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Chipset maker Qualcomm has announced its roadmap to upgrade EVDO chipsets—both with new hardware and software updates to offer backward compatibility in older models. The company claims that during its tests on EVDO Rev. B they saw an average data rate of 9.3Mbps down, via the 5MHz spectrum—a drastic increase over Rev. A's 800kbps download speed.
"The evolution of CDMA2000 networks from EVDO Rev. A to EVDO Rev. B allows network operators to remain leading-edge in their service and performance offerings without the need for any infrastructure hardware changes," said Qualcomm CEO Dr. Sanjay K. Jha in a statement. The key is the lack of significant infrastructure hardware change, which means that uptake in the US should be good.
If Rev. B is truly this good (and it may not be, as I'll get to in a minute), streaming video to mobile phones could potentially become an enjoyable experience. Qualcomm has another usage in mind, too: VoIP.
9.3Mbps download would be a dream come true to many mobile users—particularly traveling businesspeople who rely on EVDO for the constant net connection—but we know very well that actually achieving that kind of download speed anywhere outside of Fantasy Island is unlikely in the near future. Verizon, which currently supports EVDO Rev. A, says that users should expect performance to be lower than the theoretical maximum, going down as far as 450kbps down—just a hair above the halfway mark of the advertised max (800 kbps) for Rev. A. But even half of the advertised speed for Rev. B, roughly 4.6Mbps, would still be a major upgrade from EVDO Rev. A.
According to the company, the software update for Qualcomm's older EVDO hardware, the CSM6800, will be available by the end of this week. There is no time frame specified for when US carriers might adopt EVDO Rev. B, but given that Qualcomm plans to roll out its new hardware, the MSM7850, later this year, it wouldn't be surprising to see Sprint or Verizon upgrade their handsets and EVDO cards soon thereafter. The question is, will they also update their fees?

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Chapter Five:
December 1, 2013
As we lay there sleeping wrapped in the big white fluffy blankets, I dream of childhood and Christmas; my favourite time of year, and there was one in particular.
December 2, 2013
When we moved into the new two story house on the farm my bedroom was on the main floor just off of the living room ……. I had a birds eye view of the Christmas tree …. this one year I wanted to wait and watch for Santa ….. pretending to be asleep …. once I heard noises figuring it was Santa I waited for him to leave …… slowly opened the bedroom door and getting down on my hands and knees crawled out toward the tree ….. only to be stopped dead in my tracks by my Mom's voice "GET BACK TO BED" ….. I had been so quiet ……
December 3, 2013
My favourite Christmas was 2005 ….. the log cabin in the mountains …. the clear night sky …… the stars shining so brightly …… the food …… the stone fireplace ….. love and laughter ….. feather comforters …… coffee by the fireplace ….. the best place in the world.
December 4, 2013
Kids singing Christmas Carols …… Grandma playing the organ in church ….. our Charlie Brown Christmas tree …… turkey cooking at Grandma's house ….. snow falling …… baby crying …… sister smiling …… dog barking ….. opening presents . driving to Grandma and Grandpa's house ….. the trees out front of their house all light up ….. it is Christmas once again.
December 5, 2013
Oh, how I feel alive and happy …… as each scene plays out ….. there is another one just as wonderful as the last …… people and places ……. my heart is full ……
December 6, 2013
Ah, my great nephew, I remember that day so well …… then skipping years ahead to when Alvin came to live with me …… this movie just seems to go on forever …. I wonder when it will end ….. movie, is it?
December 7, 2013
Movie, what …. am I dreaming …… asleep …… awake …… in a coma …… my mind is swirling and then before me is a crystal clear thought ….. YOU ARE REMEMBERING YOUR LIFE …..
December 8, 2013
Truly I am going crazy, please someone help me wake up from this wild dream …. HELP ME, HELP Me …….
December 9, 2013
This whole ordeal has seemed to go on forever ….. I do not know what to do ….. just when I think that I may have an answer ……. it all comes tumbling down …… such as life, I guess but why now ……. or did I just bump my head!
December 10, 2013
"Did I bump my head?" I think to myself as Alvin snuggles in closer to me as if to comfort me in my time of uncertainty.
December 11, 2013
As I lay under the warmest most comfortable blanket ever, I begin to devise a plan – I will get home – somehow – someday I will escape and be free.
December 12, 2013
Home, what a wonderful thought ….. I realize how much I miss my house, the flowers in my yard, my Christmas tree ……. whoa ….. what did I think ….. was it spring, was it summer or winter when this first happened and I realize maybe now for the first time that I have literally no idea how long we have been gone ….. a day, a month, years!!!
December 13, 2013
All of a sudden I hear this small gurgling slightly roaring sound coming from my stomach ….. guess it has been awhile since I ate anything …… Alvin, too must be starving ….. suddenly a banana, some fresh carrots, a piece of chocolate cake, and a cup of coffee are sitting on a table in front of us….a FEAST.
December 14, 2013
Well no matter if this is real or a figment of my imagination … we are going to eat ….. mmm, as I peel the banana Alvin goes crazy as he absolutely loves banana ….. carrots …. we love carrots and for me my favourite habit …. COFFEE.
December 15, 2013
Yes, hot coffee …. it warms my throat as I quickly take a sip and trying to hold onto the taste reminding me of home …. Alvin is happy as we finish the last bite of banana and continues crunching away on the carrots and for this time we have no worries.
December 16, 2013
As we enjoy our treats I cannot help but to think of home ….. what are my friends and family doing ….. who is looking after our house ….. is there snow to shovel or grass to mow … I do not even know what time of year it is ….. oh …..
December 17, 2013
I just feel like crying even though Alvin is here I am all alone …. no one to discuss things with ….. no shoulder to cry on ….. as the tears well up in my eyes the feelings just explode inside my body, and my heart hurts …. where are they ….. please let us come home …. I just want to go home…… please, help us find our way home……..
December 18, 2013
Through the tears and the feelings of being alone, the despair, and, of not knowing which direction to turn, whether to shout or to continue to cry ….. I feel that warmth once again, and a light although dim begins to shine on me.
December 19, 2013
For a few moments I am lost in the glow …… there is music playing ….. could it be ….. sounds like Celine Dion ….. oh, how I love her ….. saw her in concert once, and she was AMAZING …… I am drifting away in bliss.
December 20, 2013
How many days has it been, I lost track after 83 ……. there are such blissful moments, and then such ones that trouble me greatly …… I just wish that someone would tell me what to do, please …….
December 21, 2013
It would seem that this time there are no family members showing up ….. no voices in my head other than my own ……. no Christmas trees ….. no flowers ……. the food has been eaten ….. the music has stopped, the bed is gone and where is ALVIN?
December 22, 2013
It seems darker now ….. where is that light ……. I can feel Alvin's body snuggling up to mine and I am so grateful to have him with me ……
December 23, 2013
My eyes are wide open or so it would seem but I cannot see anything ….. how can we be enjoying food and drink and that big comfy bed and now it is all gone …… have I lost my mind, and then once again I hear voices but where are they coming from?


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8 March 1933
Letter of complaint from Jakob Steinhardt, probably to the Berlin police authorities
The SA men did not have a search or an arrest warrant, but they nonetheless took the artist into custody and drove him to a private apartment for questioning. Steinhardt was accused of operating a secret radio station in his apartment but was released a few hours later when it became clear that the SA's suspicions were unfounded.
The next night the artist was threatened by an anonymous telephone caller: "Well, Herr Steinhardt, how did you like things yesterday? … It's time you left for Palestine. We'll be paying you frequent visits from now on. We have your keys and can get in at any time we like."
After the phone call, Minni Steinhardt suffered a nervous breakdown. Acting on the advice of a physician, the family left Berlin on 7 March. After remaining for several days in the Yugoslavian spa town of Bled, where Jakob Steinhardt wrote this letter, the family fled to Palestine in mid-March. They never returned to Berlin again.
Lea Weik
I would like to ask you to take note of the following incident, which occurred during the night of … and to investigate how it is possible that entirely powerless and apolitical people can be subjected to such situations.
I have lived with my wife and nine-year-old daughter in a live-in studio at Pariserstrasse 27 for twelve years. I am a member of the Association of German Artists, the Berlin Secession and the Economic Board of Visual Artists in Germany. I fought in Russia and Macedonia during the war. I am not interested or active in politics. I do not associate with communists or politically minded people.
