor who's also one of the best guitarists in the world. Some of Michael's compositions are considered world music. Some are categorized as jazz, and others are reviewed by classical music magazines. When you listen to Michael play, you want time to stop for a little while.
Michael has taught music for thirty years. He moved to Colorado from Shenandoah Conservatory, where he taught guitarists and composers and arrangers their crafts. His students stay in touch with him ten and twenty years later. Some of them are on national tours now, as Michael is himself.
Mac started walking around with a thick paperbook book under his arm. "What is that?" I asked him. "It's my History of Jazz textbook," he said. We drove around at night and he'd play me something amazing from a 1930s jazz combo or a New Orleans fruit seller advertising his wares, a precursor of the jazz tradition. He was rapt. My husband and I were awed and grateful.
Mac already played in local jazz jams. He got a quartet together and started rehearsing with them, and started writing songs. He wrote 19 songs on the bus between our house and the Front Range campus.
Music is a keyhole for Mac. Michael DeLalla, or Saint Michael as he is known in our house, was the guy who opened the keyhole. Next semester, Mac is taking a history class at Front Range. "Why history?" I asked. "If you're going to play the music, you have to know what was happening on the ground," he said.
Every kid can find his or her way to everything s/he needs to know. All it takes is a keyhole, something that the kid wants to know or wants to explore. Formal requirements to learn so much of X and so much of Y shortchange kids, and teach them that smarter adults have already decided what every kid needs to know, regardless of who the kid is and what makes his heart beat faster. We can do better.
Thank goodness for Front Range Community College, Michael DeLalla and the other world-class writers and musicians and artists and leaders who help kids grow their flames and plug into the wide world, each kid in his or her powerful and original way. Thank goodness for kids like Mac who learn to ignore messages that say "The thing you care about most is not important" when their own beating heart and their own trusty gut speak louder.


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April 12, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - Babson College capitalized on several MIT defensive miscues en route to a 9-1 victory in the opening game of a NEWMAC softball doubleheader and another win by the same margin in the six-inning nightcap on Wednesday. With the wins, the Beavers improved to 19-6 on the year and 7-2 in conference play. The Engineers' ledger dropped to 3-15 overall and 2-8 in the NEWMAC.
Darcy Lantz posted a single and advanced to second on an error in the opening frame. She then scored on Meghan Gaskell's double to left center. Babson tacked on another run in the second inning after Jess Cohen reached on an error, was moved over by a sacrifice bunt by Robyn Woodruff, advanced to third on a wild pitch, and scored on Jess Bryn's groundout to second base.
Tech ended the shutout in the bottom-half of the inning when Cheryl Texin received a lead-off walk. A bunt by Leah Bogsted moved her into scoring position and Corinne Vannatta's single up the middle brought Texin home.
For the third consecutive inning, the Beavers extended their lead. Andrea Cartullo reached on an infield single and Lantz was walked. Gaskell then loaded the bases with another infield single and Erica Barry plated Cartullo with a sacrifice bunt. Babson broke the game open in the fifth inning by scoring a pair of runs and then added three in the sixth, and one in the final stanza.
Gaskell hit 5-for-5, including two doubles, and posted a pair of runs and two RBI for the Beavers. She also earned the win by striking out nine and allowing five hits. Barry went 2-for-3 and also totaled two runs and two RBI.
Despite having the bases loaded and no outs in the first inning of the second game, Babson came away scoreless as MIT converted back-to-back fielder's choices and grabbed a pop-up to end the threat. The Beavers opened the scoring in the third fame as Cartullo registered an infield single, advanced to third on Lantz's ground-rule double, and crossed the plate on Gaskell's single through the right side. Babson's bats came alive in the fourth inning as it tallied three runs, followed by four in the fifth, and one in the sixth.
The Engineers got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fourth. Texin led off with a walk and Kaitlyn McCartney was awarded first after being hit by a pitch. Helen O'Keefe's ground out to first base moved both runners into scoring position. Katherine Bankert's walk loaded the bases and an error on Stephanie Brenman's infield hit gave Texin enough time to reach home.
Gaskell had another strong performance at the plate, finishing 3-for-4 with three RBI. Lantz went 2-for-3 with a RBI and a run. Lazar hit 2-for-4 and recorded two RBI as Byrn and Kaitlyn Clark tallied three and two runs, respectively. Stacy Schlicht fanned seven in four innings of work while Byrn struck out two and scattered three hits to close the game. For MIT, Bogsted picked up her second loss of the day as she shared pitching duties with Bankert.
The next game for MIT will be on Friday, April 14 when it travels to Wellesley College.


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The Iowa City Public Library's Koza Family Teen Center will have new Tech Time Hours this summer.
Beginning Monday, June 9, the new Tech Hours will be 12:30 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday. During Tech Hours, teens in grades seventh through 12th can play video games on the big screen, check out iPads and laptops.
Students who will enter the seventh grade this fall can use the Koza Family Teen Center.
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It all started when…
Debbie experienced numerous near death experiences and through her journeys to the other-side she is able to give insight into what she experienced as well as making contact with the spirit world.
Debbie received confirmation of her gift after a miscarriage when she was 28 years old. Due to this occurrence her unique abilities were heightened and since that time on Debbie has provided the link for thousands of people to communicate with their loved ones, who have passed.
Debbie's abilities help her clients by connecting them with their departed loved ones. During the sessions clients have reported a sense of closure and healing by being able to connect with their passed loved ones. Through mediumship it is possible to give confirmation that our spirit lives on once we have left our physical body. While our physical bodies can't be seen after death, this doesn't mean that life itself doesn't exist beyond the death of our physical body. Death is just another progression in our souls journey to enlightenment and fulfilment of purpose. The difference between a psychic and a spirit medium. A psychic tunes into your energy field which is called your aura, through doing this the psychic can provide knowledge about past, present and future events. A spirit medium is the connection between the physical world and the spirit world. A reading with Debbie is a three way process involving the spirit, the medium and the client.
Debbie acts as the go between the client in the physical world and the spirit in the spirit world. Communication happens in various ways. Debbie is Clairvoyant (to see), Clairsentient (to feel) and Clairaudient (to hear). During Debbie's readings she endeavours to give the most tangible evidence possible that your loved ones are still with you even though they are in the spirit world. Debbie is a gifted spirit photographer with a substantial photographic and film collection of tangible evidence that the spirit world does truly exist.
