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Not only are the Huntsman daughters undeniably gorgeous and style-saavy, but they've also got great senses of humor! When their dad was running for president, they donned fake mustaches and put together a funny mock campaign ad that went totally viral.
The daughter of US State Senator Scott Brown is stylish and super-talented! She's one of the all-time leading scorers in Massachusetts basketball history (male or female!), made it to the top 16 on American Idol in 2006, has released three albums, and is the spokesperson for the Songs of Love Foundation, which creates personalized, original songs for children with serious diseases.
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James Groff and College of Business Dean Lynda de la Vina with
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Ernst & Young establishes scholarship program
By Wendy Frost
Director of Communications, College of Business
(April 8, 2009)--The UTSA Department of Accounting and Ernst & Young have created the Ernst & Young Accounting Opportunity Program to aid the department's efforts to increase the number of CPA-ready students enrolled in the 150-hour program.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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The scholarship program will name five Ernst & Young Scholars each year. This year's recipients are Gabriel Aceves Degollado, Noemi Grullon, Briana Ramirez, Paola Resendez and Kari Weiland.
The Ernst & Young Foundation, the Ernst & Young local office and UTSA E&Y alumni have committed $50,000 over the next two years to establish the Ernst & Young Accounting Scholarship for students pursuing their master's degrees through the 150-hour program.
Gifts from alumni, matched by the Ernst & Young Foundation, support the faculty mentorship program as well as outreach activities to ensure the program's success. Fundraising efforts kicked off last fall when Ernst & Young hosted the second annual Accounting Alumni Mixer at the College of Business. Martha Fasci, associate professor of accounting, was named the E&Y faculty mentor.
"Through this collaboration with Ernst & Young, we can encourage our students to continue their education by participating in the 150-hour program and becoming CPA-ready upon graduation," said James Groff, chair of the Department of Accounting. "We value this partnership and hope to encourage all of our accounting students to pursue this educational path."


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And I'll add that the stuff that's in a water shortage area will likely still get watered as there are alot of other crops that will dry up before these guys just ditch permanent plantings.1/3 of the almond acreage is in water shortage areas, that means 2/3 of it is good.
Everyone that pays attention here knows that rain comes in around seven year cycles and we're about due. I don't think we'll see to many growers throwing in the towel unless it's on an orchard that needed to come out anyway. These guys aren't stupid. Most of them are keenly aware that they are farming a desert...alot of time is spent thinking water and backup-plan even in good times.


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Environment Canada's water scientific and technical knowledge is available here for users of water S&T, including governments, environmental regulators, policy- and decision-makers, land-use planners, researchers, and industry.
Visit Environment Canada's Science and Technology site to learn more about the work of other key components of the Science and Technology Branch.
Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Canadian Environment: Research and Policy Directions
It has been known for over 20 years that pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are released into the environment, however only in the last 10 years have analytical methods become sufficiently sensitive to identify and quantify their presence in wastewater treatment plant effluents, surface waters, drinking water, ground water, biosolids, agricultural manures, and biota. The presence of PPCPs in the environment has emerged as a societal issue, but the science with respect to exposure and impacts is still evolving.
The subject of the current report was based on a third National Workshop entitled "Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Canadian Environment: Research and Policy Directions" which took place March 5th to 7th, 2007 in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. This Workshop assessed the current state of Canada's research on PPCPs in the environment in government, academia and industry sectors.
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Richard's Biggest Fails of 2009
Posted on 4th Jan 2010 at 12:33 by Richard Swinburne with 29 comments
By which I mean, my choice observations of failure, not my own personal mistakes.
Anyway, we've had a bumper year for new products – many of which have leaped forward in terms of performance: Intel's Lynnfield and Nehalem EP CPUs, Indilinx SSDs, DirectX 11, ATI HD 5800 series, Windows 7 (and of course, Snow Leopard and Karmic Koala). Even minor updates such as SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 have shown promise. However, there have been many failures - and unlike everyone else in the main Fail article, I'm not going to limit my rage to just one. Nope, I'm ranting about them all!


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Ok everyone, it's time for this week's "Tossin' It Out There"!
Now, for all of our new friends who found us last week through the Stallone/Schwarzenegger poll, NO, this is not a retro blog. LOL. I do talk about things OTHER than the 80s! 😀
But we have been working on the "80s Movie Draft" for the (title pending) Movie Podcast, and I thought that I would give everyone a chance to sound off… put the blood in the water, so to speak.
The 1980s was a great decade for movies. Action movies, slasher flicks, John Hughes movies, some great franchises, MORE action flicks… there's no shortage of movies to choose from. Trust me, we just did an exercise in it. 😀 From "Airplane!" to "Zelig" the 80s covered the bases, as the poster embed illustrates.
So which are your favorites? Try not to get carried away and list hundreds for us… but say YOU were prepping for an 80s draft… which movies would be YOUR must haves? What would you grab in the first rounds? LOL.
Some monster-sized classics emerged from the 80s. "The Empire Strikes Back", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "E.T.", "Ghostbusters", but there were also no shortage of quirky decade signature movies like "Weird Science" or "Teen Wolf". Comedies in abundance, from the genesis of the "Teen Sex Comedy" with "Porky's" to more wholesome family fare like "Honey I Shrunk the Kids".
There's far too many for me to list out, and I don't need to. YOU know them too. And that's what we want to hear… Which 80s Movies Are YOUR Favorites? Click through and leave a comment, and feel free to comment in reply to others. Just be respectful 😀 Movie discussion is the name of the game on these!
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I was driving my two boys, eight and seven respectively, to school and was asking what they might do during recess time. This is not usual conversation, but the boys have started a new school recently and as any parent, but particularly a geeky one I am anxious and interested in how the social side of things is developing. (For the record, I have currently decided that moving children to a new home and a new school is in the higher bracket of tough things to deal with as a parent.) Anyway, they informed me that if there wasn't anyone keen to play that they would just hang out together and play "The Mind Game."
I, naturally, had to ask what this game was — and was promptly invited to play.
Before I describe "The Mind Game" let me give a little background. My over-enthusiasm for role-playing has meant that my boys have been subject to various attempts at role-playing since they were about five years old. The most successful (which I have written about for GeekDad) has been Fuzzy Heroes, but we have also mucked about with amalgamated forms of D&D and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (using some old rulebooks I found in my collection). But, in recent times, this has been replaced by a keen interest in SPORE and Lego Star Wars on both the computer and Wii. These experiences, combined with watching my gaming group play before being shuffled off to bed have probably informed what "The Mind Game" is.
So, what did I play on the way to school that morning — and many times since?


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I'm not vegetarian... But?
The term nowadays for someone who eats meat only occasionally is flexitarian. Or you could say that you eat meat only once in a while.
Are you a vegetarian Can anyone give good reasons why I should become a vegetarian?
in hindu-relegion most impt thing to be a vegetarian.vegetarion food good for health.i wonder how people eat non-veg. i hate non veg.
If a vegetarian feeds his cats on a vegetarian diet, is this an animal cruelty?
Cats are carnivores; vets never recommend vegetarian diets for cats. Vegetarian diets for cats exist, but they put the animal at risk for heart problems due to lack of taurine, and other conditions...
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Have dinner in non-vegetarian restaurant but eat vegetarian/vegan food only?
of course? a homie gots to eat. If I were to not eat at a place because they also serve meat, people would think im a crazy extremist. I don't have the time to always make my food and there is very...
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Meeting Maroon 5!
As I mentioned before, I am a huge Maroon 5 fan, and I love the CAB events offered here on campus. On Friday night, the College Activities Board brought Maroon 5 to the RIT campus. It was definitely epic, and a great escape from the stresses of the college life. I went with a big group of friends, and we jammed to the lovely melodies from Adam Levine!
