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Unboxing Live 156: Samsung Galaxy Mega 2
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The Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 is a crazy large phablet-style smartphone, sporting a full 6-inch high definition 720p display. On the back you have an 8-megapixel camera with a bunch of built-in photo editing tools, along with a private mode, easy mode, and even a single-handed use mode.
We bring you the full rundown of the Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 Android smartphone from AT&T in this episode.
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2016 Nissan GT-R 45th Anniversary Gold Edition details
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This is the 2016 Nissan GT-R 45th Anniversary Gold Edition. No, when looking at the Premium model, the Anniversary edition isn't any faster, but like the gold Apple Watch Edition, it's much more exclusive than the standard offering. In fact, Nissan will produce just 30 of these for the US. The color is a special hue that they're calling "Silica Brass," and other details include a color-matched VIN plate, and a plaque inside the vehicle that commemorates this edition. Aside from that, you'll find all the goodness here that you find in the rest of the 2016 GT-R lineup, including all-wheel drive, build-in driving recorder, 3.8-liter 550 horsepower twin turbo V6 engine, and 11-speaker Bose audio system with noise cancellation. For for pricing, but you can be sure it'll cost $1,000 more than the $101,770 Premium edition, plus a $1,595 destination charge.
Steve Jobs refused Tim Cook's liver transplant offer
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Fast Company has an adaptation of one of the stories from Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Into a Revolutionary Leader, which releases one week from today on March 24, which you can pre-order now. Here's a short excerpt:
"Somebody that's selfish," Cook continues, "doesn't reply like that. I mean, here's a guy, he's dying, he's very close to death because of his liver issue, and here's someone healthy offering a way out. I said, 'Steve, I'm perfectly healthy, I've been checked out. Here's the medical report. I can do this and I'm not putting myself at risk, I'll be fine.' And he doesn't think about it. It was not, 'Are you sure you want to do this?' It was not, 'I'll think about it.' It was not, 'Oh, the condition I'm in . . .' It was, 'No, I'm not doing that!' He kind of popped up in bed and said that. And this was during a time when things were just terrible. Steve only yelled at me four or five times during the 13 years I knew him, and this was one of them.
You can head on over to Fast Company to read the full story. Definitely worth your time.
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Apple Watch apps that should be available at (or near) launch
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Apple published a page that shows off a bunch of third-party apps that various developers are working on for the Apple Watch. As you can see, there are a lot of big name companies on board, like Target, American Airlines, Nike, MLB, Instagram, Starwood Hotels, and many more. Fitness, travel, shopping, fun, social networking, and even entertainment apps are all included on the page.
The more you wear Apple Watch, the more you'll realize just how personal a device it is. Because with so many different apps available, you can choose the ones that are most relevant to you, and create a customized experience. There are already apps for airlines, department stores, social networks, and more that take advantage of the unique opportunities the wrist brings. And with new apps being built for Apple Watch every day, this is just the beginning.
Our guess is that the vast majority of these apps will be ready on day one, when the Apple Watch is released on April 24. See anything that surprises you on this list?
Sling TV now available on Xbox One with 1-month free trial, adds new channel packages
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Sling TV, the service that streams live TV to customers, has launched on Xbox One this morning, making it the first game console to provide access to Sling TV subscribers. The Xbox One joins Roku and Fire TV devices, Android, iOS, Macs, and PCs in providing Sling TV support.
"Sling TV and Xbox are a natural pairing; two out of three millennials think of themselves as gamers, while nearly nine out of 10 watch live sports on TV," said Roger Lynch, CEO of Sling TV. "Today's Xbox One customers have been some of the most passionate about Sling TV since the beginning, and now we're pleased to bring them live TV on their favorite gaming console."
Specific Xbox One features for Sling TV include the ability to use Kinect gestures and voice commands to control the app, and the ability to Snap Sling TV besides other activities. Current Xbox One owners who download the app will receive one month of Sling TV for free. If you buy an Xbox One between March 17 and March 25, 2015, you'll get three free months of Sling TV service to try out.
In addition to the Xbox One news, Dish Network's streaming television service is also announcing a bunch of new channels that are now available to subscribers. Sling TV is adding A&E, History, H2 and Lifetime to the $20 core live TV package, and is also expanding its $5 extra channel packs, adding Lifestyle Extra (with TruTV, the Cooking Channel, DIY and WE TV) and World News Extra (with Bloomberg TV, Euro News, France 24, NDTV 24/7, News 18 and Russia Today).
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Unboxing Live 154: Dell XPS 13
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The Dell XPS 13 is a premium laptop computer from Dell that features the Infinity Display design, bringing a 13-inch display into the small body of an 11-inch notebook. We bring you a look at the Dell XPS 13 notebook computer in this episode, bringing you a look at the stylish PC that also features an Intel Core i5 processor, a backlit keyboard, carbon fiber design, and more. You can pick up the Dell XPS 13 now, starting at $799. Don't forget to check out our Dell XPS 13 accessories video as well!
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Wii U + Super Smash Bros. giveaway!
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Today in the Gear Live Deals Shop you can enter our Wii U + Super Smash Bros. giveaway! If you're looking for a fun way to pass the time, Super Smash Bros. is it--it's cliche, but this is one that's easy to pick up and play, but difficult to truly master. It's also one of the first games to support Nintendo's amiibo figures.
Here's how this is gonna go down: Aside from the Wii U game console and Super Smash Bros., we're also throwing in a couple of extra controllers as well, so your friends can get it on the action. Ready to enter? Go get it:
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Unboxing Live 155: LG G Watch R review
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We bring you a look at the LG G Watch R Android Wear smartwatch in this episode. The LG G Watch R is the first smartwatch to sport a completely round P-OLED display. Other notable features include heart rate monitoring, turn-by-turn directions, voice control, and much more. You can pick up the LG G Watch R, which works with devices running Android 4.3 or greater, from AT&T and other retailers.
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This is Apple's new gold MacBook
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Apple's Spring Forward event is where the company unveiled the brand new MacBook with 12-inch Retina display. We've already gone through the specs and major changes, but one other subtle change is that this is the first Apple notebook that will be available in a gold hue. Actually, the MacBook will come in silver, gold, and space gray—the same three colors that you'll find the iPhone and iPad come in as well, but the gold is particularly intriguing, as it's not a color you see on the everyday notebook computer. Take a look at the images for a glimpse of the new style. You can buy the new MacBook starting April 10th.
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Apple releases iOS 8.2 with Apple Watch support
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Following its Spring Forward Apple Watch event, Apple has released iOS 8.2 publicly. The update brings about minor fixes, along with one big feature: Apple Watch support. In order to use the Apple Watch, you'll need to be running iOS 8.2 on your iPhone 5, 5s, 5c, 6, or 6 Plus. After installing the update, you'll find the new Apple Watch app on your home screen, which is what you will use to download apps and manage settings for your Apple Watch, should you pick one up.
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Cricket Canada regrets to announce the resignation of Michael Dighton, National Senior Men's Coach, as of April 20, 2012.
During his 8 months in the position, Dighton coached the Senior Men's team on a training tour of Barbados, the Caribbean T20, WT20Q preparation camp in Sri Lanka, World T20 Qualifier in UAE, and Canada's tour of Namibia.
Cricket Canada Vice-President Vimal Hardat commented on Dighton's resignation,
"We were obviously disappointed to lose someone of Michael's caliber but understand his reasons and thank him for his contribution to Cricket Canada. We wish him all the best in the future."
Cricket Canada's CEO Doug Hannum indicated that the organization will begin looking for Dighton's replacement immediately with an eye on qualification for the 2014 T20 Cricket World Cup and the 2015 Cricket World Cup.
"The search for Michael's replacement will soon be underway, well in time for the national team's trip to Scotland in July. We are certainly focused on putting our best foot forward to get ourselves into the next World Cup cycle and a new coach will be an integral part of that."

