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I was looking at Neil's thread on 2008 goals, and I realized that the type of cycling I do has changed somewhat. I'd be interested to hear how the last year has changed others. What new kinds of cycling are you doing? Is there anything that's lost your interest?
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I was getting most of my miles in by commuting, which turned into a folding bike/train commute over the summer. Now, my wie works in the same town as I, and spending hundreds of dollars on the train seems wasteful when she's gonna drive to Union no matter how I get to work.
Touring: I started camping, in the hopes of saving money on tours. It works well, but I have no desire to camp in the off-season. I'll pick that up again in the spring.
I'm moving towards utility cycling. I now live in downtown Highland Park, less than a mile from a small grocery store and only a few miles from a major supermarket, not to mention two farmers' markets. I ordered a Burley Nomad, and I'm hoping I'll be getting in miles while hauling a trailer with laundry and canvas bags of groceries.

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Effective TB Interviewing for Contact Investigation: Self-Study Modules
Return to Module 1 Table of Contents
The TB interview
Structure of the Interview
- Pre-Interview Activities
- Introduction
- Information and Education Exchange
- Contact Identification
- Conclusion
The interview has five components, which are presented in detail in pages 8-17. The components are as follows:
At the end of this module is a checklist that summarizes the elements of the interview (page 25). This checklist can be used during the interview as a prompt and after the interview to evaluate whether the interview was complete. Note that some interview elements may vary depending on what information is required by the local health department. Information the interviewer provides to the patient may depend on the job responsibilities of the interviewer, including a combination of medical care, directly observed therapy, and congregate setting investigation.
I. Pre-Interview Activities
Before conducting the interview, the interviewer should organize and prepare for it by obtaining background information on the patient. This will assist the interviewer in forming a preliminary infectious period and developing an interview strategy.
- Review medical record – The record may contain information from hospital staff, infection control practitioners, or social workers.
- Review and note medical record information related to the diagnosis (site of disease, symptom history, bacteriologic and chest x-ray results, treatment, and recent or past known exposure to TB, including skin test results)
- Review and record social history, language and cultural barriers, and other medical conditions
- Note previous hospital admissions and any history of previous treatment, substance abuse, mental illness, or inability or unwillingness to communicate with other healthcare staff who may have interacted with the patient
- Assess the need for respiratory protection during the interview for both the interviewer and patient
- Obtain and record index patient locating information:
- Record name, address, telephone number, and additional locating information
- Collect and record next of kin, emergency contact, employer
- Establish a preliminary infectious period based on medical record review and local health department guidelines. This will be refined during the interview based on the patient's verification of information.
- Develop a strategy for the interview process by analyzing information collected thus far. This should include looking for any unusual factors about the patient that will need to be considered, such as any other medical conditions, mental status, housing or money, transport, and social support needs.
- If possible, arrange an interview place and time convenient to the patient and satisfactory to the local health department time frame for the completion of interviews.
- Arrange and ensure privacy by seeking an interview time and place with minimal distractions and interruptions. Note: When a patient is hospitalized, the initial interview should take place in this setting.
II. Introduction
As discussed later in Module 2, "Basics of Communication and Patient Education," the very first interaction with the patient can influence the remainder of the interview. It is important from the beginning for the interviewer to provide an explanation of who he or she is and present a clear picture of the importance of the TB interview.
- Begin by building trust and rapport, as well as demonstrating respect. Introduce yourself and provide a business card or identification. If appropriate, shake the patient's hand. Greet the patient using Mr./Ms. and family name and then ask the patient what he or she would prefer to be called. Explain your role in the tuberculosis control program. This includes your responsibility to protect the health of the public.
- Explain that the purposes of the interview are
- To provide TB information and answer any patient questions, and
- To identify people who have been exposed to TB so that they can be referred for medical evaluation.
- Emphasize confidentiality, yet inform the patient that relevant information may need to be shared with other health department staff or other people who may assist in congregate settings to most efficiently ascertain which contacts need to be evaluated. Also, note local laws regarding confidentiality when interviewing minors.
III. Information and Education Exchange
As the interview progresses, the interviewer should educate the patient on TB and the contact investigation process. As this occurs, the interviewer should continuously assess whether the patient understands the information being exchanged and appears invested in the interview process.
- Throughout the interview, determine the extent of trust and rapport being developed while observing the patient and assessing responses.
- Observe the patient's body language and speech for comfort level and comprehension of information provided.
