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WORCESTER — Ian McCoshen scored with 8:44 left and top-seeded Boston College beat UMass-Lowell 4-3 on Sunday in the NCAA Northeast Regional final to reach the Frozen Four for the 11th time in 17 years.
Boston College (28-7-4), seeking its fourth NCAA championship in seven seasons, will faces East Regional champion Union in the national semifinals April 10 in Philadelphia.
Boston College's Johnny Gaudreau, the nation's leading scorer, set up goals by Bill Arnold and Kevin Hayes. Ryan Fitzgerald also scored for the Eagles.
Thatcher Demko stopped 29 shots for the Eagles. BC has won NCAA titles each of the three times (2008, '10 and '12) it advanced from Worcester.
Evan Campbell, Michael Kapla and John Holmstrom scored for UMass-Lowell (26-11-4), the region's second seed and Hockey East tournament champion.
McCoshen, skating in from the left point, beat Connor Hellebuyck with a wrist shot after taking a pass from defenseman Teddy Doherty. McCoshen banged his stick on the ice to get Doherty's attention.
Campbell's goal, which caromed in off BC defenseman Scott Savage, gave the River Hawks their first lead of the game, 3-2 just 43 seconds into the third period. Campbell was skating toward the side of the net and sent the puck out front.
Just 21 seconds later, Fitzgerald took the puck at center ice and split a pair of defenseman before tucking a backhander behind Hellebuyck.
Boston College, the Hockey East regular-season champion, moved ahead 2-1 when Arnold scored off the rebound of Gaudreau's shot with 2:26 left in the second period, beating Hellebuyck with a wrist shot. Gaudreau broke into the offensive zone, his shot was blocked by defeseman Zack Kamrass, but bounced directly to Arnold, who kicked it from his left skate to his stick.
The River Hawks tied it when Holmstrom banged in his own rebound with 1:16 left in the second.
The Eagles grabbed a 1-0 lead when Gaudreau set up Hayes 12:57 into the game. Gaudreau, who had three goals and three assists in BC's 6-2 semifinal win over Denver on Saturday, took a loose puck at center ice, broke in deep down the left wing and slipped a pass across the crease to Hayes, who one-timed it past Hellebuyck.
UMass-Lowell tied it on Kapla's power-play goal late in the period when he fired a wrister from the point that found its way through a group of players and slipped past Demko's glove.
Gaudreau had a unique shot on goal early in the second. Charging to the net looking for a rebound, the puck bounced into the air — too high to play with his stick or glove — so he used a soccer-like header to get it on goal from the edge of the crease.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Max Novak had a goal and an assist and top-seeded Union beat Providence to advance to the Frozen Four for the second time in three years.
Mat Bodie and Matt Hatch also scored for Union (30-6-4). The Dutchmen, who lost in the 2012 national semifinals to Ferris State, are ranked No. 1 in the nation for the first time in program history.
Nick Saracino scored with a little more than 5 minutes left in the third-period for Providence (22-11-6).
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Nic Dowd scored with 2:39 left in overtime to give St. Cloud State a 4-3 victory over Notre Dame on Saturday night the NCAA West Regional semifinals.
Dowd, a Hobey Baker Award finalist who leads the Huskies with 22 goals, fired a wrist shot from the left circle that beat Steven Summerhays high.
"At this point, any shot's a good shot," said Dowd, whose Huskies (22-10-5) will play top-seeded Minnesota on Sunday for a spot in the Frozen Four. The Gophers beat Robert Morris 7-3.
St. Cloud State was outshot 36-12 in regulation before turning the tables on the Irish with a 16-6 advantage in overtime. Huskies coach Bob Motzko said their slow start might have been caused by too much rest — St. Cloud State lost in the first round of the NCHC playoffs and had two weeks off before Saturday's game.
CINCINNATI — Connor Gaardner scored off a rebound 1:28 into the second overtime Saturday night, sending North Dakota to a 2-1 victory over Ferris State and its 20th trip to the Frozen Four.
The seven-time national champions got an at-large berth and the fourth seed in the Midwest Regional when rival Wisconsin knocked off Ohio State for the Big Ten title. North Dakota (25-13-3) then knocked off top-seeded Wisconsin in the NCAA tournament semifinals.
Sophomore goalie Zane Gothbert had a career-high 44 saves, and Gaardner scored soon into the second overtime for North Dakota's first trip to the Frozen Four since 2011.
Ferris State (29-11-3) had several chances at the end of the third period and overtime, getting off nearly twice as many shots on goal.
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Irans Pernicious Influence in the Western Hemisphere
On 12.16.11 09:39 AM posted by Peter Brookes
There has been a lot of discussion recently of Iranian involvement in Latin America, especially with the recent plot involving an assassination attempt against the Saudi ambassador to the United States.
Of course, a lot of people are going to Latin America these days: the Russians, the Chinese and even the Europeans. Thats because the region is abundant in natural resources, especially energy, and it offers the potential of emerging markets. Unfortunately, Iran is looking to make a less-than-friendly mark in Latin America, especially for the United States.
Tehran has economic ties with Latin America, especially Venezuela, where Iran claims it has invested $4 billion to $5 billion. But according to some analysts, the economic ties are likely a cover-up for more troubling endeavors.
For instance, Venezuela is helping Iran evade punitive economic sanctions by providing international banking services for the Iranian regime, which is increasingly isolated due to its nuclear weapons program.
