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Glenn became the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. He flew aboard the Mercury 7 (named Friendship 7) spacecraft. He became the most celebrated astronaut of all time.
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As summer turns to autumn the gardens at Pashley, on the border of Sussex and Kent, are ablaze with colour, provided by thousands of dazzling dahlias, during the Dahlia Days event.
Over 70 varieties of this diverse perennial are planted throughout the garden; pinks in the Rose Garden, sunny yellows in the Golden Beds, whites in the Elizabethan Garden, purples in the Pool Garden and more. The pièce de resistance is the hot reds and oranges, interspersed with darker burgundys and complemented by the second flowering of roses, canna lilies, late flowering perennials and other annuals, in the magnificent herbaceous borders, which are at their best at this time of year.
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CHICAGO – Gasoline is about $4.07 on Oahu this week.
But in 18 states across the country, reporters are asking 'How low could they go?' as Americans watch in envy of folks in Tulsa, OK, Lubbock, TX and St. Louis, MO where gas prices are poised to break below $3 as the average price for their respective markets.
Already, St. Louis consumers are seeing some stations at $2.79; while Tulsa has some stations at $2.85 per gal. In Lubbock today consumers can pay as low as $2.89 or as high as $3.59 per gal.
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'Our network of websites shows 18 states where motorists could access gasoline below $3 per gallon today: MO, SC, TX, MS, OK, AR, VA, NM, LA, TN, AL, NJ, KS, GA, NE, IA, OH, and IN," DeHaan noted.
"If current supply and demand fundamentals remain unchanged and West Texas crude slips into the mid-$90s, then perhaps by Thanksgiving we could see as many as 33 states (two-thirds of the U.S.) with gas stations selling below $3," says Gregg Laskoski, another GasBuddy senior petroleum analyst.
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Roselle (, row-ZELL) is a borough located in Union County in the U.S. state of New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States census, the borough's population was 21,085, reflecting a decline of 189 (−0.9%) from the 21,274 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 960 (+4.7%) from the 20,314 counted in the 1990 Census.On January 19, 1883, the world's first electric lighting system employing overhead wires began service in Roselle. It had been built by Thomas Edison to demonstrate that an entire community could be lit by electricity. This success encouraged the installation of electric lighting in numerous other villages and cities. The First Presbyterian Church, located on the corner of West 5th Avenue and Chestnut Street, was the first church in the United States to be lit by electricity, and the second in the world after the City Temple church in London.Roselle was incorporated on December 20, 1894, at the height of the Boroughitis phenomenon sweeping through New Jersey at the time, based on the results of a referendum held two days earlier, from portions of Linden.
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Love was definitely in the air when the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) honored the generosity and dedication of long-time supporters Jennifer and Royce Diener and David K. and Kay Duke Ingalls at its annual gala, "Taking a Chance On Love," chaired by Carol and Warner Henry, on February 2, at The California Club in downtown Los Angeles.
David K. Ingalls served as President of LACO's Board of Directors from 1980 to 1983 and as Chair from 1983 to 1988; and Jennifer Diener served as President from 1991 to 1995 and Chair from 1995 to 1998.
Both currently serve on LACO's newly established Emeritus Board of Directors and were instrumental in establishing the Orchestra as a premier cultural institution of Los Angeles.
The evening's theme was a nod to the era of George Gershwin and Ballets Russes composer Vladimir Dukelsky – better known as Vernon Duke – whose enchanting tunes are at the heart of the Great American Songbook.
Duke is Ingalls' late husband.
More than $315,000 was raised to benefit LACO's concert series, radio broadcasts and community engagement programs.


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Thursday, August 18, 2011
for starters
it has been such a hectic summer with work travel, personal travel, out of town guest, cabin work weekends (every weekend we are in town we are work, work, working)....so, the city apt has been neglected.
for starters there has been limited fresh flowers in the house and this is a cardinal crime in my home. so, i troll the back garden for little pieces that have broken off after a wind storm, or just pop off an extra branch to give a little guy a chance to be his own plant. trying to justify of course....
thank goodness succulents thrive in northern california as they are at the top of my favorite list and the easiest to care for and i really enjoy the texture and sculpture they offer.
i wanted to show you some of my prizes...oh and a box of plants i bought on my last journey to see my sister in so cal...she has a secret garden location and i think this whole box was only $30.00.
7 comments:
- Catherine said...
They're beautiful!
- August 18, 2011 at 7:53 AM
- Ivy Lane said...
Lovely! My fave is jade...reminds me of my mom...she has a large jade plant that is an "off spring" of a plant from my grandmother....
your photos exude such peace.. one would never know you have had a hectic summer... love that!
RELLLAAAXXXXX and enjoy your weekend! - August 20, 2011 at 7:40 AM
- 24 Corners said...
I love that you rescue injured and lost plants...they couldn't have made it to a better home. They look very happy & healthy...I bet they know they're being cared for by someone who cares.
Love the box o' succulents (yay D!)...all three images are so great!
xo J~ - August 20, 2011 at 4:20 PM
- coast said...
Love, love, love what you did with your succulents! What a great idea! The images are so beautiful as always. Will they be ok in just a jar of water for a while? You will have to let me know. For some reason succulents thrive on the Washington coast where it is very wet, with brutal winters. Maybe the constant winds help them with drainage.
- August 25, 2011 at 12:41 PM
- Kavita said...
I love your precious finds. Makes me smile :)
- August 25, 2011 at 1:22 PM
- coast said...
Hey again! How did you get all of the dirt off the roots? I tried to do that today and made a total mess of things. Want to group them in old bottles in my new store. :)
- August 25, 2011 at 8:39 PM
- Linda @ DesignInMyView said...
Hello! I am finding you for the first time today and L O V E the tour. I live in San Juan Capistrano and would enjoy knowing your sisters source for succulents - my collection tends toward red, blue and variegated.
Cheers! - December 3, 2011 at 9:23 PM


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The Lorax was missing,
From Dr. Seuss' garden.
Who could be so cruel?
Had their heart just hardened?
Now there's good news.
The little guy's back.
Found quite nearby,
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A man in Montana
Had a tip for police.
And for Seuss' family,
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His clue led to a canyon,
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A prank had gone bad,
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This Seussian try.
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(OK, if you're still with us, click here for our March 2012 post about the disappearance of the Lorax statue from the garden at the estate of Theodor Seuss Geisel's widow. And click here for this week's U-T San Diego story about the little guy's return.)
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Jacaranda's three-concert celebration of Benjamin Britten's centenary continues this Saturday, April 27 with a concert staging of "Curlew River," a chamber opera (1963) intended for performance in a church.
It will be held at 8 pm at the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica, 1220 Second Street, Santa Monica.
This all-male opera is based on Sumidagawa the most famous drama of the classical Japanese Noh theater, in which a traditional all-male ensemble told the story of a distraught noblewoman driven mad by the kidnapping of her son.
Jacaranda will give "Curlew River" its first known Los Angeles performance, featuring tenor Steven Tharp in the lead role and members of the Los Angeles Gay Men's Chorus.
