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Radio Pacis, a Ugandan radio station, has received the opportunity to launch a second FM frequency thanks to the prize money it won at the BBC Africa Radio Awards in 2007.
The Arua-based Catholic radio station won the New Station of the Year category at the first annual Radio Africa Awards ceremony, which was held in Nairobi, Kenya on May 26, 2007. Judges cited Radio Pacis' ability to address the needs of the community as the reason for choosing the station.
The competition's panel of four expert judges, led by former BBC World Service broadcaster Robin White, was impressed by Radio Pacis' contribution to knowledge and development in the region. White said: "Radio Pacis is a fine example of what a community radio station outside the capital can do. It may have few staff and modest resources, but it still addresses challenging issues including providing advice on medical and health problems. It also offers debate on matters of local interest alongside local and national news."
The award comes with a $5,000 prize for purchasing new broadcasting equipment.
After the competition, the director of the station, Father Tonino Pasolini, expressed his gratitude saying: "We would like to thank BBC World Service for honoring Radio Pacis and making possible the launch of our new frequency. Winning the BBC New Station of the Year trophy and the prize money has changed all our lives. Also helped with other donations, we have been able to build a studio and buy the necessary equipment to support the launch of our new 94.5 FM frequency which means we can reach even more people than before."
Sherry Meyer, Radio Pacis Station Manager, added: "Our aim has always been to offer programming that helps with the development of the community as well as individual personal growth and this extra money and recognition from the BBC will help us to do that even better. With our current 90.9 FM frequency we offer programming in three local languages. With the new frequency we can now offer programming in four local languages. Both frequencies broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and are important because they are the only means of information for those people who don't speak a language particular to that area."


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About 10 years ago, observing on the one hand the high levels of unemployment and underemployment of Ph.D. scientists and, on the other, the need for more good literature reviews, I suggested that science reviewing would become a full-time career. Review articles have become increasingly important in the era of Big Science. Nowadays, many research administrators can find time only for reviews and abstracts. Naturally, the professional science review writer requires expert knowledge to control and competently summarize specialists' research. But the science reviewer also needs knowledge of information science and technology.
In fact, information science can materially aid the writer, and not only inefficiently collecting relevant sources on a particular topic. Techniques such as co-citation analysis, bibliographic coupling, and the making of historiographs and multidimensional scaling maps of research fronts have yielded new understandings of the structure and substance of specialty areas. In the new ISI Atlas of Science, we are uniting the strengths of objective, systematic analysis of the scientific literature with the expert judgment and experience of specialists to create a new generation of reviews. Aquaintance with modem information techniques is a must for science researchers today. At the minimum, every research team should designate a qualified information specialist to ensure maximum efficiency.
Another science-related career of the future is proposed by Maurice Goldsmith, director of the International Science Policy Foundation of London. In The Science Critic, due next month from Methuen, Goldsmith describes the science critic as "a public policy generalist alerting us to the growing-pains of future worlds through the day-to-day discoveries of the present." (p. 16) More specifically, the science critic will attempt to see the whole picture of science, examine what its future might be in light of its past, classify the similarities that appear across specialties, monitor the integrity of scientific activity, and convey something of its substance to non-scientists, so they might "understand its poetry and cease to have fear of it." (p. 83) Who will be qualified to serve as a science critic? Goldsmith says, "Clearly not the scientist who prepares an annual review of scientific progress, for he is too narrow. Nor is he the information officer who has a clearly defined task and is mission oriented. Nor is he the science writer, although he is more likely to emerge from this category of communicator than from the others, mainly because of his imposed breadth of interest" (p. 83).
The science reviewer would serve the professional, whereas the science critic would serve both the public and the professional, to some degree mediating between them.
The growth of science will stimulate new professions along both fronts—some directly related to helping the professional and others to communicating the substance and issues of science to the public. The new professions are inevitable. They are also welcome. None (or very few) of us can do it all anymore. This age of greater and greater specialization has rendered the paradigm of the "two cultures" somewhat obsolete, for even within science itself we find many separate cultures that are little understood by colleagues in other areas. The new parascience professions can be expected to bring together isolated realms within science and involve the public in the debate over the future course of science.


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i say Zetsu helped out! He is the land himself. He's probably the one that found Obito as well.Okay, first: The byakugan was said to be the stranoest dojutsu in regards to Insight.
This means that the user can see the chakra networks "nodes". points where, if damaged, can change the flow of the chakra network. With this knowledge, the Leafs greatest Taijutsu is born.
This alone does not surpass the Sharingan, because the sharingan consists of 2 parts. It has the ability to see the flow of chakra, but not the nodes. It will give each chakra a distinct color, so they can differentiate between people. This next part, the byakugan does not have, making it inferior. It can copy techniques, and will eventually evolve to give you special jutsus.