Debbie runs workshops teaching students how to tune into their own higher self and how to become connected with their spirit guides and guardian angels. Always remember it is better to tell your loved ones you love them while they are alive. Although it is possible to communicate with them through a medium when they have passed, it is far better to tell them while they are still with you in the physical world.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The 2011 MIT men's soccer schedule features four games that will be the inaugural meetings for both squads with three occurring during the first week of the season. The Engineers open the year at the University of Southern Maine Classic on September 2 when they take on the host Huskies before squaring off with St. Joseph's College of Maine the next day.
The Cardinal and Gray's first home game is on September 7 against Framingham State University while its NEWMAC opener will be against Springfield College on September 17. Four days later, MIT squares off with Roger Williams University for the first time in program history.
In October, five of the Engineers' seven games will be held on Roberts Field. A four-game homestand begins on October 1 against NCAA Tournament qualifier Williams College. The only time the Engineers and Ephs have faced each other was in the Sweet 16 of the 2003 NCAA Tournament in which Tech topped Williams, 2-1, in overtime. Next up will be Salve Regina University (October 5), followed by NEWMAC champion Babson College (October 8) and conference rival U.S. Coast Guard Academy (October 15).
MIT's final home-game will be on October 24 against Wentworth Institute of Technology before closing out the regular season at NEWMAC foe Wheaton College on October 29.
2011 MIT Men's Soccer Schedule (View as PDF)
Sept. 2 at Univ. of Southern Maine 4:00 p.m.
Sept. 3 vs. St. Joseph's Coll. (Maine) 1:30 p.m.
Sept. 7 FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIV. 4:30 p.m.
Sept. 12 at Emerson Coll. 5:30 p.m.
Sept. 17 SPRINGFIELD COLL.* 2:00 p.m.
Sept. 19 at Brandeis Univ. 7:00 p.m.
Sept. 21 at Roger Williams Univ. 5:00 p.m.
Sept. 24 at WPI* 5:00 p.m.
Oct. 1 WILLIAMS COLL. 1:00 p.m.
Oct. 5 SALVE REGINA UNIV. 4:30 p.m.
Oct. 8 BABSON COLL.* 1:00 p.m.
Oct. 15 U.S. COAST GUARD ACAD.* 1:00 p.m.
Oct. 22 at Clark Univ.* 11:30 a.m.
Oct. 24 WENTWORTH INST. OF TECH. 7:00 p.m.
Oct. 29 at Wheaton Coll.* 1:00 p.m.
* New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference game
All Times Eastern (Local Time) and subject to change
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We're not buying the theory that taxing Internet sales will level the playing field with brick and mortar retailers.
We're not buying the theory that taxing Internet sales will level the playing field with brick and mortar retailers.
The digital marketplace has its own set of inherent problems.
Many people don't want to purchase anything they can't actually see or touch. Even more want to walk out the door with the merchandise after it's been paid for with their hard-earned money instead of waiting for it to arrive days later. Return polices, too, are a little squirrelly. And hundreds of thousands of consumers, believe it or not, are either not computer savvy or don't own one or have access to one. For the latter, an online purchase is not an option.
Under law, states are only authorized to collect sales taxes if the merchant has a physical site in the state.
The Marketplace Fairness Act was recently introduced in the N.C. Senate, a measure that would allow the collection of state and local taxes from Internet retailers at the time transactions take place.
Supporters of the bill in North Carolina say that in essence the legislation would benefit brick-and-mortar business that create jobs in the state and help them compete with online retailers.
According to the N.C. Retail Merchants Association, the state loses nearly $436 million in sales tax revenue when residents do not report online purchases.
The purpose of the bill, however, seems not to be a fair collection of taxes, but to eradicate any threat of competition.
Interestingly, the two online selling giants, Amazon.com and eBay, are at odds on the measure. Amazon supports the bill while eBay stands against it.
Anyone who has ever tried to peddle a few items on eBay knows they not only have to pay a monthly membership fee but also give up a percentage of their take to the digital vendor. The larger the sale, the larger portion taken by eBay. They also know that eBay has steadily increased its seller fees over the years, taking an ever larger chuck of the sellers' profits. And eBay knows if the seller must also pay a sales tax, many will find they are better off hawking their wares at a yard sale or flea market.
Amazon, of course, realizes it is not only healthy enough to absorb the brunt of tax collections, but the new law would also dismantle its few online competitors.
If you've ever tried to find a parking spot around Dec. 25 at a Triad mall, or here at our shopping plazas, you'll see that online sellers aren't doing a lot of damage.


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Kristjan Mar Hauksson speaking at the SES in San Francisco on Global Search Engine Marketing with Anne Kennedy as my co-speaker and Michael Bonfils as the moderator.
Session name:
Turn Right at Reykjavik – How to Reach Europe's Biggest Markets
Session Description:
Aiming for Europe? It's not as easy as you might think. Though allied under the EU, European countries are each unique, with diverse cultures, languages, and searcher behavior. Google owns nearly all the search market share across Western Europe, which simplifies search marketing platform issues, However, helping Google bot understand just which market you are after is more complex, especially when languages cross borders, as do German and French.This session will guide you through the key issues, with case studies to illustrate how successful global companies have tackled them:
Do's and don'ts for SEM in Europe's biggest markets.
Avoiding duplicate content issues and geo-targeting individual markets.
Multilingual success cases for PPC, SEO, and public relations—should we say "reputation management"?
Another Session the day after, again about Global Search Engine Marketing is called "Hidden Dragons—Mastering Search in Tempting Asian Markets".


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How social media can be a danger for employers
EMPLOYERS that give their staff free rein on social media websites risk damage to their brand, and confidential information being leaked, a workplace law expert has warned.
And research to be published soon on the amount of time Australian workers spend using applications such as Facebook and Twitter indicates most dip briefly in and out of them, with only a small percentage of workers seriously over-using them at work.
Tony Vernier, managing director of Australian Business Lawyers and Advisors, told an industrial relations conference in Melbourne this month that employers should tell their staff what is acceptable when using social media.
"And you can't just have a policy on the shelf – if people don't know about it, it's as if you don't have a policy," Mr Vernier said.
A small number of employers have fired staff for using social media in the workplace in Australia in the last three years, although in many cases the dismissal has been found to be unfair.
