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Wednesday Quickie directly below (or click here).
The Patriots are cheaters: Please stop using the phrase "violated league rules." The less formal, more accurate way of saying that is: "Cheated."
Cheaters. Yikes. Worst word in sports?
I'm surprised. It's a little like learning your favorite home run hitter uses steroids. Mainly: Why would a team as smart and well-run as the Patriots even NEED to cheat like this?
It remains to be seen whether this was some sort of chronic, recurring theme for the Pats – or even something that "every" team does, but simply never gets caught. Or something epidemic within the Pats organization, specifically.
Given the NFL's CIA-like Security department, you'd think they could go to the original NFL Films game tape and easily spot whether the Pats had employed this type of cheating in other games... say, in any of their Super Bowl victories that came down to a single play, in which stealing signs might have been the difference between winning and losing titles.
I'm not saying the Pats cheated to win their titles, but it certainly calls into question whether everything was on the level when they did. It's at least worth looking at the game tape, isn't it? (Or, Pats fans, are you afraid to see what you'll find?)
After all, if they're willing to brazenly cheat in Week 1, what lengths might a cheater go to to win in a championship game?
(Update: As you'd expect, rival coaches and execs from across the league are coming forward to talk about how this has been a Belichick tactic for years. Hmmm...)
The second-biggest question is: What type of punishment should they receive from the league for cheating? Consider that Roger Goodell has made "Get Tough" his mantra on the players who cheat. What kind of signal would it send if he didn't severely punish the teams who cheat?
The phrase being thrown around is "loss of multiple draft picks." I'm OK with that. But what does that mean? Are we talking about next year's first-rounder here? Second-rounder? Spread over multiple years?
If the punishment is too severe, Goodell is effectively punishing one of the men who employ him (Robert Kraft). If the punishment is too lenient, he makes the cost-benefit of cheating more appealing. This is a far tougher tightrope than the simple "player conduct" or "PED-related" suspensions. (As PFT pointed out: If Wade Wilson was suspended multiple games for using PEDS, what should a cheating head coach get?)
Finally, the usual question in any scandal: "What did Bill Belichick know and when did he know it?"
Given the particularly high level of control Belichick asserts over his team's operations, it seems unrealistic that this was the work of some rogue lackey. (It's the "A Few Good Men" scenario: It would be as if Kiefer Sutherland executed the "Code Red" himself, without Jack Nicholson's original command.)
Belichick's role is the most unseemly aspect of this entire cheating episode. In terms of potential punishments – and given his likely level of control over the cheating operation – a suspension shouldn't be out of the question.
The bottom line is that the entire episode calls into question the NFL's great dynasty of the last decade -- and arguably the greatest coach of all time. Again: Yikes.
But let's please call it what it is: Cheating. And it looks like not just cheating in one instance, but cheating as a recurring and preferred game tactic.
For Belichick, for the NFL and for Pats fans, I think this story gets a lot worse before it gets better.


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PS3 PlayStation Port of Fedora.
- Last modified: [[Date(2009-02-11 T02:40:01Z)]
- Owners: Edward O'Callaghan.
- Targeted release: Fedora 11
Current Fedora
- Fedora 10 works with a usb stick bootloader.
- Fedora has been support ps3 hardware since F5, IBM has been doing their sdk tool kit since F7.
- Please read PlayStation/Ps3ReSpin for more info on creating a custom ps3 boot media with the needed bootloader from iso.
Fedora 11 Alpha
- http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents//Fedora-11-Alpha-ppc-DVD.torrent
- There should be a spu gcc for the daughter processors by the time F11 comes out, see F10 bugzillas
- Should there be a ppc64 bit ps3 kernel that is small and fast for the ps3 ?
- Pro: all the ps3 patches could be there , spu , bluetooth , etc
- Con: one more kernel version that would be need to be supported, qa etc
Fedora 10
Fedora 10 supports the PS3 our of the box minus the ps3 bootloader on the default fedora install media
- spu compiler issues
- sony usb game controller
- sony usb game controller not recognised
- used f11 kernel from rawhide (2/13/2009) works on i386 pc as host
Fedora 9
- Installation works "out-of-the-box".
- Fedora 9 supports the PS3 with minor problems.
- 453311 "pulseaudio does not start"
- IBM SDK for Cell processors supports Rhel 5.2 and Fedora 9
Fedora 7
Older and additional information
The Fedora rawhide kernel supports PS3.
An 'otheros.bld' bootloader for Fedora, using petitboot , can be found at [1] . Work is ongoing to get this automatically generated with the Fedora install tree.
The installer doesn't yet work out of the box -- we still need minor patches to kudzu and anaconda .
The "PlayStation 3 support tracker" bug is [2] .
We don't yet have libspu and the spu compiler in Extras.
Instructions on installing a rawhide-based tree can be found at [3]
- WiFi will now be supported with a firmware update to 1.6 or higher
See below for details...
- PS3 PlayStation port of Fedora. i.e. - PPC with Cell patches and optimization.
Usage cases/rationale
PS3 user who browers the web, looks at photos, listens to music and watches DVD's.
Requires the PPC build; Un-needed packages to be removed and any patches required to get ALL hardware supported.
Test Plan
Unknown, maybe three Builds:
- Alpha
- Beta
- RC or Final.
Depends on the PPC Kernel and Cell patches...
- Kernel patchs are here:
- (See Below) Add driver support for the built in WiFi module and add a small X11 app to bring the adapter up and down in the main menu, will add more to this later on...
- Add support for the BD Bluetooth PS3 remote control and map buttons on startup by default.
- Think of ways to get around the Hypervisor to get access to the GPU ? - Real help is needed here !
FirstnameLastname MarioTorre
N.B. Using the SPU's for a Graphics Accelerator would use up some of the valuable system RAM.
- "A petition has been created to ask Sony to open the access to the RSX for Other OS. Maybe will it contribute to make the firm hear our need, maybe not... but if we don't ask for sure it won't.
You'll find it there: http://www.petitiononline.com/RSX/petition.html
Please if you sign do it with your real name, nick names won't give a serious credit to our ask. Thanks"
... insert design & implementation details here, including links to other features ...
or maybe OpenBox with fbpanel like:
Its very fast and looks nice!
Package collection
PackageKit should not be part of a ps3 build. It has a poor performance.
Also we should ship some alternative solutions for OpenOffice, Pidgin, Firefox....
usb stick bootloader (petitboot)
- You can install Fedora 9/10 with normal ppc iso with a ps3 boot loader, please have a usb stick to add your boot loader.
- Note you only need to boot once from the usb stick , then petiboot will be the default boot loader
- Please check your Firmware , later greater.
install the usb stick
- 1. Put your otheros.bld file on to a USB disk fat32, in a file called /PS3/otheros/otheros.bld. Assuming your USB disk is mounted at /media/usbdisk:
cd /media/<USBSTICK> mkdir -p ps3/otheros cd ps3/otheros wget http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/petitboot/downloads/bin-0.2/otheros.bld
- or should this be http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/ps3-petitboot/ ps3-petitboot-xx.xx.xx.bld ? (download and rename to "otheros.bld")
If you don't have a USB disk, you can use any sort of media that the PS3 can read - CDROM, DVD, compact flash, etc. Just make sure that the file is called /PS3/otheros/otheros.bld.
- 2. Plug the USB disk into your PS3, and navigate to System -> System Settings -> Install Other OS. The PS3 should find the new file on the USB disk, and install it.
- 3. To boot with petitboot, just set your default operating system to "Other OS" (System -> System Settings -> Set Default OS), and reboot.
using petitboot
When petitboot starts, it will try to find existing Linux installations, by looking for /etc/kboot.conf, /etc/yaboot.conf or /boot/petitboot.conf files on any storage device connected to the system. Each discovered device will appear on the left-hand pane of the screen, and bootable options appear on the right.
You can navigate the boot options with the arrow keys (if you have a USB keyboard connected), or the D-Pad on the PS3 controller. If you're using a PS3 controller, you will need to have it connected via the cable; wireless controllers aren't supported (yet!).
