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From tea towels to trousseaux, linen enjoys a heritage at once humble and grand. Today it takes its place nearly everywhere in the home for upholstery and bedding as well as clothing. Let the versatility and quiet elegance of linen inspire a naturally beautiful approach to decorating your home.
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The Government is being warned by the Treasury that if it fails to slow down it's proposed asset sales programme, more harm than good may be the outcome. It plans to sell the Mighty River Power, Meridian Energy and Solid Energy assets, in order to raise funding for other Government spending and to help with its plan to have the Treasury accounts back in black ink by 2014/15. But the warnings there might be greater than intended consequences does not go far enough in highlighting the problems that are raised by the proposal to sell these and other assets.
During 1998-1999, under the then Minister of Energy, Max Bradford, the previous National-led Government broke up Electricity Corporation New Zealand which was responsible for all electricity generation in the country. Whilst on one hand this allowed the public options of who to get their electricity supply from, as Mr Bradford enthusiastically promoted, it ignored a number of socio-economic issues. The issues that were ignored or were not adequately addressed are:
- Contrary to the popular claim that pricing would be competitive in the free market environment, the average electricity bill has gone up about 100% since 1998. Some of the annual rises in rates have been 8-10% .
- Accountability of the individual generators as well as the lines companies and their responsibility to the communities they supply has been significantly reduced in recent legislation changes.
- Responsibility for resource management issues pertaining to the operation of power stations and their associated infrastructure have caused issues.
When Mr Bradford announced the break up of E.C.N.Z. in 1998, he embarked on a promotional campaign touting the value of a deregulated electricity market. Among the claims that were made was that competition would be significantly enhanced by E.C.N.Z.'s break up, as E.C.N.Z. was allegedly an inefficient asset that suffered from poor management that was not challenged by market accountability.
When E.C.N.Z. was broken up, the responsibility for managing the electricity grid also changed. Trust Power claimed in 2010 that the logical option would have been to nationalise the grid and merge the companies into Trans Power. Nationalising the grid would have ensured Trans Power would be held accountable to the New Zealand Government. In that same year, the Christchurch City Council made sure that Orion, which is responsible for the power grid in Christchurch stayed in the hands of the City. This would prove its worth in the days and weeks after 22 February 2011 when the city needed reassurance and leadership on restoring electricity.
The sales showed that there was a disconnect in terms of who took responsibility for things like mitigating flooding below hydroelectric power dams. This was evidenced by unnecessary flood damage to Alexandra township by the nearby Clyde Dam during significant spring floods in 1999. Prior to the dismantling of E.C.N.Z. it had been responsible as the operator on behalf of the New Zealand Crown, of all of the major hydro-electric power stations. The previous year during prolonged heavy rainfall in the Waikato River catchment, the owner of the eight power stations on the river struggled to handle the discharge requirements of the dams, as well as the input of the Waipa River, a major tributary whose catchment functions in a different manner to the Waikato River.
I fail to see how partial or full asset sales are going to assist New Zealanders if the botched history of the electricity sector is anything to go by. Does this really a better functioning market or does it just mean more price hikes, reduced accountability and long term damage to New Zealand's infrastructure?
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Integrative Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IBEID) / Principal investigators
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Molecular parasitology and Signaling Unit (ParSig)
Institut Pasteur 25-28 rue du docteur Roux, 75015 Paris
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Our Unit studies virulence mechanisms of the protozoan parasite Leishmania, the etiological agent of leishmaniases, severe human diseases with clinical manifestations ranging from self-curing cutaneous lesions to fatal visceral infection. During the infectious cycle, leishmaniae replicate as extracellular flagellated promastigotes in the midgut of female phlebotomine sand flies. Following transmission during blood feeding, parasites are engulfed by host phagocytes such as macrophages, where they differentiate into non-motile amastigotes that cause the pathology of the disease. Our research program is focused on the functional genetics analysis of parasite-specific signal transduction pathways that sense extracellular cues encountered inside insect and mammalian hosts, and regulate adaptive stage-differentiation required for intracellular infection.
Contribution to the programme
Our Unit provides important kinomics and phosphoproteomics expertise to the LabEx IBEID. We pursue our established lines of research through three major axes: Axis 1 analyzes the role of Leishmania MAP kinases LmaMPK4, 7, and 10 in environmental sensing, parasite development and pathogenesis utilizing gene knock out and over-expression strategies. Axis 2 applies quantitative and activity-based phospho-proteomics approaches (2D-DiGE, iTRAQ and SILAC LC-MS/MS, 2D in-gel kinase assay) to gain new insight into the post-translational regulation of the Leishmania stress response and to map stress kinase/chaperone substrate relationships. Axis 3 uses next generation sequencing technologies to gain a systems-wide insight into Leishmania virulence regulation through comparative analyses of virulent, hamster-derived and avirulent, culture-derived L. donovani amastigotes. Our program establishes an iterative cycle between kinase discovery and substrate identification that will shed important new light on the signalling pathways that govern Leishmania intracellular survival and pathogenicity.
References over the past 5 years
1. Forestier C.L., Machu C., Loussert C., Pescher P., and Späth G.F., "Imaging host cell-Leishmania interaction dynamics implicates parasite motility, lysosome recruitment and host cell wounding in the infection process", Cell Host Microbe 2011 Apr 21.
2. Schmidt-Arras D., Leclercq O., Gherardini P.F., Helmer-Citterich M., Faigle W., Loew D., and Späth G.F., "Adaptation of a 2D in-gel kinase assay to trace phosphotransferase activities in the human pathogen Leishmania donovani", J Proteomics 2011 Apr 12.
3. Pescher P., Blisnick T., Bastin P., and Späth G.F., "Quantitative proteome profiling informs on phenotypic traits that adapt Leishmania donovani for axenic and intracellular proliferation", Cell Microbiol. 2011 Mar 23.