A group of my friends were crazy, and showed up an hour early to stand outside in the freezing cold. But I just showed up when the doors opened and still got to stand right in front of the stage with them. The view of the show was amazing, I felt as if I could almost touch Adam. I knew all of the songs played, and loved grooving to the sounds by the band. But the best part didn't occur until after the show.
I was walking back from the Gordon Field House over to the residential side of campus (don't worry, it is only a very short walk). We passed behind the Field House, and noticed all the tour buses outside. Then a brilliant idea came into mind, let's try to wait for Maroon 5 to come outside. Obviously they have to come out this way, so we might as well try to meet them.
So on a fall night in Rochester, we waited outside. My friends and I almost gave up hope, but then JAMES VALENTINE (a guitarist from Maroon 5) came outside! We got pictures with him, and were all freaking out. We were talking it up with the guitarist, when all of a sudden, we see ADAM LEVINE appear from the side of the bus. No one really noticed, but my friends and I did. So we went over and got pictures with him! I was lucky enough to get my own photo with him, and for him to sign my ticket stub (which is hanging in my room underneath my signed photo from Taylor Swift). After the few brief, yet legendary moments of meeting him, we decided it was time for us to go back and brag about our adventures to all of our friends.
I know we are lucky at RIT to have such a fantastic College Activities Board, and cannot wait to see what other events will occur in the coming quarters!
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Josh KramerThat's so awesome! I wish I did that. It was my very first concert! I'm not a ton into Maroon 5, but seeing them live was so cool. Still quite jealous of getting to actually meet them.
Do you think their parents like their music? I always wonder that about famous musicians...
ErinI went to that concert. It was awesome. I was so close to the stage but I don't recommend doing that, my ears felt like pudding afterwards. Oh, it was worth it don't get me wrong. I really enjoyed that the drummer from no doubt played with them.


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German Shepherd Dog Forums (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/)
- Development & Socialization (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/development-socialization/)
- - Socialization and Leeburg (moved to puppy dev and soc) (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/development-socialization/414738-socialization-leeburg-moved-puppy-dev-soc.html)
Socialization and Leeburg (moved to puppy dev and soc)
I just want to do a quick intro before I post my question. I am new here (new to posting, been lurking since November-ish). I am getting a GS pup from a well known breeder in our area in a week. My parents had 3 GSD and loved them. I have always wanted my own, and after much research and waiting, now is the time.
I have done A LOT of research into training, (still going) and have read how important socialization is for a pup. Most sites/books I have read so far talk about exposing them to different dogs/people/situations. I looked also at Leeburgs site and his recommendation is to NOT allow them to interact with other dogs/people and in fact have the pup ignore them and ask people not to approach or pet your pup?
What do you guys do? Has anyone tried this approach? Asking people not to pet or approach the pup for me seems a little daunting; we live on a cul-de-sac with kids in the neighborhood(I have a 6 and 8 yr old) and thought from the other sites it would be best to let them interact with the pup. :help:
"Asking people not to pet or approach the pup for me seems a little daunting; " why? It is your dog , not the community's .
there is an entire thread on the subject - at least something to think about
I have no problem with people meeting my puppies as long as it's a positive experience for the puppy.
You should try get your puppy socialized to being around people and other dogs and cats. That way you'll have a sweet and well behaved dog later in life.
My GSD and my cats aren't best buds - but they respect each other and every one seems happy! Keep in mind dogs are individuals and don't always conform to the breed standard.
My experience with WD was that, as a puppy, he enjoyed meeting and interacting with people. Once he was one year old he basically ignored everyone. He would allow them to pet him but it looked like he didn't care. I am going the same route with the new pup DD. In fact he met a homeless man who was begging for money and he petted him. Since the breeder socialized the litter well, DD was fine and started pulling on the man's scarf. It was a sweet encounter where most people would have just walked by.
First before you pick a strategy, know your dog! Early socialization works well for most dogs. And they can roll with it. Some dogs can't and such dogs need time to adjust. If you run around cramming people and other dogs in the face of a dog that can't handle it, your going to have problems in the future.
Having said that...I used the Leerberg approach on my GSD, he was 7 months old when I got him, And the first time we had company over he did a low growl, he give me the distinct impression he was not messing around?? Clearly out the box, this iwas not a people friendly dog!!! I walked him and taught him to ignore people.
If someone approached I stood in front and he stood behind me as I spoke. I did say"No you can't touch my dog, he is training".
Nobody touched him, people weren't giving him treats and so became furniture to him. He just doesn't care. Took maybe a year or six months can't remember. Anyway after awhile when I could read him, I was on a walk and I crossed the street when someone approached like I usually do. This guy then crossed the street to approach us (GSD) guy! He asked if he could pet my dog?
I looked back at Rocky, he stood behind me like he always had, no change of expression no reaction at all. I told the guy yes and stood to the side he petted Roc and said nice dog! My job was done!
Today he is safe in public, people are of no concern to him. He has been petted by children (always under my supervision) and on walks in the city and is just fine. And even impressed me more, when we walked by an active trench digger without a flinch from him!
This was in effect late socialization (there is a thread on here somewhere). Rocky told me early on that he had people issues and my job was to solve them. I didn't think cramming people into his face and strangers/company giving him treats was going to get me the dog I wanted!
I was right, I'm very proud and impressed with him, he gives GSD's around here a good name!
Oh and if your at the Leerburg site be sure and look at "Why dog parks are a bad idea". Rocky's not a dog park dog, Dominate Male. I don't need the headache, no dog to dog intros were every done. He learned to ignore other dogs.
I didn't need the headache of dog park dynamics, screwing up my work and at a dog park Dominant Male dogs tend to find each other and weak submissive dogs get there butts kicked balanced dogs tend to stay out of the way. Suppositions on my part based on a small sample. Dom dogs found each other balanced dogs stood back.
Oh and the cat thing my guy lives with 9 cats, no issues...added benefit if a cat pops out of nowhere, it's of no concern to him.
Thanks so much for the input! I have read Leeburg's view on dog parks; they never really seemed like a great idea to me anyway.
Well with me I started bringing her to home depot for walks as a puppy. Everyone loved on her and got face kisses. I brought her to a dog park and she got tackled by bigger dogs. But that happens to every dog at a dog park, if the dog cant handle it dont go back.
Shes great at 14 months, she loves all people and dogs. She also does well at shutzhund and seems like she will progress. At home she settles down fine and doesnt react to any neighbors or stuff. I guess it all depends on what you want out of your dog, I wanted a really nice lapdog whos also a bad#@!, and I have it so far. Shes a monster athlete, the most athletic gsd ive met.
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Here is the thread Carmen referred to.
rethinking "popular" early socialization
It's a very good discussion on this topic.
To be fair everyone has there own way of training there dog urn hairdresser will be a lot different from ur neighbour but from my experience leeburgs i believe it's right I've went for a lot of his advice and jake is a completely different dog so it's down to u on how u want to raise ur dog but if ur dog snaps at ur kids not yr dogs fault it's urs or whoever is with the dog
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Locking up cyberspace will lead to undemocratic elections in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (Bytes for All) – The government of Pakistan currently has plans to filter the internet, which will affect freedom of expression, speech and opinion in the country. Bytes for All (BFA) fears the internet will be further restricted as the 2013 general elections approach. BFA has issued a public statement which calls on the UN Human Rights council to take note of the issue and requests that international companies refrain from submitting bids for the proposed project.
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Johnny meeting Niko Bellic at the the Libertonian.
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Collector's Item is a mission in The Lost and Damned which is given by Ray Boccino to Johnny Klebitz.