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CAIRO – It's early in the morning, and 13-year-old Ezzat is hard at work in one of Cairo's pottery workshops in an ancient part of the Egyptian capital. He sorts through the day's production. In the same area of workshops, three barefoot boys under the age of 12 carry clay pieces from inside the factory out into the sun to dry.
"I go to school, but I decided not to go today because it is time to paint the clay," said Ezzat, whose brother runs the workshop. Ezzat refused to give his last name.
The Egyptian government estimates that some 1.6 million minors work — almost 10 percent of population aged 17 or under — often in arduous conditions. Other experts put the number at nearly twice that, given that so many work in informal sectors and are difficult to track. In 2011, a U.S. Department of Labor report said Egypt had made some efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, but it said the country has not addressed gaps in legal enforcement to protect children.
Some child labor activists worry that protections for children could be loosened further under the new constitution still being written. Earlier this month, the Egyptian Coalition for Children's Rights warned that early drafts of the document did not include as firm prohibitions on child labor as past constitutions.
In Cairo's Tahrir Square, famous as the epicenter of the 2011 revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak's one-party rule, children can be seen selling flags, popcorn and tea whenever a demonstration draws a crowd. On calmer days when traffic is flowing through the square boys will try and wipe the city's dust off the cars stuck in traffic to earn a few coins. Young boys can be found in the more upmarket neighborhoods of Cairo flogging a dozen and a half fresh roses for 10 Egyptian pounds, about $1.6.
A young boy is almost never missing from an Egyptian mechanic's workshop. Usually covered in grease and grime they fetch the tools, get the dirtiest work and are often physically abused with little or no recourse.
A short drive out of Cairo and all along the vast Nile valley children can be found working in the fields as hired farmhands or on family plots. Brick factories along the Nile also employ children who often endure extreme physical exertion in hot weather.


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While Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg today apologized for its controversial emotion manipulation experiment being "poorly communicated", another executive said this kind of research makes the product better, and "it's concerning when we see legislation that could possibly stifle that sort of creativity and that innovation."
Facebook's head of global policy management Monika Bickert showed little remorse when she spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival yesterday, but did say "What I think we have to do in the future is make sure we're being transparent, both to regulators and to people using the product about exactly what we're doing."
Tempers flared this week when mainstream media picked up on an experiment Facebook ran in 2012 on 689,003 of its own users. You can read my detailed take on it here. For a week, Facebook showed people less positive posts in the News Feed, and found they posted 0.1% fewer positive words in their own posts. A more depressing feed led people to publish very slightly more depressed updates. This teaches Facebook that emotions are contagious, that seeing happy updates might not make you sad like some suggest, and that showing them could make you use Facebook more. Anger arose for a number of reasons:
- Facebook didn't get express opt-in permission or even offer an opt-out, claiming the Data Use Policy users automatically opt into upon sign-up includes consent to "data testing, analysis, research" (though that line wasn't added until four months after the study was conducted)
- Facebook purposefully tried to depress people, rather than just testing to see what made them engage more with the service
- Facebook didn't have an independent ethics board pre-approve the test
- One of the authors of the study has also received U.S. government funding to research "Modeling Discourse and Social Dynamics in Authoritarian Regimes" including how revolutions start.
- Hiding negative posts to increase engagement is akin to self-serving censorship that makes Facebook a success theater where people can't get help for issues in their lives
- European regulators are looking into whether the experiment broke privacy laws or settlements Facebook has entered.
- And a general fear that big tech companies have enormous power to influence society with very little transparency or control given to users
This has led others and I to call for more ethical experimentation and a bigger discussion of the morality of influence by these companies. On the opposite side, some of the positions supporting the experiment say:
- These types of A/B tests are conducted all the time by companies, advertisers, politicians, charities, and more to find out how best to make us use, buy, vote, or donate. I mean, I said we were Facebook's product testing guinea pigs way back in 2012.
- Opt-ins would complicate the site and screw up experiment results. You can simply stop using products like Facebook if you don't want to be a guinea pig
- Regulation would slow down innovation and give Facebook a bad rap since people detest the NSA
- The backlash against Facebook's study will reduce transparency about this kind of research, leading companies to continue conducting but not share their findings.
The biggest support comes from the utilitarian perspective that supporters including Bickert hold, which says that these tests make Facebook as well as other products and services better for consumers. If 690,000 people were part of an experiment and some were purposefully depressed, that's acceptable if it teaches Facebook to show posts that makes all of its 1.28 billion happier in the long-run. When asked in Aspen what she thought about the experiment and if she foresaw regulation against it, Bickert said (emphasis added, video above):
You've pointed out a couple interesting issues and one is the tension between legislation and innovation. It is — in the specific incident that you're referring to, although I'm not really the best expert and probably our public statements are the best source for information there, I believe that was a week's worth of research back in 2012. And most of the research that is done on Facebook — if you walk around campus and you listen to the engineers talking, it's all about 'how do we make this product better', 'how do we better suit the needs of the population using this product', and 'how do we show them more of what they want to see and less of what they don't want to see'.
And that's innovation. That's the reason that when you look at Facebook or YouTube you're always seeing new features. And that's the reason if you have that annoying friend from high school that always posts pictures of their toddler every single day, that's reason that you don't see all those photos in your news feed.
So it's concerning when we see legislation that could possibly stifle that sort of creativity and that innovation. At the same time its incumbent on us if we want to make sure we don't see that legislation, it's incumbent upon us to make sure we're transparent about what we're doing and that people understand exactly why we're doing what we do."
The idea that this is all "innovation" is sure to rub some people the wrong way. There's already a widespread distrust of Facebook's power.
There's little likelihood that Facebook and others will stop this kind of A/B testing. Still, there's hope that these companies follow Bickert's suggestion and become more transparent. That could include reviewing more risky or controversial tests with an independent ethics board, or allowing users some way to find out if they've quietly been placed into an experiment.
Facebook and other companies could also provide some open access to privacy-protected anonymized data to outside researchers. There are benefits to understanding humanity locked in the data of these big tech companies that might never be researched if they don't have profit potential. Luckily, a source tells me there is a small contingent of engineers and other employees inside Facebook who are advocating for more basic science research — not just experiments to make the service more addictive.


