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Posts by Brian Scott
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Boffins brew TCP tuned to perform on lossy links like Wi-Fi networks
"As an example of how TCP congestion control can get in the way of network performance, the paper cites a broadcast of two packets to multiple receivers:"
I think I see a problem here... (hint for non-network people: TCP is very strictly point-to-point not broadcast).
In fairness I couldn't find the word broadcast in the original paper, on the story.
Google devs: Tearing Chrome away from OpenSSL not that easy
"In response to the Heartbleed debacle, a group of NetBSD developers created an OpenSSL fork called LibreSSL."
Actually, that's OpenBSD not NetBSD. OpenBSD forked from NetBSD a long time ago. They have a bit of a history doing this.
Microsoft admits it's '18 months behind' with Windows 8 slabs
"But UK director says 'iPad will become marginalised'"
He's right. Eventually the iPad will be marginalised.
Something else will be the next big thing and by then Microsoft might have a competitive tablet OS and no one will care.
If Microsoft wants to survive they need to work out what the next big market will be and start working towards that. They also need to shake the belief that the answer to everything is Windows. It may be that no one will want to buy Windows for Underpants.
The iPad really is crap in an enterprise environment and there may be a few bucks to be made building something better for that market. Unfortunately there wont be big money in it, just a few crumbs for the companies still hanging around in that space.
Free cloud server self-destructs in 35 minutes
Re: MiB?
But not GiB.
They've only partly gone over to the dark side.
Lots more virtualisation, cloud, added to TAFE courses
Re: Wrong, These are NEW units.
I apologise. It looked like a late announcement for the existing units. I look forward to reading the new units when they become available.
Um, sorry about your slow news sources. ICA11 was published in 2011.
This is the second year that we (a TAFE in regional NSW) have been using these units.
You can help fix patent laws … now!
Re: I hereby patent making sarcastic article titles
"*No right to hold a patent unless the holder actually uses it."
So I presume in your grand plans if a company were to design processors but not manufacture them, then they shouldn't be able to license others to do the manufacturing (i.e. make money off their design work).
Seems to me that many companies have a valid reason to patent things but not manufacture them. Perhaps the test should be whether they are actively trying to entice others to license the designs.
Chrome 9 debuts with WebGL, app store, instant annoyance
Installation still broken?
I presume the installer is still incapable of working if you're behind a proxy. When I've tried to install it on a work machine, the little installer would immediately die because it was incapable of navigating a proxy server (presumably to keep the installer very small). The only option has been to try to find the download that the installer downloads and bring it down manually. A task that google appeared to definitely discourage.
A lot of work and enough to make me think that it isn't a good fit in a business environment.
Then again, I gave up trying back at about version 3 or so.
Windows 0day allows malicious code execution
0 Day?
So, information about the vulnerability has been published, microsoft have been made aware of it, and some time later (guessing > 0 days) we will have exploits in the wild.
How on earth is this then a 0-day vulnerability?
Google open sources Apache server speed mod
Open source?
For an "Open Source" project there seems to be a pretty big emphasis on binaries. I suppose the source code is there if you look very hard but certainly not on the downloads page.
Shouldn't this be classed as open binaries?
Microsoft says XP netbooks die on October 22
re: Ubuntu Linux Netbook Remix
> looks easier on the eye due to being optimised for low resolution screens
That would be except for the dialog boxes that are larger than the screen. How many tab keys to you type blind before hitting space and hoping you got the OK button and not the cancel button? Its fun to guess (often 2 but 3 needed on network manager) but definitely not easier on the eye or optimised for low resolution.
Woman called Window joins Apple
or the very famous...
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Anti-Internet Explorer 6 protests grow with online petition
Just a little point in favour of IE6.
The old adobe SVG browser plugin worked with IE6 and gave reasonable results for embedded SVGs in web pages. As I recall, when adobe dropped support for their plugin ("all reasonable browsers have native SVG support built in") some years ago, IE7 and IE8 didn't exist and therefore don't work.
Embedded SVG was a good way to crash IE7 in some quite entertaining ways. I haven't tried it with IE8.
I think microsoft are considering adding SVG support to IE9 or 10, so in the meantime if you must access websites using important internet standards you should either use IE6 and the unsupported plugin or any other browser released in the last 5 years.
Mozilla lights fire under Thunderbird
Happily using IMAP with Thunderbird
I've been running thunderbird for a few years now, mostly because their IMAP support is better than entourage or apple's mail. I use outlook at work because of an exchange server but find that its IMAP support is a bit clunky when I connect it up to other servers.
Web based email always seems like the poor cousin of real email clients. Its something you do when you are forced to, not because you want to.
On a command line my preference is for mutt.
Thunderbird hangs occasionally (mostly when I sleep my laptop while its checking mail) but not so much that I care.
I would happily move to a better email client if one existed. If that was Thunderbird 3 then good. If someone else gets their act together then they will get a convert.
As the developers of mutt said "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less."
IBM lab builds computerized cat brain
"petaFLOPS per second"
The PS at the end of petaFLOPS stands for Per Second. The additional per second isn't required unless we are dealing with an acceleration (i.e. per second per second). Alternatively you could use "petaFLO per second" but nobody would know what you mean.
Only mildly less annoying than people that drop the final S when there is only of them (e.g. 1 petaFLOP).
Does the Linux desktop need to be popular?
@Robert Pogson
"The usability issues are gone on a well-configured OEM installation. eeePC showed that."
Have you ever used the rubbish Xandros install on a eeePC? My wife demanded I fix it within a day of getting one. She is now happily using eeebuntu. I look at eeebuntu and think that it is appalling that many of the dialog boxes are too big to fit on the screen so you have to guess how many times to hit the tab key (to select an unseen OK button rather than the equally hidden Cancel button).
Xandros 0/10
Eeebuntu 5/10
*nothing* gets 10/10
This is meant to be a core market for Linux and they don't get it.
Researchers forge secure kernel from maths proofs
Unfortunately a mathematical proof of correctness may prove that some set of known types of bugs don't exist and it may prove that the program actually matches the specification. What it doesn't prove is that the program is what the customer wanted (i.e. the specification is never complete and will change over time so insisting on it being complete and static is a very good way to get a disappointed customer).
Does proof of correctness result in code that is optimally able to be maintained (oops, sorry - if it starts out life correct then it never needs maintenance does it?).
More importantly, our happy user needs to use this kernel to do some real work so they install a web server on it, along with php, then hire a cheap programmer that has read a book on PHP to write applications for it.
