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It's hard to imagine how the campaign could have gone more wrong for New York police — a social media push that backfired not only on them, but on their colleagues in other cities.
The New York Police Department on Tuesday asked folks on Twitter to post photos with its officers, using the hashtag #myNYPD. The response was swift — and overwhelmingly negative.
Hijacking the hashtag, users posted photos they said showed police brutality or misconduct.
"Free Massages from the #NYPD. What does YOUR Police Department offer?" tweeted @OccupyWallStNYC, which posted an image of officers holding a man, seemingly screaming, with his arms behind his back, on top of a car.
"The #NYPD will also help you de-tangle your hair," tweeted @MoreAndAgain, posting a photo of an officer pulling the hair of a person who appears to be under arrest.
Critics of police departments across the country swiftly followed suit. Among the hashtags that arose by Wednesday morning were #MyLAPD, #MyCPD and #MyAPD for Los Angeles, Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico, where a Justice Department report recently blasted what it called a long history of police brutality and unnecessary deadly force.
In a tweet that showed a Chicago police officer who appeared ready to punch someone with a camera, @70torinoman quipped, "#myCPD extending his fist out to the community."
Despite the backlash, a New York police spokeswoman defended the campaign.
"The NYPD is creating new ways to communicate effectively with the community. Twitter provides an open forum for an uncensored exchange and this is an open dialogue good for our city," said Deputy Chief Kim Y. Royster.
Indeed, the posts weren't all bad.
"(M)y photo from my ride along with the boys from the 90th pct," tweeted @poshwonderwoman, showing a woman posing alongside three smiling officers.
One user even criticized the backlash.
"People are so lame, there's a lot of good cops out there as well," tweeted @annuhk.
The social media fail was reminiscent of another recent Twitter debacle.
In 2012, McDonald's created the #McDstories hashtag, asking customers to share their favorite McDonald's memories.
The company yanked the campaign after two hours and countless food-horror stories about fingernails, insects and bouts of food poisoning.
One user tweeted Tuesday about the harsh lesson learned.
Another user said the NYPD should have known better.
Free Massages from the #NYPD. What does YOUR Police Department offer? Tweet at #MyNYPD pic.twitter.com/IFWr8exuqH
— #OccupyWallStreet & #CLOSErikers with #NoNewJails (@OccupyWallStNYC) April 22, 2014


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Job Descriptions For NCHE Executive Committee
Job Descriptions For NCHE Executive Committee
Vice President
Membership Chair
All Executive Committee Members
President (two-year term)
- Serve as the official representative/spokesperson for NCHE
- Prepare agendas for and preside at all meetings of NCHE and the Executive Committee, including conference calls
- Prepare and submit an annual report to the NCHE Regular Annual Meeting
- Serve on NEA-appointed committees and task forces
- Monitor all meetings of the NEA Executive Committee, NEA Board, and Program/Budget Committee, and report to NCHE Executive Committee/Organizational members
- Represent NCHE as a member of the Political Action Committee or appoint a designee
- Serve as Chair of the Higher Education Subcommittee/ACM and Co-Chair of the NEA Advisory Committee on Membership (per agreement with NEA)
- Create materials and supervise duplication/distribution of those materials for each NCHE meeting, including materials sent to registrants prior to the meeting i.e. Constitution/Bylaws amendments, Davenport application documents
- Attend meetings of NCUEA and NCSEA
- Negotiate NCHE's service contract with NEA
- Represent higher education members at Education International, as the NEA President requests
- Be released from employment at least one-half time to perform these duties
Vice President (two-year term)
- Assume duties of the President when/if necessary
- Publish the NCHE newsletter (two times yearly in hardcopy and monthly as an electronic newsletter)
- Maintain and update electronic media used to communicate with members (ListServ, web site, electronic newsletter)
- Attend the NEA Board meetings and other such meetings as the President requests (The NEA Board meets 4 times per year; each meeting is 2 days.)
- Coordinate with the Membership Chair in membership outreach
- Other duties as assigned by the President
Secretary/Treasurer (two-year term)
- Maintain an updated file of NCHE Rules and Policies and Procedures as adopted
- Reconcile the receivables report with the Membership Chair
- Review and sign vouchers for all Executive Committee members
- Chair the Financial Review Committee at the Regular Annual Meeting, reviewing the financial records of the Council
- Report financial standing to the NCHE RAM and Summer Meeting
- Recommend a yearly budget for adoption by the Council
- Keep official minutes of all meetings and maintain the official files
- Handle the correspondence of the Council
- Assist the Membership Chair in maintaining an accurate membership/mailing list
- Other duties as assigned by the President
Membership Chair (two-year term)
- Determine recruitment strategies
- Coordinate the recruitment of new members
- Notify members for dues payment
- Oversee registration at the NCHE RAM, as well as the Summer Meeting at the NEA Representative Assembly
- Coordinate the membership drive at the pre-RA Joint Conference on the Concerns of Women and Minorities
- Maintain an accurate membership mailing list
- Reconcile the membership report in coordination with the Program Assistant and the Secretary/Treasurer
- Assist the Vice President as needed with membership outreach
- Other duties as assigned by the President
All Executive Committee Members (including officers and Membership Chair)
- Meet prior to the Regular Annual Meeting in early March at the NEA Higher Education Conference site (3 days)
- Run as a delegate to the NEA Representative Assembly
- Attend the NCHE Summer Meeting and the NEA Representative Assembly as a delegate (approximately 7 days)
- Participate in conference calls or meet in person at least six times annually
- Participate in a Fall NCHE Executive Committee Retreat (3 days)
- Serve on committees of NCHE i.e. Davenport Committee, Elections Committee, NEA Endorsement Committee
- Participate actively in NCHE membership recruitment campaigns in both your state and region, as well as during the NEA Representative Assembly
- Attend the appropriate NEA regional conference and lead the higher education caucus discussion there (3 days)
- Testify on behalf of NCHE at NEA budget, legislative, and/or resolutions hearings
Other duties as assigned by the President
NCHE Executive Committee members are reimbursed for expenses associated with attending their NEA Regional Leadership Conference, the NCHE Regular Annual Meeting just prior to the NEA Higher Education Conference, and NCHE meetings associated with the NEA RA up to an amount of $750 for each meeting, provided that no other funding sources can be obtained and money is available in the NCHE budget.
Officers and Executive Committee members are encouraged to solicit state and local funding for travel whenever possible. Other limited funds are sometimes available to supplement the NCHE allotment when no other funds are available to the Committee member.

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About a year ago, we wrote about a New York search-engine-optimization company called LinkExperts (now called Conductor) that helps companies improve their positioning in Google's search results in part by selling paid links on sites with high Google rankings.
In this arrangement, Conductor buys space from publishers like Forbes.com and then embeds links to client sites on the publishers' sites. When Google crawls the publishers' sites, it treats the links not as advertisements (which its algorithm recognises), but as evidence of "authority" (e.g., Forbes.com chose to link to this content, so it must be important). This improves the client sites' PageRank in Google's search results, and, in turn, drives more traffic to their sites. The publishers and Conductor then share the SEO fees.
After we wrote about Conductor, Matt Cutts of Google weighed in to say that this practice was a clear violation of Google's Terms of Service quality guidelines. This led to an intense exchange about paid links and the broader world of search engine optimization, which is now a multi-billion dollar business.
A year later, Conductor has broadened its business to include a more general SEO technology product, but it still provides the "link building" service described above. Conductor draws a distinction between good paid links and "search spam," but this distinction appears to depend heavily on subjective judgments, and neutral observers could be forgiven for not seeing the difference. (The core of both practices is to pay a publisher for links to improve one's authority and Google ranking).