If you only have a blank screen with no device icons, then petitboot has not found any bootable options. You can flip to a text console (using Alt+F1) to investigate.
- note need to create a wiki table
The keys available are: Keyboard PS3 USB Controller Function
Up, Down, Left, Right Up, Down, Left, Right Navigate between boot options Enter Circle Select boot option Delete / Backspace Square Boot to GameOS 1 Switch to 720p mode 2 Switch to 1080i mode 3 Switch to 1080p mode Alt+F1 Switch to text console (Alt+F2 to switch back) console
If you're using the petitboot console (either by hitting Alt+F1, or logging-in over the network), you have a fairly standard Linux system available. Some notes:
- Discovered storage devices are mounted under /var/tmp/mnt, named by their device.
- For example, /dev/ps3da1 is mounted at /var/tmp/mnt/ps3da1.
- To boot a kernel, use kexec:
kexec -f --append="root=/dev/ps3da1" /var/tmp/mnt/ps3da1/boot/vmlinux .
booting from command line from the normal fedora cdrom install media
- type Alt+F1
- hit enter
- type the following
cd /var/tmp/mnt/sr0/ppc/ppc64 kexec -f --append="text" vmlinuz --initrd=ramdisk.image.gz
- simple kickstart that would make a use able ps3 game system with fedora will all the updates
Need kickstart file
- evolution removed
- strip out most of the un-needed userland openoffice etc
- leave games
- have a working bluetooth game controller
- 256 Megs
- By default the video is slow frame buffer from the sony hypervisor
How to reset ps3 video
- When turning on the system, just hold down the power button for FIVE seconds. It should beep at you and then restart over whatever cables you've hooked it up with.
- Note do not use the power switch next to the power cord.
SPU Mesa OpenGL Driver
- Pro
- No Nvidia
- OpenGL Driver Today
- Con
- Takes ram from the total system ram of 256 Meg ,
- Also buggy
- needs spu tool chain from IBM SDK for now, until F11 ?
RSX Nvidia
- Pro
- True Hardware Speed
- Con
- Buggy
- Deps on Firmware Version
- Not Stable
- No OpenGL Driver as of 2/09
- http://wiki.ps2dev.org/ps3:rsx
- http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=8364&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=450&sid=ceb98791400fc54fa33dc38e0127d823
WiFi Support and Configuration
Status: Driver should be back ported soon... Status: More to come; http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux-patches.git;a=commit;h=5ba09ee3f727508064c25d3bbb07e262f79e4380
Run system-config-network as root. Note: eth0 is both the wired and wireless adapter.
Driver Support
It would seem that YDL has a driver for the WiFi in the PS3, I will look into this in more detail over the coming days and if and when it will be back ported into Fedora and or the Linux kernel.
Howto : Enable the PlayStation 3 Blu-ray Disc Remote
Pairing the Device
Make sure the services bluetooth
and hidd
are running. With a clean install of current rawhide, hidd
fails to start. If this is the case, stop bluetooth
, start hidd
, and finally start bluetooth
again. This problem disappears after the first connect. A bug report about this already exists.
While pressing the 'Start' & 'Enter' keys down, run the following command:
$ su -c "/usr/bin/hidd --search"
After a while this should display something like this:
Searching ... Connecting to device 00:19:C1:2D:91:F2
The remote should be paired now.
Something needs to be done to get it in a usable state, though. Additional developer information is available at PlayStation/BDRemote .
Howto : Enable the PlayStation 3 Sony Controller in USB Mode
- Note F10 default kernel 2/13/2009 does not work with the usb sony Dual Shock 3 controller
- On i386 2.6.29-0.112.rc4.git3.fc11.i686.PAE from rawhide seems to work with out issues
Howto : Enable the PlayStation 3 Sony Controller in BlueTooth Mode
- http://www.pabr.org/sixlinux/sixlinux.en.html
- Need to see how much of the above link is need for ps3 in f10
- Note F10 default kernel 2/13/2009 does not work with the usb sony controller 2.6.29-0.112.rc4.git3.fc11.i686.PAE from rawhide seems to work for the usb side, but no bluetooth support
- Bluetooth in F10 does not seem to work with the usb controller , will try the alpha of F11 and see if that is better.
End user documentation should be linked from here...
Ps3ReSpin of Fedora
- The PlayStation/Ps3ReSpin page pulls together information relating to the recreation of a Fedora boot.iso file. This information is vital to the Fedora 8 release. There is a bug that prevents loading Fedora 8 on the PS3 console.
Linux Configuration
- The PlayStation/LinuxConfiguration shows how to use the PlayStation/Ps3ReSpin CDs to enable Fedora on the PlayStation game console.
Ps3 Fedora install guide
- http://bohmer.net/ps3_stuff/install-fedora-8-on-PS3.html Old but still useful
Ps3 Howto guide from IBM on Cell SPU Super Computing
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LYON, France – An INTERPOL report to identify the drivers and scale of the illegal online trade in ivory has revealed hundreds of items worth approximately EUR 1.45 million for sale on Internet auction sites across nine European countries during a single two-week period.
During Project Web, supported by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), the details of 660 advertisements on 61 auction sites were analysed by specialist national agencies and departments and were estimated to represent a total volume of around 4,500 kg of ivory.
With few obligations on sellers to prove the legality of ivory, and previous IFAW investigations showing that ivory is the most widely traded wildlife product on the Internet, one of the report's key recommendations is the introduction of e-commerce specific legislation and strong collaboration with customs to further investigate and prevent the illegal online sale of ivory.
"Whether in the real or virtual world, the illegal ivory trade poses one of the biggest threats to elephants in the wild, and law enforcement efforts need to be both off- and online if we are to effectively tackle this crime," said David Higgins, Manager of INTERPOL's Environmental Crime Programme.
"Enforcement efforts against online wildlife crime are still in their infancy and face new challenges, but the support shown by the countries which took part in Project Web and the recommendations for future actions are a strong base from which to develop a collective response to this serious problem," added Mr Higgins.
The INTERPOL report into online ivory sales is published as the global CITES conference is held in Bangkok, Thailand to address the illegal ivory trade as part of discussions on a range of issues related to international wildlife trade and species protection.
In 2010, CITES approved a resolution that countries 'evaluate or develop their domestic measures to ensure that they are sufficient to address the challenges of controlling legal wildlife trade, investigating illegal wildlife trade and punishing perpetrators.'
"The CITES resolution was an important step toward demonstrating international commitment to combatting wildlife crime online. The collaboration by enforcement authorities on INTERPOL's Project Web initiative marks another important step toward the kind of coordinated effort it is going to take on the part of us all to shut down this devastating trade," said Azzedine Downes, President and CEO of IFAW.
At 41 per cent, the largest category of ivory items were statues, varying from Japanese okimonos and netsukes to African statues of elephants and people, with jewellery representing nine per cent of items and seven per cent for both carved and raw tusks.
As a result of the surveillance, six national and three international investigations were launched in cases were ivory was described as new or where ivory was being traded from abroad. Results from these investigations are still being collated.
Under the umbrella of INTERPOL's Project Wisdom, designed to support and enhance governance and law enforcement capacities for the conservation of elephants and rhinoceroses, Project Web is the first Internet wildlife trade investigation coordinated by the world police body.


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Talk:Prime numbers
Here's an interesting question: will the program go faster if we replace all those (n >)
expressions with (\x -> floor (sqrt n) > x)
On one hand, a composite integer cannot possess a factor greater than its square root.
On the other hand, since the list we're looking through contains all possible prime numbers, we are guaranteed to find a factor or an exact match eventually, so do we need the takeWhile
at all?
Throwing this over to somebody with a bigger brain than me...
MathematicalOrchid 16:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
a composite can indeed have factors greater than its square root, and indeed most do. what you mean is that a composite will definitely have at least one factor smaller-equal than its square root.
why not use (\x -> n > x*x)
--Johannes Ahlmann 21:18, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
LOL! That is indeed what I meant.
It turns out my comment above is correct - the takeWhile
filtering in factors
is in fact unecessary. The function works just fine without it. (Notice I have made some edits to correct the multiple bugs in the primes
function. Oops!)
