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In this great nation of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around the country. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
A short drive from the heart of Little Saigon in California, Orange County Poultry and Rotisserie specializes in Vietnamese dishes made with locally sourced, house-butchered chickens. The mom-and-pop takeout also happens to be in the same strip mall as a pho restaurant, doughnut shop, taqueria, 7-11, and doner kebab joint—in southern California, these miracles tend to happen.
Whole hens and roosters can be purchased raw, prompting an enthusiastic conversation with the owner about whether or not you're the type of person who wants to keep the feet, head, and neck. And while you wait for your bird, a Rotisserie Chicken Bánh Mì ($3.65) makes an excellent sample of the stock. Pulled strands of flavorful, slightly chewy roasted chicken (ga roti) accompany the usual bánh mì fillings on a baguette that errs on the side of extra-crunchy. There are certainly better Vietnamese sandwiches in town, but for the sake of good chicken, this one is surely worth sticking your neck out.
OC Poultry and Rotisserie
2117 E Ball Rd., Anaheim, CA 92806 (map) (714) 780-0225 ocprmarket.com
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We traveled to Keweenaw Peninsula at the northwest part of Michigan to visit friends in Hancock - Paul and Cathy Leach - we had made in Florida. They took us on a tour of the copper country that is bordered by Lake Superior. Hancock was Cathy's home town, and Paul obtained his university degrees from Michigan Tech in Houghton which is just across the Portage Lake Lift Bridge. The area was once a source of many copper mines with miner towns supporting them. The once thriving metropolises are now much smaller towns. The copper ore crushing and smelting factilities are now either museums or decaying skeletons. These photos are a sampling of the sights seen.Read More


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Neurologist, The Oregon Clinic
Published July 2009
In 1967 Cotzias revolutionized the treatment of Parkinson's disease by showing that levodopa could greatly improve the characteristic tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia and postural instability.
In the past four decades pharmacological progress has been spectacular, so now physicians and patients may choose among multiple options. Providence Center for Parkinson's Disease uses some decision-making guides, informed by American Academy of Neurology practice parameters and by criteria developed by E.M. Cheng and colleagues, to measure quality of Parkinson's care.
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Before starting treatment of idiopathic Parkinson's disease, we must exclude medication-induced parkinsonism because it improves after stopping the offending drug.
The classic offenders, neuroleptic drugs such as chlorpromazine and haloperidol, are used less now than in the past. But we often see drug-induced parkinsonism from gastrointestinal drugs, such as metoclopramide (Reglan) or prochlorperazine (Compazine), and atypical antipsychotics such as olanzapine (Zyprexa) and risperidone (Risperdal).
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Parkinson's disease can interfere with many daily activities, such as speaking, swallowing, handwriting, dressing, using eating utensils, toileting, bathing, walking and turning in bed. We assess symptoms in these areas at each patient visit. Early in their illness, patients often continue their lives with minimal impairment. We have no proven therapy to slow the progressive neuronal destruction of the disease, so patients with early disease often do not need drug treatment.
As the disease progresses, some patients choose to be treated and others prefer to postpone medication. However, some forms of impairment, such as falls or choking, make treatment imperative.
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Once patients are ready for treatment, they have many choices. If they are relatively young and tremor is the predominant problem, anticholinergic drugs, such as trihexyphenidyl, are a reasonable choice.
Anticholinergics are among the most effective drugs for tremor but are much less effective for rigidity, bradykinesia and gait impairment. They are inexpensive and easy to titrate. Typical side effects include dry mouth, constipation, urinary hesitancy, memory impairment and confusion. This makes them less suitable choices for older patients or those with cognitive impairment.
MAO-B inhibitors selegiline and rasagaline are another option for initial treatment. They have definite but modest benefit on motor function when used without levodopa. Interest in their use early in the disease has been prompted by suggestions that they may also have neuroprotective effects. For example, in a recent trial of rasagiline, using a delayed-start design, patients who received the rasagaline for a year were less parkinsonian than patients who received placebo for six months before taking rasagiline for the next six months.
Amantadine is also an option for mild Parkinson's disease. The dose of 100 mg can be started once a day and adjusted as high as three times daily. The expense and side-effect profiles are modest but so is the potential value.
The most potent drug for Parkinson's disease, levodopa, is now almost always given in combination, adding 25 mg of carbidopa to 100 mg of levodopa. Later in the illness other combinations of carbidopa/levodopa, 25 mg/250 mg or 10 mg/100 mg, are sometimes useful.
Other alternatives for dopaminerigic therapy are dopamine agonist drugs, such as ropinerole or pramipexole. The physician and patient need to collaborate to choose between levodopa and a dopamine agonist. Levodopa is more potent but has a shorter half-life. It requires dosing three times a day or more, and its use is often complicated by eventual wearing off or dyskinesias.
The dopamine agonists, however, are more prone to cause cognitive or behavioral side effects or excessive daytime sleepiness.
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All medications used to treat Parkinson's disease need careful adjustment to optimize effect and minimize side effects. We see most patients who are taking medication at least twice a year and maintain more frequent contact with phone calls or office visits whenever we change medications.
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The gastrointestinal absorption of L-DOPA can be blocked by dietary protein; however, some patients need to take L-DOPA with meals to minimize drug-induced nausea.
Patients need guidance on when to take L-DOPA in relation to meal times and on avoiding marked fluctuations in the protein content of their food.
Treating motor complications
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Patients with mild Parkinson's can often be treated with levodopa three or four times a day or with a longer-acting dopamine agonist and have relatively stable improvement around the clock.
As the disease progresses, some patients, especially those taking levodopa, have fluctuating responses to medication, including gradual increases in motor impairment due to wearing off of medication effect or extra dyskinetic movements due to excessive medication effect.
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A number of pharmacological approaches can help mitigate wearing off. Options include:
A slow-release form of L-DOPA (Sinemet CR or carbidopa-levopoda ER) can prolong levodopa blood levels, but its clinical utility to treat wearing off is debated.
Apomorphine, a rapid-onset, short-acting dopamine agonist, can be self-injected subcutaneously by patients to quickly reverse wearing off.
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COMT inhibitors prevent breakdown of levodopa. If taken with each dose of carbidopa-levodopa, they can prolong on-time and decrease off-time after each dose by about half an hour. These drugs do not have significant therapeutic effect if given without levodopa.
Entacapone has less potential for liver toxicity than tolcapone, so it is the first-choice COMT-inhibitor. It is also available in combination with carbidopa-levodopa (as Stalevo) to facilitate patient adherence.
However, tolcapone is the more powerful COMT-inhibitor and will sometimes be effective for patients who have not responded to entacapone. When patients are taking tolcapone, they should have regular liver function tests to monitor for hepatic toxicity.
Manage dyskinesias »
Patients on levodopa are more likely than patients on dopamine agonists to develop drug-induced dyskinesia. The dyskinesias typically appear after a few years of levodopa treatment; the most common pattern is for dyskinesias appear when levodopa blood levels are highest.
One approach is to lower the levodopa dose, but the result is often worsening of parkinsonian motor symptoms. Patients can be nearly oblivious to mild dyskinesias, in which case we may continue the current levodopa dose but avoid future dose increases. Amantadine is one drug that sometimes reduces dyskinesias without worsening parkinsonian motor impairment.
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Avoid DBS if contraindicated »
If patients are carefully selected, deep brain stimulation (DBS) can very effectively treat motor fluctuations, increasing the duration of medication effect, decreasing dyskinesia and decreasing the amount of medication taken.
An experienced surgical team can place the stimulating electrodes in the thalamus, internal globus palidus or subthalamic nucleus with low risk of direct trauma, hemorrhage or stroke.
The electrodes are usually placed bilaterally and connected with subcutaneous wires to the battery and controls, which are placed, like a cardiac pacemaker, in a subcutaneous pocket on the upper chest. Physicians can adjust the stimulator with a handheld device; optimal adjustment of the stimulator can require a number of physician visits after surgery.
The motor improvement after surgery is usually no better than the patient's best response to levodopa, so patient selection usually includes examining patients with and without medication. Cognitive changes, dysarthria or dysphagia sometimes increase during deep brain stimulation. Patients with significant cognitive impairment are usually not selected for DBS.
