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I wonder, sources like wikipedia or templates I found shows that Functional spec is a part of System requirement documents. I always thought that SRD is just overall decsription of the system, with all functional and non functional requirements. Yet I thought that Functional spec is more detailed and it is a separate document, while SRD is high level customer-created description (how is this one called then?) Could anyone help to make this clear for me?
see also: What is meant by the term 'System requirement' and how does that relate to 'Functional requirement'?– gnatOct 26, 2016 at 9:07
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System Requirements (used in systems engineering)
Software Requirements (used in software engineering)
Main Answer
System requirements outline the requirements for the whole system. A system is a set of hardware and software to support a specific business need.
Software requirements are only concerned with software. They are much more detailed than system requirements, so that the software can be actually built from these.
The Software Requirements Specification (SRS) is a standard: IEEE 830-1998. Functional requirements are a part of this standard.
Functional specification is a separate document which is no longer used today (at least in Software Engineering). It was a standard at times when waterfall was used as the best-known technique, and before the IEEE Software Requirements Specification became a standard. The SRS has replaced it because functional requirements are now defined as a part of a larger document (software requirements).
At the dark times of software crisis, I believe that functional specification was the best they knew (without all these amenities the full SRS gives us). They thought software requirements specification is only a specification of required functions. Today we know there is more to it. (see the SRS)
History and Current Use of the SRS
The SRS is from 1998 and it wasn't meant for OOP. I've used it in my company, but only as a basis for customization. Instead of describing functional requirements using natural language, like the old functional specification document, I've used UML (use case diagrams). This is something that wasn't considered by 1998 yet, so that engineers still described the needs quite inefficiently.
Functional specification is a part of the software specification document. The document is useful, but I wouldn't recommend adopting it as-is because it was defined in 1998; instead, I suggest considering UML where appropriate to replace natural language specification.
Typically, a systems requirements specification contains the top-level requirements for a system. A system is a set of software and/or hardware subsystems. Typically, this includes the functional and non-functional (performance, safety, security, quality, business, governance and regulatory, and so on) requirements for the system as a whole. Each subsystem in the system would have a requirements specification as well, with a software subsystem's specification typically called the software requirements specification. Each specific requirement of the software subsystem is mapped to at least one requirement in the systems requirement specification.
In some projects, there might also be the concept of customer requirements or a concept of operations. These are typically requirements as well, but provided by the customer in their domain language and may not be suitable for consumption by engineers. These are turned into systems requirements by engineers who understand the customer need as well as the business.
Note that different organizations may have different names for the same thing or may split content off into different repositories or documents. There are some standards that exist - the IEEE has a number of standards related to systems engineering and software engineering, for example - but organizations may not follow these standards or may tailor them to better suit their needs.
For more information, you may be interested in two books by Karl Wiegers - Software Requirements and More About Software Requirements.
@Thomas Owens Thanks, however, I cannot see anything to Functional spec?– John VDec 7, 2012 at 14:05
@user970696 I've never worked any place that uses the term "functional spec", nor does it appear that Wiegers uses it in either of his books. System-level requirements (functional and non-functional) go into the Systems Requirements Specification and subsystem requirements go into a Subsystem Requirements Specification or a Software Requirements Specification.– Thomas Owens ♦Dec 7, 2012 at 17:26
I agree with your interpretation. Broadly speaking...
Requirements = What should it do?
Specifications = How should it do it?
Despite very rough, I think this rule of thumb describes pretty well the intent and scope of these documents. My 2 cents...
SRS broadly defines customer requirements and describes what is expected from the system. Functional specification further describes what functions are expected from domain and sub-domains described in SRS. SRS is the building block of any SDLC.
An SRS is a document that essentially prepared by the Business Analyst. As you said, it does include business goals and high level requirements.
Whereas a Functional Specs document encompasses details of purposes and processes of the entire system and is much more in depth. This document is prepared in liasion with the Software Engineer and System Anaylyst.
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So why FS is often mentioned to be a part of SRS? If you check the structure of SRS in the Wiki description, it mentiones Functional requirements.– John VDec 7, 2012 at 11:59
1"Functional Requirements" and "Functional Specs" are two different things. An SRS covers Business, User, Functional, and Non-Functional Requirements in general. While a Functional Specs document consists of each and every minute detail about the Purpose and processes of the methods involved.– MaxoodDec 7, 2012 at 13:19


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Alopecia is the partial or complete lack of hairs in areas where they are normally present. It can be congenital or acquired. Congenital alopecias are noninflammatory and are the result of hair follicle damage or genetic diseases. Acquired alopecias are most common. If an animal is presented for the problem of hair loss and pruritis is present, the problem of pruritus Pruritus in Animals Pruritus is defined as an unpleasant sensation within the skin that provokes the desire to scratch. It is the most common dermatologic problem in both small and large animals. Pruritus may be... read more should be investigated first.
Etiology of Alopecia in Animals
There are many causes of alopecia; any disease that can affect hair follicles can cause hair loss. There are two broad etiologic categories of alopecia: 1) congenital or hereditary and 2) acquired. Acquired alopecia is further divided into two categories: inflammatory and noninflammatory.
Congenital or hereditary alopecia Hereditary Alopecia and Hypotrichosis in Animals Alopecia is the absence of hair; hypotrichosis, which is much more common, is the presence of less hair than normal. Although these defects can be generalized, they commonly develop in patterns... read more has been described in cows, horses, dogs, cats, and pigs. Hairless breeds of mice, rats, cats, and dogs have been bred and developed for personal and research interests. Congenital alopecia may or may not be hereditary; it is caused by a lack of development of hair follicles and is apparent at, or shortly after, birth, eg, alopecia universalis. Animals with tardive alopecias are born with normal coats, and focal or generalized hair loss occurs when the animal sheds its juvenile coat or when it becomes a young adult. Examples of this include pattern baldness of Dachshunds, color dilution alopecia (most commonly seen in Doberman Pinschers), and certain types of follicular dysplasias.
Acquired alopecia encompasses all other causes of hair loss. In this type of alopecia, the animal is born with a normal hair coat, has or had normal hair follicles at one time, and is or was capable of producing structurally normal hairs. Acquired alopecia may be noninflammatory, as is seen in endocrine alopecia, pattern baldness, alopecia X, or some types of immune-mediated alopecia (eg, alopecia areata), or inflammatory. Inflammatory acquired alopecia is the most common cause of alopecia. Acquired alopecia develops because a disease destroys the hair follicle or shaft, interferes with the growth of hair or wool, or causes the animal discomfort (eg, pain, pruritus), leading to self-trauma and loss of hair.
Diseases that can directly cause destruction or damage to the hair shaft or follicle include bacterial skin diseases, dermatophytosis, demodicosis, severe inflammatory diseases of the dermis (eg, juvenile cellulitis, deep pyoderma), traumatic episodes (eg, burns, radiation), chemotherapy (eg, doxorubicin-associated alopecia), and rarely, poisonings caused by mercury, thallium, and iodine. These often tend to be inflammatory.
Diseases that can directly inhibit or slow hair follicle growth include nutritional deficiencies (particularly protein deficiencies), hypothyroidism, hyperadrenocorticism, and excessive estrogen production or administration (hyperestrogenism, Sertoli cell tumors, estrogen injections for mismating). Temporary alopecia in horses, sheep, and dogs can occur during pregnancy, lactation, or several weeks after a severe illness or fever. Marked hair loss (effluvium) is common in cats after respiratory infection. These types of alopecia tend to be noninflammatory unless a secondary skin infection develops.
Pruritus or pain is a common cause of acquired inflammatory alopecia in animals. Diseases that commonly cause pruritus or pain include infectious skin diseases (eg, bacterial pyoderma and dermatophytosis), ectoparasites, allergic skin diseases (eg, atopic dermatitis, food allergy, contact, insect hypersensitivity), and less commonly, neoplastic skin diseases. Friction may cause local hair loss, eg, poorly fitted halters or collars. Rarely, excessive grooming may be the cause of hair loss in some animals, particularly cats.