4. Hem S., Gherardini P.F., Osorio y Fortéa J., Hourdel V., Morales M.A., Watanabe R., Pescher P., Kuzyk M.A., Smith D., Borchers C.H., Zilberstein D., Helmer-Citterich M., Namane A., and Späth G.F., "Identification of Leishmania-specific protein phosphorylation sites by LC-ESI-MS/MS and comparative genomics analyses", Proteomics 2010 Nov 10.
5. Morales M.A., Watanabe R., Dacher M., Chafey P., Osorio y Fortéa J., Scott D.A., Beverley S.M., Ommen G., Clos J., Hem S., Lenormand P., Rousselle J., Namane A., and Späth G.F., "Phosphoproteome dynamics reveal heat shock protein complexes specific to the Leishmania donovani infectious stage", PNAS 2010,107(18):8381-6.
6. Morales M.A., Pescher P., Späth G.F., "Leishmania major LmaMPK7 protein kinase activity inhibits intracellular growth of the pathogenic amastigote stage", Eukaryot Cell. 2010 Jan 9.
7. Späth G.F., Schlesinger P., Schreiber R., and Beverley S.M., "A novel role for Stat1 in phagosome acidification and natural host resistance to intracellular infection by Leishmania major", PLoS Pathog. 2009 Apr 5.


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silk trade between ancient Rome and China
About two millennia ago, silk clothes were fashionable in Rome. Moreover, a leading Roman physician had in his personal library in Rome about 192 GC "books written on white silk, with black covers, for which he had paid a high price." It's likely that these books were silk scrolls. In any case, the Romans clearly had a considerable amount of silk goods.[1]
Evidence of considerable silk trade between ancient Rome and China is less clear. Roman texts indicate that silk came from "Seres," which means "the land of silk." Seres has subsequently been interpreted as China. A merchant's trading manual from first-century Egypt provides a more direct connection between silk and China:
Beyond this region {the mouth of the Ganges River}, by now at the northernmost point, where the sea ends somewhere on the outer fringe, there is a very great inland city called Thina {China} from which silk floss, yarn, and cloth are shipped by land via Bactria to Barygaza and via the Ganges River back to Limyrike. It is not easy to get to this Thina; for rarely do people come from it, and only a few. The area lies right under Ursa Minor and, it is said, is contiguous with the part of the Pontus and the Caspian Sea where these parts turn off, near where Lake Macotis, which lies parallel, along with {the Caspian} empties into the ocean. [2]
This text's geography is muddled. It suggests, however, that some, but not a lot, of silk trade may have existed between China and ancient Rome. Oasis economies in central Asia show little evidence of long-distance silk trade.[3]
Perhaps ancient Romans got a large volume of silk goods from some place other than China. Extraction of silk from wild silkworms for use in textiles has occurred in South Asia outside of China since the late third millennium BGC. Moreover, that silk in some instances appears to have been reeled, a relatively advanced silk-processing technique.[4] The domestication of silk worms was a secret apparently exclusive to the Chinese until after the collapse of the western Roman Empire. Perhaps silk goods in ancient Rome were somewhat lower quality silk goods made from wild silk worms processed outside of China.
Perhaps silk goods in ancient Rome came from China via a route different from what has been called for just over a century the "silk road." The cultural and economic sophistication of loose networks of nomadic peoples has tended to be underestimated. Silk trade between Rome and China may have been organized through nomadic Central Asian peoples, rather than via a "silk road" connecting oasis settlements. Another alternative to the "silk road" is maritime trade. Maritime routes from western Eurasia to China are thought to have been established from the eleventh century. Perhaps maritime trade between the eastern and western ends of Eurasia was established much earlier than previously thought.
No authentic Roman-era coins have been found in China.[5] That suggests that if trade between ancient Rome and China occurred, it occurred within a network of transactions that separated the circulation of Roman coins from the transfer of silk from China to Rome. Whether ancient Rome got silk from China or elsewhere, the ancient economy of Eurasia was more complex than the exchange of silk for gold between China and Rome.
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- migration of mobile societies in ancient Eurasia
- Sallām at-Turjumānī's trip from the Caucasus to China in search of Alexander's wall
- Chinese cosmology in Jewish and Christian scripture
[1] In addition disparaging references to women's luxurious and revealing silk clothes in Pliny the Elder (Natural History 6.54, 11.26, 12.84) and Seneca the Younger (Declamations, see note [1] here), Jerome also disparaged silk clothes (Life of Paul, s. 17).
[2] From the Periplus Maris Erythraei, trans. Casson (1989) p. 91. An alternate translation is freely available online.
[3] Hansen (2012).
[4] Good, Kenoyer & Meadow (2009).
[5] Hansen (2012) p. 20.
Casson, Lionel. 1989. The Periplus Maris Erythraei: text with introduction, translation, and commentary. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Good, Irene, J. Mark Kenoyer, Richard H. Meadow. 2009. "New Evidence for Early Silk in the Indus Civilization." Archaeometry. 51 (3): 457-466.
Hansen, Valerie. 2012. The Silk Road: a new history. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Google Fiber gets good government regulation
Google Fiber has set up for itself a relatively good framework of government regulation in Kansas City. Some regulatory advantages of Google's choice of Kansas City:
- Google Fiber chose Kansas City from among more than 1000 cities that actively sought Google Fiber. Kansas City's actively expressed interest in getting Google Fiber indicates that the city governments will be relatively amenable to Google Fiber's needs.
- Google isn't providing telephone service. Telephone service is predominantly regulated at the state and federal level. Selecting among interested cities does less to get a favorable state regulatory framework.
- Kansas City actually consists of two adjacent city jurisdictions — Kansas City, Missouri; and Kansas City, Kansas. Google Fiber thus has two chances for good regulation. Moreover, it can easily compare the effects of regulation across jurisdictions. In addition, it can shift its network build across jurisdictions if regulatory differences (local and state) become highly significant.
Government regulation is one among many challenges in building and operating communications networks. Just as competition among businesses to serve customers typically benefits customers, competition among governments to encourage broadband typically benefits broadband providers. If governments compete wisely, that competition will also benefit the public.