We have many opportunities to improve the motor aspects of Parkinson's disease. Patients and physicians need to work together to choose medications, adjust doses, and deal with side effects. In addition, patients with Parkinson's disease also have many non-motor impairments, which I will review in a future article.
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Its a death neighborhood. For me it is like a war site from the past. The jungle I fought in as a boy and was destroyed in ( not really a physical violence, except sexual violence against me, and other intimidations, and a thousand other catastrophes). I have come back to gain my ground. What a horrible thing! and what a horrible thing that happened. IT reminds me of Cannibalism. Its at the same level. People eating others because of greed and lack of humanity. How low will the human race go. That was a funny comparison.
This is the death area for me ( the physical area I was brought up)! I was destroyed here. and I live on this same street! I see my old house every time I ride my full suspension mountain bike in its direction. Its horrible. ITs necessary. and its working. God is working. God is with me! And I continue to go to the meetings, and they continue to pull me out of self. And its working. And Im healing up.. and it is not easy. And the people don't understand me! many treat me like a lonely looser type that has no life and no place to go. A harmless weakling dreamer that gets a few moments of self esteem boost by talking when its my turn. A very low status person in the meetings; thats me! I guy that others must lower themselves to hug! to feel better about themselves. Im a lowly safe person that none really wants to hang with. The meeting weirdo with no life. And they are right in some respects. However, they are completely wrong! Im simply someone that will not buy into a bunch of #######4 and worship them, or anyone else! They are not Gods; thats the problem. And its still working for me! ITs hard!
Im not at the social level of sitting with others and joking and opening up! I do not have a cell phone! I have no one to call. I do not call everyone and have a hundred shallow friends. Yet, Im slowly getting better and these meetings continue to give me feedback. And I have a few people that I talk with at times.
If you've read my first blogs! I am much different now. I still talk about the same stuff. But my attitude and level of pain are much different.
Im not talking about the disorders as much. Im talking more about the emotion torture I was dealt and how Im going to get through it alive and move to the other side.
Its horrible to think I have original family members in the area ( home town). I will never see them again. They are complete strangers ( how despicable) . These are people I lived with as a boy ( I grew up with these people in the same house( how sickening). Its just horrible and despicable. However, these are sociopaths. And once they turn into the monster, they are forever gone. They can have no more connection! It bothers them not! they are Godless. Its a waist of time! Im a decent person! I have to get back to loving myself in a decent way!
Im going through allot of pain, allot of anger, and frustration. Im slowly getting strong enough to see new memories and feel them. And Im reminded that I have nothing, and all is gone! Im working through memories from 40 years ago!
This is a lonely time. I will have to prey for help! Keep working at things, keep preying!
being alone is what is so despicable. Its unbelievable for me! I need to get stronger! work through more pain and memories.. Trust God and keep preying. The stronger I get, the more I heal up, the less dissociation.
And the meetings; I need not forget what others see me as; a threat! and I need not forget this, even if I get stronger.
I Might go skiing again! Its been so long ago, almost 30 years.
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Hi NeoGen,
I just looked up my entry in the Wiki where it says I am a team member since 2008. Yet I've found a posting -by yourself even- 'November stats analysis', dated 12-08-2005 (December 8 2005) where you have me as new team member for Predictor and Rosetta
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Hi Neo,
Do you know if anyone has changed the password to get into FTP for us here? I can't upload the stats today.
sorry, I accidentally deleted your email. Now I am registered here, and my answer is that in all projects where Michal Hajicek or mhajicek or Michal Hajíček etc. appears, its me (DPAD, seti, einstein, folding etc., not active in all of them at the same time, switching from time to time).
Hi Neo,
I saw last week a post from you with new stats to be added. For the life of me, I can't find it. Gimme a clue mate
do you think you could accept me into the team for the tugs uptime project? i would greatly appreciate it.
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For years, I had school nightmares. I would remember that I had signed up for a class that I then promptly forgot about until the final exam, only to realize that I had absolutely no idea where the class was being held. I also had a recurring dream that I would suddenly appear at school either completely naked or in my underwear, with only a pillow to conceal myself.
Lately, though, I seem to be having a new type of nightmare. Instead of being based around school disasters, these focus on something much more distressing for me - moving. I will find myself in a fairly luxurious apartment that I absolutely love. It often is the same apartment, one Ive never been to in real life, but I recognize the floor plan once I wake up.
In this apartment are the things my family and I have acquired over the 1-2 years we lived there, and we find ourselves faced with the prospect of boxing it all up to move. But wait, you say, I thought this was supposed to be a nightmare?
Oh, my friend, trust me... it is SUCH a nightmare. See, we aren't just boxing up our things. We have to move because some sort of drama has occurred- someone has lost a job, or become disabled (things we have gone through in reality), and for whatever reason, we have left everything until the absolute last minute possible to leave. We have a matter of hours to get everything we own out of the apartment and clean it up to get the deposit back, and it just is not going to be possible.
It gets worse from there, as then family comes to help, but instead yell at us for being unprepared, and the landlord comes with police to evict us... my child (who is an adult in reality, but always a small child in these dreams) cries as everything familiar is being boxed up and taken away, and I stand helpless, watching everything Ive worked for basically falling apart.
Then I wake up, and let me tell you this- my life is nowhere near perfect, but the relief I feel when I realize I don't actually have to move right now? That is a wonderful, wonderful feeling.
Brains are weird. What sort of nightmares do you find yourself dealing with? Have you found anything that seems to trigger them? Leave me a comment, I would really like to know I'm not the only one having weird dreams like these!
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October has come upon us, with it's falling leaves, Pumpkin Spice lattes, candy corn Oreos and Halloween fever. Just in time, comedian Jeff Dunham is heading to Comedy Central with a new special, Minding the Monsters, airing this Sunday.
Dunham, along with his friend Walter, came by to tell CBS Local what to expect.
All of Dunham's puppets sport a costume in Minding the Monsters, each giving joking insight into their character.
"All the other guys, we decided to pick whatever Halloween character they would want to dress up as and it was fun trying to figure out who would be what on Halloween," Dunham said.
Walter chose Crankenstein — a cranky Frankenstein. Dunham's other "monsters" show up as Batnut (Peanut, dressed as his own version of his alter-ego Batman), a transvestite skeleton (Achmed, dressed as an American woman), and a snaggletoothed member of the undead (Bubba J as a white trash vampire).
The special was shot in Savannah, Georgia — often referred to as the most haunted city in America. Dunham and team took the local flavor on, recreating the interior of a gothic Southern home on the stage.
"The giant set was fantastic. It's the inside of a big haunted house, a big Victorian thing with actual Victorian furniture, spinning bookcases and opening stairs. We spared no expense."
"One of my favorite things is the fireplace that opens up," Walter said.
And on this special, even the props have props.
"Peanut comes out in the Nutmobile. I think that was one of the more expensive cars I've ever owned because it was all custom-built, radio controlled," Dunham elaborated.
"Overall I think it's something new and different and fun. I don't know any other comedian who has done a monster special," says Dunham.
"Probably a good reason for that. Good luck," Walter taunts.
Tune in to Minding the Monsters on Comedy Central this Sunday, October 7 at 9pm ET/PT. The special is also available on DVD and BluRay.