Feline endocrine alopecia is no longer recognized as a bonafide syndrome; the current name is feline acquired symmetric alopecia. To date, there is no documented evidence of an endocrine disease in these cats, and the symmetric alopecia seen is a clinical sign of an underlying disease, most commonly a pruritic disease. The most common cause of feline symmetric alopecia is flea allergy dermatitis. In cats that do not have an obvious flea infestation, a CBC with differential is recommended; many cats that have flea allergy dermatitis have an eosinophilia. This finding may help convince owners to pursue flea control as a first diagnostic step.
Clinical Findings and Lesions of Alopecia in Animals
The clinical signs of hair loss may be obvious or subtle, depending on the disease. Congenital or hereditary hair loss is commonly symmetric and not accompanied by many inflammatory changes; in some cases, the areas of hair loss are localized to one region (eg, ear flaps) or to well-demarcated areas.
The clinical signs of acquired hair loss are varied and often influenced by the underlying cause(s); the pattern of hair loss may be focal, multifocal, symmetric, or generalized. Inflammatory changes such as hyperpigmentation, lichenification, erythema, scaling, excessive shedding, and pruritus are common. Some causes of acquired alopecia may predispose the animal to development of secondary skin diseases, such as a bacterial pyoderma or seborrhea. Pruritus is variable, depending on the primary cause. In endocrine alopecias, the hair loss usually develops in a symmetric pattern, often in wear areas first; pruritus is uncommon unless there is a secondary infection. Now that the early, nondermatologic clinical signs of endocrine alopecia are more widely recognized, hair loss is not generally an early clinical sign of an endocrine alopecia.
Many owners seek veterinary assistance because of perceived excessive shedding. Shedding may be abnormal (excessive) if it results in obvious loss of the hair coat and areas of alopecia. A common cause of abnormal shedding is bacterial pyoderma. If, however, the shedding is not accompanied by development of patchy or symmetric hair loss, it is likely that it is just a stage in the natural replacement of the hair coat.
Diagnosis of Alopecia in Animals
Key to diagnosis is determining whether alopecia is inflammatory or noninflammatory
An accurate diagnosis of the cause of alopecia requires a careful history and physical examination. Key points in the history include recognition of breed predispositions for congenital or hereditary alopecias; the duration and progression of lesions; and the presence or absence of pruritus, evidence of contagion, or nondermatologic problems, eg, polyuria and polydipsia. On physical examination, the distribution of lesions should be noted (focal, multifocal, symmetric, generalized), and the hairs examined to determine whether they are being shed from the hair follicle or broken off—the latter suggesting pruritus. Signs of secondary skin infections or ectoparasites should be noted, and a careful nondermatologic examination should be performed.
Initial diagnostic tests include skin scrapings for ectoparasites (particularly Demodex mites); combing of the hair coat for fleas, mites, and lice; impression smears of the skin for evidence of bacterial or yeast infections; fungal cultures for identification of dermatophytosis; and examination of plucked hairs, looking at both the shaft and the ends for evidence of parasites, dermatophytosis Dermatophytosis in Dogs and Cats Dermatophytosis (ringworm) is typically a superficial skin infection. It affects a wide range of animals, and several of the causative fungi also cause zoonotic infections. In otherwise healthy... read more , or whether hairs were chewed off. In many cases of bacterial pyoderma, impression smears of the skin do not show neutrophils and/or cocci, but they may show large numbers of shed keratinocytes. Neutrophils and cocci are seen if pustules or recently ruptured pustules are sampled.
If these tests do not identify or suggest an underlying cause, a skin biopsy may be indicated to evaluate hair follicle structures, numbers, and anagen/telogen ratios and to look for evidence of bacterial, fungal, or parasitic skin infections. In addition, skin biopsies are often needed to confirm congenital or tardive causes of hair loss and to identify inflammatory or neoplastic causes of hair loss. Skin biopsies from normal and abnormal sites should be submitted for evaluation. CBC, serum chemistry panels, and urinalyses are generally only helpful when an endocrinopathy is suspected. Specific endocrine function tests can be performed based on findings of routine laboratory work or clinical signs.
Treatment of Alopecia in Animals
Successful therapy depends on the underlying cause and specific diagnosis
Comprehensive parasite control should be started to ensure that the cause of hair loss is not pruritis associated with parasite infestation. In addition, topical antimicrobial therapy can be started to rule out concurrent bacterial or yeast infections. If pruritis continues after these steps, diagnostic tests for allergic skin disease Atopic Dermatitis should be performed.
Key Points
Alopecia is either congenital or acquired. Acquired alopecia is the most common.
Core diagnostic dermatology tests are more helpful than routine laboratory work unless an endocrine cause is suspected.
Good parasite and infection control should be in place to ensure the alopecia is not the result of either of these causes.
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Trial, Twisted's xUnit(-esque) testing package (library, discovery tool, runner, etc), has long inherited its overall testing flow from the Python standard library unittest module. It's quite simple, actually: iterate over a sequence of test cases and invoke each one with the result object. Lately, this has actually led to some noticeable problems with its performance. Creating a test case instance for each test method isn't extremely unreasonable, but in the process of running them all, more and more objects are created and the process balloons to an unreasonable size. The Twisted test suite typically uses about 800MB of RAM by the time the last test method is run.
So, in order to be able to run the Twisted tests on machines without 800MB of free memory, we changed our TestSuite so that it drops each test after it runs it. The suite now takes about one quarter as much memory to run. As an unexpected bonus, it also runs almost 50% faster (66% for trial –force-gc
which calls gc.collect
in between each test method). I can only explain the speedup as time saved inside the garbage collector itself due there being far fewer objects to examine (this is not a completely satisfying explanation, but I cannot think of a better one).
If you're using trial to run your test suite, you may notice reduced memory requirements and reduced overall runtime, too. :)


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A top-rated Northern California restaurant is severely damaged and a firefighter is recovering from injuries after an early morning fire.
Santa Clara County Fire Battalion Chief Kendal Pearson says Monday's two-alarm blaze damaged the attic, roof and interior of the renowned Manresa restaurant in Los Gatos. Firefighters arrived at the restaurant quickly since there's a fire station about 100 yards away.
Pearson says the restaurant wasn't destroyed, but one firefighter was injured in a fall while fighting the blaze and was taken to a hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
The popular restaurant received two stars in the 2014 Michelin Guide to restaurants. It had been closed during the July 4 holiday weekend and had planned to reopen Wednesday.


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- Manchester United have not lost successive Barclays Premier League home games since May 8, 2002
- Southampton have conceded just two goals in their seven Barclays Premier League games in 2013-14; fewer than any other side
- 24 different players have started a Premier League match for Manchester United this season; more than any other side
High-flying Southampton head to Old Trafford to take on Manchester United this Saturday (9:45 am ET on NBCSN, watch live via NBC Sports Live Extra) as David Moyes' side looks to avoid consecutive home losses for the first time since 2002.
Moyes' men return from international break looking to set things right for the home fans after the 2-1 loss they suffered at the hands of West Bromwich Albion on September 28th. That loss was their second straight following the 4-1 drubbing they were dealt by rivals Manchester City during this fall's derby.
United managed to bounce back from the Albion loss with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Sunderland at the Stadium of Light on October 5th. That match marked the coming out party for 18-year-old prodigy Adnan Januzaj, who scored two stunning strikes to give the Red Devils a much needed three points.
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Since then Januzaj has become the hot topic among fans in England who hope the Belgian-born player spurns a handful of other options to play for the Three Lions. How much he'll play for United, however, is the pertinent question this weekend. Fans will hope to see him on the pitch but given Moyes' history of being cautious with young players, supporters may do well to temper their expectations.
In Januzaj, United have a player who can both create and score goals. Physically underdeveloped, Januzaj overcomes defenders with a silky touch, quick bursts of speed and an ability to find space where little seems to exist. While the winger will be available for selection, Tom Cleverley remains a fitness worry after he withdrew from England duty with a calf problem. If he can't go, expect Marouane Fellaini to partner Michael Carrick in the center of the park. Rio Ferdinand is also available to play after a bout on the sidelines with a groin injury.