The eventual end user knows nothing about any of this and compromises the integrity of the system by writing down passwords on sticky pieces of paper or surfing pr0n sites that use have bonus cross site request forgeries embedded in them....
It may be nice to have a more robust Kernel but I think the money would be better spent on researching how to fix the real problems that plague computer systems.
XML flaws threaten 'enormous' array of apps
So let me get this straight,
"we tested out some XML frameworks and some of them broke". Good, this is nice to know. Now tell me which ones so I can see if I have a problem. Not telling? The CERN advisory has a very short list but if that is the full extent of what they found then its not much. @Fazal Majid says that expat has a problem - OK, that's interesting to me.
"broke things might run other people's code". True. Do any of these top pieces of software break like that or is this just a statement of general principle? I agree with the principle but not all broken software breaks in the same way.
"here is a list of XML parsing software - we haven't tested most of it but it may all be broken". Or not. I'm having a little trouble with this logic. I want a list of what these guys have tested, not a wikipedia entry on XML.
"We have a piece of software that everyone should be using to test their libraries". OK, now I understand what this article is all about - its an advertisement.
In reality most XML parsing software is regularly tested with broken XML. I do it all the time without even trying. A typo here, a misplaced character there, some broken encoding, whatever. And what happens? I get a message telling me that my XML is broken. Just like it should. Now, if the application using the library is too stupid to realise that something is broken and chugs on regardless then bad things might happen, or if the application lets the library stop the program (very unusual in my experience) then we might have a denial of service attack against the application.
Many applications using XML do so with XML that is completely under control of the software or the local user so there isn't likely to be any direct threat. Its only the applications that process XML from untrusted sources that are at risk.
Maybe not everyone is doomed after all.
Comcast trials
Domain Helper service DNS hijacker
A good jon for DNSSEC
Roll on DNSSEC aware resolvers and the fraudulent DNS entries for the non-existent domains will result in a local error on the client machine.
Rather than seeing the "Domain Helper" service, users will just see a warning that someone upstream is fraudulently altering their traffic. They will then move to a different ISP to avoid the warning. Eventually the ISPs will work it out or die. Easy.
AVG scanner blasts internet with fake traffic
Not only does it hurt websites and dialup users
I was hurriedly removing this from a friends dialup computer and took the opportunity to trace the network traffic while connected to my broadband connection.
First thing I noticed was a lot of failed POSTs as it tried to tell explabs.net about browsing history. Nice one - people would pay very good money to AVG for this information. Hopefully they have a privacy policy (haven't checked) but it does go over the internet in clear text so it cause save your ISP some trouble. This can be turned off during installation.
What worries me is that it uses 'Cache-Control: no-cache' on its requests. This means they are also causing proxy servers to do more work downloading content. OK, not everyone has a proxy on their home network but I notice that my ISP has a transparent proxy and it must be wrecking their links.
World economy group gives IPv6 big push
Re: Death of IPv4??
Actually, I saw a paper a while back explaining why IPv6 addresses would run out much sooner than expected. I forget the details but my understanding was that it was caused by stupid administrative practices.
By convention, the bottom 64 bits is made up from a slightly modified version of the MAC address of the network interface, thus every network is automatically provisioned to be able to have every network device in the whole world connected to it at once. This is possibly overkill.
ISPs would give out /48 addresses so you can do your own subnetting (16 bits, 65536 subnets - should be enough, even for me). We are now down to 2**48 possible connections to ISPs.
The addresses available to an ISP are part of an allocation sold to their upstream providers, and so on up the pole. Everyone in the chain needs a sufficiently large allocation of subnets that they wont run out any time in the future.
I think that this sort of thinking is very similar to the old 'give everyone an A class address so everyone will have lots of flexibility' thinking from the dawn of the internet. We all know the mess that caused when more than 125 companies wanted to play.
IPv6 was never designed to have 2**128 devices connected. The fact that it has 128 bit addresses leads some people to draw the wrong conclusions.
I run IPv6 at home with no thanks to my ISP or router vendor. The only advantages at this stage seem to be the swimming turtle at www.kame.net and learning about something that everyone else will be learning in a hurry in a few years time.
Patent law passed in US, but Presidential veto could follow
Won't this make things worse?
I could have misread it but doesn't "first to file" mean we will get a lot more patents for things that are blindingly obvious and in common use just because no one has tried to patent them before? Has breathing been patented or will someone (having read my post) be "first" to file?
It seems to me this only benefits the big companies that can generate patents everytime someone on their payroll has an idea. The rest of us loose out because we don't have the budget to get patents for everything we do - to date we have believed that prior art protected our use of our ideas from subsequent patent applications.
Apple's Safari 3: a crashing experience for non-US users
I tried it but it crashes. It looks like it can't handle our local proxy setup (configured through a proxy script and then authenticated with NTLM) so it crashes. The only work around seems to be to not load any web pages - not really a viable option for a web browser. You can't turn off the proxy settings (as someone pointed it it just uses IE's settings and my settings at work are locked done by group policy) so I can't even test it on local content. I think the most remarkable thing about this is the complete lack of feedback channel for me to point his out to apple. I'm happy to regard it as a beta and send back feedback but it seems odd to only want feedback from people that it works properly for.
Anyway, its obvious that this is being rushed out because it (or the webkit component) forms some key component in the new version of iTunes for Vista so they need to get most of it working on windows anyway.
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tricky tricky going on my computer and making me follow you, but i really like your blog :)
i think you need to take a step back, i know things can suck but you shouldnt believe for a second no one would care if you were gone. We would care
so I was just driving high and I stopped to let a pinecone cross the road because I thought it was a hedgehog.I told you I was good to drive (1-915): dumbass I drove… you sat in the passengers seat and steered with a paper plate
seriously iPhone. stop autocorrecting all my fucks into ducks. you're making all my strong worded texts look harmless and adorable.
hey this is lauren, i have to type for jon because he's convinced the tongs he's holding are his real hands
ivy is such a bitter bitch! leave michael c the fuck alone. If you think he's a bad designer FINE, but he didn't cheat he beat you fair and square and you need to shut up and get a life.


