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Arthur B. Spingarn
Arthur Barnette Spingarn (1878–1971) was an American leader in the fight for civil rights for African Americans.
Spingarn was born into a well-to-do Jewish family. He graduated from Columbia College in 1897[1] and from Columbia Law School in 1899.[2] He was one of a small group of white Americans who decided in the 1900s to support the radical demands for racial justice being voiced by W. E. B. Du Bois in contrast to the more ameliorative views of Booker T. Washington. He served as head of the legal committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and was one of its vice presidents starting in 1911.
He interrupted his legal career to serve for several years as a United States Army captain in the Sanitary Corps during World War I and protested the discriminatory treatment of African Americans in the U.S. military. He was very interested in furthering the cause of Civil Rights and improving the condition of American blacks.[3] He succeeded his brother Joel Elias Spingarn as president of the NAACP in 1940 when the legal arm of the organization was spun off into the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He served as the NAACP's president until 1965.
Spingarn was an avid collector and amassed a collection of materials –books, newspapers, manuscripts, and realia –related to the African-American experience worldwide, a collection "unique in its depth, breadth, and quality,"[4] which he sold to Howard University, where it was incorporated into the renamed Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, the largest and most valuable research library in America for the study of Negro life and history.
The rest of his collections were sold at auction in 1966.[5]
He died at home in New York City on December 1, 1971. At his memorial service, he was eulogized by Associate Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP. Buell C. Gallagher, retired president of the City College of New York, called him "the rallying center of the aggressive forward movement" of the NAACP.[6]
- Laws Relating to Sex Morality in New York City (1915, revised 1926)
- Legal and Protective Measures (1950), co-authored with Jacob A. Goldberg
- ^ "Columbia's Commencement". The New York Times. 1897-06-06.
- ^ "470 Columbia Graduates". The New York Times. 1899-06-08.
- ^ "Arthur Barnett Spingarn bio". March 28, 1878. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ "Moorland-Spingarn Research Center," Library Quarterly, vol. 58, no. 2, 143-163 (1988).
- ^ Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., Modern Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, Sculptures: A Group of Works by Contemporary Italian Artists / Various Owners, Including Arthur B. Spingarn, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Sanders, Warner Leroy: Public Auction, March 10, 1966
- ^ "Spingarn's Work Hailed at Rites". The New York Times. 1971-12-06. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
- New York Times: Farnsworth Fowle, "Arthur Spingarn of N.A.A.C.P. Is Dead", December 2, 1971
- Francis H Thompson, Arthur Barnett Spingarn: Advocate for Black Rights (1987)
- Patrica Sullivan, Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement (2009)


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An automated feeding system that eliminates the need for crating sows during their four-month pregnancies will be tested as part of a joint project involving the Agricultural Research Service, Texas Tech University in Lubbock and Automated Production Systems, Inc., of Assumption, Ill.
The feeding system, called "trickle feeding," allows sows to be kept in social groups in open pens. The system has been developed and tested in Europe, but this ARS-funded project will be the first complete evaluation of the system in North America.
ARS farm animal behavioralist Julie Morrow-Tesch will work with Texas Tech animal scientist John J. McGlone on the project. Morrow-Tesch is with the ARS Livestock Issues Research Unit in Lubbock, and the project is part of ARS' national research drive to improve animal handling practices. McGlone heads Texas Tech's Pork Industry Institute, which has a Sustainable Pork Farm for testing new practices.
Keeping sows in crates during pregnancy is being phased out in Europe. Many animal welfare and animal rights groups, consumers and food retailers in the United States also criticize crating because it doesn't allow sows much room and keeps them from enjoying social groupings. The crates protect sows from competition for food, ensuring all get equal rations.
The new feeding system promises to do the same, but without isolating animals. It uses a string of feed hoppers and dispensers to parcel out food to individual sows at the speed of the slowest eater. Faster eaters learn there is no advantage to leaving their dispensers.
The scientists are testing the system with social groups of five sows each. The sows are kept in a pen with free access to the feeding area. They run to the dispensers when they hear the distinctive whir signaling that the dispensing augers are turning.
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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) calls for standards for administrative, physical, and technical security measures to safeguard the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of health information data. This act includes civil and criminal penalties for misuse of health information. It also required Congress to pass privacy legislation or allow the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services to promulgate privacy regulations.
|Table 1: Private Health Information.
Security regulations were proposed in 1998 and finalized in 2003.1 These regulations establish requirements and implementation features, but do not identify specific standards. These regulations further state that each healthcare provider must assess potential risks and vulnerabilities to data it maintains in electronic form and develop security measures. The privacy regulation defines protected health information (PHI, Table 1) and establishes a set of boundaries within which healthcare organizations must protect health information. A review of HIPAA regulations is beyond the scope of this paper and is available elsewhere.2
The key difference between the security regulations and the privacy regulations is that privacy regulations apply to all communications of patients' protected health information, whether electronic, written, or oral. In contrast, security regulations apply only to PHI. The security regulations require that each healthcare provider do the following: (1) ensure the integrity and confidentiality of the information; (2) protect against any reasonably anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of the information and unauthorized uses or disclosures of the information; and (3) ensure that employees comply with the regulation.
