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Michelle Van NormanMichelle Van Norman's son, Christian, was born 11 days early by C-section, though there were no medical reasons for an early birth.
The number of women giving birth early – often for no medical reason – has increased dramatically over the past two decades, altering the way we bear children and posing new health risks to both mothers and newborns, experts say.
The average time a fetus spends in the womb has fallen seven days in the United States since 1992, according to researchers and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Experts call this trend an "evolutionarily dramatic event."
Researchers say shorter pregnancies coincide with a large number of women and doctors now scheduling childbirth for convenience. One study of nearly 18,000 deliveries in 2007 showed that 9.6 percent were early births – through scheduled inductions or C-sections – for nonmedical reasons.
Shortening a pregnancy could affect a baby's lung development, vision, weight, and some fine-tuning of the brain, experts say. Babies born too early often sleep longer than normal and have trouble learning how to breast-feed, causing dehydration and jaundice.
"For every day and every week before 39 weeks, it's an increasing risk to the baby," said Dr. Bryan Oshiro, vice chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Loma Linda University. "The vast majority of early term babies do fine, but it's like playing Russian roulette."
California Watch reported in September that women are significantly more likely to experience C-sections at for-profit hospitals across the state. In February, California Watch reported that the number of women who die each year from causes directly related to childbirth had more than doubled in California since 1996.
The rise in deaths during childbirth is an indicator that obstetric health has deteriorated in many important ways, according to the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative, a task force of medical researchers.
The group has recently focused its efforts on the number of babies delivered for nonmedical reasons before they would naturally arrive. For the most part, the public has been left in the dark; the problem has been confined to articles in medical journals and among maternal health experts.
The normal length of pregnancy is 40 weeks, although researchers believe induced delivery at a full 39 weeks is probably safe. Women often naturally give birth earlier than this, and in some cases, medical problems require an early delivery. The problems come when babies are born before they are ready.
Of all births between 1990 and 2006, the number of babies born at 36 weeks increased by about 30 percent, and babies born at 37 and 38 weeks rose more than 40 percent, according to national vital statistics. There was a corresponding drop in the number of babies born in later weeks. There are now more babies born at 39 weeks than at full term.
The data examined is considered fresh by academic standards and covers such a long period of time – 16 years – that experts say the trend is unmistakable.
"The entire bell curve has shifted," said Dr. Jeanne Conry, California district chairwoman of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Some early births are scheduled for the convenience of the mother or doctor; some are judgment calls that require weighing relative risks.
A California Watch inquiry through the Public Insight Network, which solicits observations from people around the country, asked mothers around the country about their experiences with early deliveries. The questionnaire elicited responses from more than 300 women and produced several cases in which mothers said their doctors had pushed for early births.
One mother, Michelle Van Norman, gave birth to her second child, Christian, 11 days early in 2006, despite no urgency noted on her medical records. The doctor wrote on her chart: "This is a pleasant white female in no apparent distress."
Van Norman, a 31-year old mom, living in Las Vegas, said her doctor didn't seem worried about the delivery date.
"There were no medical reasons for the delivery being early," Van Norman said. "He told me the week he could do it and asked me to choose which day was best for us."
After his birth by C-section, one of Christian's lungs collapsed. He spent three weeks in intensive care and 10 days on a ventilator with six tubes going into his chest. It's unclear what caused Christian's lung to collapse, but this condition is strongly associated with early childbirth.
"The whole experience was horrific," Van Norman said. "It didn't end with the birth it continued for the first year of his life, and we still don't know if the oxygen deprivation has had any affect on him."
When Van Norman's surgeon cut the cord, Christian seemed robust. The doctor declined to comment about the case.
"The doctor came in the day after and asked where the baby was," Van Norman said. "When I told him, he asked me if I was joking. … I swore from that day on I would never put another baby through that kind of torture for any reason."
Raising awareness
Babies born early through induction or C-section without a medical reason are nearly twice as likely to spend time in the neonatal intensive care unit, researchers say. They also are more likely to contract infections and need the assistance of breathing machines, according to a 2009 study in the New England Journal of Medicine and a number of other reports.
"We are finding out that the last weeks of pregnancy really do count," said Leslie Kowalewski, an associate state director for the March of Dimes. "At 35 weeks, the brain is only two-thirds of what it will weigh at 40 weeks."
Many organizations are responding with programs designed to eliminate early elective deliveries. Most significantly, chapters of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have begun to notify doctors about the serious consequences of performing early elective births.
In California, the state Department of Public Health, March of Dimes and California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative have released what its authors call "the Toolkit," which makes the case that, unless medically necessary, cesarean sections and artificial induction of labor before full gestation should be eliminated.
The state chapter of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has thrown its weight behind this recommendation and is taking measures to see that it is carried out, holding teaching sessions and reaching out to obstetrics leaders at every hospital in the state.
"Nothing on this scale has ever been done before in California," Conry said. At the same time, physicians groups are rolling out the toolkit's guidelines in New York, Florida, Illinois and Texas.
The authors of the Toolkit note that rates of medically induced labor more than doubled between 1989 and 2004. The increase in deliveries between 37 and 39 weeks "has been associated with an increase in obstetrical interventions such as induction of labor and cesarean sections," the Toolkit authors said.
Lack of knowledge both among clinicians and patients seems to have driven this trend.
Part of the problem has to do with education, said Kowalewski, one of the authors of the Toolkit. Because we learn that human gestation lasts nine months, many people think that 36 weeks is full term. It's a misconception even within the March of Dimes, which has worked for years to teach people about infants born too early.
"When I started talking about this, members of our own state board said, 'Wait, what are you talking about, nine times four is 36 right?' " Kowalewski said. "But nine months isn't always a complete pregnancy."
To complicate matters, doctors start the pregnancy clock at a woman's last menstrual period before becoming pregnant, which is usually about two weeks before conception. All this is confusing enough that when doctors tell women they are at 36 weeks gestation and must wait at least a month before starting labor, they can grow impatient, Conry said.
"We call it tired of being pregnant," she said. "Some women have 36 weeks in their heads as the end point, especially when their mother and girlfriends have delivered at 36 weeks and had an easy birth."
Societal changes also push women to seek an early delivery. Some women schedule births before their due date so they can better plan for taking time off work and flying in family members, Kowalewski said.
"It's at least a weekly discussion, where one of my patients wants to get an induction before 39 weeks," said Dr. John Wachtel an obstetrician and adjunct professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
A little information can change this.
"I haven't met a woman who wasn't willing to continue her pregnancy if given information," said Debra Bingham, an author of the Toolkit and vice president of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric & Neonatal Nurses in Washington, D.C. "I've had experience with women who clearly didn't understand the risks of an elective induction, but it's also fair to say that there are a lot of doctors, nurses, and childbirth educators who aren't aware of the risks."
Doctors' role
There are signs that doctors are driving part of the rise in earlier births. Since 1979, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has advised doctors not to do elective inductions before 39 weeks gestation, but early elective deliveries have continued to rise, except in the places where there is a system to hold doctors accountable.
Deliveries at 37 and 38 weeks account for about 17.5 percent of total births in the United States, according to authors of the Toolkit.
At Intermountain Healthcare, a system of hospitals based in Utah, 28 percent of elective deliveries occurred before 39 weeks until the health system began talking to doctors who were routinely performing early cesarean surgeries and inductions for nonmedical reasons. Now, 3 percent of elective deliveries occur before 39 weeks' gestation.
"Physicians are data driven," said Daron Cowley, spokesman for Intermountain, which performs about 30,000 deliveries a year. "When the data were presented to physicians, practice patterns changed."
Earlier in his career, Loma Linda University's Oshiro worked for Intermountain as a neonatologist in Ogden, Utah, where he had the defining experience that made him an evangelist for this issue. The head of the neonatal intensive care asked him to look in on a group of babies with problems.
"He said, 'You doctors are doing this. These babies are here because you allowed them to be delivered early,' " Oshiro remembered. "That just kind of stopped me dead. It was really clear – we're hurting babies, and we can stop it."
MemorialCare Health System in Orange County has achieved similar results by requiring doctors to call their medical director and explain the reasons for an early birth. At Intermountain, these types of changes have led to fewer cesarean sections and $5 million in savings for patients over the past five years, Cowley said.
Still, Conry, of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, cautions that part of this improvement may be because such systems motivate better record keeping, eliminating births incorrectly coded as "elective."
Weighing the risks
Often, the decision to deliver early requires weighing risks. Elizabeth Regan of Frankfort, Kentucky, was at 37 weeks gestation when she had her first child in 2001.
Doctors wrote that Regan went into labor during an exam. But Regan said she merely had a Braxton Hicks contraction, something that commonly occurs weeks before birth. Nonetheless, she was rushed off to the operating room, she said.
Doctors also delivered Regan's second child at 37 weeks gestation, concerned that this baby was too small, according to medical records. A small baby can be a sign that the mother isn't delivering enough nutrients through the placenta, said Dr. Stephen Hall, who advised Regan to deliver early.
"You are trying to make the decision, is the baby safer inside mom while you are waiting for the lungs to mature, or is it better off in the mother's arms, fed by breast milk rather than worrying about the placenta?" he said in an interview.
The problem is that estimates of the baby's size can be off by a pound, Hall said. Regan's baby turned out to be of normal weight, similar to his sister's size at 37 weeks. Both children had trouble breathing – a common problem in early births – and were treated with inhalers and steroids. They are now healthy.
When Regan learned it was possible to deliver vaginally after two cesarean surgeries she decided to try it, but had grown wary of doctors.
"Needless to say, I stayed far away from the hospital and doctors offices at 37 weeks," she said. She carried her third child to 40 weeks when labor began spontaneously and she gave birth to a healthy boy at home.
Researchers now are finding that some of the medical justifications for early delivery actually don't help.
Jennifer Penick of Omaha, Neb., had her labor induced at 38 weeks. She said her doctor told her baby was too large. The authors of the Toolkit point out that numerous studies show that babies induced early to limit their growth are actually more likely to get stuck in the birth canal and need a C-section.
Penick's baby was average size, but her induction turned into a cesarean surgery, she said. Her doctor did not return calls seeking comment.
Alegent Health, which runs the hospital where Penick delivered seven years ago, has adopted a 39-weeks policy. Penick has since given birth there three more times. As more evidence accrues in support of waiting until at least 39 weeks gestation, medical practice is beginning to change.
It's easy for doctors to get the impression that delivery a few days early doesn't matter, because complications occur so infrequently, said Bingham, one of the Toolkit's authors.
"It reminds me of all the years of research on seat belt safety," she said. "How many times have you actually needed a seat belt? You need to look at the entire population to see the cumulative risk."
Dr. Elliott Main, lead author of the Toolkit and head of obstetrics at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, said problems occur in just one in 33 babies delivered early through elective induction. That's why it's crucial to begin quality-improvement measures, rather than simply relying on the experience of doctors, he said.
"The tendency is to shave a day here and a day there," Main said, "and if you get away with it you are going to shave another."
In the past, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has hesitated to do anything that could restrict the freedom of doctors to choose techniques, said Wachtel, the Stanford professor.
"There's something of a philosophical change where we are not just educating people, but trying to improve outcomes," he said.


