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Advances & Applications
Where do the good ideas come from? In this column, we offer our readers the opportunity to learn about — and benefit from — some of the cutting-edge technologies being implemented by law enforcement colleagues around the world.
Pleasanton Police Department Fights Red Light Violators with New Wireless Technology
Running red lights causes over 150,000 collisions each year in the United States, with over 130,000 people injured and approximately 1,000 people killed in these collisions. Although the monetary cost for these collisions runs into the billions of dollars annually, the greater cost is the lives that are lost and the large number of injuries that continue to occur.
Partially as a result of the devastating consequences seen with red light violations, the Pleasanton, California, Police Department (PPD) began partnering with Auspex Technologies to test new technology that makes enforcing red light violations easier and safer for its police officers.
After a successful field demonstration of Auspex's Mobile Officer Light Enforcer (MOLE) device, the PPD decided to use grant funds to purchase four handheld devices and software to install the program on two patrol cars. Transmitting devices were then installed on the traffic control boxes controlling eight of the most collision-prone intersections in town. Although actual enforcement with the device has just recently begun, it is believed red light enforcement efforts will be significantly enhanced by this device.
One of the major potential advantages of the MOLE device is the increased level of officer safety it provides. Officers no longer need to pursue violators through busy intersections, since the device allows an officer to monitor all traffic flow from a safe distance from an intersection. Additionally, the device allows enhanced opportunities to monitor all lights in all directions without officers having to visually confirm the changing of each traffic light.
In reference to enforcing red light violations, PPD Traffic Sergeant Mike Collins stated, "The MOLE is the most effective device we have available to enforce red light running, allowing officers to monitor traffic in all directions while enhancing their own safety."
Auspex Technologies' new MOLE system can function with portable electronic citation systems, PDAs, and cellular phones equipped with Bluetooth technology and running on Windows Mobile, adding value to existing equipment, simplifying officers' jobs, and reducing the number of devices that they need to carry in the field.
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Monroe County Enters Agreement to Collaborate on New Public Safety Communications Technologies
Harris Corporation announces an agreement with Monroe County, New York, to collaborate on the testing and development of new public safety communications technologies, including the Harris Unity XG-100, the new multiband, multimode radio that provides full-spectrum communications interoperability to public safety and government agencies.
The company has signed a memorandum of understanding with Monroe County's Department of Public Safety, calling for the department, which procures radios for every public safety agency in Monroe County, to provide feedback and evaluation of the XG-100 as well as other Harris-developed public safety communications products.
The Harris Unity XG-100 is engineered to provide instantaneous, direct, full-spectrum communications interoperability among federal, state, and local agencies. Current radio systems for public safety are compatible only through ad hoc workaround systems often configured at the time of an emergency.
"Today's announcement is a wonderful example of how government and the private sector can come together and forge a relationship that is not only beneficial to them, but also has an immediate impact on the taxpayers of our community," said Maggie Brooks, Monroe County executive. "Public safety has been, and will always be, a top priority for Monroe County. Ensuring that our first responders, law enforcement, EMS, and other public safety workers are equipped with state-of-the-art technology to perform their duties is a win-win for our entire community."
The Unity XG-100 is the first in a family of Harris radios designed to allow federal, state, and local public safety agencies to communicate more effectively. The new radio covers all portable land mobile radio frequency bands in a single radio and is compliant with the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Project 25 (P25), a suite of standards for digital radio communications for use by federal, state, and local public safety agencies.
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Moducom Dispatch System Serves Consolidated E9-1-1 Center in Tennessee
In November 1997, the E9-1-1 center in Cleveland, Tennessee, merged with Bradley County's E9-1-1 center, forming one consolidated center. During the consolidation, the Bradley County center decided to upgrade to a PC-based dispatch console system. Bradley County chose Moducom's UltraCom IP, a cost-effective E9-1-1/radio dispatch console system. County staff found exactly what they wanted: a system that was designed to be easily upgradeable and software-based. In other words, the system was reliable—an important aspect to have when lives are on the line.
Another important feature that the Bradley County E9-1-1 center sought was ease of configuration within the system. Those involved in the bidding process for Bradley County liked Moducom's customizable touch screens as well as the ability to configure the screens in-house. Overall, the Bradley County E9-1-1 center staff found the system to be very user-friendly.
Another feature that improved the center's efficiency was the system's flexibility. Staff found that they could change a fire console to a homeland security or law enforcement console with just a few button clicks. They could even change the display to a supervisor screen to view all the channels.
After using Moducom's system for 10 years, Bradley County's director Joe Wilson has been nothing but satisfied. When summing up his experience with Moducom, Director Wilson says, "Ten years later, it is obvious that we made the right choice when we chose Moducom; it has been a good partnership all these years." ■
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From The Police Chief, vol. LXXVI, no. 6, June 2009. Copyright held by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, 515 North Washington Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 USA.