A Melbourne landscape architect fired last year for overusing Google's mail chat service was found to have been unfairly dismissed. Richard O'Connor was abruptly sacked for more than "3000 transactions on a chat line during work time". But Fair Work Australia found that, as no guidance had been given by the employer about net use, the excessive use did not justify his dismissal.
Mr Vernier said that in the last year, many of Australia's bigger companies had put in place social media policies, but small and medium sized businesses had not.
He cited a recent Linfox case involving a truck driver with 22 years experience who had posted insulting messages about his workmates.
The driver, Glen Stutsel, was sacked for comments made on his Facebook page, including one about his site manager, a Muslim, who he called a "bacon hater". Mr Stutsel got his job back because the court believed his argument that he had thought the conversation with his Facebook friends was private.
Since 2009, Swinburne University academic Rajesh Vasa has studied how Australian employees are accessing social media sites in workplaces.
Research he co-authored studied at 18,000 office workers, looking at how they used the internet and social media. The first results, published in November 2011, found around 80 per cent of people would flick into Facebook or another social media site, and spend "maybe 20-30 seconds, or up to minute, and then come back to their work", Dr Vasa said.
"There are a few people who spend a lot of time on it (social media) but that is not the majority." he said.
The study looked mostly at Twitter and Facebook, as well as LinkedIn.
He said a follow-up study he was involved in, which is yet to be published, indicates "people who have a lot of work, who are busy, do not spend a lot of time on social media".
"The bulk of the usage happens around lunchtime, between 12.30pm and 1.30pm," he said.
Clay Lucas is city editor for The Age. Clay has worked at The Age since 2005, covering state politics, urban affairs, transport, local government and workplace relations for The Age and Sunday Age.


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Federal Agency Charged Company Fired Employee Because of Her Bipolar Disorder
ATLANTA - Dayton Superior Corporation, a nationwide provider of concrete and masonry construction products, will pay $50,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
In its lawsuit filed on Sept. 26, 2012 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (Civil Action No. 2:12-cv-00227), the EEOC charged that Dayton Superior Corporation discriminated against Chassity Brady, a quality control lab technician in its Braselton, Ga., facility, by unlawfully firing her in August 2011 for taking medication that had been prescribed by her doctor for her bipolar disorder. While at work, Brady suffered an adverse reaction to the prescribed medication and the employer required her to submit to a drug test. Although the only substances found in Brady's system were the medications prescribed to treat her disability, the employer immediately terminated her after the test results were revealed.
"The EEOC filed this case because the evidence indicated Ms. Brady was terminated because her disability required her to take medication," said Robert Dawkins, regional attorney for the EEOC's Atlanta District Office. "Making employment decisions on the basis of stereotypical assumptions about disability-based medications is one of the problems the ADA was designed to combat."
The consent decree settling the suit, in addition to monetary relief for Brady, includes provisions for equal employment opportunity training, reporting, and postings.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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J4 brackets allow you to set the 16mm-thick F-35 anatomic armrests at two different widths, as well as to adjust the angle of the rests and to set three fore and aft positions. People who prefer a wider position often like to rotate the rests so that they're cradling and guiding their forearm in the direction of the extension. The J4 iteration of brackets is Profile's latest foray into adjustability mastery. They allow you to adjust the armrest setback 15mm from the center of the base bar, and they're even reversible in order to provide a forward armrest position. Additionally, they're compatible with aftermarket risers should you choose to elevate your armrest position.
The Profile Design T1+ Carbon Aerobars are available in the color Black and in one size. Please note that the T1+ is compatible with both 26.0 and 31.8mm clamp diameter base bars.


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Girl with Rare Disease, Cystinosis, Can't Sweat
(NEW YORK) -- Sarah Larimore, 7, didn't always like summer.
She suffers from a rare genetic metabolic disorder called cystinosis, which prevents her from sweating. She lives in South Carolina, and can't stay in 80-degree weather for longer than 20 minutes, so during the summer she used to stay cooped up inside, her mother, Katie Larimore, told ABC News.
Last summer, her family built a swimming pool in their backyard.
"It was her first real, live outside summer," her mother said. "She just stayed in the water for three months."
Sarah is one of at least 25 million Americans who suffer from rare conditions, according to the National Institutes of Health, which recognizes Thursday as Rare Disease Day. The last day of February has been promoted since 2009 by the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) to increase awareness about the common needs of people with illnesses that not many others have.
People with a rare illness -- defined as affecting fewer than 2,000 people -- share common challenges: They have trouble getting an accurate diagnosis, finding treatment, and convincing insurance companies to pay for care, said Mary Dunkle, a NORD spokeswoman.
"Even though each disease is different, the challenges of living with a disease that's rare is pretty consistent," she said.
Of the 6,000 to 7,000 rare diseases recorded in the U.S., treatment options exist for only a few hundred of them, Dunkle said. Treatment is more widely available than it was 30 years ago when NORD was founded, but there's a long way to go, the spokeswoman said.
Federal aid for people with rare illnesses is precarious, and it's often tough to persuade a pharmaceutical company to invest in treatment for a rare disease when there isn't a big payoff, Dunkle said.
Sarah, who loves reading and fashion as well as swimming, shares her diagnosis with about 500 Americans, according to the Cystinosis Research Network. Cystinosis causes an amino acid, cystine, to accumulate in every cell of the body, damaging organs and blood cells. An estimated 2,000 people suffer from the illness worldwide.
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Jasmine Cox finished fifth in the 400 meters at the Big West Championships ... ran a season-best 55.73 in the final ... had CSUN's top 800 meter time of the season after running 2:11.86 to finish first at the USC Trojan Quad Meet (Apr. 2) ... was part of the Big West champion 4x400 relay team that ran 3:41.41 ... placed 11th in the 400 meters at the MPSF Indoor Championships in a season-best 56.51.
Cox was a member of the Matador 4x400 relay team that advanced to the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore. ... ran the opening leg of the relay that ran 3:42.56 but did not reach the final ... qualified for the 800 meters at the NCAA West Region Championships where she finished 44th in the prelims in a time of 2:19.91 ... the Northridge 4x400 relay ran a season-best 3:37.29 to claim the 12th and final qualifying spot for the NCAA Championships ... ran 2:15.05 in the prelims of the 800 at the Big West Championships and did not reach the final ... shattered her previous career-best after clocking a time of 2:09.58 to finish third in the 800 at the Steve Scott Invitational (May 2) ... ran a 400 meter season-best of 55.49 at the Mt. SAC Relays (Apr, 17) ... ran an indoor career-best 2:12.53 in the 800 finals at the MPSF Indoor Championships ... ran the anchor leg of the 4x400 relay team that finished seventh in a season-best 3:46.78 ... earned MPSF All-Academic honors following the indoor season.