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I don't go to etsy that much - mainly because I'm going to want too many things I can't afford. I know someone who has a store on there, so decided to look at hers.
barelymeasured offers handbags, aprons… all sorts of stuffs. nice designs made from colorful materials. I even considered getting something.
some thoughts:
- there weren't that many items, so either she was starting to build her stock of items, or she kept only some up on the store - a smart marketing move?
- her story on the profile page was nice… a simple story that made me want to at least take another look at her products =)
- it was hard to spot, but on the main page, there's a banner which announces a Fall giveaway - and has a link to her blog (this should be easier to access, by the way!)
- the blog is really nice! she talks about her craft, and the care she puts into her products, her process, and her journey. this is where she connects with her community. I do wish that the blog was more apparent on the etsy page though.


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Goldstar Member's Event Journal
Journey Unauthorized
Friday October 19, 2012 / 7:30pmJourney Unauthorized
2 tickets
Price Level 2 Main Floor Special
5400 N. River Road
Rosemont, IL 60018
How was your experience?
This was the worst concert ever. Did not sound anything like Journey. There was a terrible buzzing. We left after the third song. I do not know how they ever got out of the garage.


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Field Operations
Been waiting on my technician for 7 hours. You lost another customer. Bye bye Bright house. 12 year customer tired of being screwed over by you. Kiss that $200 goodbye.
Been waiting on my technician for 7 hours. You lost another customer. Bye bye Bright house. 12 year customer tired of being screwed over by you. Kiss that $200 goodbye.
It is 330 PM I called at 10 AM and a call was put in for our phone service for today. It was even put in a an EMERGENCY CALL. Phone has been out 6 of the past 10 days, and I have received 3 different prices for the same service. I call the corporate office thinking I can get some help there, but the cooperate office of this large company only has ONE PERSON to talk to and if she is busy (and she will be) leave her a message and she will call you back within 24 hours Cox might be expensive but at least their service works!!
I was just appalled and quite surprised to see Brighthouse Networks following a "Free Palastine" "Free Gaza" Twitter page. Every one is entitled to their own opinion, but big corporations, who have customers from all walks of life, should keep their opinions to themselves.
I paid my last payment on 01/25/2014 and also returned equipment on 01/25/2014. I am sure that I was paid up on this day, but you have a collection agency after me for $71.17. I feel that this is in error. Duffy Martin
False Advertising.....they are the kings. who else is there for internet in Inverness FL?
Hey - for all of you who cannot reach corporate, try this: http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=9316967
Your corporate office number is not even a working number you shisters.
I am leaving bright house because they are a bunch of liars and never show up for their appointments. My husband was on phone with your incompetent personnel for 2 hours after the technician cancelled the appointment himself. The supervisor called my husband a liar even when the notes showed we called 3 times when they did not show for our appointment. How funny they offered 25.00 for the mishap what a joke . Bright house needs to be accountable for their crappy service. We will be leaving so long brighthouse u guys are terrible . No more money from us don't use them
I wish there was a lower rating for the horrid treatment and service I have had from Brighthouse. Constant problems with digital boxes. I am disabled and was left fixing the box by these people. It took a yr for them to admit it was no good and to change it out for a new box that worked. Then they sent work people to put wires in ground and they were laying all over my backyard for 2 hrs with a cooler. When my son asked them to please move from our backyard they refused. Now I aks for simle information from them only to be left waiting 2 weeks. AGAIN i have a disability and rely on doing things by phone. They have overcharged me. I will be cancelling.
I have had 3 cable boxes break in 6 months. I was trying to get my 4th and I was scheduled for a 10-12 service. Then called back for a 6-8 service and then called back to see to reschedule for another day. This service sucks!!!! I canceled it
your service is the worst .box locks up ,slow to change channels dvr takes forever miss end of some recording. If I could get an other provider I would dump you, speed to slow you want more money for everything. you evean have black outs like direct so don't say no black outs. your automated system is also a pain in my head. first most people call to say my box is locked but all you care is say is it billing or payment not service bad business I think ill twitter and see how many people agree, unsatisfied
Anyone else interested in having The Blaze TV part of Bright House programming? If so, contact Bright House and ask for The Blaze TV.
on june 2 a man from brighthouse knocked on my door said i was stealing cable i told him i pay my bill every month he said i was getting standard and not paying for it i told him i did not climb the pole and change it one of ur service men did it im 68 and cannot even climb a step ladder then he proceeded to tell me if i slip cash thru him hands he would not do anything i told him i live on 700 and month and not giving u a penny then he proceeded to ask me if i had pain pills i told him i don t take pain pills if that is the kind of service people u send out to correct a mistake UR service men made u can come and take all the crap out which i called and it will be gone thrusday
People are not aware how computers work. Also need classed in Billing and customer care. For if over payments are made and/or late payments are made the computer does what it wants without requires to payment schedules or payments made.
I have 3 bright house services (cable, phone and internet) and they are wonderful. We've NEVER had bad customer service and our up time is probably 99%. Much better than Dish and CC! We had a bright house tech come out just last week to upgrade to a hd dvr. He installed our new box then he hooked up our home theatre, programmed our remote and helped my husband mount a tv on the wall. Davenport, FL
For the past two months, Bright House has provided substandard cable service and I am being charitable saying substandard. The channels were constantly going down, including Encore channel. We pay an additional fee for this service. When we called to report the outage, the representative would alway indicate there were no reports of problems in our area. Meanwhile, my neighbors with Bright House were experiencing similar problems. This past Saturday, the technician told us that there had been a widespread cable problem in our area for the past two months but the problem had been solved and we should have no further outages. Well, a day later, Encore is down again. What a mess.
I ordered new services and when they arrived they told me the people that lived there before stole cable and they had to rewire the whole house. I called the main number and after being on hold for over an HOUR, I finally spoke to a representative. She told me they would take care of everything and I had nothing to worry about and they would send someone out the next morning to fix everything for me. The next morning, the cable guy came out and tried to charge me for fixing the jumbled mess and then left saying he would return. He never returned and I still dont have my services. After calling back and speaking with a supervisor, he promised me I would be up and running that same, day, no one came back and no one called. I'm taking my services to another company that actually wants to work with me!!!
I have had nothing but trouble for the last few months. All my Bright House services...phone, internet and cable TV constantly break up and fail. I must use my cell phone if I want a reliable connection. I have had many technicians out to repair, but nothing gets fixed. It seems all the techs are trained to say the same things..."I'll monitor your line and get back to you." If there was another cable company around like Fios, I would jump on it in a minute. Worst service problems I have ever experiencd.
I have been have problems at my home since May 2012, I have had over 30 Repersentativs at in and at my home since May,2012, I have spoken to numrous supervisors,Missed appointment, sitting home missing work, Brighthouse no show no call i mssed 3 hours here 2 hours there and when they final arrive and asset the promblem they immediately start throughing the previous technician under the bus. i love this one, your appointment is between 2 and 4.The technician show up at 11;30 am and calls im at your house. As of today i still have problems with Brighthouse. The advertisement offers are very,very fase. One day there will be enough people that will come together and hold Bright House Accountible for the false advertisement. As of todays date 11/2/2012 i have put together a folder thats starting to over run with dates times and repersentatives id #. One day Bright House someone will hold you guys accountable for that false advertisement. Customers need to come together to fight this problem. They cant just keep charging for their services and not be held accountable for there false advertisement. THANKS AGAIN BRIGH HOUSE FOR NOTHING, BUT A BILL ONCE A MONTH.
Were the hell !###%** is the NFl net work it sad that ,the only major serives that doze carry. It dame shame ... And very for bissness


