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But now that Apple has started to restrict a common way of tracking users, ad companies are scrambling for alternatives, and hoping to "teach" consumers to appreciate the targeted ads that support free apps.
This week, a large consortium of mobile-ad firms launched a new technical approach to tracking users of free apps. The consortium says the new method protects users' privacy, and will allow people to opt out if they prefer not to have their behavior logged. That opt-out mechanism would be modeled on those offered by online-ad companies for people who do not want their browsing history used to tailor ads.
Previously, mobile ads tracked users on iPhones and iPads by noting their unique device identifier, or UDID, a code assigned to every Apple device and made available to apps installed on them to help those apps store settings and other features. By comparing UDIDs across different apps serving their ads, a company could know how many people had seen a particular campaign. It could also build a database of UDIDs to avoid showing one person the same ads in different apps, or to target users with ads based on the apps they use.
Apple warned late last year it would eventually phase out such use of UDID. Last month, it began rejecting apps that didn't first get a user's permission before passing a UDID to ad companies.
Nasdaq-listed mobile-ad technology company Velti this week teamed up with seven other ad companies to suggest a UDID alternative known as an ODIN. An ODIN code is created from a smart phone's MAC address, a unique code associated with a device's Wi-Fi chip. "It will ID unique [ad views]but not tie them to devices or to people," says Velti's Krishna Subramanian, because an ODIN is a "cryptographic hash"—a scrambled version of a device's MAC address. Some users might still object, since the ODIN is linked to a particular handset.
Subramanian says mobile users will benefit from Velti's efforts to reinvent mobile-ad tracking. "It is a critical component of targeting for ad networks," he says. "We need a solution that allows everything to work without ad dollars disappearing." Ad revenue is what allows developers to release free apps, says Subramanian, and if Apple doesn't help ad networks target ads well, then consumers will get fewer free apps. ODIN is intended to be used on Android phones, too, although apps on those devices can still access the unique IMEI of a device, similar to a UDID.


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Former Democratic strategist-turned-journalist George Stephanopoulos appeared on Wednesday's Good Morning America to coo that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor "didn't make any mistakes" and "did exactly what she had to do" in her confirmation hearings on Tuesday. In contrast, during Sam Alito's confirmation hearings in 2006, Stephanopoulos related Democratic complaints about membership in a supposedly discriminatory group. The ex-Clinton aide enthused that Sotomayor brushed aside evidence that she was difficult to deal with: "On the question of bullying, she answered that with her manner all day long. No matter how many tough questions she got, she stayed even. She stayed... continue reading
CNN's Wolf Blitzer late Tuesday afternoon characterized it as "an incredibly important exchange" and a "very, very dramatic moment" when Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor "concurred" with Senator Lindsey Graham that he would have paid a heavy price if he had ever maintained "a wise white man would make better decisions than a Latina," yet neither ABC nor NBC mentioned in their evening newscasts Sotomayor's acknowledgment about the impact of her assertion "a wise Latina woman" would "reach a better conclusion than a white male" if reversed. ABC's Jan Crawford Greenburg, who described the hearing as "grueling," NBC's Pete Williams... continue reading
Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's "Hardball," invited on HBO's Bill Maher to mock GOP criticism of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as Maher accused them of being "racist," and Matthews marveled at how Republicans can admire Sarah Palin but not someone who worked as hard as Sotomayor to achieve her position, as he pondered: "Why do they like somebody who's shown no sweat equity against somebody who's shown nothing but sweat equity?" Before discussing Republican treatment of Sotomayor Matthews asked Maher to rate the audiences that come to see him in the South. Maher, not surprisingly, belittled most of the region,... continue reading
MSNBC hosts Tamron Hall and David Shuster on Tuesday repeatedly grumbled at the tough questions Senator Lindsey Graham posed to Sonia Sotomayor over the judge's ability to keep her feelings in check. At one point during live coverage, Shuster derided the lawmaker's remarks as "patronizing" and fretted that "the blogs are already going crazy over this." Hall saw the statements as insinuating the nominee is too "hot blooded." The comments that drew the ire of the anchors were Graham's quizzing of Sotomayor as to reports that lawyers have found her difficult to deal with in the courtroom. Graham probed, "I... continue reading
A cover story in the June edition of Latino Magazine , discussed CBS Early Show co-host Maggie Rodriguez's efforts to "...educate her peers on how to be cognizant of Latino viewers, by pushing stories about Latinos that are of interest to all Americans, as well as informing them of more humane and respectful labels - such as undocumented immigrant instead of illegal alien." The story, written by Aida Bardales, quoted Rodriguez: "All you have to do is to mention it to them. If I wasn't here, they wouldn't think twice because forever 'illegal alien' was used and they didn't put... continue reading
On the first day of Senate hearings, CBS's Wyatt Andrews on Monday night again insisted Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor cannot be categorized ideologically and highlighted how "the hearing marked the first spotlight moment for former comedian, now Senator, Al Franken who cast himself as new but ready," all before anchor Katie Couric fretted "some Republicans didn't really treat her with kid gloves." Couric and Bob Schieffer squeezed in just a few seconds for how a new CBS News poll discovered "President Obama's overall job approval rating is down six points since June." Back in May, Andrews insisted Sotomayor had... continue reading
Over the weekend, on his syndicated The Chris Matthews Show, Chris Matthews asked his media panel if Barack Obama was governing as "more clearly a radical like FDR was, or more like a true conservative?" The latter part of the question - the rather absurd proposition of Obama being a conservative - actually drew a couple of affirmatives from the panel. The USA Today's Joan Biskupic responded she thought the President was being more conservative, at least in his judicial nods, "If you look at what he's doing, not just with his Supreme Court choice but his appeals court choices... continue reading
During live coverage of Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearing on Monday, MSNBC's Chris Matthews gushed about the judge's opening statement, saying " Well, I'm getting one of those thrills I get about America. I'm sorry, I'm shouldn't say this. And I'm getting it again. " Matthews, who famously proclaimed that Barack Obama gave him a "thrill" up his leg, also offered a fawning aside about what a "genius" the President is. Responding to a comment the Supreme Court nominee made about working hard to advance herself in school, the "Hardball" host followed-up his "thrill" remark by rhapsodizing, " When she talked... continue reading
The CBS Evening News may have only devoted 13 seconds last Monday night to the deaths of seven soldiers in Afghanistan - as Katie Couric anchored from the Staples Center the night before the Michael Jackson memorial - and just 15 seconds Wednesday night to their caskets arriving back in the U.S., but the producers of CBS's Sunday Morning should be commended for giving Martha Gillis, the aunt of an Army Lieutenant killed in Afghanistan the same day Jackson died, an "opinion" segment in which she conveyed the frustration of military families over the media's misplaced priorities. "My 24-year-old nephew,... continue reading
Responding to Senator Jeff Sessions describing Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as a "typical liberal activist judge" CBS Early Show co-host Harry Smith argued: "You feel like her record indicates that? I mean, she gets a glowing review from the American Bar Association. Her record doesn't seem to necessarily match up with her - what - some of the things she said." Later in the Monday interview, Smith defended Sotomayor's record, particularly her decision in the New Haven firefighter case: "But basically, she was following precedent. I think people who would actually look at it would agree she was kind... continue reading

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Brits winner Adele left speechless
The organisers of the Brits have apologised to Adele after she was unceremoniously forced to cut short her acceptance speech for the top gong at this year's awards.
The record-breaking singer landed two trophies at the glitzy event when she collected the best British female award as well as the big title of the night, best album, for 21.
But a rambling acceptance speech by earlier outstanding contribution award winner Damon Albarn of Blur meant she was barely able to deliver a speech and she gestured with her middle finger in frustration on-stage.
Adele, 23, said the insult was aimed at "the suits", after show host James Corden interrupted her to wind up her words.
Following the ceremony at London's O2 area, the show's organisers released a statement saying: "We regret this happened and we send our deepest apologies to Adele that her big moment was cut short due to the live show over running.
"We don't want this to undermine her incredible achievement in winning our night's biggest award, that tops off what's been an incredible year for her."
Adele's success followed a colossal win at the Grammys a little over a week ago when she was the toast of the music world with six trophies.
As she collected the best album prize for 21 - which has sold almost four million copies in the UK - the breathless star gushed: "Nothing makes me prouder, yeah, than coming home with six Grammys, then coming to the Brits and winning album of the year.
"I am so so proud to be British and to be flying the flag and to be in the same room as all of you."
But seconds later Corden had to apologise as he forced her triumphant speech to end in a whimper. The star - who made a show-stopping comeback performance with hit Rolling In The Deep earlier in the show - then made her rude gesture.
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Dear Mr. Wizard,
Last week I brewed a German Alt using Wyeast 1007. It's been fermenting at 58° F for 9 days now and it's nearing the end of the primary. I will then transfer it into a keg and let it condition for about 8 weeks. My question deals with diacetyl. Normally this is associated with lager strains, but I'm wondering if I have to worry about it with these special low temperature ale yeasts? Is diacetyl only associated with lagers or is the temperature more of a key factor?
