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Wireless Access Point and Safe Gateway into the IoT
- Freescale PowerPC QorIQ P1013, 800 MHz
- 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports on M12 connectors
- Up to 6 antennas on RP-TNC connectors
- Various wireless functions and configurable firewall
- 1 USB 2.0 type A port, 1 USB 2.0 type B port
- Diversity of the signal reception
- Compliant to EN 50155 (railway) and ISO 7637-2 (E-mark for automotive)
Robust and Flexible Gateway Solution
The NM50 is compliant to EN 50155 and ISO 7637-2 (E-mark for automotive), perfectly fulfilling the requirements for use in modern public transportation. As a member of MEN's robust and flexible box PC family the NM50 allows a fast time-to-market for cost-effective IoT applications.
Two reliable WLAN modules provide high-speed internet and local data connection to multiple WLAN compatible devices. A configurable firewall protects WLAN clients and supports secure and uninterrupted network connectivity.
Two Gigabit Ethernet ports available on M12 connectors secure a redundant upstream connection to a local server, or downstream to other access points in a network, to extend coverage and increase availability of service. Up to six possible antenna interfaces (four at the front side, two at the back) via robust RP-TNC connectors enable redundant and continuous signal reception.
The NM50 electronics are based on a low-power Freescale QorIQ Power PC CPU and are well protected by a conduction-cooled and robust IP30 aluminum housing. In addition, the NM50 is designed for operation at temperatures from -40 to +85°C.
With its robust design, the configurable firewall, various wireless functions and the reliable and secure data transmission the NM50 is an ideal device for demanding wireless applications in harsh environments.
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Story highlights
- David Ranta served nearly 22 years for a Brooklyn rabbi's killing
- New York City has agreed to pay him $6.4 million for his wrongful conviction
- About 50 cases came under review after Ranta's conviction was overturned
A man whose murder conviction was overturned after he served 22 years in prison will receive a $6.4 million settlement from New York City, according to attorneys on the case.
David Ranta, 60, who was imprisoned for the killing of a Brooklyn rabbi in 1990, was granted the settlement this week before his claim against the city was even filed in federal court, his attorney Pierre Sussman said Thursday.
New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer settled the pre-litigation claim for wrongful conviction and imprisonment in response to a $150 million claim that Ranta filed last year, according to a statement from his office.
"After a review process and negotiations, my office was able to reach a settlement with Mr. Ranta that is in the best interests of all parties and closes the door on a truly regrettable episode in our City's history," Stringer said in a prepared statement.
According to New York City law, the comptroller has the authority to settle claims against the city, the statement said.
"It is such a significant case," said Sussman, who said he believes the quick settlement is a testament to the weakness of the city's defense against the suit.
"This is the first time in an exoneration case that a settlement has been reached without the claim making it to the city's law department," he added.
Sussman said Ranta still plans a lawsuit against the state.
Ranta was freed from prison in March 2013 but suffered a heart attacked the day after his release. His attorney said Ranta looks forward to the stability the settlement will provide as he continues to get medical treatment for his heart condition.
Ranta's second-degree murder conviction stemmed from the 1990 killing of Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger during a diamond heist. A witness two decades later came forward and said he had been coached to identify Ranta from a police lineup. After an investigation, prosecutors recommended that Ranta's conviction be tossed out.
Since Ranta's trial, another man's widow has identified her now-dead husband as the killer; a onetime jail inmate has said he made up statements about Ranta to boost his own fortunes; and the man who, as a boy, picked him out of a lineup has come forward to say a detective coached him.
Prosecutors have determined the evidence underpinning Ranta's conviction "has been degraded to such an extent" that it would no longer support the verdict, John O'Mara, the deputy district attorney in charge of Brooklyn's conviction integrity unit, said in March 2013.
When detectives questioned him, Ranta initially denied any involvement in the killing, but he then acknowledged knowing Alan Bloom, a man facing trial on his own robbery charges who gave Ranta's name to police, according to prosecutors. He later admitted he had been near the scene of the crime and that he knew his friends had planned a holdup. Then he admitted he had been involved in planning the diamond heist, acted as the lookout and had seen Bloom and another jailed witness, Dmitry Drikman, with a gun.
Ranta insists that he was framed by police and that detectives coached the witnesses against him.
"No way that happened," said Louis Scarcella, one of the detectives who investigated the case. He told CNN last year that Ranta admitted his involvement in the heist attempt and that he stands by the arrest.
Upon Ranta's exoneration in March 2013, his attorney told CNN, "The detective work that was done on this case was at best shoddy and at worst criminal. And I don't use that word lightly. But when a closer examination is done of the detective work ... it becomes clear that there were so many leads that weren't followed, there were so many notes that weren't taken and just a general lack of attention to an investigation that required nothing but close scrutiny of the scene, of witnesses and so forth. That didn't happen."
About 50 cases in the District Attorney's Criminal Investigation Unit handled by Scarcella came under review after Ranta's second-degree murder conviction was tossed out. Scarcella retired from the New York Police Department before the investigations began.

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Socialnomics: It's a People Driven Economy, Stupid.
Socialnomics is a massive socioeconomic shift. Yet, some of the core marketing and business principals of the last few centuries will still apply.
Socialnomics is a massive socioeconomic shift. Yet, some of the core marketing and business principals of the last few centuries will still apply.
The below is a free sneak preview to the introduction of my new book "Socialnomics," which is on sale here or get the Kindle version here.