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Cancer is an abnormal growth of cells. Cancer cells rapidly reproduce despite restriction of space, nutrients shared by other cells or signals sent from the body to stop reproduction. Cancer cells are often shaped differently than healthy cells, they do not function properly and they can spread to many areas of the body. Oncology is the study of cancer and tumors.
The number of cells in each body tissue is tightly controlled. The number of new cells made equals the number needed to replace dying cells plus the number needed for growth and development. Unlike normal cells, tumors are clusters of cells that are capable of growing and dividing uncontrollably. Their growth is not regulated. Tumors can be benign (non-cancerous), or malignant (cancerous). Benign tumors tend to grow slowly and do not spread. Malignant tumors grow rapidly, can invade and destroy nearby normal tissues and can spread throughout the body. The term "cancer" is used when a tumor is malignant.
Cancer is malignant because it can be "locally invasive" and "metastatic:"
The original tumor is called the "primary tumor." These cells which travel through the body can begin the formation of new tumors in other organs. These tumors are referred to as "secondary tumors." The cancerous cells travel through the blood (circulatory system) or lymphatic system to form secondary tumors. The lymphatic system is a series of small vessels that collect waste from cells, carrying it into larger vessels and finally into lymph nodes. Lymph fluid eventually drains into the bloodstream.
When cancer spreads, it is still named after the part of the body where it started. For example, if kidney cancer spreads to the lungs, it is still kidney cancer not lung cancer. (The lung cancer would be an example of a secondary tumor). "Staging" is the process of finding out whether cancer has spread and if so, how far. There is more than one system used for staging.
Cancer is not just one disease but rather a group of diseases. All forms of cancer cause cells in the body to change and grow out of control.


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Communications systems and networks
Wiley Pub., Aug 22, 2002 - Technology & Engineering - 678 pages
* Convergence is confusing. Convergence is critical. And convergence is real. In this book, industry pundit Ray Horak describes how the merging of voice and data networks has evolved and is likely to evolve as we move toward an information-based economy.
* Beginning with the fundamentals of communications technology, the book grounds the reader in basic telecommunications concepts including circuits (dedicated, switched and virtual), switches (circuit, packet, and frame), and the issues involved in digital and analog transmission.
* Describes the rudiments of transmission media, from twisted pair and coaxial cable to satellite and fiber-optic transmission.
* Introduces the basics of voice systems, beginning with legacy networks like key telephone systems and including PBXs, Centrex, Automatic Call Distributors, and Computer Telephony Integration (CTI).
* Explains the fundamentals of data communications, including basic LAN and WAN engineering, modems and other forms of data communications equipment, broadband infrastructure and network services, and the protocols and equipment that make the global Internet a reality.
* Considers some of the emerging technologies and applications just now gaining widespread acceptance, including wireless networks and digital video networks, along with the economic and regulatory forces likely to determine the shape of the networked world of the 21st Century, as well as the speed with which we can expect to see it implemented.
* Previous edition sold 40,000+ copies.
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Sound recordings: In Spanish.
Manuscripts: In Spanish and English.
Comprises a group of field materials documenting unaccompanied Spanish Californian mission music performed by the Choristers of St. Anthony's Seminary, conducted by Father Bertrand Hobrecht on March 7, 1938, and collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell at the Santa Barbara Mission in Santa Barbara, California.Recordings:
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The Last Hurrah!!
A Pashnit Motorcycle Ride through California's Central Coast
The other day I found myself at lunch with a few of my friends. On one side of the table was a fella that was a Nuclear Astrophysist. Another was a music producer. There was also a cop, a musician, a physical therapist, a midwife, a laborer, a factory worker, a student, a pysch nurse, and a fella that worked in the motion picture industry.
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Since I'm not seeing a question here, let's turn it into one.
First of all MariaDB is a fork of MySQL, so of course it is a good alternative. However, the better approach would be, why did you switch to MariaDB versus continuing to use MySQL? How many others have switched to MariaDB and why?
Or to add, why continue with MySQL/MariaDB instead trying something new like PostgreSQL?
Doesn't Maria vs. My belong in the database forum anyway?
Another good question. I actually still use MySQL from time to time, but in 90% of the projects I've worked, I've had to interact with an already existing data storage (be it a RDBMS or some other storage mechanism they utilize). Seriously I know a lot of people got upset when MySQL was bought by Oracle, but I really don't see that big of a difference (yet). I've only worked with PostgreSQL for 1 small project, it was fine (no complaints, but I haven't taken it on mainstream yet).
Me, neither. Actually, from a user's point of view I must admit Oracle is doing a pretty good job with MySQL. Their 5.5 release was a big improvement in performance and they continue working on it. I wish they focused more on adding features but at least the project is not abandoned and I don't see any threat of it being withdrawn from the open source community.
Seriously. Why ever bother with MySql when Postgres is better and just as FOSS if you are into that sort of thing.
In 2013, the question I usually ask myself when starting a project is "how can I avoid SQL entirely." Personally I'm partial to RavenDb but that is pretty .NET specific. Mongo could be an interesting choice, it seems like 10gen is growing up and actually persisting data effectively now.
To use NoSQL is to go back to 1970 and reinvent the SQL wheel. There are corner case uses for Mongo, Raven and its kindred, but 99% of the websites out there don't fall into those corners. Once you get into serious data analysis NoSQL shows it's SEVERE limitations.
90%? Really? I would argue, especially for content sites, that it is the other way around -- the data is fundamentally documents NOT rows of sales data for data processing. Which is where one got SQL in the first place. Moreover, from a development perspective it is astounding how nice it is when you don't have to jump through the hoops of schema versioning and maintenance. Or at least I find it liberating.
Insofar as analysis goes, I think the nosql style solutions are winning the wars, at least for the bigger data problems. I will admit you need quasi-developers to get that done though, the typical BI toolchain doesn't really speak well to Hadoop. Yet.
From everything I've read about MariaDB, its supposed to be a drop-in replacement.
Performance comparison: http://slashdot.org/topic/bi/mariadb-vs-mysql-a-comparison/
There have been a number of problems with Oracle taking over MySQL--top among them is that it's no longer fully open source and Oracle has effectively shut out the development community.
And, probably worst of all, it's impossible for the community to work with the MySQL developers at Oracle.
Source: http://www.muktware.com/5565/there-no-reason-all-use-mysql-mysql-mariadb-founder-michael-widenius
I used PostgreSQL several years ago, and while I think it's a very good DB engine and doesn't take a lot of the sloppy shortcuts that MySQL does, unfortunately, it simply hasn't caught on. MySQL just happened to come out at exactly the right time, an no other database has been able to gain a foothold like it did.
Because of MySQL's popularity, it means is that a lot of webapps are specifically designed for the LAMP/WAMP stack, and there are no considerations taken for running on alternate databases. PostgreSQL is not a drop-in replacement for MySQL. (and yes, I've been guilty of also designing for the LAMP/WAMP stack and not including support for other databases...the stack simply is just deeply entrenched in web development and server hosting environments).
Yikes! Guess, I somehow missed all that action in my RSS feeds... I knew Oracle isn't the most forth coming company but neither was Sun for that matter. So some of that may have existed on some level when Sun was in control (it is just worse now?).
Thanks for the update. That definitely put a new light on things.
Basically, many of the free and open source projects that Oracle took over have been turning sour one after another because of Oracle instituting corporate control over the projects. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop on VirtualBox--another one of Oracle's big acquisitions (however, this one was never 100% open source, so it will probably receive slightly different treatment)
Honestly, I don't mind using MySQL as long as it's less then 1 million records. I've heard that performance become really bad after certain number of rows per table but what's the chance this will happen in YOUR app. I'm guessing it's 0.1%. If not, any RDBMS is fine in my opinion.
Yeah, me too. Though they picked up virtualbox to help sell Oracle -- which is so nightmarish to install that having a virtual test image makes sense and it is oracle so you might as well own the virtualization stack.
