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Recognized all test malware and dealt with most. Firewall blocked Web-based exploits. Browser-independent parental control resists tampering. System Control identifies malware based on behavior.
System Control asks the user to make too many security decisions. Spam filter mis-marks some valid messages and misses a lot of spam.
Bottom Line
It's a little tough to distinguish F-Secure's 2008 suite from last year's model, but there are differences. It did a lot better in antispyware testing, and a little better against spam. In a world of multifeature suites, some may prefer one that sticks to the essentials.
full-featured firewall
the fsis firewall had no trouble putting all the computer's ports in stealth mode, making the computer invisible to the outside world. none of my port-scan tests revealed any holes. that's not too surprisingeven the built-in windows firewall can manage that trick, though ca internet security suite plus 2008 left some ports closed but not stealthed in recent testing (a fix is said to be due soon).
as always, i attempted to disable the firewall using techniques available to malicious software. after all, if the bad guys can turn it off, it's not worth much. i managed to stop a number of its services, but doing so had no effect on the firewall protection. when i tried to kill off the firewall process using task manager, system control reported the attack. just to see what would happen, i told system control to allow the action. fsis quickly reported a malfunction in the "internet shield"; rebooting cured it. i couldn't disable it by changing settings via the registry. i managed to shut down firewall protection by sending an elaborate series of fake mouse clicks, but it's highly unlikely that a malicious program could accomplish the same thing.
fsis also controls which programs can access the internet. it's initially configured to allow and log all access, on the assumption that any malicious programs will be recognized by the real-time malware protection or caught by system control. this avoids the initial flood of pop-ups that occur when you install some firewall products. even when you do switch the suite to prompt for new applications, by default it automatically permits access for any programs identified by system control. so, for example, it didn't have to ask about the opera browser, but it did question whether to allow access by a browser i wrote myself. norton internet security allows known good programs, removes known bad programs, and decides for itself what to do about unknowns. fsis is headed in this direction; it just needs to go farther.
when simple program control blocks malicious programs from "phoning home," they sometimes resort to tricks, such as forcing approved programs to carry their messages. leak-test programs exercise the techniques used by malware to fool normal program control, but they're not themselves malicious. therefore i wasn't surprised when fsis didn't catch many of the dozen leak-test utilities i ran. it blocked three completely, identifying them as known threats, and system control got another two. one was sinister enough for system control to block it without asking. i had to answer a query about the other, but the description said it was trying to manipulate or terminate another programvery suspicious indeed. it looks as if system control would catch an actual malicious program using these techniques, but evaluating leak-test programs can't prove it.
more importantly, fsis did a decent job of blocking web-based attacks that try to exploit vulnerabilities in the operating system, browser, or other programs. this type of attack is a real-world dangeryour system can be compromised simply by visiting a malicious (or hacked) web site. i launched a number of these attacks using the core impact penetration testing tool, and fsis blocked all of them that weren't handled by the fully-patched installation of windows and internet explorer. as it was with the antispyware blocking, fsis's activity here was almost invisible. i had to check the log to be sure fsis was the reason for the attack's failure. one attack based on a firefox vulnerability did get through, however. if this had been a real-world malicious web site it could conceivably have placed a bot or trojan on the system. that is, if fsis didn't wipe out the malicious code on sight.next: spam and more spam


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- Anonymous
- Philippines, Female, 41+
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Martin's Guest House, Edinburgh, Scotland
We loved Denise! We appreciated how she left food for us even before the specified serving time for breakfast. The dining room was sooo charming with the tea cups and the wall decors, absolutely adorable! The Scottish breakfast was delicioso! PS. Please fix the drainage in the shower of Room 1. We rate Martin's Guest House a 9.9!
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- Philippines, Female, 41+
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Waterfront B & B Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner was very friendly and helpful. The location was very charming and quiet just how we wanted it.
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Park, Pizza & Cream has great taste in Regent Square location
Point Breeze native Jim Reddy has known the intersection of Forbes and Braddock avenues most of his life. As a boy, he'd bicycle up to the Junction Pharmacy, now long gone, if his parents needed medications. And he could always enjoy the pharmacy's little ice cream fountain.
Reddy is an entrepreneur, who bought his first bar as soon as he was legally able, at 21. He expanded to three locations.
But he always had his eye on the site of Junction Pharmacy. Now he's opened Park, Pizza & Cream there, knowing the location, across the street from the Frick Park playground, is unbeatable.
Intuition isn't enough in business. He found out that 31,000 to 36,000 cars go through the intersection daily. More than 500 people use bus stops on the corner, and 15 school buses stop in front of his business. And there's the people in the park.
Park, Pizza & Cream opened in late October. The weather was beautiful, and his place was jammed. There are three tables inside, more than a dozen outside and still the line was around the block.
The menu features pizza, hoagies, salads and seven varieties of soda. In addition, there are 18 flavors of ice cream, not to mention frozen yogurt, milkshakes and slushies.
Reddy learned the pizza business in high school, when he worked after school at a shop, now closed, in Regent Square. When it was clear in 2012 that he'd be making pizzas again, he called his friend Peter Aiello, with whom he went to Central Catholic High School, to ask to work briefly at his family's well-known pizzeria in Squirrel Hill, just to get flour on his fingers again.
Park, Pizza & Cream sells New York-style slices of pizza for $2, as well as small, large and extra-large pies ($8.50 to $14). Toppings are 50 cents per slice, $1.50 to $2 for pies.
Reddy says he and partner Brian Shipkovitz looked at creating their red pizza "almost like building a house. We went through four or five different recipes for the dough, the foundation, on our own, through trial and error. But we don't make our own dough here, because we don't have the space. The problem with buying dough commercially is most places sell you their recipe, the same as they do to other pizza places. But we found Sunseri Supply in the Strip District allowed us to have input to the recipe and they make it for us. It's fresh, never frozen or shelled."
Similarly, Reddy found his sauce recipe after trying 15 combinations of different kinds of puree, chunk and stewed tomatoes, as well as spice combinations. He took the advice of his brother, who has a pizza shop in Butler, and gets his cheese from the Grande Cheese Co. in Brownsville, Wisc. For a final touch, he sprinkles pecorino romano cheese on top.
Reddy created a variation on the traditional white pizza, which he calls his Blanca pie because, he's "not a big fan of the butter, olive oil base on most white pizzas. Too oily. We tried out some ricotta, fresh Italian herbs and minced garlic as the base, then added pizza cheese, spices, and fresh mozzarella and tomato on top. It has a nice creamy texture and is, by far, our most popular specialty pizza," he says.
The other specialty pies are Buffalo Chicken, The Gardener, Two Meat or Not to Meat (half sausage, half meatball), Margherita and Flyin' Hawaiian. They are $11 to $19.
"I make every single thing I make like I was making it for my mother," he says.
Park, Pizza & Cream, 7600 Forbes Ave, Regent Square. Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Saturdays. Details: 412-871-3922 or www.parkpizzacream.com.
Mark Kanny is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 412-320-7877.


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Quantum Mechanics
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Lectures on the Quantum Hall Effect
by David Tong - University of Cambridge , 2016
These lectures describe the basic theoretical structures underlying the quantum Hall effect. The focus is on the interplay between microscopic wavefunctions, long-distance effective Chern-Simons theories, and the modes which live on the boundary.
(1167 views)
Realism-Completeness-Universality interpretation of quantum mechanics
by Petr Hajicek - arXiv , 2015
The book gives a consequent and mathematical formulation to the interpretation of quantum mechanics that is often met among practical physicists. The book ought to be accessible to students that finished the standard course of quantum mechanics.
