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Some parents are worried about the privacy of their children
A school district in San Antonio, Texas is looking to track some of its students using Radio Frequency Identification System (RFID) tags next year.
Northside Independent School District hopes to
use RFID tags
in two of its schools in order to help protect its students and also increase revenue.
RFID tags are ID cards that track the location of the holder. Northside Independent School District wants to take part in a trial next year where John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School students will carry the RFID tags at all times. This is about 6,290 students total.
"We want to harness the power of the technology to make schools safer, know where our students are all the time in school, and increase revenues," said Pascual Gonzalez, district spokesman. "Parents expect that we
always know where their children are
, and this technology will help us do that."
Parents in the school district have had varied reactions to the news. Some have been supportive while others question the need for such invasive technology.
"I would hope teachers can help motivate
students to be in their seats
instead of the district having to do this," said Margaret Luna, a parent in the district. "But I guess this is what happens when you don't have enough money."
RFID tags could help the school district offset cuts in state funding because attendance plays a huge role in determining revenue. With a more exact attendance count via RFID tags, Northside could receive a total of $1.7 million next year from higher attendance and Medicaid reimbursements for busing special education students. If the trial proves successful, RFID tags could go districtwide and bring in a much larger payoff.
The district will pay $525,065 to deploy the trial next year, then another $136,005 annually to run it. Each RFID tag is $15, which students will have to pay if they lose it.
While the payoff could be great for the district, privacy is the main concern of parents. The district says students will only be tracked while they are physically in the school, and only authorized administrative officials will have access to RFID information. However, there are concerns regarding kidnapping if someone were to
hack into the system
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) battled a California school in 2005 for using such technology, citing worries over identity theft and kidnapping.
The Northside school board approved the RFID program last Tuesday after a long debate over privacy and potential revenue increases.
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If there is one tangible object that represents my mother, it would be a quilt. She spent my childhood making beautiful patterns: lone stars, flying geese, double wedding rings. Each stitch was exactly even and the corners of the fabric joined together just right.
She was a perfectionist, my mother, and at times was a little too hard on us. I tried to be the daughter she thought I should be. And I never smiled right in pictures. But to my mother, if things were perfect, she could love.
I now know this fear was a sign of deeper hurt and that she longed for love in ways her own mother couldn't provide. But I have these quilts, these beautiful transitional objects, and they remind me of her.
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Pete- do you think a low moisture cheese would lend itself to this style of pizza moreso than my typical whole milk?
At some point I may even try using disks as an alternative to a pizza stone--as a way of being able to have cracker style pizzas in the summer when the brutal summer heat descends on Texas and dispels any notion of preheating a pizza stone for an hour or more.
Have you considered using two pepperoni slices stuck together instead of thicker pepperoni? I also currently use Hormel pepperoni, and I often find lots of irregularly cut slices that are either twice as thick or half as thick as the norm. I just end up pressing two thin slices together so that they bake more evenly with the normal slices.
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MSR Action Recognition Datasets and Codes
3D Online Action Dataset:
This dataset is for continuous online human action (human-object interaction) recognition from RGBD data. There are seven action categories: Drinking, eating, using laptop, reading cellphone, making phone call, reading book, using remote.
The dataset is designed for three evaluation tasks (S# refers to the folder name):
1. same-evnironment action recognition (two-fold validation: 1. S1 for training and S2 for testing, 2. S2 for training and S1 for testing)
2. cross-environment action recognition (S1+S2 for training, S3 for testing)
3. continuous action recognition (S1+S2+S0 for training, S4 for testing)
(In the download page, each set can be downloaded as a single rar file, e.g., "File 1" refers to S0, "File 2" refers to "S1" (But for "S4", we split it into two parts with the name "File 5" and "File 6").
The naming scheme for video file is as follow:
#i refers to the action category index
#i = 0 - 6: Drinking, eating, using laptop, reading cellphone, making phone call, reading book, using remote
#i = 8: long video sequence (contains multiple actions)
#i = 10: negative action (without any of the predifined action)
#j refers to the subject index
#k refers to the episode index
An auxilary code is avaialbe under the code folder, which can be used for visualizing the video data.
If you happen to use the dataset or code, please cite our paper:
Discriminative Orderlet Mining For Real-time Recognition of Human-Object Interaction,
Gang Yu, Zicheng Liu, Junsong Yuan
If you have any question on this dataset, please feel free to drop an email to Gang Yu (firstname.lastname@example.com).
HON4D Code and MSRActionPairs Dataset
MSRGesture3D (28MB): The dataset was captured by a Kinect device. There are 12 dynamic American Sign Language (ASL) gestures, and 10 people. Each person performs each gesture 2-3 times. There are 336 files in total, each corresponding to a depth sequence. The hand portion (above the wrist) has been segmented. The file name has the format sub_depth_m_n where m is the person index. n ranges from 1 to 36. Note that for some (m,n), the file sub_depth_m_n does not exist. For example, there is no "sub_depth_02_03". The reason is that some of the bad sequences are excluded from the dataset. The mapping from n to gesture type is the following:
{7,8,9} ->"ASL_Where";
{10,11,12} ->"ASL_Store";
{13,14,15} ->"ASL_Pig";
{16,17,18} ->"ASL_Past";
Each file is a MAT file which can be loaded with 64bit MATLAB. Below is a sample MATLAB code to load a file:
width = size(x.depth_part,1);
height = size(x.depth_part,2);
nFrames = size(x.depth_part,3);
depthval = x.depth_part(i,j,k);
The following two papers reported experiment results on this dataset:
Alexey Kurakin, Zhengyou Zhang, Zicheng Liu, A Real-Time System for Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition with a Depth Sensor, EUSIPCO, 2012.
Jiang Wang, Zicheng Liu, Jan Chorowski, Zhuoyuan Chen, Ying Wu, Robust 3D Action Recognition with Random Occupancy Patterns, ECCV, 2012.
MSRDailyActivity3D (MSR Daily Activity 3D dataset): The dataset was captured by using a Kinect device. There are 16 activities: drink, eat, read book, call cellphone, write on a paper, use laptop, use vacuum cleaner, cheer up, sit still, toss paper, play game, lie down on sofa, walk, play guitar, stand up, sit down. There are 10 subjects. Each subject performs each activity twice, once in standing position, and once in sitting position. There is a sofa in the scene. Three channels are recorded: depth maps (.bin), skeleton joint positions (.txt), and RGB video (.avi). There are 16*10*2=320 files for each channel. In total, there are 320*3=960 files. Note that the RGB channel anddepth channel are recorded independently, so they are not strictly synchronized.
The format of the skeleton file is as follows. The first integer is the number of frames. The second integer is the number of joints which is always 20. For each frame, the first integer is the number of rows. This integer is 40 when there is exactly one skeleton being detected in this frame. It is zero when no skeleton is detected. It is 80 when two skeletons are detected (in that case which is rare, we simply use the first skeleton in our experiments). For most of the frames, the number of rows is 40. Each joint corresponds to two rows. The first row is its real world coordinates (x,y,z) and the second row is its screen coordinates plus depth (u, v, depth) where u and v are normalized to be within [0,1]. For each row, the integer at the end is supposed to be the confidence value, but it is not useful.
This diagram shows the correpondence between the 20 points in the skeleton data and the joints (Thanks to Yu Zhong from AIT, BAE Systems for providing this diagram).
Activity recognition experiment with this dataset is reported in the following paper:
Mining Actionlet Ensemble for Action Recognition with Depth Cameras, Jiang Wang, Zicheng Liu, Ying Wu, Junsong Yuan, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2012), Providence, Rhode Island, June 16-21, 2012.