During the night of 3 March, our doorbell was rung loudly at 4 a.m. and I opened up to find five National Socialists standing in front of the apartment door. They told me they had orders from the Interior Ministry to search our apartment and arrest me. Since they were not able to give any more specific reasons for my arrest or produce a warrant, we immediately alerted the burglary squad. Only then did we let them into our apartment. The men conducted their search and shortly afterward the burglary squad arrived
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and took down information. The SA men were once again unable to present the necessary authorization for my arrest and, at the insistence of the burglary squad, left the apartment. At around six thirty, the bell rang again and the same SA men were standing at the door, this time accompanied by an officer from the Criminal Investigations Department. Without presenting any official papers, this officer claimed that his mere presence in uniform meant that I was obligated to accompany him to Police Headquarters, Department 1A. I saw no alternative but to do as he said. However, once we were outside the building, the officer left and the SA men drove me to an apartment in the neighborhood of Luther Strasse and Motzstrasse. Here my pockets were checked and I was asked a number of questions that all boiled down to whether I had a private radio transmitter in my apartment!
After they had satisfied themselves on the basis of this interrogation and their search that their suspicions were unfounded, I was released. However, at five thirty the next morning (4 March) the phone rang and a voice I did not recognize asked to speak to me. When I identified myself, the person said [illegible]:
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"Well, Mr. Steinhardt, how did you like things yesterday? We're all very nice people, aren't we? Have you realized now that it's time you left for Palestine? We're going to pay you frequent visits from now on. We have your keys and can get in at any time we like. We'll be able to deal with the doorman—he's no threat." I didn't say a word the whole time, although he acted as if he were really conversing with me. Finally I heard him say, "He hung up. Do we want to let the matter rest? I don't think we should."
As a result of the incidents on both these nights, my wife suffered a nervous breakdown on Sunday. I was advised by a doctor to go to a quiet place and traveled to Bled in Yugoslavia on Tuesday. On Sunday the 5th I learned from the police that the Memorial Church Burglary Squad was at my apartment and that the search and arrest had been carried out by the unit "Storm12, Standard 7." I also learned that the names of the SA men had been taken down.
I would like to ask you once again to investigate this matter and above all to determine who is responsible for this defamation.
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My address is Hotel Toplice, Bled (Yugoslavia)
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Letter to the London Review of Books
Nicholas Guyatt, in his piece on the US Christian right, mentions that at the funeral of the notorious religious huckster Jerry Falwell, one lamb from Pastor Falwell's flock was caught with homemade bombs in his car, claiming that he'd brought them in case liberal protesters threatened the cortège. In the event, the protesters weren't 'liberal': they were members of an even more extreme religious sect, the Westboro Baptist Church, which denounced Falwell as a 'corpulent false prophet'. The WBC, whose members believe the Iraq war is God's way of punishing America for its permissive attitudes towards homosexuality, have weathered years of denunciation by more moderate clerics, such as Falwell. Yet when I interviewed them at one of their demonstrations, WBC members said they regard the US Constitution, including its provision guaranteeing freedom of speech and religion, as one of God's greatest blessings. It's a melancholy fact that many US Christians appreciate their Constitution only when their own beliefs are the ones ridiculed and suppressed.
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by Alan Stang
November 28, 2008
[Announcement: Did you know Alan Stang has a new radio show? Click here for details.]
The event that will determine whether or not this nation survives was not the popular vote for Illegal-Alien Elect Hussein. It will be the decision the U.S. Supreme Court makes on whether he is eligible to serve. Some people in the other branches have said the Constitution is dead. The late Republicrud Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois – a purported "conservative" – said as follows: "The Constitution is old and needs to be rewritten."
Hyde also said this: "There are things in the Constitution that have been over taken by events, by time. The declaration of war is one of them. There are things no longer relevant to a modern society. Why declare war if you don't have to? . . . It's inappropriate, it's anachronistic and it isn't done anymore." So Hyde was content to leave that awesome power in the hands of one man. The Founders were not.
Many Capitol sources report that when Republican leaders were reluctant to renew certain provisions of the "Patriot" Act, el presidente Jorge W. Boosh replied, "I don't give a goddamn. I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way." Told there was a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution, Boosh allegedly screamed, "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face! It's just a goddamned piece of paper!" Needless to say, Boosh is another "conservative."
Of course Hyde was a legislator and Boosh is a buffoon. Their opinions are worthless. But now a confrontation approaches that will be decisive. By December first, Illegal-Alien Elect Hussein must show proof to the U.S. Supreme Court that he is a "natural born citizen." On December fifth, the entire court will decide whether to consider the question.
There are only two possibilities. Either Hussein is a natural born citizen or he is not. So far, all the evidence says he is not. His grandmother says she was in the Mombasa hospital room when he was born. His half-siblings agree. His own site says he was a citizen of Kenya at birth. His step father registered him in school as a citizen of Indonesia. Last week, His Excellency Peter Ogego, Kenyan Ambassador to the United States, told WRIF Radio in Detroit that Hussein was indeed born in Kenya.
On the other side, there are some forged documents; there is no evidence. And now comes an investigator who uses the name "Ron Polarik," probably for self-protection. "Polarik" is a Ph.D. with twenty years of experience validating documents, especially computer-generated documents. His report on the fraudulent Hussein documents is overwhelmingly exhaustive. Go to my site, alanstang.com, for the link to it. See what you think.
If Hussein does indeed have proof he is natural born, why has he withheld it? The only speculation I can think of is he has waited all this time to reveal it in order to embarrass lawyers Phil Berg and Leo Donofrio and many others who have filed suits. By revealing it now he could play the injured party and leave lots of egg on their faces, but the new question would arise of why he has been playing games all along and wasted so much of the nation's time, when he could have put the matter to rest long ago. So far he still qualifies as Illegal-Alien Elect.
If the U.S. Supreme Court rules in his favor – in the face of the metastasizing evidence – I shall conclude that the Constitution now is dead and therefore that the country is no more, because the High Court says so. Remember, this is not a case with evidence and arguments on both sides, in which the court must find the preponderance. There is nothing on the other side, except counterfeits and forgeries.
One delicious aspect of the case is that during the recent campaign Hussein said he would not have nominated Justice Clarence Thomas to the High Court because, says Hussein, he was "not experienced enough," and it was to Justice Thomas that lawyer Leo Donofrio brought his action.
Among the many differences between Hussein and Thomas is that we know where Thomas was born and he is considerably blacker than Hussein. Hussein also says he would not have nominated Justice Antonin Scalia. If these two and but two others vote to consider the citizenship issue when the full court meets on December fifth, the court will consider it. There would still be time to cancel the meeting of the electoral college. Will the court have the courage to do it?
What would it mean if the Constitution were dead? Even before the interment, the effects are apparent, as in an approaching hurricane. The Constitution is our basic, organic law, from which all written law descends. Without it, there would be lip service, not law. The government would simply issue arbitrary decrees. There would be dictatorship. The concept of legality would evaporate. How could you tell right from wrong? Something would be right if you could get away with it. If you could not, it would be wrong.
Meanwhile, remember that it was not just the superb campaign the Obamatrons mounted – including funding, organization, election fraud, etc. – that elected Hussein. Without the collaboration of the national Communist media, left and right, Hussein could not have been elected, however much funding, organization and fraud he employed. On the left there was sickening degenerate Chris Matthews, who feels a thrill run up his leg during wet dreams about Hussein. There was Katie Kook and the Communist Broadcasting System. On the right, there were Limbag, Loopy Laura and sissy puke Levin, who helped conceal the real story of Hussein, all the things we tell you here.
You may recall that, more than once, I called the people in the national Communist media traitors, enemies of this country just as much as an invading Wehrmacht division would have been in World War II, except that because these propagandist agents of a foreign power do not fight in uniform, they are terrorists and therefore are not protected by the Geneva Convention. A reader responds to those comments as follows:
"I would like to expand on your comment about the media traitors and their treatment by the people. These traitors can move freely about this country without ever a concern for their own personal safety. What if the anger against these elite and their pawns reaches a boiling point and their mobility of reporting anywhere in this country is no longer an option. The public can stop their propaganda and force them to stay in their secured studios only (kind of like the Baghdad Green Zone).
"They at the moment believe they are still safe among us. (If I were a General fighting against them, I would make these enemy propagandists fear for their own safety and lives or kidnap them for millions and make the same elite pay us back the way they stole our money and used it against us.) It would be an effective military strategy and fund the resistance of criminal gangs who have a profit motive. Think of the Somali Pirates. It's already working.
"I live in Northern Virginia and I'll never forget the whole DC sniper thing. One media woman, Martha Raddatz (ABC news) I recall was absolutely terrified at the time for her own life when these two black men were having their turkey shoot on the public. That intrigued me quite. These media cowards fear death and for their own personal safety more than anything.