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- idiosyncratic organizational factors significantly affect communications networks
- communications network pricing is political
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Google Fiber confronts geographic heterogeneity
Google Fiber's network build in Kansas City is publicly organized around fiberhoods. A fiberhood is a small, geographic area that is a candidate for having Google fiber installed.[1] Google is prioritizing its network build across fiberhoods based on the extent to which fiberhoods exceed pre-registration goals. Differences in pre-registration goals across fiberhoods suggest cost and expected per-household profitability heterogeneity across fiberhoods. Differences in pre-registrations received indicate take-up heterogeneity across fiberhoods.
The initial distribution of pre-registration goals across fiberhoods was simple. A majority of fiberhoods (57%) had a preregistration goal of 10%. Only two other pre-registration goal levels existed: 25% (for 13% of fiberhoods) and 5% (for 29% of fiberhoods). The distribution of network build costs across fiberhoods is probably much more continuous than this simple pre-registration goal distribution. Hence a reasonable conjecture is that the pre-registration goals, which differ by a factor of five, are not closely related to network build costs. Heterogeneity in expected per-household profitability, or some other factor, apparently is determining pre-registration goal levels.[2]
Pre-registration take-up heterogeneity appears to be significantly affecting Google Fiber's build. As of August 29, 2012, about 15,900 households had preregistered, and about 99 fiberhoods (out of 202) had met or exceeding their preregistration goals. Each fiberhood exactly meeting its pre-registration goal implies about 16,200 pre-registrations. Hence Google Fiber has nearly met in aggregate its pre-registration goal, but the distribution of those preregistrations implies a network build to less than half of the fiberhoods. Google Fiber recently announced that it has adjusted downward its pre-registration goals. That change favors a broader network build.
Successfully investing in mass-market network infrastructure is a difficult business. Four cable companies have unsuccessfully attempted to build networks in Kansas City. According to public FCC data, the number of providers of high-speed Internet access varies considerably across census tracts in Kansas City. Most high-speed internet service provides in Kansas City probably serve only a few, highly specialized customers. Google Fiber is an interesting mass-market experiment that is likely to evolve as its reveals more information about network costs and customer demand.
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Data: public data on Goggle Fiber fiberhoods in Kansas City, as well as public data on other networks (Excel version)
[1] Currently defined for the first stage of the Google Fiber build in Kansas City are 202 fiberhoods in Kansas City, Kansas, and in Kansas City, Missouri. The median fiberhood size is 771 households, with upper and lower quartiles of 1096 and 461 households. For details, see the fiberhoods sheet.
[2] As of Aug. 29, the median pre-registration shares across the sets of fiberhoods with goal shares of 5%, 10% and 25% were 8%, 6%, and 13%, respectively. If goal shares are inversely correlated with household income, that pattern of take-up suggests free Internet service is dominating take-up.
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wireless network advantage
Wireless networks never require retrenchment.
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interactive maps of broadband speeds
A recent UK online newspaper article includes an interactive map of UK broadband speeds. Text above the map states, "Use our interactive map to find the results for your area." That statement presents the map as a data access tool. But the map includes color-coded markers that provide a quick visualization of the geographic distribution of broadband speeds. Unfortunately, hard-coded into this visualization are particular color-change levels:
- Large red icon: Under 4Mbps
- Small yellow icon: Between 4Mbps and 7Mbps
- Large green icon: Over 7Mbps
The article provides no explanation for the use or importance of 4Mbps and 7Mbps thresholds. Given that the interactive map doesn't allow the user to change these thresholds, at least some explanation should have been provided to justify those choices.
With Needle, users can easily change mapping thresholds. Here's a broadband speed map for the US, and here's how to change the mapping threshold.
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relatively slow reduction in bandwidth prices
Quality-adjusted average U.S. residential broadband service prices have fallen no more than an estimated 10% from 2004 to 2009.[1] The consumer price index for personal computers and peripheral equipment fell 50% across that period.[2] The price-performance frontier for communications technology is advancing as fast or faster than that for personal computers and peripherals. The difference in realized price trends reflects much different structures of investments, transactions, and business competition.
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[1] See Greenstein, Shane M. and McDevitt, Ryan C., Evidence of a Modest Price Decline in US Broadband Services. Center for the Study of Industrial Organization, Northwestern University, Working Paper #0102 (January 2010). The bandwidth figures in this paper are mistakenly labeled "bps" (bits per second). They actually are in "kbps" (kilobits per second). I found that average wholesale local bandwidth prices fell about 20% from 1990 to 1995, and remained roughly constant from 1995 to 2000. See Galbi (2000), "U.S. Bandwidth Price Trends in the 1990s," Table P4. For related discussion, see Galbi (2000), "Growth in the 'New Economy': U.S. Bandwidth Use and Pricing Across the 1990s." All these reported figures are nominal, i.e. not adjusted for general price inflation.
[2] U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, Aug. 2010, Table 21.
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mapping average Internet download speeds in U.S.
Akamai's publicly filed dataset of observed average Internet download speeds for U.S. network connections is now on Needle. Needle makes it easy to map the reported cities and states according to an average speed threshold. For example, 79 out of the 500 reported cities have average Internet download speed less 2048 kbit/s. Here's a map of states that contain those cities. The map shows that relatively low average Internet download speeds by city are widely dispersed geographically.
To generate a map for an average speed threshold of your own choosing, click on "city" under "every" on the left of the Needle page. Then click on ">>" on the table heading, just to the right of "every city." Then click on "keep only those where…", and then click on "ave speed." Ave speed jumps to the top of the list and a drop-down selection box appears. Select "is less than," and enter a figure (kbit/s) in the box to the right. Then click on next. The screen will change slightly to reflect your choice, and a "done" button will appear. Click on the "done" button. You'll then see a list of the relevant cites. On the upper right, change the drop-down selector from "table" to "map." You'll then see a map with markers for states that contain cities that satisfy your selection criterion. If you change the "group by" drop-down selector from "state" to "city," the map will change to include markers for each city that satisfies your selection criterion. You can similarly map state average speeds by clicking on "state" rather than "city" in the first step. To change your selection criterion, you must start by clicking on "city" or "state" on the left and redo the steps above.