Sample code to load MSRDailyAct3D Dataset
MSR Action3D Dataset: 20 action types, 10 subjects, each subject performs each action 2 or 3 times. There are 567 depth map sequences in total. The resolution is 320x240. The data was recorded with a depth sensor similar to the Kinect device. The dataset is described in the following paper. Click here for a description of the subject splits used in various papers.
Action Recognition Based on A Bag of 3D Points, Wanqing Li, Zhengyou Zhang, Zicheng Liu, IEEE International Workshop on CVPR for Human Communicative Behavior Analysis (in conjunction with CVPR2010), San Francisco, CA, June, 2010.
Better classification results are reported in the following paper:
Mining Actionlet Ensemble for Action Recognition with Depth Cameras, Jiang Wang, Zicheng Liu, Ying Wu, Junsong Yuan, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2012), Providence, Rhode Island, June 16-21, 2012. Note that there is an error in the paper on the number of samples being used for the experiment. The number 402 in the paper is not correct. The correct number is 557. Out of the original 567 sequences in MSR Action3D Dataset, 10 sequences are not used in this paper's experiment because the skeletons are either missing or too erroneous. Here is a list of the file names that are used in the experiment: list of file names.
Sample code to load MSR Action3D Dataset
Skeleton Data in screen coordinates (Thanks to Yi Wen Wan, University of North Texas, for data cleaning and conversion). There is a skeleton sequence file for each depth sequence in the Action3D dataset. A skeleton has 20 joint positions (see the image for illustrations of the joint positions). Four real numbers are stored for each joint: u, v, d, c where (u,v) are screen coordinates, d is the depth value, and c is the confidence score. If a depth sequence has n frames, then the number of real numbers stored in the corresponding skeleton file is equal to: n*20*4. Click here for MATLAB code to visualize the skeleton motions (The code is provided by Antonio Vieira from Federal University of Minas Gerais).
This diagram shows the correpondence between the 20 points in the skeleton data and the joints (Thanks to Yu Zhong from AIT, BAE Systems for providing this diagram).
Skeleton Data in real world coordinates (Thanks to Ferda Ofli, UC Berkeley, for processing the data).
MSR Action Dataset I (1.5GB):
The test dataset contains 16 video sequences and has in total 63 actions: 14 hand clapping, 24 hand waving, and 25 boxing, performed by 10 subjects. Each sequence contains multiple types of actions. Some sequences contain actions performed by different people. There are both indoor and outdoor scenes. All of the video sequences are captured with clutter and moving backgrounds. Each video is of low resolution 320 x 240 and frame rate 15 frames per second. Their lengths are between 32 to 76 seconds. To evaluate the performance, we manually label a spatio-temporal bounding box for each action. The ground truth labeling can be found in the groundtruth.txt file. The ground truth format of each labeled action is "X width Y height T length".
If you use this dataset, please cite the following paper:
Discriminative Subvolume Search for Efficient Action Detection, Junsong Yuan, Zicheng Liu, Ying Wu, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009), Miami, Florida, June 22-24, 2009.
Subvolume Branch-and-Bound Search Code: (Win32 binary)
Given a subvolume of scores (each point in the volume is assigned a score), the program searches for all the subvolumes whose total scores are above a user-specified threshold value. The algorithm is described in the paper below. The input file format and command syntax are described in the readme file contained in the downloaded package.
Discriminative Subvolume Search for Efficient Action Detection, Junsong Yuan, Zicheng Liu, Ying Wu, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009), Miami, Florida, June 22-24, 2009.
MSR Action Dataset II:
Ground truth labels (.txt file)
This is an extended version of the Microsoft Research Action Data Set. It consists of 54 video sequences recorded in a crowded environment. The video resolution is 320x240 and frame rate is 15 frames per second. Each video sequence consists of multiple actions. There are in total 203 action instances. There are three action types: hand waving, handclapping, and boxing. These action types are overlapped with the KTH dataset so that one can perform cross-dataset action detection by using the KTH dataset for training while using this dataset for testing. To make downloading easier, the dataset is split into 5 parts. Please note that the positions in the ground truth file are with respect to 160x120 spatial resolution. Therefore if you work with 320x240 resolution, you will need to scale the spatial positions in the ground truth file. This dataset was used in the following three papers:
Hierarchical Filtered Motion for Action Recognition in Crowded Videos, Y. Tian, L. Cao, Z. Liu, and Z. Zhang, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part C: Applications and Reviews, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp313-323, 2012.
Cross-dataset Action Detection, Liangliang Cao, Zicheng Liu, Thomas Huang, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010), San Francisco, CA, June, 2010.
Discriminative Video Pattern Search for Efficient Action Detection, Junsong Yuan, Zicheng Liu, Ying Wu, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, accepted, 2010.
There are five video sequences of a person moving around in an office. This data was used in some of the experiments in Yuan et al's CVPR09 paper.
Senior Home Monitoring Dataset:
For information on the Senior Home Monitoring dataset, please go to the UESTC Senior Home Monitoring web page.
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Those who wish to avoid system should quit Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, or Time Warner service
After months of delays,
a "six strikes" system
designed to curb copyright infringement will go live in the United States, affecting customers on many of the nations' top internet service providers (ISPs). While avoiding the most draconian of punishments
proposed in past plans
-- severing offenders' internet connections -- the system will carry serious consequences including connection throttling and forced "education" from anti-piracy groups.
nation's top two mobile carriers
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), a company known for its
tireless efforts to stomp out municipal cable
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The CCI's so-called
Copyright Alert System
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CCI's new website just went live.
Under the plan, copyright watchdogs like the
Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) and
Motion Picture Association of America
(MPAA) -- groups that have been internationally involved in
convictions or settlements
involving their own "theft"
of independent artists' work
-- will join peer-to-peer networks or BitTorrent transfers and log internet protocol (IP) addresses of people who are downloading "confirmed infringed content".
The first warning carries no action, but later warnings carry ISP-specific "Mitigation actions". The (sort of) good news is that there is a path to appeal warnings. Writes the CCI:
There is a $35 filing fee, which may be waived if you meet affordability criteria. The fee will be refunded if your challenge is successful.
Still, the system is
a concern for real estate owners and Wi-Fi cafe owners
, in that their services could be limited due to their customers' actions. In many cases, it would be near impossible for such entities to police their customers' actions.
The simple solution for business people in that situation is to cancel their service with AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, or Time Warner and seek a local alternative.
Of course that approach could be difficult in some regions, and may become infeasible if more ISPs jump on the CCI bandwagon. For now, though, there are alternatives for many customers who want to avoid the system.
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A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck New Zealand on February 22, 2011, and affected the city of Christchurch and surrounding areas. The U.S. Mission in New Zealand has established a dedicated email address for those both seeking information, or providing information, about the welfare and whereabouts of U.S. citizens in Christchurch. Please email the information to: email@example.com.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton extended condolences on behalf of President Barack Obama and the people of the United States. Secretary Clinton said:
"The United States stands ready to provide assistance to the government of New Zealand and to the brave people of Christchurch. Our long history of friendship and mutual support in times of need is an example of our enduring bond. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by this terrible tragedy, especially the families of the victims, and with all the people of New Zealand."