Now the only use of takeWhile
is in the is_prime
function, which could be changed to 'give up' the search a lot faster and hence confirm large primes with much less CPU time and RAM usage. Maybe I'll wrap my brain around that later.
MathematicalOrchid 10:17, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
The section Simple Prime Sieve II is not a sieve in the same sense that the first one is. It really implements a primality test as a filter.
A more "sieve-like" version of the simple sieve which exploits the fact that we need not check for primes larger than the square root would be
primes :: [Integer] primes = sieve [2..] where sieve (p:xs) = p : sieve [x | x<-xs, (x< p*p) || (x `mod` p /= 0)]
However, this runs even slower than the original!
Kapil Hari Paranjape 06:51, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
I want to thank Leon P. Smith for showing me the idea of producing the spans of odds directly, for version IV. I had a combination of span and infinite odds list, as in span (< p*p) [3,5..] etc. That sped it up some 20% more, when GHC-compiled.
The mark-and-comb version that I put under Simple Sieve of Eratosthenes seems to me very "faithful" to the original (IYKWIM). Strangely it shows exactly same asymptotic behavior when GHC-compiled (tested inside GHCi) as IV. Does this prove that priority queue-based code is better than the original? :)
BTW "unzip" is somehow screwed up inside "haskell" block, I don't know how to fix that.
- not anymore WillNess 13:39, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
I've also added the postponed-filters version to the first sieve code to show that the squares optimization does matter and gives huge efficiency advantage just by itself. The odds only trick gives it a dozen or two percent improvement, but it's nothing compared to this 20x massive speedup!
Written in list-comprehension style, it's
primes :: [Integer] primes = 2: 3: sieve (tail primes) [5,7..] where sieve (p:ps) xs = h ++ sieve ps [x|x<-t, x `rem` p /= 0] where (h,(_:t))=span (< p*p) xs
Which BTW is faster than the IV version itself, when interpreted in GHCi. So what are we comparing here, code versions or Haskell implementations??
WillNess 10:46, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
I've added the code for Euler's sieve which is just the postponed filters with minimal modification, substituting (t `minus` multiples p)
for (filter (nodivs p) t)
- as it later turned out it was not a Euler sieve, but rather an approximation. WillNess 13:27, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Now it is obvious that (...(((s - a) - b) - c) - ...)
is the same as (s - (a + b + c + ...))
and this is the next code, the "merged multiples" variation of Euler's sieve.
It is very much like the streamlined and further optimized famous Richard Bird's code (appearing in Melissa O'Neill's JFP article), which copyright status is unknown to me, so I couldn't reference it in the main article body. The code as written in the article has the wrong clause order in merge
- when using
, clause order doesn't matter. WillNess 15:32, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
I've also changed the span pattern-binding to the more correct, lazy pattern, (h,~(_:t))
WillNess 17:10, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
New treefolding merge is inspired by apfelmus's VIP code from Implicit Heap; but it uses a different structure, better at primes multiples generation: instead of his 1+(2+(4+(8+...))) it's (2+4)+( (4+8) + ( (8+16) + ...)). The reason I put my version here is to show the natural progression of development from the postponed filters to Euler's sieve to merged multiples to treefold-merged multiples. I.e. it's not some ad-hoc invention; it's logical. It is also step-by-step.
I estimate the total cost of producing primes multiples as Sum (1/p)*d, where d is the leaf's depth, i.e. the amount of merge nodes its produced prime must pass on its way up to the top. The values for cost function correspond very well with the actual time performance of the respective algorithms: it's better by 10%-12% and the performance boost is 10%-12% too.
I will also add this code further improved with the Wheel optimization here. That one beats the PQ-based code from Melissa ONeill's ZIP file by a constant margin of around 20%, its asymptotic behaviour *exactly* the same.
- that was with the incomplete code which only rolled the wheel on numbers supply, and not on multiples. It had e.g. [11*11,11*13,11*15,11*17...] but of course 11*15 could've been eliminated in advance too (and 11*25, 11*35, 11*45, 11*49, etc...). Fixing that made it run twice faster than before. WillNess 08:33, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
- these tests were most probably wrong, either on GHCi or without using the -O2 switch WillNess 13:27, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
I measure local asymptotics by taking a logBase of run time ratio in base of a problem size ratio. I've settled on testing code performance as interpreted, inside GHCi. Running a compiled code feels more like testing a compiler itself. Too many times I saw two operationally equivalent expressions running in wildly different times. It can't be anything else other than the compiler's quirks, and we're not interested in those, here. :)
Apparently, arrays are very fast. :) (using accumArray as seen in Thorkil Naur's Haskell cafe post, but still without the Wheel).
WillNess 14:47, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
NEW! A *major* improvement to treefold merge by Daniel Fischer's reimplementing spMerge into a properly tail-recursive thingy, fixing a space leak there. :) WillNess 06:56, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
- AND his other idea: making `tfold' strict - which really brings down the memory consumption. The only caveat: use at least 6 primes to bootstrap the tree-folding. At each tree expansion it needs additional 3*2^n, n=1,... primes, but is producing PI( (PRIMES !! SUM(i=1..n)(3*2^i)) ^ 2) which is way more than that. WillNess 10:02, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
- I've also inlined spMerge completely into mergeSP itself (now called unionSP) along the lines of Leon P. Smith's Data.OrdList.mergeAll implementation. Looks yet simpler that way. Haven't tested it though. WillNess 23:21, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- changed Data.OrdList to Data.List.Ordered as per the new version of data-ordlist package. WillNess 07:45, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
Euler's Sieve initial one-liner code is due to Daniel Fischer. WillNess 16:35, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
Here's new streamlined code for immutable arrays:
primes = 2: 3: sieve [] (tail primes) 3
sieve fs (p:ps) x = [i*2 + x | (i,e) <- assocs a, e]
++ sieve fs' ps (p*p)
q = (p*p-x)`div`2
fs' = (p,0) : [(s, rem (y-q) s) | (s,y) <- fs]
a = accumArray (\ b c -> False) True (1,q-1)
[(i,()) | (s,y) <- fs, i <- [y+s,y+s+s..q]]
It is twice faster, but more obscure; so I thought I'd keep the previous version on the main page for didactic reasons. WillNess 08:43, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
- I've added it now to the main page and restyled the treefold code a bit. The test entries on Ideone.com are here. WillNess 11:00, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
- ST Array code also becomes much faster (3x for 1 mln-th prime in fact) when translated into working on odds only, like the immutable array version - but its memory footprint is also large. WillNess 10:34, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
Augmenting the latest Treefold Merged Multiples, with Wheel version to work with VIPs does nothing except slow it down a little bit. Lazy pattern in join/tfold also starts causing space leak then, so primes' becomes necessary to be more defined upfront to prevent a loop when the tilde is removed. WillNess 18:31, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Compared with Melissa O'Neill's considerably more complex priority queue-based code it runs (compiled by ghc 6.10.1 with -O2 switch) about 1.6x slower at producing 1 million primes, and about 1.7x slower at 10 to 20 million, with empirical complexity of n^1.23 vs ONeill's n^1.20; both versions having same low and near-constant memory consumption. Ideone.com uses (ghc-6.8.2) and limits run time to 15s; there the ratio is 1.16x .. 1.25x for generating 1 .. 6 million primes, and the empirical complexities are n^1.24 vs ONeill's n^1.20. WillNess 07:55, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
The primesFrom
function in Section 220.127.116.11 does not compile. Specifically, the sieve
function is defined to take in a list as its first argument, but is passed a number instead : (length h)
--Gphilip 15:43, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
- thanks for catching this -- I've tweaked the main function too many times and forgot to change the call appropriately. The arguments' order is now in sync. WillNess 00:53, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Ideone.com now apparently works with ghc-7.4.1. Test entry http://ideone.com/n3XzZY shows TMWE works OK, within nearly constant memory.