The only time it has been said that the byakugan was superior was because it can see the individual nodes. It, however, is an inferior dojutsu.
Obito did lie to sasuke alot. I never said that madaras brother willingly gave his eye to madara. I said that madara's eyes possessed him, just like itachi said, and that possession made him take his brothers eyes.
And about madara, you are correct. It is very strange that he could do that. Maybe, he just passed on through as a civilian. And anyone who tried to rob him or whatnot, died. Also, we know that there are extensive underground passages. Orochimaru used some, but that probally was not the extent of them. He only had to pass through the Land of Fire, and then into Amegakure.
Another strange thing is how did Madara pick up Obito? The Gedo Mazou is in the Mountains Graveyard(way north of Land of Fire). And the Tenchi bridge was in Kusagakure. (West of Land of Fire.) And he said that Obito landed in one of his tunnel. (http://www.narutobase.net/manga/Naruto/602/5) Sooo, does the Tunnel really go that far? And does his attaching string thing that keeps him attached to the Gedo Mazou really that long? Then it is completely feasable that The tunnels could go all the way to Nagato. And he Really could get there While still attached to the Mazou. After all, Kusagakure and Amegakure are neiboring countries.
And why would Nagato revive Madara in that condition? We don't really know the extent of that power. When Nagato used it, he had no chakra left, and it killed him. And all the souls that he took in that battle were returned. If he was focusing on just one soul, he may have been able to restore Madara back to the point where he only had Uchiha DNA. To before he battled Hashirama. Then, Madara would just kill Nagato, and take his eyes back, and implant some of Hashirama's DNA that is stored with the Gedo Mazou. And he would be, him again.
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alternating backup media
I alternate between two network hard drives on a weekly basis and backup everyone's PC , some on a daily basis, some less often. I have been wondering about how does the Windows 7 Backup figures out how to back up incrementally. One thing for sure, the list of folders keeps growing. Can I clean up some of the much older backup folders? Does the software simply backup an entire file if a previous folder that contained an older version of that file no longer exists?
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[QUOTE=aamiri;1741837]I alternate between two network hard drives on a weekly basis and backup everyone's PC , some on a daily basis, some less often. I have been wondering about how does the Windows 7 Backup figures out how to back up incrementally. One thing for sure, the list of folders keeps growing. Can I clean up some of the much older backup folders? Does the software simply backup an entire file if a previous folder that contained an older version of that file no longer exists?
Can someone please shed some light on the way the folders are arranged on the backup media?
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I don't know if this will help. I can't recall the event id (4098?) that gets written to the application event lot when a successful FILE backup (as you are discussing) occurs. In that event, if you look at the XML, there might be some flags/fields in there saying if a given backup was incremental, etc.
You can delete/manage your FILE backups from the Backup and Restore GUI panel, clicking on the blue MANAGE link. The next screen allows you to selectively delete Backups (IIRC).
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I wasn't able to carry out the suggestion since there is no "MANAGE" button on the Backup and Restore GUI. I am using Windows 7 Professional. Can you please elaborate?
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It should be there IF you have taken a backup at some point (and your initial post shows you have BUT those are on a network drive). Make sure on the GUI you have the network drive pointed to correctly such that it will look there for backups and, we hope, respond with the MANAGE link being shown.
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|07 Feb 2012
alternating backup media
Thank you for your help. I did find the "Manage Space" link and used it to delete some backup "sets".
I guess what I still don't fully understand is how the sets are put together.
1. Since the backup is incremental, are the sets self contained or interdependent?
2. If independent, how does the backup program decide when to start a new set?
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1) I would think Set means just that. A logical grouping of backups (incremental).
2) I'm not sure about File Backup, but on System Image, there are registry settings that say how many DAYS pass until a new one will be complete (non-incremental). Maybe these registry settings apply to both File backup and System Image. I don't know.
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Thanks again Jim.
Too bad there is no documentation anywhere to read up on it. Or is there?
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|07 Feb 2012
Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1
Hello aamiri
After your first/initial backup a backup set will be created. All future backups are incremental to that set and are saved as per how often you have set it to run. Windows will create a new backup set when it either sees fit or after a system restore or other event where it feels a new set should be created. Previous sets can then be deleted if you wish to save space however those previous versions of files will be unavailable when deleted.
Heres some reading for you -
Backup User and System Files
Backup - Make a "Create New Backup" Shortcut
Backup - Make a "Create Incremental Backup" Shortcut
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Hi Danny,
Thanks for your help and posting the link. That's very helpful.
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The number of Internet companies going titsup.com continues to fall, according to the latest stats from the US.
Webmergers.com - a California-based research outfit which monitors the health of dotcoms that have received significant funding - found that the number of closures and bankruptcies in the first three months of the year were down two thirds compared to the same quarter last year.
