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text: Pine. When it comes to furniture design, it's not really the kind of wood to set the heart racing. Think of pine and a raft of rather negative images comes all too readily to mind: bargain furniture outlet stores, student accommodation, cheaply made 1980s kitchens. You get the picture. But it's all in the application, as a group of young Norwegian designers, collaborating as part of an ongoing workshop called Furuhaelvetica, proved at this year's Designersblock show during the London Design Festival.

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Top 10 2010-A3-Broken Authentication and Session Management
NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE LATEST VERSION. Please visit the OWASP Top 10 project page to find the latest edition.
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Top 10 Risks
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|Threat Agents
|Attack Vectors
|Security Weakness
|Technical Impacts
|Business Impacts
|Application Specific
|Application / Business Specific
|Consider anonymous external attackers, as well as users with their own accounts, who may attempt to steal accounts from others. Also consider insiders wanting to disguise their actions.
|Attacker uses leaks or flaws in the authentication or session management functions (e.g., exposed accounts, passwords, session IDs) to impersonate users.
|Developers frequently build custom authentication and session management schemes, but building these correctly is hard. As a result, these custom schemes frequently have flaws in areas such as logout, password management, timeouts, remember me, secret question, account update, etc. Finding such flaws can sometimes be difficult, as each implementation is unique.
|Such flaws may allow some or even all accounts to be attacked. Once successful, the attacker can do anything the victim could do. Privileged accounts are frequently targeted.
|Consider the business value of the affected data or application functions.
Also consider the business impact of public exposure of the vulnerability.
Am I Vulnerable To 'Broken Authentication and Session Management'?
The primary assets to protect are credentials and session IDs.
See the ASVS requirement areas V2 and V3 for more details.
How Do I Prevent 'Broken Authentication and Session Management'?
The primary recommendation for an organization is to make available to developers:
Example Attack Scenarios
Scenario #1: Airline reservations application supports URL rewriting, putting session IDs in the URL:
An authenticated user of the site wants to let his friends know about the sale. He e-mails the above link without knowing he is also giving away his session ID. When his friends use the link they will use his session and credit card.
Scenario #2: Application's timeouts aren't set properly. User uses a public computer to access site. Instead of selecting "logout" the user simply closes the browser tab and walks away. Attacker uses the same browser an hour later, and that browser is still authenticated.
Scenario #3: Insider or external attacker gains access to the system's password database. User passwords are not encrypted, exposing every users' password to the attacker.
OWASP For a more complete set of requirements and problems to avoid in this area, see the ASVS requirements areas for Authentication (V2) and Session Management (V3)
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Working with Sun Java Studio Creator
This review is about Java Studio Creator from Sun, but before I go into details of the product I would like to give some background into the reason my company got interested in Java Studio Creator in the first place. The reasons for making this decision are, in my opinion, as important as the experiences we have had with the tool itself.
Around October last year I was involved by several teams at my company to help choose a replacement for the technologies they were using on their projects, namely VB6, ASP and VBDs, which were being replaced by Microsoft in the form of .NET
Naturally .NET was being considered, but within some of these teams and other teams within the company, we already had a large investment in Java technology for the server and middle-tier applications, and faced with the issues of connecting Java and .NET, and also with the prospect of largely re-writing much of our code base on these ASP/VB6 projects, we decided to look for other options.
Around the same time I had been following some of the hype surrounding Sun's Project Rave, later to become known as Sun Java Studio Creator. We were lucky enough to get on the early access program and start assessing the new software. As well as Java Studio Creator, we started looking into other Java solutions.
In time it became clear that using Java instead of .NET was attractive for several reasons. For one, connecting to our existing Java code base would be easier; for another, we already had Java skills within the company, and also our focus on the Oracle database made Java and J2EE attractive, since that is clearly the tool set of choice for Oracle.
Java and J2EE
I imagine that the above scenario sounds familiar to other engineers in other companies than ours. The replacement of VB6, ASP and VBDs with the .NET tools means that many companies are facing the prospect of either falling behind the current technology or re-writing large portions of their existing code. Our experience with Java on the other hand has been one of largely straightforward backwards compatibility, with major revisions of the Java language requiring only modest changes to the code, if any.
We had already built some applications using the J2EE platform and had experience in that technique; however, with that experience came the knowledge that a full-blown J2EE approach with EJBs, JMS and all the other trimmings, while flexible and powerful, was overkill for many of the simpler projects we had. The complexity of EJBs in particular was a worry for many of our existing engineers.
This is where Java Studio Creator fits in nicely. For many of our projects, we do not need anything more complex than a GUI around an existing J2EE server/middle tier or a database. For these needs, Java Studio Creator provides an easy and quick way to either connect to existing Java code (Java-to-Java communication is easy) or bind database data into a Web GUI.
For new projects requiring more flexibility we could still organize the project around a full J2EE server/middle tier and Java Studio Creator as the front end to quickly put together a good looking Web interface.
On to Java Studio CreatorThere are several aspects to Java Studio Creator that this review covers. These are:
- The IDE itself
- The technologies Java Studio Creator is based upon, particularly:
JSF (JavaServer Faces), the Web UI technology
JDBC Rowsets, an extension of straight JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)
The Application Server, and alternative App Servers
Web Services
- Java Studio Creator from a VB6 perspective
The Java Studio Creator IDE
Installation on Windows or Linux is relatively straightforward. Linux users with a 2.6 kernel should make sure they obtain the latest version of Java Studio Creator due to an issue with the JVM and Kernel 2.6. Apart from this, the IDE can be installed without needing root privileges and is a familiar point and click installer (although not an RPM installation). Windows is likewise a familiar point and click installer.
Running Java Studio Creator
Java Studio Creator is built around the NetBeans IDE. The application looks good both on Windows and Linux. The layout of the IDE is unsurprising (let's face it, IDEs tend to have a pretty consistent look and feel, with a code editing window in the middle, panels for components and navigation to the sides, toolbars and menus above, and status messages below). Java Studio Creator delivers what you would expect in this regard. (See Figure 1.)
The editor has intellisense, templates, dynamic syntax checking and other features you would expect from a modern IDE. The palette includes JSF components and validators, as well as an area for custom components. There is a server navigator that lets you set up and explore databases and Web services, and drag and drop is available to bind data and Web services into pages within your application.
A nice feature of the IDE is the code-clips section in the upper right pane. Code-clips are really just glorified templates, but a little more user friendly and also easy to customize and add your own. For someone new to Java, code is provided in the code clips for common language constructs like conditionals, loops, casting and array handling. This could save time for folks new to Java and who don't want to keep delving into books. Higher-level functions are also included in the clips as well, like sending email, accessing session and application attributes in the servlet engine, database access and manipulation and so on. Adding a new clip is as simple as putting some code into the copy/paste buffer, then choosing a menu option to add it to the clips using a given name.
For a given underlying server or middle tier, you could create custom code clips to perform common operations to ease development in the same way that javadoc and intellisense help. The aim of the product is rapid application development, and code clips have proven to be a useful tool for obtaining that rapidity.
The most obvious aspect to the IDE; however, is the visual build environment. This has long been a weakness for Java tools, particularly when creating Web applications. The visual environment will feel very familiar to users of the Visual Studio products, or perhaps Microsoft's Web-matrix product for .NET development. Components can be dragged and dropped on to a page, sized and positioned in an absolute manner, and an event model is exposed for interacting with those components. For example, double-click on a button and you will be dropped through to an action event for that button, double-click on a dropdown menu, and you will be taken to a code event representing a value-changed event for that menu.
The data binding is also what you would come to expect from a modern visual environment. Drop a table component onto a page, then open your database server explorer, navigate to a database table, and drag it over the table component. The database table data will be bound to the table component on the page. You can then right click and customize the data displayed. At the same time when you bind the data, a rowset definition will be added to the page model and will show up at the bottom of the edit pane. Selecting this lets you refine the query, join tables, change query criteria and so forth in a way that will seem immediately familiar to anyone who has used VB or Access for database applications. (See Figure 2.)
This is, I feel, a key point to the Java Studio Creator product. Functionality has been added in a way that should be familiar to developers coming from Microsoft tools like VB and Access. For example, the query refinement view will be immediately recognizable and familiar.
There are too many other features to cover in any detail here, but suffice to say that the IDE is well featured and usable. While the editing environment is not as extensively featured as eclipse, it does provide all of the features you come to expect of a modern IDE. Add to that the visual page editor and query editing and you have a very productive tool.
JavaServer Faces (JSF)
Many of you will be familiar with JSF already, still more will likely be familiar with Struts as a way of building Web GUI applications.
