text: Monday, January 30, 2012 Many Patients With RA Lack Motivation to Exercise Because 2 in 5 adults (42%) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are inactive, public health initiatives need to address the lack of motivation to exercise and promote the benefits of physical activity in this population, say authors of an article published online in Arthritis Care & Research. The researchers analyzed data on 176 patients with RA, 18 years of age or older, enrolled in a randomized controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of an intervention promoting physical activity. The team evaluated pre-intervention data for inactivity that was defined as no sustained 10-minute periods of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity during a week. They also assessed the relationships between inactivity and modifiable risk factors, such as motivation for physical activity, obesity, and pain. Results show that 42% of RA patients were inactive—participating in no moderate-to-vigorous physical activity periods of at least 10 minutes during a 7-day period of objective activity monitoring. Researchers found that 53% of study participants lacked strong motivation for physical activity and 49% lacked strong beliefs in the benefits of physical activity. These 2 modifiable risk factors account for 65% of excess inactivity in this study group. While previous research relied on self-reported physical activity measures, the strength of the current study lies in the use of accelerometers—a device used to measure acceleration and movement—to objectively assess physical activity in participants, say the authors. The National Institute for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases funded this study. Comments I sent this article to the Arthritis Foundation to ask if they would be interested in a lecture. I will be doing a lecture in March on Fibromyalgia in the Bronx, New York. Meryle Richman, PT, DPT Posted by Meryle Richman on 2/3/2012 8:40 PM What type of approch works for RA. I have tried aquatic, ROM, isometrics, conditioning. Posted by Doug on 2/4/2012 9:45 PM I have had the best luck with low to moderate exercises and stretching, both land-based and aquatic (in 89-91 deg water). Several have benefited from a walking program. As well, I never cease to be amazed at how little many of these patients really know about what they have. So a focus on patient education is imperative for this population. Motion is lotion! Posted by Mark Worley, PT, MS on 2/5/2012 12:08 AM


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Cleveland Consulting, Inc. is a small custom software development firm with a strong background in custom solutions with a few very successful products. We are launching a new product this year designed specifically for other developers in our industry, CC Sync
We have been doing software development in FileMaker Pro for almost 15 years, and have strong name recognition in our industry and expect this product to be as successful as any of the products we have released in the past.
We recently redesigned our website ourselves (http://www.clevelandconsulting.com) and the look of the solution should try to reflect our new image.
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A memory snapshot project
I see a lot of malware and I know there are a lot of people that don't. I also know that people want to do memory analysis but the only real source of samples is from DFRWS from 4 years ago. Here's what I'm doing...
I take 'in the wild' malware, load it up in a virtual machine, suspend the virtual machine and extract the .vmem file. I then upload the .vmem file and make it available to you, my faceless readers and the world at large. This isn't one of those "contests" where I challenge you to analyze a memory dump. Rather I am providing memory dumps of 'in the wild' malware being run in a controlled environment. Maybe this will help developers build better tools, maybe this will educate examiners, maybe this will build incident response IQ, maybe this will give students something to work with, or maybe I'll just waste some cycles providing this stuff. Time will tell.
This post is more or less a test to see if the public can access my skydrive to download the memory snapshots. Up until now, I've had issues sharing files with others. Hopefully skydrive helps with this issue.
My first snapshot is here. The file is a split .AD1 file created with FTK imager 2.5.5. You'll need to combine the segments and extract the contents. It's incredibly easy with FTK imager. The file contained within is a 7zip compressed memory image. Simply uncompress and have fun. All I ask at this point is that you let me know if you have issues, and maybe let me know if you find it valuable.
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- H. Carvey said...
I've logged into Windows Live...how do I retrieve the files? Tried double-clicking, right-clicking, even tried reading the page...
- March 18, 2009 at 6:59 AM
- hogfly said...
When you get in to public\exemplar4 directory, above the files is a link to "download as a .zip file". This will download all files in a single .zip file. Let me know if that works for you.
- March 18, 2009 at 8:08 AM
- Anonymous said...
Very good idea :-)
- March 18, 2009 at 8:30 AM
- Richard Bejtlich said...
Sorry, I'm not familiar with the "ad" format. Any chance you could acquire and/or post in something less product-specific? Thank you.
- March 18, 2009 at 8:48 AM
- hogfly said...
Yes I'm sure I can. My inclination last night was just to use ftk imager, but I'll try a few things to see what works best. Likely I'll end up using split.
- March 18, 2009 at 9:42 AM
- Robert said...
What a great idea.
I didn't have any problems downloading the files, I tried both methods, the single zip file and then the individual files.
Any thoughts about posting the base VMware image that it was created from so we can reload it in VMWare?
Maybe legal issues here.
I am trying to mount the vmem file as a device but so far have been unsuccessful.
Any thoughts?
- March 18, 2009 at 10:05 AM
- Brendan Dolan-Gavitt said...
This is an excellent idea! I know because I was talking about doing exactly this in #volatility a couple days ago :D And now you've done the work for me.
One possible addition that might make this even more valuable--possibly post the malware sample used as well? It can probably be extracted from memory in most cases, but having the original there (zipped/encrypted of course) would let people see exactly what in-memory effects a piece of malware has.
- March 18, 2009 at 10:07 AM
- hogfly said...
I did think about posting the base vmware image, but given the max file size of 50MB, that's an awful lot of segments and it wouldn't allow me to have that many available at a time.
Not to mention there probably would be a cease and desist issued at some point.
You're trying to mount it as a device in what tool?
- March 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM
- Robert said...
I tried VMWare's diskmount, and the LE version of Liveview.
I also used Encase Enterprise. I can add it as an image but would love to see it in the VM environment
I see lots of malware and virus and would love to help.
- March 18, 2009 at 10:15 AM
- hogfly said...
Absolutely I will post the malware, though probably to offensivecomputing for wider dissemination and contribution to that project.
Strangely enough I talked to AAron about this a month ago or more, and finally figured out a file hosting solution in skydrive.
I need to experiment with flypaper to see if I can fully freeze the malware in memory before suspending, that way the processes don't get a chance to exit.
- March 18, 2009 at 10:20 AM
- hogfly said...
Try examining it with Volatility or Memoryze. I've been working through some of the samples in Responder Pro. It's unlikely you'll get it to work in a VM environment. Your best bet in that regard is to try to extract the binary for memory, or wait for me to upload the sample to offensivecomputing.
- March 18, 2009 at 10:22 AM
- H. Carvey said...
I have to say, I'm intensely curious...why would you attempt to mount a memory dump/.vmem file in this manner?
I must have missed something...
- March 18, 2009 at 3:29 PM
- H. Carvey said...
I grabbed the files, pulled out the .vmem, and ran it through Responder Field edition for a quick look. I exported the Internet History that it found to a .txt file, and found some really cool stuff really quickly.
These are a great means for looking at Volatility, Memoryze, and HBGary, as well as any other tools you may have or use.