That said you'll notice major projects with dependencies on VirtualBox (ie Vagrant) are rapidly building to work with other virtualization environments.
Java is also owned by Oracle as well. Thankfully JDK looks pretty good and seem to have good intention... I believe original JDK devs are still there. But, Oracle's implementation of their OWN standard is pretty horrific... also, they try to lock you into using this horrible JDeveloper IDE instead of Eclipse which is used about 99% of the Java community. Wish Sun was still around...
Keep in mind that Java is wrought with security holes--this year has been particularly bad.


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About the performer
Cristina Zavalloni
CRISTINA ZAVALLONI (Dante) was born in Bologna (Italy). Capitalizing on her strong background in jazz, she went on expanding her studies, in bel canto and in composition, at the G.B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna. She also studied classical and modern dance for several years.
Her multidimensional skills enable her to perform both jazz and classical music. Notable venues include the Montreux Jazz Festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Free Music Jazz Festival (Antwerp), the Umbria Jazz Festival, the London Jazz Festival, Lincoln Center (New York), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Teatro alla Scala (Milan), the Palau de la Musica (Barcelona), Barbican Center (London), the Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome), Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the Biennale Musica in Venice.
She has sung under the baton of Martyn Brabbins, Stefan Asbury, Reinbert de Leeuw, Oliver Knussen, David Robertson, and Georges-Elie Octor. She has soloed with the London Sinfonietta, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Rai (Torino), the Schönberg Ensemble, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
In 1993, Zavalloni started a collaboration with Louis Andriessen, who wrote several works for her: Passeggiata in tram per l'America e ritorno, La Passione, Inanna, Letter from Cathy, Racconto dall'Inferno (the recording of which earned her a Diapason d'Or in 2008), the lead role (Dante) in La Commedia, and the role of Anaïs Nin in his new opera, Anaïs, to be premiered in July 2010. She has also collaborated with composers Michael Nyman, Paolo Castaldi, Gavin Bryars, Carlo Boccadoro, and Alain Platel.
Her repertoire includes 20th-century chamber music (Cage, Berio, Ravel, Poulenc, Stravinsky, Milhaud, Satie, De Falla, and Montsalvatge), Mozart (Idamante), and Baroque music (Drusilla in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea and Clorinda in Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda). She has recently premiered Poulenc's La voix humaine at Teatro Comunale di Bolzano.
She performs regularly with artists such as Gabriele Mirabassi, Mario Brunello, Andrea Lucchesini, Andrea Rebaudengo, Monica Germino, and Hamilton de Holanda.
A composer and jazz bandleader herself, Zavalloni has conceived several programs. Currently, she is under contract with the Italian label Egea, for which she has recorded Idea (2006) and Solidago (2009), the latter of which includes some of her new compositions and a selection of Charles Aznavour's covers, in quartet.
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Love It or Hate It? Dakota Fanning's Couture Cat Ears
Dakota Fanning donned a pricey pair of cat ears in the December issue of InStyle. Love them or hate them? Weigh in here!
-Lucia Peters
While we're talking about December magazine issues featuring chic and stylish celebs (hey there, Jennifer Lawrence!), let's take a look at InStyle's newest cover girl: Dakota Fanning! The actress gives a fabulous new interview in the magazine's December 2012 issue wherein she address the coming conclusion of The Twilight Saga, how she feels about the media frenzy surrounding friend and co-star Kristen Stewart, and more.
And of course, Dakota also posed for a pretty spectacular photo shoot to accompany the article. The shoot features looks from both Chanel and Roberto Cavalli. The Chanel looks, while perfectly lovely, fall into the same group as all the other white, princess-y, and (dare we say) virginal looks that most stylist love to put the actress in. Why is this type of look their default for her? No idea; maybe it has something to do with her angelic, white-blonde hair and super fair skin.
The Cavalli looks, though? Those are a wee bit more interesting, especially the one seen here. We're loving the bold, bronze skirt… And how about those black lace cat ears? Here's a closer look at them:
Read Dueling Magazine Covers: Jennifer Lawrence vs. Jennifer Lawrence for Elle
Most expensive Halloween costume ever? A whimsical winter hat for the rich and famous? The couture version of a spirit hood? Whatever they are, we're kind of loving them. No, we couldn't picture anyone wearing them in real life—not even Dakota—but they're a fun twist on the usual fashion shoot. What about you, Bettys? Love them or hate them?
InStyle's December issue hits newsstands today, so be sure to check it out for more. Here are some sound bytes from Dakota's interview to tide you over until you can get a hold of the real thing:
On Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2: "There's a sequence in it that will really trip people out. It's so crazy! They'll be shocked. But they'll recover. You'll see."
On Kristen Stewart (and in her defense): "Well, I just think that media frenzies like that… Everyone thinks they have the right to, you know, publicize the struggles and sadness and heartbreak and all of that. It's like, 'Why do you think you are the authority to judge people's experiences?'"
On not kissing and telling: "I'm not the kind of girl who really wants boyfriends in my life. I'm very black and white in what I feel and I don't want to be with someone that I don't foresee spending a long time with."
Tell us: Do you love Dakota's couture cat ears, or do you think she should have left them in the dress-up box?
Lucia Peters is BettyConfidential's associate editor.


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CINCINNATI (AP) -- A late civil rights leader and a prominent journalist are the latest people to be honored for promoting freedom and human rights.
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati says the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and journalist Nicholas Kristof will be the eighth and ninth recipients of its International Freedom Conductor Award.
The Cincinnati Enquirer (http://cin.ci/TBsVbQ ) reports Shuttlesworth was honored for civil rights leadership. He endured beatings, arrests and a bombing in Birmingham, Ala. Shuttlesworth died in 2011 at age 89. He had lived in Cincinnati for nearly five decades.
New York Times columnist Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner known for his writings on global child abuse, women's issues, injustice and genocide.
Previous honorees include the Dalai Lama and Rosa Parks. Awards will be given March 2.
Information from: The Cincinnati Enquirer, http://www.enquirer.com


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Low blood sugar
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Low blood sugar is a condition that occurs when the body's blood sugar (glucose) decreases and is too low.
Blood sugar below 70 mg/dL is considered low. Blood sugar at or below this level can be harmful.
The medical name of low blood sugar is hypoglycemia.
Alternative Names
Hypoglycemia; Insulin shock; Insulin reaction
Insulin is a hormone made by the pancreas. Insulin is needed to move glucose into cells where it is used for energy. Without enough insulin, glucose builds up in the blood instead of going into the cells. This leads to symptoms of diabetes.
Low blood sugar occurs due to any of the following:
- Your body's sugar (glucose) is used up too quickly
- Glucose is released into the bloodstream too slowly
- Too much insulin is released into the bloodstream
Low blood sugar is common in people with diabetes who are taking insulin or other medicines to control their diabetes.
Babies born to mothers with diabetes may have severe drops in blood sugar.
In people who do not have diabetes, low blood sugar may be caused by:
- Drinking alcohol
- Insulinoma, which is a rare tumor in the pancreas that produces too much insulin
- Lack of a hormone, such as cortisol, growth hormone, or thyroid hormone
- Severe heart, kidney, or liver failure
- Infection that affects the whole body
- Some types of weight-loss surgery
Symptoms you may have when your blood sugar gets too low include:
- Double vision or blurry vision
- Fast or pounding heartbeat
- Feeling cranky or acting aggressive
- Feeling nervous
- Headache
- Hunger
- Shaking or trembling
- Sweating
- Tingling or numbness of the skin
- Tiredness or weakness
- Trouble sleeping
- Unclear thinking
Even if you do not have symptoms, your blood sugar could still be too low. You may not even know you have low blood sugar until you faint, have a seizure, or go into a coma.
Exams and Tests
If you check your blood sugar at home, the reading will be lower than 70 mg/dL on your glucose monitor.
