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On November 1, 2005, Microsoft announced that it would release a set of services beginning in 2006 under the Windows Live brand. For the most part, the Windows Live services match up with previous projects from MSN, which had been pulled into the Windows division at Microsoft during a late 2005 reorganization. As a long-time fan of MSN--see my exhaustive showcase, MSN: The Inside Story, for details--this reorg gave me mixed feelings. On the one hand, I felt that the somnolent Windows group could use the injection of energy, excitement, and innovation that MSN would no doubt provide. But on the other hand, I was fearful that the enormous Windows division would simply destroy MSN and the many benefits of MSN's rapid release mantra.
Two months later, it's not clear how this combination of Windows and MSN will turn out. However, I am reasonably confident that the numerous Windows Live services that Microsoft plans to ship in the weeks and months ahead will be interesting and compelling for a wide range of consumers. And it's important to note that the Windows Live services are indeed aimed at consumers, and not businesses. This stands in sharp contrast with the Office Live services (see my showcase, Office Live Preview), which are aimed at small businesses, and Xbox Live, which is aimed at gamers.
In this article, I'll examine the genesis of Windows Live, and take a look at how Microsoft plans to capitalize on the integration of Windows with various Web-based services and products. Then, I'll briefly examine each of the Windows Live services that the company plans to ship this year, saving full reviews of each service for their eventual ship dates.
The move from MSN to Windows Live
"Windows Live came about when we began reexamining Windows," Adam Sohn, Microsoft Director of Global Sales and Marketing PR, told me during a recent briefing. "We have a set of experiences in Windows, and platform capabilities there that nicely position it to take advantages of services. We had a bunch of great Windows experiences and we had a bunch of great online and mobile experiences but they were siloed."
Microsoft executives such as Bill Gates, David Cole, Ray Ozzie, Steve Ballmer, and Jim Allchin determined how to bring the company's Windows, online, and mobile experiences together in ways that were seamless but didn't run into any of the debatable problems presented by previous integration strategies around Internet Explorer (IE) and Windows Media Player (WMP). "All these guys, they get it," Sohn told me.
At the time Windows Live was first conceived in early 2005, MSN was shipping innovative products and services at a rapid clip, and industry forces like broadband penetration and the explosion of mobile devices were combining to create a compelling case for an integrated software-driven future. "You have an opportunity to rethink a lot of what goes in the operating system both at the platform and experiences levels as we march towards [Windows] Vista," Sohn said. "So even though this is just the beginning of Windows Live, understanding what it is that we really needed to do was the culmination of phase one."
While MSN can rightly be credited for its innovative work, it wasn't very consistent. For example, when you're using Windows, it's always clear that you're using Windows. But MSN applications and services each presented their own user experience, each of which could differ from the Windows user experience. "Everything was different, and it made for an unnatural, non-seamless, unintuitive experience," Sohn told me. "So we took a step back and did more than a year of research, and we talked to thousands of consumers around the world. We asked what the Internet meant to them, what did Windows mean to them, and what did MSN mean to them. What are the things you're trying to do? What does technology mean to you? The feedback we got was just stunning. Really, what they said was, bring it together. Take away the pain of using it, and take away the risk of using it. Ultimately, we were told that people get the Internet and have in some ways outgrown it. It's still a little bit confusing and is perceived to be unsafe, and in some cases is actually unsafe. They wanted someone to help them put it all together and help them get to the stuff they care about."
Windows Live, essentially, is an effort to unify that work. And really, when you think about it, MSN has really been building Windows experiences, even though many of those experiences were browser based. So when you think about the new Windows Live branding, it does makes some sense, though I continue to have fears that the Windows division will eventually crush the good parts of MSN.
Sohn doesn't see it that way. "This is a way to extend the Windows user experience," he said. "There are already a couple of places where you see glimmers of what is possible. The first place we did it is desktop search. And that was a very simple choice: We decided to do deep Windows shell integration and the other guys [Google] chose not to. We used publicly documented APIs, just like any other application would, but the other guys [Google] decided to put everything inside a browser window and mix [search] results [between Web and file search]. We did pretty well with that."
Sohn also pointed to Windows OneCare Live and Windows Live Security Center as two other examples of this type of integration work. His favorite example, however, is Windows Live Messenger, the successor to MSN Messenger, which provides a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing service that is deeply integrated with the Windows shell (see below). "Why shouldn't it be part of Windows?" he asked, noting that folder sharing from within Messenger is cool, but allowing it from within Windows makes it truly seamless. And as with MSN's Desktop Search work, the Windows Live Messenger Folder Sharing feature utilizes public programming interfaces. The message is clear: Any third party developer could create these kinds of solutions, but Microsoft is showing the way.
Bringing it all together: A Windows Live deep dive
At a conceptual level, Windows Live consists of a number of layers, most of which build on top of each other. At the bottom of this structure is a set of foundational technologies, such as billing, identity, and storage, that cut across everything else Microsoft is doing with Windows Live. Microsoft Points, the micropayment system that Microsoft first developed for the Xbox 360 version of Xbox Live is also found at this level. Sohn says that Microsoft Points could easily end up in "lots of other places," most of which will presumably be part of Windows Live.
Above the foundational technologies are three chunks, the Information Network, the People Network, and the Business Network. Sohn told me that these three networks were described a bit differently in November when Bill Gates first discussed Windows Live (they were described as the Search Network, the Ad Network, and the Communications Network during that event, but offer the same services). The Information Network including MSN Search, the MSN mapping services and even the Gadgets infrastructure that will allow for mini-applications that work in both Windows Vista's Sidebar and on the Live.com Web portal.
"You can think of Search as the engine that powers the Information Network," Sohn told me. "In the next 6-to-12 months, you'll see new Search experiences, and you'll see Search continue to get woven through all of the experiences in the network, because it just makes sense to have it at your fingertips everywhere you go. You saw it in the last version of [MSN] Messenger, where we had shared search."
The People Network includes the integrated contacts management system that was originally created by MSN. And of course the Business Network is dominated by a new ad engine called Ad Center. "Windows Live is an advertising funded service, so we have this thing called Ad Center that we're building that will be a hub through which advertisers interact with us, and we'll help them reach the audiences they care about," Sohn added.
On top of these three networks are the actual experiences that are provided by Windows Live. I briefly describe each of these experiences below, but consider Windows Live Messenger as a typical example. The Messenger contacts list pulls heavily from the People Network, while the ads its displays are typically pulled from the Business Network. The word wheel effect you get when you filter the viewable contacts list by typing in the Find contacts box? That's straight from the Information Network, using MSN Search technology. For now, all of the experiences you'll see through Windows Live will come from Microsoft, of course. But the company intends to open it up to third parties as well.
Finally, at the topmost level and in many ways surrounding all the other components is what Sohn calls the protection fabric. "Some of the [Windows Live] experiences, maybe, are protection experiences, like Parental Controls, Windows OneCare Live, or Live.com, sort of, as well," he said. "Around that you have the fabric. In [Windows Live] Mail, if we see a phish, we disable everything so you can't hurt yourself. That to me is just fabric. Detect and protect. We're always looking out for you, always making it better, always making it safe. I think that services like Automatic Updates for Windows will, over time, will be seen as part of that same fabric."
"The theme we always talk about is this idea of bringing it all together," he told me. "That's the way we think of Windows Live."
But what about MSN?
If you look over the list of Windows Live services described in the next section, you'll notice that it doesn't completely encompass all of the products and services that MSN current offers. So what happens to such things as the MSN.com portal, the MSN dial-up service, and MSN Premium?
For fans of MSN.com, I've got good news. Microsoft will proceed with what it calls a dual portal strategy, and will offer both MSN.com and Live.com (the Windows Live portal), each of which is unique from the other. "MSN.com and the [MSN content] channels don't go away," Sohn said. "We're actually going to up our investment in the content business."
The reason for this is that there are two to three types of people when it comes to consuming online content. The first group is after a programmed content experience, sites that provide specific types of content and decide which content to provide. These are things people care about, like sports, finance, or cars. "We've got a ton of people who care deeply about their connection to [the MSN] network, which means we have an opportunity to connect those people to advertisers," Sohn told me. "That's a $2 billion business for us. There are still a lot of people who like [to get content] that way [online]."
The second group consists of people who want a fully customized experience, utilizing content from all over the Web. The third group, which is in the middle of the other two, sometimes wants content the first way, but sometimes wants it the second way. "Some people jump back and forth between the two camps," Sohn added. "Sometimes they want to go to MSN and see what's going on at the movies and watch some trailers. It's easy to do that at MSN, and they've pulled that together. So we invest heavily in MSN, and we invest heavily in Windows Live, and what happens is we end up with one bigger network. And because we're giving everybody what they want, or at least giving more people something to which they can connect more deeply with, what happens is that those people become more engaged with our network. That makes them very attractive to advertisers and really helps grow the network."
