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This hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law will be called to order. This is our second hearing and one focusing on the important issue of health privacy.
Over the past two decades, an incredible thing has happened-you can now put your entire medical history-every chart, every x-ray, every test, every last doctor's note, on a thumb drive this big. And even better: once that electronic health record is put on a network, any doctor authorized on that network can access that information instantaneously from across the state or across the country.
This means you don't have to rely on your memory to tell your doctor when your last tetanus shot was. It means that in a crisis, doctors in an emergency room can find out in seconds exactly what medicines an accident victim has been prescribed. And it means that when you change doctors or move cities, you can be sure that your doctors will know everything they need to know about you and your health history.
But the most powerful story I've heard explaining the need for electronic health records comes from the Hennepin County Medical Center, which I'm proud to say will be represented today by Kari Myrold, their privacy officer. HCMC was one of the first hospitals in Minnesota to develop an electronic health records system.
HCMC is actually just five or six blocks from where I live in Minneapolis. And as it turns out, HCMC is also just one mile from the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, which collapsed in August 2007. And one month before that bridge collapsed, they had just completed a full implementation of electronic health records throughout the hospital. But that day in August, when the bridge collapsed, its policies still called for using paper records in the event of a major catastrophe.
So when the bridge collapsed and patients started coming in, staff used paper records-for the first two patients. After those first two, the doctors made the decision to switch to electronic health records. They found that it allowed them to call up patient charts and track patients throughout the hospital and in other systems far easier than paper records. When disaster struck, that decision to use electronic health records allowed the Hennepin County Medical Center to tend to those victims more quickly and more effectively.
Examples like this one quickly persuaded the medical community-and Congress-of the value of electronic health records. So in 2009, Congress wrote and passed bipartisan legislation called the HITECH Act to create financial incentives to get doctors and hospitals around the country to start using electronic health records. I'm proud to say that the Hennepin County Medical Center was one of the first hospitals in the nation to qualify for HITECH Act funds.
But we need to get all of the benefits of electronic health records while still protecting the extraordinarily sensitive information they contain. I believe all Americans have a fundamental right to know who has their personal information-and to control who gets that information and who it is shared with. I also think that our fundamental right to privacy includes the right to know that our sensitive information-wherever it is-is safe and secure.
And unfortunately, breach after breach of health data has shown us that when it comes to health information, our right to privacy is not being protected. On the evening of July 28, 2011, a laptop was stolen from the back seat of a consultant's car in the Seven Corners neighborhood of Minneapolis. That laptop contained the names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and medical information for approximately 14,000 patients of Fairview Health Services and the names and medical information for another 2,800 patients of the North Memorial Medical Center. Those hospitals had stipulated that the consultant was going to encrypt that data-but it wasn't encrypted. Sadly, that was the third incident in about a year where the health data of Minnesotans was put at risk as a result of a laptop theft. In fact, since the collection of breach records started in 2009, 91 laptops containing the health information of approximately 1.8 million people have been lost or stolen.
That's just a subset of a total of 364 major breaches since 2009 that resulted in the breach of the health data of over 18 million Americans. And this has been happening since far before 2009. In 2002, for example, the U.S. Veterans Administration Medical Center in Indianapolis sold or donated 139 computers without removing information on their hard drives that revealed the names of veterans who had been diagnosed with AIDS or mental illnesses. In 2001, the detailed psychological records of 62 children and teenagers were accidently posted on the University of Montana website for eight days. The truth is that the same wonderful technology that has revolutionized patient health records has also created very real and very serious privacy challenges.
Now, this is not a new problem-and we're not the first lawmakers to call it to light. In the last 15 years, Congress has passed major, bipartisan legislation to protect health information privacy. In 1996, Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-commonly known as HIPAA. HIPAA set out how health care providers and insurers have to protect their health data. It also required that they get their patients' permission before disclosing that information to certain third parties. Yet although HIPAA made strides toward better protecting patients' privacy, it left some substantial gaps.
So in 2009, Congress passed the bipartisan HITECH Act as part of the Recovery Act. The HITECH Act extended many of the same privacy and security rules that apply to doctors and hospitals to their contractors. This was called the "business associate rule." The HITECH Act also required health care providers and health insurers to notify people affected by a breach. And it increased the civil and criminal penalties for violations of all of these rules. When Congress passed the HITECH Act, it sent a clear, bipartisan signal that it was time to get serious about health information privacy.
Unfortunately, all signs indicate that we're still not there, either in terms of the protections we have in place or the way we're implementing and enforcing them. A lot of the crucial protections of the HITECH Act have yet to be implemented. For example, HHS has yet to issue final, enforceable rules on a number of critical protections-like the business associate rule.
