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Wt is a C++ library for developing Web applications with an API that is widget-centric and inspired by existing C++ graphical user interface APIs. To the developer, it offers abstraction of Web-specific implementation details, increasing the accessibility and portability. Under the hood, the library uses the latest techniques (HTML5, Ajax, WebSockets) to handle user events and update the Web page.
CloverETL is Java-based tool/framework for data integration and creation of data transformations. It is component based and follows the concept of transformation graphs which consist of individual nodes/components performing simple (or complex) operations on data. Any transformation can be defined as a set of interconnected nodes through which data flows. CloverETL can be used as a standalone application or be embedded into a larger project.
Drupal is a modular content management system, forum, blogging and community engine. It is database driven and can be used with MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. Its features include (but are not limited to) discussion forums, Web-based administration, theme support, a submission queue, content rating, content versioning, taxonomy support, user management with a fine-grained permission system based on user roles (groups), error logging, support for content syndication, locale support, and much more. It is considered to be an excellent platform for developers due to its clean code and extensibility, and it can also be used as a Web application framework.
Ariadne is a Web Application Framework and Content Management System built with PHP. It allows you to build complex Web applications and sites with ease. It takes care of the mundane stuff like internationalization, security, user management, templating, data retrieval and storage, caching, and site management. It stores content in a structured object store that can be accessed through an extensive filesystem-like API.
TurnKey Ruby on Rails Appliance is a server appliance for the Ruby on Rails Web development framework. It is designed to be easy to use and easy to maintain. Security patches are automatically installed. It provides a Web management interface, configuration console, and an AJAX Web shell. To minimize footprint the appliance is built from the ground up with the minimum required components. It runs everywhere thanks to multiple build formats, including an installable live CD, a VMDK with OVF support, and an Amazon EC2 AMI.
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. TurnKey Django is an appliance that just works, with no configuration required. It gets you up and running with Django in minutes on a virtual machine, bare metal or in the cloud. It's designed to be easy to use and easy to maintain. Security patches are automatically installed. It provides a Web management interface, configuration console, and AJAX Web shell. To minimize footprint, the appliance is built from the ground up with the minimum required components. It runs everywhere thanks to multiple build formats, including an installable live CD, a VMDK with OVF support and an Amazon EC2 AMI. It's a part of the TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library.
GNUnet is a peer-to-peer framework with focus on providing security. All peer-to-peer messages in the network are confidential and authenticated. The framework provides a transport abstraction layer and can currently encapsulate the network traffic in UDP, TCP, HTTP, HTTPS, or direct 802.11 (WLAN). GNUnet supports accounting to provide contributing nodes with better service. The services built on top of the framework include anonymous file sharing and a virtual network providing IPv4-IPv6 transition via protocol translation over the P2P network.
MUSCLE (Multi User Server Client Linking Environment) is an N-way messaging server and networking API. It includes client-side networking APIs for various languages, including C, C++, C#, Delphi, Java, and Python. MUSCLE lets programs communicate over a network via streams of serialized Message objects. The included server program ("muscled") lets its clients message each other and store information in its server-side hierarchical database. The database supports flexible queries via hierarchical wildcarding, and "live" updates via a subscription mechanism.
Sculptor is a productivity tool that applies the concepts from Domain-Driven Design and Domain Specific Languages. You express your design intent in a textual specification, from which Sculptor generates high quality Java code and configuration. You can use the concepts from Domain-Driven Design (DDD) in the textual Domain Specific Language (DSL), e.g. Service, Module, Entity, Value Object, Repository. The generated code is based on well-known frameworks such as Spring Framework, Hibernate, and Java EE. Sculptor takes care of the technical details and the tedious repetitive work, and lets you focus on delivering more business value (and have more fun). The DSL and the code generation drives the development and is not a one time shot. The application can be developed incrementally with an efficient round trip loop. Sculptor is useful when developing typical enterprise or Web applications that benefit from a rich and persistent domain model.
Jodd is a Java utility library and set of frameworks. Jodd tools enrich the JDK with many powerful and feature rich utilities. It helps with everyday tasks, and makes code more robust and reliable. Jodd frameworks is set of lightweight application frameworks, compact yet powerful. Designed following the CoC, DRY, and SCS principles, it makes development simple, but not simpler; you get 90% of the features with 10% of the usual effort.


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ICTBroadcast is multi tenant, unified communications and telemarketing software solution supporting voice, SMS, email, and fax broadcasting. Suitable for small business owners, enterprenuers, and service providers, it offers smart auto dialer capabilities and can be scaled to thousands of simultaneous calls using either VoIP or PSTN and fits most voice broadcasting scenarios. It is simple, reliable, poweful and provides a user-friendly Web portal for effective and efficient communications management.
Textlocal API2 Wrapper is a PHP class that can send SMS or MMS messages using the Textlocal API over HTTP. It can send an SMS or MMS message to a given number, send a message to a group of contacts, create groups of contacts, add contacts to a group, retrieve the available groups, delete contacts from a group, delete groups, retrieve message history, etc.
SMStoXMPP is a lightweight PHP-based SMS to XMPP bi-directional gateway application which receives messages from an SMS gateway device/application and relays them to the target user via XMPP. Replies to the user can be made via XMPP, which then delivers the message back to the SMS gateway.
SD SMS Master is an SMS-sending server. The Web server (master) contains the SMS Master itself. Clients (users) connect to the master and create orders. Orders contain a text to send and a list of numbers to send to. The master then connects to remote machines (slaves) and distributes the order numbers (+text) to all enabled phones on the slaves. The communication is one-way; incoming SMSes are not read.
Ozeki NG SMS Gateway sends and receives SMS, MMS, email, and voice messages via GSM modem connections or directly over the Internet (SMPP, UCP, CIMD2) to/from mobile phones. It is useful for SMS services like SMS notifications, two-way SMS systems, automated SMS services, SMS paging, SMS games, billing systems, email-to-SMS forwarding, premium rated SMS services, etc. It supports various APIs.
Ixonos MISP CIMD Simulator is a Computer Interface to Message Distribution (CIMD) protocol version 2.0-compliant server for developing and testing CIMD applications. It can be used out-of-the box for development, functional and load testing CIMD send-only and receiving applications. The simulator does not interface with a SMSC or MMSC. It has been designed to be simple, lightweight, and scalable, and can be easily extended for other use cases and purposes.


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Slots are still available for the Chicago Park District's popular summer day camps and programs. See what's available and sign up online now.
Each summer, the Chicago Park District provides more than 30,000 campers ages 6-12 with a season of supervised activity at more than 230 local parks. Children will go on field trips; explore nature, arts and culture; engage in sports and recreation; and enjoy pool time. To watch a video about summer day camp, click here.
As part of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's new Summer of Learning initiative, summer camps will now include 20 minutes of dedicated reading time. Summer of Learning represents the first coordinated and dedicated approach of its kind for youth in every neighborhood to access high-quality programs that will help them continue to learn even when school is out.
The Chicago Park District's summer day camp hours vary for each location with typical camps running about six hours per day from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. or 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Many parks offer early morning and late-day sessions as well. Fees vary depending on location, offerings and hours.
Standard day camps run for six weeks from July 1 – Aug. 9. Parents seeking programs in August are encouraged to also register their children for specialty and late-summer camps. Education and character-building components are combined with recreation at several of the Park District's specialty camps including cultural arts, leadership, sports, and urban campers. Click here for more information.
The Chicago Park District experienced record numbers in 2012 for program registration. Compared to 2011, last summer saw a 20% increase in children enrolled in summer programs, and fall registration was up nearly 25%. Given the popularity of programs, patrons are encouraged to follow the registration tips listed below.
Family Discount
When patrons register for two or more programs for family members less than 18 years of age in one transaction, the order qualifies for a 10% discount on the less expensive program(s).
Discount is available for online and in-person orders, but cannot be combined with the CHA or DCFS discount programs. All family members should be entered into one account on the Chicago Park District's registration system.
Financial Assistance
The Chicago Park District has limited funds available to provide financial assistance for families who wish to enroll in the 2013 summer day camp program.
Financial assistance is only available to City of Chicago residents.
Applicants must provide proof of entitlement for the reduced or free lunch program from the patron's school. Applicants who do not participate in the school lunch program can prove eligibility by providing income verification (i.e., 2013 recent pay stubs for last 30 days, AFDC/TANF case #, a copy of a recent IRS 1040 form, etc.). Information submitted is confidential.