Southampton enter the match red hot, riding a four match unbeaten streak (including three straight victories) that has seen the Saints climb to 4th in the table. Since a 1-0 loss to Norwich on August 31st, the Saints have not conceded a single goal.
The streak began against West Ham United in a 0-0 draw. From there, the offense picked itself up beating Liverpool 1-0 at Anfield before scalping Crystal Palace and Swansea City by identical scores of 2-0. History, however, is against Southampton at Old Trafford where they've only taken one point from 14 Premier League matches.
Mauricio Pochettino's defense has been boosted by Croatian hard man Dejan Lovren, his partnership with Jose Fonte, and strong, young full-backs in Luke Shaw, Nathaniel Clyne and Callum Chambers. They'll be faced with quite the task in containing the likes of Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney, who will be eager to prove their strike partnership is just as good as everyone's favorite duo, Daniel Sturridge and Luis Suarez.
Polish netminder Artur Boruc missed his country's 2-0 defeat against England at Wembley on Tuesday night with a hamstring injury but should be fit to play, while Luke Shaw, who missed the Swansea game through illness, is also available for selection.
A victory for the Saints could send them to the top of the standings while a United win could see them climb as high as 6th in the table.
Check out whether Southampton can keep their streak alive or whether United can regain its home form this Saturday, at 9:45 am ET live on NBC and online via NBC Sports Live Extra.
What They're Saying
Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs: "I am enjoying working with the new manager. I would prefer better results but we are only seven or eight games into the season."
Southampton manager Mauricio Pochettino: "I think all games in the Premier League are exciting, and this is a very good chance for us to show what we can do as a team. . . It's going to be very difficult but we are going there with a positive mentality. . . I think both teams have changed since we last played them and I am very happy with how the squad is performing these days."
United are heavy favorites but they've done little to prove why that should be the case. Southampton are healthy and seem to have a real level-headedness to their football. I think the Saints go into Old Trafford and earn themselves a point.


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I received a lot of email and Twitter feedback in the wake of my overview of the Spotify service, which is either the greatest music service of all time or a tired retread of what came before, depending on your perspective and experiences. As is always the case with hyperbole, the truth is somewhere in the middle of these two extremes, I think, but I do feel there are two interesting trends emerging not coincidentally with the release of Spotify in the US.
The first is that Spotify appears to be an "it" service, one that succeeds despite the fact that others--Zune Pass, Rhapsody, whatever--pioneered in the market in question. Other examples of such "it" products and services are Google Search, Facebook, and even the iPod. Sometimes, certain products and services just reach a critical mass, in both usage and mindshare, and for whatever reason--and no, not always because they're "better"--just succeed where others failed. As consumers, it's important to identify these things, and make the right bets.
Second, with the digital music market bifurcating with the introduction of useful new services, we now have more choices than ever before, not just between the actual services themselves, but also between the types of music services we can access. I mentioned this in my Spotify overview, but I'd like to elaborate a bit on this second theme now. Based on the feedback I'm getting, I can see that there's a lot of confusion out there. But this isn't like the Microsoft vs. Apple wars of old, where there has to be a single winner. If you're a digital music lover and an avid consumer of this kind of content, it's likely that you'll want to use two or more of these services in tandem. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
To reiterate and expand on what I wrote in my introduction to Spotify, there are basically three types of digital music services available today. These are:
A la carte music services. When most people think of music services, they think of iTunes, which is a traditional, a la carte music service. That is, iTunes offers only paid music, per song or per album, and no subscription offering. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has argued that consumers want to "own" their music, and consumers have responded in kind by purchasing over 10 billion songs from the service since 2003.
There are issues with such a service, however. Many a la carte services, including iTunes, don't make it easy to reclaim previously purchased music. When you buy and download a song, you're expected to manage it, copying it to other devices and backing it up. And if you lose that song file, you'll typically (but not always; this varies by service) need to contact customer service, hat in hand, and ask for a redownload.
Beyond this basic issue, you're also responsible for managing your collection of music, and if you want a tailored experience--certain songs playing in a certain order, say while working out at the gym--you will need to manually create your own playlists. Or you can utilize a feature like Genius in iTunes (or Smart DJ in Zune) that will examine your collection and create more dynamic playlists that are based on a song, artist, or genre. (Capabilities vary by service.)
In the past, the types of portable devices you used determined which music service you used. But with a la carte music services moving to DRM-free files years ago, this is no longer a concern. Any song you buy from any service today (Amazon MP3, iTunes, Zune, whatever) should play just fine on any modern device (iPod, iPhone, Zune, any smart phone, and so on). So it's possible within this realm to mix and match. You could be a diehard iPod user, for example, but purchase music exclusively from Amazon. The compatibility issues of the past are long gone.
While your mileage may vary, I happen to utilize two a la carte music services regularly, Apple iTunes and Amazon MP3, in that order. I look to iTunes first because it offers the highest quality music files, 256 Kbps AAC, though Amazon MP3's high-quality MP3 files are pretty close. It's worthwhile utilizing at least two services and comparing prices whenever you want to buy something. You never know, one or the other may have what you want at a significantly lower price for some reason.
Digital radio services. Services such as Pandora, and related services like satellite radio, offer streaming radio-like experiences on the web, on PCs, and on compatible mobile devices. While these services are typically seen as paid, subscription-based services with a monthly or annual fee, many offer more limited free versions as well.
Digital radio services basically emulate traditional, FM radio stations, but with a twist, and via Internet-based streaming. So there are genre-based stations (Today's Hits, Classical, Rock, and so on), which is very close to what you get on the FM dial, but also dynamically-created stations that are based on your favorite artist or song. So you enter such an entity into a field, create your station, and then listen to it. When you hear songs you like, you can tag them as such, and vice versa, and over time Pandora will hone its stations to better match your needs.
This type of service requires a little or a lot less work than a traditional music service, depending on how much you want to micro-manage what you're hearing. But unlike with a traditional radio station, when a song you don't like comes up, you can tap "Next" and skip it (though this capability is somewhat limited, especially in the free version of the service).
When you pay for Pandora, via the Pandora One offering, you get better quality (192 Kbps) streaming music, access to a real Windows desktop app (and not just a web interface), unlimited listening (vs. 40 hours per month in the free version), and, best of all, no advertisements. It costs just $36 a year, and perhaps not surprisingly, I do pay for Pandora One.
Of course, once you get into a streaming model, you are introducing DRM as well, and thus Pandora and other services aren't universally compatible. So you'll want to ensure that a compatible player is available for the device types you're going to use. In the case of Pandora, this means all the big players: iPod/iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre, and Windows Mobile. (Hopefully, a Windows Phone version is on the way as well.)
Interestingly, Pandora support is also being built into many new automobiles as a nice alternative to satellite radio. This includes new BMWs, Fords, Mercedes Benz, and other automobiles, with more on the way. I noted earlier the notion of "it" services. In the case of digital radio services, Pandora may just be that service.
Digital music subscription services. Finally, we also have a third category of music services that neatly splits the difference between the first two. These paid music subscription services offer customers unfettered access to enormous music collections in the cloud, as long as their accounts are up to date. But they work more like traditional a la carte music services in that the user is basically responsible for manually finding music, creating playlists, and so on.
Examples of these services including long-time players like Rhapsody and Zune Pass, and the latest entry, Spotify. Each comes with a monthly subscription fee. Each offers access to several million songs. Each lets you build playlists. And each has at least one offering where you can download or access your subscribed content from one or more compatible portable devices.
Where these services diverge is in accessibility and device support. With Rhapsody ($10 to $15 a month), you get a native Windows app, web access, and compatibility with numerous MP3 players and smart phones, often via native apps in the latter case. (This includes Windows Phone compatibility, too.) You also get compatibility with some interesting home theater equipment, including the popular but expensive Sonos devices.