Michael Kesler
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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The real question at issue is not whether diacetyl is only associated with lagers, but rather if it is only unacceptable in lagers. Diacetyl is naturally found in all beers during fermentation and some beers can contain perceptible levels of diacetyl after aging. Diacetyl, also known as 2,3 butanedione, is produced outside of the yeast cell when the compound alpha-acetolactate is oxidized by metal ions or dissolved oxygen. During aging, yeast cells absorb diacetyl, use it as a hydrogen donor in biochemical reactions and in the process convert into a flavorless alcohol called 2,3 butanediol.
Style gurus all agree that diacetyl should never be found in lagers. Its presence is a sign of insufficient aging and is simply not acceptable in a type of beer named after its long, cold storage! Diacetyl can also originate from beer spoilage bacteria, especially Pediococcus, and any off-flavor associated with bacterial contamination is bad, regardless of the fermenting strain. ("Wild beers", such as lambics, are of course held to a different set of rules.)
Oddly enough, if you asked the question what is the easiest type of beer to brew without having to worry much about diacetyl, I would answer lager. In a classic lager fermentation there is plenty of time for diacetyl to be produced from alpha acetolactate and for yeast to absorb diacetyl and reduce it to 2,3 butanediol. The fact that lager yeast strains are typically less flocculent than ale strains also helps since contact between the yeast cell and beer is essential for beer-yeast interactions to occur. Although Alt yeast is an ale strain, it is very non-flocculent and the cool, protracted method used to produce Alt beers makes Alts more similar to lagers with respect to yeast behavior and fermentation technique than ales. In other words, I would not worry much about diacetyl in your Alt.
Thanks to advances in brewing science over the past few decades, diacetyl is very well understood. The underlying biochemistry has allowed brewers to accelerate the aging process by manipulating beer temperature after fermentation. This has become known as the "diacetyl rest". The diacetyl rest is a step in the fermentation process designed to reduce diacetyl levels. Some breweries have gone as far as to use immobilized yeast to speed up aging by increasing the contact between yeast and beer. Globally, the result of this understanding has been a dramatic reduction in diacetyl levels in all sorts of beers.
Diacetyl is one of those compounds some people really like in small doses because it adds to the complexity of some beer (and wine) styles. Most brewers see it as a defect because of its association with beer spoilage organisms as well as its satiating effect on the consumer. For those brewers who wish to get more diacetyl in your beers, take the opposite route of alt brewing. Use a flocculent yeast, room temperature fermentation, short aging and good racking techniques to minimize the amount of yeast carried into the bottle.
Dear Mr. Wizard,
Could you please cover the major types and strains of barley used in brewing? I often see recipes that call for specific types of barley, such as Harrington two-row. Others specify Klages. I understand these are barley varieties, and not brand names. It would be good to know which varieties are present in various brands of malt.
Also, I sometimes see articles, as in the case of Michael Jackson's article on Bitburger beer in his "Beer Companion," which say things like "only spring barley is used." So I guess barley is harvested during different seasons?
Bill Wible
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Wow! This is a huge question that is answered in terms of books and journals. I will try to cover the basics of malting barley varieties, but my answer is a very small tip of a very large iceberg!
Barley grown for brewers malt is called malting barley, as opposed to feed barley, and is divided into two general types; 2-row and 6-row. The most obvious difference between a head of 2-row barley and a head of 6-row barley is the arrangement of the kernels when the head is viewed down its axis. Brewers don't make a big deal about 2-row versus 6-row barley based on the appearance of the barley head, however. The significant differences are found upon closer examination. In general, 6-row malted barley has more protein and enzyme content than 2-row malted barley, is thinner than two-row malt and contains less carbohydrate. There are also flavor differences between 2-row and 6-row and it seems that most brewers feel 2-row malt produces a fuller, maltier flavor and 6-row malt produces a grainier flavor in the finished beer.
The interesting fact about 6-row barley is that it is only grown in North America. Its high enzyme concentration after malting is one of the reasons cereal adjuncts like rice and corn can be used without causing problems with mash conversion. The other thing about 6-row barley is that it has become a symbol of what the European brewers don't use. Just read the marketing materials of many imports and you will find references to the exclusive use of 2-row malted barley, implying that there is something inferior to 6-row malting barley. I don't share that opinion since 6-row malt certainly has its place in brewing.
Barley can also be further categorized by when it is sown in the field. Spring varieties are sown in the spring and harvested in the fall. Winter varieties, on the other hand, are sown in the fall or winter and harvested in late spring. Winter varieties are said to over-winter because they don't germinate and grow into plants until the following spring. This is like planting bulbs in the fall for spring flowers. These different varieties are perhaps more significant to farmers being able to optimize their land than they are to brewers making different beers from Spring and Winter barleys.
The most important thing to remember when considering why certain barley varieties are grown is the barley farmer. There always has been and will continue to be a very careful balance between what maltsters want in their barley and what farmers are willing to produce. Planting a field of malting barley can be a very poor decision for farmers if the crop does not meet the specifications of the maltster. Rejected crops are sold as feed barley for a much lower price. To further increase the risk, malting varieties typically have a lower yield per acre than feed barley.
A good barley variety has good yield per acre, is disease resistant, does not have a tendency to lodge (fall over and make harvesting impossible) and does not shatter (the kernels fall out of the head onto the ground). Other traits include water requirements and ripening date. Harvesting becomes difficult during fall or spring rains, depending on the growing region because combines don't do too well in muddy fields.
The maltster has a different set of concerns. In a nutshell, the maltster wants a barley with excellent uniformity that is easy to germinate and modifies evenly during germination. Certain varieties require a considerable amount of coaxing in the malt house, for example in the steeping and aerating regimen, than others. If you are a maltster you don't want barley that makes your life difficult.
Finally, there is the brewer. We want malt that makes good beer. Of course each brewer has different needs and the prudent brewer goes to a great deal of effort to ensure barley farmers and maltsters are producing malt to suit their needs. The only brewers with this sort of clout are the really big boys. These brewers also support barley-breeding programs. Other brewers rely on groups like the American Malting Barley Association to recommend and approve barley varieties for malting based upon their brewing properties.
North American barley farmers grow both 2- and 6-row varieties. Examples of 2-row varieties include Klages, Harrington, B1202 (a variety developed by Anheuser-Busch) and numerous varieties of Coors' Moravian barley (for example, Moravian III). Six-row varieties include Morex, Russell, Excel, Robust and Stander. These are all spring barley varieties, which is the norm for North American malting barley varieties. The Europeans only grow 2-row barley. Examples of European spring barley include Chariot, Alexis, Hana, Ferment, Steffi, Krona and Sissi. Winter varieties, mainly grown in England, include Maris Otter, Halcyon and Pipkin.
Of the varieties listed in this short listing, there are only a few we as brewers ever hear mentioned. Klages is arguably the most noted American variety among home and craft brewers. It was a very prominent variety grown in the West, especially in Idaho, and was prized by maltsters for its excellent malting properties. Harrington and B1202 have largely replaced Klages acreage because these varieties have better agronomic properties. Maris Otter is prized for its excellent malting and brewing properties in England and Hana is one the prized varieties used in the production of the lightly modified Czech malts.
So how does the homebrewer use this information when it comes to buying malt? For starters, I would not worry too much about hunting down a certain barely variety for a given recipe unless the variety is readily available as a "straight" malt. Most maltsers blend varieties after malting in order to produce a consistent product for the brewer. The only malt widely marketed by barley variety is Maris Otter. The U.K. maltsters who produce and sell floor-malted Maris Otter also sell "floor-malted ale malt" that is a blend of Maris Otter, Pipkin and Halcyon. To convince me that a bag of malt is made exclusively from Klages, for example, I would require papers from the maltser in addition to the vendor's description because Klages acreage is very, very low.
Usually, if the maltster wants the brewer to know what variety of barley is used in the malt they will advertise it. Oftentimes, brewers are less concerned about what variety is used and more concerned about the lab analysis (typically referred to as the malt "spec" or specification sheet). Malt specs give insight into modification, protein content and size, wort viscosity, beta-glucan content, color, enzymatic activity, extract yield, moisture content, hardness or "friability" and aroma. This is why many malts are described by the type of beer they are intended to be used in, for example ale, pilsner, lager and stout malts, instead of the variety of barley used to make the malt. Big brewers are very concerned about malt specs and maltsters must produce malts to meet their specs. Malsters typically accomplish this by blending various malts.
In practical terms, this means if you buy pale malt from a large malting company it has been designed to meet the specs of a large brewer because that's where the big malting companies make their money. If you want to brew beers with malts made with known varieties or single varieties, I would start by researching malt produced by smaller malting companies. Many small maltsers have Web-sites that contain very good information about the varieties of barley they typically use. Some of these companies have U.S. sales representatives that will personally respond to questions about variety. You can then experiment with known varieties and determine how variety affects your beer.