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I'm getting sick of people sugar-coating the relaxer. conditioning or not, the fact still stands. you are chemically altering the protein structure of your hair.
While most of the people around me have embraced and admired or just accepted my decision to stop relaxing my hair, there's always a few people who think they can 'help you' change YOUR mind about YOUR hair.
I'm coming up to my 3rd year of being natural….If you couldn't change my mind before, what makes you think you can now?
i'll be blunt but don't get me wrong…a relaxer IS bad for your hair to an extent, just like hair dye…but does that mean you shouldn't do it..? Well that's YOUR decision and whatever it is…I WILL respect it just like you SHOULD respect mine. Some people's hair can handle a relaxer with minimum breakage and that is absolutely fine…whatever works for you. At the end of the day, its YOUR hair.
ON THE OTHER HAND, what ISN'T acceptable is you trying to impose your views on someone else.
'You'd better get a relaxer like me or your hair won't be pretty'
I'll be the judge of that thank you. by the way, Define pretty. bone straight hair?
if you fail to see the beauty and wonder in diversity amongst each and every individual on this planet from hair texture down to the shape of your cupid's bow…then no offence..
but you have REAL issues.
that is all.
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There has been relatively less study of the variability of the Southern Hemisphere (SH) atmospheric circulation than of that of the Northern Hemisphere (NH). There are a number of reasons for this; the lower population and greater ocean areas in the SH mean that observational records are sparser and there have been fewer people to analyze them. In this brief and incomplete review, I will concentrate on studies of the variability of the SH tropospheric circulation, starting at interannual time scales and moving onto longer time scales. This progression is justified by the available observational data and the number of relevant studies, as outlined below.
Detailed and regular observations of the troposphere over much of the SH did not start until the International Geophysical Year in 1957-1958, when the number of SH upper-air sounding stations increased markedly. Operational subjective analyses of the SH circulation have been prepared since that time by the Australian and South African weather services. The introduction of meteorological satellites in the late 1960s led to the development of the first operational objective numerical-analysis scheme for the SH at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in 1972. Hence, objective numerical analyses for the SH are available for only the last 20 years, and upper-air sounding data are available for only about 30 years.
Hemispheric numerical analyses have been used to investigate the interannual variability of the SH circulation, particularly over the last decade (Trenberth, 1979; Rogers and van Loon, 1982; Mo and van Loon, 1984; Mo and White, 1985; Kidson, 1988a,b; Karoly, 1989a; and others). In addition, radiosonde station data have also been used for similar investigations by Szeredi and Karoly (1987a,b). The results of these studies of the dominant modes of variability of the SH circulation on interannual time scales are summarized in the next section.
Since these upper-air data are available for a short period only, it is not possible to use them to describe variations on decadal time scales or longer. There are longer records of surface meteorological observations for SH stations, some extending back to before the turn of the century. The equivalent-barotropic vertical structure for the low-frequency tropospheric variations (Szeredi and Karoly, 1987a) permits these surface records to be used to provide some information on decadal variability in the SH. However, there have been no comprehensive studies of decadal time-scale variability for the SH. More recently, Jones (1991, hereafter referred to as J91) has reconstructed from station data a gridded mean sea-level pressure data set for the SH that extends back to 1911. J91 and Allan and Haylock (1993) have used this data set to consider decadal variations of the SH circulation. These and a few other studies of long surface records are described briefly below, although the others have generally concentrated on variations of El Niño and the Southern Oscillation.
In an attempt to provide some evidence of the range of SH variability on century time scales, some climate reconstructions based on proxy data are discussed below. Although these proxy data are available for very few sites in the SH, they constitute the only source of data on natural climate variability on century time scales for the SH. More extensive descriptions of proxy data for the SH are provided in Chapter 5 of this volume.
Relatively less attention has been paid to low-frequency variations of the SH circulation than to those of the NH, probably because of the shorter time period for which analysis data sets are available. Trenberth (1979), Kidson (1988a), and Shiotani (1990) have used zonal-mean data to show that there are large low-frequency variations of the zonal-mean circulation in the SH involving variations of the zonal wind and associated dipole variations of geopotential height. Mo and White (1985, hereafter referred to as MW) carried out a teleconnection analysis for the SH (similar to that of Wallace and Gutzler (1981) for the NH) using 8 years of monthly mean SH analyses. From their grid-point correlation maps, they identified three modes of variation: a zonally symmetric dipole mode at middle to high latitudes, a zonal wave-number-three mode in winter, and a continent-ocean contrast in summer. Szeredi and Karoly (1987b, hereafter referred to as SK) used the longer period of upper-air station data available for the SH (up to 30 years) to investigate low-frequency variations. They found two dominant modes of monthly variation in the station data that were primarily zonally symmetric, involving opposing departures of height between middle and high latitudes in one case and between the tropics and middle latitudes in the other. The sparse and irregular station network in the SH meant that only the largest-scale modes could be identified.
More recently, the technique of unrotated and rotated principal-component analysis (PCA) has been applied to grid-point analyses of the SH to clarify the typical modes of low-frequency variations of the SH circulation in a number of different studies. These may be separated into two groups according to the time scale of interest: Periods longer than about 50 days, including interannual variations, have been considered by Rogers and van Loon (1982), Kidson (1988b, hereafter referred to as K88), and Karoly (1989b), while another group concentrated on intraseasonal variability. The results are similar for different studies of the same time-scale fluctuations, and differences can usually be explained in terms of differences in analysis method, such as PCA of the correlation (Karoly, 1989b) or covariance matrix (K88), use of different variables (300 hPa height by