Conductor's co-founder and CEO, Seth Besmertnik joined us yesterday to talk about the company's new product and provide a broad overview of link building and SEO (watch video below). At Seth's request, we did not get into the details of various link-building practices, but this is obviously an important topic for the entire industry.
Google has now become so powerful that the success of thousands of businesses depends where they appear in its search rankings (organic, not paid). Given that every reputable company would like to do whatever it can to appear higher in organic search results without violating Google and Microsoft guidelines–and given that every reputable publisher would like to do whatever it can to help its clients achieve their marketing goals–it's time the search engines developed clear guidelines about what is and isn't acceptable.
It is also time the search engines started enforcing these SEO rules in a public and transparent manner. Too many people now depend on these decisions for them to be made in a secret or haphazard way.
Here are a few questions to start:
- Is the practice described above still a violation of Google's terms of service? If not, we and hundreds of other reputable publishers would no doubt be interested in making space on our sites available to high-quality clients who want to improve their link authority. For obvious reasons, this could be an extraordinarily potent form of advertising (and quite lucrative for us).
- If the practice described above IS a violation of Googles terms of service, will Google ever do anything about it? Publishers who sell space in this manner are presumably making some nice money, and reputable companies like Walmart are presumably benefitting considerably by hiring firms like Conductor to implement this form of link-building. So if the practice is a "violation" with no consequences, plenty of publishers and companies would presumably like to know that.
- Should publishers and advertisers EVEN CARE what Google's rules are? Millions of dollars are at stake here. Who gave Google the authority to decide what is and isn't an acceptable marketing practice in a free-market economy? Enough with this dictatorship!
- Where in the continuum of "link building" that Seth describes below does Google draw the line? Press releases that try to prompt a story and link on a news site are presumably OK. Dedicated pages filled with paid links presumably aren't. So what about the practices in the middle?
- How does Google enforce its terms of service violations? Is there anyone to appeal to? When will Google start to reveal all this information publicly?
- Who is held responsible for "link-building" violations? If Google does decide to "punish" violations, whose PageRank gets hit? The SEO client? The publisher? The SEO firm? All of the above?
The bottom line is that Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have grown so powerful in this new link economy that their decisions with respect to quality guidelines, SEO, and enforcement affect millions of people. It's time these decisions were made in a clear, public, and transparent manner, so the thousands of businesses that depend on them can structure their practices accordingly.
See Also: Google's Matt Cutts On Paid Links (See Comments)
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Motor Vehicle Catches Fire After Williamstown Crash
|A motor vehicle that slammed into utility pole on Syndicate Road ignited but the occupant were not seriously injured.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Syndicate Road was closed briefly on Thursday evening after a vehicle crashed into a utility pole near the intersection with North Street (Route 7).
Thomas B. Bourn of Henderson Road was cited for negligent operation of a motor vehicle, a marked lanes violation and speeding after hitting the pole while attempting to make a turn onto Syndicate Road from the southbound lane of North Street, Williamstown Police Officer Michael Ziemba said on Friday.
Bourn and his one passenger were evaluated by personnel from Village Ambulance, treated for minor injuries and released at the scene, Ziemba said.
The accident occurred at 5:42 p.m. Thursday.
Bourn's vehicle ignited and burned after impact with the utility pole, which was bent at its base. Char marks were visible about two-thirds of the way up the pole.
Williamstown Fire Department personnel responded to the scene.
Utility crews were on the scene until 3:30 a.m. Friday replacing the pole.
Syndicate Road was reopened but was closed again on Friday morning for an unrelated issue connected to a water main, Ziemba said.
Ziemba said he did not believe any residents lost electricity service as a result of the accident. A small portion of nearby Williams College was affected, he said. National Grid personnel were able to quickly restore service.
Williamstown Fire Destroys Garage
|Firefighters contain a structure fire on Hancock Road on Thursday afternoon.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A fire destroyed a large garage at 1352 Hancock Road on Thursday afternoon.
Numerous firefighters from several fire departments aided Williamstown fire crews in preventing the blaze from spreading.
The fire began sometime after noon. Hancock also responded to the scene as did Pownal and Pownal Valley fire departments from Vermont; Clarksburg Fire Department covered the station. Lanesborough firefighters were also at the scene.
No one was injured but equipment inside the metal garage was destroyed. According to documents in the Registry of Deeds, the property is owned by Michael Patten. The cause was under investigation.
North Berkshire Man Arrested in Killing of Former County Resident
WILIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A North Adams man was arrested Thursday night in relation to the homicide of a former Berkshire County resident in Tennessee.
Anthony Hardaway, 34, who also goes by "Toney" or "Tone," is wanted in connection to the shooting of Perry Folk of Johnson City, Tenn.
According to media reports, Folk and Hardaway were believed to know each other. Folk, 38, was found shot to death in the parking lot of the Roadrunner Market convenience store in Johnson City on the night of Feb. 18. He had no identification on him at the time but was identified through fingerprints.
Police were searching for someone in a dark-colored vehicle who could be seen on video surveillance leaving the scene. According to the Johnson City Press, police said there were "numerous witnesses" at the store but no one saw what immediately led to the shooting.
Hardaway was taken into custody without incident by the Berkshire County Special Response Team and state police at a residence in Williamstown. He was tracked by a multi-agency investigation involving the Massachusetts State Police, FBI, police from Williamstown, Pittsfield and the Berkshire Law Enforcement Task Force, and police in Johnson City.
The investigation that led to his arrest was additionally assisted by intelligence gathered by the Troop B Community Action Team for Berkshire County, a uniformed patrol unit.
Hardaway's arraignment as a fugitive from justice and his eventual rendition to Tennessee is being handled by the Berkshire County district attorney's office.
No Injuries in Route 7 Collision at Mount Greylock School
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Monday, May 2, 2011
What Do You Say To Your Kids About Bin Laden's Death?
I might have just not mentioned this to my little ones for now, but on the way to take my son to preschool, I was listening to NPR as I usually do (and out of habit), and of course, the stories were all about bin Laden. I was distracted and not thinking. And was listening intently to the report, forgetting that my kids were listening in the back. Then my daughter asked me who the man they were talking about was and why was everyone so happy that he was dead.
Now, I personally believe that honesty is the best policy. I don't like lying to my kids. But I also know that they don't need to know every detail. And I think it is important to put things in way that they can understand. But sometimes I just don't know the right answers.
So here's how our conversation went:
"Mami, who are they talking about and why are they so glad he's dead?"
Big deep breath and thinking quickly. "Ten years ago a very, very bad man attacked our country and killed a lot of innocent people. Our government has been looking for him ever since, trying to find him to bring him to justice. And now they have. Many of our soldiers have fought and sacrificed to keep our country safe."
"Why did he attack our country?"
"Oh, probably for a lot of reasons. Partially because we don't believe in the same things he did. But mostly because he went bad on the inside and was just a really horrible person."
"And now he's dead?"
"Yes. Our armies have been looking for him for a really long time, since before you were born, and they finally found him. But when they went in to get him, there was a fight and he died."
"Oh, that's good."
"Well, yes and no. It is really wonderful that he will never hurt people again, but it is sad because we should never kill someone. Doing that is wrong. And it makes other people think that it is okay to do so. And we should never be happy that someone has been killed. Life is precious."
"But he was bad. And people hated him."
"Yes, he was. And what he did was terrible and hurt so many, many families. But hating someone who hates you, doesn't make them stop hating you. It actually just makes it worse. And we should always, always try to find another way to deal with someone who is bad or hateful."
"But maybe sometimes there is no other way."