In a nutshell, JSF has much in common with Struts (like XML based navigation configuration and a model 2 architecture for MVC) but has a greater emphasis on events and data binding. Having used both JSF and Struts now, I can honestly say that there are features of both that I prefer, and indeed there are strategies for actually combining the two technologies to complement one another. For the sake of this review though I will concentrate on what Java Studio Creator gives you for using JSF as an out-of-box experience. (See Figure 3.)
One thing that I think many people will like is the navigational editing for JSF. This allows pages to be represented by icons, and navigation links to be represented by named arrows between the icons. This provides a very easy to visualize relationship between pages and helps to create and validate flow throughout your Web application.
In practice JavaServer Faces is faster to construct Web GUIs with than Struts is, mainly because of the visual tools provided in Java Studio Creator, and also the data binding facilities. The Struts model is more flexible when you need to move further from direct data bindings, although Struts-like data modeling is still available when you need this flexibility, allowing you to create Java beans and bind them to components rather than going directly to database tables. By the time most developers hit this need, they will hopefully be familiar enough with the tool that such things will be of a manageable complexity and not overwhelming.
JSF also succeeds in mapping an event model onto essentially non-event based HTTP without introducing too much complexity or mess. When running, round-trips to the app server are generally fast enough not to disturb the flow of the user experience.
The focus with JSF in Java Studio Creator is simplicity and speed of development. The combination of JSF and the IDE support for it succeed well in this area.
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It's so nice to be doing archaeology again. My training was in archaeology (specifically the prehistory of north-western Europe) but after graduation I drifted into museum education, which turned out to be perfect for me in every way except one: there was very little archaeology. I ended up teaching and writing about the Tudors, Victorians and World Wars a lot. What archaeology there was in these topics was shunted aside by the overwhelming pile of historical documents and images.
But now (oh happy day!), archaeology is going to be taught in English museums in a big way. Not just as a fun add-on to a school's day out, but as central to understanding the newest school topic in town: Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.
Today I spent the afternoon at an event held by the Surrey Museums Engagement Officer Haidee Thomas at Brooklands Museum. Teachers and senior school leaders were asked along to find out how to embed the contribution of museums and cultural organisations into their planning in history, geography and the arts. I sought out the museums offering prehistoric resources, as did many teachers who are currently baffled by the requirement to teach 800,000 more years of history.
The museums with prehistoric collections were creating handling boxes of real and replica Palaeolithic handaxes, Neolithic axes and arrowheads, Bronze Age palstaves, and Iron Age coins. It's going to be amazing for kids to feel real ground stone axes, an original from Farnham Museum had been set in a new handle so kids could get an idea of how it was used. Elmbridge Museum had a real lava stone grinder in their handling box, which was clearly well used. Surrey Heritage's box explores the production of a flint tool from the nodule to core, to flake and finished hafted tool. Chertsey Museum already runs archaeological digs in the museum and out at schools, and aims to create an Iron Age walk around Queen Anne's Hill, which has a hillfort on it.
In a most interesting discussion with Farnham Museum, we tied learning about hunter-gatherers with the Forest School movement that is taking off in UK schools. Learning how to make fire, know what resources the natural world can provide, and what skills prehistoric people had as well as their rich cultural world can all be delivered alongside a Forest School programme.
The best thing about the day was hearing from teachers and museums that teaching local prehistory was going to be high on everyone's list. The wonderful thing about prehistory is because it was such a long period, there's something found near everyone. Whether it's a stray arrowhead that was found down the road, or the round barrow that's up on the hill nearby, it ties archaeology in with children's lived experiences. I can't wait for the new academic year!


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I noticed the Key sequence "CTRL-J" does not work the way it is described on the wiki AmigaDOS_Understanding_the_Shell under the section "Command Line Editing and Control". The wiki it says:
Ctrl+J Adds a line feed.
That's the way it behaved since AmigaOS 1.3
But now since at least AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 it behaves like
With the old console/shell you could enter more commands and execute them sequentially e.g.:Ctrl+M Processes the command line (same as Return)
and the result would be
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date <CTRL-J>
echo "lha x ram:test.lha" <CTRL-J>
date <RETURN>
It behaves correctly under AmigaOS 4.1 update 1 on a Sam440.
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Saturday 02-Sep-17 02:08:00
lha x ram:test.lha
Saturday 02-Sep-17 02:08:01
AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 has "CTRL-J" the same asl "CTRL-M" already.
Sometimes it is handy to use CTRL-J the way it was described in the AmigaOS 3.1 manual too. Maybe it can be brought back?


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2017 River valley riot: B9 Renegade vs Little Steel
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If you wish to use it for league usage, let me know which image you would like to use. Please include event (bout if from an event/tournament), filename, and for what purpose. All league uses please do so under a commercial license download, but contact me in advance for possible league use discounts.
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2017 River valley riot: B9 Renegade vs Little Stell


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MRI clean, Twins' Wood seeks second opinion
Cash Kruth is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @cashkruth.
An MRI on Twins right-hander Tim Wood's shoulder came back clean Thursday, and the 30-year-old reliever will fly to Minneapolis to get a second opinion.
Wood, on the disabled list with a right rotator cuff strain since Spring Training, had been feeling discomfort in his biceps area unrelated to the rotator cuff injury that landed him on the DL.
Wood signed with the Twins this offseason and last pitched with the Pirates in 2011, posting a 5.63 ERA in 13 appearances.
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The politics of an apology
President Barack Obama is now acknowledging that his if-you-like-your-plan-you-can-keep-it promise shared something in common with "bad apple" insurance policies: You had to read the fine print.
If the White House is lucky, his apology will help the president maintain credibility with the public and allow him to pivot away from an effort to play down the impact of millions of Americans seeing their health insurance plans canceled after he promised that wouldn't happen.
Before that, Obama was explaining — and he was losing.
( See POLITICO's full Obamacare coverage)
While the failure of the HealthCare.gov website cast doubt on the administration's competence, the broken promise threatened to damage the president's personal credibility — the trump card that has saved him in the darkest days of two presidential campaigns and five years in the Oval Office.
He was in a bind: To preserve trust, he had to distance himself either from the promise or the policy. He chose the latter, framing plan cancellations as an outcome he didn't expect. I'm sorry, he said. I'll fix it.
"The majority of folks will end up being better off," Obama told NBC News on Thursday night. "But even though it's a small percentage of folks who may be disadvantaged, you know, it means a lot to them. And it's scary to them. And I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me."
( WATCH: Obama laments HealthCare.gov, but not cancelled plans)
He vowed to try to find a solution for consumers in the individual insurance market who are both ineligible for subsidies and facing a premium increase — one that wouldn't require the act of an increasingly peeved Congress.
It was a stunning turn, not just in Obama's rhetoric but in his policy. His signature health care law aimed to cancel low-grade plans to provide better coverage for the under-insured — too often, he has said, Americans find out their insurance doesn't cover their medical bills only after they get sick.
The apology didn't sit well with some Democrats on Capitol Hill, who feel that there's now another layer between them and communicating the benefits of the law to the public.
( Also on POLITICO: W.H.: Politics? What politics?)
"Democrats woke up this morning hoping the top headline would be either the Toronto mayor's crack-smoking rant or the very positive jobs report, not an apology from the president," said one miffed senior House Democratic aide.
But Obama was also facing pressure from another cohort of Democrats to come up with a strategy to extricate himself – and congressional allies who had repeated his words — from the political flypaper of a broken promise.
For two weeks, Obama and his aides tried to finesse the point. Worried that television news reports would falsely alarm the vast majority of the population that would experience no change in their plans, they suggested that it was a minor problem.
They noted that only a subsection of 5 percent of Americans were subject to having their insurance policies canceled. But that formulation sounded to some like the president was dismissing several million Americans.
In partial damage control, the president stuck an asterisk next to the four-year-old promise.
"Now if you had one of these substandard plans before the Affordable Care Act became law, and you really liked that plan, you're able to keep it," Obama said in Boston on Oct. 30. "That was part of the promise we made. But ever since the law was passed, if insurers decided to downgrade or cancel these plans, what we said under the law is you've got to replace them with quality, comprehensive coverage."
The president was simply trying to get his arms around the problem, and to make sure Americans understood that not everyone was losing their health insurance, before offering a solution, said one White House official.
This week, Obama told politically vulnerable Senate Democrats that he would seek an administrative remedy to soften the blow of the insurance cancellations, and Chief of Staff Denis McDonough carried the same message to House Democrats.
It stands to reason that the White House would make adjustments on the fly as problems with the health care law present themselves, the official said, contending that the president stands with the majority of the public in wanting to watch the law play out and fix things that aren't working as they crop up.
White House aides declined to say what Obama might be able to do – without Congress — to provide relief for those negatively affected by plan cancellations.
