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Australian governments step up snooping on citizens' internet usage, says Google
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- November 14, 2012
AUSTRALIAN governments have increased their surveillance of citizens' internet usage over the past six months, according to new figures released by Google.
In the first six months of 2012, governments and their agencies made 523 requests to access Google users' data, including information contained in Gmail and YouTube accounts.
That was the ninth highest number of requests in the world over the same period, with the US recording the most (7969), India second with 2319 requests and Brazil third with 1566.
The figures, contained in Google's latest Transparency Report, show a steady rise in the number of requests for access from Australian governments since it first began publishing the data in July 2009.
Most of the requests in 2012 were from law enforcement agencies for use in criminal investigations, Google said.
See Google's Transparency Report for Australia here
The company complied with 64 per cent of the requests, a one per cent fall in compliance from the previous six months.
"The number of requests that we receive for user account information as part of criminal investigations has increased year on year,'' Google said in a blog posting.
"The increase isn't surprising, since each year we offer more products and services, and we have a larger number of users.''
Globally, there were 20,938 requests from governments to hand over data - a big rise on the 12,539 requests recorded in July 2009.
Australian governments also made 92 requests to remove items from Google websites, including YouTube and search engine results.
Most of the requests were made for ""privacy and security'' reasons, or over defamation and copyright issues.
A small number were removed for reasons of "government criticism''.
Google highlighted one instance where a state government, which it did not name, asked to remove a YouTube video of "statements made against police officers''.
Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has been asked to comment.
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Blake of Sydney Posted at 2:24 PM November 14, 2012
Liberal / ALP, it makes no difference - they all want to trample our rights and make whats private, public. Take that to the bank.
Andrew of Australia Posted at 2:23 PM November 14, 2012
Dennis, Australia doesn't get free speech like over in America. We have a "freedom of political speech" which is protected from criminal prosecution at common law per Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v Commonwealth. However, that aside, I do find it disgusting that we do not have any similar constitutions and rights to speech like Americans do. Because I can tell you right now, if we did, people opinions would truly come to light. Australia is very restrictive towards the rights of its people. They will continue to try and tie us down.
Matthew Posted at 2:19 PM November 14, 2012
I love that Google makes this information available without putting anyone at risk. It's good to see that at least they have our backs.


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Though Christian Bale himself called his F-bomb outburst on the Terminator Salvation set "inexcusable," the film's director is coming to the star's defense.
"The film set is a passionate place, and it happens," McG told fans at a Warner Bros. preview panel at New York Comic Con on Saturday. "There was no version of, 'Oh, Christian is going to whip his ass.' It was just sort of a blowup,"
"We let it run its course, and it did. You obviously only get to hear the explicit parts," he said.
Bale verbally bashed the film's director of photography, Shane Hurlbut, after he accidentally entered the actor's sight lines during filming.
The audiotape quickly went viral, sparking mixed reactions, but the on-set drama ended that day, McG insists.
"Christian has taken responsibility for the way he acted. It's a matter of fact that he and Shane are buddies. We finished the movie together. We did some additional photography about a month ago," he told the packed auditorium at Manhattan's Jacob Javits Center.
"It was just one of those moments. I think I can speak on all of our behalf that we've all gotten a little fired up. And if anybody would take that moment and take it out of context, it would seem very, very strange."
The director is getting a bit of a chuckle out of it, though, admitting he's seen some of the online fodder. "That remix is pretty hot," McG said to uproarious applause.
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Long-time compounding pharmacy Liggett's is leaving Lugoff and Kershaw County to relocate and merge with Landy's Pharmacy on Clemson Road in Columbia.
Saturday, residents from across the county gathered along Broad Street in Camden to celebrate the 2015 holiday season at the Kershaw County Christmas Parade.
Next spring, the town of Elgin will host The ALPHA Center's annual Community Friendship Fiesta, a community picnic celebrating Hispanic culture and multiculturalism. The tentative date of the event will be Saturday, April 6 at Potter Community Park from 4 to 7 p.m.
The Kershaw County School District (KCSD) unveiled a new mobile app at Tuesday night's meeting of the Kershaw County Board of School Trustees. The app, a free download, gives users quick and easy access to school and district information, news and notifications. It is available for use on Apple and Android products.
The annual Boykin Christmas parade will be held Sunday, Dec. 20 at 2 p.m. The parade, known for its out of the ordinary and quirky floats, began 22 years ago. "I said, 'One of these years we should have a Christmas parade.' Bill Bundy said why not this year? This was at the Swift Creek Church at a community meeting," parade organizer Alice Boykin said. A Gospel Concert will follow the parade and will feature local church choirs from Broomhill, St. Stephen's and other churches.
South Carolina currently ranks first for incidents of domestic violence against women. Domestic violence victims often need legal and emotional support to get through an abusive relationship. Sistercare, a partner agency of the United Way of Kershaw County, is an organization which provides support for women and their children in Kershaw County who are in a situation of domestic violence.
Saturday marked the 46th year of the Marion DuPont Scott Colonial Cup. Cup attendees enjoyed crisp fall weather and infield activities such as the popular Terrier races, Military Salute and petting zoo. A new addition to this year's Colonial Cup was its designation as "Ladies Day at the Races." Chief Executive Officer of the Carolina Cup Racing Association Nick Ellis said this year's theme was to honor the contributions women have made specifically to the Colonial Cup. The Colonial Cup was established by Camden resident Marion DuPont Scott, whom the Cup is named after. Ellis said Scott's ...
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Two extensive international studies have independently identified DNA mutations that have a big impact on the risk of schizophrenia. Using different methods, two research groups found that people missing specific "chunks" of DNA run a much higher risk of schizophrenia.
Although the DNA mutations are found in only 1% of people living with schizophrenia, the mutations increase the risk of developing schizophrenia in the first place by as much as 15-fold.