"They believe in no God so this is it for them, heaven on earth. Think how frightened guys like Tom Brokaw, Rivera, Mrs. Greenspan, or some other reporter would be if they feared for their own safety or being kidnapped. They would not travel anymore and be scared out of their minds. They'd be limited to DC and NY (How appropriate—the new American "Green" zone—as in green save the planet (grin).)
"It will also be unsafe soon if the economy is destroyed for all people to travel long distances by car (like I do driving to Florida a lot, which some day possibly I won't be able to do) and it will devolve into dangerous crime like you see in places like Mexico or Panama. Gangs of thugs will force you over the side of the road, rob you, (possibly rape you if you are a woman) and then kill you. That is coming if this keeps up. Mad Max."
It is reasonable to speculate that the author of this message is not alone, that many other Americans think the same way, Americans who are no longer impressed by television "celebrities." And by the way, I have written for radio and television in New York, as you know, and I have guested on network shows, such as the Communist News Network's "Cross Fire," Maury Povich and Morton Downey, Jr. I did the old Joe Pyne show a few times. It's no big deal. It is a world of strutting peacocks who do not deserve the name and is not at all impressive.
It is a paradoxical world. The vacuum heads who run it regard you with condescension and disgust, but they must spew forth from their protected compounds to "cover" the fabricated story. They must circulate among you. More, when they make a foray into your neighborhood, they do not come merely to ridicule.
They come quite literally to tear the country apart, to bring it to its knees, to prepare it for submission to a totalitarian world government. They hate and contemn everything you do and believe. As soon as they leave, their smile becomes a sneer. And their reverence for Hussein has exposed them more than ever.
Their problem is that – unlike top government and financial conspirators – these media traitors of whom Goebbels would be proud, travel without bodyguards. They are relatively unprotected and accessible. Anyone inclined to take a run at them could do so. We saw a hint of what I am warning about in the recent, national campaign, when Shallow Sean Hannitwerp literally had to run to escape the heroes from We Are Change.
Indeed, some years back, at the height of forced school busing, incensed Bostonians chased Teddy Kennedy down the street. The putrid stench got inside before the crowd was able to tear him apart. Yes, these were Boston Irish Catholics who keep electing him. Imagine how mad they were if they trying to kill their hero.
In view of the temper of the people, that kind of thing could increase. Imagine seeing Chris Matthews or Mrs. Alan Greenscum (Andrea Mitchell) or Geraldo or one of the morons from the "View," or Mike Wallace, the scumbag whose show I used to write, running for their lives down Main Street. (See my book, Scumbags I Have Known: And Other Profundities, at alanstang.com.)
By the way, my book, Perestroika Sunset, is a thriller about a Soviet attempt to seize power in Washington by means of a coup, using the Prisoners Of War our government abandoned in South East Asia as the pawns. In the novel, repatriated POWS and family members kidnap the traitors who have abandoned their loved ones. One by one, the traitors disappear.
But there are no ransom notes. The families do not want money. There are no demands. The families know they would be useless. The perpetrators simply vanish, inspiring doubt and grinding frustration. Were they actually kidnapped, or did they deliberately disappear? Have they absconded with something? What is missing? Have they been in an accident? Are they lying unconscious in a ditch? Have they defected to the other side?
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I hope it is unnecessary to say this, but, just in case, all this is fiction, in a novel, not advice, not a suggestion, nothing more than an exciting story. Perestroika Sunset is thoroughly grounded in history, but it is not a roman à clef. You can read the first chapter at alanstang.com.
We are mad as h-e-c-k and we're not going to take it any more. Turn off the network "news" and don't buy the "newspapers." They already are collapsing. Finish them off.
[Announcement: Alan Stang's new radio show, The Sting of Stang, will debut on Monday, July 14th, 7 to 8 a.m., Central, M-F, via Republic Broadcasting Network. To listen, go to republicbroadcasting.org and click on Listen Live. Call in is 800 313-9443. If you can't listen at that time, do so via the archives, which are free. I'll be talking about the various manifestations of the conspiracy for world government, its tactics, such as the illegal alien invasion, its purposes and its players, from Jorge W. Boosh on down.]


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Despite being loudly booed at it's first screening at Cannes, Terrence Malick's controversial, love-it-or-hate-it, "The Tree of Life" took home the big prize at the Cannes Closing Ceremonies yesterday afternoon. Whoo-hoo! Go, Terry!
Of course, the famously-reclusive Malick was not there to collect his award (which was accepted in his absence by "Tree of Life's" producers Dede Gardner and Bill Pohlad) but the fact that the movie won the top prize bodes well for it's limited U.S. release this Friday.
I mean, man alive, if you thought I wanted to see "Life" before, just imagine how excited I am to see it now. Wow…I might start camping out for tickets tomorrow.
Another big American winner was Kirsten Dunst (yes, that Kirsten Dunst) who took home a Best Actress prize for her work in Lars Von Trier's freaky-deaky-looking "Melancholia". Trust me, if the movie is anywhere as dark and strange as Von Trier is, it's gonna rock!
For a list of all this year's big winners at Cannes, click here. And, until next year at this time…adieu, adieu, to you and you and you…


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As the civilian death toll in the Gaza strip climbed past 500 on Monday, the global spotlight shifted from Syria to the Israeli ground offensive in Palestine. The reverberations are being felt in Syria, with which Israel shares a border – and a contentious history.
"Now that the Arab-Israeli conflict is back in the spotlight, [Bashar] Assad is back in his comfort zone. People around the world are paying attention to Gaza, and not what's happening in Syria," says Nadim Shehadi, the former director of Oxford University's Center for Lebanese Studies and now a fellow at Chatham House focusing on Syria and Palestine.
He adds, "Throughout the Arab world, you do find the insinuation that what's happening in Gaza is a diversion from what's happening in Syria and that Hamas is now playing Iran's game. Hamas has Syrian and Iranian-made rockets, and those are the long range ones that are really affecting Israel – the ones that can reach Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem."
We asked Shehadi to weigh in on what he says is Assad's history of using the Israeli conflict for political gain, and how the fresh round of violence in Gaza could impact Syria's border:
Syria Deeply: How is Assad reacting to the Israeli ground invasion of Gaza City? With its biggest ally, Iran, involved in Gaza, what does this mean for the regime?
Nadim Shehadi: A regime like Assad's is comfortable with and derives much of its legitimacy from the Arab-Israeli conflict and has none when it comes to facing the revolt that began in Syria in 2011. The regime has tried many times to revive or rekindle the old flame of the Arab-Israeli conflict since then as a means of diverting attention from its own internal conflict, and it has proved surprisingly unsuccessful. Those old tricks don't work on the Syrian population anymore.
One example was on May 15, 2011, when there were two demonstrations: one that originated in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, near Damascus, and one from Saida, Lebanon. They were both diverted to the Israeli border and both were shot at by the Israelis resulting in casualties. What is relevant is that the anger of the population was directed at the regime – not just the Israelis – although there was of course anger towards the Israelis as well. At Yarmouk, there were slogans against the regime in the funerals of those who fell at the border. The perception was that the regime was trying to flare up the conflict with Israel in order to divert Syrian's attention from the Syrian revolt.
Now, you often find that among the supporters of Assad, the narrative always includes the regime's role in the resistance block against Israel; whereas Assad's opponents mock it and refer to the regime's lack of response to Israeli raids and to the fact that Syria had a peaceful border with Israel since the mid-1970s. Part of the underlying tension is a revolt against the regime's resistance narrative. It's a constant theme: the regime uses the Arab-Israeli conflict to legitimize itself, and the opposition ignores it and pushes for demands unrelated to it.
What's happening in Gaza this week is a boost to the Assad regime and its main ally, Iran, for at least two reasons. First, it means that Hamas is now back on the resistance front after it has had a rift with the regime. In the past, Hamas was accused of helping the Syrian rebels to fight the regime and taught them techniques learned from Hezbollah, including techniques like tunnel digging. Having Hamas back on board carries enormous significance because the regime and Iran cannot credibly claim to lead the resistance bloc without it. Second, the war in Gaza has deflected attention from the events in Syria where the regime is still crushing the revolt and bombing its own civilians. It has helped bring back the Arab-Israeli conflict to the centre of the stage.
Syria Deeply: How are rebel groups reacting?
Shehadi: There's definitely fallout for the rebels from the war in Gaza. They are in a situation where they feel totally abandoned and where there's now Western talk about engagement with Assad and Iran, who the West might turn to to help resolve the ISIS issue. There is confusion in the West over whether Iran and Assad are the cause or solution to the problem. And it looks like Iran is one of the few players that has influence on Hamas and can be useful in resolving the conflict in Gaza. Iran and Assad have played this game of arsonist/firefighter for a very long time, and it's been very successful. It goes back to the early 1980s where U.S. and European hostages would be kidnapped in Lebanon by Syrian and Iranian proxy groups, and then the hostages would be released to great fanfare in Damascus. Which makes Syria look like it's solving the problem when in fact it's helped create it.