Zune Pass is perhaps the best offering of the three, until you factor in device compatibility. It costs $15 a month, yes, but that fee includes 10 free DRM-free MP3 downloads each month, so if you're actively buying music regularly anyway, the net cost here is just $5 per month, a bargain. Zune Pass is compatible with PCs and via the web, but only with Zune devices and Windows Phones. Zune Pass is somewhat accessible on Microsoft's own Xbox 360, too, which should put this service over the top for some. But the support is limited to Smart DJ playlists or manual search and play; it offers no way to create and manage anywhere-accessible playlists in the cloud. Zune Pass does not work with any of the world's most popular devices--iPhone, Android, iPod--and is thus a nonstarter for many.
Spotify, as I noted in my separate overview, offers a nice Windows application and can integrate with your PC-based music collection for better performance. There are two paid versions, one for $5 a month and a second at $10+ per month that adds mobile device support. Currently, this means iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Symbian, Palm webOS, and Windows Mobile, though a Windows Phone app is on the way.
I move in and out of Zune Pass pretty regularly (you can stop and restart the subscription, easily, at any time), and I'm currently still using and testing Spotify. Which of these you use, if any, should depend as always on your usage, and which devices you use. If you have an iPhone, for example, Zune Pass isn't an option.
But wait, there's more
OK, so there are these three basic music services types. But here's where things get truly interesting. Because when it comes to digital music, you aren't limited to just these offerings and you certainly don't have to pigeonhole yourself into just one of the services types.
For example, I use Windows Phone and an iPod touch, and of course Windows PCs. And as I noted above, I use iTunes primarily for music purchases, but I also use Pandora for streaming radio. The reason is simple: While I sometimes do want very specific music, I also sometimes want a customized mix of songs as you get on the radio, a mix that will contain surprises both good and bad. That is, the iTunes purchases are typically for music that I'm already familiar with, but Pandora is for discovering new (or new to me) music.
Things get further complicated by the rise in cloud storage and streaming services like Amazon Cloud Player and Google Music. These services provide cloud-based storage for your existing music collection, allowing you to upload that collection and store it online, for free or, for more storage, with a yearly fee. Competitors like Apple, which won't offer this capability in its coming iCloud service, claim this is an arduous and time consuming process, but I was able to upload my music collection to both services in just a few hours and, let's face it, you only have to do it once. (Utilities will continue to monitor your PC's music collection and upload new songs on the fly.)
(By the way, I'm still using both Cloud Player and Google Music, having not decided between the two yet. I may simply continue replicating my music collection in both places going forward.)
And once your music collection is in the cloud, you can stream it to the PC, or to compatible devices, much as you would with a digital music subscription services. The difference is that you're accessing your own collection. But it's also free or much less expensive than a typical digital music subscription service, and by putting that collection in the cloud, you're making it more universally accessible and removing the need to manually copy your collection from PC to PC and from device to device.
Well, except for one thing. For all the nerdvana we're experiencing here, there is one major wrench in our plans to finally remove our need to micromanage our music collections on our own devices. And that's because wireless carriers are starting to cap monthly bandwidth on mobile devices. So while the notion of continually streaming music--be it from Pandora, Spotify, Zune Pass or whatever--over 3G/4G wireless networks may seem like a good one, it's unclear what this consumption will do to our ever-dwindling monthly bandwidth allotments. For those with unlimited plans--for now--this isn't an issue. But I could see it becoming an issue as we move more and more of our content--not just music--into the cloud.
Whichever strategy you pursue, just remember this: Things are always changing, and the available services are expanding up and out to include new capabilities and device compatibility. And there's no reason to settle on just one service. Sure, you may love iTunes for whatever reason, but you may also want to bolster your own collection with a digital radio or music subscription service. The choices are out there, you just need to examine your own wants, see what's available, and choose accordingly. There's never been a better time for enjoying music at home, work, or on the go.


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Iran has ordered foreign messaging apps to transfer data and activity records of Iranian users to local servers within a year, a move that will give the country a greater ability to monitor and censor the online activity of its people.
The country's Supreme Council of Cyberspace has issued instructions to foreign messaging companies active in the country, requiring them "to transfer all data and activity linked to Iranian citizens into the country in order to ensure their continued activity," news reports said quoting state-run media.
Social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are already blocked in the country whose government holds a tight control over Internet access by its people.
The requirement that the data be stored on local servers could give the government easier access to the information as then the domestic operations of the messaging companies would likely be subject to local regulations.
The messaging app most likely to be affected by this move is Telegram, which is very popular in the country and has an user base of about 20 million, or one of every four persons in the country, according to Reuters.
"While hardliners have met the meteoric rise of messaging apps like Telegram in Iran with strenuous opposition, more moderate members of the Iranian establishment see in the platform an opportunity for getting state-approved content to its massive user base," according to a report by Small Media in London.
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We have written a number of times about how government agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration here in the U.S., have systematically adjusted temperature history to make the past look colder. They apparently do this, usually surreptitiously and without explanation, in order to stoke global warming hysteria. See, for example, He Who Controls the Present Controls the Past and Inside the Global Warming Scandal.
Now Mike Brakey, an engineering physicist and heat transfer specialist, has caught NOAA revising historic temperature data for Maine–as always, to make the past look cooler and the present warmer by comparison:
Over the last months I have discovered that between 2013 and 2015 some government bureaucrats have rewritten Maine climate history… (and New England's and of the U.S.). This statement is not based on my opinion, but on facts drawn from NOAA 2013 climate data vs. NOAA 2015 climate data after they re-wrote it.
We need only compare the data. They cooked their own books (see numbers below).
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This graph presents the data visually. The black line shows average annual temperatures for Maine from 1895 to the present as they were recorded at the time, and as NOAA published them in 2013. Thermometers have recorded no net warming since 1895. The blue line represents NOAA rewritten history as it appears in 2015. Note how NOAA reduces earlier temperatures more than recent ones to give the graph a plausibly warming trend. The green line shows average annual temperatures for a single location, Lewiston-Auburn, showing a steep decline since 2000. Click to enlarge:
NOAA has made similar adjustments to past temperatures around the United States. Brakey writes:
It appears NOAA panicked and did a massive rewrite of Maine temperature history (they used the same algorithm for U.S. in general). The new official temperatures from Maine between 1895 and present were LOWERED by an accumulated 151.2°F between 1895 and 2012.
In my opinion, this is out-and-out fraud. Why did they corrupt national climate data? Global warming is a $27 billion business on an annual basis in the U.S alone.
Now NOAA data revised in 2015 indicate that 1904, 1919 and 1925 in Maine were much colder than anything we experience today. (See the scorecard above comparing the NOAA data that are 18 months apart). Note how for 1913 the NOAA lowered the annual temperature a whole 4°F!
For the balance of the years, as they get closer to the present, the NOAA tweaks less and less. They have corrupted Maine climate data between 1895 and present by a whopping accumulated 151.2°F.
David Archibald writes:
Their cooling of the past to keep the global warming meme alive reminds me of the old Soviet joke – the future is known, it is the past that keeps changing.
Would someone please try to explain why this isn't the biggest scandal in the history of science?


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There are many food and drink options in the Bloomsbury district and neighbouring areas of Fitzrovia and Soho. Clusters of restaurants can be found on Charlotte St. and in the Brunswick Centre both of which are within walking distance of the Museum. Several food options exist within the British Museum itself. For more information visit: http://www.britishmuseum.org/visiting/eat.aspx
The following list is of food and drink options are under 20 minutes walk from the British Museum. The list is a sample of the types of cafés, pubs and restaurants you can find in the area.