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If you're like me, open that bottle night may be every night of the week! But seriously, Open That Bottle Night (OTBN) is an annual event started more than 20 years ago by Wall Street Journal wine columnists Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher. The idea was simple - find and drink a special, older bottle of wine that you might not otherwise touch. It was their effort to get readers to drink some of these "moldy oldies" or wines stashed in the cellar that had been waiting for that perfect occasion. Now retired, Dottie (as she likes to be called) and John are still living out the tradition of OTBN on the third Saturday of February each year. I've always admired Dottie and John. They are some of the best wine writers in the industry. Their prose was always candid and honest. And their writing style was as open to their readers as their love affair with each other. You see, Dottie and John have shared 40 years of what has obviously been an enduring romance and love for each other. Often, their lovey-dovey ways spilled onto the pages of their wine column which always struck me -The Husband and I have been married (well, we've been married for a long time) and I still feel those pangs of passion and love for him to this day. I can relate and appreciate their feelings for each other. Dottie and John's recent OTBN included a bottle of our 1973 Petite Sirah - the inaugural vintage of this wine and the very first vintage of red wines in our history. It was also the year they met. How special! They still have an outlet for OTBN on PalatePress.com. You can read Dottie's recap of their memorable night with our Petite Sirah here: http://palatepress.com/2013/02/wine/open-that-bottle-night-wrap-up/. I'm a sucker for a great love story and as love affairs go in the wine industry, Dottie and John's story has to be right up there with the best of them. |
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The Security Group
The Security group is comprised of developers who participate in the design, implementation, and maintenance of Java Security components.
The current members of the Security Group are listed in the census.
Submitting Vulnerabilities
If you have any potential vulnerability to report, please see Oracle's Reporting Security Vulnerabilities page or the OpenJDK Vulnerabilities page.
The term "Security" has broad meanings and interpretations. It spans a wide range of areas, including cryptography, public key infrastructure, secure communication, authentication, and access control. The security component thus comprises a large set of APIs, tools, and implementations of commonly-used security algorithms and protocols.
As security concepts such as permissions are tightly interwoven throughout the entire Java source code, these component pages do not address issues in the other primary component areas (language features and virtual machine implementations, core libraries, graphics subsystems, hotspot, serviceability, etc). For a more detailed treatment, please see the corresponding component pages.
The primary emphasis of these pages is to explore the core security components source bases, and hopefully, get developers up to speed quickly.
The Security Source Layout
The Java security components have been developed and expanded over the years, so the hierarchy may seem complicated simply due to the large number of source files and directories. But the files generally follow fairly straightforward patterns.
All of the security component source code is included in the
OpenJDK project under the jdk
subtree. As there are so
many different components, they are split into many subdirectories,
generally based on functional area. In most cases, the main API and
implementation-independent classes live in the java/*
or javax/*
hierarchy, and the implementation classes
are in the sun/*
hierarchy. The makefiles used to
build these files are generally found in the make
subdirectory of the same name. Like any software projects, there
are exceptions to this guidance.
The majority of the core security classes live in these two major subdirectories (access control, certificates, keys, message digests, permissions, policy, security managers, secure random number generation, etc). The public API for these classes is in the
hierarchy.The Sun implementation-specific code is fairly extensive within the
hierarchy. Some subdirectories of note:ec
- Elliptic Curve Cryptography implementation classes.jca
- Classes to support the*.getInstance()
methods. The OpenJDK implements a delayed provider selection mechanism, and the actual provider is selected as close to the actual use as possible. This mechanism is useful for transient tokens such as smart cards.jgss
- Some of the JGSS implementation classes. Other classes are below.krb5
- Some of the Kerberos implementation classes.pkcs
- Miscellaneous, general PKCS support classes.pkcs12
- The PKCS12 keystore implementation.provider
- The "SUN" JCA provider. Many basic cryptographic services (besides encipherment) are implemented here.provider/certpath
- Certification Path builder and validator classes.rsa
- The "SunRsaSign" provider. These classes implement RSA-signatures and a very limited cipher algorithm. Note that RSA is not specified for bulk encipherment, and would be too slow anyway.smartcardio
- Smard Card implementation routines.timestamp
- Routines to support certificate timestamping.tools
- The source code for the security tools :keytool
, andjarsigner
- A variety of utility classes (resource files, data structure manipulations, DER (ASN.1 encoding rules), and so on).validator
- Various certificate validators for https, codesigning, CertPath, and keystores.x509
- The major implementation classes for X509 certificates.
Various other classes of interest.
Public API classes for Smart Card I/O and XML Digital Signatures.
These directories contain the core cryptography framework and SunJCE and SunPKCS11 providers. SunJCE contains Java implementations of many popular algorithms, and the SunPKCS11 provider allows calls made through the standard Java cryptography APIs to be routed into a native PKCS11 library.
The majority of the core SSL/TLS classes. The
contains the APIs and platform-independent code. The SSL/TLS implementation is found in sun/security/ssl. The "https" provider is directly based on the JDK "http" provider, which is located in thesun/net/www/protocol
directory.In JDK 1.4, the classes in the JSSE 1.x unbundled
package were promoted to the javax.net.ssl package. For compatibility with JSSE 1.x, the original classes remain.src/share/classes/org/jcp/xml/dsig/internal
XML Digital Signature implementation classes.
Classes for JAAS authentication, SASL, and JGSS.
Security configuration files. (cacerts, java.policy, java.security, PKCS11 config)
The cacerts file shipped with OpenJDK is initially empty.
Note that until the cacerts files has been populated, things like the default https
will not have certificates to trust, and will thus reject https connections.src/solaris/classes/com/sun/security
Platform-specific Java Code. Platform-independent code is found in
. Platform-dependent code is found insrc/{arch}
For example, theMSCAPI
provider can be found insrc/windows/classes/sun/security/mscapi
.The "solaris" directory is somewhat incorrectly named, and probably has stuck only due to historical reasons. It should more properly be named "unix", as this is where the platform dependent code for both "solaris" and "linux" live.
Similar to the platform-specific Java code layout, native method implementations are found in the corresponding native directories.
Note that the code currently support all versions of the various platforms. That includes the various releases of Solaris, Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Consult the current supported architectures guidelines for more information.
The old JSSE 1.x certificate classes, also here only for compatibility. These API's should be avoided in favor of the
equivalent classes.
Cryptographic Cautions
Anyone who has worked in cryptography knows the import/export of cryptographic code involves complicated legal issues. The JCE in OpenJDK has an open cryptographic interface, meaning it does not restrict which providers can be used. Compliance with United States export controls and with local law governing the import/export of products incorporating the JCE in the OpenJDK is the responsibility of the licensee.
Building the security components
The workspace distribution MUST ALWAYS BE buildable from scratch. As the security components have interdependencies with other parts of the JDK, you should always do a successful tops-down build on any new workspace BEFORE making any changes. It will be very helpful to keep the build log, so that if any changes are not compiling, you can determine the correct makefile to use.
When you have changes that are almost ready to submit, you should delete your build directories and rebuild everything from scratch one last time, just to ensure you haven't introduced an incompatible build change or unexpected interdependency. If your changes might impact other workspaces (such as control, deploy, or install), you should build those workspaces as well. See the build instructions for more information on building the various workspaces.
As mentioned earlier, the makefiles generally follow the package
hierarchy. If you make a change to
, you should go to the
and issue a make command from
Testing your changes
As a rule, unit tests for fixes and new functionality are pretty much mandatory. However, before submitting changes, you should run the relevent regression tests to make sure that the existing tests continue to pass. For the security component, at a minimum you should run:
- test/*/net
- test/*/security
- test/javax/crypto
- test/com/sun/crypto
- test/javax/xml/crypto
- test/javax/smartcardio
- test/com/sun/security
- test/com/sun/net
- test/com/sun/org/apache/xml/internal/security
- test/lib/security
The full suite will be run before your changes are placed into the source tree. However, if your changes break something, it will be a lot more work to diagnose, and then fix or back out. Do as much testing as possible.
