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Mokpo, South Korea, AP—The captain of the ferry that sank off South Korea, leaving more than 300 missing or dead, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of negligence and abandoning people in need. Two crew members also were taken into custody, including a rookie third mate who a prosecutor said was steering in challenging waters unfamiliar to her when the accident occurred.
The number of confirmed dead rose to 32 when three bodies were found in the murky water near the ferry, said coast guard spokesman Kim Jae-in. Divers know at least some bodies remain inside the vessel, but they have been unable to get inside.
The ferry's captain, Lee Joon-seok, 68, was arrested along with one of the Sewol's three helmsmen and the 25-year-old third mate, prosecutors said.
"I am sorry to the people of South Korea for causing a disturbance and I bow my head in apology to the families of the victims," Lee told reporters Saturday morning as he left the Mokpo Branch of Gwangju District Court to be jailed. But he defended his much-criticized decision to wait about 30 minutes before ordering an evacuation.
"At the time, the current was very strong, the temperature of the ocean water was cold, and I thought that if people left the ferry without [proper] judgment, if they were not wearing a life jacket, and even if they were, they would drift away and face many other difficulties," Lee said. "The rescue boats had not arrived yet, nor were there any civilian fishing ships or other boats nearby at that time."
The Sewol sank off South Korea's southern coast Wednesday with 476 people aboard, most of them students on holiday from a single high school. More than 270 people are still missing, and most are believed to be trapped inside the 6,852-ton vessel.
By the time the evacuation order was issued, the ship was listing at too steep an angle for many people to escape the tight hallways and stairs inside. Several survivors told The Associated Press that they never heard any evacuation order.
Divers fighting strong currents and rain have been unable to get inside the ferry. A civilian diver saw three bodies inside the ship Saturday but was unable to break the windows, said Kwon Yong-deok, a coast guard official. Hundreds of civilian, government and military divers were involved in the search Saturday.
Senior prosecutor Yang Jung-jin told reporters that the third mate was steering the ship Wednesday morning as it passed through an area with lots of islands clustered close together and fast currents. Investigators said the accident came at a point where the ship had to make a turn, and prosecutor Park Jae-eok said investigators were looking at whether the third mate ordered a turn so sharp that it caused the vessel to list.
Yang said the third mate has six months of experience, and hadn't steered in the area before because another mate usually handles those duties. She took the wheel this time because heavy fog caused a departure delay, Yang said, adding that investigators do not know whether the ship was going faster than usual.
Helmsman Park Kyung-nam identified the third mate as Park Han-kyul. The helmsman who was arrested, 55-year-old Cho Joon-ki, spoke to reporters outside court and accepted some responsibility.
"There was a mistake on my part as well, but the steering had been turned much more than usual," Cho said.
Lee has four decades of experience at sea. He had been captaining ferries for 10 years by the time he was interviewed by the Jeju Today website in 2004, and said he had sailed on ocean freighters for 20 years before that.
But he was not the Sewol's main captain, and worked on the ship about 10 days a month, helmsman Oh Yong-seok said.
Lee was not on the bridge when the ship began to list. "I gave instructions on the route, then briefly went to the bedroom when it happened," he told reporters.
According to the court, Lee faces five charges, including negligence of duty and violation of maritime law, and the two other crew members each face three related charges.
Lee was required by law to be on the bridge helping his crew when the ferry passed through tough-to-navigate areas, said Yang, the senior prosecutor.
Yang said Lee also abandoned people in need of help and rescue, saying, "The captain escaped before the passengers." Video aired by Yonhap news agency showed Lee among the first people to reach the shore by rescue boat.
Yang said the two crew members arrested failed to reduce speed near the islands and failed to carry out necessary measures to save lives.
It's not clear why the two crew members made the sharp turn, Yang said. He said prosecutors would continue to look into whether something other than the turn could have made the ferry sink, but he added that there were no strong waves that could have knocked down the ferry at the time.
Prosecutors will have 10 days to decide whether to indict the captain and crew, but can request a 10-day extension from the court.
The Sewol had left the northwestern port of Incheon on Tuesday on an overnight journey to the holiday island of Jeju in the south with 323 students from Danwon High School in Ansan among its passengers. It capsized within hours of the crew making a distress call to the shore a little before 9 am Wednesday.
A transcript of a ship-to-shore radio exchange shows that an official at the Jeju Vessel Traffic Services Center recommended evacuation just five minutes after the Sewol's distress call.
But helmsman Oh told the AP that it took 30 minutes for the captain to give the evacuation order as the boat listed.
With only 174 known survivors and the chances of survival increasingly slim, it is shaping up to be one of South Korea's worst disasters, made all the more heartbreaking by the likely loss of so many young people, aged 16 or 17. The country's last major ferry disaster was in 1993, when 292 people were killed.
The last bit of the ferry that had been above water—the dark blue keel—disappeared below the surface Friday night. Navy divers attached underwater air bags to the ferry to prevent it from sinking deeper, the Defense Ministry said.
Three vessels with cranes arrived at the accident site to prepare to salvage the ferry, but they will not hoist the ship before getting approval from family members of those still believed inside because the lifting could endanger any survivors, said a coast guard officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, citing department rules.
Coast guard official Ko Myung-seok said 176 ships and 28 planes were mobilized to search the area around the sunken ship Saturday, and that more than 650 divers were trying to search the interior of the ship. The coast guard also said a thin layer of oil was visible near the area where the ferry sank; about two dozen vessels were summoned to contain the spill.


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Irreversible tissue loss seen within 40 days of spinal cord injury
2 July 2013
The rate and extent of damage to the spinal cord and brain following spinal cord injury have long been a mystery.
The study, published in the journal Lancet Neurology, used a new imaging measurement technique, developed at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging (UCL). This enables the impact of therapeutic treatments and rehabilitative interventions to be determined more quickly and directly.
A spinal cord injury changes the functional state and structure of the spinal cord and the brain. For example, a patient's ability to walk or move their hands can become restricted. How quickly such degenerative changes develop, however, has remained a mystery until now. The assumption was that it took years for patients with a spinal cord injury to also display anatomical changes in the spinal cord and brain above the injury site. This paper demonstrates for the first time that these changes already occur within 40 days of acute spinal cord injury.
The scientists studied 13 patients with acute spinal cord injuries every
three months for a year using novel MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) protocols.
They discovered that the diameter of the spinal cord had rapidly decreased and
was already seven percent smaller after 12 months.
This study provides exciting new insights into the complications of spinal cord trauma and gives us the possibility of identifying both imaging biomarkers and therapeutic targets.
Professor Alan Thompson, UCL Dean of Brain Sciences
A lesser volume decline was also evident in the corticospinal tract, a tract indispensable for motor control, and nerve cells in the sensorimotor cortex.