But the TehranCaracas axis goes deeper than this.
According to press reports, the two nations also inked a Memorandum of Understanding, pledging full military support and cooperation that likely includes weapons sales and the exchange of Iranian advisors. One could easily see Tehran using Caracas as a stepping-off point for attacking U.S. or other (e.g. Israeli) interests in this hemisphereor even the American homeland, especially if there is military action taken against Irans nuclear program.
There is concern that Iran and Venezuela are already cooperating on some nuclear issues. There have been reports that Iran may be prospecting for uranium ore in Venezuela, which could aid both countries nuclear programs, should Caracas proceed with its nuclear program. While still prospective, of course, there is the possibility that Tehran, which has an increasingly capable ballistic missile program, could sell or help Caracas develop ballistic missiles capable of reaching American shores.
It is noteworthy that the distance from Caracas to Miami is about 1,400 miles, which nearly corresponds with the current range of Tehrans medium-range Shahab-class ballistic missile. (Iran, of course, is also developing an intercontinental ballistic missile.)
But it is not just Venezuela that Iran is courting.
Iran has also enhanced its relations with other elements of the anti-American Latin left in Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua, which are countries runnot surprisinglyby leaders close to Venezuela.
Experts suggest that these relationships are still managed largely by the Chavistas, who seek to develop an alliance that will serve as a counterweight to Washington in the region.
As a gesture to these new alliances, Bolivia, like Venezuela, has reportedly lifted visa requirements for passengers arriving from Iran, opening the door to an influx of troublesome travelers.
According to congressional testimony, Iran is providing diplomatic training of 30 to 90 days in Tehran to government workers from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, and the Communist Party of El Salvador. Instead of the art of negotiating, international relations theory, and how to work a room at an embassy soiree, the Latin visitors are reportedly instead being taught intelligence, counterintelligence, and crowd control.
The largest base for Hezbollah, the Iran- and Syria-backed terror group, outside the Middle East was previously concentrated in the tri-border area of Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina, but experts now say Venezuela has become the largest. Other observers believe the Chavistas may be welcoming Hezbollah operatives to assist the narcoterrorist group FARC, which has found refuge in Venezuela and has been fighting U.S. ally Colombia for decades.
The Venezuelan regime would certainly welcome Hezbollahs help in dealing with the United Statesand Hezbollah, for its part, would certainly appreciate a secure operating space close to American interests and territory.
In fact, Hezbollah is believed to have a growing relationship with Mexican drug cartels, including benefiting from their smuggling routes into the United States.
The notion that Iranian involvement in this region is not a threat is a foolish one. Revolutionary Iran has had a hand in shedding American blood for more than 30 years, most recently in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A failure to take measures to check Irans efforts in the Western Hemisphere will only allow anti-American, terror-supporting, oppressive, non-free market agendas to take root in our neighborhood.
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The AAVSOnet Epoch Photometry Database comprises robotically-processed photometry obtained from all images taken with AAVSOnet telescopes. The major component of this database are observations from the Bright Star Monitor network, as these telescopes have taken the majority of images. There are smaller datasets from telescopes that were only operational during the early days of AAVSOnet, covering fewer targets but going much deeper and often with high cadence (time series). For all current telescopes, the intent is to provide public access to older dat
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February 7, 2011: The star SDSS J133941.11+484727.5 has been reported in outburst by Jeremy Shears (Bunbury, UK). Shears reports this star at magnitude 10.4 on 2011 February 7.919 (JD 2455600.419). This is approximately 7 magnitudes above quiescence, which suggests a superoutburst of an SU UMa star or a WZ Sge-like outburst. Gary Poyner (Birmingham, UK) confirms this outburst, estimating the star at 10.5 on February 7.959 (2455600.459).
January 3, 2011: The campaign to monitor activity of the peculiar cataclysmic variable FS Aurigae, as announced in AAVSO Alert Notice 428 (see also AAVSO Special Notice #226), continues. Principal Investigator Dr. Vitaly Neustroev reports that the campaign is going well, and that he is very appreciative of your observing efforts and contributions.
December 1, 2010: A bright transient in Pisces was discovered by K. Itagaki at an unfiltered magnitude of 12.3 on 2010 November 30.50663 UT (JD 2455531.00663; reported by H. Yamaoka in vsnet-outburst 11854). The object was confirmed at V=12.1 by A. Oksanen (Muurame, Finland) shortly afterward (vsnet-outburst 11855), and I. Miller (Swansea, Wales, UK) reported the presence of superhumps with period 0.0571 day (reported by T. Kato, vsnet-outburst 11859). As noted by Yamaoka and by R.
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- Mayor: Damage from blast goes "for blocks on end"
INDIANAPOLIS -- Authorities from various Indianapolis, Indiana and federal agencies scoured the rubble Sunday searching for clues to just what caused a massive and deadly explosion late Saturday night on the Far-Southside of the city.
But if answers were elusive -- no official cause has been determined -- the devastation was evident.
Neighbors, volunteers, investigators and others who traipsed through the area or viewed it from above were confronted with horrifying images of destruction.
The toll: Five homes destroyed; an additional 26 homes significantly damaged; 200 people forced from their homes; seven people injured; two people -- presumed to be a second grade teacher and her husband -- dead.
Fieldfare Way, a street in the heart of the Richmond Hill neighborhood, was the center of the blast that shattered windows and crumbled garage doors a block away.
