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Originally published May 15, 2012
Hadoop is one of the up-and-coming technologies for performing analysis on big data, but to date very few universities have included it in their undergraduate or graduate curriculums. In a February 2012 article from InfoWorld, those already using the technology issued the warning that Hadoop requires extensive training along with analytics expertise not seen in many IT shops today. A ComputerWorld article singled out MIT and UC Berkeley as having already added Hadoop training and experience to their curriculums. Other educational institutions need to seek out practitioners in their area or poll alumni to determine if individuals that can impart their knowledge to college students are available and if so, prepare a curriculum to start training the next generation of IT employees and imbue them with the skills they will require to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
Hadoop is one of the newest technology solutions for performing analysis and deriving business intelligence on big data. On the TechTarget website, it is defined as a free, Java-based programming framework that supports the processing of large data sets in a distributed computing environment. It is part of the Apache project sponsored by the Apache Software Foundation.
Hadoop is a combination of many tools and software products of which the primary two are HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and MapReduce. In its current form, these components run primarily on the Linux operating system. Both of these components are Free Open Source Software (FOSS) and are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
HDFS is a file system that distributes the data to be analyzed across all the servers, which are typically inexpensive commodity hardware with internal or direct attached storage, available in a server farm. The data is replicated across several nodes so the failure of any one node does not disrupt the currently executing process. The HDFS file system maintains copies of the master catalog across many of these nodes so it always knows where specific chunks of the data reside. Support for very large datasets is provided by this mechanism of distributed storage.
As defined on the Apache Hadoop website, MapReduce is a software framework for easily writing applications which process vast amounts of data (multi-terabyte data-sets) in-parallel on large clusters (thousands of nodes) of commodity hardware in a reliable, fault-tolerant manner. This software, typically written in Java, is used to map the input data that defines specifications for how it can be broken into chunks and how it is to be processed in parallel on multiple nodes of the cluster. The output of these map tasks is then used as input to the reduce tasks. The data and processing usually reside on the same nodes of the cluster to provide the scalability to handle the very large datasets that are typically processed using MapReduce. The basis of this processing is the mapping of the input data into key-value pairs. This is very similar to XML where each combination of start and end tags contains a specific value within a group of elements (e.g., < FirstName > Alex < /FirstName >). The reduce tasks combine the outputs of the map tasks into smaller sets of values that can then be used in additional analysis tasks.
To manage the processing, the Hadoop framework provides a job control mechanism that passes the required data to each of the nodes in the cluster, then starts and monitors the jobs on each of the processing nodes. If a particular node fails, the data and processing are automatically switched to a different node in the cluster, preventing the failure of a process due to a node becoming unavailable.
According to an October 2010 article in InfoWorld, the initial use of the Hadoop framework was to index web pages, but it is now being viewed as an alternative to other business intelligence (BI) products that rely on data residing in databases (structured data), since it can work with unstructured data from disparate data sources that database-oriented tools are unable to handle as effectively. The article goes on to state that corporaations are dropping data on the floor because they don't have a place to put it and Hadoop clusters can provide a data storage and processing mechanism for this data so it is not wasted.
A very recent InfoWorld article examines the issues involved in the detection of cyber criminals by combining big data with traditional structured data residing in a data warehouse. The article mentions that the biggest problem will be identifying the network activity and behavior of individuals that are accessing the system for legitimate reasons as opposed to those out to steal sensitive information for nefarious purposes. It also mentions the inability of security information and event management (SIEM) and other intrusion detection systems (IDS) currently used for this purpose to correctly detect and report these types of events. They generate mounds of information that cannot be adequately analyzed to help identify the good users versus the bad users on their systems to protect the enterprise and its data.
A November 2011 article in ComputerWorld mentions that JPMorgan Chase is using Hadoop to improve fraud detection, IT risk management, and self service applications and that Ebay is using it to build a new search engine for its auction site. The article goes on to warn that anyone using Hadoop and its associated technologies needs to consider the security implications of using this data in that environment because the currently provided security mechanisms of access control lists and Kerberos authentication are inadequate for most high security applications. It was noted that most government agencies utilizing Hadoop clusters are firewalling them into separate enclaves to protect the data and insure that only those with proper security clearance can see the data. One of the individuals interviewed for the article suggested that all sensitive data in transit or stored in a Hadoop cluster be encrypted at the record level. Given all these security concerns, many executives do not view Hadoop as being ready for enterprise consumption.
An article in ComputerWorld states that IT training in these skills can be obtained from organizations such as Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM, MapR and Informatica. Cloudera has been offering this training for three years and they also offer a certification at the end of their four-day training program. According to the education director at Cloudera, their certification is deemed valuable by enterprises and organizations are starting to require the Cloudera Hadoop certification in their job postings. Hortonworks just started offering training and certification classes in February 2012 while IBM has been doing this since October 2011; the big difference between the two is that Hortonworks is targeting IT professionals with Java and Linux experience and IBM is targeting undergraduate and graduate students taking online classes in Hadoop. Upon completion of these classes, they are qualified to take a certification test; however, when the article was written, approximately 1% of students had taken the certification exam.
A recent ComputerWorld article mentions that the terms Hadoop and data scientist are starting to show up in job postings and that some of the most well-known organizations are posting these job requirements. The article mentions that Google has reported that the search term data scientist is 20 times higher so far in the first quarter of 2012 than it was in the last quarter of 2011 and that there were 195 job listings on Dice.com that mentioned this term. This indicates that the market for technical skills in IT and statistics is growing very quickly as businesses are realizing that this new technology can provide real value to their organizations. They will require a new IT specialty called data science to analyze the data extracted and processed using Hadoop and using statistical analysis to derive beneficial insights.
To address the shortage of individuals entering the workforce with the skills necessary to effectively utilize technologies like Hadoop, educational institutions need to offer courses in data analysis and data mining using statistical modeling methods as well as more specialized courses in Hadoop technologies like HDFS and MapReduce. These courses should have heavy emphasis on setting up Hadoop, HDFS, Java and any other software required for the environment to operate correctly. Since most students will be performing these tasks on a laptop or in a virtual machine (VM) environment, it may be more desirable to provide a preloaded VM to the students so they can see the end-state they need to achieve. This VM could also be used for the initial programming courses in Java so the students are not burdened with setting up the environment until they are in more advanced courses in operating system technologies.
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Posted May 17, 2012 by Anonymous
At Northwestern University we have a professional Master of Science in Analytics program. There is an entire course devoted to big-data analytics, in particular the Hadoop ecosystem.
The web site is www.analytics.northwestern.edu
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Posted May 15, 2012 by Anonymous
I would also be interested in how JP Morgan are using it for "IT risk management"? That seems like a pretty general comment.
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Posted May 15, 2012 by Anonymous
I am not sure Security information and event management (SIEM) is failing, having implemented a number of these solutions in the last decade, the failure of SIEM projects is normally down to execution, typically not putting in a SOC and training the personnel on "What" to look for in the logs.
Hadoop, or any other "Big Data" type solution will not stop this failure of execution.
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Blue skies
Colors are important for our sense of well-being – whether we're on the ground or up in the air. We spoke to Lufthansa designer Ronald Wild about the latest changes to the design concept, Color Breeze, the right lighting and tin soldiers in the cabin.
Mr. Wild, Lufthansa is set to become even more attractive, and you're planning to work with more colors. Are you influenced by current trends?
Lufthansa has always tweaked and updated its corporate design. There have been great milestones, epochs that were influenced by important designers. For instance, Otl Aicher, Jörg Zintzmeyer and Hartmut Esslinger. In all the changes and innovations we have made to our design we have always taken an evolutionary approach, followed the classic design heritage and not allowed ourselves to be swayed by faddish trends. Now, it is again time to evolve our color palette: Color Breeze is the name we have given to the palette refresh of the classic Lufthansa colors used in our interiors.
The blue and the yellow of the iconic logo with the crane.
Precisely. We had already added shades of grey and silver to these two basic colors. Our lounges also feature selected shades of brown and beige. However, these were chosen specifically for First Class and Business Class. We were recently asked to design the A350 – with a particular focus on the interior of the Economy Class. We wanted to give the larger cabins a more atmospheric feel.
So just how colorful is the "Color Breeze"?
It takes blue as its starting point. We will be lightening it softly and varying it.
To make passengers feel as if they're in heaven…?
More than that. We all know that the colors in our surroundings have a significant impact on our mood. If you just lighten up blue, you soon arrive in a spectrum of lavender or lilac shades – and that just isn't Lufthansa at all. So we haven't just lightened our blue, we also added some grey. This resulted in a color range that you can use to create a wonderful ambiance.
So what will change? Will you be handing out pale blue serviettes?
No, there won't be any pale blue serviettes. Instead, we're focusing on the use of color in our interiors. You can't imagine all the changes you can make just by using colors in combination with fabrics. If you take a look around our present cabins, then the seat rows tend to look very rigid and uniform, like tin soldiers in formation. We are breaking down this uniformity: in the A350 the seats in the middle will be lightest, with the color gradually getting darker towards the surrounding seats. This creates a nice atmosphere, and it makes the cabin look wider and more inviting.
That almost sounds like well-being
And that is exactly what we want to achieve! Well-being is not something you can force a person to feel. It has to be authentic. The blue in aviation isn't imaginary, it is real, and that is why this color is so important for us. If you look up into the sky you will see a myriad different shades, a wealth of impressions and moods. The new gamut of the Lufthansa blue is like a paint box that all our designers can dip into.
Sounds like a lot of work for a simple cabin…
We are not just designing the A350: Color Breeze will refresh our world of colors in all areas. This isn't just a cosmetic change. Atmosphere is an important aspect that deeply influences our sense of well-being.
Colors also act as signals – just like red and green of traffic lights.
That is less important in the cabin. Consider your own home, it's not so different. You know which door leads into the bathroom, you don't need a signal color. What's more exciting is another of our new developments: we have now also started reconsidering our use of lighting.
But surely that's something that everyone is familiar with…you dim the cabin lights for landing and switch them back on once the plane has landed.
Correct. But we can more than just that in the A350; we are adapting the entire lighting mood to each specific phase of the flight: during boarding, while the meals are served and when it's time to sleep. Or just before landing, when it's time to wake up again, which can be in the middle of the night. Each phase is accompanied by suitable lighting. The stepless computer controlled LED system allows the finest nuances to be achieved.
So color and lighting work together to set the mood – and both light up the cabin.
Yes, that's it precisely! The lighting rounds off our color scheme and enriches it. It's all very subtle, but the impact on the passenger is enormous: travelling becomes even more pleasant and relaxing.
Ronald Wild
Designer Ronald Wild, 43, was born in Ulm. He worked as a communication designer in several agencies before joining Lufthansa Corporate Design und Brand Management in 2001. He has been involved in many redesigns and developments of the Lufthansa corporate design, including the strategic development of the Lufthansa look and compiling Lufthansa corporate design guidelines for lounges, cabins, seats and aircraft liveries.


