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|3 years
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|38.7 mpg
|Fuel consumption (extra urban)
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|Fuel consumption (combined)
|47.9 mpg
|0 - 60 mph
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Commandant of the Dublin Brigade during the Easter 1916 Rising, James Connolly was a tireless worker in the Socialist cause and was in contact with many influential thinkers of his time (Eleanor Marx Aveling, for one). He also travelled extensively raising funds for unions in the USA and Ireland. Find out more through his letters.
If you came up with one of the most important ideas in history, would you give up the credit? Alfred Russel Wallace developed the Theory of Evolution independently to Darwin, but held off publishing his ideas until the older man published his. Explore the world of one of Science's unsung heroes.
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Only twice in history has the world's economy undergone such a massive, fundamental shift as it's going through now.
That's the theory of Dave Maney, an economic commentator, author and frequent television guest and columnist, who was the first guest speaker at day one of the Longmont City Council's annual retreat Friday. He made the compelling argument that the global economy is in the early years of what he called an "information-soaked economic revolution."
It took 7,000 years, from 12,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C., for mankind to transform from living in caves to developing a primarily agrarian economy, and then thousands of more years passed before the industrial revolution took hold in the mid-18th century. Those are the only times in human history that compare to the massive disruptions information technology is creating, Maney said.
"Why did those two revolutions happen? They happened because they represented a fundamentally more powerful economic engine," said Maney, who writes columns for Forbes and the Denver Post. He was scheduled to appear on Neil Cavuto's Fox News program Friday afternoon.
Maney, who also runs the website economaney.com, said four forces are driving the change today:
Proximity no longer matters.
Whether it's getting an education, shopping or obtaining professional services, you no longer need be in the same town, the same state, or even in the same country. It's called "search," Maney said, and "search" — all by itself — is changing everything.
"Frictionless collaboration."
"It is easier and easier for us to work with anybody, anywhere, at any time," said Maney, adding that there are obvious exceptions, such as getting your toilet unclogged or going out for a pancake breakfast.
Big data.
Companies are gathering everything they can, all the time, and storing and cross-matching that data. That data is powerful.
Number four is the rise of tools, Maney said, and that ties into number three. Performing data analysis, publishing and other complex actions no longer requires any special training.
"The productivity of what the average guy on the street can do without any special training … that rise has begun to sort of warp those laws of economic gravity," Maney said.
Regarding the council, Maney said that there are some leadership skills he would encourage elected officials to embrace, such as having deep intellectual curiosity and mental agility; not being afraid to not be the smartest person in the room; developing the ability to connect the dots; learning to build bridges; and being fearless in decision-making.
The city's fiber optic loop already puts it ahead of the curve in what will be the economy of the future, Maney said, because technology "is the new literacy."
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Rene Rodriguez is the definition of a fighter. A young 26, he was discharged from University Hospital in Newark on Aug. 13 after receiving his second liver transplant.
Aside from being a little thin at his discharge with only 124 pounds on his 6'1" frame, Rodriguez – who gave an interview in his Union City home last week – was all hope with a witty, intelligent sense of humor, and big, smiling eyes. One would never guess he'd been in and out of hospitals fighting the complications of Hepatitis B since birth.
Rodriguez contracted Hepatitis B from his mother's breastmilk after she contracted it during a hospital visit in the 1980s; a time when not much was known about the disease and hygiene standards were below what they are now. After he underwent 10 years of maintenance check-ups, the disease attacked his liver, and he developed tumors and cirrhosis.
Last week, he displayed a photo montage he'd put together of his latest ordeal. His first photo showed him at his healthiest shortly before things went downhill and his body rejected the transplant he received when he was 13. A second photo was taken right before he was admitted to the hospital, and a third showed Rodriguez surrounded by family after his transplant.
The final photo in the montage was of Rodriguez sitting in a chair at his home, smiling and well into his recovery, with "700 percent" inscribed at the bottom.
"That's my thing," he said. "I never do anything 100 percent. It's always 700."
Growing up with Hepatitis B
Only an incredibly positive attitude and gusto for life could have gotten Rodriguez through what can only be termed a battle to stay alive.
When he was first diagnosed with tumors as a child, he received chemotherapy. The treatment required him to be home-schooled for a year, and tired him out. He had to give up his beloved baseball, but he kept up with his classmates despite his illness.
The chemo didn't work, and Rodriguez was told he had developed cirrhosis – a common complication of Hepatitis B – and that he needed a transplant at age 13.
"At this point I broke down," he recalled. "I had wanted to get into the majors and at 13, that was my biggest disappointment. I've always been active despite my diagnosis, and I just wanted to get back to school."
"I never do anything 100 percent. It's always 700." – Rene Rodriguez
"I wasn't going to let it get me down," he explained. "If I was going to recuperate, I was going to recuperate at my own rate."
The fight for the right to live
Though Rodriguez's recovery was quick, a transplant patient must be closely monitored with consistent doctor's care and check-ups and medications to be sure the body doesn't reject the foreign organ. After he graduated from high school and experienced no medical complications, he lost his medical coverage.
He and his family attempted to keep up with the mounting bills from his necessary appointments, but a few times he was forced to skip visits because he could not pay.
Last February, he had several ruptured esophageal varices (veins) caused by his liver that had begun to show signs of being rejected. Doctors told him he would require another transplant.
On July 9, 2012, he was admitted to the emergency room. Doctors said they were surprised he wasn't in a coma, given the severity of his illness. He needed a new liver immediately. However, without health insurance, they told Rodriguez they could not operate.
With time running out, his mother reached out to local politicians and family with government connections and they finally got Rodriguez on Medicaid. But his fight was not over.
The transplant board, who decides which patients' cases are most urgent, was skeptical of Rodriguez because of the appointments he missed, he said.
"They thought I wasn't taking care of myself," he said. "Half the board thought I should get the transplant, and half didn't. All of the hospital staff was rooting for me as they tried to decide essentially whether I deserved to live."
On Aug. 1, the decision was made. Rodriguez received his transplant that day, and consistent with his fighting spirit, he again made a remarkably quick recovery.
The importance of being a donor
Beyond the need to maneuver the complex logistics of the medical system, transplant recipients must also find the right organ so that the body does not reject it. Lenard Freeman of the N.J. Sharing Network – a nonprofit organization responsible for the recovery of organs in North and Central Jersey – said that there are fewer Hispanic registered donors than there are in other demographics.
But there's hope, Freeman said. The number of Hispanic drivers who check off the organ donor box on their licenses has increased over the past year thanks in part to his organization's mission to educate the community and emphasize the need for and gift of becoming an organ donor.
"Unfortunately, there are many myths and misconceptions surrounding organ donation," Freeman explained. "When we dispel those myths and help people to understand the facts, they are more able to make a more informed decision. Because of organ donors, patients who are days or even hours away from death can go back to leading healthy and productive lives."
Rodriguez is a perfect example.
"I feel good, and I'm anxious to get out of these four walls," Rodriguez laughed. He has plans to take the credits he earned during his year in college and return to school for criminal justice.
"700 percent," he said, smiling.
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The shrinking size of features on modern processors is slowly approaching a limit where the wiring on chips will only be a few atoms across. As this point approaches, both making these features and controlling the flow of current through them becomes a serious challenge, one that bumps up against basic limits of materials.
During my visit to IBM's Watson Research Center, it was clear that people in the company are already thinking about what to do when they run into these limits. For at least some of them, the answer would involve a radical departure from traditional chipmaking approaches, switching from traditional semiconductors to carbon nanotubes. And, while I was there, the team was preparing a paper (now released by Nature Nanotechnology) that would report some significant progress: a chip with 10,000 working transistors made from nanotubes, formed at a density that's two orders of magnitude higher than any previously reported effort.
During my visit to Watson, I spoke with George Tulevski, who is working on the nanotube project, and is one of the authors of the recent paper. Tulevski described nanotubes as a radical rethinking of how you build a chip. "Silicon is a solid you carve down," he told Ars, "while nanotubes are something you have to build up." In other words, you can't start with a sheet of nanotubes and etch them until you're left with the wiring you want.