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Las Vegas – UNLV blew an 18-point second half lead in Fort Worth and suffered a stunning 102-97 loss to TCU. Mike Moser led the way once again for #11 UNLV scoring 22 points and grabbing 8 rebounds. Both Anthony Marshall and Chace Stanback finished the game with 17 points for the Rebels.
The loss drops UNLV to 22-5 on the season and 6-3 in the Mountain West, now in third place behind San Diego State and New Mexico. The Rebels travel to the Pitt in Albuquerque on Saturday to take on the Lobos.


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Players with ties to the state of Utah will once again be well-represented on NFL rosters when the 2013 season begins this week. Approximately 40 local players landed on 53-man rosters, with others being named to practice squads.
Many of those appearing on rosters are well-established players. Guys like Haloti Ngata (Baltimore Ravens), Brett Keisel (Pittsburgh Steelers), Steve Smith (Carolina Panthers) and Eric Weddle (San Diego Chargers) have all played in Pro Bowls and are expected to again star for their respective teams.
The state also has some prominent rookies who will be looking to make an instant impact, along with others looking to build on the impact they made last season. Some, like former Utah quarterback Alex Smith and Utah linebacker Paul Kruger, will be looking to make an instant impact with new teams.
Here's a look at some prominent local players who are looking to make an impact this season.
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Quarterback, Kansas City Chiefs
The former Ute great finally established himself as a starting quarterback in San Francisco until being demoted in favor of Colin Kaepernick late last season. He's expected to start for the Chiefs and should have a chance to shine playing under new coach Andy Reid and Reid's exciting brand of offense.
Defensive back, Kansas City Chiefs
Smith, a former Ute standout, signed a three-year, $18 million contract with the Chiefs after a successful five-year stint with the Miami Dolphins. Smith had a successful preseason and is expected to start at cornerback this season.
Defensive end, Detroit Lions
A lot is expected of Ansah after being selected fifth overall by the Lions in the NFL draft. The former Cougar immediately served notice as a playmaker with an interception returned for a touchdown in his very first preseason game.
Ansah sustained a head injury late in the preseason and did not participate in the Lions' final preseason game. Should he get healthy, Ansah should see plenty of time at defensive end, where he'll be expected to make an immediate impact this season.
Defensive tackle, Carolina Panthers
Lotulelei was the No. 14 overall pick by the Panthers in last April's draft, and he has not disappointed leading up to his rookie season. Lotulelei's best preseason effort perhaps came against the Baltimore Ravens, where he recorded four tackles, three of them for losses, while playing at defensive tackle.
The former Ute great is expected to start at one of the two interior defensive line positions for the Panthers this season.
Linebacker, Cleveland Browns
The former Ute defensive end scored an enormous five-year, $40 million contract in the offseason after starring for the Baltimore Ravens during their Super Bowl run. Kruger has established himself as a great pass rusher at outside linebacker and will be asked to be one of the primary playmakers for the Browns. It's a role he's proved capable of through four seasons with the Ravens.
Linebacker, Seattle Seahawks
It's hard to imagine Wagner having a better rookie campaign than the one he enjoyed. He simply grabbed the starting middle linebacker spot and led his team in tackles with 140. It's not as if he's playing for a weak defense either. The Seahawk defense is considered by many to be the NFL's best entering 2013 and Wagner will again lead the charge.
Linebacker, Miami Dolphins
Misi, a second-round pick in 2010, had his best statistical season (65 tackles, 3 1/2 sacks and two forced fumbles) last year, his first in a 4-3 scheme. The former Ute will look to build upon that this season in what is expected to be a stout Dolphin defense.
Quarterback, San Diego Chargers
Sorensen was a late draft pick in 2013 and is battling for backup quarterback duties with Charlie Whitehurst. The Southern Utah product battled neck and neck with Whitehurst in the preseason and has a good shot to secure backup duties, according to reports out of San Diego.
Cornerback, Miami Dolphins
Davis was a third-round pick by the Dolphins and will try and make a name for himself as a rookie this season. Davis is listed as a backup corner entering Week 1.
Defensive tackle, Pittsburgh Steelers
The former BYU lineman bounced around as a rookie last season, but was able to secure a roster spot with the Steelers. Fangupo beat out fourth-round pick Alameda Ta'amu for a roster spot, and should have a good chance to shine in the Steelers' 3-4 system, which is similar to BYU's.


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2 May - Gravensteen Lecture: Donna Gabaccia (University of Minnesota)
Half of all international migrants today are women and girls. Is that a problem? Professor Donna Gabaccia (History, Univerisity of Minnesota) will address this question in her talk: Beyond the Feminization of Migration: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. Gravensteen, Room 11, 3-5pm.
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2 May 2014
Gravensteen, Room 11
Pieterskerkhof 6
2311 SR Leiden
Reception to follow at the Faculty Club Brasserie
Beyond the Feminization of Migration: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Half of all international migrants today are women and girls. Is that a problem? While social scientists attribute to the feminization of migrations to the disruptive globalization of the late twentieth century, global migrations were already gender balanced in 1960. Migrant gender composition at the regional and global scales has swung about several times over the past 400 years and many types of gender relations have been mobilized to explain variations in the relatives numbers of male and female migrants. Using historical perspective, empirical data on forced and free migrations, quantitative methods and insights from gender and cultural studies on how knowledge is created, the lecture will compare the gender composition of early modern slave trades, the proletarian mass migrations and the refugee and labor migrations of the twentieth century. Global convergence toward heavily male migrations began already in the eighteenth century and feminization already at the begin of the twentieth century. Restrictions on migration, policy preferences, the normal aging of earlier waves of migrants and a global economic shift toward light industry and care work can all help us to understand twentieth century feminization. While the discovery of the feminizatin of migration has often provoked a sense of moral panic among both advocates and critics of immigrants, gender-balanced migrations are not themselves problematic. The impact of the feminization of migration on both sending and receiving societies has been quite modest.
Speaker Bio
Donna R Gabaccia is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is author of many books and articles on immigrant life in the U.S., on gender, class, and labor (Foreign Relations: Global Perspectives on U.S. Immigration, Princeton University Press 2012), on food studies (We Are what Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans, Harvard University Press, 1998), and on Italian migration around the world (Italy's Many Diasporas, London and Seattle, 2000). Gabaccia teaches and publishes about migration in world history, has longstanding interests in interdisciplinary methodologies and served as president of the Social Science History Association in 2008. Her next book, co-authored with sociologist Katharine Donato, seeks to explain the so-called feminization of international migration. She is also midway through an individual research project that asks why the United States, almost alone among the many countries formed through international migration, labels itself so proudly as a nation of immigrants.
The Gravensteen Lectures is a joint initiative started by LGI and AMT. This new series will bring out leading international scholars at the forefront of thinking through historic, contemporary, and emergent transcultural and international connections and their impacts. First Fridays, Gravensteen, 3:00-5:00pm. More the full schedule of speakers and more information about the series, click here.


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Snowboarders are well-known for their laid-back attitudes.
They're cool, dude. And nothing you say is going to stress them out.
National team boarders Mercedes Nicoll and Dominique Vallee are no exception.
They both left other sports behind when the competitive juices overflowed and degenerated into infighting and backstabbing.
"I was a figure skater from when I was three until 15, when I started snowboarding," Nicoll said. "Figure skating was getting too competitive with my friends. I wasn't too into the competitiveness and rivalry.
"Snowboarding was way more mellow ... and now I'm competing all the time. But it's more mellow. We're all friends at the top of the halfpipe.
"It's a different vibe completely."
Fellow halfpipe shredder Vallee was also happy to find a sport where friendships are valued as much as medals.
"I gave up ski racing because it was too competitive," she said. "I used to do a lot of border cross. At the 2006 Olympics, I did both halfpipe and border cross.
"That was my last border cross because it felt like ski racing. It was really competitive and everybody was aggressive.
"For me, that's not snowboarding. In halfpipe, everybody is so friendly, whether you're from Norway or wherever, we're all really good friends.
"That's how it should be. Otherwise, it takes the fun out of it if you're not friends with your competitors. Then you'll have no friends and you'll be alone."
Both riders are competing at this weekend's Burton Canadian Open at Canada Olympic Park. The halfpipe semifinals are slated for 10 a.m. today with the finals going at 2 p.m. The event is free to the public.
"I'd just like to get back on my feet and have a run I'm happy with," said Nicoll, 25, who just returned from an event in South Korea.
Vallee didn't even have time to get to her home in Squamish, B.C.
"I went straight to Montreal to visit my family, so I haven't been able to go change my clothes in Squamish yet," she said.
The 27-year-old is just starting to get rolling this season after taking some time off.
"I haven't been riding that much because my mom's been really sick at home," she said. "So, I've been spending more time with her.
"I just want to do the finals (at COP) and have fun with it. I don't want to put pressure on myself."
It appears Mother Nature will do her part for today's finale.
"It's been amazing," Vallee said. "Everybody's been feeling the chinook.
"I was here in January and it was minus-40. I had trouble tying up my bindings because I was wearing so many clothes.
"This is the weather everybody wants. It's been a perfect week for the first Canadian Open."