Syria Deeply: Could events in Gaza lead to an escalation in the Golan Heights, the border area between Israel and Syria?
Shehadi: Everything's possible from here. This would depend on how much escalation is needed to extract a deal. If necessary there will be an escalation on the Lebanese-Israeli border. It depends how quickly a cease-fire is achieved between Israel and Hamas. Hamas and the resistance front can already declare victory, because any concessions, like prisoner releases, it obtains through a cease-fire deal will demonstrate that results can be obtained by resistance, whereas negotiations have led nowhere.


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Google has made a sweeping request that a court throw out the copyright- and patent-infringement lawsuit filed in August by Oracle over Java use in Android, a popular, open-source mobile-phone platform created by Google.
In its response to the lawsuit, filed late Monday, Google denies all seven patent-infringement charges, and, in a separate motion, requests that the single copyright-infringement claim be either dismissed or clarified because Google finds it "legally deficient."
Google is also making a counterclaim, seeking declaratory judgment of non-infringement and invalidity of the patent-infringement allegations made by Oracle.
A hearing has been set for Nov. 18 for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, to hear arguments for and against Google's motion to dismiss the copyright claim specifically.
"Oracle's Complaint includes impermissibly vague and broad allegations of copyright infringement," reads Google's response.
Google is asking the court to not only dismiss Oracle's lawsuit, but to also rule in favor of Google's counterclaims and to state that Google hasn't incurred in the alleged patent infringement and that the patents in question are invalid.
"It's disappointing that after years of supporting open source, Oracle turned around to attack not just Android, but the entire open source Java community with vague software patent claims," a Google spokesman said Tuesday via e-mail regarding Monday's filings.
Oracle has said that Google "knowingly, directly and repeatedly" violated Java programming language intellectual property that Oracle obtained when earlier this year it acquired Sun Microsystems.
In particular, Oracle is objecting to the Dalvik Java compatible technology Google developed for Android. Dalvik is a virtual machine optimized for mobile devices. All Android applications run in their own process with their own Dalvik instance, according to official Android documentation.
In its response to the lawsuit, Google states that Android developers can use various programming languages, not only Java, and that applications are converted into Dalvik intermediate instructions that any device with a Dalvik VM can execute.
"Although software applications for the Android platform may be written in the Java programming language, the Dalvik bytecode is distinct and different from Java bytecode. The Dalvik VM is not a Java VM," reads Google's response.
Google built Dalvik rather than use the standards-based Java Micro Edition to run Java applications. Developers have said there are technical advantages and disadvantages to using Dalvik. But they have also said that Google may have built Dalvik to get around licensing issues with Sun.
At the time of Android's release, one developer, who now works for Google, wondered if Google realized its move put Sun in a difficult position. Sun was still an independent company and a champion for open source. Suing Google over an open-source software stack would not appease the open-source community, Stefano Mazzocchi, the developer, said then.
An Oracle spokeswoman reiterated the company's allegations on Tuesday, saying Google has infringed upon and fragmented Java to the detriment of Oracle, consumers, developers and device makers.
"In developing Android, Google chose to use Java code without obtaining a license. Additionally, it modified the technology so it is not compliant with Java's central design principle to 'write once and run anywhere,'" she said via e-mail.
The stakes for both companies in this lawsuit are high. If Google is found to infringe patents in Android, it could be required to pay a licensing fee for each handset made. "They could pass that on to developers or device vendors and that would change the attraction of Android," said Chris Hazelton, an analyst with The 451 Group.
In its filing, Google said that the openness of the platform is what has made it attractive and successful. "The success of the Android platform is due in large part to its open nature, which benefits the entire open source community of consumers, developers, manufacturers, and mobile operators," it wrote. Android is used by more than 90 different devices from 20 manufacturers. About 200,000 Android-based devices are activated daily by customers of more than 50 wireless carriers, according to Google.
For Oracle, that success could generate revenue. "Licensing is a huge business in the mobile space," Hazelton said. "If Oracle could get even just fractions of a percent of sales or even a dollar or two on each Android device, it could be very lucrative."
Some mobile phones require as many as 10,000 licenses, covering hardware, networking technologies and software, Hazelton said.
In its response, Google also needles Oracle, saying that before it acquired Sun, Oracle had been a vocal critic of what it perceived as Sun's attempts to assert control over Java instead of making it all open-source software.
Google also states that it receives no "payment, fee, royalty or other remuneration" for what it contributes to the Android platform. Along with 77 other companies, Google belongs to the Open Handset Alliance, which develops information and source code for Android.
Google also argues that Android's popularity has had a positive effect on Java developers and on the programming language's use in general.
The patents Oracle is alleging have been infringed are:
- U.S. Patent No. 6,125,447, titled "Protection Domains To Provide Security In A Computer System" (Sept. 26, 2000),
- U.S. Patent No. 6,192,476, titled "Controlling Access To A Resource" (Feb. 20, 2000),
- U.S. Patent No. 5,966,702, titled "Method And Apparatus For Preprocessing And Packaging Class Files" (Oct. 12, 1999)
- U.S. Patent No. 7,426,720, titled "System And Method For Dynamic Preloading Of Classes Through Memory Space Cloning Of A Master Runtime Process" (Sept. 16, 2008),
- U.S. Patent No. RE38,104, titled "Method And Apparatus For Resolving Data References In Generate Code." (April 29, 2003),
- U.S. Patent No. 6,910,205, titled "Interpreting Functions Utilizing A Hybrid Of Virtual And Native Machine Instructions" (June 21, 2005), and
- U.S. Patent No. 6,061,520, titled "Method And System For Performing Static Initialization" (May 9, 2000).
Updated at 12:55 p.m. PT to include more information from the filing.


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This weekend I had the pleasure of seeing the new documentary Catching Babies. Claudia Booker of Birthing Hands DC organized the viewing.
The film is about a midwifery school in El Paso Texas called Maternidad La Luz. It's a unique place–an intensive midwifery program that trains non-nurse midwives in a 13 month program that is extremely hands on. Two of the student midwives in the film describe catching their first babies just months after arriving at the school. Students who complete the program can work as out-of-hospital midwives across the country, depending on the laws in their state governing non-nurse midwives.
I actually visited the school in 2007, did an overnight where I shadowed students and midwives as they did their visits and attended births. I went because at the time I was still planning on becoming a midwife, and I was excited by the possibility of attending a school that almost entirely catered to the Latina community.
Because the school is based in El Paso, steps from the border with Juarez, Mexico (the two cities are actually contiguous, the only thing separating them a bridge that represents the border) the vast majority of the women who birth at Maternidad La Luz (it is a free-standing birth center, as well as a school) are Mexican and Spanish-speaking. Many are not US citizens, but living on the border are allowed to travel back and forth with a certain area on what are called "radial visas."
The film is really well done. The filmmakers are both women of color, which comes across clearly in their perspective and in who they choose to focus on as subjects of the film. We see one African-American student midwife, another who identifies as indigenous Mexica and grew up in El Paso, along with two other student midwives as they take their journey to midwifery. Throughout their stories is the birth stories of the women they support during pregnancy and birth, all of whom are Spanish-speaking women of color.
This focus of the film stood in stark contrast to my own experience when I visited the clinic in 2007.


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If you have a Tennis injury, the medical devices below are the solution to your problem. These medical devices will relieve your pain and accelerate the healing process, so you can focus on the match while they focus on getting you better. It doesn't matter where you've been injured - we have medical devices for every area of the body. King Brand Healthcare Products® will get your body back to peak performance so you can keep playing like a king.
The fast-paced nature of Tennis can be demanding on the body, resulting in injuries in the upper extremities (shoulder, elbow, wrist), lower extremities (knee, leg, ankle, foot) and trunk (back, hips). You could try to take time off from Tennis, but if you want to keep playing and heal faster, you need a more proactive solution. You need our BFST® and ColdCure® medical devices.
Do this and your Tennis injury can truly heal - finally.
Use our ColdCure® and BFST® Wraps to heal your Tennis injury as quickly and completely as possible. Start with the ColdCure® Wrap first. ColdCure® treatments will relieve the pain and inflammation of your injury. Do regular ColdCure® treatments throughout the day until your pain and swelling are under control. This will take 2-10 days depending on the severity of your injury.