The extent of the degenerative changes coincided with the clinical outcome. "Patients with a greater tissue loss above the injury site recovered less effectively than those with less changes," explains Patrick Freund, the investigator responsible for the study at the Paraplegic Center Balgrist.
Treatments targeting the injured spinal cord have entered clinical trials. Gaining insights into mechanisms of repair and recovery within the first year are crucial. Thanks to the use of the new neuroimaging protocols, Freund says, we now have the possibility of displaying the effect of therapeutic treatments on the central nervous system and of rehabilitative measures more quickly. Consequently, the effect of new therapies can also be recorded more rapidly.
"This study is an excellent example of the value of combining the complementary expertise of the two universities," says UCL's Dean of Brain Sciences, Professor Alan Thompson, who is one of the senior authors of the study. "It provides exciting new insights into the complications of spinal cord trauma and gives us the possibility of identifying both imaging biomarkers and therapeutic targets."
The findings are the result of a new three-year neuroscience partnership between UCL and the Neuroscience Centre Zurich (ZNZ), representing both the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ).
Media contact: David Weston
Image caption: Professor Alan Thompson, UCL Dean of Brain Sciences
Journal reference:
Patrick Freund,
Nikolaus Weiskopf, John Ashburner, Katharina Wolf, Reto Sutter, Daniel R
Altmann, Karl Friston, Alan Thompson, Armin Curt, 'MRI investigation of the
sensorimotor cortex and corticospinal tract after acute spinal cord injury: a
prospective longitudinal study', The
Lancet Neurology, July 2, 2013.

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The skeptics were right to question the huge improvements seen when using GPGPUs in a system for heavy parallel computing tasks. The cards do help a lot but the 100x improvements that have been reported by some companies and universities had more to do with poorly optimized CPU code than with the processing power of GPGPUs. This news comes from someone who you might not expect to burst this particular bubble, Sumit Gupta is the GM of NVIDIA's Tesla team and he might be trying to mitigate any possible disappointment from future customers which have optimized CPU coding and won't see the huge improvements seen by academics and other current customers. The Inquirer does point out a balancing benefit, it is obviously much easier to optimize code in CUDA, OpenCL and other GPGPU languages than it is to code for multicored CPUs.
"Both AMD and Nvidia have been using real-world code examples and projects to promote the performance of their respective GPGPU accelerators for years, but now it seems some of the eye popping figures including speed ups of 100x or 200x were not down to just the computing power of GPGPUs. Sumit Gupta, GM of Nvidia's Tesla business told The INQUIRER that such figures were generally down to starting with unoptimised CPU."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Intel reportedly speeds up development of low-power processors @ DigiTimes
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- Cisco Linksys EA6500 Smart Wi-Fi Router Review @ Legit Reviews
- Camera shootout: Samsung Galaxy S III vs S III mini @ Hardware.info
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I did some searches on the site, and very little has actually been discussed about Artificial Intelligence--or so I found.
I was wondering if any one has worked with it, specifically with perl, or otherwise, and how they think perl can be involved. AI is an important issue in computer programming(in particular, in games), and I was also wondering what were some common techniques some people have used. Personally, I know that one vital aspect of AI is a look-up table, so to say, of past events; a memory, if you will. Also, to make characters smarter in a game, you can make new instances of those characters by borrowing some elements that can be within a certain range from two other parents--which are the same type, but have survived whereas others have not. This gives an effect of natural selection: "survival of the fittest". That aside, however, I was wondering specifically as to where the future of AI lies, specifically with Perl. Is there anything special about it that makes it easier?
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Fatou Bensouda says investigators had uncovered an "ongoing pattern of crimes"
The ICC has been seeking the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir
Some 300,000 people have died in Darfur, the United Nations estimates
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Thursday that the U.N. Security Council is not doing enough to root out Sudanese war criminals suspected of genocide.
Fatou Bensouda said her team of investigators had uncovered an "ongoing pattern of crimes committed pursuant to the government-avowed goal of stopping the rebellion in Darfur," noting specific attacks on peacekeepers and civilians in the region.
She then blasted the council, asking "how many more civilians must be killed, injured and displaced for this council to be spurred into doing its part?"
The International Criminal Court has been seeking the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges of genocide during a five-year campaign of violence in Darfur, a province in western Sudan that is about the size of Spain.
Some 300,000 people have died in Darfur, the United Nations estimates, and 2.5 million have been forced from their homes.
A June 2011 Human Rights Watch report said that about 70,000 people had become displaced by aerial from Darfur bombardments since the preceding December.


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Canton Seniors Book Discussion: May 24, 2018
- Canton Seniors Book Group
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- Sisters
- China
- mail order brides
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- 20th Century America
- 1930s
- Shanghai
- arranged marriages
In the mid 1930's, when their family is on the verge of bankruptcy, two well-educated sisters from Shanghai go to Los Angeles to become brides of the "Gold Mountain Men". When they get there, they are detained, interrogated, and humiliated for months. When one of the sisters becomes pregnant, they vow that no one will ever know.
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HOLLYWOOD HEIGHTS will air five nights a week starting Monday, June 18 on Nick at Nite. We've watched the first two episodes and think it's going to be a hit. Take a closer look at the characters below with descriptions for each.
Loren Tate (Brittany Underwood) is an 18-year-old, straight A student with dressed-down beauty who spends her time hanging out with her best friends Melissa and Adam. She has a passion for song writing and it's Eddie Duran, her musical idol, who inspires her music. Loren is down to earth and low-key, everything that her soon-to-be world of fame is not.
Eddie Duran (Cody Longo) is a 21-year old rock-and-roll superstar who rose to fame hard and fast. That's why he's still got traces of his youthful spark and innocence. He's often caught between the music and the business and sometimes feels like he's missing out on a normal life.
Chloe Carter (Melissa Ordway) is a drop-dead gorgeous model and Eddie's girlfriend. She'll do whatever it takes to make it in Hollywood, even if it means lying to Eddie. She likes to be in complete control of her destiny, but her hidden past is about to create a few snags in her plan.
Tyler Rorke (Justin Wilczynski) is hot and he knows it, but it's that arrogant attitude that has gotten in the way of his acting career. By getting himself kicked off of every job, Tyler is left with nothing but jealous bitterness towards his old friend Eddie and all the dirt on Chloe he needs to keep her close.
Melissa Sanders (Ashley Holliday) is Loren's bubbly and fearless best friend with a big secret to uncover about her past.
Nora Tate (Jama Williamson) is Loren's mom and her biggest cheerleader. She helps guide her daughter through the drama of high school and a budding music career while dealing with her own complicated career and love life.