One possible alternative is to use graphene, a sheet of carbon a bit like an unrolled nanotube, which can potentially be etched into distinct features. The problem, according to Tulevski, is that graphene doesn't naturally have a bandgap, the feature of semiconductors that makes them useful for circuitry. It's possible to manipulate graphene so that it develops a bandgap, but that adds to the complexity of manufacturing devices. Some carbon nanotubes, in contrast, are semiconductors without the need for any manipulation (others are metals).
This still left IBM with a choice, Tulevski said. You could potentially attempt to grow a pure population of carbon nanotubes in place, on your chip. We've gotten much better at controlling the growth of nanotubes, and IBM has equipment in house that be been used to produce them. The problem there is that, if anything goes wrong with just one of the tubes, the whole chip would be lost. We may have gotten much better, but we've not gotten that good.
So, Tulevski's group is taking a different approach: buy off-the-shelf nanotubes, isolate the ones they want, and then assemble them on a chip.
The first couple of steps of this is easier than it sounds. Tulevski showed off a large jar, obtained from a chemical manufacturer, that contained a mixture of carbon nanotubes. As it turns out, the two types of nanotubes, metals and semiconductors, interact differently with a standard column of the type commonly used in chemistry and biochemistry labs. Simply run a mixture down the column, and it's possible to separate out a relatively pure population of one type. To make matters even more convenient, the two populations are slightly different colors.
Once you have a collection of semiconducting nanotubes, you have to build circuits out of these. If we're ever going to make processors out of them, this has to be done quickly, cheaply, and consistently. As Tulevsky described it in referring to purifying the right nanotubes, a one part-per-billion error rate just isn't good enough when you consider the number of transistors on a modern chip.
The team at Watson is working on solution processing, which is where the new paper comes in. The idea is to pre-pattern the needed circuitry onto a chip using IBM's existing foundry experience. Once that's in place, a solution containing carbon nanotubes can be washed across the chip, at which point they'll drop out of solution and attach to the chip based on the pattern.
In the paper, the pattern was set up by etching away silicon dioxide to reveal an underlying layer of hafnium dioxide. The HfO2 layer could interact with a charged organic molecule (4-(N-hydroxycarboxamido)-1-methylpyridinium iodide), creating a charged surface. The carbon nanotubes could then be floated across this surface while encased in a coating of an organic molecule with the opposite charge. A simple ion exchange reaction locks the nanotube in place above the hafnium layer.
With the hafnium features at 70nm wide, this process was used to create field-effect transistors (FETs), and it worked with an efficiency of over 90 percent. The density of these FETs was 109 per square centimeter, 100 times higher than the previous reported best. And these devices could be made en masse: the researchers were able to test over 10,000 of the FETs on a single chip, and found over 7,000 functional ones (most of the rest ended up with a metallic nanotube instead of a semiconductor).
This still isn't ready for chip manufacture. But it's a lot closer than most previous efforts, and gives IBM's team some obvious things to troubleshoot if they want to boost the efficiency further.


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The Portland Guardian of 26 May 1927 reports the death of Mrs. Hugh Kittson. The obituary gives much information about Mrs. Kittson's early life including her arrival in Australia and her marriage. She was 94 years old and had been in Victoria for 82 years and had many memories of those early times. As I read her story, I wanted to know more about Mrs. Hugh Kittson. The obituary, as was often the way, did not mention her first or maiden names. It did say she had travelled to Victoria on the Intrinsic with her parents and two brothers in 1840.
After searching death records and Trove, I found that Mrs Kittson was Margaret Jennings, daughter of Cook Abraham Jennings and Hannah Birchall. She was born in Manchester in about 1833. Her brothers were Samuel and Robert Jennings and the "Intrinsic" had in fact arrived in 1841. I then discovered stories about two pioneering families of the southern Western District I had not heard of before, the Jennings and the Kittsons who were both in the Portland and Bridgewater areas before 1850. I particularly enjoyed a Letter to the Editor from the Portland Guardian of 23 January 1877 by Cook Jennings which painted a picture of the 1840s.
Cook Abraham Jennings' letter gives an insight into life in the early days of Western Victoria. He refutes a claim by Thomas Fairburn to be the first person to find freestone at Mount Abrupt near Dunkeld suggesting it was he instead who made the first discovery. He describes a journey from Portland to Mt Sturgeon and Mt Abrupt almost 30 years earlier. As a stonemason in Portland, he was keen to source some freestone and after a tip-off, headed to the southern end of the Grampians in 1848 with his travelling companions, son Robert, and an indigenous boy raised by Jennings' wife.
Jennings describes the return journey when "there was no Hamilton…save Mr. Beath's store and Blastock's public house". After difficulty crossing the Grange and Violet Creek he eventually reached Portland and sold off the stone, which was still being used as grindstones 30 years later.
The letter also shows that overseas travel was not out of the question for those early pioneers. Cook Jennings travelled to Richmond, Virginia in 1858 to lodge a claim on a relative's will. Although Cook did come across as somewhat of an opportunist!
Margaret Jennings's husband Hugh Kittson was himself some sort of trailblazer. The Irish-born son of James and Catherine Kittson, was reported as the first white person to ride overland from Portland to Melbourne. Hugh and Margaret had seven children and surnames of their descendants include Johnson, White, and Hodgetts.


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Apple is drawing upon the expertise of security researchers from Kaspersky Lab when it comes to security on OS X, according to Kaspersky CTO Nikolai Grebennikov. In an interview with Computing News, Grebennikov revealed that Apple had asked his firm to begin analyzing OS X in order to help improve its security. The request follows the recent high-profile Flashback scare, and shows that Apple is beginning to take steps to take OS X security more seriously.
"Mac OS is really vulnerable, and Apple recently invited us to improve its security. We've begun an analysis of its vulnerabilities, and the malware targeting it," Grebennikov told Computing News. "Our first investigations show Apple doesn't pay enough attention to security. For example, Oracle closed a vulnerability in Java, which was a target for a major botnet several months ago."
Following reports that more than a half-million Macs were infected by Flashback thanks to a then-unpatched Java vulnerability in OS X, Kaspersky Lab boldly told members of the media that "Mac OS X invulnerability" to malware is a myth. Although the statement generated grousing among the Mac-using community, it's true—security researchers have been arguing for years that Macs were only perceptibly "safer" because of their relatively low market share. It would only be a matter of time before attackers began focusing on the Mac, and Kaspersky argued last month that we have officially reached that point. "Market share brings attacker motivation," the firm said in April. "Expect more drive-by downloads, more Mac OS X mass-malware. Expect cross-platform exploit kits with Mac-specific exploits."
The fact that Apple is consulting Kaspersky now for help doesn't come as a huge surprise, though. As we have learned from our own sources, Apple often brings in outside firms to present and discuss ideas for OS X and iOS. Since Mac hardware is increasingly becoming a target for malicious attackers, it makes sense that Apple would take the input from firms like Kaspersky more seriously as it prepares to move forward with its next version of OS X, Mountain Lion. Although Mountain Lion will allow users to heavily restrict the origin of software installed on their machines for security purposes, attacks like Flashback don't necessarily need users to install anything in order to take advantage of vulnerabilities. (Flashback installed itself on victims' machines via Java after users visited infected WordPress websites.) As such, malware will likely continue to be a concern for Mac users.
Apple did not respond to our request for comment by publication time.
Update: Kaspersky Lab has reached out to us to say that representation of Kaspersky's supposed collaboration with Apple in Computing News is not accurate and the company is working on having the original article changed. Kaspersky also sent over the following statement on behalf of Grebennikov:
As Mac OS X market share continues to increase, we expect cyber-criminals to continue to develop new types of malware and attack methods. In order to meet these new threats, Kaspersky Lab has been conducting an in-depth analysis of Mac OS X vulnerabilities and new forms of malware.