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Paranormal Activity 4 (R) ★½
A Nevada family notices that the young boy living across the street always seems to be on his own. His single mother is evidently very busy, so the little boy appears drawn to our protagonist family, and even tends to turn up in their treehouse. One night, the boy's mother becomes ill and the kind family takes him in. Unfortunately, they are also unwittingly inviting into their home an invisible boogeyman that, along with a certain brunette in a tank top, has come to define a franchise.
The fourth installment of any film series runs the risk of becoming stale, but horror sequels are especially susceptible to growing repetitive or, in the worst-case scenario, declining sharply in quality. Up to now, the Paranormal Activity films have maintained a healthy level of fright; getting plenty of mileage on what seemed a limited premise. Unfortunately for Paranormal Activity 4, it seems as if the intent was to exhaust the franchise by running the premise thin. It's not simply a matter of refusing to bring anything new to the table; Paranormal 4 spends its frustrating runtime happily leaping into pitfalls it had largely avoided.
Pursuant to the tradition of its predecessors, Paranormal Activity 4 is a cacophony of clangs and bangs all designed to startle far more than scare and is by far the laziest of the films in the series. It reaches a point wherein the thrills become so cheap that a vast majority of them are not even symptomatic of the titular paranormal activity. In fact, there are more red herrings in this movie than actual scares ("actual scares" being a term used here rather loosely). When the origin of the quick jump is revealed to be a mischievous boyfriend, a clumsy house resident, or, most aggravatingly, a cat, the film becomes an experiment in misdirection and contrivance. The one area in which the frights are actually functional is in the very few instances when Paranormal 4 stretches to find previously unexplored methods of capturing the ghostly events. These moments are also the only instances of lingering creepiness in the movie.
And yet this one redeeming quality is quickly undone by PA4's many other techno blunders. The burning question in any found footage situation revolves around the motivation to continue filming in the face of supernatural mayhem. That is, why would anyone keep filming when the proverbial fecal matter strikes the fan? While the first three films found fair to ingenious methods of circumnavigating this problem, Paranormal Activity 4 is so unconcerned with feasibility that it resorts to woefully convenient schemes for recording the poltergeist's antics. Without giving too much away, let's just say that the film creates situations so unconducive to continual recording that asking the audience to subscribe to it is patronizing. Also, there is no internal consistency for how the various recording devices are maintained or afforded such versatility.
Shoddier than Paranormal Activity 4's technological complex is its dearth of character development and its flimsy story mechanics. This is the first film in the series that has not directly focused on the immediate family of Katie (Katie Featherston). The introduction to a wholly new family unit should necessitate an emphasis on character development. We need to like them, or failing that at least know them, in order to succumb to the tension of their inevitable peril. And yet the only two characters we get to know, and then only sparsely, are the daughter and her boyfriend. The rest of the life forms in the film are merely there to occupy the old dark house.
The plot is truly where Paranormal Activity 4 shows its weakness. Like Paranormal Activity 3, the most interesting conceptual set piece of the film is revealed minutes before the credits roll. Unlike the last entry however, the only effort at all exerted in this outing is compartmentalized in those brief minutes. The rest of the paltry story is stretched thin over a clunky series of unsatisfying and uneven devices in a mechanical rehashing of what we've seen before. There is no build, no escalation, and the result is pure boredom; the one unforgivable sin of a film like this.
Top that off with a third-act twist so nonsensical it's insulting and it's clear to see this franchise is in trouble. A changing of the guard at director is sorely needed before this nosedive is impossible to correct.
Hollywood.com rated this film 1 1/2 stars.
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Take action against cuts to military pensions
The American Legion has expressed its strong opposition to a measure that would cut benefits for military retirees by $6.3 billion. Legionnaires are now being urged to contact their congressional delegations to remove cuts included in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013. Click here to utilize The American Legion's Legislative Commission easy online tool to reach federal officials.
The measure would reduce cost-of-living retirement benefits for military retirees by 1 percent per year until they reach the age of 62. There are published estimates that the potential loss of income is about $70,000 on the low end to $120,000 on the high end, depending on retired rank and years of service.
"The cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) decrease would be disrespectful to America's men and women who have devoted their careers at great personal cost to the safety and welfare of our nation," American Legion National Commander Dan Dellinger said.
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Apple iPhone 5S: Best And Worst Rumors
What will Apple's next iPhone, or iPhones, look like? As the rumors fly, we separate the likely from the ludicrous for the iPhone 5S.
March 8, 2013
What's happening with the iPhone? You're already aware that a new model -- commonly called the iPhone 5S, but the actual name is anyone's guess -- is reportedly coming soon. And this, of course, means rumor mania for tech journalists, bloggers and analysts, many of whom have been dishing iPhone gossip at a maddening pace.
While the Samsung Galaxy S IV and other rising stars in the smartphone galaxy have either matched or surpassed the iPhone's capabilities, Apple's handset remains hugely popular. Basking in the media spotlight since its 2007 launch, the iPhone has retained its A-List status like few tech gadgets before it. It has inspired endless flame wars between rival Android and Apple camps, and spurred literary pissing matches between tech bloggers, some of whom tirelessly defend the iPhone's honor, while others bash it as overrated and outdated. And Apple archrival Samsung has even built an entire TV ad campaign that derides iPhone users as sycophantic, queue-loving dweebs.
So why all the love/hate for the iPhone? And why the nonstop rumors leading up to each iPhone launch?
Yes, other tech products -- particularly the Galaxy S IV, the iPad, and other mobile trendsetters such as Amazon's Kindle Fire or Google's Nexus tablets -- are gossip fodder as well, but none matches the iPhone's rumor-magnet status.
Perhaps it's because the iPhone holds an esteemed spot in the history of mobile tech. With few exceptions, every smartphone today evolved from Apple's once-revolutionary design: a thin slate dominated by a large, multitouch display.
The next-generation iPhone, expected to debut sometime this summer, arrives at an interesting time for Apple. The company continues to make oodles of money, but Wall Street seems to have lost faith in the firm's long-term growth prospects. And while Apple sold a record 47.8 million iPhones in its fiscal 2013 first quarter, more recent reports of dramatic cuts in iPhone 5 component orders suggest a waning consumer interest in the company's flagship phone.
Indeed, if Apple has a new iPhone trick up its sleeve -- the sort of one-more-thing jaw-dropper that Steve Jobs loved -- now's the time to unveil it.
Recent rumors suggest that a major upgrade may not be coming this year; however, a new, lower-cost iPhone may arrive.
Some of the alleged innovations are compelling, though. Dig into the slideshow to see the best and worst iPhone 5S rumors.
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Windows Phone 7.8 update for AT&T Lumia 900 now waiting on Nokia's servers
Soon after Microsoft today announced the Windows Phone 7.8 SDK, we wrote how this was more evidence that the highly anticipated update is right around the corner. Bets are being traded on which carriers are first (and which are last), but we have one surprise for you: AT&T.
Peeking on Nokia's own servers, we can now see the official Windows Phone 7.8 update and corresponding firmware now waiting to be released into the wild. Listed for all for color variants of the Lumia 900, the 7.8 update must have reached approval status very recently.
We've commented in the past that when these files, here labeled with the 8858 OS build number, show up on Nokia's servers that it means its release is usually close. Since we've already landed on January 31st as the Windows Phone 7.8 Update Program kickoff, you can bet the Windows Phone "Premier Partner" AT&T will be there for their 900 users.
Of course we have no word for other AT&T Windows Phones, but it's a good sign that the Lumia 900—a very high profile device—is getting the update. It also means the chances of other AT&T devices getting it sooner than later are now higher.
As to the release date for 7.8, we have to wonder if Microsoft partially chose it for PR reasons—namely RIM's BlackBerry 10 launch. That huge mobile news event is set to take place January 30th. Microsoft can regain some positive PR by announcing this large OS update program the day after, possibly keeping them in the spotlight while the world fawns over Waterloo's latest.
Microsoft and Nokia are expected to update the Lumia 710, 800 and 900 around the globe with the 7.8 update. The new OS was spotted a few times in December on Nokia's servers for various carriers and is expected to go live soon.
Thanks, Travis L., for the tip!
