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The following are notes from the August 6, 2007 NYC Broadband Advisory Committee Meeting courtesy of Mr. Joshua Breitbart, Policy Director of People's Production House.
Committee members in attendance:
Anthony Townsend
Stand-in for Tom Dunne (Verizon representative)
Shaun Belle
Elisabeth Stock
Wendy Lader
David Birdsell
Andrew Rasiej
Mitch Ahlbaum
Howard Szarfarc
Avi Dandevani
Jose Rodriguez
Audience members:
Council Member Gale Brewer
Brewer's Chief of Staff Bruce Lai
Jeffrey Baker, Counsel to the Committee on Technology in Government
Diamond Consultants
and me, Joshua Breitbart
Ted Brodheim, the recently-hired Chief Information Officer for the NYC Department of Education. (4 months on the job)
Summary notes of Mr. Brodheim's testimony
The challenge is that any DOE program utilizing broadband in the home needs to be implemented equitably. Dept. of Education is not implementing programs now due to imbalance in home broadband access.
Schools are no longer geographically specific. Neighborhood-based schools allowed for after-school interaction. "The web offers the possibility to bring that collaboration back into the educational process."
If broadband inequity were removed tomorrow, it would be "all about collaboration tools for students." It would enable teachers to put up research, content, and supplemental materials on the web allowing students to add pieces to it.
In his opinion, the barrier to Internet access is the cost of the service. There needs to be a no- or low-cost way to provide broadband access. If it can't be universal, then it should at least serve an entire grade level (probably high elementary or middle school).
He is trying to track down the amount the Dept. of Ed. spends on ICT. Off of the top of his head, he'd guess it's 5-700 million, including telecom costs (phone, blackberries).
The Internet has "tremendous potential to unlock what happens in the classroom and extend it out into the homes and the community."
Question: What affect does access have on student performance?
Efficiency, or productivity in the classroom, not studied much, but unquestionably higher. Students and teachers become way more efficient in the classroom. There's a high impact on student achievement. This fall, the DOE is giving 6000 teachers (out of 90,000) laptops and broadband access as a pilot project to seed the idea of using technology along these lines.
Schools are only open 15% of the time, so there is idle bandwidth, which could, as Anthony Townsend put it, "make schools as an oasis for broadband." But there are restrictions from e-rate federal funding. Can't open e-rate to public or use it to wire administrative offices. Reimbursement rates are at 95%, so it's a hard argument to shift to another funding source
Question: Textbooks are expensive, so could there be a provision for savings on textbooks for utilizing broadband?
Answer: No answer available.
Question: Are the teachers ready to implement Internet into their curriculum?
Answer: Some are ready now and some would get ready. But, some won't get ready. However, They want to do the right thing, as long as we give them what they need.
DOE has a network of 95 miles of heavy fiber, several hundred miles of spurs, and hundreds of thousands of nodes. It receives about 100,000 denial-of-service (DOS) attacks every day. They are trying to balance the protection of the integrity of the network and recognizing that we don't know where the next best idea will come from. They're also working on tools to allow schools to share info, like through wikis, where they write about what works and what doesn't, to help them get over the learning curve. It has to be done in the context of protecting the integrity of the network.
"You name the model, we've got it." With support from Microsoft, Cisco, and others, New York is "a virtual national lab of schools of the future."
He's looking to package tech options - using tech support models, etc. Schools know their problems, but not necessarily the solutions. They're looking to better leverage resources they now have. He's looking for a couple of base models for k-5, middle school, high school, to give an idea of what schools should look like from a technological standpoint. DOE is developing school profiles, groups of 30-100 schools, with school support organizations to target solutions at those common schools. They are trying to do that with software, etc.
There's a new system - ARIS - (achievement reporting system) to make reporting available to teachers and principals this year and parents next year. Currently reports are mailed home, but these reports will be more frequently updated and have more information. But that doesn't address inequity in terms of parents without Internet access.
DOE has not done hard statistics on the inequity, but in the future they may include broadband questions in new surveys.
Some schools have assumptions that everyone has access, while others assume that no one has access. Schools try to keep computer labs open after hours.
Students limited in ability to research colleges and prepare themselves for going through the application process, even if it hasn't necessarily limited the actual submission of applications. Need to improve tools around searching, searching for scholarships, etc.
Currently talking with Secretary of Ed. Spelling and the FCC to re-interpret e-rate rules. They are too much about laying physical cable, and not allowing for a move into the next generation of technology, specifically, collaborative tools, and maintenance. E-rate can't be spent on upgrades for 6 years even though the hardware becomes outdated in 3 years. Also, they only allow you to buy things. There's no training on any of the ways to make the things useful.
Distance learning: DOE hasn't done much on it, but if they did it would address students missing school and collaboration with school districts outside of the city.
Question: How much tech is in the curriculum? How is it integrated?
Answer: It's been left to each school to decide, so I can't answer. There's no clear model. Schools that are doing a good job have figured it out on their own – the good and bad. Now we're looking to identify what's working well, package it, and move it into other locations. It's up to principals, so it's possible for students to go through school without using, although I would be surprised if that is that were the case.
Question from Mitch Ahlbaum (DOITT): The first step, before talking about computers at home, is to make sure they are actually being used in the schools.
Answer: There are 400,000 high school students. Ratio of 4:1 (students to student-available computers); not 100% of those computers are connected to the Internet. It's close to 90% but it's not evenly distributed across schools. Every school outside of District 75 (special education) has some access.
Question from Elisabeth Stock, Computers For Youth: How is your office connected to the instructional side? How can you do that as best as possible?
Answer: We're working quite closely now, though that had not been the case in the past.
There are 1500 schools and we now understand the need for flexibility across those schools
We work with a number of nonprofit organizations, and received a modest grant from Gates to form more of those partnerships. There's no hard demographic data on access to these programs and we don't actively seek such grants, just had a chance at this one grant
Question from Andrew Rasiej: Will the market solve the problems or should government intervene?
Answer: "Market forces will not address this on their own."
Other matters:
David Birdsell: There have been consistent themes in the Bronx and Brooklyn: What people want to do but can't do, including content creation, video content, community web-based development. They can't do it because affordable broadband is not available. Let's take themes and get data beyond the anecdotal level.