To view a four-minute YouTube video on the power of social media and what "Socialnomics" is all about, please click here.
This video itself is a good example of the power of social media. As of this writing, it was closing in on 200,000 views. Ironic, no?
So, without further ado, here is the introduction from my book, "Socialnomics":
In 1992, James Carville coined the phrase "It's the economy, stupid." This simple phrase was a major driver behind why Bill Clinton became our forty-second president. Much has happened since 1992, with the most powerful change being the ubiquitous adoption and assimilation of the Internet. The Internet has revolutionized almost every facet of our business and personal lives. This last statement about the Internet is hopefully not news to anyone reading this book.
What is news however is that, today, we are in the early stages of yet another far-reaching revolution. This revolution is being driven by people and enabled by social media. That is why nearly two decades later we are taking liberty with Carville's famous quote by adjusting it to: "It's a people-driven economy, stupid." Although only a slight modification of words, it's a drastic adjustment in philosophy and in how people and businesses are changing and will continue to evolve in the coming years.
Socialnomics is a massive socioeconomic shift. Yet, some of the core marketing and business principals of the last few centuries will still apply; whilst other basic principles will become as extinct as the companies that continue to try to force them on the unwilling public.
We are already seeing the economic potential of social media in its ability to reduce inefficient marketing and middlemen. Million-dollar television advertisements are no longer the king influencer of purchase intent. People referring products and services via social media tools are the new king. It is the world's largest referral program in history. There is also less need to subscribe to costly newspapers when consumers are pushed more relevant and timely free content from their peers via social media. The news finds us. All of this can be done easily from the comfort of home or while on the go with mobile devices. These paradigms and shifts, along with many others, are discussed in the forthcoming pages. The end result is that everything from purchasing a baby carriage to drafting a last will and testament is easier and cheaper for the consumer and more profitable for the seller.
Social media also eliminates millions of people performing the same tasks (multiple individual redundancy) over and over.
If a new father sees via social media that 14 of his closest friends have purchased the same brand and model baby seat and they all express glowing reviews, he will not waste hours on research, as it has already been done by people he trusts. This recaptures billions of hours that can be redistributed toward the betterment of society. Today's winners are not the result of Madison Avenue, Blueblood Political Parties, or Monopolistic Distributors. As a result of the ease and speed with which information can be distributed amongst the social graph, the winners today are great products and services — which ultimately means that people win. Companies can elect to do business as usual at their own peril. We are at the start of a newer and brighter world for consumers and businesses; this is the world of Socialnomics.
Excerpted with permission of the publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. from "Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms The Way We Live And Do Business" by Erik Qualman. © 2009 by Erik Qualman.


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Adaptation to Current and Future Climate in Pastoral Communities Across Africa
Edna Wangui
Pastoralists around the world are exposed to climate change and increasing climate variability. Various downscaled regional climate models in Africa support community reports of rising temperatures as well as changes in the seasonality of rainfall and drought. In addition to climate, pastoralists have faced a second exposure to unsupportive policy environments. Dating back to the colonial period, a lack of knowledge about pastoralism and a systemic marginalization of pastoral communities influenced the size and nature of government investments in pastoral lands. National governments prioritized farming communities and failed to pay adequate attention to drylands and pastoral communities. The limited government interventions that occurred were often inconsistent with contemporary realities of pastoralism and pastoral communities. These included attempts at sedentarization and modernization, and in other ways changing the priorities and practices of pastoral communities.
The survival of pastoral communities in Africa in the context of this double exposure has been a focus for scholars, development practitioners, as well as national governments in recent years. Scholars initially drew attention to pastoralists' drought-coping strategies, and later examined the multiple ways in which pastoralists manage risk and exploit unpredictability. It has been learned that pastoralists are rational land managers whose experience with variable climate has equipped them with the skills needed for adaptation. Pastoralists follow several identifiable adaptation paths, including diversification and modification of their herds and herding strategies; adoption of livelihood activities that did not previously play a permanent role; and a conscious decision to train the next generation for nonpastoral livelihoods. Ongoing government interventions around climate change still prioritize cropping over herding. Sometimes, such nationally supported adaptation plans can undermine community-based adaptation practices, autonomously evolving within pastoral communities. Successful adaptation hinges on recognition of the value of autonomous adaptation and careful integration of such adaptation with national plans.
Adaptive Governance
Ronald D. Brunner and Amanda H. Lynch
Adaptive governance is defined by a focus on decentralized decision-making structures and procedurally rational policy, supported by intensive natural and social science. Decentralized decision-making structures allow a large, complex problem like global climate change to be factored into many smaller problems, each more tractable for policy and scientific purposes. Many smaller problems can be addressed separately and concurrently by smaller communities. Procedurally rational policy in each community is an adaptation to profound uncertainties, inherent in complex systems and cognitive constraints, that limit predictability. Hence planning to meet projected targets and timetables is secondary to continuing appraisal of incremental steps toward long-term goals: What has and hasn't worked compared to a historical baseline, and why? Each step in such trial-and-error processes depends on politics to balance, if not integrate, the interests of multiple participants to advance their common interest—the point of governance in a free society. Intensive science recognizes that each community is unique because the interests, interactions, and environmental responses of its participants are multiple and coevolve. Hence, inquiry focuses on case studies of particular contexts considered comprehensively and in some detail.