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dispersion of Internet download speeds
Better Internet connectivity tends to be associated with more urban areas, areas with a greater concentration of high-tech industries and employees, and areas with wealthier, more educated populations. These factors, however, do not provide simple explanations for the actual geographic pattern of Internet download speeds from Akamai's server network. According to Akamai's measurements (which include residential and business customers), the U.S. state with the highest average Internet download speed in the second quarter of 2009 was New Hampshire. New Hampshire is noted for extensive forests, beautiful mountains, and ice fishing. Illinois, in contrast, includes Chicago, the third-largest U.S. city and long a major hub of trading and banking. In average Internet download speed, Illinois ranks 45 out of all 51 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Illinois' average Internet download speed is only 46% that of New Hampshire. While New York state is near the top of the average speed ranking and Alaska is at the bottom, unexpected relative positions, such as those of New Hampshire and Illinois, are prevalent in the ranking.
Unexpected dispersion in Internet download speeds appears in other Akamai data. Looking at the distribution of download speeds across IP addresses within states, Washington state, which includes the headquarters of Microsoft and other high-tech companies, has among the lowest shares of IP addresses downloading at faster than 768 kbits/s. That share for Washington is 77%. Nevada and Maine, in comparison, have 98% and 96%, respectively, of IP addresses downloading at faster than 768 kbits/s.[1] Looking at download speeds by cities, the city with the highest average download speed is Sandy City, Utah, and the next highest, Norman, Oklahoma.[2] Most persons have never heard of either.
Dispersion in Internet download speeds suggests that idiosyncratic organizational factors greatly affect Internet connectivity.[3] Technology for providing relatively high-speed Internet access is well understood and widely available. But Internet connectivity impinges on a vast array of organizational activities and interests. That's a real Internet congestion problem.
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Data: Internet download speeds across U.S. states and cities, as measured by Akamai (Excel version)
[1] For the U.S. as a whole, the FCC's OBI Technical Paper No. 4, Broadband Performance, shows that 88% of U.S. Internet users have actual download speeds greater than 1 Mbps. See Exhibit 18, which is based on comScore data for the first half of 2009. Few comScore data are publicly available and little is know about the specifics of comScore's measurements. See Steve Bauer, David Clark, and William Lehr, "Understanding Broadband Speed Measurements," pp. 16-7. In the UK in May, 2010, about 92% of residential broadband connections had actual average download speeds greater than 4 Mbps. See UK Broadband Speeds 2010. Estimate based on Figures 4.2 and 4.5.
[2] The set of cities considered are the top-ten cities by IP address density in each state. See Akamai, "Observed Average Internet Speeds for U.S. Network Connections," p. 2.
[3] This dispersion does not particularly characterize the U.S. Considering mobile broadband world-wide in 1Q 2010, Akamai observed:
we see that there is an extremely wide range in average connection speeds – oddly enough, the highest (7175 Kbps) and the lowest (105 Kbps) were both seen on providers in Slovakia.
See Akamai, State of the Internet, 1st Quarter, 2010 Report, p. 25.
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online database of DS1 and DS3 special access rates
The DS1 and DS3 rates that the Ad Hoc Telecommunications Users filed publicly at the FCC are now accessible as an online, highly capable Needle domain (database). Needle is a data system that makes it easy to look at the data in different ways and to sort and filter it, all from within a web browser.
The original filings (here, here, and here) provide the data as pdf pages displaying tables with highly complex row and column structures. A human can read and page through the data as if it were text. That data format serves neither the reading capabilities of humans nor the data-processing capabilities of computers.
To make the Ad Hoc DS1/DS3 rate data more accessible, I extracted it from the pdf files and re-organized it into one, regular, comma-separated-value (CSV) file with 3698 data rows. I also put together some relevant data documentation. Analyzing the CSV file with a spreadsheet is possible but cumbersome. Since the CSV file has a simple tabular data form, it's easy to analyze with a database program, if you have one. You would download the data, import it into the database program, and then set up and run a query that generated the data view that you seek.
Needle makes many different views of the data easily accessible to a web browser. Within Needle, a dataset is a graph of data nodes, where each data node is a single piece of data of a particular type. The Needle Ad Hoc DS1/DS3 domain shows (on the left under "Every:") a linked list of every node type in that dataset. If you click on any of these node types, a table will appear that has as its leftmost column a list of all the data nodes of the clicked type. So, for example, if you click on "bandwidth," you will see the nodes DS1 and DS3 in the left column of the table. The table also shows the number of attribute sets and the average circuit10 rate (a composite rate) across the DS1 and DS3 nodes, respectively. You can look at the circuit10 rates by clicking on the circuit10 link (node type) on the left. The resulting table shows all the circuit10 rates, in descending order, in the left column. Other columns of the table show other attributes associated with each circuit10 rate.
For any table that you see, you can filter, sort, and group the data. For example, to limit the table of circuit10 rates to DS1 rates, left click on the "bandwidth" column heading, select "filter by this column" in the pop-up menu, type DS1 into the box next to "show", and then click on "do" just to the right of that box. The table will then contract to show just the DS1 circuit10 rates. A similar procedure produces filters for company, year, state, reg type, term, and zone. If you want to see the elements of each of these data types, click on that type on the left. Options on the pop-up menu also provide for sorting and grouping. Under "Index" on the top left, the "rates" and "rates subset" links show examples of tables made from grouping, filtering, and sorting the cn (attribute set) nodes. The "compare 2009 to 2006″ and "compare 2009 to 2005″ links under the index heading show tables that include circuit10 price ratios across the relevant years. You can sort and filter these tables like any other table.
Any subset of data can be extracted easily from Needle. At the bottom of each table are links "See this data as: Plain List · CSV · JSV · JSONa". Just click on CSV to download a CSV file of the data. If the table has groups, you need to flatten the table (switch grouping to a regular data column) before exporting. Needle also offers API functionality that allows Needle to serve as a data repository for high-powered statistical analysis packages such as R or S.