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Moss and Wells Named Preseason All-OVC
Nashville, Tenn. – The Ohio Valley Conference released the volleyball preseason all-conference team and predicted order of finish for 2013. Tennessee State has been tabbed to finish third in the East Division, while Erika Moss and Naomi Wells were named to the all-conference team.
Defending OVC tournament champions Belmont University was picked first in the East and is followed by Morehead State, the reigning regular season champions. The Tigers placed third in the East in 2012, as well as at the OVC championships. Jacksonville State, Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee Tech are slated to finish behind Tennessee State in the East. Southeast Missouri State was the top vote getter in the West, followed by Austin Peay, Eastern Illinois, SIUE, UT Martin and Murray State.
The top three teams in the East will square off to open OVC play. TSU will host Eastern Kentucky on Sept. 27 and Morehead State on Sept. 28. Three days later, Oct. 1, the Bruins enter Kean for a cross-town battle.
Moss is a two-time First Team all-OVC selection and will run the offense for the Tigers. The senior setter is the all-time assists leader at TSU with 3,356 and has played in well over 300 sets. Moss was named to the all-preseason team in 2012 and was selected to the COBRA Magazine all-Southeast Region Team as a junior and was named Setter of the Year in 2011.
Wells was selected to the all-OVC First Team last season after leading the team in kills with 433. The redshirt-junior played in all 188 matches in 2012 and averaged 3.67 kills per set. Wells is a versatile player who finished second on the team with 345 digs and tallied 53 blocks, five solo, 25 aces and 38 assists.
The Tigers open the season against South Alabama on Aug. 30 at the Jaguar Invite in Mobile, Ala.


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As you can see, tea growers in today's Japan don't pick the tea by hand—not unless they're growing ultra-premium tea that would cost an arm and a leg. Besides, hand-picking doesn't enhance the flavor anyway. In Japan, hand-picking is a marketing ploy; in a low-wage country, it's because human labor is cheaper than using machines.
What makes a good green tea are the right climate and soil, a good-quality variety of tea plant, proper care during the growing season and the dormant season, how promptly after harvest the tea is processed (the longer it sits around, the more oxidation occurs), how the tea is processed, and how the tea is stored before being shipped out.
For instance, at the Nagata Chaen, the Nagata family harvests on a given day only as much as they can process at the end of the day, so that none of the "raw" tea leaves sit in storage overnight. That's what assures a fresh, earthy taste in the tea, and what protects the disease-fighting antioxidants from oxidation, which begins as soon as the leaves are picked.
We'll talk about the other tea-quality factors over the coming days. Stay tuned!
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Now it is time to take your drawing and visual thinking skills to the next level.
Take your sketchbook and draw 3 situations of your colleagues and/or customers.
This can be...
- The customer is always right
- Closing a deal
- We are pioneers
- Office christmas party
- Customer life cycle
- Onboarding a new employee
- Motivating my team
- Show & Tell
...or any other situation that you want to visualise or that might be useful in your context.
Make sure you save these little scenes for future visualisations. And don't forget to upload them to your journal!


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Welcome to Illinois Computer Science, where variety is the key to a great education. Explore every avenue – collaborate, live your passion, and take advantage of all we have to offer!
A Guiding Hand for Grads - Our Academic Office is available to assist Illinois CS graduate students every weekday.
The Academic Office, faculty mentors, and peer advisors make up our three-tiered approach to undergraduate advising. Together, we're here to help make your experience at Illinois the best it can be.
Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in computer science intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. Course Information: 1 to 4 undergraduate hours. 1 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary. Fundamentals of virtual reality systems, including geometric modeling, transformations, graphical rendering, optics, the human vision system, the vestibular system, interface design, human factors, developer recommendations, and technological issues. Implementation exercises and a final project are included. Extensive programming background not required