Three houses on the street essentially were reduced to charred foundations.
Tony Burnett, 49, was laying in bed watching the Notre Dame football game a little after 11 p.m. Saturday when the explosion shook his home, knocked down doors and blew out windows.
He said he ran outside and saw that the house across the street was gone. Houses on either side were in flames.
Debris fell like snow.
"When I got outside it was still snowing, with all the pieces of insulation and vinyl siding coming down," Burnett said.
Burnett, his wife and their two dogs escaped without serious injury.
His neighbors, Jennifer L. and John D. Longworth, were believed to have died. Two bodies were removed from the Longworth home, but police and fire officials refused to confirm that they were the presumed victims.
Nontheless, about 100 educators, students and parents gathered Sunday night for a candlelight vigil at Southwest Elementary School, where Jennifer was a second grade teacher.
"You can tell teaching wasn't just a job for her," said Jessi Hersinger, whose son Levi was in Longworth's class last year. "She put her heart into it."
Greenwood Schools Superintendent David Edds called Jennifer "a wonderful teacher."
The Marion County, Ind., coroner's office will review dental records and consult with an expert before officially identifying the victims, said Chief Deputy Coroner Alfie Ballew.
Ballew declined to confirm the names, but she said the coroner's office has met with the family of the presumed victims.
Jennifer's father, Donald E. Buxton, declined an interview Sunday.
Another couple was rescued from the rubble of a home Saturday, said a co-worker.
Glenn and Gloria Olvey survived but were "battered, bruised and sore," said David Frazier.
"They were both trapped in the house and had to be evacuated," Frazier said.
Attempts to contact the Olveys were not successful.
According to records and Burnett, who lives across the street, Monserrate R. Shirley lives at the other destroyed home. Shirley was contacted by telephone Sunday but also declined an interview.
While three homes were leveled, two others were heavily damaged and must be bulldozed, city code inspectors said. About 26 more homes need extensive repairs before residents can return.
By Sunday morning, firefighters began allowing people back into about 50 of the least damaged homes. They could stay, but the homes were without power for part of the day.
Firefighters escorted others into more heavily damaged homes to retrieve medicine, pets or identification. But they had to seek shelter elsewhere.
The most heavily damaged houses, marked by a red tag, remained off limits.
Police, Indianapolis Fire Department arson investigators, federal agents and Citizens Energy crews remained in the neighborhood late Sunday.
The cause of the explosion remained a mystery, but attention focused on natural gas lines.
Dan Considine, spokesman for Citizens Energy, said the company's crews shut down the gas main along Fieldfare Way after the blast and on Sunday morning found no leaks.
If the blast was a gas explosion, it would add to a long and deadly string of such accidents in Indiana. The deadliest disaster in Indianapolis history was the Oct. 31, 1963, gas explosion that ripped through the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum, killing 74 people and injuring about 400 others.
Nearly five years later, on April 6, 1968, a gas explosion wiped out much of downtown Richmond, Ind., killing 41 and injuring scores more.
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"[Y]ou never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.…"
—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
In "How to Write Your Own Recommendation Without Getting in Trouble," Cory Weinberg, of BloombergBusinessweek, reports that MIT's Sloan School of Management is now requiring applicants to write "a professional letter of recommendation on behalf of yourself." This is, apparently, an increasingly common trend at both schools and businesses, likely in part because instructors and supervisors have difficulty fitting such writing into their schedules.
It is also an excellent opportunity for students and employees to step outside themselves and take a critical look at how their performance meets with another person's needs. In the business world, of course, both this sort of personal review and "ghost writing" are common tasks. That doesn't mean, however, that they are easy.
To understand the problem, let's start by looking at communication as a triangle:
The better a writer knows the subject, the less distance exists between the two, and the easier it is to write:
Similarly, the closer the writer feels to the reader, the easier it is to write:
To write "a professional letter of recommendation on behalf of yourself" however, requires a sort of mental gymnastics, placing the writer in the role of "subject," viewed at arm's length from the perspective of a different person, a supposed writer, with yet another person as the final reader.
Psychologists say that sort of self-reflective distance isn't even possible for most people until their mid-twenties.
A few weeks ago, my youngest daughter called, facing a similar situation. A professor had agreed to provide a letter of recommendation for a program she was applying for, but asked her to give him a draft to work from. She wasn't sure where to start, so I volunteered to draft something for her.
"Give me a bullet list of details to work from," I said, "including how the professor knows you, your grades in his courses, and whatever else you think he might include." She set to work, her bullet list in effect a first draft. I then composed a letter, "role-playing" the part of a college professor recommending a promising young student. She passed my draft along to him, and he took excerpts from it to plug into what turned out to be an application form.
The trick to writing for someone else this way, as Harper Lee reveals, is to "stand in his [or her] shoes and walk around in them." Stepping out of your own for a bit gives a whole new perspective. And that's a very good thing.
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Heading into the new year, it's traditional to review the passing year and look for upcoming trends. One piece of good news: The semiconductor industry will probably break $300B this year. The bad news: It took 10 years to get back to this level, and some major players continue to take a margin beating.
Trends suggest the industry will grow 3-6% for the next 3-5 years, which is a good sign. Bucking the previous roller coaster ride of ups and downs every couple of years would stabilize the industry and perhaps get funding and startups going again. Semiconductor startup funding has been trending down, while mergers and acquisitions have been trending up.