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|Boston Public Schools
|Boston, MA
|Pre-K to Grade 2
|Bee-Bot, Massachusetts, STEM
|American Embassy School
|American Empbassy School
|New Delhi, India
|Grades 9-12
|Logo, Programming, India
|Arcado Elementary School
|Arcado Elementary School
|Lilburn, GA
|Grades 2-3
|Crystal Rain Forest, Roamer, Georgia
|Austin College
|Austin College
|Sherman, TX
|Logo, Texas, Teacher Training
|Ball State University
|Ball State University
|Muncie, IN
|Logo, Coding, Indiana
|Bee-Bot Activity Mats
|Sahuarita Primary School
|Sahuarita, AZ
|Grades 1-2
|Bee-Bot, Arizona
|Bee-Bot Pirate, a Coding Game
|Suddenly it Clicks
|Friendswood, TX
|4 - 9 years old
|Bee-Bot, Teacher Activities
|Bee-Bot and Pro-Bot Clubs
|Rhinoceros Toy Store
|Jenkintown, PA
|4-12 years
|Bee-Bot, Pro-Bot, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, After School
|Bee-Bots and QR Codes
|Willard School
|Sanford, ME
|1st Grade
|Bee-Bot, Maine
|Bee-Bots in Japan
|Second Grade
|Bee-Bot, Japan, Video
|Bee-Bots on Treasure Island
|Pokhara Primary Study Centre
|Pokhara, Nepal
|5-7 years
|Bee-Bot, Nepal
|Branksome Hall Junior School
|Branksome Hall Junior School
|Toronto, Canada
|Kindergarten, Grades 1-6
|Bee-Bot, Pro-Bot, Ontario, Canada
|Butler Sisters Create Pro-Bot Tutorial
|Foundations For The Future
|Kennesaw, GA
|Grades 2 and 5
|Pro-Bot, Video, Georgia
|Chickering Elementary School
|Chickering Elementary School
|Dover, MA
|PreK - 2nd Grade
|Bee-Bot, Massachusetts, Video, Learning Mats, Maze
|Coding Now To Prepare For The Future
|Rowan-Salisbury School District
|Salisbury, NC
|Bee-Bot, Blue-Bot, Video, Learning Mats, North Carolina
|Community in Schools
|Akin Elementary School
|Hale Center, TX
|Grades 1-8
|Bee-Bot, Pro-Bot, Texas, After School
|Discoveries of the Bees
|Palisades Elementary Charter School
|Pacific Palisades, CA
|2nd Grade
|Bee-Bot, California
|From Concessions to Coding
|Sauk Prairie School District
|Pro-Bot, Wisconsin
|Guizhou Institute of Basic Math Creative Education Technology
|Guizhou Institute of Basic Math Creative Education Technology
|Guizhou, China
|Logo, Math, China
|Hello, Robo!
|Carnegie Science Center
|Pittsburgh, PA
|Headstart, Kindergarten
|Bee-Bot, Pennsylvania
|Helping Educators Create Makerspaces
|Orange-Ulster BOCES
|Goshen, NY
|Makerspace, New York, Bee-Bot, Blue-Bot, Tactile Reader, Pro-Bot, Easi-Scope, Conferences
|Hunting for the Balloon
|Scuola Speciale
|Morbio Inferiore, Switzerland
|Special Needs
|Bee-Bot, Switzerland
|Ino-Bot is the next step in the Programing Journey
|Calumet High School
|Calumet, MI
|High School
|InO-Bot, Logo, Michigan, STEM
|Introducing Bee Bots
|Lawrence Township Public Schools
|Lawrence Township, New Jersey
|Kindergarten - Grade 3
|Bee-Bot, Learning Mats, New Jersey
|Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative
|Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative
|Hazard, KY
|Bee-Bot, Pro-Bot, Kentucky
|Kids Programming School
|Tokyo University
|Tokyo, Japan
|Grade 2
|Bee-Bot, Japan
|Lakeside School
|Lakeside School
|Seattle, WA
|Grade 5
|Logo, Math, Washington
|Learning Basic Math with Bee-Bot
|Westmount School
|Moose Jaw, Canada
|Grade 1
|Bee-Bot, Canada, Saskatchewan, Math
|Let it snow, Let it snow in Louisiana
|Moss Bluff Elementary School
|Lake Charles, LA
|Bee-Bot, Blue-Bot, Lousiana, Snowman, Hour of Code
|Liberty-Benton Elementary School
|Liberty-Benton Elementary School
|Findlay, OH
|Grades 2-5
|Bee-Bot, Ohio, Maze
|Logo as an Art Machine
|Bogø, Denmark
|Logo, Art, Denmark
|Logo as an Art Machine
|Bogø, Denmark
|Logo, Art, Denmark
|Makerspaces - Computer Science in Action
|Houston Parks Dept
|Houston, TX
|Makerspace, Bee-Bot, Blue-Bot, Pro-Bot, Teacher Training, Texas, After School
|Me, and Bee-Bot, on the Map
|J.F. Baugher Elementary School
|Milton, PA
|Bee-Bot, Card Mat, Pennsylvania
|Meadowbrook School
|Meadowbrook School
|Weston, MA
|Grades 1-3
|Bee-Bot, Massachusetts
|Metamo4ic Math Center
|Metamo4ic Math Center
|Ferguson, MO
|Preschool, Grades 1-8
|Bee-Bot, Pro-Bot, Missouri, After School
|Never Too Young to Code
|School Library Journal
|Bee-Bot, Blue-Bot, Libraries, Early Learning
|Northern Essex Community College
|Haverhill, MA
|Logo, Programming, Massachusetts
|Old Town Academy
|Old Town Academy
|San Diego, CA
|Grades 2-5
|Pro-Bot, California, STEM, Video
|Patuxent Mobile STEM Learning Box Initiative
|Patuxent Partnership
|Lexington Park, MD
|5th grade
|Bee-Bot, Pro-Bot, Fundraising, Maryland
|Perloff Foundation Brings Bee-Bots to Maine
|Perloff Family Foundation
|Grades K-12
|Bee-Bot, Maine, Fundraising, Grants
|Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation Supports STEM Initiatives
|Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation
|Pittsburgh, PA
|Bee-Bot, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Penguins, Grants
|Pro-Bot Programming for Older Students
|Millikin University
|Decatur, IL
|High school and university students
|Pro-Bot, Illinois, Programming, Video
|Pro-Bot Rover Explores the Surface of Mars
|Northridge Elementary, Putnam City Schools
|Oklahoma City, OK
|Grades 3-5
|Pro-Bot, Oklahoma
|Pro-Bots at Dale Street School
|Dale Street School
|Medfield, MA
|Grades 4 & 5
|Pro-Bot, Massachusetts, Coding, Geometry, Collaboration
|Promoting Literacy With Bee Bots
|Allen Brook School
|Williston, Vermont
|Bee-Bot, Literacy, Early Learning, Vermont
|STEM Centers in Oklahoma City
|Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation
|Baltimore, MD
|Grades K-4
|Bee-Bot, Blue-Bot, Oklahoma, Baseball Mat, Video
|Saint Paul the Apostle School
|Saint Paul the Apostle School
|Richardson, TX
|Grade 8
|Logo, Programming, Texas
|Spelling with Bee-Bot
|Piney Point Elementary School
|Houston, TX
|Grades 1-4
|Bee-Bot, Texas, Learning Mats, Video
|St. George's Independent School
|St. George's Independent School
|Germantown, TN
|Grades 2-3
|Pro-Bot, Tennessee, After School
|Sweetwater School District
|Sweetwater School District
|Rock Springs, WY
|Preschool, Grades 1-5
|Bee-Bot, Pro-Bot, Wyoming
|Teaching Others to Teach with Bots
|Plato Academy
|K-5 and Middle School
|Bee-Bot, Pro-Bot, Blue-Bot, Florida, Conferences, Teacher Training
|The Bee-Bot Village
|Akin Elementary School
|Harwich, MA
|Preschool, Grades 1-8
|Bee-Bot, Massachusetts, Maze
|University School of Nashville
|University School of Nashville
|Nashville, TN
|Bee-Bot, Pro-Bot, Tennessee
|Using Bee-Bot as a Kindergarten Learning Tool
|Cushing Community School
|Cushing, ME
|Bee-Bot, Maine
|Using Bee-Bot to Teach Sequencing
|Cedar Elementary School
|Avon Community Schools, Avon, Indiana
|Grades K-6
|Indiana, Bee-Bot, Programming
|Using Bee-Bots Across the Curriculum
|Enfield Station School
|Enfield, ME
|Kindergarten, 1st grade
|Bee-Bot, Maine
|Using Bee-Bots to Support Story Writing
|Texas A&M University-Kingsville
|Kingsville, TX
|Bee-Bot, Literacy, Storytelling
|Village School
|Village School
|Pacific Palisades, CA
|Grades 4-6
|Bee-Bot, Roamer, Crystal Rain Forest, California
|Vista Teach Instructional Services
|Allendale Columbia School
|Rochester, NY
|Kindergarten, Grades 1-5
|Bee-Bot, Pro-Bot, New York, STEM
|Why Bee-Bot?
|Childcare center
|Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea
|3 years
|Bee-Bot, Korea


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In case you missed it, the premiere of Anthony Bourdain's travel show, Parts Unknow, just finished on CNN, and you can now catch the entire thing over on CNN.com.