But there are plenty of ideas on Capitol Hill, including a bill written by Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) that would allow people on the individual market to keep their current policies. That's due up for a vote on Friday, and Democratic and Republican aides expect that it will attract more than the 22 Democrats who voted for a delay in the law's individual mandate in July.
"Next week, the House will vote on the Keep Your Plan Act … which fulfills the promise that the president repeatedly made and then broke," said Rory Cooper, a spokesman for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. "Beyond that, the House will continue to review new problems with Obamacare and decide if legislative action is necessary on a case-by-case basis."


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An update on that fifties' hit.
2 (10 ounce) packages wide egg noodles, cooked and drained
2-1/2 cups milk
½ cup cream cheese
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
½ teaspoon pepper
1 cup frozen petite pois, thawed
1 large (12 ounce) can albacore tuna, drained and flaked
½ cup panko or regular bread crumbs
2 tablespoons margarine, melted
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix together milk, cream cheese, mustard, pepper, petite pois and tuna until well combined. Stir into egg noodles. Pour mixture into greased 9 x 13-inch baking pan. Mix panko with melted margarine and sprinkle over top. Bake for 45 minutes.


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Four women and one of their husbands filed a lawsuit yesterday in Tokyo to challenge the law that forces almost all Japanese women to take their husband's last name, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Japan's Civil Code, which was written in 1898, requires that married couples share the same last name. It's extremely unusual for a man to take his wife's name, unless she's from a noble family.
The group argues that the law violates the constitutional guarantee of equal rights for both spouses and are seeking $70,000 for emotional distress. One of the women, 75-year-old Kyoko Kojima, said being forced to use her husband's name for more than 50 years was, "like having a splinter in my heart ... I want to die as Kyoko Tsukamoto."
Japanese Women Sue To Keep Maiden Names [SMH]
Image via DUSAN ZIDAR/Shutterstock.


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Well, maybe Will Smith isn't so keen on android upgrades. But with Apple's iOS already being supported by 90% of all businesses surveyed in a recent study by JAMF Software, it is clear that Google's mobile operating system needs some serious adjustments if it is going to be a dominant player in enterprise mobility.
Make no mistake; Google badly wants the enterprise customers. It hinted at it with acquisitions like cloud-based mobile device management company Divide back in May, and made it plain as day at the Google I/O conference in early June, when it announced Android for Work.
Also announced at I/O this year was the next flavor of Android, not yet given a sweet-tooth name, just called "L" -- I am voting for "Lollipop" and hoping that Google Now's voice gets replaced with that of Tara Strong, who did the voice of Juliet Starling in the game Lollipop Chainsaw. But I digress.
One of the keys to the new Android for Work is that Google will include new APIs that will allow for secure inclusion -- and separation -- of both work and personal apps on a single mobile device. This is similar to the Extensions program Apple announced even earlier in June, and both are solid steps toward making apps function more securely.
Integrated into Android for Work when the L version is released will be the Knox containerization system from Samsung, which protects corporate data by segmenting it from personal data at the operating system level. Take note: That means every mobile device using L, not just Samsung phones, will have access to Knox.
Well, access to a part of Knox, at least: The Wall Street Journal reports that a Samsung spokesperson said that the core containerization function of Knox would be included in Android L, but that other features will be exclusively available for Knox users on Samsung phones.
But security is not the only area that Android needs to work on, and the enterprise isn't the only customer base it needs to satisfy. Android has some serious catching up to do in the area of cameras, photo software, and overall user experience. However, it has started to eat into Apple's domain with Google Now, and even jumped ahead of Apple in the field of wearables. Now is not the time to ease off on the improvements.
Click through this slideshow to find a list of 10 Android features and functions that Google needs to throw some serious brainpower and money at to get where it needs to be.Rodney Brown is a veteran of both the newspaper world and the retail management world. Having held nearly every job a newspaper has, from selling advertising to running the presses, he truly has been an ink-stained wretch. Now, with the web, he is pixel-stained. He cut his ... View Full Bio


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Remember that awful Notre Dame promotional video we wrote about yesterday? Well, it only seemed awful because everyone interpreted it wrong. Actually, it was kind of brilliant. My pal Nate Freeman, who knows nothing about sports, is here to explain.
If you've watched Notre Dame's latest attempt at self-promotion, featuring the musical stylings of something called Freekbass, you've probably come to the same conclusion as all other ear-bearing Americans: this song is perfect for Notre Dame Football. Clearly, the over-the-top axe he's rocking — a cross between Prince's purple Cloud Guitar and curylycued 78-year-old genitalia — symbolizes Touchdown Jesus, lurking behind Notre Dame Stadium on crisp autumn afternoons. That faux-funk-wa-wa pedal? The roar of the crowd when that little Irishman mascot person sprints out onto the field. Those bug-eyed-alien-looking white sunglasses? They're there for the glare that is the bright future of Brian Kelly's program.
Still, it's been argued — namely, well, everywhere — that Notre Dame could have done better. Much better. Perhaps the reception would have been kinder had they chosen any one of the following beats:
1. Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O'Connor. An Irishwoman herself, O'Connor is as big of a Notre Dame fan as they come, I'm sure. Those feisty Catholics in South Bend, however, may get peeved when she rips up a picture of Benny XVI on the 50-yard line halfway into the shoot. Oh, well.
2. I Love College, Asher Roth. Our Savior of Entitled-White-Boy Rap, Roth gives us a paean to the undergraduate experience, and with it the perfect backing track to a totally pumpin' Notre Dame pump-up video! And with it as the new soundtrack, all those jugtacular cheerleaders would have to be replaced by frat bros in lax pinnies shotgunning till they vom their brains out! Win.
3. The Heart of Rock 'n' Roll, Huey Lewis. This classic comes off an album called "Sports," so I can presuppose that it has some relation to football, right?
4. Lisztomania, Phoenix. Unquestionably the greatest rock song of the past few years about Hungarian piano virtuosos, this choice is all-too obvious. And here's a little-known fact: Liszt was actually a raw right tackle, recruited by the Irish in 1831. The music department wasn't to his liking.
5. Baby, Justin Bieber. The star recruit for the Class of 2016, tween-aged robot Bieber might be forced to make the tough decision between a scholarship offer from the Irish and his streak of consecutive days trending on Twitter. NCAA regulations, you know?
6. Beamer, Benz, or Bentley, Lloyd Banks ft. Juelz Santana. Banks penned this impassioned protest track to fight the proliferation of unethical recruiting practices that has become an increasingly pertinent problem amonGst NCAA programs. The line "Beamer, Benz, or Bentley?" is a direct quote from a text that a Notre Dame assistant coach might have sent to a hot high school safety. (Bet he chose the Bentley.)
7. Never Gonna Give You Up, Rick Astley. Astley, the meme-osphere's favorite songsmith and ginger par excellence, can ride that firecrotch of his all the way to the echelon of his similarly hued Irish brethren. So this one was a no-brainer!
8. We Will Rock You, Queen. I went to a sporting event with my dad, once, and I think they played this song. Or was it that one where you say "Hey" during the chorus? Or that one about hanging out with all the boys? Now I'm confused.
9. Man in the Mirror, Michael Jackson.No real reason to put this one on here — no real reason not to, either.
10. Sweet Georgia Brown. The Harlem Globetrotters are America. And they play sports. The Harlem Globetrotters are both sports and America. And so is Notre Dame.


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LeahS [Admin]12/13/10
The ultimate babka recipe! From "Fresh & Easy Kosher Cooking".
3 Bobkas
2 oz fresh yeast (or 6¾ tsp dry yeast)
½ cup warm water
6½ cup flour
½ cup sugar
12 oz margarine (3sticks)
½ cup warm orange juice
4 eggs
- pinch salt
- Filing:
2 cup sugar
½ cup confectioners sugar
1 cup sifted cocoa
2 Tbsp coffee granules
1 Tbsp vanilla sugar
- Topping:
4 oz margarine (1stick)
½ cup sugar
1½ cup flour
1 Tbsp vanilla sugar
- To assemble:
- oil for smearing
1 egg, beaten for egg wash
Dough: Dissolve the yeast in the water with a drop of the sugar. After it has completely dissolved, combine with the remaining ingredients in the mixer bowl. Mix well with a dough hook to obtain a smooth dough. Cover and allow to rise for 1 hour.
Filling: Mix all ingredients and mix well.
Topping: Mix by hand to form crumbs.
To assemble:
Preheat oven to 350F
Grease 3 loaf pan. Divide dough into 3 parts. Work with one section at time.
Roll the dough to double the length of the pan (about the size of a cookie sheet) and smear with oil. Smear 1/3 of the chocolate filling over the dough. Roll up jelly roll style and pinch the ends closed. Fold the roll in half and twist 3 times. Transfer to loaf pan.