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Jessica Thatcher / Jennifer Thorogood / Melissa Ouellet / Yunlu Shen
McGill University
Competition Board 1
Project Description
Jury Comments
Judging Panel
Judging Criteria
The Site Avenue du Parc, between avenue Duluth and avenue du Mont Royal, is an area dense with both people and cars. The Mont Royal Park encompasses this westernmost edge of the Plateau, and serves as the summertime hub of the neighbourhood. The park space unrolls from the mountain, stretching eastward to avenue de l'Esplanade, where it meets the Montreal urban fabric. However, this green expanse is separated in two by Avenue du Parc, an eight lane street. How can a park be people friendly while also supporting a constant flow of vehicular traffic through its centre? The existing crosswalk, installed to accommodate pedestrians, is a make-shift solution that interrupts traffic and encourages jaywalking. The sight and sound of cars pervade and the park remains divided. We propose to situate our pedestrian bridge at this point: spanning avenue du Parc, in front of the Sir George-Etienne Cartier Monument. Here is the main point of crossing from the eastern to western side of the park. Our intervention facilitates vehicular flow, while allowing uninterrupted movement between each side of the park. In order to bring a stronger visual connection between the two park areas and to reduce the presence of motorized vehicles, the road will be lowered 2 meters in addition to constructing the bridge. The Concept The design was inspired by an element essential to the park: a blade of grass. As the wind blows, the grass elegantly bends and its structural capacity is revealed. The wide base tapers toward the tip, lessening the weight and thus enabling a greater height. The v-shaped cross section also adds to its ability to withstand strong winds. The form of the bridge grew out of these structural and aesthetic elements intrinsic to blades of grass. Situating the bridge adjacent to a Montreal landmark creates a complex design challenge. How can the bridge compliment and integrate with the monument, while retaining its individual identity? The Deck Opens The steel deck progressively widens from the eastern side of avenue du Parc, reaching towards the monument and the mountain with an open embrace, and meeting a concrete abutment that mimics the material of the monument on the western side. This material-based connection with the existing monument is emphasized by an exposed expansion joint. The Tower Directs and Bows The narrowing curve of the tower, from its massive base to delicate tip, points toward the angel statue at the top of the monument. When the viewer approaches the bridge from avenue du Parc, their view is pulled along this curve and ultimately directed at the angel. The lowering of the road allows the bridge to meet clearance requirements while limiting its height-- At 16 meters from the ground, the tower reaches only half the height of the monument. Together with the tower's ability to bring one's view to the statue, this unobtrusive height gives the impression of a homage to the monument and the mountain. The Tower Frames The opening at the base of the tower makes the crossing an intriguing experience. This triangular shaped opening mitigates one's view of the statue. As the viewer ascends from the eastern side of the park toward the bridge, the statue is slowely revealed through the opening in the tower. Upon arriving at the base of the bridge, the statue is perfectly framed. Because of the complex shape and non-orthogonal configuration of the bridge, preliminary structural analysis were carried out using a finite element model in SAP2000, according to the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code. Based on these results, the following member sections were chosen. ComponentsTower Each leg has a hollow trapezoidal cross section, with the four sides fabricated from plates with varying thickness: 12 cm at the base and 2 cm at the tip. The two main plates are 5.5m wide and separated by 1.7m in the center. Vertical and horizontal stiffeners are used to prevent lateral buckling of the plates. Deck 40mm thick Sandwich Plate System Stiffening Girders and Cross Beams To minimize deflection problems commonly experienced by cable-stayed structures, W 460 x 67 stiffening girders and W 200 x 15 cross beams are used to support the SPS deck. Cables 22mm spiral strands, spaced at 2.0m along the arc length of the bridge deck, and 1.0 m along the arc length of the tower. The cables is pre-tensioned to eliminate sagging. Abutment Hollow reinforced concrete structure. Preliminary vibration analysis shows that the acceleration of the superstructure is slightly above the acceptable range stipulated in the code. However, the elastomer core of the SPS should provide sufficient damping to bring it back into that range. Arch/Cable-stayed Combination The bridge employs a hybrid structural system, combining the modern cable-stayed configuration with the classic arch form through the use of a unique cable configuration. In traditional cable stayed structures, the cables primarily provide vertical forces. In this case, however, the more horizontally inclined cables provide large compressive forces and introduce arch-like behavior to the steel deck, increasing the stiffness of the deck while allowing the expansion joint to minimize temperature effects on the bridge. This special combination also provides an additional measure of safety in case of vandalism. In the unlikely event of multiple cable failure, the steel deck will compress against the concrete abutment, allowing the entire bridge to behave like a classic arch bridge and remain erect. Only the expansion join will need to be replaced as a result. Construction The bridge is to be constructed using the push-out method. The tower can be prefabricated in one piece and transported to the site to be erected. The deck can be prefabricated in approximately 4 m-long pieces, to be connected on site with field bolts. Temporary supports would be provided at road median when the deck reaches half of the span. Materials and Durability The tower, girders and beams are produced from 350 W steel. The deck is fabricated from an innovative new material: the sandwich plate system, consisting of two steel plates with an elastomer core. The SPS is light weight, stiff, and has a built-in fire protection system. Galvanized bridge wires with high breaking strength, high Modulus of Elasticity, and good tension fatigue performance will be used for the cables. To prevent corrosion problems, the bridge should be repainted regularly. A cathodic protection system is installed, to be activated when necessary. A New Landmark The bridge does not only serve as a means to cross avenue du Parc. When Frederick Law Olmstead designed Mont Royal Park in 1876, he intended it for the working people, the majority of whom resided on St. Laurent street, east of avenue du Parc. By crossing the divide that removes the mountain from the Main, the bridge brings the mountain-park back to the people. Its inviting steps serve as a gathering place for Tamtams dancers, park goers and cross country skiers alike, playing an essential role in activities of all four seasons. With its organic design, the bridge emanates a breath of fresh air onto the Montreal urban landscape. At night, the illuminated bridge is enshrouded in mystery, offering a tentalizing play of shadow and light. Emerging from the darkness, it distantly echoes the thriving downtown core. With different lighting, it can be easily integrated into the various festivities that Montreal hosts, transforming into a new landmark in this historic city.
McGill University
Faculty Advisor:
Peter Sijpkes
Both iconic and fundamental in the worlds of design and construction, bridges bring together engineering and architecture in a unique conjunction: they provide the very essential example of form existing for function. The simple footbridge is one of the earliest known structures, accomplishing the primary function of any horizontal structure: spanning. Their design, both structural and architectural, explicitly and implicitly, complies with this simple requirement. Originally constructed, perhaps, from fallen logs or branches, the development of the bridge has, more directly than any other structure, followed the development of materials themselves. Simply moving from one side to the other of a stream, river, ravine, or street, has, in modern times, been elevated to an art form in itself. Bridge design is one of the most pure areas for testing architectural ideas. Reduced to one programmatic requirement, the bridge cannot hide its structural requirement; it must, instead, be celebrated and exploited, both architecturally and structurally. Students are challenged to design a single span pedestrian bridge, on a site of the designers' choosing. The structure must be primarily steel, but otherwise, the material palette is open.