- The Java Security Overview is probably the best place to start learning about the overall Java security architecture and implementation.
- The Java SE 11 Security Documentation provides much more detailed information, and should be understood before undertaking any work in this area.
- The book Inside the Java 2 Platform Security-Second Edition by Li Gong (et.al.) is dated (circa JDK 1.4), but provides valuable information and rationale for some of the JDK design decisions.
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Ewing, NJ (April 1, 2014) — Digital Dog Direct, a direct marketing service provider, announced it has expanded its printing solutions by adding large-format capabilities and high-speed full-color services. In addition, the company reported that IDEAlliance, the trade association of print and electronic media providers, has recognized Digital Dog Direct with a G7 Master Qualification for its high standards of printing excellence.
"Our G7 Master Qualification further bolsters our position as a leader in the printing industry," said Ken Maisel, President at Digital Dog Direct. "By adding high-speed full-color services and large-format capabilities to our printing solutions, we have all the resources needed to continue to be a quality-driven, single-source provider for printing, mailing and direct marketing."
Digital Dog Direct uses the latest large-format printing technology to offer a wide range of indoor and outdoor applications on all types of paper, fabric, and vinyl stock. Outdoor banners are weather resistant and colorfast. The large-format printers use water-based latex ink that dries immediately—ideal for pressing time frames and urgent deadlines.
The company recently purchased a Riso ComColor high-speed full-color inkjet printer: a state-of-the-art printer with a capacity for quick turnaround, the facility to handle a variety of papers, and the ability to provide a safeguard from ink bleeding. This allows Digital Dog Direct to handle broader applications and streamline production with stunning results at cost-effective prices.
The G7 Master Qualification distinguishes Digital Dog Direct as a printing company that produces color printing of the best quality and one that achieves international color-consistency standards for print media. The G7 Master Qualification is a recognition of excellence: a printer with a G7 Master Qualification knows and follows a specific method for calibration of printing presses and proofing systems providing color consistency and accuracy on various stocks, from different presses, and from press run to press run. Customers will have consistent colors across all of their printed material—even with very small quantities.
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Did you leave the front door or garage door unlocked while you made a quick trip to the grocery store? Was it too much trouble to check the meter reader or repair person's identification before letting him in? Did you forget to tell a neighbor that you were going away for the weekend? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you are making it easier for a thief to work in your community.
Good locks, simple precautions, neighborly alertness, and common sense can help prevent most property crimes. Get together with your neighbors to keep an eye on each other's homes. Half of all home burglaries occur during the day when alert neighbors could spot the thieves and call the police. Many neighborhoods have started youth patrols, or senior citizen "Window Watches," or trained people like newspaper carriers, cab drivers and utility employees to watch out for suspicious activity on their routes.
*Install good deadbolt locks in your doors, not the springlatch ones with the key in the knob. Use them! (About 50 percent of burglars get in through unlocked doors and windows!)
*Avoid door locks that can be manipulated by breaking glass or door panels to reach inside.
*Make sure outside doors, including the one between your house and garage, are solid, 1 3/4 inch metal or wood and fit tightly in their frames. Hinges should be on the inside.
*Secure sliding glass doors with commercially available locks, with a rigid wooden dowel in the track, or with a nail inserted through a hole drilled in the sliding door frame and projecting into the fixed frame.
*Lock double-hung windows by sliding a bolt or nail through a hole drilled at a downward angle in each top corner of the inside sash and part-way through the outside sash, or buy window key locks at a hardware store. Consider grilles for basement or street-level windows.
*Trim back shrubbery that hides doors or windows. Cut back tree limbs that could help a thief climb into second story windows.
*Make sure all porches, entrances, and yards are well-lighted.
*Help keep your neighborhood in good shape. Dark alleys, litter and run-down areas attract crime.
*Do not hide house keys in mailboxes, planters, or under doormats. Give a duplicate key to a trusted friend or neighbor in case you are locked out.
*Do not put any personal identification on key rings.
*Leave only your ignition key with service mechanics and parking garage attendants.
*If you lose the keys to your home or move, change the locks immediately.
*Install a peephole or wide-angle viewer in all entry doors so you can see who is outside without opening the door. A short chain between the door and the jamb is not a good substitute because it can be broken easily.
*Don't open the door to anyone you do not know without first verifying that person's identity.
*Don't give any information to "wrong number" callers. Ask what number they were dialing.
*Check references of any person calling about a survey or credit check before volunteering information. Offer to call the person back instead of responding immediately.
*Hang up immediately on any threatening or harassing calls.
*If the caller persists, call police and the phone company.
Burglars hope to avoid confrontations, so make your home look occupied!
*Leave lights on and the radio playing, preferably a talk show, when you go out.
*Keep your garage door closed and locked.
*Use inexpensive timing devices to turn inside lights and radios or television on and off at different times.
*If no one will be at home for more than a few days, arrange to have someone pick up the mail and newspapers. Have deliveries stopped or sent elsewhere.
Even though today's lifestyles sometimes make it difficult to be as neighborly as we'd like, being a good neighbor is one of the best ways to prevent crime.
*Get to know your neighbors and discuss your concerns about safety in the community.
*If you notice anything suspicious in your neighborhood, call the police immediately.
*Exchange work and vacation schedules with a neighbor you trust so you can keep an eye on each other's homes.
*Never tell a stranger or an individual you don't trust that a neighbor lives alone, is ill, or is not at home.
*Report any nonworking street lights to the utility company immediately.
*If you keep very valuable possessions in your home or live in an isolated area, investigate the benefits of an alarm system. Be sure to check the company's references.
*Create an inventory of all valuables. Take digital photos or video of property, including serial numbers. Store the photos or video in a safe or other secure location. This can be provided to law enforcement and your insurance company in the case of theft or other damage or loss.
*Make sure your house number is clearly visible from the street and the alley if you have one to help police and fire departments respond to emergency calls.
*Don't include your address in a classified ad and don't announce plans for a party or vacation in the local newspaper.
*Find an unpredictable place to hide valuable items, like a moveable floorboard, under logs in the woodbox, or among cleaning supplies under the sink.
*Store little-used items like a coin collection or stock certificates in a safe deposit box.
*Take out homeowners' insurance to protect yourself against financial loss from burglary or fire.
*Install smoke alarms.
*Call your police or sheriff's department for a free home security survey.
*Teach your children safety rules about answering the phone and the door and how to get out if there's a fire.
*Join or start a Neighborhood Watch, Block Watch or Apartment Watch. Start a "Safe House" program for children.
*Get together with your neighbors to buy deadbolt locks in bulk (and at less cost to individuals.) Organize a cooperative lock installation project and check to see if elderly or handicapped neighbors need new locks.