(1313 views)
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: An Introduction to the Physical Background and Mathematical Structure
by Gregory Naber - gregnaber.com , 2016
The goal here is to provide an introduction to the physical and mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics. We will provide rigorous treatments of just a few of the simplest and most fundamental systems with which quantum mechanics deals.
(2771 views)
A Strict Epistemic Approach to Physics
by Per Östborn - arXiv , 2016
Here, we derive the formalism of QM from well-motivated epistemic principles. A key assumption is that in a proper physical theory, the introduction of entities or distinctions that are unknowable in principle is in conflict with the theory.
(1120 views)
Selected Topics in Applications of Quantum Mechanics
by Mohammad Reza Pahlavani (ed.) - InTech , 2015
This book covers some of the applications of quantum mechanics in nuclear physics, medical science, information technology, atomic physics and material science, as well as selected topics of quantum mechanics through different bases and ideas ...
(2829 views)
Quantum Mechanics - Lecture Notes
by Eyal Buks - Technion , 2014
Contents: Hamilton's Formalism of Classical Physics; State Vectors and Operators; The Position and Momentum Observables; Quantum Dynamics; The Harmonic Oscillator; Angular Momentum; Central Potential; Density Operator; Perturbation Theory; etc.
(4625 views)
Introduction to Computational Quantum Mechanics
by Roman Schmied - arXiv , 2014
This document is aimed at advanced students of physics who are familiar with the concepts and notations of quantum mechanics. It tries to bridge the gap between simple analytic calculations and complicated large-scale computations.
(3049 views)
Manifesting the Quantum World
by Ulrich Mohrhoff - arXiv , 2014
In resisting attempts to explain the unity of a whole in terms of a multiplicity of interacting parts, quantum mechanics calls for an explanatory concept that proceeds in the opposite direction: from unity to multiplicity ...
(2664 views)
Circuit QED
by Nathan K. Langford - arXiv , 2013
These notes aim to provide a non-expert introduction to the field of circuit QED, to give a basic appreciation of the promise and challenges of the field, along with a number of key concepts that will be useful for the reader who is new to the field.
(2633 views)
Quantum Models of Classical World
by Petr Hajicek - arXiv , 2013
This paper is a review of our recent work on three problems of non-relativistic quantum mechanics: realist interpretation, quantum theory of classical properties and the problem of quantum measurement. A considerable progress has been achieved...
(3840 views)
Nonequilibrium Relativistic Quantum Many-Body Theory
by Hendrik van Hees - Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies , 2013
The following manuscript aims at an introduction to modern methods in relativistic quantum many-body theory. We introduce many-body techniques, using relativistic quantum field theory, emphasizing the so-called real-time formulation.
(2571 views)
Time in Quantum Mechanics
by Curt A. Moyer - arXiv , 2013
The failure of conventional quantum theory to recognize time as an observable and to admit time operators is addressed. We emphasize the role of the Hamiltonian as the generator of translations in time to construct time states.
(4031 views)
Advanced Quantum Mechanics
by Freeman Dyson - arXiv , 2006
Lecture notes by Professor F. J. Dyson for a course in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics given at Cornell University in the Fall of 1951 for the students who had courses in classical mechanics, electrodynamics and non-relativistic quantum theory.
(5713 views)
Advances in Quantum Mechanics
by Paul Bracken - InTech , 2013
The development of quantum mechanics has taken physics in a vastly new direction from that of classical physics from the very start. In fact, there continue at present to be many developments in the subject of a very fundamental nature...
(4236 views)
Quantum Mechanics
by Charles G. Torre - Utah State University , 2007
This text will survey the foundations of quantum mechanics, basic techniques for its application to the real world, and a number of standard examples. It is assumed that you have already had a previous undergraduate course in quantum mechanics.
(5508 views)
Quantum Mechanics Revisited
by Jean Claude Dutailly - arXiv , 2013
From a general study of the relations between models, meaning the set of variables with their mathematical properties, and the measures they represent, a new formalism is developed, which covers the scope of Quantum Mechanics.
(3963 views)
Quantum mechanics of many-particle systems: atoms, molecules - and more
by Roy McWeeny - Learning Development Institute , 2012
Quantum mechanics of many-particle systems. Contents: The problem - and how to deal with it; Some two-electron systems; Electronic structure - the independent particle model; The Hartree-Fock method; Atoms - the building blocks of matter.
(3976 views)
Quantization is a Mystery
by Ivan Todorov - arXiv , 2012
Expository notes which combine a historical survey of the development of quantum physics with a review of selected mathematical topics in quantization theory (addressed to students that are not complete novices in quantum mechanics).
(3868 views)
Understanding Quantum Measurement from the Solution of Dynamical Models
by A.E. Allahverdyan, R. Balian, T.M. Nieuwenhuizen - arXiv , 2012
The quantum measurement problem: why a unique outcome is obtained in each individual experiment, is currently tackled by solving models. After an introduction, we review the models proposed. A flexible and realistic quantum model is introduced...
(3775 views)
Quantum Walks
by Daniel Reitzner, Daniel Nagaj, Vladimir Buzek - arXiv , 2012
This text showcases the many varieties and uses of quantum walks. Discrete time quantum walks are introduced as counterparts of classical random walks. The emphasis is on the connections and differences between the two types of processes ...
(2742 views)
Overview of Bohmian Mechanics
by Xavier Oriols, Jordi Mompart - arXiv , 2012
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the Bohmian formulation of quantum mechanics. After a historical review, a formal explanation of Bohmian mechanics for nonrelativistic, single-particle quantum systems is presented.
(3897 views)
Theoretical Concepts of Quantum Mechanics
by Mohammad Reza Pahlavani - InTech , 2012
This book represents a rich account of foundation, scientific history of quantum mechanics, relativistic quantum mechanics and field theory, different methods to solve the Schrodinger equation. An important reference for students and researchers.
(7851 views)
Quantum Notes
by Jed Rembold - New Mexico Tech , 2009
The complete set of graduate Quantum Mechanics notes: Postulates of QM; Simple Problems in 1 Dimension; Wave Packets; Harmonic Oscillator and Second Quantization; Systems with N Degrees of Freedom; Classical Limit and WKB Approximation; Symmetries.
(6493 views)
Perspectives in Quantum Physics: Epistemological, Ontological and Pedagogical
by Charles Baily - arXiv , 2011
The author shows how a transformed modern physics curriculum may positively impact student perspectives on indeterminacy and wave-particle duality, by making questions of classical and quantum reality a central theme of his course.
(5379 views)
Quantum Physics Notes
by J D Cresser - Macquarie University , 2009
With the development of the quantum information interpretation of quantum mechanics, the tendency is to move away from wave mechanics to the more abstract linear algebra version. It is this view of quantum mechanics that is presented in these notes.
(9001 views)
Decoherence: Basic Concepts and Their Interpretation
by H. D. Zeh - arXiv , 2002
Introduction to the theory of decoherence. Contents: Phenomenon of decoherence: superpositions, superselection rules, decoherence by measurements; Observables as a derivable concept; Measurement problem; Density matrix, coarse graining, and events.
(5396 views)
Quantum Transients
by A. del Campo, G. Garcia-Calderon, J. G. Muga - arXiv , 2009
Quantum transients are temporary features of matter waves before they reach a stationary regime. Transients may arise after the preparation of an unstable initial state or due to a sudden interaction or a change in the boundary conditions.
(4122 views)
Introduction to the Time Evolution of Open Quantum Systems
by Angel Rivas, Susana F. Huelga - arXiv , 2011
We revise fundamental concepts in the dynamics of open quantum systems in the light of modern developments in the field. Our aim is to present a unified approach to the quantum evolution of open systems that incorporates the traditional concepts.