As for the other MSN products and services, the news is mixed. The MSN dial-up client will remain in place as long as it makes sense for Microsoft to be in that business, Sohn told me. But it's unlikely that Microsoft will ever update MSN Premium again. Instead, the customization work that was previously done with the MSN client is being moved into Web-based Windows Live products and services that can be updated so much more quickly.
"Windows Live gives us the opportunity to create Web-only experiences that really push the edge in terms of smart client experiences using technologies like AJAX and RSS, and making sure we use the power of the client," Sohn explained. "And Windows Vista gives us some awesome opportunities with the new application model behind WinFX. There's this idea that you can do one-click installs, and you're running Web applications that are [just as rich as] client apps, and download to secure memory and execute in a way that won't hurt you."
"We also have the opportunity to experiment with smart clients, whether we have a full [PC-based] client or not, or whether we have these hybrid experiences like OneCare where you have a bunch of client code, but you also have a lot of server code. Or Messenger, which obviously is a client application talking to services. Even Windows Mail provides a look at an Outlook Express in the Windows Live world. That's something you'll see as we roll it out. The great thing about Windows Live is that we have a decently blank slate, we have a guiding star in this idea of bringing together people and information safely, and we can execute against that in ways that our customers want. These are generally fast twitch products, even on the client side, and we can ship them quickly. It gives us the opportunity to be really nimble."
Sohn reminded me that the entire MSN team moved intact into the Windows division and that everybody is still working on basically the same products. But now the opportunities are almost endless. "There's tons of crossover," he said. "People who are using MSN.com are going to want access to mail and communications services, and Search. We'll make Windows Live Services available on MSN. Flip that around: We have done a tremendous job over the past ten years of cutting some really nice content deals. We have awesome sports content, awesome automotive stuff, awesome finance stuff, and great entertainment content, both homegrown and the stuff we get elsewhere. For people who want that in their totally customized, automated experience, we think that they should be able to consume MSN content in that metaphor. So there should be all these feeds coming out of MSN for all that content, and it should be available on Windows Live too. That MSN content will become more available across the whole network, and Windows Live services are obviously available to those people that want them."
Though he didn't highlight this point, I'd call out that one of the palpable benefits of Windows Live is that the services are not forced down users' throats via arbitrary inclusion in Windows. That is, the services integrate quite deeply into Windows, but are not included in Windows or required in any way. Customers can opt into them as they want.
Taking stock: A quick look at the Windows Live services
When Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie introduced Windows Live in November 2005, I was struck by the sheer number of services the company planned. In this section, I'll enumerate through each of the services we now know about, though I'll hold off on full reviews for future articles.
Live.com Web portal
The Windows Live Web portal, found at Live.com, is designed to be your one-stop home page on the Web, complete with a simple (read: Google-like) and yet fully customizable user interface. By default, the portal features a sidebar and four simple sections, Welcome, Mail, Add Content, and Weather Forecasts. You can add content (typically RSS feeds) by navigating through the directory of choices in the sidebar, or by searching for content in the search box. Once you begin adding content to your customized home page, you can then customize the look of the page by dragging and dropping content sections. You can also customize the layout of the page by choosing from 1 to 4 columns, color schemes, and language settings. And here's a shocker: This all works in Firefox as well as it does in Internet Explorer (IE).
Windows Live Domains
Essentially a wrapper around Hotmail with custom domain names (such as [email protected] instead of [email protected]), Windows Live Domain lets you configure up to 40 email accounts, each with 250 MB of storage space, per domain. The email accounts are functionally equivalent to Hotmail accounts, with junk email filtering, virus scanning, and a familiar Web mail interface. In order to start a Windows Live Domains account, however, you must already own a domain name: Microsoft isn't providing domain name registration services (at least not yet).
Windows Live Expo
Windows Live Expo is an online community where users can buy, sell, or advertise virtually anything, including cars, jobs, open houses, and so on. It's also a social networking site that provides a place for people to meet and interact with people. What makes Expo interesting is that it's tailored to your physical location. So by default, you'll see listings that are geographically close to where you live, though of course you can also interact with others from around the country or in other geographic areas. You can choose to interact only with people you trust--such as those people who are on your contacts list--or with anyone. It's your choice. Codenamed Fremont, Windows Live Expo has been in live testing within Microsoft for several months, and it's proven to be a bit hit with employees.
Windows Live Favorites
Assuming you use Internet Explorer (IE) or MSN Explorer, this free service will allow you to access your Favorites list from any location, assuming you're online. Once you've got your Favorites stored in Microsoft's central servers, you can manage them through Windows Live Favorites, add new Favorites, and do a bit of manual synchronization by exporting Windows Live Favorites back to one or more PCs. This is a marginally useful service (again, assuming you use IE), I suppose, especially for those who are about to backup a system before reinstalling Windows, or for those who use one or more PCs.
Windows Live Local
While Google has gotten a lot of press for its Google Earth service, Microsoft's Windows Live Local (formerly Virtual Earth) is far more visually impressive, with three dimensional birds-eye views of many geographic locations, including, ominously, my house (it's out of date, however: We put up a fence around the entire property over two years ago). You can use Windows Live Local to find locations, get driving directions, see maps as well as satellite imagery, and search online yellow page directories. It's an amazing combination of features that provides the same services as Yahoo Maps or Google Earth, but with that bit of extra visual flair. Most impressive.
Windows Live Mail
Back in October, I wrote a preview of what was then called MSN Mail Beta, but will now be branded as Windows Live Mail. Essentially an AJAX-based follow-up to Hotmail, Windows Live Mail is one of the most impressive Web-based email clients I've yet seen, head and shoulders above Google's GMail and similar to (but not as attractive as) the Yahoo Mail Beta (Figure) that's currently in testing. The idea behind Windows Live Mail is simple: Take advantage of the latest Web technologies to provide a Web-based email client that offers much of the same functionality that people expect from true client-side applications such as Outlook Express and Outlook. And indeed, Windows Live Mail supports such client features as drag-and-drop, right-click, and message previewing, while providing 2 GB of storage space. Windows Live Mail will eventually replace Microsoft's popular Hotmail service.
Windows Live Messenger
The successor to MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger is more colorful and configurable, and offers intriguing Windows integration features like Folder Sharing, which establishes peer-to-peer connections between you and your contacts so that you can share files over the Internet. Windows Live Messenger will also provide a subscription-based service for calling local, long distance, and international mobile and land-line telephone numbers, and a free service for PC-to-PC phone calls.
Windows Live Mobile Search
For users with Web-enabled mobile devices such as cell phones, you can now use the best features from MSN Search on the go. Working largely with the "Near Me" functionality of MSN Search, Windows Live Mobile Search will help you find restaurants, movies, and other nearby events and locations, all through a Web site that is formulated for the small screens found on mobile devices.
Windows Live Safety Center
Windows Live Safety Center is a free online service that will scan your PC for malware, alert you to any problems, and then remove them for you. Though it's free, it's manually initiated, so you can't use this service to replace automatic anti-malware systems like Norton Internet Security or ZoneAlarm Security Suite. That said, it's a nice service, especially if you're nervous that something bad happened. One curious note: The Windows Live Safety Center requires a small client download, the Windows Live Safety Center Scanner. Once you've got that, you're good to go: Windows Live Safety Center will scan for viruses, clean up your disk, defragment your disk, scan open ports, and provide a nice rundown of your system's health status.
Windows OneCare Live
Where Windows Live Safety Center is free but manual, Windows OneCare Live will be a paid subscription service, but will work automatically and keep itself (and your system) up-to-date from a security perspective. Essentially a Microsoft alternative to products like ZoneAlarm Security Suite, Windows OneCare Live provides a two-way firewall, antivirus and anti-spyware services, and a front-end for such things as performance tuning and backup and restore. And like similar products, OneCare is always running in the background, alerting you to new threats and ensuring that you have the latest security software installed. I've been using Windows OneCare Live beta on my desktop system for several months now, and aside from the annoyance of some of its notifications (it seems like to keep telling me that "Windows OneCare Live is up to date" for some reason), it appears to work well.
Final thoughts
While many people--myself included--have accurately questioned Microsoft's commitment to security over the past several years, many of the Windows Live services are whole-heartedly dedicated to security, and most of the ones that aren't are still designed to interwork with Microsoft's various security initiatives. But the most impressive thing about Windows Live is that it represents a serious commitment to the individual, with a suite of interesting services that most consumers should find quite appealing. It's impossible to look at the whole of Windows Live and not be impressed, even though it's likely that most people will end up interacting only with a subset of the offered services. In upcoming weeks, I'll try to more closely examine each of these products and services in separate reviews. But for now, I'm happy to see that Microsoft can innovate and integrate without artificially bundling these products directly into the Windows. That's progress, no matter how you slice it.