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Marjory Ethel (Preston) Hayes, age 86, of Centreville, Mich., passed away early Thursday evening, May 9, 2013, at Fairview Nursing and Rehabilitation in Centreville.
She was born Sept. 14, 1926, in Flint, Mich., daughter of the late Rev. Lawrence and Louretta (Craig) Preston.
Marjory resided in Centreville for the past six years coming from Three Rivers. She also lived in White Pigeon, Holland and her early life in the Flint.
On Jan. 31, 1944, she married Archiebold Ivan Hayes in Flint. He died in April of 1975.
Marjory worked for GMAC in Flint, Holland Die Cast in Holland, Burger King in Cascade and the sewing factory in Centreville. She also was employed as a housekeeper at the Bronson Nursing Home in Bronson and the Sturgis Hospital in Sturgis and she was a homemaker.
Marjory loved singing, crocheting and knitting.
She is survived by two daughters, Marlene Mosher of Three Rivers and Carla Knoll of Sturgis; two sons, Archie Hayes of Three Rivers and Richard Hayes of Holland; one sister, Carol Dickinson of Flint; two brothers, Clarence (Muriel "Peewee") Preston of Bellevue, Florida and Leroy (Frances) Preston of Anderson, Ind.; 11 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; daughter, Frances Williams; two infant sons; grandson, Michael Hayes; two brothers, George Preston and Dan Preston; three sisters, Doris Reeves, Janet Vancleeve and Margaret Preston.
The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. Wednesday at the Hackman Family Funeral Homes – Rosenberg Chapel, 807 E. Chicago Rd., Sturgis, MI 49091, 269-651-3284. Funeral services celebrating the life of Marjory Hayes will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home. A graveside committal will take place at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Lakewood Cemetery in Holland.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations would be appreciated to the family c/o: Marlene Mosher, P.O. Box 471 Three Rivers, MI 49093
The obituary is also at www.hackmanfamilyfuneralhome.com where personal messages of support may be left for the family.


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The Rim fire in Stanislaus National Forest west of Yosemite National Park has grown to 105,000 acres, and it continues to send smoke into Carson City.
Carson City Health and Human Services continues to recommend that people stay indoors until smoke clears from the Rim fire and others. Major wildfires burning in California, as well as small fires caused by lightning strikes, have been pushing heavy smoke into Carson City on Thursday and today.
"The smoke can be dangerous, especially for people who already have breathing problems," said Cortney Bloomer, health educator for Health and Human Services. "It's an air pollutant."
An air quality advisory was issued about 6 p.m. Thursday from the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection. NDEP said that high amounts of particulate matter were found in the air, indicating the air quality is unhealthy. Lyon County also urged its residents to stay inside.
The Rim fire grew from about 16,200 acres Wednesday evening to more than 58,000 acres Thursday and is about 2 percent contained, according to Sierra Front Wildfire Cooperators.
"Building high pressure may mean the area will be experiencing heavy smoke for days," Sierra Front issued in a release.
All AYSO soccer practices were canceled Thursday, and Carson High School's football and soccer teams moved practice indoors.
Richard Stokes, superintendent of the Carson City School District, said each school made its own determination about whether to send children outside for recess.
"Some determined it was best to keep them in," he said. "Others thought it was OK to go outside."
Bloomer said people should avoid spending any length of time outside.
"People should stay inside and especially avoiding any activity outside," she said. "Don't exercise outside. We have plenty of beautiful days to be active outdoors in Northern Nevada. Today isn't one of them."
She said people should close their windows once inside. Air conditioners are OK, she said, but she cautioned against using swamp coolers as they may bring the smoke indoors.
Conditions were similar in Reno, where the Washoe County Health District's Air Quality Management Division warned the public of potential poor air quality through Sunday. It rated the air quality "unhealthy" and advised residents to stay indoors when possible.
Smoke also is blowing into the region from the 16,812-acre American fire, which has been burning in Foresthill, Calif., since Aug. 10.
Tahoe National Forest officials reported five small wildfires in the Lake Tahoe region, created by lightning strikes Wednesday. Officials say those fires were contained Thursday morning.
Lisa Heron, Tahoe National Forest public-affairs specialist, said each of those fires was between a quarter-acre and a full acre. The fires are in Christmas Valley, Echo Summit, Blackwood Canyon and Heavenly Valley.
Tahoe National Forest is at "high" wildfire-danger status, the third-highest level of fire danger.
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Mufti Tariq Masood, Urdu: مفتی طارق مسعود; born 4 March 1975) is a Pakistani Deobandi author and Islamic scholar, who lectures at the Jamia Tur Rasheed seminary in Karachi. He has authored many books including Aik se Za'id Shadiyoon ki Zaroorat Kyu.
Mufti Tariq Masood, commonly known as Tariq Masood is a Pakistani Islamic scholar and commentator.
Who is Mufti Tariq Masood?
Mufti Tariq Masood is a renowned Islamic scholar, speaker, and teacher based in Pakistan. He has a vast following in the Muslim community, and is known for his in-depth knowledge of Islamic jurisprudence and the teachings of the Quran and Sunnah.
What topics does Mufti Tariq Masood typically speak about?
Mufti Tariq Masood speaks on a wide range of topics related to Islam, including Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), Islamic history, Quranic exegesis (tafsir), and Hadith studies. He is also known for his insightful lectures on contemporary issues facing the Muslim community.
How can I find Mufti Tariq Masood's lectures and speeches online?
Mufti Tariq Masood's lectures and speeches are widely available on various online platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, and other social media platforms. You can also find his lectures and speeches on his official website.
What is the best way to learn from Mufti Tariq Masood?
The best way to learn from Mufti Tariq Masood is to attend his lectures and speeches in person, if possible. However, if you are unable to attend in person, you can still benefit from his teachings by watching his lectures and speeches online and reading his books and articles.
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You can apply Mufti Tariq Masood's teachings to your daily life by striving to follow the teachings of Islam in all aspects of your life. This includes following the principles of Islamic jurisprudence, living a moral and ethical life, and seeking knowledge and understanding of the Quran and Sunnah.
What is the significance of Mufti Tariq Masood's teachings in the Muslim community?
Mufti Tariq Masood's teachings are highly regarded in the Muslim community, and he is known for his deep understanding of Islamic jurisprudence and the teachings of the Quran and Sunnah. His teachings are seen as a source of guidance and inspiration for Muslims around the world.
How does Mufti Tariq Masood approach contemporary issues facing the Muslim community?
Mufti Tariq Masood approaches contemporary issues facing the Muslim community by analyzing them in the context of Islamic teachings and principles. He seeks to provide guidance and solutions that are rooted in Islamic jurisprudence and the teachings of the Quran and Sunnah, while also taking into account the social and cultural context in which these issues arise.
What is Mufti Tariq Masood's approach to interfaith dialogue?
Mufti Tariq Masood is known for his approach to interfaith dialogue, which emphasizes mutual respect, understanding, and cooperation between people of different faiths. He encourages Muslims to engage in dialogue with people of other faiths in order to promote peace, harmony, and understanding.
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Mufti Tariq Masood views the role of women in Islam as essential and important. He emphasizes the need for women to be treated with respect and dignity, and to be given equal opportunities to pursue education, careers, and other interests. He also stresses the importance of women's role as mothers and caregivers in the family and society.
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GEMS: Partch, Harrisson, Sandberg, Reinhard
A very small, essentially handmade, edition of 300 copies of pieces researched and performed for the microtonal society at various venues in New York. Here is the first recording of Lou Harrison's rather Partchian Canticle #3, for ocarina, guitar and four percussionists whose instruments include brake drums, iron pipes, a box, an elephant bell, teponazli, sistrum, woodblocks and conventional drums and tam tams; Harry Partch's US Highball which, though interesting, can't compete with Partch's own (available on Innova enclosure 2), Mordercai Sandberg's Psalm #51, also a first recording, for 20 players, soprano and two synthesisers (needed to handle many of the microtones specified in the score), and the premiere of Johnny Reinhard's polymicrotonal Qoheleth, for two sopranos, cello, flute, percussion and harpsichord.
