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Navigating the Sea of Fake Codecs
The Internet has become a major scene for sharing all sorts of media files. These files may have been compressed using different codecs, some free and some commercial. What is a codec? A codec, in this case, is used to decode compressed data streams in order to make them viewable and audible in a proper player. Watching an AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) video and audio file with compressed data, or other compressed movie formats, may require a proper codec. The amount of codecs out there amounts to a level that makes it hard for common users to find and install the correct one required to play an eagerly awaited sequence of images. The situation gets even more complicated considering that unscrupulous individuals want to transform the common codec-eagerness into cash in, one way or another, by offering fake codecs. Read more below about false codec lures, codecs in general and possible ways to avoid getting scammed-
The Sea of Fakes
Fake codecs provide everything but the satisfying access to adequate digital decompression. These fake codecs are lures that the dishonest net-trollers deploy in order to catch credulous people that fall for their social engineering skills. In the Lavasoft Research department, we work to continuously inform people about new threats. The lure often consists of providing an easy way to watch a particular celebrity video. This can be presented actively via e-mail (where the addressee is spammed continuously with movie offerings) or passively via a compromised website. The enforced drive-by download represents a combination of these strategies. The latter is possible using malicious web-coding and by exploiting vulnerabilities in the users web-browser to enforce fake codec downloads.
Don't Take the Bait
Swallowing the lure may lead to a situation where the user has a severe system infection on their hands caused by hard-to-remove rogue applications or other dropped or downloaded malware. So what is a movie-loving, codec-craving individual supposed to do in the sea of fake codecs? The first step is, of course, always to secure the excursion-vessel in order to make the hunt for codecs as pleasant and secure as possible. A good starting point is to follow available online security guides to patch possible security glitches (in the system, browser, etc.). Securing the system with proper security applications would be another. I would, however, like to emphasize the need of obtaining knowledge in order to be less exposed for the traps laid out by the unscrupulous net-trollers. The trick is to acquire as much knowledge as possible, navigate to the right location in order to get the right codec, and then stick to that winning combination (i.e. something that is malware/adware clean and works well.) Developing - and trusting - a gut feeling for what is safe to install is also essential, but this must be combined with adequate knowledge.
Learning by Example
The following is a possible scenario of how a user could handle a situation where a movie is unplayable due to the lack of a specific codec. (Note: I have chosen to call this a possible scenario, not a recommendation or guide; this is due to the fact that codecs change on a regular basis and a codec or codec pack that is clean from malware at one moment may be infected or ad-infested at another.)
The movie X does not play as a suitable codec is not found on the system. The application Videoinspector (or Gspot) is used to pinpoint which codec(s) the media file in question requires. Both Videoinspector and Gspot (freeware utilities) can also be used to display the codecs that already are installed on a system. Each codec is usually represented by a four character code (FOURCC). Here's a bit more info on some of these codes:
- Xvid, DivX (belonging to the XMPEG-4 Part 2 standard) are commonly used to compress .avi files.
- MPEG-1 is used for Video CDs. MPEG-2 are used for the DVD and SVCD formats.
- WMV (WMV 7-9) stands for Windows Media Video supported natively by the media players from Microsoft.
- Files with the .mov extension are media files encoded in the Apple Quicktime video and audio format. QuickTime files could also be played using the Quicktime Alternative software.
- Files with the .rm extension are Real Media files which have to be played with Real Player (or by using the Real Alternative software).
- Files with the .mp4 extension are encoded in the MPEG-4 format and those could be played in several portable video players.
- Files with the .mpg or .mpeg extensions indicate that the file is either MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video. If the .mpg or .mpeg files cannot be played with Windows Media Player it may indicate that a DVD software player has to be used in order to play the file.
- Files with the .vob extension indicate that the file is a DVD Video Object file. Those files belong to the MPEG-2 format and are usually stored on DVD discs. The .vob files may be played with a DVD software player or by using Media Player classic with the proper codecs.
The file name does not always show the encoding method, sometimes for example DivX- and Xvid encoded files come with only the .avi extension. In other cases, the file-name itself can provide valuable information that could be used to pinpoint which codec to use.
