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Managing the internet is a complex task. With the increasing number of users, handling the network of millions of computers and servers becomes difficult and it needs constant tweaking and fine tuning to ensure everything works smoothly.
Having spent time studying about internet routing, Manav Bhatia realised that current protocols were not as secure as they were believed to be. In the quest to make protocols more effective, Bhatia started working closely with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) — a global community of network designers, operators, and researchers responsible for producing technical specifications for the evolution of the internet architecture and smooth operation.
Bhatia's security protocols help in making routing — managing the constant flow of requests for data — more secure, less susceptible to attacks and ensure smooth and safe data transfers via internet.
Bhatia tells DNA that his protocols and networking standards have been adopted by IETF and various router vendors.
Is this your first idea that clicked?
No. I started working on routing protocols almost eight to nine years ago. I had submitted several proposals to IETF. I had some radical ideas on how we could extend border gateway protocol (BGP) — a routing protocol that makes internet do a few things that it wasn't doing back then. Those ideas were shelved, but I didn't give up. I kept working on routing protocols and eventually I, along with my co-authors, noticed that attackers could hack networks running these protocols despite using the strongest and the best security mechanisms. This intrigued me and I started looking into this, which eventually led to the work that got me this award.
What are you currently working on?
Currently, I am working in Alcatel-Lucent in Bangalore.
Given a choice, would you work independently with funding or as part of a research institution?
It would depend upon the nature of my innovation and the market segment that the innovation addresses. If an idea requires a well-entrenched sales and support infrastructure, I'd work with an institution. In this case, I can focus on the engineering aspect and leave business-related issues on people who have more experience than me. I have seen a lot of innovative ideas fail as they didn't have the right team that could complement the technical side.
Is innovation an end in itself or the means to become an entrepreneur?
I believe there are two ways to become an entrepreneur. One is to innovate and turn it into a company. Second is to work on an idea that may not necessarily come from you (and in most cases it doesn't). So you hook up with plenty of people who have good ideas and something probably will be born. If you have the drive to be an entrepreneur, you probably will become one. You don't have to spend endless cycles thinking of some innovation. You just have to hook up with the right people.
Does India value and reward its innovators?
I think India rewards its innovators which is why you see so many Indian entrepreneurs out there.
Has your innovation made material difference to your standard of living?
No. The only difference it has made is that more people are now aware of my work.
Who are your biggest influences?
I have been greatly influenced by all the people working in IETF writing protocols that make up the internet architecture. These are the people who invented TCP, IP, DNS, HTTP, etc. - all the essential ingredients required to make the internet tick. I would keep reading these standards, the internet drafts that these people had written in 2000 when I had just started my career. I think it because of IETF that I decided that I definitely wanted to do something in this area.
What has been your biggest mistake?
My biggest mistake was to assume that all these people who have contributed towards internet's evolution were cerebrally more gifted than us and that it would take me a lot of time before I could make any significant contribution in this field. However, after having published several IETF standards, I can say with confidence that most of these people are no different from us and it just needs a lot of patience, perseverance and good understanding of the technology and customers requirements to contribute to the evolution of the internet architecture.
If you could go back and change one thing about your life as an innovator, what would it be?
I can't think of anything right now.
Did you have a childhood dream?
I was good at computer programming and would spend a lot of time in my computer lab. To encourage this, my parents brought me an IBM PC-AT with a 40Mb HDD in 1993. It was an extremely expensive machine then and I would sit in front of the PC the entire day writing programs/applications in Basic and Turbo Pascal. I would read PCQuest and would keenly follow the latest trends in the technology and how people were collaborating on the internet. Later at Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, where I did my engineering from, I did a project on TCP/IP congestion control and would spend a lot of time in our computer centre. I believe I always had a dream of doing something in the networking industry.


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Welcome to the Doctor Polucki Family Health Hour, with your host Dr. THomas Polucki, right here on your Hometown Station, AM 1220 KHTS.
Today we are going to talk about healthcare reform. We need to stop looking at this as a political issue. Blaming any one politician for the state of our healthcare is like blaming an actor for a bad script. In America, we pay two and a half times more for healthcare than other developed countries, yet we are ranked 39th overall in our standard of healthcare. We need to stop depending on politicians and companies who are dependent on a sick population to stay in business.
There are a few things that you can do to stay healthy during flu season. Staying away from the flu is not just about getting a flu shot. As a doctor, I am around every sickness there is, and I stay healthy. One of the things that we find that keeps us healthy is fresh air. Now that it is getting cold, we are closing windows and breathing recirculated air.
Another thing you can do is start drinking heavily, water that is. The average American, should be drinking around a gallon of water. There is a trend towards bottled water, but those bottles tend to be plastic and contain chemicals that come from heating the plastic which is a big danger when put into the body.