*Offer some neighborly assistance to anyone who's been the victim of crime: an ear to listen, phone numbers of counselors and victims' units, tips on home security, a ride to court.
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'Meat' Factory Can Turn Out Vegetarian Substitute By the Mile
When growing a test-tube burger still costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, going with 100 percent vegetables may prove more economical for fake meat. A European project has already set up a fake meat factory capable of creating an "endless" long piece of vegetarian meat.
The lab factory churns out 130 to 150 pounds (60 to 70 kilograms) of vegetarian meat per hour from a system no bigger than two ping-pong tables. Its long slabs of fake meat — about 1 centimeter thick — have the juiciness and chewy consistency of real meat cutlets. Perfecting the taste remains the main challenge for winning over meat lovers, said Florian Wild, a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Germany.
"Our goal is to develop a vegetable surrogate for meat that is both juicy and fibrous, but that also has a pleasant flavor," Wild said. "The product should have a long shelf life, it should not be more expensive than meat, and be suitable for vegetarians and allergy sufferers."
Weaning the world off of real meat could do much more than just reduce the environmental damage of industrial animal farming — it could also make much more food available for the world's growing population. The cows and pigs that end up as juicy burgers or pork chops must eat 5 to 8 pounds of grain just to make 1 pound of meat.
The European team has already shown how it can make fake meat out of wheat, peas, lupin beans and soybeans. By contrast, other researchers have tried growing meat in the lab based on stem cell muscles.
"We are intentionally not tying ourselves down to one type of plant because many people get an allergic reaction to the one or other substance," Wild explained. "In the process, we have developed a variety of recipes. They are the basis for a product spectrum that offers a broad selection to people who suffer food intolerance or allergies."
Making a meat substitute that has the texture and taste of real meat requires the talents and know-how of both academic researchers and meat-processing companies. The team hit upon the solution of boiling water and plant proteins and then slowly cooling them down — a process that allows the plant proteins to begin forming chains which lead to a fibrous structure similar to that of meat.
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute worked with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands, and 11 small- to medium-size companies that do business in food or food ingredients. The team also includes one Dutch and two Austrian companies that have only worked with processed meat, and an organic food producer in Spain.
The fake meat is expected to be ready to hit the market within one year. The experts will present their new product at the Anuga FoodTec trade fair from March 27 through March 30 in Cologne, Germany.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame CEO Talks KISS Drama, Keeps Potential Nirvana Performance Quiet by Graham 'Gruhamed' Hartmann April 4, 2014 5:38 PM – LOUDWIRE
With the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony coming up on April 10, there has been a whirlwind of controversy and speculation. From the inner turmoil involving the current and former members of KISS, to a potential performance from surviving members of Nirvana, many questions were recently asked to Rock Hall CEO Joel Peresman.
Recently, Peresman made headlines by defending the Roll Hall's decision to not induct current KISS members Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer. "(Thayer and Singer) are fine musicians who … basically have the same makeup and are the same characters that Ace and Peter started," Peresman told Billboard. "It's not like they created these other characters with different makeup and playing different songs. They took the persona of characters that were created by Ace and Peter."
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Peresman addressed the Hall's pseudo-feud with KISS, namely Paul Stanley. "I don't like all the sniping back and forth, though mostly it's been forth," says Peresman. "And I totally understand his point of view. What he's [Stanley's] failing to understand is that there are certain acts that are nominated and brought in on their entire body of work, up until the day before the nominating committee meets. They are still evolving bands that are breaking new ground. With Kiss, there wasn't a single person we spoke to that didn't feel the reason these guys were being inducted was because of the four original members."
Peresman also spoke about the various performances set for the 2014 ceremony, but plans for Nirvana's induction remain a tightly guarded secret. However, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic hinted that he would pick up the bass at the Barclays Center during the Rock Hall event.
Been playing those @HalLeonardBooks bass tabs to get up to speed. Muscle memory is good too. #PracticeMakesPerfect @nirvana
The Rock Hall CEO seemingly backed up the idea that a Nirvana performance of some kind would happen, stating, "With the exception of Linda Ronstadt and KISS, everyone is performing." He went on to detail each of the performances, but conspicuously left out mention of what Nirvana were planning.
The 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be broadcast via HBO on May 31. For all your up-to-date Rock Hall news, stay tuned to Loudwire.


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UIA reports on the results of work for 5 months of 2021
June 10, 2021: Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) is gradually continuing to rebuild its route network, despite all the factors that affect the airline's operations and the aviation industry as a whole.
The airline is ready to share the results of work for the period from January 1 to May 31, 2021:
- Number of scheduled flights: 1,537, which is 61% less than in the same period of 2020;
- Number of charter flights: 1,365, compared to 229 flights in 2020;
- Total number of transported passengers: 735 898, which is 25% less than for the same period in 2020, in particular:
- passengers of regular flights: 269 133 (908 851 in 2020);
- charter passengers: 466 765 (77 673 in 2020);
- The volume of cargo and mail transportation (both on regular and charter flights) is 1,350.18 kg, which is 61% less than in the same period of 2020.
Currently, UIA is closely monitoring the development of the epidemiological situation in each country to which it operates flights and is ready to continue to restore the network of routes while improving epidemiological indicators and obtaining permits to operate flights. Travel recommendations and information on epidemiological restrictions can be found on the airline's website.
Ukraine International Airlines applies safety standards and procedures in accordance with the recommendations of the World Health Organization, the International Air Transport Organization, the European Aviation Safety Agency, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, as well as the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the State Aviation Administration services of Ukraine.
The peculiarities of passenger service at Boryspil Airport can be found at the link. Safety measures on board aircraft can be found here.


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BOFH: Spreading the festive cheer
On the first day of Christmas, BOFH gave to me...
Episode 39
"Ahhhhhh," I sigh cheerfully. "Smell that?"
"You mean the whiff of cardboard, seasonal green and red ink and just a hint of glitter?" the PFY responds.
"MMmmmm," I mumble.
"Well, it's Christmas season again, isn't it?" the PFY concurs.
"No... It's Christmas CARD season again," I say. "For the next three weeks we can expect the usual deluge of cards from the vendors we deal with on a day to day basis, the vendors we deal with on an occasional basis, and the vendors who've never dealt with us but wish to do so in the future - all wishing us the very best for the Christmas season."
"And presents," the PFY says happily.
"No, not presents," I correct. "Not this week. Have you not noticed that the places that send us cards early in the season never actually send us presents?"
"I... No, I hadn't."
"Just take a look. If you get a nice looking card - and it's not an invite to a party where the booze and women flow like water from a natural spring - then there's no box of chocolates or fancy lager from them gracing your desk at the end of year. If there's no card though, there's a distinct possibility the vendor's going to courier you a hamper full of Christmas treats to keep you going over the break."
"So if we get cards, we're stuffed?"