And with that I didn't know what to say. How do you tell a child that you are relieved someone so awful is dead without implying that it is okay to kill someone? That rejoicing is inappropriate, but it is okay to be grateful to the men and women who have fought and died in the war, and who finally have accomplished what we have all wanted for so long? And how do you explain how it is wrong to wish someone dead, when after 9/11, I hoped and even prayed that he would suffer and pay for what he did not only to all the people who died and their families, but to this entire nation?
It is hard to teach something that you struggle with yourself.
And so, I wish to leave you my dear readers with these quotes that I read today:
"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. "
~Jessica Dovey
"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Loved your quote and what great responses you had to your kids.ReplyDelete
Thank you. But I wish I had better ones. I don't know if I'm happy with the way it ended! I was hoping maybe one of you could help me...ReplyDelete
Very touching. Nice to know that people have these conversations with their kids! I personally try to practice the philosophy of nonviolence, and it's not easy. Gandhi said, "We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it." I feel like it's hard not to hate back, but when we do violence just begets violence. I'm from a military family and I have a loved one in the war right now, and lately I'm feeling sad about seeing people rejoice because when does it end? Will people retaliate against soldiers now in response? So, my philosophy is that even if we hold a little anger in our heart we should try to preach nonviolence to children so that we can break the cycle. Because what we did (killing him) will not end the hate and violence on both sides (in fact, what if it makes it worse?), and maybe with our little ones we can create a world that stops the cycle of violence. I hope I'm not offending anyone because I know people have really strong feelings about this, but this is just my opinion and I respect every one else's decisions on how to handle it!ReplyDelete
Yes, Melanie! So great! I totally agree that the cycle just continues. I have actually just cancelled our plans to visit Spain this summer because of this. I worry about retaliation and fear for my children.ReplyDelete
You are absolutely right: Our goal should be to be a peaceable people. Sometimes that will mean forgiving the wrongs done to us. Granted, I know that 9/11 was huge, and forgiveness is something that is probably impossible for many. I don't know if I can/could do so. But I hope that is something that I can continue to work towards always in my life. And I hope my children learn this, too.
Thank you for sharing. Great thoughts. I want to use some of this to teach and build up my own children to do good and make a difference.
un abrazo
I had a similar conversation with my 5 Y.O. as well (while listening to MPR News this morning). I also feel that our conversation didn't end so well, for me at least. Really what is there to say? How do you explain to a little one it is not right to kill, but then we do? Like you I told him O.B.L. was a very very bad man that hurt many people, and he was killed, and now he wouldn't hurt anyone anyomore, and I think I said something like- "Even though it is not right to kill, sometimes it is better for one bad person to die than for many innocent people to die because of that one bad person." I know horrible.ReplyDelete
How to explain "thou shall not kill"? When one hears of killings/murders often? I wish I could help you more, I still need to figure it out myself, if/and when I do, I will let you know. As for now I think the way you guided the conversations was as good as anyone could, under the circumstances.
btw- I also agree with you Melanie. One needs to teach our children to find peaceful solutions so the vicious violence cycle ends. There is a wonderful book I am reading right now called, Above all Be kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times by Zoe Weil. It is great. It talks about the importance of teaching our children to be thinkers, and conscious of their surrounding and of the decisions we make and how that in turn affects us and those around us. I highly recommend it.ReplyDelete
Lisa, that sounds like such a great book! I will have to go and find it, too. And I think that there are probably many mothers out there who feel like we do - not completely satisfied with our answers.ReplyDelete
We just have to do the best we can because we are not perfect, but we love our children.
Love your post. Love the conversation you had with your kids. This was a tough subject for my family as well. Thanks for sharing what you said and I always do the NPR thing in the car! Sometimes the news can be worse than violent movies!ReplyDelete


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One year after the exuberant optimism that accompanied Barack Obama's historic election, little has changed except the nation's mood.
The man who was supposed to usher in a new tone has drawn fire from conservatives, who say his talk of finding common ground has proven to be mere lip service. No real surprise that the opposition should dismiss the efforts of the party in power. But the broad middle of the spectrum may have the greatest reason to be disappointed in Obama's first year. These folks have been patient on the big issues -- the economy, war, Guantanamo, terrorism, etc. Those issues can't be solved overnight. However, it is in Obama's biggest promise that he has failed -- that of bringing a change of tone to Washington.
Sure, bipartisanship is a two-way street. The White House can claim that congressional Republicans haven't been eager to work with Obama on big issues. Only three GOP senators signed onto the economic stimulus package earlier this year. One, Arlen Specter, has since become a Democrat. Health care legislation -- if it ever gets out of the Senate -- may not garner a single Republican on board. Obama can say he extended a hand and was rebuffed.
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Still, a lot of the blame for increased Washington rancor belongs at the feet of the administration. Some of the tension was created by accident: Obama's calling Henry Louis Gates' arrest by Cambridge Police Officer James Crowley "stupid" did short-term damage to Obama's "post-racial" brand. That was a slip of the tongue at the end of a long press conference.
Obama's overt partisanship has been no accident. The White House early on decided to start picking fights with those opposing its plans. Rush Limbaugh was an easy target, although declaring him the Republican Party's "leader" might have been laying it on thick. But Fox News? The Chamber of Commerce? The insurance industry? And with all the big issues on its plate, how is it that the White House still manages to plunge itself into obscure congressional special elections in upstate New York? Or pulls out all the stops to get one governor re-elected?
In a city where one doesn't have to work too hard to produce enemies, Obama and Co. seem almost eager to find more. One year ago, the nation elected a seeming agent of reconciliation -- not just across racial lines, but ideological and political ones, as well Perhaps the nation was a bit naive to believe that all partisanship would suddenly come to an end.
But the president could have done more to work to that goal and help fulfill the public's belief in him. With three years to go before his re-election, Obama still has time to bring about the policy changes that he promised. But it's already too late to fulfill the change in atmosphere.
New York writer Robert A. George blogs at Ragged Thots. Follow him on Twitter.


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We installed the SSL on our domain, and everything was ok until we installed another SSL on other site ( Standard UCC SSL Up to 5 )
After that, the SSL for the first site it's not working:
" Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to www.clickdotmailer.com. Peer's Certificate has been revoked. Error code: SEC_ERROR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. "
but the second site it's ok.
According to this https://www.sslshopper.com/index.php?q=ssl-checker.html#hostname=www.universuljuridic.ro the certificate for the domain appears to be installed on 22 march, but we have installed again, yesterday.
Please advice!
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Hello @filip!
Thank you for posting. Looks like you were able to get this all sorted as the site is showing secured now. If you're still having trouble, I'd recommend reaching out to our support team so they can have a look at what's going on in your account.
I purchased the same (UCC for 5), but I'm not able to add on more than one domain.
When trying to add on additional SAN's (Subject Alternate Name), I get the following error:
An Unexpected Error Occurred:
(end of error. no explanation.)
Hi @avichoice1.
I'm not sure what might be causing that error. It sounds like an issue specific to your certificate, so I suggest calling Support to review your account.
Somebody Please help me!
I bought an SSL certificate for 5 sites so I can protect my 3 sites. Two of those are on one hosting plan and one is on another hosting plan.
Godaddy CSR is now telling me that I can only secure the two sites on the same hosting plan and not the 3rd site, even though the 3rd site is on the certificate as an SAN.
This is not what I understand when I bought the certificate! I now feel that I have been duped and if that's the case I can no longer trust Godaddy and will be moving to some other host however difficult...
Help Somebody help!!!
Hey @Alexas,
Did you export the SSL installation from the primary server before importing over to the secondary server where you're hosting your third domain? The SSL certificates we sell are primarily meant to be used on a single server; which we provide general instructions for. However, it is possible to export the installation and import it to multiple servers.