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Divestment gains boost net earnings at drug company Novartis
Swiss-based pharmaceutical company Novartis reported a large jump in first-quarter net profit Thursday as it recorded one-time gains from deals with other drug companies.
Swiss-based pharmaceutical company Novartis reported a large jump in first-quarter net profit Thursday as it recorded one-time gains from deals with other drug companies.
Sanofi SA says its net profit soared 26.3 percent in the fourth quarter thanks to lower charges against Lemtrada, its multiple sclerosis treatment.
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG says fourth quarter net income dropped 26 percent but the company still posted a healthy 2014 annual profit.
More than eight out of every 10 prescriptions dispensed in the US is generic. This growth is due to a large number of top-selling drugs going off patent over the past decade, as well as innovations in t ...
Federal prosecutors say the owner and president of a dietary supplement company has admitted his role in the sale of diluted and adulterated dietary ingredients and supplements sold by his company.
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British pharmaceuticals group AstraZeneca announced on Thursday a slump in quarterly profits, in part on higher investment costs, but raised its outlook for full-year revenues.
Strong new drug sales and higher operating income helped Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis AG report a 24 percent rise in first-quarter profit.
(HealthDay)—Physicians can reap significant financial benefits by extending their office hours to include non-traditional hours, according to an article published Jan. 8 in Medical Economics.
Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Roche on Thursday posted an 18-percent hike in net profit for 2013, driven particularly by rising sales of its cancer-fighting drugs.
Swiss drug maker Novartis AG reported a 2 percent rise in fourth-quarter net profit Wednesday, helped by delays in generic competition to its blockbuster drugs.
German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Merck KGaA said Thursday it is raising its full-year operating profit forecast thanks to improving sales and positive cost-cutting effects.
India's second-largest drugmaker Dr Reddy's Laboratories on Tuesday reported a 69.4 percent jump in quarterly net profit, as profit margins rose helped by improved sales.
German chemicals and pharmaceuticals group Bayer, maker of Aspirin, said on Thursday that new pharmaceutical products and favourable agrochemical prices gave profits a fillip in the third quarter.
French pharmaceutical group Sanofi reported a slump in profits for the third quarter of the year on Wednesday owing to the lagging effects of the ending of exclusive patent rights.
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A New, Expanded Edition of Renovare's Classic Companion to the Devotional Life
Updated to incorporate all six traditions, or "streams," that comprise a healthy and holistic life of faith, these fifty-two selections have been organized to introduce the reader to the great devotional writers over the course of one year. Edited by James Bryan Smith, each reading is accompanied by an introduction and meditation by Richard J. Foster. In addition, each entry includes a related biblical passage, discussion questions, and individual and group exercises.
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1. The Prayer-Filled Life
2. The Virtuous Life
3. The Spirit-Empowered Life
4. The Compassionate Life
5. The Word-Centered Life
6. The Sacramental Life
Foster and Smith sift through works from the great spiritual writers of the past as well as readings from contemporary spiritual leaders to create a guide that is indispensable for those looking for a deeper and more balanced spiritual life.
C. S. Lewis will be remembered as one of the most important Christian thinkers of the twentieth century. He was born in Ireland in 1898, and the major part of his adult years was spent as a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he taught medieval literature. It was in 1931 that he was "surprised by joy," Lewis's own description of his conversion to Christianity. A brilliant scholar and writer, Lewis used his talents to reach thousands through the printed and spoken word.
He and a group of friends (including J. R. R. Tolkien, author of Lord of the Rings) gathered once a week to share their writings. During those years Lewis produced his famous work The Screwtape Letters. In the early 1940s he delivered talks on various Christian topics over British radio. His fame grew throughout Great Britain and spread to the United States. Out of those talks came the book Mere Christianity, a penetrating work on Christian apologetics. Countless Christians point to this book as an essential part of their faith journey. If sales are an indication of popularity, then C. S. Lewis-even thirty years after his death-is one of the most popular Christian thinkers of the twentieth century. In the following passage Lewis discusses the question, Is Christianity hard or easy?
The ordinary idea which we all have before we become Christians is this. We take as the starting point our ordinary self with its various desires and interests. We then admit that something else-call it "morality" or "decent behavior," or "the good of society"-- has claims on this self: claims which interfere with its own desires. What we mean by "being good" is giving in to those claims. Some of the things the ordinary self wanted to do turn out to be what we call "wrong": well, we must give them up. Other things turn out to be what we call, "right": well, we shall have to do them.
But we are hoping all the time that when all the demands have been met, the poor natural self will still have some chance, and some time, to get on with its own life and do what it likes. In fact, we are very like an honest man paying his taxes. He pays them all right, but he does hope that there will be enough left over to kill it. No half-measures are any good. 1 don't want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked-the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours."