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Top Ten Modes of Transportation in the Philippines
It is very easy to get around the Philippines with its various means of transportation. Even if a body of water separates the 7,107 islands that make up the Philippines, there will always be some form of transport that is available to take or bring someone to a particular destination. Below is a list of popular modes of transport. Some are fast, some are slow, but they are always interesting.
The jeep was a remnant from the World War II. Enterprising Filipinos saw the possibility of it being a mode of transportation and turned them into the new longer and colorful jeepneys that have become a Philippine icon. The most common mode of transport, jeepneys ply several routes around the country, especially those areas where bigger buses cannot serve. Jeepneys can be 10-seater or 14-seater. There are new versions that are bigger and have air conditioning, geared as a tourist transport option particularly for city tours in Metro Manila.
Regular and air-conditioned buses that service several cities and provinces in the Philippines are privately-owned. These buses serve to connect provinces with the Metropolis; others operate city-wide in Metro Manila. They provide more comfort for long distance land travel. Those that operate in the city ply daily. Those going to the provinces have regular, scheduled daily trips. A bus ride can be as short as 30 minutes for in-city transfer and as long as 14 hours for long distance provincial trips.
Tricycles in the Philippines resemble the auto rickshaws of India and the tuk-tuks of Thailand and other Asian countries, except that the cab is attached to the right side of the motorcycle instead of being in front or at the back. Tricycles can be seen on the side streets and some subdivisions and normally used for short-distance travel. With the stronger horsepower of a motorcycle, the tricycles sometimes are hired to ferry people and merchandise from the market. Depending on the construction and discretion of the driver, the tricycle can ferry from 2 to about 7 people.
The Philippines being an archipelago composed of 7,107 islands, it is inevitable that some form of transport will be needed to go from one island to a neighboring one. For short inter-island travel, the motorized bancas are the first choice. Primarily used by individual fishermen, the motorized bancas are now used as a faster means of transportation. Some resorts make use of bigger ones to ferry guests from port to resort and back.
This can be considered the silent version of tricycles, since bicycles are used, with a passenger cab attached to the side or in front. The driver uses pedal power to transport passengers. Normally you will see pedicabs on side streets and some subdivisions which do not allowed tricycles to enter. Pedicabs can seat a maximum of three passengers.
These are smaller versions of buses that can ferry passengers for terminal to terminal. Depending on where the minibuses are operating, they are either used for short distance or for longer land travel, particularly in some far-flung areas where any other means of transportation are few and/or limited. They can carry people, livestock and other merchandise. Minibuses do not have air conditioning and seats are small and spaced close together.
During the latter years of the Marcos era, the Metro Manila Light Rail Transit System (LRT) was established to provide cheaper and faster direct routes from Baclaran in Parañaque to Monumento in Quezon City, primarily to decongest the Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue (EDSA), a major thoroughfare. There are 29 LRT stations. In 1999, the Manila Metro Rail Transit System (MRT) started operations, traversing EDSA from Taft Avenue in Pasay City to North Avenue in Quezon City, a total of 13 stations.
Air conditioned taxicabs and closed vans more commonly known as FX taxis are available in the city. Metered taxis can take a passenger anywhere in the city, but will charge a different rate (usually double the fare) when you have to go beyond city limits. There are also airport taxis that only serve passengers coming to and from the airport. These charge higher fees and available on call. The FX taxis join the rest of the buses and jeepneys on their routes during regular hours and normally will be found waiting for passengers in designated terminals to wait for passengers to specific destinations.
For travel between major islands, there are inter-island ships and ferries. Ships and ferries transport people, cargo and other merchandise from a major port to another. They are more in demand during summer and other Philippine holidays where family members working in another island come home for vacations and family reunions. The rates are cheaper than taking a plane and allow passengers to carry more luggage and cargo on board. Ferries are swift hovercraft and catamarans used for faster, short distance inter-island travel.
Three major airlines – Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific Air and Air Philippines service the domestic routes while several smaller airlines offer charter flights to and from selected destinations. Taking a plane is the fastest mode of transport for inter-island travel, and available almost every day of the week, except on some areas. Rates are higher than sea travel but most airlines offer discounts to those traveling with a single hand-carry or no luggage.
- Pro Transportation. Asianinfo.org (Accessed 29 December 2009)
- Getting around Marimari.com (Accessed 29 December 2009)
- Best mode of transportation to get around in a big city Nomad4ever.com (Accessed 29 December 2009)
- Wikipedia (Accessed 29 December 2009)
- Transport Philippines.hvu.n1 (Accessed 29 December 2009)
Original content from WikiPilipinas. under GNU Free Documentation License. See full disclaimer.