Eighty percent of dentists have computers in their offices; 48% of these computers are connected to the Internet, and an increasing number use a variety of technologies including digital imaging, digital intraoral cameras, and electronic patient records.3 Patient information, including clinical information, is being transmitted electronically to third-party payers for preauthorization and treatment verification. Software applications for rapid electronic filing of dental insurance claims are readily available, often integrated with clinical information and practice management systems.
As dental healthcare continues to adopt digital imaging and electronic patient records, understanding security of patient-related data that is transmitted over the Internet is essential. An increasing amount of patient-related information is stored and transmitted digitally, and dentists have a responsibility to develop security procedures and monitoring measures to keep this information private. When dentists think about computer security, risks that probably come to mind are either some damaging agent like a virus or third-party eavesdropping on digital conversations.4 Sectors of society such as the military and financial markets have already studied computer security issues and developed solutions. While no system can be fully secured, a balance between security and privacy must be achieved.
Advantages of making dental information available on the Internet include improving quality of care and reducing dental healthcare costs.5 In addition, continuous access to patient records would alleviate the need to complete registration forms each time a patient visits a new provider, thus saving time and expense. The prospect of electronic dental records (EDR) also raises serious concerns about increased risk of loss of PHI. Society has rightfully attributed special sensitivity to protecting an individual's health information. An individual with a particular medical condition might want to limit access to this information. In fact, maintaining security can be an issue with all forms of health information. The danger of misuse of information will likely be intensified as more health information becomes available online.
The purpose of this article is to review proposed HIPAA security regulations. The intent is (1) to make the reader knowledgeable about safeguards and techniques that can be used to ensure the security of information transmitted and stored and (2) be compliant with the HIPAA security regulations. The security regulations require covered entities to adopt administrative, physical, and technical safety measures to protect electronic PHI. The first part of this paper will review the safeguards as defined by the security regulations. The second part will look at security solutions that can be implemented to comply with these regulations.
Administrative Safeguards
The administrative safeguards require covered entities to conduct a risk analysis to determine potential risks to the confidentiality and integrity of electronic PHI and to implement risk management practices to reduce the risks identified by this analysis. The administrative safeguard also requires covered entities to apply appropriate sanctions against workforce members who fail to comply with the security policies and procedures of the covered entity. These safeguards further expect the covered entities to implement procedures to review regularly records of information system activity, such as audit logs, access reports, and security incident-tracking reports. One of the important specifications for this safeguard is the adoption of password protection for office computer systems. Furthermore, covered entities will have to implement policies for handling security incidents that involve attempted or successful unauthorized access, use, disclosure, or destruction of information maintained in the office computer system. This safeguard further requires covered entities to develop a contingency plan to deal with incidents that could damage systems containing electronic PHI. P.M. Sfikas has further explained the security regulations in detail.7
Physical and Technical Safeguards
This safeguard requires covered entities to implement policies to limit physical ac-cess to the entity's computer systems and the facility in which they are housed while ensuring that proper authorized access is allowed. As a part of the technical safeguard, covered entities will have to implement an access control standard that permits only authorized users or applications to access information systems that maintain PHI.
Security Solutions
A wide range of techniques can be adopted to ensure privacy and security of patient records and PHI. These techniques can also be used to analyze large amounts of information generated and flag suspicious patterns for further evaluation. Three aspects of information systems security exist: software security, communication security, and infrastructure security for meeting physical and administrative safeguards.
Software or Application Security
Application security involves providing security for clinical, business, and financial applications such as practice management applications. This is achieved by verifying user identity, controlling user access to resources based on user privileges, and generating activity reports of user access to patient data. To verify user identity and establish individual accountability, every staff member in a dental clinic should have a unique identifier for logging onto a software application or practice management system. Strict procedures should be established for issuing and revoking identifiers. Where appropriate, computer workstations should be programmed to log off automatically if left idle for a specified period of time.
|Table 2. Management of Passwords.
• Do not write down the password.
• Do not share it with anyone. If you must do so at any given time, create a new one at your earliest opportunity.
• Do not check the 'remember my password' feature without considering the
• Create different passwords for very secure information.
• Create passwords that are alphanumeric (example: abcd123).
Passwords can also be used to authenticate users. Passwords should be kept secret and not shared. With your password, anyone can access your confidential information. Passwords should be protected as a personal identification number protects a bankcard. Changing passwords from time to time reduces the chance that someone else will gain access to this information and entry to a protected system. Table 2 provides guidance regarding management of passwords.
