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Marietta Police are searching for a man they say forced his way into a Phillips Street home, leaving an elderly woman with minor injuries.
According to a release from police, an 80-year-old resident of a home at 921 Phillips St. got up around 2:47 a.m. Monday to see why her dog was barking. As she unlocked the front door of the residence, a man wearing a black ski mask pushed it inward, knocking her down.
The man, described as between 18 and 20 years old, white and about 5 feet, 5 inches to 5 feet, 8 inches tall with a slender build, demanded money from the woman. Police Capt. Jeff Waite declined to say whether the suspect had a weapon.
At that point, the release says, the woman's 56-year-old daughter started screaming, in a nearby room, startling the suspect. The man then fled.
Nothing was taken during the incident, police said.
The case remained under investigation Monday afternoon.
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His description
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18 to 20 years old.
5-foot-5 to 5-foot-8.
Slender build.
Wore a black ski mask.
Marietta Police: 376-2007.
"Officers have been working on it all day," Waite said.
The captain advised people to be careful if they think someone might be prowling around their house.
"If you're suspicious and you have any reason to believe somebody else may be around, instead of checking it out yourself, call the police department and let us come check it out," Waite said.


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Among the storefronts and gourmet restaurants on Palo Alto's California Avenue are a pair of offices for Benetech and Bookshare, which are related. Benetech, the parent organization, focuses on using technology to enhance human rights, literacy and environmental conservation. Bookshare, its largest and best-known project, provides electronic and audio books for people with reading disabilities.
CEO and founder Jim Fruchterman describes the group's human rights work as "Silicon Valley's deliberately nonprofit high-tech company tackling all those things that our for-profit buddies can't tackle because they (the projects) don't make enough money." He refers to himself and his colleagues as "the geeks that make human rights groups more powerful."
The group's Bookshare project provides free reading material to people who are blind or visually impaired, or who have reading disabilities that make it difficult to use regular books and periodicals.
In 1982, Fruchterman cofounded Calera Recognition Systems, which developed optical character recognition systems. That led to the formation of a nonprofit group to produce reading machines for the blind. The technology was sold to a for-profit company in 2000 as Fruchterman turned his attention toward finding ways to obtain electronic reading material and make it available to people with reading disabilities.
Bookshare, which receives support from the U.S. Department of Education, operates under an exception to U.S. copyright law that allows digital copyrighted books to be made available for free to people with qualifying disabilities. Depending on their circumstances, eligible Bookshare clients pay a small annual fee or nothing at all to access its vast collection of electronic books and periodicals, including New York Times bestsellers, text books, technical manuals and even erotica. Anyone can search Bookshare's catalog but you have to be a member to download material.
All of Bookshares content is digitized using the open-standard Digital Accessible Information System, so it can be read aloud via text-to-speech software. Members get access to free text-to-speech software as well as software that can create embossed Braille books from the digital content. There is also an iOS app called Read2Go that enables iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users to listen to books or read them via a refreshable Braille display. And a mobile reader called Go Read lets users read content on a screen or by printing it for their own use in a type size suitable for their needs.
Fruchterman got the idea from Napster, which then was encouraging peer-to-peer file sharing. But unlike Napster's original model, Bookshare was unquestionably legal and now gets most of its digital content directly from publishers.
Like most text-to-speech software, Bookshare's audio books have a robotic sound. They're not hard to understand but -- given a choice -- most people would no doubt prefer having their books read aloud by the author or a professional actor. But Fruchterman said it costs less than $50 to add a book to Bookshare, compared to the $5,000 to $10,000 cost of having it read by a professional actor. "That's why audio books are a separate industry," he said.
Some electronic book readers, including earlier versions of the Kindle, are capable of reading digitized text aloud. But not all books support that feature, partially because of objections from some authors and publishers who worry that the feature would cut down on sales of audio books.
Fruchterman hopes Bookshare's specialized library will someday be less necessary, but that won't happen until all new books become available in an open digital format that can be accessed by Braille readers, text-to-speech software and large screen reading programs. Just as we now have lending libraries, we'll still need Bookshare to make sure that people with disabilities can get those books for free.
Just as ramps on sidewalks -- intended to give access to people in wheel chairs -- also benefit people with strollers or bikes, an open standard for eBooks would benefit everyone who wants to consume written material by separating the source material from the device. Today when I buy a book or video, I have to think about whether I want to consume it on my Apple (AAPL) device, my Amazon device or an Android device. And if I change devices, I may not be able to continue to access that content.
Even people with 20/20 vision should be able to see the benefit an open standard for reading material.
Contact Larry Magid at email@example.com. Listen for his technology chats on KCBS-AM (740) weekdays at 3:50 p.m.

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Four firefighters were shot -- two fatally -- after apparently being lured to an early morning blaze Monday in Webster, N.Y., a lakefront town about 12 miles northeast of Rochester, officials said.
The suspected assailant also died there of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the town's police chief, Gerald Pickering said.
"It does appear that it was a trap that was set," he said of the blaze that drew the firefighters about 5:30 a.m.
After starting the fire, he said, the shooter assumed a "position of cover" and began firing, sniper-like, at the first responders.
Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester said two firefighters were in "guarded condition." The two others died at the scene, Pickering said.
He said seven homes were destroyed and had not yet been searched.
"We don't know if there are any additional victims in those homes," he said.
The gunman was identified as William Spengler, 62, who lived at 191 Lake Road, where the fire began, and had served about 18 years in prison for killing his grandmother, the police chief said.
Officials said he was imprisoned until 1998 and had remained on supervised parole until 2006.
Spengler's motives were unclear, although Pickering said "there were certainly mental health issues involved."
Pickering said a Webster police officer exchanged "very brief" gunfire with Spengler and "in all likelihood saved many lives."
But, he said, authorities scoured the area for hours trying to locate the gunman before he was found dead about 11 a.m.
"It's dark. We've got this raging inferno with black smoke everywhere," he said. "We flooded the crime scene with officers."
As for whether someone else might have been in the burned house where Spengler lived, Pickering said that "it is possible that a sister of Mr. Spengler is unaccounted for."
He said "at least a rifle was used" by Spengler to fire at the first responders. He noted that as a felon, Spengler was not authorized to possess weapons.
The firefighters were from the West Webster Fire Department, about four miles from the blaze, and were believed to be volunteers.
One of the firefighters was "able to flee the scene on his own," Pickering said. "The other three were pinned down at the location."
As Pickering recited the names of those killed and wounded, he repeatedly choked up. One of the deceased, Michael Chiapperini, was a police lieutenant in the Webster Police Department; the other, Tomasz Kaczowka, was a 911 dispatcher for Monroe County.
"These people get up in the middle of the night to go put out fires," he said. "They don't expect to be shot and killed."
John Ritter, an off-duty police officer from Greece, N.Y., who happened to be driving by and stopped to help, suffered shrapnel wounds from the shooting, Pickering added.
The firefighters who were injured, both volunteers, were identified as Joseph Hofstetter and Theodore Scardino.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state police and the Office of Emergency Management were working with local officials.
He said Webster firefighters and police had initially responded to a car fire.
"New York's first responders are true heroes as they time and again selflessly rush toward danger in order to keep our families and communities safe," Cuomo said. "Volunteer firefighters and police officers were injured and two were taken from us as they once again answered the call of duty. We as the community of New York mourn their loss as now two more families must spend the holidays without their loved ones."
The fire continued to burn through the morning, spreading to several homes, before being brought under control.
Pickering added that, with authorities establishing and investigating the crime scene, "it took a while to make it safe" for firefighters to move in and combat the flames.