Was part of Northridge's NCAA West Regional 4x400 relay team ... reached the 400 meter final at the Big West Championships as a freshman ... ran 55.56 in the prelims before posting a time of 56.21 in the final to take fifth-place ... also ran the third leg of the Big West champion 4x400 meter relay team that ran 3:40.43 ... ran a season-best 55.31 in the 400 at the Cal-Nevada Championships at UCLA (Mar. 29) which ranks seventh on the Northridge freshman career list ... clocked a Northirdge season-best time of 2:14.17 in the 800 meters at the Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational at UCLA (Apr. 10) ... ran an indoor season-best 56.00 in the 400 meters to finish fourth at the Husky Classic in Seattle, Wash. (Feb. 14).
Competed in track, basketball and cross country at Deer Valley High School in Antioch, Calif. ... earned Bay Valley Athletic League honors in track all four years (2004-08) ... was a First Team selection from 2006-08 ... was named team captain as a senior in 2008 ... track team won four consecutive BVAL and NCS titles ... won the Golden Shoe award for the Wolverines cross country team in 2007 ... also earned MVP and outstanding defense honors for the basketball squad in 2007 ... graduated in 2008.
Born May 16, 1990 in San Pablo, Calif. ... parents are Tina and James Cox ... has two sisters, Jalicia and Jamira ... Jalicia attends Laney College in Oakland, Calif. ... was also recruited by Cal Poly, Washington, Cincinnati, Oregon and Texas ... favorites include Olympic sprinter Sonya Richards, actors Heath Ledger and Kate Hudson and singer Keyshia Cole ... says she chose Northridge because of the location and good coaching ... says the best thing about being an athlete is "traveling, meeting new people and having someone push you to be better" ... favorite website is myspace.com ... major is undecided.


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Between 1961 and 2011, the U.S. launched 166 manned missions to space. This infographic, created by the artists at mgmt. design, depicts every last one of them. [Click here for hi res]
Some things worth paying attention to in this chart include the short lifespan of each program relative to that of the Space Shuttle, and the gaps in spaceflight that inevitably occur in the months and years following a disaster, or a shift from one program to the next. Given the budget cuts that NASA finds itself faced with at present, and the rise of privatized spacecraft, one can't help but wonder what this infographic might come to look like in the years ahead.
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A Los Angeles County anti-DUI task force racked up 926 arrests for intoxicated driving during the first eight days of its holiday crackdown, officials said.
The number of drivers arrested between 12:01 a.m. Dec. 13 and 11:59 p.m. Friday by the multi-agency "Avoid the 100" task force grew 9 percent over the same time period last year, when 846 DUI arrests had been made, Avoid the 100 coordinator and Glendora police Senior Community Service Officer Wendy Brewer said in a written statement.
The task force, which gets its name from the roughly 100 law enforcement agencies and stations participating, will continue its additional anti-DUI enforcement campaign through Jan. 1.


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"P Gettit forgets his keys in the house and accidently locks himself out in desperation he climbs from the basement to the second floor window before entering the window he has to place a air conditioning unit carefully on the floor thn he slides inside the whole time he is climbing he is under the influence of alcohol but completes the task at hand" - Jye
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I just received the best little present in my Inbox... an email from Julie letting me know that she's featured me in her latest Designer Spotlight for her upcoming book, Brave New Knits!
Check it out. And just wait until I can show you photos of my project. The inspiration is here.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Motors Liquidation Company (MLC), formerly the General Motors Corporation (GM), to remove materials and soil contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from portions of the General Motors Central Foundry Division Superfund site in Massena, N.Y.
MLC intends to demolish several buildings at the site, a former General Motors plant, that are contaminated with PCBs, which pose significant threats to human health and the environment.
Under the order, MLC will be responsible for additional sampling, decontamination of the building and its contents, demolition of the building, removal of PCB-contaminated soil beneath the building and restoration of the area. EPA's oversight of the work will ensure that any PCB-contaminated material and soil handled as part of demolition and excavation operations at the site comply with all federal and state laws and regulations.
PCBs have been found in the plant's equipment, the piping and concrete flooring, and in tunnels and soil located underneath the buildings. These PCBs could pose a threat of further release in the event of improper demolition and excavation activities.
PCBs were banned by Congress in 1976 and have been demonstrated to cause various adverse health effects. They cause cancer in animals, and EPA has classified PCBs as a probable human carcinogen. PCBs also can affect the immune, reproductive, nervous and endocrine systems and cause other health effects.
The 270-acre General Motors Central Foundry Division site is bordered by the St. Lawrence River to the north, the St. Regis Mohawk Nation to the east, the Raquette River to the south, and property owned by Alcoa and Conrail to the west. There are approximately 4,000 members of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe living in the adjacent territory referred to as Akwesasne. The city of Cornwall, Ontario, with approximately 50,000 residents, is located about two miles north across the river, and the Village of Massena, with a population of 11,000, is located approximately seven miles to the east.
The GM facility operated as an aluminum diecasting plant from 1959 to May 2009. Until 1980, PCBs were a component of hydraulic fluids used in diecasting machines at the facility. During GM's operations, PCB-laden sludge from one of the industrial lagoons and from the wastewater treatment plant was periodically dumped in two onsite disposal areas and an onsite landfill.
EPA added the General Motors Central Foundry Division site to the Superfund National Priorities List on Sept. 1, 1984. GM had been cleaning contaminated areas of the site under two EPA cleanup plans, but since the buildings at the facility were being used for manufacturing until early 2009, the buildings themselves had not been included in those cleanups. The cleanup level set for soil at the site is 10 milligrams per kilogram.
Additionally, GM or MLC donated and auctioned off manufacturing equipment and office furniture from the site, some of which has been recently shown to contain PCBs. MLC has offered to collect this equipment or furniture at no cost to the buyer or recipient. A hotline has been set up for buyers or recipients of equipment or furniture. EPA encourages those who have received such items to contact the hotline to arrange for its return. Anyone with questions about these items or a desire to return them can call MLC at 1.800.414.9607.