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Many commercial seed oils, including sesame oil, are made by crushing the seeds and heating beyond the smoke point and treating with the solvent hexane. It is then washed with caustic soda (sodium hydroxide), chemical bleaches and deodorants. All commercial oils are the same pale color and taste very similar regardless of the seed type due to this extreme, chemical processing.
Sesame Sesamum indicum is a treasured herb native to Indonesia and Africa. It has been widely grown in tropical and subtropical Asia and in the Mediterranean region for thousands of years. The first formal cultivation of sesame occurred around 3000 B.C. in the Middle East and 1600 B.C. in Egypt. The Egyptians are credited with being the inventors of sesame oil. Sesame seeds were introduced to Japan around 645 to 793 A.D. by Buddhist priests from Korea and China.
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Effective January 1, 2003, Zachary's Law requires sheriff departments to jointly establish and maintain the Indiana Sheriffs' Sex Offender Registry to provide detailed information about individuals who register as sex or violent offenders at Indiana sheriff departments (or, in Marion County, the Indianapolis Police Department). The purpose of the registry is to inform the general public about the identity, location, and appearance of sex and violent offenders who live, work, or study in Indiana.
Zachary's Law is named for Zachary Snider of Cloverdale, Indiana. Zachary was 10 years old when he was murdered by a convicted child molester in 1993.
The following sex and violent offenders are required to register with the Sheriff of the county that has jurisdiction where the offender intends to live, work or study for longer than seven days. (In Marion County offenders must register with the Indianapolis Police Department). That registration must occur within seven days of arriving in each jurisdiction where the offender intends to live, work or study.
When an offender registers with the Sheriff's Department (or the Indianapolis Police Department), these authorities notify all other law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction in the area where the offender has registered.


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Crown & Buckle began selling braided nylon straps back in the summer of 2014, to much fan-fare and praise from our customers. After moving production to a reliable factory, we are excited to share this large collection of colorful braided straps in popular sizes.
Braided nylon watch straps originated several decades ago [authentic vintage ones are very cool], and came of age in the era of rubber "tropic" straps, which share a similar vibe. They are commonly referred to as "perlon straps" in the watch world, since the material is a prominently woven pattern of wide nylon strands similar to Perlon® fibers. They look right at home on modern and vintage watches alike, and are a great summer strap due to their light and airy nature.
This strap features a sky blue colorway in 18mm. Each strap is ultrasonically welded to secure the material and prevent fraying. They are finished off with a polished vintage-style tang buckle made from period-correct nickel plated brass. There is one fixed keeper next to the buckle, and one floating keeper. 10.5"/265mm overall length fits most wrist sizes.
Width | 18mm |
Thickness | 1.0mm |
Buckle Style | Polished SS |
Color | Other |
Type | Braided Perlon |


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5 Things Every Computer User Needs To Know [Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, PA)](Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, PA) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) A good number of computer users think the answer to their tech problems is to ignore the symptoms, upgrade to fancier software or buy a new computer. Let me help. Here are five things that won't turn you into a tech guru overnight, but they'll keep your computer running fast, make you more productive and save you tons of frustration. Best of all, they won't cost you a cent. If you're the tech support person for your family and friends, be sure to share this with them. You'll get more work done if your mailbox doesn't fill up with subject lines like "Do I have a virus " or "Help! Having Wi-Fi problems!" 1. Work faster using keyboard shortcuts. The great thing about computers is that they can work much faster than you can. But telling them what to do is often a slow process. Well, there's a fix for that. Say you're ready to print a document. Instead of using the mouse to move a cursor around the screen and selecting "Print" from a drop- down menu, just hit Control P on your keyboard. There are dozens of keyboard shortcuts like this, from pressing Ctrl S to instantly save the file you're working on, to pressing Ctrl Z to undo a boo-boo. It takes a little getting used to at first, but after you try keyboard shortcuts for a while, I guarantee that your mouse will start gathering dust. 2. Protect yourself from viruses and spyware. It's critical that you keep your security software current. New viruses are unleashed daily. If your software is out-of-date, you aren't protected. Malware can destabilize your computer, destroy files and steal personal information. Every computer you own should have an antivirus program, a firewall and an antispyware program. If you're missing one or more of these, head over to my Security Center to download excellent free security programs. Another huge threat right now is security holes in Java, a programming language used by Web browsers to run interactive content. When a vulnerable version of Java is active in a Web browser, visiting a compromised website is all it takes for crooks to sneak malware on to your computer. In most cases, you won't even know the site is compromised until it's too late. To stay safe, stop using Java - or stay on top of the upgrades and use Java a lot more guardedly. 3. Share large files the easy way. The Internet was designed to make sharing information easy. But we've all run into roadblocks trying to share larger files by email. Sending large files through email is slow and can hit attachment size limits or fill up recipient inboxes. Fortunately, there are easier ways to share large files. These three popular sites will get the job done for you: Dropbox, WikiSend and Senduit 4. Fix Wi-Fi problems. Nothing's worse than a spotty and sluggish wireless network. Movies stop to buffer, online games lag and video calls drop. First, double-check that the Internet speed you're getting is as fast as what you are paying for. Then make sure your wireless network is encrypted. A sudden drop- off in wireless network speed could be a sign that your neighbors are using your open connection to surf and download files. If parts of your home are Wi-Fi dead spots or get very weak signals, try placing the router in an open, central location - away from walls and obstructions, such as metal filing cabinets. You also could try the trusty beer-can hack. This involves cutting a beer or soda can open with a utility knife to make a parabolic antenna out of it. This offbeat trick can boost your network by two bars or more. It's easy, and I have a fun video to show you exactly how to do it at komando.com. 5. Perform regular maintenance and make backups. Keep your software up to date. Updates fix bugs and improve the stability of your operating system and programs. If you spend more than two minutes a day looking for files on your hard drive, it's time to organize your files and clear out old stuff. Keeping a block of free space on your hard drive also will give a speed boost to your operating system. Of course, the most important maintenance tip I can give is to back up your data with a cloud-based solution. This way, your backup is safe from fire, theft and flood. There are many services available, including my recommendation of Carbonite. Kim Komando hosts the nation's largest talk radio show about consumer electronics, computers and the Internet. Locally it can be heard on WHP-AM 580, Harrisburg, on Sundays from 7 to 10 p.m. Podcasts, newsletters and more are available at komando.com. Copyright 2012, WestStar TalkRadio Network. All rights reserved. (c) 2013 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |


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Gum (periodontal) Disease & Periodontics
What is gum disease?
Gum disease, also known as periodontal disease, is a bacterial infection of the gums and tissues that support your teeth. It is caused most often by the build-up of plaque and tartar when teeth are not routinely brushed and flossed.
There are two major stages of periodontal disease: gingivitis and periodontitis. Gingivitis affects only the gums. It is a mild form of gum disease, and if properly treated, may be reversed. Left untreated, gingivitis turns into periodontitis. During this more destructive disease stage, bacteria penetrate into the deeper pockets of tissue where bone and membrane support your teeth. Periodontitis can lead to tooth loss and serious health problems.
Research shows that 47.2 percent of American adults over the age of 30 have mild, moderate or severe gum disease, which is the leading cause of adult tooth loss. It is also possible to have gum disease without experiencing any symptoms. The best way to avoid or manage gum disease is by practicing good oral hygiene and visiting your dentist regularly.
What are some risk factors?
You may be at risk for gum disease if any of the following apply to you:
- Tobacco and alcohol use
- Systematic diseases
- Genetics
- Pregnancy
In addition, the following types of prescription drugs may also increase the risk of gum disease. Talk with your dentist if you are taking:
- Steroids
- Cancer therapy drugs
- Oral contraceptives
- An anti-epilepsy drug
- A calcium channel blocker
What is a periodontist?
Periodontists are qualified dentists who have an additional three years of education and specialized training in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of gum disease. They also perform dental implant surgery and cosmetic periodontal procedures. Your periodontist will work closely with your dentist to manage your oral health.
What are some warning signs?