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Sorry about continuing this thread... I noticed a few people discussing
this topic and wondering about new ways to look at quarantining hosts.
There's a working group within the US Internet2 community that's been working
on a generalized architecture and set of white-papers that our member
institutions can share. If you're interested, check out the two
drafts that we have so far (SALSA-Netauth working group):
Architecture for Automating Network Policy (PDF)
Strategies for Automating Network Policy Enforcement
We'd welcome any thoughts, criticism, complaints, praise, etc...
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New Blog
I will no longer be using this blog to post my findings. I have a new visual blog called LOOK_ where you can all follow me ;)
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I will no longer be using this blog to post my findings. I have a new visual blog called LOOK_ where you can all follow me ;)
Pointe Blank } Coppélia
I was recently asked to take part in an exhibition for Birmingham Royal Ballet. Myself and 26 other artists and designers were invited to produce a piece of artwork in the form of a poster that would depict the story of Coppélia.
For my submission (shown above) I wanted to mimic the way Dr Coppélius gave Coppélia human characteristics.
The final result was a trace of a photo I took of the large cut-out letters, I am still undecided as to whether I should have just used the photo I took.
Check out all the other great submissions here.
Teaser from Ashley O'Brien
Jobplot Interview
I had a little interview with Jobplot recently. You can see the full thing on their website_
Rosendahl Watches } Arne Jacobsen Design Icons
I came across these handsome watches whilst in Stockholm recently. The designs are based on Arne Jacobsen wall clocks - Banker's, Roman and City Hall. Each watch is simply a scaled down version of the original wall clock and come in three different sizes.
Take a look at this beautifully detailed digital orrery animation - created by Piotr Kaczmarek - Click on the image and you can view the solar system according to the Copernican (sun-centered) or Tychonian (earth-centered) model.
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I used the wizard provided with the 3DS Studio Max 2012 installer to create a deployment...only problem is rather than created the expected MSI file it has created a folder from which you have to run a 'lnk' shortcut file!
Am I doing something wrong? I just want to create a Group Policy to deploy the thing!


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Brazil is Scaring People Again With This Latest Prank Involving a Corpse in an Elevator [VIDEO]
A week or so ago, we revealed a Brazilian prank that involved a ghost in an elevator. Well, they're at it again with this latest prank that totally screws with people's heads. Check out this epic corpse in an elevator prank.


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2470 Frederick Douglass Boulevard has a Walk Score of 94 out of 100. This location is a Walker's Paradise so daily errands do not require a car.
2470 Frederick Douglass Boulevard is a six minute walk from the A 8 Avenue Express, the B 6 Avenue Express and the C 8 Avenue Local at the 135 St stop.
This location is in the Harlem neighborhood in New York. Nearby parks include Herman Goldman Center For Sports And Recreation (historical), Saint Nicholas Playground North and Saint Nicholas Park.
Nearby schools include St Aloysius School, PS 129 John H Finley School and Kipp Infinity Charter School.
The closest grocery stores are Hadwan Gourmet Deli, Fine Fair Supermarket and Leonel Mini Market.
Nearby coffee shops include Lil' Bites Café, Elsie's Caribbean Cafe and Dunkin' Donuts. There are 201 restaurants within a 15 minute walk including Chicken Crown Chicken, Crown fried Chicken and J Restaurant Chez Asta.
2470 Frederick Douglass Boulevard is near Herman Goldman Center For Sports And Recreation (historical), Saint Nicholas Park and Saint Nicholas Playground North.
There are some bike lanes and the terrain is mostly flat. 2470 Frederick Douglass Boulevard is bikeable, there is some bike infrastructure.


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So I was suffering from a severe craving of dumplings today, but not just any old dumplings. Homemade ones~ Of course I've never actually made them myself before, so it was an interesting experience. Making the dough wasn't too hard, I have no idea how to knead though so I just made it up as I went. The dough didn't look particularly amazing, but it was good enough so I rolled it out, chopped it into 20 pieces and rolled each one flat. Making the pleats was stupidly hard though. Most of them looked horrid but a few turned out okay! The kitchen is basically covered in a layer of flour, and there are dirty dishes everywhere but my god these dumplings turned out well and taste amazzzzzzijnggggg.
How was your day?
1. if you ever want to wear mommy's make-up, just make sure you don't eat it. when it's time to go to bed, I will help you wash it off.
2. when school starts and you want to jump rope instead of play kickball, be careful not to trip and hurt your knees.
3. if you grow up and a boy makes your heart hurt, you do not have to be ashamed.
4. if you fall in love with a girl
who wears the same clothes
as you, it will be easy for me to buy you both presents.
5. if I teach you anything, I will teach you to be gentle.
6. you are not Atlas and the world
is not a burden for you to carry.
7. if you do not like your body, if you feel like you were put inside the wrong one, I will stand by and watch you become again.
8. because we are human beings and we do not always have to
take what we are given.
9. I will love you constantly, fervently, always.
10. I will teach you the value of
the word "no" so that, when you hear it, you do not question it.
11. when the war comes
and you want to fight, I will
sleep with clenched fists until you come home to me.
12. when the war comes and you don't want to go, I will sleep soundly.
13. you are allowed to be soft. you are allowed to break and bend. you do not have to be strong. you do not have to be a soldier.
Pork Sundae omggg
Drools uncontrollably
Goodbye old friend.
shit i only have 4gb left before im capped and it needs to last me 9 days fml