Audio codecs are, in scope of this article, used to decompress digital audio data to allow the user to listen to the audio track that is accompanying a movie. The .mp3 extension stands for MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, which is a common container format for audio. Many .avi files may come with .mp3 audio. The .ogg extension usually refers to the Ogg Vorbis audio file format. While .mp3 and .ogg are compressed audio formats PCM audio is a uncompressed audio format (commonly used in audio CDs). MPEG Layer II (.mpa) and AC3 are common audio formats that can accompany DVDs. The .wav extension stands for Waveform audio format which is a Microsoft and IBM audio standard.
The next step is to navigate to a selected, trusted location in order to get the correct codecs. Sites are dynamic in their nature and they change with time which could mean that a former "safe" site could be "malicious" at some other occasion. This is where awareness and use of gut-feelings come in handy. Sites like h**p://www.free-codecs.com/ offer links to many codecs, codec packs and freeware players. The K-lite codec pack is a common freeware codec pack that comes in three versions: Basic, Standard and Full. The Basic version comes with the most common codecs. Keep in mind, there is no need to install all of the codecs out there - only the ones that have been pinpointed with tools like Videoinspector or Gspot. The standard version of the K-Lite codec pack also includes the Media Player Classic which can be used as a media player. Security conscious users may check the codec files by using online scanning services (such as virustotal.com) before installing them.
Users that do not want to deal with separate codecs or codec packs may use the freeware VLC (VideoLAN client) player to play movie files. This client has all the common codecs "built in".
Removing Codecs
You may be wondering if there is an easy way to remove codecs that are installed on your system. Codec packs are most easily removed by using their uninstaller (as in the case with the K-lite Codec Packs), something that all trustworthy codec packs should come with. There are, however, some instances when it may come in handy to know how to remove codecs
manually. In order to uninstall codecs manually navigate to Start - Settings - Control panel and then to System. In the System Properties, click on the Hardware tab and then on the Device Manager button. In the Device Manager, expand "Sound, video and game controllers". Clicking on the Audio Codecs opens the Audio Codecs Properties and clicking the Properties tab in that interface presents a list of the Audio Compression Codecs that are installed on the system. Now the user may remove or enable/disable a selected codec from the list. Video Codecs can be handled in the same manner by choosing "Video Codecs" from the Device Manages under "Sound, video and game controllers".
Simple Codec Tips & Tricks
I hope that this article has shed some light into the comprehensive and often misunderstood area of codecs. Here are three important things to remember:
- NEVER download codecs on the fly. The same is true for when you're prompted to add obscure codecs automatically in order to be able to watch some spectacular movie.
- If it sounds to be too good to be true it probably is. Most of the online movie offerings stating to be movies of nude celebrities are just lures that are laid out to trick gullible surfers. McAfee has, by the way, listed the names of the most dangerous celebrities in Cyberspace, to the article, showing that the names of famous celebrities are frequently used to trick users to download malicious content on the Internet.
- Get the knowledge you need in order to be aware of the tactics used by unscrupulous codec scammers!
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Dish one containing the swabbed doorknob bacteria grew three distinctive colonies. A dark yellow colony that was a rougher outside circle, a lighter yellow colony with a smooth outside circle, and finally a white colony which was round and smooth. Dish two containing the swabbed phone before sterilization grew the same colonies as dish one. Dish three containing the swabbed phone after sterilization grew four distinctive colonies. A dark yellow colony that was a rougher outside circle, a lighter yellow colony with a smooth outside circle, a white colony which was round and smooth, and finally a red colony that was a smooth circle that resided directly inside of the dark yellow colony.
Dark yellow: cucus
Light yellow: cucus
Red: cucus for the Dark yellow in it, and Protista (One with fuz on it's feet)
I really am at a stump and I just can't find anything online to help me figure out what I was possibly looking at.
Well, first your sterilization methods apparently suck. Because if you grow something after sterilization there is a problem.
Second, it is coccus/cocci not cucus.
Third, pictures? details? determination of a bacterial species on just the kind of info you give is impossible. Basic would be gram stain, and a few metabolic tests. Oh and tell us what medium you used.
One of your yellow cocci is very likely a Staphylococcus aureus as it is a frequent inhabitant of human skin. For the rest Streptococcus, maybe for the white one, as they are quite frequent, but there are many other possible.