Varieties of adaptive governance emerged in response to the limitations of scientific management, the dominant pattern of governance in the 20th century. In scientific management, central authorities sought technically rational policies supported by predictive science to rise above politics and thereby realize policy goals more efficiently from the top down. This approach was manifest in the framing of climate change as an "irreducibly global" problem in the years around 1990. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established to assess science for the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The parties negotiated the Kyoto Protocol that attempted to prescribe legally binding targets and timetables for national reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. But progress under the protocol fell far short of realizing the ultimate objective in Article 1 of the UNFCCC, "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system." As concentrations continued to increase, the COP recognized the limitations of this approach in Copenhagen in 2009 and authorized nationally determined contributions to greenhouse gas reductions in the Paris Agreement in 2015.
Adaptive governance is a promising but underutilized approach to advancing common interests in response to climate impacts. The interests affected by climate, and their relative priorities, differ from one community to the next, but typically they include protecting life and limb, property and prosperity, other human artifacts, and ecosystem services, while minimizing costs. Adaptive governance is promising because some communities have made significant progress in reducing their losses and vulnerability to climate impacts in the course of advancing their common interests. In doing so, they provide field-tested models for similar communities to consider. Policies that have worked anywhere in a network tend to be diffused for possible adaptation elsewhere in that network. Policies that have worked consistently intensify and justify collective action from the bottom up to reallocate supporting resources from the top down. Researchers can help realize the potential of adaptive governance on larger scales by recognizing it as a complementary approach in climate policy—not a substitute for scientific management, the historical baseline.
Climate and Health across Africa
Benjamin F. Zaitchik
Humans have understood the importance of climate to human health since ancient times. In some cases, the connections appear to be obvious: a flood can cause drownings, a drought can lead to crop failure and hunger, and temperature extremes pose a risk of exposure. In other cases, the connections are veiled by complex or unobserved processes, such that the influence of climate on a disease epidemic or a conflict can be difficult to diagnose. In reality, however, all climate impacts on health are mediated by some combination of natural and human dynamics that cause individuals or populations to be vulnerable to the effects of a variable or changing climate.
Understanding and managing negative health impacts of climate is a global challenge. The challenge is greater in regions with high poverty and weak institutions, however, and Africa is a continent where the health burden of climate is particularly acute. Observed climate variability in the modern era has been associated with widespread food insecurity, significant epidemics of infectious disease, and loss of life and livelihoods to climate extremes. Anthropogenic climate change is a further stress that has the potential to increase malnutrition, alter the distribution of diseases, and bring more frequent hydrological and temperature extremes to many regions across the continent.
Skillful early warning systems and informed climate change adaptation strategies have the potential to enhance resilience to short-term climate variability and to buffer against negative impacts of climate change. But effective warnings and projections require both scientific and institutional capacity to address complex processes that are mediated by physical, ecological, and societal systems. Here the state of understanding climate impacts on health in Africa is summarized through a selective review that focuses on food security, infectious disease, and extreme events. The potential to apply scientific understanding to early warning and climate change projection is also considered.
Climate Change Adaptation
Philipp Schmidt-Thomé
Climate change adaptation is the ability of a society or a natural system to adjust to the (changing) conditions that support life in a certain climate region, including weather extremes in that region. The current discussion on climate change adaptation began in the 1990s, with the publication of the Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since the beginning of the 21st century, most countries, and many regions and municipalities have started to develop and implement climate change adaptation strategies and plans. But since the implementation of adaptation measures must be planned and conducted at the local level, a major challenge is to actually implement adaptation to climate change in practice. One challenge is that scientific results are mainly published on international or national levels, and political guidelines are written at transnational (e.g., European Union), national, or regional levels—these scientific results must be downscaled, interpreted, and adapted to local municipal or community levels. Needless to say, the challenges for implementation are also rooted in a large number of uncertainties, from long time spans to matters of scale, as well as in economic, political, and social interests. From a human perspective, climate change impacts occur rather slowly, while local decision makers are engaged with daily business over much shorter time spans.
Among the obstacles to implementing adaptation measures to climate change are three major groups of uncertainties: (a) the uncertainties surrounding the development of our future climate, which include the exact climate sensitivity of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, the reliability of emission scenarios and underlying storylines, and inherent uncertainties in climate models; (b) uncertainties about anthropogenically induced climate change impacts (e.g., long-term sea level changes, changing weather patterns, and extreme events); and (c) uncertainties about the future development of socioeconomic and political structures as well as legislative frameworks.
Besides slow changes, such as changing sea levels and vegetation zones, extreme events (natural hazards) are a factor of major importance. Many societies and their socioeconomic systems are not properly adapted to their current climate zones (e.g., intensive agriculture in dry zones) or to extreme events (e.g., housing built in flood-prone areas). Adaptation measures can be successful only by gaining common societal agreement on their necessity and overall benefit. Ideally, climate change adaptation measures are combined with disaster risk reduction measures to enhance resilience on short, medium, and long time scales.
The role of uncertainties and time horizons is addressed by developing climate change adaptation measures on community level and in close cooperation with local actors and stakeholders, focusing on strengthening resilience by addressing current and emerging vulnerability patterns. Successful adaptation measures are usually achieved by developing "no-regret" measures, in other words—measures that have at least one function of immediate social and/or economic benefit as well as long-term, future benefits. To identify socially acceptable and financially viable adaptation measures successfully, it is useful to employ participatory tools that give all involved parties and decision makers the possibility to engage in the process of identifying adaptation measures that best fit collective needs.