In total, 54 companies turned up their toes in Q1 2002 compared with 164 dotcom deaths in Q1 2001.
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The last time the number of dotcom failures was so low was back in summer 2000.
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Doug Krizner: Twenty-five years ago this week, the sci-fi flick Blade Runner was released. It painted a provocative picture of the future foreshadowing climate change and the global reach of corporate power. It also featured android human-like robots. Well they're no longer science fiction. Robots are coming to life in Japan. There's even a future museum to promote them called Miraikan. From Kyoto Jocelyn Ford checked out what's hot about the 'bot market.
[ Museum greeting: "Welcome to Miraikan please deposit your money" ]
Jocelyn Ford: Japan claims to be the only country with a national museum dedicated to future technologies. Its vision for the future: a robot, maybe even android in every home.
Dr. Norihiro Hagita is director of the Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories.
Dr. Norihiro Hagita: I expect that, 2015, most of the people will use the robot.
The Japanese government is pouring more than $35 million a year into research to make this come true.
The project is urgent, because the government is worried about its aging population and a shrinking work force. Only eight years, from now, a quarter of Japan's population will be over the age of 65.
Professor Hiro Ogawa is a demographer.
Hiro Ogawa: We are sort of short on caregivers, and that's why the people start talking about introducing robots in the field of care.
The vision is to develop intelligent machines that will help the elderly bathe or navigate the streets. There's even an experimental pet robot that provides companionship for people with Alzheimer's.
The government estimates the market will be worth $10 billion a year in 2015. So far, the research has produced some uncanny results.
I met Osaka University Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro and the creepy android he's created to look just like him.
It made me feel queasy. Which was the real human? The android has Prof. Ishiguro's own hair on its head and is programmed to make the same facial expressions and body movements.
This may not say much about Ishiguro's human skills, but his research team insists the lookalike android attends meetings, it's just as good as when the professor is there in flesh and blood.
But at $300,000 a pop Ishiguro admits the android is too expensive to commercialize.
Hiroshi Ishiguro: We are constantly having meetings in the government, people from big enterprises, in Toshiba and in Mitsubishi, we are always discussing what is the killer applications. There is no answer.
And, he until there's a killer application and proven market, industry won't dump the big bucks into research.
In Kyoto, I'm Jocelyn Ford for Marketplace.


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The Walking Dead Season 3 Finale, Did You See It?
I must admit, there's not many shows on TV that I will watch faithfully, DVR every episode, and re-watch with the same amount of enthusiasm that I had the first time I watched like that of 'The Walking Dead'
I got hooked into the show purely by accident, after hearing the buzz about the TV show here at work from a few of the faithful watchers, one afternoon, AMC offered up 'The Walking Dead' Marathon. From that moment, I was hooked, making sure that every Sunday night at 9 PM, I was at home, in front of the TV, DVR set to record just in case I happened to doze off, which I found to be impossible during this show! The build up to the Season 3 Finale 'Welcome to the Tombs' was a week long 'Zombie Apocalypse Marathon'…thank-you by the way AMC, everyday, all week long they ran every episode from the beginning right up to Season 3 episode 15. I found myself getting nervous as the finale began last night, wondering how would this season end, will the Governor take the prison from Rick, Daryl and the rest of the group, how will Andrea get out of the Governor's torture chamber, and most importantly, which one of my favorite characters will see season 3 end with the end of their character??? All question that were answered in a shocking twist of events, and being one that hates for endings to be divulged before I've had a chance to see it, I won't give anything away! For those of you that have seen it, or those of you who may have never seen it, click the photo below to watch a behind the scenes look at last night's finale. And may I say this without sounding like I want to wish time away…"Bring On October"


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A new company named Lytro is working on a camera that will let you manipulate focus after you take the shot. This is some seriously fun magic. At first I thought it was an April Fool's joke or something like that, but it appears to be real technology. For now they only have working prototypes, but they seem to be making rapid progress. Play with some of the pictures on their web site to get a feel for how it will work.
There is some overlap with our Bokeh product, but these days Bokeh does much more than depth-of-field adjustments. I'm sure I'll be using a Lytro camera and Bokeh in the future. You can never have too many photography toys. I mean tools! 😉
Here is a New York Times article about Lytro.


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The Long Island Expressway reopened today, hours after a fuel truck overturned and burst into flame.
Authorities say the driver was killed in the accident, which happened at about 8 a.m. Saturday near the Nassau-Suffolk County line.
A second person was injured.
The wreck created a fireball that could be seen for miles and brought down a huge sign over the highway, blocking travel lanes on both sides.
Cleanup from the accident was expected to take hours. Rescuers were still trying to extricate the driver's body Saturday afternoon.