There's a lack of awareness of opportunities from people who aren't functioning within a broadband environment. There's a lack of imagination impressed by a tendency to define broadband in terms of what we have today (768k, 1.5mb - not the 20mb or 50mb rates we might dream about) - "We should be thinking about what might be rather than getting people on board with what we have today."
There's a plan to do 3 more hearings this year - In September, October, and a report due at the end of the year. The Committee will be working out those dates in the next couple of weeks
Shaun Belle: Ongoing theme - there's no master plan, yet the ability to deliver the platform is there, there's just not a lot of emphasis around it. No one is thinking about the issue outside of their own agency or outside of the school
We're looking for real data. What are we looking to present at the end of the day?
Wendy Lader: On the timing of report: City Hall asked for more info, so the report is still in the works. We will present an overview to Committee members before it is prepared for release.
On the surveys - over 1000 responses to the NYCHA survey from 6700 selected.
2000 responses to paper surveys in 58 libraries.
We need a few more months.
Anthony Townsend: On underutilized infrastructure from schools, libraries, public safety
"What can we do to get extra value out of what the City is already investing in?"
There is redundant infrastructure that is all underutilized, including a proposed $500 million network for NYPD and municipal agencies.
Andrew Rasiej: That $500 million could be leveraged
Gale Brewer agrees and would appreciate help making that happen.
Andrew Rasiej: We should be working on some potential recommendations.
David Birdsell – Our task has three parts:
1. Describe situation on the ground
2. Describe the world we would like to see exist - what to aspire to? Bandwidth, cost
3. How to get there?
We should be looking at other cities' ability to roll out affordable 20mb broadband.
Andrew Rasiej: Who can provide us with information to compare NYC to other cities in the US and internationally? Let's have a chat with Diamond so we at least know what they're presenting.
Wendy Lader: Maybe it will be a month, or a month and a half to get an overview.
The contract between EDC and Diamond Consultants is funded through an IDA grant.
Andrew Rasiej: What can we do to make sure that our recommendations get done?
Shaun Belle: What commitment do we have from the Mayor to act?
Gale Brewer: The Council doesn't know what to do. We could devote funding, but how do you sustain and maintain a public-private partnership? An initiative is more likely than big change in policy.
Elisabeth Stock: Should we address duopoly?
Franchise is up in 2008. Mitch Ahlbaum (DOITT) is knowledgeable on that.
Elisabeth Stock: What money available from the state, that new $5 million?
Brewer's office will look into it.
Joshua Breitbart, Policy Director
People's Production House
265 Canal Street, suite 410
New York, NY 10013
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
NYC Broadband Advisory Committee August 6, 2007, Meeting
The following are notes from the August 6, 2007 NYC Broadband Advisory Committee Meeting courtesy of Mr. Joshua Breitbart, Policy Director of People's Production House.
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Crayon Fields
Melbourne quartet Crayon Fields play intricate, atmospheric pop music recalling the minor key majesty and close-knit harmonies of 60s maestros the Zombies, the Byrds and the Beach Boys.
Formed as a scrappy high school trio in the early 2000s, Crayon Fields really arrived in 2006 with their unruffled and dreamy debut Animal Bells.
Built around band leader Geoffrey O'Connor's gently sly vocals and ringing 12 string guitar, Animal Bells received lavish praise around the world, including Chapter's first ever Pitchfork review, and top spots in many Australian end of year polls.
Along the way, the band scored support slots for many a touring national and international band, including Stereolab, Cornelius, Peter Bjorn & John, the New Pornographers, Built To Spill, the Unicorns, Dirty Three, Electrelane, Deerhoof, Calvin Johnson, Kelly Stoltz and many more.
Recording began in 2008 on a follow-up album, the first product of which was the self-released Mirror Ball, a limited edition vinyl single that sold out almost immediately. This lead to a seven inch deal with UK imprint The Passport Label, who released Voice Of Paradise in 2009. To support the release, the band took off on a UK and European tour, reaching as far as Latvia and Estonia, including shows with Casiotone For The Painfully Alone and Love Is All.
Their eerie and hypnotic second album All the Pleasures Of the World took the band from well-loved wispy pop kids to something else – aloof, alluring, even sensual. "Sex has entered the room," is how Australian music site Mess+Noise put it, while Pitchfork agreed that All The Pleasures "ditches the childishness of the debut...without losing sweetness or nuance." The album was licensed by hip Japanese label Rallye, home to the likes of Au Revoir Simone and The Whitest Boy Alive.
Crayon Fields stepped up to festival band level in Australia, making a raft of appearances including Golden Plains, Sandcastles and the Big Day Out, as well as shows with Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and Wild Beasts. The band also took off to the US for two tours in 2010, taking in SXSW and CMJ and playing shows with Best Coast, Wild Nothing, First Aid Kit, Lower Dens and more.
In 2011 Geoffrey O'Connor took time off from the band to release his celebrated solo album Vanity Is Forever, touring the US with Jens Lekman and playing shows at Sydney Opera House and the national Laneway Festival, among others.
The band are currently putting the finishing touches to their long-awaited third album, a mature, high-gloss version of Crayon Fields' pop magic.

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|With a tremendous surge of interest in the costuming arts since last year, anime convention cosplayer population has nearly tripled in numbers, and is well on the way towards eclipsing Halloween. OK, maybe that might seem a little far-fetched, but you never know! As anime and manga move further into mainstream audiences, the massive growth and spirit of cosplaying appears to show no end all year-round. Favorite beloved characters of such quality shows like Revolutionary Girl Utena, Tenchi Muyou, Ranma 1/2, Fushigi Yuugi, Macross, Sailor Moon, Slayers, Evangelion, Card Captor Sakura, RayEarth, and Escaflowne all came to life as well as video game characters from Final Fantasy series and King of Fighters! New to the scene this year were detailed Japanese Rock cosplayers and a slew of... Vampires! Huge applause goes out to all those who showed off their best for Fanime Con! Check out all the photo galleries and enjoy!
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Cosplay Special Galleries: [Special 1] [Special 2] [Special 3] [Special 4]
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Catawba overcame an early 8-2 deficit, using a 15-2 run to grab a 17-10 advantage at the 8:49 mark. A pair of three-pointers by Cameron Clark (Albemarle, NC) keyed the run with the first putting the Tribe up for good at 10-9 with 13:43 left. Catawba held a 35-21 edge at the break.