Both harder and easier than what we are all trying to do. You have noticed, I expect, that Christ Himself sometimes describes the Christian way as very hard, sometimes as very easy. He says, "Take up your Cross"--in other words, it is like going to be beaten to death in a concentration camp. Next minute he says, "My yoke is easy and my burden light." He means both. And one can just see why both are true.
4. The Most Dangerous Thing
Teachers will tell you that the laziest boy in the class is the one who works the hardest in the end. They mean this. If you give two boys, say, a proposition in geometry to do, the one who is prepared to take trouble will try to understand it. The lazy boy will learn it by heart because, for the moment, that needs less effort. But six months later, when they are preparing for the exam, that lazy boy is doing hours and hours of miserable drudgery over things the other boy understands, and positively enjoys, in a few minutes.
Laziness means more work in the long run. Or look at it this way. In a battle, or in mountain climbing, there is often one thing which it takes a lot of pluck to do; but it is also, in the long run, the safest thing to do. If youfunk it, you will find yourself, hours later, in far worse danger. The cowardly thing is also the most dangerous thing.
5. The Almost Impossible Thing
6. Listening to That Other Voice
That is why the real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it. It comes the very moment you wake UP each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other.


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Volunteers are the lifeblood of the youth and community sector in Letterkenny. Just about every project or youth centre uses volunteers in some capacity. By Louise Lynch, Letterkenny Youth Information Centre.
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Brianna Perry may be a grown-ass woman with a major-label contract, but she's still a college student at heart. Don't believe me? Just take a listen to the Atlantic/Poe Boy signee's latest single, which finds her sipping spiked punch from that mainstay of house parties, the Red Solo Cup. Backed by Lambo's synth-bassline, handclaps and wailing sirens, Perry shows us why she's the biggest dog on campus, delivering bars jam-packed with braggadocious one-liners. Fresh off dropping his highly-anticipated Wrath of Caine tape, Pusha T drops in to do a little stunting of his own on the middle verse. Fans can find a truncated version of Red Cup on Brianna Perry's Symphony No. 9 mixtape, released to the 'net in November 2012.
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The first time Judah Friedlander -- who plays Frank Rossitano, the guy with all the hats on 30 Rock -- ate an Imo's pizza, he thought it was a joke.
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Bruce's homer ruins Padres return of Hundley, Hudson
CINCINNATI If this has been a memorable season for Nick Hundley, it's for all the wrong reasons.
After a fast start as the everyday catcher, the 27-year-old Hundley hit the skids in late April and apparently bottomed out on May 6 when he went on the disabled list for 32 games with a strained right oblique muscle.
But the worst was yet to come. Hundley was back less than a month, and mired in another offensive slump, when he noticed his right elbow swelling like a balloon while catching against the Giants on July 5.
"One inning I'm fine," he said. "Then I can't throw and then I can't even bend it."
Several days later, Padres team physicians removed four floating particles and shaved off a bone spur using an arthroscopic procedure.
After missing 33 more games, Hundley returned to action Friday night – and became the 333rd hitter in Padres history to fall one peg short of that elusive first cycle in franchise history.
Hundley homered in the second to give the Padres a 2-0 lead in an eventual 5-3 loss. He added a single in the fourth and a double in the fifth. It was the second three-hit game of the season for Hundley (the first coming on April 5) and his first homer since April 17.
Hundley, however, wasn't the only Padre returning from an injury to influence the game.
Orlando Hudson, who Tuesday appeared headed to the disabled list for a third time this year, returned Friday from a "mild" groin strain to go 2-for-3.
Not only did Hudson drive in the Padres' first run with the 500th RBI of his career on a two-out single in the eighth, the second baseman drew a lead-off walk in the eighth and – after Hundley was walked intentionally – scored the go-ahead run on Logan Forsythe's two-out, two-strike single in the eighth.
But after seven solid innings by Mat Latos (two runs allowed on four hits and a walk), a member of the Padres bullpen failed to hold the lead for the third time in five days.
This time is was Josh Spence, who started his own downfall with a one-out walk of pinch-hitter Ramon Hernandez. After retiring pinch-hitter Edgar Renteria on a come-backer with the tying run on second, the Padres had to choose between a pair of dangerous left-handed hitters for the left-handed Spence to face.
The Padres elected to intentionally walk 2010 National League MVP Joey Votto with the potential winning run to pitch to Jay Bruce, who drove a Spence cutter into the right field stands for a three-run homer.
After allowing only one run and 13 baserunners in his first 23 major league outings, Spence has issued two bases-loaded walks and a total of five walks (one intentional) plus Bruce's three-run homer in a span of 13 hitters.
Spence said Bruce hit a cut fastball "down the middle."