And I have no clue how you come to the conclusion of a protist (fungi/mold are also quite likely on this kind of swab), neither do I see what a fuzzy foot can be when it refers to anything else than a hobbit. But even if they are small, they are studied by cryptozoologist, rather than microbiologists.
I didn't do the lab, trust me… If I did nothing would have grown, and the control would be water, not a damn doorknob.
Thanks for correcting my spelling error
No pictures, no details. No info on medium,
I am having like major brain farts, the protists has cilla on it, it might not be a protist, I have no clue.
my teacher is asking some impossible from basically no information. Not to mention she gave me a 0 on my first lab because I wrote too long an introduction… She didn't even grade it, just said it's too long and gave a zero.


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Dumpsters full of debris and the remnants of homes, damaged by the floods, have become a common site in Scott County.
Much of the damage within the county was to homes and private land.
Scott County Judge James Forbes said the county has yet to hear from FEMA about whether or not neighbors will get help with repairs.
For now, neighbors have been getting help from the American Red Cross.
Volunteers from the Red Cross spent the weekend giving out supplies to neighbors in the community whose homes were damaged or destroyed in the flood.
"There's a lot of cleanup going on," Jody Carter, who works for the Red Cross. "A lot of folks are starting to clean and rebuild. We want to be out there to support them as much as we can."
Carter and about 60 volunteers have spent the last few days taking a look at the severity of the damage.
"We've had teams that have been on the ground for the last four or five days that have been driving every street," said Carter. "We have been coordinating with the County Judge to find areas that have been impacted."
Several homes were damaged by the flood, some destroyed. Carter said finding new homes for people have not been easy.
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Carter said volunteers won't stop helping, even after they close down the service stations.
"We will be here," he said. "Even if we're not in the building, even if it's not these trucks, we're still going to be here with a Red Cross presence in this community."
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All 20 Democrats voted against the measure Monday in the evenly divided Senate. Republican Sen. Harry Blevins of Virginia Beach did not vote, denying the GOP a 20th vote that would have allowed Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling to break the tie.
Last year, Bolling cast a tie-breaking vote in favor of similar legislation, which died in the House.
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Many scholars believe it was a pomegranate, rather than an apple, that tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Spanish settlers introduced pomegranates to California in 1769.
Thomas Jefferson planted pomegranates at Monticello in 1771.
Pomegranates were relegated to trivia status until about a decade ago, when Los Angeles billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick discovered 120 acres of pomegranates tucked away in a pistachio orchard that their Paramount Farms operation had purchased.
As the story goes, in 1996 Lynda Resnick became intrigued by pomegranate medical folklore and heavily funded research to scientifically uncover the pomegranate's health effects. She has reportedly spent more than $30 million in those efforts. Some 55 papers were published. By 2000, the research was trumpeting the health virtues of pomegranate products to the world. It bolstered the Resnick's POM Wonderful brand and other pomegranate juices and products. In addition, the research elevated pomegranates to a hot new crop — just as San Joaquin Valley producers were looking for an alternative to almonds, grapes and pistachios.
With little production other than an occasional orchard or cluster of backyard trees, pomegranates were never a popular fruit crop until the Resnicks spent their millions. It did not hurt that pomegranates are water thrifty.
They are also labor intensive to harvest and messy when split, a common malady of pomegranates in the field. You can identify anyone who has handled cracked pomegranates by the red stains on their fingers. However, the success of Resnick's Pom Wonderful California pomegranate has minimized those drawbacks.
San Joaquin Valley pomegranate production has reached 30,000 acres, doubling from 2006 to 2009, and is expected to continue growing. Pomegranates reportedly use about a third of the water almonds and grapes need to produce a crop, a fact not lost on California farmers struggling to cope with less available water.
The latest twist in the California pomegranate story is a patented, proprietary variety discovered in Tulare County.
It is called Angel Red. This is its first season for a significant harvest. Licensed growers, packers and marketers are expected to ship 30,000 boxes of the premium, soft-seeded pomegranate to market this season. (Most pomegranate varieties are hard-seeded.) Most of the 2010 Angel Red crop will go to Japan, a growing and discerning market for the California premium, bright red fruit.