- Make note of any physical signs or behavior indicative of alcohol or substance abuse, nutritional status, lifestyle, and other conditions which may influence the patient's level of cooperation
- Assess the patient's communication skills, attitudes, concerns, and needs. As necessary, refine the interview strategy. This may include accomplishing less during the initial interview session and scheduling a follow-up interview
- Personal information – Explain that it is important to obtain and confirm the patient's personal information. The following patient information should be collected and verified:1
- Full name
- Alias(es)/nickname(s)
- Date of birth
- Place of birth (city, state/province, country)
- If born in a foreign country, date arrived in USA
- Travel destinations (when last there and for how long)
- Physical description (height, weight, race, other identifying characteristics)
- Current address and post office (PO) box or place of residence, including directions, if necessary
- Telephone number
- Length of stay at current address
- Marital status
- Next of kin (name, address, telephone number, other locating information)
- Emergency contact (name, address, telephone number, other locating information)
- Employer or school (name, address, telephone number, other locating information)
- Medical information and problem indicators
- Explain the importance of collecting accurate medical information
- Obtain and document the following patient information:
- Known exposure to TB (who, where, when) or knowledge of anyone with similar symptoms
- Past hospitalization(s) for TB (name, admission and discharge date[s])
- Other medical conditions, including HIV test results, if available
- Substance abuse (including frequency, type, how long)
- Medical provider for TB (private or clinic, name, address, telephone)
- Transportation availability to/from medical provider
- Directly observed therapy (DOT) plan, if known (where, when, by whom)
- Barriers to adherence
- Disease comprehension
- Use open-ended questions to determine the patient's TB knowledge
- Reinforce the patient's TB knowledge and correct any misconceptions. Explain mode of transmission and how TB affects the body, using language the patient can understand. Avoid using medical terms and recognize when to defer questions to appropriate personnel (see Module 2, "Basics of Communication and Patient Education"). Provide appropriate patient education materials.
- Symptom history – Review with the patient the following TB-related symptoms, including onset dates and duration:
- Cough
- Hemoptysis (coughing up blood)
- Hoarseness or laryngitis
- Unexplained weight loss
- Night sweats
- Chest pain
- Loss of appetite
- Fever
- Chills
- Fatigue
Recall of symptom onset can generally be poor. Mentioning prominent dates and major holidays can help the patient recall symptom onset. Cough, if present, is the most critical symptom in determining the infectious period.
- Discuss the elements of patient's current diagnosis, including
- Tuberculin skin test results
- Site of disease
- Symptom history
- Chest x-ray and bacteriologic results
- Disease intervention behaviors – Explain the importance of the following interventions:
- Treatment regimen
- Explain that the patient's medications kill TB germs when taken as prescribed. Reinforce the personal and public health benefits of taking the medicine.
- If trained to do so, identify and explain each prescribed drug and discuss potential side effects.
- Establish a specific schedule or reinforce existing schedule for outpatient treatment, including DOT.
- Review the local/state regulations mandating treatment adherence (if applicable).
- Infection control measures
- If the patient is infectious, review the importance of cough hygiene, e.g., using a mask or a tissue to cover the mouth and nose if coughing and sneezing. Explain proper disposal technique. Emphasize that covering the mouth and nose is an important measure the patient can take to protect others.
- Discuss the importance of adequate ventilation to protect others.
- Describe other measures as appropriate, i.e., home isolation, visitors to the home, and return to work or school.
- Maintaining medical care – Discuss the importance of
- Adherence to therapy while reemphasizing the significance of continuity of therapy;
- Sputum collection, chest x-rays, and physician evaluations;
- Adherence to all medical appointments and DOT, if ordered; and
- Adherence-enhancing strategies, e.g., available incentives, pill boxes, and reminder notes.
- Treatment regimen
- Infectious period
- Based on the information collected thus far, refine previously established infectious period.
- Review significance of infectious period with patient and discuss its role in contact identification.
IV. Contact Identification
While a brief explanation of a contact investigation should be provided at the beginning of the interview, a reemphasis prior to the elicitation of contacts is necessary. This reassures the patient of the importance of providing contacts' names. It is also important at this time to reinforce confidentiality and to educate the patient on TB transmission.
- Introduce the contact identification process by reviewing the patient's understanding of TB transmission. Stress the importance and urgency of the rapid and accurate identification of all priority contacts during the infectious period. Reinforce the importance of identifying contacts in order to protect family and friends from getting TB.
- Explain the difference between priority and nonpriority contacts. This should include a discussion of how TB is spread. It should be emphasized that transmission increases with duration and frequency of exposure and with exposure in closed spaces. These concepts should be explored with each named contact.
- Inform the patient that a congregate-setting investigation may be done in any place in which the patient reveals having spent prolonged time during the infectious period. The patient should be made aware that an appropriate site manager (e.g., supervisor, school principal) may be called in to assist in identifying persons in this setting, but that an emphasis on confidentiality will be maintained. With other medical conditions, the patient's illness and identity are held in strict confidence. For an infectious disease such as TB, working with a third party in a congregate setting may be appropriate. The patient should know that if he or she chooses to tell others about his or her illness, or if others already know about the diagnosis, the health department will continue to maintain confidentiality and not reveal or confirm any patient information.