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How do I know if he is serious about marrying me?
My boyfriend and I are in college, I'm 19 and he's 21. We have been on and off again for about 6 months, including the little bits of time when we... Show More
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I would say that you don't need to take this seriously at the moment. It sounds like he is really in to you and it is good that he said it but it is way to early in the relationship to be getting serious about that.
You said that you have been on and off for six months, that does not make the relationship sound serious. The other thing is you are still young and in college. You are going to want different things in the future and nothing is serious in college. You need to concentrate on having fun, concentrate on your college work and let nature take its course. If you are meant to be then things will work out but don't put any pressure on it or take things to seriously at the moment.
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Even speaking about it in a casual tone is a huge step for a guy. He sounds like he is really into you, but like everyone else he is not 100 percent completely positive about the future just about 95 percent. Focus on what he is saying and that is he wants you to be a part of his future when he is not saying that stuff is when you should be worried.
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Don't worrry, I am in a similar situation. My boyfriend and I have been together for about a year and before that we were best friends. We are both just starting college and just before he left, he told me that he wanted to marry me once we were both done with school. I do really love him and I believe he is the one I do want to marry. The thing is though, nothing is set in stone, who knows if you guys will still be together once you are done with school. Or even if things will work out when you guys live together.
He does know where he wants to be in life though and I know that if he is anything like my boyfriend, he will do anything to go after what he wants. No matter how simple or difficult the task at hand is, he is always determined to get it if he believes strongly enough. And for him, he wants to get married, settle down, and have a family.
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- "They whisper in the night for chaos and despair, and Hakeev gives them blood as tribute. Our blood."
The Iconians (Borg designation: Species 29) were a galactic super-power 200,000 years ago. Their homeworld, Iconia, is located in the Iconia Sector of the Beta Quadrant. They were thought to be extinct by orbital bombardment and driven out of the galaxy by other races.
Other than the destruction of their homeworld by planetary bombardment some 200,000 years ago, little is known about the ancient Iconians. It was passed down by the races that destroyed them that the Iconians had been "demons of air and darkness", traveling via Iconian gateways and ruling oppressively over their large empire. Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D once speculated that this might be historical revisionism by the victorious powers.
Among the Iconian subject races were the Dewans, on whose homeworld they also constructed a gateway. Another servitor species were the Solanae who built a massive Dyson Sphere as a staging base for the Iconians that was capable of traveling across vast distances through subspace. When the Solanae activated the Sphere, a large scale industrial accident occurred. The surviving Solanae were forced to migrate to subspace when their molecular structure was changed due to exposure to large amounts of tetryonic energy and the Iconians abandoned the Sphere due to its flaws.
In 2365, the U.S.S. Yamato found Iconia in the Romulan Neutral Zone, but shortly fell victim to an unmanned Iconian Probe that transmitted a piece of Iconian software to rewrite the ship's computer systems and ultimately causing a warp core breach. To prevent the Iconian technology from falling into the hands of then-Commander Taris of the Romulan Star Empire, Captain Picard destroyed what was believed to be the only remaining outpost on the planet's surface.
A second Iconian base was found in the Gamma Quadrant by the Dominion in 2372. There, a group of renegade Jem'Hadar took over the facility and attempted to use its Gateway to stage a rebellion against the Dominion. A Starfleet/Dominion joint operation commanded by Cpt. Benjamin Sisko and Lt. Cmdr. Worf destroyed the base.
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- "Sleepers": In 2409, Borg Cube 19721 is disabled in the T'liss System during an attempt to survey "Species 29" as part of Project Iconia.
- "Patrol the Vhoran System" (Federation only): The player investigates relics of Iconian origin at the behest of Dr. Edward Grissom.
- "Taris": The investigation of the Hobus disaster leads the player to Iconia, where an ancient Iconian base and an operational Gateway are found. It seems the Romulan rebels under Taris had been triggering a transmission from that base that ultimately caused the Hobus supernova.
- "Frozen": Reman Resistance leader Obisek reveals that the Tal Shiar no longer serves the Romulan Star Empire but rather the "demons of air and darkness", an enemy he's never seen that seeks revenge for being driven from their homeworld.
- "Coliseum": After finding an Iconian gateway on Nopada Prime, it is confirmed that Colonel Hakeev of the Tal Shiar is directly working for the Iconians and actively researches ways to best invoke conflict between various species.
- "Cutting the Cord": Following Hakeev's death, two Iconian Gateways are discovered and destroyed on Brea III. During a battle in orbit, Empress Sela's I.R.W. Leahval is rescued (or perhaps captured) by an Iconian ship through a third Gateway built into an asteroid. This Gateway is also destroyed.
- "Darkness Before the Dawn": Obisek wonders openly about the looming Iconian threat to the galaxy.