The results of the studies, headed by Dr. Pamela Sklar of Massachusetts General Hospital and Dr. Kari Stefansson of Decode Genetics in Iceland, suggest that the genetic component of schizophrenia is a large number of rare variations, rather than a few common variations.
In other words, the genetic mutations causing schizophrenia may not be consistent across the population. The disease may be driven by a constant flow of new mutations.
Dr. Sklar told the Associated Press that it is not unusual for a very rare cause of a disease to provide insights that apply more generally, even though they may not represent a breakthrough tied to a cure. They may eventually suggest "new avenues" for researching new therapies, she told Reuters news services.
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I'm pretty sure all you do is use your magic hammer to splat bad guys upside their fool heads. But I haven't read the instruction manual.
The warning label reads "animated blood." I'm glad that the game does not include real blood .
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By Jeff Fishbein
For the Mirror
LEWISTOWN - Huntingdon came to play.
That was pretty much the consensus Monday after the visiting Bearcats shelved Lewistown's hopes of advancing in the District 6 Class AAA softball bracket, defeating the Panthers, 8-1.
If offense sells tickets and defense wins games, Huntingdon went from the box office to the winner's circle without blinking. The Bearcats put five runs on the board with eight hits in the first two innings, and completely shut down the home team's efforts except for a two-run blip in the sixth.
The first batter at the plate set the tone. Huntingdon's Brionna Mort dropped a ball in center for a triple to lead off, and Alexyss Spencer dropped a sacrifice bunt to score the run in the No. 2 spot. Two more runners on base later in the frame didn't pay off, but the best was yet to come, offensively.
Toni Strait opened the second for the Bearcats with another triple; there were four more base hits in the inning, three of them after Lewistown recorded the second out. Spencer drove in her second run of the game, while Cheyanne Snyder plated two with a single. One run scored on a wild pitch, another runner was waiting on third after boarding when she was hit by a pitch - enough to force the first pitching change for the Panthers.
Bearcats coach Chris Patrick thought his team was reacting to its being taken lightly - not a huge surprise when the squad came into the bracket at 7-11.
"I think so, and I think it took the wind out of their sails a little bit," Patrick said. "We were able to deflate them and we were able to stay on an even keel."
"I told the girls, they could beat us, and they beat us," Lewistown coach Don Stonerook said. "Our problem was we gave them too many runs. We didn't make the plays. Today just wasn't our day."
On the other side of the book, Huntingdon simply didn't allow Lewistown the chance to do any damage in return. Three innings were almost over before the Panthers had a runner on base; two more passed before anyone on the home side got past first. Some of it was routine play in the infield, but there were some superb catches on lasers off the Lewistown bats - Spencer stopped two of those at short; Katie Kurtz dived for one to end the game.
"We put it all together, just not always at the same time. But we did enough to win," Patrick said. "I'm pleased with our effort today."
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From the Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University, St Louis, Mo (Dr Brenner), and the Departments of Otolaryngology (Drs Hoistad and Hain), Neurology (Dr Hain), and Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences (Dr Hain), Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill. The authors have no relevant financial interest in this article.
To estimate the prevalence of hypothyroidism in a population of patients with Ménière's disease (MD).
Retrospective case-control study comparing the use of thyroid hormone supplements between patients with MD and controls.
Outpatient neurology clinic specializing in the management of patients experiencing dizziness.
Fifty patients who met the 1995 American Academy of Otolaryngology criteria for MD and 50 controls matched for age and sex also experiencing dizziness.
The 50 patients who met the criteria for MD were identified from a database of more than 2000 patients with dizziness seen over a 5-year period. Of these, 16 (32%) were taking thyroid hormone supplements in contrast to 2 (4%) of the 50 matched controls (P<.001). The median age of the patients with MD was 60 years, and 5 (19%) of the 26 patients younger than 60 years were taking thyroid hormone supplements, compared with 11 (46%) of 24 patients 60 years or older (P<.05). There were no statistically significant differences in the severity of hearing loss, pattern of hearing loss, or prevalence of bilateral hearing loss between patients with MD who were taking thyroid hormone supplements and patients with MD who were not.
Ménière's disease is associated with corrected hypothyroidism.
MÉNIÈRE'S DISEASE (MD), first described by Ménière in 1861, is a disorder characterized by episodic vertigo, hearing loss, tinnitus, and aural fullness.1 Although the association of MD with endolymphatic hydrops is well recognized, the precise etiology of MD remains unknown and may be multifactorial. Previous studies that attempted to determine the prevalence of hypothyroidism among patients with MD before sensitive tests of thyroid function were available resulted in prevalence estimates that varied from 3% to 17%.2- 5 We sought to determine whether patients with MD were more likely to have treated hypothyroid disease than a control group of patients with dizziness alone.
For this retrospective case-control study, we searched a computerized text database consisting of all clinic notes for more than 2000 patients seen over a 5-year period by the same physician (T.C.H.) and identified several hundred records with the mention of MD. Patients with potentially confounding diseases were excluded. Criteria for exclusion were a history of cerebrovascular accident, multiple sclerosis, the Arnold-Chiari malformation, major psychiatric disturbance, seizures, or other otologic disease including glomus tumor, congenital hearing loss, otitis media, cholesteatoma, otosclerosis, perilymphatic fistula, vestibular neuritis, labyrinthitis, posttraumatic vertigo, otosyphilis, or previous ear surgery for a reason other than MD.
From this pool of patients, 50 were found to meet the criteria determined by the 1995 American Academy of Otolaryngology for MD.1 From the same 2000-patient database, a control group, matched for age and sex, of 50 patients with dizziness but no history of hearing loss, tinnitus, or aural fullness was generated randomly.