- Collect information about the patient's contacts in the household/residence, workplace/school, other congregate settings, and social/recreational environments. If the patient's responses contain conflicting information, ask about these inconsistencies in a nonconfrontational manner. Be aware that patients are being asked to recall detailed information over an extended period of time and may not remember information very clearly. Some patients, however, may intentionally provide vague or inconsistent information. In this case, the interviewer should re-emphasize the importance of contact identification and confidentiality (see Module 4 for additional strategies).
Contact tracing information – Obtain the following information as relevant to the patient's infectious period (some information will require a field visit for confirmation):
- Type of housing (e.g., house, apartment, shelter, nursing home)
- Description of housing, including size of rooms, ceiling height (low or high), number of rooms, method of ventilation, and source of heating and cooling
- Additional addresses where patient spent time
- If employed: employer name, address, telephone number, full or part-time, hours per day/week, how long employed, transportation type to/from work, length of commute, occupation/type of work, indoor or outdoor work space, and enclosed or open work space
- If unemployed: source of income
- If attending school: name of school, address, telephone number, grade/year, hours per day/week, transportation type to and from school, and length of commute
- Social and recreational activities (e.g., hangouts, bars, team sports, community centers, band, choir, place of worship), including hours per day/week, and means of transportation
- Other congregate settings (e.g., armed services, hospital, nursing home, drug treatment center, detoxification center, shelter, group-living home, hotel, prison or jail), including name and dates of attendance
- Travel history (where, with whom, mode of transportation, person visited)
Eliciting Contacts
Contacts' information should include locating and physical identifying details. Explain to the patient that the reason for collecting detailed information on each contact is to be able to locate these individuals as easily and quickly as possible and not to mistake them for others. Information should be gathered in three spheres:
- Household or living situation
- Workplace or school
- Social and recreational
The patient may not be able to provide full names or any names for some contacts, so the investigator who must locate the contacts in the field may need to rely on nicknames or physical descriptions, or both. Note that the patient may not be able to supply all of the details listed below and that the interviewer should decide how much information is needed based on what has already been collected.
Obtain the following information for activities occurring within the patient's infectious period about all persons in each sphere. Information should include name/alias(es)/nickname(s), relationship to patient, age, sex, physical description, employer/school, and other locating information (include current address if no longer living in the household). Also, include hours of exposure per week and date(s) of first and last exposure. Include, with identified contacts, persons regularly socialized with and social/recreational establishments, including
- Close friends
- Sex partners
- Overnight guests and regular visitors to patient's residence (e.g., neighbors,
friends, and relatives)
- Persons with whom drugs are used
- Overnight visits to any other location(s) (obtain address[es])
- Specifically ask about time spent with young children or immunocompromised individuals
- Congregate setting assessment
- Ask for a description of identified congregate settings, including size of rooms, ceiling height (low or high), number of rooms, method of ventilation, source of heating and cooling.
- Inform the patient that it will be necessary to make site visits to the home, workplace or school, and leisure establishments to assess the shared air environment to accurately structure the contact investigation.
- Stress patient confidentiality as well as the necessity of sharing information on a need-to-know basis with appropriate site management. Discuss the importance of a medical evaluation for each contact.
- Methods of referral
- Inform the patient that referrals and verified contacts' medical evaluations should be carried out immediately
- Explain contact referral options (options may vary by state):
Patient should be given a choice of whether to inform contacts of their risk of exposure prior to the health department referral process. Discuss the referral options with the patient, deciding which contacts are appropriate for health department referral and for patient referral. Review with the patient how and when contact referrals will be made and where the contacts will be referred.
Health Department Referral: While protecting the patient's right to privacy, the healthcare worker assumes full responsibility for locating and informing the contact about exposure and the need for a medical evaluation.
Patient Referral: The patient agrees to inform the contacts about exposure and the importance of speaking with the healthcare worker regarding the need for a medical evaluation. Remind the patient that this method will not protect his or her confidentiality. If necessary, rehearse with the patient how to inform contacts and what instructions they should be given regarding their medical evaluations. Inform the patient that the health department will follow up on anyone who does not respond within an agreed upon timeframe.
Explain that the index patient's identity will be held in confidence during the investigation, and the same is true for all contacts' confidentiality. The health department cannot reveal the results of medical evaluations (e.g., how many people are tuberculin positive, how many people have TB disease, who has been started on treatment) of contacts to the index patient, other contacts, or staff of congregate settings.
- Discuss re-interview time frame:
Explain that you will be visiting the patient again upon discharge from hospital, or within 10-14 days if the initial interview is at home, to obtain further information and answer additional questions.
V. Conclusion
Conclude the interview in a positive manner. Recognize the index patient's participation in the interview, and make the patient feel that you are trustworthy and can be consulted with concerns as they arise, even after the interview.