Applicants must bring copies of the required documents to their desired park at the time of in-person registration.
Eligibility for financial assistance does not guarantee a slot for day camp and cannot be used in conjunction with any other reduced/voucher programs.
Applicants that do not qualify for financial assistance may inquire about the payment plan option at their local park.
More Information
In addition to summer day camps, the Park District offers thousands of sport and fitness, cultural and environmental programs for adults, seniors, teens and youth. Regular summer programs run the week of June 17 through the week of August 19.
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Did you drop your New Year's resolution to work out this year? The Chicago Park District wants to give you a break this spring and a chance to get back in shape with two weeks of free fitness classes March 18-30. Click here to watch a video.
During this two week period, select parks will offer a variety of fitness classes for all ages. One of the highlights of the new class offerings includes fitness boot camp. Certified fitness instructors use interval, resistance and strength training in this intense full-body workout.
Additional new class offerings include sports conditioning and teen power training plus popular classes such as cardio kickboxing, strength and training, mommy and me yoga, yoga and Pilates, kids fitness, senior fitness and nutrition and much more.
Once regularly scheduled classes begin April 1, patrons will have the opportunity to pick select classes taught by former military personnel. Patrons can also rally their friends to register together for small group personal training. These custom-designed workouts will combine the expertise of one-on-one personal fitness training with the motivation and familiarity of exercising in a non-intimidating environment with friends or neighbors.
Classes are conveniently located in a variety of Chicago communities and are also affordable alternatives to commercial gyms. Offerings and schedules vary per location; click here for details.
All classes are part of the Park Families Wellness Initiative, which is supported by The Coca-Cola Foundation, and offers fitness and nutrition education classes for Chicagoans of all ages. The program aims to impact 125,000 patrons and to increase a family's minutes of physical activity as well as its knowledge of a healthy lifestyle by emphasizing nutrition, dietary habits and exercise.
The Chicago Park District encourages residents to enjoy two weeks of free classes at any of the following locations. Check with each individual park for schedules.
1. Archer Park, 4901 S. Kilbourn Ave., 773.284.7029
2. Calumet Park, 9801 S. Avenue M, 312.747.7108
3. Fosco Park, 1312 S. Racine Ave., 312.746.5086
4. Foster Park, 1440 W. 84th St., 312.747.6135
5. Gage Park, 2411 W. 55th St., 312.747.6147
6. Gill Park, 825 W. Sheridan, 312.742.7802
7. Haas Park, 2402 N. Washtenaw Ave., 312.742.7552
8. Hamlin Park, 3035 N. Hoyne Ave., 312.742.7785
9. Harris Recreational Center, 6200 S. Drexel Boulevard, 312.747.2706
10. Harrison Park, 1824 W. Wood, 312.746.5491
11. Hayes Park, 2936 W. 85th St., 312.747.6177
12. Hiawatha Park, 8029 W. Forest Preserve Drive, 312.746.5559
13. Homan Square Park, 3559 W. Arlington St., 312.746.6650
14. Independence Park, 3945 N. Springfield Ave., 773.478.3538
15. Jesse Owens Park, 2032 E. 88th St., 312.747.6709
16. Kennicott Park, 4434 S. Lake Park Ave., 312.747.7138
17. Margate Park, 4921 N. Marine Drive, 312.742.7522
18. McGuane Park, 2901 S. Poplar Ave., 312.747.6497
19. Norwood Park, 5801 N. Natoma Ave., 773.631.4893
20. Ogden Park, 6500 S. Racine Ave., 312.747.6572
21. Piotrowski Park, 4247 W. 31st St., 312.747.6608
22. Russell Square Park, 3045 E. 83rd St., 312.747.6651
23. Shabbona Park, 6935 W. Addison St., 773.685.6205
24. Taylor Park in Bronzeville, 39 W. 47th St., 312.747.6728
25. Union Park, 1501 W. Randolph St., 312.746.5494
26. Valley Forge Park, 7001 W. 59th St., 773.229.0812
27. Washington Park, 5531 S. Martin Luther King Drive, 773.256.1248
28. Welles Park, 2333 W. Sunnyside Ave., 312.742.7511
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World Humanitarian Day: Reflections from Lebanon
Today is World Humanitarian Day, a day to recognize and honor the men and women around the world who risk their lives every day to help others.
World Vision writer and photographer Patricia Mouamar grew up in Lebanon during its civil war; now, as a humanitarian aid worker, she understands firsthand the trials faced by the refugees she is working to help.
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Like many boys his age, 9-year-old Abdurrahman imitates sounds. Today, he is imitating the sound of rockets.
He started with a "BOOM." Then he made a whistling, whispering sound followed by a childish replication of an explosion. He carefully left a few seconds between the two distinct sounds to be accurate. His rocket sounds were so realistic. He reminded me of the sound of rockets I heard when I was his age, during the civil war in Lebanon.
As a Lebanese citizen who was born during the war and lived all of my childhood in a country torn apart by conflicts and violence, I could not help but hold Abdurrahman's hand and tell him to stay strong, for his sisters and brother. "They need you," I told him.
All it took was few seconds and a few sounds from a child's mouth to bring back all the memories of destruction and fear I still have, piled up from my childhood.
Abdurrahman also explained to me the different sounds of a rocket launcher, a helicopter, and a MiG plane.
"If you hear the sound of helicopter, you have to run for your life," he says. "But if you hear a MiG plane, that means you are still alive, because it is very fast and you only hear it after it hits; but that also means that other people have died," he says.
I wouldn't have imagined a child mastering this lexicon of war. The scenes and situations he has survived seem to be imprinted on his mind.
Will he still remember them when he grows up? Will he remember running for his life many times? I don't know. I know I do.
I remember the smell of my mother's fear as she gathered us inside an underground shelter during heavy bombing in the mid-1980s. This memory will never leave me. Nor will I ever forget the horrifying moment when our four-story building was shaking over our heads after being hit twice by rockets. This memory haunted me at night for years.
Many Lebanese brag about how resilient we are, how we are able to absorb the uninterrupted waves of violence that have been striking our country for decades. At times we rebel. Other times we become jaded, turning a blind eye to the misery surrounding us -- such is the case for many regarding the Syrian refugees.
Syrian refugees are in every corner of Lebanon. There is not a single area of Lebanon that has not been touched. The number of refugees has skyrocketed, with the government estimating that they now exceed 1 million in Lebanon alone, a big load to carry for country with a population of only 4 million.
I am Lebanese, and I am a humanitarian worker as well. Being a humanitarian worker is a privilege and a curse. You definitely have the rewarding sensation of making a difference, but to get there, it is simply painful. My job is physically, mentally, and emotionally challenging. I am constantly reminded by my friends to not get too attached. But that is impossible.
In some cases, while in the field, humanitarian workers become the beacon of hope for people in need. I put my personal needs and my personal troubles -- the load of work I carry from hundreds of emails -- behind me. Sometimes I even stray away from carrying out the task I was in the field to accomplish, like taking photos and writing stories, and I focus on helping people get the information they need, information that is often life-saving.
It's easy to convince ourselves that there is little we can do to make a difference in the midst of such desperate and enormous need. But I am a believer that even small acts of kindness can make a difference to those who are suffering. Some days, even a smile can give comfort to a refugee who feels no one is listening to them.
That is why when I visit families, I always take time to sit with them and listen carefully to their stories, never forcing them to talk, but instead allowing them to share their experiences with me at their own pace.
No one should ever feel that the crisis is so big they can't help. In the Syrian crisis (and other crises around the world), any aid can and does make a difference. Even if we can't provide everything people need, when refugees know that other people in the world are thinking about them, praying for them, and supporting them, it helps them mentally, because they know they are not alone.
Happy World Humanitarian Day!
Make a one-time donation to help World Vision provide emergency assistance for Syrian refugees who have fled the escalating violence in their country. Help us show these refugees that they are not alone.
Please join us in prayer for all World Vision staff members working around the world, particularly in this region of conflict.


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Redemption sites are typically small businesses who sort recyclable containers by hand before shipping them to a large recycling plant. Redemption centers offer money for bottles and cans that are marked with a cent price on their base. Here are some terms to know about turning in cans and bottles at redemption centers.
Containers eligible for redemption can be dropped off for cash at designated redemption sites or the store where the product was originally purchased in most states. Redemption centers provide an important recycling service to the public as well as for the environment.