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Where would you be working if not at the radio station?
Ruling the world
The song that best describes you?
No Mediocre
Who is your favorite artist?
Usher, Trey Songz, Justin Timberlake
If you could go anywhere in the world where would it be? Why?
Espana! I'm taking Spanish this quarter!
If you could be one celebrity, who would it be?
Mariah Carey
Favorite type of food?
Smoothies and Mexican food
Where did you grow up?
Carlsbad, CA
Favorite movie?
Friend with Benefits
What animal would you be? Why?
A clown fish like NEMO!
What was your High School mascot?
LCC Mavericks
Favorite TV show?
Scandal & The Bachelor
Who is the most famous person you have met?
Big Sean
If you could date any famous person, who would it be?
Trey Songs
What was your first concert?
Britney Spears
What is your favorite color?
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Baby and Bump Obsession Articles
Celebrity Pregnancy, rumors, new and expecting Hollywood moms, and plenty of belly cupping!
Unbroken Couples
Wenn, Jason LaVeris/ Gregg DeGuire/ Getty Images
It was only a half Brange at the Unbroken premiere last night but there were other Unbroken couple on the carpet. First… Miyavi, with the most gorgeous bone structure to rival Alexander Wang, his wife Melody, and their daughters Lovelie and Jewelie. These children. And their hair! I have some hair. Full Story
Brange no Ange
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As expected, Brad Pitt represented Brange on his own last night at the Hollywood premiere of Unbroken because of the Jolie's chicken pox. His parents were there. And also three of their six children – Maddox, Pax, and the Chosen One Shiloh. It's Brad's birthday on Thursday. Full Story
Big G for the holidays
The Cambridges decided to reward everyone for not papping Big G by releasing new photos of him in time for the holidays. Is that the royal version of a Christmas card? These three photos were taken in November at Kensington Palace. My favourite, of course, is the first one, where he's reaching his fat hand out, probably because he wants to squeeze the life out of a living thing, any living thing. Full Story
Ashton the Dadsplainer
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Between the Sony hack and the Golden Globes nominations (and snubs), it's been a great week for gossip. So why are we talking about Ashton Kutcher? Oh, right, because he had a baby. Ashton was on Ellen (what was he promoting – the end of his sh-tty ass sexist stupid sitcom?) and the focus of the interview was the baby and how he and Mila take care of the baby. Full Story
Angelina's Unbroken playdate
Angelina Jolie spent last week in New York promoting Unbroken. The Today Show aired a new interview this morning. Click here to watch the Jolie with Miyavi and Jack O'Connell talk more about the film with Tom Brokaw and Savannah Guthrie. Full Story
Is Amal pregnant?
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Amal and George Clooney were at Soho House in LA. Everyone is talking about these pictures. Click here to see. As you know, I f-cking hate bumpwatch. But fine. Is she pregnant? Or is it just the coat? Clooney's rep has denied that she's pregnant. Full Story
Blake & Ryan pack up
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Here are Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds heading out in New York this morning. Looks like they've packed up to leave the city. Guess the itinerary. I'll say a trip to Vancouver before the baby arrives? After I posted about Blake yesterday – click here Full Story
Blake in black
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Blake Lively stepped out last night for the L'Oreal Paris Annual Women of Worth Awards in New York. She's a spokesperson for the brand. Blake hasn't said exactly when she's due. But her film The Age Of Adaline opens in April. So she'll have to get back to work to promote it pretty soon after giving birth. Full Story
Is this Big G's Christmas card?
Danny Martindale/ Ian Gavan/ Getty Images
Not officially. But it could totally be an option. A new family portrait of the Cambridges is now online that hasn't been widely circulated until now. The picture was taken in March and was distributed as a thank you card on their Australia and New Zealand tour. Big G was 10 months old at the time. Full Story
Eva Mendes confirms she had a baby
Technically Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling never confirmed that they were expecting and they never confirmed that a daughter arrived on September 12. I mean we knew because TMZ published the birth certificate – click here for a refresher – but there were no photos of her pregnant, there's been no photo shoot of her holding her baby, and there was no social media announcement of her name. Full Story
Princess Catherine's "uncanny ability"
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Katy Cambridge was at East Anglia Children's Hospice today to launch a fundraising campaign. She's in red, seems well and healthy, and, now that I'm aware of it… never looks at a camera. My friend Lorella brought this to my attention just yesterday. She lives in in London now and she's been watching that 3 part BBC special Posh People: Inside Tatler which is what I'll be doing tonight. Full Story


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COLUMBUS -- A proposed expansion of the state's homestead exemption property tax relief program would result hundreds of dollars in annual savings for one in four elderly or disabled homeowners, administration officials said Thursday.
Gov. Ted Strickland briefly outlined the plan during his State of the State Address, but full details were revealed in his executive budget Thursday.
The change would affect any homeowner age 65 or older or who is permanently disabled, increasing the number of Ohioans currently receiving homestead benefits to 775,000 from 220,000, according to state documents.
Eligible homeowners would receive an exemption on the first $25,000 of value of their home, while "the complex income tests and differing exemption amounts under the current (homestead program, which is administered by county auditors) would be eliminated," according to state documents.
Tax Commissioner Rich Levin outlined how the change would affect the owner of a $100,000 home with a tax bill of $1,600. With the new exemption, the bill effectively would be reduced by 25 percent, or about $400, leaving a new total of $800.
The actual total will differ throughout the state, based on the local tax rates. Statewide, the average reduction would be about $406, according to a spreadsheet compiled by the Ohio Department of Taxation.
According to the proposed change, a $69,000 house in Cambridge would see a reduction of $378, to $666 from $1,044.
Any decrease in property tax collections for schools and local government would be reimbursed through the state's general revenue funds, according to the governor's budget.


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Midlands Matric Art Exhibition 2012
- Main Exhibition Room
- Opens Thursday 19 April at 18h00
- Closes Sunday 03 June at 17h00
The annual Midlands Matric Art Exhibition showcases artworks made by last year's Matric art students from local schools. The exhibition has in the past inspired current Matric students in setting themes and finding new methods of manipulating their media and art making techniques. The Matric Exhibition also highlights the importance of process in making the end product. For this reason the exhibition includes learners' visual art diaries and other documentation.
Exhibition preparation schedule
- Delivery deadlines: Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 March 2012 between 10h00 and 16h00
- Selection: Wednesday 14 March 2012
- Collection of unselected work: Thursday 15 and Friday 16 March 2012 between 10h00 and 16h00
In a new development this year we have invited a school that has shown consistent improvement and creativity to mount their own art exhibition in the Schreiner Gallery alongside the Matric Art Exhibition. Click here for more information on Celebrating Creativity: Spotlight on Russell High


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UrJTAG aims to create an enhanced, modern tool for communicating over JTAG with flash chips, CPUs, and many more. It takes on the well proven openwince jtag tools code. Future plans include conversion of the code base into a library that can be used with other applications. A flexible remote communication protocol that can be used over almost any type of serial link (including TCP/IP) is currently being defined.
QCADesigner is a Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) circuit simulator. With powerful CAD capabilities, it allows the designer to quickly layout and simulate QCA circuits constructed with thousands of QCA cells. QCA is one of several emerging nanotechnologies with potential applications in future computers.
BitGen accepts text strings of 1's, 0's and hex digits and converts them to equivalent "pwl" voltage sources for inclusion in netlists for circuit simulation (with SPICE or Spectre, for example). Periodic waveforms (eg, clocks) can be exported as "pulse" voltage sources. Parameters such as rise time, fall time, pulse width and duty cycle can be set on a waveform-by-waveform basis. BitGen is written in Perl with the Perl/Tk toolkit and has an easy-to-use graphical interface.
The Distributed Real-time Embedded Analysis Method (DREAM) is a tool and method for the real-time verification and performance estimation of distributed real-time embedded (DRE) systems. It focuses on the practical application of formal verification and timing analysis to real-time middleware.
Transcalc is an analysis and synthesis tool for calculating the electrical and physical properties of different kinds of RF and microwave transmission lines. It uses GTK+ for its user interface. For each type of transmission line, it presents you with dialog boxes which allow you to enter values for the various parameters, and either calculate its electrical properties (analyze) or use the given electrical requirements to sythesize physical parameters of the required transmission line.


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I have
10:16:00.273735 rl0 @0:10 b 169.254.15.77,138 -> 169.254.255.255,138
PR udp len 20 236 IN
showing up on the logs.
Now rl0 is my LAN and the ip addresses are 192.168.10.1/24 so this
shouldn't be coming from the LAN.
There is nothing with 169..x.x.x in the arp tables. Is this packet
from the LAN or what? If it is on my LAN then how do I track down
which computer is doing this using m0n0?


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Insert Description into Photos File
Budget $30-80 SGD
Take Note URGENT! i need it to be complete within 10 hours from the moment i award you this project!!!!!!!!
i willing to pay $80.
Add description to photos.
The Java program able to select folder of photos and retrieve portion or whole of
photo file name and add on to the caption i set and insert into the description.
so when i upload photo into facebook the caption will be same as the description
i set. if i set line by line will appear as line by line also. take note i no need
upload to facebook function, i mean when i upload myself the normal way the photo
caption will appear the way i set.
Example of Caption:
Code: 12345
Item: Sky
Price: $[url removed, login to view]
Sky is awesome
Example of photo file name:
kid ?? 9?1 01_895373 (will take the 895373)
¿??º-2_144909 (will use the 144909)
24544 (will use the whole number 24544)
adult ??T? L-XXL 3?19 3_724653 (will use the 724653)
if the file name is: adult ??T? L-XXL 3?19 3_724653 (will use the 724653) so will
become like:
Code: 724653
Item: Sky
Price: $[url removed, login to view]
Sky is awesome
The Caption for different folder i will be able to set whatever i want as
different folder i want to set different caption, and also the retrieve file name able to appear
at the specific place i want. every folder consist of different file name combination, but i want the number that is at the back. and if you notice there is
actually _ before the number for those that have words infront. kid ?? 9?1 01_895373 (will take the 895373) and for those that only just the number
will take the numbers. 24544 (will use the whole number 24544) the digit of numbers is also very random some have more some have less and in a folder
normally is a combination of all different number
the insert desciprtion i mention is in properties of the photo file, right click
properties > detail > description > title
if you need i can send you a photo that have description when you upload this
photo to facebook, the caption will appear the way i set.
so basically the java program function is able to set the caption (or you can also said insert intodescription title) and auto retrieve
the file name and put into the specific spot of the caption.
Example i now select this folder inside have 10,000 photos. will auto take the file name and put at the caption place i need and insert the whole caption
into the photo file. so when i upload that specific photo to facebook the caption will appear the way i set. if i set line by line will appear in line by
line. and also have the function to delete caption (or you can call description) of current photo or overwrite it.
If still unclear please feel free to message me for more clarification before you are certain you can complete the project within the time frame.