And while the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice have increased enforcement in the past one to two years, the overall record of enforcement is simply not satisfactory. Of the approximately 22,500 privacy complaints that HHS has received since 2003 that it had the authority to investigate, HHS has levied a formal fine, or Civil Monetary Penalty, in one case-just one. They've reached monetary settlement agreements in six other cases.
DOJ's record on this is similarly mixed. Since 2003, HHS has referred about 495 cases to DOJ for prosecution. But since then, DOJ has prosecuted just 16 criminal HIPAA cases. DOJ has reported to me that they have prosecuted some cases under statutes other than HIPAA-like identity theft and computer hacking statutes. But DOJ has no records or estimates of how many. It is hard for Congress to conduct oversight over DOJ without this data.
Now, I want to be clear. There are explanations for these facts and figures-and a lot of the responsibility lies on the shoulders of Congress. Congress perhaps should have instituted stronger reporting requirements on DOJ for enforcement. And HHS's low enforcement statistics are in large part the product of what I think is a wise Department-wide policy to work with companies to fix privacy problems-not just fine them.
But I think it's safe to say that we need to do more to protect this data. And that's what this hearing is all about-figuring out if we are doing everything we should be doing to enforce existing laws, and then figuring out if we need new laws and regulations to fill the gaps.
Before I turn to my friend the Ranking Member, I want to recognize that the work we're doing today continues the work that has been done for 15 years here in the Judiciary Committee under Chairman Leahy and of course, in the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee under Chairman Harkin-and their predecessors, on both sides of the aisle. I sincerely believe that health information privacy is a bipartisan issue and a bipartisan cause, and one that will require a bipartisan solution. With that, I will turn to Senator Coburn, who as a watchdog of the federal government - and as a physician - will have a very valuable voice in today's hearing.


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Models are characterised as purposeful representations: they are tools intended to help practitioners work through a specific issue in order to improve a situation in the real world. Clearly, since issues are diverse, and the nature of what constitutes an improved outcome is often contentious, several models will be used, in various ways, to support debate and ultimately to change behaviour. Any attempt to impose a single or rigid model structure is restrictive and, in the end, unproductive. Unless a model generates incremental insights into what can be done, and the implications of different courses of action, and changes the probability that a particular course of action will be realised, nothing useful is achieved. Often, responsible professional modellers will not impose any model structure, but facilitate development and increasing sophistication in the representations of others. Risks and responsibility in modelling go together: risks are contained by a responsible pluralism.
Key words: Management, models, risk, responsibility, pluralism.
When it was proclaimed that the library contained all books, the first impression was one of extravagant happiness. All men felt themselves to be masters of an intact and secret treasure. There was no personal or world problem whose eloquent solution did not exist in some hexagon.' This is how Borges (4) described the Library of Babel. So it has been in recent years with models. Thus, in an article in Scientific American, Karl et al. (13) state that, 'In the future, to reduce the uncertainty regarding anthropogenic climate change, especially on the small scales, it will be necessary to improve our computer modelling capabilities, while continuing to make detailed climatic observations.' It is assumed that the solution to our problems will be through the discovery of improved representations.
Modelling is used in many scientific areas to stimulate debate, to support a particular line of argument (including justification for increased research funding), to structure our understanding of the way a world works, and as a contribution to improved (or at least changed) management practices. In this complex dance, different scientific representations engage each other, and with other kinds of representation in the context of agricultural research for development, in an attempt to bring about (and to demonstrate) better outcomes: improved understanding, novel insights and opportunities realised (eg. 11, 14, 15).
This paper is not concerned with definitions of sustainability and environmental stewardship, although I believe that the process of continual re-negotiation of models is part of what sustainability is all about (7). Instead, emphasis is given to our increasing reliance on models (or, rather, on the representations of professional modellers), and the associated risks and responsibilities for those who fabricate and use these representations.
There are several dangers for modellers: coming to believe that their model of a world is the only possible one (or the best, or even the best available) because other models do not exist, or are impossible to parameterise, or are inferior in some other way; that their model is right and the world is wrong; that models will solve problems (cf. people using models resolve problems!); that solutions derived without the aid of particular models are invalid in some way; that modelling is (or even can be) objective; that modelling is costless; that other people need specific models to make decisions about issues they face; or that espousal of these beliefs does not pose a significant threat to professional modelling activities. The risk for the rest of us is that we will accept such implicit assumptions unthinkingly and continue to support modelling activities long after their termination date is due. Unless a model generates incremental insights into what can be done, and the implications of different courses of action, and changes the probability that a particular course of action will be realised, nothing useful is achieved. The opportunity cost of doing nothing, of letting models run their course, is high: models cost. Risks and responsibility in the management of models go together.