In the episode, Bourdain travels to Myanmar (formerly Burma) to get to know the country's people, see the effects of the brutal military regime that is finally starting to loosen its grip, and—of course—explore the local fare.
What do you think of the first episode? Does Bourdain still have the touch?
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Why aren't more people buying Christina Aguilera's 'Lotus'?
The release of her new album Lotus was supposed to be a glorious victory lap for Christina Aguilera. After the dual duds of 2010's critical and commercial failures Bionic and Burlesque, the once-platinum-plated pop star set out to reinvent herself: She divorced her husband of five years, became a coach on the hit series The Voice, and recommitted herself to her music.
Only part of that plan seems to be working for her. While her visibility factor is way up thanks to the big ratings for The Voice, it's still bad news at the cash register. Final numbers won't be in until next week, but right now, album sales tracking service Hits Daily Double is currently projecting Lotus will sell somewhere between 75 and 80 thousand copies in its opening week.
Even if that prediction ends up being on the low side, it'll still be hard to spin those numbers positively. Bionic was considered a commercial debacle but still moved six figures in its opening frame (selling 110,000 copies out of the gate). What's worse is that Aguilera's is projected to finish well behind next generation pop stars One Direction (who will sell well over 500,000 copies of Take Me Home, their second album released this year) and indie R&B darling The Weeknd (who is essentially selling a series of albums that were given away for free online a year ago). Any way you look at it, the results are rough.
But if The Voice is such a hit and the material on Lotus is crafted by the same people who send the likes of Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, and Pink to the top of the charts, what is stopping people from buying this new album?
The studio talent is certainly there. Lotus features contributions from Max Martin, Shellback, Alex Da Kid, Supa Dups, Claude Kelly, and Lucas Secon, all of whom have had massive hits with a number of pop stars. But despite its pedigree, the Martin/Shellback entry "Your Body," the album's first single, is currently languishing in the lower reaches of the Hot 100. Does that mean those A-list names didn't bring their A-list material to the table? Let's put it another way: If Christina had recorded Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," would it have been a smash for her?
If the answer is "No," then perhaps Aguilera carries too much cultural baggage with her. Her personal style has always been a hot topic of conversation, she often fails to come across as particularly likable in interviews, and earlier this year got into a very silly media feud with the lads from the Wanted. But plenty of other pop stars do those same things and manage to get away with it. In fact, in the case of Pink and Minaj, those shoot-from-the-hip moments have arguably made them more popular than they have ever been.
Are people simply tired of Aguilera? The Voice has helped her regain much of the cultural cache she lost in the latter half of the aughts, but does that also mean that it has fulfilled the average Xtina quota? Stars have gotten mixed results from their involvement in reality shows. Among the other judges on The Voice, only Adam Levine has had a true chart-topping hit since he took his place in his spinny chair.
Aguilera's counterparts on American Idol haven't done much better;Jennifer Lopez got a bit of a singles bump but little else, and Steven Tyler couldn't parlay his run into success for Aerosmith (whose first original album in 11 years sold a paltry 65,000 copies in its opening week). Still, Aguilera is on television weekly right now, and you would think that she'd be able to convert more than one half of one percent of that show's audience into album buyers.
Whatever the reason, Lotus feels like the sad trombone at the end of this comeback trail for Aguilera. But what do you think? Why isn't Lotus doing bigger business? Is it the styling? The shouting? Or something else? Tell us your theories in the comments.
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Modern estate 14k yellow gold faceted pear shaped briolette green peridot and genuine cultured pearl fringe drop tassel pierced lever back earrings. These measure 2" total length including the lever back wires x 7/8" wide and weigh 3.7 grams. The pear shaped briolette cut green peridot measure 6mm x 5mm x 3mm each and the pearls measure 5mm in diameter. All the gems are strung on 14k gold findings and chain. Hallmarked "14K" on the edges. In excellent condition with no issues to note. Modern estate. Peridot is the birth stone for the month of August. In excellent condition, a modern estate earrings no more than 20 years in age.
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I have a real weakness for crispy sweets. And at the top of my list is an exquisite, lacy, sesame-seed-and-cardamom-sprinkled delicacy that's perhaps not very well-known outside Maharashtrian and Konkani homes: Chavde, or Mande.
In my childhood home, sweet-making was a joint endeavor between my parents and I can still see them as they made Chavde together. Mom rolled out the wafer-thin discs of dough and dunked them in frothing oil, Dad sprinkled them with a scented, sugary mixture, then folded them rapidly before they had a chance to cool down-- a job that required asbestos fingers.
As the chavde cooled, they would -- like magic-- set into a crackling, crispy, delicious but not cloyingly sweet snack.
Chavde are popular eats at Ganesh Chaturthi, India's celebration of the elephant-headed god's birthday which falls-- today! Chaturthi is always celebrated with plenty of food, a lot of it sweet, including the wonderful Modak. I have written before about my love for this colorful, raucously vibrant festival that sometimes lasts as long as 20 days, so I'll spare you a repetition.
Instead, I'll leave you with a recipe that's not only delicious but also completely vegan and therefore -- as I like to say -- one no God could resist. Even better, it's one that you can make in under an hour, honest. The only skill you need is an ability to roll out the dough into a thin disc. And don't even worry about making it perfectly round because once it's all folded up, who'll be the wiser?
Enjoy, and a Happy Ganesh Chaturthi to all my readers!
Chavde or Mande
- For the dough:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tbsp vegetable shortening (use one free of transfats)
- Water
- For the stuffing:
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp powdered cardamom
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds. Toast these in a dry skillet over the lowest heat setting , stirring frequently, until they just start to change color. Turn off the stove and allow the seeds to cool.
- 2 tbsp shredded coconut
- Make the dough:
- Place the ingredients in a bowl or in a food processor. Knead into a pliable, soft, elastic dough that's not too hard but doesn't stick to your fingers either. If you're kneading this in a food processor, pour the water in with the blades running until a dough ball forms.
- Place the dough in an air-tight container and set aside for at least 15 minutes.
- Make the stuffing:
- Place all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Here's an idea, not traditional-- add some nuts to this mix. Pistachio or blanched, thinly sliced almonds would be divine.
- In a small wok or a skillet large enough to fry the chavde, heat enough oil to deep-fry. You want your oil to be at 350 degrees which is pretty much a perfect temperature for frying and one at which the food won't absorb much oil.
- Divide the dough into 10 pieces.
- Roll each piece into a smooth ball and, using just as much flour as you absolutely need, roll into a really thin disc, around 5-6 inches in diameter.
- Place the disc into the hot oil and fry either side for about 15 seconds or until the disc is all bubbly and beginning to stiffen ever so slightly. You do need to get a good feel for this-- if you take out the disc too fast it won't be cooked enough. But if you leave it in the oil for too long, it'll stiffen up before you have a chance to fold it.
- Place the disc on a plate covered with a kitchen towel to absorb any oil. I also keep another towel handy to blot away any oil on the top. Working fast, sprinkle about a tablespoon of the sugar mixture over one half of the chavda, then fold over the other half to form a semi-circle. Spring a couple more teaspoons of the sugar mixture over half the semicircle and fold over once more.
- Set aside to cool, preferably on a rack. You have to let the chavde cool thoroughly for the crispy, crackly texture.
- Eat up!


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Aug. US jobs data could drive Fed bond-buying move
Signs of improvement in the U.S. economy emerged this week, and the jobs report the government will issue Friday will show whether that strength is fueling consistent hiring gains.
The August employment report will be the most significant economic data to be released before the Federal Reserve meets Sept. 17-18. Many economists expect the Fed to decide then to slow its monthly bond purchases.