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Earlier this year we went out on a limb and decided this would be the year of the tablet. How could you blame us? We've been playing with new review models all year.
Meanwhile Sony thinks smart TV will be bigger than Ben Hur.
Declaring a year the "year of" anything is surely another way for technology companies to say "we want to sell lots" of those things. Still, we admire Sony for not holding back on the hype for smart TV, or IPTV as it's also known.
And if you own a network connected Bravia TV, there's something in it for you. This week Sony turned on its Australian video on demand service. You'll need a network connected Bravia, or Sony Blu-Ray player or home theatre system, but if you've got one, fire up the Xross Media Bar menu and scroll till you find the Qriocity icon.
The interesting thing here is that you don't need a separate set top box if you already have a compatible Bravia. This is unlike most of the other movie services like FetchTV, Foxtel, or the PS3 movie service.
Is this a good thing? One the upside, Sony tells us you won't pay any ongoing monthly fees for the new movie service. Renting HD movies will cost up to $6.99, or SD up to $4.99. You get 30 days to start watching, then 48 hours to finish watching.
Sony is calling 2011 the year of smart TV with the company's Sharon Ashworth asking: "what's smarter than sitting back, relaxing and watching the latest High Definition movies streamed straight to the Sony Internet TV device or Blu-ray Disc Player in your living room?"
Well, some people might also want a set top box with inbuilt storage to record free to air shows (the Telstra T-Box comes with 1TB, for example). And while Sony's new service is a great start, the press release notes the availability of "hundreds" of movies. By comparison, other services like Telstra's BigPond Movies boast "thousands of titles". Services like Fetch TV offer a better variety of extra channels too. Give it time, and we'd expect the choice for Bravia users will increase.
Still, while Sony's service isn't that much cheaper than going down to the local video shop, it's much more convenient and if there's nothing to watch you don't pay a thing. Can't argue with that.
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Puberty Blues star Isabelle Cornish has hit the ground running in Hollywood.
The 19-year-old actress, whose credits also include Dance Academy and Home and Away, has secured a role in a highly anticipated new US drama, Sea of Fire.
Sea of Fire is based on a Dutch drama, Vuurzee, about three girls whose double lives tear their families apart and leave a small town sheriff investigating a murder.
The series will star British actor Jack Davenport as Sheriff Marty Kesowich.
Cornish will play his daughter, Merel, one of the three girls whose secret pornographic past is revealed in the opening episode.
The original version of the series was compared to Twin Peaks, David Lynch's small screen magnum opus about a small town torn apart by the murder of its teen-aged beauty queen.
The Dutch national broadcaster VARA aired two seasons of Vuurzee, the first in 2005 and the second in 2009.
The US adaptation is surfing the trend of English-language dramas based on European formats, particularly shows from the Netherlands, Israel and Scandinavia.
The US adaptation is being produced for the US network ABC. A pilot is to be filmed in the next two months.


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If a Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) investor screams in a shareholder meeting, and everyone ignores him, did he make a sound?
Shareholder meetings are usually dry, sterile ceremonies where individual investors get to feel appreciated for once, and where rubber stamps are waved over votes decided long in advance. Occasionally, you get the odd activist investor raising a stink.
For most of Yahoo's meeting last week, it was just such a stuffy affair. Then Steve Landry – who described himself as a "personal investor" who somehow advises institutional investors – stood up and for five minutes poured a steady stream of ice water onto the proceedings. For anyone who has watched Yahoo's stock stagnate around $15 for the last few years, the ice water was a refreshing change.
Landry cited an unnamed blog post (it's apparently on TechCrunch) that said Yahoo is looking for a replacement for Carol Bartz, Yahoo's CEO since 2009. He also mentioned Yahoo's' fumbling of its 43% stake in Alibaba, a Chinese Internet giant with whom Yahoo has a strained relationship, as well as reports that Yahoo may buy Hulu.
In short, Landry said Bartz should go as soon as possible. If not, more talent would bolt from the company. He thought Yahoo shouldn't pussyfoot around with a big Hulu merger at such an uncertain time, although he did like Hulu CEO Jason Kilar as a replacement for Bartz. Finally, he suggested the company be sold, in whole or in pieces.
"No more excuses. No more victory laps," Landry concluded in a tight but patient voice. "It's time for a change and a sense of urgency."
Bartz shot back, without missing a beat, with a response that was pure Bartz: "Thanks for your opinion, the bloggers' opinions and the rumors." Then after a pause filled with dread: "What else..? Wonderful. That was certainly a downer."
The recording made its way online, of course (those darn blogs!). And it's worth a listen, if for no other reason than to hear the dispirited tone in Bartz' voice. Words cannot describe it. This was once one of the most vibrant and respected CEOs in technology, but then she met Yahoo. Yahoo almost seems like some kind of corporate vampire that drains CEOs of their lifeblood. It's gotten to Bartz.
Bartz' immediate departure from Yahoo would probably be the best thing for Bartz, if not for Yahoo. The question isn't who could succeed her, it's: Who would want to? Kilar is a great candidate, but I wonder how badly he wants the job. He could easily find himself in a shareholder meeting in another two years, with investors dressing him down. What a downer that would be.
Yahoo's history is a case study in the dangers of making it up as you go along. Improvisation might work in stand-up comedy, but in the business world it leads to, well, comedy. Afer 20 years, Yahoo ended up with bunch of fragmented properties tangled together in ad-hoc management. Bartz tried to untangle it all and ended up with a brand new tangle.
Yahoo doesn't need a turnaround, because any Yahoo turnaround can only exist in theory. It's fallen so far behind innovative companies like Facebook, Twitter and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) that catching up seems impossible. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is slipping behind, too. Next to Yahoo, however, Google seems to be quite innovative.
But Yahoo isn't quite a failure either. According to comScore, its unique visitors rose 11 million around the world to 689 million in May. That's a little faster than Google's 8% growth, but Google has more than 1 billion visitors. And it's much slower than Microsoft's 15% and Facebook's 30% – two companies with more visitors than Yahoo.
What Yahoo needs is a caretaker who can oversee it while it decays into oblivion. It's not coming back, but it's not going away. After last week's shareholder meeting, Yahoo's board stood behind Bartz. But it probably shouldn't have. Bartz is a fighter. And Yahoo is a company that doesn't need to fight. It needs hospice care.