Max Duran (Carlos Ponce) is Eddie's rocker dad who struggles to move on after his wife's tragic and untimely death. He hopes the opening of his new nightclub will be a new beginning.
Adam (Nick Krause) is Loren and Melissa's indie-rocker friend. He's always there for them, but fears revealing his secret crush could change things.
Jake Madsen (Brandon Bell) is Eddie's type-A manager and friend who has overseen his career from the beginning.
Traci Madsen (Shannon Kane) is Jake's wife who tries to keep her workaholic husband grounded and reminded that his personal life matters too
Don Masters (Grayson McCouch) is a surgeon and the father to Loren's high-school nemesis. He owns the clinic where Nora works, but their relationship may turn into something more than just professional.
Adriana Masters (Hunter King) is the mean, popular girl in school who tries to knock Loren down every chance she gets. Her boyfriend Phil helps take her mind off the troubles she has with her dad, Don.
Phil Sanders (Robert Adamson) is Melissa's conniving brother and Adriana's boyfriend who has no problem breaking the rules to make things go his way.
Kelly (Yara Martinez) is Traci's friend from New York who comes to town for a visit, but her interest in the music business keeps her around.
Gus Sanders (Brian Letscher) is the father of Melissa and Phil. He tries his best to keep the peace between all members of the Sanders household.
Lisa Sanders (Meredith Salenger) is Melissa and Phil's mother who is trying to keep a part of her past behind her while raising two teenagers.
Colorado (Rick Otto) is a working class guy who lurks on the wrong side of the law. He becomes an unfortunate role model to Phil, who comes to him looking for a job.
Ellie (Merrin Dungey) is Nora's colleague at the clinic where she works. She's pleasant and funny when things are going well for her, but can become high strung and needy when she feels threatened or used.
Lily (Tina Huang) is an aggressive TV entertainment reporter who works hard to cultivate Hollywood friendships and connections, often walking a thin line between personal and professional.
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San Antonio, TX – Tony Parker scored 24 points on 10-of-16 shooting and the San Antonio Spurs held off the Los Angeles Lakers, 108-105, on Wednesday.
Manu Ginobili had 19 points, including a key 3-pointer with 43 seconds remaining, and pulled down eight rebounds for the Spurs, who bounced back from a loss to the New Orleans Hornets on Monday.
Tiago Splitter tallied 14 points and 14 boards for San Antonio, which improved to 15-2 at home this season. Stephen Jackson donated 14 points before being ejected with 3:32 to play.
Kobe Bryant ended with 27 points for the Lakers, who have lost five in a row. Metta World Peace added 23 points, eight rebounds and seven steals, while Earl Clark had 22 points and 13 boards.
"We have lost five games in a row, it is pretty self explanatory," Bryant said. "We played very hard and I think we figured a few things out. We still have to straighten some things out on the defensive end but I feel like we competed and that was very important."
The Lakers trailed by as many as 17 and made a late push. Down by 12, 105-93, with 4:15 to play, Los Angeles put together a 9-0 run to make things interesting. After Jackson was ejected, Steve Nash made the ensuing free throw and Antawn Jamison added a layup to cut the gap to 105-102 with 2:56 left.
Los Angeles had multiple chances down the stretch as the Spurs turned the ball over and missed shots. The Lakers, however, failed to take advantage as World Peace, Jamison and Bryant missed 3-pointers.
The margin stayed at three, 108-105, following 3-pointers by Ginobili and Clark.
Parker's turnover with 10.4 seconds to play gave the Lakers another shot at tying the game. This time around, it was Bryant and Clark who missed shots from beyond the arc.
"We made some good stops at the end," Parker said. "We need those to win the game. In basketball it can go both ways and luckily it went our way tonight."
San Antonio led by as many as eight in the first quarter and took a 24-17 lead into the second.
The Spurs scored the first four points of the second period to build a 28-17 margin. The home team led for the duration of the frame and took a 54-45 edge into the locker room.
Holding a 76-66 lead with 4:31 to go in the third stanza, the Spurs went on a 7-0 flurry to build an 83-66 margin.
However, the Lakers scored the next nine points and trailed by 10, 85-75, after three quarters.
Game Notes
The Lakers have lost four in a row versus the Spurs ... Los Angeles continues to play without center Dwight Howard (right shoulder) and forwards Pau Gasol (concussion) and Jordan Hill (right hip) ... The Spurs went 12-of-25 from beyond the arc ... San Antonio turned the ball over 19 times, leading to 20 Los Angeles points ... Nash had 14 points and nine assists.


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The term is used so often some view it as little more than a buzzword. Yet, by it's very nature, "Value" indeed has everything to do with the sales process and whether one will trade their money in exchange for a desired product or service. Unfortunately, it is seldom defined and, because of this, often misunderstood.
Truly understanding the concept of value — especially in relation to price — and being able to communicate this effectively to a potential buyer, allows for a healthy profit margin while adding significantly to the other person's life and/or business…and without having to discount.
In this video, we'll see why this is, and the key shift in focus that begins the value communication process.
At the end of the video we looked at five "Elements of Value": "Excellence, Consistency, Attention, Empathy and Appreciation." While we'll explore these individually in future posts, how have you applied any or all of them in order to add value to those with whom you do business?
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Like a lot of other nailphiles, I was really excited to see what OPI Peace & Love & OPI looked like on the nail.
It's from the OPI San Francisco Collection that's coming out on August 7.
It's an interesting duochrome (although at times I thought I saw a third colour, which would make this a multichrome).
I wish that the sun came out when I was wearing this manicure, but Mr. Sun was shy, so I only have natural-light and flash photos to share with you.
I tried really hard to capture the duochrome by posing at weird angles. Hopefully you'll be able to see the colour shift okay.
OPI Peace & Love & OPI Pictures
OPI Peace & Love & OPI Swatches
All swatches have:
- Essie First Base (Base Coat)
- 2 coats of OPI Peace & Love & OPI
- Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat
Natural Light Photos
Flash Photos
Claims: 66% TRUE, but Product: TRUSTED
- Sage (Yes)
- Eggplant (Yes)
- Holographic (No)
Key Notes
- Name: OPI Peace & Love & OPI
- Collection: OPI San Francisco Collection Fall/Winter 2013
- Press Release: Click here to see the OPI San Francisco Collection press release & quick swatches of all the shades
- Colours Available in the Collection: A-Piers to Be Tan, Dining al Frisco, Haven't the Foggiest, Peace & Love & OPI, Keeping Suzi at Bay, Incognito in Sausalito, Lost on Lombard, I Knead Sour-Dough, Muir Muir on the Wall, In the Cable Car-Pool Lane, Embarca-Dare Ya!, First Date at the Golden Gate, It's All San Andreas's Fault (Liquid Sand), Wharf! Wharf! Wharf! (Liquid Sand) & Alcatraz…Rocks (Liquid Sand)
- Amount: 15 mL (0.5 fl. oz.)