Authorities say the 18-wheeler clipped a car while trying to change lanes. It was carrying gasoline.
Published at 9:35 AM EST on Jan 23, 2010 | Updated at 4:59 PM EST on Jan 24, 2010


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Related post: Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:59:02 -0600
From: Kris
Subject: Mothers & Sons 2: Awake with the BirdsGomen nasai! I apologize for disappearing for 7 months! I've had a rough
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wolf: Kel was the neighborhood nanny. Twice a week he took Mrs. Witsky
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gentlemen that he made sure got to their doctor's appointments, hair
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She got up one morning and waded out into a lake or
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bed. We were just getting going when the phone rang. Kel shot up and
grabbed it. I sighed and lay back with a smile. My sweet Kel, always so
worried that someone will need him and not be able to get him. He talked
for a minute, then hung up and rolled back against me. "That was Sarah, she is an old friend of mine." His eyes sparkled
with mischief. "We were both chasing the same guy for awhile in college."
He studied his fingernails a moment then looked up, mischief sparkling in
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occasions; he and Xan had been friends since their early teens. Xan had
even dated Dane's sister for a while. "YOSS!" Xan yelled. He bounced up to the car, arms out, and scooped me into a bear hug
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touch that I deeply treasured. At first I had been concerned about how
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time I was in the room. It had been after my encounter with the hateful
jewelry store clerk. Inside the break room Xan poured a handful of change into the
vending machine and hit the Coke button twice. Surprisingly, two Cokes came
out but no change. I shook my head in amazement, and he grinned at me, then
tossed me one of the cans. I caught it easily and had drunk half the can
before Xan sat down. "Ow ih Keh?" He asked. "Very good." Xan nodded, and stretched back behind him to a small cluttered
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look tough. I grinned and read the paper, which still wasn't the easiest
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and ample use of symbols such as the ampersand, numerals and slashes. "Dane and I are going to buy our own garage. It's fairly easy
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I looked
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Well, the Volunteers took a bye week, and so did I on this column, but just like the Vols this past weekend I'm firing it back up.
As everyone already knows things couldn't have went much worse on Saturday. Sure, the Vols could have took a loss in blowout fashion but of course the Vols lost on the last play of the game with a chance to tie things up then kick an extra point to win.
October 13
1st High Game------Dennis Tracy ( Solo)---458
2nd High Game----Joyce Fain, Ken Altes----432
3rd High Game ----Dennis Tracy (Solo)---478
High Scores today—Rick Alderfer—223 game, Dean Griffin—227 game, Harold Zielman--204 game
Aryn Millhollon—226 game
High Series today---- Dennis Tracy (Solo)----1362
High Series For October------- Pat Hope, Don Eiler---1288
High Averages---------Loretta Carrington 161, Rick Alderfer—190
Roane County Sheriff Jack Stockton wasn't a fan of the DARE program in 2014.
"You can talk about DARE all day long," Stockton said during a forum hosted by the Roane County Republican Women.
"There is no proven statistics that DARE works."
Stockton's opinion of DARE has changed over the years. So much so that his office is implementing it back into the Roane County School System.
"I talked to the coordinator of the DARE education training program," Stockton said recently.
From staff reports
Kingston Police Department Detective Keith Kile was among 12 law enforcement officers who recently graduated from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation State Academy.
Detective Kile, who displayed the plaque presented to graduates at a meeting of the Kingston City Council, said the information he learned will be invaluable in his future work.
He said his class was able to visit the "Body Farm" at the University of Tennessee where they studied forensics related to the decomposition of bodies.
Harriman Police Department's Cody Guge is the newest sergeant in the department, but the department is seeing many more changes in addition to his promotion.
The department is also giving officers a chance to hone their detective skills by rotating through the detectives bureau.
"I'm following the lead of many other small departments across the state that have the detectives bureau as a rotating division so everyone has a chance to learn these new skills," said Chief Derek Pacifico.
Heroin tainted with fentanyl is one of the biggest problems local law enforcement is facing right now.
"It is turning into a major problem. That is why we are hitting it as hard as we can," said Rockwood Assistant Police Chief John Mayes.
Fentanyl as a prescription can be used to treat cancer patients, but the illicit form is showing up in heroin, being mixed to cut the amount of heroin.
And while heroin itself is bad stuff, fentanyl is even deadlier.
Harriman has been talking about improving its interchanges for a number of years. Such improvements were a focal point of their strategic planning event earlier this year.
City Manager Kevin Helms told Harriman City Council he's made efforts to get funding for interchange lighting projects at exit 347.
"With regards to the interchange exchange we have submitted a request for TDOT funding for grant funding for lighting upgrades," said Helms.
They will be looking at options.
The most recent veterans' memorial in David Webb Riverfront Park may be in place, but the process of paying for the statue is ongoing.