The site of the fire runs along a narrow spit of land that divides Lake Ontario from Irondequoit Bay. The houses in the affected area are detached wood frame homes with yards, across the street from the lake.
Pickering likened the area to "a little vacation nest."
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By John Morrison on Jun 25, 2010
Start with personal finance and then take a detour to enter the software testing realm. Read it here.
Start with personal finance and then take a detour to enter the software testing realm. Read it here.
What does it mean when we say that a test has succeeded ? When a test fails does it mean that it has succeeded or failed its purpose ? Read about it here
Dealing with the ever-green question around QA, QC and Testing, what do they mean and how are they related ? Do we control anything at all as part of QC ? Read it here
A look at boredom at work and some insight into dealing with it. The emphasis is on Software testing but should be applicable to other areas too. Read it here.
Conflict is part of the Software Testing job. Recognize and embrace it to survive and thrive as a Software Tester. Read more here.
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Okay. I am at my wits end over this. Seriously stumped.
I am trying to use PMS to stream a a DVD rip (via DVDFab) of an episode of a TV series that has three audio tracks (English Dolby Digital 5.1, Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1, and English DTS 5.1) and one English subtitle track. However, when choosing any option involving the AC-3 audio tracks via the #TRANSCODE# folder, the video is way out of sync, playing about 1.5 to 2 times faster than the audio. I have tried re-ripping said DVD, tried every combination of ticking/unticking "A/V sync alternative method," "Force framerate parsed from FFmpeg," and "Force FPS parsed from FFmpeg in the meta file" fields in MEncoder/TsMuxer, unticking the "Use ASS/SSA subtitle styling" field, depopulating the "Subtitle language priority" field, changing the "AC-3 re-encoding audio bitrate" field, and probably a few other things that I am forgetting. Nothing is working. So far, it is JUST this particular DVD. It should be noted that every other DVD that I have ripped has not presented this issue, nor has this one had a problem when the English DTS track is selected, with or without subtitles. It's extremely annoying.
I'll also note that I am using DVDFab to remove the DVD menus and only ripping chapters 1-6 of the main title (basically, all of episode 1, which is part of a larger title with about 26 or so chapters).
Furthermore, subtitles sometimes appear even when they are not selected as an option, despite what its says in the #TRANSCODE# folder.
I have attached both the "Traces" and "Debug" logs for PMS startup, playback of the file(s) in question (Japanese, English subs), and subsequent cease of playback. I notice that it's changing the framerate in there, but I don't know how to force it to prevent this.
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The liver is a large, meaty organ that sits on the right side of the belly. Weighing about 3 pounds, the liver is reddish-brown in color and feels rubbery to the touch. Normally you can't feel the liver, because it's protected by the rib cage.
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TRUCKEE, Calif. - Christmas break saw a brief reunion of three 2012 Truckee High School graduates who are now Marines: PFC Jason Smith, Pvt. Betsy Davis, and Pvt. Tyler York. They enlisted in the Delayed Entry Program while seniors, and finished boot camp in November and December. Smith and York graduated from MCRD San Diego, and Davis from MCRD Parris Island, S.C. All three will attend non-infantry combat training for one month before heading to their respective military occupational schools. The commitment to the Marines is eight years, with four or five years of active service, and the remainder in the Reserves. Pvt. York's brother Trevor, a 2011 graduate, is currently deployed in Afghanistan.
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Stanford suffered its most significant loss of the offseason Friday when defensive coordinator Derek Mason left to become Vanderbilt's head coach.
Mason will become the fifth African-American head coach in the history of the Southeastern Conference.
"I am so excited to be at Vanderbilt," Mason said at a news conference in Nashville, Tenn. "This university combines the best of what's good about college athletics and academics. We expect to be competitive and look forward to competing for an SEC East crown."
Mason takes over a Commodores program coming off a 9-4 season, capped by a 41-24 win over Houston in the BBVA Compass Bowl. He replaces James Franklin, who left for Penn State.
"I am very excited for Derek; this is a great opportunity for he and his wife, Leighanne," Stanford coach David Shaw said. "Derek is a great teacher and motivator, but more importantly he is a man of high character. We wish him success."
Mason's departure adds to the Cardinal's winter exodus. The two-time defending Pac-12 champion is losing nine senior starters, including tailback Tyler Gaffney and linebackers Trent Murphy and Shayne Skov. It's losing three early-entry candidates (all starters) to the NFL draft, including All-American guard David Yankey and all-conference safety Ed Reynolds.
It's also losing quarterbacks/receivers coach and recruiting coordinator Mike Sanford, who became offensive coordinator at Boise State.
Santa Clara had two players taken in the National Women's Soccer League college draft. Midfielder Julie Johnston went No. 3 overall to the Chicago Red Stars, and forward Morgan Marlborough, a Missouri native, went in the second round to FC Kansas City. Stanford forward Courtney Verloo was selected ninth overall by the Western New York Flash. She'll join a squad that includes American star Abby Wambach.
Horse racing
Among the eight entries for Saturday's $100,000 California Derby at Golden Gate Fields is Harbaugh. Original owners Rustin and Juliana Kretz (Kretz Racing) are 49ers fans and named the horse in honor of coach Jim Harbaugh. The Doug O'Neill-trained 3-year-old colt will be ridden by Juan Hernandez in the 11/16-mile race. The morning-line favorite is the Tom Proctor-trained Enterprising, who'll be ridden by Aaron Gryder.
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Saturday, 07/26/1997
South Park Meadows, Austin, TX
Set 1: LxLLimb By Limb[1], Dogs Stole Things[1] > Poor Heart[1], Stash[1], Billy Breathes[1], CTBCars Trucks Buses[1], Dirt[1], YEMYou Enjoy Myself[2] -> Izabella[1]
Set 2: TimberTimber (Jerry)[1] > BowieDavid Bowie[1], HoodHarry Hood[3] -> Blister in the Sun Jam[1] -> HoodHarry Hood[1] -> Free[1], Waste[1] > JBGJohnny B. Goode[1]
Encore: Bouncin'Bouncing Around the Room[1], Cavern[1]
[1] Bob Gullotti on a second drum set.
[2] Bob Gullotti on a second drum set. No vocal jam.
[3] Unfinished; Bob Gullotti on a second drum set.
· Willie the Pimp tease in You Enjoy Myself
· Rock Lobster tease in David Bowie
Noteworthy Jams: Limb By Limb, You Enjoy Myself, Timber (Jerry) (highly recommended)
Average Song Gap: 5.89
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, Bob Gullotti (Guest)
Notes: The entire show featured Bob Gullotti on a second drum set. YEM did not contain a vocal jam and included Willie the Pimp teases just before the segue into Izabella. Bowie contained teases of the backup vocals to Rock Lobster (B-52s). Hood was unfinished.
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3 Stash
3 A Picture of Nectar
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This show was part of the "1997 Summer U.S. Tour."
What a great venue South Park Meadows is, all general admission on a grass field with a concrete dance floor up near the stage.
The highlight of this show and one of the highlights of my Phish days was definately the
Timber Ho!>David Bowie.
The jam in Timber was amazing as usual but towords the end took on a whole new life, it kind of melted into a space type jam that somehow found its way to the beginning of the best Bowie I've ever heard, and I swear right before the guitar intro to Bowie Trey says "Goodbye Jim".
I still to this day wonder why he said that.
Anyway if you wanna hear one of the best phish jams get this show and pop in the second set!!