Needle can do much more than what it is doing for the Ad Hoc DS1/DS3 dataset. Needle's strengths include data acquisition, merging, and cleansing. In addition, Needle's graph-based data organization can easily handle complex data structures that create nightmares in traditional relational databases, which require tabular data forms. Needle, for example, can easily handle variable-length lists of items. None of these strengths are applied to present the Ad Hoc DS1/DS3 dataset. Needle here merely makes the Ad Hoc DS1/DS3 data much more easily accessible, especially compared to data published as pages of tables in a pdf document.
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DS1 & DS3 rate dispersion across U.S. states
Based on data filed by the Ad Hoc Telecommunications Users Committee, tariff rates in 2009 for DS1 and DS3 special-access circuit elements across U.S. states have a spread equal to about plus and minus a third of the average. Rates differ across bandwidth (DS1 or DS3), regulatory type (price cap or pricing flexibility), purchasing term commitment (in months from 1 to 60), and geographic zone (typically three zones). Differences across states within these rate structures reflect other factors that affect tariff rates.
Rate differences across states are not highly correlated with state characteristics. Qwest, for example, has the same DS1 and DS3 rates across its 14-state service territory. AT&T and Verizon, in contrast, have tariffs that differ across state groups in ways that relate to the service territories of historic telephone operating companies.
Consider the highest and lowest DS1, price-cap, month-to-month, zone 1 rates as measured by the composite 10-mile circuit rate. The highest such rate is $1023 in Indiana and Wisconsin (AT&T). The lowest such rate is $395 across the whole 14-state Qwest service territory, which includes Minnesota and Iowa. Differences in regulation, competition, service cost, or unmeasured differences in tariff structures could explain this dispersion. What specifically explains the actual difference isn't obvious.
Differences between price-cap and pricing-flexibility rates also show considerable ambiguity. Telephone companies are granted petitions for pricing flexibility based on criteria that the FCC established to measure the development of competition.[*] The rate data indicate that pricing flexibility rates are consistently higher than price-cap rates. Higher prices typically aren't associated with greater competition. However, for most service attribute types, pricing flexibility rates have less dispersion across states than do price-cap rates. That is consistent with more competition in circumstances in which unpriced differences across states matter little.
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Data: DS1 and DS3 rate statistics based on Ad Hoc Rate Dataset (Excel version); Ad Hoc DS1 and DS3 Rate Dataset
[*] An FCC order, adopted on Aug. 5, 1999, set out a procedure ("pricing flexibility" petitions) for removing rate elements from existing price-cap regulation. BellSouth provides an example of the regulatory procedure. On Dec. 15, 2000, the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau granted a BellSouth petition for pricing flexibility. The order granting that petition apparently isn't online, but an affirming review of that order, which includes a list of the metropolitican statistical areas (MSAs) to which it applies, is online. Here's a better formated version of the MSA list. On Nov. 22, 2002, the Bureau adopted an order granting another BellSouth petition for pricing flexibility. On May 16,2008, the Bureau granted a third BellSouth petition for pricing flexibility.
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November 2, 2012
I know, I know. Enough about Bluebird already. I'll make this quick…
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Bill Pay
One of Bluebird's best features is it's free bill pay service. Log into your account, select "pay bills" and search for your biller. If they're there, the biller will be paid electronically. If they aren't in the list, you can add them manually and a check will be sent. Here are a few things we've learned in the past week and a half:
- You must enter the biller's zip code, not your own. If you put in the wrong zip code you may get an error message that makes it look like you put in the wrong account number. Fix the zip code and you should be good to go. If possible, put in the 9 digit zip code without any spaces or dashes.
- Bill Pay works. Many people (including myself) have had success with paying bills electronically and by check.
Direct Deposit
After November 4th, Bluebird ATM use will be free only if you establish direct deposit and use a MoneyPass ATM. To get free ATM use, at least one direct deposit payment must have been made in the thirty(30) days before the ATM transaction. Not everyone has an easy way to get employer direct deposits, so I tried two alternatives:
- PayPal: Within my PayPal account I linked Bluebird as if it were a checking account. In order to verify my account, PayPal made two small deposits. In both cases, I received emails from email@example.com with the subject heading "Direct Deposit Load Complete." This is very encouraging. Theoretically I can now transfer a small amount of money each month from PayPal to Bluebird in order to keep MoneyPass ATM use free.
- TopCashBack: If you have money due from TopCashBack, you can have it sent to you via PayPal or directly to your bank account via an ACH transfer. I chose the latter and setup Bluebird as the target for the funds. The funds were successfully deposited to my Bluebird account and just as with PayPal, I received an email acknowledgment from BlueBird with the heading "Direct Deposit Load Complete."
After November 4th, it should be possible to test whether deposits like the ones mentioned above really result in free ATM use.
Note that some direct deposits are not allowed. The following is taken directly from the Bluebird Member Agreement:
Payments by the U.S. government may not currently be direct deposited to your Account. This includes Federal wages, salaries and retirement benefits and Federal benefits such as Social Security, SSI, Civil Service Retirement, Veterans Affairs compensation and pension, Federal worker's compensation, etc. If you try to set up direct deposit for these payments, we will be required to reject them, resulting in likely delay in your receipt of funds. (Payments by the U.S. Government in the form of paper checks may be added to an Account though the Member's use of Bluebird's Remote Check Capture service, as further described in Section 10.)
Debit Card Use
When I first talked with an American Express representative about Bluebird, he indicated that it would be possible to use Bluebird for PIN based debit transactions. So far, I have not had success with this. MasterCard and Visa cards have 16 digit account numbers whereas American Express cards have only 15 (maybe this is why Amex has an extra digit in the security code? Amex wanted to catch up?). In the few places I've tried to use Bluebird as a debit card, I was unsuccessful. I suspect it is primarily because most places are hard coded to expect 16 digits. Has anyone had success using Bluebird as a debit card? Please let me know.
Slow Account Updates
A few people have reported an issue where credit transactions take several days to appear on your Bluebird online account. This can make it very difficult to know how much money you really have available at any given time. Has this happened to you? Have you found a good work-around?