After you've completed Diamonds in the Rough, you'll get a phone call from Ray. He wants you to head to The Libertonian and offload the stolen diamonds to some jewellers. The mission begins automatically, but you do have time to call up Terry's Gun Van or visit a weapons store to replenish your weaponry and armor.
Once you arrive at the museum, walk all the way across to the loading area where you'll hook up with Niko at the goods entrance (Niko is friendly to Johnny and is clearly unaware of his involvement in Roman's kidnapping). The meetup cutscene between Johnny and Niko is the exact same from the main story, as is the following cutscene when the group is fired upon from above during the deal by Luis Fernando Lopez. Just like the main story cutscene, some of the other party's members will be killed.
In the hail of gunfire, Johnny grabs the cash and makes a break for it. From here, things get to be a bit different from Johnny and Niko's perspective. You'll start in the upper left hallway, while Niko is on the right. You can actually hear Niko using his taunts during the fire fight as he does when you're playing as him. If you quickly go to the railing and look down at the museum floor, you can see Niko fighting his way to the exit. (Niko can be killed by your weapons, which will fail the mission and trigger a phone call with Ray about Niko's death.)
Just as you did with Niko, you make your way down the hallway killing the foes in your path. However, once you get to the staircase leading down, you'll realize that a ton of the enemies are already dead (all thanks to Niko), making this fight a lot easier for Johnny than it was in the main story (especially if Johnny uses the assault shotgun, which is one of the most powerful guns in the game; the sniper rifle is also very good for taking down targets on the other side of the museum). Johnny observes all the dead bodies and comments that he'd hate to have this Niko guy after him because he's "deranged" given the evidence all over the building. Instead of going the way Niko did in the main story mission, you make a sharp left after descending the staircase and head down through where you originally came into the building at.
Outside, Ray's goons are lying in wait, taking cover behind their black luxury sedans. After taking them all out (you have the option of calling in your backup, though it's a good idea to call them in before you exit the museum), two or three cars will make off. Chase down and kill these foes (if you can't locate your bike, there is usually another vehicle or two parked near the museum entrance), then evade the police, as you've likely gained a 2 or 3-star wanted rating by this point. (Note: although Johnny says he needs to kill the drivers before they report to Ray, there is no time limit for tracking them down as they simply keep driving around the general vicinity of the museum.)
Once the wanted level is removed, Johnny will call Jim and ask to meet up so Johnny can give him something (the cash stolen from Ray). During the trip over, Ray calls and says he's been informed by Niko that the money was snatched in the midst of the chaos. Johnny pretends he just wanted to escape with his life and had no idea what happened to the money. Ray then threatens Johnny, stating that if he's trying to pull one over on him, he'll pull Johnny's teeth out of his head. You make it to Jim and give him the diamond money stolen from Ray, saying "fuck him" and justifying keeping it. Jim's on-board and agrees to take it from here. After that, the mission's successfully completed and Johnny is $10,000 richer.
Shortly after completing the mission, Johnny will receive a text from Jim which unlocks the next mission as the endgame approaches.
- This mission is seen in Grand Theft Auto IV from Niko's point of view.
- According to this mission, Niko wears his default outfit to do the deal.
- The mission appears again in The Ballad of Gay Tony, from Luis' point of view.There is a cutscene where Luis strikes Issac in the face with the AK-47 and takes the diamonds,but it is only seen from his point of view.
- Although Luis ambushes the deal,he cannot be seen taking the diamonds from Issac nor killed. Also, despite Luis arriving and leaving in a helicopter and engaging in a firefight in the sky with other copters, no matter how fast Johnny exits the museum, none of this will be evident outside.
- Niko can be heard shooting a SMG during the mission and taunting enemies.
- If Niko is injured, Johnny will call Ray to report it, and the mission will fail. To avoid hitting Niko by accident, the best way is to not target any enemies on the ground floor right away or use splash damage weapons such as the RPG or grenades indoors.
- As Johnny makes his way down the stairs, there will be many corpses laying about (courtesy of Niko). Johnny will comment on this as he passes. He can a few different things regarding this when played again. He says he would hate to have Niko after him because he is deranged.
- As you walk through the Libertonian from the north to south entrances, to meet up with Niko, many Mafia goons you fight later are standing around, talking amongst themselves, some will even mouth-off at you, saying things like, 'look at that, two fucking bums hit the jackpot', but others will still give a friendly, 'how ya doin'.
- When walking through the Libertonian, if you have Terry and Clay with you, one of Ray's goons will say 'We've got a motley crew here', a reference to the Glam Metal band Mötley Crüe.
- The credits reveal that Johnny used an Assault Shotgun.
- Terry and Clay wait for Johnny at the north entrance as he is escaping from the Libertonian, if Johnny calls them for backup.
- During the car chase, it is possible for one of the cars to accidentally fly into the Civilization Committee property, making it difficult to kill the driver without triggering a 4-star wanted level.
- After completing this mission, Johnny will no longer be able to request free weapons from Jim as all he'll hear when he calls is an answering machine. This is similar to how Niko becomes unable to request taxi service from Roman on occasion in the main game because of events that happen to his cousin.


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Advanced biophotonics helps researchers observe the inner workings of living cells
Catherine Clabby
Researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo are using advanced biophotonics to observe multiple types of macromolecules at once in living cells. The Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, directed by Paras N. Prasad, was first to apply this technology to monitor the distribution of native proteins, lipids, RNA and DNA during apoptosis, or programmed cell death. The work was published in 2010 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. More applications are in development. Artem Pliss, an institute research assistant professor, described the method and its promise to American Scientist associate editor Catherine Clabby.
A.S. What are the technologies you used?
A.P. Aliaksandr Kachynski and Andrey Kuzmin here in Buffalo designed and operate our multiplex setup. With it, we integrate two advanced nonlinear optical modalities: coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) and two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF). CARS records the vibration frequencies of molecular bonds after they are exposed to intense bursts of light. We can use CARS to image protein and lipid macromolecules in cells, but the RNA and DNA vibration frequencies are barely distinguishable. So we selectively stained RNA and genomic DNA with fluorescent dye and used TPEF to image those macromolecules in two different fluorescent channels. The combination of technologies permits the characterization and monitoring of intracellular molecular organization at a level of sensitivity and complexity that previously was unachievable.
A.S. How does this contribute to the practice of cell imaging?
A.P. Traditionally, cellular organization is studied by the imaging of particular macromolecules tagged by fluorescent markers, which captures their distribution and interactions. This conventional technique, however, omits the locations of millions of unstained macromolecules, inherently limiting our understanding of cellular organization. In our study, we developed this hybrid approach, in which the specific molecules are mapped by TPEF simultaneously with the mapping of the cell's proteins by CARS. The combination provides insights into the dynamic transformations of the cellular structure. In the apoptosis study, we observed proteins change from being distributed nearly uniformly in the cell nucleus to being present in progressively irregular patterns, a transition not described before this study.
A.S. Can you give an example of how this will be useful?
A.P. This can be used to observe different organelles that accommodate specific biochemical activities. Revealing the macromolecular patterns in these structures can serve as a real-time indicator of cellular physiological condition. Our approach will also be valuable for monitoring the subcellular configuration of macromolecules during drug-cell interactions, which could facilitate drug development.
A.S. What improvements are coming?
A.P. We are working on expanding our imaging by adding several other optical modalities. Our aim is to simultaneously acquire diverse layers of information, such as the distribution, interactions, local concentrations and interface properties of different types of macromolecules. That will give more comprehensive characterization of the molecular structure in cells and tissues. We anticipate that our technology will be used for noninvasive molecular diagnostics as well as for drug development, where it will allow researchers to collect specific information on intracellular structure and enable high-throughput drug screening at the level of individual cells.