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Kelly and David
I've got another cute couple to share with you this week. I just love how the lacy details of Kelly's dress and the classic feel of their wedding work so perfectly with their wedding invitations! Have a peek…
WEDDING DATE: July 2, 2011
LOCATION: Omaha, Nebraska
CEREMONY: Presbyterian Church of the Cross
RECEPTION: Doubletree Downtown
PHOTOGRAPHER: Geoff Johnson
FLOWERS: Debbie Pitt
WEDDING PLANNER/CONSULTANT: Ellie Herschlag
GOWN: Jim Hjelm
BRIDESMAID DRESSES: David's Bridal
GROOM'S ATTIRE: Tip Top Tux
STATIONERY: Kelly thought the Olivia wedding invitation best suited their style.
KELLY'S FAVORITE DETAIL: The sparklers!
KELLY'S MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT: The firework and our first look.
Congrats Kelly and David! Thanks for sharing your special day with us!
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Ann Arbor
aut Bar, 315 Braun Ct, Ann Arbor, 734-994-3677,
Gigi's, 16920 W. Warren, Detroit, MI. 313-584-6525. 313-584-6525,
Other Side Lounge, 16801 Plymouth Rd, Detroit, MI 48227, 313-836-2324
Club Triangle, 2101 S. Dort Hwy, Flint, Michigan 48507, 810-767-7550,
Club Triangle Directory for Detroit Gay and Lesbian Bars and Dance Clubs
Flint Bars and Clubs
Grand Rapids
The Cell, S. Division, Grand Rapids, MI
Stiletto's, 1641 Middlebelt Rd. (between Cherry Hill & Michigan Ave), Inkster, MI, (734) 729-8980. "I would like to nominate Stiletto's for your MI bars listing. They are very supportive of all lifestyles, and they host the premier Drag King shows in Michigan. I've been there numerous times, and always had a positive experience. They bill themselves as a place where boys and girls party together. I agree!" --L
Club 505, 505 East Shiawassee, Lansing, 517-374-6312.
Spiral, 1247 Center, Lansing. 517-371-3221
Club Flamingo, Pontiac.
Traverse City
Side Traxx , 520 Franklin St., Traverse City, (231) 935-1666. "The one action place for glbT people...They are open 7 days/week with dancing and various activities." --G.
Gayscape Bar Guide to Michigan
Out of Michigan
TGdreams, 722 York Street, London, Ontario, Canada. "It's open to TS, TG, TV, Crossdressers, and admirers. It's a dance bar, a restaurant, and it offers rooms to those who need them at a fee."
Beauty Salons
Advanced Body Care, 1100 W University Dr. Rochester, MI 48307 (248) 650-5372,
Tracy Hoover, (248)252-7496, Licensed Electrologist, Nail Tech. (manicures & pedicures), & Wig Specialist
JNcolle Salon boutique, 1440 Wealthy St NE (in Eastown), Grand Rapids, 616-350-9526. "Hi my name is Amanda and I am the manager at JNicolle Salon boutique featuring a full service spa with massage,makeup,hair and nail services and even airbrush spray tanning! We also offer onlocation makeup and hair services for an event or performance! We also have a full service boutique featuring shoes, accessories and purses and custom clothing for all styles and sizes! Services for all people..sexy shoes in larger sizes are available and we even offer VIP access only days where u can come in and have a private makeover day with us! JNicolle Salon offering: Airbrush Spray Tanning, Hair services, Extension work, Massage, Facials, Shoe and Accessory Boutique, Feather extensions, wardrobe planning, Makeup services, On location hair and makeup services for events, 616-350-9526"
Diane Lee, (248) 968-8338, Licensed Electrologist, 26001 Raine St., Oak Park, MI
Dorothy Kyser, B.S., C.C.E., Licensed Electrologist, Licensed Aesthetician, Laser Technician, 686 Chestnut Dr., Wixom, MI 48393, (cell) 248-444-3571,
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Synchronicity Bookstore
"Pinned Down By Pronouns" anthology
Peninsula of Lies by Edward Ball
Transgender Emergence
Art & Illusion: A Guide to Crossdressing Vol 1 - Roberts
Feminizing Hormonal Therapy - Kirk
Gender Outlaw - Bornstein
I Am My Own Woman - Von Mahlsdorf
Mom, I Need to be a Girl
by Just Evelyn
My Husband Wears My Clothers - Rudd
Our Trans Children - PFLAG
S/HE - Pratt
Stone Butch Blues - Feinberg
Transformations - Mariette Pathy Allen
Transgender Explaned for Those Who Are Not
by Joanne Herman
Transgender History (Seal Studies)
by Susan Stryker
Transgender Warriors - Feinberg
True Selves - Brown and Rounsley
The Uninvited Dilemma
Breast Forms
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text: Prescription drug abuse is the fastest growing drug problem and most particularly among teens. First, teens often do not realize the dangers, believing that since they were prescribed by a doctors them must be safe. Second, they are easy to get as most homes contain medications in their cabinets. According to FACE, then Prevention Resource Group, "Every day 2,500 youth from ages 12-17 abuse prescription pain killers for the first time." This is not just happening among older teens. FACE also comments that "Prescription drugs are now the drug of choice among 12-13 year olds."


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Now that we have covered the hardware, lets see how the Xbox One's Dashboard (UI) looks and some of its great features.
The Xbox One Operating System
Unlike any other console out there the Xbox One will run three operating systems at once. There will be a Windows operating system to run applications like Skype and other non-game titles downloaded from the Microsoft store. The second operating system will be the "Xbox OS" which by use of virtualization technology will allocate the bulk of the system resources for gameplay. Finally the third operating system will work two bridge the two operating systems allowing them to talk to each other.
The thing about the new Xbox is that it will always be on and connected. When you want to turn the system on you just get in front of the Kinect and say "Xbox On" and your Xbox will come back on from sleep mode. When the Kinect recognizes you it will welcome you and bring you to your own personal home screen. The home screen shows you what you were last doing. It has live tiles that look very much like the ones on Windows 8. There is a new "Recommended" area that shows what is popular across the entire Xbox Live Community.
If you haven't guessed yet the Xbox One's HDMI input allows you to watch live TV on your Xbox! This again goes back to the Xbox being an "all-in-one" device. The Xbox One will provide a guide of what is currently on TV from your local cable provider. Normally you would have to scroll through to see everything but if you want to change channels all you have to do is say "Watch MTV" and the channel will be changed to MTV. If you want to see what's on a channel you can say "What's on HBO" and it will bring up the guide and show you wants on HBO right now. No more using a remote that you constantly lose! According to Microsoft "the beginning of truly intelligent TV".
The Xbox one has some really cool multi-tasking and other built in usage features. The first is Instant Switching. Its basically like jumping between applications like you would in Windows. So if you are playing a game and say "Go to Internet Explorer" it will instantly switch to that. Say "Watch TV" and now it will turn on live TV. Multi-tasking on the Xbox one is called "Snapping" much like you will find on a Windows 8 machine. Watching a movie and want to browse the internet at the same time? Just say "Snap Internet Explorer" and its snapped to the right of the screen. Another new gesture feature was introduced as well. It allows you to exit movies and other applications. With both your arms grab and push out and you will exit the movie or application. Xbox One will support Skype calling using the new Kinect camera. You can easily receive calls which using your Xbox and even use the snap mode to watch a movie while on a call. Microsoft also mentioned group video chat, but we are unclear on how many people can join at once.
If you are watching sports and one of your fantasy players scores you can see the stats reflected live on screen using an ESPN app.
Of course what is the Xbox without games, they are up next!


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AUSTRALIAN iron ore salesman Stern Hu has admitted taking bribes, says an Australian diplomat and court observer.
The admission provides the first public evidence of wrongdoing in a case that has stunned the foreign business community in China and triggered an international storm.
It comes as an even larger controversy over the risks of doing business under China's tight one-party system is reaching a climax. Several of Google's top leaders in China left Beijing late yesterday on flights to the west coast of the US, where Google has its headquarters, say well-placed sources in the industry.
Speculation is mounting, including among Google staff, that the company will announce within days that it is shutting down its search engine in China and perhaps pulling out of the country altogether. If so, Google will be the first multinational company in 15 years to leave China on grounds of principle.
Australia's consul-general in Shanghai, Tom Connor, said Hu had been accused of accepting 1 million yuan ($A159,700) and $US790,000 ($A863,000) in bribes.
''Mr Hu made some admissions concerning these two bribery amounts'' Mr Connor said, declining to give further details.
Rio Tinto executive Hu and three Chinese colleagues - Liu Caikui, Wang Yong and Ge Minqiang - appeared to be driven into the towering court facilities in four police vans at 6.30am yesterday.
Lawyers for the four men arrived by car later, as did Mr Connor. There was no sign of Hu's wife, Julie, or any Rio Tinto representative in what Chinese authorities had dubbed an ''open'' court hearing.
In a shock development, Zhang Peihong, Wang's lawyer, told The Age last night that Hu's lawyer would not be the high-profile Duan Qihua but another lawyer whom Mr Zhang had not seen before.
Liu's lawyer, Tao Wuping, said Liu was accused of taking 3.7 million yuan in bribes, Ge of taking more than 6 million yuan and Wang more than 70 million yuan.
He said Hu and Liu were pleading guilty to bribery but would contest the amounts, while Ge and Wang remained undecided.
Hu's bribery admissions are almost certain to lead to a conviction but may not satisfy critics of China's legal system.
Chinese and international media were stuck outside the proceedings yesterday after being refused entry because the vast courthouse ''could not accommodate'' them.
Tomorrow, Australian diplomats will also be barred from parts of proceedings involving the more controversial charges of stealing commercial secrets - a decision the Australian government has accepted with ''disappointment''.
International authorities on China's legal system condemned the government's decision to accept China's ruling, which they said was contrary to Chinese law and the consular pact between the two countries.
Professor Jerome Cohen, of New York University, said the government ''appears to have gone soft'' on China's decision, which he said had disturbing implications for the development of its legal system and its commitment to international treaties.
Many in China and overseas have pre-judged the case. A new Chinese-language book, The Scramble for Resources, by lawyer Zhang Jie, says Hu's sentence should be imprisonment until death. ''Even the death sentence would not be unfair,'' he writes.
While a number of Chinese analysts and officials have insisted Hu is guilty, some Australians are adamant he is not.
Federal Labor MP Michael Danby said he had no faith in China's legal system. ''The confession was probably extracted from him with the promise of an early release,'' he said.