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Battle of the Queens
Call this labor claim a Bad Romance: Lady Gaga's former assistant, Jennifer O'Neill, claims that the pop star owes her back pay, with 7,168 hours of unpaid overtime still on the books. Based on O'Neill's $75,000 annual salary, she believes Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, owes her around $393,000
But, true to form, Lady Gaga isn't one to go down without a fight. As part of a 200-page witness statement, she writes, "I am going to tell you exactly what ******* happened, so that the judge can read on this transcript exactly what's going on, which is my ex-best friend is a ******* hood rat who is suing me for money that she didn't earn." Gaga also writes, "SHE thinks she's just like the Queen of the Universe. And, you know what? She didn't want to be a slave to one, because in my work and what I do, I'm the Queen of the Universe every day."
Picture Source: Barcroft Media
An All-American Suit
The iconic photograph of three New York City firefighters raising an American flag over Ground Zero post-9/11 is perhaps the most well-known of the day's incredible images. Sarah Palin knew this, so she used the photograph for the political action committee, SarahPAC, on both the committee's website and Facebook profile. But now, the original owners of the photo are crying foul.
North Jersey Media Group, Inc. (NJMG), filed suit in a Manhattan federal court on Sept. 13, alleging that SarahPAC's used the photograph without their permission. The photo was originally taken by Thomas E. Franklin of The Record, one of the two major newspapers under NJMG's control. The lawsuit seeks to have the PAC stop using the photo as well as damages. SarahPAC did not respond to a request for comment by Politico.
Picture Source: Reuters
Litigation Management
Oh, Charlie Sheen. Everyone knows about his myriad legal troubles, but he seems to have come around with his successful FX television show, Anger Management. Well, "successful" may be the wrong word. Sure, it has high enough ratings to still be on the air, but his role on the show is also the center of a potential $1.2 million retaliation lawsuit from former co-star Selma Blair.
Blair claims she was prematurely fired from Anger Management after criticizing Sheen on set. According to TMZ, she repeatedly complained to the crew that everyone had to sit around and wait while Charlie sat in his trailer and learned his lines. Blair believes that when Sheen learned of her unhappiness, he made sure she was written out of the show. Her claim of $1.2 million is the amount Blair says she would have made if she had continued working. TMZ, however, claims that Blair would have been written out of the show anyway, as "America didn't want to see Charlie with just one girlfriend."
Photo Source: TV Guide
Dotcom Boom
Online file-sharing tycoon Kim Dotcom (yes, that's his real legal name) has had an up-and-down past 24 months. First, his wildly successful Megaupload.com file sharing site was shut down by federal regulators. Then, New Zealand's main spy agency, the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), invaded Dotcom's mansion and arrested him in January 2012. But now, a lawsuit Dotcom has filed against the GCSB could turn his fortunes right back around.
Court documents made available in early September 2013 have revealed that Dotcom has filed suit against the New Zealand government for the raid as well as electronic spying that preceded it. Dotcom seeks N$6 million ($4.85 million) in damages. The government appealed a ruling that allowed the online tycoon the right to sue but lost in March. "The case will show how the Five-Eyes spy cloud, X-Keyscore and PRISM were utilized in our copyright case," Dotcom told Wired. "Remember, I'm not a terrorist."
Photo Source: Getty Images
Hating Love
How much trouble can you truly get into on Pinterest? If you're Courtney Love, enough to bring a defamation lawsuit against you. According to the Hollywood Reporter, fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir, also known as the "Boudoir Queen," has sued Love for defamation over alleged derogatory statements the singer wrote on Pinterest. In the suit, Simorangkir claims, "Love seeks to use her fame, influence and celebrity, in particular in fashion circles, to undermine Simorangkir's efforts to rebuild. In narcissistic fashion, Love flagrantly taunted Simorangkir about Love's power and influence: 'oh wait i have 5500 followers you have what? a few hundred on pintersst, hmmm dawn wonder why, oh right im me.'"
This isn't the first time that these two have gone head-to-head in a courtroom; Simorangkir previously sued Love for defamation over Twitter just two years ago. Love paid $430,000 out of court to settle that case. In her new filing, Simorangkir writes, "Truly, Love has not learned her lesson." The designer seeks unspecified punitive damages.


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Social Survey
Social media use among in-house counsel is at an all-time high, according to the latest installment of the In-House Counsel New Media Engagement Survey, conducted by InsideCounsel, Greentarget and Zeughauster Group. LinkedIn remains the most popular professional networking site, but Wikipedia use was also on the rise. Keep reading for more survey results:
73% Respondents who use social media tools
67% In-house counsel who used LinkedIn for professional reasons within the past day or week
65% Respondents who reported using Wikipedia for company and industry research
53% In-house counsel who said that the quality of a law firm's blog would influence their hiring decisions
53% Respondents who read general business media on their smartphones, up from 42 percent last year
Climbing Class Actions
Many general counsel have added class actions related to consumer fraud and privacy issues to their list of worries. Nearly half of GCs and CLOs at more than 300 companies predicted an increase in such suits—and a corresponding increase on the money spent defending against them—in a study conducted by Carlton Fields. The expected increase may be attributable to recent news reports about corporate data breaches and food labeling lawsuits.
45% Respondents who predicted that consumer fraud and privacy suits will be the "next wave" of class actions, up from 15 percent one year ago
14% Drop in the amount that companies spent annually per class action in 2012
$3.3 million Amount that companies expect to spend defending class actions this year, up from $3.2 million in 2012
In-Demand IP
The year isn't getting off to a stellar start for most law firm lawyers. A new report from the Peer Monitor Index reveals that in the first quarter of 2013 the overall demand for legal services from law firms fell, along with the demand for most major practice areas. The one exception? Intellectual property specialists found themselves in high demand, likely owing to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent switch from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file patent system.
-3.4% Drop in the demand for overall legal services in the first quarter of 2013
-9% Drop in the demand for labor and employment work during the same period
-3.7% Decline in demand for general litigation attorneys during the same period
5.1% Increase in the need for intellectual property patent work
Trademark Tips
If your company is seeking to win trademark approval, it would be well-advised to hire a trademark attorney, a new study by the University of North Carolina Law School suggests. Although many large companies such as McDonald's Corp. and Xerox Corp. succeeded without counsel—perhaps because they most likely have access to in-house or outside counsel prior to filing their applications—most applicants were more likely to win approval if they engaged the services of a trademark attorney, particularly an experienced one.
60% Overall trademark approval rate for applicants without counsel (pro se applicants)
82% Overall trademark approval rate for applicants with counsel
68% Approval rate for the clients of attorneys with fewer than 10 total trademark filings
81% Approval rate for pro se applicants with 30 or more filings
Merger Madness
The Obama administration has gained a reputation—fairly or unfairly—for being tough on big mergers and acquisitions. And indeed, the number of government challenges to M&As rose during the 2012 fiscal year, according to a recent joint report from the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. Although companies submitted fewer deals for antitrust review in FY 2012 than they did in the 2007 fiscal year, the number of deals was up significantly from the economically challenging 2009 fiscal year.
44 Deals the agencies challenged during the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2012
19% Increase in challenges between 2011 and 2012
1,429 Proposed transactions that businesses reported during the 2012 fiscal year


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Online registration for the Chicago Park District's summer day camps and programs will take place over two days and in two different zones online.
• Parks located west of California Avenue will begin registration Monday, April 15 at 9 a.m.
• Parks located east of California Avenue will begin registration Tuesday, April 16 at 9 a.m.
Beginning today, summer programs can be viewed and wish lists can be created online.
In-person registration begins either Saturday, April 20 or Monday, April 22 depending upon the park. To check when a particular park is beginning online and in-person registration, click here.
Each summer, the Chicago Park District provides more than 30,000 campers ages 6-12 with a season of supervised activity at more than 230 local parks. Children will go on field trips; explore nature, arts and culture; engage in sports and recreation; and enjoy pool time. To watch a video about summer day camp, click here.
As part of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's new Summer of Learning initiative, summer camps will now include 20 minutes of dedicated reading time. Summer of Learning represents the first coordinated and dedicated approach of its kind for youth in every neighborhood to access high-quality programs that will help them continue to learn even when school is out.
The Chicago Park District's summer day camp hours vary for each location with typical camps running about six hours per day from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. or 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Many parks offer early morning and late-day sessions as well. Fees vary depending on location, offerings and hours.