All patients diagnosed with MD were classified as having unilateral or bilateral involvement based on the diagnostic criteria described by Kitahara,6 with the exception that, in accordance with the 1995 American Academy of Otolaryngology criteria for unilateral MD,1 a hearing loss documented by audiogram did not need to fluctuate to be considered significant.
Patients in the MD pool who had been prescribed thyroid hormone supplements among their medications were contacted by telephone. They were asked about the cause of their thyroid disease, the possibility of an association of that disease with MD symptoms, and whether they had a history of systemic autoimmune diseases.
Of the 50 patients with MD and a documented significant hearing loss, 16 (32%) had been prescribed thyroid supplements compared with 2 (4%) in the control group. The χ2-test comparison of thyroid supplement use by patients with MD and by a control group of patients with dizziness alone and matched for age and sex was highly significant (P<.001).
There was a significant interaction between thyroid use and age among the 50 study patients. Their median age was 60 years, and 5 (19%) of the 26 patients younger than 60 years were taking thyroid hormone supplements, compared with 11 (46%) of the 24 patients 60 years and older (P<.05).
An analysis of audiograms of the patients with MD is shown in Table 1. There were no statistically significant differences in the severity of hearing loss or the prevalence of bilateral hearing loss in the patients with MD who were taking thyroid hormone supplements compared with those who were not.
All 16 patients taking thyroid supplements were contacted. No consistent temporal relationship between the onset of thyroid disease and the onset of MD was noted. Three patients believed that elevated or depressed levels of circulating thyroid hormone influenced their MD symptoms. None of the patients taking thyroid hormone supplements reported a history of thyroid cancer or surgery. In addition to having corrected hypothyroidism, 4 patients also had one of the following systemic autoimmune diseases: severe rheumatoid arthritis; CREST syndrome (calcinosis cutis, Raynaud phenomenon, esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasia); Sjögren's syndrome; and systemic lupus erythematosus.
We found a significantly higher rate of thyroid hormone supplement use among patients with MD (32%) than among controls matched for age and sex (4%). We further found that more than 50% of MD patients older than 60 years were taking thyroid hormone supplements, which greatly exceeds the rate of thyroid hormone supplementation in the general population. There have been no recent studies of the prevalence of thyroid disease among patients with MD. In the older literature, Pulec and House4 reported that 3% of 120 patients with MD had a history of hypothyroidism and Powers3 found hypothyroidism in 17% of his MD subjects. Thus, our more recent survey shows a higher incidence of hypothyroidism. This finding may be caused by the recent availability of high-sensitivity thyroid-stimulating hormone tests for hypothyroidism, which has made it possible for persons with less severe thyroid dysfunction to be diagnosed and treated.7
It is unlikely that the association of thyroid dysfunction with age is solely a reflection of the higher overall prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in the elderly population, as the prevalence of thyroid disease in persons older than 55 years is less than 10%.8- 11 Thus, our data support the possibility of a much higher prevalence of thyroid medication use in patients with MD in general, and an especially high prevalence in older patients.
Autoimmune thyroid disease is the most common autoimmune disorder in the population of the United States,12 and thyroid supplementation is highly correlated with that disease. In a recent study by Diez13 of 655 patients with hypothyroidism, Hashimoto disease accounted for 47% of all cases, followed by postoperative hypothyroidism (26.7%), an unknown cause (13.1%), and therapy for a previous hyperthyroidism (9.6%). None of the patients taking thyroid hormone supplements in our study had a history of thyroid surgery or thyroid ablation. Thus, autoimmune thyroiditis is the most likely diagnosis in our patients taking the supplements.
There are several possible explanations for our findings. Historically, a number of investigators initially suggested that the metabolic changes occuring in hypothyroidism were capable of producing the symptoms seen in MD.2,5,14- 17 Others later refuted this explanation, however.18- 21
Another possibility would be that autoimmune thyroid disease may directly cause some cases of MD; yet, this also seems unlikely as a clear association between MD and clinically significant autoimmune thyroid disease (ie, disease requiring treatment) has been reported in only a handful of patients.21- 26
A less direct connection might be a shared susceptibility factor between autoimmune thyroid disease and MD. Autoimmunity remains a potential mechanism for some cases of MD.27- 31 This idea is supported by our observation that 4 of the patients taking thyroid hormone supplements had comorbid systemic autoimmune diseases. Both autoimmune thyroid disease and autoimmune MD might derive from an underlying common susceptibility to autoimmune disturbance.
Our findings demonstrate an association between active MD and thyroid hypofunction. Clinicians should therefore consider screening for thyroid dysfunction in patients with MD who are not already taking supplements. The likelihood of finding hypothyroidism is highest in MD patients older than 60 years.
Corresponding author: Timothy C. Hain, MD, Northwestern University, Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, 645 N Michigan Ave, Suite 1100, Chicago, IL 60611-3008 (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com).
Submitted for publication November 18, 2002; final revision May 6, 2003; accepted June 24, 2003.
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Police filed charges against two women who they said were driving drunk and in possession of drugs when they were pulled over Saturday in Wormleysburg.
A West Shore Regional police officer first noticed a vehicle driving erratically and weaving in and out of oncoming traffic on North Front Street near Stella Street just before 2 a.m. Saturday, according to a police press release. When the officer pulled the vehicle over in the 800 block of Hillside Drive, both occupants were heavily intoxicated, police said.
The vehicle, a green 2001 Mitsubishi Galant, was also displaying a expired Ohio license plate, according to the release.
The driver, Kadiatu Bangura, was charged with a single count each for driving under the influence and driving without registration. Drug paraphernalia was also located in the car, police said.
A passenger in the vehicle, identified as Karly Ann Schmidhamer, of the 800 block of West Foxcroft Drive in Wormleysburg, was cited for disorderly conduct and released from the scene to a relative, police said.
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Florida State ball boy and Internet legend Frankie Grizzle-Malgrat, aka Red Lightning, is continuing his media tour following FSU's BCS National Championship victory over Auburn.