A model may be the wrong model: in relation to an agreed purpose; in relation to the required resolution needed to precipitate a decision about a preferred course of action; and in relation to the costs and benefits of model development and use (eg. 9). This can arise because: the issue is mis-specified; the structure of the model is not isomorphic with the problem; the initial conditions and other assumptions are mis-specified; or because the model is not evaluated in comparison with alternative models. No single model formulation will ever be a complete representation of how worlds work: all representations are partial, but partial in different ways.
There are ways out of this dilemma: by checking that the resolution of the model is adequate (but not excessive) compared with alternative model formulations (6); use of several models simultaneously to address an issue; ensuring that the sources of error are recognised and incorporated into the analysis (8, 10); that the scenarios considered for analysis are relevant situations (or, at least, not extreme cases construed as representative); that the model is accessible and understood (there are no black boxes which have to be taken by others on trust); and that investment in generic models is focused on improving the modelling capabilities of others, not used to constrain the development of those capabilities by imposing a 'one size fits all' straight-jacket. The risks associated with models are largely ones of failing to appreciate, or explain to others: their structure; the assumptions on which they are based; the reliability of their formulation and data; their partiality; their articulation with other representations; and the associated costs and benefits of model construction and application in relation to existing (or other possible) model formulations.
This poses a special responsibility for professional modellers: to seek alternative model formulations; to justify model choice; and to evaluate models as effective tools in relation to a particular and specific purpose. The key question is: what kind of representation would help progress the resolution of a specific issue? Thus, the kind of model we develop is determined by the nature of the issue we face. In practice, this is rather hard to do – a world is only poorly separable from our model of it, and is conditioned by sets of values of which we may only be dimly aware. How we see (model) a world depends on where we sit and who we are.
Romm (18, p. 185), in her discussion of the issue of researcher responsibility, suggests that we can define "failure" to exercise responsibility as the propensity to defend one's stance as if it constituted the only rational way to proceed. Responsibility, conversely, implies that modellers investigate alternatives and use this investigation as the basis for how one thinks and acts. Such a modeller would acknowledge that a world of multiple knowledge frames is neither value-free nor valueless. 'It is a world of possibility and responsibility. It is a world in which we refuse to use "objectivity" [defined as value-freedom] as a reason for avoiding personal involvement in our knowledge productions.' (12). Romm proposes that responsible action requires: admitting that there are choices to be made; and being able to defend choices in the light of a serious consideration of what other approaches may offer. Many of these risks (and the need for professional responsibility in managing them) have been the subject of various attempts to define a professional code of practice for researchers in the conduct of Operational Research (OR, ie. one kind of professional modelling) eg. 1, 20.
White and Taket (21) indicate that their approach to working with organisations is to provide a semi-structured framework within which the organisation members are enabled to: identify problems or issues of concern to them; explore the nature of the problem/issues; generate and explore feasible opportunities for change; and build a plan of future action. They argue that 'the project of a modernist methodology for OR in this context is flawed, and that the concomitant modern expert is dead'. This is not to say that the person "doing OR" has no role in such a situation, only that the role is different from that usually ascribed to the modern expert. The construction and manipulation of models can contribute to such debates, but are not a substitute for the debate, and the privileged access of one contributor to particular classes of representation does not confer on her the status of expert.
Ethical issues thus arise: in constraining the way in which alternative representations are sold (they cannot provide an answer, and are only a patterning tool); the kinds of representation that are proposed/developed by the OR practitioner (generally simpler, more transparent representations rather than a blatant argument from authority - the death of the expert); how models are developed and the output interpreted (perhaps a move towards community OR eg. 16); the need for continual exploration of the boundary assumptions of particular model formulations (under what circumstances is the particular model formulation applicable?); and much greater concern with the negotiation process by which different representations of a problem situation are articulated (5).
White and Taket (21) offer several guidelines to help shape OR (modelling) practice: a recognition of the co-responsible nature of the OR encounter; the aim of achieving skill transfer (both ways); the importance of recognising difference and working with it; and flexibility - the readiness to work in different ways at different times. Their aim is to develop a more critically reflective OR practice. Often, responsible professional modellers will not impose any model structure, but act to facilitate development and increasing sophistication in the representations of others.