(5191 views)
Quantum Dissipative Systems
by F. Guinea, E. Bascones, M.J. Calderon , 1998
An interesting topic of quantum mechanics is the study of open quantum systems. By it, we mean a simple quantum system, described by one or a few degrees of freedom, interacting with a background characterized by a continuum of excitations.
(5203 views)
Consistent Quantum Theory
by Robert B. Griffiths - Cambridge University Press , 2003
This volume elucidates the consistent quantum theory approach to quantum mechanics at a level accessible to university students in physics, chemistry, mathematics, and computer science, making this an ideal supplement to standard textbooks.
(9621 views)
An Introduction to Many Worlds in Quantum Computation
by Clare Hewitt-Horsman - arXiv , 2009
This paper introduces one interpretation of quantum mechanics, a modern 'many-worlds' theory, from the perspective of quantum computation. Reasons for seeking to interpret quantum mechanics are discussed, then the specific theory is introduced.
(8372 views)
Quantum Information Theory
by Robert H. Schumann - arXiv , 2000
A short review of ideas in quantum information theory. Quantum mechanics is presented together with some useful tools for quantum mechanics of open systems. The treatment is pedagogical and suitable for beginning graduates in the field.
(8874 views)
An Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
by M. De Sanctis - arXiv , 2007
By using the general concepts of special relativity and the requirements of quantum mechanics, Dirac equation is derived and studied. Only elementary knowledge of spin and rotations in quantum mechanics and standard linear algebra are required.
(9589 views)
The basic paradoxes of statistical classical physics and quantum mechanics
by Oleg Kupervasser - arXiv , 2009
Statistical classical mechanics and quantum mechanics are two developed theories that contain a number of paradoxes. However the given paradoxes can be resolved within the framework of the existing physics, without introduction of new laws.
(8571 views)
Do we really understand quantum mechanics?
by F. Laloe - Zuckschwerdt Publishers , 2001
A discussion of several aspects of our present understanding of quantum mechanics. The emphasis is put on the special correlations that this theory makes possible: they are forbidden by very general arguments based on realism and local causality.
(9787 views)
Quantum Mechanics
by Axel Gross - Universität Ulm , 2008
Contents: Wave Mechanics; Fundamental Concepts of Quantum Mechanics; Quantum Dynamics; Angular Momentum; Approximation Methods; Symmetry in Quantum Mechanics; Theory of chemical bonding; Scattering Theory; Relativistic Quantum Mechanics.
(9593 views)
Quantum Mechanics
by Martin Plenio - Imperial College , 2002
This text introduces quantum mechanics from a more abstract point of view than a first quantum mechanics course. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the structure of quantum mechanics and of some of its key points.
(11348 views)
The Physics of Quantum Mechanics
by James Binney, David Skinner - Capella Archive , 2008
This book aims to give students the best possible understanding of the physical implications of quantum mechanics by explaining how quantum systems evolve in time, and showing the close parallels between quantum and classical dynamics.
(12696 views)
Notes on Quantum Mechanics
by K. Schulten - University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign , 2000
These notes introduce Quantum Mechanics at an advanced level addressing students of Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering. The aim is to put various mathematical concepts and techniques at the readers disposal.
(8207 views)
Introduction to Quantum Noise, Measurement and Amplification
by A. A. Clerk, at al. - arXiv , 2008
The topic of quantum noise has become extremely timely due to the rise of quantum information physics. This review gives a pedagogical introduction to the physics of quantum noise and its connections to quantum measurement and quantum amplification.
(6302 views)
Lecture Notes in Quantum Mechanics
by Doron Cohen - arXiv , 2013
These lecture notes cover undergraduate textbook topics and also additional advanced topics: EPR and Bell; Basic postulates; The probability matrix; Measurement theory; Entanglement; Quantum computation; Wigner-Weyl formalism; etc.
(9630 views)
Relativistic Quantum Dynamics
by Eugene V. Stefanovich , 2008
A non-traditional perspective on space, time, particles, fields, and action-at-a-distance. This book is an attempt to build a consistent relativistic quantum theory of interacting particles. The developed theory is applied to realistic physical objects.
(10344 views)
Quantum mechanics: An intermediate level course
by Richard Fitzpatrick - Lulu.com , 2008
Lecture notes for an upper-division quantum mechanics course: fundamental concepts, one-dimensional potentials, central potentials, angular momentum, the hydrogen atom, time-independent perturbation theory, time-dependent perturbation theory, etc.
(10104 views)
Quantum Mechanics: A graduate course
by Richard Fitzpatrick - Lulu.com , 2008
Quantum Mechanics by Richard Fitzpatrick is a complete set of lecture notes for a graduate quantum mechanics course. Topics covered include the fundamentals of quantum mechanics, angular momentum, approximation methods, and scattering theory.
(10477 views)
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Applications to Chemistry
by Linus Pauling, E. Bright Wilson - McGraw-Hill Education , 1935
This undergraduate-level text applies quantum mechanics to some chemical and physical problems, covering wave functions for the hydrogen atom, perturbation theory, the Pauli exclusion principle, and the structure of simple and complex molecules.
(19933 views)
Quantum Fluctuations
by Edward Nelson - Princeton University Press , 1985
This book deals with the kinematics of diffusion processes. The dynamical equations are derived from a variational principle, and interference, the asymptotics of free motion, bound states, statistics, and spin are described in classical terms.
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(v. t.) To beat livid, or black and blue.
(v. t.) To beat livid, or black and blue.
I came across this word (in Portuguese sugilar, from Latin suggillare) while looking up sugerir and sugestionar in a Portuguese dictionary. Portuguese sugilar has an additional meaning of defame, vituperate, tarnish, which English suggillate doesn't seem to have, at least according to this source.
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The color green is right up there on Team LED's list of "favorite colors to use", and lucky for us, there is such beautiful product out there to feed our addiction. With St. Patrick's Day this week, we're excited to share a few of our favorite ways to use the color GREEN.
Christmas Decor Tips From Team LED
Our team recently shared some Christmas decorating tips with our friends at the Review Journal. Of course we want to share them with all of you too! Want to find your holiday decorating style or maybe just want to add a few tips to your already decorated home? We've got your back.
10 Types of Gifts to Give
Now that Cyber Monday is over and Black Friday is long gone, Team LED wants to help you out with a few gifts you might be missing. So we surveyed our crew and gathered presents that are perfect for a few types of people in our lives.
LED Teams up with WithIt
Las Vegas Market boasts of wonderful events, happening parties and of course great design. We told you about our team's favorite moments of LVMKT here, but we definitely need to elaborate on the amazing opportunity Lisa had to speak as part of the WithIt panel featuring social media celebrities at the Somerton Dwelling showroom at Las Vegas Market earlier this month. As a team, we've attended some pretty fantastic events hosted by The Media Matters – one being a farm to table dinner at the Woodard Furniture showroom along with elite editors from various publications during High Point Market last April.
Top 10 Summer Market Moments
Every six months the world's most popular and upcoming design brands make the trip to Las Vegas to showcase the newest and greatest products. We're so lucky to be right in the center of it all! Market was stunning (as usual!) with a plethora of new vendors, trends and stylish décor we can't wait to show you! So we won't… here are #TeamLED's Top 10 Summer Market Moments!
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We're grateful we attended High Point Market in High Point, North Carolina last week! We hope that you can live vicariously through our team here at All Por Ju as we bring to you highlights of the trip and share some amazing vendors we spent some QT with.