- Request and answer the patient's questions.
- Review and reinforce all components of the treatment plan.
- Evaluate the patient's remaining needs or potential adherence problems.
- Restate the date of the next medical appointment, if known.
- Arrange for both a re-interview and home visit, if not already completed.
- Reinforce the procedures for referral of each contact.
- Provide information on how the patient can contact you.
- If appropriate, shake the patient's hand, express thanks and appreciation, and close the interview.
While it is important for the interviewer to follow a systematic process to achieve the interview objectives, it is also important for the interviewer to demonstrate flexibility and respond to the patient's needs. The patient may have questions, show signs of fatigue, or need assistance in some way, which may lead to a deviation from the interview agenda. Addressing these needs through recognition of concerns, problem solving, and referral to appropriate resources may be a minor set-back, but can eventually allow the interview to progress. For strategies on dealing with patient needs, see Module 4, "Special Circumstances."
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This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Window Of Opportunity
The Boston Celtics spoiled a one-of-a-kind playoff performance from Rajon Rondo (44 points, 10 assists, 8 rebounds) and missed a chance to steal momentum -- and home-court advantage -- in the Eastern Conference finals with Wednesday's Game 2 loss to the Miami Heat.
Many teams would roll over having squandered maybe their best chance to steal a win and make this series interesting. Not these prideful Celtics. They save their most inspired ball for when their backs are against the wall.
Boston can still steal this series. It simply won't be easy. Certainly not as easy as it would have been had the Celtics won Wednesday in Miami.
But maybe Heat coach Erik Spoelstra summed it up best: "There just can't be any other way with [the Celtics]. It has to be the hard way."
And the hard way it is, yet again. Not only do the Celtics not make anything easy on themselves, they're not going to make it easy on Miami either. Boston players rallied around the company line that the Heat simply held serve by winning Games 1 and 2. Now the Celtics return home confident they can protect their turf in Games 3 and 4.
It's one thing to say it; it's another to do it. Yet the Celtics have shown uncanny resiliency this season.
You simply can't yet count them out of this series -- even if they missed a great opportunity and all the historical numbers suggest they have little chance of rallying back.
"The next two are at home," said Rondo. "We had two tough losses on the road. It's a sevengame series. We're playing very well at home as of late, so I'm looking forward to it."
If it's just spin, it was hard to tell in the Boston locker room.
"If we continue to play with that effort and play with that passion, I really like our chances," said captain Paul Pierce.
Of course, these are the same things Boston said a year ago in the conference semifinals after dropping two games in Miami. The Celtics came home to win Game 3, but Rondo dislocated his elbow, Shaquille O'Neal could never get on the court, and the Celtics were ousted in Game 5.
The difference this time around: mental resolve. This Boston team has it, maybe like no other in the Big Three era. For that reason, the Celtics still have a chance, but it will be their most difficult hurdle to overcome yet.
Ray Allen might prove to have been prophetic in these comments made following the Celtics' Game 7 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday:
"You go through the regular season and you throw games away, and you think you're going to pick them up, you're going to catch up somewhere down the line," he said. "But [in the Eastern Conference finals], you know what it is. When you lose, you're one step further away from your goal. You win and you're one step closer."
You can't afford to squander games in the Eastern Conference finals. There simply aren't enough of them to have that luxury. Matters are made worse when you're up against a very capable team like the Heat.
A lot of things fell the Celtics' way in Game 2 in a perfect storm-like combination we're not likely to see again this series. Dwyane Wade was stymied for an entire half, LeBron James shot an inefficient 7-for-20 from the field, Miami missed a whopping 16 free throws, and Rajon Rondo was burying jump shots at a ferocious clip.
I'm not saying Rondo is incapable of hitting jumpers with such marksmanship again, but what precedent is there that can lead us to believe he'll have another shooting performance like that? The Celtics cannot comfortably rely on a repeat effort in Game 3. He can still score by attacking the rim and getting to the free throw line, but arguably the biggest reason why Boston's lead ballooned to 15 points in the first half was because of Rondo's accuracy from the perimeter.
There are a host of ups and downs throughout a seven-game series, and it's rare for so many different things to go one team's way in one specific game. Wade and James are both silenced offensively for significant stretches? The Celtics' point guard, who supposedly can't shoot, is suddenly making it rain? These things might occur separately in different games over the course of the series, but to have them come together in one outing presented Boston with what will probably go down as its best chance to steal a game in Miami.
Even if you assume the Celtics will hold serve at home, they still must win a game on the Heat's floor to win the series. Are they going to have a better opportunity than Wednesday night? It's highly doubtful.


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This is a nice, simple, intuitive plugin that does exactly what you'd expect, and feels like a natural part of WP. In fact, in my opinion this should be added right into the core WP installation.