Decision support systems (ie. OR models that have been transplanted to a routine operational context) have been proposed as a way of transferring information from researchers to farmers. I have questioned (6) whether this is justified as a general strategy because routine decisions are often clear, and difficult decisions are often only difficult because they are marginal - it does not matter a jot which way you jump, either because there are no differences between the outcomes associated with alternative decisions or the background is so noisy that these cannot be distinguished. The set of decisions for which decision support is of any value is thus much reduced. It is reduced further because one way out is not to provide a comparison of options, but merely to point out that there are options which have not been considered (the choice between them being clear or marginal as before). Within an agreed set of options, adequate resolution to distinguish major differences can often be achieved using lexicographic models such as production rules, or holistic insight (intuition) about how the alternatives fit with established practice. Thus, the set of issues for which a more structured screening may be justified is further reduced. Add to this the uncertainty surrounding the precise formulation of the scientific model, and the situation gets even more problematic. Beeson (3) argues that meaning is always too much to specify.
Pascual et al. (17), using the management of the Serengeti wildebeest as an example, fitted several age-structured and unstructured models to a common data set and compared model predictions of wildebeest viability and harvest. Models that depicted demographic data in very different ways fitted the data equally well. Traditional model selection methods, based on the principle of parsimony, were thus not practical for judging the value of alternative representations. However, the models produced contrasting assessments of the consequences of harvesting wildebeest (ranging from enhanced extinction risk to reduced extinction risk). They conclude: 'The major lesson to be learned from our analyses is that biologists working with population management should avoid pursuing some "best model" as a holy grail and should instead be willing to consider many alternative portraits of the system under study.' The experience of the Agricultural Production Systems Research Unit in Australia was, in many ways, similar: different model formulations fit the data equally well (badly) and the choice of model must be based on other criteria. These are determined by the use to which the model will be put (and by whom) and the net value of being able to discriminate between the implications of alternative decisions.
Models have often been built in relative isolation of specific issues they are used to address. It may be, when we look closely, that there are no issues requiring the kind of models we have built. It is also likely that many issues can be addressed adequately using off-the-shelf models: the responsible strategy then is one of gaining familiarity with a range of model categories that are already available rather than constructing, or refining, or refurbishing new ones. In some situations, it is the process of model construction and application that is more important than the provision of pre-configured tools. This requires continual questioning of model-related activities. The opportunity costs of building the wrong models, or excessively elaborate models (but essentially meaningless ones because of their limited contribution to good communication practice), are high.
But we cannot avoid models - or, as Baudrillart says, 'simulations' (2). Human discourse is based on the sharing of negotiated representations. At best, what we know as "modelling" within agricultural R&D is no more than that. Thus, the management of models is grounded in communication practice. The abdication of model development and application to single model structures, not tailored to the requirements of specific issues, and unreflective about own-practice and the particular contribution of specific model formulations (even worse, to a single group of actors which has privileged access to idiosyncratic knowledge - in other words, to "experts"), risks the marginalisation of that set of model-constructing activities. In a world in which resources for the scientific project are increasingly scarce, the failure to use models in a responsible way risks too much. Opening modelling up to wider audiences, sharing experiences, valuing diversity in model structure, and encouraging a multiplicity of approaches to the resolution of specific issues – in short, a responsible pragmatic pluralism (19) - all help to contain this risk.
The manuscript benefited a lot from the comments and suggestions of David Freebairn, Dick Medd, Kevin Parton and Peter Ridge.
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2. Baudrillart, J. 1983. "Simulations". Semiotext(e), New York).
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4. Borges, J.L. 1970. In "Labyrinths". Penguin Books, London, UK.
5. Cox, P., Parton, K., Shulman, A. and Ridge, P. 1996. In "Applications of Systems Approaches at the Farm and Regional Levels", Volume 1, Proc. 2nd. Int. Symp. Systems Approaches for Agric. Devel., Edited by P.S. Teng, M.J. Kropff, H.F.M. ten Berge, J.B. Dent, F.P. Lansigan, and H.H. van Laar). IRRI, Los Baños, Philippines. pp. 213-228.
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8. Finlay, P.N. and Wilson, J.M. 1997. Systems Res. and Behav. Sci. 14 (3), 169-182.
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12. Jacques, R. 1989. In "Operational Research and the Social Sciences." Edited by M.C. Jackson, P. Keys and S.A. Cropper. Plenum Press, New York, NY. pp. 703-708.