ESPN Radio's Colin Cowherd caught up with Red Lightning for a lighthearted interview where we learn FSU's ball boy tried his hand at rap.
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IT'S A LITTLE surprising to hear former Fox 29 anchor Dawn Stensland describe herself as feeling "empowered" these days.
In the last 18 months, she lost her TV anchor job, suffered a miscarriage and watched as a sexually charged public scandal humiliated her TV anchor husband Larry Mendte and led to his firing, conviction and house arrest.
"We all have our cross to bear. No matter what a person is going through," she says, as her voice breaks and she wipes tears away. "For women, put on your best game face, put on your best girdle and you just gotta go."


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Arto Halonen, Producer/Director
Arto Halonen has directed numerous films, including the documentary films Pavlov's Dogs, Conquistadors of Cuba, The Tank Man, The Star's Caravan, A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe, and Karmapa – Two Ways of Divinity. In 2005 the Minister of Culture in Finland awarded Arto Halonen the Finland Prize, the highest annual prize in the arts given by the Ministry of Culture and the state. Among other prizes, he has received the Humanitarian Award of the European Union in 1998. Halonen is also the founder and the first festival director of the DocPoint, the Helsinki Documentary Film Festival.
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Michelle Herrmann has three major loves: Pilates, Dance and the French language. Throughout her college career, she was lucky enough to study all three. She began her college career at Hofstra University on Long Island, NY. After two years, she returned home to Towson, MD to attend Goucher College. She has enjoyed dancing in the works of Gloria McLean, Lance Westergard, Larry Keigwin, Juliet Forrest, and Tiffany Mills. It was her love of dance that lead her to the Pilates Method, and it was at Goucher where she was first introduced to the Romana's Pilates technique. After graduating from Goucher in 2007, she decided to move to Aix-en-Provence, France and begin her Pilates training while fine-tuning her French skills. While in France she worked directly with Sonia Hererria, but also with Philippe Taupin in Paris. In October of 2008 she finished up her training at the Romana's headquarters in NYC. After 700 hours of training, Michelle received her Level 5 IITP Pilates Teacher Certification from Romana's Pilates in January 2009. She believes that her training is unique and rich because of the wide spectrum of instructors and trainers she has worked with; each teacher provides a special insight into the technique and that is what she focuses on as a teacher. Michelle is currently teaching back at home, Goucher College, with a great team of instructors.


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Bank-bound anglers who fish St. Tammany's pier jutting out into Lake Pontchartrain will have access to some enhanced fishing habitat when the pier finally reopens.
Contractors had gotten set up to begin deployment of the "St. Tammany Fishing Pier Reef" on Wednesday, but strong northwest winds made conditions unsafe. They'll try again on Monday, according to David Cresson of the Coastal Conservation Association, one of the organizations funding the reef installation.
This reef is similar to the South Shore Reef and Kim and Dudley Vandenborre Reef, both of which were constructed with broken-up pieces of the old Interstate-10 Twin Spans. The bridges were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Unlike the other two reefs, though, the St. Tammany Fishing Pier Reef will employ smaller bits of concrete, according to Cresson. Material in the other reefs is 12 to 24 inches in size, but the new reef's material will be considerably finer -- 6 to 8 inches, Cresson said.
"We're hoping that will reduce the number of snags encountered by young people fishing off the pier," he said.
When deployment of the reef begins, workers will set out to drop the 5,000 to 6,000 tons of debris in 50- to 100-foot strips that will be accessible from each of the crosswalks that connect the parallel 1,500-foot piers.
"Not everybody owns a boat," Cresson said. "Building of the pier and enhancement of the habitat is a way for shore-bound anglers to experience Lake Pontchartrain fishing at its best."
Cresson said full deployment of the reef would take a week to 10 days, weather-permitting.
"That being the case, you should start seeing a bunch of fish on the reef by the May-June time frame, which is really prime time in the lake," he said.


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Such was the scene when about 50 women from local Red Hat Society chapters attended the Tiffin Area Red Hat Society Christmas Luncheon Wednesday at Camden Falls in Tiffin. Bad weather caused the luncheon to be postponed from its original Dec. 5 date. The Gadabouts, headed by Queen Donna Brose, served as hosts for this year's gathering.
"We have not hosted it before, but it's been going on for several years … Each year, a different chapter hosts it," Brose said.
Nancy Frisch served as mistress of ceremonies. She introduced the chapters attending, which included Chapeau Rouge Dames, Crimson Cuties, Crystal Belles, Kiwanis Manor Ramblin' Red Hatters, Red Hat Cuties, Red Hatters of Seneca County and Serenity and Roses. Frisch also called for a moment of silence in honor of members who had died recently or who are ill.
The ladies enjoyed seasonal music by Nancy Harlett, who shared trivia about many of the songs and invited participants to sing with her. Harlett also offered a special tune for ladies celebrating December birthdays.
The tables were decorated with small evergreen trees dotted with red bows and mini-gift boxes. Lunch included a salad buffet, baked potato bar and dessert. Nancy Brose of Country Crafts had a table of Red Hat merchandise for sale. The women submitted bids in a silent auction for Red Hat accessories, throws and stationery. Attendees also bought chances on a hand-quilted a Red Hat wall hanging made by Gadabout member Ann Wright.
"She donated it completely, so everything goes to F.A.C.T.," Brose said.
Beverly Hoover of Tiffin was named as the winner. The raffle brought in more than $220 for Financial Assistance for Cancer Treatment. During the lunch, members of the various chapters also mingled and shared ideas for day trips and other activities they had enjoyed during the year.