Climate Change Adaptation Strategies of Local Governments in Japan
Kenshi Baba, Masahiro Matsuura, Taiko Kudo, Shigeru Watanabe, Shun Kawakubo, Akiko Chujo, Hiroharu Tanaka, and Mitsuru Tanaka
The latest climate change adaptation strategies adopted by local governments in Japan are discussed. A nationwide survey demonstrates several significant findings. While some prefectures and major cities have already begun to prepare adaptation strategies, most municipalities have yet to consider such strategies. This gap must be considered when studying the climate adaptation strategies of local governments in Japan, as municipal governments are crucial to the implementation of climate adaptation strategies due to high diversity in climate impacts and geographical conditions among municipalities within each prefecture in Japan. Key challenges for local governments in preparing adaptation strategies are the lack of expert knowledge and experience in the field of climate change adaptation, and compartmentalization of government bureaus. To address these issues, an interview study of six model prefectures in the SI-CAT (Social Implementation Program on Climate Change Adaptation Technology) project by the MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) was conducted in order to understand the details of challenges raised by adaptation among local governments in Japan. The survey results reveal that local government officials lack information regarding impact projections and tools for evaluating policy options, even though some of them recognize some of the impacts of climate change on rice crop, vegetable, and fruit production. In addition, different bureaus, such as agriculture, public health, and disaster prevention, focus on different outcomes of climate change due to their different missions. As this is the inherent nature of bureaucratic organizations, a new approach for encouraging collaboration among them is needed. The fact that most of the local governments in Japan have not yet assessed the local impacts of climate change, an effort that would lay the groundwork for preparing adaptation strategies, suggests the importance of cyclical co-design that facilitates the relationship between climatic technology such as climate models and impact assessment and local governments' needs so that the technology developments clarify the needs of local government, while those needs in turn nurture the seeds of technology.
Climate Change Communication and Indigenous Publics
Candis Callison
Indigenous experiences with climate change have become increasingly visible through media stories of rising sea levels, heavy storms, and coastal erosion due to climate change in places as different as Tuvula in the South Pacific and Shishmaref in the Alaskan Arctic. Despite these bursts of attention, indigenous concerns and experiences have not been well or diversely represented in media coverage, nor have they been consistently studied in media scholarship—nor until recently, have indigenous people or knowledge been mentioned in major climate agreements and scientific assessments. There is, however, a growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship that draws on indigenous knowledge, experiences, and activism related to climate change.
Indigenous peoples comprise 5% of the world's population and live in over 90 countries around the world. Because indigenous communities are often located outside major urban centers, indigenous peoples are likely to suffer disproportionately from the impacts of climate change. Many indigenous people live in close connection with the ecosystems in their region, and collectively held Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is passed down through multiple generations, providing in-depth, systematic, meaningful, and historically informed views of climate change and potential pathways for resilience and adaptation.
Indigenous people have often been portrayed in media coverage as victims with little attention paid to TEK, communal resilience, human rights and climate justice frameworks, or the historical contexts that may amplify climate change impacts. While indigenous people have diverse circumstances and histories, many are likely to have suffered enormous upheaval in recent centuries due to colonialism, resource development, economic shifts, loss of human rights, and lack of self-determination. Climate change often intensifies existing vulnerabilities and risks. These deeply intertwined social and environmental crises create distinct challenges for considering how and what climate change means for diverse indigenous peoples, how to address it at all levels of governance, and how media can and should be accountable to and represent indigenous publics.
The Climate Change Regime
Philipp Pattberg and Oscar Widerberg
In 1992, when the international community agreed on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the science of climate change was under development, global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were by and large produced by developed countries, and the concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere had just surpassed 350 ppm. Some 25 years later, climate change is scientifically uncontested, China has overtaken the United States as the world's biggest emitter of CO2, and concentrations are now measured above 400 ppm. Against this background, states have successfully concluded a new global agreement under the UNFCCC, the 2015 Paris Agreement. Prior to the Paris Agreement, the climate regime focused on allocating emission reduction commitments among (a group of) countries. However, the new agreement has turned the climate regime on its feet by introducing an approach based on Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Under this approach, states decide their ambition levels independently instead of engaging in negotiations about "who does what." The result is a more flexible system that for the first time includes all countries in the quest to reduce GHG emissions to keep temperature increase below 2°C compared to preindustrial levels. Moreover, the international climate regime has transformed into a regime complex, denoting the broad activities of smaller groups of states as well as non-party actors, such as cities, regions, companies, and non-governmental organizations along with United Nations agencies.
Communicating Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
Susanne C. Moser
Communicating the impacts of climate change and possible adaptive responses is a relatively recent branch of the larger endeavor of climate change communication. This recent emergence, in large part, is driven by the fact that the impacts and policy/planning/practice responses have only recently emerged in more widespread public consciousness and discourse, and thus in scholarly treatment. This article will first describe the critical and precarious moment of when impacts and adaptation communication becomes important; it will then summarize proposed approaches to do so effectively; and discuss key challenges confronting climate change communication going forward. These challenges may well be unique in the field of communication, in that they either uniquely combine previously encountered difficulties into novel complexities or are truly unprecedented. To date, scholarship and experience in climate, environmental, or risk communication provide little guidance on how to meet these challenges of communicating effectively with diverse publics and decision makers in the face of long-term degradation of the life support system of humanity. The article will conclude with an attempt to offer research and practice directions, fit at least to serve as appropriately humble attitudes toward understanding and engaging fellow humans around the profound risks of an utterly uncertain and far-from-assured future.
Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change
Tim Forsyth
Community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change is an approach to adaptation that aims to include vulnerable people in the design and implementation of adaptation measures. The most obvious forms of CBA include simple, but accessible, technologies such as storing freshwater during flooding or raising the level of houses near the sea. It can also include more complex forms of social and economic resilience such as increasing access to a wider range of livelihoods or reducing the vulnerability of social groups that are especially exposed to climate risks. CBA has been promoted by some development nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and international agencies as a means of demonstrating the importance of participatory and deliberative methods within adaptation to climate change, and the role of longer-term development and social empowerment as ways of reducing vulnerability to climate change. Critics, however, have argued that focusing on "community" initiatives can often be romantic and can give the mistaken impression that communities are homogeneous when in fact they contain many inequalities and social exclusions. Accordingly, many analysts see CBA as an important, but insufficient, step toward the representation of vulnerable local people in climate change policy, but that it also offers useful lessons for a broader transformation to socially inclusive forms of climate change policy, and towards seeing resilience to climate change as lying within socio-economic organization rather than in infrastructure and technology alone.
The Great Green Wall in the Sahel
Cheikh Mbow
For several decades, the Sahelian countries have been facing continuing rainfall shortages, which, coupled with anthropogenic factors, have severely disrupted the great ecological balance, leading the area in an inexorable process of desertification and land degradation. The Sahel faces a persistent problem of climate change with high rainfall variability and frequent droughts, and this is one of the major drivers of population's vulnerability in the region. Communities struggle against severe land degradation processes and live in an unprecedented loss of productivity that hampers their livelihoods and puts them among the populations in the world that are the most vulnerable to climatic change. In response to severe land degradation, 11 countries of the Sahel agreed to work together to address the policy, investment, and institutional barriers to establishing a land-restoration program that addresses climate change and land degradation. The program is called the Pan-Africa Initiative for the Great Green Wall (GGW). The initiative aims at helping to halt desertification and land degradation in the Sahelian zone, improving the lives and livelihoods of smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the area and helping its populations to develop effective adaptation strategies and responses through the use of tree-based development programs. To make the GGW initiative successful, member countries have established a coordinated and integrated effort from the government level to local scales and engaged with many stakeholders. Planning, decision-making, and actions on the ground is guided by participation and engagement, informed by policy-relevant knowledge to address the set of scalable land-restoration practices, and address drivers of land use change in various human-environmental contexts. In many countries, activities specific to achieving the GGW objectives have been initiated in the last five years.


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CO Testing for the Real World
A version of this article appears in the January/February 2002 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
January 01, 2002
Field inspections of gas ranges and laboratory tests provide the basis for a proposed CO emissions testing protocol.
Gas ranges are probably the most common unvented gas appliances in use in North America. With homes becoming tighter, the potential for any type of unvented gas appliance to set the stage for carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is increasing. Ranges and ovens are no exception.Poorly operating ranges and ovens that have closed air shutters, damaged orifices, or warped flame spreaders can emit hazardous levels of CO. CO problems can also arise when equipment users operate a gas range or oven as a space-heating appliance, alter the oven by, for instance, lining the oven bottom with aluminum foil and inadvertently covering the secondary air ports; or misuse the equipment in other ways (see "Educating the Client"). In an effort to develop a field protocol for testing gas ranges,my company, R.J. Karg and Associates, inspected 25 natural gas and propane ranges in randomly selected houses in the Portland and Bar Harbor, Maine, areas. With the help of GARD Analytics,we also conducted three days of laboratory tests.We were dismayed to find during field tests that about half of the ovens gave off more than the ...
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WASHINGTON, April 9 (UPI) -- Performance ratings for the U.S. Supreme Court rose after the justices heard the challenge to the 2-year-old healthcare reform law, Rasmussen Reports said.
Forty-one percent of likely U.S. voters said they considered the Supreme Court's performance as good or excellent, up 13 points from 28 percent in mid-March. It was is the court's highest rating in 2 1/2 years, results released Monday indicated.
Nineteen percent said they rated the court's work record as poor, which is unchanged from last month, Rasmussen Reports said.
Approval of the nation's highest court had fallen in three consecutive quarterly surveys before the healthcare hearings at the end of March, Rasmussen Reports said.
Among all voters, 28 percent say they think the Supreme Court is too liberal, 29 percent say it's too conservative, and 31 percent say they believe the balance is about right.
Most voters said they want the healthcare law repealed and 54 percent said they expect the Supreme Court will overturn it, Rasmussen Reports said.
Results are based on a nationwide telephone survey of 1,000 likely voters conducted Friday and Saturday. The margin of error is 3 percentage points.


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Hiring John Gibbons Is A Huge Mistake
Tuesday, Nov.20/2012
Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Writer): Follow @chuckbooth3024
I am in complete shock that the Jays hired John Gibbons as their recycled coach. For a guy that has largely supported Alex Anthopoulos on many moves since he has taken over the helm, I can't believe he pulled this guy off the scrap heap for managers. Gibbons managed the Blue Jays from 2004-2008 and held down a mediocre 305-305 record. While he did post back to back winning seasons in 2006 and 2007 in a tough AL East, he also had some talented players to work with. Roy Halladay was the premier pitcher in the American League from 2005-2008 and would give a 11-13 games over .500 clip just by taking the hill every year. In the 3 full years that Gibbons had Halladay, he was 44-16 (.733) in 72 starts, so if he had been healthy for 96 starts in this time frame, he would have won about 59 Games versus only 24 losses. In Gibbons best year as a manager, he was 87-75 with the 2006 club. Halladay was 16-5 (11 Games over .500).