I can't provide you with a walk through on this process, but there are multiple online guides and discussion groups available through preferred search engine results that can provide instructions for exporting an SSL installation based on your primary server type. Perhaps, even another member of the community familiar with the process can offer some more insight on this discussion?
I'm stuck with the same issue.
I would appreciate any links to online guides on how to install a multi site SSL on more than one server.
Thank you
The support team on godaddy have no idea of what to do when a problem arises. I've spent hours and hundreds of dollars in phone calls to them and got nowhere.
I bought this exact licence (up to 5) but after installing the first website, it doesn't give me the option to add another. When I click on manage, it takes me to the list of SSL certificates I have, there only 1 for now, and no add buttons whatsoever.
Please assist.
Roda Mehsen
Seems to be a running problem lately.
Hello,I have purchased Stander UCC SSL Up to 5 with this domain www.alanweeproperty.com but my 5 website not showing properly.2 of them is showing Secure but now all.
Please check my order and my SSL Setup.
I only needed a 1 ssl on oconee.news. the other domains are covered
Same problem, can't add additional SSLs
I have similar problem, but I have all on Ubuntu 16.04 Apache2 server.
I have two virtual hosts: one.abc.com and two.abc.com.
I can install SSL certificate one every of them separately and they works fine until I add second one.
When the second HTTPS config is added, then I am getting kaind of weird redirects from one.abc.com to two.abc or vice versa.
I am using the same certificate files for both configs.
What could be wrong?
brgds & looking forward
Hi @janekska
Typically, you will need to export the certificate from one of the virtual hosts, and import it to the other one in order to avoid redirect issues. While we don't have any documentation on this currently, there are guides available online on how to share a UCC certificate between multiple virtual hosts for apache2. I hope this helps!
Tech Writer at GoDaddy
did you get n answer to this? i have 2 more i need to add SSL to.
I bought this ucc certificate and install it to my domain and 2 SAN for my subdomains. However after long time I only able to secure my domain and still need to secure my subdomains. I checked the ssl hackers site, it shows that all my sites are secure but when I open them through browser it still shows that this site is not secure. I think I need to set a redirect rule for my subdomans. can someone help me to set up those rules. My domain website is an html website and its on root folder of public-home. my subdomains are wp websites in their own folders in public-home. My question is do I need to set the redirect rule in root folder's HTAccess file or should I use the HTACCESS file in the specific site's folder. and if i can get examples to set those rules.
(All my stuff is with godaddy, nothing is outside)
I am trying to purchase an SSL certificate for some domains I own but, when I see these comments, I am very skeptical about ordering since the definition of SSL certificates is pretty straight forward and people in these comments do not seem to have the experience I am hoping for. Not to mention "NO Documentation on Godaddy's part!? OMG.
I am seriously concerned given the amount of money I have paid on my products with this company and it just seems to not be the best company. My last experience with a lady on the phone was never addressed, she was super rude when I was pointing out an issue with their email server and she was just trying to blame it on that the technology of such email server was going away and was most likely to fail... blah blah blah.... all to sell me office 365, but not only that she very eager expressed, you either buy this or bye! I was not happy with that and quite honest, I was super angry.
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After having complained through the BBB I got no reply to that, so I got on chat and got the packaged refunded, then used the money to purchase 3 separate certificates. It would appear that the master certificate does not import across separate hosting accounts, between Linux and cPanel. So a package which does not do the job does not work for me. Now that I have the separate SSL certificates I have to wait for them to be integrates, but they have been issued, which is different from my prior experience. A word to the wise: in the long run, purchasing a package turns out to be more expensive than purchasing separately.
I hate to break the news to everyone here, but... this is a self serve hosting company. Its not up to them to teach you basics here. GoDaddy does offer solutions, but you'll have to pay for full service. I have questions, I go online and find them, I dont call into a self service carrier and expect them to solve my problem, then get mad at them because I signed up for self service not knowing basics of web design and get upset that they wont spend hours helping me for free.
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Slip opinions and orders issued in FERC cases:
(Note: Many of the links below will take you out of FERC website)
Calpine Corporation, et al. v. FERC
No. 11-1122 (D.C. Cir. Dec. 18, 2012)
Northern Natural Gas Company v. FERC
No. 11-1240 (D.C. Cir. Nov. 27, 2012)
Green Island Power Authority v. FERC
No. 11-1960 (2nd Cir. Sept. 25, 2012)
City of Redding, California, et al. v. FERC
No. 09-72775 (9th Cir. Aug. 27, 2012)
Council of the City of New Orleans, La., et al. v. FERC
No. 11-1043 (D.C. Cir. Aug. 14, 2012)
Coalition for Responsible Growth and Resource Conservation, et al. v. FERC
No. 12-566 (2nd Cir. June 12, 2012)
Mobil Pipe Line Company v. FERC
No. 11-1021 (D.C. Cir. April 17, 2012)
Occidental Permian Ltd., et al. v. FERC
No. 10-1381 (D.C. Cir. March 27, 2012)
James Lyons; Polly Lyons v. FERC
No. 11-1333 (4th Cir. March 8, 2012)
Braintree Electric Light Department, et al. v. FERC
No. 09-1231 (D.C. Cir. February. 7, 2012)
Freeport-McMoRan Corp., et al. v. FERC
No. 08-1349, et al (D.C. Cir. January 17, 2012)
Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission v. FERC
No. 10-1313 (D.C. Cir. January 17, 2012)


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Thursday, February 07, 2008
With apologies to Etotheipi for the squiggily lines, I have to post this case from my night shift last night. This patient arrived via EMS with "indigestion" at 3 am and was by all accounts a real prick. He was demanding to see to doctor immediately and also demanding morphine, Versed and ice chips. This may seem like a fairly straight forward case.....but you'll love the twist! Read on.
The nurse brought me the EKG which they got immediately per protocol and since he was having an acute inferior wall MI (myocardial infarction) = heart attack, I went straight to his room. There I found a demanding, "I know more than you do" kind of patient who insisted on morphine. His heart rate was in the upper 50's at the time and his systolic blood pressure was about 100. Being astute, I figured that his inferior wall MI also involved his right ventricle so I wanted to be careful about my treatments..especially nitrates, or anything else which might drop his blood pressure. I almost ordered a right sided EKG, but the tech was already gone and I didn't want the hassle of getting her back....plus it wouldn't have changed my management.
I ordered 2 mg of morphine which the patient informed me was an insufficient dose and his pain was 10/10. I explained that he was having a heart attack, and I knew that 2mg wouldn't relieve his pain, but I was trying to "take the edge" off a bit while we got a nitro drip, aspirin, heparin and the other things started. I explained that I didn't want to MASK his pain, but rather to treat the cause, saving his heart muscle being more important to me than his pain. The cardiologist was en route and we should have him in the cath lab in the next 3o minutes or so to get his artery open. I was very patient and explanatory. He on the other hand, demanded some Versed (4mg to be precise) and more morphine ("at least 8 mg"). I knew that we were going to have serious blood pressure problems with this guy, and morphine and Versed weren't gonna help that. I really just wanted to get my low dose IV nitro drip going and see if I could help the pain and improve his overall situation.
Somehow, the nurse misunderstood me and gave the guy a sublingual nitro! The ER docs reading this already know what happened next....his BP dropped to 66/35 and his pain increased, he looked like hell, continued demanding ice chips in addition to his other drug demands He criticised us for "not addressing his pain".