Analysts predict a solid gain of 177,000 jobs for August, above total but just below the monthly average this year of 192,000. The unemployment rate is expected to remain 7.4 percent.
Many economists were encouraged by data released this week. Reports showed that services companies are stepping up hiring and that a dwindling number of people are losing jobs.
Americans are buying more cars than at any time since the recession began in December 2007. And U.S. factories expanded in August at their fastest pace in more than two years.
This year's steady job growth, along with declining layoffs, has helped lower the unemployment rate to 7.4 percent from 7.9 percent in January. It also means more Americans are earning paychecks and will likely boost consumer spending in coming months.
The improved jobs picture is a key reason most economists expect the Fed to scale back its bond buying. The Fed's $85 billion a month in Treasury and mortgage bond purchases have helped keep home-loan and other borrowing rates ultra-low to try to encourage consumers and businesses to borrow and spend more.
Chairman Ben Bernanke has said the Fed could begin slowing its bond purchases by year's end if the economy continues to strengthen and end the purchases by mid-2014. After its September policy meeting, the Fed will announce whether it will taper its monthly purchases and, if so, by how much.
The data released in the past week have bolstered the position of those Fed officials who argue that the economy is healthy enough to withstand tapering:
- U.S. services firms, which employ about 90 percent of the U.S. workforce, expanded last month at their fastest pace in nearly 8 years, according to a report Thursday from the Institute for Supply Management. Sales and new orders rose. Service companies also hired at the fastest pace in six months. The institute's index of service sector growth has jumped 5.8 points in the past two months to 58.6 - the biggest two-month increase since it began in 1997. Service firms include retailers, banks, construction companies and hotels.
- A four-week average of applications for U.S. unemployment benefits has fallen in the past month to its lowest point since October 2007 - two months before the Great Recession officially began. The trend shows that employers are laying off fewer and fewer workers.
- Survey results reported Thursday by payroll provider ADP found that American businesses added 176,000 jobs in August. That was just below the 198,000 added in July but close to the past year's average monthly gain.
- U.S. factories grew last month at their strongest pace in more than two years, according to the ISM's index of manufacturing growth. A measure of orders soared to its highest level since April 2011, a sign that factory output could grow further in coming months.
- Americans bought new cars in August at the fastest annual pace since November 2007, before the recession. Auto sales jumped 17 percent compared with a year earlier. Toyota, Ford, Nissan, Honda, Chrysler and General Motors all posted double-digit gains over last August.
Still, more than four years after the recession officially ended, the economy has a long way to go return to full health. The unemployment rate is well above the 5 percent to 6 percent range associated with a normal economy.
Many of the jobs created this year have been part-time positions in industries with generally low pay, such as hotels, retailers and restaurants. Such jobs leave consumers with less money to spend than do better-paying positions in industries such as manufacturing and construction, which have mostly shed jobs the past four months.
Businesses have also reduced spending on heavy machinery and other long-lasting factory goods. That caused orders to U.S. factories to fall in July by the most in four months, the Commerce Department said Thursday.
AP Retail Writer Anne D'Innocenzio contributed to this report from New York.
Follow Chris Rugaber on Twitter at https://Twitter.com/ChrisRugaber


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The VIP party celebrating of the fourday exhibition of The Art of Basketball saw Miami Heat NBA champions Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh truly in their element of giving. As part of a collaborative endeavor to raise funds through art, Wade and Bosh joined forces with Premier Beverage Company to co-host the evening, which benefited their respective charities.
The evening kicked-off with the arrival of Wade and Bosh walking the red carpet in the company with other heavy-hitting friends, including fellow Heat players Lebron James, James Jones, Shane Battier, owner Micky Arison and actress Gabrielle Union.
The night peaked when Bob Drinon, president/CEO of Premier Beverage, and his wife Susan presented Wade and Bosh with a check for $15,000 for the Wade's World Foundation and Bosh's Team Tomorrow. At the same time, two pieces of art created by Billi Kid and Joe Iurato were presented to the players.
The Heat's own DJ Irie was in charge of the musical backdrop as more than 500 guests indulged in burgers, shakes and fries, compliments of Shake Shack.
The Art of Basketball exhibition was produced by the Public Works Department. The exhibition paid homage to the Heat and the team's 2012 NBA Championship. The exhibition featured a select group of renowned graffiti and street artists who have created portraits of the team's players, notably Wade and Bosh. Each piece was created from symbols of the championship season, including NBA backboards and the 2011 NBA All-Star Game floor boards.
"The Art of Basketball and Art Basel give Miami a chance to celebrate the city," said Bosh. "It was an honor to be back as a host and to have this year's exhibit reflect the Heat and the amazing season we had. It is inspiring to be around."
The Art of Basketball exhibition continues from through Dec. 9, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., at 2048 NW Miami Ct. Featured artists include Mr. Brainwash, URNY, Sofia Maldonado, The Dude Company, Skewville, Shiro, Cern, Rene Gagnon, Joe Iurato, Ewok One 5MH, Jack Aguire, David Cooper, Cope2, Chris Stain, Gaia, J. Robles, Sero, ECB, Veng, Peat Wollaeger, Junk, Blanco, Bill Fickett and Billi Kid.


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Detectives investigate double slaying in Lafourche Parish
Residents fear crime in community reaching new level
Crime concerns are rising in a Lafourche Parish town after two people were found shot to death inside an apartment over the weekend.
Sheriff Craig Webre said the sheriff's office typically investigate up to three homicides a year. This is the third homicide in the parish in two weeks.
Neighbors in the Larose community, where a double shooting occurred Sunday morning, fear crime is reaching a new level.
"This is something that usually doesn't happen in Larose," said Ricky Folse, who in recent months has questioned the activity at the Westside Apartments near his home. "When we take our garbage out, it's right next to this apartment complex, and we go two at a time with it we keep an eye on each other."
Folse said he has noticed suspicious activity and traffic at the complex and has reported it to authorities on occasion.
"You tend to want to think it is still a nice neighborhood. It's just that it's become problematic lately and we're a little worried, as anyone would be," Folse said.
Things grew more worrisome when two people were found shot multiple times inside one of the apartments Sunday. Investigators arrived at the Westside Apartments on West Fourth Street at 11:45 a.m.
Webre said the victims were identified as 41-year-old Nikki Landry and 54-year-old Harry Lefort, of Cut Off.
Investigators said the victims were found at Landry's apartment, each of them had been shot multiple times. Their bodies were discovered by one of Landry's family members who also lives at the apartment.
"It's shocking because we don't get this kind of happenings here. Usually you here about this in a larger city like New Orleans, and slowly and slowly, it seems like we're getting a high crime rate," Webre said.
"It is completely out of the norm for Lafourche Parish. We typically might have one or two, maybe three homicides a year, and here in the span of two weeks we've had three homicides, this being a double homicide,"Webre said.
Investigators spent several hours processing the scene. Webre said they have not identified a suspect or motive but have ruled out robbery.
"We suspect narcotics are involved." Webre said. "There were narcotics located in the apartment, and there was no forced entry, so there is some indication that there may have been previous knowledge between the shooter or shooters and the individuals in the apartment."
Webre said the incident didn't appear to be a random shooting. He believes the victims in Sunday's shooting were targeted. This is the fourth homicide in Lafourche Parish this year.


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New technologies and changes in U.S. law are adding to pressures to turn Internet service providers into cops examining all Internet traffic for child pornography.
One new tool, being marketed in the U.S. by an Australian company, offers to check every file passing through an Internet provider's network — every image, every movie, every document attached to an e-mail or found in a Web search — to see if it matches a list of illegal images.
The company caught the attention of New York's attorney general, who has been pressing Internet companies to block child porn. He forwarded the proposal to one of those companies, AOL, for discussion by an industry task force that is looking for ways to fight child porn. A copy of the company's proposal was also obtained by msnbc.com.
Privacy advocates are raising objections to such tools, saying that monitoring all traffic would be an unconstitutional invasion. They say companies can't start watching every customer's activity, and blocking files thought to be illegal, even when the goal is as noble as protecting children.