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AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released Texas Education: Original Intent of Texas Constitution. Written by the Honorable Kent Grusendorf, Senior Fellow for Education, the paper examines the history of education policy in Texas. It focuses especially on the original intent of the Texas Constitution's requirement for the state legislature's "support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools." Grusendorf explains that to 21st-century ears the phrase "public free schools" implies state control — but in 1876 it connoted almost total parental control and choice.
"Clearly by any reasonable analysis of original intent our founders did intend to empower parents and communities to make decisions relative to the education of their students," said Grusendorf. "In fact, during the 1875 constitutional debate related to the issue of centralized control over education, one delegate, Mr. Sansom, said; 'I do not hesitate to say that I believe there could not be found a dozen members of this Convention who would affirm their belief in the existence of such power in the State.'"
"Yet today, most Texans think the original intent of our Texas Constitution was just the opposite."
The paper can be read in its entirety here: http://txpo.li/original-intent
The Honorable Kent Grusendorf, Senior Fellow for Education, represented Arlington in the Texas Legislature for twenty years, focusing on education. Serving on the House Public Education Committee and various Select Committees, he played a significant role in crafting legislative responses to the Edgewood I, Edgewood II, Edgewood III, Edgewood IV, and West Orange Cove school-finance court decisions.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a non-profit, free-market research institute based in Austin.
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7-9-11 PNC Park
The Pirates are just a game out of first place. Thus, another sell out crowd today, aided by the fact that there was a skyblast show after the game.
There's not much to speak of for this entry. I only planned on staying for batting practice and then getting out of there to be with Amy.
Upon entering, a ball landed in the upper bleachers. At this point, only Nick and Zac were in the left field bleachers, and I just happened to be the closest to the staircase when it hit, so I ran up and grabbed it for ball #1.
I made a clean catch a bit later for ball #2 – not sure exactly who hit it. Some Cub. Who knows?
While watching the Cubs, trapped in left field (because the rest of the stadium doesn't open until 5:30), I watched Carlos Pena, Koyie Hill and others litter the right field wall with home runs. I was hoping to run over and pick some up, but like clockwork, at 5:22, ushers appeared and took all the balls.
They missed one however. Carlos Pena had hit one that hit the chain link fence at the top of the wall and disappeared.
When I ran in to look, it was still there, in the row behind the last row of seats, wedged between concrete and the seats.
That was it for batting practice.
I went for a run later on that night and ended up badly spraining my ankle afterwards. What luck.
Game: 3 balls (3 hit)
Season: 291 balls (128 hit, 61 thrown, 68 device, 34 found)
Games: 52 games
Average: 5.60 balls per game
Career: 1,413 balls
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" i don't want to be lonely i just want to be alone..."-daniel johns silvercahir
and i seems that no matter what i do, i am always lonely and alone; no matter what. and i do not know how to handle it anymore. death is the best escapeism......
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How To Recreate The Benefits Of Low Dye Strapping With Orthotics
How many of us have put on a low Dye strapping that successfully alleviated the patient's symptoms only to prescribe foot orthotic devices that did not have the same outcome? I would think anyone who has been in practice long enough has done this. What happened between the low Dye strapping and the foot orthotic device that changed the outcome we anticipated? One can use the low Dye as a treatment modality in and of itself or as a means of assessing whether or not a patient would benefit from a pair of foot orthotic devices. There are many variations of this strapping and many of us have small things we do that make the strapping more effective. The main effect of a low Dye strapping is exerting force that places a plantarflexion moment on the first ray, helping to maintain the first ray in plantarflexion and augmenting the height of the medial longitudinal arch. Many of us will also attempt to pronate the midtarsal joint maximally and place the subtalar joint in a neutral position. All of these components individually or together will have an indirect influence over the subtalar joint and a direct influence at the midtarsal joint as the foot function. However, it is my opinion that plantarflexing the first ray with the strapping is the most important component and most influential factor in the strapping's success. First Ray Function: What You Should Know In addressing first ray function, the literature has discussed the involved mechanics a great deal. The most common understanding of first ray function is that the first ray undergoes dorsiflexion and plantarflexion. With dorsiflexion, we should also see inversion and with plantarflexion, we should see eversion. These concurrent motions allow the first metatarsal head to stay even with the ground when it is plantarflexing or dorsiflexing during gait, maintaining even pressure on both sesamoids. When it comes to gait, the common thought is that during the latter half of the midstance period, we should see the first ray begin to plantarflex relative to the osseous structures proximal to it and continue to plantarflex during the propulsive period. This continued plantarflexion of the first ray is what positions the hallux evenly across the ground in the sagittal plane and allows us to dorsiflex the hallux on the first metatarsal head for efficient propulsion. Patients who cannot achieve sufficient plantarflexion of the first ray in the propulsive period will typically develop hallux limitus. The inability to plantarflex the first ray sufficiently during the propulsive period places the hallux in an equinus attitude relative to the first metatarsal head. This leads to jamming dorsally of the proximal phalanx of the hallux into the first metatarsal head and subsequent soft tissue adaptation at the joint, promoting hallux limitus. Ultimately, there is osseous adaptation at the joint with dorsal exostosis formation or a "flag sign" at the first metatarsal head. There will also be potential jamming all along the medial column and osteophyte formation at the base of the first ray, the navicular medial cuneiform articulation and the talonavicular articulation. This is where the low Dye strapping is effective when one applies it properly. By placing plantarflexion force on the first ray, the low Dye strapping can mitigate abnormal first ray dorsiflexion during gait. Key Insights On Creating An Effective Orthotic When applying the principles of first ray function to our functional foot orthotic device, it becomes clear we must create a device that facilitates adequate plantarflexion of the first ray. How do we accomplish this? Much depends on the patient's foot structure. The patient with a forefoot varus will most likely have an intrinsic forefoot post incorporated into his or her foot orthotic device. Intrinsic forefoot varus posts promote a plantarflexion of the medial column of the foot. In essence, these varus posts attempt to force the medial aspect of the foot to the ground. One would attempt the same posting approach in a patient with a forefoot valgus but with the lateral column. Since the lateral column is more stable in most cases and less likely to be forced to the ground, an extrinsic forefoot valgus post is perhaps a better option. None of these options directly addresses the first ray. Many foot orthotic laboratories promote a modification of the negative casting technique to address the first ray directly. This modification involves dorsiflexing the hallux during the process of obtaining the negative cast. By dorsiflexing the hallux, we apply a retrograde force on the first ray that results in plantarflexion of the first ray. The result is a negative foot impression cast with the subtalar joint in a neutral position, a maximally pronated midtarsal joint and a plantarflexed first ray. In essence, one is obtaining an impression of the foot that is ideally prepared for entry into the propulsive period of the gait cycle. When fabricated properly, the resulting foot orthotic device will promote first ray plantarflexion. Now the orthotic does what the low Dye strapping does, only better. How do we know if this will be enough? Is this right for all patients? The answers to these questions are dependent on the exam. It is important to examine the position and motion of the first ray carefully. Recent literature reveals that the findings of the range of motion exam of the first ray are not predictive as to first ray hypermobility and are not readily reproducible. However, we can still use the results of the exam to get an idea of the position and motion of the first ray, and translate this info into the design of an orthotic. Case Study: A Marathon Runner With A Small Area Of Dorsal Pain A 24-year-old male marathon runner presents with a chief complaint of pain on the dorsal aspect of his left foot in an area about the size of a quarter. The patient relates that he ran his last marathon three months prior to his visit and the pain became quite intense. He was diagnosed with posterior tibialis tendonitis. The patient also relates he was recently diagnosed with a bone spur. The patient has tried NSAIDs, ice and rest with no resolution of his symptoms. He has no other contributory medical conditions. The patient has pain with palpation to the area over the talonavicular joint. He also appears to have a cavus foot. Subtalar joint, midtarsal joint and first metatarsophalangeal joint ranges of motion are all normal. The non-weightbearing examination reveals a positionally plantarflexed first ray. The patient also has a varus of metatarsal heads two through five. Radiographs show signs of a cavus foot with a dorsal exostosis at the talonavicular joint of the symptomatic left foot. I applied a low Dye strapping and instructed the patient to attempt a run. The patient reported that he ran with the taping and his pain was completely alleviated. Based on the radiographic evidence of medial column jamming and evidence that the patient's first ray was the cause of this jamming (due to his response to the low Dye strapping), I decided to cast the patient for foot orthotic devices. Capturing The Benefits Of Low Dye Strapping With Orthotics How would one recreate the positive results the low Dye strapping provided? Based on our clinical exam, we fabricated a foot orthotic device that incorporated a rearfoot post that corresponded to the patient's neutral calcaneal stance position. The forefoot was a different matter. We applied an intrinsic forefoot post for metatarsal heads two through five. There was also a cutout within the shell of the foot orthotic device for the first ray. This allowed for more plantarflexion of the first ray relative to the lesser rays. After a break-in period for the foot orthotic devices, we cleared the patient to run in them. In short, using the orthotics alleviated the patient's symptoms. In Conclusion This patient required something beyond just capturing his first ray plantarflexed in a negative cast. By closely examining this runner's foot and with the help of the low Dye strapping, we prescribed a foot orthotic device that eliminated the jamming of his medial column by allowing his first ray to plantarflex adequately. There are other means of further promoting first ray plantarflexion in an orthotic. One may employ a cutout beneath the first ray in a forefoot extension, a kinetic wedge under the first metatarsal head, a reverse Morton's extension or a cutout in the shell of the orthotic itself. The important thing is to listen to what an athletic patient says about wearing a low Dye strapping. Couple that with a careful and thorough clinical exam and the odds are good of creating a foot orthotic device that will provide maximum patient benefit by promoting adequate first ray plantarflexion. Dr. Spencer is an Associate Professor of Orthopedics/Biomechanics at the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine. He is also a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthopedics and Primary Podiatric Medicine. Dr. Caselli (shown in the photo) is a staff podiatrist at the VA Hudson Valley Health Care System in Montrose, N.Y. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the New York College of Podiatric Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.
References 1. Buell T, Green D. Measurement of the First Metatarsophalangeal Joint Range of Motion. JAPMA, 78:9 439-48, 1988. 2. Cornwall MW, Fishco WD, McPoil TG, et. al. Reliability and validity of clinically assessing first-ray mobility of the foot. JAPMA. 2004 Sep-Oct;94(5):470-6. 3. Dananberg H. Sagittal Plane Biomechanics. JAPMA, 90:1:47-50. 4. Kelso S, Richie D. Direction and Range of Motion of the First Ray. JAPA, 72:12:600-05 1982. 5. Kirby K. Biomechanics of the Normal and Abnormal Foot. JAPMA, 90:1:30-33. 6. Kirby K. Foot and Lower Extremity Biomechanics: A Ten Year Collection of Precision Intricast Newsletters, Precision Intricast Inc., Payson, AZ 1997. 7. Root M, Orien W, Weed J. Biomechanical Examination of the Foot, Clinical Biomechanics Corp., Los Angeles, CA 1971. 8. Root M, Orien W, Weed J. Normal and Abnormal Function of the Foot, Clinical Biomechanics Corp., Los Angeles CA 1974. 9. Roy K, Scherer P. Forefoot Supinatus. JAPMA, 76:7:390-94, 1984. 10. Rzonca E, Levitz S. Hallux Equinus, JAPA, 74:8:391-93. 11. Smith M, Brooker S, Vicenzino B, McPoil T. Use of anti-pronation taping to assess suitability of orthotic prescription: case report. Aust J Physiother. 2004;50(2):111-3. 12. Vicenzino B, Franettovich M, McPoil T, Russell T, Skardoon G. Initial effects of anti-pronation tape on the medial longitudinal arch during walking and running. Br J Sports Med. 2005 Dec;39(12):939-43; discussion 943.