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Global restaurateur HMSHosthas been selected as a finalist for the National Restaurant Association's (NRA) 2013 Operator Innovations Awards.
HMSHost is one of three finalists in both the food safety and the menu development categories vying for a chance at being named the top innovator in each category, and potentially the overall Innovator of the Year.
The NRA is the leading restaurant industry organization in the United States, and this is the second consecutive year for the Operator Innovations Awards.
HMSHost's food safety nomination is based on the company's comprehensive approach to food safety. The program features an audit process that goes beyond evaluation to integrate consultation and training, enabling the company to ensure strict, uniform food safety in its airport and motorway travel plaza restaurants.
HMSHost was selected in the menu development category for its "Freedom to Choose" platform. The internally developed, Web-based tool gives HMSHost's restaurant operators access to hundreds of menu items to quickly and easily tailor menus that reflect airport consumer demands and prevalent regional trends.
Sheila Bliss, director of quality assurance, and Annamarie Pintozzi, corporate chef and senior manager culinary, will represent HMSHost for their respective award categories at the 2013 National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show held May 18–21 at Chicago's McCormick Place.
"HMSHost is honored to receive this recognition from the National Restaurant Association for our food safety and menu development programs," says HMSHost chief operating officer Pat Banducci. "We are especially proud of Sheila Bliss and Annamarie Pintozzi for their creativity and execution that resulted in our selection as a finalist."
The Operator Innovations Awards conference is a gathering of industry leaders to celebrate and examine significant industry innovations.
These awards recognize successful restaurant and foodservice operators that are leading the progression of the food and beverage industry. Judging is done by a panel of nonpartisan judges with a breadth of foodservice industry experience and knowledge.

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Thursday, January 24, 2008
Royal Foodie Joust
One of the things that I have loved so much about blogging about food is that I am learning that there are soooo many things that I don't know. I love the challenges because they encourage me to go beyond my comfort zone again and again! One of my favorites is the Royal Foodie Joust hosted by Jenn, which I love participating in. The winner from the previous month gets to choose the 3 ingredients that need to be used for the next month. Last months winner Dharm from Dad~Baker and Chef choose eggplant, Lentils and cinnamon as the ingredients. Wow what was I going to do with those???!!! First I thought I would do a dip like a Baba Ghannoush but then I thought that I should challenge myself a little more. So I came up with a stuffed eggplant dish that was to die for! I will definitely be making this one again!
Lentil Stuffed Eggplant Recipe
Thanks Dharm for choosing these ingredients and to you Jenn for hosting this challenge!
As Always...
Happy Entertaining!!!
4 comments:
- Emily said...
Yay! Good luck to you, Judy!
Your dish looks delicious. Isn't this a fun contest? I love it. - January 25, 2008 at 1:55 AM
You have a very nice blog, good post...keep up the good job
- January 25, 2008 at 3:27 AM
- Thistlemoon said...
Yumana! That looks yummy! I am glad youare enjoying these challenges, I am certianly enjoying your creations!
- January 25, 2008 at 10:17 AM
- Judy@nofearentertaining said...
Thanks so much everyone. And yes, I do love this contest!
- January 25, 2008 at 3:46 PM
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1.1: Graphs for Discrete and for Continuous Data
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Basic Graph Types
In previous sections, you learned about discrete and continuous data and were introduced to categorical and numerical forms of displaying data. In later sections, you will learn how to display discrete and continuous data in both categorical and numerical displays, but in a way that allows you to compare sets of data. However, as a review, let's first go through the following examples.
Identifying Discrete and Continuous Data
Which of the following graphs represents discrete data? Which represents continuous data?
Remember that discrete data is represented by exact values that result from counting, as in the number of people in the households in your neighborhood. Continuous data is represented by a range of data that results from measuring. For example, taking the average temperatures for each month during a year is an example of continuous data. Also remember from an earlier Concept how you distinguished between these types of data when you graphed them.
The first graph shows discrete data. Remember that you know this because the data points are not joined. The second graph represents the average temperatures during the months in 2009. This data is continuous. You can easily tell this by looking at the graph and seeing the data points connected together.
Recognizing the Type of Data Graphs Represent
1. Which of the following graphs represent categorical, or qualitative, data? Which represent numerical, or quantitative, data?
2 newer terms used are the categorical and numerical data forms. Categorical data forms are just what the term suggests. These are data forms that are in categories and describe characteristics, or qualities, of a category. These data forms are more qualitative data and, therefore, are less numerical than they are descriptive. Graphs such as pie charts and bar graphs show descriptive data, or qualitative data. The top 2 graphs are examples of categorical data represented in these types of graphs.
Numerical data is quantitative data. Numerical data involves measuring or counting a numerical value. Therefore, when you talk about discrete and continuous data, you are talking about numerical data. Line graphs, frequency polygons, histograms, and stem-and-leaf plots all involve numerical data, or quantitative data, as is shown in the remaining graphs.
2. Does the following graph represent categorical or numerical data? Is the data discrete or continuous?
Box-and-whisker plots are considered numerical displays of data, as they are based on quantitative data (the mean and median), as well as the maximum (upper) and minimum (lower) values found in the data. Also, since a box-and-whisker plot analyzes individual data points, we know that the data must be discrete, and not continuous.
You will spend the next several sections learning about how to compare sets of categorical and numerical data, including data that is both discrete and continuous.
Points to Consider
- What is the difference between categorical and numerical data, and how does this relate to qualitative and quantitative data?
Give a graphical example of each of the following types of data. There are many possible examples, but one example for each type of data is shown below:
Example 1
Discrete data
The graph shown above is a box-and-whisker plot. Remember that to create a box-and-whisker plot, you put the data in order and find the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum of the data set. Since a box-and-whisker plot analyzes individual data points to find these values, it represents discrete data.
Example 2
Continuous data
The graph shown above is a broken-line graph. As you can see from the graph, there is no break in the line. In other words, you can choose any time between 8:45 am and 12:15 pm, even one involving a fraction of a second, and there will be a corresponding distance in km. Therefore, this broken line graph represents continuous data.
Example 3
Numerical, or quantitative, data
The graph shown above is a histogram. The horizontal axis of the histogram represents the heights of students in inches. This means that the data being counted by the histogram are numbers, so the histogram represents numerical, or quantitative, data.
Example 4
Categorical, or qualitative, data
The graph shown above is a pie chart. The slices of the pie represents homework, music, meals, sleep, school, and work, respectively. In other words, the data that the slices of the pie stand for are not numbers. Therefore, the pie chart represents categorical, or quantitative, data.
Term | Definition |
numerical data | Numerical data is data that involves measuring or counting numbers. |
qualitative data | Qualitative data is descriptive data or data that involves categories. |
quantitative data | Quantitative data is numerical data or data that is in the form of numbers. |
categorical data | Categorical data are data forms that are in categories and describe characteristics, or qualities, of a category. |
- In the table below, match the following types of graphs with the types of variables used to create the graphs.
Type of Graph | Type of Variable |
a. Histogram | _____ discrete |
b. Stem-and-leaf plot | _____ discrete |
c. Broken-line graph | _____ discrete |
d. Bar graph | _____ continuous |
e. Pie chart | _____ continuous |
- In the table below, match the following types of graphs with the types of variables used to create the graphs.
Type of Graph | Type of Variable |
a. Broken-line graph | _____ qualitative |
b. Bar graph | _____ numerical |
c. Pie chart | _____ categorical |
d. Stem-and-leaf plot | _____ quantitative |
e. Histogram | _____ numerical |
Determine if each of the following graphs represents discrete or continuous data.
USGS, earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...troller-40240/
Determine if each of the following graphs represents numerical (quantitative) data or categorical (qualitative) data.
USGS - earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...ear/graphs.php
Additional Resources
PLIX: Play, Learn, Interact, Experience for Discrete vs. Continuous Data.
A list of student-submitted discussion questions for Basic Graph Types for Basic Graph Types Discussion Questions.
Lesson plans for Review of Basic Graph Types Lesson Plan.
Practice for Graphs for Discrete and for Continuous Data.
Real World application with Basic Graph Types.


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Windows only: Superior Task Manager replacement Process Explorer continues to improve on an already impressive set of features, this time with more informative tooltips, .NET process information, and other fixes.
Process Explorer v12 adds a number of new features, including showing the tab title for IE8 processes so you can tell which one is hanging, displaying all svchost services in the process tooltip, a new .NET assembly tab that shows exactly which DLLs are being used to help troubleshooting problematic .NET applications, and plenty of other bug fixes and changes. It's a solid update to an already killer utility for dealing with runaway processes. Process Explorer is a free download for Windows only.
Process Explorer [Microsoft via Cybernet News]


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How to Manage Blood Sugars With Type 1 Diabetes
It can take work to keep diabetes under control. Luckily, you have helpers. You, your parents, and your diabetes health care team can work together so your blood sugar levels stay in a healthy range as much as possible.