The Lady Indians opened the second half with a 15-4 run to take control. Hampton opened the half with a three-point play and Foster added three baskets for a 44-23 lead. Catawba held a comfortable margin the rest of the way and led 66-42 with 6:17 remaining.
Corin Muldrow (Jacksonville, NC) also reached double figures with 10 off the bench. Henna Koponen (Vantaa, FINLAND) and Lotta Aaltonen (Rauma, FINLAND) led Coker with 10 points apiece. Catawba shot just 38% from the field, but hit 18-of-21 at the line. The Lady Indians also helped force 27 Cobra turnovers.


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text: Environmental responsibility Throughout the entire unconventional gas life cycle - from exploration to decommissioning - care is taken to minimize the disruption to the community and protect the environment. Protecting the community To minimize traffic disruptions, trucks used to carry equipment and hydraulic fracturing fluids are required to use designated routes during specified hours of the day and week. Though the noise levels from the site may be low, acoustic barriers may be installed around the perimeter of the area to reduce nuisance sound levels even further. Once an unconventional gas well is producing, there is no detectable sound from the operation. Protecting the groundwater Hydraulic fracturing occurs far below the groundwater aquifer. Groundwater is protected by thousands of feet of impermeable rock and an engineered well casing design consisting of several layers of steel casing and cement to provide isolation. The multiple layers of impermeable rock between the water supply and the gas-bearing rock ensure the fracks do not extend into the groundwater aquifer. Protecting the landscape Viable sources of unconventional gas can sometimes be found in small, isolated zones within a few yards of each other. During the drilling stage, a vertical wellbore is typically drilled one to one and a half miles below the surface. Multiple horizontal deviations can then be drilled to reach the different gas reservoirs. Horizontal drilling has led to the development of multi-well pad technology, which allows for one drill site to include a number of producing wells that can access reservoirs up to 8,000 feet away from the vertical well. Instead of having single well pads spread throughout the community, multi-well pads can significantly limit the surface impact.


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Homemade Periscope
Get ready to create a cool household gadget that'll have your super-sleuth peering around corners! Using milk cartons and mirrors, your child will create his very own periscope. While building his cool new spy tool, your kid will learn how adjusting mirrors which reflect off of one another can enhance his vision of spaces that are not otherwise not within view.
What You Need:
- 2 milk cartons, cardboard (clean and dry)
- 2 mirrors, small rectangles to fit in milk cartons
- Scissors
- Tape
- Paint markers (optional)
What You Do:
- Help your child open up the top of each milk carton completely to form square shapes.
- Measure about 1/2" from the bottom of the carton and cut a square hole on one side of the carton. The square should be cut from side to side of the carton, measuring the same dimension in height. Repeat for both cartons.
- If he wants, have your child decorate his milk cartons using paint markers.
- Ask him to attach the cartons together at the top. The tops should be touching, but the holes that were cut out should face opposite sides to create the periscope.
- Tape the cartons in place.
- Have him put a mirror in each cut-out hole, taping the front edge of the mirror to the bottom edge of the hole.
- Challenge your child by asking him to explain why he thinks a periscope has two mirrors.
- Help him to tape the opposite edge of the mirror on the far wall of the milk carton, helping the mirror rest at an angle.
- Once the mirrors are taped in place, he should be able to look into one mirror and see the what is being reflected in the other. He may have to slightly adjust the angle or fiddle with the angle of the milk cartons for the best view.
- Encourage him to hang his periscope in a corner of a hallway and observe what is going on in adjacent rooms.


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As a result of recent product launches and acquisitions, Verisk now owns and operates national crime databases that provide services to the insurance, construction, retail, transportation, and manufacturing industries. Those databases also support law enforcement operations.
The assets of Verisk Crime Analytics include national databases for mobile equipment, cargo theft, organized retail crime, and bank crime incidents. Vincent Cialdella, senior vice president of Verisk Insurance Solutions, explains that "the Verisk Crime Analytics division will help us evolve our crime-related analytical tools into an integrated solution that bridges the gap between the public and private sectors. In doing so, we'll unlock further value for the industries we serve."
Verisk Crime Analytics is headed by David Shillingford, who has led the development and acquisition of the assets that make up the division. Shillingford believes "the economic downturn has both increased the motivation for certain crimes and put public safety budgets under pressure. It's therefore imperative that private industry become better at collaborating and sharing data with the public sector and creating analytical crime prevention methods through a new breed of public-private partnerships. That's the basis of our solution set."


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VIDEO: GameTime's crew previews the Bulls-Heat matchup (8 p.m. ET, TNT)
MIAMI – Comeback, as defined for Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose by those most eager for his return, means something approximating the player he was immediately prior to his ACL tear in April 2012.
That wasn't Rose's MVP year. It was the post-lockout season, when several minor injuries limited him to 39 appearances. Rose's scoring and shooting came back to the pack a little that season, his playmaking picked up and he looked his absolute best at the end, through the first three-and-a-half quarters of the playoff opener vs. Philadelphia in which his knew blew up.
Understandably, then, a lot of people who root for Rose or just want to see the best NBA players at their best have guarded against getting greedy. Keeping one foot in the land of possible disappointment, they have been careful about not wanting it too much.
But consider a brighter alternative: What if Rose comes back like Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson — OK, not as swiftly but maybe as spectacularly — to have the best season of his career? What if the extended layoff Rose orchestrated and navigated results not just in a solid comeback but a stellar one?
"When he attacks the rim, he doesn't look like a guy who hasn't played in a while," Chicago backup center Nazr Mohammed said after the team's final preseason game. Rose led the Bulls in scoring (20.7 ppg), hit 12 of 27 3-pointers (44.4 percent) and averaged 9.4 free throws.
"You saw how he went up against [Roy] Hibbert the other night," Mohammed said. "He saw Hibbert right there and he attacked him. I'm a fan of the game and I'm telling you, watching him, the power and quickness he generates, it's off the charts."
It is possible, you know. Rose's left knee, nearly a year and a half after surgery, is stronger than before. And since the idea was and is to ease the burden on his ligaments, the muscles around it have been strengthened. And then there's the natural maturing of a young man from 23 to 25.
"A lot of guys come back from those kind of injuries," Denver coach Brian Shaw said after his team faced Rose Friday, "and because they put so much time into rehabbing and strengthening up the area were they got injured, they end up getting stronger all over. That seems to be the case with him."