Trends toward mobile and wearable electronics are driving volumes, but these markets tend to have lower profit margins than the larger networking and infrastructure devices. Geometry shrinkage continues, allowing established players to improve performance without reducing costs. Unfortunately, masked set costs are going up to the point where new players aren't entering the industry at the new nodes. The cost of entry for startups in the 22-28 nm nodes is just too high, as they may only get one chance before their funding is consumed.
More creative startup or funding models may be needed to generate and feed new ideas. We do see some of this in Kickstarter and other web funding concepts. I have funded several of these projects, and though they haven't all shown they will have long-term success or be practical, they keep the ideas flowing, help even the playing field, and reward creativity and risk. My wife may complain about the 3D printer only used several times or the time I spend on my toys, but at times I have to remind her that this is what the industry and my job are all about. Unfortunately, most of these projects are not really semiconductor based. Rather, they involve systems and integration into devices. Regardless, if they can excite or interest young engineers to get into this field and even help shake the cobwebs out of those of us a bit more seasoned, it is a positive trend.
A number of my old colleagues have left the semiconductor field and entered less cost-prohibitive fields. They still are driving and funding creative ideas. The semiconductor industry hasn't always been the direct recipient or beneficiary of these new trends and developments, but when you look under the hood, they are often the drivers.
I see some good trends for the major players in the coming year as the global economy continues its slow recovery. The newcomers will continue to struggle with the price of entry. We can expect more M&A activity, and let's hope it doesn't take 10 more years for the semiconductor industry to hit the $400B mark. Let me know what your thoughts are and where you think we are headed.
Lance Jones is a blogger on Test & Measurement Designline and vice president of technology at Evans Analytical Group


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"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork," George Orwell wrote in his 1949 tale of a totalitarian regime "Nineteen Eighty-Four."
On the bright side, we've now identified the system. It's Amazon!
Yeah, you thought it would be Google, right? The search engine that knows when you are sleeping, knows when you're awake, knows when you are working, knows when you're downloading Polynesian lady men … and well, that's probably true. But still …
Last week, flummoxed Kindle owners came upon the group realization that Amazon went and deleted their downloads of George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal Farm" … and the story just keeps being funny. Seriously. Of all the downloaded books in all the InterWebs, how can it be that these two dystopian classics are the ones that are mysteriously removed. (Beware the two-legged merchants!)
In a time when highway signs are hacked to warn motorists against the approaching zombie horde, it's hard to believe this isn't yet another brilliant hack. And yet it's not! Oh I tell ya kids, you can't make this stuff up. Well, you can. If you're good. Zombie road sign good. Even if you are, reality beat you to it. And thanks to yet another case of Amazon's ham-fisted customer service tactics, this story isn't getting old anytime soon.
"I've received e-mails today notifying me of refunds for $.99 for 'Animal Farm' and '1984,' and both have disappeared from my Kindle archived items," Caffeine Queen reported Thursday, July 16 on the Amazon discussion boards. "I didn't request refunds, and I also don't remember purchasing the titles."
Spooky! According to the blanket press release posted after the fact, "These books were added to our catalog using our self-service platform by a third-party who did not have the rights to the books." Therefore, what choice did Amazon have but to crank its "Whispernet" download highway into reverse, thus removing any circulated copies? Why ever should anyone complain?
"I liken it to a (Barnes & Noble) clerk coming to my house when I'm not home, taking a book I bought from them from my bookshelf and leaving cash in its place," wrote Sunny Lady, invoking the Internet Age-old argument about digital rights management (DRM) technology that limits use of content and devices. "It's a violation of my property and this is a perfect example of why people (rightly) hate DRM."
Amazon did have its defenders. "If you buy something that turns out to be stolen, it can be confiscated and returned to the legal owner with no compensation to you," wrote M. Francis. "You could try to get your money back from the vendor, but that would be something you would have to pursue yourself; the police wouldn't do anything about it."
Predictably, a discussion board flame war ensued, with affected parties chiming in with a wide and entertaining range of intelligence and hysteria levels — your typical discussion board fare. Beyond the DRM issues, of which there are many, and tips on how to prevent Amazon from taking back your Kindle downloads, and why you should never, ever prevent Amazon from taking back your Kindle downloads, one recurring issue sounded very much like a previous Amazon case of shenanigans.
"I was annoyed that the e-mail announcing the refund gave no explanation or indication that the books were being deleted," Caffeine Queen pointed out later in the discussion." "It's the same e-mail they send if the buyer initiates a refund."
That's right, kids! It's that same craptastic customer service that led to Amazon's great public relations debacle of April 09, when the masses realized that thousands of gay and lesbian titles were missing from the inventory.
Instead of addressing the issue before it became big news, Amazon waited two days — roughly 80 billion eons in Internet years — to let the public know that the "ham-fisted cataloging error" dropped thousands of books in a number of broad categories — not just gay and lesbian titles.
Soon after the Orwellian George Orwell recall went public, Amazon issued a statement claiming that, "We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers' devices in these circumstances." Still, it's hard to trust a two-time loser that fails to see the irony in its own Orwellian FAIL.
Why not friend Helen A.S. Popkin on before Facebook makes the suggestion ... or just follow her on ?