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Environmental group: RIMPAC ship sinkings harm ecosystemUPDATED 8:35 PM HST Jul 11, 2014
An environmental group says that the U.S. Navy's sinking of ships as part of RIMPAC's live-fire exercises, introduces harmful pollutants into the ecosystem.Video Transcript
As part of RIMPAC 2014, the U-S Navy is sending three ships to the bottom of the ocean during live-fire exercises. However an environmental group says with each ship sunk, a harmful pollutant enters the ecosystem. With the latest developments, here's KITV4's Andrew Pereira. 01 18 42 "SHIP CANNON" After 42 years of service, the USS Ogden was sent to Davy Jones' Locker Thursday night about 60 miles northwest of Kauai. So-called Sinkex exercises are meant to hone combat skills, but decommissioned ships like these at Pearl Harbor also carry one of the world's most notorious pollutants. COLBY SELF: "PCBs ARE POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS AND THEY ARE A PERSISTANT ORGANIC POLLUTANT." Banned in the U.S. In 1979, PCB's were used in electrical apparatus on Navy ships. The chemical can also be consumed by fish and enter the human food chain. COLBY SELF: "FETUSES HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO TAKE HIGHER LEVELS OF PCBs THROUGH BREAST MILK AND SO OUR MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS ARE MOST SUBJECT TO PCB UPTAKE." ANDREW PEREIRA: "UNDER AN AGREEMENT WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY THE NAVY IS SUPPOSED TO REMOVE AS MUCH SOLID AND LIQUID PCBs FROM A SHIP AS POSSIBLE BEFORE IT'S SUNK. HOWEVER, ENVIRONMENTALISTS SAY THE NAVY'S TRACK RECORD IS SPOTTY AT BEST AND THEY BELIEVE PCBs ARE STILL ENTERING THE OCEAN." COLBY SELF: "MATERIALS DON'T HAVE TO BE REMOVED IF YOU HAVE TO SCRAP, BLAST, USE CHEMICAL STRIPPING, REMOVE HEAVY EQUIPMENT. VIRTUALLY, YOU DON'T HAVE TO REMOVE ANYTHING. SO THE NAVY GETS TO DETERMINE WHAT THEY REMOVE." In a statement to KITV4, a spokeswoman with the Navy's Third Fleet said, "Each SINKEX is conducted in strict compliance with applicable U.S. environmental laws, regulations and permit requirements to minimize potential harm to the environment." But under an EPA waiver, as much as 100 pounds of PCBs can remain onboard each ship that's sunk. When the USS Oriskany was sunk off Florida in 2006, a study showed PCB's in nearby fish increased to levels unacceptable to the Florida Department of Health. COLBY SELF: "EVEN FIVE YEARS LATER, THEY WERE STILL BEING TAKEN UP BY FISH AT THAT REEF SITE, AT VOLUMES THAT WERE NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION." With two ships still left to be sunk off Hawaii as part of RIMPAC 2014, the Basel Action Network is urging local residents and lawmakers to learn more about ship sinkings and the potential harm to the environment. COLBY SELF: "HAWAII NEEDS TO ADDRESS THIS BECAUSE THE NAVY DOESN'T HAVE ANY INTENTION OF CUTTING THIS BACK." Basel Action Network says the Navy has sunk at least 118 ships in the Pacific or Atlantic oceans in the past 14 years. The non-profit group has an online petition with more than 11-hundred signatures demanding the Navy follow all environmental laws like every other U-S
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The Lakers answered right back two minutes later on Cody Berkobien's 37-yard scoring run. Moments later, the Vikings muffed the kickoff and the Lakers scored on Mitch Kriger's 5-yard run.
Keegan Wolter added a 3-yard touchdown run less than a minute later for a 56-27 advantage.
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So that's why all of you are crazy, you're brains are all fried up from microwave radiation! lol. I can't believe no one
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Heard cell phones may cause prostateccancer and such in men since they leave their cell phones in their pockets. One way to find out then eh? lol.
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Everyones getting cancer hopefully i get a rare disease, mix it up a little lol
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Two weeks after handing Region 4B-AAAAA foe Creekside a pair of close basketball loses at home, Northgate lineups were dealt a dose of the same medicine on Friday in Fairburn.
Wendall Watson's 3-pointer before the buzzer left the Vikings a point shy in a 55-54 loss to the Seminoles while Creekside senior Anna Watkins took control of a 33-29 victory in the second half against Northgate's girls while finishing with a game-high 17 points.
Watkins, who had 21 points in a 46-40 loss to the Lady Vikings at Johnny Brown Gym on Jan. 8, did most of her damage before halftime before Northgate's zone defense held Creekside to just four points in the third quarter.