At the hospital, you will likely have blood samples taken from your vein to:
- Measure your blood sugar level
- Diagnose the cause of your low blood sugar
The goal of treatment is to correct your low blood sugar level.
If you have diabetes, it is likely your health care provider told you how to treat yourself for low blood sugar. Treatment can include:
- Drinking juice
- Eating food
- Glucose tablets
Or you may have been told to give yourself a shot of glucagon. This is a medicine that raises blood sugar.
If low blood sugar is caused by an insulinoma (insulin-releasing tumor), surgery to remove the tumor will be recommended.
Possible Complications
Severe low blood sugar is a medical emergency. It can cause seizures and brain damage. Severe low blood sugar that causes you to become unconscious is called insulin shock.
Severe low blood sugar may make it less likely for you to have symptoms that allow you to recognize another episode of low blood sugar.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
If signs of low blood sugar do not improve after you have eaten a snack that has sugar:
- Get a ride to the emergency room. DO NOT drive yourself.
- Call a local emergency number (such as 911)
Get medical help right away for a person with diabetes or low blood sugar who:
- Becomes less alert
- Cannot be woken up
American Diabetes Association. Standards of medical care in diabetes -- 20135. Diabetes Care. 2015;38 Suppl 1:S11-S88. PMID 25537706 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25537706.
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THE Environment Agency has confirmed that three flood warnings and 14 flood alerts still remain in place across Cumbria today after yesterday's torrential downpours.
A flood warning is defined by the agency as "severe flooding with danger to life," while a flood alert means "flooding is expected and immediate action is required."
The two flood warnings relate to the River Eden at Carlisle and Keswick Campsite.
Flood warnings related to other parts of the county such as the Rivers Eden, Esk, Irthing, Duddon and Crake.
Yesterday afternoon, firefighters across the county were kept busy with crews from Barrow attending flooding to six terraced properties in Dale Street, Ireleth, Askam-in-Furness.
At 2.41pm, a fire engine from Coniston went to a property near Sawrey and removed water from the cellar using a specialist pump.
Crews at Ambleside cleared a blocked culvert in Kirkfield Rise, Ambleside.
Eight terminally-ill patients St Mary's Hospice in Ulverston were evacuated after water breached bedrooms and offices, and Rascals Nursery in Ulverston, was also cleared of youngsters and staff.
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Across England and Wales, 85 flood warnings are in place and 194 flood alerts.
No weather warnings exist in Cumbria at this moment but the Met Office does have them in force for Saturday and Sunday.
It has issued a "yellow alert," or "be aware," warning for the weekend.
It says: "Many areas are likely to experience a period of very wet and very windy weather over the weekend. The public should be aware that some flooding is likely, and winds could potentially cause damage to buildings and uproot some trees.
"Given the saturated ground there is potential for the rainfall to lead to considerable disruption in some areas, though at this stage details are uncertain."
The AA has warned motorists to take care.
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"Don't try driving through fast-moving water, such as at a flooded bridge approach – your car could easily be swept away.
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Problems caused by flooding at Oxenholme the Lake District led to delays of around 30 minutes on trains between Lancaster and Carlisle this morning.
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In America tonight, tens of millions of men and women will struggle to get to sleep because they are stressed out about not making enough money even though they are working as hard as they possibly can. They are called "the working poor", and their numbers are absolutely exploding. As a recent Gallup poll showed, Americans are more concerned about the economy than they are about anything else. But why are Americans so stressed out about our economic situation if things are supposedly getting better? Well, the truth is that unemployment is not actually going down, and the real unemployment numbers are actually much worse than what is officially being reported by the government. But unemployment is only part of the story. Most American workers are still able to find jobs, but an increasing proportion of them are not able to make ends meet at the end of the month. Our economy continues to bleed good paying middle class jobs, and to a large degree those jobs are being replaced by low income jobs. Approximately one-fourth of all American workers make 10 dollars an hour or less at this point, and we see them all around us every day. They flip our burgers, they cut our hair and they take our money at the supermarket. In many homes, both parents are working multiple jobs, and yet when a child gets sick or a car breaks down they find that they don't have enough money to pay the bill. Many of these families have gone into tremendous amounts of debt in order to try to stay afloat, but once you get caught in a cycle of debt it can be incredibly difficult to break out of that.
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Robert Kent Horspool Name on the Traveling Viet Nam War Memorial. This is interesting to me as Robert (Bobby as the entire family--sisters, brother and cousins, aunts and uncles and grandparents knew him by) was my close cousin.
Read the KSL story about Bobby's Mother and Sister visiting the travelling wall and about finding out there might be a daughter Bobby fathered sometime prior to being shipping to Nam. Would like to know from the family who all had heard the "rumor" as a cousin of his I do not recall that EVER being mentioned at family gathers during the first few years after he was killed and buried. Craig Allen Hansen
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Arnold Schoenberg was a hated man. This is the consequence of being a pioneer, an original thinker, his big mouth notwithstanding. I'm not trying to crown him with infallibility, but only to give credit where it's due. Our culture loves the yellow journalism technique of painting with broad strokes of sycophancy or character assassination, depending upon the frenzy of the moment. There is little room for careful discussion.
We live by a kind of cult of personality that obsesses on surface details, and I'm not sure it's anything new. Human history is a monument to the permanence of stupidity, and that's largely a fact that has to be accepted. With this backdrop, the prophets and the geniuses can look like dreadful fools. I prefer to see them as heroes. It takes great dedication to turn one's head into the wind in the hopes that a massive effort will yield the tiniest result, the slightest movement of mankind away from absolute buffoonery. Alas, most of us would rather admire a fireman that climbs a tree to rescue the neighbor's cat.
Style and Idea is a collection of Schoenberg's essays on a wide range of musical and other topics. The title is well-chosen: His central thought revolves around the essence of the idea. He shuns superficial appearances in fanatical fashion, to the point of overstating his case at times. This is forgivable. After all, what philosopher hasn't overstated his case? Schoenberg is concerned with what the composer has to say: What is his thematic material? How does he apply it? How does he develop it? To Schoenberg, style grows naturally out of an idea. It is backwards, in his mind, to sit down and say, "I want to write a piece in the style of early 20th century France, or in the style of Anton Heiller." This leads to hollow music making. I'm reminded of Prokofiev's "Classical Symphony" or the churchy ear candy of Dom Lorenzo Perosi.
Schoenberg's obsession with the musical idea itself is refreshing in the age of music that the author himself describes as having limited psychological appeal; music that "goes right to the feet." There is nothing wrong with vapid music if it is played in the dance club or the gym; the problem is that too much music is vapid. The head of the Second Viennese School, however, runs a bit off course at places, in my opinion, because of this admirable core belief in the idea. For instance, he writes about the "primitive ears" who prefer to relish tone colors over other musical matter. I guess we know what he thought of the music of Olivier Messiaen! Related to this is his strange idea about instrumentation and orchestration. While he doesn't argue for anything coming close to a total absence of colorful variety, he calls for a slimmed-down orchestra, one that gets rid of "useless" instruments that have a limited scalar, dynamic, or artistic compass. He asks whether the bassoon, for example, has ever been anything but comical. I'm more inclined to agree with Ernest M. Skinner that the bassoon can assume any character. The Berceuse from Stravinsky's The Firebird comes to mind as an instance in which it is something other than funny.
All the same, Schoenberg claims that the orchestra's power comes from its variety of tone color, and he cites the pipe organ as an example to prove this. Baroque organs, which were built on largely homogenous choruses, were not powerful, but Romantic organs, which were conceived with solo voices in mind, can knock the walls down. (Organ aficionados will relish the ironical choice of Schoenberg's words that "loudness is achieved through mixture.") This is completely on Cloud Kookooland, and it's pretty safe to say that Schoenberg was not acquainted with the research of Skinner, who discusses this subject in his book The Composition of the Organ. It was progress in the ability to develop higher wind pressures in organs, and therefore more largely-scaled pipes, that have allowed more modern instruments to blow off the archbishop's mitre with a middle C. None of this is to say that I find Schoenberg's streamlined orchestra to be an attractive idea; he simply chose the wrong example in arguing for what he sees as a moderate approach to this reform.