Once your pain and swelling has subsided, you can start using the BFST® Wrap. BFST® treatments stimulate blood flow in the area of your injury, deep below the skin. This works to heal your damaged tissues. Treatments are simple and easy: plug the device in, turn it on and rest. Do a BFST® treatment before you train or do any exercise as this will help prevent the risk of re-injury. The effects of every 20 minute BFST® treatment last for up to 4 hours, meaning that you're still receiving the healing benefits of optimum blood flow after your treatment has ended.
Wear KB Support Tape over your injury when you're playing Tennis to provide your injured tissue with additional support and protection. KB Support Tape provides comfortable compression during all of your daily activities without restricting your movement.
Stop wasting your time on treatments that don't yield any results. You can heal your Tennis injury with the correct treatment. You need to promote blood flow to the injured area and speed up the healing process. You need Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy® (BFST®).
BFST® Wraps bring nutrient-rich, oxygenated blood to your injury. This increase in blood flow works to actively heal your damaged tissue. Blood flow is the most critical element in rapid recovery. Unfortunately, an injury at rest often has restricted blood flow. While physical activity stimulates blood flow, it can also lead to re-injury and a worsened condition. BFST® Wraps are the solution to this problem. They're designed to speed up the healing process while you're at rest. This means you're getting the additional blood flow your tissue needs to heal while avoiding re-injury at the same time.
The BFST® Wrap stimulates blood flow through the injured area while you're at rest. This is very important because while at rest, an unaided and inflamed injury can otherwise have seriously impeded blood flow. It's the oxygen and nutrient-rich blood that enables the healing process, so adequate blood flow is required for your Tennis injury to heal as quickly as possible.
BFST® treatments are very pleasant and relaxing. People often notice a slight tingling sensation and warmth deep in the treatment area as the BFST® starts the blood flowing. For optimal results, we recommend 3-4 treatments per day. An ideal treatment regimen is one treatment every 4 hours. For example: one treatment first thing in the morning, another treatment in the afternoon, one in the evening and the last treatment of the day right before bed.
Almost as important as the promotion of blood flow is the reminder of your injury. Without the reminder, you risk feeling a false sense of ability that can cause you to overdo it and make your condition worse. The reminder is what will help you prevent re-injury. And avoiding re-injury is fundamental to rapid recovery. That's why we recommend you keep wearing your BFST® Wrap between treatments. When your treatment ends, simply unplug the controller from the device and further tighten the wrap to your body. This will act as a reminder of your injury, as well as provide your injury with light support and protection.
Tennis injuries can be extremely painful and debilitating, causing you to take painkillers to find some relief. NSAIDs such as ASA, acetaminophen or ibuprofen are often used to treat the pain, but these drugs do nothing to treat the actual condition. In fact, NSAIDs are known blood thinners and make the bleeding worse for fresh tissue injuries. Typical pain medications actually interfere with the healing process. Cortisone injections are used in extreme cases but these too are intended to address the pain. They do not promote healing of the injury and they put you at a very high risk of further injury.
Painkillers only mask the pain, causing people to re-injure themselves and start the healing process all over again from the beginning. They don't do anything to treat the injury itself. Respect the pain and use it as a guide. The pain is there to prevent you from making the injury worse. If you need to take painkillers, try to limit them to times when you're at rest. You can use painkillers to help you sleep. Using them when you are active is a recipe for permanent damage.
ColdCure® Wraps are a safe, effective alternative to painkillers. They do an amazing job of relieving the pain and swelling associated with Tennis injuries, without any of the risks associated with painkillers. ColdCure® Wraps also work much faster than painkillers, which take 20 minutes to kick in. As soon as you apply the ColdCure® Wrap to your injury, you will feel the cool, soothing relief as it absorbs the pain and tension.
ColdCure® Wraps are made entirely of very soft, stretchy material. They come with 3 swappable cold packs that contain our special XC RigiGel® formula. XC RigiGel® is firm yet flexible, meaning it always stays in place. It conforms perfectly to your body and won't flow away from your injury. It doesn't move, even under heavy pressure for long periods of time. The gel packs are inserted inside the wrap one at a time, so you can have the other two charging in the freezer to keep your therapy going. We recommend you do your ColdCure® treatments in cycles of 20 minutes on and 20 minutes off.
Our XC Gel® packs are flexible at any temperature, so they conform to your body even when they're straight from the freezer. This means you always get an even, consistent treatment. Unlike gels that are mushy and watery, our gel is firm enough to stay in place, but soft enough to comfortably mold to your injury.
When you're not doing treatments with your ColdCure® or BFST® Wrap, your injured tissue becomes vulnerable to further damage. You don't want to re-injure your already fragile tissue and make your injury worse. Apply KB Support Tape to the injured area between treatments. This will help you avoid re-injury and provide the injured area with added protection and support.
Our skin is soft and elastic and can stretch much more than the tissue underneath. When you apply KB Support Tape to your skin, it becomes a much more rigid surface than before, serving to limit how much the skin can stretch. The Tape makes your skin a source of outside support to hold your tissue in place, helping to prevent re-injury. That's why we call it armor for your injury.
KB Support Tape provides compression to relieve your swelling throughout the day. It also provides your injury with support and protection to prevent further tissue damage. This stretchy, breathable tape can be applied to any soft tissue injury you've sustained while playing Tennis.
KB Support Tape comes in 2 different styles: Pre-Cut Strips and a Continuous Roll. These 2 styles come in 4 different colors: Pink, Blue, Black & Beige. There's no functional difference between the colors, they just allow you to express your personal style.
The Pre-Cut Strips of KB Support Tape are ideal for people who want to use their tape on-the-go. Since they're already cut into ready-to-use strips, you can apply and go! Each roll of Pre-Cut KB Support Tape contains 20 individual strips. Each Pre-Cut Strip is 2 inches wide and 10 inches long.
The Continuous Rolls of KB Support Tape are perfect for you if you're looking for a more customizable Tape. You can cut the Tape into a variety of different shapes and sizes to achieve a completely unique application for your injury. Each box contains 1 Continuous Roll of KB Support Tape that is 2 inches wide and 16 feet long.
We used 2 different colors of KB Support Tape in the above image to better illustrate how the tape is applied for a knee injury, just one of the many injuries that can be sustained during a Tennis match. You do not need 2 different colors of KB Support Tape in order to achieve this application.
While we found the above application to be effective for knee injuries, it's only an example. We encourage you to try different applications for your given injury to find the one that works best for you. Also, remember to listen to what your body is telling you. Use the pain as a guide. If you feel the pain in a specific area of your knee (or other body part), apply the tape there.
What sets KB Support Tape apart from the rest? It's not athletic tape, it's medical tape. This means our Tape is manufactured to ISO 10993 standards, which ensures that our Tape is made from extremely safe, biocompatible materials. Our Tape is actually made from materials that are safer than most baby products, including diapers, clothing and toys. Don't let the big brand tapes fool you. Most of them are made with highly toxic materials, because there are no standards for athletic tape. Some big brand athletic tape glues even contain carcinogenic ingredients. At King Brand®, your health and safety is of utmost importance, which is why KB Support Tape is manufactured to such high standards.
When you're recovering from a Tennis injury, the pain ends long before you've finished healing. In fact, the pain is usually gone once your tissue is about 20% healed. The healing process is very complex, and takes much longer than most people realize. (You can click here for the full story.) The key thing to remember is that long after the pain stops, your injury is still healing. This means you need to keep doing BFST® treatments in order to complete the healing process. Doing regular BFST® treatments for several months after the pain is gone is extremely beneficial. Do a BFST® treatment prior to any physical activity. This will act as a warm up for your circulatory system. You should also continue using KB Support Tape on the injured area to prevent re-injury.
Tennis Elbow is probably the most well-known Tennis injury because of the name. Tennis Elbow (or Lateral Epicondylitis) occurs when the tendons on the outside of the elbow become inflamed and irritated, usually due to overuse. In Tennis, this is likely caused by serving, hitting and other repetitive arm movements. Another elbow injury seen in Tennis participants is Golfer's Elbow. Don't be fooled by the name - Golfer's Elbow (or Medial Epicondylitis) isn't exclusive to people who play Golf. It's another overuse injury of the elbow, but affects the tendons on the inside of the elbow rather than the outside.
Use our ColdCure® and BFST® Elbow Wraps to relieve your pain and swelling and speed the healing of your injury. The Elbow Wraps are custom designed for the shape of the elbow, to target the exact area of your injury. They provide complete coverage of the elbow area, so you always have an even distribution of energy or cooling power over your injury. These wraps conform comfortably to your elbow, as well as the areas above, below and to either side. Whether your injury is located on the inside or outside of your elbow, these wraps will have you covered.