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Ever since Phoenixgate 2013, I've been pretty lax about nursing in public (and by pretty lax I really mean "I really don't give a shit if you see my boobs"). For the most part, people have been great about it outwardly – even if in their head they are uncomfortable or freaking out. I generally like to go out in public and bring my baby, so I knew some sort of nursing-in-public run-in was bound to happen. Unfortunately, it happened at one of our favorite restaurants (that ironically hosted my baby shower)… let's go back a few months to brunch for my father's birthday.
Help me understand what you mean by "a clean linen?"
I was breastfeeding my daughter after we ate when our server approached and asked if I wanted a "clean linen." Why the hell would I need a "clean linen" when we were done eating and what exactly did that mean? Was it a napkin? A tablecloth? Then the lightbulb went off – he was offering me the best nursing cover he could muster up from the restaurant's linen closet. Aside from the fact that I probably wouldn't be so nonchalant about nursing in the first place if I had indeed been in need of a cover, I politely declined.
Dude should have stopped while he was ahead. And, for the record, he was ahead – I had given him the benefit of the doubt and assumed he was actually trying to make me more comfortable based on what he thought would be most helpful to me. HA! But really… I did want to think he was being helpful. My new friend brought me back down to reality, where lactating boobs are a no-no but a string bikini is sexy: "No, I meant in case it bothers other people."
Did this guy think that I was suddenly going to change my mind and take him up on his offer? NO. The opposite."Other people?" PUH-leaze. Enough is enough. Just the offer of the cover implied so many things – that breastfeeding should be hidden; that it's dirty, offensive or wrong; that a hungry infant is LESS important than self-sufficient adults who just gorged themselves on all you can eat brunch and have the choice whether they watch a mother breastfeed or not; and so on – but to imply that I should prioritize the comfort of "other" people over the comfort of my baby? EHHH… WRONG ANSWER. Again, I politely declined and shut the conversation down. So as not to cause a scene, I planned to find him before we left and inform him of things like, oh, you know, THE LAW that protects women like me.
Clean Linens for All!
During that meal, bothering other people with a boob was the last thing on my mind – in fact, I was much more concerned about bothering people when my kid lost her shit because she was hungry – I would think most people would find a screaming baby more annoying than a boob. Nursing was a pretty solid solution to prevent said meltdown and make everyone's brunch enjoyable. And for the record, since apparently it cannot be said often enough: a nursing mother is not out to make a scene or bother anyone or make anyone uncomfortable. Say it with me now: she just wants to feed or comfort her baby.
This whole thing got me thinking that maybe I should start going off on people in public who do things that bother ME! Why should I be the target of other people's pet peeves about nursing while everyone else gets off scot-free for being total assholes in public ALL the time? So, in honor of Linengate2014, I'll be handing out some linens to the following groups of people (and others at my discretion):
- People who are noisy chewers. Nails on a chalkboard to me, an epidemic of epic proportions. Cover them up – and see how they like to eat under a cover – two birds with one stone!
- Anyone who refuses to stop talking on the phone while their server is trying to take their order. For you… a tablecloth! Poof! Now you're gone, hiding under your linen, and your rudeness is contained to your tablecloth bubble.
- Couples who insist on being SAME SIDE SITTERS. If we're being honest, this bothers me so much that the next time I see it happen, I may ask my server to escort the lovebirds out of the restaurant. If that doesn't work, let's make sure they get two tablecloths so they can snuggle under the covers – which is where they clearly would rather be…amiright?
- People who step on my yoga mat with their toe-fungus-hot-yoga-feet. You have the entire room to tromp around – get the hell off my mat! Yoga under a blanket for you – AND STAY THERE!
- Drivers who don't stop to let pedestrians standing in the crosswalk actually cross the street. Next to the park. With a stroller. In a neighborhood full of kids. Maybe if they had a tablecloth on their car, they'd be forced to hit the brake.
- People who pee on the toilet seat in a public restroom and then don't clean it up. You're not a savage, and at least if you had a tablecloth you could mop up your piss. How did you miss the toilet by that much anyway? If you insist on peeing all over everything, you may as well just drop trou wherever you are and let it flow. Own it, bitches.
- People who push the door close button on the elevator even though they see others waiting to get on. I do hope your elevator gets stuck and all you have to get through the day is snuggling with your linen.
- People who make a half-assed attempt to hold the door for you, but then decide they can't hold the door long enough for you to actually walk through and they let go. It doesn't count as chivalrious or polite if you can't hold it for the duration of someone else crossing the threshold – but hey, don't let the door hit you on the way out when I hand you a freshly pressed napkin!
There's more, I'm sure. But back to the issue at hand – my story has a happyish ending! Although I couldn't find our server to say something to him on our way out (weird that he was MIA, right?), I did write the manager a note and included information about Connecticut breastfeeding laws. He apologized and said he would make sure to share during the morning wait staff meetings and at the end of the day, sharing this type of information is a great first step to normalize breastfeeding but we have a long way to go.
World Breastfeeding Week 2014 – Resources
If no one is doing anything about the same-side sitters plaguing restaurants around the world, then at least let nursing mamas feed their babies free of harassment and discrimination. In honor of World Breastfeeding Week 2014, I wanted to spread some knowledge and resources.
- Here's a summary of the Connecticut General Statutes §46a-64 that I sent to the restaurant (excerpt from the Connecticut Breastfeeding Coalition) that protect nursingmamas:
Connecticut General Statutes §46a-64 allows mothers to breastfeed their babies in places of public accommodation. This law is enforced by the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO), which enforces anti-discrimination laws in Connecticut.