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- Henry David Thoreau
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The 400 wealthiest families in the U.S. aren't just filthy rich, they are downright dirty. Collectively, these households own $1.37 trillion dollars; a number so high that it's nearly impossible to comprehend. Here are 11 shocking things $1.37 trillion can buy that you can't.
- The richest 400 households can pay off every student loan for every single student in the entire United States. No more paying for an education, so that you can get a good job so that you can… well, pay off your education.
- The richest 400 could pay your rent, and the rent of every single renter in the entire United States for three years.
- The richest 400 could pay the mortgages of every house in the whole country for 14 full months.
- The richest 400 households can buy every single house that was foreclosed on in 2007 and 2008.
- The richest 400 households could pay the annual salaries of 19 million families for one year. So go ahead, take that year-long, family vacation around the world you've always dreamed of.
- The richest 400 can pay off all credit card debt for every single person in the entire United States. Imagine that! No more credit card debt looming over your shoulders!
- The richest 400 households can afford to give a $10,000 bonus to every single worker in the entire country. What would a hardworking person like you do with that extra money?
- The richest 400 can afford to buy a new car for every family in the United States. Meanwhile, many of us must ignore the flashing check engine light.
- The richest 400 can pay for 3 ½ years worth of gas for every driver in the country.
- The richest 400 households can afford to triple the number of teachers in the United States, then give every single one a $30,000 raise. Teachers are being laid off everywhere, their salaries are being cut, and they are suffering. Teacher-to-student ratios in schools are abysmal. But what can we do about it when so much wealth is in the pockets of so few families?
- The richest 400 families alone could replace 70% of all money lost in the Great Recession, for everyone! How much money did you, your parents, or grandparents lose in the Great Recession of 2008? 30%, 50% of your portfolio? Not only do the rich still have enough money to fund their wildest dreams, but they can also fund your retirements.
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call me hopeless and laugh at my wistful sighing
as i dream of futures not yet made.
chide me for my childlike optimism
that my story will end with you written beside me.
but i've seen how beautiful the world can be
in small wonders of gentle kindnesses
and soft steady heartbeats of love returned
and i know that it can be that way again.
Coming to Barneys in August: the first handbag collection by THE ROW, Mary Kate and Ashley's uber-chic fashion line. We love them all – how to decide which is our favorite?? Might be the little one on the top far right… which one do you like most?
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basically the coolest graphs ever
This pretty awesome data viz from Stamen shows when you're most likely to get beaten or have your stuff set on fire in 25 major cities. Houstonites have sticky fingers (theft is 63% of crime) and San Franciscans are fighters (55% of crimes are assaults). What's your city's vice?
For those of you who don't believe there is beauty in science. This is a dissociated hippocampal neuron with an antibody stain against MAP2, a common cell body and dendritic marker. Billions of these guys make up the human brain through trillions of synaptic connections. Neurons really are beautiful.
Image taken from our own lab.
—Riccardo Tisci (via juliac393)
Answer: They are all in the same "possible risk of causing cancer" category.
Hmm, could the media be overreacting about those "cell phones = cancer" reports? Impossible! :)


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123-233 Old Cemetery Road has a Walk Score of 8 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so almost all errands require a car.
Nearby schools include Pepperell Primary Elementary School, New Pepperell High School and Pepperell Middle School.
The closest grocery stores are Atlanta Gourmet Mushrooms Llc and Piggly Wiggly.
Nearby restaurants include Pizza Hut, SUBWAY® Restaurants and Lindale Cafe.


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The FitPAWS Giant Balance Disc has a 22" working surface and can be used for weight-bearing exercises, balance training, and core training for performance dogs. The professional-grade, heavy-duty PVC material is formulated for use with dogs, providing superior gripping and resisting damage caused by dog nails. The FitPAWS Giant Balance Disc has two training surfaces, a flat/smooth side and a textured surface. The balance challenge can be easily adjusted by removing or adding air with an air pump (not included).
When not using the Balance Disc with your dog, you can use it for yourself to improve balance and joint stabilization, strengthen and tone core muscles, and encourage proper posture.
Comes with a free training DVD. The disc can also be used with the Pilates for Pooches canine conditioning program and the Osteoarthritis and Your Dog DVD.
About Proper Inflation: The more you inflate the FitPAWS Giant Balance Disc, the more dynamically it will move when your dog is on top and the more challenging it will be. The less you inflate the Giant Balance Disc, the less challenging it will be. It is recommended that you start at a medium inflation level. Please be aware that as you inflate your FitPAWS Giant Balance Disc with more air, the flexible sides of the disc may wrinkle to allow for the additional air. This is normal and will not affect the functionality of the disc.
- FitPAWS Balance Discs are shipped uninflated. Air pump is required to inflate.
- Because of the box size, this item cannot be shipped to Australia, China, or South Africa.
- Because of its weight, this item is excluded from any storewide free shipping offers.


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Re: Birth Doula here to help!
I have a question for you... When should we be able to hear the baby's heartbeat at home with a stethoscope (sp?)? We have a 4 year old that is so excited that she cannot contain it. She got to go to the first ultra sound and see the baby and hear the heartbeat then, but wants to hear it every day. I am only 12 weeks 2 days and I am pretty sure thats way to early. I don't want to try and dissappoint her. Any information on this would be great!


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The synthesis and magnetic properties of nanosized hematite (a-Fe2O3) particles
Raming, T.P. and Winnubst, A.J.A. and Kats van, C.M. and Philipse, A.P. (2002) The synthesis and magnetic properties of nanosized hematite (a-Fe2O3) particles. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 249 (2). pp. 346-350. ISSN 0021-9797
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|The synthesis of nanosized superparamagnetic hematite particles by dissolving ferric salts in hydrochloric acid and heating at 100°C is described. A hydrolysis reaction causes the formation of hematite particles. The influence of the sequence of additions on the resulting precipitates was studied using TEM and XRD. The magnetic behavior was characterized by magnetization measurements. It was found that small changes in the reaction conditions led to remarkable changes in final size and shape of the hematite crystallites. A well-defined subrounded morphology and an average diameter of 41 nm were obtained for superparamagnetic hematite particles. This is the largest size reported thus far for superpara-magnetic hematite particles.
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text: We are wrapping up our "33 Sakes in 33 Days" as we celebrate Ten Thousand Waves' 33rd birthday by drawing the name of the Grand Prize- an overnight stay for two at Ten Thousand Waves, a premium hot tub, complete, therapeutic message for two and finally a fantastic dinner for two at Izanami hosted my yours truly. We had several hundred entries in our contest and you had to work for this one by paying attention to my Sake Symposiums and taking your own notes. Hopefully, you have all learned more about sake than you knew at the beginning. So, without further ado....the winner is Joy Berkley! Joy and her guest will be joining us for a delicious dinner at Izanami and of course, some very fine sake. Now I'll get to test her knowledge of sake. Thanks to all of you for being such good sake students and a huge thank you to Deborah, Duke, Linda, Derek and Kaz for making this the best experience ever. Go up to Ten Thousand Waves and celebrate their 33rd birthday and be sure to stop by Izanami and sample some of this divine sake I've been talking about for 33 days today!