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Terry ready for ultimate test against Spain
Captain John Terry believes tonight's showdown with European champions Spain will provide the sternest test yet to Fabio Capello's England revolution.
England travel to Seville with confidence and optimism high following a hugely impressive start to Capello's reign, which has seen the Three Lions go from Euro 2008 qualifying failures to one of the continent's most in-form sides.
However, tonight they come up against a team who are arguably a cut above any other national side on the planet.
Not only did Spain conquer Europe last summer and take over as FIFA's number one ranked team, but they are also on a remarkable 28-match unbeaten run, 26 of which have ended in victories.
It promises to be as tough a challenge as England have faced in years and Terry, for one, is under no illusion just how hard it could be at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium.
When asked at yesterday's pre-match press conference if he thought it was England's biggest test to see how far they had come under Capello, the Chelsea centre-back said: "I think so. I think we're moving in the right direction with our recent performances and our recent results. We're playing very well, but this is a big test against one of the best sides in the world."
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Tetanus immunization protects teenagers now and for tomorrow
By Jennifer Butterfield
21 November 2008, Kepahiang, Bengkulu – At Kepahiang Senior High School, more than 100 teenage girls in green and white uniforms are crowded into the school's hall, making the kind of cheerful racket that only 15-year-olds can. Above the din of giggles and shrieks, a health worker from the local Puskesmas Pasar Kepahiang shouts instructions through a loudhailer, urging the girls to roll up their sleeves and form a line. Today, they will all be vaccinated against tetanus as part of UNICEF's campaign to protect every woman of child-bearing age against this deadly disease.
Today's vaccination is the first these girls will have had since their early primary years, and they don't seem to be looking forward to it. For a moment, it looks like no-one will volunteer to be first, but then Nys Pracella jumps to her feet. Her peers clap and cheer as she unflinchingly receives the injection, even posing for a photo as the needle goes in. Following her lead, the other girls fall into line to get their shots too.
Giving girls' health a boost
At schools like this across Kepahiang and in dozens of other districts across Indonesia, thousands of girls are being vaccinated against tetanus in the hope it will protect them as they enter their childbearing years. UNICEF has provided thousands of doses of the vaccine, syringes and safety boxes, and helped the Government's Health authorities plan an extensive immunization campaign to ensure no woman is overlooked.
It may seem a little early to worry about safe pregnancy for these girls, but the reality is that many will become mothers before their 18th birthdays. At Kepahiang Senior High School, two of the students are already married, and roughly 20 students each year become pregnant before their graduation.
While women can contract tetanus at any time, they are particular risk during childbirth if this happens in an unsterile environment like the family home or when delivery is assisted by untrained traditional birth attendants. Their babies are also at high risk of contracting the disease when unclean tools are used to cut the umbilical cord or when herbs or ashes are applied to the cord, as is still customary in many parts of Indonesia. Giving girls the tetanus vaccine before they become pregnant boosts the protection against tetanus they were given during their childhood, but they will also need to be vaccinated again during pregnancy to be fully protected.
"Two doses of the vaccine gives three years of protection, but if a woman has had five doses she is protected for up to 30 years, right throughout her child bearing years," said Dr Kenny Peetosutan, a UNICEF Health Officer overseeing the campaign.
"So if you can reach young children in school and then again when they are older, you can give them long lasting protection."
Mothers of tomorrow
"I don't think about having babies yet, I'd like to become a scientist or a pediatrician when I finish school instead," she said.
One of her teachers, 23 year old Melka, will also be receiving the vaccine today, but unlike Nys Pracella she is more than a little nervous about it.
""These girls are the mothers of the future so it is important that they are healthy and protected against the kinds of diseases that can harm them or their babies.
This is exactly what UNICEF and the Government are aiming to do. By giving tetanus protection to every young girl in high school today, we can dramatically reduce the risk of women and babies contracting this deadly disease in the future.


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PETA Cries Fowl On Pigeon Racing
A red flag is raised, not the checkered one, against racing pigeons in New York.
Pigeon racing? Who knew?
In NYC, only horses are allowed to race for monetary prizes. But did you know that at The Bronx Homing Pigeon Club, and at clubs across the country, you can participate in pigeon racing for points and/or cash? PETA did. The animal rights group went undercover for about 15 months to expose the lucrative and, allegedly, inhumane treatment of birds in pigeon racing, a "hobby" that generates $15 million a year in gambling and kills thousands of birds.
"The clubs are nothing but unlawful racketeering enterprises," said Jeff Kerr, a top lawyer for PETA, who will present 17 law enforcement agencies with videotape evidence and documents of the abuse, according to the New York Daily News.
"In the races, the trained homing pigeons are driven hundreds of miles away from their coops and then released. The bird that flies home the fastest wins. For its World Trade Center Memorial Race, the Bronx club charges a $100 entry fee per bird, and advertises that a first-place winner will be awarded 30,000 'points.' They euphemistically refer to the prize dollars as points," Kerr charged. "That's just an indication they know it's illegal."
PETA says racers often plunk down large bets on other competitors' birds. However, the Bronx club's officials denied gambling takes place during pigeon racing, and said points are points, earning members trinkets and bragging rights, nothing more, reported the Daily News.
"There is no gambling," said club president Lou Bernardone. "We give trophies. You get nice big plaques with your name on it and everything," adds Bernardone.
Coming soon, Mass Appeal's next Beastin' segment features Mario Costa Jr., longtime friend of Mike Tyson, and caretaker for Iron Mike's pigeons.


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Shaikha Salim Al Arrayed
Shaikha Al Arrayed received M.B.Ch.B., D.H.C.G., and Ph.D. degrees from Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, UK. She has been the Head of the National Committee for Control of Hereditary Diseases, Ministry of Health, Bahrain, since 1993; a Consultant Clinical Geneticist and the Head of Genetic Department, Salmaniya Medical Complex, since 1994; and the Director of Gulf Genetic Center since 2002. She has been the Chairperson of the Steering Committee of Eastern Mediterranean Health Genomic and Biotechnology Network in the Islamic countries since 2004, a Member of WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Human Genetics since 2002, and a Member of the Centre for Arab Genomic Studies Council. She is also a Member of the Human Genome organization, London, UK, the American Society of Human Genetics, the American College of Medical Genetics, the European Society of Human Genetics, World Health Organization, Hereditary Disease Working Group, Genetic Committee of the Arab Health Ministers Council, and the Genetic Committee of the GCC Health Ministers Council. She organized and directed several national projects including establishment of the Cytogenetic Laboratory at SMC 1999 and 2001; premarital counseling services in the Ministry of Health since 1993; student screening for Genetic Blood Diseases project since 1999; New Born Screening project since 2007. She has more than 50 publications in national and international journals, 6 health educational booklets, and 2 books.
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Lucifera Santez
Futile Hunt - Poem by Lucifera Santez
For something I must have looked,
Searched all these years,
Through all my smiles.
Through my each tear.
And here now you stand,
With cruelty in your eyes,
All the promises undone,
Every one of them lies.
All the love discarded,
Thrown to feed the fire,
Of your keen lust,
And unfazed desire.
Had I seek this,
This destroyer of my rosy dreams,
But it seems I have,
'Cause all my dreams lie broken in a giant heap.
Someday when I am old,
It will all be a memory,
Bitter yet manageable,
Painful yet in a distance.
But that day is too far,
Pieces of my heart,
Are sealed tight in strong rib jar.
I can't mend it,
But I can survive,
Feeling the pain, the numbness,
A reminder that I am alive…………….
Poet's Notes about The Poem
Comments about Futile Hunt by Lucifera Santez
Marcus Mckinley (9/5/2013 11:18:00 AM)
nothing hits harder then a blow to the heart. silent, effertless, absent of touch. the pain unbearable you will survive. well done (Report) Reply
Mohabeer Beeharry (8/26/2013 4:47:00 AM)
Very sad but human story.
We try to be genuine
Only to see that our sincerity has been abused.
And we begin to build a new castle.
Amd make ourself happy in it..
Lovely very lovely
Mohabeer Beeharry (Report) Reply
Khairul Ahsan (8/23/2013 10:31:00 AM)
Someday when I am old,
It will all be a memory,
Bitter yet manageable,
Painful yet in a distance.
But that day is too far,
Pieces of my heart,
Are sealed tight in strong rib jar.
Very, very touchy! (Report) Reply
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The new year is upon us — the perfect time to reflect on blessings.
BY Amy Smith
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Dec. 29, 2013-Jan. 11, 2014 Issue | Posted 12/19/13 at 4:01 PM
The new year is upon us — the perfect time to reflect on blessings.
Like comfort and joy ... the comfort of little things, like enjoying a good cup of coffee. Extra time spent with family. Pretty flowers. Beautiful, colorful sunsets painting the night sky.
And joy: "With Christ, joy is constantly born anew," Pope Francis reminds us in Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel).