Springtime Décor
With that springtime weather finally arriving, it puts an extra spring in our step! How about you? We are constantly on the hunt for items for your home to reflect the season and trends. It's easy to freshen up any space for spring with a few furniture or décor pieces.
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NYE Essentials
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With Americans sending nearly six billion texts every day and over 2.2 trillion annually, it seems only natural that when an emergency strikes, many people would want to grab the nearest cell phone and text 911 for help.
That option moved closer to reality this week, when four major wireless carriers rolled out a text-to-911 feature. AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile met the Thursday deadline to enable text-to-911 service, giving people a way of reaching emergency responders when a voice call is not an option.
But so far only a limited number of municipalities in 16 states are able to respond to emergency texts.
Local emergency call centers (known as public safety answering points, or PSAPs) are responsible for implementing this service in their counties, and many have not yet done so.
"The unfortunate truth is that, on the whole, PSAPs are not where they should be and need to be on text-to-911," FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said in a statement. "It's been more than a year since the FCC secured a commitment from wireless carriers serving 90 percent of Americans to deploy text-to-911 by 2014. Yet today, only a small fraction of PSAPs are ready to support text-to-911. We've done our part. Now, the PSAPs must do theirs."
The FCC expects the number of PSAPs accepting texts to grow over time and provide the service in more areas.
Still, text-to-911 may not be the best option in an emergency. The FCC warned that "even where text-to-911 is available, if you are able to make a voice call to 911, and if it is safe to do so, you should always make a voice call to 911 instead."
Experts warned that the time needed to compose a text and locate a caller, as well as lack of information or context in a text message, could interfere with helping those in emergency situations.
"If somebody is running from the scene, we need to know what that person looks like, because in a few minutes, you may not remember what they look like," Kimberly Murch, a dispatch supervisor from the California Highway Patrol, told CNET's Sumi Das in an interview.
Information gleaned by dispatchers over a phone call, such as background noise or the caller's emotional state, also cannot be determined from a text.
"You can tell if somebody is under a lot of stress, if they're experiencing an emotional situation -- this is usually not a good time for a caller; they've witnessed a crime," Murch added. "They've witnessed something happening to them, or they've experienced it. You can hear that in their voice, you can tell which direction you need to take the questions to."
However, there are some texting success stories. Kent Hellebust, a vice president at TCS -- a texting management software company -- said that a ten-year-old girl was able to successfully get help by texting 911. Apparently, composing a text felt more natural to her than dialing in, reported CNET.
If the caller is deaf, hard-of-hearing or has a speech disability, using a TTY or a telecommunications relay service is the recommended course of action. The FCC stresses that sending a text to 911 should only be used as a last resort.
The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) has suggested some possible options for PSAPs that do not currently have text-to-911 services, including text-to-TTY and a web portal for receiving text messages. However, 25 percent of the nation's emergency call centers still do not have high-speed Internet, according to NENA.
Looking towards the future, Trey Forgety, a NENA spokesperson, told CBS News in an email that next-generation 911 systems will be able to accept voice, text, images, video and data. But these technologies, Forgety says, "are not yet ready for prime time."
"The speed and geographic extent of deployments will depend on state and local funding for 9-1-1 systems, which has, in some cases, been diverted to other, non-9-1-1 related purposes," he added.
Forgety says that expanding the service will all come down to three things: technology, support and funding. Text-to-911 services must be supported by both the carriers and the local emergency call center -- all major cell phone providers are unlikely to support the same PSAP at the same time, he noted. In addition, translation and texting services would not likely be available immediately.
"While legacy support for text over TTY/TDD is already available at all 9-1-1 centers, many will choose to implement text using a secure, browser-based process or an interim IP-based process," he told CBS News. "Now that [text-to-911] requests can be submitted to carriers, it is likely to take 2-3 years before text support at local 9-1-1 centers becomes widespread. National coverage is likely to take even longer."


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The Universal Motown artist raises awareness to help those in need in this newly-debuted music video.
Melanie Fiona has made public a music video for her single "Ay Yo". She is seen moving into a housing, holding a small charity concert on the roof of the building and asking people to donate money and put it in a basket for one of the residents who can't afford the rental cost.
"Ay Yo" is one of the singles appearing in Melanie Fiona's debut album "The Bridge" which has been in stores since June 2009. It was released as the fourth single and aimed to follow up the previous single "Monday Morning".
Melanie Fiona is currently supporting Alicia Keys for Freedom Tour. "It's such an honor to be on a tour with a female artist who has such a similar message in the music and a strength in the message," she said of her participation in the traveling show. She will continue opening for Alicia until June.
Melanie Fiona's "Hay Yo" music video


text: Hello Managed to get hold of a blu-ray drive from eBay for under £20 last week and been having a play trying to replicate what handbrake does for DVD's. Been reading around on forums etc but haven't found a definitive solution for ripping a blu-ray for 3d viewing. Am I right in thinking I need to rip into a .mkv and then use handbrake (or subler) to convert into an .mp4 for iTunes? I have had some success using DVDFab, but the output played rather jumpy in iTunes and on the ATV, although the 3D did work when switched on on the TV. Also DVDFab seems to only work about 1 in 5 times, it will randomly crash during the conversion. I have also tried MakeMKV but it appears to lose the SBS image. Does anyone have a good procedure for ripping 3D and 2D blu-rays?


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In anticipation of the need for some parents to find appropriate summer camps for their children with apraxia, we have compiled a list of programs which may be appropriate for children with apraxia and related issues. We have only included camps that are holding sessions this summer. They are listed in alphabetical order.
If you are interested, please contact the camp to find out if it is suitable for your child's particular needs. If you are aware of other camps that may be appropriate for children with CAS, speech disorders, or learning needs please send the contact information to firstname.lastname@example.com.
[Please note, inclusion of a camp in the listing below does not constitute endorsement by Apraxia-KIDS or CASANA. The listing of camps is for information purposes solely. Parents should carefully review camp materials, interview, and thoroughly investigate programs.]
Anderson Speech Consultants Speech Summer Camp in Ontario
Burlington, Ontario
Day Speak and Ride Camp combines horseback riding with speech therapy
Contact: Sarah Aljas, M.Cl.Sc., SLP(C), Reg. CASLPO, Speech-Language Pathologist at email@example.com or (905) 639-9219
Camp Inukshuk
Newmarket, Ontario
Day camp for children with speech/language/communication issues
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com or (905) 954-1312
Camp Kodiak
McKellar, Ontario, Canada
A unique, integrated, non-competitive program for children & teens with & without ADHD, LD, NLD & high-functioning Asperger Syndrome
Contact: email@example.com or (877) 569-7595
Talking About Fun Camp
London, Ontario, Canada
Summer day camp for children with speech and language issues
Contact: http://www.londonspeech.com/speech-language/group-programs/talk-about-fun/
Christopher Place
London, United Kingdom
Summer camp for children with speech and language issues
Contact: http://www.speech-language.co.uk/parents/what-we-offer/summer-programme/
National Cued Speech Association
Learn Cued Speech in the relaxed atmosphere of various camps located throughout the United States.