Thanks for posting!!
- March 18, 2009 at 4:56 PM
- H. Carvey said...
I downloaded the MemoryzeSetup.msi file from Mandiant, and ran it...and nothing happened. I did get the dialog box, but nothing was ever installed. I tried to install Memoryze in D:\Memoryze, and even tried the default path...but nothing happened.
Has anyone else seen this?
- March 18, 2009 at 5:18 PM
- hogfly said...
what did you find in the history?
- March 18, 2009 at 5:36 PM
- Robert said...
Alot of the conversation involving this was not posted publicly. It basically was a discussion about using a base VMWare image file. By using this approach and sharing the VMWare image with everyone you could mount it if you were interested in doing so.
The main roadblock here would be the sharing of
the VMWare image. I'm sure legal issues would most likely end in a cease and desist letter.
- March 19, 2009 at 8:53 AM
- echo6 said...
Oooh, thanks hogfly, will take a peek when I get chance, look forward to some from moyiz also :) Guess I should get some of my images of injected dlls up!
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Loved the Gulf Islands National Seashore Park section. Stopped along the route to walk the beach and Fort Pickens. Enjoyable afternoon
This is one of many trails in the park. All trails are well maintained and take you to different areas of the park. Download trail mail before you set off so you can follow your route. Highly recommend!
The section of the trail between Fairhope and Daphne is broken and heaved concrete and dangerous! Beware. East of Barnwell we made a wrong turn and eventually dead ended in Weeks Bay. That mistake proved to be the best part of this ride - scenic along with a bike lane.
Not well marked beginning. Bathroom was locked!
Okay for walking and Sunday riding. Not good route for training. Too many cross streets. Tree roots pushing up the asphalt.
Great experience walking with my family and seeing animals like the bald eagle.
This trail is part of a great trail system in Gulf State park. I suggest that you stop at the visitors center for a map of the entire network as it's easy to get lost
Fairhope north to Daphne was one of the worse biking trails we have been on. Long inclines and descents on broken and dangerous sidewalk. Fast traffic prevented us from riding on the road-there is no bike lane. Fairhope South is a flatter option on sidewalk and some bike lanes. There's always traffic.
We rode in the Gulf State Park and decided to add this to our adventure. It did have a few rough places but nothing to make you want avoid the trail. If was a pretty ride and there were several places to make pit stops!
The Pensacola Beach Trail is part of my favorite Florida rides. What really makes this ride special is the additional mileage you can do on both ends of the trail. If you start at the eastern most point and continue east, you are on wide bike lanes which are extensions to the road. This takes you through Gulf Islands National Seashore park. All you see on both sides is sand and water. Since Santa Rosa island is about 2 miles off the Florida mainland, you have the sound to your left and the Gulf of Mexico on your right. This is totally undeveloped. You can take this all the way into Navarre Beach. The road speed limit is only 35 MPH so passing cars don't speed by you. It is also a low traffic road so most of the time you are by yourself. The park has some facilities but you must pay to use them.
If you follow the trail west, you will end just outside Fort Pickens which is also part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore park system. You must pay to enter the park, but the ride to the Fort is again beautiful and has little traffic. This Civil War fort is the only one (from the original 3) that still survives. It was the only fort in this area that the Confederates did not overrun. It was also a temporary holding ground from Geronimo after he was captured. There are rest room here and a convenience store right outside the campgrounds. Be sure to watch the movie about the fort. It will give you a lot of background to the area. If you are lucky you will see the Blue Angels practice because you right next to the Naval Air Base.
If you include the two side trips, the total round trip ride is around 55 miles. Quite pleasant and FLAT!!! However, being next to the water, you will always be dealing with wind. Wear LOTS of sun blocker because there is NO SHADE.
Highly recommended!!!
This trail runs along the perimeter of the Brookley airport. It is quiet and secluded as it runs behind houses. Most riders extend it by riding along the bay road to the park. It has little to no traffic and is perfect for road bikes.
For the record, I live a couple of blocks from the trail on the northern end in Daphne. I have ridden the trail many times and twice all the way from Daphne to the end of County Road 1 south of Point Clear (around 25 miles one-way). It definitely has its share of positives and negatives. But if you come knowing what to expect, it can be a nice ride. The southern end has been lengthened it appears all the way from scenic 98 to Weeks Bay to the east, although I have not been on this section.
First of all, this is a very busy area for traffic. The trail runs right along scenic 98, along the shoulder of the road. In most places, it just replaced the sidewalk which was already there. The concrete was widened to 6 feet in these areas I suppose to qualify for the funds for a trail.
Most of the negative comments people have said is true. People will park on it, even though they are not supposed to. They leave their garbage cans on it. There are places where there may be short areas of sand or gravel across the trail to traverse. There are many street crossings, some very busy, depending on the time of day. Some places there are bad sections of concrete that need attention, but I have noticed most of these have been fixed. There are also a few significant hills, mostly near Alligator Alley, south of Montrose and north of Fairhope. South of Fairhope is fairly flat.
The trail is also very beautiful in many places, mostly around Montrose, Fairhope and Point Clear, with many large oak trees hanging over the road, nice views along the bay, rolling hills with nice bridges over the creeks. Also the trail runs right through the middle of Fairhope which has many interesting shops and restaurants. You might also want to check out the pier in Fairhope, which is one of the most photographed areas in the county. That is if you can make it back up the hill!
I think since this trail was first certified, the section from the USS Alabama Park to Alligator Alley in Daphne has been dropped since it was too dangerous riding across the bay on the shoulder of the causeway. It appears the official starting point is now at Alligator Alley since the mileage markers now begin at this point. If you do start your ride at this point, be forewarned. There is a steep 70 foot hill you will immediately have to deal with! Another option would be to start at Lott Park in Daphne and head south to avoid the hill and traffic.
This trail is used a lot by locals, so watch for walkers, runners and other bikers.
Also, just as a note, this trail is probably not best suited for a road bike, because of curbs and gutters, unless you ride from Fairhope south. There, it is mostly asphalt. I would recommend a hybrid bike instead.
Some interesting points along the trail include Alligator Alley, the United States Sports Academy, Bayfront Park, Village Point Park Preserve in Daphne, the tiny 1890 post office in Montrose, the floral clock, downtown Fairhope, the Fairhope Pier and Beach, the Grand Hotel in Point Clear and Weeks Bay Preserve.
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It was Kyle Kendrick's time to step up and he did in a biog way, five scoreless innings this afternoon against the Pirates.
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While the Pirates game was going on at Bright House Field, Brad Lidge was next door at Carpenter Field getting his first game action. He faced five minor league hitters and struck out two.
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Beewirks is currently working on music for rap artist Chris Miles and is looking for amazing songs and artists to collaborate with on his project. Chris Miles is an American rapper signed by Warner Music Group. He obtained his popularity when his rap audition for "America's Got Talent" went viral. Pleases submit your best work for consideration.