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Recap: 'The Amazing Race' -- 'This Is Not My Finest Hour'
The teams head to Amsterdam, where Dutch golf and dancing cause problems
I may need to take this up with Bertram Van Munster next time we're at a TCA press tour party, but Sunday (Nov. 2) night's "The Amazing Race" just didn't seem fair.
Someday, an all-female team is going to win "The Amazing Race." It's not like women haven't come close in recent years. I'm still sad for Dustin and Kandice. But it remains one of those currently insurmountable reality TV obstacles (except for in Asia, where I hear an all-woman team won an early "Amazing Race" season). And on Sunday night, we got to see at least one reason why.
[Full recap of Sunday night's "The Amazing Race," with spoilers, after the break...]
I just can't see any way of interpreting Sunday's results other than that Maria and Tiffany, the Poker Girls, got hosed. There's an arbitrary group of viewers who have hated the Poker Girls since the premiere because they made the weird decision to lie about their occupations and I'm assuming those viewers will be gloating and happy. Those people stink. A leg of "The Amazing Race" really shouldn't be designed to come down to a choice between two tasks that are both physically impossible for one of the teams. If that happens, the producers have done something wrong.
For the second consecutive week, one team was unable to even make it to the Pit Stop. Last week, we saw Mika and Canaan quit because Mika wouldn't go down a six-story waterslide. There's a reading of that result that says that Mika's psychological hang-ups were so severe that she physically couldn't perform that last task, just as the Poker Girls couldn't perform the last task last week. I'd argue that it's the responsibility of the producers to make sure that they don't cast people who refuse to go down awesome waterslides. So really, it's the producers who have blown two straight weeks of "The Amazing Race." That's bad news.
The Poker Girls were done in by Sunday's Detour in the Netherlands. The choice? Farmer's Dance or Farmer's Game.
In Farmer's Game, the teams had to compete on a strange golf course with giant balls and clubs with clogs as heads. I'm assuming this is a version of golf never played by an actual Dutch person and occasionally reserved for tourists. [Note: Two seconds of Googling was all it took for me to see that Farmer's Golf is an actual thing, with these clubs and balls. Still a bit odd.]
In Farmer's Dance, the teams had to go and learn a peasant dance and then eat a herring and some onions. Sounds easy, right? Indeed, the dancing and herring were both breeze. The tiniest of catches was that before doing the dance, teams had to do one of those strength tests were you swing a hammer and have to ring a bell.
The Poker Girls attempted to do the dancing first, but they were unable to ring the bell after a couple dozen attempts. With something like that, the key is using the weight of the mallet, rather than your own strength, but if they physically could have done it, they would have. So they quit and went to do the golfing, but the course was long enough that it seems to have been nearly impossible to even get to the hole without either strength or some measure of basic golf skill. The Poker Girls had neither. So they quit that after a a couple dozen attempts and went back to the dancing. They ultimately attempted to ring the bell with the mallet more than 70 times, with Tiffany seemingly getting close for a while before her strength waned. They quit that, again, and went back to the golf, where the wind was sufficient that they were unable to complete even one of the three required holes and, after much crying and hugging, they just called it quits.
The thing that was clear was that no matter how long or hard they tried at either task, they were never going to complete either of them. It just wasn't going to be possible. And that's a problem with the game, if you ask me. It wasn't like they weren't being entirely good sports about both parts of the task. They tried different strategies. They cheered each other on. They attempted to improve. It was never going to happen. They could have called it quits hours earlier.
If the strength test had been an organic part of the Farmer's Dance challenge, I think I'd have tolerated it. But it had nothing to do with the native Dutch culture or with the dancing or with the eating of the herring. A producer said "This is too easy, let's stick something else at the front-end." And that "something else" doomed the less-than-brawny Poker Girls, who didn't do anything to deserve elimination this week.
[I'll accept that the Poker Girls probably shouldn't have left the Farmer's Dance the first time. Tiffany was coming close enough to hitting the bell when they returned that maybe if she hadn't wasted strength on their first attempt at the golfing, she might have eventually pulled through.]
Team Miss AmEricka, Brian and Ericka, did several things to deserve going home and yet they're still around, mostly because they had somebody on their team capable of ringing the bell before Farmer's Dance.
Brian and Ericka had One Of Those Legs. First, they couldn't figure out how to operate their Mercedes at the Amsterdam airport, falling into a deep hole. Then, Ericka botched the Roadblock.
The Roadblock -- "Who's got strong legs and keen eyes?" -- had one player running up and down the steps of a minaret counting the number of bells in a carillon. It wasn't hard. Every other team completed on their first guess with ease (even if Team Gay Brothers hadn't given the Poker Girls the answer, this is the kind of task they did well all Race). Ericka, for some reason, wasn't coming close to the required answer of 62 bells. Was she misadding? Was she skipping one whole room of bells? Who knows. Brian was a good sport and kept encouraging her and didn't even get impatient when she had to take a five-minute break. She finished. There was relief.
Then, at the Detour, even though the clue clearly said to go to either choice on one of several provided bicycles, Brian and Ericka went on foot, with Ericka wailing and complaining the whole way. At a certain point, they realized they had to take bikes, but they didn't. They walked by the Farmer's Dance task and completed it, without going back to get the bikes. Then, realizing they didn't have the required bikes, they had to borrow bikes and take them to the Pit Stop. For this, they received a 30 minute penalty. Really? Only 30 minutes? For stupidly misreading a clue and then willfully ignoring a clue? In my book, they should have been forced to go back and get the original bikes. It wouldn't have mattered in terms of elimination, since the Poker Girls eventually just quit, but I thought more punishment was in order. This was probably one of those instances when the producers determined that since failure to read the clue cost them more time than any penalty ever would have, a token slap on the wrist would do.