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Asphalt Base Repair - An asphalt repair patch crew digs out the cracked and broken asphalt base failure, then patches back, often times by hand. The patches can look and ride rough compared to the undisturbed pavement, especially if the patches cover a large area. These patches are necessary to rebuild the asphalt foundation to support the new asphalt resurfacing layer.
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On Street Parked Car Notification – About 48 hours before resurfacing, notices are placed on car windshields parked on the street announcing the upcoming street work and that owners should move their cars from the street. If a car is not moved from the street when the crews arrive to resurface the street, attempts will be made to contact the owner. As a last resort, the car will be towed from the street until the resurfacing is completed.
Asphalt Surface Treatment and Asphalt Resurfacing - If the street was milled or the pavement has excessive cracking, a bituminous surface treatment (tar and gravel) is applied, then immediately paved over by the resurfacing crews. This treatment retards previous cracking from the old asphalt street migrating up to the new asphalt surface.
Pavement Markings - Pavement markings such as centerline, stop bars, and lane markings will be reapplied within 3 days of the resurfacing. Temporary markings may be applied for safety reasons, and the permanent markings may be applied at a later date. Sometimes bike lanes will be installed.
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George L. Gerton, PhD
George L. Gerton, PhD
Research Professor of Reproductive Biology in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Department: Obstetrics and Gynecology
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
Center for Research on Reproduction and Women's Health
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
421 Curie Blvd., 1309 Biomedical Research Bldg.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6160
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
421 Curie Blvd., 1309 Biomedical Research Bldg.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6160
Office: 215 573-4781
Fax: 215 573-5408
Lab: 215-573-9868
Fax: 215 573-5408
Lab: 215-573-9868
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Cell and Molecular Biology graduate group faculty webpage.
Description of research interests.
Search PubMed for articles
Cell and Molecular Biology graduate group faculty webpage.
Description of research interests.
Education:Permanent link
BA/honors (Biochemistry/Molecular Biology)
University of California at Santa Barbara, 1975.
PhD (Biochemistry)
University of California at Davis, Dissertation: "Glycoprotein and protein changes in the envelopes from Xenopus laevis eggs." (Advisor: Jerry L. Hedrick, Ph.D.), 1980.
BA/honors (Biochemistry/Molecular Biology)
University of California at Santa Barbara, 1975.
PhD (Biochemistry)
University of California at Davis, Dissertation: "Glycoprotein and protein changes in the envelopes from Xenopus laevis eggs." (Advisor: Jerry L. Hedrick, Ph.D.), 1980.
Description of Research ExpertiseResearch Interests
Spermatogenesis, Fertilization, Pre-implantation Mammalian Embryo Development
Key words: Spermatogenesis, Acrosome, Spermatid, Flagellum, Acrosomal matrix, Preimplantation, Embryo, Trophoblast.
Description of Research
The Gerton laboratory uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine issues pertaining to mammalian spermatogenesis, sperm function, and preimplantation embryo development. In addition, we are carrying out clinical studies directed toward improving the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancies.
Several of the major components of the acrosome and sperm tail have been purified and their corresponding cDNAs cloned for studies of protein structure and expression. The deduced amino acid sequences of these proteins have provided new clues concerning the functions of acrosomal and flagellar proteins. One major direction of the laboratory is to study acrosomal and flagellar protein targeting and function in spermatogenic cells and transfected somatic cells using tools of molecular biology and cell biology and to extend these studies to cases of infertility in humans and other species.
Other projects in the laboratory focus upon the functions of proteins identified as components of the sperm acrosome. Acrosomal matrix protein sp56 is involved in sperm-zona pellucida interactions. These studies are leading to a re-evaluation of acrosomal exocytosis. A revised paradigm has been developed that describes acrosomal exocytosis as a continuously variable process with functional intermediates rather a two-step, acrosome-intact/acrosome-reacted, process.
We are also continuing our analysis of the roles of proteins associated with the accessory structures of sperm flagellum. These non-axonemal proteins perform novel functions in regulating sperm motility.
Regarding preimplantation embryo development in mammals, we are studying the function of progranulin, the precursor of the granulin and epithelin peptides, on mouse embryos. Our results show that acrogranin is an essential growth factor for the development of embryos to the blastocyst stage.
Rotation Projects
1. Identification of ligands bound by acrosomal matrix proteins.
2. Effect of recombinant progranulin on cultured somatic and embryonic cells.
3. Role of sp56 as a zona-binding protein (in vitro fertilization experiments).
4. Study the roles of adenine nucleotides (ATP, ADP, and AMP) in regulating sperm motility.
5. Examine the role of soluble adenylyl cyclase in enabling sperm to be capable of fertilization.
Lab personnel:
Mariano G. Buffone, Ph.D., Research Associate
Wenlei Cao, Ph.D., Senior Research Investigator
Takashi Ijiri, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher
Tanya Merdiushev, Laboratory Manager
Haig Aghajanian, Research Specialist
Angel Lin, Research Specialist
Selected PublicationsCaballero-Campo Pedro, Buffone Mariano G, Benencia Fabian, Conejo-García José R, Rinaudo Paolo F, Gerton George L: A role for the chemokine receptor CCR6 in mammalian sperm motility and chemotaxis. Journal of cellular physiology 229(1): 68-78, Jan 2014.
Ijiri T W, Vadnais M L, Huang A P, Lin A M, Levin L R, Buck J, Gerton G L: Thiol changes during epididymal maturation: a link to flagellar angulation in mouse spermatozoa? Andrology Nov 2013.
Ijiri Takashi W, Vadnais Melissa L, Lin Angel M, Huang Andy P, Cao Wenlei, Merdiushev Tanya, Gerton George L: Male mice express spermatogenic cell-specific triosephosphate isomerase isozymes. Molecular reproduction and development 80(10): 862-70, Oct 2013.
Vadnais Melissa L, Aghajanian Haig K, Lin Angel, Gerton George L: Signaling in sperm: toward a molecular understanding of the acquisition of sperm motility in the mouse epididymis. Biology of reproduction 89(5): 127, 2013.
Muro Y, Buffone MG, Okabe M, Gerton GL: Function of the acrosomal matrix: zona pellucida 3 receptor (ZP3R/sp56) is not essential for mouse fertilization. Biol Reprod. 86(1):1–6, 2012.
Zhang X, Chou W, Haig-Ladewig L, Zeng W, Cao W, Gerton G, Dobrinski I, Tseng H.: BNC1 is required for maintaining mouse spermatogenesis. Genesis (New York, N.Y.: 2000) [Internet] 2012 Notes: [cited 2012 Mar 19];Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22266914.
Hirohashi N, Gerton GL, Buffone MG: Video imaging of the sperm acrosome reaction during in vitro fertilization. Commun Integr Biol. 4(4):471–6, 2011.
Cao W, Ijiri TW, Huang AP, Gerton GL: Characterization of a novel tektin Member, TEKT5, in mouse sperm. J Androl. 32(1):55-69, 2011.
Kim K-S, Foster JA, Kvasnicka KW, Gerton GL: Transitional states of acrosomal exocytosis and proteolytic processing of the acrosomal matrix in guinea pig sperm. Mol Reprod Dev. 78(12):930–41, 2011.
Ijiri TW, Merdiushev T, Cao W, Gerton GL: Identification and validation of mouse sperm proteins correlated with epididymal maturation. Proteomics 11(20):4047–62, 2011.
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Although the Tweezer/Reprise endcaps have been played often throughout this tour, the jams were tight and it didn't sound stale at all, and I guess it was appropriate since it was snowing outside on Saturday. I was glad to see Golgi. It's my favorite song but this was only the third time I've seen it in 27 shows. I loved hearing Sweet Virginia and had a notion they'd play that. There's never a bad time for a Loving Cup encore.