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Darian "DP" Pollard is the President/CEO of a major music management firm and he's looking for songwriters/producers with top quality songs for following genres:
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The newcomer has already co-written, co-produced and co-starred on her first Billboard No. 1 urban mainstream single, Wale's 'Bad.' Since then, her multiple talents as a singer, songwriter, producer and emcee have shown through. She is currently preparing to release her debut album which will be released by Rico Love's Division1 imprint, distributed by Interscope Records.
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CUPERTINO, Calif., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- While Apple is still selling millions of the iPad 2 tablet, speculation is already swirling about an iPad 3, tech industry observers say.
With the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show and MacWorld/iWorld -- billed as "the world's ultimate fan event" for Apple lovers -- both scheduled for January, observers are debating whether Apple could soon roll out the third generation of the device, CNN reported.
Apple debuted the iPad, introducing the world to the concept of a tablet computer, in January 2010.
"We've entered a post-iPhone news cycle, when iPad rumors are surfacing with full force," Leslie Horn at PC Magazine wrote. "Of course the launch date has been discussed quite a bit, as it goes with any anticipated Apple device. ... But the reality with an Apple gadget is that we'll have to wait and see."
Some tech watchers said a January release date might be wishful thinking.
January is "a little suspect," Richard Shim, an analyst at research firm DisplaySearch, said.
"When they make them available they want to have as many as possible," Shim said. "And my sense is that they will wait rather than make them immediately available."
Rumors on hardware upgrades center on a faster processor, a sharper screen, and perhaps even voice control similar to the Siri "virtual assistant" on the iPhone 4S.


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When "The Muppets" came out in 2011, it was the first Muppet movie to hit theaters in more than a decade; the collective exhale was palpable — and profitable — as millions of relieved fans flocked to see their beloved yarn-and-wire characters mix it up with Jason Segel and Amy Adams in what amounted to Muppets 2.0. The film was such an unexpected smash that it earned Jim Henson's creations their very first Oscar (well, not counting the Grouch) for the brilliant song "Man or Muppet."
"Muppets Most Wanted" can't rebottle that particular brand of lightning, but it does a terrific job trying, and once again "Man or Muppet" songwriter Bret McKenzie — one half of the comic musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords — saves the day with a passel of catchy and amusing ditties that keep the movie humming along even when the plot threatens to sag.
Written and directed by "Muppets" filmmaker James Bobin, with an assist from co-screenwriter Nicholas Stoller, the story picks up where "The Muppets" ended, with the troupe back together and contemplating their professional future. Enter would-be road manager Dominic Badguy (Ricky Gervais), who pronounces his last name "BAHD-jee" and lavishes the Muppets with promises of sold-out continental venues and stardom while a suspicious Kermit reluctantly goes along.
It turns out that the European tour that Badguy has arranged dovetails diabolically with a plan he's hatched with an evil green Russian frog named Constantine, who could be Kermit's double save for a menacing brown mole on his lip. Mistaken identities and high jinks — on stage and off — ensue. The Muppets take Berlin; Badguy and Constantine smash-and-grab their way from Madrid to Dublin to London; and Kermit languishes in a Siberian prison camp, befriending convicts played by Ray Liotta and Danny Trejo and winning the heart of a soulful guard named Nadya (Tina Fey).
If those marquee names get your attention, just wait: "Muppets Most Wanted" is stuffed to its felted gills with notable supporting and cameo performances, including a very funny turn by "Modern Family's" Ty Burrell as a Clouseauvian Interpol agent. The one discordant note comes by way of the gulag gags: With Russian President Vladimir Putin enthusiastically reviving that country's most oppressive totalitarian past, making light of what now seems all too real may strike adult viewers as, if not tasteless, then at least unfortunately timed. (The backfire also serves as a cautionary reminder to studio executives eager to exploit the newly all-powerful international market.)
Even with those misgivings, no one old enough to remember "A Chorus Line" will be immune to a set piece revolving around a prison theater revue; like most of "Muppets Most Wanted," the wittiest jokes and cameo appearances are designed to soar far over the heads of young filmgoers and into the atavistic pop consciousness of their adult companions. As for the youngsters, it's up to individual parents to decide whether the sight of Kermit being wheeled into jail trussed up like Hannibal Lecter is a tad too dark for Junior's delicate sensibilities, or whether their littlest charges will truly appreciate an opening production number that invokes Busby Berkeley and Ingmar Bergman in addition to the Muppets' own cherished oeuvre.
The title of that song, by the way, is "We're Doing a Sequel," a clever Hollywood sendup that firmly establishes the film's governing tone of sly, self-referential irony. Gervais and Fey turn out to be the ideal human foils for that enterprise, playing along with game professionalism and never letting the audience see them wink (at least not too obviously). Kermit, Miss Piggy and the rest of the gang may pick up life lessons about the dangers of getting everything you want, the value of loyalty and the importance of listening to your gut, but their grown-up chaperones will simply be grooving on the songs, inside jokes and zestfully calibrated mayhem. In perhaps the toughest test of all, "Muppets Most Wanted" figures out how to end on a genuinely hilarious note — or, in this case, lack of one. Well played, Muppets 2.0. Well played.
★ ★ ★
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Rain falls steadily on an island, a 2-manifold $M$, which you may assume, as you prefer, is: (a) smooth, or (b) a PL-manifold, or perhaps even (c) a triangulated irregular network (TIN). After a time, $M$ is saturated, in the sense that every raindrop drains into the ocean rather than filling yet-unfilled crevices or basins. At this point, we have what I will dub the rain hull of $M$, $H_R(M)$, a uni-directional version of the the reflex-free hull, explored (by Bill Thurston) in this MO question.
Q1. How difficult is to compute the rain hull $H_R(M)$?
My sense is that it might be quite difficult, because it seems
there can be nonlocal influences, as crudely depicted
in this side-view schematic:
Update (13Aug11): I have corrected the figure to more accurately reflect
physical reality. Thanks to Oswin Aicholzer for setting me straight.
Perhaps the computation is NP-hard if $M$ is presented as a PL-manifold? TINs have special properties that might render the computation polynomial. Update. Joel Hamkins has convincingly argued (see below) that the computation is polynomial-time.
Let us assume we have $\overline{M} = H_R(M)$ computed or given. A raindrop falling on $p \in \overline{M}$ might follow a unique trickle path (that is the technical term: e.g., see "Implicit Flow Routing on Triangulated Terrains" by deBerg et al.) to the ocean, or the drop may randomly 'fracture' to follow distinct paths to the ocean. Define the rain ridge (my terminology) $R(\overline{M})$ to be the complement of the points of $\overline{M}$ that have a unique trickle path.
So points on the rain ridge are akin to points on a cut locus, in that they have two or more distinct paths to $\partial \overline{M}$. They are, in a sense, continental-divide points, a topic explored in this inadequately answered MO question (inadequately answered by me).