Back conditions such as Sciatica and Herniated Discs are quite common in Tennis players. These injuries are usually caused by the combination of rotation, extension and flexion involved in serving. The lower back is the area most often injured, especially the Sacroiliac.
Relieve the pain and swelling and accelerate the healing of your back injury with our ColdCure® and BFST® Back Wraps. These Wraps can be worn on any area of your back to target the exact location of your injury. They can be applied to your lower back, mid-back, upper back or hips to provide your damaged tissue with cooling power or blood flow.
If you need more coverage for your back injury, use our ColdCure® Large Body Wrap. It has a massive treatment area of 16" x 16", meaning you can almost treat your entire back all at once. The coverage with the Large Body Wrap is huge. You can treat your lower, mid and upper back at the same time. More coverage means more cooling power and more relief. This Wrap is perfect for people who have multiple back issues or injuries that are too large to treat with a standard size product. It comes with 2 extra large gel packs, so you can have one inside the wrap for treatment while the other one charges in the freezer. This Wrap isn't designed for the back alone - you can use it to treat other areas of your body that are sore from playing Tennis. You can wrap your arms, legs, abdomen, etc!
The Knee injuries Tennis players most commonly sustain are IT Band Syndrome, Patellar Tendonitis (Jumper's Knee), Meniscus tears, and knee ligament injuries (ACL, MCL, LCL). Knee injuries in Tennis are likely caused by the rapid stopping, pivoting and sprinting movements involved in the sport.
Our ColdCure® and BFST® Knee Wraps are exactly what you need to stop the pain and speed up your recovery. These Wraps were designed with a unique U-shaped treatment area that can be applied to your knee to target your injury perfectly. They cover both sides of your knee as well as above or below your kneecap, depending on the area of your knee that's injured. The ColdCure® Wrap will help to bring down your inflammation and control the pain. The BFST® Wrap works to actively heal your damaged tissue by bringing healthy, high quality blood flow to the area of your injury, deep below the skin.
Wrist injuries in Tennis are due to overuse, which causes the tendons and/or ligaments to become inflamed and irritated. The Wrist injuries most commonly sustained in Tennis are Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Extensor Carpi Ulnaris Tendonitis and De Quervain's Tenosynovitis.
The BFST® and ColdCure® Wrist Wraps are extremely versatile, allowing you to apply them to virtually any area of your hand, wrist or fingers. You can wear the Wraps to target the top and underside of your wrist, the top of your hand or the inside of your palm, or further down your forearm. Apply the wrap to your injury to provide your damaged tissues with cold therapy or blood flow stimulation. These are the two treatments you need to relieve your pain and repair the damage that's been done to your wrist.
Much like the Knee injuries seen in Tennis, Leg injuries are also caused by the fast paced movements involved in the sport. The Leg injuries usually seen in Tennis include Shin Splints and Hamstring or Calf strains or tears.
The BFST® and ColdCure® Leg Wraps are designed to be universal, meaning they can be used on several different areas of the body. For the Legs, they can be applied on the calf, thigh, shin, the back of the knee - wherever your injury is located. If you want to return to playing in top form, these are the products you need. The ColdCure® Wrap uses an effective combination of cold and compression to relieve your pain and bring your swelling down. The BFST® Wrap promotes blood flow to the injured area of your leg to accelerate healing. When you're not using your wraps, apply KB Support Tape to the injured area of your leg. This will provide your injury with added support and protection, to help prevent further damage to your tissue.
The Shoulder injuries most commonly associated with Tennis are Rotator Cuff strains or tears, Shoulder Impingement and Frozen Shoulder. Much the same as Elbow injuries, repeated overhead motions will cause Shoulder injuries in Tennis.
We have two different Shoulder Wraps that target two different areas. The Top Shoulder Wraps are designed to target injuries in the top of the shoulder. The Side Shoulder Wraps are designed to target injuries in the side of the shoulder. Generally speaking, if you have a Deltoid injury or Upper Bicep Tendonitis, you should use the Side Shoulder Wraps. If you happen to have a Supraspinatus or Infraspinatus injury, or a case of Frozen Shoulder, use should use the Top Shoulder Wraps. It all depends on what area you need to target. Rotator Cuff injuries are a little more tricky, as it depends on which part of the Rotator Cuff is injured. Pay attention to where the pain is. Is it closer to the "top" or the "side"? Take a look at the coverage zone image above to help you determine which wrap would best target your injury.
Our Side Shoulder Wraps are uniquely designed to target injuries located in the side of the shoulder. This ensures the best treatment and coverage possible. The Side Shoulder Wraps cover your deltoid, rotator cuff and the upper portion of your bicep. This is usually a difficult area to treat, but these Wraps will mold comfortably to the entire side of your shoulder with no gaps. The 3 Extension Straps (Small, Medium & Large) included with the Side Shoulder Wraps allow you to customize the fit. Use these Wraps to eliminate the pain and inflammation and accelerate the healing of your Rotator Cuff injuries, Upper Bicep Tendonitis, Deltoid injuries, and any other soft tissue injuries in the side of your shoulder.
The Top Shoulder Wraps are ideal for use on injuries located in the top of the shoulder. The Top Shoulder Wraps cover your scapula, collar bone, rotator cuff and the top of your deltoid. These Wraps will relieve the pain and swelling and speed the healing of your Rotator Cuff injuries, Supraspinatus and Infraspinatus injuries, as well as any other muscle, tendon or ligament injuries in the top of your shoulder. Just like the Side Shoulder Wraps, the Top Shoulder Wraps also come with 3 Extension Straps (Small, Medium & Large) that you can attach to adjust the size and fit.
Ankle Sprains are usually sustained when moving from side-to-side repeatedly, or when coming to an abrupt stop on the court. Achilles Tendonitis and Posterior Tibial Tendonitis can also develop as a result of overuse.
We have ColdCure® and BFST® Wraps that target two different areas of the ankle. The Ankle Wraps are for the front and sides of your ankle (the top of your foot). The Achilles Wraps are for the back of your ankle.
If you have Achilles Tendonitis, we recommend our Achilles Wraps. The Achilles Wraps cover the back of your ankle and are designed to treat Achilles Tendonitis and other injuries located in the back of the ankle. The Wrap molds the gel pack or Energy Web® all the way up the back of your ankle to target your Achilles and ensure there is an even distribution of energy or cooling power over the injured area. The ColdCure® Wrap delivers soothing relief from pain and inflammation. The BFST® Wrap will work to actively heal your Achilles injury through blood flow stimulation.
If you have an Ankle Sprain or Posterior Tibial Tendonitis, we recommend our Ankle Wraps. The Ankle Wraps cover the front and sides of your ankle and are designed to treat Ankle Sprains, Peroneal Tendonitis, Tibialis Anterior Tendonitis and Extensor Tendonitis. The Wrap is custom designed to mold around the top and down the sides of your ankle for maximum coverage of your injury. Use the ColdCure® Wrap to bring down the swelling and get rid of the pain in your ankle. Use the BFST® Wrap to promote healthy blood flow to your injured ankle and speed up the healing process.
Plantar Fasciitis and Metatarsalgia can develop in Tennis players because of the stress the sport puts on the feet.
The BFST® and ColdCure® Foot Wraps target the bottom of the foot - they cover the entire sole of your foot, as well as up the back of your heel. The Foot Wraps go on like a slipper and come with a Velcro® belt attached that will help you adjust the fit. BFST® and ColdCure® Wraps are the ideal treatment for Plantar Fasciitis and Metatarsalgia. The ColdCure® Wrap will absorb the pain and tension, while the BFST® Wrap will increase your blood flow to help your foot heal. Wear KB Support Tape between treatments and while you're playing to prevent re-injury.
Every BFST® and ColdCure® Wrap purchased comes with the free treatment advice and guidance of our King Brand® Advisors. This is a huge advantage. One of our helpful Advisors will contact you 2 or 3 days after your order has been delivered to see how your treatments are going and answer any questions you may have. They're extremely knowledgeable when it comes to Tennis injuries. They've also been thoroughly trained on BFST® and ColdCure® technology and treatments. Our Advisors are here to help you through every stage of your recovery. They can even help you create a treatment plan that's specific to your schedule. While one of our Advisors will follow up with you directly, you are welcome to contact us if you need any help. We truly care about your recovery.
Combination Therapy means combining ColdCure® and BFST® by alternating treatments, as well as using KB Support Tape between your treatments. Combination Therapy is much more effective than using just one product or the other. This is because you're getting the pain and swelling relief of ColdCure®, the healing benefits of BFST®, as well as the protection and re-injury prevention of KB Support Tape, resulting in the absolute best treatment for your Tennis injury.