This show had a few shenanigans but no gimmicks. I'm glad to hear the streaker didn't go to jail. John Paul Jones arena was small and fantastic, and I hope they return there. The sound there is great, the sightlines are great, and the staff was very pleasant. All in all, this was a great way to close the tour. Thanks boys.


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I picked up Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Second Edition with a sense of familiarity; I also had the pleasure of reviewing the First Edition and found the experience to be a gentle and very complete introduction to Ubuntu. It's as though Keir Thomas wants to ensure that anyone starting out with GNU/Linux won't feel like a worthless newb being thrown to the proverbial geeks, who will guffaw and point and weeze asthmatically and incomprehensibly. So, because I already know that I appreciate Keir Thomas's abilities, I thought I should review the Second Edition with a slightly different goal. Would my mother, who is quite computer literate in the Windows department and is about to migrate to Ubuntu (yay!), be able to use this book sucessfully? And will her experience of Beginning Ubuntu Linux be a breeze?
My response to my posed question, after careful consideration, is yes. Keir Thomas walks you through the whole experience from beginning to end, comforting you with a calm voice when you might be feeling a bit lost. He doesn't just plunge the reader blindly into complex computer jargon; instead, he starts off with a little GNU/Linux introduction to give you a boost before you start. He runs through all your options about the actual physicalities of the changeover, whether you want to dual boot or just go the whole hog. He preempts the sort of questions you might have. He gets you up and running, secure, and includes a great section about Ubuntu replacements for Windows programs and explains in detail how to use them. All in all, I think mum's going to be impressed.
Keir Thomas walks you through the whole experience from beginning to end, comforting you with a calm voice when you might be feeling a bit lost
The contents
Beginning Ubuntu Linux is a whopping great 684 pages; it's no lightweight and if you do a lot of walking, you mightn't want it along for company unless you're Mary Poppins. But this really just means Keir Thomas has done a great and thourough job. I wouldn't call any of the material in this book extraneous for this audience; when you are braving a whole new world in computing, more is more. I would even call the size of the book comforting for users.
Similar to the first edition, Beginning Ubuntu Linux is divided into seven parts (not including the appendixes), starting off with GNU/Linux in general and then getting into specifics. Part one introduces GNU/Linux in general, why it's great, the politics, and why you would want to run it. Part two eases you through the first and scariest bit... pre-installation, installation, and any issues. Don't worry, you're in good hands! Part three is the realities of getting started. Booting, getting everything going, security, personalising Ubuntu, and file management. Part four introduces the BASH shell. Part five assists you with multimedia devices. Part six is devoted to the OpenOffice.org suite and how to use it, and part seven keeps you running on the day to day stuff, backing up and whatnot.
There are a couple changes in the book's second edition. Firstly, it has been updated to take into account the release of Edgy Eft (6.10). There is also added content for extra edification; things like information on antiviral software, and repositories, which are a new feature with Edgy.
Who's this book for?
My Mum! And anyone else who is ready to make the change, but wants to be independent about it, cautious about it, and have an almighty great reference book as their best friend. Seriously. Ubuntu in its new release is just looking so user friendly and good right now that it's time to get it on the desktop, ladies and gentlemen, and recommending this book to newbs is how we can do it.
Relevance to free software
Completely relevant. Obviously, the whole idea of this book is that you are going to use free software.
It really is a must have for would-be Ubuntu converts with nerves. They'll have a read and wonder what they were concerned about!
Edgy is not the latest release of Ubuntu. Feisty Fawn 7.04 is out now too. So if you want the latest and greatest Ubuntu and you want a book like this, you'll have to wait for the 3rd Edition to come out. In the mean time, though, you can always install Edgy using the book and then upgrade to Feisty using the upgrade manager (which is explained in the 2nd Ed.)
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Sounds great
This book definitely sounds great. When I started with Linux, I was told to start with Gentoo as you would really "learn" what's going on. Well, from my experience, please do not start with Gentoo. It was very difficult. I've done a bit of playing around with Ubuntu and it definitely seems to be my distro of choise now.
let's all play nice!
There is more to linux than *buntu
Appreciate the review of the book BUT there are other more revelant distros like Suse, Red HAt, Mandriva and others
than have more to offer than this distro.
Is there? .....
While many distros exist and all have good and bad points the one point that will stand out is user acceptance. Unbuntu has created a user feel that allows users to feel secure about moving away from Windows. Yes I agree that Unbuntu falls short in some areas but all in all it is possibly the best place for a new GNU/Linux user to start especially if they are an average user and not a power user.
I agree
you are absolutely right, The ubuntu community does make one feel accepted right from the beginning whether you are a newbie or an experienced linux user. It is one of the main reasons why I made the switch. Great community support that is gentle to the new people and a distro that is easy to install and for the most part operate.
Relevant distros?
While I'm not sure what your qualifications are in terms of distro "relevance", I would like to point out that a SUSE version of this book is also available. A Fedora version will be available in August.
Great review!
Jason Gilmore
Apress Open Source Editor
Right on the mark!
I find that books like this one are necessary - and it is necessary for the first time beginner that the book or resource specifically targets and covers a specific system or application. I believe this book does this well - at the expense, of course, that information peculiar to this release is not 100% applicable to all distributions, nor is it 100% applicable to all versions of Ubuntu. The reviewer points this out clearly, and also indicates that it is possible to upgrade the software described in the book to the latest and greatest release.
It is nice to have various specific versions of books that help introduce specific systems. These books are not for everyone, though they do contain some relevant information that can be used in a general way once the specifics are taken into account.
Ubuntu, whether individuals prefer it or some other alternative, certainly has been engaging to the community and has provided a fresh breath of what community involvement and openness is all about. This book does a good job of explaining about Ubuntu and the community. It is a good book for newbies, decent for intermediate users, but probably not for advanced users unless you lack reference material, in which case it might be an option, though probably not the best one.
I would recommend O'Reilly books as subject matter references and books like this one for beginners wanting to try out a specific system. Ubuntu is a good system for beginners to try out, and this book is helpful for beginners.


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Toby Dalton is co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. An expert on nonproliferation and nuclear energy, his research focuses on cooperative nuclear security initiatives and the management of nuclear challenges in South Asia and East Asia.
Dalton is author of "Beyond Incrementalism: Rethinking Approaches to CBMs and Stability in South Asia" (Stimson Center, 2013); co-author with Jaclyn Tandler of the Carnegie Paper "Understanding the Arms 'Race' in South Asia"; and co-author with Mark Hibbs and George Perkovich of the Carnegie Policy Outlook "A Criteria-Based Approach to Nuclear Cooperation with Pakistan."
From 2002 to 2010, Dalton served in a variety of high-level positions at the U.S. Department of Energy, including acting director for the Office of Nuclear Safeguards and Security and senior policy adviser to the Office of Nonproliferation and International Security on issues relating to International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards, the nonproliferation regime, and a range of countries, such as Pakistan, India, China, North Korea, and Israel. He also established and led the department's office at the U.S. embassy in Pakistan, managing critical bilateral and multilateral nonproliferation issues and overseeing the implementation of U.S. nonproliferation and counterproliferation initiatives.
Dalton previously served as professional staff member to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a Luce Scholar at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Seoul, a research associate at the National Bureau of Asian Research, and a project associate for the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program.