Q2. What can be said about the structure of the rain ridge $R(\overline{M})$?
Unlike the cut locus, it is not always a tree. All the points in a filled basin are in the rain ridge, for when a raindrop lands in a filled basin, it is natural to assume it "spreads out" and spills in equal portions over every boundary point of the basin. But surely there are substantive properties to investigate. Surely the rain ridge $R(\overline{M})$ cannot be an arbitrary subset of $\overline{M}$?
I finally come to my main question, which I fear has a negative answer:
Q3. Can an extended metric be assigned to $\overline{M}$ so that its geodesics are its trickle paths?
An extended metric is one that permits $d(x,y) = \infty$ (e.g., for points not on the same trickle path). What I am hoping for here is a way to view the rain ridge as a cut locus of $\partial \overline{M}$, and then apply a century of knowledge on the cut locus to the rain ridge.
Partly baked ideas, subquestion observations, and random literature pointers all welcomed! My sense is that the considerable applied-math literature on watersheds has not approached these questions in their full mathematical generality, leaving room for delightful theorems.


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- Terrance Williams convicted of murder after beating a man to death with a tire iron in 1984
- His attorneys say evidence he was sexually abused by the man was withheld from the trial
- Prosecutors say the killer is trying tricks to escape the death penalty
- Williams' execution is scheduled for October 3
Attorneys for a convicted killer will focus on a former prosecutor's notes when they argue Tuesday their client should not die by lethal injection in nine days.
No one disputes that Terrance Williams beat Amos Norwood to death with a tire iron in 1984 or that he should be in prison.
But the defense team says information that Norwood had allegedly sexually abused Williams was withheld from the trial, and his life should be spent in a cell.
"One of the strongest pieces of our case it that, as we heard in court on Thursday for the first time ever, that in the prosecutor's own file, in her own handwriting, there was evidence that Mr. Norwood had been previously accused of touching boys," attorney Shawn Nolan told CNN. "The prosecutors have known about that evidence throughout the whole history of this litigation."
The judge overseeing the stay of execution hearing, M. Teresa Sarmina, referred last week to the notes of Andrea Foulkes, who was the prosecutor in Williams' 1986 trial, which showed Foulkes had heard about possible incidents of Norwood abusing boys. The notes also referred to Norwood as a "john" for Williams.
Williams' accomplice, Marc Draper, continued his testimony Monday and prosecutors tried to portray Williams as male prostitute rather than a victim of sexual abuse.
"The evidence is that he was preyed upon for years and years by different individuals and that's not what a male prostitute is," Nolan said.
The sexual abuse allegedly began when Williams was 6 years old, his attorneys have said.
Nolan said that at the time of trial, Williams was just an 18-year-old with deep, dark secrets and like many sexual abuse victims he didn't want to make them public.
Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams wrote an editorial for the Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday, saying Williams "has tried every trick to escape his sentence."
"The most noticeable thing about this case is not the 'new evidence,'" he wrote. "It's the willingness of some people to believe every defense claim as if it were gospel truth, without even taking the time to look at all the facts."
The defense has argued that the jurors who convicted Williams more than 25 years ago were told that it was a robbery-homicide case and never learned of the alleged sexual abuse.
A juror on the original case told CNN she feels as if she was "betrayed."
"We weren't given everything that we needed to know to give this guy a fair trial," Diane Brown said. She said that if the jury had known about the abuse allegations they would have voted differently.
Draper, who is serving a life sentence for his involvement in the murder, testified that Williams had been in a relationship with Norwood and added that prosecutors didn't want to hear him explain "this was about a homosexual relationship."
He said earlier in a sworn statement that authorities at the time had pushed him not to disclose that Williams had been routinely sexually abused by Norwood, and that the abuse was Williams' primary motive to kill.
Foulkes said Thursday she thought Williams had targeted Norwood because Williams thought he was gay, and that Draper never informed her of any alleged abuse.
"Norwood was never associated with Williams having sex or sexual relations," she testified.
With testimony complete, the judge will hear arguments from the prosecution and defense on Tuesday.
Announcing the scheduled execution last month, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's office described the brutal Philadelphia killing.
Williams and Draper led Norwood, who was 56, to an area near a cemetery, forced him to lie on the ground, tied him up, gagged him and stole his valuables, the governor's office said in a statement.
"Williams and Draper repeatedly beat the man with a tire iron and a socket wrench and then drove away in the victim's car. Williams later returned and burned Norwood's body," the statement said.
The state's Board of Pardons on September 17 failed to reach the unanimous agreement required to recommend clemency. Three members of the five-person panel voted in favor of asking Corbett to consider granting clemency. But two other board members voted against the petition.
Williams, 46, is scheduled to be executed on October 3.
Since the execution date was set, there have been a number of high-profile supporters calling for clemency in the case, including Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly. More than 360,000 people have signed an online petition asking authorities to spare Williams' life. Norwood's widow has also asked for the execution to be called off.
But Norwood's daughter wants the execution to go forward, the Philadelphia district attorney's office said Monday.


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New York, July 17, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of two Libyan television journalists who were kidnapped on July 7 after covering the country's first elections in decades.
Abdelqadir Fassouk, a reporter and cameraman for the private Misurata-based Tobacts TV station, and Yusuf Badi, a cameraman for the same station, were released on Monday, according to news reports. The journalists were headed back to the station after covering the country's historic parliamentary elections from the city of Mizdah when they were kidnapped near the city of Bani Walid, news reports said.
"We are relieved to hear of the safe return of Abdelqadir Fassouk and Yusuf Badi after their nine-day ordeal," said CPJ Deputy Director Robert Mahoney. "This kidnapping shows that Libya is still not safe for journalists, and underscores the need for the government to do more to ensure that reporters can carry out their work safely."
Fassouk and Badi were released after negotiations between officials from Misurata and Bani Walid, which were mediated by officials from Jadu, a nearby town, according to Mohamed Limdani, head of the radio department at Tobacts TV. Misurata and Bani Walid have a history of rivalry and enmity, according to news reports. Bani Walid was a stronghold of former leader Muammar Qaddafi, while Misurata was one of the first cities to protest against his rule and was captured by the rebels soon after the uprising began in February 2011. Local news reports said Bani Walid officials had demanded the release of pro-Qaddafi prisoners being held in Misurata in return for the journalists' freedom.
Fassouk and Badi were sent to Jadu on Sunday and were allowed to return to their hometown of Misurata the next day, according to news reports. The identity of the journalist's captors remains unknown, Limdani said. The journalists were aware that their captors were armed but had not been given any other details, he said.
In February, CPJ documented the capture of two British journalists by a militia in Tripoli.
- For more data and analysis on Libya, visit CPJ's Libya page here.