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The January transfer window mustn't be too far away, because we have already been linked with at least one promising youngster.
John Joe O'Toole – 6'2″ 20 year-old midfielder
There is news that we may make a move for Walford's Republic of Ireland under-21 midfielder John Joe O'Toole. John was born in Harrow, England but is of Irish descent, and has played at least 4 times for the Ireland Under-21, side scoring one goal.
The 6'2" O'Toole, a midfield player, who turned 20 years old just a month ago, has been in very good form this season, scoring seven goals in 12 appearances for the Hornets.
He has already played 41 times for Watford in the League Championship and has scored 9 goals. We are being told that O'Toole could attract a £1M bid in the January transfer window, although we haven't seen him play yet, but that would appear to be a reasonable deal.
O'Toole went on loan to Wealdstone last year and played 9 games for them, scoring 4 goals, so he certainly seems to have the knack of scoring goals from his midfield position.
However, unless something is sorted out before January, and new owners are installed, it will be a brave lad who will come to Newcastle United, after all the upheaval at the club, following Kevin Keegan's resignation.
However, the club still has a good name and hopefully we can get something sorted out before the end of the year. But if it's not possible to sell the club before January, then owner Mike Ashley should tell us, and let us know what his plans are for then.
If they are he will not spend any money we may be in serious trouble.
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A's Ladendorf, Sox's Heisler suspended
Oakland outfielder, 26, banned 50 games after second positive test
By Danny Wild / MiLB.com | June 25, 2014 5:49 PM ET
Athletics third baseman Tyler Ladendorf and White Sox outfielder Adam Heisler were each suspended for 50 games on Wednesday after testing positive for banned substances.
The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball said Ladendorf was banned after a second positive test for a drug of abuse, while Heisler received a 50-game suspension after testing positive for an amphetamine. Both positive tests are considered violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.
The suspensions are effective immediately and are without pay.
Ladendorf, Minnesota's second-round pick in 2008, is hiting .305 with two homers, 38 RBIs, 17 doubles and a .387 on-base percentage in 68 games for Triple-A Sacramento. The 26-year-old was acquired by Oakland from the Minnesota Twins for Orlando Cabrera on July 31, 2009, and has steadily moved up the A's system, making his Triple-A debut in 2010. His best season so far came in 2012, when he hit .240 with a career highs in homers (nine) and RBIs (54).
Heisler, 26, was drafted by the White Sox in 2006 and the Cardinals in 2009 but did not make his Minor League debut until 2011 after signing with Chicago as a free agent following a successful open tryout earlier that summer. The University of South Alabama product is batting .283 with a pair of homers, nine RBIs, seven steals and a .347 OBP in 33 games this season for Class A Advanced Winston-Salem in the Carolina League.
The lefty-hitting outfielder made his Triple-A debut last year, batting .316 in six games for Charlotte, but spent most of the year with the Dash and Class A Kannapolis. Overall, he hit .273 with five homers, 47 RBIs and 23 stolen bases in his third season, earning MiLB.com White Sox Organization All-Star honors.
Players are typically issued a warning following a first positive test for a drug of abuse and a suspension for a second offense. Substances considered "drugs of abuse" by Major League Baseball include cocaine, marijuana, heroin, LSD, ecstasy and other opiates. Minor Leaguers who test positive for a performance-enhancing substance are subjected to an immediate 50-game suspension.
Major League Baseball has now suspended 31 players for violating the Minor League drug program in 2014.
Danny Wild is an editor for MiLB.com. Follow his MLBlog column, Minoring in Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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June 4: What Are We Wearing Today?
IT'S FINALLY SUMMER! I think. Pretty sure. Sure seems like it! We've got quite the full house at The Frisky HQ today, with Ami's lovely parents making an appearance, as well as Casey, our new marketing intern. This must come as a huge relief to you all, since you're probably bored of seeing our same old faces day after day. You are, aren't you? I get it, whatever. ANYWAY! Come see what we're all wearing today!


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Most soccer fans will remember the Germany-Turkey game not just for its high entertainment, but also because the international TV audience lost pictures of the game three times for a total of 18 minutes during the second half, missing two goals in the process. For older U.S. viewers it must have been like watching in the days of the NASL, when ad breaks would interrupt the coverage, but not the game, and they would hear the dreaded words, "And while you were gone, there was a change in the scoreline...."
Now UEFA could face compensation claims from broadcasters for
the feed interruptions. The BBC is expected to lodge a formal complaint after it was forced to broadcast radio commentary instead. There is also a question of breach of contract by
broadcasters, such as German TV, which took the feed from Swiss television. The Swiss were unaffected by the outage, caused by a storm in Vienna, though it's hard to imagine UEFA penalizing TV
stations for showing a game they'd already bought the rights to.
In the U.S., we were rewarded with live pictures of fans at the Basel fan fest, and ESPN commentators Derek Rae and
Andy Gray awkwardly trying to fill in the time, second-guessing the action from the reaction of the spectators in front of a big screen still showing the game. "Have you ever been to a fan fest,
Andy" asked Rae. "No," replied Gray unequivocally. Don't try and make small talk with a Scotsman.