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The top of the world is a wintry wonderland. Icebergs float in the cold Arctic Ocean. In winter, the temperature often falls to -30°F and the sun never rises. The ocean is surrounded by frozen ground. There are few people or trees, but to polar bears, the Arctic is home.
Polar bears have thick fur, huge paws and other features that make them well prepared for life in their harsh environment. In fact, they need the Arctic sea ice for survival. But climate change is causing larger and larger areas of summer sea ice to melt. Experts say that if warming patterns continue, the Arctic could be free of summer sea ice by 2050. That may cause two-thirds of the world's 20,000 polar bears to be gone by then too.
"Global climate change may not be affecting you, but it is really affecting polar bears in the Arctic," Jeffrey Bonner, president of the St. Louis Zoo, in Missouri, told TFK. Bonner is working with zoo and aquarium officials across the country to prevent the bears from dying out.
The Importance of the Ice
Polar bears can't survive for long on land. Seals are their main source of food. The bears hunt for seals in openings in the sea ice. Polar bears need the ice to get to their prey. In summer, the polar bears that live on land eat very little and wait for the sea ice to return.
With the sea ice forming later in the year and melting earlier, polar bears do not have enough opportunity to hunt and eat. Less sea ice makes it harder for the bears to catch the seals. The bears must swim longer distances between ice packs, and they can't always make it. The ice is also getting thinner. These conditions can cause polar-bear cubs to become separated from their mothers, who provide them with food.
What Zoos—and You—Can Do
Less ice and snow in the far north is also making the entire planet warmer. Steven Amstrup is the chief scientist of Polar Bears International. The group is dedicated to saving the bears and their habitat. "The more people who see polar bears and understand their plight, the better the chance we'll alter our warming path in time to save them," he says.
Few people have the chance to see polar bears in the wil. That's where zoos come in. The St. Louis Zoo, in Missouri, is planning a $20 million polar-bear exhibit, scheduled to open in 2017. The North Carolina Zoo, in Asheboro, plans to open its new polar-bear exhibit late next year. "If you save the polar bears, you are doing something dramatic to help the environment," says Bonner.
While there are obstacles to bringing polar bears into the country, Bonner and others are working to show how rescuing orphaned cubs could help the species survive. Zoos would provide the cubs with a safe home. Experts would work to breed the bears and keep polar-bear populations healthy.
You can do your part, too, by protecting the environment and helping save the bears' habitat. Turn off lights and appliances, and save energy in other ways. "If everybody does small things, that adds up," says Bonner.
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Let our expert barcode technology serve up a mouthwatering cup with Gevalia Signature Crema Coffee. A delectable layer of foamy goodness tops this extraordinarily satisfying blend, offering a unique and aromatic experience that's sure to soothe the soul.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Lauracakes from quickly a favorite! After reading other reviews I thought I would try this Crema. I was pleasently surprised by how well it produced the crema on top of the coffee. Very smooth taste and a coffee I can drink without adding any flavored creamer as I do with most coffee's. I will be buying this one again. Try it just once and you may be hooked.
Date published: 2017-03-29
Rated 5 out of 5 by samjam from Love the added cream which makes it soooo tasty. This a product that is truly tasty and is the only way I will add the small amount of milk to my coffe,
Date published: 2017-02-03
Rated 5 out of 5 by EarlyMorningCoffee from Close to the perfect cup of coffee Close to the perfect cup of coffee. Make one cup for my wife to wake her up. Make one cup for myself and it is great start to the day.
Date published: 2017-01-31
Rated 5 out of 5 by BoiseBill from great taste one of our favorite coffees, we always include it in our order
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Zuzu from Creamy Coffee Signature Crema is great! Creamy and delicious! I love start my day with it.
Date published: 2016-12-17
Rated 5 out of 5 by Pato1300 from This product has a great flavour Perfect quality as always. I love the foam! I drink more coffee than before since I tried Signature Crema. It is my favorite. I strongly recommend it
Date published: 2016-11-03
Rated 5 out of 5 by Billy55 from Excellent Taste This is a really nice combination of coffee and cream flavor. A smooth blend perfect for those of us who don't want bitter coffee.
Date published: 2016-09-13
Rated 5 out of 5 by MartyM from Mornings are special because of this coffee... This excellent cup of coffee celebrates the beginning of each and every day. I have stopped buying coffee at speciality coffee shops because I think this coffee is far superior. I like a great, strong, but not too strong and definitely not bitter, cup of coffee with sugar and half and half. I have been drinking this coffee for years and love it! Please continue to carry this, it makes my day.
Date published: 2016-07-18
How many ounces dose the Crema make
8 ozs
Date published: 2015-07-04
What is the coffee in the Maxwell house creme cappuccino?Where does the creme come in? I order Gevalia Creme which is just coffee so I was wanting to
What is the coffee in the Maxwell house creme cappuccino?Where does the creme come in? I order Gevalia Creme which is just coffee so I was wanting to know what the difference was?
Crema is by definition "just" coffee... which is very smooth and "creamy". There is no milk in a crema. The cappucino adds a milk.
Date published: 2015-10-10
Decaf, please
Signature Crema seems to be a flagship product of Gevalia. Will it ever be available in decaf?
A good substitute is the Decaf Espresso; I simply add more water when brewing with my Tassimo. Tastes great.
Date published: 2016-04-30
Is Gevalia Crema the only Crema available.
I am looking for a Crema that is bolder and has a longer lasting denser foam.
I was getting another Crema from Tassimo on=line, but it is no longer available. So have been getting Gevalia brand.
Date published: 2015-08-15
tassimo maker makes only 8 fl oz of gevalia crema
Hi I started using my tassimo. It makes only 8 fl oz of gevalia signature crema instead of 11 fl oz. Can somebody advise me? The same happened when tried making gevalia skinny cappuccino.
The bar code on the coffee disc will tell the machine how much water to add to the coffee. Different varieties of coffee will come in different sizes. If you want more Signature Crema, do what I do; get a 16 oz. mug and make two discs. I do it every morning.
Date published: 2016-11-19


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Apartment near Vatican City
Size75 m²
Floor No.4(with elevator)
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Elevator in building
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
- Family/child friendly
Accommodation summary
|via cardinal pacca, 00165 roma, Italy
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The newly renovated apartment consists of a double bedroom and a twin bedroom, both of which are bright and beautifully decorated. Warm colours feature within the traditionally styled living room which holds plush seating and a dining table. The well-equipped kitchen can be used to prepare tasty meals.
Just 100 metres away lies the picturesque natural scenery of Villa Doria Pamphili. The largest park in the city, it contains a children's playground and jogging, cycling and athletic paths. The Baldo Degli Ubaldi Metro Station is a 10-minute walk away.
The surrounding area offers a wide variety of shops and restaurants.
House rulesUpon arrival guests are required to pay in cash the Stay Tourist tax (the City Municipality tax of Rome). The cost is 3,50 EUROS per person per day (for a maximum of 10 days). Children up to 10 years old do not pay the tax.
Are available services such as transport by private car from the airport, night tours of the city with private car, car rental.
Check in h. 14.00
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Reviews of this property
Gino met us at the apartment and gave us all the info we needed for transportation and local shopping as well as maps of Rome. The apartment is close to the busline and about 800m from the metro station yet in a relatively quiet neighbourhood. The apartment is very spacious and well appointed, especially in the kitchen, so that we were able to cook dinners easily. A good cutting knife would be the only suggestion to add to the kitchen supplies. It is a perfect space for two couples or a family.