The largest U.S. Congressional Delegation ever to visit New Zealand was in Christchurch to attend the U.S.-New Zealand Partnership Forum hours before the devastating earthquake hit the city and surrounding Canterbury region. The bipartisan delegation was led by Chairman Donald Manzullo of the Subcommittee on Asia-Pacific, House Foreign Affairs Committee. Following the earthquake, Representative Manzullo said:
"The thoughts and prayers of our delegation, and the American people we represent, are with the people of Christchurch, the Canterbury region and all of New Zealand on the occasion of this devastating tragedy. Having received the warm reception of the people of Christchurch at the Partnership Forum only hours before the earthquake struck makes this disaster all the more personal and poignant. The recently signed Wellington Declaration states: 'We recall the long history of shared United States and New Zealand sacrifice in battle.' Your American friends extend profound condolences and sympathy to the victims of this tragedy and to their families and friends."
Visit the New Zealand Civil Defence website for all information and updates on the situation in Christchurch. You can also find information via the Google Crisis Response: Christchurch Earthquake webpage.
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My heartfelt condolences to you all, people of NZ. We Americans are so far away but those of us who are aware of your deep tragedy, know that we wish you strength to keep on. Be uplifted with our good wishes. Be filled with God's love and strength of purpose to help those who have fallen. God bless you all! Radioman said from the other side of the unhappy planet!
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'Prison loaf' used as deterrent
July 1, 2005
Adult detention centers in Maryland, Virginia, and New York — just to name a few — are using prisoner palates to curb bad behavior. Now New Mexico can be added to the list.
Following a suggestion from the prison kitchen manager, Curry County Adult Detention Center Administrator Don Burdine agreed to try out the system: If inmates throw their food, a common problem at the center, according to officials, they could be served what has come to be known as the prison loaf — that day's meal ground up, floured, baked and served in a bread-like form.
"I ate one," said Burdine, who tried out the "prison loaf" before agreeing to serve it to prisoners. "It really wasn't that bad. It kind of tasted like a carrot loaf with fish in it. It wasn't unpleasant — honestly. It's more psychological. Some people tend to value food based on texture and appearance. If you are one of those people, then it would be unpleasant."
The Curry County version of the prison loaf, said Burdine, is derived from the same foods served to inmates in whole form on a daily basis. Therefore, it holds the same nutritional value as a regular prison meal, which Burdine describes as similar to hospital cafeteria food; some common side dishes, mashed potatoes and pudding. The advantage to the loaf form, Burdine said, "it can't make as big a mess."
The center has used the prison loaf once, Burdine said, in response to a prisoner who threw his food after being moved to the prison's new maximum security area, the Annex.
For Janie Pena, the prison loaf is not an appropriate form of punishment. Pena is the mother of an inmate who has landed in the county jail more than once. Despite her son's consistently bad behavior, her reaction to the punishment trend is vehement: "Dogs deserve better than that," she said.
"It's OK for them to be punished," said Pena from outside the detention center, where she waited to visit her son. "But not with food. They are not dogs, even dogs deserve better than that. Punish them another way — maybe don't let them have visits — but not with food."
In his nine-year career, assistant jail director Larry Sanders estimates he has had "about two dozen" plates of food thrown at him.
"It (the loaf) might have them realize that maybe they should go ahead and eat lunch instead of throwing it," Sanders said.
The food attacks, say Burdine and Sanders, are one way for inmates to express frustration and anger at certain officers and situations.
"Inmates tend to be like spoiled kids. When they don't get their way, they try to create a disturbance any way they can," said Burdine from his office.


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Sunday was a busy day for firefighters and utility workers in Chautauqua County. Beginning in the early morning hours, they were called out to deal with trees and wires downed as a result of the high winds in the area.
According to meteorologist Jeff Wood from the National Weather Service in Buffalo, southwesterly winds of about 45 mph began Saturday at about 10 p.m. He noted gusts of 69 mph near the lighthouse in Dunkirk, 62 mph in Barcelona, and 55 mph at the Dunkirk Airport.
Julius Leone, Chautauqua County Director of Emergency Services, said, "There were sporadic incidents throughout the county involving trees, electrical wires, telephone wires, and cables."
Leone said Busti, Ellery, Dunkirk and Silver Creek had incidents, but he knew of no injuries. He also reported scattered power outages. According to his information, most of the power should have been restored by 6 p.m. on Sunday.
According to a spokeswoman for National Grid, the western part of the state had about 12,000 people without power. "Crews are out and will be out until they get everyone back (with power)." she said.
In the East Town of Dunkirk, firefighters shut down Urban Road between S. Roberts Road and Middle Road. According to a spokesperson for the East Town of Dunkirk Fire Department, the call came at about 6:15 a.m. Sunday morning. A tree limb knocked out electrical wires, telephone wires, and cables wires. The road was closed until 1 p.m.
In the west Town of Dunkirk, firefighters from that department shut down Route 5 between Willow Road and Temple Street. Fire chief Steven Davis explained that they got a call at about 5:45 a.m. Sunday that lines were down. A large pine tree on the north side fell across the road knocking out lines. The road was not opened until about 2:15 p.m. Only two houses were affected by a power outage.
In Silver Creek, firefighters began work at 3:45 a.m. on Sunday. According to first assistant chief James Tytka, Jr. a tree fell behind Tops Market in Silver Creek, taking out the power and the phone lines.
"Power lines trapped a person in a car," he said. Firefighters were able to remove the lines so that the motorist could leave the scene.
In addition, a transformer blew and on one of the houses in the area the electrical meter blew off. Electrical wires were grounded to the water pipes, and the heat melted the solder. That created a fire in the house near a window. The fire was confined to that area, and an electrician worked to restore the power.
Silver Creek Chief Jeff Griewisch said the department was "darn busy" since they had to deal with several other trees down in the village as well as one in the Town of Hanover.
Fire chief David Muscato from Cassadaga reported one tree down on South Main Street in the village. The call came in at about 5:30 a.m. Electrical service was interrupted but was back up by 9 a.m.
In the city of Dunkirk a tree in Washington Park was down, but there were no other incidents reported by the fire department.
In Mayville on Lakeview Avenue a pine tree caused extensive damage to electric power lines, poles, crossarms and transformers. Village of Mayville Electric Department were assisted by crews from Villages of Brocton and Westfield Electric Departments.
On Point Drive North in Dunkirk, a problem with the gas lines was reported by a couple of residents who said they had been without gas since Sunday afternoon and were worried that it would not be restored anytime soon. Spokesperson for National Fuel, Karen Merkel said, "Crews are on the site. There was water in the gas lines. In those cases the water has to be removed." She reported at about 9 p.m. Sunday that crews were currently relighting the gas lines in the homes affected and said the problem should be corrected by about 10 p.m.
Meteorologist Woods expected a lake-effect event beginning on Sunday night and continuing through Tuesday that would result in 12 to 18 inches of snow. In addition temperatures would be in the low teens and 20s with windchills making the temperature feel even lower.
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Topic: Do you like screencasts or books as a learning/reference tool?
I tried to see some rails screencasts (both railscasts and peepcode screencasts) but i really don't like this way of learning. With screencasts i can't search a topic quickly, i don't have code ready to copy and paste on the screen etc. Instead i love pdf books for many reasons. I can read them wherever i want, i use them as a tutorial and a reference on a particular topic, i can search quickly on a particular topic, i can update my pdf when a new release come out etc and of course as a non-english person i understand better when i read english than when i listen to it expecially from americans
You can say that screencasts, as for example those from railscasts.com, can be short and more focused on a topic than a long pdf book but then i say that we can have short pdfs too as peepcode had started with its first mini pdf.