Use the ColdCure® Wrap several times a day to help reduce not only the visible swelling you may see on the surface, but also the inflammation you have and cannot see, deep down in the soft tissue.
Avoid using the BFST® Wrap until your inflammation and swelling has subsided. Start your BFST® treatments on Level 1. For maximum benefit, please take into consideration that each 20 minute treatment optimizes your blood circulation for an average of 4 hours. We recommend 3-4 treatments per day, spread throughout the day. During the day, do a BFST® treatment every 4 hours or before any type of physical activity. This can be anything that puts a strain on the injured area. This can also be used for preventative measures after a full recovery to optimize your blood flow.
Do a ColdCure® treatment any time you experience a pain flare-up or after physical activity to prevent further injury and reduce swelling and inflammation. 30-45 minutes after your ColdCure® treatment, follow with another BFST® treatment. This time will allow the blood flow and body temperature to regulate again. Refrain from using ColdCure® within the 4 hours following your 20 minute BFST® treatment. This will counteract the treatment. If necessary, use the ColdCure® Wrap for pain control, then follow up with another BFST® treatment.
Any time you're not doing a ColdCure® or BFST® treatment, wear KB Support Tape over the injured area. More Tape means more support, so if you're doing something physically demanding, you may want to apply an extra layer of Tape. If you're taping and doing multiple BFST® treatments throughout the day, do your first BFST® treatment before the Tape is applied and your last treatment after the Tape has been removed at the end of the day.
BFST® Wraps are Class II FDA Registered medical devices. In order to pass the FDA approval processes, our BFST® devices had to meet very high standards of quality, safety and performance. BFST® Wraps comply with hundreds of pages of regulations and standards that are in place to keep you safe and ensure effective treatments. Manufacturers of consumer grade, non-FDA registered products can't say the same.
The Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy® (BFST®) Wrap is designed to promote blood flow in the injured tissue below the dermal (fat & skin) layer. Utilizing our proprietary Energy Web®, specially controlled and incredibly safe, low levels of EMR energy envelop your injury and stimulate blood flow in the soft tissue deep beneath the skin. The resulting stimulation brings nutrient-rich, oxygenated blood to the injured area, accelerating the healing process.
BFST® Wraps come with a 3 level power controller. Everyone should start their treatments at Level 1 and work their way through the levels gradually as they heal. Proceeding immediately to Level 2 or 3 will not speed up your healing time. You need to condition the body first.
During your first treatments on Level 1, you may feel a slight warming sensation deep within the injured area. This is because, at first, your circulation is poor. The more treatments you do, the better your circulation will become, and the less warmth you will feel. This is good. As the warmth lessens from treatment to treatment, this is an indication that your circulation is improving. Better circulation means blood flow all the time, not just during treatments. This is the goal. When you feel almost no warmth during a treatment, it is time to move up to the next power level. Don't rush it though, more heat doesn't mean better treatment. In fact, less heat means better treatment, so take your time moving up in levels.
BFST® Wraps are far more effective than heating pads. BFST® Wraps work to actively heal your soft tissue damage by bringing healthy blood flow to the area of your injury, deep below the skin. Heating pads simply bring blood to the surface of your skin, making it hot to the touch. This does nothing to heal the damaged tissues below. The difference between a BFST® Wrap and a heating pad is huge.
The Energy Web® of the BFST® device is enclosed inside a soft, comfortable neoprene wrap. The Wrap molds the Energy Web® around the entire injured area to ensure that your injury receives an even distribution of energy. The Velcro® straps make it easy to adjust the size of the wrap to find the perfect fit for your body shape. You don't need to remove the BFST® Wrap after your treatment ends. Simply unplug the controller from the device and keep wearing it to act as a reminder of your injury.
ColdCure® Wraps are Class I FDA Registered medical devices. They're designed for use at home or on-the-go. They exceed all government and health agency regulatory requirements for cold therapy, specifically for use in treating soft tissue injuries like those sustained in Tennis. When applied, the ColdCure® Wrap immediately reduces the risk of further damage from excessive swelling. Doctors and Therapists agree that controlling swelling is a fundamental part of reducing long-term permanent damage resulting from soft tissue injuries.
ColdCure® RigiGel® packs are much safer and more effective than ice and products that use mushy, blue gel. Why? Because RigiGel® packs are like ice, but they stay at 0°C. While they may start at about -20°C straight from the freezer, after a few minutes they will go to 0°C and stay at 0°C for a long time. This is the ideal temperature for cold therapy, because it's cold enough to relieve your pain and swelling, but safe enough to not cause cold burns. Ice and blue gel packs will also start out at -20°C and rapidly go to 0°C, but then their temperature will just keep rising quickly, instead of staying in the safe, effective zone of 0°C. The XC Gel® danger zone is very small, but the benefits are huge.
While XC Gel® packs are designed to be stored in the freezer, you can store them in the fridge if you find them too cold from the freezer. If you find that the gel is too stiff from the freezer, leave it out for several minutes. This will make it more flexible, while still retaining maximum cold capacity.
Many people follow the RICE - Rest, Ice, Compression & Elevation - method when treating a soft tissue injury. What most of these people probably don't know are the serious dangers that are associated with ice. The truth is that ice can actually freeze your skin and numb your nerves, causing 'cold burns' and even permanent damage to your skin and underlying tissue. The proper solution is RCCE® - Rest, Cold, Compression & Elevation. We don't want to apply ice - we want to apply cold that is just above freezing. Yes, you want cold - and lots of it - but not so cold that it is below the freezing point of water.
XC Gel® packs provide superior coverage and cooling. XC Gel® packs contain 10x more gel per lb than other products, for maximum coverage of your injury. When stored in the freezer, our gel packs have 3x more cooling power per lb than other products. This means longer treatments and faster relief of pain and swelling. It also means less time spent getting up to swap out the packs. More coverage plus more cooling power equals an overall better, more effective treatment.
ColdCure® gel packs are specially designed for the shape of the body part you're treating. They conform to the entire injured area to ensure there is an even distribution of cooling power over your entire injury. We don't use one generic gel pack for all of our wraps. Every body part is uniquely shaped, which is why all of our gel packs are uniquely shaped too.
While regular gel packs have hot and cold spots, our gel packs always have an evenly balanced cold temperature. Our unique XC RigiGel® formula eliminates hot spots by distributing the cold energy evenly throughout the pack. This means your injury will receive the cooling power of the entire gel pack during every treatment. The amazing temperature-balancing power of XC RigiGel® can only be found in a ColdCure® Wrap!
XC Gel® packs have 2 different colored sides: a white side and a gold side. Both sides will have all the same benefits that our outstanding XC RigiGel® formula has to offer! XC Gel® packs can be inserted inside the pack with the white side facing towards your injury or away from your injury since they're not side specific.
King Brand® soft tissue rehabilitation medical devices are the #1 choice of Top Athletic Therapists and Medical Practitioners worldwide. We provide guaranteed results and customer satisfaction. Like all King Brand® products, there simply isn't a better performing option. All King Brand® products come with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Try our products and if you are not completely impressed, you can send them back for a full refund. We know you will love them though because thousands of people already use them. Many of our customers can't wait to contact us and rave about the results!
King Brand® BFST® and ColdCure® Wraps are FDA Registered medical devices. They have also passed the Health Canada, ISO 13485, ISO 10993 and IEC 60601-1 3rd Edition approval processes. These devices are not simple consumer goods. Actually, ISO 10993 ensures that our products are manufactured with higher quality materials than diapers or baby clothes. Part of being an FDA Registered company means that our products are made from high quality, biocompatible materials. These devices are manufactured and tested to the highest safety standards in the industry.


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Last night I made a $5,000 mistake.
Do you see the problem?
I disassembled this butterfly valve a month ago for cleaning. Apparently when I put it back together I alligned the indicator perpendicular to the flap when it should have been parallel.
Last night I was doing a vacuum check with the clean chamber:
I set the butterfly valve to what I thought was full open (but was actually full closed!)
Do you know what happens next???
I turn on the vacuum pump. The turbopump goes to full speed.
Now the butterfly valve is actually closed. Which means the vacuum can't get to the chamber.
Which means the chamber is at atmospheric pressure.
Then I turn the butterfly valve….
Apmospheric air slams into the full speed turbopump, and it makes a bad sound.
Then I smell smoke..
And now the turbopump won't spin up all. I likely ruined the turbopump's rotor – the most expensive part of the pump. Likely repair:
Worst case $5,000.
Likely case $3,000.
Best case $1200.