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GNOME's Ambitious OS Adventure
Aug 16, 2012 5:00 AM PT
With all the ongoing debate over desktop environments here in the Linux blogosphere, there's never any shortage of discussion of the GNOME project, even on an ordinary day.
Last Tuesday, however, was no ordinary day -- at least, if a certain blog post was anything to go by.
"The idea of GNOME OS has been around for a couple of years," wrote GNOME UX designer Allan Day in said post following the recent GNOME developers conference. "The aspirations that are driving this process include things like providing a better experience for application developers, automated testing, sandboxed applications and broad hardware compatibility."
Erm, what was that, you say? A GNOME OS?
Why yes, in fact -- you did hear that right. But with all the ensuing din throughout the Linux blogosphere, it's been hard to hear much of anything else ever since.
'For Testing and Development'
Now, it must be noted that the forthcoming operating system isn't intended to serve as a brand-new distro.
"Let me be clear: that is not the case," Day wrote. "While the creation of a standalone GNOME OS install does feature as a part of our plans, this is primarily intended as a platform for testing and development."
Still, more than a few bloggers are still scratching their heads in wonder.
'It Should Be 1st of April!'
"Hobbywork. Nothing more," wrote Stefano Leva in the comments on Day's post, for example. "The digital battlefield is very clear: Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon."
Similarly, "the horrible reviews that Windows 8 is getting should be a warning to Gnome developers," warned Joe Buck. "Don't break the desktop in a misguided attempt to unify the tablet and the desktop; don't remove functionality from the desktop that isn't available on tablets."
Even more so: "The date of the article is wrong," quipped 2o718 on PCWorld. "It should be 1st of April!"
Down at the Linux blogosphere's Punchy Penguin Saloon, opinions weren't much more optimistic.
'Are There Any Adults Over There?'
"Just what we need: an OS written by people too arrogant to listen to their own users' feedback," mused consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack, for example. "I predict it will have less success than their desktop."
Indeed, "this is the announcement that made me seriously wonder if mass psychosis has taken hold of the GNOME team," agreed Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien.
"At a time when users are fleeing them and distros are abandoning them as the default desktop, they need to stop the bleeding, not look for new challenges to take on," O'Brien added. "Seriously, are there any adults over there?"
'Let's Hope Reason Prevails'
GNOME 2 is "widely used for productive people creating software and systems," observed blogger Robert Pogson. "I don't see any advantage for them using touch-screens or a touch-centric OS. The time wasted moving between keyboard and screen can never be recovered."
Of course, "such an environment might be useful for testing the resulting product intended to run in a touchy environment for consumers, but there already are GNU/Linux and Android/Linux touch-enabled environments," Pogson added. "I don't see the need for one more, but what do I know?"
Looking ahead, however, "I fear GNOME OS is yet another example of GNOME going astray, diverting energy from what it does well to pure research which may or may not bear fruit," Pogson opined.
"We need both to remain functional to ensure the future viability of GNU/Linux," he concluded. "The move from GNOME 2 to 3 was not encouraging. The ever-increasing bloat of GNOME is not encouraging. Let's hope reason prevails."
'This Is Just How FOSS Works'
Slashdot blogger hairyfeet was even less impressed.
"BWA HA HA HA HA...oh they're serious?" hairyfeet began. "BWA HA HA HA HA... man that's funny! They're bleeding out, don't have enough devs as it is, have run off most of the community, and NOW they think they can pull off GNOME OS?
"GNOME will be dead in 3, replaced by Mate or a forked GNOME 2," hairyfeet predicted. "Heck, even Debian pulled GNOME from being the default desktop."
In other words, "it's over, it's done, the fat lady is down the street eating a sandwich," he said. "This is just how FOSS works in that if you tick off the community and refuse to listen, they'll just route around the damage with a fork or simply go somewhere else."
'A Vanity Project'
Looking at the prospect more specifically, "what would GNOME OS have to offer that we don't already have?" hairyfeet asked. "Let's face it, X86 is owned by MSFT, which leaves ARM, which is owned by Google and Apple. There just isn't any room in mobile for another player -- just ask MSFT, who has spent billions chasing mobile and has jack squat to show for it."
GNOME "might have been able to pull something off during the heyday of GNOME 2, but now? Not a chance," he opined. "GNOME 3 is right up there with Unity on the hate scale.
"Tell the GNOME guys to get the lights on their way out because between Mate, LXDE, XFCE and KDE, frankly nobody really cares about GNOME anymore," hairyfeet concluded. "Certainly there aren't enough lovers of GNOME 3 to make GNOME OS anything more than a vanity project."


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The Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 (9360) is the fourth-generation model of the XPS 13 line. The laptop is available since October (pre-2017 model) in both a standard edition with Windows installed as well as both a pre-2017 model and a 2017 model (with insignificant hardware differences) Developer Edition with Ubuntu 16.04 "SP1" installed, featuring kernel 4.8 as of now. There is only minor hardware differences between them, mostly in regards to the mainboard microchip manufacturers. Just like the older versions (Dell XPS 13 (9333), Dell XPS 13 (9343) and Dell XPS 13 (9350)) it is available in different hardware configurations as well. These fourth gen models includes Intel's Kaby Lake CPUs and advertised with up to 16GB LPDDR 1866 MHz RAM and a 1TB PCI SSD. It will now also be available in Rose Gold. Prior to previous information and current specifications available provided by Dell (at least to regular customers), it is not available with the 2133 MHz RAM speed. However, some models, including those available to employees and possibly Dell partners (and/or business customers), memory speed is indeed available up to 2133 Mhz LPDDR3 (non-upgradable). ref. The same mentioned models are also available with the Intel Core i7-7660U (aswell as i7-7560U) with the Intel 640 Iris Plus onboard graphics. Respective clock frequencies are 2.5 Ghz (up to 4GHz in Turbo-mode) and 2,4 Ghz (up to 3.8 Ghz), respectively.
The installation process for Arch on the XPS 13 does not differ from any other PC. For installation help, please see the Installation guide and UEFI. This page covers the current status of hardware support on Arch, as well as post-installation recommendations.
As of kernel 4.5, the Intel Kaby Lake architecture is supported.
- 1 Content adaptive brightness control
- 2 NVM Express SSD
- 3 Video
- 4 Wireless
- 5 Bluetooth
- 6 Thunderbolt 3 / USB 3.1
- 7 SATA controller
- 8 Touchpad
- 9 Touchscreen
- 10 Keyboard Backlight
- 11 Hidden Keyboard Keys
- 12 Firmware Updates
- 13 Troubleshooting
- 14 See Also
Content adaptive brightness control
In the XPS 13 the display panels (both FHD and QHD+) come with adaptive brightness embedded in the panel firmware, this "content adaptive brightness control" (usually referred to as CABC or DBC) will adjust the screen brightness depending on the content displayed on the screen and will generally be found undesirable, especially for Linux users who are likely to be switching between dark and light screen content. Dell has issued a fix for this however it is only available to run in Windows and for the QHD+ model of the laptop so this precaution should be taken before installing Linux, the FHD model of the XPS 13 (9360) cannot be fixed. This is not a problem with the panel but rather a problem with the way the panels are configured for the XPS 13, as the same panel exists in the Dell's Latitude 13 7000 series (e7370) FHD model but with CABC disabled. The fix is available directly from Dell.