- What I Paid: Nothing! (This was provided by PR.)
- Where to Buy: Trade Secrets & select beauty-supply stores, spas & salons (Available August 7)
OPI Peace & Love & OPI Review
Peace & Love & OPI mostly looks like a duochrome, but at times, I was so sure that there was a third colour shift, so maybe it's actually a multichrome.
The predominant colours are a deep teal and fuchsia. The shift between the two is easy to see – you won't have to squint to see them.
However, photographing the shift was a bit tricky. With flash photography, I found it nearly impossible to show the two colours. And with natural lighting, I had to hold my hand at awkward angles.
Just when I thought it was a duochrome, as I was photographing it, I noticed that there's a bit of silver that peeks through. The silver blends in a lot with the teal, so maybe that's why I didn't see it at first.
Although OPI's press release on this collection said that Peace & Love & OPI is holographic, I didn't see that at all. It had more of a multichrome-metallic, shimmery finish. Haha, I literally stared at this polish a lot, as though I could 'will' the holographic quality into existence. 😉
Perhaps it would come out in the sun, but in natural lighting and everyday conditions, I didn't see even a faint holographic presence.
With this metallic finish, you can see visible brushstrokes. I know that's a deal breaker for some. I was fine with them, but I think the manicure would look smoother with fewer showing.
Since these brushstrokes show, I suggest painting your nails a little slower so at least you can get all of them to line up instead of some going off on different angles.
This is the type of polish that doesn't seem to look better when you apply a shiny top coat. It ends up looking exactly the same as if you wore it without. However, since I prefer to use a fast-drying top coat for my manicures, I used it over this polish.
Application & Formula
Applying this polish was really easy because the polish flowed wonderfully onto the nail and allowed me to work with it more before drying too quickly.
It covered the nail very well with just 2 medium coats, and I found the formula to be fuss-free, aside from the brushstrokes.
How Similar Is It to OPI Not Like the Movies?
I think a lot of people may be wondering how close it is to that Katy Perry Collection nail polish. Click here to see my OPI Not Like the Movies Swatches & Review.
In a nutshell, they're not dupes. The predominant colour in Not Like the Movies is silver, and overall, the polish looks much lighter than Peace & Love & OPI. Also, Not Like the Movies has little tiny silver pieces, but Peace & Love & OPI has no glitter or pieces.
Final Verdict: 7/10
Although I realize lots of people will be disappointed that it's not actually holographic, I still think it stands alone as a nice nail polish. The colour shift in Peace & Love & OPI is noticeable, and you'll have fun looking at your nails at different angles.
Do visible brushstrokes bother you? Do you prefer duochrome or multichrome polishes? Which is your favourite shade from the San Francisco Collection so far?


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Jenny McCarthy isn't the woman who likes to claim she plays games 'cuz it's hip these days; she's the girl that started with Pac-Man way back in the day and hasn't stopped playing since.
A recent interview over at What They Play has turned us onto the fact that the former PlayBoy Playmate of the year and general performer (host, actress, model, etc.) has been gaming since the dawn of the industry, and she's quite the responsible do-gooder these days. She's a mother and a best-selling author; her books "Louder Than Words," "Mother Warriors," "Baby Laughs," and "Healing and Preventing Autism" have done quite well, but she clearly remembers her gaming roots. In answer to the first question, "What games did you play growing up?," McCarthy had this to say:
"Pac-Man, man. Let me tell you something, that was my game. We had a gaming thing going on in my block where I was the champion. I even made my own Atari glove because I had blisters all over my hand from playing Pac-Man. I figured out ways to cheat in Pac-Man to constantly get ghosts stuck and continue eating them. I was the renowned champion. I even sewed a Pac-Man onto my glove when I was eight years old. I was a gamer early on."
Follow the link to read the entire interview, which is quite interesting. We're not that impressed with Hollywood celebs who like to say, "oh yeah, I play video games!" when in fact, they only played their first game a few weeks before the interview. But in some ways, it doesn't really surprise us that McCarthy was into games; she always had that surprisingly goofy, down-to-earth persona that made her a kooky, yet always beautiful, attraction. Somebody with that much charisma had to be a gamer, right? …or are we just giving ourselves too much credit?


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Mets pitcher Johan Santana suffered a setback while rehabbing his injured shoulder. It may be a long time before he can return to the mound, unless he corrects the mechanical flaw that caused his injury in the first place.
NOTE: This is re-posted from MetsToday.com
A few days ago, in the comments section, I said this:
I wouldn't be so quick to count on Johan's return. If his recent bullpen session is any indication, his mechanics are still flawed and he'll be re-injuring his shoulder sooner rather than later.
Usually, it feels good to be "right" about something. In this case, however, it doesn't feel so good at all, after hearing the news that Johan Santana has had a setback and will be examined by doctors in New York tomorrow for "lingering discomfort" in his left shoulder.
Granted, setbacks occur all the time — and in fact are expected — during the rehabilitation process, particularly after a major surgery such as the one Johan received. But what bothers me is that his shoulder injury most likely occurred because of a flaw in his mechanics that began to become a habit at some point since he joined the Mets (or possibly just prior). The flaw was identified by our friend the Sport Kinesiologist Angel Borrelli last year — prior to Santana's injury. When SNY and MetsBlog posted video of Johan's bullpen session and recent rehab start in St. Lucie, I saw some things that didn't look quite right to me and consulted with Angel — after all, I'm just a pitching coach and not a scientist, and therefore not qualified to evaluate the motion of the human body. Angel looked at the footage and agreed that there were some inconsistencies with Johan's delivery — both from pitch to pitch in the rehab assignment and also in comparison to what she has seen from Johan in the past (Angel has been studying Santana's delivery going back to his Minnesota years, because he previously did many things correctly and efficiently; his motion was a model for other pitchers to follow). Unfortunately, Angel confirmed that the flaw has not been corrected. Here is her analysis:
Take a look at the photos of him below (the first is from 2008, the second is from a week ago). In the first photo, even though I can't see his feet, because of how level his belt-line looks, I think his front foot has landed…which means that his pitching arm has excessive internal rotation for the phase of the motion in which he is in. This means stress at the level of the shoulder. It would also reduce his velocity big time.
In the second and most recent photo, it shows the same problem — but worse. He not only still has excessive internal rotation, but because the elbow is so much higher than the shoulder, he is now running the risk of supraspinatus impingement. In fact, this is probably what is causing the shoulder discomfort.