But such monitoring just became easier with a law approved unanimously by the Congress and signed on Monday by President Bush. A section of that law written by Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain gives Internet service providers access to lists of child porn files, which previously had been closely held by law enforcement agencies and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Although the law says it doesn't require any monitoring, it doesn't forbid it either. And the law ratchets up the pressure, making it a felony for ISPs to fail to report any "actual knowledge" of child pornography.
That actual knowledge could be handed to the Internet companies by technologies like the one proposed by the Australian company, Brilliant Digital Entertainment Ltd. Known as CopyRouter, the software would let ISPs compare computer files — movies, photographs and documents — against those lists. Banned files would be blocked, and the requestor would receive a substitute file provided by law enforcement, such as a warning message: "The material you have attempted to access has been identified as child pornography." The attempt to send or receive the file could then be reported to law enforcement, along with the Internet Protocol address of the requestor.
The CopyRouter relies on a controversial new technology called "deep packet inspection," which allows Internet companies to analyze in real time the river of data flowing through their networks. The pipeline would know what was passing through it. You can read more about this technology in Bob Sullivan's
Child porn foes give proposal to AOL
from Brilliant Digital Entertainment describing the technology was passed on to AOL last month by two powerful forces in the fight against child porn: the office of New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, who has been calling out ISPs that won't agree to block sites with illegal images, and Ernest E. Allen, the president and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a nonprofit given by Congress a central role in the fight.
When msnbc.com inquired about the proposal, both Cuomo's office and Allen said they were not promoting the technology, merely passing it along to a committee of Internet service providers and software companies as part of "brainstorming" on new technologies to detect illegal images.
One of the leading experts on electronic privacy in the U.S. says the proposal would clearly run afoul of the U.S. Constitution, essentially setting up a wiretap without obtaining permission from a judge.
"This would be plainly illegal in the United States, whether or not a governmental official imposed this on an ISP or the ISP did this voluntarily," John Morris of the Center for Democracy and Technology said after viewing Brilliant Digital's slide show. "If I were the general counsel of an ISP, I wouldn't touch this with a 10-foot pole."
A spokesman for Brilliant Digital Entertainment disputed that, saying the technology would be "non-invasive," would not compromise privacy, would be legal in the U.S. and elsewhere, and most important, would curtail the global proliferation of child pornography.
"I don't think it takes many voices before the Internet industry separates out those who are prepared to build a business on the trafficking of child sexual exploitation," said Michael Speck, Brilliant Digital's commercial manager in charge of law enforcement products. "If boxes started turning up with Pablo Escobar's special-delivery cocaine inside, they'd stop it, they'd do something about it."
How it would work
Here's how CopyRouter would work, according to the company's slide show:
- A law enforcement agency would make available a list of files known to contain child pornography. Such files are commonly discovered in law enforcement raids, in undercover operations and in Internet searches that start with certain keywords (such as "pre-teens hard core"). Police officers have looked at those files, making a judgment that the children are clearly under age and that the files are illegal in their jurisdiction, before adding them to the list. Each digital file has a unique digital signature, called a hash value, that can be recognized no matter what the file is named, and without having to open the file again. The company calls this list of hash values its Global File Registry.
- Whenever an Internet user searched the Web, attached a file to an e-mail or examined a menu of files using file-sharing software on a peer-to-peer network, the software would compare the hash values of those files against the file registry. It wouldn't be "reading" the content of the files — it couldn't tell a love note from a recipe — but it would determine whether a file is digitally identical to one on the child-porn list.
- If there were no match, the file would be provided to the user who requested it. But if there were a match, transmission of the file would be blocked. The users would instead receive another image or movie or document, containing only a warning screen.
Can software fool encryption schemes?
Encrypted files on the peer-to-peer network could not be decrypted by CopyRouter, but the company claims it can fool the sender's computer into believing that the recipient was requesting an unencrypted and uncompressed file. The slide show calls this "special handling." This is done by changing the underlying protocol settings that establish how the sender and recipient exchange the file. This trickery, unknown to either the sender or recipient, would make it possible for CopyRouter to see the underlying files, calculate a hash value and compare the files to the list of illegal files, Brilliant Digital says.
A photo of the company's first test machine can be found online, in the online photos of the company's systems architect, Norberto "Beto" Meijome, author of the PowerPoint presentation. Meijome's portfolio of online photos on Flickr includes photos of his Cisco SCE router on the day he unpacked and installed it, Sept. 11, 2007. He labels the SCE router "the new toy."
Brilliant Digital Entertainment has a complicated past. Its subsidiary, Altnet, made news in 2002, when its software shipped with the Kazaa file swapping software, then heir to Napster's throne as the favored way for file swappers to illicitly trade music. Altnet's program was designed to use unused bandwidth and processing power of Kazaa users for such uses as paid advertising and promotions for commercial products. The company claimed that this activity only occurred if the customer allowed it, but some antivirus firms labeled the software as spyware. Later, Altnet was sued by the recording industry for its role in helping spread the popularity of Kazaa.
After settling a lawsuit with the music industry, Brilliant Digital decided to approach file sharing from a new direction, selling products designed to help copyright holders protect their intellectual property. It now describes itself as a "significant online provider of licensed film and music content."
Seeking allies to move the new product to market
Now the company wants to expand into a new product line: fighting child porn.
"We have been working on it for some time," Speck said in a telephone interview from Australia.
"We've been in negotiations with ISPs and law enforcement agencies and content owners." Speck said he previously led the anti-piracy organization of the Australian sound recording industry.
Now he's lining up meetings in the U.S. next month with Internet providers and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
In advance of his trip to the U.S., Speck spoke with the staff of Andrew Cuomo, whose New York attorney general's office has been pressuring Internet service providers to fight child porn. In June, Cuomo announced he was investigating ISPs, using a modern version of the public stocks to encourage cooperation. He set up a listing Internet providers around the nation that made the changes he demanded, as well as "ISPs that have failed to make the same commitment to stop child porn." Cuomo, who was recently cited by McCain as one Democrat he would like to appoint to federal office, has urged Internet service providers to block access to child porn news groups and "purge their servers of child porn Web sites."
Speck had a conference call in September with Cuomo's staff, which he said gave him a blunt description of the legal and privacy landscape in the U.S.
"We'd be grateful for any assistance in getting this to the relevant ISPs and law enforcement agencies, and making any adjustments necessary," Speck said, recounting the conversation with Cuomo's staff. "It was made very clear that, for this to be a viable law enforcement tool, this would have to operate within the legislative framework within the country."
After talking with Speck, Cuomo's office passed the proposal on to John D. Ryan, AOL's senior vice president, deputy general counsel and head of its public safety and criminal investigations unit. Ryan received the slide show on Sept. 18, the day before attorneys from Cuomo's office arrived at AOL's headquarters in Virginia to discuss new technologies to fight child porn. Both Cuomo's office and AOL said that the CopyRouter was not discussed explicitly during what was described as a brainstorming session.
'We have nothing to do with this technology'"We have not pressured anyone to use this technology," said a Cuomo spokesman, Matthew Glazer. "We have nothing to do with this technology."
At the same time, AOL's Ryan received a copy of the slide show from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Known as NCMEC, this private nonprofit organization has an increasing role in the law enforcement effort against child porn, and receives more than $35 million in taxpayer funds each year. NCMEC and Cuomo's office have worked together this year on the child-porn fight, holding a joint press conference to announce Cuomo's Web site.
Ryan also has close ties to NCMEC, serving as a member of the board of directors and as leader of its industry Technology Coalition on child porn. Members of that group also include Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and others. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)
AOL officials said they did not feel pressured by Cuomo or NCMEC to adopt any particular technology, adding that the company has a long history of fighting child porn on its own initiative. "The relationship with the attorney general is positive and partnering," Ryan said.
AOL's has a system of its own
AOL officials told msnbc.com that they already examine some files for child porn, block access to those files, and provide evidence to law enforcement. That system (called image detection filtering protocol) apparently is based on the same general principle as CopyRouter, comparing the hash values of files to a known list. But there are significant differences between the two approaches.