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At A Glance
LocationThe 377-acre Western/Slauson Redevelopment Project is located approximately 10 miles south of downtown. The project was adopted in 1996 as a result of the 1992 civil disturbances. The Project Area is bounded by Vernon Avenue to the north, Van Ness Avenue to the west, 80th Street to the south, and Vermont Avenue to the east. There are five commercial corridors: Western, Normandie, and Vermont avenues (north-south); and Slauson and Florence avenues (east-west).
Project GoalsTo rehabilitate existing businesses;To expand the community's retail and industrial base; andTo create living-wage jobs.
Conditions at Time of AdoptionThe civil disturbance of April 1992 caused damage to 55 properties in the Project Area and called attention to longstanding problems:• Nearly all (95.8 percent) of the buildings in the Project Area needed some type of repair.• Of these 655 buildings, 138 had vacancy levels greater than 20 percent.• The buildings were outdated, and the properties were small and irregularly shaped.• Curbs, gutters, and sidewalks were in a general state of disrepair and deterioration.• Public improvements, including a substandard and outdated traffic circulation system, were inadequate.• There was a high crime rate.
Our Key Accomplishments CRA/LA successfully defended a legal challenge to our adoption of the Western Slauson Recovery Redevelopment Project Area.
Western Avenue. The 56-unit Amistad Plaza low-income residential development on South Western Avenue was completed in 2001, and by December 2002 the first tenants began moving in. Several apartments are equipped for mobility-impaired individuals.
Phase I of a Commercial Facade and Signage Program was completed in 2003. The program provided five property owners and 12 businesses with up to $25,000 to improve their storefronts.
Phase I of a Streetscape Program was completed. Phase II has begun with the design and installation of more trees along Western Avenue south of Florence Avenue to 80th Street.
CRA/LA helped fund public improvements in the industrial area at 60th Street west of Western Avenue. We purchased the property at the northeast corner of Western and Gage avenues that serves as a traffic median. The property will be landscaped and will serve as a gateway improvement site.
We are in the process of purchasing a 2.8-acre site at the northwest corner of 60th Street and Western Avenue. Future construction on this site will house stores and other businesses, as well as manufacturing facilities.
West Slauson Avenue. Chesterfield Square, a 23-acre retail shopping center—the largest commercial development in the Project Area—was completed in 2001. We also made streetscape improvements.
The West Slauson Residential Rehabilitation Program has begun with the selection of a program facilitator.
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BELOIT - A community dinner of chicken and biscuits will be served from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at the West Branch High School cafeteria.
Cost is $8 for adults and $5 for children. Carryouts are available (bring containers). A basket raffle with over 30 baskets and a silent auction will be held during dinner and throughout the night while the Warriors face Alliance in boys basketball.
Among the auction items are an Ohio State basket, LEGO basket, Kalahari Indoor Water Park basket and a gift card wreath valued at $150. Tickets for the raffle baskets are $1 each or six for $5. Doors open at 4 p.m. and winning tickets will be drawn after halftime of the basketball game. Winners need not be present. All winners will be contacted by phone.
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Members of the community are invited to a dinner of chicken and biscuits to be served from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at the West Branch High School cafeteria. A basket raffle with over 30 baskets and a silent auction will also be conducted. Pictured are some of the baskets and some of the students who have volunteered to help with the dinner, from left, Emily Menegay, Bailey Polinori, Kaitlyn Edie, Zac McMullen and Andrew Edie. (Submitted photo)
The dinner and raffle are sponsored by the "Keep US West Branch" levy committee which also has the following community activities planned: March 2, a Cosmic Bowling event is planned with a DJ and prizes from 3 to 5 p.m. at College Plaza Lanes in Alliance; April 7, The Harlem Wizards will be playing a Tricks, Hoops and Ally Oops against the "Keep US West Branch" faculty and community basketball team.
Tickets for the basketball game will be on sale at the West Branch athletic department; and on May 3, a community parade will be held prior to the prom promenade at West Branch High School.
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Clarence Town Supervisor David C. Hartzell Jr. has submitted a tentative 2013 town budget with a tax levy of $10.88 million, up 0.7 percent from the current spending plan.
Total appropriations in the tentative spending plan are $21.3 million. The general fund tax rate in the tentative budget is $1.04 per $1,000 of assessed value, down from the current $1.05.
The Town Board is scheduled to meet to start reviewing the budget at 3 p.m. Thursday at Town Hall.


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The Blushin' Roulettes
Hailing from the Mendocino coast, The Blushin' Roulettes deliver old-time tunes with a modern twist deeply rooted in a feminine perspective. Songwriter/guitarist Angela Rose belts her sweet and sultry tunes of damsels in their bliss and distress in a warbling vibrato often compared to Iris Dement and Dolly Parton. The often quirky, funny stage presence and earnestly loving interplay among band members reflects the small-town closeness of the kindred rotating cast of characters, which includes Buddy Stubbs (who has played with such greats as Neil Young and the Byrds) on soulfully gritty lead guitar and Cas Sochacki on dobro and sassy baritone duets.
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God Language
A language that attempts to be everything to everybody, or at least address frequently-reoccurring concerns such as concurrency, security, collection-handling, persistence, scaling, distributed programming, exception handling, etc.
For comparison, the opposite is generally separate services that attempt to be app-language neutral.
Top's term for his personal experience of
. {And for any language that isn't
Paul Graham's
would probably be a new form of Lisp with lots of libraries. I don't entirely disagree with that, but doubt it fits in with developers' existing human nature well. And, I doubt he'd buy the view that heavy types and objects will save the universe.
I've told you a million times, stop exaggerating! "Save the universe," indeed! However, when the requirements dictate "heavy types" (whatever those are) and objects, it's nice to have them. A
, as described at the top of this page, sounds great. So does a new form of Lisp with lots of libraries.
The "requirements"? And is exaggeration different than
? I can't keep your sin classification system strait.