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Today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) released the following statement highlighting the Domestic Energy and Jobs Act, a package of seven domestic energy production bills that Whip McCarthy and the House Energy Action Team unveiled today:
"Thousands of jobs have been lost as a result of the President's energy policies. Today, we unveiled our pro-growth energy package that will develop our nation's energy resources, help create thousands of jobs and boost economic growth. I thank Whip McCarthy, Chairman Upton, Chairman Hastings, Congressman Mike Coffman, Congressman Cory Gardner, Congressman Bill Johnson, Congressman Doug Lamborn, Congressman Scott Tipton, and Congressman Ed Whitfield, as well as the entire House Energy Action Team, for their work on these measures that will boost energy production here at home."
Source: http://majorityleader.gov/newsroom/2012/06/leader-cantor-statement-on-the-domestic-energy-and-jobs-act.html


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Discussion in 'Yanks Abroad' started by USvsIRELAND, Mar 29, 2008.
Maybe he just didn't like Columbus. I can't blame him for that. Not a good team, not an attractive place to live.
That's because you're taking this personally as a Crew fan. This isn't different than other negotiations around the globe. Why is it perfectly fine in the eyes of some fans for MLS to reject deals as a business ideal, but a player can't do the same?
Hell, your team just rejected two bids for Gonzalez and IMO, they were good offers, the second of which rumored to be 4.5M.
It's just business.
Clearly you have never been to Columbus. Secondly, we had a deal done until his dad came in last minute to hijack it. I can guarantee you that he won't find another team willing to pay him 2.5x what he is making now. Plus this is the 2nd time now he has done something like this to an MLS team. Just poor form for a guy like him. I won't even go down the Gonzalez rabbit hole with you.
And for the sake of this thread I won't be responding to any further comments on this topic. Guaranteed to spiral into nothingness.
Yes, I have been there. It ain't NY or SF, where I've lived. More importantly, to a guy coming from Europe, there's many more attractive destinations, and that's not an insult. It's reality. Or link me to all the bigger name Euro DP's waiting for a chance to move to Columbus.
Second, there's a habit around here lately since the Clint transfer to think players should just chase the money. It's not about simply chasing the money for many players. The offer is only one aspect, as are coaching, fan support, roster quality and tactics/formations.
Third, it's not a done deal until he signs. Doesn't sound like he signed to me.
Fourth, you need to research the Portland situation. One, they didn't offer DP money. Two, Mix wanted the ability to move back to Europe and didn't want that ability hinging on MLS HQ rather than the team. He came out and said he doesn't want to be owned by a league. Quotes are in this thread. And, that makes sense.
And fifth, when your team doesn't sell Gonzalez when he gets two good bids after a good WC, that probably made Mix seriously question his ability to go back to Europe if he wanted.
In general, I think personal beef with Mix from an MLS fan perspective should be kept in the Crew forum, not in his YA thread. Out of respect. Last thing we need is Crew fans coming over here with a personal agenda as Mix has been IMO and likely the opinions of others, the most valuable poster around here and we're honored an actual USNTer regularly stops by to converse with us.
Over here, he's still a YA who turned down a deal. MLS perspective actually is off topic.
It def. isn't about money with Mix. If I remember correctly, he made sure to give up salary while in Belgium if the US had qualified to play London for the Olympics. He was that committed and money didn't mean a thing as much as the experience would.
I am probably fudging it up some, but I remember him making sure money was not something that was going to stop him from fulfilling a dream of playing in the olympics. It's more than that to him.
As far as his game goes, Columbus would be a lateral move. The money is his business. Would've been fun having him stateside, though.
Also I think that is incredibly poor form by Anthony Precourt. IDK his exact role, but you don't take to twitter and more or less blame the other side when a deal goes sour. Petty as hell.
Yeah, I am going to side with labor on this one
I think you are underrating MLS and overrating the Norwegian league and Mix. Mix hasn't done much of note with his clubs in recent seasons.
Wish you hadn't responded to anything. Surprised you had time for the first one with all of the cosmopolitan happenings of Columbus.
Cheer up, Pep. You still get to host US v Mex every 4 years. For now.
I am rating Columbus Crew and Rosenborg about the same, which is probably being way too charitable ... to the Crew.
This is YA. Crapping on MLS, making fun of MLS cities etc is just par for the course here. It is best to just try and ignore the ignorance and try to find the nuggets of information. Opinion here is almost useless because of the bias.
It is what it is. Not worth fighting. People who hate MLS and want to see it fail are never going to change their minds.
For those of you saying Columbus is not an attractive place for Mix you all are dawn wrong! I know for certain there are Taco Bells there and Diskerud a confessed aficionado of TB would love that place .
But forreal tho. He is such a tease wtf.. already pulled this s*** twice now. Cmon man
until MLS allows its players more rights (refusing a trade for instance) these kinds of instances will happen. MLS is the only league in the world where a player can sign with one team and then be forced to play for another without his consent. This doesn't happen anywhere else. Soccer is not baseball.
No, but he gets $700K-$800K, which is not all that high for a starter in the Netherlands or a sub in Germany, then the differences in the long run are going to be negligible.
And this is just bullshit. Unless you were in the negotiating room with the attorneys present.
Crew might have 2-3 players that can start for R-borg but it's not a very good team even by MLS standards.
Plus, anyone with options would have to want to live in Columbus.
Cool down guys.
I feel like communicating a little with the original posters. The ones that have kept track and kept this string alive, and motivated me early on.
Have now read the last few pages. Need to run now, but will be back min some hours with a post, if no one makes any posts in the meantime. Ok?
Until then – try to read this:
These attacks against invisible posters probably don't belong in Mix's YA thread.
How about some respect for the guy?
Hi folks.
The YA vs MLS stuff is done. Discuss the deal or the failure of it without any further assumptions about why a Crew fan would think one way and a YA poster would think another.
And if your post is missing it might be because it contained the word "butthurt".
We're still here. Good luck today against Karabükspor.
I don't really know about this, seems pretty dire. I mean the guy's contract is up Jan 1 and he can move anywhere he can go during the Winter window. For all we know any current negotiations could be for where he signs in the Winter.
Plus, he's done pretty well up to this point by playing in Norway, I don't see how another 4 months of playing there is going to vastly affect his National Team aspects.
Last week I got to talk to both Gregg Berhalter and Anthony Precourt.
I like them both. I think they like me. I do not think Columbus could ask for a more dedicated coach, or have a coach with more dedication in creating a playing style that will be recognizable and with a unique stamp of "Columbus Crew". I believe that Anthony Precourt patiently will see to that – because he is that type of guy, I think.
Grant Wahl has made some erroneous statements – making some people look very bad. He says his source is rumors. And that is of course one way to cover a lie, or to press people to give you information you are not entitled to by asking them for clarification – which a journalist of course in turn may use only parts and portions of. In my book – I would give Grant Wahl a straight red card – and with three weeks total suspension.
I have had a lawyer representing me and having had him as the one who has kept communication between Gregg, MLS, Rosenborg, and all others I have had obligations to in this matter. He has assured me that he has not at all done any of what Grant Wahl accuses my father of. My father has not been negotiating between Rosenborg and Columbus/MLS.
The lawyer has, of course, gone through what I am writing here, in this perticular post.
I am a Mix between US american and Norwegian. I was supposed to be raised equally in the two con tries. Plan was grade school in Norway and high school and college in the US. Because I developed so well at my football clubs in Norway, I pushed High school to college, and when my Stabæk coach begged me to go pro instead of enrolling in a US college – I made a coin flip where my parents were present. It landed on tails – and I signed for Stabæk.
Therefore, I have an urge to, at one point, to live, breathe and evolve as an american person in the united states. Some people say in social media that I would never go to Ohio. I ask them, why not? Isn't Ohio the most perfect example what the US really is all about. When the democratic part of the USA votes, isn't Ohio what exemplifies best what US values is? Why wouldn't Columbus have given me a faster and better understanding of what the USA past, present, right to left, is all about.
What I can tell everybody – is that the best day in my life I had in Ohio. The fans when we finally qualified for the World Cup were the best fans I have ever played for. I guess a lot of them were from Ohio. They lifted us immensely. You have no idea what that means and meant. The supporters of Columbus Crew might not be the biggest by shire numbers – but please go check what they write, and how they critique. Are they not the most cunning of all the MLS supporters - as we speak?
I do not know if I end up in Rosenborg, American football , Europe, or in a really exotic place during the next 5-7 years.
But I do know that I am lucky and happy either way.
What i am most committed to right now is long term to be a part of Ussoccer in the years ahead and short term try to make Rosenborg advance tonight.
Thanks Mix. I hope you consider Columbus when your contract is up. We would love you have you rocking the black and gold!
Great stuff Mix.
Don't let the haters get to you, they're just jealous because you have such better hair and rock solid table tennis game. Good luck tonight!
I've been going back and forth whether I should post this, but to be blunt, I find that it is one of the problems of Diskerud posting on here, it stifles critical and controversial debates about his club career. I've never seen a professional soccer player get involved in a fan (!) forum like this. Frankly, I think its highly unprofessional and wouldn't be tolerated at many German/bigger European clubs. Especially trying to direct the narrative on here and using it as a platform to attack a journalist that has posted something he/his lawyer don't like.