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James Duncan, PhD
Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Director of Undergraduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering; Vice Chair, Bioimaging Sciences in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology
Departments & Organizations
Radiology & Biomedical Imaging: Bioimaging Sciences: Image Processing & Analysis Group
High Performance Computation
Yale Cancer Center: Radiobiology & Radiotherapy
Yale Translational Research Imaging Center (Y-TRIC)
Office of Cooperative Research
James Duncan, the Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has focused his research and teaching in the areas of biomedical image processing and analysis.
Duncan, who holds joint appointments in diagnostic radiology and electrical engineering, is the associate chair and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Biomedical Engineering as well as the vice-chair for bioimaging sciences research in diagnostic radiology. He is particularly interested in the use of model-based mathematical strategies for the analysis of biomedical images. He helped pioneer the use of geometrical models for segmenting deformable (typically anatomical) objects of approximately known shape and for tracking certain forms of non-rigid object motion, and later soft tissue deformation, most notably that of the heart.
Duncan and his research team performed seminal work starting in 1987 on the use of parameterized global shape models to incorporate a notion of known prior object shape into the segmentation process using a Bayesian reasoning strategy, helping lead the way towards the use of strategies for automatically finding certain known anatomical structure from any of a variety of medical (e.g. computer tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound) and biological (e.g. confocal microscopy) images.
The strategies he developed have resulted in major advances in bioimaging. He and his research collaborators have applied these strategies to locate the cortical gray matter layer and a variety of co-localized subcortical gray matter structures in the brain as well as to locate the structure near the prostate gland. More recently, Duncan's team has begun to show that these same techniques will be useful for estimating gray matter-constrained activations from functional MRI data and could help guide the recovery of quantitative biochemical information from MR spectroscopy.
Beginning in the late 1980s, Duncan also pioneered using shape features on the inner and outer surfaces of the heart wall as material tags for tracking left ventricular motion. This technique was successfully applied to other non-rigid tracking problems in cell biology and became the basis for a variety of efforts internationally. Duncan and his research team used this strategy for more sophisticated analysis in echocardiography. The team's approach is now recognized in the medical-image-analysis community as among the first to incorporate true physical models into image analysis strategies and has helped develop a more general area of physical/biomechanical model-based re covery of both structural and functional information from biomedical images. Duncan's laboratory has also developed initial forms of these techniques to estimate brain shift during epilepsy neurosurgery and guide fractionated prostate radiotherapy, among other uses. His work has resulted in three U.S. patents.
Duncan is the principal investigator of major research funded by the National Institutes of Health. Before coming to Yale in 1983, he worked for Hughes Aircraft Company. He holds a B.S.E.E. from Lafayette College, an M.S. from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.
Duncan is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He is president of the International Society for Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention and is a member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the I.E.E.E. Computer Society, among other professional organizations.
Education & Training
|University of Southern California (1982)
|UCLA, Electrical Engineering (1975)
|Lafayette College, Electrical Engineering (1973)
Honors & Recognition
Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP)National Institutes of Health (2006)
Elected FellowInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2000)
Elected to Senior MemberInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2000)
Best paper by a young investigator award- Honorable Mention (Francois Erbsmann Prize)16th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (1999)
Elected FellowAmerican Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (1999)
Best paper by a young investigator award- Honorable Mention (Francois Erbsmann Prize)13th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (1993)
Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP)National Institutes of Health (1993, 2005)
12 Individual Investigator (R01) grantsNational Institutes of Health (1993, 2005)
Fulbright Research Scholar Fellowship to the Netherlands (1993, 1994)
Frst place paperNortheast Bioengineering Conference, Kingston, RI (1992)
Honorable mention paperNortheast Bioengineering Conference (1992)
Individual Investigator GrantNational Science Foundation (1992, 1996)
Best paper by a young investigator award-First Place (Francois Erbsmann Prize)12th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (1991)
Visiting (full) ProfessorDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1991)
First Independent Research Support and Transition (FIRST) AwardNational Institutes of Health (1988, 1993)
Yale Fluid Fund Research AwardYale University, New Haven, CT (1983)
Hughes Invention Awards (1980, 1982)
Hughes Sta? Doctoral Fellowship (1979)
Hughes Engineer Degree Fellowship (1978)
Hughes Invention Award (1976)
Hughes Master's Degree Fellowship (1973)
Program Committee, International Conference on Volume Image Processing (VIP93) Utrecht, Netherlands (2011)
Program Committee, International Conference on Volume Image Processing (VIP93)
Biomedical Image Analysis Oxford, United Kingdom (2010)
Ongoing collaboration between Professor Duncan and Michael Brady of Oxford
Image Analysis and Image-Guided Surgery Zurich, Switzerland (2010)
Collaboration between Professor Duncan and Professor Gabor Szekeley of ETH Zurich focusing on image analysis
Surgery Joint Research Germany (2008)
Professor Duncan works with Rainer Birkenback of BrainLab, Munich, Germany. BrainLab is an image-guided surgery company who is a subcontractor on one of Duncan's large NIH grants. Professor Duncan has some joint publications with Brikenback, and BrainLab supplies equipment for Professor Duncan's...
Applied Mathematics Consultations France (2007 - 2007)
Professor Duncan regularly consults with Nikos Paragios of the Ecole Centrale de Paris in France. Professor Paragios works in a variety of areas of applied mathematics, and the two regularly collaborate. Professor Paragios came to Yale in 2007 for 6 weeks.
Biomedical Image Analysis United Kingdom (2007)
Professor Brady is a collaborator on an IGERT proposal sent by Professor Duncan to NSF in the areas of biology relevant to imaging as well as mathematical image analysis. Under the proposal, some of Professor Duncan's students travel to the Oxford laboratory for training. In addition, Professor...
Image Analysis and Image-Guided Surgery Switzerland (2007)
Professor Duncan listed Professor Gabor Szekeley of ETH Zurich as a collaborator on a recent IGERT proposal sent to NSF. Under the proposal, students from Duncan's laboratory will be sent to the ETH lab as part of the training program. In addition, Professor Duncan was asked to serve as an adviser...
Medical Image Analysis France (2007)
Professor Duncan and Professor Nicholas Ayache of INRIA (the French National Research Laboratory) began and co-edit the Elsevier journal Medical Image Analysis. The two professors have served together on many advisory boards, and collaborate on some joint research. They are exploring collaborations...