National Easter Seal Society
Day and/or overnight camps for children with disabilities located throughout the United States
Contact: (800) 221-6827
PrAACtical AAC Pinterest Camp Listings
Nationwide AAC Camps Online Pin Board
Contact: http://pinterest.com/aacandat/aac-camps/
The Scottish Rite Mason's RiteCare Childhood Language Program
Nationwide Speech and Language Summer Clinics
Contact: http://scottishrite.org/about/philanthropy-scholarships/ritecare-directory/
Foundations Development House
Chandler, Arizona and Scottsdale, Arizona
Speech and Language Summer Camps
Contact: http://www.fdhkids.com/contact_us.html
Kamp Talkalot
Chandler, Arizona and Scottsdale, Arizona
Speech and Language Summer Camps
Contact: http://pediatricspeech.net/contactUs.php
Building Bridges Camp
Boulder Creek, California
Overnight camp for AAC users
Contact: http://www.bridgeschool.org/about/contact/index.php or (650) 696-7295
Camp Chatterbox
San Jose, California
Social skills camp, for children of all disorders including Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Contact: (408) 246-2566
Say 'n' Play Speech Camp
Culver City, California
Summer camp for children with speech and language issues
Contact: http://www.speakla.com/Home
Square Peg Horse Camp
San Francisco, California
Camp for children with special needs; includes instruction in several horsemanship disciplines, including vaulting (acrobatics on horseback), riding, trail riding, jumping, dressage, and even polo.
Contact: http://www.squarepegfoundation.org/programs/horsemanship/
Summer Reading Camp at PRIDE Learning Center
Los Angeles, California, Redondo Beach, California, Newport Beach, California, Mission Viejo, California
Summer program with intense therapy for students with speech delays, auditory processing or developmental delays struggling with speech, language, reading and comprehension. Orton-Gillingham multisensory one-on-one reading and language sessions with credentialed and certified teachers.
Contact: email@example.com
Total Education Solutions Camp
Los Angeles, California, San Diego, California, Sacramento, California, Fairlawn, Ohio, Troy, Michigan
Enrichment program for children ages 2-5 years with focus on speech, language, and early reading skills and specialized programs designed for children who between the ages of 6 and 12 years old.
Contact: http://test.tesidea.com/AboutUs/ContactUs/tabid/156/language/en-US/Default.aspx
Sensational Kids Kamp
Greenwood Village, Colorado
Therapy Day Camp for children ages 4-10 with Sensory Processing Disorder, ADD & Asperger's Disorder and their siblings.
Contact: http://spdstar.org/sensational-kids-kamp/
Talking with Technology Camp
Empire, Colorado
Overnight camp for AAC users
Contact: http://www.childrenscolorado.org/departments/audiology-speech-learning/camp
District of Columbia
CHAMP (Childhood Apraxia and Motor Planning) Summer Camp
Washington, DC
Summer Camp for children with apraxia at George Washington University
Contact: Jodi Kumar, M.S., CCC/SLP, Clinical Supervisor, George Washington University at firstname.lastname@example.com
The Foundation For Dreams
Sarasota, Florida
Overnight camp for children with various disabilities
Contact: http://www.foundationfordreams.org/
Camp Rayim
Atlanta, Georgia
Summer camp for children ages 2-6; serving all children, including those with special needs.
Contact: http://www.rayimconnection.com
P.R.O.M.P.T. and Play
Suwanee, Georgia
Intensive speech therapy camp utilizing the PROMPT facilitation technique, (Ages 4-7), appropriate for a variety of diagnoses including: apraxia, dysarthria, and autism spectrum
Contact: http://www.kidscreektherapy.com
The Hyde Park Day School
Chicago, Illinois
Summer Programs for children with learning disabilities
Contact: http://hpds.uchicago.edu/summer-school-programs/
Intensive Summer Language Program
Chicago, Illinois
Eight Week Summer Day Camp for Children with Speech and Language Issues Ages: 4-12
Contact: (312) 944-6336
Turnstone Summer Speech Camp
Fort Wayne, IN
Children, ages 3 to 8, may enroll in the program. The children will be placed in groups according their age, speech and language needs. This year's summer speech program will be from June 18 to August 2.
Contact: Chanda Lichtsinn, Speech Language Pathologist and Pediatric Therapy Manager at Turnstone (260) 483-2100 or email@example.com
Camp Littlefoot
Rockville, Maryland
Day camp for children with speech, language, perceptual motor, and/or learning issues
Contact: http://www.ttlc.org/camp_littlefoot.htm
Cue Camp Friendship
Buckeystown, Maryland
Summer weekend camp to anyone interested in learning about Cued Speech. Classes are for all skill levels, from beginner to proficient.
Contact: http://www.marylandcues.org/
Speech Pathways
Carroll County, Maryland
Special summer groups throughout Carroll county for social skills, early language/play groups, reading groups, writing groups and art groups
Contact: Kimberly A Bell at email@example.com or (410) 374-0555
Aspire Summer Camps
Boston area
Children entering 1st grade through age 15 who have the cognitive capacity for solid peer connections but who lack the skill set to form these connections. We use an interdisciplinary approach based on the fields of psychology, special education, speech therapy, recreational therapy and occupational therapy. At times we integrate adjunct therapies, this summer we offered music, art and drama therapies.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
Camp Shout Out
Muskegon, Michigan
Summer camp for young people who stutter
Contact: http://www.campshoutout.org/
Central Michigan University Summer Speech-Language Specialty Clinics
Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Half-day sessions for children with communication disorders
Contact: (989) 774-3904
Communicative Disorders Clinic University Of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Summer day camp for language, learning and literacy
Contact: (734) 764-8440
Kaufman Children's Center for Speech, Language, Sensory-Motor and Social Connections
West Bloomfield, Michigan
Three-week intensive CAS summer program with Nancy Kaufman and intensive sensory integration programs with our occupational therapists. Sessions personalized for child and include group time.
Contact: (248) 737-3430
Total Education Solutions Camp
Los Angeles, California, San Diego, California, Sacramento, California, Fairlawn, Ohio, Troy, Michigan
Enrichment program for children ages 2-5 years with focus on speech, language, and early reading skills and specialized programs designed for children who between the ages of 6 and 12 years old.
Contact: http://test.tesidea.com/AboutUs/ContactUs/tabid/156/language/en-US/Default.aspx
Saint Louis University Childhood Apraxia of Speech Summer Camps
St. Louis, Missouri
Intensive Camps for Early Diagnosis/Emerging Speech, Preschool (Verbal), Early Grades/School Aged and Later School Aged/Adolescent (Target residual issues: prosody, vowels, multisyllabic words, carryover)
Contact: http://www.slu.edu/x12349.xml
SCAMP (Summer Classes for Articulation and Motor-Speech Progress)
Ballwin, Missouri
Camp for young children, ages 3-6, with CAS or significant phonological delays.
Contact: http://www.gotospeech.com/
New Hampshire
Easter Seals New Hampshire
Various Camps are offered for Children with Disabilities
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New Jersey
Camp Chatterbox
Hudwick, New Jersey
Overnight camp for AAC users
Contact: Dr. Joan Bruno at email@example.com or (908) 301-5451
Open Hearts/Open Doors
Medford, New Jersey
Provides accommodations in order for children with disabilities to fully participate with age-appropriate peers in the JCC Camps at Medford
Contact: http://www.jcccampsatmedford.org/special-needs
North Carolina
Camp Our Time
Hendersonville, North Carolina
Summer camp for young people ages 8-18 who stutter and their young friends and family
Contact: http://www.campourtime.org/welcome-stuttering-camp-our-time/
The Speech Garden Summer Camp
Charlotte, North Carolina
Camp for children 24 months through second grade with mild to severely delayed expressive and/or receptive language, oral motor and/or articulation skills that benefit from speech-language therapy.
Contact: https://speechgarden.org/summer-camp
Total Education Solutions Camp
Los Angeles, California, San Diego, California, Sacramento, California, Fairlawn, Ohio, Troy, Michigan
Enrichment program for children ages 2-5 years with focus on speech, language, and early reading skills and specialized programs designed for children who between the ages of 6 and 12 years old.