- This law states that mothers can generally breastfeed at a time, place and manner of their choosing while in a place of public accommodation. They do not have to go to a special area or go into the restroom. They do not have to cover the baby with a towel or blanket. The owner, manager or employee of a place of public accommodation cannot request that the mother stop breastfeeding her baby, cover up, move to a different room or area, or leave.
- Breastfeeding Laws by State. We have a long way to go, but there are laws in place in many states to protect breastfeeding moms in public, at work, and at daycares.
- Break TIme for Nursing Mothers. This is, for the most part, the bare minimum. Encourage your employer to go above and beyond!
- Under the ACA, many mamas are eligible for a free breast pump and covered lactation services. FREE!
- Breastfeeding support and education can drastically change a mother's experience with nursing. Organizations like La Leche League, Breastfeeding USA, and websites like KellyMom provide FREE mother-to-mother support online, in person, and over the phone. Did I say FREE? Yes, that's right – there are people who care so much about seeing mothers successfully breastfeed that there are more free and accessible resources than one could fathom.
So aside from supporting nursing mothers (or any mother for that matter!) any time you see them – a kind smile, an offer of help, a glass of water, or simple acknowledgement that they are doing a good job – please take a few minutes to share some of these resources with people in your life – friends, family, colleagues, moms, moms-to-be, and more. Let's get women out from under the covers and #normalizebreastfeeding. Because seeing a boob is way less offensive than same side sitters – I'll stand by that forever – and maybe by the time our children are parents, this kind of conversation won't even be a blip on their radar.


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Urban Airship Extends Mobile Commerce Opportunities With Tello Acquisition
UrbanAirship, the company behind the push-notifications in many of your favorite apps, announced on Tuesday its acquisition of Tello.
Tello streamlines the creation and management of passes for brands in Apple's Passbook. The company launched just a few months ago, on September 19, and already has thousands of customers, including professional sports teams and wireless carriers.
"We've focused on making it easy for all businesses to create and manage Passbook passes, including the industrial strength security and scalability that many require," Joe Beninato, founder and CEO of Tello said in a statement. "We've seen tremendous interest and adoption since launch and are excited to join UrbanAirship and amplify that momentum through an end-to-end solution."
With the acquisition, UrbanAirship hopes to expand its offerings to marketers. Since users do not have to download a brand's app in order to take advantage of a pass in Passbook, the company will be able to reach even more mobile customers.
"We're been watching Apple Passbook," Scott Kveton, CEO and co-founder of Urban Airship told Mashable. "We think what Apple has created in Passbook is a really interesting new product and we think there are a lot of interesting parallels in what we've been doing in the app world with push message. We think we can play a similar role in helping companies adopt Passbook strategies."
Kventon thinks that the combination of push messaging, passes and location-targeting create the perfect solution for businesses who want to have successful Passbook programs.
UrbanAirship currently powers the push notifications in apps such as Shopkick, Walgreens, Waze, and ESPN. Kveton says that apps that take advantage of push notifications see around a 400% increase in engagement over aps that don't.
"It's a critical ingredient in getting your app to be used," says Kventon. "It's also a critical ingredient in getting your app to remain on the phone beyond the download."
With the acquisition UrbanAirship will maintain Tello's Palo Alto office, integrating the company and its employees into UrbanAirship as a whole. Beninato, will join Urban Airship's management team as GM of Digital Wallet.
How do you engage with brands on your smartphone? Let us know your favorite apps and passes in the comments.


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Have you been affected by Superstorm Sandy? If so, share your images and footage with CNN iReport, but please stay safe. For minute-by-minute updates, go to our live blog on This Just In.
(CNN) -- The death toll mounted Thursday as survivors struggled to regain a semblance of the normalcy that Superstorm Sandy swept away this week when it struck the Northeast.
In some cases, tempers grew short.
"We're gonna die down here!" wailed Donna Solli to Sen. Chuck Schumer as he toured her waterlogged neighborhood in New York's Staten Island with a group of reporters. "When is the government coming?"
Solli said residents needed gas, food and clothes. "We're gonna freeze," she said on a day when the 50-degree temperature was predicted to drop to the low 40s. "We've got 90-year-old people!"
The Democratic senator from New York said he understood and hugged her.
Solli said her basement was flooded and her refrigerator was upside down. "I stayed here because I have an elderly dog," she told a reporter. "We nearly drowned."
Solli added that she had had little to eat. "One slice of pizza in 48 hours."
As he surveyed the damage in the neighborhood, the politician told a reporter, "This is the worst thing I've ever seen, and it's killing me what these people have to go through. We'll get whatever federal help we can, that's for sure."
Afterward, a senior administration official told CNN that a convoy of 10 Red Cross trucks filled with food, water and medicine arrived Thursday evening on Staten Island.
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and FEMA Deputy Administrator Richard Serino were to travel Friday to Staten Island to meet with state and local officials and view the response and recovery efforts, the White House said.
Some people were not complaining.
About 90 miles north of Staten Island, the mayor of Danbury, Connecticut, Mark D. Boughton, was visiting a special-needs shelter on Wednesday night when he met a 106-year-old woman who had cancer and was in hospice.
"She's happy to be alive," he tweeted. "Every day is a gift."
Contacted by telephone, Boughton said the cheerfulness of the lifelong resident of Danbury had inspired him. "The essence of it was, look, you gotta make each day count," he said. "You don't know when your time comes."