Rehab pays off for Rose in preseason
Let's not forget all the game wear-and-tear Rose did not endure last season. As rigorous as his rehab might have been, up to and including the Bulls practices in which he participated the second half of last season, contact was absent, later limited. He never had to overdo anything in the heat of a moment or gut something out for that night's outcome. No one bodied him up aggressively or fell into him awkwardly. Even his bedtime was in his hands in ways it is not for players jetting post-midnight from city to city.
As a substitute for competition, Rose had to turn inward. His warm-ups before games only seemed pointless to folks hoping he would play; they were opportunities to extend his range and build his confidence. His legs did get stronger — Rose has mentioned several times this fall that he added five inches (from 37 to 42) to his vertical leap. Rose's intense skills camp did a full lap on the calendar, then right through the summer.
When he stepped on the court at Indiana's Bankers Life Fieldhouse Oct. 5, the visions Rose had had of playing reconciled nicely with the reality.
"It definitely compared to how I felt I was going to play, in my head," he said four weeks later. "To where I'm driving, able to take the contact, I think I'm finishing a little more easy than I did my previous years. Getting to the line. The only thing now is just getting used to not draining myself and always having my feet under me on my jump shot.
"I think I'm back to myself. I think I'm more explosive. I'm picking my times when to take over a game, when to get guys open, pass the ball to guys so they can get a shot and get in a groove. And I think I'm becoming a better leader."
Bill Wennington, former Bulls center turned team radio analyst, likes what he has seen of Rose in the preseason.
"I think his jump shot's better," Wennington said. "It looks like his range is a little better. His quickness and acceleration looks as good to me. Everyone's talking about his elevation – I see him getting to the rim, I don't see him quite getting over the rim.
"Everything else I've seen Derrick do is as good as or better athletically as he did before, other than the gravity-defying dunks where he gets up and just powers it down from above the rim. The rust is timing, playing with his teammates, but I think every game he's been on the floor, that's gotten better and it's pretty darn good right now."
Meanwhile, Rose had plenty of time to sit, watch and study. To absorb and process what he previously dealt with only on instincts and to hone his basketball IQ. And it's all starting to show, with his prime-time regular-season unveiling tonight in Miami (8 ET, TNT).
VIDEO: Derrick Rose reads fans' get-well letters on 'Inside Stuff'
"I know how hard I worked in the offseason just trying to get back on the court," Rose said. "My hard work is paying off, where I'm still not in my groove-groove yet and I'm still able to go out there and control the game a little bit. I guess when I get back to my groove, it's really going to be scary."
A familiar act in Chicago?
So… as good as? Or even better? Perhaps the best comparison for the layoff-and-return of an MVP-level performer occurred right in Rose's city, wearing Bulls whites. Michael Jordan missed most of his second season at age 23 with a foot fracture. He came back at the end of the 1985-86 season, scored 63 points in a playoff game against Boston, then had the most prolific season of his career.
On a 36-minute basis, Jordan's scoring average in 1986-87 shot up by 26 percent (to 33.4 per game) over his previous full season. His field-goal attempts increased by 34 percent (to 25.0 per game) and his free throw attempts rose 26 percent (to 10.7 per game).
If Rose's production in his MVP season soared by those amounts, he'd get to 30.4 points, 25.5 shots and 8.3 free throws per 36 minutes. His preseason stats (27.2, 15.8, 12.4 per 36) were steps in that direction.
Said Shaw: "The way that he's played this preseason, he looks like he's back to his MVP potential."
Rose obviously was a star when he went down. He has a shot at coming back as a supernova.
VIDEO: K.C. Johnson breaks down the return of Derrick Rose


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Sarah Hofius Hall, The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa.
Around the corner and down a hallway, the melody of "Feliz Navidad" is coming from a room with a two-way mirror.Inside the room at Marywood University, Alex Conte strums a guitar. His therapist sings a verse of the popular Christmas song, and Alex, who has severe autism, sings a few of the words. His mom, sitting behind the glass, smiles. For 19-year-old Alex, communication is found in music. Alex is one of more than a dozen people who are seen weekly at the music therapy clinic at Marywood University. He started going to the clinic at age 4. "He loves it. He looks forward to it," said his mother, Debbie Conte of Blakely. "It's just what makes him happy." Marywood is now looking to expand the music therapy program, which has 32 students. If more students are enrolled, the clinic will be able to help even more people, said clinic coordinator Maria Fay. Music therapy can be used to manage stress and meet specific needs, including developmental, psychological, social and emotional. For Alex, it gives him a way to communicate. Curriculum for Marywood students includes courses on musical and clinical foundations, and students must complete a six-month internship after graduation before taking a national certification exam. Families are charged $20 per 30-minute session. Senior Anna Rennekamp of Lake Twp. works with Alex each week. Once she becomes certified, she hopes to work in a hospice setting. "You can reach any population," she said. "Music is something everyone can relate to." At the clinic, after Alex had lost interest in "Feliz Navidad," he pointed to the next instrument he wanted to play: the tone bars. It was time for "Row, row, row your boat." He hit the tone bars to the beat of the song. "This is just what he enjoys," Ms. Conte said. Contact the writer: email@example.com, @hofiushallTT on Twitter (c)2012 The Times-Tribune (Scranton, Pa.) Visit The Times-Tribune (Scranton, Pa.) at thetimes-tribune.com Distributed by MCT Information Services


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The days of Windows and OS X coming fully furnished with a built-in media center are long gone – now you have to pay extra for the privilege in Windows 8, while Front Row is a distant memory for Mac users. But while the giants at Microsoft and Apple have turned their back on providing a decent one-stop shop for watching, organising and sharing media, third parties continue to develop some cracking alternatives.
One of the best has to be XBMC. This open-source marvel has come a long way since its early days, and has plenty to recommend it. As a humble media player it supports all the common formats natively, so you can be sure that it'll play back whatever you throw at it.
It's got a built-in DLNA media server, so you can use it to stream your media to other mobiles and devices on your network, and supports a vast array of plug-ins that add extra capabilities, such as accessing streaming catch-up TV services over the internet.
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Although Game of Thrones is not directly mentioned, The Hollywood Reporter has notes from HBO's most recent press tour that concern its current success and the outlook for future development. HBO's development pipeline is described as "full" and that it will give HBO some "tough choices in coming months". Some shows discussed as possible competitors to Game of Thrones—Treme and Boardwalk Empire—are both either greenlit or very likely to be greenlit at this stage, however, and so don't fall into the "tough choices" category.