We are a family of four that stayed in Rome for 4 nights in August. Gino was there to welcome us when we arrived by car. He was very friendly and gave us some useful information about local supermarkets and public transport (there is a bus stop 5 minutes away from the flat and a tube station a bit further) We appreciated the bottle of Prosecco and the breakfast food left for us. Gino's flat is great: it is spacious (2 separate bedrooms, sitting room and kitchen), very clean and functional. Rome was very hot and it was lovely to go back to a flat with air conditioning in the evening after exploring the city during the day. The flat also has a lovely terrace where we had breakfast and sometimes dinner. It is a great base to explore Rome
A really nice flat
Pretty and clean rooms with everything you need
Close to the vatican and center of rome
And a good restaurant close to the appartement
We have stayed in Gino apartment as a party of two couples. Each couple had one room with double bed with pillows and blankets provided. We shared one bathroom, towels and hair dryer available as well as washing maschine if needed. Kitchen was fully equipped, fridge, kettle, hob, microwave. Safe box if needed.There are shops 10min walking distance, very nice restaurant and coffee shop nearby. Bus stop 10min (good connection to Vatican ), metro 15-20min away from apartment. There is a big tarrace if you like having meals outside. Parking available on the street. Good internet connection. Air conditioned rooms.Overall good value for money and definitely Gino is a great host, easy to communicate. Highly recommend.
Thank you for the unforgettable stay in the apartment near Vatican City.
The apartment is very well equipped and located nearby a metro station (approx. 10 mins walk). The elevator was very useful (especially for the suitcases). Gino is a very attentive host and the communication was great.
We would love to come back again soon :-)
This apartment in Rome is very spacious. Airco is available in 3 different rooms what is very nice if you stay in the summer. The wifi is working perfect. To reach the citycenter by bus ther's a busstop at 5 min. walk. The trip by bus takes about 15 minutes. Theclosest metrostation is at 10 min. walk.
The owner of the apartment, Gino, gave us very useful informaion for our stay in Rome and it was always possible to have contact with.
We also took the nighttour with his friend Aldo which we highly recommend. Aldo brought us to places were we never would have been without him.
We would highly recommend this apartment in Rome!!
We stayed with our two sons (13 and 16 years old) 4 nights in the apartment of Gino and had a great time. The apartment is located nearby the underground station (about 5 minutes walking), in a safe location. It is very spacious and comes with a huge roof terras and elevator. Gino will answer any questions you might have in reference to Rome or the apartment. In the apartment you will find spices, pasta, coffee and thee, all free of use. We defintely will recommend a stay in Gino's apartment!
We had traveled for a short trip to Rome to visit the city and the Vatican. When we arrived gave us a very friendly Gino. All information we have used has on the city public transport and also the WLAN Gino given us immediately.
The apartment is very spacious, air-conditioned, in our view, and I can only recommend heartily on.
Many thanks Gino
Wir waren für einen Kurztrip nach Rom gereist, um die Stadt und den Vatikan zu besichtigen. Als wir ankamen hat Gino uns sehr freundlich empfangen. Alle Informationen die wir über die Stadt öffentliche Verkehrsmittel und auch das WLAN gebraucht haben hat Gino uns sofort gegeben.
Die Wohnung ist aus unserer Sicht sehr geräumig, klimatisiert und ich kann sie nur von Herzen weiter empfehlen.
Vielen lieben Dank Gino
Hello There,
the apartment of Gino was just super class.
It's clean, incredibly spacious and the heat in summer months ensures a perfect air conditioning. It's all because what is needed and we felt very comfortable.
The terrace is the Suuuuuper-Pops - huge in size and offers after a long day out plenty of relaxation for "legs up".
Gino I can really say is the best:
He is such a warm, courteous and fully hospitable man. He gave us so nicely welcomed and everything completely unobtrusive to our wellbeing - care before and after travel, so everything worked out well and made our stay in Rome perfect.
I've rarely encountered a pleasant and tried people / hosts.
Many Greetings
das Apartment von Gino war einfach super klasse.
Es ist sauber, unglaublich geräumig und für die Hitze in Sommer-Monaten sorgt eine perfekte Klimaanlage. Es ist alles da was benötigt wird und wir haben uns dort sehr wohl gefühlt.
Die Terrasse ist der Suuuuuper-Knaller - riesig groß und bietet nach einem langen Tagesausflug viel Entspannung für " Beine hoch" .
Zu Gino kann ich wirklich nur das Beste sagen:
Er ist so ein herzlicher, zuvorkommender und uneingeschränkt gastfreundlicher Mensch. Er hat uns so schön willkommen geheißen und sich um alles völlig unaufdringliche für unser Wohlbefinden - vor und nach der Reise- gekümmert, sodass alles gut geklappt und unser Aufenthalt in Rom perfekt gemacht hat.
Ich habe selten so einen angenehmen und bemühten Menschen / Gastgeber angetroffen.
Viele Grüße
We were four girls and spent five wonderful days in Rome. Gino is the perfect host. In advance we had contact by email, so that Gino took care of everything (Return transfer from the airport). He then welcomed us warmly in his apartment. For the first few days even bread, pasta, cakes, fruit, pastries, drinks, wine, etc. were. ready, so we did not have to go straight to the mini-market. He told us which bus you have to go where and had lots of advice for us. The bus station is only a 5-minute walk and you are in 20min in the center. Perfect .... The apartment is large, very clean and it's all available ..... hair dryer, towels, toilet paper and much more. Also in the kitchen is everything you could need. Gino is very warm and has in the meantime inquired after our well-being. The best part was, however, our nightly tour of Rome. Gino told us that a very good friend of him (his name is Aldo) offers tours of Rome at night. We have of course slammed. Three hours it would take really, but with us five were from. It has been so much fun with Aldo, he has so many places in Rome showed us where we can not reach a tourist. It was great !!! And on our last day came Gino yet goodbye over and we do not have all along had a coffee on the wonderful roof terrace and chatted a bit. All in all .... we were very, very comfortable and I can recommend Gino`s apartment to 100%. All in all it was the perfect city break for us ...
Wir waren vier Mädels und verbrachten fünf wundervolle Tage in Rom. Gino ist der perfekte Gastgeber. Im Vorfeld hatten wir schon Kontakt per email, so das Gino sich um alles gekümmert hat (Hin- und Rücktransfer vom Flughafen). Er hat uns dann in seiner Wohnung herzlich empfangen. Für die ersten Tage standen sogar Brötchen, Nudeln, Kuchen, Obst, Gebäck, Getränke, Wein uvm. bereit, so das wir nicht gleich zum Minimarkt gehen mussten. Er erklärte uns mit welchem Bus man wohin fahren muss und hatte noch viele Tipps für uns. Zur Bushaltestelle sind es nur 5 Gehminuten und man ist in 20min im Zentrum. Perfekt.... Die Wohnung ist groß, sehr sauber und es ist auch alles vorhanden.....Fön, Handtücher, Toilettenpapier und noch vieles mehr. Auch in der Küche ist alles da was man braucht. Gino ist sehr herzlich und hat sich zwischendurch auch nach unserem Wohlbefinden erkundigt. Das beste war jedoch unsere abendliche Tour durch Rom. Gino erzählte uns das ein sehr guter Freund von ihm (er heisst Aldo) Touren durch Rom bei Nacht anbietet. Da haben wir natürlich zugeschlagen. Drei Stunden sollte sie eigentlich dauern, aber bei uns wurden fünf daraus. Es hat soviel Spass gemacht mit Aldo, er hat uns so viele Orte in Rom gezeigt, wo man als Touri nicht hinkommt. Es war herrlich!!! Und an unserem letzten Tag kam Gino noch zum Abschied vorbei und wir haben noch alle zusammen auf der tollen Dachterasse einen Kaffee getrunken und ein bisschen geplaudert. Alles in allem....wir haben uns sehr, sehr wohl gefühlt und ich kann Gino`s Wohnung zu 100% weiterempfehlen. Alles in allem war es für uns der perfekte Städtetrip...