Brunswick Centre, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1AE
Tel: 020 7833 5900
44 New Oxford Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1A 1ES
Tel: 020 7580 5602
Naked Espresso
19 Soho Square, London, W1D 3QN
Patisserie Valerie
9 Brunswick Centre, London, WC1 1AF
Tel: 020 7833 4906
51 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1B 3BA
Tel: 020 7404 4939
Tea and Tattle, Traditional Tea Room
41, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3PE
Tel: 07722 192703
Brunwick Centre, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1AW,
Tel: 020 7833 4100
5, Coptic St, London, WC1A 1NH
Tel: 020 7580 9730
45 Grafton Way, London, W1T 5DQ
Tel: 020 7387 2521
Salt Yard
54 Goodge Street, London, W1T 4NA
Tel: 020 7637 0657
22 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3QJ
Tel: 020 7637 4555
Hare and Tortoise
11-13 Brunswick Square, London, WC1 1AF
Tel: 020 7278 9799
Thai Garden Café
32 Museum Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1A 1LH
Tel: 020 7323 1494
Thai Metro
36 Charlotte Street, London, W1T 2NJ
Tel: 020 7436 4201
4A Streatham Street London WC1A 1JB
Tel: 0844 576 6076
Museum Tavern
49 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3BA
The Mortimer Arms
174 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7NT
The Swan
7 Cosmo Place Bloomsbury, WC1N 3AP
23-39 The Brunswick Centre, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1AF
Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Marks & Spencer and Tesco stores are all on Tottenham Court Road.
Lists of restaurants and reviews can be found on London's Time Out website.


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1967's Cool Hand Luke preserves a time when one could not only get away with making an allegory with an existential hero, but stock it with an ensemble from the Actors Studio. Of course, having Paul Newman play the lead is a trump card for this "cool hand." Though he may have been just one of the guys to his Actors Studio compadres, the movie star with the piercing blue eyes and relaxed masculinity has no equal. Newman was well suited to the role of Luke, adapted by screenwriter Frank R. Pierson from the unambiguous criminal of Donn Pearce's novel into a man whose relatively benign crime (lopping the tops off of parking meters) represents his distrust of a corrupt social order.
As a war hero, Luke paid his dues to society, but his homecoming found him uncertain of his place in socieety. Drink, despair, loneliness, and boredom led to his crime and subsequent imprisonment in a rural Southern prison work camp (filmed partly on location in Stockton, CA). There, like Randall McMurphy of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Luke will inevitably fulfill and face up to his nature as an existential hero with a countercultural bent. His fellow inmates on the road gang take heart from this unstoppable object, a man who refuses to stay down when beaten, who refuses to give in despite the cards being stacked against him. In this symbolic landscape, individualism is the greatest crime, and Luke begins to take on the aspect of a serene truth-teller destined for martyrdom (or, in other words, a Christ figure: a symbolism repeatedly reinforced by director Stuart Rosenberg).
Rosenberg's direction is shrewd and restrained, the classic dusty cinematography by Conrad Hall makes brilliant use of light and shadow on location and within Cary Odell's fine prison barracks set, and the score by Lalo Schifrin is one of his best (evidenced by the unfortunate fact that ABC adopted one cut for its Eyewitness News theme, with which the cue remains associated). But Cool Hand Luke runs on its fantastic ensemble work. There's a theatrical quality to the writing here, from the prisoners' communal emotion (reminiscent of, say, Stalag 17) to the rich actor's duet played by Newman and Jo Van Fleet as his visiting, dying mother. Van Fleet, only four years older than Newman, brings powerful sadness to this requiem for family, and Newman beautifully plays the conduit for her emanating emotion.
George Kennedy won an Oscar as the burly Dragline, whose distrust of Luke quickly turns to outsized affection (some have called it homoerotic, with good reason). Among the prisoners are actors who remain unsung (like Lou Antonio), along with familiar faces Ralph Waite, Wayne Rogers, Anthony Zerbe, Harry Dean Stanton, Joe Don Baker, and a silent Dennis Hopper. The keepers make at least as strong an impression, from Boss Godfrey (Morgan Woodward), with his reflective sunglasses, to rule-by-rote Carr (Clifton James) to the simply named "Captain" (Strother Martin), whose power-hungry superiority pulses through the immortal line "What we have here is—failure to communicate."
It's a problem that concerns Luke more in his faith-testing relationship with a higher power, expressed in a climactic skyward address to God. When Dragline says, "Oh, Luke, you wild, beautiful thing. You crazy handful of nothing," the line quietly carries our deepest existential fear, that at our most wayward, our lives amount to a meaninglessness. Of course, Luke's meaning was clear enough to audiences in the turbulence of 1967, and equally clear today: that the power of the individual can not be simply erased when it stands as an example to others. In this vein, the creative lifeblood of Cool Hand Luke shows no failure to communicate.
Warner does right by a long overdue classic catalog title with this debut special edition of Cool Hand Luke on DVD and Blu-Ray. Previous DVD editions lacked significant features, but this one has a brand-new commentary and brand-new documentary to complement a spot-on new high-def transfer. The 41-year old film has been transferred from a nice, clean print and the Blu-Ray edition shows an unprecedented level of detail and clarity compared to previous home video issues. The Dolby Digital mono track isn't going to rock your system, but it does get the job done with clarity and presumably best-case fidelity to the original source material from 1967.
Foremost among the bonus features is the new documentary "A Natural Born World-Shaker: Making Cool Hand Luke" (28:46). This half an hour covers a lot of ground, and gathers an impressive group of cast and crew from the film. Though some well-known faces are MIA (Paul Newman, Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton, Joe Don Baker, and Wayne Rogers), participants include director Stuart Rosenberg, Anthony Zerbe, Paul Newman: A Celebration author Eric Lax, screenwriter Frank Pierson, Ralph Waite, Cool Hand Luke novelist Donn Pearce, George Kennedy, Clifton James, Lou Antonio, assistant director Hank Moonjean, Joy Herman ("The Girl"), and composer Lalo Schifrin. All share vivid memories of a heady team marked by a strong camaraderie amongst the ensemble, with anecdotes about how the directors handled the cast, the film's most famous line, the "Lucille" scene, the egg-eating scene, the tar sequence, etc.
There's also a commentary by author Eric Lax. Lax is frequently redundant to the documentary, but he makes a habit of giving a biographical sketch of each of the actors who come up, which is useful He also gives a rundown of the film's Oscars and competition, analysis of themes and key scenes, and discussion of Lalo Schifrin's score. Perhaps most interesting are his comments about the scene between Newman and Jo Van Fleet, famous for playing years older than her actual age.
Lastly, we get the film's "Theatrical Trailer" (2:48). Though under ideal circumstances, we'd hear from Paul Newman or perhaps get a commentary from Stuart Rosenberg, this deluxe edition offers a very nice, film-like transfer that makes the film as good as new, as well as ample context about its making and social meaning.
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A building permit issued shall become invalid if the authorized work is not commenced within six (6) months after the issuance of the permit, or if the authorized work is suspended or abandoned for a period of six (6) months after the time of commencing the work. A building permit is good for one year from the date of issuance.
The building official is authorized to grant, in writing, one or more extensions of time, for periods not more than 180 days each. The extension shall be requested in writing and justifiable cause demonstrated.
Every sleeping room used for sleeping purposes shall contain a minimum of seventy (70) square feet of floor area and at least fifty (50) square feet of floor area per person with all measurements based on the total habitable room area; provided that the occupancy of any dwelling unit having more than one (1) habitable room shall not exceed an average of one and one-half (1 1/2) persons per habitable room, and provided further that for the purposes of this section, a child under ten (10) years of age shall be deemed to be one-half (1/2) person.
Every dwelling unit shall contain at least one hundred (100) square feet of floor area per occupant.
The triangular openings formed by the riser, tread at the bottom rail at the open side of a stairway shall be of a maximum size such that a sphere 6 inches in diameter cannot pass through the opening.
Continuously graspable handrails are required on stairs with four or more risers and mounted between 34 and 38 inches of the stair slope and not less than 1 1/2 inches from the wall. One-and-two family dwellings require one graspable handrail while Commercial and multi-family buildings require handrails on both sides. Many exterior plastic composite handrails meet these requirements.
Foundation systems should be four (4) feet minimum below grade to protect from frost.
The City of Westbrook follows the State adopted 2015 International Energy and Conservation Code; you can find the insulation code requirements in the building permit application for reference purposes; but please defer to the Code Enforcement Officer for specific requirements to your project.