I would never want to re-hire a manager that has 0 playoff appearances when the current club is going to be graded on exactly that. The Jays will have a serious 'PR' nightmare if this hire does not work out. No one would have faulted AA for hiring a manager with playoff experience. If those guys aren't available as your top choice, at least bring in someone fresh that has not tasted failure for the club.
I don't understand teams bringing back managers that did not fare well with the club the 1st go around. At least with Cito Gaston (who took over for Gibbons when he was fired in 2008 after starting 35-39), had World Series Championships to his credit. Gaston took over the same club that Gibbons could not reach, and placed a 51-37 record down the stretch of that season. Only if Gaston could be brought back into the fold to coach this team once again. This time around, with all of the talent stockpiled on the team, he would have a chance to take the Jays back to the promise land.
The other managers the club missed out on:
Gibbons is known as a tough, no-nonsense manager. If they were going to sign a guy like that, Ozzie Guillen would have been a better direction to go. Ozzie Guillen would have been perfect to take over this team considering how many LATIN players on the club. Guillen is so underestimated in the world of baseball as a manager. He would have been perfect in the Media Mecca that is Toronto. I have never seen anyone in the Major Leagues as a Manager that the team would put their post game conference up on the scoreboard as the fans are exiting the park, as the White Sox always did with when Ozzie managed them at Us Cellular Field. It was a testament to the man's colorful ways and popularity. The Jays should have given this guy a longer look.
Ernie Whitt is not only the best catcher the organization has ever seen, the man has been a bench coach for the club, and had led the Canadian National Team for the better part of the decade to decent results in International competition, despite a limited roster and not a lot of ex or current MLB Players. The fans love this man and he would have been a perfect selection for the job. He is currently a roaming instructor for the Philadelphia Phillies. Whitt is likely to coach Canada in the 2013 World Baseball Classic. I mean, why wouldn't the club even interview this guy? I find him likeable as an interview and the man also knows the game.
Sandy Alomar Jr.
Sandy Alomar Jr. was almost hired by the Jays in 2010, before the club hired John Farrell instead. He acted as the bench coach for the Cleveland Indians in 2013. He also played the game at the catchers position for 20 years. He also would resonate well with all of the Latin players on this team. Plus he would probably have brought along Roberto Alomar as part of his coaching team. It would have been an awesome hire to bring this guy in, instead he will remain as the Cleveland Indians bench coach for 2013.
Jim Tracy/Jim Riggleman
While I think it would have been a mistake to hire these guys too, I would even have them over John Gibbons. Jim Riggleman did a pretty decent job with the Washington Nationals in grooming some of their young talented stars and really got a raw deal without being giving a contract extension. Yes that would be a red flag for some that he quit on the job last year, however the man is a pretty decent teacher of the game. Riggleman coached some talented young Cubs teams in the late 90's as well. Jim Tracy has also led 2 of his 3 teams managed to playoff births and had early success in his 1st year he took over the Colorado Rockies. Both of these guys would have been better hires than Gibbons.
So where does this leave the Jays? They could end up playing well anyway. After all, John Gibbons will never throw a pitch, or take a turn at bat. If you are a Jays fan, the time to win is now and they can't afford a slow start out of the box. If they do start slow, the fans and the city of Toronto will be calling for his job early. It almost will be playoffs or bust for the club in 2013. I am not confident he will do a good job, but maybe I will be wrong. If Gibbons couldn't control those teams back then, how is he going to manage a bunch of superstars now? So please Cito, keep your cell phone ready!
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I agree about Ernie Whitt. Would be a fresh face. A very likeable Canadian. Not sure if Gaston would want to come back. No way on Ozzie. Don't like him at all. If Havana ever gets an expansion team, Guillen should go there.
Wow. I have to say, I did not see this coming. You will be pressed to find someone who was as fed up with Gibby during his first time around as I was…I was a big critic. That being said, I am slightly (notice "slightly") intrigued by AA's hiring decision. Partly because I didn't see it coming. But also because my biggest gripe with Gibby was his mostly the fact that he was a puppet for JP Ricciardi ( I had big problems with Ricciardi). Gibbons' ability to be controlled (and their friendship) is surely one of the reasone he has been given a secOnd chance in Toronto. Who knows, maybe he is a better puppet on AA's ninja hands? One thing we know is he is a discipliner, something Farrell had no concern about doing. Please recognize that I am trying to be optimistic, and that causes me to point out his first full year with the Blue Jays before he was wasted by ricciardi's misdirection…the blue jays had a good rotation not unlike they have now (halladay, Burnett, Lilly)…and we got second place for the first time since 1993. With the new wild card slot we would have actually been in the playoffs. The surprise factor originally had me sick, but now, being an optimist I have uncOvered sOme bright spots. Still, I would have rather seen Alomar, fasano or Whitt.
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DB_Micro: Minimalistic DB abstraction layer with replication support
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(C) Dmitry Koterov, http://en.dklab.ru/lib/DB_Micro/
License: LGPLABSTRACTDB_Micro is an abstraction layer for relational databases (PostgreSQL driver
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the dough was very "nervous" and difficult to shape.