Schoenberg also has a strange approach when it comes to modality. He sees the efforts of late 19th and early 20th century composers to write in modes to be useless, an adoption of an outdated musical technique. To his credit, though, this might be the only point in the book when he caves in to the temptation to Whiggism. Schoenberg thinks this attitude is based on progress, but it really seems like it's actually based upon a misapprehension of the modes. Implying that the half-step relationships of a scale are the only ones capable of establishing a tonal center in certain stereotypical ways, he says that all the ancient modes can be reduced to two: major and minor. And yet, he forfeits his argument when, in a later essay, he rightly states that the establishment of a key can be a difficult thing that is often only achieved by restating the tonic until it can be perceived as home base. Can't the same repetition be used in modal constructions? Is E not the final of Pange lingua? Is it really just a melody in C Major that ends on the third? I don't think so.
Naturally, Schoenberg spills a great deal of ink on the concept of "atonality," a term which he disliked. He takes issue with those who claim he was a revolutionary; he saw his music, rather, as an outgrowth of everything that came before it. It might seem preposterous to those obsessed with initial impressions, but it makes perfect sense. Think of Hans von Bulow's reaction to the first movement of Mahler's Second Symphony: "If that is music, it makes Tristan sound like Haydn." The assertion that a new piece of music is aural nonsense has been a favorite game of the stodgy for a least five centuries, and it is useless. Moreover, if by "atonality" we mean music that lacks a key, we are describing a lot of music that existed long before Arnold Schoenberg. Tonality, like metrical music, might well prove to be a passing fad in music history, in the long run. Schoenberg cites some examples of dissonance in history—Mozart's "Dissonance Quartet" and Beethoven's Great Fugue. I would add certain measures of Frescobaldi's Fiori musicali to that list, and one could make some very powerful arguments that in Bach's music tonality was not always front and center. So much for revolution.
Schoenberg takes the time to discuss formal considerations viz. "atonality." In older music, sections were often demarcated by modulations; in the absence of key centers, other methods of formal articulation are needed. This seems to him to be the primary problem to be solved with the new style of music, and not any notion that dissonance is against the "laws of nature." Gravity pulls us downward, Schoenberg reminds us, but airplanes carry us upward. Planes are contrary to nature, yet they use the laws of nature. This is in addition to the fact that even the most remote dissonance is somewhere on the overtone series, which is the "law of nature" of harmony. Moreover, in Schoenberg's music, dissonance is not a thing in itself, not necessarily a manner of poetic expression, but rather a result of the musical ideas. It's a far cry from Charles Ives going back to his scores and adding crunchy chords in order to make his music sound "modern."
Schoenberg's writing comes from the fire in his belly. He might be a logician, but he is not the cold logician that many cartoon writers claim he is. The proof of this is in his rejection of the many efforts of Hauer and other theorists to codify the musical language of the Second Viennese School. Most music majors have had to make at least one matrix in their careers, writing a tone row and sticking to it slavishly. It feels more like calculus than music. This is not Schoenberg, who was more comparable to Palestrina, who never hesitated to change a note to make a passage work. These men are music-makers, not pipe-layers. This truth is not convenient for those who brandish their historicist clubs in the dungeons of what passes for music criticism these days, and many listeners, hungry for an excuse to dislike Schoenberg's music, are all too quick to latch on to these careless ideas rather than to listen to the music from the inside out, focusing on the ideas rather than the surface impressions.
It is enough to be an innovator in musical language, but as it turns out Schoenberg was even more, as he invented a new system of musical notation which, as far as I know, has not really been adopted. With three broadly-spaced lines, it's reminiscent of the early efforts at diastematic notation. Exact pitches are notated by placing noteheads directly adjacent to or away from the lines, with the additional help of slashes that further clarify a note's position. Using this technique allows the composer to notate a much wider range in an equal vertical space, and in many ways it might be superior to the standard five-line staff. But I can't see it ever being adopted. As it is, string players don't like to play in flat keys; how will we ever convince everyone to completely learn a new notation system, even just for modern music? Nonetheless, these efforts show the fertility of Schoenberg's mind; if he were just a rabble-rouser he wouldn't have bothered with a project such as this.
There are other things to admire about Schoenberg, too. He was certainly an astute observer. His thinking on vibrato reminds me of Lilli Lehmann and Joseph Joachim, both of whom used vibrato as an ornament and did not indulge in the "goat-like bleating" that Schoenberg rails against. He has interesting thoughts on the relationship of the music to the text as well: While one might (might…) be able to accuse Handel of word-painting at a superficial level, Schoenberg is more concerned with more hidden relationships between the music and the text, aspects that might not be apparent at first blush. I'm reminded of the work of certain chant scholars in this regard, who find definite relationships between the text and the music that are missed by those who go at the problem with the Baroque model in mind. Then there is the question of the downbeat. From Bach, Schoenberg says, he learned disregard for the strong beat of the measure. How many performances have been ruined by a continuous assault on the downbeat? Schoenberg offers a remedy for this tendency: aiming for the "center of gravity" of a phrase. There are debates about whether the melody or the rhythm is primary in music; Messiaen, for instance, says that any melody will always have rhythm and therefore that rhythm is primary, but does this mean we should forget the line? Rhythm is a method of organization or articulation and not in all cases the primary thing. Schoenberg asks us to remember the melodic line, and I don't see how anyone can argue with that. It's a pretty reasonable response to an argument that is more or less myopic.
As one would expect, Schoenberg takes some time at the end of the book to comment on several composers. He loved Mahler and thought him a saint; hated Stravinsky and regarded him a panderer; offers well-measured praise for George Gershwin. He sees in Brahms not the pure classicist but the progressive who was a master of the irregular phrase. The book wraps up with some comments on social and political matters. At the end of it all, Schoenberg, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Austria, seems to have been in a very healthy, a-political place. Politics, after all, is for lesser men.
On many of the subjects that Schoenberg takes on, one can quibble, or even boldly object, and I in fact don't find myself in complete agreement with him. In one thing, however, I hope there will be unanimity: Arnold Schoenberg was a true artist. By this I'm not necessarily referring to the way his work turned out, but rather the spirit in which it was created. He was a man who had the need, the urge to create. There was the desire, as he put it, to let off the "internal pressure" of a gestating work. More than that—fundamentally, even—he wanted to say something, to create a thing of beauty: Not just to pander to stylistic expectations, not to sell records, not to get in tight with a conductor or an orchestra manager with an agenda, but to make music. That is, after all, the vocation of the musical artist. We could do far worse in finding a role model.
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By Kevin J. Ryan
Council Member Dan Halloran held a press conference outside his District Office in Whitestone to inform homeowners about the Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) new Service Line Protection Programs. These programs are designed to provide an insurance policy that covers the homeowner's cost of repair to private water and sewer lines.
Homeowners are responsible for their private water and sewer lines between the City main, located in the middle of most streets, and the connection to their home. This means that water or sewer line breaks under the street or sidewalk may be the responsibility of the homeowner. These repairs are usually very costly and must be made immediately, or water service could be lost for the entire block and homes or infrastructure can be seriously damaged.
Council Member Halloran's office has received numerous calls from constituents, inquiring about the legitimacy of the program and how it works.
Halloran commented, "We've all worked so hard to have our homes in this community and we all want to protect our homes from expensive, unexpected damage. Private water or sewer line breaks can cost homeowners anywhere from $3000 to $8000. Even a simple water line leak is hundreds of dollars. In this tough economy, I don't know any homeowner who has $8000 to spare. Damage to these lines can be the result of wear and tear, tree roots, heavy vehicle traffic or nearby construction," said Halloran. "Like any other insurance program, the Service Line Protection Program could save you a lot of money."