Because I have seen so many variations of his pitching arm, I am thinking that his mechanics are inconsistent because he is in pain. It is obvious that he has not been given a clear directive of what he needs to do to resolve this issue and return to his former greatness.
So in other words, Johan's flaw has not been corrected. I wouldn't be surprised if it hasn't even been identified. Part of this ignorance could be due to a common thought process throughout baseball with experienced superstars: Johan Santana "knows himself" and his body better than anyone, so there is a tendency to leave him alone. However, if someone doesn't step in and help Johan make this correction, he will continue to damage his shoulder, continue to experience pain, and likely will be unable to return to the mound this year. In fact, there's a possibility he won't ever return to Major League form if he doesn't get his mechanics fixed.
Some day — hopefully soon — MLB teams are going to recognize the reality that pitching coaches need help from qualified scientists in understanding and evaluating pitchers' motions. It doesn't mean teams don't need pitching coaches, nor that a scientist should replace the coach. To the contrary — it should be understood that pitching a baseball is a complicated, often dangerous activity, and there are resources available that can minimize the risks and keep pitchers healthy and performing at their peak ability.
As Angel adds,
What is really sad to me…this could have been a simple fix if someone had responded to his change in performance (a decrease in velocity) as a sign that something was wrong with this previously fantastic pitcher. The performance was giving the clues, the mechanics would have explained the problem, and a solution could have been easily had by his making a tiny adjustment.
It's sad to me too. What makes this all the more sad is that Johan is only one of many, many pitchers — professional and amateur — who are not being properly evaluated and educated. It doesn't have to be that way.


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Simon Johnson writes that he's seen a lot of bank crises during his years at the IMF, and eventually problems with the banking sector always roll downhill onto the rest of the economy. Unsurprisingly, the same thing has happened here:
But there's a deeper and more disturbing similarity: elite business interests — financiers, in the case of the U.S. — played a central role in creating the crisis, making ever-larger gambles, with the implicit backing of the government, until the inevitable collapse. More alarming, they are now using their influence to prevent precisely the sorts of reforms that are needed, and fast, to pull the economy out of its nosedive. The government seems helpless, or unwilling, to act against them.
Top investment bankers and government officials like to lay the blame for the current crisis on the lowering of U.S. interest rates after the dotcom bust or, even better — in a "buck stops somewhere else" sort of way — on the flow of savings out of China. Some on the right like to complain about Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, or even about longer-standing efforts to promote broader homeownership. And, of course, it is axiomatic to everyone that the regulators responsible for "safety and soundness" were fast asleep at the wheel.
But these various policies — lightweight regulation, cheap money, the unwritten Chinese-American economic alliance, the promotion of homeownership — had something in common. Even though some are traditionally associated with Democrats and some with Republicans, they all benefited the financial sector. Policy changes that might have forestalled the crisis but would have limited the financial sector's profits — such as Brooksley Born's now-famous attempts to regulate credit-default swaps at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in 1998 — were ignored or swept aside.
Johnson's solution is twofold: nationalize the bad banks and then carve them up into a bunch of small banks so they can never harm us again. I have my doubts. Not about nationalization, which I suspect is inevitable, but about the size of individual banks being at the root of our problem. As Johnson himself suggests, banks would have to get pretty damn small — smaller than Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns were — before their failure could be tolerated, and I'm just not sure we live in a world where that's practical.
After World War II we eventually rejected the Morgenthau plan to deindustrialize Germany, deciding (wisely, I think) that industrialization per se wasn't the cause of the conflict. Likewise, I think crude bank size is a red herring for our current financial collapse. Small banks can become overleveraged just as easily as big ones, hedge funds pay higher salaries than Wall Street behemoths, the interconnectedness of the global financial sector is a bigger cause of systemic worries than size alone, and credit expansions spiral out of control largely due to lack of political will, not because Citigroup is large and clumsy. Those are the things we should be focused on.
Now, Johnson makes the fair point that the kind of systemic regulation I prefer is impossible to put in place because big banks have so much lobbying power that they can prevent it. But again, I don't think it's big banks that produce this kind of power, it's a big banking industry. If we can somehow shrink the overall size and profitability of the industry, their lobbying power will shrink too. And if we limit their leverage, limit systemic credit expansion, and force more sunlight into Wall Street's trading activity, there's a pretty good chance we can do that.
It won't be easy, of course. As Johnson says, the finance industry still has enormous sway in Washington and will fight tooth and nail to keep their toys from being taken away. But hell — if we can't do it now, of all times, then what chance do we have of permanently slashing the size of big banks either? Not much. So since it's going to be a fight either way, why not attack the roots instead of the branches?
POSTSCRIPT: Just in case it's not clear, Johnson's article is terrific reading, well worth a few minutes of your time. I happen to disagree with his technical approach to reducing the size and power of the finance sector, but his description of the problem is top notch.
Plus, of course, he might be right and I might be wrong. So go read it.


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Registered Nurse – Observation Unit 002 – Full-Time,Night – Employer Providence Hospital, Southfield Campus
1900-0730, 72 hours per pay period/ 36 hours per week. Every third weekend. Holidays per unit practice
Why Join Employer?
Employer Michigan is a member of Employer Health, the largest not-for-profit Catholic Health system in the United States.
Our Mission, Vision and Values: Employer Michigan, as a Catholic health ministry, is committed to providing spiritually centered, holistic care which sustains and improves the health of individuals in the communities we serve, with special attention to the poor and vulnerable.
Our Values: We are called to: Service of the Poor, Reverence, Integrity, Wisdom, Creativity and Dedication
Our Vision: Our passion for healing calls us to cultivate trust, advocate wellness, and transform healthcare.
What You Will Do
As an Associate with Employer Providence Hospital, Southfield Campus, you will have the opportunity to provide direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization.
- Implement and monitor patient care plans. Monitor, record and communicate patient condition as appropriate.
- Serve as a primary coordinator of all disciplines for well-coordinated patient care.
- Note and carry out physician and nursing orders.
- Assess and coordinate patient's discharge planning needs with members of the healthcare team.
- Display ability to perform unit-specific skills based on unit competency validation process and department-required certifications, to be required within department scope.
- Provide leadership to health care team including orientation, delegating work assignments, charge RN and other leadership responsibilities as assigned.
- Demonstrate personal commitment to the organization's core values and nursing mission, vision, and philosophy through active involvement in the quality improvement process.
- Perform all other duties and projects as assigned.
What You Will Need
- Required Credential(s):
- Basic Life Support Provider certification from the American Heart Association (AHA) required. American Red Cross (ARC) CPR for Professional Rescuers card will be accepted upon hire but renewal must be a BLS Provider card from AHA.