- "Second Wave": Captain Va'Kel Shon mentions the Iconian threat during the Borg conference on Deep Space 9.
- "Facility 4028": During the debriefing, Commander Mesi Achebe reveals that during the prison riot at Facility 4028, Taris escaped - apparently with help from the Iconians.
- "Fluid Dynamics": It is discovered that the Iconians attacked the Undine in fluidic space, provoking them into infiltrating and destabilizing the galaxy.
- "Tau Dewa Sector Patrol (Daily)": An Iconian Dreadnought sometimes appears at the end of a patrol mission; it will go to warp if the player gets close.
- "Secrets of the Ancients": Players discover an Iconian gateway and observe what is believed to be an Iconian passing through it when watching an ancient video recording on New Romulus.
- "Sphere of Influence": Iconian database entries reveal that the Iconians have been monitoring various powers in all four Quadrants of the galaxy and reveal that there are 7,255 gateways of which 5,967 are inactive and 880 damaged or inoperative. The player also learns that there are Gateways active in Andromeda and that the Elachi and Solanae are servitor races of the Iconians. The Gateway network is reset and a ship-sized Iconian Gateway hidden in subspace appears in the Jouret System.
- "Surface Tension": In 2410, an Iconian appears in the Great Hall on Qo'noS and warns the players' factions against "attracting their attention", killing members of the High Council when they voice defiance.
- "What's Left Behind": Analyzing a strange device found on Vaadwaur Prime after the defeat of Gaul, the player discovers that the Vaadwaur communicated with the Iconians via an Elachi station in subspace accessed from the Nal Shadaan System in the Delta Quadrant. On the station, the player and The Doctor discover Sela, who had been imprisoned by the Iconians for the past months. She refers to the Solanae and the Elachi as the Iconian's scientists and warriors, respectively. She also points out that any point in the galaxy, and maybe the entire universe, is but a single step away for the Iconians, but also that their hubris is their biggest weakness. It is also revealed that Iconians directed the Solanae to bio-engineer neural parasites in order to control the Vaadwaur who they also outfitted with superior technology.
- "Uneasy Allies": Sela and the player board the Andromeda Dyson Sphere and observe millions of Iconian and servitor warships massing around the sun before escaping. The sphere jumps to the Iconia System, marking the beginning of the Iconians' invasion of the Milky Way.
- "Blood of Ancients": The Iconians launch the first strike of their war against the Milky Way, sending the Heralds to attack Starbase 234 and New Romulus. An Iconian appears on New Romulus and decimates Romulan Republic forces attempting to repel the Heralds on the surface, and M'Tara, the same Iconian who visited Qo'nos, appears on Lae'nas III and kills a Preserver, claiming that it is the Iconians' right and duty to rule the galaxy.
Servitor races[edit]
- The Iconians use a number of races, referred to as servitor races, who openly serve, and in some cases worship, the Iconians.
- Bluegill: Used to infiltrate and control other races, including the Vaadwaur and certain individuals in the Federation.
- Dewans: Slaves, now extinct.
- Elachi: Warrior caste.
- Heralds: Personal servants and elite front-line soldiers.
- Romulans (Tal Shiar): Operatives serving under Taris and Hakeev.
- Solanae: Scientist caste.
- Additionally, the Iconians have manipulated the Undine to attack the Alpha Quadrant powers by attacking Fluidic space with replica Alpha Quadrant ships.
The Iconians' military force is made up of Herald servants who operate their advanced starships and fight their enemies on the ground.
- In Star Trek Online the Iconians are supposed to be the ultimate bad guys, tricking various powers into destabilizing the entire galaxy for the Iconians to reconquer. They are planned to replace the Borg Collective as the major enemy faction over the course of future seasons (including STFs against the Iconians). [1]
- First concept drawings were shown in the "Star Trek Magazine." Daniel Stahl said in a July 2010 podcast interview these pictures did not reflect the actual look of the Iconians, as they had been developed further.
External links[edit]
- Iconian at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki.
- Iconian at Memory Beta, the non-canon Star Trek Wiki.
- ALL STOP Episode 14 Interview with Daniel Stahl
- Star Trek Mag. #27 Iconian Concept Drawings
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico City is sponsoring a program offering cash, toys and computer equipment in exchange for guns in a rough neighborhood where a 10-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet as he sat inside a movie theater.
The program in the borough of Iztapalapa is dubbed "For Your Family: Voluntary Disarmament."
Borough president Jesus Valencia wrote in his Twitter account Monday that residents had turned in 27 rifles and 65 pistols.
The borough has been plagued by violent crime and people firing guns into the air during concerts and celebrations.
In November, 10-year-old Hendrik Cuacuas was hit in the head by a 9-mm bullet during the Disney film "Wreck-It Ralph."