This security analysis of Mac OS X was conducted independently of Apple; however, Apple is open to collaborating with us regarding new Mac OS X vulnerabilities and malware that we identify during our analysis.
Kaspersky Lab is committed to providing the highest level of security for all of our customers, including Mac OS X, and we will continue to enhance our technologies in order to meet the ever-changing threat landscape.


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No CPR nurse spawns outrage, criminal investigation
Fire Chief: It's not uncommon to find bystanders unable or unwilling to do CPR, but this was unique
By Gosia Wozniacka and Tracie Cone
The Associated Press
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A nurse's refusal to give CPR to a dying 87-year-old woman at a California independent living home despite desperate pleas from a 911 dispatcher has prompted outrage and spawned a criminal investigation.
The harrowing 7-minute, 16-second call also raised concerns that policies at senior living facilities could prevent staff from intervening in medical emergencies. It prompted calls for legislation Monday to prevent a repeat of what happened Feb. 26 at the Glenwood Gardens in Bakersfield.
Lorraine Bayless collapsed in the dining room of the retirement home that offers many levels of care. She lived in the independent living building, which state officials said is like a senior apartment complex and doesn't operate under licensing oversight.
"This is a wakeup call," said Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada, chair of the California Assembly Aging and Long-term Care Committee. "I'm sorry it took a tragedy like this to bring it to our attention."
Yamada cautioned that while it's not yet known whether intervention would have saved the woman's life, "we want to investigate because it has caused a lot of concern and alarm."
Independent living facilities "should not have a policy that says you can stand there and watch somebody die," said Pat McGinnis, founder of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, a consumer advocacy group. "How a nurse can do that is beyond comprehension."
In all her years of advocating for the elderly, McGinnis said: "This was so horrifying. I've never seen this happen before."
State officials did not know Monday whether the woman who talked to the 911 dispatcher actually was a nurse, or just identified herself as one during the call. She said one of the home's policies prevented her from doing CPR, according to an audio recording of the call.
"The consensus is if they are a nurse and if they are at work as a nurse, then they should be offering the appropriate medical care," said Russ Heimerich, spokesman for the California Board of Registered Nursing, the agency that licenses health care providers.
The executive director of Glenwood Gardens, Jeffrey Toomer, defended the nurse in a written statement, saying she followed the facility's policy.
"In the event of a health emergency at this independent living community, our practice is to immediately call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait with the individual needing attention until such personnel arrives," Toomer said. "That is the protocol we followed."
Toomer offered condolences to the woman's family and said a thorough internal review would be conducted. He told KGET-TV that residents of the facility are informed of the policy and agree to it when they move in. He said the policy does not apply at the adjacent assisted living and skilled nursing facilities.
Multiple calls to the facility and its parent company seeking more information were not returned.
Unlike nursing homes, which provide medical care, independent living facilities generally do not.
"These are like apartments for seniors. You're basically living on your own. They may have some services provided by basic nursing staff, but it's not their responsibility to care for the individual," said Dr. Susan Leonard, a geriatrics expert at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Residents of independent living communities can still take care of themselves, but may need help getting to doctor's appointments. In skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes, many residents require around-the-clock care.
Staff members are "required to perform and provide CPR" unless there's a do-not-resuscitate order, said Greg Crist, a senior vice president at the American Health Care Association.
Bayless did not have such an order on file at the facility, said Battalion Chief Anthony Galagaza of the Bakersfield Fire Department, which was the first on the scene. That's when firefighters immediately began CPR, continuing until she reached the hospital.
Dr. Patricia Harris, who heads the University of Southern California's geriatrics division, said the survival odds are slim among elderly who receive CPR. Even if they survive, they are never the same. She said she would override the home's policy and risk getting fired "rather than watch somebody die in front of me."
During the call, an unidentified woman called from her cellphone, and asked for paramedics to be sent to help the woman. Later, a woman who identified herself as the nurse got on the phone and told dispatcher Tracey Halvorson she was not permitted to do CPR on the woman.
Halvorson urged the nurse to start CPR, warning the consequences could be dire if no one tried to revive the woman, who had been laid out on the floor on her instructions.
"I understand if your boss is telling you, you can't do it," the dispatcher said. "But ... as a human being ... you know, is there anybody that's willing to help this lady and not let her die?"
"Not at this time," the nurse answered.
Halvorson assured the nurse that Glenwood couldn't be sued if anything went wrong in attempts to resuscitate the resident, saying the local emergency medical system "takes the liability for this call."
Later in the call, Halvorson asked, "Is there a gardener? Any staff, anyone who doesn't work for you? Anywhere? Can we flag someone down in the street and get them to help this lady? Can we flag a stranger down? I bet a stranger would help her."
"I understand if your facility is not willing to do that. Give the phone to a passer-by. This woman is not breathing enough. She is going to die if we don't get this started, do you understand?"
The woman had no pulse and wasn't breathing when fire crews reached her, Galagaza said.
Sgt. Jason Matson of the Bakersfield Police Department said its investigation so far had not revealed criminal wrongdoing, but the probe is continuing.
First responders say often it's hard to find someone willing to provide CPR in an emergency.
"It's not uncommon to have someone refuse to provide CPR if they physically can't do it, or they're so upset they just can't function," Kern County Fire Department Deputy Chief Michael Miller said. "What made this one unique was the way the conversation on the phone went. It was just very frustrating to anyone listening to it, like, why wasn't anyone helping this poor woman, since CPR today is much simpler than it was in the past?"
Cone reported from Sacramento. Associated Press writers Garance Burke in San Francisco and Alicia Chang in Los Angeles contributed to this report.


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Barbara Walters hospitalized with chickenpox
NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Walters would probably like to hit the reset button on 2013.
She's got the chickenpox and remains hospitalized more than a week after going in after falling and hitting her head at a pre-inaugural party in Washington on Jan. 19. A fellow host on the "The View," Whoopi Goldberg, said Monday that Walters has been transferred to a New York hospital and hopes to go home soon.
"She's been told to rest. She's not allowed any visitors," Goldberg said. "And we're telling you, Barbara, no scratching!"
The 83-year-old news veteran, who underwent heart surgery in May 2010, apparently avoided a disease that hits most people when they are children. It can be serious in older people because of the possibility of complications like pneumonia.
Even after concern about her fall had subsided, Walters had been kept hospitalized last week because of a lingering fever, and doctors found the unexpected cause.
"We love you, we miss you," Goldberg said on "The View," in a message to the show's inventor. "We just don't want to hug you."


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Microsoft has reported record quarterly revenue and earnings per share for the quarter ending March 31, 2013. In addition to that announcement, the company also revealed that CFO Peter Klein is to step down after 11 years at the company with four years in his current role. Klein's successor will be named in the next few weeks.
Revenue was $20.489 billion, up 18 percent on the same quarter last year. Operating income was up 19 percent, at $7.612 billion. Earnings per share were also up, gaining 20 percent at $0.72. The company announced a dividend of $0.23 per share.
Microsoft reported non-GAAP results too, and these reflect Windows 8, Office 2013, and Halo 4 revenue that was taken in prior quarters for products not delivered until this quarter. The numbers also include a $733 million fine paid to the European Commission for failing to offer the browser ballot screen to users of Windows 7 Service Pack 1.
With these adjustments, the company reported revenue of $18.831 billion, operating income of $6.687 billion, and earnings per share of $0.65. These represent gains of eight percent, five percent, and eight percent, respectively.
Windows Division revenue was $5.703 billion, up 23 percent on the same quarter a year ago. However, $1.085 billion of this was revenue taken in previous quarters for the Windows Upgrade Offer. Excluding this, revenue was $4.618 billion, essentially unchanged year on year. Operating income for the division was $3.459 billion, up 16 percent from third quarter 2012.
Windows revenue is split between OEM and non-OEM sales, the latter including Surface sales, retail upgrades, and corporate volume licenses. The OEM revenue was in line with the overall PC market—a market that fell almost 14 percent last quarter—but the non-OEM share was up 40 percent. Volume licensing grew by double digits, and the company says that two thirds of enterprise desktops are now using Windows 7. With less than a year of Windows XP support remaining, that number should continue to grow.