Gum disease is considered a "silent" disease because pain does not always accompany warning signs. See your dentist if you experience:
Changes to your Teeth, Bite or Dental Work
- Loose or separating teeth
- A change in the way your teeth fit together when you bite
- Bridges or partial dentures that no longer fit properly
- Fillings that have become defective
Changes to Your Gums
- Recurring redness, puffiness, tenderness or swelling of your gums
- Gums that bleed while brushing teeth, using dental floss or biting into hard foods (like an apple)
- Gums that are pulling away (receding) from your teeth, causing them to look longer
Bad Breath or Odd Taste in Your Mouth
- Persistent bad breath
- Persistent metal taste in your mouth
Sores in Your Mouth
- Pus between your gums and teeth
- A sore or irritation in your mouth that does not improve within two weeks
How do we treat gum disease?
How your periodontist treats your gum disease is largely dependent upon the stage of your infection and the amount of deterioration involving your gums, teeth, supporting tissues and bone.
After reviewing your Digital X-rays and performing a thorough periodontal exam, your periodontist will discuss your treatment options, answer questions, and explain what happens:
- During and after the procedure(s)
- The number of office visits required for treatment
- What to do post-treatment as your gums heal
- How to keep gum disease under control after treatment is complete
Non-Surgical Treatment
The most well-known type of non-surgical treatment is known as scaling and root planing. This under-the-gum procedure involves a careful removal of plaque and tarter from the tooth roots. During this procedure, your hygienist will remove harmful bacteria and irritants from deep beneath your gums to prevent plaque from accumulating again.
Surgical Treatment
Your periodontist may perform periodontal surgery to eliminate bone infections or to regenerate lost bone. The most common surgical treatments include:
Pocket Reduction
During this procedure, a local anesthetic is applied. The gum tissue is folded back to expose deeper tissues. Irregular surfaces of the damaged bone may need to be smoothed to expose otherwise hidden areas of bacteria. Then, harmful bacteria are removed. Gum tissue is then closed and sutured in place.
Bone Regeneration
During this procedure, a local anesthetic is applied. Gum tissue is folded back to expose deeper tissues. Then disease-causing bacteria are removed. Membranes, bone grafts or tissue-stimulating proteins are used to encourage your body's natural ability to regenerate bone and tissue and reverse some of the damage of gum disease.
Excess gum and bone tissues are then reshaped to expose more of the natural tooth. This can be done to one tooth (to even out the gumline) or to several teeth (to expose your natural, broad smile). Gum tissue is then closed and sutured in place.
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Top Bathroom Plumbing Tips
Perhaps the bathroom is where one is most often has close encounters with plumbing problems. The toilet won't stop running, or maybe it overflowed. Maybe the sewer line itself backed up (we hope that none of you ever experience the horror). Maybe you have a smelly drain, or your bathroom sink drain
Posted — UpdatedPerhaps the bathroom is where one is most often has close encounters with plumbing problems. The toilet won't stop running, or maybe it overflowed. Maybe the sewer line itself backed up (we hope that none of you ever experience the horror). Maybe you have a smelly drain, or your bathroom sink drain is clogged up. All of these scenarios happen frequently, and often result in A. Huge messes; B. a call to the local plumber. In order to remove some of the mystery and trauma from common bathroom plumbing problems, we've rounded up the best of the bathroom plumbing articles that we've published into one handy post.
Five Behind the Scenes Parts of Your Bathroom You Should Know About: Knowing about your bathroom's pressure-balancing valve, thermostatic valve, vent stack and main stack, shutoff valves and P-trap can enable you to identify bathroom plumbing issues, and know when to call in a pro.
Five Ingenious Ways to Unclog a Toilet: I think almost everyone has encountered this situation: You're at someone else's house, or perhaps in the office, you use the bathroom and the toilet starts to overflow instead of flushing whatever is in it down. This is a truly humiliating experience, but fortunately there are a few things you can do if such a disaster befalls you.
How to Fix a Running Toilet: This tutorial comes with pictures and easy-to-follow instructions. It was written by someone whose primary occupation is writing and editing home improvement manuals, so you can be sure that the instructions are good.
How Bad For Plumbing Are Disposable Wipes?: In the past few years, disposable wipes in the bathroom have become ubiquitous. With them came a phenomenon known as "the plug." It is as disgusting as it sounds. Read this article before flushing those "flushable" wipes.
Easy Fixes for Smelly Drains: Does your drain smell like the sewer? That's sewer gas. This article explains how sewer gas rises up from pipes and drains, and into your bathroom. The Denver remodeler who wrote it also discusses smells that are the result of drain clogs.
How to Unclog Your Sink's U-Bend: Also known as a P-trap, the U-bend of a sink can generally be easily unclogged by a DIY-er who isn't afraid of coming into contact with some smelly, grimy, slimy brown stuff.
How to Auger Your Home Sewer Line: While many would opt to call a pro to take care of this job, some intrepid DIY-ers manage on their own. Learn how. The process involves renting a sewer auger.
How to Stop Water Hammer: That clanging sound when you turn the hot water on in the shower actually can be stopped.
Chaya Kurtz writes for Networx.com.


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Egypt today is a zero-sum game. We'd have preferred there be a democratic alternative. Unfortunately, there is none. The choice is binary: the country will be ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood or by the military.
Perhaps it didn't have to be this way. Perhaps the military should have waited three years for the intensely unpopular Mohamed Morsi to be voted out of office. But Gen.Abdel Fatah al-Sissi seems to have calculated that he didn't have three years, that by then there would be no elections — as in Gaza, where the Palestinian wing of the Brotherhood, Hamas, elected in 2006, established a one-man-one-vote-one-time dictatorship.
What's the United States to do? Any response demands two considerations: (a) moral, i.e., which outcome offers the better future for Egypt, and (b) strategic, i.e., which outcome offers the better future for U.S. interests and those of the free world.
As for Egypt's future, the Brotherhood offered nothing but incompetent, intolerant, increasingly dictatorial rule. In one year, Morsi managed to squander 85 years of Brotherhood prestige garnered in opposition — a place from which one can promise the moon — by persecuting journalists and activists, granting himself the unchallenged power to rule by decree, enshrining a sectarian Islamist constitution and systematically trying to seize the instruments of state power. As if that wasn't enough, after its overthrow the Brotherhood showed itself to be the party that, when angry, burns churches.
The military, brutal and bloody, is not a very appealing alternative. But it does matter what the Egyptian people think. The anti-Morsi demonstrations were the largest in recorded Egyptian history. Revolted by Morsi's betrayal of a revolution intended as a new opening for individual dignity and democracy, the protesters explicitly demanded Morsi's overthrow. And the vast majority seem to welcome the military repression aimed at abolishing the Islamist threat. It's their only hope, however problematic, for an eventual democratic transition.
And which alternative better helps secure U.S. strategic interests? The list of those interests is long: (1) a secure Suez Canal, (2) friendly relations with the United States, (3) continued alliance with the pro-American Gulf Arabs and Jordanians, (4) retention of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, (5) cooperation with the U.S. on terrorism, which in part involves (6) isolating Brotherhood-run Gaza.
Every one of which is jeopardized by Brotherhood rule.
What, then, should be our policy? The administration is right to deplore excessive violence and urge reconciliation. But let's not fool ourselves into believing this is possible in any near future. Sissi crossed his Rubicon with the coup. It will either succeed or not. To advocate a middle way is to invite endless civil strife.
The best outcome would be a victorious military magnanimously offering, at some later date, to reintegrate the more moderate elements of what's left of the Brotherhood.
But for now, we should not be cutting off aid, civilian or military, as many in Congress are demanding. It will have no effect, buy no influence and win no friends on either side of the Egyptian divide. We should instead be urging the quick establishment of a new cabinet of technocrats, rapidly increasing its authority as the soldiers gradually return to their barracks.
Generals are very bad at governance. Give the reins to people who actually know something. And charge them with reviving the economy and preparing the foundations for a democratic transition — most importantly, drafting a secular constitution that protects the rights of women and minorities.
The final step on that long democratic path should be elections. First municipal, then provincial, then national. As was shown in the post-World War II democratizations, the later the better.