Harriman American Legion Post 53 adjutant Cliff Cole said they are still raising funds to finish paying for the women's memorial.
The memorial is reminiscent of the women's memorial in Washington D.C.
"We've got the only memorial (statue) for women in the state," Cole said.
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In a former life I was a high school girls' basketball coach. I was a pretty good one, too - especially during years when I had really good players.
University of Georgia women's basketball coach Andy Landers even took my calls. So did Tennessee coach Pat Summitt. Actually, Pat still does, but that's another story for another day.
In 1986, I was asked to put together an all-star team from the metro Atlanta area. We were to travel to Europe in a cultural exchange program and play against club teams in Belgium and France and Germany. It was going to be a pretty big deal for the girls involved.
My job was to recruit the players and coach them up, and someone else would take care of the travel details. Sweet deal if you can get it.
I put together my team, and as spring approached, we were getting all excited about an opportunity to travel together, play some ball and see a part of the world that few of the young ladies had ever seen. Who am I kidding? None of the players had ever seen that part of the world and neither had I. In fact, most of the team members had never even flown on an airplane.
But then in April, right around tax time, our summer adventure began to unravel. "The best laid plans of mice and men" and all that ...
On April 15, a United States task force struck a blow for freedom and liberty by attacking targets in Tripoli - as in "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of ..." - and other locations in Libya. The air strike, code-named "Operation El Dorado Canyon," was in retaliation for the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque in which two American soldiers lost their lives.
If you don't know what a discotheque is, rent "Saturday Night Fever." If you don't know what West Berlin was, thank Ronald Reagan - and get a better history teacher.
The attack on Libya was a big deal. It was in all the papers. The air strike reportedly killed 45 Libyan soldiers and 15 civilians. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was not among the casualties, even though his palace was one of the targets. He was tipped off and hid in a bunker. His 15-month-old daughter was killed, however.
A number of countries around the world condemned the attacks, and the United Nations passed a resolution against our actions - but Reagan looked right into the television camera that night and said to Gadhafi, "I will not hesitate to do it again."
As I said, it was a big deal.
The United Kingdom, as you might expect, supported us and allowed our returning planes to land at Royal Air Force bases - which caused a bit of a rift between the Queen and Margaret Thatcher.
France, as you might expect, did not support us. They said our planes had to bypass France in route to their targets - leading late night comedic genius Johnny Carson to suggest that Americans do the same on their next European vacation.
Which brings us back to my basketball team and our European tour.
Gadhafi - encouraged by the response of the UN - vowed to exact revenge on America and Americans, and all of a sudden a lot of U.S. citizens became very nervous about traveling abroad. And a lot of the parents of the Atlanta All-Stars got very nervous about their daughters traipsing about the Continent in the spiffy red-white-and-blue travel outfits our sponsors had so generously provided. In short, team members began dropping out like flies.
After due consideration, our plans were changed, and our European tour was canceled. Our team was forced, instead, to endure two long weeks touring the Hawaiian Islands and playing against teams like Kamehameha and Punaho and Pearl City.
I know - it was a tough job, but somebody just had to do it.
Those events unfolded a quarter-century ago and memories of that summer have been long buried in the recesses of my mind. But the turmoil in Libya this week brought the events of that turbulent spring and summer to the surface. As this column was filed, Gadhafi appeared to be on his last legs as his regime was crumbling around him. But he also vowed not to go down without a fight, and his henchmen were, true to form, terrorizing his opponents.
I can only pray that the volatile situations in that country and others are resolved soon, with as little loss of innocent life as possible, and that somehow the people of the world can find a way to get along. I'd still like to travel to Europe one day.
I wonder how many of the Atlanta All-Stars still got game.
• Darrell Huckaby is an educator, author and public speaker. Contact him at darrellhuckaby.net.
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1) Malware targeting end users will grow more sophisticated, just
like the ones used in APT (News - Alert)-type of attacks
APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats), and other advanced targeted attacks,
delivered immense damages worldwide. The latest attack was the theft of
account information from 70 million Target (News - Alert) customers in the US in late
2013. In 2014, malware aimed at end users will be even more advanced,
like the ones used in APT attacks. In other words, advanced threat
(malware) will target not only organizations but individual users.
OnlineGameHack, which is designed to steal online game accounts, is on
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credentials. APT-types of threats are not much different from watering
hole attacks* which exploits zero-day vulnerabilities. In addition, the
number of bitcoin-mining malware attacks will increase.
*Watering hole attack: A watering hole attack occurs when an attacker
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5) Increased probability of encountering malware, as Microsoft (News - Alert) stops
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Outside the Aspen Street Café, on Fruita's main street, stands a large, metal cock. A rusty chicken sculpture made from old refuse that is. Composed of hundreds of pieces of scrap metal, including a trumpet, a leaf spring, and innumerable nuts and bolts, the only thing missing is the statue's head.