Recently, pomegranates have also been identified as a functional food in Asia where women appreciate them as a health and beauty food, just like in the U.S.
A wide range of pomegranate products have been launched throughout Asia, and pomegranate juice is rapidly gaining popularity, paralleling its ascent in the U.S.
Greg Smith, Tulare County, Calif., farmer, discovered the Angel Red pomegranate variety on one of his farms. He patented it as Smith Pomegranate and then copyrighted the name Angel Red. There are about 1,700 acres planted to Angel Red, mostly in the San Joaquin Valley. Many of the trees are less than four years old.
Monrovia Nursery is licensed to propagate Angel Red, and Sunriver Sales in Visalia, Calif., is licensed to market the new variety. Giannini Packing out of Dinuba, Calif., is the first packer licensed for Angel Red.
Smith and his partner, General Manager Chad Fjeld, a veteran fruit marketer, will license other packers as the volume grows.
At a field day in Smith's 80 acres of pomegranates orchard near Plainview, Calif., west of Strathmore, grower Joel Atkins of Visalia said he has added 40 acres of Angel Reds to his citrus and walnut farming operation.
Bright future for pomegranates
"There has been a lot written about how healthy pomegranates are for you because of the antioxidants and all that. The future looks good for the crop. I had 40 acres of open ground and decided to plant pomegranates," said Atkins. "I have known Greg for many years and decided to take a shot at it.
"I doubt that pomegranates will be as big as walnuts and citrus in this valley, but you never know," he said.
Key factors in the Angel Red deal? The fruit is early, big and very red. "It actually becomes redder in the box after it is picked," said Smith.
Smith is a veteran pomegranate grower. His family purchased the Lulu Packing pomegranate business and orchards in the early 1980s.
Angel Red came from a chance seedling Smith discovered on one of his farms in 2006. It ripens about Labor Day, which is 30 days earlier than the most popular variety in the state, Wonderful. He tested the rogue tree's DNA and found it different than other varieties, dissimilar enough to win a patent on it.
While most Angel Red acreage is in the Central Valley, there is acreage on the Central Coast, in Southern California and Arizona. Angel Red trees have also been shipped to Peru, Chile and South Africa.
"We have a grower with 50 acres in Bowie, Ariz. Those should come off earlier than any other pomegranate. If we can get the market with an early, big, red piece of fruit, it would be to our advantage," said Fjeld.
Smith said growers can expect to get 1.5 boxes of fresh market Angel Reds off four-year-old trees and eventually as many as two boxes per tree.
Fjeld said 200 boxes of the Angel Red were shipped to Japan last season to test the demanding market and were well received. That is why the majority of this year's crop is earmarked for Asia. However, a specialty crop food wholesaler is distributing Angel Red in Southern California. Whole Foods in the Los Angeles area is one of the retailers handling Angel Red.
Appearance key for pomegranates
ppearance is everything with pomegranates and they must be handled gently. Smith is recommending pickers use an apple harvest belly bag and gently drop the fruit into bins with the bag's bottom dump. Any scarring reduces the value of the fresh market fruit.
A rule of thumb is that 50 percent to 55 percent of the pomegranate fruit on a tree is harvestable for the premium, fresh market. The rest of the fruit is harvested off grade or harvested for arils or the seeds. A third marketing opportunity is the juice. However, juice prices have fallen off recently.
Removing pomegranate rind to get to the seeds is messy. A new machine from Israel separates the pomegranate arils (seeds) for the fresh market. These are packed in plastic clamshells for retailing. Smith expects soft-seeded Angel Red arils to be available next year.
Pomegranate arils can be eaten fresh, used in salads, desserts, sorbets, soups, meat sauces; or as a garnish and in sauces.
Pomegranate is also available in powder form.
Dennis McFarlin, licensed PCA with Gar Tootelian, an independent agchem and fertilizer retailer in Reedley, Calif., told growers that pomegranates are not easy to grow. He scouts about 800 acres of pomegranates in Tulare County.
Pest prevention
There are numerous, potentially devastating pests, many associated with fruit appearance. This is a key marketing element for fresh market products.
However, the pesticides registered are few. Lannate is about the only one for most pests. There is a greater choice of organic products, but they can be overwhelmed by high pest numbers.