Standard day camps run for six weeks from July 1 – Aug. 9. Parents seeking programs in August are encouraged to also register their children for specialty and late-summer camps. Education and character-building components are combined with recreation at several of the Park District's specialty camps including cultural arts, leadership, sports, and urban campers. Click here for more information.
The Chicago Park District experienced record numbers in 2012 for program registration. Compared to 2011, last summer saw a 20% increase in children enrolled in summer programs, and fall registration was up nearly 25%. Given the popularity of programs, patrons are encouraged to follow the registration tips listed below.
Preparing for Registration Day
• Set up an account on the new registration system if you haven't already. The new registration system took effect with spring 2012 registration.
• Add all persons who you plan to register for on your account.
• Check your account login and password before registration begins. If you experience any problems, this will allow time to contact the Chicago Park District for assistance.
• Review your account information and make changes as needed, with specific focus on the following questions that were recently added:
School information.
Child pick up (who can/who can't pick up your child), and the ability for your child to walk home on his/her own.
• Create a wish list with the programs that you plan to register.
• Review screen shots of the registration process.
View the registration process page for more information on these changes.
For more information, visit www.chicagoparkdistrict.com or call 312-742-PLAY.
Family Discount
When patrons register for two or more programs for family members less than 18 years of age in one transaction, the order qualifies for a 10% discount on the less expensive program(s).
Discount is available for online and in-person orders, but cannot be combined with the CHA or DCFS discount programs. All family members should be entered into one account on the Chicago Park District's registration system.
Financial Assistance
The Chicago Park District has limited funds available to provide financial assistance for families who wish to enroll in the 2013 summer day camp program.
Financial assistance is only available to City of Chicago residents.
Applicants must provide proof of entitlement for the reduced or free lunch program from the patron's school. Applicants who do not participate in the school lunch program can prove eligibility by providing income verification (i.e., 2013 recent pay stubs for last 30 days, AFDC/TANF case #, a copy of a recent IRS 1040 form, etc.). Information submitted is confidential.
Applicants must bring copies of the required documents to their desired park at the time of in-person registration.
Eligibility for financial assistance does not guarantee a slot for day camp and cannot be used in conjunction with any other reduced/voucher programs.
Applicants that do not qualify for financial assistance may inquire about the payment plan option at their local park.
More Information
In addition to summer day camps, the Park District offers thousands of sport and fitness, cultural and environmental programs for adults, seniors, teens and youth. Regular summer programs run the week of June 17 through the week of August 19.
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North Park Village Nature Center
5801 N. Pulaski Rd. Chicago, Illinois 60646
(312) 744-5472
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Neal has to step up in Matthews' absence
In Week 1, he was the Green Bay Packers' mystery man. A secret weapon. In Week 6, he needs to be so much more.
A play-maker.
Mike Neal isn't sure if he's sneaking up on anyone.
"You know what? It's best for me to keep myself below the clouds," Neal said Wednesday. "I don't like to get a big head about anything. If I'm a secret weapon to teams, then I'm that. If they have to scheme against me, then that's on them."
Clay Matthews isn't returning any time soon. Turns out, surgery was needed on his broken thumb—and it was the team's call. Calling it "a medical decision," Mike McCarthy said Matthews would be out "multiple weeks." If it was up to the all-pro linebacker, the coach said, he'd play Sunday. So now, the Packers are counting even more on this defensive tackle turned end turned outside linebacker.
Matthews demoralized game plans. He was the player every quarterback, every coordinator needed to identify on a play-to-play basis. Neal believes he can grow into that weapon.
"Yeah, most definitely. Most certainly," Neal said. "I think that just continued growth at the position and understanding what I have to do and talking with Clay and understanding certain things, I can be that player. But it takes awhile. Nothing is easy.
"By the end of the season I think I'll be able to do that."
The Packers hope so. This weekend at Baltimore, Neal will start opposite Nick Perry.
Neal is exceeding expectations—by a long shot. He picked off a pass in a blowout win over Washington. He had six tackles and a sack in Green Bay's 22-9 win over Detroit last weekend. Forget linebacker, the NFL, Neal said that might have been his best game ever.
With Neal, this has been the intrigue all along—what could be, the unknown. He dropped 25 pounds to play linebacker. Gym-rat strong, he's one of the team's most explosive athletes. Neal says he might even drop another 5-6 pounds to play lighter until Matthews returns. He also anticipates playing linebacker 75% of the time and being a down lineman about 25 percent of his snaps.
Experimenting is over. The team needs Neal at outside linebacker.
And to think just last spring, Neal stood here at his locker a bit lost. Fresh off 4� sacks on the defensive line in 2012, he had no clue how this switch would go. There was never a moment where everything clicked, where he felt he fit in at outside linebacker.
"Never," Neal said. "To be honest with you because I never knew I'd be playing this position as much as I have, I think one of the biggest things is being healthy and being able to do what I can do. I was healthy last year and I provided a little bit of a spark coming off the bench.
"I know the type of football player I am. I don't care where they put me at. They put me at middle linebacker, just being healthy and being able to play football, I think I can do that."
That's the twist of irony. As players drop like flies, Neal stays healthy.
In Matthews, the Packers lose a player with 16 sacks in his last 16 games. The pressure was constant. As defensive coordinator Dom Capers often says, Matthews made the two, three plays that change the complexion of games.
Neal and/or Perry have huge shoes to fill.
Defensive tackle Mike Daniels sees a difference in both players this week. There's a pep in their step, an energy. He believes Neal will flourish because he'll be let loose more at outside linebacker than as a nickel rusher. There's less tying up blockers, less clogging two gaps.
"He can just go," Daniels said. "You know how I said our defensive line can't just fly off the ball like a maniac? He can fly off the ball like a maniac. And then he's real strong, too. He gives those guys all kinds of problems. And it is fun to watch."
There will be challenges. With more snaps, the 275-pound Neal could be schemed into coverage more. Position coach Kevin Greene describes this as the necessary evil to the job, Neal says. Everyone wants to tee off on the quarterback. He'll have to chase down receivers, too. And on the road—at a loud M&T Bank Stadium—communication will also be difficult.
There's a lot of "moving parts" in the defense, Neal said, that players can't always verbalize before the snap.
As for Matthews' fifth-gear, hair-on-fire motor, there might not be another player in the league who could replace that. Both Neal and Perry are power players first. They'll need to be themselves. Sunday was a start.
The way Neal looks at it, last season was his "freshman" year. This is his "sophomore" year. He's healthy, he's contributing. Now the Packers are counting on more.
"I'm not trying to mimic Clay," Neal said. "I'm not Clay. I'm Mike Neal, and I'll be able to play like Mike Neal plays, and that's the biggest thing."


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Conway Cooperatives - What Are They & How Do They Work?
Conway cooperatives, or co-ops, have been around for several years serving people and businesses for the betterment of the community. Cooperatives are Conway businesses owned by the folks who use them. Depending on classification, they either provide certain services or foods to those in the community. People who are a part of a cooperative benefit by helping, not only themselves, but others as well.
They provide necessary components to the economy. For example, agriculture cooperatives are controlled and owned by the user, typically farmers. Farmers can join what are known as marketing cooperatives and charge more for the products but less for their marketing, attracting business. Those buying the products benefit on the fact that they are purchasing fresher, healthier products.
Conway Cooperatives - Group Classifications
Conway co-ops has sorted out into groups for instance;
- Marketing Cooperatives
- Purchasing Cooperatives
- Service Cooperatives
- Food Cooperatives
Within these classifications you can find more specialized cooperatives in Conway, AR such as;
- child care
- health
- utilities
- credit union
- housing
- worker
- agriculture
- dairy
Each of these offers inexpensive options to people who are a member of the cooperative. Members have the option of electing a board of directors. The board of directors oversees daily activities within the cooperative.
Consortium child care cooperatives are also provided within industrial parks. This can help parents in Conway place their child within a daycare that is reasonably close to their job and often at a more affordable rate than most daycares. Even though it is the businesses who provide the initial funding to begin this type of service, it still revolves back to those that own the daycare electing their own board of directors. It is the owner of the business and its members that provide all the decisions and ultimately choose how it is ran.
A good example of how utility cooperatives can work for their members is Craw-Kan Telephone Cooperative Company. This company delivers telephone service to its members who hold shares within the company and at the end of every year each member receives a portion of that profit sharing. This not only entices others to become members and pay their bill on time regularly, but also benefits both the company and those that they provide service to.