Sometimes this can seem like a lot of work, but it will pay off. How?
- You'll feel better.
- You'll grow up just the way you should.
- You'll be less likely to have health problems from your diabetes when you get older.
Over time, having too much sugar in the bloodstream can damage important body organs, like the heart and kidneys. This can cause serious health problems.
Also, having low blood sugar levels can make you feel bad and make it harder for you to do all the things you want to do.
The good news is that keeping blood sugar levels under control can help keep you healthy and prevent health problems down the road. That's why everyone might seem concerned about keeping your diabetes under control. They want you to feel good, be healthy, and stay healthy.
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What Can Make Blood Sugar Levels Be Out of Control?
Managing diabetes means balancing the medicines you take (insulin or pills), the food that you eat, and the amount of exercise you do. A problem with any one can send blood sugar levels up too high or down too low.
In general, out-of-control blood sugar levels can be caused by:
- not taking diabetes medicines when you're supposed to
- not following the meal plan (like eating too much or not enough food without adjusting diabetes medicines)
- not getting regular exercise or not making changes to your diabetes treatment plan when you exercise more or less than usual
- being sick or having too much stress
- not checking blood sugar levels often enough
Check your blood sugar levels regularly and take good notes when your glucose levels are too high or too low. This will help your diabetes team make changes to your diabetes management plan, if needed. You and your mom or dad can work together to collect this info and pass it along to your doctor.
How Do I Know if My Diabetes Is Under Control?
Your doctor or diabetes health care team will tell you what your blood sugar levels should be.
The only way to know if your blood sugar level is in a healthy range is to check it several times a day with a glucose meter. Your diabetes health care team will help you figure out when and how often to check. Depending on how old you are — and how long you've been dealing with diabetes — you might need help doing this.
Checking your blood sugar level tells you how much glucose is in your blood right this minute. But doctors can use another test to see how under control your blood sugar has been over the last 2 or 3 months. The HbA1C test can be done in your doctor's office or in a lab. In general, the lower your HbA1C level, the better you're doing controlling your blood sugar level.
How Can I Keep My Blood Sugar Levels Under Control?
Keeping blood sugars close to normal can be hard sometimes, and nobody's blood sugar control is perfect. Sometimes blood sugar levels can get too high or low even when you do all the right things to help keep them steady.
But you can do some things to help keep your blood sugar levels in a healthy range:
- Take your insulin or pills when you're supposed to.
- Follow your meal plan as much as possible.
- Get regular exercise.
- Check your blood sugar level several times a day.
- Visit your doctor regularly.
- Learn as much as possible about diabetes.
Take these steps and you'll be doing your very best to keep your diabetes under control.


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For measuring electrochemically active compounds and microbes in water.
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Links to other Public Lab Electrochemistry wiki's / research notes
The design, construction, and operation of a low cost, open-source potentiostat (the WheeStat) has been described in a number of Public Lab wikis and research notes. Links to some of these pages are provided here: WheeStat user's manual. A wiki describing how to determine metal ion concentrations electrochemically. A site where you can purchase a WheeStat kit from Public Lab. Instructions for assembling the WheeStat kit. Making / purchasing low cost electrodes.
Potentiostats can be used to test for electrochemically active compounds and microbes in solution, and thus have applications in many areas such as environmental monitoring, food and drug testing. Most commercially-available potentiostats are very expensive ($1000 is on the "cheap" side). There have been several initiatives in the last decade that have focused on designing cheaper alternatives; and when investigating technologies related to water quality assessment. Our aim here is to build on these efforts, and leverage the expertise of the open hardware community in order to build accessible, and capable, devices. Possible applications include:
Tracking heavy metal concentrations in waterways. Various industrial processes used in the US and abroad can lead to the contamination of water with heavy metals that are dangerous to humans, like mercury and arsenic. An inexpensive, battery-powered potentiostat -- communicating over the cellular network, perhaps, or merely recording locally to an SD card -- might be able to track relative fluctuations in the concentrations of these metals, making monitoring these contaminants easier. Limitations of electrochemical techniques: In order to detect and quantify a chemical species by electrochemical methods, that species has to undergo electron transfer at a voltage that is accessible under the solution conditions being employed. One major limitation to measuring metal species in water is due to oxidation / reductions of water itself. The oxidation of water (to give O2 and H+) limits how positive the voltage can be applied in water. Similarly, reduction to H2 and OH- limits how negative the voltage can be. The voltage limits will depend on things like the choice of electrode used and the pH of the solution. Still, there are a number of metals that can be quantified in water. Mendham, et al, (p 564, referenced below) list the following fifteen specific metals as having been determined by voltammetry:
- antimony arsenic bismuth cadmium copper gallium
- germanium gold indium lead mercury silver
- thallium tin zinc
A low-cost 'field lab' for evaluating water samples. An inexpensive potentiostat, when used according to the proper protocols, might be used to indicate absolute concentrations of heavy metals in water. This could allow citizens and organizations who can't afford to send water samples to an expensive, bonded laboratory to do their own testing -- particularly relevant in a developing-world context.
Education. Electrochemistry is an important part of many high school, college, and graduate chemistry curricula; an inexpensive potentiostat could render these curricula more accessible to educational institutions that don't have the budget for the more expensive commercial versions.
Research. Making an easily-hackable, programmable, and extensible potentiostat platform, based on a widely-used and well-supported technologies like the Arduino and the Raspberry Pi, could allow for novel electrochemistry applications in the laboratory; when a device that once cost $2000 and didn't "play nice" with other hardware and software suddenly becomes available for under $200, and can be integrated with easy-to-use, open source software and hardware, researchers will dream up new approaches to open research problems -- and higher-throughput approaches in already-established research areas.
Typically, electrochemical experiments utilize three electrodes, the Working Electrode (WE), Reference Electrode (RE) and Counter Electrode (CE). A research note reviewing some electrodes and describing how to build a set for little cash is provided here. A potentiostat is a three terminal analog feedback control circuit that maintains a pre-determined voltage between the WE and RE by sourcing current from the CE. A rough schematic for a potentiostat is provided below: The CE and WE are made of electrochemically inert conductive materials (we are using graphite, like from pencils, but platinum and gold are popular). The RE is designed to have a well-defined and stable electrochemical potential. By hooking up a power source the energy of electrons in the working electrode can raised and lowered with respect to the reference (and also with respect to compounds in solution). When the energies of electrons in the WE are high enough, they can transfer onto certain chemical species, reducing them. For example, Cu2+ ions can be reduced to Cu+ ions, or to copper metal. Alternatively, when the voltage of the WE is sufficiently positive it can pull electrons off of certain chemicals, oxidizing them. The opposite of the above reactions can be used as an example; Cu+ ion can be oxidized to Cu2+ ion - the voltages (w.r.t. the RE) and currents at which reductions and oxidations happen can be measured, revealing information about the energies and concentrations of the analytes.
The above "Adder Potentiostat" schematic was adapted from chapter 15 of Electrochemical Methods by Bard and Faulkner (reference below).
Work updates
- 8/5/2013: Craig Versek of PVOS has been building off a fully-fledged, open potentiostat design by Jack Summers. Craig is aiming to implement programmable current ranges. In this design, a CMOS analog multiplexer will switch out one of 5 standard current sense resistors (with room for 8 total), which are trimmer rheostats tuned to 250, 2.5k 25.0k 250k and 2.50M Ohms well within 0.5% margin of error.
- 1/8/2014: Smoky Mountain Scientific (Ben Hickman and Jack Summers' lab group) have published research notes describing an open source potentiostat they call the WheeStat. The history of the WheeStat program is described here. The WheeStat software is described here and is available for download here. A description of fabricating the board is provided here and copies of the board can be ordered from OSHPark.com.
- Assess arsenic, cyanide, other contaminants / toxins in water
- Educational
- Identifying toxins / ingredients in foodstuffs
- CheapStat
- Cornell U Potentiostat
- Potentiostat Software on Github
- Gopinath, A. V., and Russell, D., "An Inexpensive Field Portable Programmable Potentiostat", Chem Educator, 2006. pp 23-28.
- Inamdar, S. N., Bhat, M. A., Haram, S. K., "Construction of Ag/AgCl Reference Electrode from Used Felt-Tipped Pen Barrel for Undergraduate Laboratory", J. Chem. Ed., 2009, 86, 355.
- Mendham, J., Denney, R. C., Barnes, J. D., Thomas, M. J. K., Vogel's textbook of Quantitative Chemical Analysis, 6th ed., 2000, Prentice Hall, Harlow, England
- Bard, Allen J., and Faulkner, Larry R. Electrochemical Instrumentation. Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications, 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001. pp. 632-658
- Nice wikipedia description of what a potentiostat is here.