These include aphids and whiteflies. The cotton aphid, which can build up in the fall, deposits honeydew on the fruit resulting in rotten spots on the skin. Beneficial insects often are strong enough to control aphids.
A second scientifically unidentified aphid called the "pomegranate aphid" is pale green with short, pale cornicles, different from the cotton aphid with black cornicles. This aphid infests leaves of all ages. Unfortunately, it is not controlled by beneficials.
This aphid also deposits honeydew on the fruit resulting in sooty mold.
Admire was recently registered on whiteflies in pomegranates and may control aphids applied through a drip irrigation system.
Grape and Comstock mealybugs can damage fruit, particularly the latter. Again, mealybug honeydew deposits cause fruit rot. The Encyrtidae parasites can help control these mealybugs as they do in grapes. Biological control is effective, unless disrupted by Lannate or by Grey and Argentine ants protecting the mealybugs because they feed on the honeydew.
Honeydew from citricola and black scale can also cause sooty mold, which easily is washed off. However, the green spot left when the scale is removed is often off-color because it has been covered by the scale and did not get enough sunshine to color well. Too many green spots can downgrade the fruit.
Where orchards border cotton fields, greenhouse and ash whiteflies can migrate from the cotton to the pomegranates. Again, honeydew and sooty mold result from heavy whitefly numbers. Cotton defoliation may send even larger numbers of whiteflies into pomegranates.
Omnivorous leafroller (OLR) is a common pest in many San Joaquin Valley crops. On pomegranates, the caterpillars typically carve surface grooves where two fruit touch or where the caterpillar has tied a leaf to the fruit surface. The worm can tunnel into the fruit, allowing pathogens to develop and grow in the arils with no visual, external symptoms. Damage can reach 20 percent or more.
OLR can be monitored by pheromone traps to monitor peak flights. It is the second flight that is the most problematic and likely warrants control. Checkmate OLR and NoMate OLR products are approved for confusion technique control.
A second option is a B.t. spray like Dipel or Deliver applied at least twice, at 700 to 900 degree days (seven to 10 days later) after the second flight begins.
The third OLR generation causes the most damage in late summer. B.t. sprays can be used then, if warranted.
Navel orangeworm and carob moth can occasionally be found tunneling into pomegranates, usually entering from rotten spots.
Leaf-footed plant bugs can build into large populations in pomegranates. More than 100 nymphs have been found in a single pomegranate. They especially like split fruit and can be found year-round in pomegranates.
Unfortunately, leaf-footed plant bugs have many hosts besides pomegranates.
Removal of leftover fruit could reduce overwintering populations.
False chinch bug is a threat to young trees. Dense masses of these can kill infested shoots in less than day.
They can build in weeds, especially London rocket. When weeds dry up or are mowed, nymphs move over the ground and climb up the lower part of trees. Control weeds for the first year or two and if necessary, treat weeds and infested ground with Lannate.
Cherry leafhopper, thrips and alfalfa weevil have also been found damaging pomegranates.
Finally, flat mite is a major pest because it causes leathering or 'alligator skin' damage, rendering the fruit unmarketable. These mites are small and difficult to monitor. Many pomegranate farmers apply one to three sulfur dust applications starting in late June as a prophylactic to ward off flat mite.


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DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend and I have been together a year and a half. I regret moving in with him when I did, which was after only three months of dating.
We have been through a lot, including my struggle with various health issues. Throughout this he has become an insensitive person who treats me like garbage. There has been a lot of emotional abuse happening, and it has taken me quite a while to be able to see it.
The other night I was about to break up with him. Then he suddenly changed his tune. He said: "I'm listening. You're right. I need to change. I love you."
Abby, at this point I really don't care, but I gave him another chance. Was I wrong to do that? He has changed for now — quite drastically — but I know he could easily go back.
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DEAR ABBY: A friend recently shared some great advice. Her mom is 86 and in poor health, so my friend put together an emergency information briefcase for the trunk of her car and another one by the front door.
If anyone needs to take her mother to the ER, all her important information is in two places. This includes medications, doctors, insurance cards, Living Will, power of attorney and family emergency numbers.