"Probably. Instead of sending the Christmas contraband to the people who've done the design, specification, evaluation, and acceptance of vendors proposals, they'll give the cakes, booze, toys, and trinkets to some person in middle management whose sole contribution has been to add a signature to a piece of paper that they didn't understand."
"It doesn't sound fair," the PFY simpers.
"Of course it's not fair!" I snap. "It's never fair. You don't see the Boss trolling through technical specs to ensure that some proposed hardware has sufficient capacity for expansion into the future. The director's not reading reviews of hardware reliability on geek blogs into the small hours! No, they just sign bits of paper in the knowledge that come Christmas time they'll be raking in the cakes. AND IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!"
"Too true," the PFY echoes. "So what do we do about it?"
"What do we do?" I snap. "We take steps, that's what we do!"
"So you've no idea?"
"Of course I have!" I respond. "I've gone through the long list of Bosses, Heads of IT, and now Directors that we've had in the past two years and left strict instructions with the mail room, security, and stores that any Christmas mail or parcels destined for them are to be delivered straight to me."
"Why not do it properly and get the current Boss and IT Directors?" the PFY asks.
"Two reasons," I say. "First, they'll notice the drop off in mail and are almost certain to go to some event where they'll be asked if they received their contraband..."
"And secondly?"
"They're new, keen, and have upset a large number of people in the company. There's every chance they'll get a cake or two which shouldn't be eaten.."
"Remember that time the Boss got that beautiful Gateau cake the topping of which was in actual fact a thick layer of grated laxative chocolate?"
"No. When was that?"
"Ten minutes ago."
"Oh, I see," the PFY nods. "But won't he be suspicious if it comes this early?"
"No, I just made up an IT company name and put a card in saying that we're celebrating our relaunch."
"So it's a fair bet he won't be taking the tube home tonight then?"
"Or trusting vendor presents any more..."
"Oh, so it's about making them not trust the presents they get!" the PFY says, finally clicking on. "What about the Director?"
"Ah! You know those fold up canvas chairs we got from the LTO3 vendor in July?"
"The tripod ones with the aluminium poles?"
"Precisely. The Head of IT received a pair of these which he'll no doubt test drive."
"And he shouldn't?"
"Not without a proctologist on standby anyway. There might be a slight technical hitch with the rivet in the middle."
"Oooh," the PFY gasps. "Hopefully the rivet won't travel too far?"
"It's unreasonable of you to ask me to guarantee that," I say. "But I feel fairly confident that our Christmas fortunes will be looking up after today..."
"So it's a matter of just sitting back and waiting?"
"Or sitting back and screaming," I say, as a cry from the Director's office indicates stage one is complete.
A few minutes later the Boss and the Boss's PA help the Director struggle to the lift...
"So that's stage two sorted," I say wandering back into Mission Control and tapping away on the keyboard."
"Stage two?"
"You didn't notice the corona of chocolate round the Boss' gob?" I ask. "Looks like he's started on that Gateau already."
"And don't tell me - the lift is about to develop a technical fault?"
"Could be... And I bet we've only sent our lift engineer a card this year..."


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Heartland coughs $41m to settle MasterCard claims
Bye-bye to breach badness
Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay up to $41m to Mastercard in settlement for claims arising from a high-profile breach involving the payment processing firm two years ago.
Under the agreement, MasterCard issuers who suffered losses as a result of the intrusion will be eligible for compensation from a $41.4m fund, providing banks left in a hole agree to the arrangement by the end of June.
The proposed settlement is the third Heartland has reached with major card brands. A previous agreement Visa was worth up to $60m while a settlement with American Express was negotiated for $3.6m. The combined fund is $105m.
Heartland said in January 2009 that a breach occurred after hackers planted malware on its systems, but didn't say how many records were disclosed as a result. Later estimates suggested up to 100 million records were exposed, a percentage of which were later used in fraud.
Notorious hacker Albert Gonzalez was charged with masterminding the attack in August 2009 along with a similar assault on Hannaford Brothers, and attacks on ATM systems leased by 7-Eleven.
According to prosecutors, Gonzalez leased hacking platform used in the attacks and tested malware on behalf of his accomplices, including Russian hackers tied up in a loosely connected but prolific credit card fraud ring.
Gonzalez, a former US Secret Service informant, was jailed for 20 years back in March after he admitted responsibility over the even more damaging assault against retailer TJX. ®


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80 percent of Malaysian Borneo degraded by logging
A study published in the July 17, issue of the journal PLOS ONE found that more than 80% of tropical forests in Malaysian Borneo have been heavily impacted by logging.
The Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak were already thought to be global hotspots of forest loss and degradation due to timber and oil palm industries, but the rates and patterns of change have remained poorly measured by conventional field or satellite approaches. A research team from the University of Tasmania, University of Papua New Guinea, and the Carnegie Institution for Science documented the full extent of logging in this region.
The team used the Carnegie Landsat Analysis System-lite (CLASlite) to reveal the vast and previously unmapped extent of heavily logged forest. CLASlite's high-resolution satellite imaging uncovered logging roads in Brunei and in the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo.
CLASlite, developed by Carnegie's Greg Asner and team, has the unique ability to convert satellite images of seemingly dense tropical forest cover into highly detailed maps of deforestation and forest degradation. The user-friendly monitoring system has been made available to hundreds of governments, nongovernmental organizations, and academic institutions for use in mapping tropical forests.
Analysis of satellite imagery collected from 1990 and 2009 over Malaysian Borneo showed approximately 226,000 miles (364,000 km) of roads constructed throughout the forests of this region. Nearly 80% of the land surface of Sabah and Sarawak was impacted by previously undocumented, high-impact logging or clearing operations. This finding contrasted strongly with neighboring Brunei, where 54% of the land area maintained intact unlogged forest.
Team leader Jane Bryan said: "There is a crisis in tropical forest ecosystems worldwide, and our work documents the extent of the crisis on Malaysian Borneo. Only small areas of intact forest remain in Malaysian Borneo, because so much has been heavily logged or cleared for timber or oil palm production. Rainforests that previously contained lots of big old trees, which store carbon and support a diverse ecosystem, are being replaced with oil palm or timber plantations, or hollowed out by logging."
Only 8% and 3% of land area in Sabah and Sarawak, respectively, was covered by intact forests in designated protected areas. Very few forest ecosystems remain intact in Sabah or Sarawak. But Brunei has largely excluded industrial logging from its borders and has been comparatively successful in protecting its forests.
Greg Asner commented: "The results are sobering. The problem with previous monitoring reports is that they have been based on satellite mapping methods that have missed most of the forest degradation in Malaysian Borneo, and elsewhere throughout the tropics. I'm talking about heavy logging that leaves a wake of forest degradation, even though the area may still look like forest in conventional satellite imagery. With the CLASlite system, we can see the effects of logging on the inner canopy of the forest. The system revealed extremely widespread degradation in this case."