- A basic description of potentiostat architectures can be found at http://www.consultrsr.com/resources/pstats/design.htm
- Yee, S., Chang, O. K., "A Simple Junction for Reference Electrodes", J. Chem. Ed., 1988, 65, 129
- Thanks to Jack Summers, Benjamin Hickman, Craig Versek, Ian Walls, Jake Wheeler, and Todd Crosby


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John R. Johnson, who ran the Palo Alto Medical Foundation for more than two decades and served as city manager of Menlo Park during the boom years of the early 1960s, died Sept. 17 at The Sequoias in Portola Valley. He was 88.
A nationally respected health-care administrator, Mr. Johnson was an active community volunteer and dedicated Stanford alumnus. He was devoted to his family, especially to his wife, Phyllis, to whom he was married for 66 years until her death last year. He loved to travel, play tennis and dominoes, and spend time with his granddaughters.
Mr. Johnson was born in Greeley, Colo., on Oct. 20, 1923, the son of the Rev. Rector and Elsie Bales Johnson. As the son of a Methodist minister, he moved frequently as a child, from Colorado to Arizona and eventually to San Jose, Calif., when he was in high school. He met his bride, Phyllis Hackman, at the First United Methodist Church youth group.
After graduating from San Jose High School in 1941, Mr. Johnson entered Stanford University, where he majored in political science. After Pearl Harbor was attacked, he joined the U.S. Navy and was sent to officer training school. In 1944 he was commissioned an ensign, got married in Asbury Park, N.J., and headed for Guam, where he served on a minesweeper, the USS Oracle.
After the war, Mr. Johnson returned to Stanford and received his B.A. in political science in 1946. In 1947 he received a fellowship in Public Affairs from the Coro Foundation in San Francisco.
Mr. Johnson's distinguished 40-year career was dedicated to serving Peninsula residents during a time of tremendous growth and change. From 1952 to 1964, he worked for the City of Menlo Park, as Assistant City Manager and then as City Manager. Menlo Park was in the midst of the post-war boom, and under Mr. Johnson's direction the city expanded its boundaries and built a new library and police station.
In 1964, Mr. Johnson went to work for the Palo Alto Medical Clinic as Executive Administrator. Over the next 23 years, as doctors transitioned from house calls to managed care, he presided over the clinic's growth into the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, a premier regional provider of medical services.
In 1987 he became Vice President of Administration for PAMF. He retired in 1991 but continued to serve on the board of directors for several years. He also served as president of the Medical Group Management Association and the American Association of Ambulatory Health Care, and was a fellow of the American College of Medical Practice Executives.
Mr. Johnson was a fervent Stanford booster and a generous community volunteer. He served as president of the Stanford Alumni Association, as a member of the "chain gang" at Stanford football games and as a docent in the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame. He served for 32 years on the board of directors of Channing House and received the Lifetimes of Achievement award from Avenidas.
John and Phyllis Johnson had a son and a daughter, Steve and Kris. "Dad was my hero and always will be," said Kris. "He was a perfect father, a perfect gentleman and he was always there for me."
"Although we'll miss Dad," Steve said, "he's back where he belongs, which is with Mom."
His granddaughters, Anna Johnson and Sarah Johnson Macek, have fond memories of summers at Lake Tahoe, evenings around the fire pit in their grandparents' Menlo Park backyard, and thousands of domino games.
"He was always so delighted to see our faces," recalled Anna. "And he genuinely cared about the happiness of those around him."
"He was the most amazing man I, or anybody had the chance to meet," Sarah said, "and I was lucky to share so much of his life and love."
Mr. Johnson is survived by Steven Johnson and his wife Carol of Petaluma, Kristina Johnson of Truckee, Anna Johnson and Mark Heaphy and Sarah Johnson Macek and Brandon Macek, all of San Rafael.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) - Arizona State coach Todd Graham was emphatic _ he and his assistants didn't do their jobs leading up to the Holiday Bowl.
"I apologized to our players. We didn't have them prepared to play, but don't take anything away from Texas Tech," Graham said after the No. 16 Sun Devils lost 37-23 to the Red Raiders on Monday night.
Freshman quarterback Davis Webb threw for 403 yards and tied the Holiday Bowl record with four touchdown passes as Texas Tech snapped a five-game losing streak.
Webb tied the mark set by BYU's Jim McMahon in 1980 and matched by Kansas State's Brian Kavanagh in 1995 and Texas' Major Applewhite in 2001.
The Red Raiders (8-5) won for the first time since beating West Virginia on Oct. 19. Arizona State (10-4) lost its second straight.
The Sun Devils, coming off a 38-14 loss to Stanford in the Pac-12 championship game, were held 18 points below their average. They dropped to 0-4 in the Holiday Bowl dating to 1985.
"I thought we played poorly in the last two games," Graham said. "You know what? It's not the players' fault. That's why they hire coaches, to get your guys ready to play. We didn't get our guys ready to play and on the other hand, the other team did. One of the things I believe in is great sportsmanship, and you get your tail whipped, you congratulate the other team, the other coach.
"It was the best bowl experience that I've ever had up until today, and one of the worst ones I had today."
Arizona State's players took the blame, too.
"You can say what you want about the coaching, but we're the ones on the field playing," safety Alden Darby said. "We're the ones making the plays."
Webb completed 28 of 41 passes. He threw touchdown passes of 18 and 21 yards to Jakeem Grant, 1 yard to Rodney Hall and 23 yards to Bradley Marquez, all in the first half.
After losing their final five games by an average of 20.6 points, the Red Raiders scored on four of their first five drives to take a 27-6 lead 5 minutes into the second quarter.
Texas Tech All-America tight end Jace Amaro had eight catches for 112 yards. He set the FBS single-season record for yards receiving by a tight end with 1,352.
While Texas Tech was finding the end zone early on, Arizona State had to settle for field goals of 44 and 31 yards by Zane Gonzalez.
The Sun Devils got their first touchdown when D.J. Foster scored on a 20-yard run with 7:52 left in the second quarter to close to 27-13. ASU quarterback Taylor Kelly scored on a 44-yard run early in the third, but Reginald Davis returned the ensuing kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown to extend the Red Raiders' lead to 34-20.
Kelly gained 135 yards on 25 carries but threw for only 125 yards, going 16 of 29. He was sacked three times. Foster gained 132 yards on 20 carries.
Arizona State's Richard Smith couldn't hold onto a 50-yard pass from Kelly as he tripped and tumbled into the end zone with 9:50 left and the Sun Devils trailing by 14.
"That's hard for our seniors, to end on two losses, but we had a great energy the week of practice, preparation, I think, and guys were ready for this game," Kelly said. "We just didn't execute. Texas Tech did a great job of preparing."
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'Ivan The Terrible's Death Not Caused by Meds
Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk's death was not hastened by medication administered at a nursing home in Bavaria, prosecutors said.
Ulrich Busch, an attorney for Demjanjuk, who died in March, filed a complaint in May with German prosecutors asking them to open an investigation of five doctors and a nurse, alleging that the pain medication they gave to Demjanjuk added to his kidney problems.
The investigation of the allegations was closed after no evidence indicated that the doctors made an error, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.
The complaint had said that a specific pain medication, common in Germany but banned in the United States, led to Demjanjuk's death as he awaited an appeal of his conviction last year by a Munich court for his role in the murder of 27,900 people at the Sobibor camp in Poland.


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"CANBERRA -- 'The science is clear - our planet is warming. That warming is caused by carbon pollution, by human activity, and we need to cut carbon pollution,' said Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Sunday, announcing Australia's first price on carbon emissions.
The Clean Energy Agreement, a package of measures to limit carbon dioxide and high potency greenhouse gases, was released Sunday by the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee, including the leaders of the governing Labor Party, the Greens and two Independents. The Liberal and the National parties did not participate in the committee and are opposed to any price on carbon.
From July 1, 2012, about 500 big polluters will pay A$23 for every metric tonne of the greenhouse gas carbon dixoide they emit. The carbon price will apply to stationary power plants, most business transport emissions, mining and industrial processes."
Environment News Service had the story July 11, 2011.
"Australian Government Sets a Price on Carbon Emisssions"
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Making a homeless application without mental capacity (WB v W District Council)
A woman who was homeless had a range of serious mental health problems applied to the council to be housed. The council determined that she did not have the mental capacity to apply as homeless. She challenged this through the courts. The County Court had said it was bound by the outcome of an earlier case which found that people who lack capacity cannot make homeless applications.


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Apple expels 1,000 apps after store scam
(Wired) — Apple has sent a clear message to any developers who try to game its iTunes App Store. Software developer Molinker has been kicked out, along with more than 1,000 of its iPhone applications.
The Chinese developer had, according to some estimates, 1,000-plus applications in the store, most of which were copycat knockoffs of existing applications.