Radiology and Comp Science Collaborations Netherlands; Netherlands (2007)
Professor Duncan has maintained active collaborations at the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht. He serves on review boards for both Universities and has some ongoing collaborations with several professor at each, notably with the Radiology department at Utrecht and the Computer Science...
Invited Lecture, "The Use of Physical Models in the Recovery of Soft Tissue Deformation from Medical Images," The Virtual Human Body - State of the Art and Visions for Medicine, International Symposium Hamburg, Germany (2002)
Invited Lecture, "The Use of Physical Models in the Recovery of Soft Tissue Deformation from Medical Images," The Virtual Human Body - State of the Art and Visions for Medicine, International Symposium
Program Committee, 12th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging Wye, England, United Kingdom (2000)
Program Committee, 12th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging
Scientific Advisory Committee Leipzig, Germany (1999 - 2000)
Scientific Advisory Committee
Executive Committee, Medical Image Computing and Computer- Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Cambridge, United Kingdom (1999)
Executive Committee, Medical Image Computing and Computer- Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
General Chair, International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI) (1997)
General Chair, International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI)


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1990 Census County Block Map (Recreated): Waller County, Index
Description: Index map for Waller County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:80,861.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
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Firefighters worked to repair an underground gas leak early Friday on Animas View Drive, a heavily traveled residential road in north Durango, south of the Iron Horse Inn.
Four houses in the immediate vicinity needed to be evacuated, but only three were occupied, said Fire Marshal Karola Hanks, with Durango Fire & Rescue Authority.
The 600 block of Animas View Drive was closed during the morning commute, forcing residents north of the closure to use the north entrance to U.S. Highway 550 if they wanted to go to town, Hanks said.
The leak was reported about 5 a.m. Firefighters cleared the scene and reopened the road shortly before 2 p.m., Hanks said.
The cause of the leak remained under investigation Friday night.
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To put it in perspective, Nicholas the Renegade appeared when they were on floor 49 (though it appeared on a lower floor). Kirito was level 70, and had to use every single one of his healing items, and he still ended up with his HP in the red, after fighting it for I think three hours.
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Well with the least amount of spoiler, he doesn't win all his fights. If a second/third (that counting is somehow quite troubling for many people, so I use both xD) season will contain all LN Volumes I think of, you will see him loosing fair and square without any tricks.
Also what is a minor character for you?
I mean what was already shown is that Kayaba has quite much influence even after his defeat, so imo he can't be considered a real minor character.
I mean ofc he is no main character but he has definitly more revelance to the story that you are giving him.
If you mean sb else I offer my apologies, but then you should make it clearer who you refer to...
This is no shounen series in which the protag can challenge the antag again and again, getting better and stronger everytime, he has one try and if he fails his life will end.
In ALO he died while trying to conquer the World Tree alone, so your argument is already misproven by that scene, as he clearly didn't defeat everything with his first try.
But well that would be nitpicking, taking one scene out of the whole anime for counterarguing, but the point is:
Did you see him taking on sb equally strong totally on his own and winning?
The only times he accomplished that was in Red-Nosed Reindeer (RNR) and although the anime didn't emphasise it, that fight was just as close as the fight vs Gleameyes. Also that boss was no stage/floor boss he was more like an extra boss and those tend to be much weaker compared to the real bosses.
The other time was his fight vs Eugene, which he more or less only won because Eugene wasn't experienced in fighting against sb who is using 2 swords. In skill and strenth both were equal (which is btw another point which goes against Kirito being unreachable while being fair and square)
In all of his other major fights he needed that help from his friends to win:
Asuna, Klein, Agil and all other front liners for the first boss, Asuna and Klein + his guild + the army for Gleameyes, Asuna for Kuradeel, front liners for Skullreaper, Asuna again for Kayaba, Sugu in his fight in the cave, Sugu for fleeing after being defeated in his first attempt to conquer the World Tree, Sugu + Recon + reinforcements from Sylph and Cait Sith troops in his second attempt to conquer it, Kayaba in beating Sugou and with spoilers I could let the list go on and on...
The point is: He was never alone...he didn't beat everyone because he is just so overpowered and awesome, he beat them because of his friends and people helping him.
It was the over way round instead: whenever he tries to challenge sth on his own he fails as seen in ALO 2 times and to some extent aswell in SAO.
Although I have already written this, Kirito is by no means your hero or knight in a shining armor but many people tend to overlook this out of whatever reasons.
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It's clear to me now that he didn't earn most of his wins by himself.
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And "Final boss can't touch him" wouldn't be accurate for Sugou either. Kirito couldn't touch Sugou before Kayaba intervened, allowing Kirito to even the score and remove Sugou's admin powers. Sure after that Sugou couldn't hit Kirito, but that's because Sugou isn't a gamer and never tried to fight in the game before, nor did he expect to. Still, the true final battle was in the hospital parking lot, where Sugou scored a gash on Kirito's arm that likely required stiches, a cut on Kirito's cheek, and nearly killed Kirito while Kirito was busy panicking, and only failed due to his aim being thrown off by the after affects of what Kirito did to him in VR.
So Kirito was in very real danger from the final boss, and took some very real injuries from him.
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What everyone - or almost everyone - wants to see? Likable characters and happy ends. We want to see will, cleverness, friendship or any combination thereof triumph over injustice. We want to see compassion rewarded, faith repaid, and evil punished in the end, even if the path to get there is tragic, full of pain and loss.
Oh, sure, we like the author to be clever. To mix things up, matching a manipulative villain against a hero who will tell him to talk to the fist, or a domineering superman with a god complex brought down by a clever roguish hero. But if the story isn't about that? That's hardly a deal breaker.
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I disagree with you all.
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What, you can only watch something if it's the best story ever? 100% cliché-free? Then yes, you've definitely watched the wrong anime with SAO. It happens. You should have asked earlier, though. While good or bad are subjective, any novel reader could have told you it wasn't that original before the first episode ever aired.
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I was just thinking that "manipulative villain" and "domineering superman with god complex" must be so cliche villains that if people really considered SAO the best story ever, no such villains could exist in the show.
But then again, since everything has already been done before...
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Lolli for loli :D
One loss is still a loss. That's all I need to show he's still a human being and not a god.