Procedures should be in place to ensure that users can access and retrieve only information that they are approved to access. Using access control privileges can limit dissemination of data. If private or confidential data has been accessed on a server by an unauthorized person and copied, it may not be obvious to the authorized user. File access permissions should be administered ap-propriately for users or groups of users depending on what application is being used. Data access should be re-stricted to authorized users only. Data should be classified to appropriate levels of security. User accounts should be closed down quickly after termination or transfer of an employee. Employees must be advised not to share accounts. "Guest" access should be disabled on systems where PHI is stored.
One security problem for most computer users occurs when they are away from their desktop for extended periods of time and leave an application running. This means that someone could walk up to that desktop and gain access to information. Also, if legitimate users are still logged on to their e-mail accounts, someone else could send e-mail messages under their user ID. This can be avoided if users close and sign out of their e-mail accounts when they leave the office. To protect against security leaks further, authenti-cated users should be cautious about sending and forwarding e-mails with PHI. This can compromise security because the recipient may not have adequate measures and controls in place, and you cannot be sure that the e-mail will not be forwarded to other recipients. An e-mail-use policy with limits on forwarding should be in place to safeguard against such in-stances.8
Infrastructure Security
Infrastructure security involves physical security of desktop client systems and servers that maintain patient information. It also involves disaster recovery and assures access to patient records in the event of an emergency such as a natural disaster or a system failure. As a part of infrastructure security, dentists should limit unauthorized physical access to computer systems, displays, networks, and patient records.
Firewalls have the same deterrent effect as a home alarm system; would-be perpetrators usually look elsewhere for an easier target. There are 3 types of firewalls: personal (or software) firewalls, hardware routers, and hardware firewalls. Personal (or software) firewalls are most appropriate for small-office or home users and cost up to $50 per computer. Dentists with centralized Internet connections should install a hardware or software firewall that provides strong, centralized security and does not allow unauthorized access to patient information on computers.
Computer viruses can cause loss of critical data. This in-cludes program damage that results from efforts to re-move viruses from a system. A virus is a piece of malicious code embedded in a larger, legitimate program. It is designed to run when a legitimate program is executed. Besides picking up a virus from an e-mail attachment, viruses can be acquired from free content downloaded from a Web site or from sharing someone else's diskette. Once a program is downloaded and installed on an unprotected computer, a virus can spread, carrying a damaging payload and slowing down the computer. When a virus infects e-mail or other files, it can transmit itself to everyone else using an e-mail list or reformat the disk drive and delete files and programs on the computer. Computer files and e-mail can be kept safe by using and updating anti-virus software.
|Table 3. Virus Protection Essentials.
• Scan incoming e-mail and attachments using antivirus software
• Schedule weekly disk drive scans.
• Run a virus protection scan to detect infected files
• If you suspect a virus on your computer, notify those with
• Safeguard against hoaxes by verifying that a file is really a
When buying a new computer, make certain it has antivirus software preinstalled. If not, install and activate it before using the new computer. One should also be cautious about virus hoaxes. A hoax occurs when a fallacious e-mail or other communication is circulated, advising recipients to delete a file that is actually a program needed by the computer and not a virus. Well-intentioned forwarding of these e-mails further propagates the problem. Table 3 provides methods for effective action against viruses, including ways to check for hoaxes.
Communication Security
When a client machine contacts a server and requests a secure connection, there are 2 separate issues to address: protocol and encryption. Protocol describes a set of necessary steps to establish a secure connection and pass messages securely.9 Some security protocols that have emerged as standards are HTTPS, SHTTP, and SSL. HTTPS and SHTTP are secure Web protocols for accessing a Web server or using the Internet. Using HTTPS in an address location of your Internet Explorer instead of HTTP directs the message to a secure connection rather than an unsecure connection. SSL is another secure connection protocol known as a secure sockets layer. It facilitates a randomly generated key exchange between a server and a browser. A secure communications protocol is a protocol that encrypts and decrypts a message for online transmission. Sensitive data including patient records in transit needs to be encrypted. Encryption is a mathematical means used to disguise a message to hide its content from unauthorized viewing. Encryption is a transformation of data into a form unreadable by anyone without a secret decryption key. Its purpose is to ensure privacy by keeping information hidden from anyone for whom it is not intended, even those who can see encrypted data. Data encryption "scrambles"information sent over the Internet so that only the intended computer can read it. A hacker can still intercept your data file, but, because of encryption, any information it contains cannot be read.
Security and Wireless Technologies
Wireless technologies such as handheld devices and wireless networks have made computing and connection to the Internet more portable, convenient, and functional. They also create an additional challenge for security since data still has to be encrypted and users authenticated. Most wireless devices have an integrated wireless encryption scheme that has a degree of predictability, which could make them vulnerable. Since wireless networks are a recent phenomenon, new and improved security solutions are still in development phases, and manufacturers are using existing secure technologies to protect wireless data.10 Meanwhile, when connecting a wireless computer to the network, a password system can—and should—still be used as outlined above. If a handheld device contains PHI, locking it with a password is one way of protecting the information. Data can also be kept on secure media cards (for devices that support this option), and the cards kept in a physically protected location.