More Places to Buy Vanilla
Office Depot continues to be the go-to place to buy Vanilla Reload cards for most of us, but for those who don't live near a well stocked Office Depot, there are alternatives. Several weeks ago, I personally succeeded at the third local Walgreens I tried (the first two wouldn't take credit cards). See a list of other stores that may carry Vanilla in this recent post by Million Mile Secrets.
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Does anyone know how the "month" is calculated by Bluebird? ($5,000.00 deposit per month using Vanilla Reloads . . . Is that one month since the first deposit, or by calendar month, or . . . ?)
Confused: I don't understand what you tried to do. Did you setup your taxes as a bill to pay within your bluebird.com account or did you give the state your bluebird account info for them to pull the money? If the latter, I don't think it will work
MeClose: I'm sorry, but I don't know how to help with that.
Chad: calendar month
This is really weird, noone is answering on their phone lines, walmart says that they should refund it they say walmart should refund it. Other times they just put me on hold and the phone disconnects.
Someone has got to know a process to follow to get a refund.
For anyone looking at this that doesn't have a bluebird card, DON'T GET IT. This card sucks.
For those having issues, PayPal now states that "This credit card has been denied by the bank that issued your credit card. For details on why your card was denied, please contact your credit card issuer's customer service department. Or, you may want to try adding a different credit card."
The "Bank account" information that we are given for direct deposit DOES NOT MEAN this is a bank account. It is for deposit purposes only and any attempt to take funds out of these numbers will be declined.
So, to sum up:
You can't get funds from the government, you can't use paypal, you can't use this "bank account" information to make payments, your money isn't FDIC (and I've heard of some people having money just "poof" and AmEx won't fix it) so all in all, a terrible cut rate product you'd expect from Wal-mart.
How did you link your paypal account to your paypal account? I'm curious as to see how you found your routing number and your account number. Please help me.
Linda: If you log into your bluebird account and select "deposit money" then "setup employer direct deposit" then "open employer direct deposit form" you'll see the routing number and account number.
how long does it take to get money onto my bb from my bank account? tomorrow may the 15th will be almost a week i took the money out of my bank account and on to my bb card on may the 9th someone please help me out n tell me im new at this and first time user they said it shouldn't take 5 buiss days
jojonkaylie: Usually 3 to 5 business days. If it takes much longer, you should call Amex.
With so many chase and Amex accounts, each of which I have nicknamed on BB, when I go to "pay bills" it only lists the bank, I.e. Chase, not my nicknames. So I have to keep a list of which one down the line is the one I want to pay. Is there an easier way on the site? I could t find one.
Hope that question makes sense
Grado: Yep, the question makes sense, but I don't know of a good answer!
Is there a some way to take cash off American Express Gift card and put it back on a Bluebird?
Not directly. You would have to:
1. Use amex gc to buy Visa/MC gift card
2. Use Visa/MC gift card to load bluebird at Walmart


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Ananth's blog
We have a serious book problem! I mean, I wouldn't call it a problem. Other people call it a problem. I'm good man. I can control myself.
Tomorrow's the fourth of July! Grilling, fireworks, hopefully not in very close proximity. We got Cricket last fourth of July, actually! So tomorrow's her birthday (as far as we're concerned) and the whole country is unknowingly celebrating it. Cool.
She hasn't gotten much bigger! As you can see,
Dang! And she's touchin' his butt too, how innappropriate. YOU'RE BUSTED CAT!!
Enjoy your holiday! We'll be back Thursday.
The cats are thinking of us! I think ...
Yuko colored the comic from yesterday! It's making the rounds on Tumblr, check it out:
Have a good weekend, see you next week!
We usually steer clear of pop culture references but we've really been enjoying the new Avatar stuff ... a lead lady protagonist with serious guns and no damsel syndrome is pretty rare! Yuko did some other sketches of the cast (she draws a mean Tenzin).
Just a reminder: There are still signed copies of the art books and the Johnny Wander collections over at Topatoco!
The last of the travelogue comics for a little bit! We'll be going back to regular strips next week.
Before I talk about the strip, I want to mention - Topatoco has a new photo submission system! And you can get $10 off codes for submitting! Here's the Photo Hut, and here are the submission rules - check 'em out!
Dejima is really interesting! The idea of a buffer city for foreigners seems like an idea you would find in fiction, but it is very real. It also didn't work! Clearly. Today Dejima has been swallowed up by Nagasaki, and Nagasaki itself has very European architecture in certain places. Here's pictures from Yuko's trip:
More travelogues!
Yuko's Adventure Time cover was announced! It's a variant cover of Marceline & The Scream Queens #3 by Meredith Gran! Check it out:
Hey guys! We're going to do some more of Yuko's Japanese travelogues this week! These are from the trip she took in April.
We're going to be presenting the awards in the graphic novel category for the Random House Creative Writing Competition tonight! We're a little nervous but it ought to be fun. I love the idea of creative writing scholarships.
Definitely one of the weirder experiences of my life! He did a half dozen card tricks while we were waiting in line, each more impressive than the last. It might be an understatement to say that the dude is really good at sleight of hand.
I've been spending a lot of my time writing recently, which is great! It's going ot mean more comics for your guys in the long run. I'm working on one project right now that I'll announce with details a little later this year - I'm a little over half done writing it. Very excited!
For Caldwell's birthday we got him a tiny king's cloak and crown and Katie got him a scepter that makes a magical glittery sound when you wave it. We piled onto the party bus and rode on down to Medieval Times with his coworkers at College Humor, where we proceeded to cheer the heck out the red knight in a manner most rowdy. The green knight won (the green knight always wins?) but he crowned a little girl the Queen of Love and Beauty and that was pretty adorable. Anyway, happy birthday Caldwell!


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Jennifer Lawrence in October 2012 Issue of 'W' Magazine
Jennifer Lawrence appears in the October 2012 issue of 'W' magazine.