I took my friend's advice, and it turned out to be a godsend when I had to take my 79-year-old mother to the ER after a serious fall. The admitting clerks said they wished everyone would do this. (I also included $100 in cash in a small envelope.) I hope you think her idea is worth sharing.
DEAR GLAD: If the admitting clerks said they wished everyone would do this, then it's worth a mention in my column. Readers, advance planning such as this could save precious minutes in an emergency.
DEAR ABBY: Due to an accident I had as a teenager, I can't father a child. How far into a relationship should I wait to tell a woman this? While I wouldn't mention it on the first date, I don't want someone to feel betrayed if she wasn't informed.
There's also the issue of finding a woman who's OK with it. So far, the ones I have dated ended the relationship because they couldn't accept being childless or adopting.
DEAR GUY: Mention it when the subject of children comes up. Not every woman wants children. It's nothing to be ashamed of.
P.S. If you include the fact that you can't father a child on your dating profile, it will filter out those women who do. I'm advising you to prepare for an avalanche.
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The House began voting at 12:20 a.m., as members scrambled to return to Washington during what was a planned two-week Easter recess. The bill was approved on a 203-58 vote.
The Senate voted yesterday afternoon to approve the bill, which would move the case to a U.S. District Court in Florida. That court could override a state judge's decision to allow removal of the feeding tube of the brain-damaged woman.
President Bush, who had rushed back from his Texas ranch yesterday, signed the legislation less than an hour after the vote, the White House said.
House leaders had been forced to delay a vote until early this morning after Democrats objected to passing what they called a constitutionally questionable bill without any debate, in a case that has focused new attention on the issues of medical treatment, its withdrawal, and the role of lawmakers and courts in family matters.
Parties were left trying to round up enough members for a quorum, after sending them home last week for what was supposed to be a two-week vacation.
"We are very, very, very thankful to cross this bridge. And we are very hopeful that the federal courts will follow the will of Congress and save my sister's life," said Suzanne Vitadamo, Terri Schiavo's sister.
A lawyer for Terri Schiavo's husband, Michael, said the measure could be found unconstitutional.
But an attorney for Terri Schiavo's parents filed a request for an emergency injunction with a federal appellate court to have her feeding tube reinserted once the bill is passed. He also planned to make a similar request with the federal district court in Tampa, Fla.
"We are considering every second as precious in terms of saving Terri," said David Gibbs II, an attorney for her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler.
The president's brother, Gov. Jeb Bush, praised the actions of Congress. "We in government have a duty to protect the weak, disabled and vulnerable," he said in a statement yesterday. "I appreciate the efforts of state and federal lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who have taken this duty to heart."
Opponents of the fast-tracked bill said congressional interference would only compound a long-running family tragedy.
"We are members of Congress. We're not doctors. We're not medical experts. We're not bioethicists," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Democrat, said during three hours of debate on the House floor late last night.
"We don't know. We're not God. And we're not Terri Schiavo's husband, sister, brother, uncle or cousin," she said. "We're members of Congress. We make laws, and we uphold the law, and we swore to protect the Constitution. And we are thumbing our nose at the Constitution if this goes forward."
Schiavo's feeding tube was disconnected Friday, three weeks after a Florida state judge allowed its removal as the end to a nearly seven-year fight between her parents and her husband. After failing to come to a deal late last week, congressional leaders worked through the weekend to broker a compromise and pass a bill that could result in the feeding tube being reinserted.
Schiavo, 41, was expected to die within two weeks unless her tube is reinserted, as has happened twice before.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Democrats had cost Schiavo two more meals with their tactics.
By throwing the case to a federal court in Florida, supporters of the measure hope that a judge will order the feeding tube reinserted while the case is reconsidered.
Fifteen years after Schiavo's brain was severely damaged - and years after her husband began fighting for the right to disconnect the feeding tube that sustains her - her case suddenly consumed Congress.
Despite seeing only videotapes of Terri Schiavo, lawmakers such as DeLay have opined that she is not in a "persistent vegetative state," as the courts have consistently found. They say she can talk, that her condition could improve if she had physical therapy, and that her husband has shirked his duty as her guardian by trying to end her life - something, Michael Schiavo maintains, that his wife would have wanted.