I'm looking for suggestions or comments about the low yeast level that is calculated. How can this really work ?? I realize that it must work, and should be a readily duplicable dough or else there would be no consistency in a stores product. Suggestions or advice ? Thanks.
Whatever you do, you still want to get a finished dough temperature of about 75-80 degrees F. That is five degrees less than the usual 80-85 degree F range that is mentioned for the Lehmann NY style dough, but the higher range reflects the use of a commercial cooler, which usually runs several degrees cooler than a home refrigerator. To achieve the desired finished dough temperature, the preferred way to do it is to use a water temperature that will help achieve that result. I sometimes suggest that one start with a water temperature of around 65 degrees F and use the results (finished dough temperature) to make any required adjustments for later dough batches. I do not think that the vital wheat gluten was responsible for your results. However, I noted twice in your post that you said that you kneaded the dough until the finished dough temperature was 85 degrees F. If you literally meant that, then it is quite possible that you overkneaded the dough, which would make it tough and dense and have the characteristics you described. What you want to do is knead the dough to a desired condition, not a particular temperature. Peter
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UH medical school researchers win international recognitionUniversity of Hawaiʻi
John A. Burns School of Medicine
Research papers on human antioxidant enzymes and tropical disease have gained international recognition for faculty members of the University of Hawaii's John A. Burns School of Medicine.
"This highlights the world-class research being conducted here at our Medical School that can dramatically help human health and well-being," says Interim Dean Sam Shomaker.
Researchers led by Marla Berry, PhD, Chair of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, published a new study in the journal, MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY, on the synthesis of antioxidant enzymes known as selenoproteins. These enzymes function in defenses against cancer and aging.
The research is highlighted as an "Editor's Choice" by the journal, SCIENCE, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science:
Also, a paper authored by Duane Gubler, ScD, Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, was one of the top 10 most downloaded articles in 2005 from the journal COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Dr. Gubler's paper, "The changing epidemiology of yellow fever and dengue, 1900 to 2003: full circle?" warns of the resurgence in recent years of yellow fever in Africa and dengue worldwide:


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NZ Herald and their joke polls
The NZ Herald doesn't even bother to hide their right wing bias these days. Todays political poll has to be the worst most recent example.
The joke poll today asks - How would you rate John key's Cabinet changes?
A: A brave and bold step into the future.
B: Apart from one or two positions, it's solid and dependable.
C: Average. I was hoping for better.
...those are the options? WTF? They may as well ask...
Do you think that John Key is
A: Fucking amazing
B: Incredible
C: okay
The NZ Herald - it isn't a newspaper, it's a leash. Only Cameron Slater and people who exclusively watch Fox News consider the NZ Herald 'left wing'.


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October Countryside
Colorful autumn trees surround a barn in the hills of West Virginia.
Evening at Sparks Lake
The South Sister and Broken Top Mountains provide a scenic backdrop to Sparks Lake in the Oregon Cascades
Park Avenue
Arches National Park, Utah
Dead Horse Point
Deadhorse Point State Park, Utah
Last Light in the Canyon
Deadhorse Point State Park, UT
Arches National Park and the La Sal Mountains
Sparks Lane
Morning fog clears along Sparks Lane in Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Mouse Creek Falls
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Spring Canopy
Big Creek, Great Smsoky Mountains National Park
Midnight Hole
Mount Rainier and Reflection Lake
Mount Rainier National Park
Hood River Valley
View of Mount Hood from Panorama Point, overlooking the orchards of the Hood River Valley.
Mount Hood
View of Mount Hood from Lost Lake.
Mount Hood from Mirror Lake
Mirror Lake is still mostly covered in snow in early May.
Twilight Reflection
Twilight reflection of Mount Hood in Lost Lake.
Japanese Garden
Portland, Oregon
Wahclella Falls
Columbia River Gorge, Oregon
Moon over Zion
The full moon rises over Zion National Park, Utah
Bud Ogle Cabin
Graet Smoky Mountains National Park
Wizard Sunset
A lenticular cloud forms as the sun sets at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
Autumn on Big Creek
Water cascades and flows around the boulders in Big Creek, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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So since we all know I LOVE the half marathon distance, by the way I'm sorry I'm STILL cheating on you with the full marathon halfsies… I'll be back with you hopefully sooner than later, I thought it would be fun to write up 13.1 things I'm thankful for. Cliche, yes, entertaining, maybe. It pretty much goes without saying, but I'm so thankful for the fact that I'm alive. I can wake up every day and do what I want and I'm so grateful for the freedom that I have living in this country. Life is so short and I'm glad I'm constantly free to do what I want and when I want. I am so thankful for the pretty city I live in and the fun areas I can run through. So onto the list!
1. I am so thankful for my friends. I have some of the BEST friends around and I'm so thankful for them for being there for me throughout all my ups and downs. As I like to say from a well known TV show, "It might be a crazy life, but it's my life," and I wouldn't have it any other way. From my high school girlfriends, to my running friends and to the people to comment and encourage me through my blog. You all mean a ton to me! I am so encouraged and inspired by so many people out there.
2. I am SO thankful for my roommate DJ! Without her I would not be as happy as I am today or living in the pueblo with her! She is such an amazing supporter of me and everything that I do and such a good little housewife. I love all our inside jokes and how ridiculous we are together. It makes my day so much better and I'm so glad she is one of my best friends. Our random romps through 2nd street, to watching TV and all the "good pauses" and just everything we laugh at makes me realize how lucky I am to live with her!