When a friend of writers at the iPhoneography photography blog saw these rather poor applications consistently scoring 5-star reviews, they got suspicious.
Some investigation showed that Molinker's applications were getting many top ratings and almost nothing in the 2-to-4-star range. In fact, the only other ratings were often 1-star, and likely the only truthful feedback on the apps' pages.
iPhoneography wrote a long letter to Apple's marketing boss, Phil Schiller, and posited that Molinker was giving out promotional codes — essentially free copies of the applications — in return for these 5-star reviews.
In almost all cases, these reviews were poorly written, and came from customers who almost exclusively reviewed just Molinker applications.
This scam was so effective that the applications regularly rose to the tops of charts. One, called ColorMagic, even made it into the Staff Favorites section of the store (which brings some doubt as to whether these are actually staff picks at all).
After a week of typical Apple silence, iPhoneography wrote again, and received a reply direct from Schiller: "Yes, this developer's apps have been removed from the App Store and their ratings no longer appear either."
So what, you say? Some dodgy developer got its entire portfolio chucked down the memory hole, and the App Store continues as if Molinker had never existed.
First, the scale of this purging is huge: 1,000 applications represents almost 1 percent of the entire App Store offering. This alone shows that Apple is happy to do whatever it takes to keep its house clean.
It also shows the power that Apple has over those that sell in its exclusive marketplace. Sure, Molinker was caught cheating, and punished, but Apple could pull the same trick on any developer, for any reason.
We don't think that it would, butiPhone developers are a nervous bunch as it is, rubbing on rabbits' feet and crossing their fingers as their creations make their way through a fickle and seemingly arbitrary approval process.
And what about the customers? We doubt that Molinker will be refunding all the money it has made selling the applications (plus 30 percent on top that went to Apple, and is non-returnable).
This means that, at best, these customers can keep using their now-banned apps until a future OS update breaks them. Perhaps, though, they should have bought better applications in the first place?
This is the key. Because there is no clear way to try-before-you buy, the shareware model that works so well for computers, the ratings are absurdly important to choosing an application.
Molinker's scam, then, is almost a symptom of the App Store setup itself. Can Apple actually be blamed for the rise of the ratings


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This weekend, Jersey haters will have to kick rocks as the 2009 All Points West Music and Arts Festival descends upon Liberty State Park.
The name All Points West pays homage to the droves of 19th century immigrants buoyed by New World dreams and newly shortened surnames who boarded trains at the Central Railroad Station to settle throughout the U.S. Fast forward a century later and the park is home to one of the biggest music festivals on the east coast with over 50 acts reveling in the shadow of Lady Liberty. Last year's event headlined by artists such as Radiohead and Jack Johnson drew over 70,000 people.
Organized by the same company that mounts California's Coachella Music and Arts Festival, this year's line-up includes marquee names such as touchy-feely rockers Coldplay, metal heads Tool, and Brooklyn dance-punk stalwarts Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
The Beastie Boys were originally scheduled to headline the first day of the weekend-long festival but were sidelined by Adam "MCA" Yauch's cancerous tumor which forced the group to cancel all of their upcoming shows. But the festival turned up a suitably hysteria-inducing replacement in Jay-Z who will make his U.S. festival debut after rocking shindigs like the UK's Glastonbury Festival and Denmark's Roskilde Festival in 2008.
Last year's inaugural festival featured a healthy dose of folk-rock and world music artists such as Amadou and Miriam, Spearhead, and Forro in the Dark in addition to high-energy dance outfits such as Girl Talk and CSS. This year, the earthy vibe has been dialed down in favor of a broader range of both emerging and established artists.
Canadian DJs and producers MSTRKFT, proggy pop-rock duo MGMT, and synth-addicts Crystal Castles will rep on the dance tip. Lackadaisical rappers The Pharcyde, throwback hipster hoppers The Cool Kids, and former A Tribe Called Quest frontman Q-Tip will hold it down for hip hop. St. Vincent, Lykke Li, and Neko Case will ensure awesomeness for those who love quirky singer-songwriter broads. Comics like Janeane Garofalo and Michael Showalter have also been secured to bring the yuks.
Looking to bypass the growing pains of the event's first year, festival organizers promise a larger space, shaded areas, and some truly poppin' beer gardens. In addition, ticket holders can zip over to the festival grounds for free on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Line while ferry riders will enjoy a reduced fare. Plus, patrons can rage for a cause since a portion of the festival's proceeds will benefit "Friends of Liberty State Park," an organization dedicated to keeping the area a free, green urban space.
So, put down the Haterade -- at least for one weekend.
"Mawuse Ziegbe is a freelance writer living, working, and looking for trouble in New York City. You can check out her music musings at www.giantstep.net/theresident"


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What Is Spinal Disease
Your backbone, or spine, is made up of 26 bone discs called vertebrae. The vertebrae protect your spinal cord and allow you to stand and bend. A number of problems can change the structure of the spine or damage the vertebrae and surrounding tissue. They include Infections Injuries Tumors Conditions, such as ankylosing spondylitis and scoliosis Bone changes that come with age, such as spinal stenosis and herniated disks Spinal diseases often cause pain when bone changes put pressure on the spinal cord or nerves. They can also limit movement. Treatments differ by disease, but sometimes they include back braces and surgery.
MRI does not use radiation (x-rays).
Single MRI images are called slices. The images can be stored on a computer or printed on film. One exam produces dozens or sometimes hundreds of images.
You may be asked to wear a hospital gown or clothing without metal fasteners (such as sweatpants and a t-shirt). Certain types of metal can cause blurry images.
You will lie on a narrow table, which slides into a tunnel-shaped scanner.
Some exams require a special dye (contrast). The dye is usually given before the test through a vein (IV) in your hand or forearm. The dye helps the radiologist see certain areas more clearly.
During the MRI, the person who operates the machine will watch you from another room. The test most often lasts 30-60 minutes, but may take longer.
You may be asked not to eat or drink anything for 4 - 6 hours before the scan.
Tell your doctor if you are afraid of close spaces (have claustrophobia). You may be given a medicine to help you feel sleepy and less anxious, or your doctor may suggest an "open" MRI, in which the machine is not as close to the body.
Before the test, tell your health care provider if you have:
Because the MRI contains strong magnets, metal objects are not allowed into the room with the MRI scanner:
An MRI exam causes no pain. If you have difficulty lying still or are very nervous, you may be given a medicine to relax you. Too much movement can blur MRI images and cause errors.
The table may be hard or cold, but you can request a blanket or pillow. The machine produces loud thumping and humming noises when turned on. You can wear ear plugs to help reduce the noise.
An intercom in the room allows you to speak to someone at any time. Some MRIs have televisions and special headphones that you can use to help the time pass.
There is no recovery time, unless you were given a medicine to relax. After an MRI scan, you can resume your normal diet, activity, and medications.
This test is most commonly done when you have:
A cervical MRI scan may also be done for:
MRI usually works better than CT scan in diagnosing these problems.
A cervical MRI may also be done before spinal surgery.
A normal result means the part of the spine that runs through your neck and nearby nerves appear normal.
The most common reasons for an abnormal result are:
Abnormal results may also be due to:
Consult your health care provider with any questions and concerns.
MRI contains no radiation. To date, no side effects from the magnetic fields and radio waves have been reported.
The most common type of contrast (dye) used is gadolinium. It is very safe. Allergic reactions to the substance rarely occur. However, gadolinium can be harmful to patients with kidney problems who require dialysis. If you have kidney problems, please tell your health care provider before the test
The strong magnetic fields created during an MRI can cause heart pacemakers and other implants to not work as well. It can also cause a piece of metal inside your body to move or shift.
MRI - cervical spine; MRI - neck
The Spine. In: Grainger RC, Allison D, Adam, Dixon AK, eds. Diagnostic Radiology: A Textbook of Medical Imaging. 5th ed. New York, NY: Churchill Livingstone; 2008:chap 60
Torg JS. Cervical spine injuries. Huber FG. Arm. In: DeLee JC, Drez D Jr, Miller MD, eds. DeLee and Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2009:chap 16.
Chou R, Qaseem A, Owens DK, Shekelle P; for the Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians. Diagnostic Imaging for Low Back Pain: Advice for High-Value Health Care From the American College of Physicians. Ann Intern Med. 2011 Feb 1;154(3):181-189.
Curlee PM. Other disorders of the spine. In: Canale ST, Beaty JH. Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics. 11th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; chap 21.