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Conditionally Displaying Decimal Places in Excel: Part 1
By David Ringstrom, CPA
The simple task of displaying decimal places sometimes causes angst for spreadsheet users. If you have a list of both large and small numbers, there's tension between rounding the small numbers to whole values and making the large numbers harder to read by adding two trailing zeros.
In this article, I'll describe how to add decimal places on demand by way of using a custom number format. In Part 2 of this series, I'll demonstrate an alternative that uses the MOD function along with Excel's Conditional Formatting feature.
Figure 1 shows a sample report with sales figures. Columns C and D both show currency amounts, so the same formatting can be applied to all cells in those columns. However, in column A, rather than displaying the amount in cell A2 as 3,383.00, we'd like to present it as 3,383, but simultaneously show the amount in cell A3 as 0.50.
Figure 1: You can conditionally display decimals by way of a custom number format.
As shown in Figure 1, the simplest approach to our task is to create a custom number format:
1. Select the cells to which you wish to apply a conditional number format.
2. Press Ctrl-1 to display the Format Cells dialog box. In Excel 2007 and later, you can click the Number button on the Home tab, as shown in Figure 1. Or, in Excel 2003 and Excel for Mac, choose Format and then Cells.
3. Choose Custom from the Number tab of the Format Cells dialog box.
4. Enter the following formatting code in the Type field: [>=1]#,##0;[<1]0.00
5. Click OK to close the Format Cells Dialog box.
6. As Figure 1 shows, now numbers less than 1 will be displayed with two decimal places. However, as often is the case in Excel, this simple approach may yield an unintentional side effect. If you change the value of cell A2 to 3383.75, Excel will display 3,384 instead of 3,383.75. (In Part 2 of this series I'll provide a solution for this by way of Excel's Conditional Formatting feature and Excel's MOD function.)
Any discussion of custom number formats, such as the one shown in Figure 1, can get deep fast, so I can only offer the briefest of explanations in this article. In this case, I've crafted a conditional number format that tests for two different conditions:
- [>=1] – This test determines if the number in the cell is greater than or equal to 1. If so, then Excel formats the number to show commas as needed for thousands, millions, and so on, with no trailing decimal places.
- [<1] – This test determines if the number in the cell is less than 1, and if so, Excel formats the number with a leading zero and two trailing decimal places.
Within custom number formats, # indicates placeholders to be used when needed, while 0 indicates that either an actual number or a zero placeholder will be shown. Conditional tests such as the ones we've used are placed within square brackets, and each set of conditions is separated by a semicolon. Figure 2 demonstrates how you can apply the custom number format you created to other worksheet cells or remove it from the list when it's no longer needed.
Note that custom number formats such as the one shown in Figure 1 apply only to a given workbook, so you'll need to create the formats again if you need this functionality in other spreadsheets as well.
Figure 2: You can easily apply custom number formats you create again in the future.
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And they sat with rapt attention as Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe talked about the links between food, antibiotic overuse, gut microbes and autism.
About 100 parents, educators, practitioners and autistic adults attended the Autism Opportunities Conference at the Best Western on Saturday where speakers talked about holistic treatments, the experience of autism, and the latest research.
McMillan said she was 23 years old before she knew what she'd been struggling with all her life, was autism.
She had always had serious walking and balance problems, she said, learning difficulties, behavioural issues, and had trouble controlling her emotions.
She also had joint pain, digestive troubles, eczema, allergies and because of all of this, was often emotionally and socially shunned.
She was also mentally stressed, she said, "living on the frantic edge, trying to connect."
"I had no idea pain was not a constant in other people's lives."
Her journey of self discovery began at age 11 when she went to summer camp for a month. Away from the noise, pollution and stimulation of city life, with a healthy diet and the calming effect of being in and on water, McMillan realized her symptoms improved at camp and returned "with a crunch" back at home.
"Environment was key," she said. "I began to tease out what made me feel better."
She was always bright, though, and went to Queen's University in a pre-med program. She found a better match for herself and her interests at the University of Waterloo in the environmental studies program, "the first place I could really learn," she said.
In discovering her own autism, McMillan said she realized "the medical treatments are way off, the research is on the wrong track and there is no holistic understanding of autism," she said.
She now gives seminars and offers tips and advice on living with autism on her website thrivewithautism.ca.
She said she is grateful that her parents never had her diagnosed as child. The treatment for autism in the 1960s and 1970s was often institutionalization, which would have been an unbearable life, McMillan said.
Guelph MP Frank Valeriote, who offered greetings at the beginning of the conference, shared that he has a sister who is autistic, and although uncommunicative, his parents chose not to send Marianne 'away' either.