HIPAA regulations mandate specific requirements regarding security. These include the following11: developing a system to limit unauthorized use of and physical access to computer hardware; ensuring disaster response and recovery plans are in place; execution of hierarchical sec-urity information clearances based on a "need-to-know"basis; implementing protocols for personnel identification and verification during access to data; and design of protocols for security at the workstation level.
This discussion of issues and plausible solutions is meant to empower the dentist to address application, infrastructure, and communication security. Hackers, viruses, insecure operating systems, and information system evolution will be a fact of life, and as a result new security threats and breaches to patient information will constantly appear. Dentists are encouraged to exercise and enforce discipline over use of application software. At a minimum, install virus-checking programs, restrict use of computers with patient information, and secure access to these computers. Dentists must supplement technical practices with organizational procedures and staff training to provide further protection and to raise user awareness for protection of sensitive data. Dentists should also formally assess security and the vulnerabilities of their information systems on an ongoing basis. They should also install and update software to improve protection of personal data. Finally, security flaws need to be addressed and additional security features introduced. These actions will protect patient health information available on computers.
The authors would like to thank Dr. Ira B. Lamster, DDS, MMSc, dean of Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery, for his valuable advice and help in the preparation of this manuscript.
1. Detmer DE. Letter on security standards to the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, September 9, 1997. National Committee on Vital & Health Statistics Web site. Available at: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/security.htm. Accessed August 1, 2002.
2. Pai SS, Zimmerman JL. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Implications for dental practice. Dent Today. 2002;21(10):106-111.
3. American Dental Association Survey Center. Dentists'' Computer Use, 1997. Survey of current issues in dentistry series. Chicago, Ill: American Dental Association; 1998.
4. Langer S, Stewart B. Aspects of computer security: a primer. J Digit Imaging. 1999;12:114-131.
5. Schleyer TK, Dasari VR. Computer-based oral health records on the World Wide Web. Quintessence Int. 1999;30:451-460.
6. Ilioudis C, Pangalos G. Development of an Internet Security Policy for health care establishments. Med Inform Internet Med. 2000;25:265-273.
7. Sfikas PM. HIPAA security regulations: protecting patients' electronic health information. J Am Dent Assoc. 2003;134:640-643.
8. Ebert M. Set limits on e-mail forwarding to outsiders to prevent security leaks. HIPAA Security Compliance Insider. April 2003.
9. Rudd A, McFarland J, Olsen S. Managing security vulnerabilities in a networked world. J Digit Imaging. 1998;11(3 suppl 1):216-218.
10. Rogoski RR. Safe and secure. With HIPAA deadlines looming and a prolific number of security choices on the horizon, healthcare organizations face a challenging future. Health Manag Technol. Dec 2002;23:14-20.
11. Goldberg A. HIPAA & Healthcare: A New Way of Sharing and Caring. Available at: http://www.ehcca.com/presentations/ehc-info3/goldberg2.pdf. Accessed July 14, 2004.


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Mirrors are very functional accessories in rooms like the bedroom and bathroom also help create the impression of a larger environment thanks to their light reflections. If the mirrors are placed correctly on the walls, may reflect details of the house that would otherwise go unnoticed. When choosing a mirror for the bedroom you should take into consideration the area where you will place, the size and purpose of it.
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Alex Counts is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, and the author of "Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World" (John Wiley & Sons, 2008). Below is Part Two of this journey to assess the state of microfinance with Grameen Foundation partners worldwide.
Today's interview on CSPAN's "Washington Journal" program was personally enjoyable, and it was also great exposure for Grameen Foundation and our self-help strategy for combating world poverty. I always chuckle when people put makeup on me in advance of appearing on television. This time, Steve Scully (the host) touched up my makeup about 15 seconds before we were on the air – apparently his staff had missed something when powdering me up minutes earlier!
Anyway, I had been prepared to address some controversies swirling around microfinance, and when the interview began with a basic, "softball" question I was momentarily flustered, but soon regained my footing. Sometimes during these types of TV and radio sessions, I start off strong but lose a bit of focus as the interview and call-ins progress. I find them a bit draining. Today it felt like the opposite – my energy grew over the course of thirty minutes that seemed to fly by.
I thought the questions from the viewers were thoughtful and passionate, with some reflecting the economic anxiety still prevalent throughout the country. Most calls seemed to come from the Midwest, where my father grew up (on a farm in Kansas, as it happens). I was glad to be able to reflect on my recent experiences in Bangladesh, and how I have seen that country change – mostly for the better – over the last 21 years.
It was terrific that Steve drew so much attention to our website and my book "Small Loans, Big Dreams" – just as I had hoped he would. With luck, that will help energize year-end donations and book sales, which will put us in a better position for impact in 2010.