Contact: http://test.tesidea.com/AboutUs/ContactUs/tabid/156/language/en-US/Default.aspx
Camp ClapHans
Norman, Oklahoma
Residential summer camp for ages 8 to 16 for children with developmental disabilities
Contact: http://www.campclaphans.com/
CAS Summer Intensive Program
Philadelphia area
This intensive summer therapy program offers 2x a day x 5 days a week x 5 weeks of speech therapy for children with apraxia of speech that qualify. See flyer for details regarding costs and contact information. Click here to view flyer.
Lee Mar Summer Camp And School
Dresher, Pennsylvania
Special needs camp for children and young adults with mild to moderate learning and developmental challenges
Contact: http://www.leemar.com
Luma Center – Speech and Language Explorers
Malvern, PA
June 16 – 20, 2014
For children with childhood apraxia of speech and other speech sound disorders. Daily individual and group speech sessions; Fun sensory motor group with an occupational therapist; Parent participation and workshops, Written summary with home activities and suggestions
Contact: Nancy Allard at 610.296.6725 x308 or email@example.com
Camp Livitup
Memphis, Tennessee
Eight-week day camp for persons ages 5-18 with any disability
Contact: Jo Gibbons at email@example.com (901) 761-4277 ext. 1107
Parent Child Services Group Inc. Summer Programs
Knoxville, Tennessee
Summer program for children with speech/language; sensory, motor or learning issues
Contact: (865) 584-5558
Capitol School of Austin Summer Camps
Austin, Texas
Fun and enriching summer learning experience for children, pre-school through 3rd grade, identified as having speech, language and learning differences
Contact: (512) 467-7006
Kaufman Apraxia Boot Camp (K-ABC) at the Carruth Center
Houston, Texas
Intensive 3 week summer program for children with apraxia and phonological disorders modeled after Nancy Kaufman's (with permission) SPEAK summer program; intensive individual speech, music, occupational and group language therapy. Home practice materials and DVD included.
Contact: Karen Dickerson, Ph.D. CCC-SLP, Clinic Director at email@example.com or (713) 935-9088 ext. 138
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Lubbock, Texas
Programs are designed for children ages 3 to 12 with various types of speech, language and learning disabilities
Contact: (806) 743-5678
University of Houston's Speech, Language, and Hearing Clinic
Houston, Texas
CCG, or Cougar Communication Groups, is a summer day camp geared toward children who have difficulty with speaking clearly, being understood, expressing thoughts, engaging in conversations, reading and engaging in positive social interactions.
Contact: http://www.uh.edu/class/comd/slhc/speech-svcs/index.php
Wasatch Speech and Language Center
Salt Lake City, Utah
Summer therapy program for social communication skills.
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Vatican City — Christians are not made in a laboratory, but in a community called the church, Pope Francis said.
At his weekly general audience Wednesday, Pope Francis continued his series of audience talks about the church, telling an estimated 33,000 people that there is no such thing as "do-it-yourself" Christians or "free agents" when it comes to faith.
Every Christian, he said, can trace his or her faith back to parents, grandparents, teachers or friends. "I always remember the nun who taught me catechism. I know she's in heaven because she was a holy woman," he said.
In the Old Testament, the pope said, God called Abraham and began to form a people that would become a blessing for the world. "With great patience -- and God has a lot of it -- he prepared the people of the ancient covenant and in Jesus Christ constituted them as a sign and instrument of the union of humanity with God and unity with one another."
Pope Francis described as "dangerous" the temptation to believe that one can have "a personal, direct, immediate relationship with Jesus Christ without communion with and the mediation of the church."
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Obviously, he said, it is not always easy to walk the path of faith with other people. "Sometimes it's tiring. It can happen that a brother or sister creates problems for us or scandalizes us, but the Lord entrusted his message of salvation to human beings, to us, to witnesses," he said.
"It is through our brothers and sisters with their gifts and their limits," the pope said, "that he comes to us and makes himself known. This is what belonging to the church means. Remember: Being Christian means belonging to the church. If your first name is Christian, your last name is Member of the Church."
At the end of his talk, the pope asked people to join him in praying that they would never "give into the temptation of thinking you can do without others, without the church, that you can save yourself, of thinking you can be a laboratory Christian."
Christians, he said, are not manufactured in isolation, but belong to a long line of believers who handed on the faith and challenged one another to live it fully.
The audience was the last the pope was scheduled to hold before beginning a reduced summer schedule.
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Deer Park - Deer Park police are sending out a warning to residents because scammers are pretending to be law enforcement.
Police said the crooks call their victims from a number that comes up on caller ID as being from a local police department.
Then they identify themselves as a either police or Drug Enforcement Agency agents and say the recipient have a warrant and need to pay $5,000 or risk being arrested.
Police say the crooks even threaten the recipient by saying officers are on their way to their house or work to arrest them if you don't pay up.
If you receive one of these phone calls, police suggest hanging up and contacting the local police immediately.
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Not only is Lil Wayne planning on retiring, but he also seems to be making plans to walk down the aisle soon.
The rapper told MTV that he is thinking about settling down. When MTV's Sway asked if he saw himself married in the future, he responded, "Yup. Yeah, man, yup. Happily married, too."
Weezy — or Tunechi, whichever you prefer — was so excited that he used an analogy from one of his favorite sports: baseball. He said, "I'll probably run down the aisle. I'll probably slide into the preacher like it was home plate."
If and when Lil Wayne — born Dwayne Carter — does decide to tie the knot, it won't be his first trip down the aisle. He married his high school sweetheart, Toya Wright (born Antonia Johnson), in 2004. The two divorced two years later, but still have a close relationship that revolves around their daughter, 14-year-old Reginae Carter.
In February, there was speculation that Lil Wayne was planning to marry then-girlfriend, Dhea Sodano. He tweeted, "She said yes," and many people took that as sign that he had proposed to Sodano. When he realized his mistake the next day, he wrote, "Ohhhhhhh now I see why! I meant 'she said yes' to being my valentine!!!" Hahahahahahaha! Y'all krazy!"
Lil Wayne and Sodano broke up earlier this year.
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TERMINALLY-ILL Ulverston teenager Alice Pyne has lost her battle with cancer, her family announced.
The inspirational 17-year-old passed away yesterday with her family at her side.
Her mother Vicky Pyne told Alice's thousands of Facebook friends and Twitter followers at 11.35pm on Saturday, prompting scores of messages of condolence on the internet.
She wrote: "Our darling girl, Alice, gained her angel wings today. She passed away peacefully with Simon, Milly and myself by her side.
"We are devastated and know that our lives will never be the same again."
Alice was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma four years ago but, despite her condition, she dedicated herself to charity fundraising and generated £100,000 for good causes along with her sister Milly.
And with her parents, she set up her own charity - Alice's Escapes - to provide Lake District holidays for families with seriously ill children.
She was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to charity in June.
Music star Robbie Williams described her as an 'absolute inspiration' and a 'very, very special human being' when she was presented with the Teenager of Courage award at last year's Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Awards.
Blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan received 26 times more applications from people wanting to join the bone marrow register after Alice's appearance.
That was after she had already persuaded 40,000 people to come forward and championed the cause to Prime Minister David Cameron on the Downing Street sofa.
Alice caught the attention of the world in 2011 when she published a 'Bucket List' of dreams she wanted to realise before she died.
Global celebrities sent their good wishes as the brave youngster ticked off whale watching in Canada, meeting boyband Take That and entering her pet Mabel in a dog show.