The Microsoft Business Division had a strong performance. MBD revenue once again eclipsed Windows Division revenue, after falling behind last quarter, at $6.319 billion (up eight percent year on year). The non-GAAP revenue, reflecting revenue taken in previous quarters for the Office Upgrade Offer, was $6.126 billion, a rise of five percent. Operating income was $4.104 billion, also up eight percent year on year.
Within MBD, the company reported that Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and Dynamics revenue all grew by double digits. Lync in particular grew by more than 30 percent. Business revenue was up 10 percent, with multi-year licensing revenue up 16 percent.
Server and Tools revenue grew 11 percent, to $5.039 billion. Operating income was up 17 percent, to $1.979 billion. Multi-year licensing revenue grew 20 percent, and Enterprise Services by 11 percent. Microsoft claimed strong growth in its enterprise software as well. Hyper-V has increased its share of the virtualization market by four percent. The System Center suite's revenue grew by 22 percent, and SQL Server revenue was up 16 percent, outpacing the database market.
The company even gave details about its cloud services. Office 365 is on track to bring in revenue of $1 billion per year. One in four enterprise customers now have some cloud seats. Windows Azure is picking up customers, including NBC Sports, 3M, and Telenor, and close to 1.5 million virtual machines have been created on Azure's new Infrastructure Services.
Online Services Division is continuing its slow progress toward profitability. Revenue was up 18 percent, to $0.832 billion. The operating loss was down 46 percent, to $0.262 billion.
Entertainment and Devices Division posted strong results. Revenue was up 56 percent at $3.531 billion. Operating income was also up: a profit of $0.342 billion, as compared to a loss of $0.228 billion a year ago. Even in its twilight months, 1.3 million Xbox 360 consoles were sold, a drop of nine percent. Xbox LIVE membership has grown 18 percent to more than 46 million. Skype minutes are up 56 percent, to 161 billion.
Next quarter, Windows Division OEM revenue is expected to be impacted by the decline of the PC market. In MBD, volume license revenue (60 percent) should grow by low double digits, transactional revenue will be in line with the PC market. Server and Tools revenue, both product revenue (80 percent) and Enterprise Services revenue (20 percent) are expected to grow by low double digits. Online services revenue is also anticipated to grow by low double digits. Entertainment and Devices revenue should grow by mid teens.


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(Although I could have done without it being on the nose. I am not going to wind up disfigured from this. The Henry Waxman look just isn't for me, and neither is Tycho Brahe's.)
So that's why there wasn't exactly much posting or commenting here from me yesterday afternoon. I took Bobbi to work and then me to the freshly-reopened Aristocrat pub for a bowl of French-onion-soup-flavored comfort food. and then practiced my moping for most of the afternoon.
|French onion soup from the Artistocrat pub. Good for what ails ya. (Unless what ails ya is atherosclerosis, in which case it's probably not.)


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Please welcome our first guest Hacker, Lauren Gibaldi!
Let me back up.
Before I became I library student, I was a high school English teacher. Before becoming a teacher, I was an English and Education college student (note: English AND Education, not English Education – the former is much more helpful in the long run). I learned Piaget's theories, and Erikson's stages. I learned how to look inside the mind of a child and debate his or her maturity levels. Educational theorists were the definitive answer when dealing with children.
And then I started teaching. And everything I learned quickly disappeared. When I looked at my darling 16 year olds, I didn't think which cognitive level they were at; instead, I thought "What can I do to get them to work." (Or, more accurately, "What can I do to stop them from throwing the furniture." Seriously). The literature read only went so far – it was my patience and understanding that got me through the year. It was my knowledge of the subject taught, and my willingness to work with each student one-on-one. Never in the year did I think "Okay, what would Piaget think."
I bring this up because I'm currently taking an information needs for children class and we've approached the educational theorists chapter. Now, the class itself is wonderful. I love learning about children's literature, and more so love discussing how to recommend books for various age ranges and maturity levels. I love reading about new children's literature, and evaluating it.
Now, I understand that it's smart to understand the maturity of a child before recommending a book (I wouldn't recommend the Harry Potter books to a five year old who still can't grasp vowels), but I also think a lot has changed since these theorists made their definitive decisions on the maturation of lives. (I highly doubt 12 year olds back then enjoyed shows such as Jersey Shore.) And while a basic familiarity with their ideas is nice to have, I hardly believe it'll be the first thing that pops into mind when recommending a book to a 10 year old.
I've learned that a lot of the classes taken are a great backbone for the career, but not all of the information taught will help me in the long run. I think, ultimately, it's smart to pick and choose what to use post graduation. There's so much we learn that, over time, it's easy to see what will help us in our careers, and what is just information. (Ex: how to run story time will help me; defining "information" probably won't).
I've started to allow some classes to escape my mind, while pushed for others to be blazoned upon my subconscious for all they've taught me. I've learned to tell the difference between what will be useful, and what will just sit unused. And I think, ultimately, it will help me. (And clear my mind.)
Now, with one more semester to go, I'm sure there will be more I'll take and more I'll leave, but I'm looking forward to assessing what will be relevant to my future career, which classes will help me get where I want. And I know I'll choose my next set of classes wisely, hoping to add another layer to my subconscious.
I wonder what Piaget would say about that?
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This week the University of Oxford and the Vatican announced a plan to collaborate in digitizing 1.5 million pages of rare and ancient texts, most dating from the 16th century or earlier. The project is expected to span about 4 years and was made possible by a donation of £2 million (approximately $3.1 million) from the Polonsky Foundation—a charitable organization that supports higher education, medical research, and other general matters in the arts and sciences.
Specifically, the texts will include pages from Oxford's Bodleian Libraries and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV). The digitized pages will include early printed books—called incunabula—from Rome and the surrounding area; Greek manuscripts including early church texts and works by Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Hippocrates; and Hebrew manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. "With approximately two-thirds of the material coming from the BAV and the remainder from the Bodleian, the digitization effort will also benefit scholars by uniting virtually materials that have been dispersed between the two collections over the centuries," a statement from Oxford read.
The aim of the project, as envisioned by the Polonsky Foundation is "to democratize access to information, [seeing] increasing digital access to these two library collections, among the greatest in the world, as a significant step in sharing the wealth of resources on a global scale." This is not the Polonsky Foundation's first gift to digitize rare and ancient texts, either. An earlier gift to the Bodleian Libraries from the Foundation allowed the Oxford libraries to upload images of 280,000 fragments of Hebrew manuscripts, called the Cairo Genizah Collection, which are now available to search and view for free online.


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Stephen Colbert to Replace David Letterman on The Late Show
Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman as host of The Late Show, CBS announced Thursday. The host of The Colbert Report signed a five-year deal with CBS to host the show.
"Stephen Colbert is one of the most inventive and respected forces on television," CBS boss Les Moonves said in a statement. "David Letterman's legacy and accomplishments are an incredible source of pride for all of us here, and today's announcement speaks to our commitment of upholding what he established for CBS in late night."
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After 21 years as host, Letterman announced last week that he will retire in 2015. Colbert's premiere date will be announced once Letterman sets the timetable for his exit, according to CBS. "Simply being a guest on David Letterman's show has been a highlight of my career," Colbert said in a statement. "I never dreamed that I would follow in his footsteps, though everyone in late night follows Dave's lead."
He added: "I'm thrilled and grateful that CBS chose me. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go grind a gap in my front teeth."
Comedy Central announced that Colbert will continue to host The Colbert Report through the end of 2014. (There's no word on whether Comedy Central will find a new host for The Colbert Report, or will scrap the show altogether.) "Comedy Central is proud that the incredibly talented Stephen Colbert has been part of our family for nearly two decades," the network said in a statement. "We look forward to the next eight months of the ground-breaking Colbert Report and wish Stephen the very best."