That is because the headless, oxidized fowl is an effigy of one of Fruita's most interesting celebrities – Miracle Mike, the headless chicken.
The legend of Miracle Mike started in Fruita, Colorado, on the morning of September 10, 1945, when Clara Olsen instructed husband Lloyd Olsen to prepare a chicken for the pan. He went out back with his axe and selected a tasty looking five and half-month old Wyandotte rooster. Down came the blade and off came the chicken's head, but when the deed was done somehow the chicken shrugged off the blow and carried on its poultry lifestyle pecking at grains and preening his feathers.
At first Lloyd didn't think much of the episode and expected Mike (obviously the name came later) to expire shortly after but the chook wouldn't check out. Lloyd started to invite neighbors, friends and family over to take a gander. It was 18 days before the story hit the local newspaper the Fruita Times, but when it did everything for Mike and the Olsen's changed forever.
Reporters from all over the state began to swarm in to see for themselves and relay the peculiar story of the plucky character. Not everyone believed the hype and Lloyd, wishing to disprove the skeptics who had already dismissed the reports of Mike as "small town rumor without proof", took Mike to University of Utah scientists in Salt Lake City. The boffins were baffled as to how this could happen, but Lloyd Olsen himself theorized that his mother-in-law's penchant for fried chicken had prompted Mike's predicament. Aiming the axe high in order to harvest as much of the neck as possible, the axe clipped off most of the skull but left one ear, the jugular vein and the base of the brain (which controls motor function) intact.
Mike's financial value was soon recognized and he began touring extensively. He featured in one exhibition alongside a two-headed calf, a man from Borneo who ate live chickens, a legless man who performed motorcycle tricks, and an elderly woman who kept hundreds of snakes. He also appeared in a Time magazine article, and eventually earned a spot in the Guinness Book Of Records. He became a widely known and hugely recognizable character the world over.
Some say Mike's fame (and lifespan) lasted for another 18 months, others more generously put Mike's age closer to four years before he was sent to "the Great Chicken Coop in the Sky".
Fruita has taken on Mike's story as an example that you can live a normal life even after you have lost your head. More so, that being so headstrong you can survive anything. Absolutely anything. All it takes is the same sort of resilience and determination that Mike demonstrated for his whole long and colorful life.
The assembled bike testers, multimedia champions, photographers, and Bike Magazine staffers who have congregated in Fruita, CO. have taken Miracle Mike as their inspiration and have been hustling to ride a whole slew of 2013's bikes so that we can bring to you another incarnation of The Bible Of Bike Tests.
Trying to marshal such a band of solo-taskers is no simle task; it requires gathering more than 30 of next year's best bikes—many of which aren't officially available yet—assembling them, dialing in the components, corralling the right people to be in the right place at the right time, and then feeding and fueling them (Makers Mark, boxed wine, and Belgium Brewing are all part of this year's high-octane mix).
All of the above takes a huge group effort and with so much going on, there is also an amazing potential for disaster and misadventure. It's not as if we run around like headless chickens with one finger in our nose's and a thumb up our arse's, but with this many mountain bikers thrown together, you can never really expect things to run smoothly. To date, we are one broken bike and one destroyed laptop into Murphy's Law.
Today, however, the planets aligned and we managed to make it out of the Bible house exactly on schedule—6:30 AM on the nose. This might not sound like a match-winning performance worthy of self-congratulatory back-slapping, but after being involved with all the previous Bible of Bike Tests issues, I can tell you that dragging 12 sleep-deprived riders out of their warm beds and into a cold F-150 before the sun has even thought about rising is nothing shy of a miracle. Thank you, Mike, for your inspiration. If even we can do this one simple thing then anything is possible.
The Bible of Bike Tests hits newsstands early in 2013, but before that happens we need to run a train on the selected bikes, write the reviews, lay out the magazine and send it off to the printer. Stay tuned to get a tease of the bikes and process that go into making the 2013 Bible Of Bike Tests a reality.
By the way, to prove that anything is possible, Miracle Mike has announced he is running for President.


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State Assembly votes to constrain growth of the general fund
What a waste of time. I love this part of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's report:
The limit would not apply to the transportation budget, which often includes the pet projects of legislators.
Assembly Speaker John Gard (R-Peshtigo) said the proposal would "create a blueprint for growth in government spending into the future," and would not cut state spending. {emphasis added}
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CHICAGO (HedgeWorld.com)--The fox has been scouting the vineyards otherwise known as the popular press, and all she has to report is, "Boy, are these grapes sour!"