In Sandy's wake, at least 157 people died, at least 88 of them in the United States, two in Canada and 67 in the Caribbean.
Among them were two children whose bodies were found Thursday. The boys, ages 2 and 4, had been riding with their mother, Glenda Moore, on Staten Island when the storm surge swamped their SUV, authorities said.
Police said Moore gave them this account: When her Ford Explorer was blown into a hole, she got out, took out her children and carried them to a nearby tree. There, she held on to the boys, Brandon and Connor, as rain poured and hurricane-strength winds gusted. After hours, she walked with her children to a nearby house to seek help. A man opened the door but refused to let them in. Desperate, she went to his back porch and threw a flower pot at the window in an attempt to get inside. But she was not able to do so. Meanwhile, her children were swept away.
Their bodies were found nearby on Thursday.
Relatives said Moore was too distraught to speak with CNN.
The owner of the house, who asked that he not be identified, disputed Moore's account, saying he saw only a man. "He didn't come to the door, he came on the stairs at the back of the house, and he was standing at the bottom of the stairs," said the man. "He took a concrete flower pot and threw it through the door."
The man at the door, he said, didn't ask to enter the house, but instead asked the owner of the house to leave it in order to help.
"What could I do to help him?" he asked. "I'm wearing the same clothes ... the same shorts and flip-flops I had that night. And I was going to come out?"
The man told CNN he sat up for the rest of the night, with his back against the door in the kitchen. He said the deaths were a tragedy, but that the woman was at fault. "She shouldn't have been out," he continued. "She shouldn't have been out on the road."
There was nothing he could have done, he added. "I'm not a rescue worker ... If I would have been outside, I would have been dead."
Interactive: Remembering the victims
Sandy claimed at least 37 lives in New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters Thursday.
Victims fall to Mother Nature's wrath
Authorities in nine states worked to restore basic services such as public transit and electricity.
In New York City, nearly 500,000 customers were without power. In Manhattan, many of the 220,000 customers without electricity were south of Midtown's 34th Street. Parts of Queens and Staten Island also had no electricity Thursday. "Restoring power will take a lot of time," the mayor said.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in a letter to utilities, warned of consequences if authorities discover that they failed to prepare properly. "Under such circumstances, I would direct the Public Service Commission to commence a proceeding to revoke your certificates," he wrote.
That message was not lost on its intended targets. "We're doing our damnedest to get our power back as quickly as possible," said John Miksad, senior vice president of electric operations at Con Ed.
New York's vast transit network remains hobbled. The Metropolitan Transit Authority said 14 of the city's 23 subway lines were running and a flotilla of 4,000 buses was attempting to take up the slack. For some, Thursday's commute into Manhattan from the outer boroughs took five hours.
Bloomberg predicted that would ease as tunnels are cleared of water, power is restored to subway lines and ferries resume service.
Electricity or not: Tale of two cities
Getting water out of the tunnels is "one of the main orders of business right now," Cuomo said.
Broadway theaters reopened Thursday, and organizers vowed to hold the New York City Marathon as scheduled on Sunday. Event organizer Mary Wittenberg said the race wouldn't divert resources from the recovery.
Sandy's effects, state by state
Three days after Sandy barreled ashore in southern New Jersey, search-and-rescue crews were going door-to-door in some neighborhoods looking for people, particularly the elderly, who may have been stranded by the power outages, the debris and remaining floodwater.
Sandy killed at least six people in New Jersey, said Gov. Chris Christie, who had warned people in low-lying areas to evacuate.
Dangling crane secure, engineers say
Christie asked for patience as crews worked to restore electricity to more than 2 million power company customers.
The federal government shipped 1 million meals Thursday to New York, where National Guard troops were distributing them to people in need, Cuomo told reporters.
Mobile networks team up to help
The storm dumped up to 3 feet of snow in West Virginia and Maryland, leaving thousands without power.
Nearly 3.5 million customers across the eastern United States were still in the dark Thursday, down from nearly 8 million in its immediate aftermath.
By Thursday, Sandy's remnants had headed into Canada.
The National Weather Service predicted a nor'easter next week from the mid-Atlantic states into New England. But the forecast said the storm would be far weaker than Sandy.
CNN's Chelsea J. Carter, Tom Watkins, Joe Sterling and Melissa Gray contributed to this report.


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Once you can access your account, you will be presented with the prompt. At this prompt, you can do many many many things. For all of these, we hope to have tutorials soon.
A few basic examples of what you can do:
- Setup a website
- Read your group e-mail
- Setup rules to forward email to another address
- Transfer files from your computer
- Check your quota
- Anything else a modern Linux computer does.
Here, we'll try to give a simple overview of UNIX basics as they relate to typical use of our systems.
Getting Around, Looking Around
ls command
At the prompt, you start off in your home directory, which is represented by the tilde "~". Commands are entered by typing stuff and pressing enter. An easy example: to list the files in your home directory, type
and press enter; you will receive a list of files. Configuration files in UNIX are usually hidden by prefixing them with a period. To view all these hidden files/folders, use
ls -a
which should return a longer list. For the long details on each item, such as type and size, you need to add the
-l flag, so type
ls -a -l
ls -al
for short. As you can see, adding options after the command name changes the output in various ways.