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Rubķn Gallo
Proust's Latin Americans, Johns Hopkins University Press (2014)
Part biography, part cultural history, part literary study, Rubķn Gallo's book explores the presence of Latin America in Proust's life and work. The novelist lived in an era shaped by French colonial expansion into the Americas: just before his birth, Napoleon III installed Maximilian as emperor of Mexico, and during the 1890s France was shaken by the Panama Affair, a financial scandal linked to the construction of the canal in which thousands of French citizens lost their life savings.
It was in the context of these tense Franco–Latin American relations that the novelist met the circle of friends discussed in Proust's Latin Americans: the composer Reynaldo Hahn, Proust's Venezuelan lover; Gabriel de Yturri, an Argentinean dandy; Josķ-Maria de Heredia, a Cuban poet and early literary model; Antonio de La Gandara, a Mexican society painter; and Ramon Fernandez, a brilliant Mexican critic turned Nazi sympathizer.
Gallo discusses the correspondence—some of it never before published—between the novelist and this heterogeneous group and also presents insightful readings of In Search of Lost Time that posit Latin America as the novel's political unconscious. Proust's speculation with Mexican stocks informed his various fictional passages devoted to financial transactions, and the Panama Affair shaped his understanding of the conquest of America in a little-known early text.
Proust's Latin Americans will be of interest to scholars of modernism, French literature, Proust studies, gender studies, and Latin American studies.
Kelly C. Baum (Art Museum)
Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010 (Princeton University Art Museum Series), Princeton University Art Museum (2010)
This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism, and utopian dreamwork play as important a role as, if not more than, raw earth. Discussed are case studies by seven artists and two artist teams—Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Francis Al s, Yael Bartana, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Emre H³ner, Andrea Geyer, Matthew Day Jackson, Lucy Raven, and Santiago Sierra. While some of these artists explore historical and symbolic configurations of space, others parse the social, legal, and economic conditions of specific land-sites, including the Navajo Nation, the island of Vieques, the border town of Juarez, and the cities of Tongling, Jerusalem, and Beirut. Not confined to the displacement of matter, these artists employ a wide range of media, such as performance, animation, assemblage, and photography.
JoŃo Biehl (Anthropology)
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment, With a New Preface, with Torben Eskerod (Photographer) University of California Press; 2 edition, 2012
Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities--places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist JoŃo Biehl leads a detective-like journey to know Catarina; to unravel the cryptic, poetic words that are part of the "dictionary" she is compiling; and to trace the complex network of family, medicine, state, and economy in which her abandonment and pathology took form. As Biehl painstakingly relates Catarina's words to a vanished world and elucidates her condition, we learn of subjectivities unmade and remade under economic pressures, pharmaceuticals as moral technologies, a public common sense that lets the unsound and unproductive die, and anthropology's unique power to work through these juxtaposed fields. Vita's methodological innovations, bold fieldwork, and rigorous social theory make it an essential reading for anyone who is grappling with how to understand the conditions of life, thought and ethics in the contemporary world.
Eduardo Cadava (English)
Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion? (Drawing Papers), with Brett Littman (Author) The Drawing Center; First edition (2010)
Published on the occasion of The Drawing Center's exhibition Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion?, this volume is the first to focus on the late drawings of American artist Leon Golub (1922-2004). Though he was most often noted as a painter, Golub used drawing as a foundational tool in his practice. The drawings published here mark a stylistic and thematic shift from a long-term preoccupation with the atrocities of the external world towards an exploration of the personally revelatory.
In addition to essays by exhibition curator Brett Littman and scholar Eduardo Cadava, the publication features nearly 50 color plates of the artist's oil stick and ink on Bristol board and vellum drawings made between 1999 and 2004. It also showcases Golub's only existent unfinished painting - a chalk sketch of two lions that he started in 2001 but never completed - as well as appendixes of preliminary background drawings and original source material from a variety of wide-circulating periodicals.
The Itinerant Languages of Photography
While photographs have been exchanged, appropriated, and mobilized in different contexts since the 19th century, their movement is now occurring at an unprecedented speed. The Itinerant Languages of Photography examines photography's capacity to circulate across time and space as well as across other media, such as art, literature, and cinema. Taking its point of departure from Latin American and Spanish photographic archives, the volume offers an alternative history of photography by focusing on the transnational dimension of technological traffic and image production at a time when photography is at the center of current debates on the role of representation, authorship, and reception in a global contemporary culture.
Featuring a wide-range of photographs—images that converse across temporal, political, and cultural boundaries by artists such as Lola and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marcelo Brodsky, Joan Colom, Marc Ferrez, and Joan Fontcuberta—the book argues that the photographic image comes into being only as a consequence of reproduction, displacement, and itinerancy.
Miguel Angel Centeno (Sociology)
Global Capitalism (co-authored with Joseph Cohen) Polity Press, 2010
The global financial crisis has challenged many of our most authoritative economic ideologies and policies. After thirty years of reshaping the world to conform to the market, governments and societies are now calling for a retreat to a yet undefined new economic order.
In order to provide a guide to what the twenty-first-century economy might look like, this book revisits the great project of Global Capitalism. What did it actually entail? How far did it go? What were its strengths and failings? By deconstructing its core ideas and examining its empirical record, can we gain clues about how to move forward after the crisis? Miguel Centeno and Joseph Cohen define capitalism as a historically-evolving and socially-constructed institution, rooted in three core economic activities trade, finance and marketing and identify the three key challenges that any new economic system will need to surmount inequality, governance, and environmental sustainability.
This accessible and engaging book will be essential reading for students of economic sociology, and all those interested in the construction of our economic future.
Rubķn Gallo (Spanish and Portuguese)
Freud's Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis (The MIT Press, 2010)
Freud's Mexico is a completely unexpected contribution to Freud studies. Here, Rubķn Gallo reveals Freud's previously undisclosed connections to a culture and a psychoanalytic tradition not often associated with him. Freud found a receptive audience among Mexican intellectuals, read Mexican books, collected Mexican antiquities, and dreamed Mexican dreams; his writings bear the traces of a longstanding fascination with the country.
In the Mexico of the 1920s and 1930s, Freud made an impact not only among psychiatrists but also in literary, artistic, and political circles. Gallo writes about a "motley crew" of Freud's readers who devised some of the most original, elaborate, and influential applications of psychoanalytic theory anywhere in the world: the poet Salvador Novo, a gay dandy who used Freud to vindicate marginal sexual identities; the conservative philosopher Samuel Ramos, who diagnosed the collective neuroses afflicting his country; the cosmopolitan poet Octavio Paz, who launched a psychoanalytic inquiry into the origins of Mexican history; and Gregorio Lemercier, a Benedictine monk who put his entire monastery into psychoanalysis.
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (Art and Archaeology)
Arcimboldo: Visual Jokes, Natural History, and Still-Life Painting, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, (2010)
In Giuseppe Arcimboldo's most famous paintings, grapes, fish, and even the beaks of birds form human hair. A pear stands in for a man's chin. Citrus fruits sprout from a tree trunk that doubles as a neck. All sorts of natural phenomena come together on canvas and panel to assemble the strange heads and faces that constitute one of Renaissance art's most striking oeuvres. The first major study in a generation of the artist behind these remarkable paintings, Arcimboldo tells the singular story of their creation.
Drawing on his thirty-five-year engagement with the artist, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann begins with an overview of Arcimboldo's life and work, exploring the artist's early years in sixteenth-century Lombardy, his grounding in Leonardesque traditions, and his tenure as a Habsburg court portraitist in Vienna and Prague. Arcimboldo then trains its focus on the celebrated composite heads, approaching them as visual jokes with serious underpinnings—images that poetically display pictorial wit while conveying an allegorical message. In addition to probing the humanistic, literary, and philosophical dimensions of these pieces, Kaufmann explains that they embody their creator's continuous engagement with nature painting and natural history. He reveals, in fact, that Arcimboldo painted many more nature studies than scholars have realized—a finding that significantly deepens current interpretations of the composite heads.
Demonstrating the previously overlooked importance of these works to natural history and still-life painting, Arcimboldo finally restores the artist's fantastic visual jokes to their rightful place in the history of both science and art.
Douglas Massey (Sociology)
With Magaly Sßnchez R. Brokered Boundaries: Creating Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2010
Anti-immigrant sentiment reached a fever pitch after 9/11, but its origins go back much further. Public rhetoric aimed at exposing a so-called invasion of Latino immigrants has been gaining ground for more than three decades—and fueling increasingly restrictive federal immigration policy. Accompanied by a flagging U.S. economy—record-level joblessness, bankruptcy, and income inequality—as well as waning consumer confidence, these conditions signaled one of the most hostile environments for immigrants in recent memory. In Brokered Boundaries, Douglas Massey and Magaly Sßnchez untangle the complex political, social, and economic conditions underlying the rise of xenophobia in U.S. society. The book draws on in-depth interviews with Latin American immigrants in metropolitan New York and Philadelphia and—in their own words and images—reveals what life is like for immigrants attempting to integrate in anti-immigrant times.
What do the social categories "Latino" and "American" actually mean to today's immigrants? Brokered Boundaries analyzes how first- and second-generation immigrants from Central and South America and the Caribbean navigate these categories and their associated meanings as they make their way through U.S. society. Massey and Sßnchez argue that the mythos of immigration, in which newcomers gradually shed their respective languages, beliefs, and cultural practices in favor of a distinctly American way of life, is, in reality, a process of negotiation between new arrivals and native-born citizens. Natives control interactions with outsiders by creating institutional, social, psychological, and spatial mechanisms that delimit immigrants' access to material resources and even social status. Immigrants construct identities based on how they perceive and respond to these social boundaries. The authors make clear that today's Latino immigrants are brokering boundaries in the context of unprecedented economic uncertainty, repressive anti-immigrant legislation, and a heightening fear that upward mobility for immigrants translates into downward mobility for the native-born. Despite an absolute decline in Latino immigration, immigration-related statutes have tripled in recent years, including many that further shred the safety net for legal permanent residents as well as the undocumented.
Brokered Boundaries shows that, although Latin American immigrants come from many different countries, their common reception in a hostile social environment produces an emergent Latino identity soon after arrival. During anti-immigrant times, however, the longer immigrants stay in America, the more likely they are to experience discrimination and the less likely they are to identify as Americans.
New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration, Russell Sage Foundation Publications; 1 edition (2010)
Beginning in the 1990s, immigrants to the United States increasingly bypassed traditional gateway cites such as Los Angeles and New York to settle in smaller towns and cities throughout the nation. With immigrant communities popping up in so many new places, questions about ethnic diversity and immigrant assimilation confront more and more Americans. New Faces in New Places, edited by distinguished sociologist Douglas Massey, explores today's geography of immigration and examines the ways in which native-born Americans are dealing with their new neighbors.
Using the latest census data and other population surveys, New Faces in New Places examines the causes and consequences of the shift toward new immigrant destinations. Contributors Mark Leach and Frank Bean examine the growing demand for low-wage labor and lower housing costs that have attracted many immigrants to move beyond the larger cities. Katharine Donato, Charles Tolbert, Alfred Nucci, and Yukio Kawano report that the majority of Mexican immigrants are no longer single male workers but entire families, who are settling in small towns and creating a surge among some rural populations long in decline. Katherine Fennelly shows how opinions about the growing immigrant population in a small Minnesota town are divided along socioeconomic lines among the local inhabitants. The town's leadership and professional elites focus on immigrant contributions to the economic development and the diversification of the community, while working class residents fear new immigrants will bring crime and an increased tax burden to their communities. Helen Marrow reports that many African Americans in the rural south object to Hispanic immigrants benefiting from affirmative action even though they have just arrived in the United States and never experienced historical discrimination. As Douglas Massey argues in his conclusion, many of the towns profiled in this volume are not equipped with the social and economic institutions to help assimilate new immigrants that are available in the traditional immigrant gateways of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. And the continual replenishment of the flow of immigrants may adversely affect the nation's perception of how today's newcomers are assimilating relative to previous waves of immigrants.
New Faces in New Places illustrates the many ways that communities across the nation are reacting to the arrival of immigrant newcomers, and suggests that patterns and processes of assimilation in the twenty-first century may be quite different from those of the past. Enriched by perspectives from sociology, anthropology, and geography New Faces in New Places is essential reading for scholars of immigration and all those interested in learning the facts about new faces in new places in America.
Nick Nesbitt (French and Italian)
With Brian Hulse, Sounding the Virtual: Gilles Deleuze and the Theory and Philosophy of Music, Ashgate Publishing Company (2010)
It is the contention of the editors and contributors of this volume that the work carried out by Gilles Deleuze, where rigorously applied, has the potential to cut through much of the intellectual sedimentation that has settled in the fields of music studies. Deleuze is a vigorous critic of the Western intellectual tradition, calling for a 'philosophy of difference', and, despite its ambitions, he is convinced that Western philosophy fails to truly grasp (or think) difference as such. It is argued that longstanding methods of conceptualizing music are vulnerable to Deleuze's critique. But, as Deleuze himself stresses, more important than merely critiquing established paradigms is developing ways to overcome them, and by using Deleuze's own concepts this collection aims to explore that possibility.
Alejandro Portes (Sociology)
Economic Sociology: A Systematic Inquiry, Princeton University Press (2010)
The sociological study of economic activity has witnessed a significant resurgence. Recent texts have chronicled economic sociology's nineteenth-century origins while pointing to the importance of context and power in economic life, yet the field lacks a clear understanding of the role that concepts at different levels of abstraction play in its organization. Economic Sociology fills this critical gap by surveying the current state of the field while advancing a framework for further theoretical development.
Alejandro Portes examines economic sociology's principal assumptions, key explanatory concepts, and selected research sites. He argues that economic activity is embedded in social and cultural relations, but also that power and the unintended consequences of rational purposive action must be factored in when seeking to explain or predict economic behavior. Drawing upon a wealth of examples, Portes identifies three strategic sites of research--the informal economy, ethnic enclaves, and transnational communities--and he eschews grand narratives in favor of mid-range theories that help us understand specific kinds of social action.
The book shows how the meta-assumptions of economic sociology can be transformed, under certain conditions, into testable propositions, and puts forward a theoretical agenda aimed at moving the field out of its present impasse.
Institutions Count Their Role and Significance in Latin American Development
What leads to national progress? The growing consensus in the social sciences is that neither capital flows, nor the savings rate, nor diffuse values are the key, but that it lies in the quality of a nation's institutions. This book is the first comparative study of how real institutions affect national development. It seeks to examine and deepen this insight through a systematic study of institutions in five Latin American countries and how they differ within and across nations. Postal systems, stock exchanges, public health services and others were included in the sample, all studied with the same methodology. The country chapters present detailed results of this empirical exercise for each individual country. The introductory chapters present the theoretical framework and research methodology for the full study. The summary results of this ambitious study presented in the concluding chapter draw comparisons across countries and discuss what these results mean for national development in Latin America.
Edward E. Telles (Sociology)
Just Neighbors?: Research on African American and Latino Relations in the United States, Mark Sawyer (Co-Editor), Gaspar Rivera-Salgado (Co-Editor) Russell Sage Foundation (2011)
Blacks and Latinos have transformed the American city together these groups now constitute the majority in seven of the ten largest urban areas. Large-scale immigration from Latin America has been changing U.S. racial dynamics for decades, and Latino migration to new destinations is changing the face of the American south. Yet most of what social science has helped us to understand about these groups has been observed primarily in relation to whites not each other. Just Neighbors? challenges the traditional black/white paradigm of American race relations by examining African Americans and Latinos as they relate to each other in the labor market, the public sphere, neighborhoods, and schools. The book shows the influence of race, class, and received stereotypes on black-Latino social interactions and offers insight on how finding common ground may benefit both groups.
From the labor market and political coalitions to community organizing, street culture, and interpersonal encounters, Just Neighbors? analyzes a spectrum of Latino-African American social relations to understand when and how these groups cooperate or compete. Contributor Frank Bean and his co-authors show how the widely held belief that Mexican immigration weakens job prospects for native-born black workers is largely unfounded especially as these groups are rarely in direct competition for jobs. Michael Jones-Correa finds that Latino integration beyond the traditional gateway cities promotes seemingly contradictory feelings: a sense of connectedness between the native minority and the newcomers but also perceptions of competition. Mark Sawyer explores the possibilities for social and political cooperation between the two groups in Los Angeles and finds that lingering stereotypes among both groups, as well as negative attitudes among blacks about immigration, remain powerful but potentially surmountable forces in group relations. Regina Freer and Claudia Sandoval examine how racial and ethnic identity impacts coalition building between Latino and black youth and find that racial pride and a sense of linked fate encourages openness to working across racial lines.
Black and Latino populations have become a majority in the largest U.S. cities, yet their combined demographic dominance has not abated both groups social and economic disadvantage in comparison to whites. Just Neighbors? lays a much-needed foundation for studying social relations between minority groups. This trailblazing book shows that, neither natural allies nor natural adversaries, Latinos and African Americans have a profound potential for coalition-building and mutual cooperation. They may well be stronger together rather than apart.