The only thing it's missing that I'd like to see is the ability to import/export the menu you've customized. When I have a few different WP installations, but want to add the same admin menu links, it's painstaking to recreate the exact same menu structure and items; if this could just allow me to export a finished/customized menu and then import it into a different WP install, it'd make life SO much easier. (that's why I gave it 4/5 stars, with that feature I'd give it 5 stars).
Unfortunately it appears that the author has long abandoned this plugin. :/
Very good plugin. Had to take 1 star off because it would not let me manage and/or remove the existing ones in there, or even add to existing menus in the admin bar. Other than that, does the job.
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CHIMACUM, Wash. (AP) — Two students at Chimacum High School were taken into custody after they showed up to school Monday morning with a machete and a meat cleaver.
KIRO-TV reports (http://bit.ly/tekidP ) school district administrators said there was a threat and ordered a lockdown.
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Vista Home Premium. I uninstalled Windows Defender and now cannot reinstall
it as the installer says "Vista already includes Defender"
Is there a work around to my dumb mistake???
Vista Home Premium. I uninstalled Windows Defender and now cannot reinstall
it as the installer says "Vista already includes Defender"
Is there a work around to my dumb mistake???
Perhaps you were told the truth and don't need it.
Yes I get the joke..however Vista places a red security icon in the tray
when defender is not running.
Im intrigued 'how' you managed to uninstall it ?
Also in windows alerts, do you not have the tick box, I already have and
will monitor myself ?
Thanks for reviving a dead 2 year old post.
Hey, I too was victim to this situation, and was reluctant to do a clean install just to regain the functionality of Windows defender built in to Vista (unknown to me), as with all prior versions you were able to uninstall and reinstall as a stand alone program. After finishing the Vista premium upgrade my anti-virus program recommended to turn it off (as it has spyware scanning built in) so I figured why not uninstall....right! Wrong! I should have done some research first, but to make a long story shorter, all you have to do is set 3 hours aside, when you have the time and run the setup off of the Vista installation DvD from the Vista desktop (do not boot from the DvD or a clean install is your only option), this way the program installer will let you repeat an upgrade retaining all your info you have as it did in the original upgrade. The only down side is like I said earlier you have to wait out the rather long installation process again. It worked like a charm for me.
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Do you think this might work with Silverlight too, as I seem to have misplaced Windows Defender AND Silverlight
hehe...sorry, didn't notice that~
I don't think you uninstalled it. It's impossible on Vista. It doesn't show up on the add and remove program menu but if you look in your programs folder in your c drive you'll find out. If it is not working try restarting the service under administrative tools.
thanks rick
It is possible to uninstall Windows Defender if the installation was an
upgrade from XP. It is not possible to uninstall it from a clean install of
Vista. Once removed though, as the OP now knows, you cannot reinstall it.
I uninstalled windows defender inadvertently when trying to get the Green AV virus off my vista machine. I have malewarebyte's anti-virus running now but was thinking about re-installing windows defender. Question: if I run windows defender do also need MacAfee or something similiar? I got the green AV virus because I was tricked into clicking install, even tho windows defender asked me if I really wanted to proceed....
Just install AvastAV ( free) .


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Facebook Santa gives Android-lovers a faster App
Just less than a fortnight to Christmas and Facebook has already started gifting its fans. I am talking about the new Facebook app launched yesterday night. The early Christmas gift is a faster Android app than the existing one. After Facebook revamping its iPhone application to enhance its speed and receptivity, Facebook has done the same even with Android application which it released yesterday.
This new Facebook app helps in viewing the photos and opening timeline faster, which means, everything can be accessible with jet speed. Frank Du from Facebook's engineering team said that the android version app is rebuilt with a motive of speed and performance. The app makes it easy for people to interact with friends.
The changes featured in both iPhone app and Android app are pretty much the same. However, here are the two main features that differentiate both.
Speed: The app is specifically built to increase the speed so that users can access news feed and timeline quicker than before.
Photos: When the app is accessed in android phones, the user can tap on the photo to zoom it and also to get options – 'like', 'comment' and 'share'.
Shifting Facebook users to mobile has been a greatest challenge for the company till now. We'll have to wait and see if this app will do any good to the company.
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There's always a worst part. It could range between that short spin through an open sewer to that long stretch of slightly less pretty woodland, but there's always a worst part.
What's yours?
For me, the worst part, if I had to be picky, is the sea breeze effect. Coming to work is a head-wind, usually dead on. Leaving work is also a head-wind, usually dead on. In fact, in general it's a head wind, even when I do a complete 180. I live in a cyclone.


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Extech Dissolved Oxygen Probe
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This Extech dissolved oxygen probe is a replacement for Extech dissolved oxygen meters. The 0.8" (20mm) probe comes with a 13 ft (4m) cable.