When I opened the valve I instantly knew what was happening, but it was too late.
I can't believe I broke the pump AGAIN. Really heartbreaking, especially because I knew to avoid this specific condition.
The repair will likely take a month. I'm going to ship the pump out and…
I'll be traveling in december.
I imagine the cheapest way out is to buy a used turbopump like mine to scavenge it's rotor. Here it is:


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Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution
By Davide Cantoni (email@example.com) and Noam Yuchtman (firstname.lastname@example.com)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:17979&r=his
We present new data documenting medieval Europe's "Commercial Revolution" using information on the establishment of markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic activity, examining the foundation of Germany's first universities after 1386 following the Papal Schism. We find that the trend rate of market establishment breaks upward in 1386 and that this break is greatest where the distance to a university shrank most. There is no differential pre-1386 trend associated with the reduction in distance to a university, and there is no break in trend in 1386 where university proximity did not change. These results are not affected by excluding cities close to universities or cities belonging to territories that included universities. Universities provided training in newly-rediscovered Roman and Canon law; students with legal training served in positions that reduced the uncertainty of trade in medieval Europe. We argue that training in the law, and the consequent development of legal and administrative institutions, was an important channel linking universities and greater economic activity.
Review by Chris Colvin
The "distance to" literature, as I like to call it, has just had an exciting new addition, from Davide Cantoni (University of Munich) and Noam Yuchtman (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley). As UK readers will know all too well, our tabloid press is quite obsessed with stories about the distance to school (sometimes even more than house prices). In their new working paper (circulated by NEP-HIS on 2012-04-17), Cantoni and Yuchtman apply this English obsession to explain something altogether different; they use the distance to new post-Schism universities as an indicator of human capital in what may well be a 14th-century natural experiment.
Recent contributions to the "distance to" literature include Sascha Becker and Ludger Woessmann's 2009 QJE article, which uses distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism, Jeremiah Dittmar's 2011 QJE article, which uses distance to Mainz as an instrument for the adoption of the printing press, and, in an interesting combination of the two, Jared Rubin's working paper, which uses distance from Mainz as an instrument for the spread of Protestantism through the printing press.
Whilst these all focussed on questions involving the 16th-century Reformation, Cantoni and Yuchtman look at a much earlier Christian division: the 14th-century Papal, or Western, Schism that led to the Avignon-based Antipopes. Europe's German areas had no universities before this schism. German states largely chose to follow the Roman pope, as a result of which German academics and students could no longer get to school; German academics found themselves in the antipope's realms and were exiled. Returning home, they establish their own schools in places like Erfust, Heidelberg and Cologne.
Cantoni and Yuchtman argue that this influx-of-the-educated led to a proliferation of legal education, which in turn facilitated economic exchange and helped lead to the Commercial Revolution and the Rise of the West. Their core "distance to" instrument for education is defined as the change in distance between a market and its closest university following the establishment of a new German university. Markets in the west of the German parts of the Holy Roman Empire saw a larger reduction in this distance-to-school measure than in the east, and the interaction of the timing of universities' arrival and this change in distance correlates nicely with the founding of organised markets.
As with all papers involving natural experiments of history, the authors devote considerable time convincing readers that the arrival of new universities was truly an exogenous event, that these universities would not have been established were it not for the Papal Schism. One of the ways they do this is with "placebo regressions" involving parts of Europe affected by the Schism, but which saw no change in the trend in university establishment, such as England. However, by their own admission, the most important part of English legal education at the time took place in London, at the Inns of Court, rather than at Oxbridge, which were basically glorified seminaries for the rich; perhaps they could consider the Inns as a de facto university in their next version of the paper. Another placebo regression I would like to see would involve ancient universities (like Northampton, Lucca and Würzburg) that were short-lived: do their results still hold if these failed universities are included?
Unfortunately, Cantoni and Yuchtman decided to distribute their working paper using the NBER, which means it is behind the Great Academic Firewall; only individuals clicking on the paper from within a university network can download it for free. Fortunately, Yuchtman has also uploaded a copy on his personal webpage. I think it is high time for the NBER to stop charging punters to access its papers; members should vote with their feet and distribute their work-in-progress in alternative ways!


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Starting on January 7th, 2013 and going through June, 2013 I will be an instructor in the Computer Technology program at Vancouver's Clark College. The four classes are:
Winter 2013 Quarter
- Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving (CTEC 121)
- HTML Essentials (CTEC 122 – two classes)
- Introduction to PHP (CTEC 127)
Spring 2013 Quarter
- Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving (CTEC 121)
- HTML Essentials (CTEC 122 – two classes)
- Advanced PHP (CTEC 127)
Teaching is something that I have always been interested in doing career-wise and, this opportunity provides me with an opportunity to give it a try. Over the last couple of weeks I have been guest lecturing and so far so good. The students are amazing and it's a huge departure from the "enterprise" world that I came from. They offer a totally different perspective that I am welcoming with open arms.
At Elguji we are hard at work on IdeaJam 2.0 which is going to be a groundbreaking release. We have learned a lot about running a micro-ISV both in the on-premises world and the world of cloud computing. There are some amazing things you will be seeing from Elguji in 2013. We recently launched V1.3 of our popular IQJam product.
I will be at Connect 2013 with Gayle and will be delivering three sessions:
- Apps, Apps, and More Apps: Meet the Very Best Open Source Apps from OpenNTF (with Niklas Heidloff)
- Meet the Java Application Server You Already Own – Domino (with Serdar Basegmez)
- How We Built CollaborationToday.info in a Matter of Weeks (with Per Henrik Lausten)
2013 is shaping up to be another amazing year and I would like to thank Gayle, my family and friends for their support.


text: The following is a quick translation into English from French that I made of what seems like an excerpt of a longer interview that Le Point.fr did with anthropologist and Tibetologist Katia Buffetrille. Although it is short, it covers important ground, so I thought non-readers of French might appreciate a version in English. The focus of the interview is the topic of Han Chinese Sincization of Tibet and Tibetans. In a very nice and concise way Katia, describes the little everyday ways – particularly in relation to naming – that Tibetan cultural and lived, embodied realities are erased and suppressed to make way for the steam-rolling priorities of Chinese settler-occupiers. Continue reading


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A final thought on throwing spears….
Jesus Christ was the perfect man.
Blameless. Accused for things He did not do.
But, He did not defend Himself. Not even on His way to the cross.
Isaiah 53:7 says, He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth.
When the woman caught in adultery was brought to Jesus, He simply responded by asking anyone without sin to throw that first stone. The only person who could have thrown a stone was Jesus Christ himself.
And, He didn't.
What do I do with my spears?
I think I know the answer.


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Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
As TVNewser's Chris Ariens reported today: "CNN bore the brunt of the downward trend the news networks experienced this month and for much of the first quarter, when compared to the busy first few months of 2011.
For the month of March, CNN was down -50% in total viewers and down -60% in A25-54 viewers (Total Day). The net was down -21% in Total Viewers and down -26% in A25-54 viewers (Primetime) compared to March 2011."
The viewer exodus is not limited to CNN, though. Roger Ailes' aging heavyweight champion FOX News "was not immune to a loss in viewership for the month of March and for the first quarter of 2012. For the month, Fox News is down -17%," according to another post by Ariens.
Perhaps, if I may be so bold, this is what happens to you when you continue to report stories that no longer resemble -- even remotely -- what your own viewers see outside their windows and apartments.
CNN has barely covered the rapidly growing Occupy and Tea Party protests around the country, and as the clip from Current TV's Cenk Uygur below points out, CNN gave zero prime-time coverage to the NDAA's indefinite detention provisions, arguably one of the most devastating rollbacks of Americans' civil rights ever.
Perhaps viewers are sick and tired of the same half-assed recycled stories about Kim Kardashian, the same shiny Piers Morgan celebrity interviews, and perhaps a war weary public is also not so quick to slurp up CNN's incoherent Iran warmongering.
Perhaps viewers are disgusted with CNN's packaging of the 2012 election year -- a critical time regardless of where you stand politically -- into a crass sports event, heavy on special effects and "analysis," and quite thin on actual reporting.
Now, I don't think CNN's viewers have suddenly decided not to consume news any more. I just think they are going online to do it.
They are turning to independent shows, like mine, and like The Young Turks... they are turning to news sites like The Huffington Post and Daily Caller... and they are turning to each other: social sharing services such as Reddit and StumbleUpon now command a massive audience, and can lift an obscure blog post into the mainstream consciousness within a matter of hours.
Maybe your viewers no longer need you.
Cenk Uygur explores CNN's massive failure to cover the NDAA:
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