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With minimal effort and mess, this tender salmon fillet has the makings of a dinnertime staple. Citrus, garlic and ginger bring out the best in this low calorie entrée. —Lisa Finnegan, Forked River, New Jersey
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- 4 salmon fillets (6 ounces each)
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh gingerroot
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh cilantro
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
- 2 teaspoons grated orange peel
- 1-1/2 teaspoons grated lime peel
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- Place each salmon fillet on a double thickness of heavy-duty foil (about 12 in. square). Combine the ginger, cilantro, garlic and peels; spoon over salmon.
- In a small bowl, combine the vinegar, soy sauce and pepper; drizzle over salmon. Fold foil around fish and seal tightly.
- Grill, covered, over medium heat for 15-20 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork. Open foil carefully to allow steam to escape. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Garlic-Ginger Salmon Packets in Healthy Cooking August/September 2012, p54
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"One of the best salmon recipes I have ever tried. Worth gathering all the ingredients to make it. Really! And, the best part is that cleanup is a snap."


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The confirmation that Aucklander Mitch Evans will take a seat in the GP2 championship with Arden International brings him much closer to a possible Formula One drive.
At 18 years old, Evans is one of the youngest in the field and has the least amount of experience at the tier just below F1. However, he already has two international championships under his belt - the Toyota Racing Series in 2010 and 2011 and the GP3 championship in 2012.
"I'm really stoked to get the ultimate thing I was wanting," said Evans. "I'll be on the grid in Malaysia [opening round of the F1 championships] in a GP2 car.
"It was a bit of a challenge for us to come up with the budget but we've got enough to get through most of the season and are confident of getting the rest.
"We had to commit now, and if I get a good start to the season it'll help in getting the rest [money], which we could still get before the season starts. So all good."
At his first attempt on European soil in 2011 with MW Arden, a new team collaboration between Red Bull F1 team principle Christian Horner and Red Bull F1 driver Mark Webber, Evans finished ninth after a great start to the season.
Last year he was again one of the fastest drivers in the category and clinched the title at the last round at Monza.
Evans tested with both Arden and DAMS last October and November and impressed with his professionalism, aptitude and speed being the fastest rookie.
"We have a great relationship with him, and have seen him grow in the last two years in a championship that was created to bring great drivers into GP2," said team boss Julian Rouse.
"We tested Mitch at the Barcelona and Jerez tests at the end of last year and were encouraged by his performance, especially as he was in the top 10 with drivers who have several years' GP2 experience."
It's a bit of a step up machinery-wise for the young fellow, though. His GP3 car was a four-cylinder, albeit turbo charged, 2-litre pushing out about 209kW. He's now got the keys to a 4-litre V8 developing 456kW with over twice as much power, which will have to be treated with finesse and care.
"They are a bit of a handful to drive," Evans said. "More horsepower but similar in weight [to GP2 car] so the power to weight ratio is pretty unreal. A bit of a beast and it's bigger as well, and difficult to drive.
"It's going to take a while to go up against and beat the guys who have been in the championship for a while now. I'll give it my best shot as always and that's all I can do."
Evans leaves for Australia for a fitness training camp with his manager Webber and then it's off to Europe for his first round of official testing with his new team.
One thing is for sure, by driving with Arden, Evans knows he has a car capable of running at the front. Arden finished third in the teams' championship in 2012 and one of their drivers, Luiz Razia, finished second.


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Can the tools of graph theory and social-network studies unravel the next big plot?
Brian Hayes
In the five years since that wrenching Tuesday morning when hijacked
aircraft sliced into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,
Americans have been living with a new undercurrent of worry and
mistrust. Naturally, there's fear of further attacks. But there's
also concern that measures taken to forestall such attacks could
erode traditional rights and liberties. In recent months,
controversy has erupted over reports that government agencies are
monitoring Internet and telephone communications as well as
financial transactions. Some of the surveillance programs are said
to be sifting through gigantic data sets, scanning for patterns that
might reveal criminal intent or activity.
The debate over these programs has focused mainly on legal and
political questions. Are constitutional and statutory safeguards
being respected? What about laws that bar intelligence agencies from
spying on American citizens? Do the programs strike an appropriate
balance between the right to privacy and the need for security?
These are important issues, but I shall leave them to others. Here I
want to ask a different kind of question: What can one expect to
learn through such wholesale screening and data-mining operations?
Do the communications patterns of terrorists have a signature so
distinctive that computer algorithms can detect signs of a
conspiracy amid trillions of other telephone calls or e-mail messages?
In addressing these questions I face an obvious impediment: Very
little reliable information on the nature and scope of the
surveillance programs has been made public. However, mathematicians
and computer scientists have tackled problems very similar to those
confronting an intelligence analyst trying to make sense of
surveillance data. And social scientists have long taken an interest
in the networks that bind people together—including networks
of criminals and terrorists. Perhaps by combining insights from
these fields we can make some plausible guesses.
The 411 on Telephone Snooping
The newly revealed surveillance programs seem to include several
distinct activities. Some involve eavesdropping—listening in
on telephone conversations or recording the content of Internet
messages. A follow-the-money program gathers information from a
banking clearinghouse. But the reports I find most intriguing
mention efforts to analyze a database of telephone calls with the
aim of tracing links among conspirators. The database includes no
sound recordings or any other hints about what might have been said
in a conversation; it merely lists the telephone numbers at the two
ends of each call and gives the date and time when a call began and ended.
This "call detail" database sounded very familiar. Several
years ago I had read of experiments done with a similar
database—almost surely an earlier version of the one that is
now said to be under government scrutiny. The experiments were tests
of algorithms in the mathematical field known as graph theory, which
studies network-like structures. The phone-call database was a
useful test bed because it can be viewed as an enormous mathematical
graph. I wrote about this work in an earlier column in American
Scientist (January-February 2000).
Vague allusions to the database, or "call graph," appeared
in the first public accounts of the new surveillance programs.
Writing in The New York Times last December, Eric
Licht-blau and James Risen noted, "[National Security Agency]
technicians, besides actually eavesdropping on specific
conversations, have combed through large volumes of phone and
Internet traffic in search of patterns that might point to terrorism
suspects." The nature of the operation became clearer in May
when Leslie Cauley wrote in USA Today that at least three
telephone companies are voluntarily supplying call-detail records to
the NSA. Two of those companies later denied that they participate
in the program, and USA Today retracted that part of the
story. The third company, AT&T, has declined to comment on the
substance of the report, and so has the NSA. When AT&T was sued
for allegedly violating privacy statutes, the Bush administration
moved to suppress the suits on the grounds that litigating the
matter would reveal state secrets. As this issue of American
Scientist goes to press, the facts remain murky.
Who Calls Whom
The NSA is the U.S. espionage service with responsibility for
cryptography and "signals intelligence." Although its
budget and staffing are secret, it is often said to be the largest
of the U.S. intelligence agencies and also, incidentally, the
largest employer of mathematicians in the United States and perhaps
in the world. And it is assumed to possess prodigious computing resources.
Exploration of the call graph belongs to the branch of signals
intelligence known as traffic analysis. In a battlefield situation,
you might intercept an enemy's radio transmissions but be unable to
read their encrypted content. Nevertheless, just counting the
messages can yield valuable information. A flurry of activity might
signal an impending troop movement; sudden radio silence could be
even more ominous. If you can identify the source and the intended
recipient of each message—in effect, constructing a call
graph—you can learn even more, since lines of communication
often reveal something about the organization of a military force.
