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THURSDAY, Feb. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Despite recent epidemiologic evidence suggesting statins decrease breast cancer incidence, they had no activity in a rat model of mammary cancer, according to research published in the February issue of Cancer Prevention Research.
Ronald A. Lubet, of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., and colleagues used a rat model of mammary cancer in which nearly half of the cancers express a mutated form of the Ha Ras oncogene. Two statins with unique lipophicilities, atorvastatin and lovastatin, were administered to the rats. The statins were given either as a single-agent or in combination with suboptimal doses of tamoxifen or bexarotene, a retinoid X receptor agonist.
Neither single-agent atorvastatin nor lovastatin significantly impacted the incidence or multiplicity of mammary cancer in the rats, the investigators found. Both low and high doses of each statin were evaluated, with similar results. Although either tamoxifen or bexarotene each reduced cancer multiplicity, their combination with either statin was not synergistic. Both statins significantly decreased the triglyceride levels that were increased in bexarotene-treated rats, without affecting the cancer prevention activity of bexarotene, the researchers report. This is important as current clinical use of bexarotene generally is administered in combination with a statin, the report indicates.
The results "clearly show the lack of efficacy of these statins following dietary dosing in two in vivo models of mammary cancer used routinely in screening for preventative agents," the authors conclude.
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What is Statin Induced Myopathy?
Myopathy is a type of disease that affects the muscle tissue. All the illnesses related to the muscle can cause weakness, swelling, spasm, or at times even paralysis. Myopathy can be either hereditary or can be the caused by side effects of certain medications.
A patient who is suffering from statin induced myopathy has swelling of the muscles, which is obviously, as the name suggests, due to statin medication. The swelling of the muscles is merely the result of side effects caused by statin pills, which are commonly used for treating high cholesterol. The harshest variety of statin myopathy can even cause damaging of the muscle tissue also known as rhabadomyolysis.
Muscle tissue damage is well recognized & reported side effect that stains may cause. However, the evidence brought by researches proved the side effect to occur in extremely rare cases & those who benefit from statin drugs far outnumber those that may possibly have side effects from them. Analysis & trials have shown that myopathic abnormalities occur in less than 0.1% per 100.000. The general consensus among doctors is that patients with normal creatine phosphokinase levels, who take statins for cholesterol treatment, feel fine & experience no side effects should not worry about damaging their muscles.
Complication Risks
Those with co-existing renal dysfunction, diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, hepatic disease, pre-existing muscle diseas etc, or whose take medications like macrolides, fibrates, vitamin K antagonists, azole antifungals, verapamil, amiodarone, HIV protease inhibitors or other non compliant medication are more prone to developing myopathy. High risk patients should avoid statin therapy if at all possible. Other factors that increase the risk are gender (more likely for females), age, physically heavy exercises, alcohol intake and surgery.
Symptoms of Statin induced Myopathy
The most common symptoms of statin myopathy include muscle pain and muscle weakness. Additional symptoms of worsening statin myopathy include muscle swelling, and may also lead to rhabdomyolysis which results in the change of urine color into pink, red, or brown. Some of the major symptoms of statin myopathy are that the person feels exhausted & tired the entire day, muscles hurt, most common complain is pain in the limbs. The symptoms generally develop within 4 weeks of starting statin therapy, however some cases have shown delays of up to 4 years.
If symptoms occur, discontinuing statin treatment usually leads to complete resolution within a week to 4 month time-frame.

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Let's just scrap Labor Day, shall we?
After all, if we're not going to treat the working man or woman with respect in this country, why don't we just stop pretending?
If we're just going to stick it to the working stiff 364 days a year, we might as well be honest and make it 365.
According to U.S. government data, in the past 12 months the working people of America have received about the smallest share of national economic output since at least World War II.
What not to buy on Labor Day
Labor Day is one of the big sales events of the year, but what should you buy and, more important, what should you skip? MarketWatch's Catey Hill offers tips.
They've been under pressure for decades, but the real free fall has been since 2000.
When you adjust for inflation, real median household income is down about 10% since the start of the millennium and is now lower than it was in 1989. No kidding.
For the past 35 years, the American economy has "persistently redistributed rewards away from workers and toward shareholders," wrote economists Daniel Greenwald and Sydney Ludvigson, of New York University, and Martin Lettau, at the University of California at Berkeley, in a recent paper. They calculated that this trend, not "rising productivity" or technology, is the main reason the stock market has done so well over that time.
Our grandparents would be amazed at how America treats the working man and woman today. Let us count the ways.
1. Taxes
Back in the Middle Ages, the monarchies of Europe used to rank people as aristocrats, merchants or peasants. Aristocrats got treated best, peasants the worst.
Today? Here in America a kid who buses tables pays an effective tax rate of 25% (including the full cost of the payroll tax) on everything he earns, and the rate quickly goes higher.
Meanwhile a tycoon who makes a few million a year from long-term capital gains pays a maximum rate of 24%.
And the kid who inherits a few million dollars from rich parents? No tax at all.
Peasants, indeed.
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Northern Arizona Healthcare is among the nation's top performing healthcare systems in the U.S., as reported by Modern Healthcare. The April 21 publication listed Northern Arizona Healthcare in the top 20 percent of small healthcare systems as ranked in a recent study by Truven Health Analytics.
NAH is one of two small hospital systems in Arizona to make the list. Truven evaluated healthcare systems on eight measures to determine which systems had the best clinical performance, highest efficiencies and greatest patient satisfaction.
"Northern Arizona Healthcare's vision is to be a model healthcare system distinguished by our people, quality, service and dedication to community health solutions," said William Bradel, Northern Arizona Healthcare president and CEO. "To be named a top performing healthcare system again is a testament to the dedication of our Board of Directors, physicians, nurses and staff who achieve our vision on a daily basis. We are committed to providing excellent healthcare services to our patients."
Northern Arizona Healthcare provides healthcare services through Flagstaff Medical Center, Verde Valley Medical Center, Cancer Centers of Northern Arizona Healthcare, Fit Kids of Arizona, Guardian Air, Heart & Vascular Center of Northern Arizona, Northern Arizona Homecare and Hospice, Team Health and Verde Valley Medical Clinic.. The system provides the only Level I Trauma Center and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit north of Phoenix.
Northern Arizona Healthcare serves almost one half of the state and handles more than 150,000 patient visits each year. The organization employs close to 3,000 staff and has nearly 300 physicians on its active medical staff. As a nonprofit healthcare system, Northern Arizona Healthcare is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.
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Thomas M. Back (1957–2007) Sept 29, 2007 1:12:08 GMT -6
Post by Chicago Astronomer Joe on Sept 29, 2007 1:12:08 GMT -6
Thomas M. Back Dead at 50
Thomas M. Back (1957–2007) poses with a TMB 8-inch f/9 refractor at the 2000 Astrofest gathering near Chicago.
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Thomas M. Back, an amateur astronomer and optician associated with some of today's finest refractors and eyepieces, died suddenly on September 13th. He'd turned 50 on June 15th.