I stayed at his bedside while we pushed the fluids to try and raise his blood pressure. In my nicest and most patient voice possible, I ordered 2 more mg of morphine (even as he protested that the dosage was insufficient). I sat at his bedside and in my best Marcus Welby impersonation, I explained that I'd give him every mg of morphine and Versed we had in the ER if I thought it was the right thing to do....but I didn't. I explained my limitations due to his heart rate and blood pressure. I explained that I really wanted to get nitro started, and unfortunately couldn't use Beta blockers since his heart rate and blood pressure were already so low. I understood his ice chip demands, but I explained that he'd be going to the cath lab very soon, and keeping him NPO was a better strategy at the moment. Like I said, this guy was sick as hell, but he was also a complete prick.
As a way of conversation, I asked what he did for a living (and here's why I'm presenting this case) and he told me that he was a JCAHAO (Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations) examiner. Turns out he was in one of the little towns nearby doing a survey (torturing the shit out of the staff by nit-picking every little unimportant detail). Well, this was an interesting turn of events!
So, I asked him what he did BEFORE he went to work for JCAHAO (he seemed to "know" a lot about medicine, so I wondered if he was a physician in his previous life). He told me that he had previously been a hospital administrator! I couldn't help myself, nor hold my tongue....I said "so you went from being a hospital administrator to being a JCAHAO examiner"? "That's right" he said. "So, have you ever done anything useful?" was my reply.
I got a real "go to hell" look from this guy, but I figured that I could out run him, and he wasn't going to think fondly of us anyway since I wouldn't drug him up over trying to treat the cause of his pain.
Within 1/2 an hour, his pressure was 99 systolic with the fluid boluses, the cardiologist arrived, and off the guy went to the cath lab where he got two stents and reportedly became pain free as soon as his artery was opened.
So, I took a couple of lessons home from this case. First (no surprise): The JCAHAO folks don't give a tinker's damn about good or reasoned medicine....they just want the stupid pain scale addressed. Second (no surprise), many of the examiners are kooks. Third (ALSO no great surprise) even though my nurse inadvertently tried to kill this guy....as 911 has so eloquently stated....they're harder to kill than cockroaches!
For the sake of completeness.....the patient is now doing well. His door to balloon time at 3am was about 40 minutes....not excellent, but not bad either considering the time of day.
I'd have to say that this was more Karmic (if that's a word) than taking care of my dentist (who had done a root canal on me about 2 months before) when he got epididymitis!
Gearing up for another couple of exciting night shifts. Gotta nap now..........
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oh, that went down like a fine steak with a smothered baked potato and a nice lager. still tasting it. mmmmmmm. i bet he makes much more money than you. that makes me throw up in my mouth a bit but still, yummy.ReplyDelete
Your should have given that guy 4mg of dick with and extra 8ml of shit sauce. I don't know what that means, but it sounds nasty.ReplyDelete
wow, many words misspelted in that previous post. You should have given... with an extra 8ml.ReplyDelete
Pricks will be pricks will be pricks. I find it quite humorous that we both have posts entitled "Karma" for today. And, as we both know, karma's a bitch.ReplyDelete
Hope you don't have to deal with THAT again!
Lovely story and great ending. Couldn't have been better unless he had gotten hit by a bus load of 10 out of ten drug seekers carrying clipboards on his way out the door.ReplyDelete
"So, have you ever done anything useful?"
Brillant response, by the way.
Nice post. Nothing sums up, for me, the difference between the UK and the US better than the phrase "door to balloon at 3a.m 40 minutes... not excellent". Where Shroom works, a large University teaching hospital, a regional centre for interventional cardiology, there is NO balloon out of hours. None. Ever.ReplyDelete
Go figure
Shroom--do you transfer them out or is there really no balloon anywhere? You just stand around and watch them infarct? Give tPA?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:12 AM, February 08, 2008
HaHa military medicine has administrator types also, in the Navy theyre called "Medical Service Corps" which also includes optometrists and physical therapists. I always loved to see them try to explain what their job was to non-medical people. They sounded like that guy in the "Office Space" movie, trying to avoid getting fired.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:19 AM, February 08, 2008
If I knew what you were talking about, this would be a great story. You lost me at 'nitro'.ReplyDelete
Cat pulled me back in with his dick with shit sauce (well, not HIS dick, but you know what I mean).
This whole story has the great makings of a revenge fantasy film. Sort of "Walking Tall" meets "House". You could be like Buford Pusser, MD, kicking JCAHO hide.
My apologies to Etotheipi for keeping these folks alive.ReplyDelete
"you lost me at nitro" CLASSIC!
- Anonymous8:51 AM, February 08, 2008
We had an MSC type on the carrier on which I served back in the mid 80's. After he hammered me for being a fat-boy (in the day when the Navy wanted everyone to look like Tom Cruise, a la, "Top Gun"), I asked him the same question that ERDOC asked, "Have you ever done anything worthwhile for the Navy, like...well, get a ship underway or something like that? Because that's my job. I like Wardroom chili at 0200, suck up neutrons, and as long as the Old Man has steam and electricity, he really doesn't care if I look like Tom Cruise, so why should you?" He really got bent with that for some reason.
Etotheipi---I'm sure Shroom's hospital is looking for people to cut open dead heart patients if you're starved for business in the US. Might have to work a lot of nights though.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:21 AM, February 08, 2008
And how did this guy know how much morphine and versed he needed? Usually when people start spitting out names and dosages they sound like drug seekers.ReplyDelete
With apologies to Etotheipi for the squiggily linesReplyDelete
"So, have you ever done anything useful?"
- Anonymous11:12 AM, February 08, 2008
Anyone still use droperidol for acute asshollism? Its got a blackbox warning so probably not the best choice for a cardiac patient, but it does give a nice "elphant hit by a tranquilizer dart effect" that is useful at times. For some reason it was the only antiemetic I had at my Gulf War batallion aid station so I got used to giving it for various things, especially as an adjuct to our 50 year old morphine surrettes.ReplyDelete
You know how people are afraid to send food back in a restaurant for fear the cook will spit on it? Shouldn't patients in a world of hurt avoid antagonizing the doc who is going to authorize their drugs? Personally, I'd be afraid to sue the doctors of John Ritter for fear of ever getting sick myself. The world of medicine is getting curiouser and curiouser.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3:09 PM, February 08, 2008
Oh man, I was the worst for vandalizing someones steak back in my teenage fry-cooking days, especially if you had the gall to call me out to your table to hear your complaint. The worst was some 95 year old fossil who complained that her chopped steak was too stringy. Lets just say the secret sauce she got wasn't FDA approved.ReplyDelete
Frank: I still occasionally use Drop. You're right it's a GREAT drug. But every time I order it, I have to wait for pharmacy to send it up, and there's the inevitable call from the Sri Lankan pharmacist on duty to notify me of the "black box" warning. So it's just more of a hassle than it's worth. CAT still uses it apparantly without too much trouble. BTW, your "special sauce" comment has me wanting to avoid any restaurant-forever! YUK!ReplyDelete
For those who don't know what we're talking about, let me give you a little background. There's a great antipsychotic drug that'll generally take down an elephant at 50 yards (which applies to some of my patients).
It's generally safe, but there's the occasional bad side effect...like death (I hate that side effect).
Over 10 years, the company that produces it recorded less than 100 deaths, but it saved the reports. Once their exclusive patent on Droperidol ran out and it became cheap and generic (they came out with a new drug (Geodon) which they presented with great fanfare!