The good news is that HBO's current offerings have been very successful, especially the vampire series True Blood which has pulled down the best ratings the cable network has had since The Sopranos. HBO says that while they don't have more money for developing shows in the past, they still have "enviable" amounts to be able to produce what they feel like producing. Giving that their budgets in the past have stretched to cover expensive shows such as Band of Brothers, Rome, and the yet-to-air The Pacific, this is certainly positive news regarding whether HBO has the wherewithal to afford a show like Game of Thrones.


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When the Bruins headed to the locker room after the second period, they knew what they were doing wasn't enough. Three shots on goal in 20 minutes wasn't going to beat the Nashville Predators, wasn't going to end a two-game-skid.
So, they regrouped.
"We knew that we could play better," Johnny Boychuk said, after the team's 3-2 overtime win at TD Garden on a snowy Thursday night. "We only had three shots in the second period. I mean, that's not characteristic of our team. But we wanted to get more pucks on net, try to join the rush when there's the opportunity to, try to get more pucks and bodies toward the net.
"Getting three shots in the second period just isn't going to cut it. We knew that."
They came out stronger and tougher in the third period, and it made the difference, with them taking a 2-1 lead on goals by Boychuk and Jarome Iginla. Then, after the Predators scored again with 5:25 to go, Brad Marchand made it all worth it just 54 seconds into overtime on a move that probably shouldn't have worked.
"I was kind of getting ready to backcheck, because you never know with that move," Marchand said. "Luckily, it went in."
Patrice Bergeron had passed ahead to Marchand, who put the puck between the legs of Predators forward Mike Fisher, a play that took far more confidence than the winger has exhibited for much of the season. Marchand finished the winning sequence off with a wrister past goalie Marek Mazanec.
Marchand was, he said, just trying to get the puck on net. Instead, he got his 10th goal of the season.
"Most of the time he's lost those pucks," coach Claude Julien said of Marchand with a smile. "He was shocked that it worked. Give him credit for that. He was smart enough just to throw it at the net. Bergy's there, and creates some havoc in front of there.
"Again, when [Marchand's] skating, he makes things happen. I thought he skated well tonight. When he uses that outside speed, makes things happen a lot more. As you can see, in a lot of games he has that ability to cut from the outside to the inside pretty good. And that was one of his patented moves there tonight.
"It was one of those things where if it hits Fisher's skates it's a different ballgame, and he has to be ready to backcheck. Maybe I was surprised a little bit too that he still had the puck."
The Bruins had fallen behind with 1:56 left in the second period, with Viktor Stalberg beating Niklas Svedberg. The goal occurred after a bad change by Zdeno Chara and Dougie Hamilton opened the ice for a pass to Fisher. Svedberg — making his NHL debut — was able to stop the initial shot, but the rebound ricocheted directly to Stalberg, and he didn't miss.
It was one of the few missteps for the goaltender, who was roundly praised after the game, despite getting a ticket back to Providence.
"He did a great job," Marchand said. "He really stepped up. He just seemed so calm out there, very poised. It's pretty rare to see that out of a young guy coming up for his first game. But very impressed."
The Bruins tallied their first goal at 4:55 of the third on a feed from Ryan Spooner to Boychuk that demonstrated what the young center can do with his slickness and speed after a rush down the left side. They took the lead on Iginla's 13th of the season, the winger taking a pass from Milan Lucic just in front of the net, scoring, and then crash-landing in the crease.
Shea Weber knotted the game at 14:35 on a long rebound allowed by Svedberg.
But that just set up Marchand's heroics.
"Earlier in the year, that probably would have been a turnover and a goal the other way," Marchand said. "A little bit of luck there, getting that through. That's just how it goes sometimes."
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My mother had a peculiar habit when she cooked for us when I was a child. She would fixate on a dish and this is what she would cook for us for days on end. I have no clue to this day why she did this. Perhaps her pleasure at her successes led her to try and prolong it for as much as she could. Maybe she figured that practice makes perfect. Maybe my voracious appetite for anything she placed in front of me made her believe that she couldn't stop making whatever it was, for the love of her dear daughter.
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One serving's worth of uncooked pasta (anywhere from 60-100 grams, depending on the person…I usually take 80 grams)
1-2 strips bacon, chopped coarsely
1 egg
1 clove garlic, very finely chopped
A generous grating of parmesan cheese
Freshly cracked black pepper
1-2 teaspoons chopped parsley
- Start cooking your pasta in salted, boiling water as per package instructions.
- Cook bacon in a non-stick or cast iron pan until a lot of the fat has rendered and the edges are just crisping up and golden but the bacon itself is not totally crispy. Add the garlic to the pan and toss and sauté until the aroma of the garlic wafts up to your nose viriwarm bulb.
- While your pasta and bacon are cooking, crack the egg into a bowl and whisk with the parmesan and black pepper until well combined.
- When the pasta is cooked, drain (saving some of the pasta cooking water) and toss in the pan with the bacon (still on the heat). Toss well so the pasta is covered in bacon drippings and everything is hothothot.
- Dump the pasta, bacon, garlic, and every last beautiful drop of bacon fat into the egg mixture and immediately start tossing briskly so the uncooked egg coats every single noodle and "cooks" from the heat but does not scramble. Add dribbles of the pasta water if you need to thin tha sauce out. Toss in parsley.
- Serve immediately to your one lucky self!
I hadn't had this well-loved childhood favorite in a long while, so when I found this recipe from Eat, Live, Run I was elated. I love recipes for one as I am a big believer that, although cooking for those you love is undoubtedly special, cooking for oneself is just as precious. Also, my husband is a tomato-based pasta sauce person so this would be perfect as a quick workday lunch for (just) me. It's a very loose recipe because I do it mostly by feel. I whisk the cheese into the egg until it reaches a consistency that looks to me like a thin Caeser salad dressing. Some say to place the eggs and pasta back into the pan, off the heat, but I find that even off the heat the pan is just too hot and my eggs scramble. So I just place the very hot noodles and bacon into the eggs and this works perfectly for me.