I watched that segment. Sometimes, when I can't sleep I'll click on the TV and I think the BEST programming is on between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
The call in comments/questions were very thoughtful. I don't think people here in America who have not traveled to any of these countries understand the poverty found there.
There is no way to equate or parallel the two-- or the nature of solving the poverty found in the slums in Delhi to a housing project in Detroit.
I've traveled to Morocco for 5 weeks in '05 -- real eye opener, and I love Morocco for a lot of reasons, and have been to Delhi (recently). Each country, city, village is unique . . . but to compare the poverty found in America to the abject property found in developing nations, most people can not comprehend -- even if you tried to explain it to them.
I'd like to help your program. I think it would be a good volunteer experience for me, and I would like to do so in the following manner: I would like to get a slide-show/Power Point presentation started, and take it to the local churches to the youth groups in my area.
I don't go to church . . . I did as a young girl. I love God, and the Baby Jesus . . . other than this, I don't affliate with one group, or church.
I've talked to my son, who is 22-years old about your program, and told him about some of the statistics I read on your website regarding poverty in India. He is amazed / saddened at the level of poverty, and he knows I saw this first hand.
I'm not a scholastic academic genius. I do have a B.S. in Social Sciences from PSU (Portand State University), if that matters at all. What I've come to conclude -- again not rocket science -- is that if you take a map of the literacy rates of nations, and overlay that on a map of the most impoverished nations . . . VIOLA . . . a correlation, in my opinion directly linked to the poorest nations on the face of our planet being the most illiterate. My focus, at some future point, is to bring in educational systems . . . namely READING and WRITING. I invision mothers, with their children, going to school and learning!! Teaching someone "how to" read . . . having them teach others . . . and the great thing is . . . books aren't exactly the main staple of the warlords andnot a very hot black market crop.
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I received a phone call, and to test out new features, I selected the "Remind me when I leave" option to ignore the call.
It showed an outlined gps location icon next to the battery for geofence.
I then toggled my location/gps features to disabled, and the location icon went away next to the battery.
When I toggled back, the location geofence icon came back.
Ever since then (over a day now) the icon has remained, and will not go away no matter where I go.
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EIG renews bid to Pacific creditors
By Paul Kilby
NEW YORK, Jan 21 (IFR) - Investment firm EIG delivered a dire assessment of the financial state of Pacific Exploration & Production as it renewed its bid late Wednesday to buy its debt and take over the troubled LatAm oil company's debt.
The move comes as markets and rating agencies brace for a likely default scenario for a company whose fortunes have been battered by the dramatic decline in crude prices.
A series of announcements from Harbour Energy, a subsidiary of EIG, and Pacific E&P itself last week have only served to confuse the market and send the company's bond price into the single digits last week.
Harbour Energy offered last week to buy some US$4.1bn of Pacific E&P's debt, only to see the company announce it would miss January payments on its 2019s and 2025s.
Rating agencies reacted this week, with Moody's cutting the company to C from Caa3 on Tuesday and S&P dropping its rating to D from CC on Wednesday after warning that it expects the company to enter a "general default."
"Pacific E&P's liquidity will remain pressured for a longer period given much lower cash flows due to stressed oil prices, which, will remain so in the foreseeable future," said Moody's earlier this week.
Against that backdrop, EIG appealed to investors late Wednesday to participate in a tender for its outstanding 2019s, 2021s, 2023s and 2025s at an early bird tender price of 17.5.
"...We believe the situation will spiral downward now that the cloak of denial has been lifted and in the face of a rapidly deteriorating market environment," R. Blair Thomas, CEO of EIG said in a statement late Wednesday. Continued...


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Mitch Epstein
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Born in 1976, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Sara VanDerBeek, Foundazione Memmo, Rome, Italy
The Approach, London, UK
Sara VanDerBeek, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Of Ruins and Light, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Sara VanDerBeek: To Think of Time, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, USA
The Principle of Superimposition, The approach E2, London
Mirror in the Sky D'Amelio Terras, New York
Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now, de Cordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, USA
Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
New York: Directions, Points of Interest, Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
From the Recent Past: New Acquisitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
That Place: Selections from the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Haute Romantics, curated by Art Fag City, Verge Gallery, Sacramento, USA
Image Transfer, Curated by Sara Krajewski, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
At Home-Not At Home: The Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Collection, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, New York, USA
Knight's Move, Curated by Fionn Meade, SculptureCenter, Long Island Ciy, New York, USA
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Curated by Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Guggenheim Museum, Bilboa (2010-2011) [cat.]