AOL checks files uploaded as attachments to e-mail against a list of files that AOL has identified as child porn. If the file matches one on its list, the sender is led to believe that the file has been sent, but it has not. AOL's methods have been shared with other Internet service providers.
But AOL officials said a device like the CopyRouter would be more extensive and more efficient for two reasons: AOL checks only e-mail attachments, not Web searches or other Internet traffic, and its home-grown list of banned files is much shorter than the lists compiled by law enforcement and NCMEC.
"The library of hash values that AOL has, has been derived over time, completely in house from reports from users and files we've stumbled upon," said Christopher G. Bubb, an AOL assistant general counsel in the public safety and criminal investigations unit. "So it's not a government list. Courts have likened it to citizen provided information."
Government role would be problematic That distinction is important. Internet service providers could be considered agents of law enforcement if they began comparing files to a list provided by the police and intercepting traffic by substituting a legal file for an illegal one. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids unreasonable search and seizure by the government. Courts have held that Internet service providers are within their rights to examine the traffic that flows through their pipeline — as they must do, for example, to combat spam — because the scrutiny is being done by a company, not the government.
Although they said they could not pass judgment on software proposed by any vendor, the AOL officials suggested that Brilliant Digital's proposal might not work in the U.S., at least not without Congress providing ISPs more legal cover.
""Keep in mind that this is developed in a totally different cultural and legal regime. The Australian legal system is quite different from an American legal system," said Ryan, the AOL executive. "It would raise concerns. ... Would we be deemed an agent of the government?"
'Not an intelligence-gathering tool'
Speck, the Brilliant Digital official, argued that CopyRouter would not put ISPs in a law enforcement role because the list of banned files would be managed by the law enforcement agency, not handed over to the private companies. CopyRouter would consult that list, but at arm's length from the companies.
"The responsibility is shifted to law enforcement," Speck said. "We've delivered to Internet service providers something they've called for. ... This is not an intelligence-gathering tool. This is not for developing a list of users. This is an extension of what routers already do."
But wouldn't the Internet service provider know which traffic CopyRouter had blocked, and which user had sent or attempted to download it? No, Speck said, because his company's product would be a neutral middleman, not sharing information with the ISP or law enforcement.
"All hashes are provided to Global File Registry, which manages a secure data base and communications channel between law enforcement agencies and the ISP such that the illicit file hashes targeted by law enforcement remain private and secure to the relevant law enforcement agency," he said in an e-mail after the interview. "There is no personal (sender/receiver) information identified, and privacy is maintained."
, however, does describe information on users being passed directly to law enforcement. Any files that matched the child porn list would be reported to a "law enforcement data collector," along with IP addresses identifying the user's computer. The slide show says, "Any hits here will generate a 'red' report, which will be routed to the police collector server ONLY. These reports contain full IP information."
Although Brilliant Digital says no law enforcement agency has signed on to the CopyRouter plan, that hasn't kept the company from including a familiar blue seal in its slide show. At each point when a law enforcement computer is depicted, it bears a mark that closely resembles the FBI logo. Only when the logo is magnified can one see that it says "Friendly Bus Investigator" rather than "Federal Bureau of Investigation." The FBI hasn't signed on to the plan, Speck said, and the logo was not meant to imply any endorsement.
The FBI met a hailstorm of criticism in 2000 when the existence of its Carnivore project was revealed. The packet-sniffing technology was used to monitor and log traffic when installed at an Internet service provider. The FBI by 2005 had stopped using the technology, in favor of commercial tools.
New law may take law enforcement out of the loop Under the new U.S. law, a system like CopyRouter might not require involvement of law enforcement. The McCain portion of the new child-porn law allows such a system to be set up by the Internet service providers, because it gives them access to those lists of illegal files.
The key player in that transfer is the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Although it's a nonprofit organization, NCMEC has increasingly taken on law enforcement roles, with Congress requiring that complaints of child pornography be sent to its CyberTipline. Since 1998, NCMEC says, it has received more than 300,000 reports from ISPs. And it gives them a daily list of Internet addresses that appear to host child porn, so the companies can choose to block those Web pages.
The new law authorizes NCMEC to go further, handing to Internet service providers the list of files judged to be child porn. Law enforcement agencies give those hash values to NCMEC, which will be allowed (but not required) to give them to the ISPs. That cooperation would allow the ISPs to use CopyRouter or their own home-grown solutions, without including cops in the loop directly.
That provision was part of the , a bill introduced by Sen. McCain and Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York. A McCain aide called the bill a "NCMEC wish list." The SAFE Act also made it a felony for ISPs to fail to report child porn, if they discover it, with penalties up to $300,000 for each instance.
McCain's bill got caught in a tug-of-war with written by another player in the presidential election, Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential candidate. Biden's solution leaned more toward law enforcement, giving more money to the Justice Department and state Internet Crimes Against Children task forces, which investigate child pornography.
With NCMEC lined up behind McCain's bill, and other child protection activists (and Oprah Winfrey) pushing for Biden's bill, Congress finally passed them both: McCain bill was folded into the Biden bill, which passed the House and Senate without objection. Republicans were able to cut the spending in the Biden bill, down to $300 million.
With the new law in place, NCMEC has a plan for ISPs to use their new access to the hash values.
"We believe that there needs to be more proactive, voluntary methods to identify illegal child pornography content that bring it to their attention," said Allen, the NCMEC president. "We are working with leading ISPs to do that."
He said NCMEC's Hash Sharing System would share with Internet service providers information on only the " worst of the worst" images of child pornography. An image must depict a pre-pubescent child who has been identified by law enforcement. And it must depict one of the following: "oral, vaginal or anal penetration and/or sexual contact involving a child whether it be genital, digital, or a foreign object; an animal involved in some form of sexual behavior with a child; or lewd or lascivious exhibition of the genitalia or anus. "
"Through this project, NCMEC is also working with the members of the Technology Coalition to test existing software and develop new technologies that will enable ISPs to identify apparent child pornography images by hash value and block them," Allen wrote in an e-mail.
Some ISPs willing to police copyright law
The idea of turning Internet service providers into cops has been opposed and embraced by different ISPs in a different realm — copyright protection. The recording and movie industries have pressed ISPs to monitor their customers to detect traffic copyright violations. AT&T has said it hopes to monitor for pirated content, and has been in discussions with content companies, including NBC Universal (co-owner of msnbc.com), which has pushed for such filtering. Microsoft (the other co-owner of msnbc.com) has said it opposes filtering by ISPs.
ISPs also have run into public and government opposition just for slowing down, not blocking, some Internet traffic. The Federal Communications Commission ruled in August, on a 3-2 vote, that Comcast's limiting of BitTorrent traffic was illegal. Comcast said it was merely trying to keep the flood of peer-to-peer file sharing from slowing down the Internet for everyone else. As for CopyRouter, the company's manager said it would not slow down Internet traffic noticeably, because it's not inspecting the contents of files, merely comparing their hash values to a list, which can be done quickly.
Privacy advocates have already raised objections to deep-packet inspection. Earlier this year, a California company named NebuAd proposed a service that would observe Web surfers' Internet habits through machines installed at ISPs, then inject context-sensitive advertising into the Web sites the consumers visited. It called the system "Behavioral Targeting." Public outcry and rumblings of an investigation from Congress led firms considering the technology to pull out.
Morris, of the Center for Democracy and Technology, said Brilliant Digital's plan constitutes an illegal wiretap, and would run afoul of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. No firm can listen in on private communications unless it is instructed to do so by a law enforcement official with a proper court order, he said.
'Enormous First Amendment problems'
Even then, no government agency — even a law enforcement agency or state attorney general's office — could impose a requirement to stop all files on a blacklist, or otherwise create a list of forbidden content, Morris said. Such a list would not pass constitutional muster.
"You can't declare speech, or images, illegal without judicial proceedings," Morris said. "... That creates enormous First Amendment problems. You can't have an agency or outside firm acting as judge and jury on these images."
Also, blocking images before they were delivered would constitute a prior restraint of communication, Morris said, violating the First Amendment right of free speech.