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Insect visitors to the rare plant Primula palinuri Petagna (Primulaceae) in southern Italy: a framework for future research
Manuela Giovanetti and Giovanna Aronne
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Few papers report precise data about insect behaviour on flowers of Primula species (Primulaceae) (Campbell et al., 1986; Ishihama and Washitani, 2007). Results of hand- and open-pollination experiments (Washitani et al., 1994; Fisogni et al., 2011) maintain the common opinion that Primula species are pollinator limited. Primulas flower mostly at the end of the winter, often on mountain areas immediately after the snow melts, and many species are suffering declines, patchy distributions, and reduced seed production. Because little is known about pollination of this genus, and because it contains many rare and endemic species that show limited geographical distributions, any additional information may help to understand reproductive patterns and promote conservation actions.
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MIT scholar's new book heralds 'creative collaboration' with the masses as the key to animes worldwide popularity
In early 1979, a cartoon series about giant robots, "Mobile Suit Gundam," made its debut on Japanese television. It was not a hit. Scheduled to run for 12 months, the plug was about to be pulled after just 10 months.
But then the show's creators noticed something unexpected: it had a very loyal, if small, following. Fans were creating encyclopedias about the show and creating timelines of its events. The show was given a new lease on life and the studio producing it took notice of which elements had proven most popular with its audience. Given a new chance and some creative tweaks, the "Gundam" shows became the basis of a sprawling series of cartoons, movies, comic books, video games, best-selling toys and more.
"The 'Gundam' giant robot series was written off as a failure except that it got picked up by a few fans," says Ian Condry, an associate professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT and head of MIT's Foreign Languages and Literatures section. "Now it's an ongoing 30-year-old franchise." More
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The popular messaging and chatting application Skype is now available for devices running under the Symbian Belle Feature Pack 1 and Feature Pack 2 operating system.
The app, available for download through the official Nokia Store portal, can now be installed on the Nokia 808 PureView, a post on MyNokiaBlog reads.
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Opened 3 years ago
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#22354 closed defect (bug) (fixed)
Gravatar Shouldn't Use images/blank.gif
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There is a very subtle flow-of-control error in pluggable.php:
elseif ( 'blank' == $default ) $default = includes_url('images/blank.gif');
This makes sense when $email has no value, because it will cause the local blank.gif file to be displayed. However...
When $email is not empty, this function is causing the gravatar.com server to make a proxy request to the blank.gif file and display the local file through a remote request. This is not the intended behavior. When the $email value is present, the Gravatar request should simply contain "&d=blank" to get a blank image.
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Change History (16)
@miqrogroove — 3 years ago
comment:1 @miqrogroove — 3 years ago
- Keywords has-patch added
comment:2 @SergeyBiryukov — 3 years ago
Related: #21195
comment:3 @Viper007Bond — 3 years ago
I think you should just do this:
elseif ( empty($email) && 'blank' == $default )
It's cleaner and more consistent with the existing code.
@Viper007Bond — 3 years ago
Simple fix
comment:4 follow-up: ↓ 5 @miqrogroove — 3 years ago
Yes... somewhat related. However, this bug patch is ready to commit and shouldn't wait on new features.
Viper007Bond: Your code is not logically equivalent to mine. Please explain why you would make that additional change?
@Viper007Bond — 3 years ago
The fix plus a fix to allow https:// default image URLs as well as bringing the whole function up to modern coding standards
comment:5 in reply to: ↑ 4 @Viper007Bond — 3 years ago
Replying to miqrogroove:
Viper007Bond: Your code is not logically equivalent to mine. Please explain why you would make that additional change?
Good catch. My patches should be disregarded. Silly mistake on my part.
The whole logic on that block is messy. I'm tempted to say we replace it with a cleaner switch and two ifs.
comment:6 @miqrogroove — 3 years ago
I'm still in favor of the original patch if we can get it into beta. I wouldn't attempt a re-write for 3.5 at this point.
comment:7 @nacin — 3 years ago
- Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to 3.5
This is particularly timely because of http://blog.gravatar.com/2012/10/09/default-image-changes/, which was a change to the Gravatar service about a month ago that could affect the usage of blank.gif. Because of that, moving to 3.5.
@SergeyBiryukov — 3 years ago
comment:8 @SergeyBiryukov — 3 years ago
miqro-blank-gravatars.diff makes sense to me.
22354.patch is a simplified version without reformatting the block.
comment:9 @miqrogroove — 3 years ago
Thanks nacin. Do you want a more involved patch for this? In addition to the concerns from above, I just noticed on http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/ that query strings are disallowed on default images now.
Sergey, yours is fine too.
comment:10 @miqrogroove — 3 years ago
Testing shows query strings are still allowed within the d= variable. Disregard that.
comment:11 @nacin — 3 years ago
- Owner set to nacin
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
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comment:12 @miqrogroove — 3 years ago
Cool. Thanks everyone!