"We in the Senate recognize that it is extraordinary that we act," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said. "But these are extraordinary circumstances that center on the most fundamental of human values - the sanctity of human life."
But opponents of the legislation said it goes against several principles normally espoused by Republicans, including state sovereignty, a limited federal government and the sanctity of marriage.
"I think we are seeing, sadly, the manifestation of a constitutional crisis," said Rep. Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat. "We have people in power today in both houses and in the White House who simply reject what has always been the fundamental precept of American government; namely that it's a limited government. And there have been times when I've chafed at those limits.
"But we now have people who don't just chafe at the limits, they totally disregard them."
Rep. Robert Wexler, a Florida Democrat who opposes the bill, said, "It is not the place of Congress - at the 11th hour and in the most abusive fashion - to undermine the Florida court system."
But supporters said that because the bill is essentially a personal piece of legislation for Terri Schiavo and deals only with jurisdiction, not the outcome, it should pass constitutional muster.
The House convened briefly yesterday at 1 p.m. yesterday, with only a handful of lawmakers present. Republican leaders had hoped to push the bill through quickly, but several Democrats made it clear they would not allow the bill to sail through.
When the Senate passed the bill late in the afternoon, only three senators - Frist, Mel Martinez of Florida and Virginia's John W. Warner - were in the chamber, all of them Republicans.
Terri Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler, continued his campaign to lobby lawmakers to help his sister. He arrived in Washington on Tuesday, and spoke yesterday with opponents of the bill - including Democratic Reps. James P. Moran Jr. of Virginia and Jim Davis of Florida.
Proponents of the bill said the sudden interest of Congress has nothing to do with politics, or efforts by Republicans to appeal to Christian conservatives, for whom right-to-life issues are paramount.
"This is not a political issue - this is life and death," DeLay said.
But Davis, whose Tampa-area district is in the same part of the state as the Pinellas Park hospice where Terri Schiavo lives, said Congress is clearly overstepping its authority.
"The United States Congress is on the verge of telling states and courts that their decisions and rules do not matter," he said.
Rep. Dave Weldon, a Florida Republican, a doctor, and one of the early sponsors of the Terri Schiavo legislation, mused yesterday about the competing opinions and ideas caught up in the debate. He conceded that it was unusual for lawmakers to diagnose by videotape but said he was convinced that Congress was doing the right thing.
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This message preached on May 22, 2016 at Foothills Community church is part 7 in a series through the book of James entitled, "More Than A Belief ... Following Jesus In Real Life."
God desires a close and intimate relationship with us. He also desires that we experience close relationships with one another. When our allegiances are more in line with the world than with God conflict arises in both, but there is a cure!
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May 24, 2013
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing this past April, many turned to the Boston Police Department (BPD) Twitter stream to find reliable updates on rapidly unfolding events.
Twitter emerged as the go-to platform during the five-day manhunt for the bombing suspects. Initially, the site was the only way to push out information after two pressure-cooker bombs killed three bystanders and injured 282 near the race's finish line on April 15.
Cheryl Fiandaca, bureau chief of public information for the BDP, spoke to Tactics about managing the crisis and updating the public. She provides a behind-the-scenes look into how the BPD used Twitter to connect with the community and provide critical information during the search for suspects.
Police blocked area cell phone service after the bombings due to concerns that phones might have detonated the explosives.
The BPD's blog is a popular media source (with nearly 30,000 monthly views), but heavy user traffic caused it to crash, so Fiandaca used Twitter for BPD's first announcements. She tweeted from the @Boston_Police handle 10 times during about 90 minutes, including: "Boston Police confirming explosion at marathon finish line with injuries" and "BPD asking people not to congregate in large crowds."
Fiandaca said that Twitter proved to be the quickest and most reliable way to communicate with Boston residents, marathon runners, friends and family members, the news media, BPD employees and other law enforcement agencies. The BPD posted 148 tweets during the five-day manhunt that ended with the capture of suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Afterward, the final tweet thanked BPD's many supporters: "The Boston Police Appreciates the love and support of the USA GOD BLESS AMERICA. BOSTON STRONG!"
Before the bombing, the BPD's Twitter account had about 54,000 followers. According to Mashable, this grew to more than 330,000 followers afterward. The account reached nearly 49 million people within five days.