[Going back to the Poker Girls, if Team Miss AmEricka only got a 30 minute penalty for their failure to complete the task as described in the clue, I wonder what would have happened to Tiffany and Maria if they'd just ditched the strength test, done the choreography, eaten the fish and gone to the pit stop. Would they have been denied the route information card? Would they just have gotten a time penalty? Would Phil have sent them back to do it again?]
I don't have much else to say. The Poker Girls got jobbed. Again, they just *couldn't* do the task. It wasn't that they *wouldn't* or that they kept doing things wrong. They were *unable* and they were unable because of a strength differential. That shouldn't happen.
Oh and we have a new team in first place. The Gay Brothers, thanks to impressive Farmer Golfing, moved past Meghan and Cheyne, who entered the leg with a lead of nearly two hours, an advantage that was frittered away due to an equalizing flight from Dubai to Amsterdam. Team Tetherball still finished a solid second, followed by the Globetrotter and Pinky and the Brain. And Team Miss AmEricka was last and it'll be interesting to see just how far behind they were.
Other thoughts on this episode...
*** I'm a bit disappointed that Mika & Canaan didn't survive. Mika wouldn't have done well with the carillon Roadblock, since I assume she's also claustrophobic and afraid of bells.
*** The Gay Brothers are out of the closet! Huzzah! They decided to wait until the teams were killing time at the Dubai airport, after Big Easy told the story of how they psyched Mika out on the waterslide ("I didn't want to see her cry, but I didn't want to go home at the same time."). Everybody was very happy for their gayness, even Maria and Tiffany, whose romantic hopes were dashed. Tiffany said they were still great guys and "Who they choose to date, we could care less, even though there's a little teardrop that it's not us."
*** Should Team Tetherball have attempted to catch the first flight out of Dubai and let the chip fall where they may? This is a strategy that I've never seen utilized on "The Amazing Race," at least not that I remember. But here Meghan & Cheyne were with this two hour lead, a lead they knew wouldn't hold up if all of the teams went together on the same flight to Amsterdam leaving seven or eight hours later. Couldn't they have just hopping on the first plane going in the right direction to a major international airport and tried to see if they could use that extra time to their advantage by making a smart connection? I know that we'd never see a team do that, but even if it had backfired, I'd have admired that decision to no end. Live dangerously!
*** What was up with Pinky and the Brain ditching the Farmer's Dance because Matt doesn't like fish? I'd have expected that kind of behavior from Mika with her ichthyophobia, but Matt? Weak!
So, did the Poker Girls get a raw deal? Were Brian and Ericka sufficiently penalized? And do you agree with me about Meghan and Cheyne at the airport?


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Darcy Regier will announce Ron Rolston's fate in the near future, the Buffalo Sabres' general manager said Friday.
Regier and Rolston met earlier this week about whether to remove Rolston's tag of interim coach. Rolston went 15-11-5 after coming up from Rochester in February to replace Lindy Ruff.
"No decisions yet," Regier told reporters in Rochester as part of the Amerks' locker clean-out day. "Fairly soon in the case of the head coach in Buffalo, and then Rochester will follow. Those are conversations we're going to have."
Regier again said the team is interested in moving up from the eighth spot in June's draft.
"I have talked to the teams that are in front of us, or most of them, and if we're in a position to move up it's something that we would entertain doing," Regier said, "but we also feel this is a deep draft."
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World briefs
Kenyan doctors strike over poor hospital conditions
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Doctors in Kenya's public hospitals Wednesday spent their 17th day on strike to protest the dilapidated state of public health care. Emergency rooms in some of Kenya's public hospitals frequently don't have gloves or medicine, and power outages sometimes force doctors to use the light from their phones to complete a procedure.
Kenya's government fired 1,000 of the 2,000 striking doctors last week despite a shortfall of skilled medical practitioners. The government had promised to implement reforms in health care in 2011 after doctors walked off the job and held protests.
At least two patients have died due to lack of treatment since the strike started, union officials say, but the government claims health facilities are coping well without the striking workers.
Morocco may stop ship promoting legal abortions
RABAT, Morocco -- Moroccan authorities said Wednesday that a Dutch ship promoting legal abortions set to dock in Morocco is operating outside the law and could possibly be stopped before arriving at a port.
The Dutch ship, which promotes safe and legal abortions worldwide, was invited by a Moroccan women's group to raise awareness in the struggle to legalize abortions, which are not allowed in this country. It is scheduled to arrive today.
It would be the "Women on Waves" boat's first landfall in a Muslim country.
Minister of Education Lahcen Daoudi said any boat coming to Morocco had to respect its laws.
Ancient remains show woman in 'male' trade
VIENNA -- An Austrian museum said human remains found in an ancient grave are that of a female metal worker -- the first indication that women did such work thousands of years ago.
The Museum of Ancient History said the grave originates from the Bronze Age, which began more than 5,000 years ago and ended 3,200 years ago.
In a statement Wednesday, it said that although the pelvic bones were missing, examination of the skull and lower jaw bone shows the skeleton is of a woman.
The museum said tools used to make metal ornaments were also found in the grave northwest of Vienna, leading to the conclusion that it was that of a female fine metal worker.
It said such work had been commonly presumed to be in the male domain.
Winner of Georgian election to visit U.S. first
TBILISI, Georgia -- The opposition leader who won Georgia's parliamentary election wants to restore ties with Russia, where he made his billions as a businessman. Bidzina Ivanishvili said Wednesday, though, that his first foreign trip as prime minister will be to the United States.
Ivanishvili may be anxious to fend off accusations that he intends to take Georgia back under Russian domination, and also to reassure the Americans that he is serious about deepening a relationship that was forged under his predecessor, whose party was defeated Monday.
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Pikaia, you mean looking at studies with a primal bias, right?