If he wants to have contact with the fans about his favourite burritos there's always the option of your own facebook or twitter page.
Thanks for the clarifications, Mix. Best of luck!


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New research challenges work on a longevity gene
Many defend quest for anti-aging drug
Two papers published yesterday in a leading science journal challenge some of the key research that identified a longevity gene in worms and flies and helped lay the foundation for the search for drugs that fight human aging.
In one of the papers, a prominent MIT researcher corrects his influential 2001 paper that showed that a genetic mechanism could prolong life in microscopic worms, finding that the life extension is much smaller than first reported. In the other paper, an international team reports that after correcting problems in how some experiments were conducted, increasing the activity of the gene in worms and fruit flies did not result in longer lifespans.
The original research drew immense scientific and public attention to proteins called sirtuins, and the field heated up as later studies showed that an ingredient found in red wine could activate those proteins. Sirtris Pharmaceuticals of Cambridge began a race to create drugs that could target sirtuins, and the pharmaceutical company
Whether the new papers will undermine this biomedical juggernaut is uncertain. The findings are in flies and worms, and over the years a growing body of evidence that is not currently in question has established the effects of sirtuins in diseases of aging in mammals. Clinical trials of sirtuin-activating compounds are already proceeding.
The studies bring to the fore a long-simmering and polarized debate among biologists about the strength of various aspects of the red wine hypothesis. Still, even critics dubious of claims that have been made about the biology of sirtuins and the red wine ingredient, resveratrol, acknowledge that more recent studies in mice have produced exciting results and may lead to promising drugs for diseases like diabetes.
"One of the things that has always been true of aging research . . . is there was a lot of emotionality,'' said Tom Johnson, a professor of behavioral genetics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "This field has been marked by both conscious and unconscious interpretation and, let me say. tremendous over-interpretation of very limited datasets . . . What I think is going on is the field now is starting to reexamine itself.''
The search for longevity genes sprang from the discovery that animals from yeast to mice live longer when placed on a very low-calorie diet. Scientists hypothesized that these animals had genes that allowed them to survive at times of famine and that these genes might be responsible for the life extension they were observing. Further research suggested that sirtuin genes played a key role in this mechanism and that resveratrol could trigger the mechanism, without the dieting.
The assault on this idea began in earnest in 2005, when scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle questioned whether resveratrol activated sirtuins. That line of research has spawned papers on either side, muddying up what had seemed to be a tidy scientific explanation. The new papers appear to be set to do the same.
Leonard Guarente, a biology professor at MIT and a member of the scientific advisory board of Sirtris, has coauthored a brief paper in the journal Nature showing that because of a previously unknown mutation in a strain of worms his laboratory was studying in 2001, the life extension caused by increasing the activity of a gene was not 50 percent, but 10 to 15 percent.
"It's a tempest in a teapot,'' Guarente said, arguing that his new paper does not undermine the idea that sirtuins play a role in longevity. "This has happened every three to four years in sirtuins. . . . I think part of the problem is sirtuins were really highly promoted at the beginning, and so that created a backlash, and the backlash shows itself periodically.''
But the second Nature paper casts a darker shadow, finding fault with experiments that showed lifespan extension in flies and worms, including Guarente's work. When researchers repeated those experiments with better methods, they found no increase in longevity. They also put flies on a diet that was extremely calorie-restricted and found that the flies' lives were extended even if they were missing the sirtuin gene.
"It's quite a saga,'' said David Gems, a geneticist working on the biology of aging at University College London who led the work. "It's a very unlovable thing to do. It's boring, and it makes you unpopular. But you have to do it, because false facts - they lie around and lots of other scientists kind of run afoul of them. . . . They're like land mines.''
But Stephen Helfand, a biology professor at Brown University who did the fruit fly experiment attacked by Gems's team, said that he had already redone the experiment using a better method that addressed their concerns and still found lifespan extension. His results were published in 2009.
Scientists in the field said there is little consensus about what is going on.
"I can give you my views on it, but I can't give you answers,'' said Brian Kennedy, head of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in California and once a graduate student in Guarente's lab.
On one hand, Kennedy said, there are more than 100 genes in worms that cause lifespan extension, so even if there is a 10 to 15 percent increase by activating sirtuins, he said, "you have to wonder if it's a central player.'' But at the same time, he said, there is a tremendous amount of data on the important role the proteins play in mammals.
In a statement, Melinda Stubbee, a spokeswoman for GlaxoSmithKline, said the new results in flies and worms do not directly affect the questions the company is studying.
"There is a wealth of scientific evidence validating the role sirtuins play in health and multiple diseases of aging in mammals, including humans,'' Stubbee wrote in an e-mail.
A paper published this summer found that obese mice on a high-fat diet lived longer and healthier lives when given one of the sirtuin-activating compounds developed by Sirtris.
David Sinclair, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and cofounder of Sirtris, said that the paper by Gems's group "doesn't overturn the years of work that have been done in the field by any stretch.''
"This group of researchers makes a living out of putting out these negative papers,'' he said, "and it's not the first time they've done this and overreached with their conclusions.''
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s_pctCPU = str(d_pctCPU)
d_tstamp = int(round(time.time()))
s_tstamp = str(d_tstamp)
print("\nValues to post: ", d_pctCPU, d_tstamp)
payload = "{\"mode\":\"sync\",\"messageType\":\""+msgtypeid+"\",\"messages\":[{\"cpu_usage\":"+s_pctCPU+",\"cpu_type\":\"generic\",\"_time\":"+s_tstamp+"}]}"
headers = {
'content-type': "application/json",
'authorization': "Bearer "+authtoken,
'cache-control': "no-cache"
print("Payload to post: ", payload)
response = requests.request("POST", url, data=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.status_code, response.text)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print("Stopped by the user!")
Save the file.
deviceid and
authtoken variables in the code with IDs you copied in the previous tutorial when creating the thing for your computer.
Run the script with the command.
python computer_iotdevice_cpu.py
If all mentioned prerequisites have been satisfied, then you should see outcome like:
The return code
200 means that the message was received and processed by the IoT service in SAP Cloud Platform.
The return code
202 means that the message was received and queued for processing by the IoT service in SAP Cloud Platform or that the message does not fit the message type requirements.
4xx and
5xx mean errors.
Go back to the Thing Modeler application from the previous tutorial. Make sure you have the proper package
computeriotdevice selected and find your computer on the list of Things.
Go to Measured Values and expand
resource_sensors to the
cpu_usage. You should see the value (like
22.2 on the screen shot). It is updated only once a minute, so you may need to wait a bit for it to appear and then to change.
You can find corresponding value in the output of the Python's script as well.
The power of SAP IoT Application Enablement is in its rich set of APIs available to build powerful customer applications on top of data from devices.
E.g. to check last 5 values posted open following URL in the browser, like Chrome: https://sap-iotaehandson2.iot-sap.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/appiot-mds/Things('591188FC5CEF413E9D5AE3F641429BB5')/sap.iotaehandson2.computeriotdevice:generic_computer/resource_sensors_2?timerange=1H&$top=5
You need to modify the thing id from
591188FC5CEF413E9D5AE3F641429BB5 to your own. Properly formatted URL will return results like this to authorized user.
To better understand IoT Application Enablement APIs you can go to SAP API Hub at https://api.sap.com/#/shell/discover/contentpackage/IOTAE and review and execute different APIs in its sandbox. As this sandbox has the same backend you will find your things again here.
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SALT LAKE CITY — When we last saw Chris Grant he was making shots for the University of Utah basketball team, where he was a part-time starter from 2004 to 2008.
These days Grant is making his shots on the golf course and he may have come up with the best shot of his life in the dimming twilight Thursday at the Salt Lake Country Club.
Grant fired a 4-iron from 228 yards across the gully at the par-5 No. 9 hole and his ball nestled to within 12 feet. From there, he two-putted for a birdie and became the 32nd and final qualifier for match play at the 114th annual Men's State Amateur.
"I'm excited — it's going to be fun tomorrow," said Grant, still showing his colors, wearing a red shirt with a small "Utah" in front.
Six players had gone off in a sudden-death playoff for the final two spots after the cut came at 152, the highest in 19 years at the State Am. Sandy's Andrew Barton claimed the first spot with a birdie at No. 1 and then Grant grabbed the second with his birdie at No. 9, the second hole of the playoff.
The 29-year-old, who works in investment sales, has only been playing serious golf since the end of his collegiate career, but he said his basketball experience — along with being a junior member at the Country Club — paid off in the playoff.
"I love the pressure," he said, comparing it to shooting a free throw in front of thousands of basketball fans. "It's actually a lot like that, the focus and the whole mindset is virtually the same. The advantages for me were playing here a lot and my experience of playing (college basketball)."
The Country Club course played somewhat easier Thursday than Wednesday's first round when no one could break 70. Three players shot in the 60s in the morning, led by BYU sophomore-to-be Devon Purser, whose 68 gave him a 138 total and medalist honors. In all, 101 of the 156 golfers matched or bettered their scores from the first day.