Back got an early start in astronomy, following a familiar path for many amateurs of the day. A native of Ohio who lived most of his life in the Cleveland area, he received a 60-mm refractor as a Christmas present when eight years old. Wanting a better telescope with which to view the Moon and planets, Back eventually ground a 6-inch f/8 mirror while a teenager.
That mirror-grinding experience launched a lifelong interest in optics and optical design, which eventually connected him with people very influential in the world of amateur telescopes. In the late 1990s he started a side business, TMB Optical, selling primarily high-end refractors. After a few years the company became moderately successful, and running it became Back's full-time job.
Another lifelong interest was bicycling. However, according to Mike Bieler of Astronomics, the major dealer of TMB telescopes and eyepieces, Back's health had been declining for several years following a severe neck injury sustained in a bicycle accident. Even so, Back's untimely death came as a shock to the astronomical community. Tributes to Back and his contributions have appeared on newsgroups and websites. His name will continue live on, as the TMB line of optics will remain available for the foreseeable future, according to Bieler.
Source: www.skyandtelescope.com/news/10106571.html
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The world of software creation is very competitive. I've heard it said to be successful you need to be the first one with the idea. Everyone knows how Bill Gates created IBM DOS on one machine while simultaneously building MS-DOS on another machine (and we all know how that turned out).
In order to be the first to come up with a new software product, where do you go looking for fresh ideas?
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Reworded this question in an attempt to get it reopened. Bill Gates developed MS-DOS at the same time he was hired to develop IBM DOS. As a programming community, we would all gain by understanding how to think up great ideas for software. As programmer we tend to get stuck in our thinking... it's refreshing to hear how fellow programmers busted out and came up with their ideas. It's not very likely that we will have an MS-DOS opportunity like Bill Gates. Please vote to reopen.


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Harbor Discoveries Advanced Camps are for those entering 8th and 9th grade in the fall of 2015. Group sizes range from 10 to 20 depending on the session and activity. Harbor Discoveries instructors are First Aid and CPR certified, and lead instructors are Lifeguard certified.
One-week sessions cost $675 for New England Aquarium members and $725 for non-members. Pricing for special two-week sessions is $1,375 for members and $1,450 for non-members. A $2 service fee will be added to each non-member ticket. For more information, please read our pricing and payment policies.
Registration for the 2015 season starts for members on January 12, 2015, at 9 a.m. and for the general public on February 2, 2015, at 9 a.m. To register please call Central Reservations at 617-973-5206 or register online. Please note that programs can fill up quickly. In past years, some programs sold out during the members-only registration period! Waitlists are maintained for all sold out programs. To be placed on the waitlist, call the camp office at 617-973-0250.
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July 6 – 10, 2015
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Youth entering 8th and 9th grade in the fall
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The first step in proper animal care, is knowing an animal's needs and the considerations that must be made before bringing any animal into an aquarium. Aquarists in training will spend a fun-filled week learning about aquarium animal collection techniques and their habitat needs, and viewing behind-the-scenes areas. You will learn what it takes to collect and care for the thousands of marine animals housed here as you help the biologists during field trips along the coast to collect jellies, snails, crabs, sea stars and fish for Aquarium exhibits.
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Get up close and personal with the marine mammals of the Aquarium! Meet a seal, discover the demanding needs of marine mammals, and investigate the realm of marine mammal training. Connect to the largest mammals on Earth by observing them upon a whale watch with marine biologists as your guide. As a camper, you will investigate the issues facing marine mammals locally and globally, and will learn what role you can play for the conservation of this magnificent group of animals!
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Overnight trip from 9 a.m. Thursday to 1 p.m. Friday. No extended hours available.
Our coastal backyard is teeming with life to discover and study. Join our community of up-and-coming marine biology gurus as we travel to Cape Cod, the Harbor Islands and more. Try seining and tidepooling for the life that can be found as you spend a week at the beach as a marine scientist!
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Two weeks: July 27 – 31 and August 3 – 7, 2015
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Week 1: Monday – Wednesday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Overnight trip from 9 a.m. Thursday to 1 p.m.
Week 2: Multi-day overnight trip Monday 9 a.m. – Friday 1 p.m.
After a week in preparation previewing marine science exploration, you will board a schooner and set sail to become a part of the crew! With the captain and crew's guidance, we will be at the will of the wind for a five-day, four-night excursion to explore the New England coastal waters. Learn how to set sails, steer, plot the ship's course and even do some daily chores. You will also learn how scientists identify fish species, sample water, study plankton and monitor whale behavior. We will examine food webs, life cycles and the rich biodiversity of Stellwagen Bank while observing first-hand zonation, tides, currents, wave action and weather effects.
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Curiosity and exploration is what drives successful marine biologists. Build your marine science know-how in this two-week program where you will begin the journey by learning what scientists need to know to assess the health of the environment. Practice these approaches via exploration and assessment of local habitats, utilize GIS (a powerful mapping tool in conjunction with GPS technology), investigate fish biology and pursue the answers to questions we face in a world of changing global and local environmental conditions. The second week is spent exploring the unique habitats of the New England shoreline to put these skills to use during a four-night visit to Project Oceanology, a premiere ocean science and education facility.
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What people are learning through hungering for justice is that trying to come up with policies for a better world is not enough, says Simon Barrow. We need changed people to want them and to make them work. That involves re-shaping our desires, not just our political hopes. At its best, that is what fasting is all about.
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You've been collecting for quite a number of years, taking pride in the distinctive nature of your overall collection as no one else can. There comes a time, though, when you need to formally include your collection as part of your estate. How do you go about doing this? Jim Sturgill, CPA of Sturgill and Associates, provides answers.
"Well, first thing you should do once you have a collection of one or more, is to find out what the collection is worth and inventory it," Sturgill says. "An inventory is a list with serial numbers or pictures or both. In many cases if you have a rather extensive collection it's good to get an evaluation on it."
WorthPoint was created to help with your collection in several ways. The Worthopedia is a database of more than 2 million individual items created primarily from auction records provided by more than 200 nationwide auction companies. Simply, accessing this database is a good first start in evaluating each item in your collection.
With items not covered by a recent auction, WorthPoint provides access to nearly 75,000 subscribers around the world through its "Ask the Community" question-and-answer section. Simply writing a detailed description and uploading key photographs to the site allows anyone in this global community with particular knowledge of that item to update its value for you. Even more valuable, is the "Ask a Worthologist" section, where your question will be evaluated by a designated specialist approved by WorthPoint.
However, the most important service provided by WorthPoint is the Estate Advisor Service.
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Additionally, WorthPoint can value an estate's assets for the federal estate tax return. "This is very important," Sturgill says. "It has the means and the Worthologists knowledgeable to come to your area, do the appraisal and… give the appraisal to the executor of the estate. They can actually use that in the probate filings and the estate tax returns."