Here's a little cheater's trick: You can make this with leftover pasta! Perhaps you'll be tempting the ire of carbonara purists, but when you've got just enough pasta noodles for one serving languishing in your fridge, and you need lunch in a hurry, who's going to tell? What I do is heat my leftover pasta noodles in the microwave while I am cooking my bacon Conference organisers. I add a couple of drops of water to my noodles and cover the container with a paper towel so they "steam". When they are piping hot and smoking, and the bacon/garlic is ready, I toss the noodles in the pan and proceed with the recipe above. You won't have any pasta water to loosen your sauce if needed, and it may not achieve the perfect silky texture of a truly excellent carbonara, but it will still be delicious!
My mother has moved on to other dishes now (never one to shy away from new tricks), although a few old staples remain (osso buco, fabada, and cocido…may you always continue to repeat yourselves!). Thinking about it today, perhaps it was because of her children and their insatiable appetites that she churned out these dishes end to end. Whatever the reason, I am glad for it…and infinitely and forever grateful. I hope to nourish little C as she nourished me, and, as I sigh over a bowl of carbonara, I realize she nourishes me still Desktop-as-a-Service Solution.
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Jennifer Lopez Outbids Diddy for Fuse TV
Jennifer Lopez won a fierce bidding war against her ex-boyfriend Diddy to buy Madison Square Garden Company's Fuse TV.
According to the NY Post and further confirmed by Bloomberg News, J.Lo's NuvoTV offered MSG $226 million in cash and 15 percent equity stake (reportedly worth $50 million) in the deal.
Diddy came up short by reportedly offering $200 million for Fuse.
"This is a real blow to Diddy and Revolt," said ex-Fuse chief Eric Sherman, who has also worked with Lopez on 'American Idol.' "Fuse was such a perfect fit for them. But having worked with Jennifer on 'Idol,' I'm not surprised she and her team prevailed."
For Lopez, the deal will help expand NuvoTV to a broader market. Currently, the network reaches 34 million households. Now, with the Fuse TV deal, her network will be distributed to 75 million homes.
"Music is my first love so the acquisition of Fuse is near and dear to my heart," Lopez said in the statement. "It's exciting that between NuvoTV and Fuse we'll have the ability to deliver a broad array of terrific content both from a Latino perspective and across multiple genres, including music, to a broader audience."
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A white gunman sentenced to die for killing a black man and a police officer during a 1994 suburban Cleveland shooting rampage was moved to the state's death house on Tuesday ahead of his scheduled execution, the last before the state's execution drug expires.
Harry Mitts Jr., 61, arrived at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville on Tuesday. He was placed under constant surveillance Sept. 18, well ahead of the usual 72-hour suicide watch window, in the wake of two high-profile inmate suicides. The lethal injection scheduled for him on Wednesday will be the state's last with the powerful sedative pentobarbital.
Mitts received the death penalty in the killings of a neighbor's boyfriend, John Bryant, and a Garfield Heights police sergeant, Dennis Glivar. During an outburst at an apartment, Mitts uttered racial slurs before shooting Bryant. He then fired on two police officers responding to the scene, killing Glivar, who was white, and wounding the other officer.
Attorney Jeff Kelleher said Mitts has taken responsibility for his actions.
"He's been completely forthright and repentant about his crimes, has never denied he did them, has never tried to soften them or explain them away," Kelleher said.
Prosecutors argued that Mitts' attack was among the worst Ohio has seen, resulting in two deaths, multiple shootings and additional death threats.
The Ohio Parole Board, in its unanimous recommendation against clemency, advice followed by Republican Gov. John Kasich, said Mitts "exhibited complete disregard for the lives of officers and innocent bystanders at the scene."
"That further tragedy did not result from the bedlam that Mitts created on August 14, 1994, is in many respects a miracle," its report said.
With clemency denied and his legal appeals exhausted, Mitts has been concentrating on spiritual matters, Kelleher said.
Prisons spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said Mitts was calm and cooperative on Tuesday.
The special meal he requested for Tuesday evening included steak with sauteed mushrooms, Caesar salad with ranch dressing, Italian bread, french fries, peach pie, butter pecan ice cream and Dr Pepper.
After Kasich denied Mitts mercy, Kelleher expressed disappointment that the state would insist on going ahead with Mitts' execution "in the face of botched executions, a spate of suicides and the public's decreasing support for the death penalty."
Last month, death row inmate Billy Slagle killed himself just a few days before his scheduled execution. Then on Sept. 3, Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro, the state's most notorious inmate at the time, committed suicide as well. Circumstances surrounding the deaths are being scrutinized, and four guards have been placed on paid leave while the state investigates.
With the supply of the state's execution drug expiring, the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction has said it expects to announce its new execution method by Oct. 4. Regular pentobarbital is no longer available because its manufacturer has put it off limits to states for executions.


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Photo: New Mexico Tech's COMAP team is comprised of (from left to right) John Korbin, Tim Trujillo, Craig Nicholas, and faculty advisor/math professor John Starrett.
SOCORRO, N.M., April 13, 2006 – A mathematical modeling team comprised of New Mexico Tech undergraduates John Korbin, Craig Nicholas, and Tim Trujillo recently earned an "honorable mention" certificate in the 22nd Annual Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM).
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China And Iran Lead Global Crackdown Against Journalism--Report Says
"Eritrea, Ethiopia and The Gambia are leaders among the few African nations accustomed to detaining members of the press incommunicado without charge or trial,†said Mohamed Keita, CPJ Africa advocacy coordinator
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China's brutal suppression of ethnic journalism and Iran's sustained crackdown on critical voices have pushed the number of journalists imprisoned worldwide to its highest level since 1996, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in a new report.
In its 2010 census of imprisoned journalists, CPJ identified 145 reporters, editors, and photojournalists behind bars on December 1, an increase of nine from the 2009 tally.
With at least 17 journalists who have disappeared in governnment custody and are being held without charge or trial for months and years, Eritrea was the world's third foremost jailer of journalists, CPJ research shows. Secret detention centers in the reclusive Red Sea nation held the most journalists in Africa, an unbroken record for Eritrea since 2001 following the government's brutal shutdown of the private press and the arrests of 10 editors.
With four journalists behind bars, neighboring Ethiopia lagged behind as it has since 2005, despite similar crackdowns. In 2010 CPJ recognized the work of Dawit Kebede, an Ethiopian journalist who was released from prison and remains at the helm of the country's leading independent weekly.