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One thing that helped me recently is my Panasonic bread maker. It's more than a year old actually but I've only used it several times. We're not too keen with the quality of the baked bread it churns out. The bread itself (or the middle) comes out too moist or wet. We've tried making many different kinds of bread in it (using the recipe book that it comes with) but they all come out the same. I tried reducing the liquid but the bread was worse. So nowadays I just use it as a bread kneader and first riser which it does beautifully. My bread making efforts are definitely reduced and there is less mess all around.
Okay this is not the first ever bread that I did but I was hoping to perfect this bread to use as a staple in our pantry. Perfect as in looking, smelling, and tasting like ones we buy from shops. My benchmark actually is Warburton Toastie which my family loves and in our opinion is the best commercial sandwich bread around. The Best Recipe Cookbook (my constant guide mowadays) provided the recipe that I adapted.
How did it go? It was good although my youngest and my husband was put off by the yeasty smell. So I guess next time I will reduce the yeast considerably. Mind you, I used active dry yeast successfully in the bread maker which in all its instructions always say to use instant dry yeast. But active dry yeast is just fine. All you have to do is 'wake it up' or activate it by dissolving in warm liquid and letting stand for a few minutes. I find it's helpful as well in knowing if your yeast is still good when you see (or not see) it foaming. With the instant dry yeast you won't know until after the first rising and by then all that dough is wasted.
American Sandwich Bread
520 g bread flour
1 tsp fine salt
1/3 cup warm water
1 cup warm milk
3 Tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp unsalted butter - melted
1 package (2 1/4 tsp) instant yeast or active yeast
- Mix the flour and salt in a bowl. Set aside.
- Mix the water, milk, butter, sugar, and yeast. Stir to dissolve yeast and sugar. If using active dry yeast, let stand for about 10 minutes until the mixture starts to foam.
- Hand method: Mix yeast mixture with the flour until it comes together enough to handle. Turn out on a lightly floured surface and knead for about 5 minutes until the dough is smooth and satiny. Shape into a ball. Put the dough in a lightly oiled bowl, rubbing it around to coat it lightly with oil. Cover with a plastic wrap and place in a warm place until the dough doubles in size (about 2 hours).
- Bread machine method: Pour the yeast mixture in the bread machine then pour the flour and salt mixture on top. Set machine to dough setting and turn on. This will take about 2 hours to complete the kneading and rising.
- Once the first rising is done, place the dough on a lightly floured surface and knead for a few minutes. Shape into a log and place in a greased 9 x 5-inch loaf pan. Press it gently so it touches all four sides of the pan. Cover with greased plastic wrap and place in a warm place to rise until double in size (about 1 hour).
- Bake in a 180°C/fan 160°C/350°F pre-heated oven for 40 to 50 minutes.
- Remove from pan and tap bottom of bread. If it sounds hollow the bread is ready, if not return to pan and oven for another 5 minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.


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This is the Resource Monad; monadic actions to define the behavior of each resources. The Resource Monad is a kind of IO Monad thus it implements Control.Monad.Trans.MonadIO class. It is also a state machine.
Request Processing Flow:
1. A client issues an HTTP request.
2. If the URI of it matches to any resource, the corresponding Resource Monad starts running on a newly spawned thread.
3. The Resource Monad looks at the request header, find (or not find) an entity, receive the request body (if any), decide the response header, and decide the response body. This process will be discussed later.
4. The Resource Monad and its thread stops running. The client may or may not be sending us the next request at this point.
Resource Monad takes the following states. The initial state is Examining Request and the final state is Done.
Note that the state transition is one-way: for instance, it is an error to try to read a request body after writing some response. This limitation is for efficiency. We don't want to read the entire request before starting Resource, nor we don't want to postpone writing the entire response till the end of Resource computation.
|Getting request header
|These actions can be computed regardless of the current state, and they don't change the state.
|Get the Config value which is used for the httpd.
|Get the SockAddr of the remote host. If you want a string representation instead of SockAddr, use getRemoteAddr'.
|Get the string representation of the address of remote host. If you want a SockAddr instead of String, use getRemoteAddr.
|Get the Request value which represents the request header. In general you don't have to use this action.
|Get the Method value of the request.
|Get the URI of the request.
|Get the HTTP version of the request.
Get the path of this Resource (to be exact, Network.HTTP.Lucu.Resource.Tree.ResourceDef) in the Network.HTTP.Lucu.Resource.Tree.ResTree. The result of this action is the exact path in the tree even if the Network.HTTP.Lucu.Resource.Tree.ResourceDef is greedy.
main = let tree = mkResTree [ (["foo"], resFoo) ] in runHttpd defaultConfig tree resFoo = ResourceDef { resIsGreedy = True , resGet = Just $ do requestURI <- getRequestURI resourcePath <- getResourcePath pathInfo <- getPathInfo -- uriPath requestURI == "/foo/bar/baz" -- resourcePath == ["foo"] -- pathInfo == ["bar", "baz"] ... , ... }
|This is an analogy of CGI PATH_INFO. Its result is always [] if the Network.HTTP.Lucu.Resource.Tree.ResourceDef is not greedy. See getResourcePath.
|Assume the query part of request URI as application/x-www-form-urlencoded, and parse it. This action doesn't parse the request body. See inputForm.
|Get a value of given request header. Comparison of header name is case-insensitive. Note that this action is not intended to be used so frequently: there should be actions like getContentType for every common headers.
|Get a list of MIMEType enumerated on header "Accept".
|Get a list of (contentCoding, qvalue) enumerated on header "Accept-Encoding". The list is sorted in descending order by qvalue.
|Check whether a given content-coding is acceptable.
|Get the header "Content-Type" as MIMEType.
|Get the header "Authorization" as AuthCredential.
|Finding an entity
|These actions can be computed only in the Examining Request state. After the computation, the Resource transits to Getting Body state.
Tell the system that the Resource found an entity for the request URI. If this is a GET or HEAD request, a found entity means a datum to be replied. If this is a PUT or DELETE request, it means a datum which was stored for the URI up to now. It is an error to compute foundEntity if this is a POST request.
Computation of foundEntity performs "If-Match" test or "If-None-Match" test if possible. When those tests fail, the computation of Resource immediately aborts with status "412 Precondition Failed" or "304 Not Modified" depending on the situation.
If this is a GET or HEAD request, foundEntity automatically puts "ETag" and "Last-Modified" headers into the response.
Tell the system that the Resource found an entity for the request URI. The only difference from foundEntity is that foundETag doesn't (and can't) put "Last-Modified" header into the response.
This action is not preferred. You should use foundEntity whenever possible.
Tell the system that the Resource found an entity for the request URI. The only difference from foundEntity is that foundTimeStamp performs "If-Modified-Since" test or "If-Unmodified-Since" test instead of "If-Match" test or "If-None-Match" test. Be aware that any tests based on last modification time are unsafe because it is possible to mess up such tests by modifying the entity twice in a second.
This action is not preferred. You should use foundEntity whenever possible.
Computation of foundNoEntity mStr tells the system that the Resource found no entity for the request URI. mStr is an optional error message to be replied to the client.
If this is a PUT request, foundNoEntity performs "If-Match" test and aborts with status "412 Precondition Failed" when it failed. If this is a GET, HEAD, POST or DELETE request, foundNoEntity always aborts with status "404 Not Found".
|Getting a request body
|Computation of these actions changes the state to /Getting Body/.
Computation of input limit attempts to read the request body up to limit bytes, and then make the Resource transit to Deciding Header state. When the actual size of body is larger than limit bytes, computation of Resource immediately aborts with status "413 Request Entity Too Large". When the request has no body, input returns an empty string.
limit may be less than or equal to zero. In this case, the default limitation value (cnfMaxEntityLength) is used. See defaultLimit.
Note that inputLBS is more efficient than input so you should use it whenever possible.
Computation of inputChunk limit attempts to read a part of request body up to limit bytes. You can read any large request by repeating computation of this action. When you've read all the request body, inputChunk returns an empty string and then make the Resource transit to Deciding Header state.
limit may be less than or equal to zero. In this case, the default limitation value (cnfMaxEntityLength) is used. See defaultLimit.
Note that inputChunkLBS is more efficient than inputChunk so you should use it whenever possible.
|This is mostly the same as input but is more efficient. inputLBS returns a Data.ByteString.Lazy.ByteString but it's not really lazy: reading from the socket just happens at the computation of inputLBS, not at the evaluation of the Data.ByteString.Lazy.ByteString. The same goes for inputChunkLBS.
|This is mostly the same as inputChunk but is more efficient. See inputLBS.
|Computation of inputForm limit attempts to read the request body with input and parse it as application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data. If the request header "Content-Type" is neither of them, inputForm makes Resource abort with status "415 Unsupported Media Type". If the request has no "Content-Type", it aborts with "400 Bad Request".
|This is just a constant -1. It's better to say input defaultLimit than to say input (-1) but these are exactly the same.
|Setting response headers
|Computation of these actions changes the state to /Deciding Header/.
|Set the response status code. If you omit to compute this action, the status code will be defaulted to "200 OK".
Set a value of given resource header. Comparison of header name is case-insensitive. Note that this action is not intended to be used so frequently: there should be actions like setContentType for every common headers.
Some important headers (especially "Content-Length" and "Transfer-Encoding") may be silently dropped or overwritten by the system not to corrupt the interaction with client at the viewpoint of HTTP protocol layer. For instance, if we are keeping the connection alive, without this process it causes a catastrophe to send a header "Content-Length: 10" and actually send a body of 20 bytes long. In this case the client shall only accept the first 10 bytes of response body and thinks that the residual 10 bytes is a part of header of the next response.
|Computation of redirect code uri sets the response status to code and "Location" header to uri. The code must satisfy isRedirection or it causes an error.
|Computation of setContentType mType sets the response header "Content-Type" to mType.
|Computation of setLocation uri sets the response header "Location" to uri.
|Computation of setContentEncoding codings sets the response header "Content-Encoding" to codings.
|Computation of setWWWAuthenticate challenge sets the response header "WWW-Authenticate" to challenge.
|Writing a response body
|Computation of these actions changes the state to /Deciding Body/.
Computation of output str writes str as a response body, and then make the Resource transit to Done state. It is safe to apply output to an infinite string, such as a lazy stream of /dev/random.
Note that outputLBS is more efficient than output so you should use it whenever possible.
Computation of outputChunk str writes str as a part of response body. You can compute this action multiple times to write a body little at a time. It is safe to apply outputChunk to an infinite string.
Note that outputChunkLBS is more efficient than outputChunk so you should use it whenever possible.
|This is mostly the same as output but is more efficient.
|This is mostly the same as outputChunk but is more efficient.
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KidRobot made an exciting announcement today:
If you were born in the last 35 years, and spent any of that time watching American television, odds are you learned a thing or two from The Simpsons. Some of us remember many more pearls of wisdom from the animated powerhouse THE SIMPSONS than from our own parents which explains the continued success of donuts!
Created by legendary Life is Hell cartoonist Matt Groening, THE SIMPSONS is celebrating its 500th episode in February 2012, and Kidrobot is honoring the father of primetime animation in the only way we know how making him into a 6-inch vinyl toy! Complete with goatee and glasses, directors jacket, and pad and pencil accessories, it is the first EVER Simpsons Matt Groening toy. Available February 9, Matt retails for $50 (£40.10 UK) at Kidrobot stores, kidrobot.com and select retailers.
See the above link for images!
TVShowsOnDVD.com has confirmed a December 6 release date for the Season 14 DVD and Blu-Ray sets. It looks like there's a lot of good extras in this set.
Burger King has some great Simpsons promotions in the past decade, the most recent being to promote 'The Simpsons Movie' in 2007. Now they're back with another great Treehouse of Horror-themed set of toys! The promotion is already under way, so best to check out your local BK before they run out.
As a reminder, many BKs will let you purchase the toys without a food order.
TVShowsonDVD.com reports that Simpsons producer David Silverman has tweeted that the Season 14 DVD set "will be released late this summer". That probably means another August release. Another tweet from "Weird Al" Yankovic has confirmed that he is part of the audio commentary for the episode, "'Three Gays of the Condo'. There has been no official announcement yet from Fox on this set.
Howdy, fellow collectors! Recently, I received some inquiries about the broken message board link on the main website menu. It should be fixed now. For future reference, this is the new link. Update your bookmarks!
Hey Simpsons collectors! A lot of interesting stuff has come out recently. Here's a quick roundup of the big stuff, so everyone can catch up. Did we miss anything? Let us know!
-Kid Robot series 2 vinyl toys: Kid Robot is back with more blind-boxed fun and frustration. Funstration! To order a full case, simply change your quantity to 20. So far, zombie variants aside, Moleman appears to be the hardest to find.
-Kid Robot's 6-inch Lard Lad vinyl toy: The latest in the larger-scale Simpsons by Kid Robot (Kang/Kodos and Ralph went fast), this is the most adorable representation of the character yet.
-Simpsons World: The Ultimate Episode Guide (Seasons 1-20): Oh sure, we all bought the earlier guides, but this is still worth picking up. Besides being current through Season 20, it's a beautifully collected (and heavy) comprehensive guide. What's more... the episode guides for each season have been updated and, in many cases, are twice as big as before.
-The Simpsons: The Thirteenth Season DVD (blu-ray): Don't let the haters get to you, there's still a lot of great episodes in this stretch of the show's run. No word yet on a release for Season 14.
-Homer Simpson Holiday Glass Set of 4: Check your local Target store for this set of 4 holiday-themed pint glasses. I found mine in the houseware section.
As always, our forums are the best way to keep up on the latest news!
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Kid Robot-- maker of creative vinyl toys-- has been continuing to release new Simpsons products. This summer, they released a 6-inch Lard Lad, which is still available. Now, they have announced a second series of their regular, blind-boxed 3-inch figures. The 25 piece set includes mariachi and zombie variations of the 5 Simpsons family members, as well as many new characters.
The set release date is October 28th.
The news was announced recently that Season 13 was coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on August 24th. Featuring Ralph on the cover (with a special alternate 'head box' as usual), the set will also feature the usual amount of great extras and commentaries that we have come to expect from these sets. But, perhaps, more excitingly, TV Squad brings the news that "fans will have the opportunity to score the set a full month earlier at San Diego Comic-Con July 22-25. Fans who purchase these early copies of the season set will also receive a collectible limited edition lithograph as a free gift." No details beyond that are known at this time.
For those attending the San Diego Comic Con next month, here is some additional news of interest... First and foremost, the Simpsons TV show panel will take place in Ballroom 20 on Saturday the 24th between 1:30 2:15pm. The time and date of the Bongo Comics panel will announced with the full schedule soon. The SCS will, of course, have its annual meet-up on Friday the 23rd at 6pm. However, we will not be meeting inside the convention center this year. Instead, we will be in the Santa Rosa Room at the Marriott Hotel & Marina right next door. Hope to see you then!
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GEORGETOWN, Ky. (WZTV) - Photos capturing seven Kentucky State Police officers posing with their infant children are going viral.
The troopers, who are also all friends, were expecting their babies around the same time.
Vicky Puckett with HUEit Photography by Vicky Lea shared the photos with FOX 17 News. Lea told media outlets the troopers' wives came up with the idea when they were all pregnant.
The families were able to share in their baby joy during a photo session last week and now the photos are being seen by folks all over the U.S.
"They are all out protecting us every day and they come home to these adorable babies," Puckett said.
Check out HUEit Photography's Facebook page to learn more about photo session giveaways to first responders.