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Progress is Palpable in the Fight Against Malnutrition
Experts engage in a discussion on effectively tackling acute malnutrition
Last month, in collaboration with UNICEF, Action Against Hunger organized an exciting panel discussion Reinforcing Momentum to End Acute Malnutrition. Part of a global series of events during the UN General Assembly period that raised the profile of nutrition with global leaders, this panel explored how to effectively and sustainably tackle acute malnutrition. The panel, moderated by Matt Aubry, Action Against Hunger's External Relations Director, drew in over 70 participants, fundamental in the fight against acute malnutrition. Panelists included:
- Laura Caulfield, Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Félicité Tchibindat, UNICEF, West and Central Africa Regional Nutrition Advisor
- Saul Guerrero, Head of Technical Development at Action Against Hunger-UK
- Melrose Tucker, Health and Nutrition Program Manager at Focus 1000, a nutrition and health focused organization in Sierra Leone
The event ended with a reception, which offered an informal space for discussion between nutrition specialists from around the world. During the reception, Paul Rochon, Canada's Deputy Minister of International Development, emphasized the Government of Canada's commitment to nutrition and stressed the importance of integrated solutions and strong partnerships. UNICEF Chief of Nutrition Werner Schultink also highlighted opportunities for increased cooperation between nutrition partners.
Panelists drew attention to some of the progress to date on nutrition and considered where the nutrition community needs to strengthen our current approach.
What we are doing right
In her introduction to the panel, Laura Caulfield was optimistic, and highlighted that progress in the fight against malnutrition is palpable.
Many factors contribute to this progress. For example, Félicité Tchibindat explained that improved protocols, training programs, and monitoring and reporting tools are becoming available, which are essential to help us reach more people in need more effectively.
Furthermore, international NGOs are increasingly providing technical assistance to governments and local NGOs who are implementing projects, promoting community empowerment.
Perhaps most importantly, a deeper understanding of nutrition has been achieved. As Melrose Tucker noted, malnutrition has the ability to impede the development of entire communities. Since malnutrition can affect everyone, all partners must commit to being key players in its prevention and treatment.
Since malnutrition can affect everyone, all partners must commit to being key players in its prevention and treatment.
More progress to be made
Since partnerships are such an important part of our success, it is critical that organizations working in nutrition need to first improve communication and partnerships. While many NGOs have specialized expertise, eliminating acute malnutrition will require a holistic approach involving partners from the local to global scale to address each part of the complex issue of nutrition.
Melrose Tucker highlighted that, in particular, a partnership between the nutrition and health sectors is key to ensure that the links between malnutrition prevention and treatment are strengthened:
"The nutrition and health sectors must work together, as malnutrition is a vicious cycle."–Melrose Tucker, Health and Nutrition Program Manager at Focus 1000
Organizations need to identify and apply best practices in prevention and treatment, Saul Guerrero noted. He further emphasized that we need to first start small, allowing space to test, learn, and—most importantly—understand the different contexts in which we work.
Your support helps make events like this possible, and also helps us increase the impact of our field work through improved methods and partnerships highlighted at this discussion. Thank you for your dedication to improving nutrition worldwide!


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The letter by 17 Lib Dem council leaders to the Times yesterday confirmed a high level of grassroots concern about coalition cuts by the national leadership. But it also offered a slightly misleading impression of how Tory councillors feel about the speed and depth of cuts to council budgets – implying that they were not concerned.
Of course there are some Conservatives in town halls who accept the need for the cuts and are comfortable with the 27 per cent cut to the formula grant and its frontloading in the first year. Read more


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The Olympic cauldron unveiled Friday night in London marks a striking departure from past designs, suggesting a new form of collective representation. The installation bears the strong fingerprints of its designer Thomas Heatherwick, the British architect whose Seed Cathedral at the Shanghai Expo 2010 and Bang project at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester both employ a multitude of cylindrical units that radiate from a central point to create visually striking monuments.
The notion of a central feature composed by the aggregation of many parts is particularly applicable to this year's Olympic Games, whose planning committee sought to elevate the sense of collective participation compared with past events. The featuring of the hundreds of construction workers who built the Olympic park during the opening ceremonies, for example—or the delivery of the Olympic flame by a group of young athletes instead of one celebrity—are examples that demonstrate attempts to create an atmosphere of inclusion.
Heatherwick's cauldron brilliantly captures and exudes this collective atmosphere, not only in its assemblage of individual copper braziers that each symbolize a participating country, but also in its placement at the bottom and center of the Olympic stadium—rather than a more remote location on a high pedestal. "We wanted to keep it sitting with the spectators,'' said Heatherwick.
After the 2012 Summer Olympics have concluded, the cauldron will be dismantled and each paticipating nation's team will return home with a single copper petal as an enduring reminder of the games. Thus, rather than be thrown out or remain solely within the home country as in past Olympics, the material reality of this cauldron will live on in the form of 204 prized mementos. "Everyone has a piece in the end," Heatherwick told USA Today.


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