I should clarify. I don't mean ability. What I really mean to say is that I think you need to spend some serious time reading and really absorbing this stuff. It won't happen overnight. Once you have a good, solid foundation, you'll be able to look at all of the studies and come to reasonable conclusions about what is understood and what needs further study.
Pikaia, you mean looking at studies with a primal bias, right?
Bobby, I did tell you EXACTLY where to look: 1:09:55.
And I also explained that this is UNPUBLISHED data. Now before you jump all over that, let me (putting on scientist hat) explain that there's nothing nefarious about unpublished data. It may mean that Gardner is saving it for another paper. It may mean that space constraints required him to cut the data. (Submitted papers have to conform to specific length/figure limits.) It doesn't mean it is faulty data. It just means that for some reason it wasn't considered important enough or relevant enough to main goals of the original study.
I don't mean to say that there is anything nefarious about the unpublished data. But you should watch the video that Gardner actually posts and look at the ratios of carbs and fats in their diet.
The study that I cited provided the food for 16 weeks. The study gardner did was designed so they told them which diet to follow, gave them the book, explained it to them, left it up to them, and then made them fill out a food questionnaire to figure out how they did. I believe that the study I posted would be more accurate and give better results because the diet to them was actually provided.
Nope, I'm not talking about bias. I am, however, talking about skepticism, and a flexibility of thinking that will allow you to view a work of research through a lens other than that of the author.
See, that's the main issue I have with your comments here. You seem to take whatever an "expert" says, and take it as truth...at least until you find another expert to believe in. You've got to deepen your understanding so that you don't need to rely on trust in the experts.
Once you actually understand the material, the conclusion section of a paper is the least important part. Focus on methods and results. Reach your own conclusions. Then consider how the authors interpreted the results. If you disagree, try to figure out why. Maybe even email the first author.
OK, here is Gardner's presentation of his study:
Go to 41:00 to see what I am talking about. He actually shows 2 studies suggesting what I am saying he did that. He does show his data on it too to compare it.
Anyway, I just think that controlled studies that provide diets would be more accurate in studying this.
"I believe that the study I posted would be more accurate and give better results because the diet to them was actually provided."
And I prefer studies that allow participants to choose and prepare their own foods. I want to see how different nutritional strategies work in the real world. If effectiveness requires lab-provided, standardized food, I am not impressed. Sure, the results may be impressive, but they won't translate well to real world situations. For a study to be compelling, the humans need to be treated like humans, not like lab animals.
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Pikaia, I don't think you are void of bias though...I am sure you will look at a study differently if it goes against your beliefs than you would if it went with your beliefs...and you would be more likely to overlook problems with a study if they proved that a low carb diet was best.
Bobby, if you want conversation, you'll engage in it. If you want to make yourself feel superior, you'll hurl insults.
I'm not sticking around to be insulted, nor am I planning to give you my scientific credentials. I'm not trying to be your expert. I'm just trying to help you develop critical thinking skills.


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"I have sooooo many amazing xmas memories and i'm sure this one will top the rest now that i'm sharing it with my son and my hubby!!!" the star of the E! series Kendra writes in her blog, where she also posted photos of herself celebrating Christmas as a little girl. "I feel like the luckiest girl in the world right now!"
Wilkinson, 24, married Hank Baskett in June and gave birth on Dec. 11 to Henry Randall Baskett IV in Indiana, where dad is a wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts.
As she gets ready for Christmas, Wilkinson hopes to make the holiday as wonderful for her family as her mother did when she was a little girl.
"Christmas was always a really big deal in my family and my mom always went all out to make it really special for me and my brother," she writes. "I can't wait to start my own family traditions and i'm so excited to make every xmas memorable for lil hank like my mom did for me!"
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According to a study by the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, 62 percent of Fortune 500 companies used Twitter in 2011, an increase of 2 percent from the year before. Why and how a company uses Twitter can range from brand building to customer interaction to just monitoring the competition. If you're considering using Twitter for your own business, you should know that successful companies have predefined goals and use measurement tools to monitor their efforts.
Brand Awareness
Simply completing a profile and including a link to an official website can give your business a presence on Twitter and an additional link for search engines such as Google. The more a company uses Twitter, however, the more brand awareness it develops. For example, Disney has more than 1.2 million followers as of May 2012, and each time it posts a message, or tweet -- even if its followers don't click on a link or read the entire message -- the company name appears in each follower's feed, reminding them of its brand. Even if a company has only a few dozen followers, every tweet still has the potential to be seen by thousands of people, because every follower can forward a tweet she likes to her own followers by clicking the "Retweet" button.
Customer Interaction
Businesses that actively interact with clients and prospects on Twitter can use it gather feedback, and larger companies often use more than one Twitter account for different purposes. Dell, for example, has more than 20 verified accounts for different markets and regions, including @DellCares, which it uses specifically for 24/7 online technical support. Dell chairman, CEO and self-described "family man" Michael Dell has his own Twitter account, which he uses to interact with people on Twitter. JetBlue Airways also actively engages with its customers on Twitter, searching for complaints and compliments about its airline.
Driving Traffic
Online businesses often employ Twitter to drive traffic to websites, although this is usually more effective for consumer-based, rather than business-to-business sites. For example, Guy Kawasaki, co-founder of the website-aggregating service Alltop, uses the company's Twitter account primarily to post links to its site. Other businesses create an account, post links for a few days and then never return. Tracking retweets, clicks and comparing what works with what doesn't can help a small business owner determine the value of Twitter driving traffic to a website. Tools such as those offered by HootSuite and Google Analytics' URL Builder help track the number of times people clink on a link posted in Twitter.
News and Networking
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
matters of the heart, literally
I'm working on a giveaway soon to celebrate the occasion! Hopefully.