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April 15. 7700 block Crittenden Street. Complainant states that offender attempted to leave store without paying for the following items: a newspaper, Good Start baby formula, one Sprite and salad dressing. He dropped items and fled. Complainant also states that offender had a knife visible in his back pocket. Offender, black male, 6' tall, dark complexion, black facial hair, wearing a black hoody and bluejeans. Occurred at 8:05 a.m.
April 16. 7500 block Germantown Ave. Complainant states that between 6:30 a.m. and 3:45 p.m., an unknown person broke the front door and stole one 52" Toshiba television, Playstation, iPod and docking station, two credit cards, one Capitol One and one Citibank Card.
Summary — Two crimes for week: one burglary and one retail theft.
Town Watch Keep doors and windows locked.
If you have been the victim of a crime and would like information, service or support, call Northwest Victims Service, 6301 Germantown Ave., Second Floor, Suite One, 215-438-4410. The service is free.


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Can Vodka Make Men More Creative?
Need a creative boost? Have a shot of vodka.
A new study from researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago found slightly inebriated men solved more problems requiring verbal resourcefulness in less time than did their sober counterparts.
For the study, 20 male social drinkers watched a movie while drinking a vodka and cranberry juice cocktail, a Cape Cod, and eating a light snack, while another 20 volunteers watched the movie without food or beverages.
During the process, researchers ensured the blood alcohol level of the drinking group didn't exceed 0.075 percent, which is just below the common cutoff for legal intoxication in the U.S.
Both groups were then asked to solve 15 sets of creative word-association problems in which they had to provide a fourth word for the three associated words provided.
Each group of guys performed similarly on the test before the experiment. But afterward, the sober men took an average of 15.2 seconds to solve each word puzzle; while the men who had reached peak intoxication took only 11.5 seconds on average. In addition, the "drunken" group got three more questions right than the sober group.
Researchers said it's possible that a moderate buzz can loosen a man's attention-focus, aiding the ability to find connections among remotely related ideas. The study's co-authors, psychology graduate student Andrew Jarosz and psychologist Jennifer Wiley, indicated their findings could even apply to musical and artistic inspiration, saying in their report, "A composer or artist fixated on previous work may indeed find creative benefits from intoxication."
The study was published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition.