Brush with beaten egg. Sprinkle the streusel over the entire roll. Repeat with the remaining two parts of dough.
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In two Letters in Nature, scientists are reporting that they have been able to reconstruct the structures of biological molecules using femtosecond X-ray pulses. In the first Letter, they imaged nano-crystals of the photosystem I protein, part of the photosynthetic machinery. In the second, they were able to image individual single mimiviruses, part of a family of giant viruses. We seem to be well on the way to single molecule structural imaging.
X-ray diffraction crystallography has been around since the 1920s and is a useful tool for determining the structures of molecules. The basic idea is that the photons diffract as they strike the ordered structure of crystals. The resulting diffraction pattern is unique to the structure of the crystal. So, a crystal of a protein creates a unique diffraction pattern that tells us where the protein's atoms reside.
Although many molecular structures have been solved, the technique is far from perfect. For one, not all molecules crystallize well or form sufficient sized crystals for current techniques. Worse, the protein may crystallize in a nonfunctional form. So, being able to work with smaller crystals or, better yet, single molecules, would be a huge advantage.
One team has created a stream of fluid containing nano-crystals of the photosystem I protein (the crystals are a few hundred nanometers in diameter). The nano-crystal stream is hit with a 1.8 keV X-ray beam that is focused down to a 7 µm spot and pulsed at 30 Hz. Each pulse shot lasts between 10-200 femtoseconds and exceeds power densities of 1016 W cm-2. Yes, that's 10,000 trillion watts per square cm. Normal X-ray crystallography uses a fraction of that power (we described the construction of this X-ray source last year).
In these experiments, the nano-crystals are completely destroyed, but not before they create a sufficiently bright diffraction pattern. And, at 30 Hz, that is 1,800 patterns per minute. By processing thousands of patterns, the team was able to confirm the crystal structure of the photosystem I protein with a resolution of 8.5 Angstroms. That's not as good as the best traditional methods, but it required a lot less starting material.
The second group was able to produce a diffraction pattern from a non-crystallized biological sample, a Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (diameter ~0.75 µm). A stream of buffer and viruses was injected into the X-ray beam line, and hit with pulses 10 µm in diameter with a power density of 6.5x1015 W cm-2. Before the mimivirus "explodes and turns into plasma," enough photons were collected to image a diffraction pattern. From the diffraction pattern, they were able to reconstruct the capsid of the virus accurately with a resolution of 32 nm. This is very impressive because the diffraction pattern and reconstruction came from a single exposure of a single particle.
The teams have successfully demonstrated that they can get sufficient diffraction signal from nano-crystals or individual macro-molecules before the samples are destroyed by the intense illumination. In both cases, higher energy x-rays and shorter bursts are expected to increase resolution and decrease the size of the sample particles. Plans are already in the works for x-ray lasers 105 times brighter but with pulses lasting less than 10fs.
Nature, 2011. DOI: 10.1038/nature09750, 10.1038/nature09748 (About DOIs).
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"Emergent" is a key concept in the work of Rice University theoretical physicist Andriy Nevidomskyy, and thanks to two prestigious new awards, it is also an apt description of his work.
Nevidomskyy, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, has won both a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA).
Nevidomskyy will use the research funding from each award to apply state-of-the-art analytical and computational techniques to investigate the emergence of superconductivity in compounds known as "strange metals." Each grant also includes an educational component, and he will use those funds to help transform his quantum mechanics course for upper-level undergraduates and to help develop a planetarium show to teach school children and their parents about the interactions that form a fabric of the universe.
CAREER Awards support the research and educational development of young faculty whom the NSF expects to become leaders in their field. The five-year grants are worth about $450,000 and are among the NSF's most competitive. The agency grants only about 400 each year across all disciplines.
Cottrell Scholar Awards fund early career faculty in physical sciences and related fields who are committed to excellence in both research and undergraduate teaching at U.S. research universities. RCSA selects only about a dozen recipients each year who it believes "have the potential to change the way science is taught in the U.S." Researchers may only apply once for a Cottrell Scholar Award at the midpoint of their first tenure-track appointment.
"Each of these awards is highly competitive, and I am honored to have been selected," Nevidomskyy said.
He said the common goal of the research component of each award is to study emergent electronic properties in strange metals. "Emergence," in this context, refers to the way nontrivial complex systems and patterns arise out of many relatively simple constituents.
"An everyday example is the complex pattern of a flying flock of birds, seemingly behaving as one 'unit' despite comprising thousands of individual birds," he explained. "While this is a classical example, quantum physics adds an extra dimension, making quantum emergence even richer. For instance, understanding the electronic and vibrational properties of a single water molecule does not trivially imply the properties of liquid water or the emergent sixfold symmetry of snowflakes."
Physicists have studied the "strange" metallic state in a variety of materials for several decades. Because of strong interactions among electrons in these materials, electric current travels through them differently than it travels through regular metals like aluminum or copper. Solving the mystery of why the phenomenon arises is one of the foremost challenges in condensed matter physics, due in part to the fact that high-temperature superconductivity can also emerge out of the strange metallic state.
"One way of thinking about this is to envision a crowded stadium of soccer fans standing up in unison to create a traveling 'wave,'" he said. "If you were to observe any single person in the stadium, you would just see an individual standing and sitting back down. You would not see the wave, because it is an example of a collective behavior; you can only observe it by looking at the entire system."
When an electric current or thermal heat moves through an ordinary metal, the flowing electrons inside the metal can be modeled as moving independently and interacting only very weakly with one another. This is not the case with strange metals. When a current travels through a strange metal, the electrons lose their individuality and behave as a collective entity.
For the CAREER Award research, Nevidomskyy will focus on a fascinating class of strange metals called "heavy fermion" materials, in which the interactions between the constituent particles are so strong that they acquire a very heavy mass, sometimes several hundred times greater than that of a bare electron. As a result of this "heaviness," many properties of the material, including the electrical and thermal conductivity, are profoundly affected.
"Unfortunately, the very feature that makes these materials so interesting -- the strong interactions between electrons -- also makes them challenging to study," he said.
Nevidomskyy hopes to build a new theory to explain the electronic properties of the heavy fermions by combining existing methods of quantum chemistry with the state-of-the-art computational techniques. In particular, he aims to capture the interplay between magnetism and various interesting quantum mechanical properties, including superconductivity.
"People have tried to do this before, but a complete theory is very difficult to attain," Nevidomskyy said. "Experimentalists have compiled a great deal of empirical evidence about how heavy fermions work. We have an understanding of some of the specific phenomena associated with these materials, but we still lack a coherent theoretical understanding of why the phenomena come about and how they relate to the 'heaviness' that emerges in these materials."
For the educational component of the Cottrell grant, Nevidomskyy plans to incorporate active learning techniques in his upper-level quantum mechanics course, such as "flipped" classroom, cooperative learning and "just-in-time teaching." He said the idea is to help students better assimilate and retain information by posing thought-provoking questions that actively involve students in the learning process.
"A lot of research has been done for the lower-level undergraduate courses, the huge introductory courses like physics 101, where educators have thought at length about pedagogical techniques and how you administer quizzes," Nevidomskyy said. "But what about the third and fourth years? Courses for juniors and seniors are often much more technical, and less has been done to incorporate active learning in this context."
For the NSF CAREER award, he said he is planning to work with Rice physicist Pat Reiff and partners at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences to develop a planetarium show tentatively titled "The Invisible Forces of Nature."
"The idea is to cover gravitational forces as well as electromagnetism, radio waves and nuclear forces -- things that we can't see but that make the universe exist and be what it is," Nevidomskyy said. "It's a huge undertaking. I am not the one leading it, but I would be assisting with the content development, specifically in my area of expertise, which is electromagnetism."
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Below is the full detailed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) sequence for infants (babies under 1 year old) and children.
It's highly recommended that every parent goes on a first aid course, as it makes this process much easier to understand and remember.
In a life-threatening emergency, dial 999. If your child is coughing or wheezy, call NHS 111 or your GP for advice.
Child and baby CPR steps
1. Ensure the area is safe
- Check for hazards, such as electrical equipment or traffic.
2. Check your child's responsiveness
- Gently stimulate your child and ask loudly: "Are you all right?"
3a. If your child responds by answering or moving
- Leave them in the position they were found in (provided they're not in danger).
- Check their condition and get help if needed.
- Reassess the situation regularly.
3b. If your child does not respond
- Shout for help.
- Carefully turn the child on their back.
If the child is under 1 year old:
- Ensure the head is in a neutral position, with the head and neck in line and not tilted.
- At the same time, with your fingertips under the point of your child's chin, lift the chin. Do not push on the soft tissues under the chin as this may block the airway.