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To make reservations by phone, call 1-800-228-2800 in the USA and Canada (or any of our worldwide reservation telephone numbers).
Fairfield Inn Bay City
4105 East Wilder Road
Bay City, Michigan 48706 USA
Airport Phone: 1 989 695 5555
Hotel direction: 15 miles SW
Turn right on Garfield Rd. Enter US-10 West. Enter I-75 South. Exit off of Exit 164 Wilder Rd.
This hotel does not provide shuttle service.
Airport Phone: 1 810 234 2357
Hotel direction: 45 miles S
Take I-75/US23 to exit 164, Wilder Road. Take Wilder Road east 3 miles to State Street. Turn left onto State Street. Hotel is on right side of road. Enter hotel through enterance of Bay City Mall.
This hotel does not provide shuttle service.
For more information call the general manager of the hotel


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Yesterday I wrote out a list of ten people/places/things that I feel are very underrated in Philadelphia and the surrounding area, now comes the fun part, being negative and ridiculing those people/places/things that I feel are overrated. Believe it or not, this was actually a more difficult list to compile, which really speaks for how many great things we have in this city.
10. Love Park
If you were to ask me about Love Park ten years ago, I would have said great things about it, especially given its importance to the Philadelphia skateboard community. Then, Mayor John Street had to spend millions of dollars of public money making sure he screwed it up as much as possible so skateboarders couldn't go there. Now, what exactly is the point of Love Park? It's nothing more than a sign, a fountain, and a bunch of people who get their picture taken in front of the sign and the fountain (which obscures the view of the Philadelphia Museum of Art during the summer months). I don't mind people who get their picture taken in front of it, in fact, I encourage it. What I do mind is that the city making business permits to operate in Love Park really expensive, so you can't even get food there or anything. Oh, but there is a gift shop, because by the city's nonsensical logic, it's the ONLY place where you can buy stuff with the LOVE emblem on it.
9. Radio 104.5
What a shame. When Radio 104.5 came onto the scene, I fell in love instantly. Finally, here was a radio station that got it. It took what Y100 was, and made it better. This was a great radio station that played good rock songs of the current day, but also mixed in other great picks like The Smiths, Oasis, Depeche Mode, and the Violent Femmes. You also wouldn't hear a lot of commercials, which was their main selling point. Now, a few years later, there is nothing distinguishable about Radio 104.5. The variety that used to be endearing about the station is gone. Now, they pretty much pick ten artists and just play their songs to the point of nausea. I like the Foo Fighters and Mumford and Sons as much as anybody else, but I don't like that it's practically all they play. That Foster the People song "Pumped Up Kicks" was good the first five hundred times I heard it, now I feel like that song should be played during a ritualistic cult suicide. It's still about the music as opposed to radio personalities at Radio 104.5, which does distinguish it from other stations in Philly, but the music has really gone downhill there. Now what?
8. Drinking in Manayunk
The transformation of Manayunk from a depressed and hopeless area along the Schuylkill River Canal into a vibrant area of bars, local businesses, and restaurants has been a true Philadelphia success story, and I am very happy for Manayunk that it has achieved such success. I still enjoy going there during the afternoon hours to eat at some of the great restaurants it has to offer, and to walk around Main Street. Then, nightfall hits. This is when Manayunk turns lousy for me. First, parking everywhere in Philly is bad, but do to geography and sheer numbers of people, parking in Manayunk is atrocious. Good luck finding a spot, it's next to impossible and that includes all of Manayunk and some of Roxborough, not just Main Street. Then, there are the droves of obnoxious suburbanites who have to constantly scream in your ear about how they love getting drunk in Philly. combined with every douchebag from Temple, Philadelphia University, Penn, Drexel, and St Joe's…all in one area. There are other places in the city that are much more fun to enjoy a night out in, such as the Gayborhood and Northern Liberties. Manayunk is good for an afternoon, but no fun at night.
7. Chickie's and Pete's
Chickie's and Pete's is a product of very good marketing. When you really sit down and look at what Chickie's and Pete's is, there is nothing all that special about it. Through clever marketing, they have made it sound like their "crab fries" are actually something people go to Philadelphia specifically for, when really it's just crinkle-cut fries with Old Bay seasoning. The actual establishments are fun for watching a game I suppose, but you can watch a sporting event at any bar and in some cases, probably get better food, cheaper drinks, and a better beer/food selection. Chickie's and Pete's has managed to make it sound like it's the only place where you can actually watch a sporting event if you can't physically be there (their location at 15th and Packer especially), and the fact that they let local radio and TV stations report there drives home that fact. Why people will go out of their way to watch a sporting event at Chickie's and Pete's when they could just as easily go to a place that is cheaper and better is a true Philly mystery, considering everything there is simply average, and yes, that includes the crab fries.
6. Snowfall
Snow is pretty beautiful and I don't mind it most of the time. However, if you have to drive in Philadelphia and it snows, good freaking luck. The city takes forever to clear the roads, and some roads they don't even bother clearing or even salting. It's a pretty common occurrence for some roads to have a thick sheet of ice on them from constant thawing and refreezing. Add in the fact that Philadelphians are justifiably territorial about their parking spaces that they took the time to dig out (rightfully so, parking here is horrible), and what was once a beautiful snowfall turns into a nightmare. The snow is beautiful at first and it's always cool to see a virgin snowfall against the skyline and at various spots throughout the city. However, if you have to go somewhere in the snow, you're in for a long hassle. This is why I, and many other people in Philadelphia get a little panicky when a massive snowfall is predicted.
5. Attending an Eagles game at Lincoln Financial Field
I probably learned more about human nature attending a few Eagles games at Veterans Stadium than I did anywhere else. You really saw everything up there in the 700 Level. There were things that happened up there that I never thought humans were capable of, but such was the nature of The Vet. Ironically, it was this kind of behavior that made seeing games at The Vet worthwhile. Since building Lincoln Financial Field, the Eagles made it their goal to weed out the "hooligan" element of Eagles fans since tickets are now much more expensive. Eagles games at The Linc don't even classify as fun for me, they seem more like an expensive errand. Paying 65 dollars and up to watch people stand around on the field while there are commercials going on hardly seems worth it. In addition to that, Eagles games used to be a collection of drunken idiots who would leave you alone (if you wore the right jersey) and would keep you entertained through their antics. Now, even the "cheap seats" are saturated with snobs from outside of Philadelphia who act like attending an Eagles game is family friendly fun. I'd rather watch the game at home and get drunk on beer that doesn't cost 7 dollars a cup.
4. Ed Rendell
The good part about Ed Rendell is that, for the most part, he was a good mayor. The revitalization of Center City and South Broad Street near City Hall can be vastly attributed to him. The bad part is that while Rendell pumped money, time, and energy into Center City, he pretty much ignored every other area of the city and allowed them to fall further into decay. Rendell is a nice man, and very sincere man, but I don't get why people worship the ground he walks in. He is especially annoying on Eagles Post Game Live where he is brought in to bring the "perspective of the fan." Rendell's perspective usually includes blaming the fans when the Eagles lose and passing it off as analysis (when it isn't anything close to that), and then making some ill-conceived point that makes hardly any sense whatsoever. Rendell has done a lot for Philadelphia as a mayor and during his time as governor, but there are others in Philadelphia who deserve more credit and more admiration than him for what they do.
3. Pat's/Geno's
It had to be said, because it's just so obvious. Pat's and Geno's get a ton of media exposure, and many people who visit Philadelphia for the first time feel that they just have to go to Pat's or Geno's at 9th and Passyunk because it's where the best cheesesteaks are served. What's worse, there are ignorant people in Philadelphia and the surrounding area who think this as well. These people aren't stupid, they're just ignorant because they've never bothered to try anything else. I won't go as far to say these cheesesteaks are horrible, but they're horrible compared to what else is out there. These places are over-hyped tourist traps. You shouldn't need some stupid lingo to order a cheesesteak, and you shouldn't have to be barraged by a bunch of neon lights and Joey Vento's politics just to fulfill your hunger need. I'm glad these places exist, but it's unfortunate there are so many people out there convinced that these places are worth patronizing time and time again, without making the effort of trying something new.
2. Ryan Howard
It pains me to say anything disparaging about Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard. He seems like a legitimately nice and genuine human being who remains humble despite massive success and a massive salary. But, unfortunately, Howard has become a very overrated part of the Phillies teams. I don't buy the argument that he doesn't perform in the clutch because he always gets hot around the time the Phillies are making a push for the playoffs. What I do buy is that as the years have progressed, Howard's at-bats have become increasingly predictable and teams know to do two things: throw a lot of breaking pitches and shift the infield to the right knowing Howard will pull almost everything. Howard's inability to hit for a decent average, his mediocre defense, and his fizzling out when the entire season was on the line makes him very overrated given the salary and the number of years in his contract.
1. South Street
Why do all of these birthday celebrations I get on Facebook talk about spending the night bar hopping on South Street? South Street isn't nearly what it used to be. What is now consists of overpriced condos, a Whole Foods, drunk food that pales in comparison to what exists in Olde City, Manayunk, Northern Liberties, and even some suburbs, and a lot of lame bars. I enjoy Tattooed Mom's and Ishkabibbles, but I despise Downey's, Jim's Steaks, and Fat Tuesday's. I'm not here to preach about what things used to be like on South Street, rather I'm here to state that whole experience of spending a few hours there drinking is overrated and overhyped.