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Learn more: National Export Initiative (NEI) was foremost in my mind before we arrived in Singapore last month. In my first week on the job, I met with representatives of some of the leading U.S. businesses with operations here to brainstorm about what it will take to meet the ambitious goal of the NEI to double U.S. exports over the next five years. I pledged to the American businesses in Singapore that our embassy would deliver the "Three A's": advocacy, access, and availability. We would provide aggressive advocacy on their behalf to the government, facilitate direct access to Singapore's regulators and that our embassy personnel would be available 24/7.
Singapore has a small population, but it packs a wallop in the trade arena. Singapore is our eleventh largest export market and our largest destination for foreign investment in Asia, exceeding even China. As a major trading hub with the world's busiest container port, Singapore plays host to more than 1500 U.S. companies with substantial operations in Asia. Often, these offices are regional headquarters. The decisions American companies make today for their Asian operations often come out of their Singapore offices.
For U.S. companies thinking of exporting, or seeking new export markets, there are few places better to start than Singapore. Singapore is ranked number one in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business report making it a great gateway for American business in Asia. The country has established trade networks all over Asia. The population is predominantly English-speaking and well-versed in the Western style of doing business.
In the last year, our embassy hosted U.S. Ambassadors to other countries in the region to meet with local U.S. businesses to showcase export and investment opportunities in their countries. I plan to do some traveling of my own this year, as well, meeting businesses face to face back in the United States to promote more exports to and through Singapore. I also hope to lead Internet webinars with U.S. businesses to promote specific industries. This October, we will be working with the American Chamber of Commerce here to organize a regional business conference.
If you are interested in exporting to Singapore, please call 1-800-USA-TRADE or contact our U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service office at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore to learn more about export opportunities and the services we provide. You can visit us online.
Prof. Barbara B.K. in Singapore writes:
Good afternoon, I am a scientist working at A*STAR and have noticed that the British and French and Swiss diplomatic corps are interested and supportive the science and scientists here. There is a good representation of senior scientists in Singapore, including two members of the US National Academy of Sciences. Does David Adelman intend to pay some attention to the scientific scholarly activities going on in Singapore?
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Dear Professor,
Thanks for your response! I and my Embassy team support collaborative S&T activities between the United States and Singapore and anticipate increasing growth as we look forward.
In the last couple of years we have dramatically increased scientific partnership activities with Singapore academic & research institutions in power & energy, health sciences, modeling & simulation and materials science.
The Embassy would welcome an opportunity to visit A*STAR to speak with you and to learn more about your research.
Ambassador David Adelman
Barbara B.K. writes:
Dear Ambassador Adelman, I regret I did not return to this site for an answer to my previous correspondence. Alas, I am not used to blog correspondance.
Yesterday the A*STAR Graduate Academy hosted a noteworthy annual ceremony, at Fusionopolis, for the A*STAR scholars who are off to US and British Universities to do either their undergraduate or graduate work in the sciences. Singapore has been largely influenced by Great Britain in scientific affairs but indeed many of their young scholars are attending Universities in the US. I had hoped to find someone from the US Embassy at this festive occasion, the British High Commissioner was present.
As part of this educational drive we have hosted a young A*STAR scholar in our lab for the last year, who did her undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin and who is returning there in very early August for her graduate studies. We had another A*STAR scholar the previous year who also did her undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin and who is now pursuing graduate studies at Stanford. These young scientists are the future of Singapore science, the A*STAR scholarship program is a remarkable way to address a Talent/Manpower issue in this emerging nation. This is why I had hoped to find someone from the US Embassy at this festive occasion. The British High Commissioner was present, as usual. Is there a scientific attache here in Singapore? If so I would be happy to talk with him/her about what could be possible.
Again, thank you for your response.
Ambassador Adelman replies:
Dear Professor,
Thank you for your follow-up question!
I commend you on your work with young A*Star scholars. The embassy representative who covers science and technology issues recently met with the A*Star scholars to congratulate them on their accomplishments and answer their questions about university life in the America. I know they are a talented group of young scientists.
If you would like to follow up with the embassy's science and technology attaché, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com . We would be happy to hear some of your ideas.
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Can New Orleans ever come back?
Urban planners agree New Orleans almost certainly will be rebuilt despite its precarious location below sea level.
By SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN
Published September 3, 2005
New Orleans is so rich a part of America's cultural, literary, musical and culinary heritage that it is hard to imagine the nation without it.
It is also hard to envision a vibrant city ever arising from the apocalyptic scenes of devastation, death and despair.
Yet even as normally staid urban planners use words like "extraordinary" and "unprecedented" to describe Hurricane Katrina's destruction, they agree that New Orleans almost certainly will be rebuilt despite its precarious location below sea level.
"If history proves anything, it's that a lot of cities have come back from utter devastation - just look at war-torn Europe or Japanese cities hit by nuclear bombs," says Tim Chapin, a Florida State University professor of urban and regional planning.
"There's too much invested in New Orleans financially, socially, psychologically and spiritually - it's a place people have been for centuries and it's not going to go away because of this."
Or, as musician and native son Harry Connick Jr. put it: New Orleans will survive because "people are freakishly strong and passionate about this city."
From an economic standpoint, it would be almost unthinkable to abandon New Orleans, the nation's fourth largest port. Much of the nation's steel, rubber and coffee enter through the Port of New Orleans; huge quantities of grain, timber and other goods move through the port on their way to other countries.
Until now, New Orleans also ranked among the nation's top convention and tourism centers; if there is one glimmer of optimism, it is that the French Quarter, Bourbon Street and other landmarks have suffered less damage than many parts of the city.
Still, it will be a long time - perhaps years - before the Big Easy is inhabitable and the good times roll again.
Even after breaches in the levees are plugged, it could take as much as six months to drain the city, swamped by up to 20 feet of water in some areas. Only then will it be possible to clear roads, repair water, sewer and power systems, and inspect thousands upon thousands of flood-weakened homes.
"You have to make sure that if people live in them, they don't fall down on top of them," says Chapin, who estimates that "easily over half" of the houses will require substantial renovation "if not complete tear-downs."
Critical, too, is averting a similar catastrophe in the future. Engineers must determine if New Orleans' aging system of levees and pumps can be adequately repaired and reinforced. Or will the city require massive hydraulic sea walls like those in the Netherlands, an entire country lying below sea level?
"I think that in the 21st century, technology has advanced to the point that experts can find a solution to minimize any possible new damage," says Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, head of the urban planning department at the University of California at Los Angeles.
"But there will have to be a lot of studies to identify what are the best sites (for rebuilding) and identify all these technological means to stop future flooding and hold back the water."
Even if the city can be protected - essential if it is to attract new investment and retain existing industries - would the "new" New Orleans look and feel like the old one? Planners agree that ravaged cities present not just great challenges but great possibilities - some taken, some squandered.
As the 1871 Chicago fire and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake showed, "at first there is a strong tendency after a traumatic disaster to see some kind of opportunity in it," says Lawrence Vale, head of urban studies and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"The most striking thing about both Chicago and San Francisco was the rapidity with which - despite this horrific destruction and loss of life - the message was very clearly, "We will build a newer and better city soon and put this behind us.' And this was in some cases being said while the city still smoldered."
In Chicago, flames that destroyed thousands of wooden structures inspired a new architectural vision and a revolutionary construction technique - metal framing that gave rise to the world's first skyscraper.
One of Chicago's great architects, Daniel Burnham, went on to design a master plan for San Francisco that sought to capitalize on the city's spectacular natural setting. But after the quake and fire, the plan was scrapped.