The Service Line Protection Programs offered by DEP and its contractor, American Water Resources (AWR,) provide unlimited protection for covered repairs from normal wear and tear and basic restoration of affected property. They will also provide an unlimited number of claims, 24/7 customer service, and quick response time by NYC-Licensed Master Plumbers who are pre-qualified to perform needed repairs. AWR is the only authorized provider of these programs, and their services are guaranteed by the City.
However, the Greater Whitestone Taxpayers Association brought to the attention of Council Member Halloran other companies claiming to offer similar services. One such company offered protection to only water lines at a higher rate than that charged by DEP and AWR, despite sewer lines being most costly to repair. These companies are not authorized or affiliated with DEP. They may employ unlicensed contractors and their repairs are not backed or guaranteed by DEP.
"These companies are capitalizing on the DEP's new program and could be confusing to homeowners, especially seniors," said Halloran. "Just a week after homeowners received the notice from DEP about the Service Line Protection Program, they are receiving an offer from a different company for similar services. Homeowners could easily be misled and not realize that only one of them is from the DEP. We want people to know what they're signing up for, so they can decide how to best protect their homes."
"The service line protection programs are a key component of our ongoing effort to provide the best possible customer service," said DEP Commissioner Carter Strickland. "By informing property owners about their responsibilities and providing an optional and affordable way to protect them from unexpected repair costs, the Programs offer a valuable service to our ratepayers throughout the City."
The rates for DEP's Service Line Protection Program are set by the New York City Water Board. They will vary from year to year, but homeowners can cancel at any time. Council Member Halloran indicated that he will enroll in the program, to insure his home in the Broadway-Flushing neighborhood.


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FRIDAY, Dec. 20, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Carrying and lifting heavy luggage during the holidays can lead to neck, wrist, back and shoulder pain and injuries unless you take proper safety precautions, an orthopedic surgeon says.
In 2012, nearly 54,000 luggage-related injuries occurred in the United States, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
"Holiday travel can be uniquely stressful and physically taxing, especially when transporting heavy and cumbersome luggage," said Dr. Warner Pinchback, a spokesman for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
"To ensure that you arrive at your holiday destination free from pain, it's important to know how to optimally choose, pack, carry and lift your luggage," he added in an academy news release.
The academy offers the following luggage safety tips:
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SWINDON Robins captain Troy Batchelor is now a full-time Grand Prix rider after Emil Sayfutdinov withdrew from the series.
The Aussie was first reserve following his performance in last season's GP Challenge, but now Russian Sayfutdinov has withdrawn due to the leg injury which ended his 2013 campaign, Batchelor has stepped up full-time.
The Robins skipper, who won his first national title last year and captained his country at the World Cup, will wear number 75 for his debut season.
The 26-year-old from Brisbane has had previous World Championship experience, scoring six points in the final round of the 2013 SGP series in Torun last October.
The first round of the Grand Prix season, the New Zealand SGP, takes place at Auckland's Western Springs on April 5.
Swindon boss Alun Rossiter said: "I know how much this means to Troy, and how distraught he was after the GP Challenge at Poole last year when he was caught out by the dreaded gate four in his first ride.
"After what happened to him in the Australian Championship when he missed out due to injury, this is excellent news for him and also for the club.
"It's good for us to have our captain representing us in the World Championship, as we had with Hans Andersen a couple of years ago.
"Troy has matured in the last few years and I'm sure he's ready for this challenge. He's been doing well in the Swedish and Polish leagues and the prestige of the Grand Prix series is made for him.
"All of us at Swindon, and I'm sure all of our supporters, wish him all the best and we look forward to following his progress."


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History is set to be made as the first film made for pets will be aired at the Pets at Home store in New Malden.
The project has been put together by sourcing thousands of hours of footage submitted by more than 13,000 pet owners from all over the country and proud owners and pet alike are being invited to walk down the grassy carpet and watch the film in style.
Yo Wright, the store manager at the Bushey Road store, has been organising the event.
He said: "Saturday will be a real celebration; we've got face painters, pet treats in popcorn boxes and pet premiere goodie bags."
The film itself has been directed by Joan Hillery, known for her personal and handheld style of filming.
This focus will be used to look closely at the relationship between owner and pet which features the colourful characters of Whiskey the Cat, Alfie the Duck, Haddock Bat the Hamster and many more.
An advert for the film itself is being premiered during the ad break of Britain's Got Talent on Saturday night which will give anybody who misses the event the chance to catch the action.
The film will start at 1pm tomorrow at Pets at Home, Bushey Road, Raynes Park, SW20 0JQ.


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"Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined."
—Peter F. Drucker
Everyone appreciates the role innovation plays in the beauty industry, particularly those innovations involving the leveraging of information. Computers and their accompanying databases have revolutionized product development, product safety and the implementation of global regulation, and social media tools like Facebook are used by all major companies to interact with consumers. Hardly anyone can function without a smartphone and a personal hoard of apps. In fact, we've become so accustomed to these technological marvels that we rarely, if ever, wonder where they all came from. One short answer—New Jersey.
To understand the modern world and the role innovation plays in our lives, one must look at what has happened—and still happens—in New Jersey. Now known mostly for Snooki, The Boss and Bon Jovi, New Jersey once gave shelter to Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein. The state where Edison created the first invention factory was also the home of his Bell Labs, where William Shockley developed the transistor, and Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson first heard the cosmic background radiation left over from the big bang. In the 1940s, Morristown, New Jersey, was the home of Claude Shannon. Claude who? We'll get there.
Innovation in New Jersey in its modern form started with Edison—a West Orange, New Jersey, resident from 1886 until his death in 1931—who established his final and most comprehensive laboratory and factory complex there. Before that, he was in Jersey cities Newark and Menlo Park. Why was Edison in New Jersey? The West Orange location was close to his financial backers in New York City, there was excellent access to rail and sea transportation, and he could purchase enough land in West Orange to build factories near the laboratory for the efficient development of the mass production and commercialization of his inventions.
If you're an engineering geek and think Nicola Tesla was better than Edison, that fits too. Tesla's first business, the Tesla Electric Light Company, was started in Rahway, New Jersey, in 1886. And if you move on to Marconi and early radio, he also set up his equipment in the Garden State beginning in 1899. Television? W2XCD in Passaic, New Jersey, was started by Lee DeForest in 1930, and that station broadcasted the first full-length feature film, Police Patrol, in six daily episodes in 1931.
Bell Labs was the extension of Edison's ideas related to telephone systems—and communication in general—and many of the brightest scientists, mathematicians and engineers in the country were employed there. During World War II, many Bell Lab scientists were loaned to the government to work on specific projects, and some of the projects, such as Shockley's work on transistors, were important enough as pure science to garner a Nobel Prize. Claude Shannon was one of Bell Labs most remarkable thinkers.
Jon Gertner's The Idea Factory1 tells the story of Bell Labs and devotes several chapters to Shannon. He was a mathematician with a very flexible job description. His resume says a lot: Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Bell Labs, and when he got bored with the relatively rustic lifestyle of Murray Hill, MIT. He wrote a masters thesis at MIT on the use of electrical applications of Boolean algebra to resolve logical and numerical relationships—the basic principal behind all computer programming.
In 1948, Shannon published a paper titled A Mathematical Theory of Communication, which showed how all information from language to pictures to music could be converted to a binary code and reconstructed with no loss of fidelity. Binary is typically zeros and ones, the essence of digital technology, and computers, the Internet, smartphones, CDs, DVDs—everything that we think of as modern communication—was born in Shannon's brain decades before engineers could apply it. Arguably, no one in the 20th century did more to create the digital world we take for granted in 2012 than Shannon.