In a Paperweight, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, USA
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, Curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Projectspace 176 at the Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
The Reach of Realism, curated by Ruba Katrib, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA
See: Abstraction (disambiguation), Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
New Photography, Curated by Eva Respini, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Amazement Park: Stan, Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, USA
1992009, D'Amelio Terras, New York, USA
On From Here, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, USA
Bivouac, Curated by Fionn Meade, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, USA
Phot(o)bjects, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, curated by Bob Nickas
Weird Beauty, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Signs of the Times, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Untitled (Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object, Gagosian Gallery New York, USA
Defining A Moment: 25 New York Artists, The House of Campari, New York, USA
Currents: Recent Acquisitions, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
Past Forward, The Zabludowicz Collection, Project Space 176, London, UK
A New High in Getting Low, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
I Am Eyebeam, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, curated by Melanie Schiff and Lorelei Stewart, Chicago, Illinois
A New High in Getting Low, Art Forum Berlin, curated by John Connelly, Berlin, Germany
The Line of Time and the Plane of Now, Harris Lieberman and Wallspace, New York

Museum 52, London
Strange Magic, Luhring Augustine, New York

Radiant City, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles

Curacion Geometrica, The Reliance, London

Galerie Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark

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To Build A Fire, curated by Yuri Masnyj, Rivington Arms, New York

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Dice Thrown (Will Never Annul Chance), Bellwether, New York

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It is quite amusing the games we have created in our society. Someone has to be right and someone wrong. For a brief moment, someone feels good and the other bad. We create fantastic stories about the other person, and with that creation we tell friends, family, strangers, about this wrong this person did and [Read More…]
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March 1
Schoolchildren will receive a free World Book Day £1 Book Token, which can be exchanged for one of six specially published World Book Day £1 Books or any book/audiobook at a participating shop or club.
April 7-8
Maypole dancing, face painting and even an Easter egg hunt: the festival provides great family fun.
May 5-6
One of Scotland's biggest events, Big in Falkirk offers free cutting- edge entertainment and activities for young people and families, including an under-fives section.
June 16
One of a huge range of children's events organised by the Scottish Ranger Service, Orkney is a group of over 70 islands and each year the rangers lead a group to one of them. WHS Ranger Service: 01856 841732
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Out of this World: The Art of Josh Kirby
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I grew up near Hemphill, and today we're talking Hemp and Pot
Want to know why hemp and pot have had a hard time being legal? Well, the above link, shows you some of the Auto industry's beginnings with hemp. Surprised to learn that Henry Ford and Rudolp Deisel didn't use gas from oil, but rather from hemp?
Two states have legalized recreation pot, but why has hemp been kept out of use in the nation? This could be a huge cash crop with major implications for new and greener industries.
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As Director of the UALR Benton Center it is my pleasure to welcome you to our website and tell you about the Center.
UALR Benton Center is an extension of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. UALR has a long history of providing quality higher education in Saline County. Beginning in 1975 to 1994, UALR offered selected evening classes at the Benton High School.
At the request and help from the Saline County Education Association and the Saline/Benton community, UALR opened the Benton Center in 1995 offering a full State Minimum Core curriculum that would lead to any four-year degree, as well as, offering Saline County's first degree…Associates of Art in General Studies…which, also, goes toward any four-year degree. At the time, only 15 classes were offered and most of those were evening classes…and provided those classes to 83 students for the year from the Saline County area. The staff consisted of one full-time Program Manager and one part-time office staff.
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When the ball dropped in Times Square and we all set our optimistic sights on 2013, we most likely overlooked 200 new and peculiar laws that went into effect. Some say these tread on the rights of free citizens, all in the interest of looking out for YOU. While some seem necessary, some are just downright odd.
Concord, Massachusetts is now the first town in the nation to outlaw plastic bottles. It is now considered contraband there.
Wanna warn other drivers about the cop's radar gun you just passed? Don't try flashing your lights in Florida. It's now illegal.
Illinois is cracking down on those who posses, sell or distribute shark fins. With all the sea-side resorts they in that state we're SURE this will have an impact on this problem (Sarcasm!). Shark fin soup – just head over to Indiana.
Another law going into effect in Illinois gives a $1000.00 fine to anyone who "pops a wheelie" on a speeding motorcycle. A wheelie while traveling at 55 is probably ok (unless you're carrying shark fins).
Kentucky is trying to fix their serious problem with feral pigs. If you are caught releasing your pigs into the wild you'll now get a fine.
Speaking of wild …
Another new law this year sets a limit of number of cats per household in Wellington, Kansas. This restriction (4 max) was inspired by the massive number of cats (231) sent to their city animal clinics in 2012.
It's now a misdemeanor to STEAL unused cooking oil in North Carolina, and if the grease and the container is worth more then $1000 – it becomes a felony
In California, you can no longer let your dog chase a bear or a bobcat for sport.
Of course we're familiar with some silly laws in the state of New York, here's a new one.
Selling electronic cigarettes to minors in New York is now illegal and a $1,000 fine if caught. Initially marketed as a safe alternative to cigarettes, these battery-powered devices are used to inhale vaporized liquid nicotine instead of tobacco smoke and now thought not to be safe for anyone. Some believe their candy flavors appeal to minors.
A real problem caused by copper thieves is being addressed in Kentucky. When they try to sell their stolen goods for fast cash recycling centers a check will have to be mailed instead.