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[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/02/09/art.capitol.gi.jpg caption="Fifty-six percent of Americans say the government poses an immediate threat to individual rights and freedoms."]Washington (CNN) - A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.
Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government's become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. Forty-four percent of those polled disagree.
The survey indicates a partisan divide on the question: only 37 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Independents and nearly 7 in 10 Republicans say the federal government poses a threat to the rights of Americans.
According to CNN poll numbers released Sunday, Americans overwhelmingly think that the U.S. government is broken - though the public overwhelmingly holds out hope that what's broken can be fixed.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted February 12-15, with 1,023 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the overall survey.
I love my Country but don't trust my governmant
CNN is reporting this? Wow, that means things are way worse than I thought for BO. When even CNN has this kind of take, I would say we are looking at a Democrat bloodbath in November.
Funny that so many GOP respondents think the government is a threat given that it was the Bush administration that tried to do away with Habeas Corpus and had the military and NSA listening in on the phone conversations of American citizens without having to secure a warrant.
Yeah, I for one feel much safer with the government now.
what happen to limited goverment? States Right? what is next socialism, a dictorship? Time for more TeaParties, this time a real party.
we are living under a communist government.
It isn't the government.
It's the socialists in the Democratic Party, and their "Dear Leader."
And, I don't know what the hell he is.
With this loser president, what did you think was going to happen. He HATES America...
That is not a "partisan divide". It only shows how much liberals are either A. out of touch or B. clinging to their biases.
The natural inertia of government (all government) is to grow. Our Federal system is out of control. Just because "there ought to be a law" doesn't mean in falls to the Federal gov. to provide it. Just because we need health care reform, doesn't make it the job of Feds, or make it Constitutional.
We have 50 states capable of making strides if the Feds would back off.
I bet Republicans did not think that when their guy was in charge.
Where was all this outrage when Bush and Cheney were taking away our rights?
My daddy always said "Fear government, pray for the country." What a wise man!
Only CNN is surprised, most of us have known this since King Obama took over. Everything he does seems to come from Presidente Chavezes play book.
If you don't believe that ever expanding government is a threat to your liberties then you simply aren't paying attention to history...
obama is looking for any excuse to declare Martial Law! He will have to be forcibly removed from government. We are heading for a Civil War in America, brought to you by democrats!
I think the number is higher. The IRS are looking to purchase shotguns. The police departments should be able to protect them. Why the shotguns?
The question is, will this stop Obama?
It's getting to the point to where I hope some Democrats get together and go visit the President and tell him in no uncertain terms.
I don't know why Obama can't try to go win the war in Afghanistan or work on jobs. Those would both be notable achievements. But instead he's trying to destroy healthcare for those who have it for those who don't.
People, that's madness!
A wolf in sheeples' clothing.
Really? Are you kidding me? Where was all the outrage when the Patriot Act (an ACTUAL violation of citizens' rights) was passed?
This fear-mongering, hateful diatribe served up by the fanatics in the GOP tent has got to stop. What a joke this is.
I find it interesting that two years ago, democrats would have polled closer to 70%. Just another example of Obama=good......Bush=bad
Most Americans are too brainwashed by corporate propaganda to see that unfettered global capitalism is the root cause of most of their problems. But don't worry about it, consumerbots, those big corporations have your best interest at heart. Sorry you lost your job, now go to Wal-Mart and buy some shoddy, made in china, lead-painted baby clothes. Have a nice day!
Let's see, the Republicans started the Patriot Act, NCLB, wire tapping, spending like drunks, increasing our deficit, started two wars and have generally been incompetent while pushing 'smaller government.' Now, the Dems have to clean up the GOP mess, deal with Republican obstructionism, lies and deceit, and deal with their own spinelessness. Yep, we're screwed.
Well, I guess this does mean that the democrat party is done in November.
Absolute power is corrupting and no better example than what has happened in Washington. The federal government under any party has expanded and with that taken liberty away from the states and therefore the citizens. The healthcare summit showed the arrogance and disconnect of politicians who sit upon gilded thrones of self importance and supposed wisdom. Elections mean something... it means the citizens have selected for a brief moment individuals to serve them. I have never been a believer in term limits until now... across the board.
The report on eroding rights in this country comes from CNN. The most left wing reporting of the cable media. You have to wonder if congress will believe it now.
The 44% that does not think the government is a threat to citizens rights, must be employed by the government or receiving entitlements from the government.


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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Cheese Straws
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...The holidays aren't far away and that means it's time to start planning meals and snacks for family and friends who inevitably drop by when there's a long weekend. I've a general idea of what to serve for what will be a nontraditional Thanksgiving dinner and have started formalizing my attack plan for the snacks that I want to have available for visitors. I like to make these cheese straws because they can be prepared well ahead of time and frozen to be baked off as needed. While these are intended as snacks, they are also a wonderful accompaniment to soups, particularly those that are tomato based.
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I've also made a batch of Busters which I featured here last year and will be making a tomato jam to be served with a good goat cheese on thinly sliced baguettes. There will, of course, be other treats, but I can relax once these are set to go. I prefer to use an Asiago cheese to make these but you can use any hard cheese that you like. It's best to use a microplane to grate the cheese. If it's too soft put it in the freezer for an hour or so and then proceed. The straws can be shaped by hand or formed with a cookie press if you prefer a fancy more uniform appearance. I've done mine by hand and lightly scored the tops with the dull edge of a knife. Be forewarned that this is a very soft dough and it can be difficult to shape. Refrigerate dough if needed. If you freeze the straws, freeze them in a single layer and then transfer to a storage bag. Baked straws will keep in an airtight container for up to 5 days though they will become more brittle as they age. This is a really simple recipe that produces a lot of bang for the buck. I hope you'll give them a try. Here's the recipe which I've adapted from one developed by William-Sonoma.
Cheese Straws...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite and the William Sonoma test kitchen
8 ounces Asiago Cheese, finely grated
12 tablespoons (1-1/2 sticks) unsalted butter
1 large egg
1-3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
1⁄4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1) Bring all ingredients to room temperature. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
2) Combine cheese, butter, egg, flour, salt and cayenne pepper in bowl of food processor fitted with a metal blade. Process until smooth.
3) Fill a cookie press with the dough according to the manufacturer's instructions and fit with the star-shaped disk. Holding the cookie press at an angle on an ungreased or Silpat-lined cookie sheet, press the trigger twice, dragging the press away to make straws 3 inches long. Space the straws 1 inch apart. To make straws the length of the cookie sheet, continually press the trigger and drag the press away, spacing the straws 1 inch apart. Alternatively, break dough into 60 equal sized pieces and roll until 3-inches long. Place 1-inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
4) Bake until straws are light golden, 20 to 25 minutes. Transfer straws to wire racks and let cool. Straws may be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days. Yield: 60 three-inch straws.
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Pear and Goat Cheese Crostinis - Grillin Fool
35 comments :
- Ginny Hartzler said...
How yummy everything looks! I haven't heard of cheese straws in a while, I don't think I've ever eaten any! I wish restaraunts would offer them as an alternative to bread sticks. And those Busters look so good that I had to click to see the recipe!
- November 11, 2010 at 1:29 AM
- Katerina said...
These straws are ideal for gatherings and parties. Thanks for sharing Mary!
- November 11, 2010 at 2:23 AM
- penny aka jeroxie said...
You plan well ahead! And chess straws are also good eaten by itself... heh
- November 11, 2010 at 2:37 AM
- ♥Sugar♥Plum♥Fairy♥ said...
Oh loved readin ur Indian story and sooo hope ur better now Mary!!
Am sooo gladdd ur back!!
Hope ur luggage gets back too!
Oh this is so totally yummy lusciously good, every pairing always fantastic!!
- November 11, 2010 at 2:40 AM
- Priya Suresh said...
I dont bother to grab some cheese straws and eating now..yummy..
- November 11, 2010 at 3:43 AM
- Flavia Galasso said...
I want these straws..NOW!!!! Yummmmmmmmm
- November 11, 2010 at 4:35 AM
- Lynn said...