Okay, so onto the real meat of this post. I had a crazybizzy week last week and I had 2 big work events on Friday which meant working from 7:30am to 9:30pm, then I had to get up and work another event today for about 4 hours. Needless to say, I'm pretty tuckered and apologize for the slight lack of postage.
But I did want to just update the latest development in my pregnancy. Last week, I had a few palpatations which concerned me a tiny bit. You see, my sister and my brother both had SVT and both ended up having heart surgery because of it. I have always had slight symptoms, but nothing to ever worry about. Or I should say, symptom. As in, I only have one. Essentially, it feels like my heart stops beating for a second, then it will beat really fast to catch up. But it lasts for just seconds and I don't have any of the other typical symptoms of SVT which can include dizziness and lightheadedness, even passing out. And my "episodes" are single and don't last more than a second or two. However, the week before this past, over the course of about 4 days, I had an increase in episodes and was having 3 to 5 per day. When I met with Dr. Miracles on Monday, he didn't like the sound of it and told me to call my OB/Gyn asap to see what they'd like me to do. So I did, and I ended up at the cardiologist for almost 2 hours yesterday, in the middle of my hectic day! How convenient!
First, picture the setting. A cardiologist office in the middle of the afternoon. What do you expect to find? Well, obviously lots and lots of old people. I was the youngest person there by at least 40 years, surrounded by old people, oxygen tanks and yes, even a poopie diaper. And there were no children present. Oh, the glorious fun. I love old people, but I get the heebie jeebies just thinking about the whole experience.
Anyway, so I got an EKG, talked with a couple different people and finally got my actual consult. The good news is that the doctor isn't too terribly concerned with the episodes. He said that unless I start having them last for long periods of time, or if they are making me dizzy/lightheaded, then I'm probably okay. We'll continue to keep a close eye out and watch for increased episodes, but he doesn't think there's much concern for issue during the pregnancy. Phew! The bad news is that I was secretly hoping to hear my lil Poke's heartbeat just as a little refresher, but that didn't happen. Only another week and a half!
Finally, in keeping with the heart theme, we got our doppler today!! I'm not sure whether we found the hb or not. I can't tell how to know if it is my hb or if it's the baby's. We picked up something in two different spots, but it was only 125-130 bpm, and I thought it would be more like 170. So I'm not convinced that it was the baby. Either way, I will try every day and hopefully we'll pick something difinitive up!
I think that's all I've got for now. I hope you all are enjoying your weekend!
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I had to go to a cardiologist as well. I had an EKG, holter monitor, and an echo done for palpatations and a tachycardia. I have had them on/off my whole life but nothing that ever sent me to the doctor.ReplyDelete
I got a clean bill of health, but I *did* find out I was anemic and diabetic. So, I am thinking my heart was just having to work VERY hard.
Also, the cardiologist said to drink water like it is going out of style because your body could "think" it is dehydrated even though it's not and cause your heart to do wacky things.
LOL. It did get better for me.
Glad you check out okay! Very exciting about the heart monitor, I just ordered one this week too, I can't wait for it to arrive!!!ReplyDelete
I have similar episodes, where it feels like my heart skips a beat and then beats really fast afterward. They've happened all my (adult) life, I think. Anyhow, I did notice that they got more frequent in the early part of my pregnancy. My former OB freaked out when I reported that a particularly bad one had happened over Christmas break (I was around 12-13 weeks at the time), and ordered me to see a cardiologist. But then, I told her I was having some headaches, and she freaked and ordered me to see a neurologist. And then, I said something about some pain where I used to have a gall bladder and she freaked and ordered me to go to a gastro doc and have a detailed right upper quadrant scan. And when I told her my allergies were slightly worse than usual, she freaked and told me I needed to see an allergist RIGHT AWAY.ReplyDelete
So, I pretty much figured that she basically didn't want to treat me for anything, preferring instead to presume that any small issue was suddenly cause for major intervention, which just didn't sit right with me. So I didn't ever see any of the specialists (except I did have a RUQ scan, just to make sure I didn't have residual gallstones or anything).
And then, when I asked her about a medication that she had assured me was safe and how I'd heard it could potentially cause cleft palates, she told me that "that's why we do ultrasounds..." and I lost all respect for her and switched practices.
And at the new practice, my OB told me that the heart palpitations, faster beating, and occasional skips were extremely common in early pregnancy, and even into later pregnancy for some people. (And that the headaches were normal and the increase in respiratory symptoms were normal, as were the random belly pains, etc.) He said that it apparently had something to do with a nerve that runs close to the uterus that is pressed upon in early pregnancy that makes your heart rate speed up. And he said that I definitely needed to keep an eye on it, but that I shouldn't be terribly concerned.
Anyhow, I just wanted to share my similar experience and that by the middle of my second trimester, the weird skips and beats were pretty much gone. Hope it's the same for you!
I am glad that everything is OK after your checkup at the cardiologist! I just ordered a monitor this weekend too -- looking forward to its arrival as well!!ReplyDelete
So glad everything is ok, but man...that is scary!! Such a relief!!! Like you don't have enough on your mind, geez!ReplyDelete
So glad everything is OK!!ReplyDelete
The first time I heard Momo's hb on the doppler, it sounded like a helicopter (though it varies - the doctor thought of a pony, DH thought of trains).ReplyDelete
Re: heart - hope everything is well!
Happy iclw :)
Hello, here because of ICLW, hoping to find inspiration for some of my patients and followers! I like your "Graduation Day" post & may repost some of your thoughts to encourage those who need to keep trying...on the svt subject, my wife, who also went through IVF, had them throughout the pregnancy and she did just fine. Don't worry! Good luck with the remainder of your pregnancy! :)ReplyDelete
so glad everything checked out ok! and congrats on hearing the heartbeat! I still have another week to wait for that, can't wait!ReplyDelete


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Tuesday, Jan. 19:
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Interfaith Service
4 to 5 p.m., the WUC Den
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6 to 8 p.m., WUC Pacific Room
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Centro di lingua e cultura italiana I Malatesta, Rimini, Italy
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The language school Centro di lingua e cultura italiana I Malatesta was founded in Rimini, Italy in 1976. The school is located in Marina centre, seaside city centre.