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Post subject: Mike Franseca...Delusional!
I listen to Mike Franseca if not only to get another perspective, but to see if what is being said is honest.
First Franseca is not honest in his assessment of the Jets and Giants.
He by a wide margin favors the Giants and IMHO is a Giant fan and has a distain for the Jets.
Fair enough, but he is disingenuous when he attacks the Jets and the potential they have and liberal when assessing the same for the Giants.
Case in point: Yesterday Franseca said, that the Giants are going to have issues on the OL.
How is it when denigrating a team like the Jets you don't point out that what was once a glaring weak link on the team that the Jets have fortified the position.
Hey Mike, would you say that the Jets have a better OL than the Giants?
Hey Mike, what about the secondary, are the Giants better or the Jets?
As a Jet fan, knowing we have weaknesses at Safety,
I would say the Jets STILL have a better and one of the better secondaries in the NFL.
I have no trouble give the Giants the nod when it comes to the QB position,
by far the Giants have the edge.
The WR position has to go to the Giants, but not by a wide margin, as many of their wide outs have sustained injuries.
But the issue with what I have to say is this FRANSECA has the Giants in his mind as the best team in their division and a playoff team that can beat any team at any time.
Clearly this man is delusional, his honesty is tainted by the rose colored glasses he see's through when assessing his team and denigrating ours.
On the whole I think he has some fair comments about many things,
and he makes some valid points on many other topics other than football.
But it ends there, its a shame because his obvious dislike for Mr. Johnson, for Idzik and clearly for Rex Ryan taints his believability.
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Francesa might be worse than The Dope. He should have been kicked off the air a long, long time ago. I will never ever listen to him again. He hates the Jets and just has a warped view on sports.
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Francessa knows his baseball that's it. Wouldn't listen to him for anything else.
He never lets his callers get their point across and usually interrupts them which is kind of annoying when listening. He thinks he knows it all.
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Rockice_8 wrote:
Francessa knows his baseball
that's it. Wouldn't listen to him for anything else.
He never lets his callers get their point across and usually interrupts them which is kind of annoying when listening. He thinks he knows it all.
That is very debatable.
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I never follow any bs but why the F does we care about personality's opinion?
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Ahhhh, the infamous Neauone wall of text. I'd love to actually read what you say someday man, I really would. Paragraphs dude, paragraphs.
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Francesca is a tool. So biased and ignorant.
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Dere's no talent on dis team, okay... Ah haven't herd of any of deze playez..dere's no one who scarez me, okay??Dey won't win two of da first noine games, okay....okay!!
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Sad enough as it is to say, there are people on the radio(or other media) that you you can barely treat as a real person. They basically play a character, whether they realize it or not.
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He would continue to play the role of the Dark Knight every time he appeared in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, a continuity which includes ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' as well as numerous Batman-related games. Conroy reprises his role in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight'', ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies'', ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanApocalypse'', ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDoom'', ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'', ''VideoGame/DCUniverseOnline'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'', and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction''. 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Saving Sochi's Dogs
We've heard a lot about the stray dogs roaming the streets of Sochi, Russia, during the Olympic Games. We also know that the "solution" had originally been extermination of the dogs. Public outcry -- and a Russian billionaire -- changed that, with dogs being collected and taken to a makeshift shelter.
This week, we also learned that a soft-hearted American Olympian is helping the cause. Slopestyle skiier Gus Kenworthy, has been Tweeting about a "gang of stray puppies." He is planning to have them immunized, kenneled and brought back to the U.S. with him.
puppy love is real to puppies. pic.twitter.com/krauCUPjOg
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Catholics, Lutherans jointly to mark Reformation anniversary
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PARIS/GENEVA (Reuters) - Senior Roman Catholic and Lutheran officials announced on Monday they would mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 as a shared event rather than highlight the clash that split Western Christianity.
The Vatican and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) presented a report in Geneva admitting both were guilty of harming Christian unity in the past and describing a growing consensus between the two churches in recent decades.
The 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's 95 Theses, the doctrinal challenge that launched the Protestant Reformation, will be the first centenary celebration in the age of ecumenism, globalization and the secularization of Western societies.
"The awareness is dawning on Lutherans and Catholics that the struggle of the 16th century is over," the report said. "The reasons for mutually condemning each other's faith have fallen by the wayside."
They now agree belief in Jesus unites them despite lingering differences, it said, and inspires them to cooperate more closely to proclaim the Gospel in increasingly pluralistic societies.
"This is a very important step in a healing process which we all need and we are all praying for," LWF General Secretary Martin Junge said at the report's presentation in Geneva.
"The division of the church is something we cannot celebrate but we can see what is positive and try to find ways towards the future together," said Cardinal Kurt Koch, head of the Vatican's department to promote Christian unity.
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BERLIN - Students of Taiwan's Shih Chien university showcased their creative work at Berlin Fashion Week, presenting a range of colorful clothing.