He has authored numerous op-eds and journal articles and contributed to the books Understanding New Political Realities in Seoul: Working toward a Common Approach to Strengthen U.S.-Korea Relations (the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, 2008) and The Future of U.S.-Korea-Japan Relations: Balancing Values and Interests (CSIS, 2002).


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Sage Francis wrote: My immediate impulse is to say "no." But since this is purely rhetorical, I thought of some instances where it might work out and be fun.
the mean wrote: Just for the record, because I'm getting confused:
Order of Eminem albums:
Slim Shady
Marshall Mathers
a bunch of other crap
T-Wrex wrote: Most of those albums and sales came out when people still had 56k modems and didn't bother with downloading shit..
If Eminem, Kid Rock, Creed, nSync or Britney came out today, they wouldn't sniff Diamond status..
Mark in Minnesota wrote: Man. I was making a joke when I brought that shit up. Maybe it's an age thing. I'm old enough to actually remember all of the press nine years ago, and people responding to the fact that the Marshall Mathers LP had almost gone diamond by saying that most of the people buying it were only interested in it for the controversy.
That CD is more than 70 minutes long. Almost no filler. Guest vocals from several different platinum artists, a ton of Dr. Dre production. Three monster singles, and a fourth song that also charted in the first year. The song Stan was so well-received that the Dido song he sampled hit number one on the Billboard Top 40, and her album (No Angel) went platinum in the United States nearly two years after it was first released.
The album was also national news. He made a song about his wife which was a murder fantasy so vicious and hateful that she was widely reported to have attempted suicide as a result of it.
It was one of the first times in modern music that someone had gone so personal, so brutal, and so public.
The album made Eminem instantly notorious, and moved the discussion about him from what it had been (impressive newcomer, pop crossover rapper, white guy cashing in on Dr. Dre) to something closer to genuine legendary status in rap circles. Legendary is a good word for the album, actually. It's not a classic in the traditional sense of an album that changed the way we think about a genre or an era -- it's more like it stands unblemished at the center of a smoking crater, like an Arthur C. Clarke monolith. It landed, it distorted the world around it for a time, and then eventually its influence over us faded and we moved on. A classic is defined by the way it ages along with us. That which is legendary is instead defined by its agelessness.
Oh, yeah, and the homophobia thing. The album succeeded first, and that's what GLAAD got pissed about, and protested. Looking back at that nine years later, I'm reminded more of the GEICO Cavemen than I am of anything else. Eminem did a song at the Grammys with Elton John, and suddenly the issue went from being a matter for mainstream debate to being a topic of activist infighting. For the most part, people packed up their shit and started looking for the next controversy. Eminem toned down the language in subsequent releases, not so much because somebody changed his mind about it, but more because he won that fight and decided to move on to something else.
In fact, he spent huge portions of his next album wondering aloud why people had made such a big deal about whether or not the things he had to say were politically acceptable. He made the point, especially in Sing for the Moment, that the people who buy his music weren't buying it for the controversy, but because the music genuinely resonated with them. He wasn't wrong about that, even if a lot of those same people who bought the album grew up to be embarrassed by what it meant to them.
So, yeah. Saying that people bought the album to argue about whether or not it's okay to say faggot is an argument made in bad faith. People who said it at the time were doing so because they wanted to dismiss the idea that something so powerful and so ugly could be garnering both critical and commercial success on its own merits. They said the appeal was shock value, because they didn't want to admit that music packed full of so much rage and despair could have some kind of universality to it.
People who say the same thing now, that most of the album sales were because of the controversy, I'm less sure about. Sometimes we hear a thing enough times, and start thinking it's true.


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Former "Bachelorette" Emily Maynard may not be one for much longer.
Maynard, who starred on the ABC reality show twice, is engaged to boyfriend Tyler Johnson, according to Us Weekly. The magazine reported Johnson got down on one knee on Jan. 4 and handed over five diamond-studded rings.
Five? Geez -- thanks for making the rest of us look bad.
"I've had enough engagement rings!" Maynard joked to Us.
The 26-year-old mother of one has been engaged three times. She was supposed to marry late race car driver Ricky Hendrick, the father of her now 8-year-old daughter, Ricki. Then she was engaged to "Bachelor" Brad Womack and "Bachelorette" contestant Jef Holm ... presumably not at the same time.
"We're really excited! " Maynard said of her engagement to the 27-year-old management consultant. "He proposed to me at home and gave both Ricki and me rings. It was so sweet. Ricki loves him more than she likes me."
No wonder. He doesn't keep going on TV and throwing himself at strangers.
According to the New York Daily News, the couple actually met before Maynard's season on the "Bachelorette," but they didn't get together until she broke up with Holm.
Contact Tony Hicks at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.


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Just wanted to let the out of town players know we still play every Saturday 10am at Richmond Hill in Geneseo. It is $5 including a weekly CTP and a carry-over Ace Fund.
This league has ran for too many years to remember...thanks to Charlie Cushman and volunteers to make it happen. Attendance varies due to tournaments and weather, but we get anywhere from 6 to 18 players most any week.
Format is Random draw doubles...unless Chad and Mike showup...then it is all for fun and hand them the money...just kidding


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Even after nine years with the Washington County Sheriff's Office, every day still brings fresh surprises for Lt. Jeffrey Young, a shift supervisor at the Washington County Jail. Not only did his job afford him the opportunity to start down a career path he enjoys, it also is the reason he met his wife Jamey, who is a dispatcher for the Washington County Sheriff's Office.
"I tell people we met in jail," joked Young.
When Young is not busy supervising the inmates and staff at the jail, he likes to spend his time playing with 3-year-old daughter Rylee and volunteering for Project Lifesaver, a program that helps keep tabs on seniors and youth who are given to wandering.
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Washington County Jail shift supervisor Lt. Jeffrey Young, right, goes over the day's schedule with jail corrections officer Brysen Lee
Question: What drew you to a career in law enforcement?
Answer: I needed a career at the time. I was working moving furniture for Merchants 5 Star, but I wanted a career more than a job. I had a friend that was working here at the time and he told me about working for the Sheriff's Office.
Q: What does your role as jail shift supervisor entail?
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- Name: Lt. Jeffrey Young
- Occupation: Corrections officer, Washington County Jail shift supervisor
- Age: 36
- Residence: Marietta
- Education: Marietta Hight School, United States Navy
- Family: wife, Jamey; 3-year-old daughter, Rylee
- Hobbies: hunting, watching football, spending time with family
A: Responsibility for everybody in the building. I supervise the workers on my shift and responsibility for the med staff, the cooking staff and every one of the inmates. We have six people who work the floor as corrections officers, one control room officer, one nurse, and two cooks. Actually there are three cooks, but usually two in a day. We have 124 beds, but we've got about 98 inmates right now.
Q: What is the hardest aspect of your job?
A: I don't know. I've been doing it for so long now. It just depends on the day. Like today, pretty much everybody is behaving themselves, inside of here and outside of here. When it comes to an individual thing, I'd say dealing with inmates with mental illness, that is very difficult. They've cut so many beds for mental health patients in the state. They will get a disorderly conduct charge on them and they'll end up in jail, and that's not really the best place for them.
Q: What are some misconceptions people have about the jail or working here?
A: I remember when I first started working here. I told family members and friends I was working in the jail, they said, "Well it's just the county jail. It's not like you have to deal with murderers and rapists." Where do you think those people go when they originally get arrested? They don't go straight to prison. You know, we deal with a drunk driver all the way up to a murderer. I think that's something people think: small town it is just a county jail.
Q: What's your favorite part of your job?