If the child is over 1 year old:
- Open your child's airway by tilting the head and lifting the chin.
- To do this, place your hand on their forehead and gently tilt their head back.
- At the same time, with your fingertips under the point of your child's chin, lift the chin. Do not push on the soft tissues under the chin as this may block the airway.
If you think there may have been an injury to the neck, tilt the head carefully, a small amount at a time, until the airway is open. Opening the airway takes priority over a possible neck injury, however.
4. Check their breathing
Keeping the airway open, look, listen and feel for normal breathing by putting your face close to your child's face and looking along their chest.
- Look for chest movements.
- Listen at the child's nose and mouth for breathing sounds.
- Feel for air movement on your cheek.
Look, listen and feel for no more than 10 seconds before deciding that they're not breathing. Gasping breaths should not be considered to be normal breathing.
5a. If your child is breathing normally
- Turn them on their side.
- Check for continued breathing.
- Send or go for help – do not leave your child unless absolutely necessary.
5b. If your child is not breathing or is breathing infrequently and irregularly
- Carefully remove any obvious obstruction in the mouth.
- Give 5 initial rescue breaths (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation) – see below.
- While doing this, note any gag or cough response – this is a sign of life.
Rescue breaths for a baby under 1 year
- Ensure the head is in a neutral position and lift the chin.
- Take a breath, then cover your baby's mouth and nose with your mouth, making sure it's sealed. If you cannot cover both the mouth and nose at the same time, just seal 1 with your mouth. If you choose the nose, close the lips to stop air escaping.
- Blow a breath steadily into the baby's mouth and nose over 1 second. It should be sufficient to make the chest visibly rise.
- Keeping their head tilted and chin lifted, take your mouth away and watch for the chest to fall as air comes out.
- Take another breath and repeat this sequence 4 more times.
Rescue breaths for a child over 1 year
- Tilt the head and lift the chin.
- Close the soft part of their nose using the index finger and thumb of the hand that's on their forehead.
- Open their mouth a little, but keep the chin pointing upwards.
- Take a breath, then place your lips around their mouth, making sure it's sealed.
- Blow a breath steadily into their mouth over about 1 second, watching for the chest to rise.
- Keeping their head tilted and chin lifted, take your mouth away and watch for the chest to fall as air comes out.
- Take another breath and repeat this sequence 4 more times. Check that your child's chest rises and falls in the same way as if they were breathing normally.
5c. Obstructed airway
If you have difficulty achieving effective breathing in your child, the airway may be obstructed.
- Open the child's mouth and remove any visible obstruction. Do not poke your fingers or any object blindly into the mouth.
- Ensure there's adequate head tilt and chin lift, but the neck is not overextended.
- Make up to 5 attempts to achieve effective breaths (enough to make the chest visibly rise). If this is still unsuccessful, move on to chest compressions combined with rescue breaths.
6. Assess the circulation (signs of life)
Look for signs of life. These include any movement, coughing, or normal breathing – not abnormal gasps or infrequent, irregular breaths.
Signs of life present
If there are definite signs of life:
- Continue rescue breathing until your child begins to breathe normally for themselves.
- Turn the child on their side into the recovery position and send for help.
- Continue to check for normal breathing and provide further rescue breaths if necessary.
No signs of life present
If there are no signs of life:
- Start chest compressions immediately.
- Combine chest compressions with rescue breaths, providing 2 breaths after every 30 compressions.
7. Chest compressions: general guidance
- To avoid compressing the stomach, find the point where the lowest ribs join in the middle, and then 1 finger's width above that. Compress the breastbone.
- Push down 4cm (for a baby or infant) or 5cm (a child), which is approximately one-third of the chest diameter.
- Release the pressure, then rapidly repeat at a rate of about 100-120 compressions a minute.
- After 30 compressions, tilt the head, lift the chin, and give 2 effective breaths.
- Continue compressions and breaths in a ratio of 2 breaths for every 30 compressions.
Although the rate of compressions will be 100-120 a minute, the actual number delivered will be fewer because of the pauses to give breaths.
The best method for compression varies slightly between infants and children.
Chest compression in babies less than 1 year
- Do the compressions on the breastbone with the tips 2 fingers, not the whole hand or with 2 hands.
- The quality (depth) of chest compressions is very important. If the depth of 4cm cannot be achieved with the tips of 2 fingers, use the heel of 1 hand – see advice for children, below.
Chest compression in children over 1 year
- Place the heel of 1 hand over the lower third of the breastbone, as described above.
- Lift the fingers to ensure pressure is not applied over the ribs.
- Position yourself vertically above the chest and, with your arm straight, compress the breastbone so you push it down 5cm, which is approximately one-third of the chest diameter. The quality (depth) of chest compressions is very important.
- In larger children or if you're small, this may be done more easily by using both hands with the fingers interlocked, avoiding pressure on the ribs.
If nobody responded to your shout for help at the beginning and you're alone, continue resuscitation for about 1 minute before trying to get help – for example, by dialling 999 on a mobile phone.
8. Continue resuscitation until
- Your child shows signs of life – normal breathing, coughing, movement of arms or legs.
- Further qualified help arrives.
- You become exhausted.
Further information on first aid
British Red Cross: first aid training courses
Page last reviewed: 04/10/2019
Next review due: 04/10/2022


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After months of losses in his variable annuity, your client comes to you asking whether it's time to move his money to greener pastures. How do you proceed? You may not be in the business of giving tax advice, but the move will be heavily influenced by the tax consequences of the loss. Can the loss be deducted? And if so, how much will of the loss can be deducted, and is it a capital or ordinary loss? The final question that should come to mind is whether the conversation is a selling opportunity in disguise.
What if the fair market value of your client's variable annuity (VA) falls from $100,000 to $60,000? The good news is that a loss in a variable annuity is deductible—although there's no solid answer on the mechanics of deducting the loss.
The first requirement for deducting the loss is common to all losses: you'll need to realize the loss before the loss can be recognized for income tax purposes. The principle is the same as for stock losses; if the value of your Microsoft stock drops 15 percent, you don't get to deduct the loss unless you sell the stock and realize the loss. The same holds true for a variable annuity. If the value of the VA has dropped 40 percent to $60,000, you can't deduct the loss until you realize it.
How are losses in a VA realized? Like stock, your client must "sell" the annuity to recognize the loss for tax purposes. That sale will probably be in the form of a surrender to the carrier; a 1035 exchange isn't going to cut it. The unfortunate part of the equation is that the hefty surrender charge your client may be charged won't be deductible.
Simplifying a bit, the amount of the loss that your client will recognize is the basis in the annuity minus the amount received on its surrender (disregarding any surrender charge). For example, if your client purchased a variable annuity for $100,000, takes no withdrawals or payments from the contract, and then surrenders it, receiving a total of $60,000 from the carrier (including a $4,000 surrender charge), he has a financial loss of $40,000. But his tax loss is going to be limited to $36,000 because the $4,000 surrender isn't deductible.
The IRS Ruling on a VA as an Investment for Tax Purposes
The confusion surrounding loss deductions for a VA has to do with how the loss is reported. The loss definitely isn't an investment loss, so it can't be deducted against losses on stock and mutual funds. But that's not necessarily a negative. The loss is deductible as an ordinary loss, and may be fully deductible in the year it's incurred. In Revenue Ruling 61-201, the IRS considered whether a loss on what was referred to as "a single premium refund annuity contract" was deductible as an ordinary loss. The IRS's reasoning was that, under Section 72, an amount not received as an annuity is taxable as ordinary income, and that a loss received under a contract should be given the same treatment—as an ordinary loss. That ruling appears to hold true only for annuities that have a refund feature. The refund feature eliminates the insurance aspect of the contract, and the assumption is that the contract was thus entered into as an investment.
The open question is whether the loss should be reported as a Miscellaneous Deduction or under Other Gains/Losses on a tax return. If the loss is classified as a miscellaneous deduction, it's going to be subject to the 2 percent floor and won't be deductible for alternative minimum tax (AMT) purposes. Classifying the loss as "Other" is a bit riskier from an IRS examination perspective, but if it's classified that way it will be fully deductible (no 2 percent floor) and will still be deductible for AMT purposes.
Obviously, your clients will want to classify the loss as "Other," but there's no clear authority for that move.
When a Tax-Free Exchange Isn't a Good Idea
When we think about moving money out of an annuity or life insurance product, we often think first of a 1035 exchange. But when it comes to a variable annuity holding significant losses, a tax-free exchange probably isn't the best option for your client. Instead, they can take the loss on the VA by surrendering it to the carrier and then move its value (less any surrender charges) into a better-performing product.