Conway electric and telephone cooperatives provide their services to individuals while hearing members voices. The members are able to voice their concerns and suggest what they need changed as it is them who determine just what goes on within that cooperative.
Membership in Conway Cooperatives
Members of a Conway cooperative have a large list of responsibilities that they have to follow. They have to ensure that all of the relevant laws are met and followed by its members. They must appoint or removed directors on an appropriate basis. Members must know what their cooperative provides and acquaint them self with services in order to better serve others. You must be able to meet customer satisfaction in order to run efficiently, effectively and profitably.
There are occasions when cooperatives in Conway must decide to merge with other businesses in order to expand their services or dissolve on the grounds that there's not enough demand and supply of their services. The definitive role of the members can be difficult and yet it is necessary that they are knowledgeable and capable of making those decisions.
Cooperatives in Conway, AR are an important part of people's everyday lives. By providing goods and services to their members, they're offering a mutually beneficial option. Without cooperatives, nearly 26 million people in America would be without the electric services that these places provide. Over 100 million Americans would be hard pressed to find affordable goods and services and all the net worth that these cooperatives pull in together would be lost.
It's important to have these in our lives in order to keep things in balance between affordable and quality in our lives. People are brought together in a cooperative group in order to run a business that will provide quality services to those in need while keeping the authority to make decisions about their company as a whole. That is what makes Conway cooperatives so unique among the rest in the world today.


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Intel's Xeon Phi cracks top 500 supercomputers
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SAN JOSE, Calif. Intels Xeon Phi co-processor made a strong showing on the latest list of the worlds Top 500 supercomputers, powering seven of the systems including one in the top 10. Nvidias graphics chips continued to dominate the coprocessor category, and the Infiniband interconnect widened its lead over Ethernet as the top interconnect.
Titan, a Cray XK7 system installed at Oak Ridge National Lab, ranked as the worlds most powerful system at 17.59 petaflops on the Linpack benchmark. It uses nearly 300,000 AMD Opteron processors and 261,632 Nvidia K20x graphics chips as accelerators.
Although it consumes a whopping 8.21 megawatts, the Cray Titan edged out IBMs BlueGene/Q architecture as more energy efficient, delivering 2,143 Mflops/W. BlueGene/Q was the most popular architecture in the top 10, used by the second, fourth, fifth and ninth most powerful systems.
Twenty-three systems on the latest list cracked the petaflops milestone. Roadrunner, the first petaflops-class system, debuted on the Top 500 four-and-a-half years ago.
The use of massively multicore coprocessors is fueling the rapid rise in performance. Sixty-two systems on the latest Top 500 list used coprocessors, up from 58 six months ago. Fifty of the supercomputers on the latest list use Nvidia graphics chips as coprocessors.
Intels Xeon Phi appeared in seven of the systems including Stampede, a Dell PowerEdge C8220 system at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin, Texas. Stampede hit 2.6 petaflops, good for seventh place on the list.
Xeon Phi surpassed accelerators such as the AMD Radeon and IBM Cell, used in three and two systems, respectively.
Theres a need for energy efficient architectures, said Erich Strohmaier of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, one of four researchers who compile the Top 500 list. IBM's BlueGene/Q architecture as well as accelerators from Nvidia, Intel and others offer different alternative paths towards this goal, and currently there is no clear winner among them, he said.


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Jon Corzine, the former head of bankrupt broker MF Global Holdings Ltd., was sued by the holding company's trustee, Louis J. Freeh, for failing in his duty to oversee the company and causing the eighth-biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
The suit, filed in U.S. bankruptcy court in Manhattan, alleges that Corzine, the company's chief executive officer and a former governor and senator from New Jersey, along with senior executives Bradley Abelow and Henri Steenkamp, failed to act in good faith and implemented strategies that caused the company to fail.
"The trustee brings this action for acts and omissions that culminated in the business collapse of the company and the bankruptcies of the debtors," according to the complaint.
The suit follows a 124-page report published this month by Freeh, the bankruptcy trustee, which blamed Corzine and his management team for bungling an expansion of the company's traditional business model while ignoring deficiencies in its risk controls. Corzine's strategy invested heavily in European sovereign debt and produced no significant revenue, and he and Steenkamp, the Chief Financial Officer, knew that the company's controls were flawed as early as May 2010, according to the report.
The parent company of brokerage MF Global Inc. filed for bankruptcy on Oct. 31, 2011, after a wrong-way $6.3 billion trade on its own behalf on bonds of some of Europe's most-indebted nations. The company listed assets of $41 billion and debts of $39.7 billion.
Freeh's findings come five months after U.S. House Republicans also faulted Corzine's leadership in a report released in November. That report, reached by majority Republicans on a Financial Services subcommittee, described a lack of coordination between the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission, primary regulators for MF Global's U.S. operations.
Freeh has been unwinding the company under Chapter 11 bankruptcy in an effort to repay creditors. James Giddens, a separate trustee for the failed brokerage arm, is liquidating assets to repay customers under the Securities Investor Protection Act.
Giddens, who has conducted his own probe into how the company failed, said in a report last year that he determined claims for breach of fiduciary duty and negligence against Corzine, Steenkamp and other officials.
Freeh's report paints Corzine as a tunnel-visioned leader, insulated from criticism, who, although fully aware of the limitations of the company's system, pushed to transform MF Global into an investment bank by taking on greater risk.
Corzine moved to diversify the company away from traditional investment of client funds and make it a broker dealer and full-scale investment bank. By September 2010, he had begun asking the board to increase the company's risk limits to invest in more European sovereign debt issued by countries such as Italy, Portugal, Spain and Ireland, according to Freeh's report.
Corzine had unlimited power in his role at MF Global, holding positions that were previously filled by two different individuals, according to Freeh's report. Corzine hired Chief Operating Officer Abelow, who was once his chief of staff as governor, and favored Steenkamp over then-CFO Randy McDonald. Under Corzine, the board reduced its executive committee to four members from five, according to the report.
To implement his strategy for the company, Corzine handpicked traders with whom he worked and began trading on his own, under minimal supervision, in June 2010 using an existing Treasury Department account, according to the report. He maintained his own portfolio for the company in accounts that bore his initials JSC and was known to place trades in the middle of meetings.
Corzine was the driving force behind MF Global's European trading portfolio and personally instructed traders "when to enter and exit various positions," Freeh said in the report.
The company's problems were exacerbated by MF Global's method of accounting for its European trades, according to the report. The so-called repurchase to maturity transactions allowed MF Global to immediately recognize income while removing the transactions from the company's balance sheets, according to the report.
Under Corzine, MF Global's position in such investments increased from $400 million in mid-September 2010 to $8.3 billion at the end of August 2011, according to the report.
The trades, which required a margin payment, "jeopardized the company's available liquidity and left the company highly leveraged," Freeh said in the report.
In the summer of 2011, former Chief Risk Officer Michael Stockman recommended that MF Global stop investing in the European debt and start hedging its exposure, according to the report. Management ignored the advice and searched for additional sources of liquidity to support the trading strategy, even debating how aggressively brokers could borrow on an intraday basis customer funds that were required to be kept in segregated accounts, Freeh said.
By the week leading up to its collapse, MF Global needed to rely on its Operations, Risk and Treasury Department systems, which were fatally flawed, Freeh found. The failure of Corzine and other members of his management team, including Abelow and Steenkamp, to address the deficiencies contributed to the company's demise, Freeh found.
"In the end, the scale of the company's trading put pressure on the company's deficient controls without producing any significantly improved revenues," Freeh said in the report.
Freeh estimates the losses to MF Global and its finance subsidiary from $1.5 billion to $2.1 billion. Giddens, the brokerage trustee, estimated a shortfall of $1.6 billion in customer funds.
The SEC didn't include the CFTC in several meetings in 2011 about the brokerage's capital and business strategy that would have been helpful for oversight, according to the Republicans' report. The CFTC didn't inform the SEC that the broker was using an alternative method of calculating customer funds, the report showed.
Freeh's report didn't focus on the causes for the shortfall in customer funds because recovery of those funds is outside the scope of his authority, lawyers for the trustee said in the court filing.
The holding company's Chapter 11 case is In re MF Global Holdings Ltd., 11-bk-15059, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan). The liquidation of the broker is In re MF Global Inc., 11-bk-02790, in the same court.