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Tropical Farm
Restore a beautiful island chain using your expert ranching skills in Tropical Farm, a fun time management adventure. When a hurricane ravages a group of tropical islands, the government issues a challenge to restore these once beautiful and fertile getaways. The winner enjoys his or her own island to farm on, and since you have just developed a quick and easy way to grow delicious and nutritious food, the contest is too much to pass up. Starting with a small patch of land, some tools and a few seeds, challenge 45 fun levels by growing eight species of plants and selling seven types of food products. Build various types of buildings in between the levels like shops, schools and more. When your task is complete, you will not only have won great rewards, including the government's challenge, but also helped the people return to their island home. Play Tropical Farm free with the demo version, or download the full version today!
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Chased by a mysterious shadow figure, Rose stumbles and knocks herself unconscious. She awakens to a strange sight, one so bizarre that she can hardly make sense of it. Before her, a collection of long lost memories, all tragic occurrences that she buried deep within herself. What could this possibly mean and where exactly is she? One thing is for sure, that dark shadow chasing her is even in her memories. Listen to these echoes of sorrow and shine a light on them to help Rose resolve her past. Visit her childhood home, her college dorm, and other tragic locations to stop the dark shadow from chasing her. Find valuable information to jog her memory, solve tantalizing puzzles, and play distinct mini-games. Lift the darkness from this awful past and help Rose free herself from the nightmarish prison in her mind.
Ball Buster Collection
Smash blocks to bits as you use the paddle to catch, bounce, and bust through complex 3D constructions. Visit the Stone Age, Ancient Greece, Candy World, and Fantasy Forest to earn tons of points and more. Beat your best score by collecting wild power-ups, including weapons, magnetic paddles, shields and more. Watch out for hidden hazards and booby traps however, unless you like extra-small paddles and crazy camera angles. With over a dozen bonuses, 300 kinds of blocks, and 1001 incredible levels, this collection is non-stop, no-holds-barred, action-packed fun!
Enter the spellbinding world of Spellagories where a medieval kingdom's valiant citizenry have been diabolically transformed by evil mages into warped creatures. It's up to you to use your skills as an alchemical wordsmith to unlock the magic words, lift the evil curse, and restore the villagers to their human form. But, it won't be easy. The evil mages spells are devilishly tricky. They have scrambled the Magic Words, and added extra letters to make deciphering the unscrambled word an alchemist's admixture of brainpower and magical insight. Helping you in your quest is your trusted friend, the Raven. He will offer hints and assist you by unscrambling the Magic word one letter at a time. But only if you can build other words out of the scrambled letters. Spellagories offers an exciting new twist in the word game genre combined with an immersive medieval fantasy that offers hours of fun, challenging word puzzles to all of those who fall under its charm. Moving from castle to castle, you will travel through a medieval landscape of helpless villagers and merciless mages.
Moorhuhn - The Jewel of Darkness
In this latest adventure our fearless Moorland Chicken gets down and dirty in the underworld in search of a mysterious treasure. Many dangers await him but also the chance to become rich! The Moorland Chicken is ready for the next big adventure!
Pro Bass Fishing 2003
Your cast breaks the stillness of a picturesque lake. Movement underwater ripples the surface. Is it a Large-mouth, Walleye or Muskie? Suddenly, there's a tug on the line! What a fighter! Do you have the skill to bring him in?
Sheep's Quest
Play Sheep's Quest, the game critics are calling "Sheer fun!" Okay, we made that up, but you'll still love this stimulating brainteaser in which you guide a herd of sheep through seven game worlds in an effort to collect enough coins to rebuild their once magnificent farm. Steering the adorable animals around enemies and obstacles to the riches they need is as simple as placing arrows on the ground pointing the way. Featuring colorful graphics and delightful audio, Sheep's Quest is sure to become one of your favorites!
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The year is 1896 and Scotland Yard has called the great Sherlock Holmes with an urgent request for help. A young artist has been murdered and found rolled up in a remarkable, but stolen, Persian carpet. With no real leads and few witnesses, it's up to Holmes and Watson to find the killer. Walk in the footsteps of the famed detective and use his investigative prowess to resolve this captivating mystery. Start at famous 221b Baker Street and travel across Victorian London in an incredible adventure full of questions, danger, and deception. Uncover clues by scouring the crime scene for evidence, solve devious puzzles, and conduct valuable tests. Can you catch the killer?
Atlantis Adventure
The Greeks thought of Poseidon as a god of violent, unpredictable movement. He is most often the god of the ocean, which is of course the biggest, most unpredictable, and most dangerous thing around. Atlantis Adventure begins in the deep oceans off the coast of Hawaii. It hade been 2 days since Coral last saw her husband Harry. This wasn't like him. Many of the villagers hade gone missing in the past months and had never came back. Determined to find her husband, Coral set off into the deep blue ocean to find her true love. Discover the great mysteries of Atlantis in this puzzle adventure game. Help Coral in her adventure to find her missing husband Harry. Atlantis Adventure is an action puzzler like no other. Fire orbs from Coral into groups of three or more of the same color orbs to clear the levels. But be careful: you'll have plenty of enemies trying to stop you from getting to Atlantis and finding Harry!