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Title: UV-SWIR Achromatic Quarter Wave Retarder for the Multiangle Spectropolarimetric Imager (MSPI)
Author: Stacey Sueoka
Organization: College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
Co-Authors: David Diner, Russell Chipman, Stephen C. McClain, Stacey R. Sueoka, Christine Bradley
We describe the design, fabrication, and testing of an achromatic, athermalized quarterwave retarder, a key component for the Multiangle Spectro-Polarimetric Imager (MSPI), which is a candidate for the Aerosol-Cloud-Ecosystem (ACE) mission. The desired wavelength range of the instrument encompasses the UV, visible, near IR, and shortwave IR, extending from 355 nm to 2130 nm, with polarimetric channels in selected bands longward of 410nm. Off-the-shelf commercial components are not suitable for the instrumentís quarterwave retarders, and a design for this application is challenging. Our three-element multi-crystal (sapphire:MgF2:quartz) approach achieves targeted retardance of 90∞±10∞ when averaged over any bandpass in the 410-2130nm range. The athermalization achieves a retardance change of less than 0.1∞ per 1∞C temperature change. A novel manufacturing method realizes tight retardance tolerances even though the crystal birefringence knowledge and plate thickness tolerances are individually inadequate. Testing of the manufactured parts has been performed with Mueller Matrix Imaging Polarimeters (MMIPs) at the University of Arizona.
Two MSPI camera prototypes currently operate within the UV/Vis/NIR. The ground-based camera (GroundMSPI) operates at the University of Arizona. AirMSPI, the most recent MSPI prototype, operates out of JPL and has flown successful checkout flights on the NASA ER-2. AirMSPI includes an achromatic, athermalized quarterwave retarder optimized for 470, 660, and 865 nm, and demonstrates the effectiveness of the multi-crystal approach that will be extended longward into the SWIR and to shorter wavelengths in the blue. Multispectral polarimetric images of sky, clouds, ground scenes, and man-made objects will be shown over varying angles of solar illumination to illustrate the capabilities of the MSPI imaging approach.


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Sharepoint Interview Questions and Answers
Q 1.What is SharePoint?
Answer : Microsoft SharePoint is an enterprise collaboration and content management platform which enables users to connect each other and share the information across an organization. Indirectly this solves the problems in an organization to share the documents, security, business process, maintaining data etc. SharePoint 2010 has rich UI and plenty of features.
Q 2. What are the types of input forms that can be created for a workflow ?
Answer : You can create four different types of input forms including
1. An association form
2. An initiation form
3. A modification form
4. A task edit form.
Q 3. What is MOSS ?
Answer : Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is the full version of a portal-based platform for collaboratively creating, managing and sharing documents and Web services. In MOSS additional feature add that can not in WSS 3.0.
Q 4. What is a site collection in SharePoint?
Answer :
1. A site collection is a set of web sites.
2. Every site collection has top-level site, created when the site collection is created.
3. There might be multiple site collections in web application and each site collection may have a multiple child sites.
Q 5. What is WSP (Web solution package)?
Answer : When developer does any customization or enhancement in SharePoint, then there are many items that need to be deployed like assemblies, resource files, features, images, application pages, site definitions etc. It will be a very tedious task to deploy these items separately on development, staging and production. So SharePoint introduced a solution package which is powerful deployment tool. Web solution package is a cabinet file that contains assemblies, resource files, features, images, application pages, site definitions etc. into single file.
Note: A solution package is stored as a cabinet (CAB) file, with the file extension .wsp. This file contains all the files to be deployed. If you rename the file extension to .cab, you can open the solution and explore its content .It can be deployed using the command-line tool stsadm or PowerShell cmdlets.
Q 6. How will you set up a Platform for Testing SharePoint WebParts?
Answer: We would need to install :
2. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 installed.
3. Windows Server 2003 or 2008.
4. Visual Studio 2005 or 2008.
Q 7. What are the various zones in SharePoint?
Answer :
– Zones provide the separate logical paths of authentication for the same web application.
– 5 zones can be created for each web application :
a. Default
b. Intranet
c. Extranet
d. Internet and
e. Custom
Q 8. Whats is SharePoint site collection?
Answer : A collection of SharePoint sites that share common administration pages and site settings. Site collections allow you to share content types, site columns, templates, and Web Parts within a group of SharePoint sites.
Q 9.What is Business Data Catalog or BDC ?
Answer : It is a shared service that enables Office SharePoint Server 2007 to display business data from various back-end servers into a SharePoint page. Business Data Catalog or BDC provides built-in support for displaying data with various webparts and list\list columns that can help in easy creation of dashboards with data from your SQL, web services, SAP, Siebel, or any other line-of-business (LOB) applications.
Q 10. What is a Field Control?
Answer : Field controls are simple ASP.NET 2.0 server controls that provide the basic field functionality of SharePoint. They provide basic general functionality such as displaying or editing list data as it appears on SharePoint list pages.
Q 11. What are the Methods of Backup and Recovery in SharePoint 2010?
Answer : Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provides a broad range of levels for performing backups, including the entire farm, farm configuration information, site collections, subsites, or lists.
SharePoint Server 2010 uses two different tools to configure backup and recovery.
1. Central Administration : Central Administration provides a user interface where SharePoint Administrators will be prompted via menu structures to select the information that needs to be backed up. (see the Image below)
2. Windows PowerShell : Windows PowerShell is a command line tool that provides SharePoint administrators a way to perform backup and recovery with additional options such as file compression or working with SQL snapshots.
Q 12.What are Application Pages in SharePoint?
Answer : Unlike site pages (for example, default.aspx), a custom application page is deployed once per Web server and cannot be customized on a site-by-site basis. Application pages are based in the virtual _layouts directory. In addition, they are compiled into a single assembly DLL.
A good example of an Application Page is the default Site Settings page: every site has one, and it's not customizable on a per site basis (although the contents can be different for sites).
With application pages, you can also add inline code. With site pages, you cannot add inline code.
Q 13.What is CAML?
Answer : CAML stands for Collaborative Application Markup Language and is an XML-based languagethat is used in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to define sites and lists, including, for Eg, fields, views, or forms, but CAML is also used to define tables in the Windows SharePoint Servies database during site provisioning. Developers mostly use CAML Queries to retrieve data from Lists\libraries.
Q 14. Whats New with SPAlerts in SharePoint 2010?
Answer : In SharePoint 2007, alerts were send only through e-mails, but in SharePoint 2010 users can also send an alert to mobile devices as SMS Message. A New property DeliveryChannels is introduced to indicate, whether the alert is delivered as E-mail or as an SMS Message.
Q 15. What is the difference between a Site Definition and a Site Template?
Answer : Site Definitions are stored on the hard drive of the SharePoint front end servers. They are used by the SharePoint application to generate the sites users can create. Site Templates are created by users as a copy of a site they have configured and modified so that they do not have to recreate lists, libraries, views and columns every time they need a new instance of a site.
Q 16.How to Export a Site or List in SharePoint 2010?
Answer : SharePoint Server 2010 provides several new features that provide a granular level of backup for various components of site content. This includes content at the site, subsite, and list level.
Through Central Administration(Granular level Back-up) a SharePoint Administrator can configure a backup of a subsite or list. An Administrator can choose a site and a specific list to be exported.The administrators can also choose to export security and select the different versions that will be exported with the list.