3. I am thankful for my family. My brother who constantly makes me laugh, a lot. I love you Baby Koo. I am so proud of you! :) My cousins who listen to me and who encourage me and the remainder of my family who also are supportive and love me unconditionally.
4. I am thankful for the ability to run. I'm not injured and these past few months I've had a lot of really great training runs and really felt great about running. I never knew what a big part of my life running would become but as I embark on the journey to my last marathon of the year, I can't believe how far I've come this year alone. Four marathons in a year constantly blows my mind. What was I thinking?
5. I am thankful for the ability to write. I never realized how special writing was to me until I didn't HAVE to do it after I graduated from college. Then I started to blog and I realized that I love writing and it makes me who I am today. Perhaps this is why I'm applying to grad school so I can get my MFA in Creative Writing. I never though I was a 'writer', and still I really don't see myself as that, but it's so fun and brings me almost as much happiness as running.
6. I am thankful for laughter and people who make me laugh. I love laughing. It's my favorite thing to do, and I'm SO happy that my life is filled with people who make me laugh constantly. I couldn't ask for anything more than laughter. I love the saying "Live what you Love" and laughing is something I love so much. I'm so glad that so many people are humorous and make me laugh.
7. I'm thankful for forgiveness. I've done my fair share of screw-ups and I'm glad the people around me and love me enough to forgive me. I am thankful for God for always being there for me throughout my life and for showing me what is the most important things to me. I'm shocked he hasn't left me and thankful that he is there for me!
8. I'm thankful for food. Let's not lie, I love to eat, and I'm SO thankful that I have food in my cupboards and a lunch to bring to work every day.Yup, I'm thankful for cheeseburgers!
9. I'm thankful for my job. In this economy a lot of people are struggling and I still have my job. At work I'm super thankful for my two giant computer screens and the fact that I can listen to music all day while emailing and working on projects! :)
10. I am so thankful for music! I don't like running without music and I love listening to a huge variety of different kinds of music. Some of my favorite times of the day come on my hour commute home and just singing along to the music. I'm horrible and tone deaf, but it's still so fun and relaxing. When I run it motivates me to keep going and to not stop, and I'm real thankful for that around mile 24!
11. I'm so thankful for the great race I had in Long Beach. I know I've said before it was the best day of my life, but seriously, I still read the posts that I wrote about that race and after that race and look at the pictures and relive the race and they make me cry every time. I am SO happy that I finally ran the race that I knew I could. I'm so happy that I have that race in my memories, it will never be forgotten. I mean, come on, no one should be this happy at mile 24.5!
12. I am thankful for unexpected surprises in my life that continue to happen.
13. I am thankful for races that I can run! I have CIM coming up so soon and I'm thankful for all the people who make races happen and give all us runners the opportunity to run and race. There are so many volunteers and so much that goes into each race and I'm thankful that everything goes smoothly!
.1. I think this is the most important part of a half marathon, because this is the part of the race that takes you to the finish line! If you didn't run the last .1 you wouldn't run a half marathon. So what I am most thankful is the twenty years I did get to spend with my Mom. Looking back on something you lost really makes you realize how special your time with them was. She has made me the person I am today, and I am so blessed that I did get to spend 20 years with her! Without her I wouldn't be who I am today and I am forever grateful for her being a part of my life.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!


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To me, it means
1)Standing with a country or a people against outside intervention(military or political), and being willing, if necessary, to put one's own body on the line against such intervention;
2)Denouncing any attempts to coerce an outcome those people or that country do not wish to see, and acting(including actions of civil disobedience if necessary)to impede the efforts of those working against the cause or people in question;
3)Providing material and monetary assistance, if needed, to those who one stands in solidarity with; breaking economic embargoes against the people or cause in question if such embargoes exist;
4)Visiting the area where the people you are in solidarity with are living and struggling, living there for extended periods of time if doing so is a helpful thing, and doing what you can while you are there to help the people or the cause(especially, to help the ordinary people and those in the rank-and-file of the cause in question, if not so much those in the leadership):
it does not require silenct acquiescence in actions or practices that go against my values as a leftist, a person who shares both humanist and progressive religious values, or simply a decent human beings.
It does NOT require anyone to defend things in one situation that a person wouldn't defend in others(especially if a person wouldn't defend those things in their own country).
Finally, I believe that, If spoken in a supportive, nurturing, positive vein, in the name of defending the larger cause, critical comment about the actions of the leadership, or suggestions for alternative courses of action when one course of action seems futile, when such comments are spoken by a person IN solidarity(as opposed to a person acting as a enemy of the cause)can be the HIGHEST form of solidarity-the solidarity of respect and the solidarity of truth.
The worst mistakes the Left has made in the past were when it equated dissent with disloyalty(something we rightly reject when the forces of reaction make such an equation). The greatest and most useful form of solidarity we can display is the solidarity that says "I'll stand with you...but I follow no one blindly, and I accept nothing without question...because I respect all people and believe that all people deserve to be treated with dignity...and believing that means I must be honest when I support a cause, but see where the cause may be going wrong".
All of the above, to me, is solidarity. What does it mean to you?
I'd like to have a respectful discussion on this, with people on whatever sides emerge being willing to listen to what each other has to say.
If nothing else, we can agree that there can be many forms OF solidarity.