- Current Registered Nurse (RN) licensure with the State of Michigan required or must be obtained prior to hire/transfer date.
- Associate Degree
- Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing, Associate's Degree required within 4 months from hire/transfer date Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred
Work Experience:
- One year of relevant experience preferred.
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If you are an entrepreneur, it may be hard to find a small business broker who is really looking for you.
More often, we see unscrupulous players who are only concerned with plugging their pockets. The business owner is then left with a debilitating debt, and the inability to pay for it.
That is why the loan office still remains a popular choice. But, if you go to this route, you still need to make sure that you sign the rates and terms that suit you.
Read on for 5 SBA loan questions You should ask your loan officer before signing up.
1. What additional costs will be added to my loan?
Before thinking about the form of SBA 770, you want to know how much it costs to be incurred.
Fortunately, of all lenders, banks and other local financial institutions tend to offer the lowest rates. The average APR of local banks is 3%.
Also, if you work with a broker from a community bank, they may also be handling fees as well. A worthy broker will only charge between 1% and 2% of the loan amount for their services.
However, that's not always the case, so you want to cover your base early on.
2. Do you offer short-term or long-term loans?
Now, you may have identified what your loan objectives are. With this information, you must determine whether long-term or short-term loans match your best interests.
Depending on your financial situation, one option will likely be more appropriate. You must finish this early because not all institutions offer both options.
3. How long will it take for this process to finish?
Depending on your lender, the loan application process may take some time. Often, it may take several days or even weeks before a financial institution can approve your loan.
If you need a quick turn, this can help you eliminate the lender with the long processing time.
Fortunately, most creditors have a fairly fast processing time and can tell you sooner than later. Some can even make decisions within 24 hours.
4. When I am expected to make a payment?
Coordinating the payment schedule is an important task with your lender. Both parties should be on the same page to avoid confusion or bad feelings on the road.
Traditionally, lenders receive their payments in monthly intervals. Now, many allow you to make payments every week or every other week.
Some even allow you to make smaller daily payments.
If your lender requires a daily or weekly payment, make sure you have the money fixed in
5. Is my industry important?
Some institutions will only lend or refuse to lend to businesses in certain industries. Whether it's too debatable or risky, certain businesses often can not receive support.
This should be one of the first questions you ask with a broker. This will save you from wasting time with someone who can not help.
If this is your concern, you should consider going with a private investor. You can find private brokers specializing in specific industries.
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To my darling girl,
Before you were born, we were terrified of the changes that your presence would mean for our lives – not ready to grow-up ourselves, neither your Daddy nor I really wanted to share our hearts with another soul. We fretted that we'd lose the depth to our connection over time, as if adding another molecule to the formula might dilute its overall strength.
Which is why I need to tell you today that over the last three years, you have brought so much happiness and belly-laughter. You have inherited your father's awful sense of direction, groan-worthy humour, and brilliant brain for problem-solving. From me, you've been fated with an inane desire to share your every thought and feeling. You are so wickedly funny, and you know it – a terrible tease with a penchant for giving me the side-eye just when you know I won't be able to resist a smile.
That's not to say you're without fault my girl, for when tempers flare, you shake with rage, screw up your nose and stamp your right foot for all it's worth. You whine like a dog when being taken away from your favourite activities and your incessant desire for independence tests my patience on a daily basis. But you have a wonderful capacity for reason, I would never have dreamt that such a small one could have the ability to be able to listen, contemplate and without fail, always do the right thing.
It's impossible to put into words just how much I love you. A feeling that extends beyond my comprehension, a force that is both immeasurable and bottomless in its reach. When I spend an afternoon without you beside me, I get butterflies as I approach the front door, bounding through it like you're the Mum and I'm the child. I tell you all that I've done that day, and you quietly listen before making me promise that next time, we'll do it together.
Time moves so quickly, it's a cliché that every mother tells me but a relentless reminder that one day, we won't be the first people you think of upon waking. You won't call out for me when you stir in the middle of the night and I won't be able to instinctively lift you into my arms when something needs to be made better. Time has always been a cruel mistress, but for all the dreams and hopes I have for you, it's the one that I pray for most of all. Every minute of every day. I… we, both Daddy and I, want nothing more than to share it with you.
Happy 3rd birthday Leila, you are so very loved.


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How to Monitor Your Employees' Computer Efficiently 2024
For employers, the biggest problem is how to monitor your employees' computer and mobile devices legally. Most employees love to surf their social networks, deal with their personal matters, shop and chat online, or even download files which are not related to their work at work hours. All of these activities reduce their productivity and make a lot fo loss for the company. The worse thing is that employees may reveal some confidential information to some competitor for their own interest! Take the issues mentioned above into consideration, it is important and necessary for employers to take actions to track employees' web usage.
Monitoring Software
For many companies, it is a good and efficient way to use monitoring software to track employees' activities. Commonly, such kind of software provides powerful monitoring features, and allows managers to do a centralized management. What does the centralized management mean? All logs recorded by the monitoring software will be uploaded to the online cloud panel, but the logs have been sorted by category and users or groups. Therefore, it is easy for managers to decide what logs they want to check, or whose logs or which group's logs they want to check. Only with the Internet, managers can know all.
As far as I know, EaseMon employee monitoring software is the most advanced one for many managers to monitor your employees' computer. It provides powerful monitoring features like record keystrokes and passwords typed, websites visited, chat messages sent and received, application used, screenshots captured by keywords or time interval, and also enables you to manage all groups and members in a centralized management. It will make managers' monitoring more efficiently!
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A southwest Ohio consumer who tried to move her Cincinnati Bell account received a rude surprise: It was blocked because five iPhones had been bought in her name without her knowledge and the bill for the $2,300 purchase had yet to be paid.
A consumer in Canfield, Ohio, was shocked to learn that a woman in Georgia cashed a $5,000 check for a loan that a payday lender had issued in his name.
When Target asked a Columbus consumer about a line of credit he supposedly opened, he checked his credit report and discovered several other credit cards he never applied for had been issued in his name.
After these three consumers contacted our office, we were able to resolve their cases and collectively save them more than $13,000. But their stories, and others like them, give a glimpse into why our volume of identity theft complaints more than doubled from 2013 to 2014, and why identity theft joined our list of top 10 consumer complaints for the first time last year.
In 2012, I created a consumer Identity Theft Unit to help victims rectify the effects of identity theft. Since then we've received more than 3,300 complaints and helped adjust or clear about $900,000 from consumers' accounts.
While identity theft is often a random crime of opportunity, breaches in both commercial and government data bases have emerged as new and significant dangers. Data breaches don't always result in identity theft, but they do put individuals at greater risk.