But he lost to Sugou in the game. Kayaba's admin powers just saved his ass at the last second. XD
He also would have lost to Sugou in real life....but luckily enough, Sugou didn't think that rough-housing in cold weather would fog up his glasses.
........lol whatta idiot.....even I knew that!
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Neither of my packs had any kind of diode.
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Posted 01 April 2009 - 04:59 AM
Neither of my packs had any kind of diode.
Paul C
Posted 01 April 2009 - 05:04 AM
The diode is enclosed in heat shrink and is on the back of the plate as seen in the attached picture.
Bill Libecap
Posted 01 April 2009 - 09:42 AM
Hey Dave
I have a question for you. Does your battery pack have a diode between the recharger plug and the battery pack? You can tell with a vom. the plug will not show any voltage when you measure it. the charger I purchased CHUN-0409ARC would not start charging the pack with the diode in place. I had to add a 1meg resistor across the diode.
Bill Libecap
Posted 01 April 2009 - 06:23 PM
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Posted 02 April 2009 - 09:15 AM
Ok - that has been added so that if you plug in a charger with the polarity swapped it won't break the pack.
Though as you have proved Bill the newer type sensing chargers will object - your 1M resistor in parallel is a fine idea, myself I would drop the value to maybe 20K or so.
Paul C
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PRC, Nice photos of the battery detail.
I thought I would report back on the rebuild of 2 packs.
Went with the 4500mAhr batteries from BJ. No problem with fitting pack into Ike battery compartment, or charging using Ikelite charger.
To assist in locating the new battery pack, I took the old pack and traced on a piece of paper the location of the cells and then hot glued them together one at a time.
Took about an hour for the first pack rebuild and 15 minutes for the second.
I found I needed a high watt solder iron ( Weller D550 260watts). Trick is to apply lots of heat quickly. The battery act as heat sink and sucks heat away from the solder as you are trying to heat it up. Bad things can happen if too much heat transfers into the battery. I kept the batteries as cool as possible (swabbed with moist rag after heating).
The run time is amazing with these cells. At least 3+ dives (several hundred shots) with modeling light on full time
Posted 06 August 2009 - 08:13 AM
Does anyone happen to know what sort of cells Ikelite is using in their NiMH packs these days?
Posted 15 August 2009 - 10:27 PM
Battery pack capacity
Does anyone happen to know what sort of cells Ikelite is using in their NiMH packs these days? I concur on the run time of the 4500mAhr BJ cells, simply amazing! I've done whole dive days with 300-500 flashes and the power level might drop on notch. It's a great upgrade, and saves a ton of cash if you don't buy the overpriced Ike charger.
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Is this the $28 charger you are using?
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ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. -- It's just two games into this young baseball season, but it's not too early to say that Orioles first baseman Chris Davis is off to a pretty good start.
Davis drove in four runs in the Orioles 8-7 loss to Tampa Bay on Wednesday night, including a three-run homer five batters into the game to give the O's an early 3-0 lead. Davis also added two doubles and an RBI single Wednesday, tying his career highs with four hits and three extra-base hits.
After driving in three runs on Opening Day, Davis became the first Orioles player in franchise history to record three or more RBIs in each of the season's first two games. The last player to accomplish that feat was Severna Park native Mark Teixeira with the Yankees in 2011.
Davis' seven RBIs lead the majors. Last season, it took him until the 17th game of the season to reach the seven-RBI mark.
He's on pace to drive in 567 runs this season. But I don't think Hack Wilson's single-season record 191-RBI mark is in jeopardy quite yet.
Davis has also homered in eight of his last nine regular-season games dating back to last season (Sept. 26, 2012) and has nine homers in that span. Included in that stretch are four homers in his past five games against the Rays, all at Tropicana Field.
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Well... I'm still thinking the homemade legs only add instability because they raise the stove even higher. I'd say carry TWO sets of commercial legs to fit two different sizes of canisters if you must carry both sizes. Heck, the little stands can't weigh that much, they are MUCH more stable than the homemade ones and finally, they can't cost all that much.
Otherwise, back to the drawing board to find WIDER, LOWER leg material.
My solution to this and windscreen problems is to use an MSR Wind Pro with a remote canister and the accompanying aluminum wind screen.
More stability, less setup time and only a little more weight. Of course I'm a lightweight backpacker, not an ultralight one.
If the extra Wind Pro weight bothers one that much then it's time to switch to a well designed alcohol stove.


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You can put a miniature Helghast helmet in your home if you purchase the deluxe edition of Killzone 3 for the PlayStation 3. But tiny space Nazi helmet replicas aren't the only goodies coming in Killzone 3 Helghast Edition.
In addition to that lovely centrepiece, buyers of the Killzone 3 deluxe edition will also get an exclusive art book, bonus video content, the Killzone 3 "Super Voucher" and a copy of the game, naturally. The Helghast Edition also comes with a Cloaking Helghast Marksman action figure from DC Direct, the folks making spectacular Killzone, God of War and Ratchet & Clank toys.
The aforementioned "Super Voucher" grants downloadable access to the game's soundtrack, a PS3 Dynamic Theme, two multiplayer maps from Killzone 2 and special bonuses for the first 24 hours of multiplayer, like double XP and access to every in-game weapon.
All that stuff looks like this when placed side by side.
How much would you expect to pay for something like this? $US129.99? Good, because that's what the Helghast Edition will cost.
Killzone 3 ships in February for the PS3. More details on the special edition and pre-order bonuses at the official PlayStation.blog.


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Hillary Clinton is a very smart, very hardworking public servant. Many believe she's more capable, focused and formidable than her husband. And she's on a mission to become the first female president. It's a quest she's been on since her election to the U.S. Senate from New York in 2000.
She won that election easily and was overwhelmingly re-elected in 2006. In the Senate, Clinton more than demonstrated that she knew the importance of being a workhorse and not a show pony. She understood that the smart move, given her ambition to return to the White House, was to put her mark on significant legislation and to be zealously attentive to serving her constituents.
But two months after her re-election to the Senate, Hillary Clinton announced the formation of an exploratory committee for her presidential bid. No one was surprised. She was the prohibitive favorite for the Democratic nomination. Her principal challengers were first-term Ill. Sen. Barack Obama and N.C. Sen. John Edwards. By October 2007, she was outpolling both of her rivals by wide margins. Her campaign took on an aura of invincibility, of inevitability.