The drug company turned all of the accumulated deaths from Droperidol to the FDA at one time making their own drug look dangerous. They knew that the pinheads at the FDA would over-react and place a "black box" warning on the drug. Now, it's in the PDR and other drug books as a "dangerous drug", and it's use is "strongly cautioned" in a big black box. So if I use it and have a bad outcome....I'm screwed because some John Edwards type scum sucker will show that to the jury and say "My Daaadddy worked in a meeeeul (mill) and doctor, didn't you know the current literature says that this drug is dangerous?" He'll show the black box warning from the FDA to the jury on a huge projector, and not being tuned in enough to understand the issues here, the jury will fry me. You can't argue science with an uneducated jury who assumes that medical literature is free of bias and the FDA is looking out for good patient care
Without being too technical, the new drug Geodon is actually MORE likely to prolong the QT interval than Droperidol was (that's a heart thing that caused most of the deaths of the folks over last 10 years). So now instead of using the cheap generic Droperidol, we're sort of "urged" to use the more expensive (and in my experience less effective) branded Geodon instead. Very smart (and sleezy) on the part of the drug company, but another pain in my ass.
By the way, this is the same stuff that's going on with pediatric cough and cold meds. They record 50 to 100 deaths and run to the FDA....we're forgetting the DENONIMATOR here (no Etotheipi...this isn't a hot chick with a riding crop decked out in leather) it's the number of times the med is used.
I hate any unnecessary death, but 0.01% is acceptable in my book. There's a greater risk with this frickin' tPA that we're all pushing for strokes!
My favorite Drop story was the Friday night I had 3 young ladies present with a variety of "maladies". They all worked at a local chicken processing plant and were all dressed for partying (they wanted work excuses for the night). Two of them were fine and were dismissed with instructions to return to work. The third had a "migrane".....and after Droperidol, her "migrane" was better...but she wasn't doing ANY partying that night since she was stone cold out!
Kacey: Despite my bluster and bravado on the web, I'm gonna do what's right for the true emergency patient. This guy was having "the big one" as Fred Sanford used to call it. I would have happily given him morphine and probably some Versed if I could have....it would have been proper medical care....AFTER the other more correct and useful meds had been given. His BP limited my treatment. Still, it's not a good idea to be a prick to the ER staff....it certainly doesn't get you seen faster and it certainly doesn't get you more drugs!
When I have a non-emergent prick patient, their chart goes to to the back of the "to be seen" rack. Everytime they bitch, their chart gets moved further back.
The nurses will actually come to get you and say "this lady and her family are so sweet, and she has xxxxx, could you please go see her next".
ndenuz: I forgot to answer your question. BEFORE he was an administrator, he was a CRNA. You're right though. When they name drugs, or dosages, they immediately go into my "drug seeking file".ReplyDelete
I borrowed a page from other docs a few years ago and I started sending letters to folks' PCPs asking for a letter to keep on file verifying that patient X needed to be in the ER 8 times a month for a shot of Demerol. I have NEVER gotten one! Come to think of it, I haven't even gotten a response.
- Anonymous12:32 PM, February 09, 2008
I practiced in close proximity to an Italian public hospital in the 90's and overall was impressed with the care and the hotness of the nurses. I especially liked how you could smoke almost anywhere in the hospital. Access to specialists was a little dicey, the one Neurosurgeon left for holiday for most of July and August, so you might want to schedule your closed head injury accordingly.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:35 PM, February 09, 2008
I'm not sure exactly how it worked, but there was a box-office looking place on the main floor of the hospital where Italians went to request specialist referrals. Looked all the world like the line at a movie theatre. Around 10am they would meet their limit for the day, and everyone in line would leave peacably. I don't think that would work very well in the US.ReplyDelete
Frank: could you get pizza there too? And, did you take a razor with you just in case you had the opportunity to "score" with one of the hot Italian nurses...or did you just turn out the lights?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:06 PM, February 09, 2008
Hell yeah, the pizza was great, thats all I ate. Not sure about needing a razor, but the Italian women loved americans. My Navy job allowed me to wear a flight suit, and Navy Pilots pick up even more women than doctors do. Everything was fun and games until the other Marine squadron flew into a ski lift and killed some of the locals, made things a little uncomfortable when we'd go to the local bars. Northern Italian guys are wimps though, its a sad state of affairs when a guy like me can beat up everyone in the bar. The best thing about the italian hospital was the nurses still wore those "Flying Nun" caps, very hot.ReplyDelete
Can you imagine the examiners that would have been up your ass if you had given in to his demands and he died?ReplyDelete
Good lord, you have the patience of a saint.
- Anonymous3:04 PM, February 11, 2008
There's just one part of this story that doesn't quite ring true for me: the guy didn't demand special treatment BECAUSE of his power and rank. Or wait a minute...maybe that makes sense, too. I take it back.ReplyDelete
Based on my years as an ICU nurse, a person's "prick"-rank (male or female) tended to be inversely proportional to their actual power. The head of the medical school, the surgeon who was also on the big city hospital authority, the DON...all were wonderful, considerate patients and coworkers, with no need to snarl.
Huh.. I came here from Nurse K's blog (been reading it all day long!) and the part on Geodon caught my eye = and the "black box warning" on the "horrible" drug.. interesting as I take geodon. Now to start looking up stuff :) Much obliged.ReplyDelete


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San Francisco, California, USA – The stunning view from the Metreon's penthouse events hall paled in comparison to the brilliant gadgets and gizmos media visitors were treated to at PepCom's Holiday Spectacular in San Francisco this year. The event brought hundreds of media representatives out for a "sneak preview" of what has just hit the market or soon will be out there and, most exciting, available for holiday purchasing.
Demoing were Absolute LoJack, AMD, Basis, Combat Creatures, Creative Labs, Cricket, Dell, Doorbot, DropCam, Escort, Fujitsu, GoPro, Honeywell, HP, iHealth, Intel, Kingston, Lenovo, Lifeproof, Logitech, Mashalot, Mobiles Republic, MySocial GPS, olloclip, Parallels, Phiaton, Philips, RadioShack, SanDisk, Sure, Slingbox, Sonos, Speck, The Gun Box, Trip-It, T-Mobile, TYLT, and ZTE.
"Gift possibilities galore" is an understatement. From life-sized remote-controlled fighting robots to remote-controlled door locks, and from expedited travel planner systems to waterproof cell phone covers to even disaster-proof gun storage cases, of all things, there was something for everyone.
Inside the Computers…
AMD was there showing off the latest enhancements their products are bringing to computers and other devices, including AMD Gesture Control and AMD Face LogIn. AMD Gesture Control allows one to use a wave of the hand to control machine function and optimizes accuracy in low-light conditions. The system works with many favorite applications like Microsoft PowerPoint, Windows Media Player, Windows Photo Gallery, and Adobe Acrobat. AMD Face Login permits the user to log in to their PC and popular websites using a built-in or connected webcam, or to automatically put the PC to sleep or lock the PC screen when leaving the computer. Pretty cool. AMD Face Login allows one to login to their computer with just a photo- and no need for remembering yet another useless password! Yay! Thank you for saving us brain space! This enhancement features adjustable accuracy settings for added security and works with Windows login and Internet Explorer with sites like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Amazon, eBay, Flickr, and Twitter.
Devices bragging AMD enhancements hitting the shelves in time for holiday shopping include: tablets and 2-in-1 PC's with Z50 and A4 accelerated processors such as the HP Pavilion13 x2, available starting November 17 with an AMD A6 Accelerated Processor (starts at $600 USD); small screen touch notebooks such as the Acer Aspire V5-122P Touch Notebook, available with a choice of an AMD A4 or A6 Accelerated Processor (starts at $400 USD); mainstream and performance notebooks such as the Samsung ATIV Book 9 Lite , available with an AMD quad-core processor optimized for Samsung (starts at $750 USD); and all-in-one desktop models such as the HP Pavilion 20 TouchSmart All-in-One PC, available with an AMD E1 Accelerated Processor (starts at $450 USD) and the Samsung ATIV One 5 Style, available with an AMD A6 Accelerated Processor.