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More than one in 10 borrowers defaulted on their federal student loans, intensifying concern about a generation hobbled by $1 trillion in debt and the role of colleges in jacking up costs. The default rate, for the first three years that students are required to make payments, was 13.4 percent, with for-profit colleges reporting the worst results, the U.S. Education Department said today.
The Education Department has revamped the way it reports student-loan defaults, which the government said had reached the highest level in 14 years. Previously, the agency reported the rate only for the first two years payments are required. Congress demanded a more comprehensive measure because of concern that colleges counsel students to defer payments to make default rates appear low.
"Default rates are the tip of the iceberg of borrower distress," said Pauline Abernathy, vice president of The Institute for College Access & Success, a nonprofit based in Oakland, California. The data follows complaints that commission-driven debt collectors the government hires aren't telling students about affordable options to repay their debt, especially a plan that lets them make payments tied to their incomes. Students have borrowed $1 trillion to pay for higher education, surpassing credit-card debt.
More Disclosure
Congress is also examining the often deceptive letters that college financial-aid offices send to admitted students that play down the cost of attendance by making government loans seem like grants. Barack Obama's administration, as well as Republicans and Democrats in Congress, are calling for more disclosure about college costs and student outcomes.
On the stump, President Obama has touted an executive order that eases the process for applying for a loan program that lets students make lower payments tied to their income — easing their burden and making it less likely they will default.
Republican challenger Mitt Romney said that initiative encourages students to take on more debt. Romney advocates cutting education regulation and encouraging colleges to become more efficient, lowering costs partly through the use of online instruction. The government tracks default data to protect taxpayers and keep students from attending programs that don't prepare them for employment.
School Accountability
"We continue to be concerned about default rates and want to ensure that all borrowers have the tools to manage their debt," U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a statement. "In addition to helping borrowers, we will also hold schools accountable for ensuring their students are not saddled with unmanageable student loan debt."
Under the new three-year measure, colleges with default rates of 30 percent or more for three consecutive years risk losing eligibility for federal financial aid. Schools can also be barred from the program if the rate balloons to 40 percent in a single year. The sanctions don't take effect until results are released in 2014.
Today's report covers the three years through Sept. 30, 2011. For all colleges, the 13.4 percent rate exceeded the two- year rate of 9.1 percent — the worst in 14 years — and up from 8.8 percent a year earlier. By the new three-year yardstick, the default rate at for- profit colleges was 22.7 percent. Based on the two-year period, they reported a 12.9 percent default rate. Under the three-year-period, public colleges reported an 11 percent rate while private nonprofit schools had a rate of 7.5 percent.
Rate Manipulation
Some for-profit colleges encourage students to defer payments in their early years, in an effort to keep down default rates that could jeopardize their federal funding, according to a report by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions released in July.
The report accused for-profits of using the tactic to manipulate their default rates. It singled out the role of SLM Corp. (SLM), the largest U.S. student-loan company commonly known as Sallie Mae. A subsidiary, General Revenue Corp. counsels for- profit colleges on keeping down default rates. University of Phoenix, owned by Apollo Group Inc. (APOL), is a customer, according to the Congressional report.
Apollo, SLM
Apollo and Sallie Mae use loan forbearance as "a last resort," Patricia Nash Christel, a spokeswoman for Sallie Mae, and Richard Castellano, an Apollo spokesman, said in separate e- mails. Apollo provides financial incentives for those administering its loans to get students into repayment plans, rather than defer payments, Castellano said.
"Congress has encouraged schools to reduce default rates, and we help them achieve that goal," Christel said.
Phoenix-based Apollo, the largest for-profit college company, fell 0.65 percent to $29.05 at the close in New York. The stock has declined 31 percent in the past year. For-profit colleges cater to working adults and first- generation college students, Steve Gunderson, president of the Washington-based Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, said in a statement about the default rates. The industry has said the demographics of its students account for its schools' higher default rates.
The new data suggest that student-loan debt may damage students' economic prospects for many years, said Stephen Rose, a labor economist at Georgetown University. "The more people having trouble today means that more people will have trouble in the future because they are starting out building up a larger balance, and they're not paying them off," Rose said in a telephone interview.


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In terms of value he's a better cricketer then Anderson, Zaheer and Morkel over their entire careers as he averages almost similar to them with the ball and contributes more with the bat. I know he has enjoyed a period where he would pick wickets with rubbish balls but then its not his fault that batsman get out to ordinary deliveries. Its better to be **** and lucky rather been **** and unlucky *cough*Ishant, Sami*cough*.
I think a lot of his hatred comes from the 2009 Ashes where he was labelled as Australia's major weapon and he failed to turn up and practically cost the Ashes.


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Recently the French Creek Council was asked if people living in Erie, Venango and Clarion Counties could donate through the United Way to the French Creek Council, BSA even though the French Creek Council, BSA is not a member organization. The answer is yes and here is how to do that.
The Erie County United Way, Clarion United Way and the Venango United Way do not currently support Scouting. If you would like your United Way donation through those United Ways to support the French Creek Council, BSA you must designate your gift by letting them know that you want your gift to go to the French Creek Council, Boy Scouts of America, 1815 Robison Road West, Erie PA 16509.
Your gift minus an administrative fee of approximately 9% will be given to Scouting. If you would like 100% of your donation to support Scouting and you live in these counties you can also send your contribution directly to the French Creek Council.
Currently the United Way of Western Crawford County, Titusville UW, Grove City UW, and Mercer County UW all partner with the French Creek Council, Boy Scouts of America. We receive yearly allocations between $3,000- $9000 from each and we are proud to be a partner agency with them. So your gift through those agencies not only helps scouting but also helps numerous organizations in their areas.
Scouting serves over 800 low income at risk youth in Erie County alone and Scouting needs your support for those kids and many more across 6 counties in Northwest PA and the township of Brookfield OH.
We hope that you continue to support your local Unit Way as they do tremendous work in the community but I wanted to clear up the question about designations through the Erie, Venango and Clarion United Ways.
Thank you for your support of Scouting.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Cuomo asks for federal aid
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans to ask the federal government for at least $30 billion in disaster aid to help New York City and other affected areas of the state recover from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, according to top administration officials.
In making the case for federal aid, the governor's advisers provided a staggering inventory of need as the city and state continued to rebuild in the storm's deadly wake: $3.5 billion to repair the region's bridges, tunnels and subway and commuter rail lines; $1.65 billion to rebuild homes and apartment buildings; $1 billion to reimburse local governments for overtime costs of police, fire and other emergency personnel; and several billion dollars in federal loans and grants to affected businesses.
Mr. Cuomo's request could be seen as a challenge to Mr. Obama to make good on his pledge, delivered during a high-profile visit to New Jersey, to provide federal support for the recovery effort. But it also could be seen as a test of the governor's ability to extract billions of dollars of aid from Washington at a difficult time, with White House officials and Congressional leaders searching to find areas of government to cut to avert a Jan. 1 fiscal crisis.
It is far from certain whether Mr. Cuomo will get what he is looking for despite the president's reassurances. The amount the governor is apparently seeking would exceed the roughly $12 billion in FEMA disaster aid currently available in Washington without action from Congress, where there is likely to be strong opposition to more spending.
Mr. Cuomo's plan, which is still being drafted by his aides, rests in part on persuading the federal government to make an emergency appropriation in the coming weeks during a lame-duck session of Congress that begins on Tuesday.
New York will not be alone in seeking disaster relief from Washington. Members of Congress in both major parties from other storm-ravaged states — including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia — will almost certainly be seeking federal assistance for their constituents.
In the meantime, FEMA is already sending out rejection letters to people whose homes sustained damage during the storm because they don't live in the right zone.
Maybe someone can ask Barack about that tomorrow when he pays his visit.
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The Guv is grandstanding to secure another term in office!
NYS will wind up paying plenty for disaster relief which will be passed on to us all in increased taxes.
Of course Washington will dole out it's share, but WE will get stuck with a large bill.
In the end (how appropriate "the end") the little guy ALWAYS gets screwed!
- Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Hey Gov Mario Cuomo ll. : no need to have an investigation into LIPAs failure. This is a state run organization overseen by your administration. This happened on your watch. Look no further than your offic in Albany.. The same thing happened during your lack of leadership of HUD. Tht was a major disaster that we are still dealing with.
Stop lying to the people of New York State! Time for you to resign.
- Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Jersey and NY handling of the utilities completely different.
NY they are the whipping boy (along with the transportation system) to direct heat away from the politicians whose poor planning and sell out to developers diverted money away from infrastructure and into development.
A bit like Astoria blackout a few years ago when Con Ed took current customer fees and used it to plug in new development while letting Archie and Edith's service rot.
Of course if Archie and Edith fall for the pol's ruses they deserve the crap that is fed to them.
- Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Yeh and tell him to stop imitating his father's voice, gestures. And expressions
It's sickening!
- Wednesday, November 14, 2012
what would Bob Grant say?
- Thursday, November 15, 2012


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The addiction to gambling does not discriminate. It strikes across all echelons of society, devastating the finances, jobs and families of everyone from doctors and police officers to college students and retirees.
It is now blamed for the undoing of former San Diego Mayor Maureen O'Connor, sinking her deep into debt and resulting in a federal charge of making an unlawful transaction with $2 million in embezzled funds.
Video poker was her vice, according to federal court records, as it is for many women who seek escape from bigger problems.
"It's not about the money. It's about how it's making her feel," said Dr. Suzanne Pike, an Escondido psychologist who treats
The hours of play at slot machines can put addictive gamblers in a trance-like state, flooding the body with beta endorphins and also releasing dopamine, hitting on the "reward center" of the brain.
"It's like she's sitting in there with a
Slot machines usually hold an allure for people who want to feel numb, while playing the tables — poker, blackjack and other action games — is geared more toward social interaction and ego-building, experts say.
In Pike's nearly 20 years of treating gamblers, she has noticed many similarities in those addicted to video poker.
They are usually middle-aged to older women, divorced, and have had a lot of losses or disappointment in their lives that have piled up without being dealt with, she said.
In the case of O'Connor, 66, the gambling followed the death of her husband,
"Compulsive, lunatic gambling," he said.
"This pattern fits the syndrome known as 'grief gambling,'" Iredale wrote in a memo to the court.
O'Connor frequented casinos in San Diego, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, winning $1 billion over nine years and losing more than that amount during the same period, according to federal court documents. Her attorney put her net gambling loss at $13 million over the nine-year span.
Her exact gambling habits were not detailed, including how often she played or how big her wagers were.
To feed her addiction, she sold off real estate holdings, auctioned off personal belongings and finally embezzled $2 million from her late husband's charitable foundation, federal records state.
Experts say the tendency to commit crime is high with gambling addictions.
But treatment can help, and judges have been known to order rehabilitation and probation in these kinds of cases, as has been done in O'Connor's case.
"That's not to say some gamblers aren't criminals. Certainly some are, but most of these people are good people who managed to rewire and rewrite their brains because of gambling," Pike said.
Addiction to gambling is considered an impulse-control illness, akin to compulsions to pull out hair, shop or steal.
Of the roughly 4,300 calls to the state's
Of the total, 40 percent were women, according to the California Office of Problem Gambling.
San Diego County — with the most gambling centers in the state, including Indian casinos, card rooms and a racetrack — used to have a gambling treatment program until it lost funding.
The state offers its own free treatment program, which is funded by $5 million annually from tribal casinos. Another $3.4 million from the casinos goes to prevention and education.
The program trains clinicians around the state and has also partnered with the
Terri Sue Canale, deputy director of the Office of Problem Gambling, said the treatment seems to be working for many addicts.
"We're seeing very positive results," Canale said.
How to get help
Resources are available to gamblers and their friends and family who are affected by the addiction.
California Office of Problem Gambling: (800) GAMBLER or problemgambling.ca.gov. Get local resources and free treatment, from phone counseling to residential treatment.
San Diego Gamblers Anonymous: (888) 233-8547 or sandiegoga.org. Get support through a 12-step program.