Don't you mean "straight"? Exaggeration is different from
. Exaggeration is "objects will save the universe", i.e., gross hyperbole.
is "Paul Graham's
would probably be a new form of Lisp with lots of libraries", i.e., idle speculation without evidence.
Yes, "requirements". Y'know, those things that users are asking for, i.e., the reasons we write software.
Usually, it's an implementation decision, not a fundamental requirement.
Implementation decisions may be arbitrary, but they shouldn't be. They should be based on requirements.
That's the million-dollar issue: how to turn software design from an art into a practical science. When there's too many variables involved, people tend to pick their favorite variables and
Why can't it be both? Since every new application is a unique creation, software development is obviously a craft. Crafts -- which range from making ornate cutlery to constructing skyscrapers -- are equal parts art, engineering, and science.
The majority of the sky-scraper project has to be tested via the laws of physics. For the most part those are not a matter of opinion. (Disputes about the physics of buildings can usually be settled by using math and models. In some cases the economics of testing certain scenarios to their fullest may be an issue.) Different designs can be tested against the laws of physics in a fairly straight-forward way. Physics is the elephant in the room as far as dictating options. There's nothing of comparable size in software engineering. Machine performance is the closest, but it has gradually been shrinking over time such that the "art" side of things is larger and larger component percentage-wise. (Generally I see the mid 1970's as the break-even point where software issues appeared to pass hardware issues in importance. This is based on "software crisis" sort of articles that started popping up around that time.) Engineering doesn't have the type of great holy-wars and fad-cycles that software-engineering does. The
variety of different solution paths
appears far greater in software engineering than in physical engineering.
To be useful, software is ultimately constrained by functional and non-functional requirements, and perhaps aesthetics. This also applies to most craft objects. The variety of different solution paths for these is infinite, but frequently constrained in practice by tradition. The construction of skyscrapers owes as much to tradition as it does to physics.
Some of this comes from fear of getting sued (
). If you try something without a history and it fails, you are far more likely to lose in a court case. In software we can take far greater risks with new tools and approaches in comparison because people are less likely to die. (Imagine being paid to build software for a medical safety device, you'd be far more likely to select Ada than
. In other words, something that's been used in the field for a decade or two.)
As for H
obbyHorsing, yes, I've noticed your inclination to view everything through
glasses. [moved closer to reply]
Catoring to
s is not necessarily a bad thing. Fitting the
of the developer can result in productivity gains I contend. But I don't claim that my HH will fit every mind. I don't claim One True Language/Paradigm/Methodology. You, on the other hand, seem to imply a logically-discoverable Single Right Way. But your justification and demonstration is very round-about and devoid of examinable scenarios/tests. Related:
{Your view of the role of science is naive and, frankly, incorrect. You think the role of science and logic is 'discovery' of concepts - things that can be demonstrated. What science does is 'kill' models and concepts. Science is a rather negative discipline that forever says "you're wrong" and never, ever says "you're right". The best you can hope for science to say is: "I haven't figured out why your hypothesis is wrong. Yet.", and for it to say the same thing for long enough - under enough
observations - that the hypothesis becomes a theory. Further, from
, much the same can be said of mathematics and computation: math can prove some true things true, and some false things false, but there will forever be a gap where one cannot prove anything at all. That you imagine logical models derived of science would find a "Single Right Way" (or establish
"Right Way") mostly tells me that you really, truly, don't grok science.}
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{The person you assert as claiming a "Single Right Way" has
claimed any such thing, and is rather insulted by your fabricated lies and insinuations. There is a meta-physical universe of difference between achieving a "Single Right Way" and simply rejecting the "Known Wrong Ways".}
Well, all stated "Known Wrong Ways" seem to punch out a pattern in the paper that strongly resembles the type-centric
concept when held up to the light. Technically you may be right. In practice it's merely a round-about version of "Single Right Way".
{In practice, it's an attempt to systematically and incrementally achieve progress. Your insinuations about a "Single Right Way" are malicious and vile attempts to associate a reasonable approach with something absurd that you may then attack - a
. Your entire line of sophistry on this issue is insulting.}
If I mischaracterized it, it's because you failed to supply sufficient details, not because I am evil.
it being better so that my description of it doesn't matter. You could say, "code snippet 5 shows that you are wrong because line 7 doesn't have to wait for message X to make an estimate...etc..."
. Show your grand language/tool kicking P/R's butt in semi-realistic scenarios. Show you understand working with the real world instead of merely diddling with idealistic ivory-tower toys.
Show Don't Talk.
{And your comment on type-centrism is ridiculous, but is more likely because in your skewed perceptions you imagine any mention of 'types' in any context whatsoever is equivalent to raising them to a central position.
(in the broad sense: proving programs won't have undefined behavior - a practice that might not involve "types" at all) is important to almost every other language feature, but
are not; of those, the former is of questionable value (not enough data on
), and the latter is (if required) very problematic.}
You confuse me with someone else. I have, on occasion, countered ill-considered or poorly-defended (see
) criticism (mostly yours). I have, on occasion, expressed personal interest in
, the
, but I neither promote nor deprecate any of these. As a scientist, I only promote rigour and deprecate imprecision.
I suggest you create a handle and
so that I don't confuse you with bracket guy (if you are different than bracket guy....bracket guys?).
I have a
, but I believe in an
. I suggest you address the text in front of you, within the discussion(s) in which it appears, rather than make sweeping statements about who you assume I am.
. I am sometimes bracket guy, sometimes italics guy, sometimes plain text guy, and sometimes all on one page, solely as needed to disambiguate points within a thread.
There's implications of prior debates floating around. I'll try to point them out if they appear again.
High-End of Each Idiom
Those proposing a
on this wiki generally seem to want to take the "best known" common idioms of computing, such as concurrency, security, collection-handling, persistence, scaling, distributed programming, exception handling, etc. For example, it will come built-in with the best (alleged) security techniques known.