But saddled with weakness at the top of her campaign staff and blinded by her hubris, Clinton succumbed to one of Satchel Paige's best lines — "Don't look back, something might be gaining on you." And that is just what Obama was doing — gaining on her. The centerpiece of his campaign, Hope And Change, was catching on.
He relentlessly pounded Clinton on her vote in favor of the Iraq War. And, unlike the Clinton campaign, he made a major effort in the caucus states where he built up about a 150-vote delegate cushion that Clinton never overcame. By June 2008, Clinton was forced to accept the fact that Obama was the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. The Clintons had been crushed.
Many supposed that she was finished. But such an assumption about Clinton was then and is now foolhardy. On Dec. 1, 2008, President-elect Obama announced that he would nominate her to be secretary of state. A month later, she was confirmed by the Senate 94-2.
The book on Secretary Clinton's performance over the past four years is that she has been a superlatively successful secretary of state and one whose work ethic puts the Energizer Bunny to shame. That assessment is only half right. She has put the Energizer Bunny to shame. But on the matter that counts, America's foreign policy, it's a different story, a sorrier story.
Secretary Clinton cannot escape responsibility for the Obama administration's escalation of the war in Afghanistan. It is America's longest war and one of its most futile. But beyond the tragedy in Afghanistan, there is the question of the competence of American foreign policy throughout the Middle East.
Our relations with Israel have never been worse. Egypt is no longer a predictable partner, thanks to the ascendancy of the Muslim Brotherhood. Syria is being torn apart by civil war that threatens neighboring states. Iran's quest for nuclear weapons continues, as does its malevolent export of terrorism through client organizations such as Hezbollah.
Perhaps most worrisome of all is Pakistan with its weak and unstable government, its nuclear arsenal and its renegade intelligence service, the ISI. And then there's Libya and al-Qaida's assault on our consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11 of this year that resulted in the murder of our ambassador and three other Americans.
How one looks at this picture and concludes that Clinton will soon depart Foggy Bottom as one of the nation's greatest secretaries of state is mind-boggling.
But looking more closely at the Benghazi situation helps us understand Clinton's cleverness and luck. Appearing on "Meet The Press" and all the other Sunday talk shows on Sept. 16, Susan Rice, our United Nations ambassador, told the nation the Benghazi attack was in response to an anti-Muslim film. Her characterization of the attack was false, and we now know it was a terrorist attack.
But why was Rice the guest on "Meet The Press"? In fact, "Meet The Press" had invited Clinton, but she declined the invitation. The explanation we're left with comes from Rice, who has said Clinton had had a "brutal week." How convenient! The Energizer Bunny was plum tuckered out.
How about a different explanation? Hillary needed a patsy, and the patsy's name was Susan Rice. Rice, who knew she was likely to be named Clinton's successor, couldn't resist the opportunity to showcase herself on all five Sunday talk shows. In taking the bait, she destroyed herself.
And now we have the official report of the Accountability Review Board on Benghazi. The board, led by former U.N. Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Adm. Michael Mullen, places the blame for what went wrong squarely on the State Department. But then the report gives Clinton a pass. It states, "However, the board did not find reasonable cause to determine that any individual U.S. government employee breached his or her duty."
Once Clinton recovers from her current illness and concussion, she'll testify before Congress on Benghazi. She will express sorrow, accept the recommendations of the board, leave the mess to John Kerry and return to Chappaqua.
But by 2015, she'll be back to finish her mission, the journey from Goldwater Girl to president.
The Shadow's in Times Square waiting for the ball to descend, but Goldman can be reached at email@example.com.
The rise, fall and rise of Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a very smart, very hardworking public servant. Many believe she's more capable, focused and formidable than her husband. And she's on a mission to become the first female president. It's a quest she's been on since her election to the U.S. Senate from New York in 2000.


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Rihanna & Chris Brown's KFC Kiss
Rihanna and Chris Brown share a passionate kiss at a KFC in Miami, Florida on Wednesday.
It was PDA central as RiRi, 20, was seen wrapping her arms around Chris, 19, as they waited by the counter for their order. She also kissed his neck and held his hand… all in public!
The couple has been very coy about their relationship. Rihanna recently told Elle of Chris: "We've always been friends, but we're very close now."
They are what we call friends with benefits… or Frien-efits!


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I decided a superwash merino is just what this cute little sweater needed to be knit up in for a one year old. I went stash diving, but came up empty handed. Which is quite hard with the size of my stash, but obviously possible! I jumped online to one of my favorite indie dyers, Miss Babs, and found the most perfect skein of Yowza! - Whatta Skein in a dark navy, semi-solid blue called Into The Deep. The yarn arrived in just 3 days! No kidding!
I cast on for the sweet sweater right away. The thing just flew off my needles. One because it was a size 2T, but secondly because the pattern was so engaging. Terri has done a great job keeping the pattern easy to follow and exciting with its seamless construction and a variety of cables throughout. I goofed up a little bit on the collar when picking up my stitches (you can read more about it in my project notes), but in the end I'm totally head over heels for this little knit. I almost didn't give it away! I find children's knits that look like grown up clothing just so stinkin' cute! You be the judge…
Pattern: Abernathy Sweater
Designer: Terri Kruse
Yarn: Miss Babs Yowza! - Whatta skein
Colorway: Into The Deep
My Rav project page here
I'm so glad I decided to knit a present for Christmas. The mom and grandma of the little boy who received the sweater actually cried. Now, that's a deserving recipient of knitted gifts.
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Complexification: explaining a paradoxical world through the science of surprise
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Why does time seem to fly on some occasions and drag on others? Why do some societies seem more prone to totalitarianism than others? Why does atonal music sound "worse" to most of us than traditional music? How can a butterfly in Brazil affect the weather in Alaska? The set of ingenious interdisciplinary approaches that are, together, called the science of complexity offers answers to these and dozens of other questions that beg the larger question of why our universe seems so paradoxical. John L. Casti, renowned mathematician and science writer, argues that a complexity that defies human logic is only natural, and he shows directly, engagingly, and with a wealth of illustrations how complexity arises and how it works. Casti explores several types of phenomena that have, until now, consistently eluded science's attempts to understand them: the catastrophic, where a tiny change in a system produces a huge effect (as happens in earthquakes or political revolutions); the chaotic, which includes odd correlations like the ones that make predicting the weather or the stock market so difficu
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