A big stumbling block to a 1035 exchange often is the surrender charge that the client will pay on the old annuity. If the loss is significant enough, however, the tax savings may more than set off the surrender charge. A $20,000 loss, for instance, could reduce your client's tax bill by as much as $7,000.
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SANDY, Utah – Real Salt Lake MF Javier Morales underwent successful surgery to repair a lateral meniscal tear in his right knee on Monday in Salt Lake City. The surgery was performed by team orthopedic surgeon Dr. Andrew Cooper at Salt Lake Regional Hospital and Medical Center near downtown Salt Lake City.
"Happy to report that this was a straight-forward procedure, Javier has a good knee," Cooper said following Monday's procedure. "Very similar to the injury he suffered in MLS Cup 2009 on his left knee. The surgery was uncomplicated and we can expect Javi back on the field doing soccer-specific stuff in about 4-6 weeks."
Morales initially suffered the injury during Real Salt Lake's 0-2 loss to the Danish U-20 national team on Jan. 28 in Casa Grande, Ariz. Following an MRI after several days of intermittent pain, the tear was revealed, Morales flew home from the team's ongoing camp in Irvine, Calif., and underwent the procedure.
Morales – who famously suffered a horrific ankle dislocation and lower leg fracture in May 2011 – bounced back to have a solid campaign in 2012, leading RSL with nine assists and tying for fourth on the team with three goals in 29 league appearances. Out of contract at the end of last season, the 33-year-old Argentine re-signed with the Claret-and-Cobalt on Jan. 18 of this year. He enters 2013 as the club's all-time leader in assists (44), ranks fourth in goals (20) and seventh overall in league appearances (127) and MLS minutes played (10,023).


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Cycling UK Trainer: Phill Stasiw
Cycling UK Trainer: Phill Stasiw
Key attributes:
- Professional Development Officer in Health and Safety for Powys CC
- Runs his own Guiding Company
- Former Outdoor Activity Centre Senior Instructor
- Has competed in MTB all over the world
- Search and Rescue team member
- Involved with Cycling UK since 2006
- Based in Elan Valley, Wales
Phill holds the Mountain Leader Award and SPA, as well as various sailing and paddle sport tickets. He is a full team member of Aberdyfi Search and Rescue Team covering South Snowdonia and the coast. He runs his own guiding company in Mid Wales and can often be seen leading groups in the Elan Valley.
He was senior instructor at Mount Severn and Staylittle Outdoor Activity Centres providing adventurous activities such as climbing, kayaking, sailing and, of course, biking!
Phil currently works for a local authority as a Professional Development Officer, teaching leadership skills, coaching and mentoring and mandatory training for corporate health and safety.
He studied cartography and was a senior draughtsman/editor at a mapping company for 17 years, so when it comes to navigation on Tech Leader courses he can certainly give you the best of his knowledge.
Biking has taken him all over the world, from 24hr endurance races in the UK to racing the Yak-Attack in Nepal, considered to be one of the toughest mountain bike races on the planet - and certainly the highest at 5416m. He has also photographed the event for MBUK and Berghaus.
Working for Cycling UK has enabled Phill to share his experiences as a rider and a leader, and meeting like-minded riders keen to show others the thrills, spills and benefits mountain biking brings is all the motivation he needs.


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Also see this thread in the Indiana Forum -- http://www.preeclampsia.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21258
Opportunities exist to help make the Auburn, IN Walk-a-thon a great event again this year! If you have an interest to volunteer, please see the options below and sign up with Kathy!
Indiana PF Walk-a-thon Saturday, June 9th 10:30 a.m.
If anyone is able to help with something on the task list for the Indiana WAT in Auburn, please email me. Some tasks that we could use help with...
Before the WAT
Securing sponsors
Secure or donate a silent auction item(s)
Donate new items that can be "regifted" for silent auction baskets
Donate empty baskets for silent auction
Research on-line IN large business websites to see if we are eligible to submit a proposal for a sponsorship
Check to see if your employer has a donation program
Recruit walkers
Hang posters & distribute WAT brochures locally
Send invitations out to your email list of friends and family)
Recruit teams (your hospital, ob office, civic club, softball team)
Sign up your own team
Tell your story to a local newspaper, radio or TV station
Help get our event community calendars across the state
Volunteer to work a rest stop
Ask your OB/peri to sponsor, make a donation or pledge you
Consider chairing next year's WAT
Enter data for next year's mail and email lists
Do mailing to civic groups and churches in IN asking for support
Send media advisories to papers, radio and TV stations in your area (or across state) They are already prepared for you!
Donut Shop - WAT Kick-off event - Friday, April 13th 6-10 a.m.
Attend/volunteer at our Donut Shop WAT "Kick-off" event Good Fri.
Pick up & help set up generator
Donate or seek donations of donut making ingredients
Pick up ingredients
Listen to the live broadcast on-line if you can't attend
Help make donuts Thurs. night or early Fri. a.m.
Register walkers at Donut Shop
Weekend before WAT - at Kathy's house
Help prep totes for rest stops for delivery crew
Prepare route signs & arrow signs for delivery crew
Put WAT sponsor labels on and fill walker bags
Prepare silent auction sheets
Pick up non-perishible snacks and water from donors
Day Before WAT
Delivery Crew- Signd & Totes of snacks & water to rest stops
Calls to remind neighborhood volunteers that will put trash cans
Distribute scavenger hunt clue cards to route sponsors
Pick up donations and supplies
Put up banners
Place signs along route
Day of WAT
Load shuttle van w/ water, snacks & first aid kit
Help set up and/or clean up
Put up and/or take down tents
Arrive early to help set up
Work at a rest stop game
Take pictures for slide show at finish
Work silent auction before and after walk, help collect payments
Stay late and clean up at end point
Clean up & pick up supplies from a rest stop
Pick up route signs & roll up banners
After the WAT
Volunteer to Chair the WAT committee next year
Volunteer to be on WAT committee next year
Help send thank yous to sponsors, donors and volunteers
Help process money and paperwork
Return borrowed items
Sort totes and leftover items for next year
Drop off donation of left over snacks & food at shelter
Auburn, IN Walk-a-thon Volunteer Opportunities
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The Adventures of Santa and Snowman
There are two members of the Human Potential Center that few know about. Their arms and legs bend and they are made of rubber.
They came to the Center two years ago as a Christmas gift. Santa to me and Snowman to Bob, our director. As things go around the Center, it can get playful in a moment's notice, so one day they disappeared. Then, all of a sudden, they showed up again. One in the coffee bean bag and the other one hanging onto the half and half container for dear life. And so it goes. Every few days they show up some place new.
It has become a game and we are enjoying it and thought a few of you, out there, might too. So begins The Adventures of Santa and Snowman.


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Television news refers to disseminating current events via the medium of television. A "news bulletin" or a "newscast" are television programs lasting from seconds to hours that provide updates on world, national, regional or local news events. Television news is very image-based, showing video of many of the events that are reported. Television channels may provide news bulletins as part of a regularly scheduled news program. Less often, television shows may be interrupted or replaced by breaking news ("news flashes") to provide news updates on events of great importance.
Radio news is the same as television news but is transmitted through the medium of the radio. It is more based on the audio aspect rather than the visual aspect. Sound bites are captured through various reporters and played back through the radio. News updates occur more often on the radio than on the television - usually about once or twice an hour.
Newscasts, also known as bulletins or news programs, differ in content, tone and presentation style depending on the format of the channel on which they appear, and their timeslot. In most parts of the world, national television networks will have network bulletins featuring national and international news. The top rating shows will often be in the evening at 'prime time', but there are also often breakfast time newscasts of two to three hours in length. Rolling news channels broadcast news 24 hours a day. Many video and audio news reports presented on the internet are updated 24 hours a day. Local news may be presented by stand-alone local television stations, local stations affiliated to national networks or by local studios which 'opt-out' of national network programming at specified points. Different news programming may be aimed at different audiences, depending on age, socio-economic group or those from particular sections of society. 'Magazine-style' television shows may mix news coverage with topical lifestyle issues, debates or entertainment content.
Newscasts consist of several a reporter being interviewed by an anchor, known as a 'two-way', or by a guest involved in or offering analysis on the story being interviewed by a reporter or anchor. There may also be breaking news stories which will present live rolling coverage.
Packages will usually be filmed at a relevant location and edited in an editing suite in a newsroom or a remote contribution edit suite in a location some distance from the newsroom. They may also be edited in mobile editing trucks, or satellite trucks, and transmitted back to the newsroom. Live coverage will be broadcast from a relevant location and sent back to the newsroom via fixed cable links, microwave radio, production truck, satellite truck or via online streaming. Roles associated with television news include a technical director, floor director audio technician and a television crew of operators running character graphics (CG), teleprompters and professional video cameras. Most news shows are broadcast live.