The search for meaningful patterns in telephone records could rely
on similar principles, but the problem is much harder. In the
military situation, messages between enemy units are readily
identified as such. In the telephone database, calls among a few
dozen conspirators would all too easily get lost in the background
noise of other conversations.
The records in the call database are collected not for the sake of
national security but for mundane commercial purposes. In order to
send you an itemized bill at the end of the month, a phone company
needs to keep track of every call completed, with the originating
and receiving phone numbers and the starting and ending times. The
largest companies handle roughly 250 million toll calls a day, and
so a month's worth of data amounts to several billion call records.
AT&T reports that its database of retained records is
approaching two trillion calls and more than 300 terabytes of data.
Apart from billing, the call graph has other uses within the phone
company—some of which are not too different from what the NSA
may be doing, and almost as secretive. Historical calling patterns
can be used to detect fraud, and some patterns are also of interest
in marketing. For example, a company that offers a discounted rate
within a "calling circle" can use information from the
call graph to estimate the costs and benefits of the program.
In principle, the same kind of traffic data found in telephone
call-detail records could also be compiled for other communications
channels. For instance, Federal Express and other courier services
keep digitized records of their deliveries, which could readily be
transformed into a database of senders and receivers. Curiously, the
most digital medium of all—the Internet—does not provide
for routine retention of who-speaks-to-whom data; there's no direct
need for it, since customers do not pay by the message. However,
there is no technological barrier to collecting detailed statistics
on e-mail messages and other kinds of Internet traffic. A
"packet sniffer" installed on the network backbone would
simply need to scan the headers of messages and record the
to and from addresses. (It's even possible that
equipment reportedly installed by the NSA at certain Internet
switching centers could have this purpose.)
Ties That Bind
Digging into the call graph is a form of data mining—and the
process could not be more aptly named. Heaving aside hundreds of
terabytes of extraneous data is the digital equivalent of a major
earthmoving project. Before firing up the steam shovels, it would be
helpful to know what we're looking for. What are the communications
patterns characteristic of dangerous plotters and connivers?
A good place to turn for an answer to this question is the community
of scholars who study social networks: the structures of groups of
people as defined by the connections between them. (Of course the
community of social-network scholars is itself a social network,
held together by many interpersonal connections.)
A seminal paper in this literature, "The strength of weak
ties," was published in 1973 by Mark S. Granovetter, now of
Stanford University. Granovetter observed that when people are
strongly connected—when they are close friends, say, or family
members, or working colleagues—the ties between them are
usually symmetrical and also obey a rule that might be called
triangularity. Symmetry implies that if A is a friend of B,
then B is also a friend of A. Triangularity says that if A is
friendly with both B and C, then B and C should also be
friends with each other. Of course these are merely tendencies, and
anyone can cite exceptions (unrequited love, pathological
triangles), but for purposes of analysis it's useful to ask what a
society would look like if symmetry and triangularity were strictly
enforced rules. The answer is that the social structure would
consist entirely of perfect cliques—groups in which
every person is linked to every other person.
Strong bonds between individuals would seem to be the very stuff of
social cohesion, but Granovetter's theory suggests a paradoxical
effect. Locally, strong ties create highly robust structures, but on
a larger scale they also isolate one group from another. Because of
the all-or-nothing nature of strong ties, distinct cliques become
island universes that cannot communicate with one another. What
really holds the world together, Granovetter argues, are weak
ties between casual acquaintances. These relationships are
often symmetrical but seldom tri-angular: You can chat with a bank
teller every week without getting to know all of the teller's other
customers. Such weak ties, which at first seem socially
insignificant, provide vital cross-links between cliques. The
prevailing network structure, according to Granovetter, consists of
clusters tightly bound internally by strong ties and loosely linked
to other clusters by weak ties.
Social-network theory has obvious affinities with mathematical graph
theory—even though people who work in the two fields tend to
form distinct clusters linked only by weak ties. Graph theory brings
its own vocabulary, as well as a more abstract view of the subject
matter: Formally, a graph is a set of vertices together with a set
of edges, where each edge connects a pair of vertices. This rather
opaque definition can be interpreted in various ways, but in
practice graph theorists, like social networkers, draw lots of
diagrams with dots and lines.
Plotting the Plotters
What do the principles of social networks and graph theory tell us
about the structure of terrorist cells? The very word
"cell" offers a clue: It suggests compartmentalization.
And indeed the lore of spy rings and resistance fighters speaks of
limiting communication so that if one person is captured others will
not be put in jeopardy. At the same time, however, the members of
the group have to keep in touch in order to make plans and carry
them out.
An illuminating case study comes from a rather different context:
price-fixing by manufacturers of electrical equipment in the 1950s.
The social network of the colluding managers and executives was
examined by Wayne E. Baker of the University of Chicago and Robert
R. Faulkner of the University of Massachusetts. They found that
"the structure of illegal networks is driven primarily by the
need to maximize concealment, rather than the need to maximize
efficiency." Nevertheless, the price-fixing and bid-rigging
simply could not be accomplished without communication among the
conspirators, especially in the case of the biggest machinery.
Despite the risks, executives had to meet face-to-face to coordinate
their plans.
Networks of terrorists apparently face the same conflicting
imperatives. Valdis E. Krebs, a consultant who usually applies
social-network analysis to business problems, has used the same
tools to map relations among the September 11 hijackers. In a paper
written just a few weeks after the attacks, he found the network
surprisingly sparse. Although every hijacker could be connected to
every other via some path through the network, many of the
paths were quite long, passing through three or four intermediaries.
This attenuated structure would make communication extremely inefficient.
Krebs later revised his analysis, as more information became
available. He has posted a new map at the Web site
http://orgnet.com/prevent.html. Here he reaches a different
conclusion. Starting with two men who were already under suspicion
in January of 2000, Krebs finds that known linkages lead to all 19
hijackers, and to other conspirators as well. Each node of the
network is tied to the two initial subjects either directly or
through a single intermediary.
José A. Rodríguez of the University of Barcelona has
created a similar network map for the bombing of commuter trains in
Madrid on March 11, 2004. Rodríguez recorded several kinds of
strong links among the conspirators. Some had ties of kinship or had
been childhood friends; others congregated at a shop owned by two of
the subjects; some were veterans of earlier wars or terrorist
actions. Looking at just the 13 men who actually placed and
detonated the explosives, Rodríguez found that the strong
ties produced a somewhat strange network. A core of six people
formed a clique: Each one was linked to all the others. But the
remaining members were only loosely associated or were completely
disconnected from the main group.
The outlook changed entirely when Rodríguez included some 70
persons associated with the plot in various ways and when he mapped
weak ties as well as strong ones. The weak ties denote pairs of
people connected by financial transactions, casual encounters and
the like. This larger and fuller network looks much like what
Granovetter's theory would predict. There are several dense
clusters, within which most nodes are strongly connected, but the
clusters communicate with one another only via comparatively loose
and unreliable couplings. For example, one cluster is made up of
Spanish citizens from whom the bombers obtained explosives; most
paths from this subgroup to the rest of the network pass through a
single node, a vulnerable choke-point.
Inner Circles and Outer Rings
The social networks described above were constructed
retrospectively. The starting point was a complete list of the known
members of the group, along with enough biographical information to
fill in the links. Discerning the same structure in
advance—when an attack is still in the planning stage and most
of the plotters are unknown—would be much harder, especially
when working from impersonal data such as logs of phone calls or e-mails.