"There was no awareness back then what autism was," Valeriote said, adding that his experience with his sister has made him a strong advocate for autism.
Emma Allen-Vercoe's research has been offering the most promise for finding a cause for autism, although it might raise the hackles of clean freaks.
Allen-Vercoe, a professor at the University of Guelph, was originally looking at gut microbes and how they relate to diseases like celiac and bowel disorders when it was pointed out that autistics often have gut pain too.
There's a delicate balance of bacteria that lives in the gut, Allen-Vercoe said. When the microbes are in balance, everything works fine. It's when this microbiota gets out of balance that disorders occur.
Children are born with no microflora in their gut and they acquire it in the first few years of life through the environment, through food and through breast milk. Once this microflora establishes itself, it is set for life.
Allen-Vercoe said it was the story of Andy Bolte, an autistic man in his 20s, which helped her see the relationship between antibiotic use and autism.
Bolte was developing normally until he was 10 months old, when his doctor prescribed a course of antibiotics for an ear infection.
When one didn't work, the doctor prescribed another, and another … In 1993, before his first birthday, Andy had been on 12 different antibiotics.
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On this day in 1882, Henry Ossian Flipper, the first African-American graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, was dismissed from the service for "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman." Flipper, born a slave in Georgia in 1856, was the fifth black accepted to West Point but the first to graduate, in 1877. He accepted a commission as a second lieutenant and joined the Tenth United States Cavalry. He was eventually made quartermaster at Fort Davis, but Col. William Rufus Shafter relieved him in 1881; Flipper believed he was the victim of persecution and is said to have been warned by civilians at the post of a plot by white officers to force him from the army. The following year, when he discovered post funds missing from his quarters, he attempted to conceal the loss until he could find or replace the money. When Shafter learned of the discrepancy, he immediately filed charges against Flipper. A court-martial acquitted Flipper of embezzlement but pronounced him guilty of "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman." He subsequently worked as a mining engineer in El Paso, Arizona, and Mexico, and later for the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. Flipper maintained his innocence until his death in 1940 and waged a lifelong battle for reinstatement in the army. In 1976, when a bust of him was unveiled at West Point, the Department of the Army granted Flipper an honorable discharge, dated June 30, 1882.
On this day in 1922, legendary Texas fiddler Alexander (Eck) Robertson, along with fiddler Henry C. Gilliland, made what most country music historians consider the first commercial recordings of country music. The duets included the famous "Arkansas Traveler" and "Turkey in the Straw." The following day, Robertson returned to the studio without Gilliland and recorded six additional tracks solo, including the popular "Sallie Gooden," as well as two tracks that were never released. The Victor Talking Machine Company issued a limited release of "Arkansas Traveler" and "Sallie Gooden" in September 1922, but not until April 1923 was the disc in wide circulation. Two other recordings of Robertson were released later in 1923 and 1924. Robertson set the trend for future performers, as fourteen Central Texas fiddlers succeeded him by recording commercially in the years shortly following his first recording.
On this day in 1875, the Frontier Echo, a newspaper that followed cattlemen as they advanced the ranching frontier of West Texas, was first issued in Jacksboro, with R. Chandler as publisher and H. H. McConnell as editor. George W. Robson, a former sea captain, bought the Echo in December 1875 and with advance of the cattle frontier moved the plant to Fort Griffin, where, on January 4, 1879, it appeared as the Fort Griffin Echo. Three years later the frontier had marched west again. After a period of non-publication during the illness of the editor, the newspaper followed. It reappeared in Albany on January 6, 1883, as the Albany Echo. After about a year it was merged with the Albany Star to become the Albany News, which has retained the files of the early Echo.


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Tamil Nadu, which has taken a big leap in cadaver organ transplantations in last two years, has crossed the 400—mark after two government hospitals performed five organ transplants recently.
Four kidneys, two livers, four eyes and some portion of heart valves were harvested in a space of less than 13 hours from two accident victims Venkatesan (29) and Parthiban (42), declared brain dead recently after their relatives agreed to donate the organs.
With this, the total number of vital organ donations recorded in the State's central organ registry has crossed 400 since 2008 when the government launched the State—wide programme to create awareness about cadaver organ transplants
As against a meagre six donors accounting for 30 transplantations in 2008, the State witnessed a quantum jump in 2009 with 317 transplants from 59 donors.
Tamil Nadu Health and Welfare Secretary V. Subburaj said many people were willing to donate organs, but awareness among medical professionals and the public was lacking. The state government, on its part, has allocated Rs five crore for cadaver and stem cell maintenance, he said.
According to Dr. J. Amalopavanathan, Transplant Coordinator, Cadaver Transplant programme, Tamil Nadu has emerged on top among the states in cadaver organ donations and organ harvesting in the past six months, putting it on par with top performers at the international level, despite constraints in infrastructure.