Updated by: Linda J. Vorvick, MD, Medical Director, MEDEX Northwest Division of Physician Assistant Studies, University of Washington, School of Medicine; C. Benjamin Ma, MD, Assistant Professor, Chief, Sports Medicine and Shoulder Service, UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
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Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos WSynopsisEver since getting involved with Nyarko, Mahiro Yasaka's life has been anything but easy, and it doesn't seem like anything will settle down anytime soon either. Eldritch things are still eldritch, and Nyarko-san is still as dead-set on starting a relationship with Mahiro as ever. ReviewI've mentioned this in other reviews (probably), but once again I'm left with being amazed at all the things anime is willing to turn into a show about girls that can be turned into sellable merchandise (figurines, posters...) To me, Nyarko-san is no different, but curiously enough, only after it went from a simply animated web cartoon to a more full-blown production. And I'm a bit torn. Aiden wrote a review for the first season, and I... kind of agree with it and disagree with it for a good number of reasons, and it's kind of complicated. The part I agree with it the most is its shameless contribution to parody humor. Then again, I'm not as well-versed in the Cthulhu mythos, so my viewing of the series came with lots of visits to Wikipedia for various characters and references, but to me, that was part of the fun. Nyarko-san basically takes its jokes a good bit further than just dropping names around, and I can appreciate that even as more of an interested spectator rather than a fan. I was... considerably less excited about them turning this show into a harem, though, but for slightly different/more disagreeable reasons than Aiden. Because where Aiden hated Mahiro as a main character, I found him strangely refreshing. He's one of the depressingly few male leads in harem shows that actually has the courage to voice his disagreements with the girls he's continuously trying to fend off. And seeing as Nyarko did some pretty terrible things in the first season, his reactions are both understandable and within the scope of realism -- meaning yes, he occasionally also goes too far and lashes out at Nyarko when she doesn't necessarily deserve it. It gives the show a strangely tense tone at times, one of which lead to one of my favorite scenes in the second season; a relatively dramatic yet calming conversation between a "near the breaking point" frustrated Nyarko and a strangely calm Mahiro (who continues to be curiously honest and upfront with her instead of just mindlessly complimenting her solely for the sake of not hurting her feelings -- seriously, we need more of this in harem dramas. I'm sorry, Aiden, but this is something I feel very strongly about.) It's also one of the few shows where fork-based slapstick violence is directed from a male to a female character. I'm also less enthusiastic about that, even though it's kept off-screen and it could be argued that Nyarko had it coming through her actions. But then, I'm mostly of the opinion that to deserve slapstick violence upon someone, they REALLY have to earn it, and Nyarko isn't quite that terrible. Even less so, seeing as she never really repeats the two really bad things she did in the first season, which is probably why the show saw fit to introduce us to Kuune, because we gotta have someone to pile all of our frustrations on, right? She's Kuuko's cousin, and makes a "wonderful" first impression when she basically molests Kuuko to orgasm in full view of the Mahiro household (that now includes Nyarko and Hastur as well), and then proceeds to play a tape where she had recorded tricking child Kuuko into some marriage agreement. So, since statements like "no", "I don't want to" or "let me go" are generally ignored in this universe, the family has to set up this elaborate plan where Mahiro has to pretend to be Kuuko's fiancee instead, to predictable hissyfits and sabotage plans from Kuune. It really is the worst part of the whole show, where you're never really sure if molestations and rape are played up for comedy or not. Thankfully, Kuune never really gets to eat up too much screentime, because having to watch almost an entire show gnashing my teeth would not have been much fun. But, to be sure, the show spends easily as much, if not more, time faffing about on the beach or doing things like giving Shantak-kun a little girl form because she "wants to be useful to her(?) master", and it kind of eats away at time it could've spent being more funny or entertaining. This is where I kind of agree with Aiden, but only insofar that I accepted the romance between Mahiro and Nyarko. I'm not afraid to admit I would have liked to see that work out, especially if it'd lead to scenes like the aforementioned one near the end of episode 6 (aka "the big fiancee sceme".) Then again, maybe you're in on this for the cute girlstravaganza, in which case you won't be disappointed. Nyarko fills the (realistically) curvy, somewhat oddly-dressed gung-ho archetype, while Kuuko brings in the whole barely pubescent, twin-tailed and girly character type to good effect. Hastur, while not a girl, could just as well have been one for as effeminate as he is. He easily fits into the same endearing character type as the ones I liked in Natsume's Book of Friends and Tamayura with the fox child (Kogitsune) and Kou Sawatari respectively; the ridiculously adorable ones. When weighed up on the big scales, Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos W is actually pretty entertaining. The big bonus point when a show is kind of uneven in quality is that you can basically skip some of the worse parts of this show by skipping the episode in question. Don't want to watch the episode where Shantak-kun turns into a little girl? Then you don't have to watch it, because there's nothing else of real importance in that episode. It basically turns into a slightly better 11 episode show by doing this. Granted, you can't do this all the time, because some of the episodes bring out both the best and the worst in a show, so sometimes, you just have to sit down and take it like a human. If you like your average harem romance or comedy shenanigans, it'll be worth it. OK, so the ending's kind of anticlimactic, but hey... maybe we'll get a third season. If we're lucky. A strong three-star. Doesn't get four due to my misgivings, but make no mistake about it: at its best, this show is hella entertaining. — Stig Høgset Recommended Audience: The girls in this show are very...forward, to say the least, and Kuune in particular. Her actions alone puts this squarely in the "American Pie" teenager bracket. That aside, you get some pretty average fanservice: swimsuit episodes, but no nudity to speak of. Version(s) Viewed: Crunchyroll Stream, Japanese with English subs. Review Status: Full (12/12) Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos W © 2013 Xebec. |
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WASHINGTON – An announcement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that NOAA Fisheries will develop a national recreational fishing policy was greeted enthusiastically by sportfishing and boating leaders, who have urged the agency to adopt exactly this approach to define and coordinate efforts throughout the federal government, and particularly the National Marine Fisheries Service, to advance saltwater recreational fishing.
NOAA Fisheries' announcement capped off its national Saltwater Recreational Fishing Summit held April 1-2, in Alexandria, Va. Leaders from the saltwater recreational fishing and boating community met with NOAA Fisheries' leadership to assess recent progress, identify goals and strengthen ties between NOAA and stakeholder groups.
"With the 'Vision for Managing America's Saltwater Recreational Fisheries' report as our guiding document, we came to the NOAA Summit with a clear vision for where saltwater recreational fisheries management must go," said American Sportfishing Association President and CEO Mike Nussman. "NOAA is clearly listening, as evidenced by their immediate commitment to accomplish the first goal of the report: to establish a national policy for saltwater recreational fisheries management. We're looking forward to working with NOAA to accomplish this goal, as well as the other key recommendations presented in the report."
The announcement comes on the heels of a recent series of meetings on Capitol Hill during which the Commission on Saltwater Recreational Fisheries Management, co-chaired by Johnny Morris, founder and CEO of Bass Pro Shops, and Scott Deal, president of Maverick Boats, presented recommendations from "A Vision for Managing America's Saltwater Recreational Fisheries." This new report outlines recreational fisheries management issues that need to be addressed in the congressional reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act, the law that governs the nation's marine resources. Chief among those recommendations is the establishment of a national policy for recreational saltwater fishing.
"In order for our nation to understand and embrace the positive aspects of recreational saltwater fishing in this country – be they the economic, cultural or quality-of-life benefits – our fisheries managers need to have policies and laws that reflect recreational interests," said Deal. "NOAA has demonstrated it is ready to develop those policies."
The commission, composed of anglers, scientists, former agency administrators, conservationists and economists, as well as prominent members of the industry, wants to ensure that saltwater recreational fishing becomes a priority of NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service. In 2011, approximately 11 million Americans saltwater fished recreationally, making them one of NOAA's largest organized constituencies and one with a substantial economic impact.
"America's 11 million saltwater recreational anglers spent $27 billion in 2011, generating more than $70 billion and sustaining 450,000 jobs," said Whit Fosburgh, president and CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. "The importance of this economic sector – and its contributions to fisheries habitat and conservation via excise taxes, donations and license fees – cannot be ignored. We commend NOAA Fisheries for acknowledging it."
Contributors to the work of the commission include the American Sportfishing Association, Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Berkley Conservation Institute, Center for Coastal Conservation, Coastal Conservation Association, Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, International Game Fish Association, National Marine Manufacturers Association, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and The Billfish Foundation, as well as Bass Pro Shops and Maverick Boats.
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text: "Multi-touch technologies have a long history. To put it in perspective, my group at the University of Toronto was working on multi-touch in 1984, the same year that the first Macintosh computer was released, and we were not the first. Furthermore, during the development of the iPhone, Apple was very much aware of the history of multi-touch, dating at least back to 1982, and the use of the pinch gesture, dating back to 1983. This is clearly demonstrated by the bibliography of the PhD thesis of Wayne Westerman, co-founder of FingerWorks, a company that Apple acquired early in 2005, and now an Apple employee. […] In making this statement about their awareness of past work, I am not criticizing Westerman, the iPhone, or Apple. It is simply good practice and good scholarship to know the literature and do one's homework when embarking on a new product. What I am pointing out, however, is that 'new' technologies – like multi-touch – do not grow out of a vacuum. While marketing tends to like the 'great invention' story, real innovation rarely works that way. In short, the evolution of multi-touch is a text-book example of what I call 'the long-nose of innovation'." If we lived in a just and science-based world, this detailed history alone would be enough for judges the world over to throw all of a certain company's patent aggression out the window. Sadly, we live in an unjust and money-based world.