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Best arrival airport is Bologna, Forli, Rimini. It takes 100 minutes by Train to school.
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Adult courses throughout the year: 20
Junior courses in summer: 40
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| in summer: 24 years
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Germany 10 %
England 10 %
France 5 %
Holland 5 %
Russia 20 %
Sweden 10 %
| Japan 5 %
Switzerland 3 %
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InstructionsTo make base, preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 15 x 10 inch shallow baking pan (one inch deep) with foil, leaving a 2-inch overhang on the 2 short sides. Butter all 4 sides (but not bottom). Blend flour, brown sugar, and salt in a food processor, then add butter and pulse until mixture begins to form small (roughly pea-size) lumps. Sprinkle into baking pan, then press down firmly all over with a metal spatula to form an even layer. Bake in middle of oven until golden and firm to the touch, 15 to 17 minutes, then cool in pan on a rack.
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 1-2/3 cups granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup light corn syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1-1/2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups chopped, toasted pecans
InstructionsTo make topping, melt butter in a 3-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat and stir in sugar, corn syrup, and salt. Boil over moderately high heat, stirring occasionally, until caramel registers 245 degrees F on thermometer, about 8 minutes. Carefully stir in cranberries, boil until caramel returns to 245 degrees. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla, then stir in pecans until well coated. Working quickly, spread caramel topping over base, using a fork to distribute nuts and berries evenly. (Tip: Don't overcook caramel as it gets very brittle.) Cool completely.
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Not many voters may have noticed yet, but our system of financing political campaigns is in enormous turmoil.
Anyone who has followed campaign spending closely this election season has seen the pattern. Money, lots of money, is flowing to Arizona candidates and causes.
But because of reporting loopholes opened wide following the 2010 Citizens United decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, we have no idea who is cutting many of the checks.
How big is the problem? If you have any interest at all about who is financially backing the candidates on your ballot, it is becoming a disclosure advocate's nightmare.
In 2004, 98 percent of independent campaigns reporting spending to the Federal Election Commission identified individual donors. Today? According to the watchdog group Public Citizen, just 32percent of independent expenditure groups are releasing the names of contributors.
The pattern is this: An innocuous-sounding non-profit organization legally forms, usually with just one or two "directors," and declares that less than half of its reason for existence will be to advocate for political issues or candidates -- a key provision to sidestep Arizona's campaign-finance reporting requirements.
Then, other organizations incorporate and begin funding the non-profits. Because this second corporation isn't actually spending the money, it isn't controlled at all by reporting requirements.
As a result, hundreds of thousands of dollars are flowing anonymously into political campaigns both nationally and in local races in Arizona.
Big money has gone into an attempt to recall Phoenix Councilman Sal DiCiccio and to support the candidacies of both runoff candidates in the Phoenix mayoral election. Anonymous cash has gone to support the Legislative District 18 challenger to state Sen. Russell Pearce, Jerry Lewis, as well as to support former District 18 "challenger" Olivia Cortes.
The problem is not unique to Arizona, which is generally regarded by campaign-finance watchdogs as having an aggressive reporting regimen. Like seemingly every other state, though, it just wasn't prepared for how the smart political operators would turn the controversial Citizens United decision to their advantage.
The high court's 5-4 ruling concluded that the First Amendment right to participate financially in the elections process extends to corporations and unions, as long as there is no direct connection or collaboration with their preferred candidates or causes. Obviously, the court had in mind real corporations and unions, not faceless non-profit organizations that spring up in the middle of the night.
Is there a way to tear down this enormous financial firewall? Probably. But the chances of unmasking the faceless financiers prior to the Nov. 8 elections look slim, according to campaign-finance experts.
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett says his office plans to conduct audits of some of the suspected malefactors. On the national scene, watchdog groups like the Brennan Center for Justice are urging the Internal Revenue Service to look into whether the non-profits are performing the sort of "social welfare" their tax status requires of them.
None of that will lift the veil now. So, some "independent expenditure" groups will continue spending great sums on political advertising, some of which includes gross distortions. Infuriating as it is that the public cannot learn the identity of these manipulative Machiavellis, the legal firewall shielding them may stay up until well after the election. There must be a way to throw a light on these connivers.
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08 March 2007
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Ottawa, Canada: Ottawa-based lawyer Jacqueline Huston left her full-time private practice in 2003 to spend a year in the South Pacific country of Kiribati.
It wasn't a beach-side sabbatical. Her 15-month stay, organized through Voluntary Service Overseas Canada, put her legal skills to work at the Kiribati Office of the People's Lawyer.
Huston is one of millions of Canadian women who volunteer domestically and internationally. Marlene Deboisbriand, president of Volunteer Canada, says their contributions have been important to our social safety net.
"Some of our most fundamental government programs were started as programs that were tried in the voluntary sector and were heavily implemented or developed by women as volunteers.
"It's a huge contribution."
VSO Canada matches volunteers to placements that meet the needs of overseas partners. On the Kiribati islands, Huston saw women with access to education and jobs, but were facing other challenges.
"Women have a very significant role in the Kiribati culture. In traditional life, the village is run by a council of old men and a council of old women. Elderly people are greatly respected and old women have the same kind of respect as the old men.
"On the other hand, there are issues that affect women negatively."
Huston represented many Kiribati women in domestic abuse cases and advocated for women's rights in the workplace; the mandatory retirement age there is 50.
Huston is now a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa and co-manager of student services for the faculty of law. She continues to volunteer on the boards and committees of St. Mary's Home, the David Smith Centre and Youth Services Bureau.
International Women's Day gives Huston pause to reflect on the situation of women in Canada and other countries.
"I'm not saying it's all perfect in Canada. There are many issues to be dealt with and battles still to fight."