Ground snow load 60 (up to elevation 500)Wind Speed 120 mph (54 m/s)
Every sleeping room shall have at least one (1) operable window or exterior door approved for emergency egress or rescue. The units must be operable from the inside to a full clear opening without the use of separate tools. Where a window is provided as a means of egress or rescue, they shall have a sill height of not more than 44 inches above the floor.
All egress or rescue windows from sleeping rooms must have a minimum net clear opening of 5.7 square feet. The minimum net clear opening height dimension shall be 24 inches. The minimum net clear opening width dimension shall be 20 inches.
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Stop Counting Macs! Use Apple Remote Desktop And Never Do Inventory Again
- Review of the Apple Remote Desktop Basics
- Adding Workstations to Remote Desktop
- User Accounts and Remote Desktop
- Overview of Remote Desktop Reporting
- Collecting Data for Reports
- Designating an Administrator Computer to Handle/Store Report Data
- Running a Report
- Choosing Between the Report Types and Specifying Details
- Working With Remote Desktop Report Data Outside of Remote Desktop
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Many Mac administrators and technicians know about Apple Remote Desktop, which was introduced about four years ago. But a great number of Mac professionals don't realize the full potential of the product. In fact, many assume that Remote Desktop's only real use is to remotely monitor or control Mac workstations and servers. There is no doubt that is one of its major functions, especially for headless Xserves (it enables you to have complete control of Mac OS X Server beyond using SSH terminal sessions and Apple's GUI administration tools).
But Remote Desktop isn't limited to remote management, troubleshooting, and surveillance capabilities. It can also be a powerful inventory aid or solution, revamp classroom and computer lab interaction between instructors and students, offer unique remote collaboration and presentation options, and make deployments of anything from applications and updates to specific files to full deployments of a new network of Macs much easier and more efficient.
In this first of three articles covering the often untapped possibilities of Remote Desktop, I'll look at the ways you can use it to significantly improve inventory processes, monitor network performance, remain alert to changes in workstations that might be signs of theft, and prepare customized reports easily on the state of the Macs in your network in preparation for an upgrade.
Review of the Apple Remote Desktop Basics
For those not familiar with Apple Remote Desktop, this section reviews the basic steps of installing and configuring Remote Desktop. (Additional information is available in the Remote Desktop Administration Guide.) The client software comes installed along with Mac OS X 10.3 or higher and is configured using the Sharing pane in System Preferences. The Apple Remote Desktop package from Apple contains the administrator software, which includes the Remote Desktop application that you use to manage and interact with Remote Desktop clients and can be purchased in 10 client and unlimited client versions.
When you install the administrator software on a workstation, it becomes an administrator computer that can manage, observe, interact with, and generate reports for Remote Desktop clients in your network. The installer also gives you the option to create custom installer packages that can be used to automatically configure the Remote Desktop client on workstations for management, which can save you the time and energy of configuring each client by hand.


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RDA: Resource Description & Access was published in June 2010 and has been undergoing a test by the U.S. national libraries and others. This webcast uses numerous side-by-side examples in MARC format to show the most significant changes between AACR2 and RDA cataloging practices. Part 1 covers descriptive elements, and part 2 covers access points.
Who Should Attend
The sessions are aimed at catalogers familiar with AACR2 who want to learn more about how RDA records will differ from records created under AACR2 rules. They assume a familiarity with the MARC 21 bibliographic and authority formats, and with FRBR.
Adam L. Schiff is Principal Cataloger at the University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington. He served as chair of one of the two RDA Examples Groups that supplied all of the examples found in RDA. He has chaired the ALCTS CCS Committee on Cataloging: Description & Access, and the Machine-Readable Bibliographic (MARBI) Committee, and currently chairs the ALCTS SAC Genre/Form Subcommittee. He is the author of the SACO Participants' Manual, and is a trainer for NACO and instructor for several courses of the Catalogers Learning Workshop.
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"Complying with U.S. Export Controls"
June 12-13, 2014
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This two-day program is led by BIS's professional counseling staff and provides an in-depth examination of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). The program will cover the information exporters need to know to comply with U.S. export control requirements on commercial goods. We will focus on what items and activities are subject to the EAR; steps to take to determine the export licensing requirements for your item; how to determine your export control classification number (ECCN); when you can export or reexport without applying for a license; export clearance procedures and record keeping requirements; Export Management Compliance Program (EMCP) concepts; and real life examples in applying this information. Presenters will conduct a number of "hands-on" exercises that will prepare you to apply the regulations to your own company's export activities. This program is well suited for those who need a comprehensive understanding of their obligations under the EAR.
Continuing legal education credit (MCLE) is available, and varies with the length of each seminar, for California State Bar members.
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The instructors are experienced export specialists, and enforcement personnel from our BIS field offices and other agencies. The instructors will be available throughout the seminar to answer your questions on how the export regulations affect the export activities of your organization or client.
The program will be held at the Holiday Inn SeaTac International Airport, 17338 International Blvd., Seattle, WA 98188. Registration and continental breakfast begins on June 12, 2014 at 7:30am. The program begins at 8:30am on June 12, 2014, ending at 4:30 pm on both days.
Please make your reservations directly with the hotel by calling (877) 573-2822 and mention "BIS WRO Seminar" to receive the special conference rate of $115.00 per night, or click here to register online.
Advance registration is required and space is limited. Breakfast, lunch, breaks, and training materials will be provided. The registration fee is $470.00 per person. No refunds for cancellations made after June 4, 2014. Please make checks payable to the "Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle and mail checks to 1301 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1500, Seattle, WA 98101. Click here to register online.
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VA Introduces Text Messaging to Expand Efforts to Prevent Suicide Veterans Crisis Line Provides Confidential Help to Veterans and Families WASHINGTON (Feb. 15, 2012) – The Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding its efforts to prevent suicide through several new initiatives that increase the availability of services for Veterans, Servicemembers and their families. The new initiatives include a new, free, confidential text-messaging service in the existing Veterans Crisis Line, introduction of toll-free access from Europe, and collaboration with Vets Prevail and Vets4Warriors, two groups providing crisis help to Veterans, Servicemembers and their families. "Offering text messaging services will help VA reach more Veterans and their friends and families," said Dr. Janet Kemp, VA's national mental health director for suicide prevention. "We are working to meet their needs by communicating through multiple channels — over the phone, through online chat, and now via text, which provides quick, easy access to support. VA wants all Veterans to know that confidential support is only a text message away." Since its founding July 2007, VA's Veterans Crisis Line and the later Chat Service have received 500,000 calls and engaged in 31,000 chats resulting in over 18,000 rescues of Veterans in immediate crisis. Now, in addition to the Veterans Crisis Line (1-800-273-8255 and Press 1) and online chat (www.VeteransCrisisLine.net), Veterans and Servicemembers in crisis—and their friends and families—may text free of charge to 83-8255 to receive confidential, personal and immediate support. The text service is available, like the Veterans Crisis Line and online chat, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year and connects a user with a specially trained VA professional — many who are Veterans themselves. As a part of the effort to extend VA's reach, Veterans and members of the military community in Europe may now receive free, confidential support from the European Military Crisis Line, a new initiative recently launched by VA. Callers in Europe may dial 0800-1273-8255 or DSN 118 to receive confidential support from responders at the Veterans Crisis Line in the U.S. VA's Veterans Crisis Line continues to add external resources to provide Veterans with additional support. Two of these organizations include Vets Prevail (www.VetsPrevail.org) and Vets4Warriors (www.Vets4Warriors.com). In December, Vets Prevail launched a chat service that connects Veterans to caring responders who provide information on a wide variety of resources. If the Veteran is in crisis or needs mental health support, the conversation is then seamlessly transferred to a VA Veterans Crisis Line responder. Vets4Warriors has helped thousands of their peers connect with confidential assistance through a free hotline (1-855-838-8255/1-855-VET-TALK) and online chat (www.Vets4Warriors.com). If a Veteran is in need of professional crisis or mental health support, Vets4Warriors' responders will transfer the Veteran to a responder at the Veterans Crisis Line. For more information about VA's suicide prevention program, visit: http://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/suicide_prevention/
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This essay is reposted by Carlos Rabassa of Uruguay, from a lecture he gave in June.