Burnham "advocated a City Beautiful that maximized vistas and views, but the city fathers were quite impatient and felt they just didn't have the time to go into more of a long-range master plan," says UCLA's Loukaitou-Sideris.
Though San Francisco is considered one of America's great cities, its claim to beauty still rests more on its setting than its architecture and street layout. Likewise, Anchorage, Alaska, often described as "bland" and "boxy," sacrificed style for speed in rebuilding after a 1964 quake.
"This is the dilemma," says Loukaitou-Sideris. "In order to rebuild right, you need to have a long-term master plan, but at the same time there's a lot of political pressure to rebuild quickly so the city can get back to life."
Vale of MIT says disasters often reveal the inequalities and tensions that have long existed in a city. That may be especially true in New Orleans, where more than two-thirds of the 500,000 residents are black, many of them poor.
It will be "fascinating," Vale says, to see who or what sets the priorities in rebuilding New Orleans.
A disaster "is almost like a window into the structure of power. I think there will be a disproportionate amount of attention to restoring the tourism image of New Orleans, but the problem is that a lot of the people who serve the tourist industry don't live in the French Quarter. It's impossible to restore one aspect without attending to the dramatic needs of the broader population."
If Hurricane Andrew in 1992 is any guide, New Orleans' population is likely to shrink. An estimated 40,000 people permanently left Miami-Dade County, and the numbers could be higher in Louisiana.
A key difference between the two storms is that Andrew hit mostly residential areas while "in New Orleans you have a much wider scope of damage," says Stanley K. Smith, director of the Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the University of Florida.
"In Miami-Dade, there may have been a small loss of jobs but it was quickly made up by other types of economic growth, whereas with Katrina the economic impact will be very severe."
Nonetheless, many New Orleanians are likely to return after their forced evacuation, especially poor people who can't afford to move elsewhere but have strong emotional ties to the city. More than 80 percent of New Orleans residents were born in Louisiana, making it second only to Santa Ana, Calif., in the percentage of natives.
When they come back, though, they may struggle to find housing. After Andrew, new apartments and other rentals were typically more upscale and expensive than what they replaced. A similar trend in New Orleans could change the character of the city.
"When you get that kind of development it becomes the Disney World type of New Orleans - very different from the earthy, diverse, unique environment that is New Orleans now," says Walter Peacock, director of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University.
Given its location and susceptibility to catastrophic storms, some question whether New Orleans should be rebuilt at all. U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, said Wednesday that "it doesn't make sense to me," though he later backed off that view.
Jack Chambless, a Florida economist, thinks it's up to the citizens of Louisiana to decide if they want to rebuild - but only if they pay for it themselves or with donations, not with money from other taxpayers or the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
In parts of Louisiana hit by previous storms, residents repeatedly "were getting checks from FEMA higher than the value of their homes," Chambless says.
"When you have hurricanes the size of Katrina, you have a lot more people dying and a lot more loss because people have not been given the proper incentives over time to leave these dangerous areas."
Others note that New Orleans is by no means the only city prone to disaster - Los Angeles, San Francisco and Memphis sit on or near major earthquake fault lines, while almost every city along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts faces a threat from hurricanes.
"We heard after Andrew - "If they want to rebuild let them do it, but not with my tax dollars,' " Peacock says. "These are completely legitimate questions, but let's put it in the context of what we do in the United Staes, which is subsidizing almost everything," including "the extraordinarily rich and powerful petrochemical industries that are getting richer and more powerful even as we speak."
In ancient times, it was not unusual to abandon devastated cities; the most famous example is Pompeii, buried under ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. More recently, though, even cities like Bam, Iran, leveled by a 2003 earthquake, are being rebuilt.
Part of the reason is the growth of nation-states, says MIT's Vale: "Instead of a city being left on it is own, there is a national community and increasingly an international community that wishes to come to its aid."
Another factor, especially in the United States, "is the power of the insurance industry, which doesn't see things going away," he adds. "The combination of insurance and inertia - coupled with the strong attachment to place that people have emotionally - has almost always caused rebuilding to occur in an area that has been devastated."
As restless as New Orleanians may be to quickly rebuild, they should fight the temptation, says Assem Inam, author of Planning for the Unplanned: Recovering from Crises in Megacities. He notes that Germans have taken a half-century to rebuild Berlin but the result is a magnificent capital that combines striking new architecture with vestiges of the city's pre-World War II grandeur.
"Cities are hundreds, sometimes thousands of years old, so 50 years in the life of a city is not particularly long," Inam says. "If it takes a few decades to rebuild New Orleans, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. The cities that do really well are the ones that don't just say, "This is what we had before,' but "How can we improve it?' "
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An avid collector makes up for a Transformer-deprived childhood.
By NICK JOHNSON
Published July 4, 2007
ST. PETERSBURG - The highly anticipated Transformers movie will hit theaters around the nation on Tuesday, much to the delight of giant-robot fans young and old.
One fan has been waiting for more than 20 years for that day, with the tattoos and action figures to prove it, about $20, 000 worth.
Tony Balchen in Northwest St. Petersburg has an entire corner of his living room devoted to the miniature versions of these robots in disguise. About 200 of the robots that transform into cars and a variety of other machines are on display there.
"Transformer corner" as he calls it is the result of 12 years of collecting, thousands of dollars spent, countless hours clocked searching for the toys on eBay and one very understanding girlfriend.
"It's a good hobby because he likes it, but it's a lot of money, " said Danielle Muscarello, his girlfriend of more than two years.
She has been a good sport about his obsession, but has to keep him in line sometimes when it comes to his Transformer budget. "He spends way too much, and he's always on eBay."
Balchen also gets flak from his 10-year-old daughter, Kelsey. "Just because she doesn't think a grown man should collect toys, " he said.
The toys are testament of Balchen's Transformer-deprived childhood. To his father, a devout Jehovah's Witness, toy robots with guns equated violence and were deemed off limits.
"I wasn't allowed to have them as a kid, so when I became an adult, I became obsessed with it, " Balchen confessed.
These futuristic robots that transform from cars, jets and even boom boxes were born in the early 1980s. They came from Japan as one of the first simultaneous releases of cartoons and action figures, the beginning of a marketing phenomenon that still has Balchen in its grips.
"We would watch the show every day, and then we would talk about the show every day at school. I couldn't have them, which would drive me crazy, " he said, recounting his middle school days.
Balchen would try to save up his lunch money to buy one from a friend in hopes of sneaking it home, but didn't manage to get his hands on one until after he had moved out of his parents' house.
Balchen, 33, finally bought his first Transformer 12 years ago for $200 at a hobby shop. It was Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots who fight alongside mankind to defeat the evil Decepticons.
Since that day Balchen has amassed nearly the complete collection of Transformers from the original toy line, about 300 of them. He has paid anywhere from $100 to $1, 500 apiece for the toys that originally retailed for less than $10.
He also sports both Autobot and Decepticon tattoos on his upper arms.
Prices for the action figures have skyrocketed in recent years as more 30-somethings try to recapture a piece of their childhood. Balchen said there are online forums devoted to the topic and that he has met a number of friends through the Web, mostly via eBay. "It's a pretty tight little community, " he said. "Everybody seems to know everybody one way or another."
He now estimates his collection to be worth about $20, 000. Balchen, who pays the bills by running a landscaping business, said he isn't in it for the money and would never consider parting with his collection.
"I would collect welfare before I sell, " he said. "There's no way."
Nick Johnson can be reached at email@example.com or 893-8361.