NVM Express SSD
NVME Power Saving Patch
Andy Lutomirski has created a patchset which fixes powersaving for NVME devices in linux. Currently, this patch is not merged into mainline yet. Until it lands in mainline kernel use the AUR or repository linked below. Linux-nvme — Mainline linux kernel patched with Andy's patch for NVME powersaving APST.
- https://github.com/damige/linux-nvme || linux-nvmeAUR (check out [1] for compiled packages)
The kernel is now available in the official repository and can be installed with pacman. No need for manual patching.
The video should work with the
i915 driver of the current linux kernel. Consult Intel graphics for a detailed installation and configuration guide as well as for Troubleshooting.
If you have the QHD+ (3200x1800) model, also check out HiDPI for UI scaling configurations.
Module-based Powersaving Options
For the HD 620 graphics card the following modules are working: (see Intel graphics#Module-based Powersaving Options)
modeset=1 enable_rc6=1 enable_fbc=1
The first argument is to enable modesetting if it's not set by default. The second argument is needed to active power-saving C-States. Higher values than 1 are not available for kaby lake CPUs. The third argument is for frame buffer compression power savings. These values should work well!
enable_guc_loading=1 enable_guc_submission=1
These arguments are used to enable GuC updates. GuC is a small proprietary binary blob released by intel to update the GuC binary in faster intervals than the kernel release does. It is used for graphics workload scheduling on the various graphics parallel engines. More details at (https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/firmware). The GuC binary for kaby lake is included since firmware release linux-firmware 20170217 in the official repository.
HuC is also an binary blob from intel. It's designed to offload some of the media functions from the CPU to GPU. More details at (https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/firmware). As of kernel 4.11, HuC remains unsupported.
enable_psr=1 disable_power_well=0 OR enable_psr=2
Enable psr level 2 is working, while level 1 has a lot of problems. Setting it on level 2 doesn't give much energy saving at the moment. It's said that 'disable_power_well=0 enable_psr=1' is working in this combination.
NOT WORKING: semaphores=1
The semaphore option is NOT working for kaby lake CPUs and won't enable even if you set the option to 1.
Blank screen issue after booting
If using "late start" KMS (the default) and the screen goes blank when loading modules, it may help to add
i915 and
intel_agp to the initramfs or using a special kernel parameter. Consult Intel graphics#Blank screen during boot, when "Loading modules" for more information about the kernel parameter way and have a look at Kernel mode setting#Early KMS start for a guide on how to setup the modules for the initramfs.
The Killer 1535 Wirless Adapter is functional and the ath10k firmware is included in recent linux kernel versions. The connection speed reported by iw is limited to 1-6Mbits/s. However this is just the output being wrong. The real connection speed is not limited to this value.
Some users are experiencing issues, where the connection is dropped under heavy load but reconnects within a brief moment. This might not be noticed during browsing at all but becomes apparent in online games. There is no know solution so far.
After following the instructions given at Bluetooth tethering of internet connections via phone works immediately.
Thunderbolt 3 / USB 3.1
The USB-C port supports Thunderbolt 3, Displayport-over-USB-C and USB power delivery as well as USB 3.1.
Ethernet repeatedly disconnects/reconnects with Dell USB-C adapter (DA200)
Use of a power management package (such as TLP) may cause the ethernet adapter to repeatedly disconnect and reconnect. If this happens, disable/blacklist USB autosuspend for the ethernet adapter. (On my laptop, this is the device Bus 004 Device 007: ID 0bda:8153 Realtek Semiconductor Corp in the output of lsusb.)
Also disabling or reducing power of wifi may help: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/network-internet-wireless/f/3324/t/19995423
USB-C Compatibility Chart
|Apple USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter
|Not Working
|Apple 29W USB-C Power Adapter
|USB-C Power
|Not Working
|Aukey USB C Hub HDMI 4 Port
|USB-C, 4xUSB-A, HDMI
|Belkin USB-C to VGA Adapter
|Dell DA200
|USB-A, Ethernet, HDMI, VGA
|Dell WD15 130W
|3xUSB-A 3.0, 2xUSB-A 2.0, Ethernet, HDMI, Mini DisplayPort, VGA, Line Out, Line In
|StarTech.com tb32dp2 - Thunderbolt 3 Adapter
|2 x DP (4 K, 60 Hz)
|StarTech TBT3TBTADAP Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt Adapter
|Thunderbolt 2, Thunderbolt
|Cable Matters USB-C Multiport Adapter
|4K HDMI or VGA, USB 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet
|Juiced Systems BizHUB USB-C Multiport Gigabit HDMI Hub
|4K@30Hz HDMI, 3x USB 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet, USB-C Power, SD, Micro-SD
|Anker USB-C to HDMI Adapter
|4K@60Hz HDMI
|HDMI (4K@30Hz, 2K@60Hz), Gigabit Ethernet, USB-A, USB-C
|i-Tec USB-C Dual Display MST Dock
|HDMI, DP (4K@30Hz Single Monitor, 1920x1200@60Hz Dual Monitor), Gbit Ethernet, 3xUSB-A, USB-C, Sound, Charging @ 60W
|Tripp Lite USB-C to DVI External Video Adapter
|DVI, Gbit Ethernet, USB-A, USB-C PD Charging Port
|StarTech CDP2HD - USB-C to HDMI Adapter
|Kanex USB-C to HDMI 4K Adapter
|QacQoc GN30H USB C HUB Aluminum Multi-Port TYPE C HUB Adapter with 4K HDMI
|4K@30Hz HDMI, 3x USB 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet, USB-C Power, SD, Micro-SD
Thunderbolt Firmware updates
The thunderbolt controller in the laptop has an embedded firmware. The laptop ships with firmware version NVM 18, and the most recent available version from Dell's website is NVM 21. If encountering compatibility problems with Thunderbolt accessories, the firmware may need to be updated. Dell maintains a Github repository explaining the process to update the firmware, but unfortunately, does not provide the updated payload files. These can be extracted from the Windows firmware update files. Mainline support for the firmware update process is pending the inclusion of these patches into the Linux kernel.