Q 17.What is LINQ. How is it used in Sharepoint ?
Answer : LINQ is a feature of the programming languages C# 3.0 and Visual Basic .NET. LINQ allows you to query in an object-oriented way, supports compile-time check, gives you intellisense support in Visual Studio and defines a unified, SQL like syntax to query any data source. But unlike other languages and query syntaxes which vary from one type of data source to another, LINQ can be used to query, in principle, any data source whatsoever. It is commonly used to query objects collections, XML and SQL server data sources.
The LINQ to SharePoint Provider is defined in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Linq namespace. It translates LINQ queries into Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) queries.
Q 18.What is claims based authentication ?
Answer : Claims is a new authentication method that SharePoint 2010 can utilize. This allows a single authentication store for multiple types of authentication (Windows NTLM, SQL FBA, LDAP, etc) which allows all of these types of authentication to access SharePoint under a single URL.
Claims creates a SAML token based on the sign-in, that contains the user's identity.
Q 19.How will you deploy files such as Css, js in SharePoint 2010?
Answer : The most preferable way to deploy files in SharePoint is by using the solution package. In SharePoint 2010 you can create an empty project with VS 2010 and then add a new SharePoint Mapped folder in it. This will give the desired location in 14 hive where you can then add a file to deploy.
Q 20. What are Parallel and Serial actions ?
Answer : When you have more than one action associated with a condition, the actions can be set up to run at the same time (parallel) or one after another (serial), the default.
Q 21. When should you dispose SPWeb and SPSite objects? And even more important, when not?
Answer : You should always dispose them if you created them yourself, but not otherwise. You should never dispose SPContext.Current.Web/Site and you should normally not dispose SPWeb if IsRootWeb is true. More tricky constructs are things along the line of SPList.ParentWeb.
Q 22.What security levels are assigned to users?
Answer : Security levels are assigned by the administrator who is adding the user. There are four levels by default and additional levels can be composed as necessary.
*Reader – Has read-only access to the Web site.
*Contributor – Can add content to existing document libraries and lists.
* Web Designer – Can create lists and document libraries and customize pages in the Web site.
* Administrator – Has full control of the Web site.
Q 23.What does a SPWebApplication object represent?
Answer : The SPWebApplication objects represents a SharePoint Web Application, which essentially is an IIS virtual server. Using the class you can instigate high level operations, such as getting all the features of an entire Web Application instance, or doing high level creation operations like creating new Web Applications through code.
Q 24. Difference between SharePoint designer workflows and custom workflows?
Answer :
- Only sequential workflows can be created in SharePoint Designer; state machine workflows cannot be created in SharePoint Designer.
- Deployment and moving is easy in custom workflows when compared to SharePoint designer workflows.
- Visual Studio can have code-behind.
- Visual Studio generates a workflow template which can be easily be deployed, SharePoint Designer workflows are typically built against specific lists and sites.
- Visual Studio allows for debugging!!
Q 25. What is Windows Powershell?
Answer : Windows PowerShell is Microsoft's task automation framework, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on top of, and integrated with the .NET Framework. PowerShell provides full access to COM and WMI, enabling administrators to perform administrative tasks on both local and remote Windows systems.


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Prep softball: Eric Miles gets nod from Community School
NAPLES - Though he never left the school, Eric Miles is returning to the sidelines for Community School. More specifically, he's headed to the dugout.
Miles, a former girls soccer coach at Community School, is taking over the softball program. He takes over for Amy Lovett, who resigned last month to spend more time with her family.
A soccer player all his life, Miles fell into coaching softball when he lived in Pensacola. He was a varsity assistant for four years at Gulf Breeze High School. Miles moved to Naples six years ago, when he started teaching at Community School, and hasn't coached softball since, though he's missed the game.
"I told (athletic director) Cassie (Barone) that if a softball position ever came up to let me know," said Miles, now the upper school dean of academics at Community School. "I really enjoy coaching girls sports. I enjoy coaching boys, but sometimes girls feel like they're left out."
Miles has a track record of success with the Seahawks. In three season Miles led the girls soccer team to the regional playoffs each year.
Community School's softball team is just two seasons removed from a regional championship and a trip to the state semifinals. The Seahawks also went to the postseason last year.
A handful of Seahawks from that 2011 team will be back in the spring, which has Miles excited.
Miles said some of his former soccer players might come out for softball, which would add speed and athleticism.
"We've got a nice committed bunch of girls," Miles said.
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Dog Carrier Backpack – A Fun and Convenient Way to Bond with Your Dog
As much as you can, you want your dog to come with you wherever you go, especially if both of you will enjoy it. However, it can be an inconvenience at times as well as in certain circumstances. The good thing is that there are now dog carrier backpacks that you can use whenever you want to take your dog out.
Believe it or not, you will be able to carry your dog on your back when you want to bring your pet to your destination. The purpose of this type pet carrier is for travel convenience. This type of backpack for pet comes in a variety of styles and colors. These options give you the choice of finding that item that complements your preference and your dog's personality. The sizes of this product are also in a variety. There are small backpacks and the large ones. There are also other types with wheels that are allowed for on-board airplane travel. A nice advantage of using this item is that it allows weight distribution on your shoulders.
The Advantage of Using a Dog Carrier Backpack
Having and using the product comes with many advantages, with comfort as the first. The item allows dog owners to carry their pet with comfort. It is nice solution for people who have always dreamed to bring their dog when shopping, hiking or simply around town. It comes with multiple features to ensure the comfort and safety of the pet being carried. Other advantages of the product are:
Functions of the Dog Carrier Backpack – Each dog carrier backpack has a feature that makes it different from others. Some have beds that can be removed for easy cleaning and washing. A good product features a safety attachment clip. This is integrated to ensure that your pet would not jump out of the backpack. There are also others that function as car seats. Buying a pet carrier like this enables you to save. It can make a convenient carrier since not much space will be required if only the dog backpack/car seat is to be brought.
Every dog carrier backpack is designed to be lightweight which usually weights 8 pounds. What is nice about the product is that it is designed to secure your dog while traveling without the need to use your arm to restrict them. It is beneficial for pets as well since it will help them feel comfortable while traveling. With this backpack, you can just strap it on and you can already bring your dog with you anywhere.
Material Concepts – A dog carrier backpack is made with soft, but very strong material. But to ensure that it is made of firm materials, check the material it is made of. This product is often made of Denier nylon fiber, which is resistant to tear, breakage and abrasions. A Denier nylon fiber is waterproof and can protect your dog when certain problems occur. It is recommended for you to find and choose a dog carrier backpack that has nice shoulder straps to keep your back protected and for you to feel comfortable.
Just like other products, this type of dog carrier comes with luxurious counterpart too. Most of the expensive of dog backpacks are made of cotton weaves or black Microfiber materials. It features liners that are made of washable lambskin.