A: It is different every know. I mean even though we are inside the building and the schedule is the same pretty much every day, you're always dealing with a different situation. You never really know what you're gonna get when you come to work.
Q: What sort of public information services does the jail offer?
A: We have the website, www.washingtoncountysheriff.org. Other public information, if they have a question about somebody being incarcerated they can call up and ask. It's all on the website too. It shows who is in here and what they are in here for.
Q: What's been your most memorable day on the job?
A: There's been so many. Every now and then, there's people who come in here who made mistakes and you actually do get through to them to where you never end up seeing them again. I'm not saying I specifically helped them, but maybe just the shock of heading down the wrong path and then showing up in jail one day, reality kind of sets in for them.
Q: What do you like to do when you are not at work?
A: Spend time with my child. I'm also involved with the Project Lifesaver program here. That's a program that we put tracking bracelets on senior citizens with Alzheimer's and children with autism and down syndrome. They are people that are prone to wandering. We do a lot of that on volunteer time, change bracelets and the batteries on them and stuff like that. The Area Agency on Aging out in Buckeye Hills out there in Reno, Kathy Ash, she coordinates us and six other surrounding counties. We handle all the bracelet changes and stuff like that, but it is all run off of donations. I enjoy doing that. The kids are fun.


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Goal shifts to keeping aging drivers at the wheel
Published: Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 7:26 p.m.
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Wearing an orange safety vest, Michelle Harris stands behind Bill Peckham's car and holds up four fingers. Peering at his rearview mirror, Peckham hesitates.
Fitness to drive: The University of Florida's Institute for Mobility, Activity and Participation has designed an online questionnaire that allows caregivers to assess a driver's ability. To find it, you can go to: fitnesstodrive.phhp.ufl.edu
CarFit: This free educational program offers older adults the opportunity to check how well their personal vehicles fit them. Call your local AAA office, or go to www.car-fit.org.
Classes: Both AARP Driver Safety (aarp.org; click on "Driver Safety" in the lefthand column) and AAA Clubs (seniordriving.aaa.com) offer online training, as well as in-person refresher courses that can help lower car insurance premiums.
Warning signs that it may be time to limit or stop driving:
A. Feeling uncomfortable and nervous or fearful while driving.
B. Dents and scrapes on the car or on fences, mailboxes, garage doors, curbs, etc.
C. Difficulty staying in the lane of travel.
D. Getting lost.
E. Trouble paying attention to signals, road signs, and pavement markings.
F. Slower response to unexpected situations.
G. Medical conditions or medications that may be affecting the ability to handle the car safely.
H. Frequent "close calls" (for example, almost crashing).
I. Trouble judging gaps in traffic at intersections and on highway entrance/exit ramps.
J. Other drivers honking at you and instances when you are angry at other drivers.
K. Friends or relatives not wanting to drive with you.
L. Difficulty seeing the sides of the road when looking straight ahead.
M. Easily distracted or having a hard time concentrating while driving.
N. Having a hard time turning around to check over your shoulder while backing up or changing lanes.
O. Frequent traffic tickets or "warnings" by traffic or law enforcement officers in the last year or two.
Source: AARP
"My back window's pretty dusty," he says. "Four?"
Harris helps direct a program for AAA called CarFit, aimed at helping keep drivers mobile in spite of the toll aging can take on their ability to safely negotiate traffic. Making sure car windows and mirrors are clean is just one extra task for drivers in that battle.
Such outreach efforts reflect a dramatic policy shift in this country on older drivers, long considered highway dangers who needed to be nudged off the road: Don't take away their keys unless absolutely necessary.
Life without wheels in a car-dependent society has led to documented increases in isolation, depression and even malnutrition for older Americans. On the other hand, research has also shown that when elders learn safer driving techniques, they can significantly lower their risk for accidents.
Sheer numbers indicate the issue's growing importance: One in four Florida drivers is 65 or older, with the entire nation expected to reach that point in 2028. About 80 percent of Americans 70 and over had licenses in 2010, reflecting a 26 percent increase since 1997. Baby boomers are expected to accelerate that trend.
For the older population, being able to make simple trips to the grocery store or the doctor's office can mean the difference between remaining at home or having to move to a more costly assisted-living center.
"We never want to take any license away prematurely," says Sherrilene Classen, director of the Institute for Mobility, Activity and Participation at the University of Florida.
"There are many options between having a license and giving the license up. There is self-restriction — where you basically simplify the environment, like choosing to drive only through the quiet hours of the day."
Now, Classen and others may have found a way to help ensure that able drivers remain mobile, by helping those who ride with elders measure just how safe they are.
The institute has even developed an online tool that caregivers can use to determine whether an older driver is still ready to roll.
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Peckham, 80, lives in Arcadia and takes the road less traveled whenever he drives to the coast.
He prefers U.S. 17, which he takes to Port Charlotte instead of the more congested State Road 72 leading to Sarasota. This is the kind of self-restriction that researchers believe accounts for a surprising drop in crashes involving older drivers between 1997 and 2010.
The sharpest decline, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, was among drivers 80 and up. Their fatal crash rate went down by almost 50 percent — causing a debate among researchers about whether aging drivers should simply be allowed to police themselves.
"Some feel that these drivers can self-regulate," says Lesley Ross, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Center for Translational Research on Aging and Mobility. "Another large group of researchers," she says, believes in screening older drivers with evidence-based tests.
Physical changes that begin in our 20s — and unfold so gradually that most drivers remain oblivious — include a reduction in contrast sensitivity, the eye's ability to see an object when the background or foreground is murky, like that dusty car window. Also affected are depth perception, reaction time and other skills.
The CarFit events — a collaborative effort by AAA, AARP and the American Occupational Therapy Association, funded in Florida by the state Department of Transportation — aim to let older drivers know how to adapt to physical changes.
CarFit volunteers measure the distance between a driver's chest and the steering wheel (the minimum should be 10 inches, to prevent airbag injury), and make sure he or she can see over the dashboard (the minimum is three inches above the steering wheel). They confirm that he or she can attach a seat belt, reach the pedals and controls, check blind spots and get in and out of a car easily.
Drivers are told about products they can buy online or at auto parts stores that can help them sit taller in the seat, swivel to get out, or reach up to grab the seat belt.
"This is simply a hunk of plastic that lets you reach the seat belt so you don't have to turn," says transportation consultant Fran Carlin-Rogers, demonstrating a seat belt handle. "It's a $7 solution to get somebody to wear a seat belt."
Greater longevity now means people can expect to outlive their ability to drive safely by seven to 10 years. Evidence shows that American men, especially, tend to drive well into their 90s. Peckham, who says he has had just one ticket for a moving violation in 60 years of driving, ponders the idea of living without his car.
"I've often asked that question because I've thought about it a lot," he says. "I hope I have the brains to give it up when the time comes."
At the recent free CarFit event outside the AAA office in Port Charlotte, Peckham and his vehicle passed all the tests, although his left side mirror needed adjusting.
"I let my grandson borrow the car," he said sheepishly.
The passenger's view
While researchers agree that most older drivers can stay safe by addressing their limitations, the question remains how to tell exactly which of them should be separated from their keys.
The problem, say Classen and Ross, is that when it comes to assessing driving ability, we are the worst judges of our own performance.
"Even when provided with objective evidence, people still say they're a great driver," says Ross. the University of Alabama researcher. In a study by her center, 85 percent of people surveyed rated themselves as good drivers. Of the 15 percent remaining, 98 percent said they were average, with only a handful labeling themselves as fair or poor.