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Computer problems grounded airplanes Thursday for a second time this week, frustrating passengers trying to fly in and out of nearly a dozen cities across the eastern third of the nation, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Hundreds of flights were delayed when a computer at an FAA air traffic control center in Leesburg, Va., experienced problems transferring data about 6:45 a.m. EST. The computer processes information from radar systems, air traffic control centers around the East Coast and flight plans filed by airlines and individual pilots.
"Obviously, people were inconvenienced, but they were not in danger," said William Shumann, a spokesman at FAA's headquarters in Washington. "The backup system is safe, but it's a much slower system with less capacity, and so we have to hold airplanes on the ground."
Normal operations resumed at 9:49 a.m., but the delays left passengers sitting - up to two hours or more - aboard planes lined up on runways or waiting at gates for flights postponed or canceled.
Among the passengers grounded at Washington Reagan National Airport was Rep. Edward Pease, R-Ind., a member of the House Transportation Committee's aviation panel. He was trying to fly to Indianapolis to deliver a speech, but his plane never took off.
"I think we had been on the plane for 1 1/2 hours. The flight was canceled," Pease said. "When we finally turned around and went back to the gate, there were planes everywhere."
Pease said the delay underscores the need for Congress to give the FAA money to further modernize the air traffic control system, which is currently undergoing a $13 billion system upgrade.
"There is clearly a need to upgrade equipment at the FAA, and we've known about it for years."
David Fuscus, a spokesman for the Air Transport Association of America, the airlines' trade group, used the outage to call for steady funding from Congress.
"The problem is the system can't handle the traffic," Fuscus said. "The system needs to meet the demand of the American people."
FAA spokesman Eliot Brenner said the problem was not with new computer hardware installed as part of the administration's modernization effort but with flight plan software that overloaded the computer system.
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The 33 was one of the earliest in the program, originally looking more like the original original SU-27, (distance cousin to the SU-27 we know). Exactly as you describe the Canards briefly work positive pitch with the tailerons solely to assist rotation off the 300m deck because the air speed is so low and the wing is not stalled. So if they are going to add drag, better to have them assisting rotation than being ineffective for lift at very low speeds.
The full use of the canards were not included apparently to the SU-34. My original information thought that they took the same programming from the 37 and 33 and applied it to the 34. They initially did with the 35 till they dropped the canards all together but they don't go beyond trim or full neg on the 34. I haven't flown the thing so the info is only second hand but it would make sense why doing th same routines some did behave a certain way while others didn't. But then they also don't throw the SU-34 around the same way they do the others.
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me too. I'm gonna be cutting one very shortly. just finishing up the templates for a hotwired, twin 90mm.
I still have one of my Mitzu's T-50 unassembled so that I could recut a larger version closer to scale to house the landing gear. It's become a some day project.
Anyways back to the canardless SU-35BM.
yeah, life got in the way of most of my projects, but now I'm back at it. there is no build thread YET, but there will be when I really get going on it.
I've got some info on the active LEX control surfaces..........................
they are more similar to the slats of the main wing rather than Su-30's canards. these surfaces can rotate downwards around their rear edge. similar to wing slats, they are rotated to assist control in high angles of attack (close to 90deg.) by reducing the exposed area to the direction of flight and also preserving lift by turning the influx over the fuselage (in a similar manner where slats have the same effect to the wing). these rotary parts shade the main engine inlets but there are auxiliary inlets at the sidewalls of the inlet tunnels where air can flow in avoiding restrictions. also of interest, is how they relate to the CARET inlet.
CARET inlet was not innovatively used by PAK FA, but nevertheless, the basic principle of CARET inlet is wave-riding. that's why we see that they transversely set the rectangular section of CARET inlet. the longer the horizontal wedged edge, the more lift will be generated locally.this is the first time we have seen a movable LERX used on a true jetfighter,. this was also to be utilized on the Indian HAL LCA Tejas, but that was merely a plan. this isn't only a movable LERX, as far as an extension of the LE flaps. it's also a vortex aileron, not merely a flap. it is capable to up-deflect, so it contains canard function too. we say it is a movable LERX because the angle of sweep is really large enough to be a LERX. A large angle of swept edge causes the vortex to roll from lower surface to the upper surface, however, when being slight AoA, this swept angle is too large to keep the pressure under the LERX so giving it a movable leading edge allows this vortex rolling to take place. if you watch video carefully, the LERX is deflecting slightly upwards when PAK FA rotates, so the effect of this aerodynamic process is actually canard-like. at high speeds, the movable LERX is a easy way to regulate the swept angle of shock wave produced by edge of CARET inlet whereas F-22 does this by use of a bypass door.
so, in a nutshell, the CARET inlets of the air intakes are useful for "wave riding", generating increased lift for the airframe. This allows lower RCS and increased airflow. With the long length of its horizontal wedged edge (of the inlet) additionally helps lift. the active LERX surfaces take advantage of this.
Large, moveable Leading Edge Root Extensions (LERX) over the inlets are highly innovative and perhaps plays a role in making the PAK FA super-maneuverable. It is not a flap-like structure but perhaps more like an aileron and behaves in someways perhaps like a canard.
This is an interesting innovation and also provides a solution for the PAK FA in managing air-flow over the wing and onto the slanted stabilizers, solving problems of a twin-tailed delta configuration.
Ah so in a nut shell just kidding. That's consistent with my sources as well; though aileron in structure not differentially to induce roll. I was told they are synchronously drive.
I got to go to bed.... Got some shopping to do in the AM.
a caret is a wedge shape. it's also the curser in Windows. in this case, the wedge shape fits inside the shockwave and "rides" that wave, instead of injesting it. there is also a conical wave rider shape that can be used too. interestingly, wave riding is usually a hypersonic design, so wondering if the PAK and the F-22 are significantly quicker than we are being led to believe. here's a good read from NASA.
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