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Police are baffled by a series of unexplained cases dubbed, The Vanishing Files, which have paralyzed the city. Enter Cate West - celebrated novelist and insightful visionary! Help Cate find clues, compile evidence, track down the hideout, and name the culprit in more than 75 levels of picture puzzle fun! Are these mysterious crimes connected? And what do they have to do with the tale of the Three Wise Men? Featuring loads of locations to search, an engrossing storyline, and addictive gameplay, Cate West: The Vanishing Files is an original whodunit that is sure to delight fans of hidden object fun!
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Capture the romance all over again with Nora Roberts - Vision in White, a delightful hidden object encounter based on the first book of the best-selling series. When a casual fling turns steamy for a brilliant wedding photographer, her world turns upside down. With pressing deadlines, unsuspected surprises and issues from her past cropping up, life continues to remain less than picture perfect. But will Mackensie learn to embrace this newly found romance, or will her narcissistic mother and fear of commitment be a prophetic snapshot of her future? Become part of this wonderful story and find out! Play as Mac, seeking and finding her way through 41 beautifully designed locations. Complete unique mini-games including floral arrangements, cake decorating, and photography. Locate the extra VOWS hints, challenge your speed in Timed Mode and live out the entire experience through Mac's eyes. Play Nora Roberts - Vision in White free with the demo version or download the full version today!
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Mad Cars
Try a commercial combat of extremes! Mad Cars is not a simple race. It's a way to snatch out a small picture of unpredictable future. How is your car going to look like after WWIII? Earn your wealth on what you can do best, whether it's insane driving, mad fighting, or sneaky protectiveness. Rush into the future with Mad Cars!
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Chicken Invaders 2 Christmas Edition
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A life of crime is tough on both sides of the bars. The sentence has been passed, now you must bring order in a world of chaos. Start with a small, low security prison and build it into a maximum-security super-max. There?s no escaping under your watchful eye because you?re in charge of every detail.
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Shangri La 2 Deluxe
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Setting up New Laptop - Question
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Setting up New Laptop - Question
My new XPS15 is arriving on Tuesday and I wanted to get some input into setting it up.
My plan was to:
1. Start and set up PC as per Dell instructions (user name/pswd)
2. Connect to wifi and download any updates
3. Create recovery Disk
4. Remove McAfee and install Norton (comes free with Comcast acct.)
5. Install Photoshop and Lightroom 3
6. Install MS Office and iTunes (I wonder how to get my iTunes from my old PC?)
7. Create a restore point before each install
8. Restore some other picture files from via my USB3 external drive
9. Test the USB3 CF card reader
Any other suggestions?
The specs on the PC are http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1004&thread=38171733
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Stuxnet, a game-changing computer worm, may herald a new era of shadowy digital combat.
WASHINGTON — Just a few months ago, U.S. and Israeli officials were warning that Iran was a year away from having the capability to rapidly build a nuclear weapon. Speculation was intensifying that Israel would launch airstrikes to prevent that from happening.
But as the New Year dawned, Western officials, with little fanfare, significantly revamped their estimates of Iran's nuclear progress.
Israel's strategic-affairs minister, Moshe Yaalon, said Dec. 29 that the Islamic Republic was at least three years away from a bomb. This month, the retiring head of Israel's intelligence service, Meir Dagan, was even more optimistic, saying Iran wouldn't be able to develop a nuclear warhead before 2015 at the earliest.
A few days later, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton also downplayed Tehran's progress, saying, "Their program, from our best estimate, has been slowed down," because of "technological problems."
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People who study computer warfare for a living have no doubt about what's behind these reappraisals: Stuxnet, a game-changing computer worm that may herald a new era of shadowy digital combat.
Identified in June, Stuxnet is being called the most sophisticated cyber weapon ever unleashed, because of the insidious way in which it is believed to have secretly targeted specific equipment used in Iran's nuclear program.
Computer experts have examined the worm for months, and many believe Stuxnet was created by Israel or the United States as part of a covert effort to hamper Iran's alleged drive for an atomic weapon. But the extent to which the operation succeeded had remained unclear.
In recent weeks, however, a rough consensus has emerged that Stuxnet has had a measurable effect. In addition to the remarks from U.S. and Israeli officials, the Institute for Science and International Security, an independent think tank, judged in late December that Stuxnet appears to have "set back Iran's progress."
Stuxnet "will undoubtedly reshape international security and foreign policy forever," said John Bumgarner, chief technology officer of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a nonprofit research organization that studies cyber conflict. "It's a tipping point that will usher in a cyber-defense revolution in military affairs."