After all, we've been here. Through a half-century of cold war, we repeatedly faced precisely the same dilemma: choosing the lesser evil between totalitarian (in that case, communist) and authoritarian (usually military) rule.
We generally supported the various militaries in suppressing the communists. That was routinely pilloried as a hypocritical and immoral betrayal of our alleged allegiance to liberty. But in the end, it proved the prudent, if troubled, path to liberty.
The authoritarian regimes we supported — in South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Chile, Brazil, even Spain and Portugal (ruled by fascists until the mid-1970s!) — in time yielded democratic outcomes. Gen. Augusto Pinochet, after 16 years of iron rule, yielded to U.S. pressure and allowed a free election — which he lost, ushering in Chile's current era of democratic flourishing. How many times have communists or Islamists allowed that to happen?
Regarding Egypt, rather than emoting, we should be thinking: what's best for Egypt, for us and for the possibility of some eventual democratic future.
Under the Brotherhood, such a possibility is zero. Under the generals, slim.
Slim trumps zero.
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Charles Krauthammer writes for the Washington Post and appears on Fox News.


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How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave. 1
Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is none to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies. 2
After affliction and harsh labor, Judah has gone into exile. She dwells among the nations; she finds no resting place. All who pursue her have overtaken her in the midst of her distress. 3
The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she is in bitter anguish. 4
Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. The LORD has brought her grief because of her many sins. Her children have gone into exile, captive before the foe. 5
All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; in weakness they have fled before the pursuer. 6
In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction. 7
Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away. 8
Her filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was none to comfort her. "Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed." 9
The enemy laid hands on all her treasures; she saw pagan nations enter her sanctuary, those you had forbidden to enter your assembly. 10
All her people groan as they search for bread; they barter their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. "Look, O LORD, and consider, for I am despised." 11
"Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see. Is any suffering like my suffering that was inflicted on me, that the LORD brought on me in the day of his fierce anger? 12
"From on high he sent fire, sent it down into my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long. 13
"My sins have been bound into a yoke ; by his hands they were woven together. They have come upon my neck and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has handed me over to those I cannot withstand. 14
"The Lord has rejected all the warriors in my midst; he has summoned an army against me to crush my young men. In his winepress the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah. 15
"This is why I weep and my eyes overflow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed." 16
Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them. 17
"The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against his command. Listen, all you peoples; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into exile. 18
"I called to my allies but they betrayed me. My priests and my elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive. 19
"See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death. 20
"People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my distress; they rejoice at what you have done. May you bring the day you have announced so they may become like me. 21
"Let all their wickedness come before you; deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my sins. My groans are many and my heart is faint." 22


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Is it Time to Replace My Shocks & Struts?
No matter what your handling objectives, your car's driveability depends on shock absorbers. The shocks perform their duties by keeping the spring rebound in check. Since shock absorbers have such a profound effect on ride control and stability, good shocks go hand in hand with driving safety.
There are a number of ways to determine if it's time for new shocks. The first is fairly subjective; if your car no longer rides as well as it used to; If it seems to bounce and drift more than you remember, or nose-dive when you brake, your shocks are probably worn out. An oil soaked shock indicates seal failure and must be replaced, however a light film of oil is normal. Torn or blown out mounting bushings can result in annoying clunks and rattles and the inability of the shock to perform as it was intended.
Generally speaking, a set of shocks can last around 50,000 to 60,000 miles, though this is by no means an absolute figure. Some shocks may last for only 30,000 or 40,000 miles, while others may still be functioning after 100,000 miles. Factors that affect this include how the car is driven and the conditions it is driven in. A car used predominantly for freeway commuting will have less wear on the shocks than one driven in stop-and-go traffic and on potholed surface streets. Likewise, if a car is driven off road frequently or on dirt roads or even rough roads, the shocks will experience more wear. If an older car sits for a long time without being used, the shocks can sometimes freeze up and stop functioning. If you are going to start driving a car regularly that has been sitting unused for many years, you might have to install new shocks.
Another reason you may want to replace your shocks is if you want better performance from your car. As originally equipped, most cars have relatively compliant suspensions. By installing a set of high-performance shocks, you will improve the handling and sometimes even the ride quality.
The difference between a better shock and a bargain priced shock may not be visibly apparent, but when you consider the shock absorber's job, it's easy to see that shocks have to be built to withstand a great deal of punishment. As the name implies, they absorb the shock in your car's suspension. In so doing, they convert the energy of the spring into heat, and must be able to dissipate that heat efficiently in order to perform well. Most conventional shocks are of twin tube construction, and are less efficient at heat dissipation, which can cause poor performance. This means that when the road gets rough, a conventional shock will actually lose damping effectiveness. Add this to the slower response to changes in road surface, and you will see why many shocks offer a wallowing ride, with diminished stability and road holding qualities.
A shock that is made with monotube construction, such as Bilsteins are better able to stay cool over varying road surfaces and performance-oriented driving. Gas charged shocks use high-pressure nitrogen gas to maintain damping performance by preventing the shock oil from foaming. Using high-grade materials, and state of the art technology, the better shock absorber manufacturers confidently offer a lifetime warranty, making the best shocks a better bargain in the long run.
When replacing struts, pay close attention to the condition of the upper bearing plates. These support the weight of the vehicle, and are often in poor condition. A bad bearing plate can cause steering stiffness, noise and poor steering return (memory steer). Do not reuse the bearing plate or spring seat unless they are in perfect condition.
Installation Tips
In the case of front cartridges for MacPherson struts, special tools are required. Unless you've got both the tools and the skill, you may be better off having struts installed by a pro. Rear shocks are easier for the backyard mechanic to replace using jack stands, and a few common tools. This is assuming rust and corrosion have not taken their toll. Use a liberal amount of your favorite penetrating oil (we use and recommend PB B'laster). On re-assembly, anti-seize compound will help keep these bolts free from corrosion.
Here's a quick recap of key things to look for if you wondering if the shocks and struts on your Volvo are in need of replacement. ..
- A bouncy uncontrolled ride, especially on rough roads
- Your Volvo bobbing like a porpoise after encountering a speed bump or dip in the road
- Excessive body lean or sway when cornering or driving in heavy crosswinds
- Nose dive when braking
- Tail squat when accelerating
- Bottoming out the suspension on moderate bumps
- Cupped wear on the tires
- Noise or poor steering return when turning (front struts)
- Wheel hop when braking on rough roads
- Frequent activation of the ABS system when braking on rough roads
A car's shocks and struts have a tremendous impact on its ride and handling. Replacing the shocks and struts is a routine part of maintenance, though it isn't done as often as something like an oil change. There is no set time to replace shocks and struts, and deciding when to replace them is a based on how they feel on the road, as well as how many miles are on them.
Shocks and Struts, Testing "The Old Bumper Test"
For years it was not uncommon for shops, dealers and car owners to attempt to test shock and strut condition by jumping up and down on the front or rear bumper and watching to see how long it took the car to stop moving. We even used this method up into the 1980s until we saw a shock test being performed by a Bilstein technician. We were surprised at how fast the shock tester cycled the shock. Have you ever watched a gallon of paint on a paint shaker at the hardware store? He said that it is not uncommon for a car cruising at 60 mph to see the suspension move 1 full inch in 1/1000th of a second. The bumper test might be able to tell you if your shocks are completely blown out, but it won't tell you if they are still working safely. If you are unsure about the condition of your shocks, have an experienced technician at your Volvo dealer or independent repair shop take your car for a quick test drive. This is the safest way to determine the condition.


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Damage, disease or safety concerns can turn some trees from an asset into a liability. When this occurs, Madison Landscape Construction can be trusted for safe and efficient tree removal service in the Madison area.
Look for these signs as an indicator it may be time to remove:
- Heaving soil at the base of the trunk and beneath the canopy
- Decay-producing fungi, such as mushrooms, growing at the base of the trunk
- Chipped or peeling bark and cracks in the trunk
- Cavities in the trunk or large scaffold branches
- Dead or hanging branches in the upper crown
- Fine twigs without living buds near the ends of branches