Design Concepts – There is that one dog carrier backpack that matches your every need like pockets where you can place other items of your dog or yours. Choose the item that features outer pockets if you always have other materials to bring whenever going out with your dog. For better visibility and aeration for your dog, choose a dog backpack designed with sides in a wide mesh. Products that have a horizontal design can ensure maximum comfort for your pet. There are products designed with side entries. Find a product with this feature if you want your pet to have a convenient means of getting in and out of the backpack.
Why Would You Want a Dog Carrier Backpack?
Safety – The best and safest means of carrying your pet if you want your dog to feel some fresh air while hiking is in a backpack carrier. They would not feel restricted by it and instead love second of it. Safety is secured while your pet is carried in the carrier since they are strapped snugly in it. Although they are strapped in the carrier, they will still feel comfortable and be able to see and enjoy their surroundings.
There is no risk of your pet escaping from the carrier. Having this product lets you enjoy the company of your dog making a nice bonding experience for the two of you. Your pet might feel uncomfortable at first, but your dog will eventually get used to it after a few more trips.
Lightweight – Dog carrier backpack is naturally designed to be lightweight for easy carrying even with the dog. However, it is a different matter if your pet is medium sized or large. But you would not have any trouble if your dog is tiny or weighs light.
Fun – Your dog will treasure this experience more as it gets used to being carried in the backpack carrier. The experience can be in the same level as your dog sees his leash since it only means it is time for their daily walk. The only difference is they get to be carried on your back and see the world in a different level. That's a new and worthwhile experience for them!
Of course, you want your dog to have fun. You can now make that possible with a dog carrier backpack ready for your use every time. With this product, the option of leaving your dog behind whenever you are going somewhere to have fun can now be eliminated. You can also make a travel companion out of your dog by having this pet carrier! Just make sure to get the one that meets your needs and of course, budget.
5 Dog Carrier Backpack Recommendations
As you can see, and as previously mentioned in this article, everyone has their own opinion when it comes to finding the best dog carrier backpack in the marketplace. If you would like to check out any of the 5 backpacks featured in this video, you can check them out right here. (Please note: Amazon prices were accurate at the time this article was published. We cannot guarantee that these prices are still in effect. Please check product availability and current pricing on Amazon).


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The University of Nyala is a public institution established on March 6th 1994 to achieve the following objectives:
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- Conduct community needs based applied research,
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- Promote the environment in Sudan and South Darfur State in Particular and train competent qualified human resources to promote it.
- Interact with the rural population so as to understand the problems and recognize the traditional knowledge, work together in order to develop this knowledge in compliance with their needs and values.
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HOLLAND, Mich. (WZZM) -- Holland City Council's decision to not add the LGBT community to its anti-discrimination policy became an issue in at least one city commission race.
But it wasn't enough to unseat one of three incumbents challenged in Tuesday's election. Richard Burlingame ran on that issue trying to take the Third Ward from Brian Burch. In the end, Burch won re-election 60% to Burlingame's 40%
In the Fifth Ward race, incumbent Todd Whiteman beat challenger Darlene DeWitt 77% to 23%.
Holland's first openly gay candidate, Donald Martin, lost to incumbent Nancy DeBoer, 32% to 68% in the City Council at large race.
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Health Ministers from the Global Health Security Initiative met in Berlin to discuss the future priorities to strengthening global health security. The Global Health Security Initiative (GHSI) is an informal, international partnership between France , Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Mexico, the United States, the European Commission and the World Health Organisation, established in 2001 to strengthen health preparedness and response globally to threats of biological, chemical, radio-nuclear terrorism (CBRN) and pandemic influenza.
The European Commission is committed to strengthen the health security framework and appreciates this strong partnership with the international partners. Since its establishment in 2001, the GHSI partnership has undertaken a broad program of work aimed at strengthening preparedness and response to a range of global health security threats. In particular, the GHSI made important progress on key elements, such as:
Complementary to the work in the context of the Global Health Security Initiative the European Commission is currently cooperating with the European Parliament and the Council to strengthen the health security framework in Europe. Comprehensive legislation is in place for communicable diseases; by proposing legislation on serious cross border threats the Commission intends to ensure a similar good protection to European citizens against other serious cross-border health threats caused by chemical or environmental events.


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From this year onwards Medical Council of India and Dental Council of India will be conducting an all India written examination in order to choose well qualified aspirants for various undergraduate medical courses.
A notification published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary dated 21st December, 2010, the Medical Council of India with the approval of the Central Government amended the regulations on Graduate Medical Education 1997 and made provision for a Single Eligibility cum Entrance Examination, namely, National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to MBBS Course in each academic year.
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Thanks for your insight Ron. It's refreshing to see. I look forward to learning more about the Fusion line. My hope is for something in the 60L range that can comfortably carry 40+lbs if need be, but still scale down for lighter and smaller loads. There's just not much out there for those of us in the transition phase of going lighter. Even if the Fusion packs don't do that, I appreciate the thought behind them.
Smart move on Ron's part in my opinion. Looks like two things are going on. First they want to expand past the UL niche market. Good idea because the UL market isn't going to grow dramatically any time soon. Second within the UL niche market they probably need to set themselves apart. SMD's old packs were probably not that competitive. I'm not saying they were bad, just that lots of other pack makers offered fairly similar products. If you want to remain competitive in that market you need to be different in some way. It will be interesting to see who beyond the BPL community picks up on this. I wonder if the Flight might have some appeal to adventure racers types for example. I was rather surprised when an adventure racing friend of mine had little knowledge of UL gear or companies.
Thanks for the pics Ron,It looks pretty good for running, I will be definately be watching the roll out and trying get out to try one on.
I've been awaiting these packs since I tried on the prototype at the GGG a year ago. I'm eager to see the 50-liter pack.
If you're interested in other packs designed for running and fast adventure, (and what may be competing with these Flight packs from SMD), look at products offered by Ultimate Direction.They've been working with some of the big names in the ultra running community - Scott Jurek, Anton Krupicka, and Peter Bakwin.I'm not an ultra runner, but I did run a 50K Trail "ultra" about 3 years ago. I don't own any Ultimate Direction packs. I follow Scott Jurek and "Tony" Krupicka on FB because it's interesting to see what they are doing. Tony does some crazy stuff. He's running up and down mountain peaks that most people might take a day or two to summit.https://vimeo.com/ondemand/inthehighcountry/58457574Like the flight series, the Ultimate Direction packs have a "vest" configuration up front with pockets for sport bottles, Gu's, etc. The pack capacities on the Ultimate Direction products are much lower than these SMD packs. I think their biggest is 11L for the PB Adventure Vest 2.0.From my perspective, SMD's Flight series would be interesting for longer, expedition style Adventure Racing type activities, or fast packing. I've already attached a bottle holder pocket to the front of my Granite Gear Blaze AC 60 pack. I like having my bottle there, and I can see where the "vest" like design inspiration comes from. I've done adventure races, but only short, 6-10 hour sprints. During those, I learned that it's great to have a bottle with something like a "Hammer" brand endurance mix in it, plus a 90oz hydration bladder for water.
i don't see the criticism- the packs look very good. 8oz packs don't seem to offer anything but low weight-little support & they have no shape when loaded. The flight series looks very good & I would definitely look at either the larger Flight or smaller Fusion pack. I have liked my SMD Traveler as well as my Mountainsmith ghost & Mountainlight 5000 and the MLD Burn. Each has its uses- the large mountainsmith was great when hauling gear for when my sons where small-not a problem anymore (in fact I threaten to strap a frig on the larger ones when hiking now). A good suspension system may make the weight feel lighter & more comfortable & will more than "pay" for itelf in weight when backpacking long distances. Ultralight should not only be about absolute weight but about comfort as well- we should not be penny wise & pound foolish. I buy ultralight gear to enhance my enjoyment & comfort- not to merely be a gram weenie.