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The U.S. sale of $9 billion in 30-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) drew the weakest demand in a dozen years amid stagnant inflation and as the Federal Reserve reduces its bond purchases.
The bid-to-cover ratio, which gauges demand by comparing the amount bid with the amount offered, was 2.34, the lowest level since a sale in October 2001, the last offering before the U.S. suspended sales of the security for almost a decade. Auctions resumed in February 2010. The 30-year TIPS sold yesterday yielded 1.495 percent, the most since June 2011. The average forecast of seven of the Fed's 22 primary dealers in a Bloomberg News poll was a yield of 1.463 percent.
"The basis of strong buying of TIPS has to be stronger inflation before investors are enticed back into the market, and we just aren't seeing much," said Aaron Kohli, an interest-rate strategist in New York at BNP Paribas SA, which as a primary dealer is obligated to bid in U.S. debt sales. "The big takeaway from a weaker auction is that investors are willing to buy, but a greater concession is needed or real inflation pressures need to step up."
The yield on the current 30-year inflation-indexed bond rose four basis points, or 0.04 percentage point, to 1.49 percent yesterday in New York. TIPS pay interest at lower rates than nominal Treasuries on a principal amount that's linked to the Labor Department's consumer price index.
TIPS due in 15 years and longer have returned 3.4 percent this year through Feb. 19, after losing 19.4 percent in 2013, their worst year on record, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch's 15-Plus Year U.S. Inflation-Linked Treasury Index. The broader Treasury market has gained 1.5 percent this year, compared with a 3.4 percent drop in 2013, according to the Merrill Lynch U.S. Treasury Index.
The Fed, citing economic improvement, has reduced its monthly bond-buying to $65 billion in $10 billion cuts ordered at each of its past two policy meetings. Fed Chair Janet Yellen told U.S. lawmakers Feb. 11 she would scale back purchases in "measured steps" and only a "notable change" in economic prospects would prompt a slowing in the pace. The buying was designed to cap long-term borrowing costs and fuel growth.
The CPI increased 0.1 percent in January after a 0.2 percent gain the prior month, which was smaller than initially reported, a Labor Department report showed yesterday in Washington. The index rose 1.6 percent from a year earlier, versus 1.5 percent in December.
Bidder Participation
Indirect bidders, a category of investors that includes foreign central banks, bought 56.5 percent of the securities at yesterday's TIPS sale, the most since the June auction. That compared with an average of 44.5 percent at the past 10 auctions.
Direct bidders, non-primary-dealer investors that place their bids directly with the Treasury, purchased 4.9 percent of the securities, versus a 17.3 percent average at the past 10 offerings.
The difference between yields on 30-year bonds and similar-maturity TIPS, a gauge of the outlook for consumer prices over the life of the debt known as the break-even rate, narrowed to 2.26 percentage points. The average for the past decade is 2.47 percentage points.
"At these real-yield levels, investors are more hesitant about taking on significant levels of duration," said Michael Pond, head of global inflation-linked research at the primary dealer Barclays Plc. "The decline in the bid-to-cover reflects the general weakness in demand we've seen at Treasury auctions this year. Higher yields will bring investors back." Duration is a measure of sensitivity to movements in interest rates.


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Natural selection is proven wrong
Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
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Re: Natural selection is proven wrong
you are abusing language
there is no way you can say the genes that cause cancer are not harmful
and as such there being transmitted and common invalidates NS
read this
Yes there is; I just explained it. Care to point out where I went wrong?
Generally speaking, the more people talk about "being saved," the further away they actually are from true salvation.
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Re: Natural selection is proven wrong
Uhh, I'm pretty sure natural selection still applies to humans. It's good, though, that you mentioned "in a very broad abstract sense", because if you truly want to understand natural selection, you must look things in a broad sense. Just because natural selection looks more straightforward in, say, flatworms than in humans does not make humans immune to it.
It is true that humans with their brains have changed the situation on a small scale (e.g. what happens now; you can live with conditions that would have killed you just a century ago and still have children). But if you look at the situation after 100 000 years, you are very likely to notice that people with "good" enough genes to survive in their given environment did so and their genes got passed on.
Humans are not so different after all. We use technology to overcome our disadvantages, but there are animals also that use tools and there are myriads of species that need symbiosis with one another in order to survive: they just do what we do: use external aids in their fight of survival and procreation.
Just like Canalon earlier said, terms "harmful" and "beneficial" when talking about different traits of an organism are very treacherous in the context of evolution. Evolution just "deals random cards" and we just must make use of what we happen to get. Something that today is very useful can be disadvantageous in the future. Natural selection doesn't aim for anything beneficial and many seemingly harmful traits tag along. It's just the sum of this combined with your current environment (including whatever culture, knowledge or technology it may contain) that matters.
If the environment stayed constant without any change (including your sources of nutrition and predators), then, by the laws of natural selection, "beneficial" traits should constantly increase and "harmful" ones decrease in numbers. But the world will never be like this.
Maybe if we one day manage to transport our consciousness and our "self" from biological substrate (i.e. DNA) to some artificial one (e.g. silicon), then we may actually be free from the laws of natural selection.
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If some gene is harmuful when you are 80 years old (e.g. something that causes cancer), it doesn't mean it is exclusively a bad gene. Many oncogenes, for example, are genetic control elements that have an important role in the life and development of an individual. If you removed them, you would die as a fetus. So can you really call a gene that allows you to become an adult and have children a harmful gene? It may become harmful later on for sure, but it has already done its good deeds. Also it is worth noting that often these harmful genes have simply mutated during the individual's life and become malfunctioning. Evolutionary it is not very disastrous if you die of cancer at the age of 80, if the gene that caused your death was useful the years before that.
You posted a long list of genetic disorders, but do you actually have any knowledge about them? Vast majority are either recessive genes, which pretty much lessens the evolutionary pressure to eliminate those genes, or are genes that only cause disease if combined to other mutations and/or environmental agents, which again means that just a proportion of these genetic elements get eliminated from the gene pool. On a long run they just aren't deleterious enough to disappear completely - if viewed on a species level. Finally, some of the conditions are caused by point mutations, deletions, chromosomal translocation or invertion, and as such are results of random events on a genomic scale. They are not inherited from anywhere, and because they cause lethal diseases, get also eliminated by the means of natural selection.
It is important to remember that natural selection does not aim to produce anything "good" or remove anything "bad". It just chooses individuals that have good enough means to surive and prosper in their current environment. There are dozens of examples of this: e.g. very large animals seem to benefit from their size (very few or no predators for example), but the size is always a trade-off - they are also the ones who suffer the most if food becomes scarce, they are slow to mature and thus have less offspring, which in turn makes them evolutionary "slow" to react to environmental changes.
So as you hopefully see from that simplified example that there rarely is anything good or bad in the nature, there are just things that either make your species survive, or slowly kill it off. Pretty much all those genetic diseases you mentioned are evolutionary almost irrelevant. There are much more powerful forces driving species development (e.g. nutrition, infectious diseas, predation) than a couple of random mutations that now and then kills an individual of the species.
Also, you kind of shoot yourself in the leg with that genetic disorder list you copied somewhere, because for example the sickle cell anemia you mentioned there is a school book example of the failure of your reasoning: as a heterozygous form it is actually beneficial in certain areas of the world because it protects from malaria, but is disadvantageous in other parts of the worlds due to a degree of anemia it causes. The malaria is worse than the anemia it causes, so in malaria regions the allele that causes the condition is much more common than anywhere else. So here we clearly see that your reasoning that bad genes should simply go away and good ones become more common fails.
Re: Natural selection is proven wrong
this prove NS wrong as genetic disorders are common when NS says they should be rare or less common
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/su ... 738782_ITM
Publication: Genomics & Genetics Weekly
Publication Date: 25-MAY-01
Aight, let's try this one more time.
Every single one of us has a genetic defect of some sort.
That already explains why you can find a lot of genetic elements that are potentially harmful when studying hospitalized children. You could take any population, and still find plenty of these same genes.
That being said, serious genetic diseases are rare, and the most serious genetic disorders are very rare - completely in line with natural selection; the more serious a given disorder is, the less likely it is to affect an individual. There are some exceptions to this for well-documented reasons, but a clear trend can be seen: colour blindness is relatively common, because it is almost harmless; Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a rare disease - even though it is common among lethal genetic diseases, you see people suffering from this rarely. And why is that? Because it is such a serious illness, that it has become extremely rare in the gene pool, and only female carriers pass it on. And the reason for it is that it's an X-linked disorder so they are basically unaffected.