Here is a short list of steps to update the Thunderbolt-Firmware (use at your own risk):
- Install thunderbolt-icm-dkms-gitAUR, thunderboltd-gitAUR, libtbtfwu-gitAUR and tbtfwucli-gitAUR
- Load the thunderbolt-icm kernel module and start thunderbolt.service
- Download the Intel_TBT3_FW_UPDATE_*.exe from Dell's website
- Unpack the exe with 7z x Intel_TBT3_FW_UPDATE_*.exe
- Follow the update instructions at Dell's TB Github repository, Using the correct Firmware file from the extracted exe (Intel/0x075B.bin for the 9360 according to the info in Dell's Repository
- Hope everything goes well and reboot after finishing the update
SATA controller
When the SATA-controller is set to
RAID On in Bios, the hard disk (at least the SSD) is not recognized. Set to
Off or
AHCI is recommended) before attempting to install Arch.
The touchpad has no explicit buttons. The buttons are built into the pads surface. There is a small line printed on the pad separating left from right click button. The pad has a middle button built in! (works with libinput without any configuration): To issue a middle click, simply press on the middle area right between the virtual left and click buttons - so on the small printed separator line.
Remove psmouse errors from dmesg
dmesg | grep -i psmouse returns an error, but your touchpad still works, then it might be a good idea to disable
psmouse. First create a config file:
# nano /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf blacklist psmouse
Then add this file to
... FILES="/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf" ...
Rebuild your initial ramdisk image (see Mkinitcpio#Image creation and activation).
The touchscreen works without additional configuration. The bug resulting in a disabled touchscreen after resume was fixed with kernel 4.8.5.
Refer to libinput#Gestures for information about the current development state and available methods.
Scrolling in Firefox
See Firefox/Tweaks#Pixel-perfect trackpad scrolling. This enables both touchscreen scrolling and high-res trackpad scrolling.
Keyboard Backlight
By default, the keyboard backlight turns off after 10 seconds of inactivity. Some users might find this too short and annoying. The delay can be increased (or decreased) by editing this file:
You can also change the brightness (0-2) by editing the following file. This is identical to pressing F10 on your keyboard:
Hidden Keyboard Keys
There are additional Fn+<Key> (sequences) that are not marked at all on the keyboard but underlying hardware generates them anyway. Here they are (if you find more add them to the table below):
|Resulting key (sequence)
|Fn+A / D / E / F / G / T / Q / W
Firmware Updates
Dell provides firmware updates via fwupdAUR. See Flashing BIOS from Linux#fwupd. Please note if you have used a bind mount partition for /boot, you will not be able to use the fwupd utility; Instead format a USB as FAT32 and put the bios update .exe on. Reboot into the one-time-boot menu and update the BIOS flash through there.
Alternatively, the BIOS update can be downloaded from the Dell website, and placed in a location accessible to the firmware. This could be the '/boot' folder, or a FAT32 formatted USB stick. Then restart your laptop and hit F12 while starting. In the boot menu choose firmware update and select the new file!
EFISTUB does not boot
The BIOS does not pass any boot parameters to the kernel. Use a UEFI boot loader instead.
Not waking from suspend
Update the BIOS to 1.0.7 to patch this issue.
Power Drain after waking from standby
Some users recognised ~2W more power consumption after waking up from standby. Go to the UEFI Firmware Settings (tap the F2 key when the Dell logo appears) and uncheck the 'Enable Thunderbolt Boot Support'. You may use powertop or powerstat-gitAUR to reproduce and check this behaviour yourself.
Popping Sound on headphones/external speakers
Power saving being enabled on the audio chip will cause the hissing and popping to appear.
Have a look at Advanced Linux Sound Architecture/Troubleshooting#Pops when starting and stopping playback and Advanced Linux Sound Architecture/Troubleshooting#Popping sound after resuming from suspension.
If you are using tlp, it will activate power saving by default when on battery. Edit
/etc/default/tlp and disable it.
Coil Whine
Unfortunately Dell still did not fix this issue and the sound for my model was very loud. The issue seems to be connected to the graphic card. For some users, it is possible to reduce it a lot by activating frame buffer compression "enable_fbc=1" Intel graphics#Module-based Powersaving Options. The coil whine will then start again under heavy graphic load. For the touchscreen model, this may be very often, due to the high resolution screen. In a similar vein, the display can be run at a lower resolution, again reducing the load on the graphics card.
Freezing after waking from suspend
Installing xf86-video-intel-gitAUR is reported to fix this.
Continuous hissing sound with headphones
Open alsamixer and set "Headphone Mic Boost" gain to 10 dB (See discussion on reddit). Note that this does reduce the volume slightly.
You may also run the equivalent command:
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This is not necessarily Braid news. If you don't do any Linux programming then you may want to skip this posting!
I'm trying to do some basic game stuff under Linux and don't really know what a reasonable way is to do them, and the cost of experimentation is very high. So I am hoping someone out there can just answer these basic questions…
- What is a reasonable way to read mouse input? Reading X11 mouse events is not sufficient since (a) it's had GUI acceleration applied to it, and (b) it clamps at the edges of the screen. libGII seems to be one way to do this — is it reliable and useful? Can I "ship" a game with it (to the extent that anything is shippable at all under Linux)? Are there alternatives?
- Under X11, is there a way to constrain the mouse pointer to a window without other undesirable effects (such as stealing the focus and locking the GUI)? Last time I tried this (a couple of years ago) I couldn't figure out a way to do it.
- For audio output, should I be using ALSA or something else? In a past project I used SDL but the SDL audio API seemed quite lacking for serious game programming.


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Helen Clark: Speech at the Global Launch of the 2014 Human Development ReportJul 24, 2014
U Thant International Conference Hall
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
Thursday 24 July 2014
I am delighted to be launching the 2014 Human Development Report, "Sustaining Human Development Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience", in Japan - a recognised leader in disaster risk reduction and human security. Thank you, Prime Minister Abe, for your willingness to participate in this global launch today.
The topic of this 23rd global Human Development Report is particularly timely. As countries gear up for a final push to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, increased volatility has become the new normal, with disasters and crises threatening to stall or reverse that progress.
Syria, South Sudan, Central Africa Republic – these are just some of the countries where human development has gone into reverse because of the impact of serious violent conflict. Extreme weather events, such as last November's typhoon in the Philippines, or the floods across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia in May, can lead to loss of life and the destruction of livelihoods and infrastructure, reversing development gains in just hours. Here in Japan and in my own country, New Zealand, earthquakes and their flow on effects have also devastated communities.
But the development impacts of crises, and the numbers of lives lost, are not the same everywhere. That is because, as this Human Development Report states, there are policies and steps which can be taken to reduce vulnerability, and help build the resilience of individuals and communities to withstand shocks.
No one would pretend that this easy. This Human Development Report estimates that almost 1.5 billion people across 91 developing countries are currently multi-dimensionally poor—with overlapping deprivations in education, health, and living standards. A further 800 million are identified as at risk of falling back into poverty. This reminds us that it is not enough just to lift people out of poverty; we must ensure that their escape is permanent.
With this in mind, this Report calls for universal access to basic social services, such as health and education, stronger social protection measures, including pensions for the elderly and provision for the unemployed; and a commitment to full employment. All measures taken along these lines reduce vulnerability.