I see at least two potential problems with this. First, it will give it a high learning curve. Even if one only wants the basics of one of the aspects for a given project, say basic concurrency, one has to learn how the top-of-the-line security system works. It's like being forced to learn how to use a tractor when a shovel would be sufficient.
The second is that a new "best known" idiom may come along, making existing code obsolete. Perhaps it may require a complete change of the language even to effectively use the newcomer.
The high-end chase puts a lot of faith in
. -t
I disagree. I don't need to know how top-of-the-line
works in order to add numbers in a language possessing a garbage collector, and I won't need to know how top-of-the-line security works to learn and use standard concurrency and concurrency-control idioms. Admittedly,
probably needs to think about security properties when developing concurrency-control patterns (lest they introduce high risk of
as a
attack), but that burden should be on the standard library or language designer rather than on individual users. And though a particular means of expressing concurrency or collection-handling might be considered 'idioms' and become obsolete, the concurrency and collection concepts will be around for as long as we have at least 2 CPUs in this world. Sure, if a language becomes obsolete, some people might need to learn new language skills - but they'll never need to relearn
. Such is the nature of progress.
The basic concepts of security may still be there, but not necessarily the details of the language interface. There are usually many ways to express the same things.
Also, language design isn't
. If it were truly BDUF, you'd never hear of something like "algol derived" languages, you would not be able to trace lineages of language. The only reasonable way to understand language design is as an iterative process, with versioning and forks and plenty of history and experimentation to study.
But the iterative path may be much larger for a language that attempts to integrate so many concepts.
Sure. Why is that a problem?
There is only one God language.
Well. That explains a few things....
{I classify Lisp as a meta-language, not a language. However, I'm sure we can
this up the wazoo.}
Under which conditions is a meta-language not also a language?
[Like many general-purpose programming languages, Lisp can be used to define sublanguages within its own environment. It shares this capability with FORTH, C/C++ with macro pre-processing, and many others. However, these are all regarded to be languages that have meta-language capability. None would be considered to be "a meta-language, not a language". In that category (assuming by "language" you mean "programming language") are specialists like
. You seem to be emphasising Lisp's
capability to the point of excluding everything else it does. In typical practice, its
capability is of relatively minor importance.]
{One gets a different answer no matter which Lisp affectionado they ask.}
[Maybe, but the rest of my point holds true. Categorising Lisp as "a meta-language, not a language" is incorrect regardless which Lisp "affectionado" anyone asks.]
, I wonder, has anybody tried to make an app programming language based on
? Naurtran? Back++?}
[I don't know. I wonder, has anybody tried to make a cheese based on a bicycle?]
Close enough?
People have developed languages based on Knuth's
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The crisis, we think, has long since been declared. Critical theory, deconstruction, and the manifold critique of ideology, meant the lucid undoing of any complacent faith in human reason, progress, language, or consequence.
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General manager Scott Howson has said time and time again that the team is prepared to trade the draft pick to bring in immediate help for the team.
Then a couple weeks ago, rumors emerged that the Blue Jackets and Philadelphia Flyers had been in discussions about sending the first-round pick as well as Jakub Voracek to the Flyers for 26-year-old Jeff Carter.
As the rumors began to intensify, Carter's agent, via NHL.com, stated that Carter had talked to Flyers GM Paul Holmgren and that he was not going to be traded.
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October 28, 2010 | Expert Commentary | The regenerative medicine field has seen an intense effort in recent years to find new strategies for creating stem cells without the use of embryos. An exciting recent advance has been the generation of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells which are derived from somatic cells, rather than embryos, through a process of "de-differentiation." The ability to reprogram somatic cells into pluripotent stem cells, which in turn can generate virtually any cell type, opens the door to customized therapies using a patient's own cells.
The first reports of iPS cell derivation, published in 2006 and 2007 by the groups of Shinya Yamanaka, Rudolf Jaenisch (Whitehead Institute), and James Thomson, involved the overexpression of four transcription factors: Oct4 and Sox2 with either Klf4 and c-Myc (in mouse cells) or with Nanog and Lin28 in human somatic cells. Numerous reports since then have expanded upon these seminal findings, using normal and diseased somatic cells as a starting source. Not surprisingly, several biotech companies are attempting to commercialize iPS cell technologies. These include iPierian which has a formal collaboration with Yamanaka; Fate Therapeutics which was co-founded by Jaenisch; and Cellular Dynamics International, which was co-founded by Thomson.
The relative technical ease and the robustness of iPS cell generation methods suggest that the technical and cost barriers to market entry may be relatively low. For this reason, effective intellectual property (IP) protection will be more important for successful commercialization than in some other fields. A handful of groups are vying for the first and, more importantly, the broadest patent protection typically awarded to pioneers in a nascent technology. Some of the first iPS cell patents have already been granted in the US, Japan and the UK.
The first iPS cell patent, Japanese Patent 2008-131577, based on Yamanaka's work, was issued to Kyoto University on September 2, 2008. The patent claims priority to December 2005 and covers iPS cell generation methods using reprogramming factors. Similar subject matter is being pursued but has not yet been patented in the US or Europe.
A second iPS cell patent, UK Patent 2450603, based on the work of Kazuhiro Sakurada, was issued to iPierian on February 10, 2010. The patent claims priority to June 2007 and covers iPS cell generation methods using the reprogramming factors Oct4, Sox2, and Klf4, but not c-Myc. (Myc-independent reprogramming methods reflect an improvement aimed at reducing the risk of tumor formation from iPS cells, therefore making iPS cells more clinically attractive.) Similar subject matter is being pursued but has not yet been patented in Europe and Australia. Both of these patents took advantage of relatively recent "fast-track" prosecution routes in Japan and the UK.