The various designs were combined under the name "Praxes" for the Friday fashion show and models strutted down the catwalk in printed silk jackets, studded corsets, ponchos as well as head pieces that looked like face guards.
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The Giallorossi icon scored the only goal of the game in the 58th minute, converting a cross from Alessandro Florenzi after releasing his team-mate with a clever dummy
Francesco Totti scored a fine second-half goal at the Cotton Bowl in Texas to see the Serie A side to their first win of the pre-season tournament.
Madrid – beaten on penalties by Inter in their opening game – had their chances, particularly during the first half, but failed to capitalise and were punished by Roma's veteran captain as their hopes of retaining the International Champions Cup were extinguished.
Things threatened to boil over even before kick-off after Roma midfielder Seydou Keita, formerly of Barcelona, refused to shake Pepe's hand and then threw a water bottle at the Madrid defender.
Los Blancos, though, started the better of the two teams, with Gareth Bale proving a real handful for Roma down the left-hand side. Unsurprisingly, the first real chance of the game fell to the Wales international, in the 20th minute.
A fine team move led to a cross from Lucas Vazquez for Bale, but the attacker could only slice his shot well wide under heavy pressure.
Roma looked the more threatening side on the counterattack but Bale continued to cause them problems, shooting over from the edge of the area.
Luka Modric was heavily involved, too, and combined well with Bale on several occasions, but Carlo Ancelotti's men would somehow fail to score in the opening half.
Winger Vazquez forced Lukasz Skorupski into a save after a volley from inside the area and Mehdi Benatia made a brilliant block to deny Pepe on the follow up just before the break.
It would be Roma who took the lead in the 58th minute thanks to Totti. The No.10 dummied a pass that found Alessandro Florenzi's overlapping run down the right before continuing his run into the area and then finding the bottom corner with his team-mate's subsequent cross.
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Dec 14, 2013 Gerald Hampton Issue 20, Technology & Data Security 0
Being told that one of your employees just lost their laptop can instantaneously wake you up to the reality that your data is not safe, and you just may have been compromised. Thoughts revolve around the data that resided on that drive, and did a current backup exist, or any backup at all. Next, concerns arise relating to what might happen if there is unauthorized access to the data and if it were to be used for wrongful purposes.
Now the adventure begins. Was the laptop encrypted? Does disclosure of the loss of data need to occur and what would the repercussions be to the enterprise?
Upon the loss of a notebook, a typical organisation asks the following questions.
How did the notebook go missing, and is there anything we can do to stop it from happening again?
Organisations now start to analyse their security practices and processes. They try to determine if they need to buy any software or hardware to protect their data – such as encryption, and they look at reviewing their existing security measures. If the organisation subscribes to ISO 27000 standards, they now turn to ISO 27001, which formally defines the mandatory requirements for the overall management and control framework regarding an organisation's security risks. They will also review their ISO 27002 standards, in relation to ISO 27001, to establish a code of practice and guidelines in protecting sensitive data within their enterprise.
Was the notebook encrypted?
Given the amount of attention that privacy and security regulations around the world have brought to data breaches, the above question is probably one of the first questions to be asked. The reason for this question begins with the exemption clauses under most data breach notification conditions existing within privacy and security regulations. In most cases if you encrypt the media upon which the data resides in adherence to exemption clauses, then you will not be required to disclose a potentially embarrassing data loss.
Is there any way to find out where that laptop is now?
In some cases, organisations want to know if they can track the location of the missing laptop in question. They do so, not necessarily to recover the laptop, but to determine if there are any other measures that they need to take into consideration to further protect themselves. For example, did the recently fired employee take a laptop home and is holding it ransom for severance? Did the contract worker that was in last month take a notebook? Did an employee steal it? Each one of these above conditions may provoke a different set of responses and measures that an organisation may want to execute in order to protect itself legally and the data that may be exposed.
What else can be done to the laptop now that it is not in our possession?
Intel's Anti Theft Technology now enables some encryption ISV vendors to issue a poison pill to a laptop that has been identified as lost or stolen. This poison pill can be issued to a laptop whether or not it is connected to the internet/LAN and performs two primary functions. It disables the platform and performs an encryption data disable. The first function was intended as a theft deterrent mechanism. The second function further protects the sensitive data on the laptop. In this case, access to an encrypted laptop would be denied even if the individual were in possession of the correct credentials – password, smartcard, USB token, etc.
With new security technologies including Intel's Anti-Theft Technology and self encrypting drives (SEDs), the ubiquitous protection of data through encryption will only be a matter of time before the encryption of data is a normal practice, just like backing up data.
Joseph Belsanti is the Vice President of Marketing at WinMagic Inc., a leading global provider of full-disk encryption solutions protecting data on laptops, USB thumb drives, and CD/DVDs. In addition to data security solutions, he has been marketing and selling in the fields of IP Address Management (IPAM), and E-services (CRM, E-procurement, Web Services and E-business).
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