So it all works in a perfect logic if you look at the whole picture. Mild disorders are fairly common, serious ones rare, and lethal ones extremely rare. Just like the chapter you keep quoting says.
Our genes aren't "perfect". They aren't immune to mutations, so even if natural selection would eliminate all "bad" mutations, new ones will emerge, and unless they kill the individual or make them unable to reproduce, they stay in the gene pool as long as the individuals carrying them manage to compete in the "evolutionary race".
There will never be a perfect set of genes, because the genes we have are never completely up-to-date. Natural selection instantly removes only genes that are lethal on early age or make reproduction impossible. All else comes along and dies off slowly, and during that time new mutations occur - some poor, some beneficial in their current environment.
Already the mere rate of mutation alone means that there are always genetical disorders among any given population. It has nothing to do with natural selection not working. To the contrary, mutations are the tools that give new substance for natural selection to take place.
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Re: Natural selection is proven wrong
there are many genetic diseases which are common some occur in about one in every 200 births-which according to NS should be rare
http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/270/G ... rders.html
Yep, keep repeating those chapters.
One in 200 leaves you 199 healthy individuals, so what's the problem? And even of those genetically ill children, most are not affected until at old age, can cope with their condition well enough to have children, or do not express the disease at all (common with multifactorial diseases).
I don't believe you are as thick as you try to look like, so please read my previous post again with thought - it explains all that you quote in this one.
Re: Natural selection is proven wrong
To make things simple, you do not understand what you are quoting. The part that should be bolded is what is in brackets, the definition of helpful (and by opposition of harmful). In fact a gene that would cause you an incredibly painful and slow death but will simultaneously considerably increase your fertility would be extremely helpful evolutionary speaking, while you as an individual would probably disagree.
Take Huntington's disease: it is dominant, lead to an early death (in the 40's or 50's) that is not even quick and painless. It looks bad. However, since the symptom do not appear before 40 or 50 year old, most human will probably have had kids and raised them before any symptoms are visible. As a consequence, this gene do not reduce the chances of your genes to be passed on the next generation. There is very little evolutionary pressure for this gene to disappear.
Another example: Sickle cell anemia, caused by a simple mutation in the gene coding for the hemoglobin. If the 2 copies are mutated it is a debilitating disease. But one copy and you can live quite normally (providing you avoid mountain climbing and extreme diving) and even have protection against malaria. This last trait is highly desirable and hence the mutated gene is found at high frequency in African and Mediterranean populations. Because the benefit for the heterozygous are so much more than the cost for the homozygous.
In conclusion, start reading more than just a few chosen quotes on evolution to realize that it is much more complicated than bad are excluded, and good are conserved. Because right now you are not bringing anything to the debate, and you are making a fool of yourself for showing that you do not have an inkling of understanding on what you are talking about. Some of the books the quotes have been extracted from are actually quite good. Gould is really nice to read, Dawkins is quite an extremist in evolutionary theory, but he knows what he is talking about, and what he says is worth thinking about. Plus he knows how to write too and research. Much better than what was offered in the original text.
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Re: Natural selection is proven wrong
It really is very simple in the light of the evidence the position of the evolutionists/darwinists is untenable - not colin leslie dean dean is not a creationist
NS is s very simple formulation
the cambrian explosion shows NS is wrong
the the fact that harmful genes are transmitted and are common or not rare shows NS is wrong
i think the case is closed
the evidence is out there and copious to show NS is wrong as colin leslie dean has shown
Gamila, I would like to point out to you that most of the people that have presented arguments against your claim have biology degrees themselves, and I think at least one of us here has a doctorate. I myself am a lowly undergrad bio student. My point is that your claim is based on the word of person who has plenty of nice degrees but not one of them has to do with science. Thus, you are taking the word of an amateur. If you can provide something from a real scientific journal, perhaps we will take you seriously.
For that matter, it is also obvious that you yourself do not understand what you are talking about, as you have not satisfactorily answered even one of the questions presented to you. I am still waiting for you to explain what was wrong with my previous analysis of oncogenic genes and natural selection. In fact, all you have done is provide quotes taken out of context that you clearly do not understand, and you have not offered any explanations of your own. And by now you are to the point of repeating statements that have repeatedly been shown to be false by several people.
Why don't you go ahead and provide us with some serious evidence and explanations as to why you think the theory of natural selection is flawed? If you can't, then I suggest you sign up for a freshman-level biology course at your nearest university so you can learn why what you have presented so far is mere gibberish.
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Re: Natural selection is proven wrong
thus we have at the cambrian period are rapid speciation-
go read dean
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Early HIV Therapy in Patients With High CD4 Cell Counts (EARLI)
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|Drug: Standard ART Drug: Study-Provided ART
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Early Antiretroviral Therapy in Resource Limited Settings in Patients With High CD4+ Cell Counts (EARLI)
- 48-Week Efficacy [ Time Frame: When all participants reach 48 weeks on study ]Proportion of patients with virologic suppression (HIV-1 plasma RNA ≤400 copies/cc) at 48 weeks, stratified by study arm.
- Programmatic Costs [ Time Frame: When all participants reach 48 weeks on study ]Total estimated costs of provider time, medications, diagnostic testing, and healthcare facility infrastructure per patient treated with ART for one year, stratified by study arm
- 96-Week and 144-Week Efficacy [ Time Frame: When all particiants reach 96 and 144 weeks on study, respectively ]Proportion of patients with virologic suppression (HIV-1 plasma RNA ≤400 copies/cc) at 96 and 144 weeks, stratified by study arm.
- Predictors of Retention in Care [ Time Frame: When all participants reach 48 weeks on study, then again 144 weeks on study ]Factors statistically significantly associated with attendance at all scheduled clinical visits throughout the first 48 weeks of ART, and throughout the full 144 week study period, stratified by study arm.
- Adverse Event Rates [ Time Frame: When all participants reach 48 weeks on study, then again at 144 weeks ]Describe grade 3 or 4 toxicities (defined by NIH DAIDS scale) that occur throughout the first 48 weeks of ART, and throughout the full 144 week study period, stratified by study arm. These will be assessed by active and passive ascertainment and clinical verification, stratified by study arm.
- Medication Adherence [ Time Frame: When all participants reach 48 weeks on study ]Proportion of total medication doses taken by patients at 48 weeks, assessed by pharmacy refill records, stratified by study arm.
|Study Start Date:
|October 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Arm A
Treatment for HIV in participants with CD4+ cell counts 250-350 cells/uL
Drug: Standard ART
Standard Ugandan 3-drug antiretroviral therapy regimen consistent with current practices
Active Comparator: Arm B
Treatment for HIV in participants with CD4+ cell counts >350 cells/uL
Drug: Study-Provided ART
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After dramatic progress in recent years, HIV care for patients in resource limited settings is rapidly evolving to newer models of care delivery. Governments, non-governmental organizations and charitable foundations are placing increasing scrutiny on the programmatic costs associated with delivering antiretroviral therapy (ART). Given these realities, if the global ART roll-out is to continue successfully, we must develop innovative new ways of providing HIV care and ART that are more efficient, more cost-effective, and tightly integrated within country-level health systems. We must treat more patients with fewer resources, and we need sustainable simple models for ART delivery.
These goals can be accomplished building on several existing knowledge points. First, initiating ART at earlier disease stages and at higher CD4+ cell counts may prevent irreversible immunologic damage, prevent opportunistic infections and non-AIDS-associated morbidities, and may prevent death. International and national HIV policy bodies have increasingly recognized this and adjusted recommendations in this direction. Second, ART initiation at higher CD4+ cell counts is less complex, triggers fewer complications, and is less costly to healthcare systems. Third, patients responding to therapy and doing well require fewer physician-administered follow-up visits. This can allow for "task-shifting" to non-MD providers, and the establishment of tiered healthcare delivery down the spectrum of medical acuity. Fourth, the lack of viral load monitoring is responsible for major structural problems in how we deliver ART, causing delays in recognizing ART failure, preventing clinicians from diagnosing HIV drug resistance, and making the decision to switch a patient to a new ART regimen very error-prone.
The EARLI study is a pilot study that will address and investigate all of the above critical issues. This study will focus exclusively on asymptomatic patients with CD4 cell counts ≥250 cells/uL. These relatively healthier individuals are well suited to a more streamlined approach to ART delivery and healthcare provision.