As of December 1, at least 23 journalists were detained in prisons in Sub-Saharan Africa in connection with their work. From these, four out of five have been held incommunicado in secret detention centers without charge or trial for several years.
With 34 imprisoned journalists apiece, China and Iran are responsible for nearly half of the worldwide total. Eritrea with 17, Burma with 13, and Uzbekistan with six, round out the five worst jailers from among the 28 nations that imprison journalists. At least 64 freelance journalists were behind bars worldwide, a figure consistent with the 2009 census.
Detailed accounts of each imprisoned journalist are available at www.cpj.org
"Eritrea, Ethiopia and The Gambia are leaders among the few African nations accustomed to detaining members of the press incommunicado without charge or trial," said Mohamed Keita, CPJ Africa advocacy coordinator. "Without formal charges to fight or a trial in sight, prospects are grim for these journalists to gain freedom and for others to defy the chilling effect such imprisonments have."
Globally, journalists are most commonly held on antistate charges --72 cases-- or even no charge at all --34 cases. Both China and Iran rely heavily on the use of vague antistate charges. But CPJ found that the abusive application of antistate charges—such as treason, subversion, or acting against national interests—occurs worldwide and constitutes the single greatest cause of journalist imprisonments.
CPJ's annual census is a snapshot of those incarcerated at midnight on December 1, 2010. It does not include the many journalists imprisoned and released throughout the year; accounts of those cases can be found at www.cpj.org. Journalists who either disappear or are abducted by nonstate entities such as criminal gangs or militant groups are not included on the prison census. Their cases are classified as "missing" or "abducted."
CPJ is a New York-based, independent, nonprofit organization that works to safeguard press freedom worldwide. www.cpj.org
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February 2005
Enhanced Soil Carbon Sequestration Evaluation Methods Reviewed in Journal Article
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A journal article entitled "Enhancement of Carbon Sequestration in U.S. Soils," appeared in the October 2004 issue of BioScience, a publication of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS). The article, written by researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory, describes an integrated evaluation of promising methods used for enhancing carbon sequestration in soil. Increasing carbon in soil is desirable for reducing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Rising CO2 concentration is a concern because of its climate-altering potential. (See AIBS news release)
In the article, the authors describe a general approach to evaluate current methods used in agricultural, forestry, and land management practices to increase carbon sequestration in soil. The authors outline and show examples of carbon sequestration alternatives and identify uncertainties in the evaluation process. They also discuss promising technologies that could be used to more realistically assess all carbon sequestration methods and understand their implications by including sensitivity analyses over a variety of conditions, greenhouse gas accounting, and the evaluation of other environmental impacts. The authors also determine whether these practices could be acceptable and cost effective for increasing soil carbon sequestration.
The research was conducted by the Consortium for Research on Enhanced Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems (CsiTE), which is part of the Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration program within DOE-SC's Office of Biological and Environmental Research. Authors are Wilfred Post, ORNL; Cesar Izaurralde, PNNL's Joint Global Change Research Institute; Julie Jastrow, Argonne National Laboratory; Bruce McCarl, Texas A&M University; Jim Amonette and Vanessa Bailey, PNNL; Phil Jardine, Tris West, and Jizhong Zhou, ORNL.
Post WM, RC Izaurralde, JD Jastrow, BA McCarl, JE Amonette, VL Bailey, PM Jardine, T West, and J Zhou 2004. "Enhancement of Carbon Sequestration in U.S. Soils." BioScience 54(10):895-908.


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If you're an older married man cheating on his wife with a younger woman, your chances of dying of a heart attack during sex are increased, according to a new book.
It's quoting an autopsy study of 5,559 people who died suddenly from heart arrhythmias, which states a mere 0.6% of them were having sex when they died. But the interesting part is this, as reported by WebMD.com:
Most of these cases occurred in men, and three out of four of these deaths involved extramarital sex, most often with a younger partner in an unfamiliar setting.
"One could speculate that higher anxiety or higher adrenaline might have been involved in these deaths, but because the numbers were so small I wouldn't want to read too much into this," (Glenn N. Levine, MD, director of the Cardiac Care Unit at the Michael E. DeBakey Medical Center) says.
"There is a misperception that many patients with heart disease should not have sexual relations," he says. "This is in part due to the rare, sensationalized cases of politicians and other celebrities dying during sex."
Levine, also a researcher at the Baylor College of Medicine, tells the AHA that cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks or chest pain caused by heart disease, rarely occur during sexual activity because it's usually for just a short time.
"Some patients will postpone sexual activity when it is actually relatively safe for them to engage in it," said Levine … "On the other hand, there are some patients for whom it may be reasonable to defer sexual activity until they're assessed and stabilized."


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The South Dakota Department of Transportation (SDDOT) has a long history of public involvement in the development of transportation plans and projects. The 2005 passage of the Safe, Accountable, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) requires a public involvement process. Public meetings for the project scope and/or design will occasionally be scheduled to collect public input, provide information and answer questions.
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By Kate Ruggles
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In preparing for the McKenzie County Courthouse building renovation and expansion project, it came to the attention of county leaders that business would not be able to go on normally during the construction process. Even though the intention was to stay in the courthouse building and work around the construction to keep things as normal as possible for the public, county leaders learned from the builders that the entire front of the Courthouse building would have to be removed.
"We are already strapped for space in the Courthouse building," states Linda Svihovec, county auditor. "And, not only are we losing the whole front of the building, the entire front parking lot will also be gone during construction. That affects 54 building employees and the public who rely on parking."
After looking at all available options, which included spreading the different county departments in spaces around town, Ann Johnsrud, county recorder, states that county leaders came up with the idea of erecting temporary offices at the McKenzie County Fairgrounds.
"Spreading the different offices around town was expensive and really not feasible," states Johnsrud. "Moving to a temporary site at the fairgrounds keeps the county offices together, is much more cost-effective and solves the issue of parking."
According to Johnsrud, all county offices, with the exception of the Clerk of Court and the Sheriff's Department, will be moving to temporary offices at the fairgrounds until construction is completed.
The county has secured temporary structures from the Williams Scotsman Company in Williston, and with the help of Reservation Telephone Company and Montana-Dakota Utilities, will install electric and fiber-optic feeds to their new, temporary location, in the east corner of the big McKenzie County Fairgrounds parking lot.
"We will be in our temporary location a minimum of nine months up to one year," states Johnsrud. "But, this will not affect fairground events. The McKenzie County Fair will still take place, as will the 2014 Centennial events."