They look great Mary! I've never had a cheese straw, might make a batch:@)
- November 11, 2010 at 5:53 AM
- pam said...
These sound like a perfect holiday snack!
- November 11, 2010 at 6:09 AM
- Sanjeeta kk said...
Lovely starters and snack for any day.
- November 11, 2010 at 6:35 AM
- Sam Hoffer / My Carolina Kitchen said...
What a lovely assortment of appetizers Mary. You are really organized.
Being an ole southern gal, I adore cheese straws. They are very addictive and I'm dangerous if I stand by them for very long. Look around and they're gone....
- November 11, 2010 at 7:03 AM
- Joan said...
I have made cheese straws all my life, but I like the idea of using Asiago cheese for a certain bite. Thanks, Mary.
- November 11, 2010 at 7:29 AM
- From the Kitchen said...
I cut my teeth on cheese straws! My recipe doesn't call for Asiago but it sounds like a delicious addition. It is time to let the holiday baking begin.
- November 11, 2010 at 7:33 AM
- Unknown said...
I have actually been thinking about cheese straws as YES the perfect time of year to have homemade ones on hand!
Thanks for the recipe, the look great!
- November 11, 2010 at 8:15 AM
- Natalie said...
I love making my own crackers (thanks for the link!) and have been wanting to try cheese straws. Great recipe!
- November 11, 2010 at 8:23 AM
- pigpigscorner said...
Nice spread of snacks! The cheese straws are perfect for any occasion!
- November 11, 2010 at 8:24 AM
- aipi said...
cheese straws look mighty gorgeous..i am drooling :)..nice recipe Mary!
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- November 11, 2010 at 9:11 AM
- Bakericious said...
this is definitely great for snack, I wish to have some now!
- November 11, 2010 at 9:36 AM
- Ocean Breezes and Country Sneezes said...
This is my 1st visit! I found you via Susan at SCHNITZEL AND THE TROUT. I try to cook like you, easy and good ingredients, tasty, and healthy. Sounds like you enjoyed your trip to India - despite getting "beat-up." Your photo's are lovely. Please "visit" me in New England when you have a moment. I love company and new Followers are always welcome!
- November 11, 2010 at 9:41 AM
- Jeannie said...
Hmmm I like the look of those cheese straws and the busters! I am sure would taste delicious dipping into the jam.
- November 11, 2010 at 10:22 AM
- Cathy said...
I much prefer a savory snack to a sweet one and cheese is always at the top of my list. It's great to have you back home again, Mary. I hope you post lots of photos and info about your trip. It sounds like it was quite an adventure (and a bumpy one).
- November 11, 2010 at 10:40 AM
Thank you! They look wonderful. I bet i could eat a whole plate!
- November 11, 2010 at 11:39 AM
- Monet said...
I have made these before, and they are always such a hit! You are right that they would be perfect for the holidays. I'm wanting to host a party sometime in the next few weeks, and these will be making an appearance. Thank you for sharing!
- November 11, 2010 at 1:05 PM
- Joanne said...
These are some FANTASTIC appetizer ideas. I'm especially enamored with that tomato jam. Think I'm going to have to give that a shot.
- November 11, 2010 at 1:12 PM
- Alessandra said...
Asiago is the fantastic cheese they make in my mother's part of Italy... I already miss it!!! Not so easy to find here in New Zealand! I love bread stick and cheese straws, these look fantastic,perfect with a glass of chilled white wine!
THank you for the recipe, and for talking about Asiago!
- November 11, 2010 at 2:24 PM
- Miss Meat and Potatoes said...
I have such a weakness for these yet have never made them myself. As it turns out I happen to have all the ingredients on hand... Woo hoo!
- November 11, 2010 at 4:42 PM
- JG said...
What a nice treat to make for the holidays! It would be great to take out of the freezer and bake as needed. Thank you, Mary.
- November 11, 2010 at 5:25 PM
- Unknown said...
cheese straws = yum.
Perfect for holiday snack... or anytime.
Have a great day. Michael
- November 11, 2010 at 5:39 PM
- My Little Space said...
Can we freeze the potatoes busters as well? That would be so nice if we can prepare everything before hands. I'm planning to make that tomato jam. Hope you're having a great day, Mary.
Blessings, Kristy
p/s any news about your luggage?
- November 11, 2010 at 6:46 PM
- The Teacher Cooks said...
Have made cheese straws for years but never with Asiogo cheese. I will have to try them.
- November 11, 2010 at 8:05 PM
- Josie @Skinny Way Of Life said...
They sound so easy to make! they look very yummy! : )
- November 11, 2010 at 9:50 PM
- Julie m. said...
These looks delicious Mary! Being from Wisconsin, if it has the word cheese in it, you can count me in. :)
- November 11, 2010 at 9:53 PM
- Pam said...
I could eat way too many of those cheese straws - they look delicious. I WILL be making your tomato jam soon... I can't wait.
- November 11, 2010 at 10:08 PM
- We Are Not Martha said...
I've always wanted to make my own cheese straws... And you make it seem so easy! Definitely perfect for a holiday party :)
- November 11, 2010 at 10:33 PM
- Angie's Recipes said...
I love cheese straws! Your recipe seems not too complicated to prepare, maybe I should make some for the coming holiday.
Thanks, Mary, for sharing the recipe.
- November 12, 2010 at 1:00 AM
- katrina said...
How delicious! I adore cheese straws - a passion I developed while living in the South. Got to make yours!
- November 12, 2010 at 6:18 AM


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A Night of Stand-Up Comedy in Nanaimo with Jackass Star: STEVE-O
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Doors: 6:30pm
Steve-O (a.k.a. Stephen Glover) has become a household name and it all started when he snatched a video camera from his fathers closet when he was fifteen years old. From there he started producing homemade skateboarding videos featuring dangerous stunts mixed with comical behavior.
He was born in London and by the age of twelve, had lived in five countries and communicated fluently in three different languages. He holds citizenship in three countries - the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
After finishing high school in London, and completing a year at the University of Miami, Steve-O realized that college wasnt for him. He enrolled in Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Clown College to help further his goal of becoming a professional stuntman. After graduating Clown College, and determined to make it in Hollywood, he began to pitch his home videos to producers.
Eventually, Steve-Os videos made it into the hands of Jeff Tremaine (Jackass Creator/Director/Producer) who was working with Johnny Knoxville to create a stunt ba-+sed reality show. The rest is history. MTV aired the first season of JACKASS in 2000. In 2001, Steve-O launched his own Steve-O Dont Try This At Home Tour, establishing himself as an accomplished stage performer, at venues throughout the U.S. and in a dozen countries.
When the JACKASS TV series ended in 2002, the team moved on to JACKASS: THE MOVIE, released by Paramount in October of that year. Shortly thereafter, Steve-O and fellow JACKASS alum, Chris Pontius, were given a spin-off show entitled WILDBOYZ, which aired on MTV and MTV2 and lasted four seasons. In 2006, Paramount released JACKASS: NUMBER 2 in theatres and Steve-O continued to thrill audiences with his outrageous stunts.
In 2009 he competed on ABCs hit show, DANCING WITH THE STARS, and lasted six weeks, despite an injury and having virtually no dancing ability whatsoever.
In 2010, Steve-O returned for the Paramount franchise in JACKASS 3D which turned out to be a huge hit at the box office for the third installment with JACKASS 3.5 releasing shortly after on DVD.
In the months leading up to the release of JACKASS 3D he immersed himself in standup comedy, which had been a part-time hobby during the previous four years. Successful performances at prestigious comedy venues such as LAs Laugh Factory and New York Citys Comedy Cellar led to his current tour performing standup, stunts and bar-tricks across North America, Australia and Europe, which he has dubbed Steve-Os Entirely Too Much Information Tour.
On June 7, 2011 Steve-O released his autobiography, Professional Idiot: A Memoir, with publisher Hyperion Books.
In 2012, Steve-O hosted the game show called Killer Karaoke for truTV. The show challenged contestants to break out in song in the midst of extreme, hilarious and sometimes skin-crawling situations.