Co-author of the study Phil Shearman said: "The extent of logging in Sabah and Sarawak documented in our work is breathtaking. The logging industry has penetrated right into the heart of Borneo and very little rainforest remains untouched by logging or clearfell in Malaysian Borneo. Brunei provides a stunning contrast. Most of Brunei's forests are still intact, as a result of largely excluding the logging industry from its borders. The situation in these tropical forests is now so severe that any further sacrifice of intact ecosystems to the logging industry should be off the table."
Journal information: PLoS ONE
Provided by Carnegie Institution for Science


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CBS News leads the Dash to Dumb in their coverage of the Aurora shooting:
(CBS News) The well-armed shooter in the Aurora movie theater massacre had a hit ratio twice what a police officer might achieve engaging with armed assailants in a street setting.
That suggests, says CBS News senior correspondent John Miller, that the suspect - who is believed to have planned his assault with precision - practiced shooting prior to the attack on the theater audience last Friday.
First, it would hardly be surprising if we eventually learn the shooter practiced somewhere. However, the statistical foundation presented here is a bit sandy:
"Here's an individual who we see kind of lolling in court but who went into that theater, actually shooting and hitting with bullets more than 52 people of the 70 injured," said Miller on "CBS This Morning." "Here's a guy who went in with what we think was about 100 rounds; that gives him a 50 percent hit ratio.
"From law enforcement, when you go on the range and you're shooting at a paper target - it is standing still and waits for you - that's a 90 to 94 percent hit ratio in a lot of places. In combat shooting in the street, police officers often hit in ranges of 21 to 25 percent of their targets."
Let's accept that street fighting figure for the moment (the NY Times compares the LAPD and the NYPD and is closer to the low 30s, but whatever.)
First, the police officers in street incidents were firing at a small number of humans (presumably, "one" was the most common number of targets); the Aurora shooter was firing into a large crowd. Even without training, I bet I could hit the broad side of a barn at ten paces. Similarly, I imagine that the Auurora shooter had plenty of "hits" where he missed his aim point but hit a different person downrange. If I recall correctly, people in adjoining theatres were hit by bullets passing through the wall - were these really well-aimed shots that boosted his hit rate?
Secondly, the shooter used a shotgun and a rifle. Surely one shotgun blast or one rifle round into a crowd could hit multiple targets. Would a bullet that wounded three people give the shooter a hit rate (on that shot) of 300%? Do police officers often (or ever?) fire in situations where a hit rate of 200% or 300% is possible?
Did the shooter practice? Quite likely. Do these stats demonstrate that? No.


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By Heath Gilmore and Matthew Knott
Nowhere is the fear over the federal government's higher education reforms greater than in Jasmin Mantoufeh's family home, where the spectre of giant debt has arrived.
Jasmin, 16, wants to be the first in her family to study law at Australia's oldest university. She is one of three sisters. Her father Naim is a service technician at an optometrist's. Her mother is a full-time housewife. Their still-mortgaged West Hoxton home is 40 kilometres west of the sandstone spires of the University of Sydney.
Jasmin is determined to achieve the ATAR required for entry, but if she does she is unsure whether to accept an offer. ''It's the debts, the big debts,'' she says. ''That's a quarter or a fifth of a mortgage out here.''
Jasmin, like hundreds of thousands of hopeful university students, is concerned about the federal government's revolutionary education reforms. The government wants to deregulate university fees, allowing them to charge whatever they want for a degree. An interest rate of up to 6 per cent will also be applied to student debts for the first time.
No one knows how high fees will rise, or how big student debts will become. Prime Minister Tony Abbott refuses to rule out some course fees doubling. Bruce Chapman, the architect of the HECS repayment scheme, warns of prices tripling, with the cost of prestige degrees rising above $120,000.
The long-held assumption that university policy does not swing votes is being tested. While most of the budget hits low-income families, this change will tug at pockets in the tertiary educated Liberal Party heartland and the much-coveted swinging aspirational voters in areas such as western Sydney.
This is ''the end of the world as we know it'', says higher education professor Simon Marginson.
The uncertainty was palpable at the Revesby Workers Club's Whitlam Auditorium, where the University of Sydney held its annual roadshow for kids and their parents in western Sydney this week. More than 700 people registered in advance, but a week after the budget barely half turned up. It was the worst attendance ever.
Associate Professor Nigel Finch addressed the concerns of families like the Mantoufeh's. ''When the fog of war lifts we will send a message telling you everything you want to know,'' he said. ''We will do everything we can to get that message to you.'' But the fog shows no sign of lifting soon.
Fee deregulation is a controversial idea but not a new one. Howard government higher education minister David Kemp wanted to deregulate fees in 1999, but the idea was scuttled when his cabinet submission was leaked, sparking a national furore.
The idea has been lying in wait.
''This idea has been routinely bowled up by the Group of Eight [a lobby group representing the country's top research universities],'' Labor higher education spokesman Kim Carr says. ''It was put to me when I was higher education minister just before the last election and I knocked it on the head, as other ministers have.''
Sensing an opportunity, the Group of Eight went public in April with a call for full deregulation of fees. There was no detailed economic modelling to back their proposal but strong rhetoric. This was Australia's best shot, they said, at creating an Aussie Harvard or Stanford.
''We should not be ashamed of thinking big. There is no reason the degrees offered by Australian universities shouldn't match the best in the world,'' Australian National University vice chancellor Ian Young said.
''Removing arbitrary limits on fees would lead to a more vibrant and diverse university system and allow Australian universities to become truly world class.''
The government's National Commission of Audit agreed, backing fee deregulation but calling for 12 months' consultation first.
The government was not in a waiting mood. The budget revealed full deregulation of fees, effective from 2016, to affect all students who enrol after budget night. This means students who enter university in this year's midyear intake could face rising fees in the later years of their degree. So would this year's 160,000 school leavers.
Peak body Universities Australia is calling for a delay to provide more certainty.
''This is a radical change in the true meaning of that word,'' Universities Australia chairwoman Sandra Harding said. ''We're going to a place we have never been before. If we're going to do that, we need to take the time to get this right in everyone's interests.''
Even some of the biggest supporters - the Group of Eight vice-chancellors -- are wobbling. University of Sydney vice chancellor Michael Spence says he fears the prospect of mounting debts will deter middle-class students from entering university. Forcing universities to devote 20 per cent of any extra income to scholarships and bursaries may not be enough, he warns.
''I want the best students, not only those who can afford to pay,'' Dr Spence said. ''It's the ordinary Australians that I think aren't getting enough of a guernsey in this conversation.''
One of Education Minister Christopher Pyne's biggest supporters in the sector, University of Adelaide Vice-Chancellor Warren Bebbington, also voiced alarm. In a letter to students, he wrote: ''It is starting to look as if the student debt burden … might well be worse than in the US.''
Universities are particularly concerned about two planks of the government's reforms. First, from 2016 there will be an across the board 20 per cent reduction in government funding for university places. This will have dramatically uneven effects, leading some fees to rise while others are expected to remain steady or drop.
Government funding for environmental studies will fall by 44.5 per cent, according to an analysis by Grattan Institute Higher Education program director Andrew Norton. This means universities will have to charge students almost $30,000 extra to maintain present funding levels - a 112 per cent increase.