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The news about the 5/1 endcap plan at TRU has me wondering if the TFU multi-packs will also end up on that endcap...?
I don't think corporate executives actually care enough to check out local stores even if they actually knew their was a case of toys that had a shelf date. That's someone a lot lower on the food chain's job if there was a position at all. I think store managers are pretty much left on their own as long as the store makes a profit. No one cares outside the store's stockboys.
Put me in the camp happy to hear these are only $30... I really expected higher than that. $30, not so bad considering what you get. I was wanting 2 of each set too, so that eases some financial pains I was expecting there too. Can't wait to get those and the EU figures out of the way. Then a nice casual Summer not spending money on gas hunting for stuff. I can relax, maybe put a little extra into the house or something. I need a new computer too, so maybe 2010's the year for that to happen actually.
I saw these at the Blossom Hill TRU in San Jose, CA today. $29.99 each.
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There's something about controlling a racing robot with a smartphone in your hand that makes you forget everything else around you.
Isn't that what games are supposed to do?
With Anki's new "Drive," you pretty much zone everything else out, as you race your car around the track, shooting your competition, which today includes a robotic car, powered by artificial intelligence.
Such is the atmosphere around Anki's new offices overlooking San Francisco. Apple fans already know Anki as the company that stole the show during June's Developer Conference keynote, racing cars around a track before going into stealth mode.
They've emerged, with a game due in Apple stores Oct. 23. It will sell for $199 and comes in a big black box, complete with a track and two cars (others sold separately).
While the game is easy to play, it's a far cry from the Hot Wheels we grew up with, and it merely hints at a future where A.I., and robotics, play a bigger role in what we can do with our iPhones and iPads.
Apple is even holding training days at some of its stores to let people try the Anki game.
It's not cheap, but you get the feeling that it's an investment in the future: robotics, brought to us in the form of a game.
I, for one, welcome our new robotic artificially intelligent overlords.
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Mary Guzzy
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Mary Guzzy is a Professor of Humanities and Theatre at CCC, an actor, playwright and director. At CCC, she teaches theatre performance courses, is the academic adviser to Muse of Fire Theatre, and supervises or directs all CCC theatre productions.
In 2009, Guzzy initiated the annual participation of CCC students and faculty in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. This week-long festival showcasing the best of college theatre in our region, is hosted at a major university. It immerses students in workshops, productions, readings, and scholarship competitions in performing and technical theatre arts.
Most recently, Guzzy wrote and directed Clara. Based on the life of Clara Schumann, it is her second one-woman show for Ventfort Hall: The Museum of the Gilded Age in Lenox, Massachusetts. Recent plays produced include Future 86, freely adapted from Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, Lonesome Drum: An American Tale, and The Color of War, based on the Civil War letters of Robert Gould Shaw to his wife, which is regularly performed in Massachusetts.
Other recent projects Guzzy directed include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Blithe Spirit, The Threepenny Opera, Sylvia, Camelot, Is He Dead?, Tintypes, and The Sleeper. Most recent acting roles include 'Mrs. Webb' in Our Town in the annual Radio Dramas at Elmira Little Theatre, 'Jessie' in 'Night Mother, 'Amanda' in The Glass Menagerie, directed by Normi Noel, and 'Paulina' in Death and the Maiden, directed by James B. Nicola.
At CCC, Guzzy has developed an Actors' / Playwrights' Honors Course to encourage student playwriting, and recently completed a two-year international online collaboration in the teaching of voice and movement with Linda Nicholls-Gidley of Sydney, Australia. The project is sponsored by the SUNY Global Center of the State University of New York system.
As the artist/manager at Shakespeare & Company, Lenox MA from 1999-2003, Guzzy served as Director of the Rose Playhouse U.S.A. project, created the Bankside Humanities series of cultural lectures on aspects of the Renaissance, and performed in The Scarlet Letter, Ethan Frome, Chekhov's The Celebration, and her one-woman portrayal of 'Moll Cutpurse,' Just a Simple Roaring Girl. Additionally, Guzzy co-founded and led Industrial Arts Theatre in Denver, Colorado.
Guzzy has participated in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Leadership Institute, and is a member of the Two-Year College Focus Group within ATHE. She holds a Bachelor's in Theatre from Illinois State University, and a Masters in Humanities from the University of Colorado/Denver.


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(CNN) — Former tennis star Jennifer Capriati is batting down accusations — which led a Florida police department to seek an arrest warrant — that she stalked and punched an ex-boyfriend.
An incident occurred on February 14, Valentine's Day, at the Oxygen Health & Wellness gym in North Palm Beach, Florida. A report from that southeastern Florida community's Police Department said the ex-boyfriend claimed Capriati "started screaming" at him before punching him "with a closed fist four times in the chest."
The 28-year-old accuser, Ivan Brannan Jr., said he was eventually able to lock himself in the men's locker room, according to the police report. Four days later, he went to police headquarters and outlined what he said were "seven other incidents pertaining to Capriati stalking/harassing/following" him. Brannan said he'd dated the American tennis player from May 2011 to February 2012.
North Palm Beach Police subsequently requested an arrest warrant against the 36-year-old Capriati, the department's Aubre Stroud said Saturday. As of that time, no arrest warrant had been issued — something the state attorney's office would decide.
Capriati's camp highlighted this fact, in a statement issued Friday, saying the case "has not yet been assigned in Palm Beach County and has not been reviewed."
"The current facts being circulated by Mr. Brannan are an overexaggeration and the police report is one-sided in (his) favor, since they failed to get Ms. Capriati's side of the story," said the statement, which was attributed to the ex-tennis player's legal representative.
"We will make sure that Ms. Capriati's side of the story is fully conveyed, and when the truth comes out, she will be vindicated from these charges."
Capriati burst on the tennis scene as a teenager, breaking into the sport's ranking of top 10 players by 14 and advancing to the semifinals of the French Open in 1990.
She remained a force on the tour into the early 1990s, highlighted by a gold medal win at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
But Capriati's star status faded the next few years, a time that included widely reported arrests on shoplifting and marijuana possession charges. She remained off the court into the late 1990s.
The New York-born tennis player came back strong at the end of the decade, and in 2001 won the Australian Open and the French Open on her way to becoming the world's No. 1 player that year. Another Australian Open title came the following year.
The 2004 season was Capriati's last. Eight years later, she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.