First it was Forbes, which I quit reading altogether. After all, they don't even have good pictures. Now, it's Barron's, which has gone so far over the edge on hedge funds that I'm embarrassed to be seen reading it. I suppose I could always say, "I only read it for the cartoons." This should work at least until The New Yorker gets over its post-9/11 slump and the National Review gets better personals ads again.
The disillusionment started with Alan Abelson's Dec. 17 column, in which he compared an unnamed group of hedge fund managers sitting around "shooting the bull" to the infamous tape of Osama bin Laden and "his buddies chortling over the destruction of the World Trade Center." As a many-time winner of the Ms. Heart of Darkness championship, my sense of humor is as black as anyone's, but this comparison really was in the worst possible taste. As a fellow journalist, I was prepared to make excuses and forgive Abelson his temporary lapse in dignity and humor. After all, I figure most of us have watched way too much television since Sept. 11, and that's a good enough reason for clouded judgment.
"Everyman" and His Hedge Fund
And then the Jan. 7 issue of Barron's landed on my porch, and the cover story hit me right between the eyes. It seems that hedge funds not only fly high, are secretive and risky, but now they're latching on to the mutual fund industry like so many parasites. The heart of the problem seems to be that the hedge fund industry is infecting the mutual fund industry and they're developing new products. How dare they? And in a free market yet!
For the last couple of weeks, I have been carrying around and rereading Erin E. Arvedlund's Jan. 7 article, "Hedging their Bets: Fund Groups Offer Vehicles Once Meant Only For the Rich; Are There Dangers?" I guess I'm waiting for it to sing out a "Te Deum" and provide an accompanying revelation that will show me what's so wrong with these new vehicles. So far, I've had no epiphanies.
"Once a secretive investment playground open only to the super-rich, hedge funds can now be had by the semi-affluent for minimums as low as $25,000," said the article. The author seems to be laboring under the illusion that if the unholy alliance of mutual fund companies and hedge fund managers continues, you may soon "walk past your corner discount brokerage office and see the signs in the window offering hedge funds for Everyman."
Arvedlund seems to have morality plays mixed up with fairytales, or even outright untruths. "Everyman" can't have a hedge fund--even if he does have a spare $25,000 begging to be placed in one. As the article itself states, while some of the new vehicles may have lower minimums--$25,000 to $50,000--a minimum net worth of $1 million to $1.5 million is still required. Doesn't sound like "Everyman" to me, but I haven't seen my neighbor's checkbook lately, so maybe...
The article continues, "...nearly every large mutual-fund family is offering, or planning to introduce, hedge funds to institutional clients and wealthy individuals. The roster includes big names, such as Alliance, AIM and Putnam."
And this is a problem because? The article says "conflict of interest" is the issue. The voices in my head keep saying "Disclosure, disclosure, disclosure," and "If you don't like it, don't buy it." After all, if people don't like and buy new products, they go away, but they deserve the choice. It's that free market thing again. After all, more choices mean more possibilities for diversification. And if you're not a full believer in diversification yet, go talk to a few "Enroned" investors.
The article also says, "Finally, hedge-fund fraud is a looming threat to carefully tended mutual-fund brands. 'What's my definition of a hedge fund? A day trader with a private placement memorandum,' says Edward 'Ted' Siedle, president of Benchmark Advisory Services. Says Siedle, who monitors the management of pension-fund assets: "They're completely unregulated, and nobody really knows how many there are out there. It's like asking how many drug dealers there are.'"
Once again, I say go talk to those who were "Enroned"--the Jan. 27 New York Times listed 31 pension funds that lost assets in that corporate cataclysm. There's plenty of fraud to go around throughout the investing world, and I've never once had a hedge fund manager ask me to meet him outside a methadone clinic.
Like any other investment, the responsibility belongs to the investor. I am not the Oracle of Sympathy for investors who feel they've been burned. I'm not even sure I have the protein in my genetic structure that allows me to generate sympathy for those who don't do their due diligence. For any investor who chases hot numbers, here is my unsolicited and unprofessional investment advice: "Buy plenty of aloe vera, because I really don't want to hear you cry when you get burned." Protecting yourself is no one's responsibility but your own.
The Mutual Fund & The Hedge Fund Dragon
If you didn't already guess, I really didn't like this story very much, so I'd like to propose my own variation on this fractured fairytale.
Once upon a time not all that long ago, in this very land, a tiny seed that grew up to be the mutual fund industry was planted. People invested in mutual funds and the mutual funds grew and yielded high returns. Life was good. Then one day a big nasty dragon named Hedge Fund came to town. No one understood the dragon, and they were convinced he would burn them. The dragon hung around on the outskirts of the village for a few years, and even made friends with some of the wealthier folk who were accustomed to taking a few calculated risks here and there. Eventually those who tended the mutual funds noticed that the dragon wasn't so bad, and he might even provide some protection in the bad times that had come to the land of the mutual funds. And so a deal was struck between the mutual fund tenders and the hedge fund dragon, and life was better than good.