To add to all the varied technological breakthroughs of the past, contemporary New Jersey can easily stake a claim to being at the heart of the cosmetic and fragrance industry in the U.S., and quite possibly even the world. The New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists (NYSCC) is one of the largest cosmetic chemist groups in the world, other than the national Society of Cosmetic Chemists, of which the NYSCC is a cornerstone. Also, the number of major companies with a presence in New Jersey (or just over the border, as in the case of Avon) includes Johnson & Johnson, Colgate-Palmolive, Revlon and L'Oréal. Add to that raw material suppliers, large and small fragrance houses, private label contractors, and consulting and testing laboratories, and it is hard to argue against the state's position.
Companies most often have corporate headquarters in global cities—New York, London, Paris, Shanghai, São Paulo and so on—but most of the real work is not done in these showcase offices but in places like New Jersey. In addition to the presence of so many cosmetic companies and the NYSCC, New Jersey is also the home of the Fairleigh Dickinson University masters in cosmetic science program, one of the oldest and most highly regarded programs for formal cosmetic education in the world. Its location was always considered a key part of its success, drawing students and faculty from the highly concentrated resources of north Jersey.
The annual NYSCC Suppliers' Day event is one of the biggest in the cosmetic ingredient industry that happens every year in Edison, New Jersey. In 2012, it brought in more than 8,000 attendees, and there is a connection there few may have considered—the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center is 6.8 miles >from Menlo Park, where Edison perfected his lightbulb; 25.5 miles from 22 Mercer Street in Princeton, a modest house where Einstein lived from 1936 until his death in 1955; and 21 miles from the Bell Labs antenna where the sounds of the big bang where first heard.


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HOUSTON - The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo postponed a new summer event that was scheduled to be held in July.
HLSR President Skip Wagner said Houston's Hot Summer Break has been postponed from July 4-8 to July 2013.
"Feedback from potential vendors and participants, including wineries, breweries, distillers, sponsors and volunteers, indicated to the Show that for the event to have the best possible results, more lead time was needed and the festival needed to be moved away from the July Fourth holiday," Wagner said in a news release. "The decision to postpone was not made lightly and involved industry experts, Show volunteers from all levels and experienced event personnel."
The five-day event was originally described as including live music performances, food, beer, wine, drinks and shopping in Reliant Center. Both floors of Reliant Center will have live concerts featuring country, blues and jazz music, along with disc jockeys playing a mix of club music.
Wagner said the revised plans will be announced by May 31.
Net proceeds generated from Houston's Hot Summer Break will directly benefit the mission of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is a Section 501(c)(3) charity that benefits youth, supports education, and facilitates better agricultural practices through exhibitions and presentation. Since its beginning in 1932, the Show has committed approximately $283 million to the youth of Texas.
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Electric and Magnetic Fields and Public Health
(Adopted by Council on April 15, 2005)
On April 23, 1995, the American Physical Society issued a policy statement concerning Power Line Fields and Public Health. The APS concluded that "the conjecture relating cancer to power line fields has not been scientifically substantiated."
Since that time, there have been several large in vivo studies of animal populations subjected for their life span to high magnetic fields and epidemiological studies, done with larger populations and with direct, rather than surrogate, measurements of the magnetic field exposure. These studies have produced no results that change the earlier assessment by APS. In addition, no biophysical mechanisms for the initiation or promotion of cancer by electric or magnetic fields from power lines have been identified.


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The accounting program, which includes traditional study of financial and managerial accounting, taxation, auditing, and legal and regulatory topics, gives students the educational experience and the skill set to qualify for a wide range of career paths in auditing and other assurance services, budgeting, tax accounting, systems consulting, internal auditing and cost accounting among others. Typically students start in entry level positions in public accounting with local, regional and international firms, private industry in banking, manufacturing, retail and service organizations, local, state and federal government agencies. The accounting curriculum prepares students for a number of professional examinations including the CPA (Certified Public Accountant),
The department guides students who may wish to pursue professional certification as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA). Students should note that even though CPA requirements to qualify for the examination vary from state to state, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has mandated that an individual who wishes to become a CPA must complete 150 credit hours. This credit hour requirement can be satisfied at William Paterson University either through enrollment in an advanced degree program (MBA) or the completion of additional undergraduate level courses. If planned properly, the 150 credit undergraduate program may still be completed in four years by attending summer sessions.


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In early 2012, a study by Australian economists found that sleep – or the lack of it – has a lot to answer for. Not only do Australians' poor sleep patterns cost the national economy $5 billion a year in direct health care: if other things such as lost productivity, absenteeism and poor work performance are also taken into account, the figure is closer to $31 billion!
The answer, according to Tina Broad, Director of the 'Music: Play for Life' program, is simple. Music has a unique power to overcome our stress and ease us into that longed-for land of pleasant dreams. With this new double album, Music to Sleep By, ABC Classics offers a rich selection of soft, gentle music to smooth away the wrinkles of the day.
What type of music helps if we're sleep deprived? What should we be listening to in order to bring on the sleep of angels? Many people experience slow music, without a heavy beat, as relaxing, but personal musical preferences have a lot to do with inducing a relaxed, ready-forsleep state.
Why is this so? Because neuroscience tells us that our relationship with music is a deeply personal thing. Listening to music we love causes the release of dopamine – the feel-good hormone – and listening to music we don't like activates a fight-or-flight response in the amygdala and causes a release of adrenalin.
As musician/producer turned neuroscientist, Daniel Levitin – who topped the New York Times bestseller list with his book, This is Your Brain on Music – has said, the effect of music on mood is profound: "There are things that music can do for us that language can't… If you're feeling really uptight or stressed, you've had a bad day, you've had a fight with somebody – words sometimes aren't as soothing as the right piece of music."
Look no further than this collection for the right piece of music to soothe, calm, relax and send you into that delicious state of deep, refreshing slumber.
Track Listing
1 BACH Air on the G-String (Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068: II. Air)
2 SCHUMANN Träumerei (Dreaming) from Scenes from Childhood
3 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat major, BWV1051: II. Adagio ma non tanto
4 VIVALDI Guitar Concerto in D major, RV93 (Originally for lute): II. Largo
5 SATIE Gymnopédie No. 1
6 SATIE Gymnopédie No. 3
7 GLUCK Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orpheus and Eurydice
8 PÄRT Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in Mirror)
9 HANDEL Lascia ch'io pianga from the opera Rinaldo
10 BARBER Adagio for strings (Original version: String Quartet, Op. 11: II. Molto adagio)
11 HANDEL Concerto in B-flat major for two guitars, HWV294 (Originally for organ): II. Larghetto
12 ALBINONI Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op. 9 No. 2: II. Adagio
13 MOZART Adagio for Glass Harmonica, KV356 (617a)
14 BACH 'Letzte Stunde, brich herein' (Final Hour, Break Now Upon Me) – Aria from Cantata BWV31
15 BIZET L'Arlésienne – Suite No. 1: III. Adagietto
16 GALILEI Toccata
17 DEBUSSY Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque
1 BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier: Prelude in C major, BWV846
2 SAINT-SAËNS The Swan from Carnival of the Animals
3 BACH 'Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier' (Beloved Jesu, We Are Here) – Chorale Prelude BWV731
4 HANDEL Largo (Ombra mai fù) from the opera Xerxes
5 HANDEL Recorder Sonata in A minor, HWV362: III. Adagio
6 BACH Cantata BWV106 (Actus Tragicus): Sonatina
7 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 130: V. Cavatina (Adagio molto espressivo)
8 VIVALDI Concerto for two guitars in G major, RV532 (Originally for two mandolins): II. Andante
9 BEETHOVEN 'Moonlight' Sonata (Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2): I. Adagio sostenuto
10 WEISS Guitar Concerto in D minor: I. Largo
11 BACH Keyboard Partita No. 1 in B-flat major, BWV825: II. Allemande
12 BACH Schübler Chorale No. 1 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV645
13 PURCELL The Fairy Queen: Act IV: Largo
14 PURCELL A New Ground
15 BACH Concerto for violin and oboe in C minor (Reconstructed from Harpsichord Concerto, BWV1060): II. Adagio
16 HAYDN Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major: II. Adagio
17 BACH 'Wir glauben all' in einem Gott, Vater' (We All Believe in One God, the Father) - Chorale Prelude BWV740
18 BACH Concerto for two violins in D minor, BWV1043: II. Largo ma non tanto


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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Josh Smith had 30 points and 10 rebounds and Al Horford added 26 points and 12 rebounds as the Atlanta Hawks blew past the Orlando Magic 108-76 on Wednesday night.