In 2013, Steve-O launched his YouTube channel where he has garnered well over a million subscribers. He uses the site to regularly upload new original material mixing his stunt work with his comedy bits.
Steve-O has been clean and sober since March of 2008 and lives a healthy, vegan lifestyle in the Los Angeles area...but he still has no problem stapling his balls to his leg.
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The Quilting Bee
Wine Country Quilting
Nestled in wine country just 15 miles west of Niagara Falls, Fonthill, Ontario is home to The Quilting Bee. Taking its name from traditional quilting bees, Kelly Corfe's shop is housed in a log cabin-style building. The building also houses a gift shop, restaurant, and ice cream parlor.
Find What You Want
Quilts drape surfaces throughout The Quilting Bee's pine wood interior. "People can come here and find what they want," Kelly says.
Meet the Staff
From left:
Cathy Hetherington, Shelia Durksen, Kelly Corfe (owner), Aubrey (dog), Jacki Morningstar, Diane Mollison, and Lynda Zonneveld.
A Kind Welcome
With the help of her husband and staff, Kelly showcases Asian, country, traditional, and Civil War quilts. More than a business, The Quilting Bee is a place for friends to catch up.
Cozy Atmosphere
Wood furniture adds to the homey feeling of The Quilting Bee. Jacki Morningstar's Woodland Bears melds with the shop's decor.
Room to Bloom
Jacki Morningstar, a staff member at The Quilting Bee, designed Room to Bloom for Quilt Sampler magazine.
Dimensional Details
In Room to Bloom, hand-quilted vines and grids complement dimensional flower appliqué details and pieced inner borders.
Room to Bloom Color Option
In place of the appliqué and embroidery, quilt test Laura Boehnke featured large-scale florals with a slightly retro flair in the center heart and border of Room to Bloom. Fabrics are from the Veranda collection for Maywood Studio.
Contact The Quilting Bee to purchase a copy of the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of Quilt Sampler. Issues are also available at your local quilt shop, on newsstands, and online.


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In 1999 a pair of researchers published a paper called "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments (PDF)." David Dunning and Justin Kruger (both at Cornell University's Department of Psychology at the time) conducted a series of four studies showing that, in certain cases, people who are very bad at something think they are actually pretty good. They showed that to assess your own expertise at something, you need to have a certain amount of expertise already.
Remember the 2008 election campaign? The financial markets were going crazy, and banks that were "too big to fail" were bailed out by the government. Smug EU officials proclaimed that all was well within the EU—even while they were bailing out a number of financial institutions. Fast forward to 2012, and the EU is looking at hard times. Greece can't pay its debt. Italy can, but the markets don't trust it to be able to. Spain and Portugal are teetering around like toddlers just waiting for the market to give them one good push. Members of the public are behaving like teenagers, screaming "F**k you," while flipping the bird. The markets are reacting like drunk parents, and the resulting bruises are going to take a while to heal.
In all of this, uninformed idiots blame the Greeks for being lazy, the Germans for being too strict, and everyone but themselves. Newspapers, blogs, and television are filled with wise commentary hailing the return of the gold standard, the breakup of the Euro, or any number of sensible and not-so-sensible ideas. How are we to parse all this information? Do any of these people know what they are talking about? And if anyone does, how can we know which ones to listen to? The research of Dunning and Kruger may well tell us there is no way to figure out the answers to any of these questions. That is kind of scary.
It has been more than 10 years since Dunning and Kruger published their work. I suspect it has become required reading in psychology courses. It's also a paper that has important implications for learning and communication, so what has happened since? Have the results held up? Are they universal? And what can we do to avoid falling victim to our own inabilities?
"The paper gave voice to an observation that people make about their peers, but that they don't know how to express," Dunning said.
This paper has become a cult classic. It is well-written—humor interspersed with robust data, and conclusions that are discussed in a thorough and accessible way. I wondered if Dunning knew that this paper would become such a classic, and when I spoke with him he responded quite to the contrary. "I frankly thought the paper would never be published," Dunning said. "It really doesn't fit the usual structure of a modern-day research psychology finding. A wise editor who got it and good reviewers showed me wrong there. I am struck just with how long and how much this idea has gone viral in so many areas."
Clearly, the paper struck a chord with many people outside of the field of psychology. "I presume the paper gave voice to an observation that people make about their peers but that they don't know how to express," Dunning responded. If you have not read the paper already, I recommend doing so.
Unfortunately, in those places ruled by the smug and complacent, a classic paper has become a weapon. The findings of Dunning and Kruger are being reduced to "Stupid people are so stupid that they don't know they are stupid." Rather bluntly, Dunning himself said, "The presence of the Dunning-Kruger effect, as it's been come to be called, is that one should pause to worry about one's own certainty, not the certainty of others." And that humorously suggests the Dunning-Kruger effect is now a candidate to become a second Godwin's law.
Like Dunning, I do not take such a dim view of humanity. In fact, Dunning-Kruger and follow-up papers give us cause for hope. They show that people are not usually irredeemably stupid. You can teach people to accurately self-evaluate—though, in their specific examples, this also involved teaching them the very skill they were trying to evaluate.
Context is everything
It is important to realize that the Dunning-Kruger paper was not such a shocking finding. It was, for instance, already known that seemingly everyone evaluates themselves as above average in everything. Are you a better driver than average? Certainly am. How do you rate your ability at math? Oh, a little better than average. How about mountain climbing? Well, I've climbed the local hill a couple of times. I bet Kilimanjaro can't be much more difficult.
A large pile of research on various groups of people, covering various skill sets, indicates that in the face of all evidence, humans are irredeemably optimistic about their own abilities. That is, by itself, not such a bad thing. The ugly side shows up when we also realize that the norm must be maintained. Studies show that we do this by considering that everyone else is much worse. Being clueless about your own abilities is one thing. Misjudging other's abilities is relatively more serious.


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If you've followed the steps we laid out in our initial feature, you've got a safe Nginx server all set up and working. It's serving your static pages without any issue. We don't yet have a database, PHP, or anything running on it, but we are ready to take the next step: equipping your Web server with SSL/TLS so that you have the option of serving files via HTTPS.
Using HTTPS doesn't just mean that your traffic is encrypted—encryption is only half of the story and it's useless without authentication. What good is it to encrypt something between two parties if you can't be sure of the identity of the person to whom you're talking? Consequently, being able to serve HTTPS traffic means you must posses a cryptographic certificate attesting to your identity. Acquiring such a certificate requires you prove your identity to one of many Certificate Authorities, or CAs.
This has been made to sound a lot scarier than it really is, because there is money to be made in being a gatekeeper of authentication. Most of the well-known CAs charge tremendous amounts of money for even the simplest identity validation. If you're a business engaging in e-commerce, it might make sense to pay thousands of dollars for an extended validation certificate, but if you're a human being serving Web pages on a home-built server, that kind of expense is ludicrous—and, fortunately, unnecessary.
A very, very brief primer on SSL/TLS
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, though in actuality SSL is rarely used these days. Instead, it's been phased out by the more secure Transport Layer Security. However, the "SSL" acronym is still very much in use because of convention, so I'll be using "SSL/TLS" throughout this article.
SSL/TLS is a combination of technologies, but it's based around PKI and the concept of public and private cryptographic keys. A Web server is issued a public and private cryptographic key pair, along with a cryptographic certificate based on the key pair. When a client wants to initiate an HTTPS session, it asks for the server's certificate. This is checked to ensure that it was issued by a trusted authority, that it covers the URL being requested, and that it hasn't expired or been revoked (this stage is where most browser warnings are generated, because this is where the Web browser decides whether or not it's going to accept the certificate as valid).
The client then chooses a cryptographic item called a pre-master secret, encrypts it with the server's public key, and transmits it to the server. Because of the nature of public key cryptography, something encrypted with a public key can only be decrypted with the corresponding private key. The Web server's ability to decrypt the pre-master secret verifies that it's in possession of the correct private key, and is therefore the entity described in the certificate.