Since 2005, nearly 5,000 data breaches have compromised more than 815 million records containing consumers' sensitive financial information. If a Social Security number is involved, a full-blown identity theft can cost a consumer an average of $5,100.
States have largely taken the lead in responding to data breaches and identity theft. They've helped consumers deal with the repercussions of data breaches and investigated the causes. Forty-seven states have enacted laws requiring data collectors to notify consumers when a data breach has compromised their personal information.
Congress has contemplated passing a national law on data breach notification and data security. However, state laws already in place to protect consumers from data breaches and identity theft should not be limited or pre-empted by federal legislation.
That's why earlier this month I signed a letter with 46 other attorneys general asking Congress to maintain states' authority to enforce data breach and security laws. Our letter urged Congress to preserve existing breach notification requirements under state law and not to hinder states that are helping their residents by preempting state data breach and security laws.
We want to keep the flexibility we need to effectively assist consumers who contact us from Cincinnati, Canfield, Columbus and every other corner of the state.
For help with situations involving a data breach, identity theft or other consumer problems, contact my office at 800-282-0515 or www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov.


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"You can't see the forest for the trees" is a great description for what happens when you live in a place for long. The day-to-day stuff gets so distracting you don't see the eagle nest on the Spit, the sea otter bobbing on the bay or the eagle outside your car window as it glides beside the highway.
One quick cure: the free birding-wildlife hot spots van tour offered by Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center on Friday afternoons during July, and led by volunteers John and Sue Ewan, retired middle school science teachers from Missouri.
It also is a great introduction to the area for visitors, an opportunity to meet new people and, as was the case last Friday, stumble across some unexpected connections.
After ensuring everyone had binoculars and was settled in the 15-passenger tour van, the Ewans invited introductions. Bob and Linda Wiley and Xue Li and Li Zhang were surprised to discover they were from the same city in Maryland. Others shared New York as their point of origin. Some were here for a short time; most were here for the first time. Only one of us, yours truly, was from Alaska.
A drive to the end of the Spit was an opportunity for Sue to compare the freshwater of Beluga Lake to the mixture of fresh and salt water in Beluga Slough. She described the Spit's origin and noted the thousands of shorebirds that make the area a stopping-off point.
"On the right" and "on the left" kept our heads turning to see what animals were being spotted, be it otter, crows, birds to be identified or the eagerly anticipated glimpse of a bald eagle.
From the ferry terminal parking area, we observed the kittiwake colony that builds its nests on the dock's structure.
Turning around, we raised our eyes to the top of a tall cell tower and the eagle nest on a triangle-shaped platform. After minutes of patient viewing, the white-headed silhouette of an adult eagle came into view, followed by the smaller, dark silhouette of its young.
With Kachemak Bay currents creating a smorgasbord that feeds a variety birds and wildlife, John said the tip of the Spit was "a good area to come and sit and watch, especially in the evening." The obvious question — "When's evening?" — drew a laugh from everyone experiencing Alaska's extended hours of summer daylight.
Sue introduced us to the smooth, gray beach rocks beneath our feet: greywacke. Just the sound of the word caused her and the rest of us to laugh.
A viewing platform near the airport offered glimpses of a swan family. The last stop of the tour, the post office parking lot, drew our attention to the eagle nest in the top of a spruce tree on the other side of the highway.
All too soon, an hour and a half had passed and it was time to say good-bye. Only then did I make the connection a woman sitting by me was the mother of my doctor, here for a month-long visit. Sue asked, since I had grown up in Ninilchik, if I knew her cousins who also grew up there. Sure enough, I remembered them well.
The Friday afternoon birding-wildlife hot spots van tour is similar to the birding hot spots tour offered during Shorebird Festival.
"In July, our viewing opportunities are different and our tourists are normally not hard-core birders. Probably most on the tour are just as happy to see a moose, or more so, so we recognize its more of a wildlife-watching tour," said Marianne Aplin, manager of the Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center, where the hour- to hour-and-a-half tour originates and ends.
Offering the tour depends on the skills of volunteers at the visitor center. This year, the Ewans have proven the perfect match.
"Their first day on the job, they jumped right in and started answering visitors' questions and you could tell right away they were perfect for this kind of thing," said Aplin.
All ages are welcome on the tour. Binoculars are provided, but bring your own if you have them. The popularity of the tour is evident by the lack of seats. It's a good idea to call or email to reserve a space.
McKibben Jackinsky can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center
95 Sterling Highway
Info: islandsandocean.org
Activities scheduled during July and August:
• AlaskaWild photography Show (August)
• Beach walks at Bishops Beach
• Birding-wildlife hot spots van tour
• Estuary walks
• Films
• Kachemak Bay Research Reserve Discovery Lab
• Ranger-guided walks
• Ranger presentations
• Ranger talks
• Tenderfoot tidepooling
For topics, times and dates, visit the calendar at islandsandocean.org.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Under Armour's takeover from Majestic Athletic as the supplier of Major League Baseball uniforms has been pushed back a year to 2020, the original terms of its agreement.
Fanatics Inc. and MLB announced a deal in December 2016 that gave the company licensing rights to manufacture and distribute merchandise starting in 2020. After Fanatics signed a deal to buy VF Corp.'s Licensed Sports Group and with it the 600-worker Majestic Athletic plant in Easton, Pennsylvania, baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said last May the switch to Under Armour for on-field apparel would take place for the 2019 season.
MLB and Under Armour decided the accelerated schedule could not be met.
Majestic has manufactured MLB batting practice jerseys since 1982 and has been the exclusive supplier of game uniforms since 2005. Before that, uniforms were manufactured by both Majestic and Russell.
When Under Armour takes over, the manufacturer logo will switch to the front of the uniform from the sleeve.


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One of the more common afflictions of early Macintosh users was the dreaded "Disk Swapper's Elbow" caused by a disk copying operation run amok. Disk swapping was a necessary evil caused by having 400KB floppy disks, 128KB of RAM, and a single floppy drive. If a user wanted to make a backup of a disk, she had to eject the source disk, insert a blank one, format it, drag the source disk over the new disk, and then the Finder would copy data piece-by-piece with the necessary swapping.
A typical application on a 128K Mac had about 85K of memory available; the rest was used by the system, mostly for the bitmap display. A simple calculation shows that copying a 400K disk should involve about 5 or 6 swaps. Five disk swaps was barely tolerable, but, as early Finder users will remember, occasionally it would take well over 20 disk swaps.
You'd start a disk copy and hold your breath during the fifth, and hopefully, final swap. If the Mac dutifully disgorged the floppy that sixth time, you'd convince yourself you miscounted, cross your fingers, and hope for the best. By the seventh swap you start cursing because you knew you were trapped and you'd start wondering about investing in a second, external drive.