Other methods used to combat child porn — logging IP addresses of frequent senders and investigating them, by using a subpoena to force ISPs to reveal the name, and then knocking on the user's door — raise no such constitutional issues, Morris said. He compared that to a law enforcement official overhearing illegal speech in a public place and prosecuting a speaker. Brilliant Digital's scheme, he said, is more like picking up a telephone and listening in on private conversations.
"As horrible as child pornography is, and it is horrible, you still have to follow the Constitution," Morris said.
At NCMEC, Allen said the privacy interests are being heard. "We have been very sensitive to legitimate free speech and privacy-related concerns. That is one of the reasons we are focusing exclusively on pre-pubescent children and the most egregious images. That does not suggest that child pornography images involving 13-year-old children are acceptable or less serious, however, traditional law enforcement investigation and prosecution efforts are being used for those situations."
A different approach
Another child protection group has a different approach. The National Association to Protect Children, which advised Sen. Biden on his bill, said that blocking of files by Internet service providers could easily be seen by the public as "overreaching," making it harder to get public support for efforts of law enforcement. What's needed, said the group's executive director, Grier Weeks, is for cops to investigate the leads they already have.
"The Department of Justice and all 50 attorneys general are sitting on a mountain of evidence leading straight to the doors of child pornography traffickers," Weeks said. "We could rescue hundreds of thousands of child sexual assault victims tomorrow in America, without raising any constitutional issues whatsoever. But government simply won't spend the money to protect these children. Instead of arrests by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the child exploitation industry now faces Internet pop-ups from the Friendly Bus Investigators. That was always the fundamental difference between the Biden bill and the McCain bill. Biden wanted to fund cops to rescue children. McCain wanted to outsource the job."
Sen. McCain's general counsel, Lee C. Dunn, said that he's happy that both the law enforcement and technology approaches became law, that his focus was on protecting children. She said the new law does not require any Internet provider to monitor traffic.
"They have the responsibility and their right to manage the network as they wish," Dunn said. "If AOL wants to monitor their network for child porn, some customers may go to them, because they'll keep them from getting this stuff showing up in their e-mail. Other companies may choose not to, and other people may prefer that. We're not dictating to them that they monitor their network."
Brilliant Digital Entertainment is betting that most internet companies will choose to monitor their customers. Michael Speck said his company's product pitches have been well received by law enforcement agencies, government officials and Internet service providers.
"I don't think there's anyone in the Internet space," Speck said, "who doesn't think fighting child sexual exploitation is good business."


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Winter in the north can be any extreme. We can experience temperatures of around 0 for days at a time; or several days of 50 degree weather. The snow can be very deep, or barely nothing at all.
Here in Central Illinois we have experienced a bizarre winter. Now, I realize I have a lot to do with that. Last August I got my motorcycle license, and after getting it so late in the year, I realized that I wouldn't be able to ride for very long before putting my bike up for winter. So I wished and prayed and kept my fingers crossed for a mild winter, and I got it! I have been out on my bike a number of time in December and January, and today --February 18--the temperature has hit around 50 degrees again.
All of this to say that this kind of weather does strange things to the nature around us too. Trees or plants blooming too early can be cut down as we get a freeze, which is still likely in the next month or so. The honeybees are out looking for something to devour and not finding a thing. Which leads them to eat an abundance of what they have on hand--honey!
A warm winter can lead to honeybee starvation far quicker than a very cold winter. In the coldest of winters, bees will cluster in a ball to stay warm, using very little resources and needing very little food. They use those rare, occasional days of warmer temperatures to fly out to defecate and hunt for their honey. But with the weather being so warm, and for so often, they are going through their storages quickly.
Or for some, those bees didn't have enough to start off the winter. Some beekeepers, mostly out of a lack of skill or knowledge, will take off too much honey. Or, anticipating a late fall nectar flow, will take off all the honey in the deep summer, and then realize because of weather conditions, that fall flow didn't happen, leaving the bees short on stores for the winter.
Bees then need to be fed. Because we have asked these bees to live in our yard, in our boxes, in our environment, in our weather, I believe we have the responsibility to help them out.
One of the easiest things you could do is make sugar patties--a sort of a "fondant". Some companies have now started selling these, but they are very simple and cheap to make--I wouldn't suggest putting your money into purchasing them and paying shipping when it is so easy. Simply take 2 cups of powdered cane sugar (beet sugar is a GMO, cane sugar is not--the package has to say CANE) and combine with 1 ounce of water. Roll into a ball and flatten out and lay on top of the frames where the bees are (obviously don't put it three supers up away from the cluster). I also add 1/2 cap full of Honey B Healthy and 1 - 2 tablespoons of pollen/pollen powder. If you only have pollen patties, just cut a small section and press into the sugar patty.
Easy peasey as my youngest says. Now, go feed those bees. :-) We also sell a candy board at honeybeesonline.com if you are interested.


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COMEDY CENTRAL to Expand Six Existing Episodes of the HBO Digital Dramatic Comedy
And Produce Six All-New Episodes
Executive Produced by Stevens, Zach Galifianakis, Mike Gibbons, Dave Rath and Funny Or Die
Stevens Recently Shot COMEDY CENTRAL's "The Half Hour" to Air This Summer as Well as an Upcoming CC: Studios Digital Series "Push and Believe"
NEW YORK, April 15, 2013 - The laughter and drama and the emotional highs and lows of Brody Stevens' journey through life and the world of stand-up comedy is coming to the small screen. COMEDY CENTRAL has ordered its first-ever dramatic comedy series, "Brody Stevens: Enjoy It!," it was announced today by Kent Alterman, President, Content Development and Original Programming, COMEDY CENTRAL. Stevens also recently shot a stand-up set for the COMEDY CENTRAL series "The Half Hour" that will air this summer, as well as the 17-episode digital series "Push and Believe" for CC: Studios, where he spreads his legendary positive energy with 17 comics -- himself included -- as they prep to shoot their own "The Half Hour" specials.
Described as "the most fearless guy around" by his close friend Zach Galifianakis, "Brody Stevens: Enjoy It!" is executive produced by Stevens, Galifianakis, Mike Gibbons, Generate's Dave Rath and Funny Or Die and directed by Dean Fleisher-Camp. The order includes the six existing episodes of the HBO Digital documentary-style series, which will be expanded to full half-hours, as well as six all-new episodes, and is slated to premiere this summer.
"Brody may be fearless, but we are terrified... in a good way," said Alterman.
"I'm as excited as I can be while on 300 milligrams of Lamictal," said Stevens. "My life has always been about POSITIVE ENERGY and I'm looking forward to all of Comedy Central's fans following me on Twitter at @BrodyismeFriend. America -- get ready to PUSH AND BELIEVE!"
"Brody Stevens: Enjoy It!" is a documentary series that follows the emotional rollercoaster life of stand-up comic Brody Stevens, the funniest comedian you've never heard of. The camera tracks Stevens as he pulls his life back together after suffering a mental breakdown that is witnessed by his fans and the world via Twitter. After spending time in the UCLA psych ward, Stevens is back on his meds and trying to mend his relationships as well as revive his stand-up and film career. He makes the rounds in LA, with pal Galifianakis and others in tow, including Sarah Silverman, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, trying to reconnect and reconcile with the close friends he let down. The series combines a mix of live stand-up footage, documentary footage and animation to enhance Stevens' energetic and dramatic life story. Jim Sharp and Ian Friedman are the Executives in Charge of Production for COMEDY CENTRAL.
Known as "a comedian's comedian," Stevens began doing stand-up in the mid-90s in Seattle, working at The Comedy Underground and hosting the "Brody Stevens Cable Access TV Show." After spending some time living and performing in New York City, Stevens made his way to Los Angeles and has since performed on COMEDY CENTRAL's "Premium Blend" and CBS's "The Late, Late Show" and appeared in a variety of projects including the feature films "The Hangover," "The Hangover Part II," "Due Date," Sarah Silverman's "Jesus is Magic," and "R2PC: Road to Park City" at the Slamdance Film Festival. He also appeared on National Lampoon's "Funny Money," NBC's "Late Friday" and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and was a daily contributor for the Fox series "The Best Damn Sports Show Period."
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