Piping and
Sometimes the output is more than you can see on one screen. To break it up into chunks, you can use common UNIX technique called "piping", which utilizes the character "|", typed by pressing shift+backslash. Basically, we can send the output from one command,
ls, to another program called
less which helps us view it one screen at a time, using the "|" character. Try
ls -al | less
to see how this works; you should be able to use your arrow keys to scroll and then press "q" to exit back to the command line. Any command can likewise be piped into
less by suffixing it with
| less. Piping is what extends simple UNIX commands into powerful workflows.
cat to dump files
You will probably see a bunch of hidden files in your home directory with completely foreign-looking names like
.mailrc or
.cshrc. To view the contents of any file, use
cat filename
and it will be dumped to your screen. This is where piping to
less, e.g.,
cat .cshrc | less
may also come in handy. Most of these files will probably hold a lot of code that you won't understand, but that's okay! The key is to be able to get a sense of what's already lying around.
Switch directories with
To move out of your home directory, you use the
cd path command.
cd takes either relative paths or absolute paths. Try
cd ..
(the space is necessary in UNIX) to move up one directory level, or
cd /
to move to the root "/" directory of the system. You will usually see the change in your current path reflected in your prompt. Sometimes, you will not be able to enter directories because you won't have sufficient privileges. You can always type
cd ~
to return to your home directory, where you will always have full privileges.
RTFM: Using
man to get help
For any command that we will ever introduce, or any other commands out there, you can usually get the long story on everything they can do and every option you could possibly use by typing
man command
As with
less, you can use arrow keys to scroll, and press "q" to quit back to the command line.
Making and Editing Things
Make directories with
To host a website on HCS that people can view at http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/group-name, you simply put files into a folder called "web" in your home directory. (If you have a people.fas site, this would be equivalent to your public_html folder there.) But of course, you need to create this directory in the first place, and here is where you can use the
mkdir command. While in your home directory (
cd ~ if you aren't sure) use
mkdir web
and observe the results with
ls. Move into your newly created directory with
cd web
This is where you can now build a website.
nano to edit files
Every website needs files. To make files, you use an editor. A good editor for beginners is
nano, which behaves a lot like the popular mail client
pine. There are many other editors, and the most l33t picks are usually
vi or
emacs, but both of these have a bit of a learning curve, so you can tackle them later.
Making a file is as simple as calling an editor with a filename that doesn't yet exist; for instance try
nano index.html
from your web directory. index.html is the file that comprises the homepage for your group, and from there you can link to the rest of your pages. Now that you're in nano, start typing something! If you don't know html yet, we suggest:
  <title> Group Name </title>
 Group Name Website

 Hello world! Nothing to see here yet; try going to Google.

(If you're lazy you can probably copy and paste that into your terminal program. To paste it on the Mac it's ⌘(Command)-V in Terminal.app; in SecureCRT for Windows it's Shift+Insert.)
Once you've done that, notice that there are a bunch of commands listed at the bottom of the screen. You can execute any of them by pressing Control (^ stands for control) and the indicated letter. We're going to Exit, so press Control-X. It will ask you whether you want to save your changes; hit Y, and then when it prompts for the filename hit Enter to accept the one we specified when we ran
nano, which was index.html. A tip: WriteOut is nano-speak for "save", so use Control-O if you want to save your progress while working on something important.
Now check out your new website! Go to http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/group-name to see what you've made. You've just created a webpage on the internet.
Copying, Moving, and Deleting Things
Copy with
Say you wanted to make another page, but you don't want to type all that code again. Simply copy the file! From within ~/web, let's use
cp index.html newpage.html
You'll see by using
ls that there are now two files in the directory. To edit the new one using
nano, you would then type
nano newpage.html
and perform your edits and then save them. Try it, the new page will be at http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/group-name/newpage.html when you are finished.
Move with
Now, say you've made it into a page about Harvard, and you want to name it appropriately.
mv is the tool that both renames a file and moves it to another directory, if you want. Try
mv newpage.html harvard.html
and check the results with
ls. Also, go ahead and see if you can guess what the URL for your new page would be. If you want to move it into a directory, you specify a path instead of just a filename for the second argument; for example,
mkdir schools
mv harvard.html schools/
would put harvard.html into a new directory called schools. Tip: you can use the relative path
../ to move something into its parent directory.
Deleting: maniacal use of
It's nice that we made a website, but you'll probably want to make something different and get rid of the files from this tutorial. It's OK, we won't take it personally. This is done with
rm. To ditch our index.html page, go ahead and type
rm index.html
to which you should be asked
rm: remove regular file `index.html'?
and then pressing Y gets rid of it forever. By default your shell will prompt before deleting files, but this can be overridden with the
-f flag. You can also delete directories and everything inside of them in one shot; to delete the schools directory that we made and the page inside, use
rm -rf schools
Note that we added the
-r flag to have it delete the entire directory, and the
-f flag ignores the prompts.
You are well on your way toward managing your new HCS account, but there's so much else you can do! First of all, remember that you can access help on any command with
man; we should have more tutorials here soon for help on other functions. Here's a list of other useful programs you can use on your HCS account:
pwd- tells you what directory you're in
pine- check your mail
hcs-quota- check how much disk space you have left
ps- list your running processes
zip- make .zip archives
chmod- set permissions (very important, learn to use it)
grep- search within files (the sysadmin's swiss army knife)
exit- gracefully log out.
Many more in-depth tutorials on UNIX can be found online with a bit of googling, such as this one; good luck and don't be afraid to ask acctserv@hcs if you have issues!