Purser said "I really don't care about being medalist" because his main focus is winning the whole thing in match play. But he said winning the State Am title "would be awesome because it's the biggest tournament in the state by far."
Another BYU golfer, Mike Jurca of St. George, shot a 69 to finish second at 141, while Kenny You, who won the state individual title at Alta last year and will attend Dixie State in the fall, shot a 68 to finish at 142.
But most of the excitement, as it does every year, came at the end of the day as everyone gathered around the scoreboard to see where the cut would be to determine the 31 qualifiers, plus champion Jeff Evans, for the start of Friday's match play.
Besides Grant and Barton, the others in the playoff were BYU golfer Alton Anderson, Weber State golfer Jordan Herzog, first-day co-leader Mike Jorgensen, who ballooned to an 82 Thursday, and Michael Membrila, a 34-year-old military man who plays out of Hubbard Golf Course at Hill Air Force Base. Membrila, who is originally from Augusta, Ga., shot a 71 Thursday, 10 shots better than the day before.
Anderson and Herzog were eliminated on the No. 1 hole with bogeys, Barton sank a 6-foot birdie putt and the playoff moved to No. 9, which runs parallel to No. 1.
Membrila hit into the back bunker in two and couldn't get up and down, while Jorgensen hit short and missed a 15-foot birdie try. That left it wide open for Grant, who hit his eagle putt within a foot and tapped in for the qualifying birdie.
"When I got to the playoff I felt so calm," Grant said. "There's something about playing here this time of day, it just feels like I'm out there with my dad or my brothers. I felt so calm on every shot in the playoff, which was totally different from my round earlier, I don't know why."
Grant's reward is a match against defending champion and No. 1 seed Evans Friday morning.
Other top players who made it into match play include former finalist Carl Jensen and UVU golfer Mason Casper at 144, BYU golfers Zac Blair and Cole Ogden at 145 and former State Am champion Dan Horner at 146.
Besides Grant, two other Country Club members made it to match play, Thomas Young, who finished at 149 and Jon Wright, who came in at 150.
Utah State Amateur
Thursday Results
138 — Devon Purser (70-68)
141 — Mike Jurca (72-69)
142 — Kenny You (74-68)
144 — Carl Jensen (73-71), Mason Casper (73-71)
145 — Zac Blair (74-71), Kyle Chappell (74-71), Cole Ogden (71-74), Conner Jones (74-71)
146 — Dan Horner (74-72), Nic Booth (73-73)
147 — Alex Stulce (75-72), Stratton Schulz (76-71), Patrick Fishburn (74-73), Jared Overton (77-70), Brady Stanger (73-74)
148 — Steve Poulson (74-74), Tanner Higham (73-75), Brad Millard (75-73)
149 — Joe Webber (76-73), Casey Halliday (74-75), Christian Jensen (71-78), Thomas Young (74-75)
150 — Jeff Jolley (77-73), Gentry Hicks (77-73), Jon Wright (74-76)
151 — David Booth (77-74), Mike Bingham (76-75), Matthew Wahlen (77-74)
152 — *Chris Grant (74-78), *Andrew Barton (78-74), Mike Jorgensen (70-82), Jordan Herzog (73-79), Alton Anderson (80-72), Michael Membrila (81-71)
153 — Brady Boman (80-73), McCoy Willey (79-74), T. J. Telford (78-75), Craig Wilson (79-74)
154 — Jacob Christensen (81-73), Darrin Overson (81-73), Grant Rowan (79-75), Kirk Siddens (76-78)
155 — Adam Harris (78-77), Mike Branca (80-75), Chad Crowther (80-75), Preston Richards (77-78), Brent Bryson (77-78)
156 — Jeremy Tye (82-74), Craig Woodward (78-78), Jason Struck (80-76), Trever Johnson (78-78), Tanner Clark (77-74), Josh White (80-76), Steve Borget (78-78)
157 — Dana Nelson (76-81), Scott Whitaker (86-71), Jacob Wagstaff (79-78), Max Matcalf (80-77), Gregg Oliphant (81-76)
158 — Jeff Evans (82-76), Nathan Nyman (79-79), Joshua Jensen (80-78), C.J.. Haws (84-74), Mike Behle (79-79), Dan Hatch (81-77), Kai Ruiz (82-76), Rigo Jimenez (82-76)
159 — Paul Norman (80-79), Greg Wojkun (83-76), Greg Diaz (81-78), Rich Tripp (80-79), Nick Despain (77-82)
160 — Matt Cook (82-78), Chris Hermanson (85-75), Todd Barker (82-78), Thad Truman (83-77), Karl Avant (75-85)
*Qualified for match play in sudden-death playoff
Friday's first-round pairings
No. 1 tee
9 a.m. — Jeff Evans (1) vs. Chris Grant (32)
9:10 a.m. — Jared Overton (16) vs. Brady Stanger (17)
9:20 a.m. — Kyle Chappell (8) vs. Jeff Jolley (25)
9:30 a.m. — Cole Ogden (9) vs. Christian Jensen (24)
9:40 a.m. — Kenny You (4) vs. Mike Bingham (29)
9:50 a.m. — Alex Stulce (13) vs. Brad Millard (20)Comment on this story
10 a.m. — Carl Jensen (5) vs. David Booth (28)
10:10 a.m. — Dan Horner (11) vs. Joe Webber (22)
No. 10 tee
9:05 a.m. — Devon Purser (2) vs. Andrew Barton (31)
9:15 a.m. — Stratton Schulz (14) vs. Steve Poulson (17)
9:25 a.m. — Zac Blair (7) vs. Gentry Hicks (26)
9:35 a.m. — Conner Jones (10) vs. Thomas Young (23)
9:45 a.m. — Mike Jurca (3) vs. Matthew Wahlen (30)
9:55 a.m. — Patrick Fishburn (15) vs. Tanner Higham (18)
10:05 a.m. — Mason Casper (6) vs. Jon Wright (27)
10:15 a.m. — Nic Booth (12) vs. Casey Halliday (21)
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The only thing better than Henrys latest track is a live performance of said song, Real Love!
Shortly after the music video was unveiled at midnight KST, and later the actual digital song was released at noon KST on April 29, 1theK shared a video of the singer performing Real Love in a bright, yellow studio.
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With the main focus on his voice, Henry displays one of his many talents as he belts out the fun, lively melody and sings about how he just wants to experience a real love. As with many of his songs, Real Love is also a self-composition, perfect for the springtime.
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If you've been following my epic budgeting series, you'll know this is step three in my journey. First, I had to sort through the emotional junk that comes with budgeting. Next, I created a beautiful and functional budget binder that I made available to you. Now, it's time to tackle the grocery budget.
The Professor and I realized our grocery budget seemed to be the area where money constantly seeps out. Does this happen to anyone else?
As we looked at our schedule and our pattern of over spending, we noticed several things were happening. On Saturday, I'd plan our week's meals and go buy the ingredients. But then as the week progressed, I'd forget what that bell pepper or that can of tomatoes was for. Heck, I'd forget what meals I was planning on cooking period. Then I'd open the fridge to a confusing sea of ingredients and come to the conclusion that we had absolutely nothing to cook for dinner. Logical, right?
Please, please tell me I'm not alone in this vicious cycle!
There were a lot of victims to my failed endeavors: the many bunches of cilantro that never realized their life's zesty purpose and instead turned to stinky goo. The salad dressing ingredients that were left dusty on the shelf. The once-crunchy cucumber that finally succumbed to the moldy pocks covering its skin. But hands down, the biggest victim was our budget.
Once we realized the first problem, another issue surfaced. I would plan meals – not elaborate meals, but from-scratch, 30-40 minutes prep and cook-time meals. On nights when we were both busy, those meals were too difficult to make, so we would end up grabbing Thai food or burgers. And it only gets worse from there. I take almost exclusively leftovers for lunches. No dinner means no leftovers, which means eating out for lunch too. It's a one-two-three punch that left us realizing why all our money kept disappearing down the drain…or to the back of the produce drawer.
Not good for us. Not good for the budget.
The Professor and I decided to go through our weekly routine and designate which evenings needed a quick dinner, which could have a sit-down dinner, and which nights we needed to fend for ourselves. With this schedule, I could more specifically plan meals.
There was also the matter of forgetting what I bought at the store. I needed to solve that problem. And then, as if through divine intervention, I had an idea. Like all the best ideas, it involved ingenuity, a bit of elbow grease and chevron stripes.
This is our weekly meal planner. It lives on the fridge. It has a pretty frame. It works with dry erase markers. And I love it. After literally dozens of tries in different lighting, I can't get a great photo of it. Sorry.
The meal planner has helped immensely. The Professor and I both know what's for dinner during the week. We can quickly change plans and reorder when we need to, and now we know why there is cilantro in the fridge. It also allows me to use a lot of a certain ingredient in different ways. As you might guess, the week photographed here started with a pack of chicken breasts.
It also lets me sneak in some of The Professor's less favorite meals. He doesn't like my sushi rice bowl recipe, so I cooked it on a night he was out. I got my sushi salad and lunch for the next few days, and he didn't have to eat it.