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A Study to Evaluate Methodologies for Measuring Swelling of the Leg and Ankle (MK-0000-106)(COMPLETED)
This study has been completed.
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First Posted: November 11, 2008
Last Update Posted: August 11, 2015
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
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This study will evaluate methodologies for measuring pedal edema associated with calcium channel blockers in middle-aged and elderly subjects and patients with hypertension.
|Drug: Comparator: amlodipine besylate Drug: Comparator: Placebo
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
|Official Title:
|A Randomized Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effects of Multiple Doses of Amlodipine 10 mg on Pedal Edema Measurements in Middle-Aged and Elderly Healthy Subjects and Patient With Hypertension
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MedlinePlus related topics: Foot Health
Drug Information available for: Amlodipine Amlodipine besylateU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Change From Baseline in Segmental Bioimpedance Measurements at 10 Kilohertz (KHz) at Week 2 [ Time Frame: Baseline and 2 weeks ]Segmental biomimpedance was measured using a multifrequency analyzer (ImpediMed SFB7). The device was used to measure impedance (measured in Ohms) of a small current traveling between leads placed at the ankle and knee. Least Squares Mean Difference from Baseline in impedance is the primary endpoint.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Change From Baseline in Foot Volume by Water Displacement (Weight of Water Displaced) at Week 2 [ Time Frame: Baseline and 2 weeks ]Least Squares Mean Difference from Baseline
|Study Start Date:
|July 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2009
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1
Drug: Comparator: amlodipine besylate
Two 5 mg tablets amlodipine daily for 6 weeks.
Placebo Comparator: 2
Placebo to amlodipine
Drug: Comparator: Placebo
Two 5 mg tablets placebo to amlodipine daily for 6 weeks
Information from the National Library of Medicine
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|50 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient does not have hypertension or has Stage I or II hypertension and is taking < 3 anti-hypertension medications
- Patient is willing to discontinue all anti-hypertensive medications during study
- Patient is willing to refrain from drinking alcohol for 24 hours prior to each study visit and is willing to limit intake at other times during the study to 2 drinks per day
- Patient agrees to avoid caffeine for 24 hours prior to each study visit. At other times during study, daily caffeine intake should not exceed 4 cups of coffee (or equivalent)
- Patient will avoid strenuous physical activity during study
- Patient is a nonsmoker or has not smoked for the last 3 months
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient has metal implants in the leg or artificial limbs
- Patient has had a lower limb amputation, malformation, alterations in leg muscles, or a history of musculoskeletal disease
- Patient has used oral contraceptive pills or hormone replacement therapy within 3 months of screening
- Patient has a history of stroke or seizures
- Patient has a history of cancer, except that which was treated at least 10 years prior to screening and shows no evidence of recurrence
Contacts and Locations
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To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00789321
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00789321
Sponsors and Collaborators
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
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Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Schoeller DA, Alon A, Manekas D, Mixson LA, Lasseter KC, Noonan GP, Bolognese JA, Heymsfield SB, Beals CR, Nunes I. Segmental bioimpedance for measuring amlodipine-induced pedal edema: a placebo-controlled study. Clin Ther. 2012 Mar;34(3):580-92. doi: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2012.01.018. Epub 2012 Mar 3.
|Responsible Party:
|Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00789321 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Submitted:
|November 10, 2008
|First Posted:
|November 11, 2008
|Results First Submitted:
|April 30, 2010
|Results First Posted:
|July 8, 2010
|Last Update Posted:
|August 11, 2015
|Last Verified:
|August 2015
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Antihypertensive Agents
Calcium Channel Blockers
Membrane Transport Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Vasodilator Agents


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Using jQuery or something similar, is it possible to detect when a user has clicked away, effectively removed focus, from a form field in iOS? I have conventional form which has a first name, last name, address line 1, address line 2 etc.
On an iPad when you select a form field the only way to leave that form field is to select another field in the form by clicking it or by hitting the Previous or Next buttons in the keyboard pane.
As the keyboard pane is shown clicks to other non-input elements on the page are ignored, so focus remains on the form field.
Is there a way with jQuery/JavaScript (or anything else) to force the focus to leave the form field if I click away from it by clicking a non-input form element?
I have tried this sort of thing, but to no avail. Is this likely to be locked down by Apple's iOS?
$('body').on('click', function () { $('form').blur(); });
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Untested, but maybe you should install that to another CLICKABLE(?) element e.g. a link, an input, etc rather than the body.
$('#dummy').on('click', function (e) { e.preventDefault(); $('form').blur(); }); ... <a id="dummy" href="#"> </a>
Last edited by hdewantara; 09-27-2012 at 01:41 PM.