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Poverty, Wealth, and Health Care Utilization: A Geographic Assessment
- Richard A. Cooper,
- Matthew A. Cooper,
- Emily L. McGinley,
- Xiaolin Fan,
- J. Thomas Rosenthal
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Geographic variation has been of interest to both health planners and social epidemiologists. However, while the major focus of interest of planners has been on variation in health care spending, social epidemiologists have focused on health; and while social epidemiologists have observed strong associations between poor health and poverty, planners have concluded that income is not an important determinant of variation in spending. These different conclusions stem, at least in part, from differences in approach. Health planners have generally studied variation among large regions, such as states, counties, or hospital referral regions (HRRs), while epidemiologists have tended to study local areas, such as ZIP codes and census tracts. To better understand the basis for geographic variation in hospital utilization, we drew upon both approaches. Counties and HRRs were disaggregated into their constituent ZIP codes and census tracts and examined the interrelationships between income, disability, and hospital utilization that were examined at both the regional and local levels, using statistical and geomapping tools. Our studies centered on the Milwaukee and Los Angeles HRRs, where per capita health care utilization has been greater than elsewhere in their states. We compared Milwaukee to other HRRs in Wisconsin and Los Angeles to the other populous counties of California and to a region in California of comparable size and diversity, stretching from San Francisco to Sacramento (termed "San-Framento"). When studied at the ZIP code level, we found steep, curvilinear relationships between lower income and both increased hospital utilization and increasing percentages of individuals reporting disabilities. These associations were also evident on geomaps. They were strongest among populations of working-age adults but weaker among seniors, for whom income proved to be a poor proxy for poverty and whose residential locations deviated from the major underlying income patterns. Among working-age adults, virtually all of the excess utilization in Milwaukee was attributable to very high utilization in Milwaukee's segregated "poverty corridor." Similarly, the greater rate of hospital use in Los Angeles than in San-Framento could be explained by proportionately more low-income ZIP codes in Los Angeles and fewer in San-Framento. Indeed, when only high-income ZIP codes were assessed, there was little variation in hospital utilization among California's 18 most populous counties. We estimated that had utilization within each region been at the rate of its high-income ZIP codes, overall utilization would have been 35 % less among working-age adults and 20 % less among seniors. These studies reveal the importance of disaggregating large geographic units into their constituent ZIP codes in order to understand variation in health care utilization among them. They demonstrate the strong association between low ZIP code income and both higher percentages of disability and greater hospital utilization. And they suggest that, given the large contribution of the poorest neighborhoods to aggregate utilization, it will be difficult to curb the growth of health care spending without addressing the underlying social determinants of health.
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- Poverty, Wealth, and Health Care Utilization: A Geographic Assessment
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Journal of Urban Health
Volume 89, Issue 5 , pp 828-847
- Cover Date
- 2012-10-01
- 10.1007/s11524-012-9689-3
- Print ISSN
- 1099-3460
- Online ISSN
- 1468-2869
- Publisher
- Springer US
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- Keywords
- Poverty
- Urban
- Health care
- Geographic variation
- Authors
- Richard A. Cooper (1) (4) (5)
- Matthew A. Cooper (1)
- Emily L. McGinley (2)
- Xiaolin Fan (2)
- J. Thomas Rosenthal (3)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Medicine and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- 4. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- 5. New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY, USA
- 2. Institute for Health and Society, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
- 3. Department of Urology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA


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