"This does not imply that older drivers are worse than other ages at assessing their own driving," she says. "My guess is that we're all bad at it."
The vision test that Florida drivers 80 and older must pass to renew their licenses is also not very useful, says Ross.
"Driving has little to do with whether you can see," she said. "Driving has to do with whether you receive and process the information you need to drive. Divided attention has a huge impact. We need to be able to come up with a way to identify people who may be at risk so they could go in for further assessment."
Classen's team at UF believes it has found a way. The problem, she says, is that there are not enough trained driving evaluators — a subgroup of occupational therapists — to screen every elder who wants to stay mobile. Nor is there an adequate transit alternative, except in some large cities, to keep seniors active in their communities.
Often a neurologist or regular family doctor is stuck with the decision of whether a patient is fit to drive, but Classen said they're not much better at it than the drivers themselves. Mental tests do not measure the many physical interactions that happen behind the wheel.
"Medical doctors are not trained to rate older drivers," she said. "If you think about it, it's an interaction between the person, the vehicle and the environment. It involves motor and sensory skills and the dynamic aspect of being on the road, handling events that you can't anticipate."
The UF institute's idea was that caregivers who are regular passengers in their loved ones' cars are very good judges of their driving skills. So the team developed an online tool that lets them rate the driver, and compared the opinions of 200 caregivers with those of professional evaluators. The institute reported its results in October to the state department of transportation, which funded the research.
"We feel that the caregivers are sharing lived experiences with the drivers," Classen said. After studying the results, "we can quite confidently say that caregivers are adequate as a first line of defense. They can give a very realistic appraisal."
The online questionnaire — which Classen invites caregivers to try at fitnesstodrive.phhp.ufl.edu — asks about 54 "meaningful behaviors" involved in driving, such as being able to turn left across multiple lanes. Classen said caregivers should go through the assessment alone, and then print out the results and discuss them with the driver. If they indicate a need to limit driving or get some on-road training, the driver has the freedom to choose the next step.
"That is a richness embedded in this tool," Classen said. "It tells you, let's look at the areas where you have difficulty, and then decide what to do about it."
Barbara Peters Smith wrote this article as a John A. Hartford Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellow, a collaboration of New America Media and the Gerontological Society of America.
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Eleven of 13 Hannibal businesses passed the most recent alcohol sale compliance check which was conducted on Dec. 28.
Police officers conducted the on-site compliance checks at local convenience stores and restaurants in a continued effort to reduce the availability of alcoholic beverages to minors.
Businesses found to be in compliance were: Gabriella's,620 Mark Twain Ave.; Abel's, 804 Mark Twain Ave.; Rustic Oak, 203 Huck Finn Shopping Center; Mi Mexico, 3650 Stardust; T.J.'s, 211 Munger Lane; Drakes, 421 Clinic Road; Cassano's, 2860 James Road; Dollar General, 4044 Market; Pick A Dilly, 3531 Market; Fiddlestiks, 8945 Highway 36; Abel's, 100 Shinn Lane.
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DOI Announces Renewable Energy Offshore Lease Sales
December 5, 2012
The Department of the Interior (DOI) and its Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on November 30 announced competitive lease sales for renewable energy development of two wind energy areas in the Atlantic Ocean. BOEM is proposing the lease of nearly 278,000 acres offshore of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Virginia.
The lease sales, which will be held next year, will be the first ever competitive sales on the Outer Continental Shelf for wind energy. They are major milestones in DOI's "Smart from the Start" wind energy program to facilitate the siting, leasing, and construction of new wind energy projects. These proposed leases cover areas considered to have high wind resource potential and are expected to be able to support more than 4,000 megawatts of wind generation, enough electricity to power an estimated 1.4 million homes.
The Proposed Sale Notices were published in the Federal Register on December 3, providing detailed information about the areas available for leasing as well as details such as award procedures. The 60-day public comment period for the notices ends on February 1, 2013. See the DOI press release, the Federal Register notice for Massachusetts and Rhode Island and the Federal Register notice for Virginia.


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by Ken Campbell - April 27, 2012 3:54 PM UTC
A number of goalies have been leading their teams in these playoffs so far, none more unexpected than Holtby; and 2015 Hall of Famers.
When you look back at the first round of the playoffs, you could legitimately make the case for five different players as the most valuable player.
by Ken Campbell - April 23, 2012 3:00 PM UTC
With a number of contenders having their season come to an abrupt finish, the summer theater will be intriguing to watch unfold.
Aside from the teams that actually make it out of the first round, you'd have to think the two people most thrilled with the early developments in these playoffs would be Rick Nash and Scott Howson.
by Ken Campbell - April 20, 2012 3:27 PM UTC
Trading away the opportunity to select the best player available would be a bad idea for the still-rebuilding Oilers.
No team has ever held the No. 1 overall pick in the NHL draft four consecutive years, but don't bet against the Edmonton Oilers doing just that in 2013.
by Ken Campbell - April 16, 2012 3:40 PM UTC
Hard-headed violence is quickly returning to the game because the league allows it to, but it's worse off for it.
This has so far been a great playoff for the people over at NHL.com, the league's sanctioned website, who specialize in highlighting violence with a "Must See" headline.
by Ken Campbell - April 14, 2012 7:48 PM UTC
Emile 'Butch' Bouchard, who came to the Canadiens while the organization was at a crossroads, passed away at 92 Saturday.
Butch Bouchard didn't have a pair of skates to call his own until he was 16 years old, but five years later, having a pair of wheels was just as important to making the Canadiens as having a pair of blades.
by Ken Campbell - April 13, 2012 2:55 PM UTC
By choosing to only fine Shea Weber, the NHL missed a chance to send a message about egregious play early.
It's early in the playoffs, so it's best we get these things out of the way as soon as possible. To its credit, that's what the NHL has done.
by Ken Campbell - April 10, 2012 10:25 PM UTC
After taking the No. 1 pick by winning the draft lottery Tuesday, the Oilers move closer to becoming a playoff team.
The last time an organization had a run like this at the draft table, it went on to win the Stanley Cup. So logic would dictate we can expect the Edmonton Oilers to have a parade down Whyte Avenue sometime in June of 2017.
by Ken Campbell - April 2, 2012 3:45 PM UTC
Rather than needing a competitive dollar or any other economical help, Canadian teams just need to be handled competently.
All anyone heard from Canada's NHL teams prior to the lockout was that cost certainty and a Canadian dollar at or near par with the American dollar was what they needed to be consistently competitive.
by Ken Campbell - March 26, 2012 2:25 PM UTC
It's time to stop guaranteeing a divisional winner a top three spot in order to create a better stretch drive and first round matchups.
So it's the last day of the regular season and the Chicago Blackhawks are visiting the Detroit Red Wings in an afternoon game. Just for kicks and giggles, let's say the Blackhawks and Red Wings go into that game either tied in the standings or separated by a single point.
by Ken Campbell - March 23, 2012 1:15 PM UTC
How Tortorella should have handled the Devils; NHL propping up more than just Coyotes; and more.
Some random thoughts to end the work week: • If you're going to have fighting in the NHL, I thought the manner in which the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers handled it Monday night – by staging three fights after only three seconds of play – was perfect.
by Ken Campbell - March 22, 2012 3:15 PM UTC
Meghan Agosta's ascension to becoming the best women's player in the world is nearly complete; plus a preview of the CWHL playoffs.
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. - When you watch Meghan Agosta play, it's almost as though you're looking at a female version of Joe Sakic – sublimely skilled, great skater, terrific shot, big-time difference maker.
by Ken Campbell - March 20, 2012 12:45 PM UTC
Graham James, sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday, had his 1989 Man of the Year honor revoked earlier this season and returned the plaque.