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I love Jlaw but the cover pictures is the weirdest , they should have put the white with the bird or other. But no doubt she is beautiful
Jennifer just keeps on getting more beautiful everytime i see her! just kill me now omg.


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Colorado Bridge Enterprise
Program Overview
The Colorado Bridge Enterprise (CBE) was formed in 2009 as part of the FASTER (Funding Advancement for Surface Transportation and Economic Recovery) legislation. It operates as a government-owned business within the Colorado Department of Transportation. The Colorado Transportation Commission serves as the Colorado Bridge Enterprise Board.
The purpose of the CBE is to finance, repair, reconstruct and replace bridges designated as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, and rated "poor."
In order to accomplish this goal, a bridge safety surcharge ranging from $13 to $32 has been imposed on vehicle registration based upon vehicle weight. Revenues from the bridge safety surcharge fee are phased in over a three-year period, and are estimated to generate approximately $100 million in annual funding.
Current Bridge Enterprise List
Here is a list of current Bridge Enterprises bridges and their status.
Bridge Enterprise Project Status - October 2014 (130 Projects)
Here is a map of all of the Bridge Enterprise projects. In addition to the 131 bridges located on the map, CDOT identified separate funding sources (e.g. ARRA funds) for 36 bridges that were originally part of the FASTER bridge list.
As of October 2014 there were 130 eligible bridges in the following phases:
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I take
10 mg tablet daily im allergic to my
/ seasonal
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I figure if people can build up resistance to antihistamines that it would be reasonable to assume that the same thing can happen to the
. I generally give her the
when the
are bothering her the most so that I don't give her too much.
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I have
im wondering if i can buy certain pills or what do you do when u get them??
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I thought they already had a formula of
kids? My boys started zyrtec when they were 6 mos old. It was a liquid. Ds had to stop the zyrtec after a while b/c it made his eczema flair as it dried him out way to much. DDAVP is desmopressin acetate sometimes it's rx'd for bedwetting or nose bleeds. Ds had his rx'd for both. He started his shots this past Nov. and he turned 9 that Sept.
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I'd go ahead and get another cat.
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He was tested several years ago and at the time they were all indoor somewhat controllable allergies (
being worst, dust being most difficult) he did have allergy shots
a time, but did not complete them. We have moved and he has obviouslty developed some seasonal allergies that are obviously bad some days and ok others. He's taken Allegra most of the time. Claritan is useless. He was prescribed Zyrtec at one time though still took what he had left of the allegra.
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Best of luck - I know how it is with cat
- mine are HORRIBLE! I can only manage to be in a house that has a
about 5-10 minutes before I start itching and having an asthma attack - even if I'm not anywhere near the cat itself!
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HI. I know that
is a
C during pregnancy and is excreted into breast milk in unknown amounts. Sudafed though is compatible with BF-ing. You can always check www.safefetus.com.
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But first, make sure the problem is the pussycat. Perhaps the
could be boared away
a while and you could see if the symptoms subside? It may be general asthma developing from other reasons. If it is the cat the answer is not to take medications. The inflamation can be life-threatening and is nothing to fool with.
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So, until I know more info about other antihistamines
cats, I really don't want to give her anything but the
. The
I know
sure, because the vet did tell me to 1/4 the dosage for adult humans. Even though Akira is resistant to a small degree with taking her med, she really is such a good girl. She cooperates much more than some cats do. I'm sure some people wish their cats were this easy.
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Benadryl is too intense
cats, as it is
many of us humans.
isn't nearly so intense. I am interested in knowing how much stinging nettles to give to Akira, since I would be interested in trying that. But, the 1/4 Zyrtec tablet does work. Do not give this dose to kittens. It is only meant for adult cats. As with any cat, Akira objects to taking pills. So, I only give it to her when it's obvious that she really needs a dose.
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My daughter brought her two little shitzu dogs to visit
a few days and had not treated them with the flea preventative that she usually uses, because the weather had been cold and she didn't think there would be a problem. Well, we had some warm days and the dogs brought fleas into the house. Both she and I have a bad allergic reaction to the bites and my husband does not. I flea bombed the house and am still feeling bites. I itch all over and develop bad rash.
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My symptoms lasted about 4 wks before I finally felt normal again. I continued to see the ENT who tested me
(dogs, grass, dust mold, etc........). I came out w/mod to severe allergies. They started me on an allergy serum at least 4-5 months ago (supposed to desensitize me to allergens). So, for my question. I feel like I have the typical diagnosable sinus infection.
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Kitty still scratches some, and I do still have to give her 1/4 tablet of
when her
bother her the most, but I am certain that because of changes I made for myself that I helped the kitty not suffer more with the environmental allergies.
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the info. I myself got tested
today, and it appears that I have none. This is quite odd because a year and a half ago, I used to be allergic to mixed trees at least. So my doctor is now quite certain that this is vasomotor rhinitis (non-allergic rhinitis). But he also thinks something triggered it in the first place and his theory is that it was a sinus infection.
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However, I still have some mild itching and sneezing, but am concerned it may get worse given my prior history of pet dander allergens. I take
on a daily basis just to rid myself of my everyday
and thought they would take care of the mild symptoms, but they are not. I am also not getting rid of my cat. Other than Zyrtec, are there allergy shots covered by insurance that I could take, or other allergy medications that are prescription?
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Let me send out some e-mails to some friends who have children with severe
... YOU ARE NOT ALONE and keep pushing
an answer for your son.
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so i finally went
scan after courses of antibiotics didnt help..it revealed several polyps through out my sinuses,pus in my left cheek sinus,and airpocket in another sinus,deviated septum and my turbinates are 4x larger then they should be .im on xyzyal which is like zyrtec,veramyst,singular and i take claritin every day...
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I just woke up to my swollen ankels and bloody nose but all that still beats the morning sickness I had
5 months. The baby moves all the time and I just cannot wait for him/her to be here. Anyway - My boyfriend has bad allergies. I had two cats Fred & Ethel before him and now he lives with me. I make him go to the doctor for meds I know it sounds mean but they are my babies too. I went and got them shaved and keep them shaved to help.