Even though the whole Finder was only 46K of code and had about 10K of overhead, the remaining 30K of memory was too small for practical copying. So, I had to break up the code into two chunks: the bare minimum for copying and all the rest. Then, I had to carefully flush out all data that was cached in memory, preload the small disk-copying chunk of code, and coalesce the balance of RAM. Usually, the Finder ended up with 75K of free memory and things worked as planned. But, sometimes the system would mysteriously reload the larger chunk of the Finder code, fragment the free memory, and cause another case of Disk Swapper's Elbow.
It took me a long time to figure out what happened because we had rarely seen this in testing. There were a few bug reports of this problem that were never reproducible. The bug reports went like this: "Copied a disk, it took 20+ swaps $%#@!!! Tried a second time, it was fine." The reason this was not reproducible was because we were all expert mouse users and usually skipped the crucial misstep.
When anybody first starts using a mouse, dragging is one of the more difficult things to do. It's actually quite awkward to click down, move the mouse while holding down the button, and then release. Beginners very often accidentally release the mouse button while dragging. In the Finder, this means you could "drop" an icon you were dragging. You rarely thought about this (unless you happened to drop it over a folder and it disappeared); you'd immediately pick the icon up and continue the drag. It turned out if you dropped the disk icon during a disk copy, you'd induce the bug. Since all of the team members had been using the mouse for years by this time, we rarely dropped icons which is why we could never reproduce the problem.
To support the user's spatial memory, the Finder always remembered where icons were located on the desktop. When you dropped the icon -- even for a half a second -- the Finder would dutifully record its location. The routine to save the icon's location was, as you probably guessed, in the big portion of the Finder's code. When this bug occurred, the Finder would carefully massage the memory for copying and then belatedly discover the icon's location hadn't been flushed out. It would blindly call the routine to flush it and you now know what would happen...
I introduced this bug about 2AM the morning we built the final disks. This bug was caused by a fix to a much more egregious bug, so it was definitely the lesser of two evils....really!


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The law firm of Morris, Hall & Kinghorn, P.L.L.C (MHK) announced that partner Ronald G. Wilson has been appointed to the Arizona Humane Society's Board of Directors.
Wilson has dedicated much of his time to serving and participating on various boards in the past. When asked about this new appointment, Wilson stated "I look forward to working with the Humane Society and their endeavors to help all homeless animals. It is an honor to be appointed and to have the opportunity to work with a caring staff and board members." Previously he has served as president for the Phoenix Art Museum Men's art council, the Greater Southwest Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation and the Terrance retirement community just to name a few
Since 1957, the Arizona Humane Society has been committed to helping all animals and believes that every pet deserves a good life. They have grown to become the largest animal welfare and protection agency in Arizona.
Wilson has been a partner with Morris, Hall and Kinghorn since 2006 and focuses only on estate planning. He has worldwide experience and education in estate planning and trust law, and is an Accredited Estate Planner from the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils.
MHK devotes its practice to estate planning matters and has helped thousands of families and individuals to meet their long-term estate planning and financial goals. The firm is a premier member of the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys (AAEPA).


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(visited by Joseph Kerski)
04-Dec-2009 -- As I was in the area for a meeting of the Crossing Boundaries project, an NSF-funded effort involving middle school teachers and students, university students and faculty, and international fieldwork and scientific inquiry, and as my involvement in the effort was to contribute to the geotechnology integration discussion, a confluence visit seemed particularly appropriate. I arrived in the area late the night before, but the opportunity arose early the next morning, as our meeting would not begin until afternoon. I thus was up at dawn, stopping at the beautiful Lake Seneca to take a few photographs and a video. It was my first time in the area and I marveled at the fact that no snow was on the ground. It was not meant to last: A few days later, the entire area was buried in about 18", and therefore, my confluence visit was just in time.
The town of Geneva was just as pretty as the lake, and after a stroll and photographing along the lakeshore, I drove north out of town along New York State Highway 14. Geneva is almost on the 77th Meridian, and the closest confluence was due north. Immediately after crossing underneath the New York State Thruway, I turned west along Fisher Road into some truly beautiful countryside. One fence was dotted with little American flags. I took a few photographs of some picturesque farmsteads and farm animals, and, seeing nowhere to pull over at the 43rd Parallel, I continued north on Maryland Road to the next intersection. Another picture was necessary due to the scenic view and the wetland before I turned back to the south. This is the land between the Finger Lakes to the south and Lake Ontario to the north, a land dotted with recreational activities, orchards, farms, and lovely towns. In nearby Phelps is the famous Sauerkraut Festival, which has been running for 43 years now. I considered stopping at the farmhouse near the wetland but was not sure that the owners would appreciate it at the early hour nor was I certain that they were the landowners. I stopped at a location along the road that provided access to the west. Good fortune: There was not a no trespassing sign anywhere along the west side of the road, and no fences, either. I could see a long way to the west, and in front of me stood the stand of trees that housed my goal.
After a muddy walk west on the edge of a field of corn, I came to the wood. I then made a beeline to the southwest, and since the trees were bare, this being late Autumn, the GPS was still picking up plenty of satellites. In less than 10 minutes from the vehicle, I stood on the confluence. It lies on ground sloping about 5 degrees to the northeast, in the northeastern part of the wood. The longest view was to the north and east. The temperature stood at 54 F (12 C), quite mild for this time of year and this time of morning. This was my second confluence in New York, as this past spring I stood at one near the Hudson River. Both of them were quite lovely, but I much preferred the one I was now standing on due to less traffic. Indeed, I saw no people or animals during my trek, and few birds. I walked out, filming my steps as I crunched through fallen leaves. I took a few more photographs, lying in the mud and experimenting with the corn stalks in the picture frames as I exited the wood. This was the first visit to this confluence in the late fall, and I was glad to make the contribution, knowing that comparing the leaf-on photographs of the previous visits would be interesting. I drove south along Maryland Road, the way I had come in. Truly a beautiful landscape.
It was exactly one year ago today that I closed out my confluence visits for the year with a visit to a forest in Maine, and here I was now in a forested area of New York, on my last confluence trip of the year. It is good to know that there are places on the planet that have not been paved, and I hoped this little wood would always be here. Here is to another year of wonderful adventures--to California, Puerto Rico, Texas, Washington, and beyond. But first, I could not resist one more--a side trip 1 degree to the west before my meeting began that afternoon. I had time due to the brevity of this visit. Therefore, instead of heading due south back to Geneva, I hopped on the New York Thuway, picked up a paper pass, and headed west 1 degree of longitude to 43 North 78 West.


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