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Concerts at One: Bernstein at 100
St. Paul's Chapel
Marking the 2018 centennial of Leonard Bernstein's birth, Trinity Wall Street's "TOTAL EMBRACE: Leonard Bernstein at 100" presents some of the less-performed works of this great composer-conductor in the context of works by other notable New York City composer-conductors including Bernstein's lifelong friend Lukas Foss, as well as Gustav Mahler, Pierre Boulez, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Julian Wachner. Performances will be part of Trinity's Concerts at One series and culminate in the festival finale May 31- June 2.
Bernstein: Song Fest
Wachner: Clarinet Concerto
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, arr. Klaus Simon (concert 1 of 2)
NOVUS NY; Julian Wachner, conductor
St. Paul's Chapel
Broadway (at Fulton Street), Lower Manhattandirections
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Marshall University CI Day event to promote cyberinfrastructure and high-performance computing
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – On April 7, 2011, Marshall University will host a one-day conference to showcase state-of-the-art computing technologies available to researchers at the university and across the region.
The free Cyberinfrastructure Day (CI Day) program will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the university's Memorial Student Center on the Huntington campus, Room BE5. Faculty, staff and students from any field and all higher education institutions are encouraged to attend. Members of the high-tech business community, representatives of government agencies, technology providers and other interested parties are welcome.
According to Dr. Tony Szwilski, director of Marshall's Center for Environmental, Geotechnical and Applied Sciences and chairman of the CI Day planning committee, the term cyberinfrastructure is commonly used to refer to computational systems, data and information management, visualization environments and people—all linked together by collaborative software and advanced networks.
He said the goal of CI Day is to help researchers—at Marshall and elsewhere—understand the potential of technology and supercomputing to enhance research, teaching and research funding.
"In short, cyberinfrastructure makes possible scholarly innovation and discoveries that were not possible even a decade ago," he said. "By making targeted investments in our cyberinfrastructure and visualization capabilities, Marshall University now has computing power that was, until recently, available only at the most prestigious research institutions. We hope the CI Day program will make more people aware of the benefits this technology can offer their scholarship and work."
Szwilski said the program will feature state and national leaders who will speak about the current state and the future of cyberinfrastructure. There also will be presentations from faculty members who are already taking advantage of the university's technological resources to advance research and research collaborations, win grant funding and enhance students' classroom experiences.
He added that attendees will have the opportunity to showcase their own research in a poster session during the evening reception that will close out the program.
Marshall's CI Day is made possible through a National Science Foundation grant that funds "Cyberinfrastructure for Transformational Scientific Discovery in West Virginia and Arkansas (CI-TRAIN)," a partnership among eight higher education institutions in West Virginia and Arkansas.
The CI Day event is free, but advance registration is requested.
To register online or for more information about CI Day, including a full agenda and speaker information, visit www.marshall.edu/ciday.
Contact: Ginny Painter, Communications Director, Marshall University Research Corporation, 304.746.1964


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METRO VANCOUVER -- A drug trial involving slain gangster Sukh Dhak was adjourned in B.C. Supreme Court Tuesday, less than 24 hours after Dhak and his bodyguard Thomas Mantel were gunned down in Burnaby.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Gail Dickson agreed to put the trial over to Dec. 3 for Dhak's co-accused — Baljit Pabla and Neville Rankin.
Neither Dickson nor federal prosecutor Sharon Steele made mention of Monday morning's highly public shooting in the doorway of the Executive Hotel on the Lougheed Highway.
Defence lawyer Mark Jette, who is representing Pabla, made a cryptic reference to "the email that arrived yesterday also concerning the case" without saying what information the email contained.
Outside court, Crown and defence lawyers declined to comment further.
So did a sullen-looking Pabla, who is a relative of Dhak's.
There was extra security on the seventh floor of the Vancouver Law Courts for the brief appearance.
Dhak was the purported mastermind of a large-scale drug lab where police found close to 18,500 ecstasy pills in 2008, according to evidence that has come out at the trial.
Dan Brien, spokesman for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, said from Ottawa that the trial against the other two is expected to continue Monday.
For more than a year, police had been warning Dhak and the public about threats to the notorious gangster.
Const. Doug Spencer, who does anti-gang education with the police-backed Odd Squad society, said Dhak's brutal end should be a cautionary tale to anyone who thinks gang life is glamorous.
"We warned him. You are warned you have to sever all ties," Spencer said Tuesday. "He was telling me he wanted out."
Spencer said he has heard from Dhak's girlfriend that before the murder, Dhak was thinking of giving an interview to the Odd Squad like the one his older brother Gurmit gave before he was gunned down in October 2010.
Gurmit Dhak warned kids to steer clear of gangs, said he was always looking over his shoulder and had no idea when he would be killed – but knew it was coming.
"His brother, even though he wasn't the best person in the world and was involved in stuff, left that video as a great legacy to leave for kids," said Spencer, who now works for Transit police.
Dhak and Gurmit, who grew up in Vancouver, emulated the late Bindy Johal, a colourful cocaine dealer gunned down in 1998, and Ranj Cheema, a longtime gangster shot to death last May.
"There are two boys who grew up in the shadow of Bindy et al. And that's all they dreamed about. They were imitating the real thing – Bindy and Ranj Cheema," Spencer said. "And they are all dead now … You can be a gangster … but these are the results."
Dhak and Mantel, who both lived in Surrey, were believed to have gone to the busy Burnaby hotel to meet someone. Dhak was free because his trial was adjourned for the day.
Police have not commented on the motive or whether there are suspects. One witness got a look at the vehicle believed to have been used by the killer or killers.
The violence against Dhak and associates in the Duhre crime group escalated after the August 2011 murder of Red Scorpion gangster Jon Bacon and wounding of Hells Angel Larry Amero and Independent Soldier James Riach.
In fact, Duhre gang leader Sandip Duhre was shot to death in a similar fashion in front of guests and hotel staff in the lobby of the Sheraton Wall Centre on Jan. 16, 2012.
Meanwhile the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, the agency probing the death of both Dhak brothers, on Tuesday confirmed the identities of the latest shooting victims, first reported by The Sun on Monday.
"IHIT continues to investigate this brazen shooting and the scene remains cordoned off," Sgt. Jennifer Pound said.
"We continue to ask anyone with information to contact the IHIT tip line by calling 1-877-551-IHIT (4448) or by email at email@example.com."
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A few Londoners are trying to get your profile picture in some of the world's most exclusive museums -- you just have to like their Facebook page.
The Profile Picture Exhibition team has been given the green light to show off the pictures garnered from Facebook in three prestigious museums: the Louvre, London's National Portrait Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, if they can get at least 1 million Facebook profile pics -- and that means at least 1 million have to join the effort and "Like" the page, according to CNET. So far, that number is hovering around 2,500.
The effort by British ad men Ben Beale and Rory Forrest is reportedly being done to democratize portraiture. In previous times portraiture was for those of means rather than the everyday folk. And what is more everyday now than someone's Facebook profile? Both Beale and Forrest then thought up this project and reportedly approached museums who weren't interested until they hit the million-photo mark.
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"The thing that hit us the most was that over 1 billion of us have Facebook profile pictures now, a seventh of the entire globe, and if our profile pics can be considered art, the profile picture phenomenon has to be the biggest art movement of all time," Beale told CNET. "A truly humbling thought."
We're not sure this is legitimate because there was no comment from the Louvre, National Portrait Gallery or Metropolitan Museum of Art, and those are some pretty bold claims from two guys on the Internet. Nonetheless, if you would like to partake of this possible exhibition, check out the group's Facebook page.


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Windward Community College partners with Hawai'i state agencies to present a lifestyle exhibition for the Boomer generation
Free event focuses on financial security, health and wellness topics for those over 50University of Hawaiʻi
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KANEʻOHE —The Boomers & Beyond Expo — Managing Your Wealth, Health and Security is a free event that focuses on the over 50s lifestyle, being held October 12-13 at Windward Community College (WCC). The expo opens the door to more options for individuals in the prime of their life, with information centering on leisure activities, financial security, health and wellness.
"We're very excited to partner with Windward Community College in bringing this event to the people of Hawaiʻi," said Valerie Marino, Community and Crime Prevention Chief of the Department of the Attorney General. "As you know, information is a powerful tool. And, we want to provide as much information as possible to our senior population so that they can make better and informed decisions in their lives."
Jane Uyetake, WCC program coordinator and Boomers & Beyond Expo coordinator, says the program is designed to reach and inform seniors, though the information is also relevant for those who provide care to senior citizens or those who are planning to retire in the near future. "Event goers will have a chance to talk to the experts in various fields, network with their peers, gather loads of information, and enter to win fabulous door prizes," says Uyetake.
The Free Exhibition portion of the Expo will be held Friday, Oct. 12, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and Saturday, Oct. 13 from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Informational booths and exhibitors will offer hands-on advice on lifestyle, health, financial and personal security, housing options, education opportunities, clubs, volunteering, and sports. State, community and commercial services will also be available. Exhibitors include AARP Hawaiʻi, AlohaCare, Alzheimer's Association, American Cancer Society, Bank of Hawaiʻi, Better Business Bureau of Hawaiʻi, Panda Travel, the Social Security Administration, and many more.
Door prizes will also be awarded throughout the two-day event, including gift certificates from some of Hawaiʻi's best restaurants, travel agencies and, stores, gift packs of Titanium products, a paper shredder and other electronic products.
Free health screenings will be available in the WCC exhibition hall including blood pressure and body-mass index screenings. Free workshops on using laughter and exercise to cope with life's stresses, as well as tips on maintaining a brain-healthy lifestyle will also be presented.
Presentations are free, and offered from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 12, and from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Oct. 13. Seats for presentations are limited, and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Health presentation topics include Medicare prescription drug coverage, disaster preparedness, and alternative forms of exercising, and financial topics include social security, Internet safety and security, identity theft and fraud prevention, and more.
The Boomers & Beyond Expo is sponsored by WCC, Office of Continuing & Community Education, and the State of Hawaiʻi, Executive Office on Aging SMP Hawaiʻi (SageWatch) Program, and in partnership with the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Office of the Securities Commissioner, and the Department of the Attorney General, Crime Prevention and Justice Assistance Division.
For a complete schedule of workshops, seminars, roundtable discussion topics and exhibitors, call the WCC Office of Community and Continuing Education at 235-7433 or visit: http://ocet.wcc.hawaii.edu/boomers.
For more information, visit: http://ocet.wcc.hawaii.edu/boomers.