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I'm going
allergy testing the end of the month. I do have a
and bird which I have had
years -- my house is clean...not spotless...because after 4 months of feeling like this I really don't feel like cleaning it! I've got an air cleaner I keep running in my bedroom - but I can't tell that it's helped. I just don't know. The only comfort I can give is you're not alone.
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If anyone has any ideas I would appriciate your help. P.S. I am also now doing allergy shots
the environmental
3 times a week.
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While at the health food store today, we purchased this as well, though Nutiva is a brand that I believe can be purchased at Walmart.
, we're to give him approximately 2 tablespoons/day, though it's important to start small and work up to that. I dipped my finger in it (it's thick, not like other vegetable oils) and let him smell it - he didn't seem too interested. So I rubbed a little on his bald spots.
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Her doctor had me try dimetap and triaminic, but these meds did not seem to help. Her allergist decided to put her on
and she has been on it
a month. Her cough has not improved. Her doctor told me to give her delsym. That does help her cough at night. However, the day time coughing is still there. He told me to increase the delsym by 50% and add dimetap as well. Both her allergist and her doctor have gave me these instructions over the phone.
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Her doctor had me try dimetap and triaminic, but these meds did not seem to help. Her allergist decided to put her on
and she has been on it
a month. Her cough has not improved. Her doctor told me to give her delsym. That does help her cough at night. However, the day time coughing is still there. He told me to increase the delsym by 50% and add dimetap as well. Both her allergist and her doctor have gave me these instructions over the phone.
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Allergy meds dont seem to help. Allegra, claritin,
, tried them all with no help except
my seasonal
that I am used to getting June through August. I dont have any cough, or wheezing or any trouble breathing. My nose doesnt run, nor do I feel the need to blow it, or even feel congestion in my nose. I have noticed that if I press above my eyebrows in just the right spot it is a bit tender...
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Thinking that this may just be
, I started taking
. It seems to help a little, but I am still coughing. My father used to have bad allergies to our cats, and my parents think that maybe the cats are causing the problem. This seems to make some sense, except that this all started with a cold while in Minnesota, and also, remember the cats have been sick as well. They were sick before me. That led us to believe that it might be something in our apartment.
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I've been diagnosed with
and dust
, but it's practically proven that dogs affect me alike now, and a little bit of hayfever every other year. Although symptoms include itchy eyes, burning throat and all, the most intense one is shortness of breath that affects me more and more whenever I have an attack. Could I have asthma? My GP examined me with a stethoscope and found my lungs to be 'in perfect condition'. No phlegm, not anything.
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He had her on anitibiotics
over a week and we went
the follow up yesterday 10/11 with no change. She was also on a cough suppresant and a nasal decongestant, but no change in the cough. I have an appointment now with a ENT doctor on Friday 10/13 so hopefully they can help. The allergist told me to use Afrin on her 2 times a day to see if her nasal passage way is clogged, but I dont feel to comfortable about this.
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He also had had a complete workup including allergy tests twice, I know he is allergic to cats because his grandmother has a
and he cant even go over, we had a dog
a little over a week and he was miserable the whole time. The thing with Preston is he has so many other things going on I am not even sure if I am dealing with asthma! He has severe joint pain, crazy rashes that even a dermatologist couldnt explain, stomach problems.
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Update: National Parks Open
Yosemite National Park is open again after being closed for the 16-day-long government shutdown. All roads, major highways, campgrounds and visitor centers opened to the public on the evening of Wed., Oct. 16.
Learn more about what happened to our national parks during the government shutdown here. Now, it's time to plan your trip!
Update: National Parks Still Closed
The government shutdown has closed Yosemite National Park, in addition to its 401 other national park counterparts. Currently all non-essential employees, including those regulating campsites and the Wawona Hotel, have been been indefinitely furloughed until the government passes a new budget. Park law enforcement officers and utility crews will continue work as usual.
The closure also affects tourists from across the world whose vacations are cut short. It's still unclear whether those who have made (and paid for) special tour reservations with be refunded.
"Bummer, bummer that our government can't get it together, enough, this is just a recreational thing it interferes with. I think about all the people who have much more serious situations," tourist Laura Clark-Moore told ABC Local.
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Tarmail is written in C; the developers try to support as many Unix-style systems as possible. The server source code is available from the Tarmail homepage and can be built and deployed on many Linux distributions, including Fedora 7 and Ubuntu 7.04. The software is licensed under the GPL Version 2.
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NDSU technology incubator start-up wins gold in national competition
Ergologistics, a start-up company at the North Dakota State University Research and Technology Park's Technology Incubator, won gold in the 2012 Edison Best New Product Awards in the industrial design category. Ergologistics, which manufactures products to reduce wear and tear on the bodies of workers who lift and carry materials, won for its Lift'n Buddy mobile lifting device.
"I am excited for our company to receive such a high level of achievement by winning a Gold Edison Award," said Aaron Lamb, president of Ergologistics. "This truly validates our product's innovation, and leaves us poised to overcome future challenges toward winning in the marketplace."
Lift'n Buddy competed for the top honor in its category with products made by well-knownbrands such as Dyson and Kobalt.
"This is truly an honor for Aaron and his team at Ergologistics," said Brenda Wyland, associate director for the NDSU Research and Technology Park. "Innovation plays a vital role for companies to compete globally and this award demonstrates the impact Ergologistics will have in the marketplace."
The Edison Awards, which have been in existence for 25 years, recognize innovative products, services andbusiness leaders. The awards are named after Thomas Alva Edison whose product development methods and innovation garnered him more than 1,000 U.S. patents and made him a household name.
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The NDSU Research and Technology Park and Technology Incubator are home to fast-paced, high-growth companies that promote technology-based economic development in North Dakota. Each ofthem has the potential to compete globally or is already doing so effectively. To operate within the park or technology incubator, a company must be involved in the advancement and development of new technology, be willing to establish a working relationship with NDSU and work in one or more of the following technology fields: material sciences, biosciences and life science technology, information technology, nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing and sensors/micro-electronics.
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