Radio station newscasts can range from as little as a minute to as much as the station's entire schedule, such as the case of all-news radio, or talk radio. Stations dedicated to news or talk will often feature newscasts, or bulletins, usually at the top of the hour, usually between three and eight minutes in length. They can be a mix of local, national and international news, as well as sport, entertainment, weather and traffic, or they may be incorporated into separate bulletins. There may also be shorter bulletins at the bottom of the hour, or three at 15-minute intervals, or two at 20-minute intervals. All-news radio stations exist in some countries, primarily located in major metropolitan areas such as New York City, Toronto and Chicago, which often broadcast local, national and international news and feature stories on a set time schedule.
Unlike in United States, most Canadian television stations have license requirements to offer locally-produced newscasts in some form. Educational television stations are exempt from these requirements; multicultural television stations are also not required to carry news programming, however some stations licensed as a multicultural station do produce local newscasts in varied languages (such as the Omni Television station group). Canadian television stations normally broadcast newscasts between two and four times a day: usually at noon; 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m. in the evening, and 11 p.m. at night (there are some variations to this: stations affiliated with CTV usually air their late evening newscasts at 11:30 p.m., due to the scheduling of the network's national evening news program CTV National News at 11 p.m. in all time zones; most CBC Television-owned stations formerly carried a 10-minute newscast at 10:55 p.m., following The National, these were expanded to a half-hour and moved to 11 p.m. during the fall of 2012).
Some stations carry morning newscasts (usually starting at 5:30 or 6 a.m., and ending at 9 a.m.). Unlike in the United States, primetime newscasts in the 10:00 p.m. timeslot are relatively uncommon (Global owned-and-operated stations in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, CKND-DT, CFSK-DT and CFRE-DT, and Victoria, British Columbia independent station CHEK-DT are the only television stations in the country carrying a primetime newscast); conversely, pre-5 a.m. local newscasts are also uncommon in Canada, Hamilton, Ontario independent station CHCH-DT, whose weekdaily programming consists largely of local news, is currently the only station in the country that starts its weekday morning newscasts before 5:30 a.m. (the station's morning news block begins at 4 a.m. on weekdays).
Like with U.S. television, many stations use varied titles for their newscasts; this is particularly true with owned-and-operated stations of Global and City (Global's stations use titles based on daypart such as News Hour for the noon and early evening newscasts and News Final for 11 p.m. newscasts, while all six City-owned broadcast stations produce morning news/talk programs under the umbrella title Breakfast Television and its flagship station CITY-DT/Toronto's evening newscasts are titled CityNews). Overall umbrella titles for news programming use the titling schemes "(Network or system name) News" for network-owned stations or "(Callsign) News" for affiliates not directly owned by a network or television system.
CBC Television, Global and CTV each produce national evening newscasts (The National, Global National and CTV National News, respectively), which unlike the American network newscasts do not air in competition with one another as they are scheduled in differing time slots; while Global National airs at the same early evening time slot as the American evening network newscasts, The National's 10 p.m. ET slot competes against primetime entertainment programming on the private broadcast networks, while CTV National News airs against locally-produced 11 p.m. newscasts on other stations. The National, which has aired on CBC Television since 1954, is the longest-running national network newscast in Canada. All three networks also produce weekly newsmagazines: CBC's The Fifth Estate (aired since 1975), Global's 16:9 (aired since 2008) and CTV's W5 (aired since 1966 and currently the longest-running network newsmagazine in Canada).
CTV's Canada AM, which has aired since 1975, is the sole national morning news program on broadcast television in Canada, although it has since been relegated to semi-national status as most CTV owned-and-operated stations west of the Ontario-Manitoba border dropped the program during the summer and fall of 2011 in favor of locally-produced morning newscasts. The Sunday morning talk show format is relatively uncommon on Canadian television, the closest program baring similarities to the format was CTV's news and interview series Question Period, this changed when Global debuted the political affairs show The West Block in November 2011.
Canada is host to several 24-hour cable news channels, consisting of domestically-operated cable channels and news channels operated outside of Canada or North America. Domestic national news channels include CTV News Channel and Sun News Network, which offer general news programming, Business News Network, which carries business news and The Weather Network, which offers national and local forecasts. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation operates two national news networks: English-language CBC News Network and French-language RDI. Other Canadian specialty news channels broadcasting in French include general news networks Argent and Le Canal Nouvelles, and MétéoMédia, a French-language sister to The Weather Network.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission authorizes some cable channels from foreign countries to be carried on cable and satellite operators provided that they are linked to a Canadian network. Amongst news channels, all four major U.S. cable news networks: CNN, HLN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel are available on most providers, along with channels from outside North America such as Al Jazeera English from Qatar, BBC World News from the United Kingdom, Deutsche Welle from Germany and RT from Russia.
Regionally-based news channels are fairly uncommon in Canada in comparison to the United States. Two 24-hour regional news channels currently exist in the country: the Toronto-centered CP24 and the Vancouver-focused Global News: BC 1 (although CHCH-DT, a general entertainment station with a rolling daytime news block on weekdays (currently from 4 a.m.-4:30 p.m.) that has existed since August 2009 and hour-long local newscasts nightly at 6 and 11 p.m., serves as a de facto regional news channel for Southern Ontario's Golden Horseshoe region); CityNews Channel formerly operated as a competitor to CP24, though that channel shut down after a year-and-half of operation in May 2013.
Local TV stations in the United States normally broadcast local news 3-4 times a day on average: commonly airing at 5, 5:30 and/or 6 a.m. in the morning; noon; 5 and 6 p.m. in the early evening; and 10 or 11 p.m. at night. Some stations carry morning newscasts at 4, 4:30, 7, 8 or 9 a.m., midday newscasts at 11 or 11:30 a.m., late afternoon newscasts at 4 or 4:30 p.m., or early evening newscasts at 5:30 or 6:30 p.m. Many Fox affiliates, affiliates of minor networks (such as The CW and MyNetworkTV) and independent stations air newscasts in the final hour of primetime (i.e., 10 p.m. in the Eastern and Pacific time zones or 9 p.m. in the Mountain and Central time zones in the U.S.). Stations that produce local newscasts typically broadcast as little as one to as much as ten hours of local news on weekdays and as little as one hour to as much as five hours on weekends; news programming on weekends are typically limited to morning and evening newscasts as the variable scheduling of network sports programming (if a station is affiliated with a network with a sports division) usually prevents most stations from carrying midday newscasts (however a few stations located in the Eastern and Pacific time zones do produce weekend midday newscasts).
Since the early 1990s, independent stations and stations affiliated with a non-Big Three network have entered into "news share agreements", in which news production is outsourced to a major network station (usually an affiliate of ABC, NBC or CBS), often to avoid shouldering the cost of starting a news department from scratch. These commonly involve Fox, CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates (and previously affiliate stations of the now-defunct predecessors of the latter two networks, The WB and UPN) and in some cases, independent stations; however such agreements exist in certain markets between two co-owned/co-managed Big Three affiliates. News share agreements are most common with stations co-owned with a larger network affiliate or whose operations are jointly managed through a shared service or local marketing agreement. In cases where a station with an existing news department enters into a news share agreement, it will result either the two departments merging or the outright conversion of newscast production from in-house to outsourced production. Minor network affiliates involved in news share agreements will often carry far fewer hours of local newscasts than would be conceivable with an in-house news department to avoid competition with the outsourcing partner's own newscasts, as a result, minor network affiliates involved in these NSAs often will carry a morning newscast from 7-9 a.m. (in competition with the national network newscasts instead of airing competing with the Big Three affiliates' newscasts) and/or a primetime newscast at 10 p.m. ET/PT or 9 p.m. CT/MT, with no midday, late afternoon or early evening newscasts.
Because of the increased presence of duopolies and local marketing/shared services agreements since the early 2000s, the number of minor network affiliates and independent stations that produce their own newscasts has markedly decreased compared to when duopolies were barred under Federal Communications Commission rules prior to 2000 (as of 2013, there are at least 15 minor network affiliates or independent stations that produce their own local newscasts, most are located within the 20 largest U.S. media markets). Duopolies and outsourcing agreements have also affected Fox stations in a similar manner; although Fox is considered to be a major network on the same level as NBC, ABC and CBS and has urged its affiliates since the early 1990s to broadcast local news, about half of its stations broadcast local news programming through news share agreements with many of the remainder operating their own news departments. Several stations affiliated with Spanish-language networks (such as Univision and Telemundo) also broadcast their own newscasts, these stations often produce a substantially lower weekly newscast output compared to its English-language counterparts (usually limited to half-hour broadcasts in the evening, and often airing only on weeknights).