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Peter McGhee, the longtime production chief at Boston's WGBH, delivered these remarks June 24, 2002, when he accepted CPB's Ralph Lowell Award at the PBS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Coming to the end of a long and happy journey at WGBH, I've been thinking about television and its place and what we've done, what there is to do. One thing that I've seen in 30 years is a part of the story that was contained in Commanding Heights but wasn't specifically told: the part about television moving from a regulated business with an obligation to serve the public to a largely unregulated, for-profit business with very little public service obligation left.
The marketplace has become the arbiter of television in America, by and large. Not for the better, I think. Television has invaded and hugely reshaped America's use of leisure time. It has been reshaped as a passive entertainment in which even the darkest realities of American life are repackaged as amusements.
Maybe that is okay. The purpose of work is to earn man the necessaries of life and leisure for the rest, leisure for his free choice of pleasures. That people wish to be entertained at the end of a long, hard day is understandable. That that entertainment is supported by and created for and only survives if it carries the messages of the marketplace is how our free-market system works. And that the commercial networks have become minor subsidiaries of big corporations and that the evolving world of cable is headed in the same direction are the natural consequences of the workings of that same system.
But we should not be surprised that most of what emerges from those huge for-profit engines carries little sustenance for the soul and little enrichment for the political discourse of the nation. We should not be surprised that most of television enters our people and our body politic, not as food for thought, but as an embalming fluid, a relaxing and displacing system of entertainment for those too exhausted, inert or numb to want more.
But our place — your place, my place, the place of public television — is to offer an alternative to that, to serve the actual young and the forever young, the open and curious, those who still want to learn. And that is what I take the Ralph Lowell Award to recognize: approval of my work and of your work — of all our work.
Public television today may seem to be in danger, but it would be fatal if we were to lose belief in ourselves, or in what we do or why we are here. It would be fatal if we were to measure relevance by the number we reach rather than what we reach the number with. Thank you again. I feel privileged to work with you and to be one of you.


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Daily Readings for Saturday, March 23, 2024
- Morning Psalms 43; 149
- First Reading Exodus 10:21-11:8
- Second Reading 2 Corinthians 4:13-18
- Gospel Reading Mark 10:46-52
- Evening Psalms 31; 143
Morning Psalm 43
1 Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause
against an ungodly people;
from those who are deceitful and unjust
deliver me!
2 For you are the God in whom I take refuge;
why have you cast me off?
Why must I walk about mournfully
because of the oppression of the enemy?
3 O send out your light and your truth;
let them lead me;
let them bring me to your holy hill
and to your dwelling.
4 Then I will go to the altar of God,
to God my exceeding joy;
and I will praise you with the harp,
O God, my God.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.
Morning Psalm 149
1 Praise the Lord!
Sing to the Lord a new song,
his praise in the assembly of the faithful.
2 Let Israel be glad in its Maker;
let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.
3 Let them praise his name with dancing,
making melody to him with tambourine and lyre.
4 For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;
he adorns the humble with victory.
5 Let the faithful exult in glory;
let them sing for joy on their couches.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their throats
and two-edged swords in their hands,
7 to execute vengeance on the nations
and punishment on the peoples,
8 to bind their kings with fetters
and their nobles with chains of iron,
9 to execute on them the judgment decreed.
This is glory for all his faithful ones.
Praise the Lord!
First Reading Exodus 10:21-11:8
21Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt." 22So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was dense darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. 23People could not see one another, and for three days they could not move from where they were; but all the Israelites had light where they lived. 24Then Pharaoh summoned Moses, and said, "Go, worship the LORD. Only your flocks and your herds shall remain behind. Even your children may go with you." 25But Moses said, "You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings to sacrifice to the LORD our God. 26Our livestock also must go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we must choose some of them for the worship of the LORD our God, and we will not know what to use to worship the LORD until we arrive there." 27But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he was unwilling to let them go. 28Then Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Take care that you do not see my face again, for on the day you see my face you shall die." 29Moses said, "Just as you say! I will never see your face again."
1The LORD said to Moses, "I will bring one more plague upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go from here; indeed, when he lets you go, he will drive you away. 2Tell the people that every man is to ask his neighbor and every woman is to ask her neighbor for objects of silver and gold." 3The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, Moses himself was a man of great importance in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's officials and in the sight of the people.
4Moses said, "Thus says the LORD: About midnight I will go out through Egypt. 5Every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the female slave who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the livestock. 6Then there will be a loud cry throughout the whole land of Egypt, such as has never been or will ever be again. 7But not a dog shall growl at any of the Israelites - not at people, not at animals - so that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. 8Then all these officials of yours shall come down to me, and bow low to me, saying, 'Leave us, you and all the people who follow you.' After that I will leave." And in hot anger he left Pharaoh.
Second Reading 2 Corinthians 4:13-18
13But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture - "I believed, and so I spoke" - we also believe, and so we speak, 14because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will bring us with you into his presence. 15Yes, everything is for your sake, so that grace, as it extends to more and more people, may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
16So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. 17For this slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure, 18because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.
Gospel Reading Mark 10:46-52
46They came to Jericho. As he and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. 47When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!" 48Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly, "Son of David, have mercy on me!" 49Jesus stood still and said, "Call him here." And they called the blind man, saying to him, "Take heart; get up, he is calling you." 50So throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus. 51Then Jesus said to him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to him, "My teacher, let me see again." 52Jesus said to him, "Go; your faith has made you well." Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the way.
Evening Psalm 31
1 In you, O LORD, I seek refuge;
do not let me ever be put to shame;
in your righteousness deliver me.
2 Incline your ear to me;
rescue me speedily.
Be a rock of refuge for me,
a strong fortress to save me.
3 You are indeed my rock and my fortress;
for your name's sake lead me and guide me,
4 take me out of the net that is hidden for me,
for you are my refuge.
5 Into your hand I commit my spirit;
you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.
6 You hate those who pay regard to worthless idols,
but I trust in the LORD.
7 I will exult and rejoice in your steadfast love,
because you have seen my affliction;
you have taken heed of my adversities,
8 and have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy;
you have set my feet in a broad place.
9 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;
my eye wastes away from grief,
my soul and body also.
10 For my life is spent with sorrow,
and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my misery,
and my bones waste away.
11 I am the scorn of all my adversaries,
a horror to my neighbors,
an object of dread to my acquaintances;
those who see me in the street flee from me.
12 I have passed out of mind like one who is dead;
I have become like a broken vessel.
13 For I hear the whispering of many —
terror all around! —
as they scheme together against me,
as they plot to take my life.
14 But I trust in you, O LORD;
I say, "You are my God."
15 My times are in your hand;
deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors.
16 Let your face shine upon your servant;
save me in your steadfast love.
17 Do not let me be put to shame, O LORD,
for I call on you;
let the wicked be put to shame;
let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.
18 Let the lying lips be stilled
that speak insolently against the righteous
with pride and contempt.
19 O how abundant is your goodness
that you have laid up for those who fear you,
and accomplished for those who take refuge in you,
in the sight of everyone!
20 In the shelter of your presence you hide them
from human plots;
you hold them safe under your shelter
from contentious tongues.
21 Blessed be the LORD,
for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me
when I was beset as a city under siege.
22 I had said in my alarm,
"I am driven far from your sight."
But you heard my supplications
when I cried out to you for help.
23 Love the LORD, all you his saints.
The LORD preserves the faithful,
but abundantly repays the one who acts haughtily.
24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
all you who wait for the LORD.
Evening Psalm 143
1 Hear my prayer, O LORD;
give ear to my supplications in your faithfulness;
answer me in your righteousness.
2 Do not enter into judgment with your servant,
for no one living is righteous before you.
3 For the enemy has pursued me,
crushing my life to the ground,
making me sit in darkness like those long dead.
4 Therefore my spirit faints within me;
my heart within me is appalled.
5 I remember the days of old,
I think about all your deeds,
I meditate on the works of your hands.
6 I stretch out my hands to you;
my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah
7 Answer me quickly, O LORD;
my spirit fails.
Do not hide your face from me,
or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.
8 Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning,
for in you I put my trust.
Teach me the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul.
9 Save me, O LORD, from my enemies;
I have fled to you for refuge.
10 Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God.
Let your good spirit lead me
on a level path.
11 For your name's sake, O LORD, preserve my life.
In your righteousness bring me out of trouble.
12 In your steadfast love cut off my enemies,
and destroy all my adversaries,
for I am your servant.