Dr. Mitra gave an excellent lecture on June 2, 2011 at Universidad ORT in Montevideo, Uruguay on "The Future of Educationâ€.
His first major experiment was the hole in the wall computer, which was later replicated in many locations. They look like the ATM, Automatic Teller Machines, the banks use. They are computers connected to internet, located behind walls. The users have access, from the other side of the wall to the screen, a video camera and a touchpad.
These computers are accessible from streets in neighborhoods where kids had never used a computer. The children are not given any instructions. Researchers collect data for their studies on how the computers are being used.
Dr. Mitra started working in India his birthplace, then in England where he is now based, Newcastle University. He has been traveling and testing his findings all around the world. During the days preceding the lecture he had been working in Uruguayan schools.
He showed us studies made in India and in England. In India, they have problems getting teachers to work far away from the important population centers. In England teachers prefer not to work in areas where there is a large concentration of government subsidized housing.
In both places, it is hard to get teachers to work with the children they need them the most. That is the origin of his interest in researching how far can children go, by teaching themselves. The results of the computer in the hole in the wall, led Dr. Mitra to further his research in that direction.
In a question of hours, children with no knowledge of English and no computer experience surf internet. They ended up learning English at an amazing high level except for a horrible pronunciation. This was until they found out the dictionary offers sound recordings with the pronunciation for each word. And until they found dictation or voice recognition programs that work well only as long as the pronunciation is good.
Dr. Mitra stressed his background is not as an educator. His method in the many experiments he related to us, in different countries and languages, has always been the same:
– Let the children use computers connected to internet.
– Encourage them to work in groups of four.
– Let them talk among themselves.
– Let them move freely to another group if they feel more comfortable.
– Let them visit another group to pick up some ideas and then return to their own group.
– Challenge them with questions.
– Answer all requests for help from him by saying "I don´t know; I have to goâ€.
He found that when children are interested in learning, they learn.
They are not intimidated by difficult questions corresponding to age groups much older than their's. They are not afraid of trying. They might fail in getting the final difficult answer requested but they keep trying and learning many other advanced subjects on the way.
In certain experiments, he found the students were able to make great progress towards these challenges usually given to much older children. After reaching a certain level, their learning would slow down. This was in England. He recruited volunteer grandmothers who would follow the work of the children and encourage them the way grandmothers do with their grandchildren, congratulating them at each step, and showing interest in their work. The result was another big progress in the level of achievement.
Grandmothers volunteer to talk over internet with far away children. There is no formal teaching, just reading fairy tales and talking in English. The result is improved English and specifically improved pronunciation.


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Heart disease and depression are likely to claim more lives than radiation after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident, experts say.
An article from Scientific American.
After the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, worry about the unfolding nuclear accident quickly commandeered international headlines. Even after the situation was brought under relative control over subsequent days and weeks, public concern hung on the threat of radiation almost more than it did than on the tsunami and earthquake themselves, which had killed more than 15,850 people and displaced at least 340,000 more.
A year out, public health experts agree that the radiation fears were overblown. Compared with the effects of the radiation exposure from Fukushima, "the number of expected fatalities are never going to be that large," says Thomas McKone, of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health.
And some, including Richard Garfield, a professor of Clinical and International Nursing at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, go a step further. "In terms of the health impact, the radiation is negligible," he says. "The radiation will cause very few, close to no deaths." But that does not mean that the accident has not already caused wide-reaching health issues. "The indirect effects are great," Garfield says.
Reacting over radiation
The prospect of invisible radioactive material contaminating the air and ground is terrifying—especially for a country that experienced two nuclear bomb attacks in 1945.
In the aftermath of the earthquake the situation seemed dire, as buildings crumbled and workers were exposed to lifetime doses of radiation in a few hours. But in retrospect, the power plant's malfunction was relatively well contained. The reactor shut down, as designed, at the time of the earthquake. "It was nowhere near as complex of a release as Chernobyl, which was everything from the core of the reactor," says Peter Caracappa, a radiation safety officer and clinical assistant professor of nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. "This was a slow release," he adds, and it was limited to a few radioactive materials, including iodine 131, which has a half-life of just eight days and therefore does not lead to long-term contamination. And for other isotopes, such as cesium 134 (three-year half-life) and cesium 137, (30 years), levels can be easily detected and dangerous areas kept clear.
And the Japanese government, although criticized immediately after the accident for providing spotty information, actually gave relatively good instructions to local residents. In particular, it wisely asked people to shelter in place before evacuating potentially dangerous areas, says Kathryn Higley, head of the Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics department at Oregon State University.
The government, armed with reliable maps of where radiation levels were highest, has tailored its advice to local circumstances. Owing to the weather patterns just after the accident, most of the radioactive fallout landed northwest of the Fukushima complex. So for that area, the government has kept the recommended evacuation distance at 30 kilometers. But to the south, a distance of 20 kilometers suffices—and even that, Caracappa says, is more for logistical reasons (keeping roads clear for cleanup crews) than for radiation dangers.
The exposure cutoff for the evacuated areas is an estimated 20 millisieverts per year. (A sievert is a unit of ionizing radiation equal to 100 rems; a rem is a dosage unit of x-ray and gamma-ray radiation exposure.) That is more radiation than the typical U.S. resident is exposed to in an average year, but not that much more, Caracappa says. Taking into account natural background radiation, medical procedures and other sources, people in the U.S. encounter an average of about 6.5 millisieverts per year. Although that extra exposure can increase cancer risk, the effect is very small. A 20-millisievert-per-year exposure might increase the odds of getting cancer by a few thousandths of a percent.
The early cleanup workers faced a higher dose, with the risk of acute radiation sickness, resulting in nausea, low blood cell counts and neurological issues. It usually only occurs when someone has been exposed to about one sievert of radiation over a relatively short period of time. So far, no one has been reported to have suffered this illness from the Fukushima accident. Even the early cleanup workers had exposures that were estimated to be about 500 to 600 millisieverts.
Even the concerns about radiation-contaminated food have likely been exaggerated. Although it is possible cesium could get into the food supply, it is not as likely to accumulate as readily as iodine, Caracappa notes. And simple screening—with Geiger counters and the like—of soil, food and seafood can pick up radiation at low levels (so low, in fact, that the lower-end readings indicate contamination that not likely to be harmful). "It's not like some chemical contaminants—it's not invisible" to our screening methods, Caracappa says.
These reassurances notwithstanding, the authorities will monitor the area for ongoing health risks. A study launched last year will track some 360,000 children from the Fukushima Prefecture over 20 years to look for long-term health effects. A thyroid-screening program has so far detected no malignancies that required additional examination. The prefecture's health officials have also created more comprehensive surveys to get a sense of the entire population's health and well-being.
Shaken place
Even if the Fukushima Daiichi power plant's accident has not proved as dangerous as it was originally feared to be, other risks may be worse than commonly appreciated. Potentially even more dangerous than radioactive isotopes, Higley suggests, might be the debris and scattered chemicals left in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami. "You have shredded buildings, you have industrial parks, petroleum sites," she says. Even in an average suburban neighborhood, the known carcinogens kept around the home, "when it's shredded and dumped on the countryside," it can create another risk that could be much more difficult to detect than cesium.
The physical effects of the earthquake have extended beyond the Fukushima Prefecture as well. As Garfield notes, last summer many nuclear power plants remained closed—and electricity rationing is still a major issue. "It's very indirect, but not insignificant," Garfield says. For those who are just on the edge of health, less heating, air-conditioning, lighting and even reduced mass transit, can be enough to push some of them into illness or even death, he notes.
Perhaps more immediately evident, the earthquake and tsunami left many survivors disconnected from their standard medical care. A region that was known for its aging population, Fukushima Prefecture was especially vulnerable to a disaster that would sever residents from simple health support, such as heart medication and physicians familiar with their medical histories.