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Obviously, for a lot of consumers, the range of 100 miles is not enough."is a tremendous margin of progress. I don't dispute the fact that for many people in the public, the range for electric cars may represent a reason for hesitating or saying, 'It's not for me now.' But for all the people who are really interested in zero-emission mobility, with a reasonable performance, the electric car is the best solution. And my opinion is this represents more than 10 percent of the market. That's our first step. Within the next 10 years, 10 percent of the marketplace will be made by electric cars. And this will increase as a function of the performance of the electric car.
Fuel cell technology is probably five years behind electric cars."not in terms of technological knowledge, but in terms of cost reduction and affordability.
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Efficacy of sweet solutions for analgesia in infants between 1 and 12 months of age: a systematic review
- Denise Harrison1,2,3,
- Bonnie Stevens1,2,
- Mariana Bueno2,4,
- Janet Yamada1,2,
- Thomasin Adams-Webber1,
- Joseph Beyene1,5,
- Arne Ohlsson6
- 1The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
- 2Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- 3Department of Neonatology, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
- 4School of Nursing, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- 5Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- 6Departments of Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Correspondence to Denise Harrison, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X8, Canada; denise.harrison{at}utoronto.ca
- Accepted 21 February 2010
- Published Online First 12 May 2010
Objective To compare the efficacy of oral sweet solutions to water or no treatment in infants aged 1–12 months during immunisation.
Methods Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) were retrieved through internet searches or manual searches of reference lists. Search terms included newborn, infant, pain, sucrose and alternative names for sweet solutions. Summary estimates with 95% CIs were calculated and included relative risk (RR), risk difference (RD) and number needed to treat to benefit (NNTB) for dichotomous outcomes, and weighted mean differences (WMD) for continuous outcomes. Where pooling of results was not possible, a narrative summary of study results is presented.
Results Of the 695 studies identified, 14 RCTs with 1674 injections met the inclusion criteria. Sucrose or glucose, compared to water or no treatment decreased crying during or following immunisation in 13 of the 14 studies. Infants receiving 30% glucose (three trials, 243 infants) had a decreased RR in crying incidence following immunisation (typical RR 0.80, 95% CI 0.69 to 0.93; RD −0.17, 95% CI −0.29 to −0.05; NNTB 6, 95% CI 3 to 20). With sucrose or glucose, there was a 10% WMD reduction in proportion of crying time (95% CI −18 to −2) and a 12 s reduction in crying duration (95% CI −23 to −0.7 s). An optimal dose of sucrose or glucose could not be ascertained due to the varied volumes and concentrations used.
Conclusion Infants aged 1–12 months administered sucrose or glucose before immunisation had moderately reduced incidence and duration of crying. Healthcare professionals should consider using sucrose or glucose before and during immunisation.
Funding The first author, Denise Harrison was supported by The Pain in Child Health Strategic Training Initiative (STP53885) and CIHR Team Grant in Children's Pain (CTP-79854 and MOP-86605) while undertaking this review. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Knowledge Synthesis Grant Funding (reference number: KRS91774) financially supported this review.
Competing interests None.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.


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On Father's Day, Winnie Lou Rounds will look out her kitchen window at the yellow lady's slippers in her woodland garden. The orchids are more than 100 years old; her father gave them to her when she was a child, along with many other gifts of living well that she still uses at age 91.
On this Father's Day, fathers of all ages might think about how their own children will be remembering them some 90 years hence. Just like Winnie Lou Rounds.
I wanted to write about Winnie Lou Rounds more than a year ago, after she turned 90 and presented a program about wildflowers at her home. She was so full of stories, knowledge and an infectious enthusiasm.
On a shelf above the fireplace, she had books that are classics, including the original 1893 edition of "How to Know the Wildflowers" by Mrs. William Starr Dana, the first field guide to North American wildflowers. It was a sensation at the time.
"Let's talk," I said.
"You have to wait until my yellow lady's slippers are in bloom," she insisted.
That was 12 months away, a long time, both at age 90 and also in the news business. I figured the story might be forgotten.
Then, on May 13, I opened an email with "yellow lady's slippers" in the subject line.
"Good morning. Some are now in bloom. Just letting you know. Winnie Lou Rounds"
The maven of woodland gardens, who turned 91 on Nov. 20, was right on schedule.
I planned to drop by the next morning.
She emailed: "Come early. I have to be at the South Shore Natural Science Center at 11 to meet the staff in the garden at 12."
Rounds is a volunteer at the center in Norwell, where she founded and for 40 years has maintained a wildflower garden, with help now from Val Shute. Once a week, she meets the staff for an informal walk and talk. It is a popular event.
The Latin names for various flowers roll off her tongue quite easily. When we met at her home the next day, cool morning breezes came up from the harbor as she showed me to her Cypripedium pubescens, the yellow lady's slipper.
"The reason I am so devoted to them is they grew in my father's garden and are 100 years old," she said. "He called them whip-poor-will shoes. Every time I see them, I think of him and his love for wildflowers. I had a very strong relationship with my father. We fished together, casting, and I remember falling in the water. I'll never forget the feeling of getting out of that stream in a wet woolen jacket."
A Connecticut farmer and manufacturer who was also a trout fisherman, Phillip Porter would take his only daughter along as he wandered the valleys.
"He would pick up a wildflower and put it in his creel (a woven basket to hold fish) and wrap it in moss," she said. "He taught me so much about flowers and had wonderful names for them."
Their property in a valley near Middletown rolled down to a small pond, where "everything just grew."
The yellow lady's slippers came from a fishing trip along a riverbank in a small town called Higganum. The plants have survived moves from Connecticut first to Norwell, where Rounds lived many years with her late husband, Charles, an oral surgeon, and then, to two homes in Scituate.
Each year, they reappear, a month or so before Father's Day, setting the stage for those special memories.
"They are very ephemeral, like all woodland garden flowers," she said. "By August, everything will all be gone."
Paul Kent, a family friend, helps her maintain her woodland garden, in a location with just enough sun.
"I'm constantly amazed by Winnie Lou," Chris Jacobs, volunteer coordinator at the science center, said. "Her knowledge and passion for native New England wildflowers is astounding."
In 2009, the Winnie Lou Round Wildlings Garden was dedicated and renamed in her honor.
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Q. David Bowers: The following narrative, with minor editing, is from my "Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia" (Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., 1993). Note: the Notable Specimens list should be used with caution - it has been updated in my 2013 edition of "The Encyclopedia of United States Silver Dollars 1794-1804."
OBVERSE 1: 15 stars. The only 1798 dollar with 15 stars. Undoubtedly, this die was made in 1795 or before June 1796, during which time 15 stars were standard; the die was complete except for the date. In 1798 the uncompleted die had the date added and was used to coin this variety. (Alternatively and less likely, it could have been a die cutting error similar to the 1817 15-stars cent.)
The highest wave of hair is incomplete, probably from relapping, which also caused certain lower hair curls to be incomplete. Band R in LIBERTY each tilted slightly right.
Wide numeral 8 in date; with top interior space of 8 a horizontal oval and the bottom a circle; a punch unique to this obverse, not used elsewhere in the early dollar series (not for the 8 on later dates such as 1800, 1801, etc., which have vertical oval spaces within the 8). This distinctive 8 punch was regularly used on 1798 $10 gold coins. It is possible that the obverse die was made circa 1795 but with just the first three date digits, 179, punched in; the final 8 could have been added in 1798 by selecting a punch from the wrong font. Squared-off bottom to 7.
Obverse die used to strike 1798 BB-81 only.