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PÉREZ DE LUXÁN, DIEGO (15?–?). Diego Pérez de Luxán entered the recorded annals of Texas and New Mexico history through a narrow window of time, but his observations during the years 1582–83 are nonetheless very important. Spaniards under the leadership of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado had last visited New Mexico in 1542, and almost forty years passed before they renewed contact with the Pueblo Indians. During that interval the mining and cattle frontier of northern New Spain had advanced to the headwaters of the Río Conchos in southern Chihuahua, and the small settlements there of San Bartolomé and Santa Bárbara became logical gateways to Texas and New Mexico. In June 1581 an expedition led by Francisco Sánchez and accompanied by three Franciscans left Santa Bárbara for an entrada into New Mexico that followed the course of the Rio Grande upstream from La Junta de los Ríos. When the expedition returned along the same route in the following year, the two surviving Franciscans remained in New Mexico, and Sánchez died on the homeward stretch. A follow-up expedition into New Mexico was quickly organized and placed under the command of Antonio de Espejo. Accompanying him was a meticulous observer and careful chronicler named Diego Pérez de Luxán.
The Espejo expedition left San Bartolomé on November 10, 1582, and was in the field for ten months. During that time Pérez de Luxán recorded the day-by-day progress of the Spaniards. His journal is invaluable for its detailed ethnographic information and observations on the landscape of New Mexico and Texas. Espejo learned of the martyrdom of the two Franciscan friars, explored much of New Mexico, visited the Hopi Indians in present-day Arizona, and returned to Mexico along the course of the Pecos River. The homeward journey brought the first Europeans into extreme Southwest Texas. Near the site of modern Pecos, Texas, Espejo left the Pecos River on a more direct march to the Rio Grande, which he struck slightly below its confluence with the Río Conchos. At the conclusion of the entrada Pérez de Luxán disappears from known historical sources, but his account is a remarkable record of ten months' experience in late-sixteenth-century New Mexico and Texas. Other accounts of the Espejo expedition written after the completion of the journey are far less reliable. Whereas many European observers in Texas had a tendency to name numerous Indian groups as Jumanos, Pérez de Luxán applied that designation only to Indians in the La Junta region who had begun buffalo hunting. These people were probably related to groups called "Cow People" by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in the 1530s.
Donald E. Chipman, Spanish Texas, 1519–1821 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992). Diego Pérez de Luxán, Expedition into New Mexico Made by Antonio de Espejo, 1582–1583, trans. George Peter Hammond and Agapito Rey (Los Angeles: Quivira Society, 1929). J. Lloyd Mecham, "Antonio de Espejo and His Journey to New Mexico," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 30 (October 1926).
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Donald E. Chipman, "PEREZ DE LUXAN, DIEGO," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fpe84), accessed October 13, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.


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Dwindling numbers have forced one of the Monroe County Region's five boys swimming teams to combine with another school.
Gibraltar Carlson's team has merged with Southgate Anderson and now will be known as the Carlson-Anderson co-op team. Nick Puente, who coached Carlson's girls team this fall, takes over as boys coach.
The Region suffered major graduation losses last year, including Milan's Dylan Shearer, who was a state champion in the breaststroke as a junior and a runner-up as a senior, Tyler Fisher, who took a second and third at state, and Tyler DiGesare, who set a school record in the backstroke also were among Milan's graduation losses. Monroe graduated Matt Nemeth, who was fourth at state in the backstroke last year.
Milan was seventh in the state in Division 3 last year.
Bedford will continue to have a club team.
Coach: Nick Puente, first year
Top Performers: Craig Skinner, Justin Woodring, Matt Deihl, Ryan Owen, Luke Demmick.
First Meet: Dec. 13 vs. Dearborn Edsel Ford.
Coach: Kit Daniels, third year
2010-11 record: 8-8
Top Performers: Jake Corl, Josh Papenhagen, Zach Barrett, Dean Keffer, Travis Liedel, Matt Straub, Zach Teller.
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First Meet: Thursday in quad at home.
Coach: Brandon Bates, third year
2010-11 record: 8-4
Top Performers: Jake Hempel, Dustin Mathis, Gerard Deland, Corey Taylor, Blake Doom, Derrick Laderach.
Coach's Comment: "It's going to be interesting. We have a lot of guys back. We only lost three seniors, but all were state-caliber kids. We graduated a lot of points. We have 20 kids on our roster and 11 are seniors. That class started out with three. They've been a great group."
First Meet: Friday-Saturday, SMISL Relays at Dundee
Coach: Dan Heikka, seventh year
2010-11 record: 11-1
Top Performers: Dylan Miller, Ike Fink, Colby Williams, Ian Darling, David Brown, Oliver Smith, Josh Jarema.