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The swine flu continues to be a problem for the state of Mississippi with more than 1,200 cases reported.
But a limited number of vaccines are now available at county health departments in the state.
The amount is not as much as health officials were expecting, but they say it's a start.
Over 223,000 vaccinations have been sent to Mississippi, and about 55,000 vaccinations have been sent to Alabama.
"Because it's coming in slowly, in bits and pieces, we're trying to prioritize the highest-risk folks for hospitalization and death," said Mississippi district health officer Dr. Rebecca "Tree" James.
Right now vaccinations are available for women who are pregnant, as well as children 6 months to 4 years old and anyone living with or caring for infants less than 6 months of age.
Health care workers, and anyone with other medical conditions between 5 and 18 years of age are also eligible for the first round of vaccinations.
"We get more vaccine each week," said James. "They just can't tell us how much we'll get each week, so we're starting. Now that we've got it we're going ahead and starting."
After the highest risk groups are vaccinated and more vaccination becomes available, clinics can start vaccinating others. But what if you have concerns about the vaccination?
"The concerns that people are batting around have never been proven to be a problem, James said. "This vaccine is prepared in exactly the same way as the regular seasonal flu vaccine. It was just prepared at a different time."
You'll still have to pay the regular price for seasonal flu vaccinations, but H1N1 vaccines will be made available free of charge at county health clinics and at some schools.
Permission forms will be sent home with students when those vaccinations are available.
There have been more than sixty confirmed cases of swine flu in the 5-county east Mississippi area, according to the state health department. But authorities say it's likely higher, since every flu case is not tested.
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The Asheville Tourists closed out their regular season with a Labor Day afternoon win in West Virginia on Monday, shutting out the Power, 5-0.
Asheville, the second-half South Atlantic League's Southern Division champion, finished the second half with a 48-21 record, which was the best record in the league. After finishing the first half at 41-28, that gave the Tourists an overall record of 89-49, which was the best overall record in the SAL.
The Tourists will take tonight off and then begin the best-of-three first round of the SAL playoffs at home Wednesday against the Southern Division's first-half champion, Savannah. Game time is 7:05 p.m.
Historic Grayson Stadium in Savannah will host Game 2 and if necessary Game 3 of the series. If the Tourists defeat the Sand Gnats, they will host Games 1 and 2 in the best-of-five championship series against the Northern Division representative. Those home games will be Monday, Sept. 8 and Tuesday, Sept. 9.
The Tourists are back in the playoffs for the first time since 2012, when they defeated the Greensboro Grasshoppers to win the SAL championship.
On Monday, the Tourists once again displayed their offensive power, posting 17 hits against seven West Virginia pitchers. Leading the way was returning player David Dahl, who was promoted to Modesto at the end of July. He was 4-for-5 with two runs.
Four other Asheville batters had multiple hits, led by Correlle Prime, who was 3-for-5 with two RBIs, giving him 102 RBIs on the season. Raimel Tapia, Jordan Patterson and Dillon Thomas each went 2-for-5.
Johendi Jiminian (14-6) picked up the win after his three innings of relief. He allowed a hit and had five strikeouts. Konner Wade pitched the first three innings and had seven strikeouts while allowing a hit. Alex Balog got the save, and he also allowed just one hit.
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SANTA CLARA — If quarterback Colin Kaepernick is nervous about playing in the NFC Championship Game, one certainly can't tell by his demeanor and words.
On Friday, Kaepernick stood before the media for a post-practice news conference in an undershirt, shorts and socks, looking every bit as calm as he has since he replaced Alex Smith as the starter.
"It's going to be the same routine we always do," Kaepernick said, when asked about his preparation between now and Sunday's NFC Championship Game against the Atlanta Falcons. "It's just going to be in Atlanta, and not here."
Kaepernick is on this week's cover of Sports Illustrated and the subject of intense media attention of late, in particular in light of his rushing for 181 yards and two touchdowns against the Green Bay Packers in a 45-31 victory last Saturday night.
Through it all, Kaepernick keeps the same approach, seemingly oblivious to the increased interest in his dynamic play and meteoric rise.
"I don't have time to stop and think right now," Kaepernick said. "There's too much work to be done."
The next order of business is finding a way to help the 49ers beat the Falcons and advance to the Super Bowl.
Kaepernick said he is focused on the task at hand and not thinking about any down time until the season ends.
"This is 100 percent a business trip," Kaepernick said. "This is what we work for all season, all offseason."
He also isn't fazed by Falcons players saying they intend to rattle Kaepernick by hitting him hard if they get the opportunity.
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"I don't think that has any impact on me," Kaepernick said. "Any defense, if they get a shot at a quarterback, they're going to take it. That's just part of football."


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When natural reproduction fails, National Zoo scientists are leaders in using modern technologies, often originally developed for combating human infertility. A high priority is maintaining or increasing genetic diversity in small populations to avoid inbreeding, which causes poor fertility and increased disease susceptibility. Our scientists work closely with zoos worldwide to develop assisted reproduction techniques, including artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, embryo transfer and cryopreservation (freezing) of sperm and embryos. Such approaches provide managers alternatives for improving reproduction. The use of cryopreserved sperm has animal welfare implications. For example, shipping sperm from one location to another to facilitate breeding is less stressful than transporting animals.
Significant accomplishments may have little to do with producing young. They may involve correcting a fertility problem that allows a valuable animal to naturally reproduce. It may involve developing a frozen repository of sperm, tissue, blood and DNA in a foreign country to help safeguard wild populations. It may involve developing new technologies to rescue the sperm or eggs from the tissues of valuable animals that die unexpectedly. It may include developing new technologies and methods for cryopreserving sperm, eggs and tissues that one day—generations from now—can be used to create life. It may simply involve motivating and training an enthusiastic young student in Thailand or South Africa—someone who has never before considered wildlife reproduction as a career.
Felids (cats) have fascinated and inspired people since the beginning of recorded history. There are 37 cat species, and 23 of these (or their subspecies) are threatened with extinction. Scientists in the Zoo's Department of Reproductive Sciences are pioneers in felid biology, including using cutting-edge technologies to protect and preserve genetic diversity.
The first step to ensuring species survival is a better understanding of reproductive biology—the essence of species survival. Our highest priority is state-of-the-art scientific study of reproductive phenomena in cats. Answers to questions—such as why does a cheetah produce so many abnormally shaped sperm or what is the normal reproductive cycle of a snow leopard—are fundamental to understanding biology and developing conservation strategies for species in zoos and in nature.
Hormones control reproductive success. Knowing an animal's hormone patterns allows understanding its biology and diagnosing and correcting infertility. Historically, measuring hormones was done by taking blood samples in anesthetized animals—the only safe way. Our scientists have pioneered methods to measure critical hormones without even touching the animal. This is done by analyzing hormones in feces. Therefore, what was once considered a daily "waste product" now has become a valuable "research resource," a virtual storehouse of biological information on reproductive cyclicity, the time of ovulation, pregnancy and impending birth. This cutting edge technology has been used to study the cheetah, clouded leopard, fishing cat, jaguar, Pallas' cat, tiger, margay, ocelot, puma, and snow leopard, among others. This technology has been key to developing assisted breeding, helping advance hormone therapies to stimulate ovarian activity and improving the timing of artificial insemination. Particularly exciting are recent advances to measure "stress" hormones, which can be used to help enrich zoo environments, thereby improving reproduction and animal well-being.