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Madhur Bhandarkar is all set to perform Operation Salvage on Shruti Hassans career. In what is quite clearly a manoeuvre to give the mighty Kamal Hassans daughter a commercial boost that Soham Shahs Luck could not. Madhur Bhandarkar has signed her to play a key role in his first comedy Dil To Bachcha Hai Ji. The self-admitted fan of Kamal Hassan, Madhur says, "Shruti had met me some months ago expressing a desire to work with me. I thought she would suit the part opposite Emran Hashmi perfectly.
Though not willing to admit that Kamal Hassan had any hand in it, Bhandarkar does admit that hes a great fan of the actor. "Kamalji is a legend. And I cant say the thought of working with his daughter did not pass through my mind. However I must add that Shruti is a very bright pretty and talented girl. Shes bound to go far.
Shrutis career had come to a standstill with a film ironically called Luck. Maybe it will change, now that the daughters ball of destiny is in papa Kamal Hassans court!


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Imagine yoga before it was transformed in its journey to the West. Imagine personalized, breath-centered practice, passed down from individual teacher to student. Yoga for the well being of the whole person. Something that would provide a vehicle for slowing down and learning to truly take care of ourselves. Something to ease the pains of life.
That something is the breath. The breath moving in and through the opening and closing body. Full, deep breathing into all corners of the body makes people feel better. Feel stronger. Feel more energetic. And it has been doing so for thousands of years.
Yoga changed when it came to the West. New styles and brands of yoga have developed which meet the desires and expectations of much of the American audience. Focusing on the outer, physical achievements, and perhaps losing something in the creation of a standardized, scaled and franchised approach to yoga. But the older traditions have also continued, and AYC is at the forefront of a wonderful resurgence of this 'old-school' yoga. The gentle, therapeutic, breath-centered yoga.
What makes this yoga practice different from working out at the gym or going to a physical therapist is that the exercises are intended to encompass more than physicality. We are making the body strong and flexible — but we go about it in a way that also encourages useful patterns of thought and behavior. No struggling. No straining. No striving. Just strong and calm, even and measured work.
For more, watch the AYC Video Blogs or read these Essays.
We look forward to meeting you.
Abhyasa Yoga Center was founded in 2007 by NY yoga teacher J. Brown. After more than a decade of teaching yoga throughout the metro area, J. created AYC to provide a home for yoga practice dedicated to a personal, breath-centered, therapeutic approach that adapts to individual needs.
J. Brown's writing has been featured in Yoga Therapy Today, the International Journal of Yoga Therapy, Elephant Journal, and Yogadork. His monthly posts can be viewed at his Blog. Abhyasa Yoga Center is a Registered Yoga School (RYS200-300), offering the AYC Yoga Teacher Training, and was a charter member of the IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) Council of Schools Initiative.
The mission of Abhyasa Yoga Center is to provide instruction and practice that promote individual and communal health. We believe that yoga is an appropriate vehicle for learning how to ease difficulties, reduce pain, and encourage appreciation in life.


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Major Trends
Major Trends
|By the Project for Excellence in Journalism
In 2007, we see seven new major trends worth highlighting:
News organizations need to do more to think through the implications of this new era of shrinking ambitions. The move toward building audience around "franchise" areas of coverage or other traits is a logical response to fragmentation and can, managed creatively, have journalistic value. To a degree, journalism's problems are oversupply, too many news organizations doing the same thing. But something gained means something lost, especially as newsrooms get smaller. There is already evidence that basic monitoring of local government has suffered. Regional concerns, as opposed to local, are likely to get less coverage. Matters with widespread impact but little audience appeal, always a challenge, seem more at risk of being unmonitored. What do concepts like localism and branding really mean? Should only national newspapers maintain foreign bureaus? Does localism mean provincialism? Should news organizations, so as not to abandon more high-level coverage, enlist citizen sentinels to monitor community news? To what extent do journalists still have a role in creating a broad agenda of common knowledge? Those issues, debated in theory before, are becoming real. And the wrong answers could hasten, not stave off, the decline of news organizations.
The evidence is mounting that the news industry must become more aggressive about developing a new economic model. The signs are clearer that advertising works differently online than in older media. Finding out about goods and services on the Web is an activity unto itself, like using the yellow pages, and less a byproduct of getting news, such as seeing a car ad during a newscast. The consequence is that advertisers may not need journalism as they once did, particularly online. Already the predictions of advertising growth on the Web are being scaled back. That has major implications, (which some initiatives such as "Newspaper Next" are beginning to grapple with). Among them, news organizations can broaden what they consider journalistic function to include activities such as online search and citizen media, and perhaps even liken their journalism to anchor stores at a mall, a major reason for coming but not the only one. Perhaps most important, the math suggests they almost certainly must find a way to get consumers to pay for digital content. The increasingly logical scenario is not to charge the consumer directly. Instead, news providers would charge Internet providers and aggregators licensing fees for content. News organizations may have to create consortiums to make this happen. And those fees would likely add to the bills consumers pay for Internet access. But the notion that the Internet is free is already false. Those who report the news just aren't sharing in the fees.
The key question is whether the investment community sees the news business as a declining industry or an emerging one in transition. If one believes that news will continue to be the primary public square where people gather — with the central newsrooms in a community delivering that audience across different platforms — then it seems reasonable that the economics in time will sort themselves out. In that scenario, people with things to sell still need to reach consumers, and the news will be a primary means of finding them. If one believes, however, that the economics of news are now broken, with further declines ahead, then it seems inevitable that the investment in newsrooms will continue to shrink and the quality of journalism in America will decline. One thing seems clear, however: If news companies do not assert their own vision here, including making a case and taking risks, their future will be defined by those less invested in and passionate about news.
There are growing questions about whether the dominant ownership model of the last generation, the public corporation, is suited to the transition newsrooms must now make. Private markets now appear to value media properties more highly than Wall Street does. More executives are openly expressing doubt, too, whether public ownership's required focus on stock price and quarterly returns will allow media companies the time and freedom and risk taking they feel they need to make the transition to the new age. The radio giant Clear Channel made that point when it went private. So have a host of private suitors emerging in the newspaper field. What is unknown is whether these potential new private owners are motivated by public interest, a vision of growth online, having a high-profile hobby (like a sports team), or as an investment to be flipped for profit after aggressive cost-cutting. Public ownership tends to make companies play by the same rules. Private ownership has few leveling influences. And the new crop of potential private owners is unlike the press barons of the past, people trying to create their legacy in news. Most of them are people who made their fortunes in other enterprises.
The Argument Culture is giving way to something new, the Answer Culture. Critics used to bemoan what author Michael Crichton once called the "Crossfire Syndrome," the tendency of journalists to stage mock debates about issues on TV and in print. Such debates, critics lamented, tended to polarize, oversimplify and flatten issues to the point that Americans in the middle of the spectrum felt left out. That era of argument —R.W. Apple Jr. the gifted New York Times Reporter who died in 2006, called it "pie throwing" — appears to be evolving. The program "Crossfire" has been canceled. A growing pattern has news outlets, programs and journalists offering up solutions, crusades, certainty and the impression of putting all the blur of information in clear order for people. The tone may be just as extreme as before, but now the other side is not given equal play. In a sense, the debate in many venues is settled — at least for the host. This is something that was once more confined to talk radio, but it is spreading as it draws an audience elsewhere and in more nuanced ways. The most popular show in cable has shifted from the questions of Larry King to the answers of Bill O'Reilly. On CNN his rival Anderson Cooper becomes personally involved in stories. Lou Dobbs, also on CNN, rails against job exportation. Dateline goes after child predators. Even less controversial figures have causes: ABC weatherman Sam Campion champions green consumerism. The Answer Culture in journalism, which is part of the new branding, represents an appeal more idiosyncratic and less ideological than pure partisan journalism.