For the paper backer, I didn't want it too frilly, but I also wanted it to be custom and fun and special. With that in mind, I used a script font with fancy glyphs and a simple sans serif font for the days of the week and details. I also wanted it to coordinate with my budget binder, so chevron stripes were a natural choice in a background. Everything is bordered within an 8×10 inch box that can be cut out and used with any 8×10 inch picture frame.
The days of the week include details specific to our schedules. For the free printables, I left off our details but didn't adjust the spacing. If you want to add your own details, you have room to either write them or type them in using text boxes. I used Clemente Font for the body text, which you can download for free here.
Next, it was time to find a frame. Hobby Lobby has these gorgeous shaped frames I've been swooning over for a while. They're in the wall frame section, not the stand-up frame section. I got one during one of their many half-off sales, making the frame around $10.
To hang a big picture frame on your fridge, you need a big magnet. In my first attempt, I hot glued a bunch of those tiny super-strong magnets all over the frame. That was an epic disaster. Luckily I have several Container Store Spot-On Magnet Hooks for such moments in life. This is seriously a great magnet. It. Does. Not. Move. And it's pretty cheap. Buy one. No buy three.
This little project has already saved us so much money and sanity and cilantro. I hope it helps you organize your life and budget, too!
I've created two options for you. The pink, which has been shown throughout this post, and a very chic yellow and gray version.
Yellow Weekly Meal Plan Organizer Free Printable (PDF)
Pink Weekly Meal Plan Organizer Free Printable (PDF)
Happy {reluctant} budgeting!
Oh, and I showed you several products from several stores, but they didn't sponsor this post. This is just me telling you all the things that have worked for me!
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Making contributions to the development of Ardour
I don't know if this is the wrong sub-forum, but i'm a computer engineering student and I have an interest in developing software for audio applications. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place but I figured the most valuable place to try and make a contribution would be here.
If help is needed, where should I start looking to pick up on what needs to be done and the necessary documentation to support the development of whatever it may be?
I have some mild? experience with C and some moderate experience with Java and that's about the extent of it unless there's some PHP/Javascript that needs to be done.
Click on the "development" tab at the top of the page, which takes you to
http://ardour.org/development - that should lead you to answers to all your questions.
Don't expect any of it to be easy. I spend all day writing code in C and I wouldn't dare touch any of Ardour's code! (which is C++, by the way, not at all the same thing as C when used properly)
Your best bet is to go to the Mantis Issue Tracker, pick a bug/feature and start working on it, submit a patch to the issue when you are complete. Rinse/Repeat:)
Being on IRC to ask and answer questions isn't a bad idea either while you are doing this.
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Navy Band to present free holiday concert
Navy Band Northwest will present "Home for the Holidays, a free concert, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, at the Everett Performing Arts Center.
Santa Claus will be making a special appearance as well.
The U.S. Marine Corps will be accepting Toys-for-Tots donations.
For more information, call 360-315-3447 or go to facebook.com/NavyBandNorthwest.


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Unconventional and unapologetic, this publishing equivalent of a whodunit features an eclectic group of fictional characters, including a delusional schizophrenic narrator, an egg donor with second thoughts about her decision, a pharmacist who forms a weird crush on a woman who beat both of her parents to death, and a little girl who understands that an old safe is the threshold to another, ghostly, world. Equally diverse and surprising are the authors themselves: Aimee Bender, Benjamin Cheever, Michael Connelly, Sebastian Junger, Elizabeth McCracken, Rosie O'Donnell, Chris Offutt, Anna Quindlen, John Burnham Schwartz, Alice Sebold, Lauren Slater, and Marc Parent, the editor of the collection. Never before has such a wide-ranging and talented group of authors been assembled to such explosive and entertaining effect.
The Secret Society of Demolition Writers is an intriguing puzzle in itself, but it's also an important addition to the careers of some of our finest storytellers, even if we never really know who wrote what. Its boundary-smashing fiction offers exhilarating proof that for an artist, withholding your identity can mean gaining your freedom.
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"Disappointed at best"
Perhaps my expectations were too high. I did enjoy two of the stories. The rest left me feeling depressed and wondering, "Why am I doing this to myself?"
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Not for me, didn't like it. I thought I would recognize the stories from some favorite writers (Michael Connelly) but no... Stay with your tried and true.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. astronaut Mark Kelly pushed for gun-control measures on Wednesday by recalling in chilling detail the massacre that nearly killed his wife, former Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee just after Giffords called on lawmakers to "be courageous" and do more to reduce gun-related violence, Kelly gave a moment-by-moment account of the mass shooting in a supermarket parking lot near Tucson, Arizona, on January 8, 2011, that left six people dead and 13 wounded.
During a discussion of whether limiting gun buyers to ammunition clips with 10 rounds or less would violate their right to bear arms, Kelly told lawmakers why he believed limiting ammunition clips would save lives.
"On January 8th of 2011, a young man walked up to Gabby at her constituent event in Tucson, leveled his gun and shot her through the head," Kelly said, referring to gunman Jared Loughner.
"He then turned down the line and continued firing. In 15 seconds, he emptied his magazine. It contained 33 bullets and there were 33 wounds," Kelly said.
Kelly said that Christina Taylor Green, 9, was killed with the 13th shot.
"Others followed," Kelly said. "As the shooter attempted to reload, he fumbled" a second magazine. "A woman grabbed the next magazine, and others tackled and restrained him."
Kelly said he believed that if the magazine had no more than 10 rounds - a limit proposed by Democratic President Barack Obama after the killing of 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut school last month - Christina Green likely would not have been killed.
Kelly also countered National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre's claim that the best defense to gun violence in schools and other public places is "a good guy with a gun" - more armed security.
Kelly recalled how "a good guy with a gun" came charging out of a store that day in Arizona and nearly shot the wrong guy - a good Samaritan who was tackling the killer.
"He admits that he came within about a half a second of shooting the man ... and nearly killing him," Kelly said.
Kelly gave lawmakers much to think about as they consider ways to curb gun violence, including a ban on semi-automatic weapons and the proposed limit on ammunition clips.
Gun-rights groups oppose both measures, and have indicated there is little or no room for compromise.
LaPierre, who also appeared at the hearing, voiced support for better mental health treatment and more enforcement of measures designed to prevent the mentally ill from obtaining guns. Kelly and Giffords, who continues to recover from her wounds, support those ideas.
Kelly made a point of describing himself and his wife as gun owners who support gun rights. He said they are political moderates and that Giffords was a Republican before becoming a Democrat.
"We are simply two reasonable Americans who realize we have a problem with gun violence," Kelly said, "and we need Congress to act."
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Playstation Vita Launch Title 'Unit 13' Announced
The PlayStation Vita's launch line-up has been a source of intrigue for many gamers, with Sony staying rather tight-lipped on what games will be available day one. Thankfully the official PlayStation blog has spilled the beans on what looks to be a very exciting release, a third-person shooter being developed by the same studio responsible for the SOCOM series.
Unit 13 definitely looks much like a single-player SOCOM, with players tackling 36 different missions while playing as one of six variously skilled operatives. As explained by Brian Soderberg, president of Zipper Interactive, the game takes full advantage of the Vita's two thumbsticks, and his emphasis on this seems a subtle jab at Nintendo's 3DS, which is notably lacking that crucial second stick. He also mentions that the game will take advantage of the Vita's front and back touch panels as part of the game, though did not provide details on how this would be implemented.
Most excitingly though are the details on the game's networking capabilities. Not only does the game allow for co-op play, but players are also ranked across a variety of leaderboards. Additionally, completing a mission in the tougher "High Value Target" mode, unlocks that stage for NEAR play, allowing nearby Vita users to download and play the game.
Honestly, a lot of the language in the release is pretty vague, leaving some questions unanswered. Though based on this post alone, it seem as if the game won't have:
- Online co-op play
- Co-op play with NEAR
- Deathmatch multiplayer
- A dating-sim minigame
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What is the use of burglar alarms if you arn't going to respond?
Isn't the OP required to provide security? What are they paying him for?
Don't most of these types of burglaries occur at night?
Am I missing someone here?
If I'm working nights (which I did most of my career), and dispatch gives me an alarm call, and I told her wait until daylight and give it to the day shift, I wouldn't have had a job when the day shift hit the street.
If its your job, either as LE or Secruity to protect property, then its your job, DO IT.
There is an old Western Saying, "RIDE FOR THE BRAND" meaning loyalty to your employer and doing the job he's paying you to do to the best of your ability. That doesn't mean pawn it off on the day shift.
Train to do building searches. In vacent appartment buildings you're going to find tresspassers and bandits. A little of "shoot-no shoot" targets will be needed in your training.
Vacent appartments are great places to find druggie flop houses and these people can be dangerous, be prepaired.
But FFS, if you're hired to do a job, DO IT. Get as much training as you possibly can, but you have to do the job you're hired to do. Its nice if you have a partner, but often that isn't the case.
I can't believe some of the post on this topic.
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