Fees for engineering and science students would rise by 59 per cent, by 49 per cent for visual and performing arts students, by 43 per cent for social studies students and by 42 per cent for agriculture students.
Norton stresses these are the minimum increases one should expect. It is more likely, he says, that universities will raise fees towards the levels they charge international students. This would see annual fees for a law degrees rise, on average, from $9792 a year to $37,831 a year. A business degree would rise from $9792 to $21,058. Fees at elite institutions would be far higher.
''If the price leaders maintain most of their student demand, I expect other institutions and programs will follow with doubled fees and the leaders will increase their fees even further,'' RMIT policy analyst Gavin Moodie says.
The other potent issue is increasing the interest charged on student loans. For the first time, student debts will accrue interest at the 10-year Treasury bond rate, capped at 6 per cent.
A $60,000 debt, unpaid for 10 years, would grow to $97,734 at an interest rate of 5 per cent. Chapman warns that poor graduates and women who take time off work to have children will be hit the hardest because they take more time to pay back their loans. Marginson warns debts could reach ''horrifying'' levels due to interest rate changes.
Moodie says the biggest beneficiaries of the reforms will be the big universities such as Melbourne, Sydney, Queensland, Western Australia, NSW and Monash universities. However, Dr Moodie said the other Group of Eight universities - Adelaide and ANU - would benefit less because they do not recruit from such a big pool of students from wealthy backgrounds.
Those likely to battle financially in a fee-based regime would be universities with fewer natural advantages. Those whose revenues are expected to come under the most pressure include Flinders, Murdoch, Sunshine Coast and Tasmania. Life also could become more difficult for UNE, Charles Darwin, Southern Queensland and Central Queensland, he said.
Pyne insists the government has a good story to tell on higher education.
His proudest reform is a plan to extend Commonwealth support to students at private colleges, TAFEs and in sub-bachelor degree programs for the first time. This would allow 80,000 extra students, most from poor backgrounds, to gain tertiary qualifications, he says. It would also prevent a blowout in course costs.
''The competitive nature of having the universities competing with about 140 non-university higher education providers will mean that universities won't be able to charge astronomical fees, or no students would turn up,'' he told 2GB this week.
It is only fair university graduates pay more, Pyne says, when they earn much more than those who don't go to university. But it is a hard sell.
An Essential Media poll, taken after the budget, found 58 per cent of voters oppose fee deregulation, while 17 per cent support it
As well as convincing voters, Pyne has to convince Senate kingmaker Clive Palmer to support the reforms in the Senate.
After flagging last week that he may support the government's policy, Palmer now says he will not vote for legislation that increases university fees.
On Wednesday night, as the audience filed out of the Revesby Workers Club's Whitlam Auditorium, Jasmine thought about what she would do if studying law at Sydney University cost $100,000 and another institution was significantly less. ''I would do the cheaper one. I just want to study law.''
Her father nodded: ''As long as Jasmin gets the paper. It doesn't matter what name is on it.''
In the foyer, a large screen promotes a concert by former Sherbet singer Daryl Braithwaite. It was another throwback to the 1970s - just like a free university education.


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Canon VIII.
Since we desire that in every point the things which have been decreed by our holy fathers may also be established and confirmed, we hereby renew the canon which orders that synods of the bishops of each province be held every year where the bishop of the metropolis shall deem best. But since on account of the incursions of barbarians and certain other incidental causes, those who preside over the churches cannot hold synods twice a year, it seems right that by all means once a year—on account of ecclesiastical questions which are likely to arise—a synod of the aforesaid bishops should be holden in every province, between the holy feast of Easter and October, as has been said above, in the place which the Metropolitan shall have deemed most fitting. And let such bishops as do not attend, when they are at home in their own cities and are in good health, and free from all unavoidable and necessary business, be fraternally reproved.
Ancient Epitome of Canon VIII.
Whenever it is impossible to hold two synods a year, one at least shall be celebrated, between Easter and the month of October.
This canon under the name of the "Sixth Synod" is referred to in Canon VI. of the Seventh Ecumenical Council (II. Nice), and the bishops of Quinisext are called "Fathers."
Van Espen.
What at first was only allowed on account of necessity, little by little passed into general law, and at last was received as law, that once a year there was to be a meeting of the provincial synod.
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Arduino Computer Vision With Video Experimenter Shield
[Michael] posted some interesting uses of Nootropic's latest shield, the Video Experimenter Shield, besed on a LM1881 video sync separator to detect the timing of the vertical and horizontal sync in a composite video signal. It's one of the few examples of Arduino processing a live video signal, as previously seen with the Eye Shield (based on the same IC, but with no video out implemented). The image here is processed and sent out from the Arduino using a custom version of the TVoutLibrary. Wow.
The Video Experimenter shield can give your Arduino the gift of sight. In the Video Frame Capture project, I showed how to capture images from a composite video source and display them on a TV. We can take this concept further by processing the contents of the captured image to implement object tracking and edge detection.
The setup is the same as when capturing video frames: a video source like a camera is connected to the video input. The output select switch is set to "overlay", and sync select jumper set to "video input". Set the analog threshold potentiometer to the lowest setting.
Please have a look at the other examples, such as edge detection, and using the shield to Decoding Captioning Data inside the signal.
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To change the price of a product, go to your Magento admin area > Catalog > Manage Products. Click on the product the price of which you want to modify and then click the Prices option available in the left menu.
And here is an explanation for the most important options above:
- Price - the price at which you want to sell the product; this is the only required field here and, of course, the most important
- Cost - this represents your cost for purchasing the product
- Tier Price - through this option you can set discounts based on the quantity of products purchased
- Special Price - through this option you can set promotional campaigns - discounts which are valid only within the period defined in Special Price From Date and Special Price To Date; this option is not affected by the quantity of purchased products
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Blue California, a manufacturer of highly purified botanical extracts, including several forms of Green Tea Extract, is now offering purified Green Tea Extract standardized to 95% EGCG at a very low prices without compromising quality. The lower cost of this ingredient will make it available for use in more products and can reach more consumers for the greater benefit of all.
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There are many instances in planetary science where the same material can come in different forms. An example of one such instance is shown in this picture. A diamond is one form of pure carbon, and graphite (what goes into pencil lead) is another form of the same material. They are both made of the identical substance (carbon), but they have a very different size and structure. The difference in molecular construction is referred to as the "phase" of carbon. Graphite is a different phase of carbon than that of diamond.One might be able to imagine two different moons made out of the same amount of carbon, but one moon made of graphite and the other made of diamond. The two imaginary moons would have very different sizes! Then one might imagine one moon evolving into the other, and having to change sizes as it does so. This phenomena explains the evolution of the icy moons. Ice comes in nine different phases, and all of them have a different molecular construction. In it's evolution, an icy moon may change many times from one phase to another, or include many different phases in it's interior.
Two other materials, from the earth's interior, which exhibit similar phase differences are olivine and spinel.