"People who were normally stable were suddenly a burden on health services," because suddenly they could no longer get the treatments for their managed conditions due to distribution and manufacturing disruptions, Garfield says.
Fortunately, Japan was well equipped to handle such a disaster and was able to distribute medication relatively quickly. Volunteer medical teams from elsewhere in the country came in to provide services for the ill and displaced. But, as Garfield points out, although these temporary visiting health workers were helpful, they could not replace the long-time doctors that patients had relied on prior to the disaster.
Of course, no matter how prepared a country is a massive disaster is devastating for individuals. People who lost their homes, villages and family members, and even just those who survived the quake, will likely continue to face mental health challenges and the physical ailments that come with stress, such as heart disease. "Much of the damage was really psychological—the stress of not knowing, of being relocated," U.C. Berkeley's McKone says.
Experts on the ground in Japan agree. "Mental health is the most significant issue," notes Seiji Yasumura, a gerontologist at Fukushima Medical University's Department of Public Health. Stress, such as that caused by dislocation, uncertainty and concern about unseen toxicants, has been linked to increased risk for physical ailments, such as heart disease. So even if radiation risks are low, "people are still worried," he says. And that can also lead to unhealthy behavioral changes, "including dietary choices, lack of exercise and sleep deprivation"—all of which can have long-term negative health consequences. Many of the survivors are elderly, whom either lost a partner or even an entire family. As after the Kobe earthquake of 1995, the Japanese government has created housing for these disconnected older adults. But, as Garfield notes, "the government can't buy you a new family."
There are also what Garfield calls, "the immeasureable, imponderable" effects of the disaster. Those who relocated from the prefecture report having experienced discrimination and, especially immediately following the accident, were considered somehow "contaminated." Traditional Japanese values also prize stoicism, which means that people who are suffering mental or even physical distress might be less likely to seek the care they need.
As in previous disasters, however, new services have developed to meet new needs. Awareness of the mental health burden has lead to a spontaneous outpouring of help from around the country. In some ways, Garfield says, "the victims are probably getting better care than they were before."
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The Decline And Fall Of Europe
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Cartoons and riots made the headlines in Europe last week, but a far less fiery event, the publication of an academic study, may shed greater light on the future of the continent. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), headquartered in Paris, released a report, "Going for Growth," that details economic prospects in the industrial world. It is 160 pages long and written in bland, cautious, scholarly prose. But the conclusion is clear: Europe is in deep trouble. These days we all talk about the rise of Asia and the challenge to America, but it may well turn out that the most consequential trend of the next decade will be the economic decline of Europe.
It's often noted that the European Union has a combined gross domestic product that is approximately the same as that of the United States. But the E.U. has 170 million more people. Its per capita GDP is 25 percent lower than that of the United States, and, most important, that gap has been widening for 15 years. If present trends continue, the chief economist at the OECD argues, in 20 years the average U.S. citizen will be twice as rich as the average Frenchman or German. (Britain is an exception on most of these measures, lying somewhere between Continental Europe and the United States.)
People have argued that Europeans simply value leisure more and, as a result, are poorer but have a better quality of life. That's fine if you're taking a 10 percent pay cut and choosing to have longer lunches and vacations. But if you're only half as well off as the United States, that will translate into poorer health care and education, diminished access to all kinds of goods and services, and a lower quality of life. Two Swedish researchers, Fredrik Bergstrom and Robert Gidehag, note in a monograph published last year that "40 percent of Swedish households would rank as low-income households in the U.S." In many European countries, the percentage would be even greater.
In March 2000, E.U. heads of state agreed to make the European Union "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy by 2010." Today this looks like a joke. The OECD report goes through the status of reforms country by country, and all the major continental economies get a B-minus. Whenever some politician makes tiny, halting efforts at reform, strikes and protests paralyze the country. In recent months reformers such as Nicolas Sarkozy in France, Jose Manuel Barroso in Brussels and Angela Merkel in Germany have been backtracking on their proposals and instead mouthing pious rhetoric about the need to "manage" globalization. E.U. Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson's efforts to liberalize trade have been consistently undercut. As a result of the European Union's unwillingness to reduce its massive farm subsidies, the Doha trade expansion round is dead.
Talk to top-level scientists and educators about the future of scientific research and they will rarely even mention Europe. There are areas in which it is world class, but they are fewer than they once were. In the biomedical sciences, for example, Europe is not on the map, and it might well be surpassed by much poorer Asian countries. The chief executive of a large pharmaceutical company told me that in 10 years, the three most important countries for his industry will be the United States, China and India.
And I haven't even gotten to the demographics. In 25 years the number of working-age Europeans will decline by 7 percent, while those older than 65 will increase by 50 percent. One solution: Let older people work. But Europe's employment rate for people older than 60 is low: 7 percent in France and 12 percent in Germany (compared with 27 percent in the United States). Modest efforts to allow people to retire later have been met with the usual avalanche of protests. And while economists and the European Commission keep proposing that Europe take in more immigrants to expand its labor force, it won't. The cartoon controversy has powerfully highlighted the difficulties Europe is having with its immigrants.
What does all this add up to? Less European influence in the world. Europe's position in such institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund relates to its share of world GDP. Its dwindling defense spending weakens its ability to be a military partner of the United States, or to project military power abroad even for peacekeeping purposes. Its cramped, increasingly protectionist outlook will further sap its vitality.
The decline of Europe means a world with a greater diffusion of power and a lessened ability to create international norms and rules of the road. It also means that America's superpower status will linger. Think of the dollar. For years people have argued that it is due for a massive drop as countries around the world diversify their savings. But as people looked at the alternatives, they decided that the chief rivals, the euro and the yen, represented economies that were structurally weak. So they have reluctantly stuck with the dollar. It's a similar dynamic in other arenas. You can't beat something with nothing.
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Acquisition Advances Cisco's Service Provider Mobile Networking Leadership
SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – Jan 23, 2013) – Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO, news, filings) today announced its intent to acquire privately held Intucell. Headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel, Intucell provides advanced self-optimizing network (SON) software, which enables mobile carriers to plan, configure, manage, optimize and heal cellular networks automatically, according to real-time changing network demands. The acquisition of Intucell enhances Cisco's commitment to global service providers by adding a critical network intelligence layer to manage and optimize spectrum, coverage and capacity, and ultimately the quality of the mobile experience.
The proliferation of connected mobile devices, faster network speeds, and growing demand for high-bandwidth applications and services are driving greater network traffic and complexity. As mobile service providers continue to face increased end-user demand, the need to optimize network bandwidth, usage and services is increasing. Intucell's SON software platform addresses these challenges by examining the network, identifying issues in real time, and intelligently adapting the network to meet demand.
With the evolution of LTE 4G networks, mobile operators are increasingly looking for a more cost effective and efficient way to keep up with demand for bandwidth and reduce complexity. Intucell enhances Cisco's ability to deliver next-generation solutions with a SON software platform that supports multi-application, multi-vendor and multi-technology capabilities and enables service providers to manage operational costs and make better use of infrastructure investments.
"The mobile network of the future must be able to scale intelligently to address growing and often unpredictable traffic patterns, while also enabling carriers to generate incremental revenue streams," said Kelly Ahuja, senior vice president and general manager, Cisco Service Provider Mobility Group. "Through the addition of Intucell's industry-leading SON technology, Cisco's service provider mobility portfolio provides operators with unparalleled network intelligence and the unique ability to not only accommodate exploding network traffic, but to profit from it."
The acquisition of Intucell exemplifies Cisco's innovation framework and supports Cisco's five foundational priorities to lead the market in networking across all customer segments. The acquisition is well-aligned to Cisco's goals of developing and delivering innovative network and software technologies.
Upon the close of the acquisition, Intucell employees will be integrated into Cisco's Service Provider Mobility Group, reporting to Shailesh Shukla, vice president and general manager, Software and Applications Group. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $475 million in cash and retention-based incentives to acquire the entire business and operations of Intucell. The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2013, subject to customary closing conditions, including applicable regulatory approvals.
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