Coach's Comment: "I don't believe in rebuilding, but we lost quite a bit of talent. We've got quite a few new bodies out. A lot of them are sophomores who have never swam before. It will be a fun year. We'll be doing a lot more teaching than we did in the past."
First Meet: Tonight vs. Adrian.
Coach: Jeremy Layman, sixth year
2010-11 record: 9-5
Top Performers: Michael Allen, Alec Harwood, Ian Misiak, Jack Nemec, Jonathon Voelker, Reid Heiser, Brady Harris, Scott Walters, Jake Carps.
Coach's Comment: "We definitely graduated a lot of seniors last year. That was a lot of our firepower with some really good swimmers. We have a good group this year. I expect them to step up like we did last year."
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VNL's WorldGSM solar-powered GSM system has been shortlisted in the "Best Technology Foresight" category of the World Communications Awards (WCA).
Organised by the international magazine Total Telecom and sponsored by Ovum, these annual awards are recognised throughout the communications industry. Last year's winners included Bharti Airtel, NTT Communications and the BT Group.
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This was an incredible merging of the characters and themes explored in the predecessors The Giver and Gathering Blue. It was rather short and abrupt with the main conflict(s) remaining very shrouded in mystery, but even still, I'm glad to have continued the journeys of Jonas, Matty, and Kira.
This is the 3rd book in The Giver series. It brings together some of the characters from the second book (Gathering Blue) with one of the characters from the first book. Matty has settled in Village, living with Seer (a blind man and Matty's friend (Kira)'s father). Kira is still living in their old village, but when the people of the previously welcoming Village decide to close their doors to newcomers, Matty makes a trip to get Kira and bring her so she and her father can be reunited.
I probably shouldn't have listened to the audio. The narrator has a low gravely voice, and I did lose focus. It was ok, but nothing special. It was also extremely short. I was going to give up on the series, but I must admit that I liked the way it ended and it did make me slightly curious about the next book. We'll see.
The ending was perfect but heartbreaking. Matty has lived with the blind Seer in a village near a forest for six years, learning maturity, becoming less wild than he had been, he finds that he has a power within himself and wants to use it. When he's sent to fetch Seer's daughter to join her father he discovers the uses of his gifts.
Short, sweet, heartbreaking.
This is the third book in the series. It has to do with a special boy named Matty. He has a very special purpose that even he can't see until the moment is upon him. He lives in the village that Jonas fled to. The village is surrounded by a living forest. This forest protects the villagers by picking and choosing who may pass through it. The forest seems to like Matty, for it lets him come and go at will to be the communication for the other communities and the village. There is also an evil that is doing it's best to pounce upon this village the way it has done so many others. The people are starting to turn on each other and the LEADER (Jonas) needs to find a way to bring peace again. This is where Matty is at his best.
Lots of people don't like the ending here, or don't understand it. Well, the thing is, it's absolutely what the whole book was about, what it was leading up to. Everything fits together if you can 'see' the 'threads.' If you can't, it's not Lowry's fault. She's a master, remember. Maybe you read too fast. I'm sorry if that sounds rude, but I know I had to make myself slow down and think about what I was reading, because it was so smooth and interesting on a 'neat story' level. But this is not as easy as the first two and is better, not for inexperienced readers who are 12, but for 14 year-olds who have read some more Literary fantasy or science fiction.
As to whether they/ we should have read the first two first - well, should, yes. Needed to have done? Maybe not. I suspect this one could stand alone, or be read without re-reading the first two if it was a long time ago one did so.
While ''Messenger'' may tie the three stories together just a little too neatly, it is still far from a sweet resolution. Up to the last anguished page, Lois Lowry shows how hard it is to build community. I suspect that many young readers will want to return to all three stories.
This book is about a boy named Matty who came to the Village six years ago and now they want to close the village to newcomers. Matty must send messages to those who are planning to come and move to the Village including where he originated from. I didn't really like this book as it didn't interest me and its description's were weak and vague. I didn't like the way the author wrote the book especially at the end of the book where it was unclear what happened. I think it is a good book for people who like science fiction books. I also didn't like this book because it had mythical things like "using your gift to change the world."
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- 1/4 cup onion, finely minced
- 2 cloves garlic, finely minced
- 1-1/2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
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4. Arrange the meatballs directly on the grill grate. Bake for 30 - 35 minutes, or until the meatballs are cooked through. Leave the Traeger on. In the meantime, heat the jarred marinara in a pan on the stovetop. Transfer the cooked meatballs to the pan and let them simmer for 5 to 10 minutes.
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