Primary Objectives:
A. To evaluate the 48 week efficacy of ART initiated in asymptomatic individuals with high CD4+ cell counts (CD4+ > 250 cells/uL) and provided in a "streamlined" mode of care.
B. To evaluate the programmatic costs of streamlined ART delivery to asymptomatic high CD4+ count individuals.
Secondary Objectives:
A. To evaluate the 96 week efficacy of ART initiated in high CD4+ cell count individuals.
B. To identify predictors of retention in care among high CD4+ cell count ART initiators.
C. To assess adverse events among high CD4+ cell count ART initiators.
D. To assess medication adherence among high CD4+ cell count ART initiators.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-1 infection diagnosed by a rapid HIV test or any licensed ELISA test kit and documented in the participant's medical chart and re-verified at the time of study screening (hereafter: "screen date").
- Most recent CD4+ cell count ≥ 250 cells/uL:
Arm A: CD4+ cell count 250-350 cells/uL Arm B: CD4+ cell count >350 cells/uL
- Age ≥ 18 years.
- Residence within a 30 kilometer radius of the Bwizibwera HC-IV.
- Willing to initiate ART if the CD4+ cell count is ≥ 350 cells/uL.
The following laboratory values obtained at the screening visit:
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 500 cells/uL
- Hemoglobin ≥ 7.0 g/dL
- Platelet count ≥ 50,000/uL
- ALT (SGPT) ≤ 5 times greater than the upper limit of normal
- Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of ≥ 60 mL/minute by the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) formula:
eGFR = 186 * Serum creatinine-1.154 * Age-0.203 * [1.21 if African] * [0.742 if female]
- Ability to swallow oral medications.
- Ability and willingness of participant to give informed written consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Receipt at any time prior to study entry of > 7 days cumulative treatment with any ARV or combination of ARVs, except ARVs taken for any length of time during pregnancy for the prevention of mother to child transmission (pMTCT) or ARVs taken for occupational exposure.
- For Arm B participants only: allergy/sensitivity to TDF, FTC, EFV, RTV, LPV or formulations of any of these three medications, or to co-formulated Truvada®.
- Active World Health Organization (WHO) HIV stage 3 or 4 illness
- Pregnancy.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01479634
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01479634
|Bwizibwera Level IV Health Center
|Bwizibwera, Mbarara district, Uganda
|Study Chair:
|Diane Havlir, MD
|University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
|Principal Investigator:
|Vivek Jain, MD
|University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
|Principal Investigator:
|Moses Kamya, MBChB, MMed, PhD
|Makerere University School of Medicine, Kampala, Uganda
Additional Information:
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|Responsible Party:
|University of California, San Francisco
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|NCT01479634 History of Changes
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|First Submitted:
|November 22, 2011
|First Posted:
|November 24, 2011
|Last Update Posted:
|March 4, 2016
|Last Verified:
|March 2016
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SAN FRANCISCO A Stanford student led the development of the first working subsystem made from carbon nanotubes. That was one of about 200 papers from diverse fields at the 60th annual International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), where the focus is increasingly on communications and media for mobile and infrastructure systems.
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Beloit police were dispatched at 7:41 p.m. Sunday to the 900 block of 10th Street for a domestic incident. When they tried to arrest Christopher Rutherford, 40, he fled in his vehicle and hit and killed Sheila Rosenbaum, 47, Beloit, according to a department news release.
Police don't know the relationship between Rutherford and Rosenbaum.
"But a relationship had existed between the two at some point," Capt. Dan Risse said.
Officers fired an undetermined number of shots at Rutherford's fleeing vehicle, and it crashed a short distance away in the 800 block of Roosevelt Avenue. Rutherford fled on foot, but other responding officers caught him in the back yard of a home in the 700 block of Ninth Street, according to the news release.
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Sans spotlight, Lawrie poised to realize potential
On loaded squad, talented, precocious third baseman can learn at own pace
By Anthony Castrovince / MLB.com
"Two-eighteen. Don't be afraid."
This is how Brett Lawrie proffers an invitation to afternoon golf to Mark DeRosa, who does not turn it down.
"Far from being afraid," DeRosa said, "I'm in."
What we have here is a burgeoning friendship, just as the Blue Jays intended. DeRosa, 15 years Lawrie's senior and as glutinous a "glue guy" as exists in the game, was brought aboard this superstar-laden squad not to be a key component of the offense but to bring an air of professionalism both to the at-bats and interactions in this chemistry experiment of a clubhouse.
And to be sure, DeRosa's specific locker location in the Toronto clubhouse -- right next to that of Lawrie -- is no happy accident.
"I'll pay $65," DeRosa said to his neighbor, "just to see your driver."
Ah, yes. Lawrie's length off the tee is already the stuff of legend in this room. Asked for Lawrie's average distance, DeRosa exaggerates an estimate: "480 yards!"
They both laugh at this ridiculous claim, but Lawrie's athletic talent and Major League potential are no joke. What's interesting, though, is how the Blue Jays' many impactful additions have had a way of shielding Lawrie from the spotlight. The Blue Jays' supposed superstar-in-waiting is merely a side dish on Toronto's prominent plate.
"Which is great," general manager Alex Anthopoulos said. "I tell him that I'd rather it be that way. I'd rather Jose Bautista gets lost in the shuffle, too. I want enough [attention] to go around that it's not all falling on one guy. That's perfect."
Lawrie is coming off an imperfect 2012. He entered the year the subject of great hype and great expectations, based off his robust big league break-in at the end of '11 and his scorching spring camp. In the season proper, he hit .273 with a .729 OPS, 11 home runs, 26 doubles and 48 RBIs -- a respectable output for a guy in his first full season, but a mere scratching of the surface of what a player with Lawrie's five-tool skill set can accomplish.
"He played last year at 22," Anthopoulos said. "I even said it last Spring Training, when people were getting all excited, you can't take his 130 at-bats [from '11] and prorate them and say that's what he's going to do every year."
Lawrie's 2012 was loaded with learning experiences, from newsworthy spats with umpires (one of which earned him a four-game suspension) to a collision with a camera well that bruised his right calf to the oblique injury that cost him a month of action to the baserunning mishaps in which he was overly aggressive.
What remains to be seen is what Lawrie does with those learning experiences. He's a hyperactive athlete, for better and for worse, and so there's likely no taming down his sometimes body-sacrificing style of play.
Instincts are instincts, and they tend to take over.
"That's how I've been since I was this big," said Lawrie, gesturing down by his hip, "and I made it to the big leagues doing that. I don't see any reason to stop just because I got here."
Nor are the Blue Jays overly inclined to stop him. They figure he'll learn the best way to balance aggression and intellect as he accrues innings at this level.
"You'd rather have it this way," Anthopoulos said, "than have to try to get that effort level out of a player."
It doesn't take a scout to see Lawrie has enormous potential. What he lacks is the polish to consistently perform at his height. That will come with experience, and it will come with input from the veterans surrounding him.
Right now, these rounds of golf with DeRosa serve a practical purpose. A relationship is being built, and so when DeRosa does have a word of advice for Lawrie, that advice will be coming from a trusted source.
"I hope to be a sounding board for him," DeRosa said. "I hope to put him in a position to give him certain things to think about. Obviously, the talent level is there for him to be a perennial All-Star and one of the better players in the game. That's what's blown me away this first week of camp: what he's capable of from an offensive standpoint, defensive standpoint, the energy and the passion for the game that he has. If I can be a little help to him to kind of expedite the process, that's what I'm here for."
DeRosa had a similar relationship last year with Bryce Harper, and he sees no shortage of similarities between the two talents.
"Just their drive to be great," DeRosa says. "Their passion for being at the yard. Very similar, to be honest with you. Very similar. Bryce was a guy who lit our clubhouse up when he got called up, he really did. He was fun to watch, worth the price of a ticket every day. I had a lot of fun with him and hopefully was able to help him a little bit."
Lawrie has that same ability to light up a clubhouse and light it up on the field. If you want a big-time breakout candidate, he's as good as they come. But the beauty of what the Blue Jays have arranged is that there is no pressure on Lawrie to be the focal point of the offense.
"I feel like I'm in a great position," he says. "We've got a lot of great pieces to the puzzle."
And in Lawrie and DeRosa, the Blue Jays have two pieces that are already pairing quite well.
Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter at @Castrovince. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.