A third iPS cell patent, US Patent 7,682,828, based on the work of Jaenisch, was issued to the Whitehead Institute on March 23, 2010, and is exclusively licensed to Fate Therapeutics. This patent claims priority to November 2003, predating the first published reports of iPS cell generation by almost three years. It covers compositions of somatic cells that harbor an exogenous reprogramming factor and a selectable marker under the control of an endogenous "pluripotency" promoter such as an Oct4 or Sox2 promoter. Such cells may be useful for the identification of new reprogramming factors that co-operate with or replace known factors.
The commercial value of patents related to regenerative medicine will hinge on what ultimately proves to be clinically efficacious. The rapidly evolving iPS cell field continues to advance as groups vie to develop and identify the most clinically efficacious and robust methods and compositions. For example, the first-generation transgenic methods discussed above have been replaced with protein transduction methods or substitution of reprogramming factors with chemical compounds. Other groups have generated neuronal and pancreatic cells through a process of "trans-differentiation", which involves expression of factors from differentiated, rather than pluripotent, cells and presumably does not require de-differentiation to a pluripotent stage. At first glance, these methods and their resultant cells would not appear to be encumbered by iPS cell patents requiring expression of exogenous early, rather than late, factors and transition through an immature, pluripotent state.
It remains to be seen which of the known stem cell types will be the most clinically successful and whether any one stem cell type will be universally applicable. Consequently, it is also unclear which of the related patents will be the most commercially valuable. However, the intense interest in this field and the resulting fast-paced technological advancements will generate new IP niches that will in turn be exploited commercially by existing or new players.
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A strong aftershock has jolted southwestern China, killing at least two people, destroying 70,000 homes and rattling millions still reeling from the massive earthquake two weeks ago.
The aftershock, the strongest to hit Sichuan province since the 12 May quake, came as the death toll from the initial tremor topped 62,500, and as more foreign aid poured into the disaster zone.
Relief workers raced to reach those in need as the already tough conditions for millions of survivors living in makeshift camps worsened, with rain falling throughout the day and forecasters predicting heavy downpours overnight.
The aftershock measured 6.4 on the Richter scale, making it the strongest since the 7.9 quake that destroyed large swathes of Sichuan two weeks ago.
Two people were killed and more than 480 injured, 41 of them seriously, in the aftershock, with the city of Guangyuan, north of the provincial capital Chengdu, particularly hard hit.
The aftershock compounded fears of further destruction stemming from the disaster, the worst earthquake in China in more than 30 years.
The government said the quake had left 69 dams in danger of bursting and created 'dangerous situations' at hundreds of others.
The death toll continues to rise, with the government putting the figure at 62,664, with another 23,775 listed as missing.
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Aid continues to pour into the region for the more than 5.4m homeless survivors and more than 11m people who China says are expected to be evacuated from quake-hit areas to temporary camps.
A Russian military transport plane touched down before dawn in Chengdu, one of 12 Russian flights expected as China works to help the millions affected.
With the hope of finding more survivors all but extinguished, the focus is now on clean-up and reconstruction operations, although state media reported today that an elderly man was freed unhurt from the collapsed remains of his home 11 days after the quake.
Grief turned to anger for about two dozen parents of children killed in the quake, who staged a rare protest today demanding a probe into whether shoddy school construction was to blame for the deaths of their children.
The parents, many of them clutching framed photos of their dead children, held the demonstration on a highway leading out of the quake-devastated town of Mianzhu.
A large number of schools collapsed, even though some neighbouring structures remained standing, adding to suspicions that corrupt practices had left children at risk.
State media has said 9,000 teachers or schoolchildren are among the dead and missing.
In addition to the Russian flights, a French medical team has arrived in Chengdu, the US Army has already flown in supplies and the German Red Cross has set up a field hospital.


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Has nobody else applied there? I seem to be the only person on TSR, wait, only person on this PLANET who has applied there...
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I'v applied there too! offer was 300points, same.
Thats gd well that's two people then lol
I have, got an offer but i won't be going there, shame as i hear Sunderland is a lovely place
Lol seems as if absolutely no-one wants to go there :O
I've applied there too; sent my app on 4th December but haven't heard back yet? Have you guys got offers then? Yea it sees not many want to go there coz they hear bad things about the university but the pharmacy school is one of its strong points.
Well everyone seems to be getting 300 points offers (by everyone i mean myself and one other person lol) i assume that they probs give everyone who applies there an offer.
I think their pharmacy school is the uni's best point, however its not exactly the best.
it's funny reading the prospectus as on literally every 10 pages they have a quote from a current pharmacy student. If that doesn't promote it then i don't know what does!!!
Hey i am doing pharmacy at sunderland too! It has a good reputation for it and its on my doorstep so it will be much cheaper than moving away
My offer was 300 points too, i also got interviews from manchester and bath but didnt go to them.
Is sunderland actually a good place to live? As if i am going to make it my back-up then i'd like to live somewhere good haha. Also, how are the lecturers?
To be honest sunderland is like any other city in this country, it has good points and bad points. I dont actually live there, i live about 20mins away so i would get the metro to uni. It has recently been developed so its quite modern and has lots of good features, the new aquatic centre, big cinema complex, shops and good nightlife. Also there is great metro links to newcastle so if you get bored its like a 20 minute metro ride away.
I recently spoke to a pharmacist who has just graduated from sunderland and he enjoyed it and said the lecturers were really good. One lecturer worked with this top researcher who pioneered the first cancer treatments and another is a well respected within respiratory research.
I hope this has helped, if you have any other questions then feel free to ask
That's great thanks, you deserve some rep!
Got an offer yesterday yay! But I'll probably go to brighton instead as they gave me an unconditional offer. The Sunderland offer is on condition that i pay one third of my tuition fees??? Bit weird...did anyone else have this as their condition.
nope I just got have to get 300 points
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