Asymmetric cryptography is slow, though, and the server and client don't continue to use it much longer. Rather, they use an ingenious series of steps to independently but securely transform the pre-master secret into a master secret, which is then used to compute a session key. The session key is a symmetric key, and is used to encrypt and decrypt both sides of the conversation.
But do you need a real certificate?
You don't need a CA-generated certificate in order to serve HTTPS from your Web server. However, having a "real" certificate instead of one you've created yourself means that visitors to your site won't be warned by their browser that your website is potentially malicious.
Using self-signed, self-generated certificates for testing or internal websites is perfectly fine, but using self-signed, self-generated certificates on the public Internet isn't just tacky—it undermines one of the two primary reasons for using HTTPS in the first place. A certificate signed by a recognized CA means there's a reasonable expectation you are who you say you are. Even more importantly, the more self-signed certificates there are, the more browser warnings folks will encounter and dismiss without reading, rendering those warnings increasingly invisible in the rare cases where they're actually valid.
So, yes, you need a "real" certificate.
Types of certificates
Different CAs offer different types of certificates, and typically charge more for the higher classes. However, in almost every case, the cryptographic strength of the certificates is the same across the board—it's only the amount of work that goes into validating the applicant that varies.
When poking around at various CA sites, you might see reference to "Class 1" or "Class 2" or "Class 3" certificates, or "wildcard" certificates, or "extended validation" certificates. However, examine the cipher strength: for most vendors, a "class 1" certificate isn't any more secure than a "class 2" certificate. However, the "class 2" certificate likely comes with additional identity validation, so it's more "trustworthy." The different classes vary wildly by SSL vendor.
One thing that is an established standard, though, is an "extended validation" certificate (or an "EV certificate"). An EV cert gets special treatment in your browser's address bar—in addition to the SSL/TLS "lock" icon, EV certificates get displayed in green.
EV certs are used almost exclusively by CAs for their own websites, and by online stores for URLs directly related to purchasing. They're usually quite expensive to purchase because the "extended validation" is just that—the issuing CA requires lots of documentation from the requester and spends no small amount of time ensuring that the documentation is authentic and that the requester really is the person or company they say they are.
You, however, don't need an EV certificate. You don't really even need any of the fancy add-ons offered by most CAs to wring more money out of applicants. You don't need a "wildcard" certificate (a special type of SSL/TLS certificate that can be used for multiple servers in a domain). In fact, for your personal site you don't need anything other than a straight-up basic SSL/TLS certificate.
And why should you have to pay anything for that?
Getting an SSL certificate for free
Most CAs charge an arm and a leg for certificates, but Israel-based StartCom and their StartSSL service offers basic SSL/TLS certificates for no cost. StartSSL was the first company to offer no-cost certificates, and though some other CAs are now following suite, I've been using StartSSL-issued certs on all the domains I control for going on three years now. I have found them consistently responsive and friendly to every customer service inquiry.
A few years back, Ars published a guide on getting free SSL/TLS certificates with StartSSL. Everything in that guide is still valid. The company does offer more complex and capable certificates for cost, but their free "class 1" offering is absolutely perfect for the type of home-built Web server we're dealing with.
One prerequisite
In order to get an SSL/TLS certificate for a Web server, though, your Web server needs a name. This is because the Web server's name is one of the things that gets validated and is part of the server's identity. If you haven't already registered a .com or a .org domain (or a domain under any of the tons and tons of TLDs available these days), you'll need to do that first.
The fastest way to do that is to sign up with the free version of Google Apps. You can register your chosen domain as part of this process for $8, and you'll get a Gmail-style Web interface where you can send and receive e-mail for up to ten users without paying a dime. This will be very important in just a moment.


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The mother of a murdered Texas woman is still demanding justice nearly seven years after the crime.
"I have such pain over my daughter's death," a tearful Hermila Garcia told CNN's Gary Tuchman.
Garcia's daughter, Hermila Hernandez, a teacher and mother of three children was shot to death by Amit Livingston, a former boyfriend. Hernandez's body was found on a remote South Padre Island beach in October 2005.
Two years later, Livingston took a plea deal and received a 23 year prison sentence.
Livingtston should be in prison right now, but he's on the run.
The confessed killer vanished five years ago when Abel Limas, the judge in the murder case, surprisingly allowed Livingston 60 days of freedom to prepare for prison with no bond.
Federal prosecutors in a 34 page indictment say Judge Limas, District Attorney Armando Villalobos and an attorney representing Hernandez's children in the civil trial all tried to cash in on the case.
Judge Limas has pleaded guilty and is helping prosectors build their case against the D.A. and lawyer.
In the stunning indictment, District Attorney Villalobos is accused of bribery, extortion and other charges. Federal prosecutors say Villalobos schemed for a portion of the $500,000 bail money put up for Livingston before his murder trail.
Prosecutors say Villalobos convinced the judge to accept the plea bargin and sentence the killer all in one day, freeing up that money. They then agreed to give some of the money to the murder victim's children, but their attorney then gave chunks of the cash to line the pockets of the judge and D.A, according to prosecutors.
Wait till you see what the D.A. is doing now that he's been indicted. Don't miss Gary Tuchman's report at 8 and 10 p.m. ET.
Update: Watch tonight's report below.
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Keep watching....This is just the tip of the iceberg...Rosenthal is next in line....
This degree of corruption doesn't exist in a vacuum. Cameron County's DA has held together a chain of corruption over 8 years, refusing to prosecute those involved in election fraud (which helps elect self-admitted crooked judges like Limas as well as others) not to mention, how certain cases ended up in Limas' courtroom to begin with. You'd be shocked at the web of nepotism and the number of felons they hire at the county. We have a county commissioner who tried to get his brother in law a government job at the county, but the man couldn't pass the qualification test, so they had another employee take it for him. Despite being a huge media fiasco yet predictably, has not been prosecuted by this DA. Please look into it, this county and its residents have suffered under massive injustice for too long, thank you for what you do to bringing these things to light, it all deserves to be exposed.
Mr. Cooper, that was a nice piece done by Tuchman. It was about time that someone outside of the Rio Grande Valley exposed Cameron County for what it is? This is a black eye to law enforcement and the ones who actually do their job HONESTLY! I am sure that Livingston is in his home country of India. I would be willing to bet that the US Marshals know that but cannot get cooperation from the Indian government. To them, this is not a high priority. The only way it would become that is if the government of India would want someone from here and then depending on who they were trading for? Again, congratulations on the story! Hopefully this will cause others who want to cheat the system think twice about it? Let's hope so?
(CBS/AP) NORMAL, Ill. – Police say a teacher tackled a student and detained him just after gunshots were fired into the ceiling of a packed classroom at a central Illinois high school. No one was injured.
Normal Police Chief Rick Bleichner said at a news conference Friday that a 14-year-old student was being questioned after the early-morning incident.
Bleichner said police entered the classroom and found the teacher had subdued the student. The chief said a handgun was used but shots weren't directed at anyone. The motive wasn't known.
Walker Simmons, a freshman, told CBS affiliate WMBD he saw his Health class teacher grab the gun from the student and hold him down. He said all the students then ran out of the classroom.
"I kind of knew him, so I don't know why he was doing anything, but yeah, I was kind of scared. I didn't want to die," Simmons told the station.
Student Sean Kennedy told WGLT radio in Normal that the gunman pulled a handgun and hatchet from a backpack and told students in the room that no one wanted to listen to him talk about unspecified problems.
The school evacuated its more than 1,800 students to a nearby church and parents were called to pick them up. All parents were required to sign their children out and no one was allowed to leave on their own, according to WMBD.
Normal is 135 miles southwest of Chicago.
My husband is pretty much a-political and a moderate. He watched the Clint Eastwood speech on the internet. He said that he thought it was pretty good and he enjoyed it. We live in "fly over" country, which explains why Paul Begala has no clue as to the reaction of regular people to Clint Eastwood.
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