Universal provisioning of basic social services, the Report argues, is feasible across the board, including in poor countries. It is a wise investment which locks in development gains, boosts social cohesion, and enhances the resilience of societies as a whole to adversity.
The Report calls for more responsive institutions and laws which make societies fairer and more inclusive. These, it argues, are particularly important for groups of people identified as "structurally vulnerable", often due to discrimination and exclusion because of their gender, ethnicity, job type, or socio-economic status - to name just some factors.
The Report also presents evidence on how vulnerabilities vary across the life-cycle. Setbacks during certain periods, such as infancy, childhood, the transition from school to work, and in old age, may be particularly difficult to overcome. Targeted and timely investments during these sensitive periods of people's lives help us all reach our full potential.
No matter how effective policies are in reducing individual and societal vulnerabilities, crises – particularly those caused by natural disasters - will continue to occur with potentially destructive consequences. Building national capacities to predict and prevent conflict and unrest, and investing in disaster preparedness and recovery, does enable people and their communities and countries to manage and mitigate crises and recover more quickly from shocks.
Here, let me commend Japan for all the support it has given to the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015, Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters, and for agreeing to host the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in March 2015.
The findings of this Report are an important contribution to the process of renewal of the Hyogo Framework, and of formulating the post-2015 sustainable development agenda which will replace the MDGs. This is the first time that the twin concepts of vulnerability and resilience have been examined together through a human development lens. If this report is heeded, if life cycle and structural vulnerabilities are addressed, and if conscious efforts are made to lift resilience to crises and disaster, then I have no doubt that many of the kinds of setbacks we see to human development today can be averted.


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These brownies really did not take much creativity on my part. I used the recipe for the Red Velvet Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies I made last November, but instead of adding red food coloring to the brownie base I added orange food coloring to the cream cheese part. I think they are super adorable for Halloween and the coloring could be changed up for any Holiday. I also added some black food coloring to the brownie part, but clearly did not add enough as it turned out dark brown. Still works for Halloween either way.
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recipe adapted from Sunny Anderson, host "Cooking for Real"
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup cocoa powder
Pinch salt
1 tablespoon warm water
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
2 eggs
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
Cream Cheese Layer:
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Orange Food coloring
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter an 8 by 8-inch baking pan, and set aside.
Brownie layer: Add melted butter to a large bowl and add the sugar, vanilla, cocoa powder, salt, warm water, and vinegar, in that order, mixing between additions. Whisk the eggs in a small bowl and stir it into the cocoa mix. Fold in the flour until lightly combined. Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan, saving 1/4 cup of the batter for the top.
Cream cheese layer: Blend together the cream cheese, sugar, egg, vanilla, and food coloring in a medium bowl. Gently spread the cream cheese layer on top of the brownie batter in the pan. Dollop the remaining brownie batter over the cream cheese layer. Using a skewer or the tip of a knife, drag the tip through the cream cheese mixture to create a swirl pattern. Bake the brownies for 30 minutes. Remove to a cooling rack and allow them to cool completely before cutting.


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Hatchback cars in the Philippines
Hatchback is a car body make that has an upswing rear door or hatch which provides access to its cargo area and acts as its trunk. This type of body design is available on a number of car categories from superminis to small family cars or subcompacts.
Depending on pillar configurations hatchbacks can range from the typical two box (as in most hatchbacks and station wagons); to three box for sedans. The design primarily involves a three-door or five-door design and a sloped or curved back.This car is also called a liftback, as a broad marketing term.
One prominent characteristic of a hatchbacks is the flat floor contoured cargo area and the car's prioritization in style over cargo volume. It also has a smaller window (or no window) at the cargo area and a shorter overhang. A feature that separates it from a station wagon.
Early examples
Among the earlier examples of hatchback are the Volkswagen Beetle which was first marketed in 1931 as the people's car and the Aston Martin DB2 which was released in 1953. It has top a hinged rear tailgate. The successor of this model also offered folding rear seat.
Another difference between a hatchback and a station wagon is how far their hatch or liftgate can be extended. Hatchbacks can't extend down to the bumper as opposed to station wagons that can.
What's good About hatchbacks?
Today, small cars, subcompacts and even superminis adapt the hatchback design. Despite their size, these cars are some of the most fuel efficient vehicles on the market. The Mazda 3, for example, has an impressive fuel economy of 38 km/L in highway conditions paired up with a decent 17 cubic feet cargo area.
Because of their small size, these vehicles are also some of the most enjoyable rides to drive because of their good handling. Hatchbacks, especially subcompacts, are one of the cheapest car models in the automotive industry.
Price range of hatchbacks
According to Carmudi's database, some of the older model hatchbacks, such as the Hyundai Atos 1999 is priced below P150,000. One of the newest hatchback, the Ford Fiesta with Ecoboost, costs P898,000 for brand new units.


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Aerial view of Sastavci waterfalls. Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia
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View of Trakoscan castle reflecting in lake, Croatia
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Detail of a waterfall in autumn. Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia
Detail of a waterfall in autumn. Plitvice Lakes National Park (Nacionalni Park Plitvička Jezera, UNESCO World Heritage Site), Croatia. Image ID: HR-3010-0949
Car on Cabot Trail. Cape Breton Highlands National Park
Car on Cabot Trail at sunset. Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia, Canada. Image ID: NS-1006-1217
Winding trail through prairie at dawn, Grasslands National Park
Winding trail through prairie at dawn, Grasslands National Park - East Block, Saskatchewan, Canada. Image ID: SK-3809-0343
Blueberry fields in autumn. Oxford, Nova Scotia
Blueberry fields in autumn colours. Near Oxford, Nova Scotia, Canada. Oxford is a self-proclaimed "Blueberry Capital of the World". Every year blueberry fields around the town explode in rich tapestry of fall colours. Image ID: NS-1210-1634
Tipi (teepee) rings in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan
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Native prairie at Fairview PFRA community pasture. Near Fiske, Saskatchewan
Prairie at Fairview PFRA community pasture near Fiske, Saskatchewan. Management of this pasture was transferred from the federal community pasture program to the province of Saskatchewan at the end of 2013. Image ID: SK-3007-0555
Silhouette of moose on a rural road. Wolverine PFRA community pasture, Saskatchewan
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Detail of Arena amphitheatre in Pula, Croatia.
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- Cityscape that tells about Paris, France in the 50's and 60's . Mixed media and collage on paper. This particular artwork is part of the Collages series. These collages are built up with all kinds of pictures, photos and images that I have collected over the years. I start an artwork with creating a surface by splashing or stamping with watercolor or acrylic paint. Some of the works are created by only arranging photographs in a certain way. Other collages are created with transferred images that are pulled loose or torn. Old and torn, outworn and weathered. Layer upon layer. On some of the collages I painted acrylic patterns or animals and figures. Most of the works are also worked over with ink, pencil, watercolor or ballpoint pen.