Outside the Computers--- and Smartphones…
Star picks came from San Diego's award-winning maker of waterproof solutions for smartphones and tablet PC's, LifeProof® LifeProof was the first case manufacturer to offer a waterproof case with a device protection program that also enables full functionality/ interactivity under every daily life-type condition--- including water, mud, dirt, and snow. LifeProof's team was there demoing their newest nüüd and frē cases for iPhones and now also for Samsung GALAXY S III and GALAXY 54 models. The company's product takes device protection to new heights, offering a one-time device repair or replacement if it sustains accidental water damage while properly installed in a LifeProof case. Particularly impressive was the company's footage being displayed at the show depicting various scenarios in which any smartphone not protected would have been destroyed- as well as their display of a tablet protected by their patented case which was fully functional even submerged in water. The company developed their Total Water Protection Program after extensive consumer research indicated that consumers wanted an added level of assurance when using their devices around water. (I'm thinking about the jacuzzi, you?) These amazing products are affordable gifts for everyone- for more information, visit www.lifeproof.com.
Alongside the Computers…
SanDisk was showing off their latest storage devices in the SanDisk Connect line, both of which make great gifts for anyone in the family or in the office: the SanDisk Connect Wireless Flash Drive and the SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive. The first handy item provides a convenient and affordable way to wirelessly store, share and stream content, across mobile devices and computers. The company claims this is the smallest wireless USB storage device available to date, yet the drive offers up to 32GB of extra storage without any need for Internet connection or cables. The SanDisk Connect Wireless Flash Drive is available in 16GB or 32GB capacities at an MSRP of $49.99 and $59.99 respectively. The SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive is touted as "the perfect companion for road warriors or parents who need entertainment ready to enjoy" and offers ease of portability in taking content such as high-definition (HD3) movies, videos, music and photos just about anywhere. It's a good-looking, pocket-sized item that also offers up to eight continuous streaming hours on a single charge. The SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive comes with 32GB or 64GB storage capacities at $79.99 and $99.99 respectively. The SanDisk Connect line of products is compatible with iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Kindle Fire and Android™ devices as well as PC and Mac computers.
Apps of Note…
Reps from local software company Concur were at the show letting everyone know that their mobile travel organizer, TripIt, has recently received upgrades. A flatter design now improves itinerary viewing, and it's just a "one click" move now to see additional updates. Google Maps as default client for maps and directions, and even a playful drifting cloud effect has been added for entertainment. Other improvements just might be in the works regarding group itinerary shares- at least that is "the word" I heard as Fox Morning News tech maven Al Hernandez had the company PR rep's ear. He loves the app, has been using it "since forever" and can see it becoming perfect. That's a pretty great endorsement.
Dell had exciting news about forthcoming retails sales in stores new you... stay tuned. They are also excited abou their new 8-inch tablet, the Venue 8 Pro weighing in at about less than a pound... Starting at $299.99 with 32GB of storage (keyboard, case and other items optional), this model is expected to start shipping in November.
The news from HP was all about their continued efforts with Microsoft Corp. to help business customers transition from Windows® XP to a more current version of Windows. With Microsoft support for Windows XP ending April 2014 timeframe, there is pressure in the business marketplace for customers there to deploy an alternative operating system. Sales reps at the show were touting the creative ways that new systems can improve data security by, among other things, monitoring devices brought in and out of the workplace. And to take advantage of changing work styles in a touch-enabled world (not to mention the "app's" concept of the iPhone and other similar handheld devices), HP's new portfolio of business desktops, notebooks and all-in-ones is optimized for Windows 7 and Windows 8.HP is transforming the workforce with a new style of IT with innovative devices like the HP ElitePad 900. Company promoters note this product is a lightweight, stylish design and has enhanced security. This writer would add that the product is also very sturdy: the sales rep dropped it on the floor for me to demonstrate its indestructibility…
For a more complete list of exhibitors, please visit www.pepcom.com or www.facebook.com/pepcom.
About Pepcom Inc.
Pepcom® Inc., based in Delray Beach, FL, is the leader in technology showcase events. Each event enables technology companies to demo new products and services to the most influential press and analysts. Pepcom's showcases include DigitalFocus®, MobileFocus®, Digital Experience!®, Holiday Spectacular!® and Wine, Dine & Demo!®. Visit www.pepcom.com or www.facebook.com/pepcom for more information.
Pepcom's upcoming events include Wine, Dine & Demo! on November 21st in New York and Digital Experience! on January 6th in Las Vegas during CES.
M. D. Caprario is a very non-technical writer and editor working in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York who has a keen interest in empowering everyone to properly deploy technology…


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Ok everyone, here's the big finale of the epic year end review we began yesterday! The biggest (title pending) of the year… the best and worst of the year that was 2012! The TPMPs… part II!
In this second half, Tank and I hit the best actors and the best directors, best animated films, and of course, the best and worst movies of the year!
It's the grand finale of our supersized celebration of the year that was!
This is the episode you don't want to miss! You can download it directly, here, or as always, search for us on iTunes and Stitcher radio using the keywords (title pending) or Tank and Fogs!


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The Toolkit will follow the roadmap outlined in the 2013-2016 USCCB Strategic Plan entitled: "Journey with Christ: Faith, Worship, Witness" and expands on the statement of the USCCB Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, Disciples Called to Witness: The New Evangelization.
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Cars in South Africa (2018)
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|Thirst-Quenching, Low-Cal & Low-Alcohol Drinks
Trying to figure out how to drink more water? Me too! These two drinks have become my favorite ways to drink more liquid.
Weight Watchers, can you say "zero points"? With these drinks, yes, you can!
Brad Gilbert, the well-known tennis player, tennis coach, ESPN tennis announcer and author of Winning Ugly: Mental Warfare in Tennis--Lessons from a Master, says this about hydration for athletes, "By the time you feel thirsty, it's too late." It's true for champion athletes, it's true for couch potatoes – and all of us in between.
A few years back, many nights I found myself gulping down a glass of wine while cooking supper, even with good wines worth a slow-sipping savor.
What I came to realize is that at six o'clock, my brain is ready for relaxation but my body is thirsting for – literally – a big, long swallow of liquid.
What a revelation! Perhaps I'm not alone? In January, I asked readers to share a "healthy habit" for the new year. (See the comments in Quick 'n' Easy Raw Salad.) So many wrote, "I want to figure out how to drink more water."
Here's how I do it.
BITTERS & SODA Especially during the winter, the pour of choice while cooking dinner is now a Bitters & Soda: quick and easy to fix; lots of liquid; hardly any alcohol; and somehow it appeals, at that hour, in a way plain old tap water doesn't. Many thanks to Karen Tedesco from FamilyStyle Food for introducing me to Bitters & Soda!
BEER & GINGER ALE My new summer drink obsession happened by accident. One warm Friday night, friends were coming for dinner. While cooking, I mixed a splash of beer with ginger ale and ice – and it quenched my thirst so quickly! So when everyone arrived, I offered the same drink to the women. Talk about lightweights (and cheap dates!), three of us drank a single bottle of beer all night long yet never had an empty glass!
Time to throat: 1 minute
Serves 1
- Splash of beer (about 4 tablespoons or 2 ounces)
- Ice
- Diet ginger ale
Combine in a big glass, drink up!
ALANNA's TIPS While I never measure, the proportion I drink is 1:3 or 1:4 beer:ginger ale. You want to "taste" the beer but not "drink a beer". Sealed with a wine cork, an open bottle of beer lasts a couple of weeks in the fridge, drunk just a splash at a time. I've become partial to Corona Light but other beers would likely work too. I've tried this with everything from Diet 7-Up to Diet Coke (whatever's hanging around after family parties), but diet ginger ale really does the trick. I "like" this drink with other sodas but "love it!" with ginger ale. This is now my standard low-alcohol "party drink" too. Even people who don't drink beer (or like beer) like this concoction.