"I buy ultralight gear to enhance my enjoyment & comfort- not to merely be a gram weenie."+5
"I buy ultralight gear to enhance my enjoyment & comfort- not to merely be a gram weenie."+10. I use a Osprey Kestrel, because it's the most comfortable or best fit to my back. The way I use my pack now is for pretty long (40~50Km) days with little stopping, carrying food and water in z packs shoulder pockets so that I don't have to go in and out of my pack all the time. I'm very much interested in these new designs. Seems like they target runners or fast hikers and am very curious about how they ride your back. The back curving away like that for ventilation seems like a good idea for that purpose, my question would be how well they move with you when bumping around on the trail. I.e. does that not introduce (small) side swaying movements?Would love to test one out. Looking forward to see more about them.
"I buy ultralight gear to enhance my enjoyment & comfort- not to merely be a gram weenie."+15I love the new packs and can't wait to learn more. For all the gear that I buy, use, exchange, sell, upgrade; only one piece of gear has remained constant and in my pack every single time I go out, and that's my SMD Gatewood. I have a lot of respect for the work SMD does. Speaking of not being a gram weenie.......Ron, can a brother get a cuben gatewood?!
Edited by jleeb on 01/31/2014 08:31:55 MST.
OK count me in on the cuben gatewood- so I am a gram weenie
Edited by mmacc on 01/31/2014 15:55:37 MST.
+2 I also want a Cuben gatewood. Would love to buy it from SMD, but might MYOG if its not in the R+D pipeline. Any custom orders being made by the state-side portion of SMD seamsters?
I am so excited about this. I love using "vest packs" and have been looking for a larger volume vest for self supported multi day runs. I really like SMD and I'll definitely be ordering at least one of these new packs. It's going to have to wait until after my next thru this summer, but I'm very, very impressed from what I've seen so far. I can see how these wouldn't be of interest to some people, but for others... wow! (BTW... CF Gatewood! Please!)
I know its stupid to gossip and speculate based on this little info, but thats what you guys get, Ron for rolling something so promising looking out so slowly.... :) After seeing the harness system, I'm definitely eager to try one of these out. Hope there's something to fit my longish torso. Myself, I hope to get out and do some trips where I'm running more than half my mileage, but generally having a pack with an active suspension that moves with the user is beneficial to about any sort of backcountry travel I can think of. This is especially true going off trail, skiing or scrambling/climbing, but even for long miles on trail, its just more comfortable. Most belts that transfer the weight well tend to act like a vice grips on your hips, and its rare to find shoulder straps that don't constrict arm movement, and backpanels that don't limit torso movement etc. etc. etc. This is the reason Ray Jardine recommends not using a hipbelt even up to 20lbs. With lighter loads, I tend to only use the hipbelt to help stabilize the load. I'm still figuring out what I like for running, but I think when you're running with a multi-day load, it feels better to have the weight spread evenly, and close to your center of gravity, rather than cinched up tight around your back and chest, so the a supportive (and flexible) belt is desirable. Looking forward to these packs. Now, if they only had a good ski carry!
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Official information releasedhttp://www.sixmoondesigns.com/smdnews/152-flight-backpacks.html
I looked at the official posting for the two new "Flight" series packs. The Flight 30, a 15oz 1900 cu in pack is just too heavy for me and will likely be for anyone aiming for anything approaching SUL base weight. For my hiking purposes the vest harness is also plain gimmicky. My Zimmerbuilt Quickstep is the same volume, is 9.4oz and, fully loaded with my SUL kit, it is almost like I am not wearing a pack. I can add a pack lid and two shoulder pouches and still be a couple ounces lighter then the Flight 30 with plenty of organization and storage.The Flight 40, at 2600 cu in and 31 oz, is pretty heavy for my taste. For comparison, it is 3oz heavier then the HMG Windrider 2400. I do like that it can be stripped down to 18oz, but that is still pretty heavy for a UL pack with 2600 cu in of volume. I see the "gram weenie" bashing and all this talk of "comfort." I have found less weight has corresponded to more comfort for me, not less. Back in my 20's, when I was heavy hauler, my Dana Designs Arcflex Terraplane could make 50 lbs ride comfortably. However, it was still 50 lbs freaking pounds, no matter how well distributed and padded the weight was. I have never been uncomfortable with my frameless packs. With a GG Nighlight in the pad sleeve of my Mariposa, with a properly packed and distributed load, I have never had a problem even well into the mid 20 pound range. I have found just the opposite in fact, I have never hiked as comfortably or as far in my life when I have gotten my base weight down. If I ever need to haul gallons of water for days, moose hind quarters, or gold mining equipment I will reconsider. I won't be following the herd to heavier packs, even if that is where the market is lumbering. I re-read Ron's blog post about the "death of ultralight" and maybe he just doing his part and making some money along the way. I wish SMD luck. My money is still on UL and SUL. Via La UL Revolucion!
Just wanted to quickly say that after having put on a Fusion 50 at the GGG (which I loaded up with about 12 pound of gear) I am very much looking forward to this pack being made available. The load weight distribution of this pack was phenomenal.
"Back in my 20's, when I was heavy hauler, my Dana Designs Arcflex Terraplane could make 50 lbs ride comfortably. However, it was still 50 lbs freaking pounds, no matter how well distributed and padded the weight was. I have never been uncomfortable with my frameless packs. With a GG Nighlight in the pad sleeve of my Mariposa, with a properly packed and distributed load, I have never had a problem even well into the mid 20 pound range."I read the comments above and couldn't help but respond...I don't know why this false dilemma between heavyweight and ultralight backpacking keeps reappearing, but nevertheless, it does. Comparing the comfort of carrying 50 lbs of gear in a heavy hauling pack vs. 20 pounds of gear in a minimally framed or frameless pack is the wrong comparison. It is a false dilemma because it ignores the possibility of viable options in between these two extremes.How about comparing the comfort of carrying 20 lbs of gear in a frameless pack vs. carrying that same lightweight load in a 2 or 3 pound pack having a semi-rigid aluminum frame? This is a much more realistic comparison. That is to say, it's more fair to compare carrying a total of 21 pounds with a frameless pack versus carrying a total of 23 pounds with a fully-framed pack.I'm not going to argue for either side here, but let's at least frame the argument in realistic terms instead of creating a straw man argument where ultralight packs with ultralight loads are clearly superior to back breaking loads carried in 6 pound packs.Sorry for the thread drift.