Gas centrifuges
By wreaking havoc on gas centrifuges — spinning machines that separate isotopes to produce enriched uranium, which at higher levels can be used for nuclear bombs — the Stuxnet worm seems to have inflicted significant damage on Iran's nuclear program, experts say, with none of the dangerous repercussions of a U.S. or Israeli airstrike, at least so far.
"This is a really good example of what cyber war looks like," said former White House terrorism adviser Richard Clarke, author of "Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It." "It's a precision-guided munition."
The worm's slow-motion trajectory, its ability to secretly seize control of machinery and the fact that its authors remain unknown offer lessons for the future of high-tech warfare.
Stuxnet is not the first apparent state-sponsored cyber attack: Other examples include a massive disruption of websites in Estonia in 2007 after a dispute with Russia, and Israel's use of digital trickery to fool Syria's air defenses when Israel bombed an alleged nuclear facility there in 2007.
But in those cases, it became fairly clear who was responsible.
Stuxnet is the most significant development yet in the realm of cyber conflict, Bumgarner said, because of the lack of attribution. Although Iran would have been expected to respond ferociously to an Israeli or U.S. airstrike, no response has been forthcoming to Stuxnet, perhaps because Tehran can't be sure of the culprit.
"Stuxnet takes it to a different level because … Iran doesn't know who to retaliate against," he said.
Stuxnet also proves it is possible to use malware to seize control of equipment that runs all sorts of features of a modern economy, from power grids to chemical plants. The United States and its allies have that capability, but so do Russia and China, experts say.
And Stuxnet may remain a persistent thorn in Iran's side, said German expert Ralph Langner, who first disclosed that Stuxnet had targeted Siemens equipment used in Iran's nuclear program.
In an e-mail, Langner said the Iranians would have to replace all the computer systems in their nuclear program to be sure they were rid of the worm, a tall order for a country under trade sanctions.
The full extent of the damage to Iran's nuclear equipment wrought by Stuxnet is a matter of speculation. Other than limited international inspections, the outside world has almost no access to information about Iran's nuclear program. Iran, which says its nuclear program is intended for peaceful purposes, has refused to comply to a U.N. Security Council order that it stop its nuclear enrichment program.
Iranian officials acknowledge that the complex malware snaked its way into industrial software used to operate centrifuges in the Natanz nuclear facility and went undetected for a year.
As of Sept. 29, after which Iran took action that made further counting impossible, Stuxnet had infected 100,000 hosts worldwide, 60,000 of which were in Iran, according to a detailed report on the worm by Symantec, a computer-security company.
According to the Institute for Science and International Security, 1,000 of about 8,000 centrifuges at Natanz had to be replaced in late 2009 and early 2010. In mid-November, Iran temporarily halted enrichment at Natanz because of technical problems with its centrifuges, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Experts aren't sure why the malware seems to have caused damage to some, but not all, of the centrifuges at Natanz, allowing Iran to continue to enrich uranium, albeit at a slower pace. Some experts have speculated that the worm's creators intentionally limited its effect to avoid detection. Other theorize that it was designed to send a message as much as to destroy centrifuges.
Damage downplayed
Iranian leaders downplay the worm's damage. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Nov. 29 that outside powers had "succeeded in creating problems for a limited number of our centrifuges with the software they had installed in electronic parts."
Israeli and U.S. media reports since 2009 have quoted intelligence officials alluding to covert sabotage programs by both countries against Iran's nuclear program. But neither country acknowledges creating Stuxnet, and not every expert thinks either of them did.
One prominent war authority, Jeffrey Carr, has written a white paper suggesting China may have been behind it. Nor can Russia be ruled out, said Joel Brenner, a former senior counsel at the National Security Agency, which is deeply involved in offensive and defensive U.S. cyber operations.
One thing is clear, experts say: The worm is far too sophisticated to have been cooked up by basement hackers.
Stuxnet made use of four "zero day" vulnerabilities, openings in Microsoft Windows operating systems that were not previously known. Criminal hackers, the usual suspects when it comes to malware, could have used such vulnerabilities to generate millions of dollars in illicit revenue by stealing banking and credit-card information, which is one reason experts think Stuxnet was the work of an intelligence service. Instead of making money, as some malware does, it cost money.
"This was written for one purpose," Bumgarner said. "Sabotage of national critical infrastructure."
Now that Stuxnet is in the public domain, experts are deeply concerned that hackers, criminals or terrorist groups could use some of the vulnerabilities it reveals to attack systems that control power grids, chemical plants and air-traffic control.
"The attackers created a weapon that they used in a very specific way, but you can copy the attack technology and use it in a very generic way," said Sebastian Linko, spokesman for Finland's Vacon, whose power control units, which are used in Iran's nuclear program, are sought out by the worm. "This is the most scary part about Stuxnet."