Blogging is on the brink of a new phase that will probably include scandal, profitability for some, and a splintering into elites and non-elites over standards and ethics. The use of blogs by political campaigns in the mid-term elections of 2006 is already intensifying in the approach to the presidential election of 2008. Corporate public-relations efforts are beginning to use blogs as well, often covertly. What gives blogging its authenticity and momentum — its open access — also makes it vulnerable to being used and manipulated. At the same time, some of the most popular bloggers are already becoming businesses or being assimilated by establishment media. All this is likely to cause blogging to lose some of its patina as citizen media. To protect themselves, some of the best-known bloggers are already forming associations, with ethics codes, standards of conduct and more. The paradox of professionalizing the medium to preserve its integrity as an independent citizen platform is the start of a complicated new era in the evolution of the blogosphere.
While journalists are becoming more serious about the Web, no clear models of how to do journalism online really exist yet, and some qualities are still only marginally explored. Our content study this year was a close examination of some three dozen Web sites from a range of media. Our goal was to assess the state of journalism online at the beginning of 2007. What we found was that the root media no longer strictly define a site's character. The Web sites of the Washington Post and the New York Times, for instance, are more dissimilar than the papers are in print. The Post, by our count, was beginning to have more in common with some sites from other media. The field is still highly experimental, with an array of options, but it can be hard to discern what one site offers, in contrast to another. And some of the Web's potential abilities seem less developed than others. Sites have done more, for instance, to exploit immediacy, but they have done less to exploit the potential for depth.


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Sandy Fulkerson tried everything. The only way to escape her husband, Sgt. Dean Fulkerson, was permanent.
She took down a weapon from the top shelf of their closet. As Dean Fulkerson watched TV in the living room, she loaded the gun.
He didn't notice her walk past him and out their back door. Not wanting her death to cause a bloody mess inside, Sandy Fulkerson stood in the middle of the couple's backyard and removed the gun's safety.
Her hands trembled as she slowly raised the gun to her head, and with tears streaming down her face, she pulled the trigger.
"Nothing happened. Nothing at all," Fulkerson said. "I brought the gun back down and looked at it, but I was fumbling so bad."
By that time, Fulkerson was sobbing as she tried to figure out why the bullet jammed.
"On that day, I reached my end and I didn't see that there was any other way to manage my life," she said.
Fulkerson spent most of her marriage in fear after her husband returned from the Vietnam War with post-traumatic stress disorder. She transparently details her experiences with domestic violence and rage in "Breadcrumbs on Purpose: Godly Redemption from Disappointment, Loss and Combat Stress." Fulkerson will sign copies of her book Friday and Saturday at the Clear Creek Main Exchange.
From her book, Fulkerson hopes soldiers, veterans and spouses in violent situations learn there is a better way of living than enduring pain daily.
"Many spouses are going through (pain) because they don't see hope," she said. "If my story can bring about one less divorce or domestic assault, than I've accomplished something."
Fulkerson sat at her computer until 5 or 6 in the morning with tears flowing down her face as she relived memories she thought she forgot. Old wounds opened and the pain of getting beaten by her husband and spending 10 months in a brace due to torn breastbone cartilage and a broken rib resurfaced.
As she searched for the perfect combination of words to carry the reader through her struggles, she catapulted further into depression.
So, she took a break.
"I put it aside for two years, didn't look at it," she said.
With an incomplete story saved on her computer, Fulkerson felt a sense of urgency to finish writing about the bizarre and horrible events crammed into just one life.
"I knew that I had to complete it, not only for my own benefit, but for others," Fulkerson said. "It was amazing."
There are children who are scared to death and hiding in closets and under beds because they're afraid of the violence in their homes. Fulkerson hopes her story will give soldiers, veterans and their families the tools they need to overcome their own experiences with domestic violence or combat trauma.
"I wanted it to be a message of hope inspiration," she said. "There is help available for those who are living in darkness and despair."


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>As for Ainu, it's definitely not a Japanese dialect. But
dialect, language in the same family, or totally unrelated
language, minority languages in some area have in a lot of
cases been written with the script that a major language nearby
used. In this respect, using Kana for Ainu is very far from
an exception. And in most cases, the scripts used were not
really suited, and had to be adapted in one way or another.
Indeed, Martin is right, as we're all aware. (In case you're
not: e.g. Latin script is used for a wide variety of languages
that are not particularly related to Latin.) And, as he has
observed, frequently some adaptation of a script is required as
it is adopted to create a writing system for a new langauge.
Many are not aware of just how great the variety of languages
is used around the world today, and that this process is still
going on, even as we speak. Many of the world's languages
(hundreds) have only in recent decades adopted writing systems.
With very few exceptions, these writing systems have been based
upon an existing script used by a major language of the same
If you would like software to be able to work with the great
variety of written languages spoken (written) around the world,
don't assume that the only writing system behaviour that needs
to be known about is that which is already commonly known about
major languages. Design your software to allow for future
extensibility. Please!
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Great job, Princess!: Ruby Princess Cruise Review by Horsebum63
Overall Member Rating
Great job, Princess!
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
Sailed out March 10, 2013 and were delayed in Embarkation due to the prior cruise's sudden illnesses the night before. (It later turned out to be a probable contamination/ virus from Grand Turk, so we did not stop there - went to Nassau instead, which was nice instead of an extra day at sea.). We met Aris, the DJ, in the terminal and he was just awesome. Talked to us and several others for 30 minutes. He remembered us all throughout our cruise and was one of many, many people who were very special. Embarkation was easy once in process.
Lovely night, a little rocky, but no major motion. Seemed unusually rocky in the sea the first part of the trip. Day 1 was Princess Cays - gorgeous beach. Very relaxing, yes, not the grand barbecue, but just fine. Drinks and More music were good - drinks a little pricey, but no more than any other vacation spot. I have some digestive issues, so that afternoon, I began experiencing a little troubles and our waiter noticed this. (We had 6 pm seating in Boccelli - best way to go!). Jorge immediately contacted one of the main waits and he took care of my dietary needs - each night I previewed the menu and he prepared all my meals lactose free and made me a special dessert each night. I was so surprised by that detail to care. Food was delicious, tried new things, and we ate one night in the Crown Grill - worth the extra. The service was impeccable and food outstanding there.
We did a kayaking excursion through our travel agent on St. Maarten - ok, but St. Maarten is not my favorite place. Crowded, dumpy in areas, and the taxi drivers are crazy. Total chaos getting a taxi. Once there though to Simpson Lagoon, it was a great experience. Our guide Megan was very knowledgable. We rode back with the RC Oasis of the Sea group who had a nice bus.
St. Thomas was a trip to Meghan's Bay - we loved the relaxing and the taxi drivs were super. Nice, funny, and polite. Organized, too!
We stayed on the ship for the Nassau port and loved it. Very light on the passengers, so you had the ship almost to yourself. Sun seemed to shine always after lunch!
Overall, we loved it. Princess treated upswell, our cabin steward, Reggie, was moved to our area and was new but really did a great job. Room with balcony awesome, clean, plenty of room. I brought a pocket compartment hanger I got online to hang in the shower with our shampoos, etc, and it was perfect. Suitcases all fit under your bed. Or bed was good, but by Friday, I wished I had asked for the padded mattress cover.
We would definitely go back. Before we sailed though, I read a lot of reviews and found the positive ones most helpful. The negative ones I really don't undstand afttere our trip. Less
Published 03/19/13
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