The Hawks led by as many as 38 points and decimated the Magic defense on the way to earning their ninth consecutive regular-season win over their division rivals.
Jameer Nelson and Andrew Nicholson led the Magic with 10 points apiece. No other Orlando players reached double-figures.
The Magic were outscored 46-32 in the paint and have now lost 24 of their last 27 games.
It was the last game for both teams before the All-Star break. Orlando heads to Charlotte on Feb. 19 and Atlanta next plays at Miami on Feb. 20.
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We just spent the last 4 days in the hospital. John was having a type of heart attack for the last week and a half and we didn't know it.
We went in due to extreme pain. They put him on morphine in the ER. it took 60 mgs to get his pain under control !
After they admitted him he started sweating and the pain came back. His heart was racing at 170 beats a minute. The Dr. said the top part of his heart was beating so fast it couldn't fill the rest of his heart with enough blood.
He's been having these attacks and we didn't know! They said it was due to the Tarceva
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Van Hitch, who retired as Justice Department CIO in 2011 and now works for Deloitte Consulting, is among veteran federal executives who believe the structural gaps in staffing pose serious concerns for senior management.
"The move to the cloud and IT services may offset the loss of some of the back-office IT technicians," he said. But "it will also accentuate the need for skills currently in short supply," especially for cybersecurity, project management and acquisition.
"I believe declining budgets and the move toward the cloud and IT services are not blips, but long-term trends that CIOs must plan for over the foreseeable future," Hitch said. The loss of IT talent "could hurt agencies in accomplishing their missions," unless agencies "find ways to challenge and reward their best performers and manage the overall attrition of the workforce."
Collateral Damage
The budget turmoil is spilling over into the government contracting community, which historically fills the gaps when government talent is in short supply.
Conventional system integrators and IT service providers, from Lockheed Martin to IBM and many others, have repositioned themselves quickly to provide IT services for tasks such as helping agencies move their operations to the cloud and securing data for an increasingly mobile workforce. But long-term uncertainty over program funding, and a more cutthroat contracting environment, are creating problems for contractors trying to hold onto government business -- and their best talent.
"There seems to be very little awareness in Congress of the chaos in budgeting right now," said Soloway, and the impact that's having on agencies, contractors and their employees. That chaos, he and others believe, is straining agencies already under budgetary duress and will make it hard to attract and harder to hire the IT talent the government sector needs to operate more efficiently.
"There's a massive battle for talent, particularly between Wall Street and Silicon Valley," said Soloway. "Government contractors are competing against that." Because of the political uncertainty around budgets, contractors aren't so much "losing their talent to other contractors, but to the outside world."
Soloway, as someone representing government contractors, has a particular dislike for the growing use of "lowest price, technically acceptable" (LPTA) contracts.
"It's not just a theory, it's a legal construct" that requires agencies to award contracts to the company that offers the lowest price, as long as it meets the minimum technical qualifications, said Soloway. What began as a contracting method designed to drive down government's costs has in many cases led to government IT projects being performed by companies frequently derided as "bottom feeders," with the talent and results to match, said Soloway.
Linda Rix, co-CEO of Avue Technologies, which specializes in government hiring, estimates that for every IT worker employed by the government, there is a second IT specialist working for a contractor on a government project. A loss or lowering of talent in the contracting community is likely to have a material impact on the quality and timeliness of federal IT work, Soloway and others believe.
"There's no doubt LPTA is becoming the dominant acquisition strategy for government," said Soloway. He warned that unless federal agencies rethink their acquisition approaches, the caliber of contractors willing to work with the government will decline, as will the pool of talent they employ.
Surge In Retirements
The shifts in the federal IT workforce are playing out against a backdrop of federal employees retiring in large numbers not seen since the Clinton administration, which offered early retirement incentives as part of its "reinvent government" campaign. With nearly 30% of all executive-branch workers eligible to retire by 2016, fed watchers worry that the government is about to lose a significant amount of management expertise and institutional knowledge.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) associate director Angela Bailey isn't necessarily among them. Bailey has lived through three decades of retirement cycles in government and has learned that "retirement is a very personal decision," and not as much a function of eligibility as many believe. She also believes that experience is relative.
"If you have someone with a lot of COBOL experience, just because they're retiring with a wealth of institutional knowledge doesn't mean that's the knowledge we need going forward" as agencies move into more modern programming languages and cloud-based software. What does matter, Bailey said, is whether agency executives are "looking forward over the next three to five years at 'what talent do I need and how do I get it.'"
Bailey does think the wave of retirements is fueled by perceptions of government, and that makes it harder to retain and recruit high-performing employees. The "constant fed bashing and senseless sequestration" is wearing on those who put their "heart and soul into serving the American public ... especially those in leadership positions."


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LORETTO, Pa.- In a matchup of two teams that lead their respective conferences, the University of Pennsylvania women's soccer team scored first, Saint Francis (Pa.) scored last, and the result was a 1-1 tie at the Red Flash's Stokes Soccerplex.
Penn is now 7-4-1 on the season, while SFU -- which stands atop the Northeast Conference -- moved to 8-4-2. The game was the non-conference finale for both squads.
Freshman Elissa Berdini scored Penn's lone goal 12 minutes into the second half, firing an 18-yard shot past SFU keeper Brianna Butcher and into the top left corner of the net, her second tally of the season.Brianna Rano picked up an assist on the scoring play.
SFU equalized with just over six minutes remaining on Tesa McKibben's 11th tally of the season came. She headed a ball served up by Alecia McNiff past Penn goalkeeper Sarah Banks, who was playing up. After bouncing behind Banks, the ball slowly trickled into the back of the net.
Penn pressed the play after that, outshooting SFU 6-0 in the 20 minutes of overtime, but could not come up with the winner in recording its first tie since a 0-0 draw last year at Brown. The Quakers outshot the Red Flash 17-9 in the game and forced Butcher to make 10 stops. At the other end, Banks was called upon to make four saves.
Penn is on the road for its next two Ivy League matches, starting next Saturday when the Quakers travel to Dartmouth to face the Big Green. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.
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Bethesda Softworks has announced that the Fallout 3 Game of the Year edition, which will include all add-ons, will be released on October 13, 2009. We also know what the box of the GotY edition will look like. In the US, the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions will cost $59.99, while the PC version will cost $49.99.
We also know the release dates of all add-ons on the PlayStation 3. Broken Steel will unfortunately not be released today, but next week - on September 24, followed by Operation: Anchorage and The Pitt on October 1 and by Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta on October 8.


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Audi Prices & Values: Audi, based in Bavaria, Germany, and owned by Volkswagen, operates on the motto "Advancement through Technology". This focus is evident in the Audi style and design of Audi's entire lineup, from its sporty Audi TT, to the extreme luxury Audi R8 model, to the renowned Audi Quattro all-wheel drive system to their well-reviewed clean-burning Audi diesel engine models. Start researching your new Audi below with prices, specs and reviews or browse Audi deals.
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Freshly restyled, the 2005 Audi A6 is a luxury five-passenger sedan with sporty driving characteristics and a larger interior volume than the A4.
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The 2005 Audi A8 is a full-size luxury sports sedan available in a new shorter wheelbase version which increases handling ability making the car more agile.
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