Edited by dmusashe on 02/04/2014 19:57:32 MST.
EdwardYou are going to see a lot of good reviews on the new SMD packs.It's not the weight, it's how they fit and how the full pack weight carries.I tried all of the packs on and they do a very good job at the above.Ron of SMD drilled it into us that of the 4 things they wanted applied to the pack, worrying about the weight was the last on the list.If everyone worried about how light packs are, we would all be walking around with sub 6 ounce syl-nylon packs.The reasons we don't buy these pack will be the reason the average backpacker will buy the SMD packs.I can personally say that the fit of the flight 30 is crazy comfortable for a 30 liter pack.I don't get the bad mouthing of the weight when they are not met for that purpose.
Encouraging reports from folks, and nice to get some more details from the source. I'm a reluctant gram weenie myself: my shelter is 7 oz, my quilt is a lb, and this year I added a 4 oz cook system and a 7oz torso pad and a 3.5 oz down vest to my quiver (I know its madness!) but 15 oz for that pack does not sound heavy to me at all if it carries well. When I first started backpacking, I carried a gregory backpack that must have weighed 5lbs, add to that my ultra heavy 35 lbs load that I'd carry in it. That pack carried like a dream, and I never had any back discomfort. I just moved slower, my lower half hurt more, and backpacking was less fun. I've since carried UL packs with much lighter loads that F'd with my shoulders, hips and back. Sure I went more miles with those packs and my legs felt better, but I was still suffering because of a pack that didn't carry well. Hiking is so repetitive, if something doesn't feel right at the start of the day, its gonna be a whole lot worse by the end of the day. I don't mean to over emphasize the point, because most BPLer's would already agree, but pack comfort trumps pack weight, especially with all the amazing choices of sub 2lb packs we have available.
If the purpose of your pack is to allow you to go on a backpacking trip with less than 5lbs base weight, I can see why 5oz packs would be desirable. But if your goals are more terrain and activity related, then you want the right pack for the right job. From the SMD Flight page, I think this pretty neatly sums up what I've been looking for in a pack. 'Your hips are free to move naturally and your arms are also less constrained. The vest eliminates the bounce of the pack as you move. For runners, the pack becomes very solid. This make it easier to traverse difficult terrain.The Flight packs are leaner than similar packs. This make it easier to negotiate cross country through brush.'
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On Friday March 7th, 2014 at 8:29am. Steve Goss, a news announcer for Atlanta's WABE NPR public radio affiliate, stated "Stay with us! In a few minutes we will hear about the Collapse of Bitcoin" as a prelude to an NPR article discussing the possible identification of the Psuedoanonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. (related AP Article)
Ostensibly, Goss' statement could mislead a WABE listener to believe Bitcoin has completely and irrevocably collapsed, and possesses little or no current value, that Bitcoin is now a financial smoldering ruin like a Lehman Brothers. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The also failed to mention the largest business event of the Cryptocurrency market, "Texas Bitcoin Conference", has been in full swing for the past two days including a Hackathon event designed to strengthen the currency in terms of the tools and security necessary for it's existence.
Far from without value or total collapse, at of the time of this writing the Coinbase.com Bitcoin index value is $635.21/BTC trading volume down for the day to 31,900 BTC ($20,256,500), with a historical average around 60,000BTC. If you had bought on the news of Mt Gox collapse at $430/BTC, 18 hours later you could have sold for a 20-25% return. Bitcoin recovered THAT quickly from a major market event. A few days later, the value was as high as $700/BTC, a 62.7% profit over the bottom of the market at $430/BTC.
Certainly, Bitcoin market value has wide and often abrupt swings (Bitcoin Charts). In November 2013 Bitcoin's value was $125, then meteorically rose to $1100 in December, crashed to the $500's when China forced the closure of a large Chinese based Bitcoin exchange. Then a month later, bounced up to $900, then down again. One could write an entire article to summarize the market moves of the currency for the last three months.
For a speculative investor, one needs waves in order to surf and Bitcoin has yielded an amazing set of waves! For the average investor, this is nothing short of gambling, but then one can make the same arguments of the stock, bond, derivative, currency, and commodities markets.
Mt Gox, one of the major cryptocurrency exchanges, (related articles) did collapse. Furthermore, Mt Gox appears to have been running a Ponzi-like scheme whereby 770,000 BTC, were literally stolen from the exchange members. This theft represents approximately 6% of the total amount of Bitcoins in circulation or nearly US$500 million at ~$635/BTC, . Even if the investigation proves that Mt Gox was not responsible for the theft, their lax security standards were also to blame for this event.
However, Bitcoin ("BTC") as a currency has NOT collapsed. It would be like saying a company stock traded on NASDAQ has collapsed if NASDAQ went out of business.
Rather than collapsed, Bitcoin has demonstrated amazing resilience, even "anti-fragility", in spite of the scale of this major market event, . Literally, one of the major exchanges appears to have been criminally and intentionally manipulated to rob it's members or a large share of the Bitcoin Market Cap, yet, the next day, the market value restabilized as if the event never happened. Two other exchanges were affected by this same exploit that ruined Mt. Gox, BTC-E and Bitstamp. Both were offline for a few days while they corrected the problem. Both are now back online, and the exchange members have not lost their holdings. Coinbase, the US based exchange company, was never down to begin with, since they had proactively corrected for the problem. As a result, the exchange value of Bitcoin on Coinbase is at a slight premium to the other exchanges, owing to the perception of reliable management Coinbase now enjoys.
As volume of of Bitcoin use for day to transactions increases, the market value with continue to stabilize. When we see the Bitcoin logo next to the Paypal logo at OfficeDepot check outs, the roaring days of speculative trading for small time players will be over. Even still, it is possible today for businesses to begin accepting Bitcoins by immediately selling the Bitcoins as the transactions occur so that the US$ value is locked in for the products or services the business sold at that point in time. To convert Bitcoin into US$ on Coinbase it costs 1% much lot cheaper than merchant card service fees had a buyer used a credit card for the same purchase.
The Newsweek article is merely a distraction media article which lacks in substance and research.
To this day, the Bitcoin community has no idea who or what "Satoshi Nakamoto" actually is. The Pseudonym"Satoshi Nakamoto"could be a person or a group of persons who did actually draft the White Paper that is the basis of the Bitcoin Currency, which also spawned several similar, and perhaps related, currencies, generally referred to as "CryptoCurrencies".
"If unfounded, Newsweek's scoop could very quickly turn into a PR nightmare, as the magazine ran the report in its re-launched print edition. Perhaps Newsweek was simply too eager to get a scoop for the big day?" One Does Not Simply Find Satoshi Nakamoto by Nermin Hajdarbegovic, article on CoinDesk.com
Given the implications of this type of currency and it's corrosive effects it could have on banking profits, central bank's monetary policies and political controls, if Newsweek has actually outed the real "Satoshi Nakamoto", they have done nothing exposed them to a wide range of dangers, perhaps even endangering their life.