REVERSE A: Described under 1795 BB-51, herewith repeated: Small Eagle. Small Letters in legend. Eagle stands on clouds. Wreath is composed of a palm branch (right) and olive branch (left), the latter with seven berries. Berry under A of STATES; a quick way to identify this reverse.
This identical die, now relapped (as it had been since the coinages of 1796), was used in combination with six obverses during its life. The definition on the reverse is weak, due to the lapping of an already shallow cut die.
Reverse die used to strike 1795 BB-51; 1796 BB-62, BB-63, and BB-66 (now relapped); 1797 BB-72; and 1798 BB-81.
Die State I: Early state without obverse relapping; highest wave of hair boldly defined. May not exist. Â (Mark Borckardt, in a note to the author, stated "One could speculate that this die was lapped before striking coins. If the die was made c. 1795 without the final digit, lapping may have served the purpose of removing small rust pits or other defects before use.)
Die State II: Lapped obverse die; without obverse die cracks. This is the state typically encountered.
Die State III: Obverse crack from under chin to border below star 15. Described by Warren Miller from his collection and not seen by the author.
COLLECTING NOTES: Of the two 1798 dollars with Small Eagle reverse (BB-81 and BB-82), BB-81 is the rarer by a slight amount. An estimated 500 to 800 exist. Most examples of BB-81 are seen in lower grades. VF is about par, even in some of the finest collections.
The 15-star count on the obverse (the type of '95 and '96) makes the 1795 BB-81 variety especially desirable as a major type. All other 1798 obverses, regardless of reverse type, have the standard 13 stars. The use of the much-mated Small Letters reverse die with this unusual obverse lends further interest. Here, indeed, is one of the most desirable varieties among early dollars.
Most if not all specimens of 1798 BB-81 have light striking at the centers of the topmost obverse stars. The bottom stars-especially 1, 2, 13, 14, and 15-- are usually sharp. The reverse is always weaker than the obverse (an identical situation to that of 1797 BB-72), with the result that grading is by the obverse only. A coin with a VF-30 obverse typically has a reverse grading F-15 to VF-20.
Auction '87 Specimen. MS-60. Superior, Auction '87, 1987: 1812. "The obverse is much sharper than the reverse. The surfaces are very lustrous and give no indication of rubbing or friction. Both sides are overlaid with rich tan gold toning; the obverse shows a number of adjustment marks at its center."
Clarke Specimen. MS-60. James G. Macallister. T. James Clarke Collection, New Netherlands 48th Sale, 1956: 621. "Strictly Uncirculated. The obverse, perfectly centered with bold denticles, is just about pristine. The reverse, off-center toward the bottom, shows the customary flatness at eagle's neck, breast and left leg, plus a very few infinitesimal marks. Delicate pink and blue iridescent toning."
FUN Convention Sale Specimen. MS-60. Mid American, Florida United Numismatists. Convention Sale, 1987: 687. "Blue gray with some iridescent rose and silver at rims, adjustment marks across face; eagle's breast not fully struck."
San Diego Sale Specimen. MS-61. Mid American, San Diego Sale, 1989: 715. "Surfaces are a bit dull. This piece may have been exposed to heat or, less likely, it may have been in sea water for a period of time."
Grand Central Convention Sale Specimen. AU-58. Lester Merkin, Grand Central Convention, 1965: 301. "Better than AU; really an unworn coin with touches of cabinet friction on cheek, shoulder and eagle's breast. Mint lustre blends pleasingly with iridescent toning varying from chartreuse to pearl gray."
Shore Specimen. AU-58. Superior, Shore Collection, 1988: 2197. "Shows no wear, just some rubbing on the high spots. Strike is exceedingly sharp with unusually strong definition on reverse. The obverse has a rich rose overtone which is accentuated by bursts of antique olive gold; the reverse is rose with faint lilac and gold undertones."
Anderson-Dupont Specimen. AU-55. Stack's Anderson-Dupont Collection, 1954: 2500. "Uncirculated, full mint lustre, but weakly struck on center obverse and reverse. Faintly streaked planchet." Harold Bareford Collection, Stack's, 1981: 412. "About Uncirculated with full frosty lustre." Yolanda Gross Collection.
Hollinbeck-Kagin Specimens. AU-55. June, 1970: 606.
"Nearly Uncirculated with lustre."• 21st MANA Convention Sale, Kagin's, 1973: 1302. "Nearly Uncirculated with lovely blue and gray patina, some original mint lustre. Sharply struck with full edge dentilation around both sides!
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Religious Group News
Fruit of the Vine Ultreya
On April 11, members met in St. Joseph's parking lot and left for Blasdell to attend the Cursillo Mass with Bishop Malone. The mass started at 7:30 p.m. All deacons that made Cursillo proceeded into the church with Bishop Malone. The Cursillo musicians supplied the music. The first reading was by a member of one of the Buffalo Ultreya groups. The Gospel was read by Deacon Mike Quinn. The Homily was given by Bishop Malone. He started his Homily by saying that the Eucharist is the heart, the center of the Mass. During Bishop Malone's homily, he quoted Pope Francis, saying "Being a Christian is not just about following Commandments: it is about letting Christ take possession of our lives and transform them." He went on to say that this is the definition of a Curstilista. He spoke about going forth and living the Gospel through actions. He ended his homily by thanking the Cursillo community and encouraging everyone to continue living the Gospel. Before Mass ended, Don Appenheimer made announcements. After Mass, everyone went to the school to have refreshments and socialize.
The April 25 meeting opened with prayer and grouping. Business news discussed was the upcoming Reunion Mass that the group is scheduled to host. Where the Mass will be held and suggestions for speakers were discussed, and it was subsequently decided that the Mass will be at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish at 7:30 p.m. on June 14. Father Dennis Riter will be the celebrant.
The next regular Ultreya meeting will be Thursday, May 23 at St. Joseph's at 7:30 p.m. The Mass will be planned and suggestions will be taken for a witness speaker. Also, the social will be planned that will take place at the school hall after the Mass.
All members are encouraged to attend this meeting and participate in the planning process.
Our Lady of Fatima Society
The Our Lady of Fatima Society of Blessed Mary Angela Parish met on Tuesday. Father Matt Nycz brought the members free copies of "The Catholic Digest." He also thanked the Fatima Society for hosting the reception after the Lady of Fatima Feast Day mass.
President Sue Nickle spoke of the Parish Ministry Fair. It was a success and there are hopes for another one next year.
There will be a bus going to the Lewiston shrine of Our Lady of Fatima on Thursday, Aug. 15. The cost of the trip for each participant is $30. The price includes the bus and a buffet lunch afterward. Call Joan Gula for information.
The annual picnic will be on Tuesday, June 11. The officers are in charge. Each member is asked to bring a dish to pass and a raffle prize. Call Dorothy Buffa at 366-1383 for more information.
Members are reminded that the Rosary and Fatima prayers will be said after the 4 p.m. Mass on Saturday, June 1.
The meeting was closed with the decade of the Rosary led by Linda Kuzara. Buffa won the attendance prize.


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I'm confused with kneading time. Some advise kneading until it has a skin and is smooth in the 10 minute range while others say it should look like cottage cheese with only about 3 minutes of kneading.
Your thickness factor comment got me thinking. I must confess, I haven't considered it at all. I've been assuming that to get a big airy rim I should form a thick rim.
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This is an amazing book! I can tell you right now that this forum will change big time....
Are the recipe ingredients measured in grams? Or is it American cups, teaspoons, etc?
Thanks, John.