Time to throat: 1 minute
Serves 1
- Splash of bitters (about 1 teaspoon)
- Ice
- Club soda
Combine in a big glass, drink up!
WHAT ARE BITTERS? Bitters are an old-time concoction, first marketed as a medicinal tonic. There are dozens of different flavors but all are "bitter" – a good thing! – but the only one I find easily is Angostura Bitters. Bitters have a high alcohol content (45% compared to 10-16% for wine) and come in small bottles the size and shape of Tabasco. Look for bitters in the liquor department, a tiny bottle is expensive but you consume it, literally, a teaspoon at a time.
What's Your Trick for Drinking More Water?
Share your favorite tip in the comments! The simpler the better! The more creative, the better! The wackier, the ... ... well, if it works, go for it!
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It's still winter, but summer will be here before you know it. I know, easy for me to say since I'm not sitting in the middle of a blizzard like some of you. But, in less than 10 weeks, I'll have to go retrieve my college freshman and bring all that stuff home. Can you believe it?
Not to give spring the short end of the deal (I love spring, I do!), but summer for working parents brings it's share of scheduling and preparation challenges, and I like to get ahead where I can.
Here's 5 things you can do to get ready for summer now:
1. Plan out the summer calendar - I print calendars for June, July and August and we lay them out at home and everyone writes in their summer plans or special events. Camps, vacations, birthdays and even back-to-school dates go on there so we can spot potential conflicts early.
2. Sign up for camps - Now is the time to sign up for summer camps. If you have young kids and have never done this before, just trust me. Traditional camps, sports camps, music camps, drama camps are ready and waiting for you to sign up, don't put this one off. If you're lucky, there might even be a discount for signing up now.
3. Book that vacation - If you 're going to have the chance to get away this summer, check that calendar you made and pencil in some vacation time. If you need to look for accommodations, now's the time to do it so you can get the dates you want before they're all gone. (Taking my own advice in 3…2…1…)
4. Shop now - Bathing suits and other warm weather clothing items are hitting the shelves. When it comes to the kids, it seems like no matter what size they are, the rest of the world had kids the same size and the new stuff is gone in a snap. I've learned to just bite the bullet and buy bathing suits when I see them instead of doing it "later" because the red bulls eye store doesn't always restock them.
5. Apply for summer jobs - Get your teens out of the house and encourage them to apply for summer jobs now. For example, your college student should be getting an internship lined up (*ahem* is someone related to me out there listening?), and potential lifeguards should be signing up for training now. The competition is tough out there, don't wait.
Even though it may not seem like it now, summer really does come fast. Check some things off your to-do list now and be ready to relax a little and enjoy it!
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Cooper Engineering Team Wins Top Prize in IEEE Student Competition
POSTED ON: November 4, 2013
A team from The Cooper Union's Albert Nerken School of Engineering has won the top prize in the first-ever IEEE ComSoc Student Competion. Victor Chen, a senior, and Kyung Min Lee (EE'13) will share the $2000 award for submitting a project that provides a "unique solution to a real-world problem using engineering, technology, science, computing, and leadership skills to benefit the community or the world," according to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications Society website.
Their winning project entitled, "Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Optical Communication with Arduino (MOCA)," demonstrates a low-cost model of using LEDs to wirelessly transmit data using visible light. "We encode information by turning LEDs on and off, so fast that the eye cannot see them flicker, and we use photodiodes to receive the optical signals sent by the LEDs," Victor Chen says. In a video posted online he shows how, using the MOCA system, a repeated message gets transmitted from one computer to another using two LED lights. When he blocks the lights the message transmission ceases.
Visible Light Communications, or VLC, systems are not new, but Chen and Lee's project aims to expand the technology using Arduino, an inexpensive, open-source microcontroller. "We wanted to make the system inexpensive and scalable so more students and researchers have access to a VLC platform that can be modified to meet their specific design goals," Kyung Min Lee says. "Many VLC systems use expensive hardware for signal processing, and with multiple channels it becomes quite costly." They hope that an affordable platform like MOCA will attract more attention to VLC systems so the technology can be developed further to be put into a practical use.
"Victor Chen and Kyung Min Lee's clever mix of software and electronic circuit design smartly brings together cutting edge technologies of MIMO and optical communications," Sam Keene, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering says. "The project can easily be replicated as both a pedagogical tool to introduce students to optical communications, or as the foundation for an inexpensive testbed for research purposes,." The MOCA system was originally developed as Chen and Lee's senior project ('12-'13 academic year) with Prof. Keene and Prof. Toby Cumberbatch co-advising.
Chen and Lee see a lot of potential in the technology. "When you replace light bulbs with LEDs, you save a lot of energy and money. When you put data on these LEDs, your light switch becomes your internet access," Chen says. The designers see other advantages as well. Since light does not travel through walls, the data in one room cannot be "eavesdropped" by someone next door, they say. Also, due to the extremely high frequencies of visible light, in a given time period VLC can theoretically transmit much larger quantities of data than WiFi, which relies on the narrower range of radio frequencies.
At the moment the MOCA technology is in its infancy. Current speeds are just one megabit per second with a broadcast distance of only 15 inches. But Chen and Lee continue to work at it. "The future is to improve the speed and link distance. We wanted to demonstrate that VLC systems can be scaled up and built for as little as $100. So this technology is easily achievable." Chen says.


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It's easier to save money on groceries if you plan your meals in advance, cook from scratch, and keep a well-stocked pantry. The idea of coming home, hungry kids in tow, and having to prep and cook a complicated dinner is enough to make even Super Mom wilt, but if you have certain essentials at home, dinner can be made quickly (in about 20 minutes), easily (little to no tedious prep work required), and with a minimum of stress.
The details will vary depending on your family's tastes and needs -- vegetarians don't need to worry about having meat in the freezer, for instance, and if your kid buys lunch at school then deli meats might not be high on your list. And, of course, there are plenty of non-essentials that you probably like to have on hand. But here's a rundown on what super-versatile ingredients you should try to keep in your pantry, and why. (No time to keep reading? Check out "How to stock your pantry to save time and money" for a handy, printable checklist of pantry essentials right here at Work It, Mom!)
1.) Grains. Pasta is a busy working parent's go-to meal for many reasons: it cooks up quickly, you can top it with nearly anything, and kids rarely turn their noses up at it. Whether you prefer whole-wheat, rice-based, or traditional pasta, stock up when it's on sale and keep a variety of shapes in the pantry (tube-shapes work well with chunky sauces, open shapes like shells or bowties are great when baked, and strands like spaghetti are perfect for tossing with butter and cheese).
Other grain-based items to have: rice (long grain for general use and Arborio for risottos), bread (for toast, sandwiches, or serving at the table), old-fashioned rolled oats (for oatmeal at breakfast, topping apple crisp for dessert, or bulking up meatballs), all-purpose flour (for baking or for coating meat before pan frying) and cornstarch (for thickening sauces and stews or for making your own instant pudding).
2.) Dairy products. Powdered milk is great for baking -- you can add it to make-your-own mixes or reconstitute it with half as much water to make a mock cream -- but also have on hand regular milk (or milk substitute, like soy). Plain yogurt is amazingly versatile -- you can add fruit and sweetener for eating, thin it and use it as buttermilk when making pancakes, or stir in spices and serve it as a dip. You should also keep some cheese on hand -- try something melty (like Monterey jack or cheddar), American (great in an easy macaroni and cheese dish), cream cheese, and a hard cheese for snacking or sandwiches. And no pantry would be complete without a dozen or two of eggs -- for baking, for breakfast, for dinnertime frittatas, for a late-night protein boost.