Sketching out such networks surely falls within the NSA's mandate,
which might explain the agency's interest in the call graph. One
scenario is easy to imagine. Someone has come under suspicion, based
on information from other sources, and by consulting the call graph
the NSA learns whom that person has been talking with in recent
weeks or months. The result is a "ring" of contacts
surrounding the subject. Then each of the contacts is investigated
in the same way, producing a second ring of contacts-of-contacts.
This process could be continued further, although the exponential
growth of the graph will soon take in most of the population
(especially if the subject has answered a call from a telemarketer
or has ordered a pizza). Of more interest are instances where the
subject's contacts are also contacts of one another, since such
triangular links suggest strong ties.
The tricky part of this network analysis is not finding the links
but knowing which of them are significant. It may well be true that
if intelligence agencies had "connected the dots," all of
the September 11 hijackers could have been linked to the two who
were spotted in January of 2000. But thousands of other people would
have been linked to those individuals as well. Showing the network
of conspirators in isolation is misleading; the graph is actually
embedded in a vastly larger structure.
Direct access to the call graph would be a convenience in tracing
the associations of known suspects, but it is not necessary. For any
named individual, the same records could be obtained under court
order, as they are by law-enforcement agencies during criminal
investigations. Indeed, if the call graph is used only for such
purposes, it seems like quite an extravagance—sifting through
1012 records for the few hundred or few thousand calls
that might be of interest.
But news reports hint at a more ambitious function for the call
graph: not merely tracking down the associates of a known malefactor
but rather discovering a plot without any prior guidance, merely by
searching the archive for "patterns that might point to
suspects." This sounds like magic: You cast your gaze over the
vast and intricate web of the call graph, and without even knowing
the names behind the phone numbers, you perceive some pattern of
linkages that's a danger sign. Can this trick be transferred from
the world of magic to the world of algorithms?
If such a signature pattern exists, the findings of social-network
theory suggest it should involve some distinctive combination of
strong and weak ties. A terrorist cell, seen from the point of view
of telephone traffic, might be a set of people who talk among
themselves a lot but have little to say to the rest of the world.
Thus the pattern that rings the alarm bells would be a dense
subgraph in comparative isolation from its surroundings.
Clique Here
Only the NSA knows whether it can actually spot such patterns, but a
somewhat simpler problem can serve as a proxy in estimating the
difficulty of the task. The proxy problem is that of finding a large
clique within the call graph. This process was studied in the late
1990s by James Abello, then at AT&T Bell Laboratories, and his colleagues.
Finding the largest clique in a graph is a classic hard problem. The
brute-force method simply examines every possible subset of vertices
and checks to see if all of them are connected. The number of
subsets grows so rapidly that this algorithm runs out of oomph even
for a graph with 50 vertices; it would be unthinkable for 50
million. The only practical alternatives are approximate and
probabilistic methods, which usually converge on a good solution but
can't promise to find the best one.
The graph used for Abello's experiments included a single day's
records; it had 53,767,087 vertices (corresponding to telephone
numbers) and more than 170 million edges (representing calls). The
algorithm started with a small clique and tried to build a bigger
one. In a first stage, the program repeatedly searched for a new
vertex connected with all those already in the set. When no more
vertices of this kind could be found, the program switched to
another strategy, looking for opportunities to remove one vertex
from the clique in exchange for adding two others. Grinding through
the day's database took about five hours on a machine with four
processors and four gigabytes of memory.
The largest cliques found had 30 vertices. Consider what this means:
In a group of 30 telephone numbers, each one either called or was
called by all of the other 29 numbers in the course of a single day,
for a total of at least 435 calls. That's quite a busy calling
circle! But there wasn't just one such clique: Abello's group found
more than 14,000 distinct cliques of size 30.
The curious result of this experiment suggests several conclusions,
all of them tentative. First, the computational power needed for
analyzing call graphs appears to be readily available—though
it's not yet on every desktop. Abello's experiments were able to
chew through one day's worth of data; today's hardware could
doubtless manage much larger bites.
Second, it looks like finding instances of a given pattern within
the call graph is not the problem. The problem is defining a pattern
selective enough to identify a target group without also branding
14,000 others as possible terrorists. The algorithms must somehow
distinguish a few dozen people intent on mayhem from other groups of
the same size and structure who are planning a family reunion,
canvassing the neighborhood for a lost cat, running for city council
or war-dialing to win free concert tickets from a radio station.
No matter what methods are brought to bear on the problem, the
intelligence agencies face a formidable task: To survey a huge
population (potentially all six billion of us) looking for a tiny
subgroup (those planning violence). It's analogous to screening for
a rare disease. Even if the test is right 99 percent of the time,
almost all the positive results will necessarily be false positives.
Abello (who is now with DIMACS, the Center for Computer Science and
Discrete Mathematics at Rutgers University, and with Ask.com) thinks
that the task of tracing terrorists through call graphs would be
difficult, but he also notes that additional information can be
extracted from the graphs, apart from the simple pattern matching I
have described here. For example, cliques and other clusters have
interesting dynamics; some persist from day to day but others
vanish. Information like this might help to distinguish one kind of
group from another. Abello also mentions extensive recent work on
identifying self-organized communities in other contexts, from
chat-room participants to eBay customers.
The Plumber's Helper
It's in the nature of secret intelligence programs that most of us
will never know for sure what the programs do, how well they work or
even whether they exist. Nevertheless, in a democracy citizens can't
entirely cede responsibility for what their government may be doing
behind the black curtain. To have an informed opinion, we need to
puzzle out the facts as best we can. Besides, it's an
interesting puzzle.
My own opinion, so far, remains ill-formed. Tracking terrorists
through call graphs looks like a hard problem. But just because
I'm stumped certainly doesn't mean it can't be done!
Whether or not call graphs lead to hidden terrorist cells, they may
be just the ticket for other tasks. Here's one idea. The Bush
administration has expressed displeasure with the public disclosure
of all the new surveillance programs, and would like to know who
leaked the news. The call graph might be an ideal device for
answering that question. One need merely list, on the one hand, all
those who had access to the information, and on the other hand the
journalists who ultimately reported the story. Search in the graph
for direct or indirect connections between those two sets of
vertices. The irony is that whoever released the information
probably understood quite clearly this potential for exposure.
© Brian Hayes
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/connecting-the-dots/4
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society


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The presidential inauguration draws heavy media coverage every four years – with pictures of the swearing in, the parade and the traditional black tie balls.
But when CU Journalism major Rob Denton covered this year's inauguration for a PBS NewsHour blog, he gave his audience a look at much different events using some entirely new digital technology.
Denton, a photojournalist, was one of 14 students nationwide chosen by PBS to cover inauguration weekend for a NewsHour project called InaugBlog. Together, the students provided online coverage of the weekend's events, including news stories, social media feeds, pictures, traditional and interactive video.
"We wanted to introduce students to public media and show them the importance of producing balanced and fair reporting," said Imani Cheers, director of educational resources for the PBS NewsHour and managing editor of the InaugBlog.
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At many of the events he covered, Denton used new digital technology that is available to CU Journalism & Mass Communication students who are being trained in the latest digital newsgathering equipment and techniques.
One innovative tool, the GoPano, is a device that attaches to an iPhone to produce 360-degree video of an event. The video is interactive – a viewer can manipulate it to pan and zoom so it provides a panorama of the scene. Denton made several GoPano videos, including one of a protest against U.S. use of drones overseas. The protesters displayed a model drone near a barricade of U.S. military Humvees.
When the weekend's events were over Denton created an interactive map pinpointing the locations of major events and the stories the students wrote to chronicle them.
With a digital media revolution underway, Denton said "it's important to not just do the traditional formats but to branch out and try new ways of storytelling."


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