Explaining about the latest transplantation, GH Dean Dr. J. Mohanasundaram told PTI that "A 30—member renal transplant team, including doctors and para medicos, conducted three kidney transplants at the Government General Hospital and one kidney and one liver transplant at Stanley Medical College within a record span of 13 hours."
Stating that the transplantation procedure was a challenging task since it required co-ordination of multiple doctors, Mr. Subburaj said the surgeries were successful and all the patients were doing well.
The beneficiaries of the programme were poor patients coming to government hospitals, he said.
According to hospital sources, of the four harvested kidneys, three were transplanted at the GH (on two women - aged 19 and 29 and a 35-year old man. The fourth kidney was given to the Government Stanley Medical College Hospital and transplanted on a 24-year-old man.
Mr. Mohanasundram said the eyes were donated to the eye bank and the heart valves were given to a private hospital for using them later as matching recipients could not be ascertained immediately.
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Mitt Romney is coming under some pretty intense fire these days, and not much of it is "friendly" anymore.
It started with Tim Pawlenty trying desperately to attack him on "Obamneycare," a health care reform slur that the Minnesota Republican wasn't confident enough to make to Romney's face, but had no problem bringing up when he was doing media interviews.
But now everyone is jumping on board over Romney's refusal to be "anti-abortion enough" to assuage the powers behind the Susan B. Anthony List, a group pledged to support "pro-life female candidates" but who instead seem to focus on any race that gives them some public attention. After Romney refused to sign onto a statement that basically declared that absolutely every move he would make as a president would be tied to either making abortions completely illegal and/or defunding Planned Parenthood, SBA openly attacked the Republican front runner for his lack of dedication to eradicating abortion, and has since had the other Republican contenders doing the same.
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"It is distressing that Gov. Romney refuses to sign the SBA Pledge, even while claiming to be pro-life," said Alice Stewart, a spokeswoman for Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-Minn.) presidential campaign. "The excuses for not signing clearly continue the doubts about his leadership and commitment to ending the practice of abortion — particularly for a candidate who ran as pro-choice for the Senate and governorship of Massachusetts."
"This past Monday night at the Republican presidential debate, I was asked about Gov. Romney's pro-life conversion, and I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I apparently spoke too soon. It is incredibly disappointing that Gov. Romney chose not to defend those who cannot defend themselves," said former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.). Even after Romney's explanation, Santorum doubled down, suggesting that Romney's answer was insufficient.
And even Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), who might make a late entry into the campaign, sent a shot across the bow of the other candidates during a speech this weekend before conservative activists.
"It saddens me, sometimes, when my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left," Perry said at the Republican Leadership Conference. "We need to redouble our efforts to elect more conservative Republicans."
Even the normally mild mannered Ron Paul campaign jumped on board, with one adviser stating, ""Given Governor Romney's past flip-flops on the Right to Life issue and his support for Obamacare-like individual mandates, this stance is very troubling. Right to Life conservatives must question Gov. Romney's commitment to our cause."
And it's not just the other GOP contenders coming after Romney — legislative leaders are attacking, too. Senators Lindsay Graham and John McCain both criticized Romney over his plans on Afghanistan, and Libya, with McCain even dropping the dreaded "What would Reagan do?" on the former governor.
So how do you stop getting hit when you are the frontrunner and have a giant target on your back. Apparently, the key is to run so far ahead that you leave everyone else too far behind to even hit you. The question is, can Romney get that far?
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Dah....what did he expect, that warm and fuzzy feeling. If this has got him rattled, whats he going to do when it really gets dirry?
What an arrogant jerk, anyone who votes Republican is completely stupid or crazy, truth & reality has nothing to do with their views.
When the crazies call you crazy, you can't be too bad.
I look forward to seeing knives in Romney's back. He's thrown enough of his own during his tenure as governer my home state.
Romney is probably way too sane to get the Republican/Tea party nomination.
Romney's problem is that he is a moderate Republican. He is more concerned about money than about sex. Today the other Republicans are way to the right of him.
I am sorry to inform the SBA group but she would be turning over in her grave at the idea that a group so people so opposed to freedom took her name. I would think that even the anti-abortionists would realize that there is more that a President had to do than to make abortion illegal & defund Planned Parenthood. There are 3 wars going on, there is rampant unemployment (I notice the Republicans STILL HAVEN'T tackled that), The economy is bust, the middle class is broken & getting less & less - but all they worry about is unborn children??? The only thing worth fighting for in their lives are children who may or may not be born? Wish they would spend half as much time worrying about the already born kids who everyday wonder where their next meal is coming from....
I thought these politicions were use to this.
I believe that even the media now admits that polls show Ron Paul as the real frontrunner.
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