Summary:Pages 1-78: Nice pics with great descriptions of starters, high hydration dough management techniques, and personal info for fans of Bonci the man. Pages 79-244: Essentially the same recipe over and over and over and over. I would summarize it as "make the dough, bake it, then throw on some of the craziest &#|¥ you can find, cooked, uncooked, cold, hot, whatever, on top."Page 247: Fried pizza balls. More power to him. I'm glad to have the descriptions and pics of his techniques. This pizza just ain't my cup of tea. Heresy, I know. John K
I read that it is "adapted for the American kitchen". Does anyone know what is different, other than translation?


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Topic: Refactoring pointers
I'm going to have a crack at refactoring some redundant code I have in my controllers. I have the following three lines present in a number of methods that identifies a user from a browser environment variable and looks them up in my database's users table:
@kerberos = request.env["REMOTE_USER"]
username = ["kerberos LIKE ?", @kerberos]
@user = User.find(:first, :conditions => username)
How do I go about refactoring this into one method and calling that method in all the other methods that require this in my controller?


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read on cleve.com today that all of the assistant coaches supposedly are going to be retained.
Just wanted your thoughts on why that would be (other than the fact that we might hire from within).
So now we have to convince an outside coach that he can't hire his own staff??
Sounds like we're setting up to dip into the college ranks....


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Going for Goals!
Our team return with a 'both teams to score' treble covering the Premier League, Championship and League Two.
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As we wrote in our Premier League preview, we do expect Arsenal to win this game.
However, their 5-2 victory over Reading demonstrated that they're not only capable of scoring plenty here, but also of gifting opportunities to their opponents whatever their standard.
Wigan have enough quality in attack to trouble Arsenal and seven of their last eight home Premier League games have seen both sides find the net.
Peterborough v Bolton (CH)
Rock-bottom Peterborough's shock win at leaders Cardiff last weekend will give them renewed hope of survival this season and they'll be eager to continue the momentum against an inconsistent Bolton side on Saturday.
There have been 25 goals in the last six games at London Road and only one of those matches would have failed to deliver this 'both teams to score' bet.
Bolton's away record is among the worst in the division having collected 10 points from 11 games but they have at least managed to score in all but one of those while it's also worth pointing out that they've not won to nil on the road either.
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Wycombe are starting to enjoy themselves a bit more this season and the 2-0 win at Accrington last weekend has really lifted spirits.
We now include them in our Going for Goals selection as they face Bradford.
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TeaFanatic wrote:Nothing lower than 180? Darn....
chip wrote:TeaFanatic wrote:Nothing lower than 180? Darn....
...hmmm, that makes it a no go for almost all sencha...and many of my Chinese greens...
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I think someone wrote in one of the reviews for the older style trinitea that if you wanted slightly cooler water for steeping that they placed some cold water directly into the steeping chamber and then used just that much less when filling the machine to heat it up. The mix of the cold water and the heated water worked out well for the tea they wanted to brew.
Amanda wrote:due to freight delays at the airport, the TriniTEAs have been held up.
That being said, they will ship once we receive them next week.
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iPad 4 designed cases (not iPad 2/3 compatible with 4 cases)
Does anyone know of cases designed to the specifications of the iPad 4 (smaller cutout for the lightning connector)?
My gf bought a Michael Kors neoprene sweet sleeve (MICHAEL Michael Kors iPad Case, Neoprene Sweet Sleeve - Handbags & Accessories - Macy's) and the cutout on the bottom was noticeably designed for the older devices (looks huge) and the smart cover magnet must not have been aligned correctly (not sure if this was because of a poor design or a difference between the 2/3 and the iPad 4) because it rarely turned on or off the screen.
I assume as the 4 become more popular some manufacturers will make cases specifically for the iPad 4 but I haven't come across any yet. If anyone has please post the links.
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iPad 4 designed cases (not iPad 2/3 compatible with 4 cases)
Well the thing about downsizing the connector is that we can still use the old iPad 3 cases because obviously the smaller connector will still fit with extra room as well. I actually hadn't thought about this scenario till just now. I wonder if manufacturers will even make new iPad 4 cases anytime soon? Doesn't really make sense because there's a lot of iPad 2/3's still out there and apple still sells the iPad 2 , and it's really just the connector that has changed. The Marc Jacobs case must just be off a bit because the iPad 3/4 are literally identical besides the connector. For example If we had lightning before and upgraded somehow to 30 pin then that would def be an issue. If I were you I would just get a regular "the new iPad case" that all these manufacturers make such as a folio or a smart case/cover. Hell u could even get one of those LifeProof cases for the iPad
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I'm not sure if they will make case that has a smaller opening for the lightning connector but as far as the rest it is exactly the same,I have a ipad4 and this is the first time I even noticed the opening around the connector,lol but as far as the rest I have no problems I have a blue leather apple Smart Cover and a dark grey apple smart case and they both fit and sleep and wake perfect
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I wouldn't hold your breath. I bet all those case manufacturers are sitting on a ton of inventory for iPad 2/3 cases. The iPad 4 has the same dimensions with the only real difference being the lightning port. Wouldn't make sense to not sell your existing inventory first. Maybe we'll see something later this year if the iPad 4 is still around for another cycle.
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Market Preview: Buckle Up
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- So much for the relief rally .
Turns out there was a worse result than no result in the presidential election on Tuesday: More of the same! Another four years for Barack Obama, along with a Republican-controlled House and the Senate remaining in the hands of the Democrats brought out the sellers on Wednesday, and it suddenly looks like the rest of 2012 may be a wild ride.
"We believe that this kicks off a period of uncertainty surrounding the fiscal cliff and U.S. deficits," wrote Jonathan Golub, chief U.S. equity strategist at UBS, on Wednesday. "We believe that this debate will be messy and drawn out (likely pushed out beyond the 12/31 deadline), resulting in increased investor angst."
Golub sees a potential positive lurking in this scenario if legislators decide to think big and do more than just pursue a stop-gap solution.
"While initially the debate will focus on 'cliff avoidance,' we believe it will highlight the need for a 'grand bargain' to address ongoing trillion dollar deficits," he added. "Should such an agreement be reached, we could see stocks meaningfully higher on both earnings and valuations upside."
In the near term, Golub listed a number of industries he expects to benefit from Obama's victory, including cell towers, derivatives exchanges, infrastructure, building products, discount retailers, drug retailers, hospitals, and clean/alternative energy.
Specific stocks he mentioned were American Tower (DIS) , Crown Castle International (CCI) , CME Group (CME) , United Rentals (URI) , AECOM Technology (ACM) , and Mohawk Industries (MHK) .
Golub's other advice was for investors to keep a focus on the United States.
"Stay domestically oriented," he said. "While we face a challenging cliff debate, we continue to see greater strength in the U.S. than in most parts of the world. Further, domesically oriented businesses tend to be less cyclical and have been delivering more attractive results."
As for Thursday's scheduled news, Dow component Walt Disney (DIS) is slated to report its fiscal fourth-quarter results after the closing bell. The average estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters is for earnings of 68 cents a share in the September-ended period on revenue of $10.92 billion.
Shares of Disney have soared this year, rising 33% through Wednesday's close at $50.08. The company's recent agreement to purchase Lucas Films and the "Star Wars" franchise for $4.05 billion in cash and stock has mostly gotten positive reviews with many analysts likening the deal to Disney's acquisition of Marvel back in the summer of 2009.
"The deal will see Disney breathe new air into the "Star Wars" franchise with plans for three more films," wrote Canaccord Genuity after the announcement. "The seventh installment in the franchise is expected to be released in 2015, ten years after "Revenge of the Sith" was released."