This sort of article is one of those typically unfortunate articles in that it is somewhat misleading, lacks any practical use, and appears to have done only the minimum of research on a topic that is easy to read about given it is an Open Source project with White Paper freely available for use by anyone, and all the resources related to the entire topic of Bitcoin systematically tracked and archived on the Bitcoin Wiki.
The general consensus is that there is NO Satoshi Nakamoto, at least not a human being with that name who created the Bitcoin framework and shared it with the world.
However, articles such as these are no surprise. They are merely thinly veiled efforts to mislead the public so that a game changer such as globally democractized currency immune to control by politicians and the banking industry will hopefully be marginalized to the point of failure. In doing so, they undermine their own credibility and draw even more attention to the potential advantages of this new currency model. And as with any change, some people get hurt along the way.
"During the last few weeks, we've seen how far a player is prepared to go to prevent loss of control. We saw the constitution being violated. We saw young MIT students pressured with government subpoenas merely for creating a proof of concept. I saw my personal freedom lost when I was arrested off the plane, stripped naked, searched and my body violated, handcuffed, and escorted out of JFK airport while returning home from a trip with my girlfriend. We saw how forced measures and restrictions of personal integrity were used by the police, not for fighting crime, but for the obvious purpose of harassing the ones involved and everyone who has been anywhere near them. During the last few weeks, we've seen how far a player is prepared to go to prevent loss of control. We saw the constitution being violated. We saw young MIT students pressured with government subpoenas merely for creating a proof of concept. I saw my personal freedom lost when I was arrested off the plane, stripped naked, searched and my body violated, handcuffed, and escorted out of JFK airport while returning home from a trip with my girlfriend. We saw how forced measures and restrictions of personal integrity were used by the police, not for fighting crime, but for the obvious purpose of harassing the ones involved and everyone who has been anywhere near them. - Charlie Shrem"
Arrested Bitcoin Mogul Charlie Shrem Defiant In First Public Appearance Since Criminal Charges by Andy Greenberg Forbes Magazine 3/05/2014
Shem was CEO of BitInstant, a US based CryptoCurrency Exchange site. US Based Users of the Silk Road would buy Bitcoins on BitInstant, since it was one of the few places anyone in the US could do so. After Silk Road was busted, the FBI was able to trace the actual Bitcoins, owing to how they are traded and created, to the exchange from where they were purchased. The fact that this is even possible should squelch any and all claims that Bitcoin is useful for money laundering. It is not. Every block or portion of a Bitcoin can be traced through every single wallet, and thereby every owner of the block, back to the time the block was first created, or "mined". How could that ever be good for Money Laundering? Right.
This would be similar to the CEO of NASDAQ being arrested because the shares traded on his exchange were later used, withoout his knowledge or control, for illegal purposes. Or more directly, it would be like the owner of the currency exchange booth at the airport being arrested because a tourist exchanged money and then the money was used in illicit transactions.


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|'Dads Start Road Trip On Winning Note
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The Hickory Crawdads picked up a huge win to open their eight-game road trip Tuesday night. The Crawdads defeated the Lakewood BlueClaws 5-4 at FirstEnergy Park in Lakewood. The Crawdads (14-5, 50-38) also picked up a game on Lakewood in the North Division race. Hickory leads the BlueClaws by four games for first place; Hagerstown remains
a game back as the Suns defeated Greensboro 9-7 on the road. The Crawdads raced out to a 4-0 lead with four runs in the top of the first inning. Rougned Odor started the inning by reaching on an error. He moved to second on a passed ball. Trever Adams singled Odor to third base, and Drew Robinson drove him in one out later with an RBI single for the 1-0 lead. A wild pitch plated Adams from third and advanced Robinson to second base before Chris Grayson ripped an RBI double driving in Robinson for a 3-0 lead. A pair of walks loaded the bases; Nick Urbanus closed out the inning with an RBI infield single that scored Grayson, capping off the four-run frame.
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Now that the first picture of the yet unannounced BlackBerry Bold 9780 (possibly codenamed the 'Onyx Delta') has emerged, the floodgates to the swelling rumor river have opened. Driphter managed to snag a couple of new pictures showing the device turned on. While they are nothing to write home about, they do show that 9780 ...Tags: BlackBerry Bold 9780, Blackberry OS 6, Onyx Delta, rumor


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DENVER (KUSA)- Medical marijuana patients and advocates are voicing opposition to new rules at Denver International Airport that would ban marijuana on airport property.
The airport is in the process of finalizing a policy that says people could be fined $150 for the first violation and up to $999 for multiple infractions.
"To deny safe access to medical marijuana at the airport is unnecessary, and I think it's cruel," said Rachel Gillette with NORML, the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws, at a public meeting Wednesday.
Medical marijuana patients said, for them, it's not about flying high, but having access to needed medicine.
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|Foore Joins ASU Softball Coaching Staff
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Coaching veteran Roman Foore has joined Appalachian State University softball's staff as the program's hitting coach, head coach Shae Wesley announced on Wednesday.
Foore, a Rosemount, Minn. native, brings eight years of coaching experience to Appalachian. Most recently, he served as the assistant at St. Thomas University last season. He helped lead the Tommies to the 2011 Regional finals and a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship.
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As the sun sets on another year, Journalista takes a step back and looks at the stories that have well and truly pitched their tents and occupied the headlines in 2011.
In a year of revolution, comings, goings and the inevitable controversies, it will be interesting to see which of the stories that dominated the media agenda will go on to define 2011 in years to come and which ones fall by the wayside.
For the year 2011 the topics that received the most coverage according to Journalisted.com were…
Featuring in an astonishing 29,803 different articles, there are no surprises that prime minister David Cameron not only leads the way for politicians but was the most covered individual in 2011.
Second place is also unsurprising, in a year where the economy remained at the forefront of national concerns, it was the resident of Number 11 – George Osbourne – who appeared on 12,366 occasions.
In the battle of the party leaders it is in fact deputy prime minister and coalition partner Nick Clegg, 9,291 articles, overshadowed Labour leader Ed Milliband who mustered 8,353. This of course does not take the tone of the coverage into account so second place may not be as rosy a spot at it may first seem.
Elsewhere, there were notable appearances for Tony Blair (6,486 articles), Gordon Brown (5,665 articles), William Hague (4,991 articles), Vince Cable (4,495 articles) and Boris Johnson (3,854 articles).
In the world of sport a list dominated by footballers was topped by tennis star Andy Murray who appeared in the mainstream media on 4,909 occasions. After beginning the year as the runner up to Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open, Murray went on to reach the semi-finals of every grandslam including the Wimbledon Championships on home soil.
The phenomenon of "Wimbledon fever" was demonstrated by the fact that 1,130 articles or 23 per cent of all the coverage Murray received in 2011 were confined to the two week period occupied by the tournament in SW19.
As ever, a significant proportion of coverage was focused on some sports stars' activities off the field with a footballer who shall remain nameless. referred to as CTB during injunction proceedings, the subject of 3,180 stories.
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