Unlike international broadcast stations which tend to brand under uniform newscast titles based solely on network affiliation, U.S. television stations tend to use varying umbrella titles for their newscasts; some title their newscasts utilizing the station's on-air branding (such as combining the network affiliation and channel number with the word "News"), others use franchised brand names (like Eyewitness News, Action News and NewsChannel) for their news programming. Conversely, the naming conventions for a station's newscast are sometimes used as a universal on-air branding for the station itself, and may be used for general promotional purposes, even used in promoting syndicated and network programming (such as KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which uses the uniform news and general branding NewsChannel 4). Many stations title their newscasts with catchy names like Daybreak, Good Morning (city or region name), First at Four, Live at Five, Eleven @ 11:00 or Nightcast. These names are intended to set one station apart from the rest, especially for viewers who are chosen for audience measurement surveys. If the respondent was unable to provide a channel number or call letters, the newscast title is often enough for the appropriate station to receive Nielsen ratings credit.
The Big Three broadcast television networks produce morning and evening national newscasts (America This Morning, Good Morning America and ABC World News are broadcast by ABC, CBS broadcasts the CBS Morning News, CBS This Morning and the CBS Evening News, and NBC produces Early Today, Today and NBC Nightly News) as well as weekly newsmagazine series (NBC's Dateline, ABC's 20/20 and CBS's CBS News Sunday Morning, 48 Hours and 60 Minutes). Network morning newscasts usually air at 7 a.m. (English-language network morning shows are tape delayed for each time zone, while the Spanish-language morning shows are aired live in all time zones); network evening newscasts usually are broadcast live at 6:30 p.m. on the East Coast and broadcast live in both the Eastern and Central Time Zones, with a secondary live broadcast at 6:30 p.m. Pacific time. Today was the first morning news program to be broadcast on American television and in the world, when it debuted on January 14, 1952; the earliest national evening news program was The Walter Compton News, a short-lived 15-minute newscast that aired on the DuMont Television Network from 1947 to 1948.
All four major English networks and the two largest Spanish networks also carry political talk programs on Sunday mornings (NBC's Meet the Press, ABC's This Week, CBS' Face the Nation, Fox's sole news program Fox News Sunday, Univision's Al Punto and Telemundo's Enfoque); of these programs, Meet the Press holds the distinction of being the longest-running American television program as it has aired since November 6, 1947. CBS and ABC are currently the only networks that produce overnight news programs on weeknights in the form of Up to the Minute and World News Now, respectively; NBC previously produced overnight newscasts at different times, both of which have since been cancelled: NBC News Overnight from 1982 to 1983, and NBC Nightside from 1992 to 1999 (NBC currently does not offer a late night newscast, although the network currently airs rebroadcasts of the fourth hour of Today, and sister network CNBC's Mad Money on weeknights).
Spanish-language news programs are provided by Univision (which produces early and late evening editions of its flagship evening news program Noticiero Univision seven nights a week, and as such is the only nightly newscast on the major Spanish networks, but it also competes with national evening news programs on the network's English-language competitors; along with weekday afternoon newsmagazine Primer Impacto and weekday morning program Despierta America), Telemundo (whose flagship evening newscast is Noticiero Telemundo, along with weekday morning program Un Nuevo Día and weekday afternoon newsmagazine Al Rojo Vivo), MundoFox (which produces the weekday-only flagship newscast Noticias MundoFox, along with a weekday afternoon newsmagazine MundoFox ¡Y Ya!), Estrella TV (which produces the weekday-only flagship news program Noticiero Estrella TV and the primetime newscast Cierre de Edición) and Azteca América (which produces the weeknight-only Noticiero Nacional Azteca América: Edición Vespertina and Noticiero Nacional Azteca América: Edición Nocturna).
Fox, The CW and MyNetworkTV do not produce national morning and evening news programs (although Fox made a brief attempt at a morning program in the late 1990s with Fox After Breakfast; many CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates and independent stations air the syndicated news program The Daily Buzz, while some Tribune Broadcasting-owned CW and MyNetworkTV stations air a similar program called EyeOpener).
24-hour news channels are devoted to current events around the clock. They are often referred to as cable news channels. The originator of this format from which the name derives is CNN (as well as CNN International, CNN en Español and CNN-IBN), which originally stood for Cable News Network in reference to the then-new phenomenon of cable television. As satellite and other forms have evolved, the term cable news has become something of an anachronism, but is still in common use; many other television channels have since been established, such as BBC World News, BBC News Channel, Sky News, Al Jazeera, ABC News 24, France 24, STAR News, Fox News Channel, MSNBC and ABC News Now. Some news channels specialize even further, such as ESPNews (sports news; sister channel to ESPN); The Weather Channel (weather); CNBC, Bloomberg Television and Fox Business Network (financial news).
Conversely, several cable news channels exist that carry news reports specifically geared toward a particular metropolitan area, state or region such as New York City's NY1 (which focuses on the entire New York metropolitan area) and News 12 Networks (which serves portions of the area outside of Manhattan), Orlando's Central Florida News 13 (which is also carried in areas surrounding Greater Orlando), Tampa, Florida's Bay News 9 and Washington, D.C.'s NewsChannel 8. These channels are usually owned by a local cable operator and are distributed solely through cable television and IPTV system operators. Some broadcast television stations also operate cable channels (some of which are repeated through digital multicasting) that air the station's local newscasts in the form of live simulcasts from the television station, with rebroadcasts of the newscasts airing in time periods between the live broadcasts.
A term which has entered common parlance to differentiate cable news from traditional news broadcasts is network news, in reference to the traditional television networks on which such broadcasts air. A classic example is the cable news channel MSNBC, which overlaps with (and, in the case of breaking world-changing events, pre-empts) its network counterpart NBC News. Most U.S. cable news networks do not air news programming 24 hours a day, often filling late afternoon, primetime and late night hours with news-based talk programs, documentaries and other specialty programming.
More often, AM stations will air a 6½ minute newscast at the top of the hour, which can be either a local report, a national report from a radio network such as CBS Radio, CNN Radio, NPR, Fox News Radio or ABC News Radio, or a mix of both local and national content, including weather and traffic reports. Some stations also air a two-minute report at the bottom of the hour.
FM stations, unless they feature a talk radio format, usually only air minute-long news capsules featuring a quick review of events and an abbreviated weather forecast, and usually only in drive time periods or in critical emergencies, since FM stations usually focus more on playing music. Traffic reports also air on FM stations, depending on the market.
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[LAGOS] Nigeria must close a "communication gap" to ensure that vital information on climate change-related events reaches all those who could use it to help minimise their impact, the head of the country's meteorological body has warned.
Speaking at the yearly meeting of the African Science Academies, held in Lagos last month (12-14 November), Anthony Anuforom, director-general of the Nigerian Meteorology Agency (NIMET), said that a 'national climate service policy' would ensure greater management and use of data on events such as flooding, prolonged droughts and heat waves.
"Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and intensity. We have evidence of an increasing frequency of thunderstorms. We need to think of establishing a national framework for climate service," he said.
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- Lack of policy partly blamed for deaths and displacements from recent flooding
Anuforom said the framework would ensure better public communication of climate issues such as rainfall, flooding, drought and rising temperatures.
"Users would include farmers, policymakers, health workers, environmentalists and universities in Nigeria," he said.
According to Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency, 363 people died and a further 2.1 million were displaced between July to October because of flooding.
Anuforom said that inadequate information on disaster risk reduction and the lack of a framework to ensure that climate data are passed between agencies such as NIMET and policymakers was partly responsible for the damage and deaths caused by these floods.
"Part of the problem of the recent floods was due to a communication gap. There is no formal policy connecting service providers like us with the users of the information," he explained.
In 2009, the World Meteorological Organization adopted the global framework for climate service, which aims to ensure effective use of climate information in global decision-making.
But Anuforom said Nigeria should create its own national system to guarantee that climate service providers are connected with service users. "If we had a proper framework, we would be on our way to ensuring proper mitigation of climatic effects," he said.
In a statement read at the meeting by minister of science and technology Okon Ewa, Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, said: "It is estimated that 90 million to 220 million Africans will be exposed to increased water-related stresses induced by climate change by 2020. Without adequate study and timely actions, the manifold effects of such occurrences will undoubtedly worsen environmental problems in our continent."
The country's minister of health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, told the conference that the Nigerian population's vulnerability to climate change health impacts such as flooding and disease meant that better management and use of climate data was needed.
Chukwu said: "Climate change is expected to increase the burden of climate sensitive diseases, such as heat-related illnesses, vector-borne and diarrhoea diseases, injuries from extreme events and respiratory diseases," he said.
Public health institutions need to modify their approach in anticipation of these impacts, he said.
This article has been produced by SciDev.Net's Sub-Saharan Africa desk.