Svihovec also states that the county will pave a portion of the fairgrounds parking lot. Therefore, between the paving, fiber-optic and electrical feeds, the county intends to leave the portion of the fairgrounds they will occupy in better shape than before they arrived.
"We have to have the electric and fiber-optic feeds in order to do business," states Svihovec. "But everything that is being installed, with the inclusion of the paved parking lot, will be able to be used after we leave in a year."
According to Svihovec, construction cannot officially begin until the McKenzie County Commissioners approve the plan on Oct. 22. From that point, construction is expected to take 10 to 12 months.
The office of the County Treasurer, Auditor, Social Services, Motor Vehicle, Planning and Zoning, Recorder, Tax, and Engineer will be moving to temporary offices at the McKenzie County Fairgrounds. There is only one department that will not move to the fairgrounds, and that is the County Extension Office. They will instead occupy space in the Rural Water Building located behind the courthouse.
"In the new renovation plans, the NDSU Extension Office was going to move to the Rural Water Building anyway," states Svihovec. "This way, they will only have to move once."
Beginning Oct. 14, courthouse offices will begin the process of moving. Svihovec states that the move will take place between Oct. 14 to the end of the month and offices will, for the most part, be open during that time.
"Service could be limited during that time, but we will do what we can to accommodate the public," states Svihovec. "We are totally not able to function without our computers, so when that move takes place, we will make sure to communicate with the public and let them know."


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This PCR assay has been validated as 100% specific for Taylorella equigenitalis DNA. It shows no cross-reactivity with related Taylorella species. The validation was carried out at the Veterinary Laboratory Agency (VLA) Weybridge, UK.
Pathogen detection by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is based on the amplification of specific regions of the pathogen genome. In real-time PCR, the amplified product is detected using fluorescent dyes. These are usually linked to oligonucleotide probes that bind specifically to the amplified product. Monitoring the fluorescence intensities during the PCR run (i.e., in real time) allows detection of the accumulating product without having to re-open the reaction tubes afterward.
The cador T. equigenitalis PCR Kit contains a primer-probe set specific for a highly conserved region of the Taylorella equigenitalis genome. The kit also includes a heterologous amplification system as an internal control to identify possible PCR inhibition, and an external positive control. Real-time PCR detection is carried out on a real-time PCR cycler, such as the Rotor-Gene Q.
Bacterial DNA can be manually isolated from genital swabs using the QIAamp cador Pathogen Mini Kit or the QIAamp DNA Mini Kit. Both isolation protocols are fully automatable on the QIAcube. The isolated DNA is ready for use in real-time PCR with the cador T. equigenitalis PCR Kit on a real-time PCR cycler, such as the Rotor-Gene Q.
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October 10, 2002
House Passes H.R. 5542, the "Black Lung Consolidation of Administrative Responsibility Act"
On October 9, 2002, the House passed, by vote of 404-0, H.R. 5542, the "Black Lung Consolidation of Administrative Responsibility Act."
The legislation would transfer responsibility for administration of the Part B black lung program from SSA to the Department of Labor (DOL) except for those instances in which proceedings are currently pending before an Administrative Law Judge, the Appeals Council, or are pending judicial review. Currently, most aspects of the Part B program are being administered by DOL; under a memorandum of understanding between SSA and DOL, which has been in effect since 1997, DOL provides claims maintenance services and SSA retains legal and budgetary responsibilities, including providing hearings, appeals and investigations.
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A toy broomstick is a type of low-flying broomstick intended to be used by young children. It only lifts about two feet off the ground.[1][2]
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Ron Weasley broke his older brother Fred's toy broomstick when he was three. In revenge, Fred turned Ron's teddy bear into a spider, leading Ron to become extremely arachnophobic.[3]
Harry Potter received a toy broomstick for his first birthday from his godfather Sirius Black. In a letter she wrote to Sirius, Harry's mother, Lily, stated that the gift had been Harry's favourite. Lily also mentioned that Harry had broken a vase that Petunia Dursley, Lily's sister, had given the Potter family. She added "No complaints there" next to it. She also mentioned that Harry nearly killed their cat. Harry's father, James, was convinced that Harry would be a great Quidditch player.[2]
At the 1994 Quidditch World Cup, a Ministry official spotted two little witches flying around on toy broomsticks, and hurried to warn their parents about allowing children to display magical abilities near Muggles.[1]
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Welcome to March! Spring is around the corner and the days are starting to get warmer and longer. Hopefully, all that snow is starting to melt away…sorry, living in San Francisco has given me a new perspective on "Nor'easter"; one where that term means nothing to me anymore…(did it ever REALLY have a meaning?) Anyway, warm up and enjoy these articles while you get ready for Spring:
- Chef, artists collaborate on new culinary experience
- Consider vanilla
- Consumers moving away from comfort
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- Chef builds kitchen of chocolate and sugar
- Celebrating The Pies Of March
- Even in cold weather, adult milkshakes remain hot
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Web Versioning and Configuration Management Working Group of the IETF. Title : Versioning Extensions to WebDAV Author(s) : G. Clemm, J. Amsden, C. Kaler, J. Whitehead Filename : draft-ietf-deltav-versioning-13.txt Pages : 98 Date : 15-Feb-01 This document specifies a set of methods, headers, and resource types that define the WebDAV Versioning extensions to the HTTP/1.1 protocol. WebDAV Versioning will minimize the complexity of clients that are capable of interoperating with a variety of versioning repository managers, to facilitate widespread deployment of applications capable of utilizing the WebDAV Versioning services. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-deltav-versioning-13.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-ietf-deltav-versioning-13.txt". A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. Send a message to: firstname.lastname@example.com. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-deltav-versioning-13.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.
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Where Do I Vote?
The South Dakota Secretary of State is warning you to be cautious about recent mailings from outside groups which have provided false information about local polling locations.
Going to the wrong place is frustrating for you and the candidates. Sometimes people give up, angry because somebody sent them to the wrong place. That anger can be targeted to the wrong people, hence the bad guys win.
To be sure about your polling place, you can go to the Secretary of State website: www.sdsos.gov
A couple of simple questions and you will have the correct information. A call to your county auditor's office will also get you the correct information.
Polls are open Tuesday from 7am to 7pm.
Hope your voting experience is a good one.