Fiandaca credits this to accurate, trustworthy information disseminated in a timely manner.
When multiple news sources, including the AP and CNN, erroneously reported that a suspect was in custody, BPD tweeted to set the record straight.
"We corrected a lot of misinformation," she says. "I think we became a very reliable, solid way to get information."
Like many large urban police departments, the BPD bureau of public information is active on social media sites and has a blog, Facebook page, Twitter feed and YouTube and Pinterest accounts.
Three police officers and three civilians staff the news bureau. Fiandaca says the department cross-trains staff to perform PR activities, like writing news releases or posting Facebook and Twitter messages.
The public information office does not tweet in real-time even though it can see via computer what is happening during police operations.
"[We] don't want to jeopardize any officers — their safety and their investigation," she says. "Once the scene has happened and everyone knows what's going on, you can start tweeting."
While there wasn't an official blog policy at the time of the bombing, when Fiandaca joined the department, 10 months earlier, BPD Commissioner Edward Davis asked the public information office to handle social media messaging and to use it more often to directly communicate with the public.
Fiandaca, a former television news reporter with 16 years of experience working in New York City and Boston, knows the value of news and has organized her department to provide it.
While the department had always provided the "good news" about what BPD was doing, she started sharing updates on important crime investigations.
"I wanted us to become a news organization in addition to being a police department. If you want to know about something that's happening [with the police], we want to be the source," Fiandaca says. "You don't have to go to any of the news stations; you don't have to read the newspaper. You can read our blog [or] follow us on Twitter to get up-to-date on the big stories."
There are limits, however, within a "command and control" work environment. BPD does not communicate information that would put police officers or community residents' safety at risk during an ongoing operation. For example, it tweeted media alerts asking the media to refrain from mentioning or broadcasting the exact locations of law enforcement officers during search operations.
While the Boston Marathon bombing suspects were armed, dangerous and on the run, BPD needed Bostonians to remain calm yet vigilant.
"We didn't want to cause a panic or hysteria, but at the same time everyone felt [basic] information needed to get out to people so they knew what was happening," Fiandaca says.
This strategy counteracted numerous alternative Internet sources — some fed on rumors and speculation.
Several news outlets speculated on the unfolding events with inaccurate information. On April 17, CNN reported that authorities had arrested a suspect in but the scoop turned out to be false. The next day, the front page of The New York Post misidentified a local high school runner as a suspect.
BPD's 148 tweets during the crisis had a matter-of-fact tone that provided useful information about the unfolding events. Here are some examples: "Two bomb sweeps made prior to marathon," "176 people went to area hospitals" and "No signs of imminent threat, FBI says."
The BPD asked followers to be vigilant and to report any tips, video or photos that would help with the investigation. After three days without any suspects in custody, the FBI released videos and stills of two suspects, later identified as brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The BPD also tweeted the images, which thousands of followers retweeted to their social networks.
It tweeted three additional photos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev throughout the day on Friday, April 19. The first, depicting a younger Dzhokhar, generated more than 20,000 retweets, while an updated one received more than 26,000 retweets; another photo of Dzhokhar in a hoodie from a convenience store surveillance video generated nearly 11,500 retweets.
However, BPD's Twitter feed did not report on all police activity, such as the chaotic and rapid succession of events beginning on April 18 at around 10:20 p.m., when the two suspects ambushed and killed an MIT campus security officer, then carjacked a Mercedes.
The owner of the car was able to flee unharmed, and a shootout with police followed. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed while Dzhokhar Tsarnaev escaped.
Instead of releasing specific details, the BPD issued precautionary tweets on the morning of Friday, April 19: "There is an active incident ongoing in Watertown. Residents in that area are advised to remain in their homes. More details when available." Another read: "#CommunityAlert: Door-to-door search 4 suspect in Watertown continues. Uniformed officers searching. Community consent critical." And an additional one said: "#MediaAlert: WARNING: Do Not Compromise Officer Safety by Broadcasting Tactical Positions of Homes Being Searched."
Throughout the tense night and following day, with Bostonians in virtual lockdown, the BPD continued to provide information, including a notice that the evening's Bruins and Red Sox games, the Big Apple Circus performance and a civil service test were postponed, and that the local transit authority and taxi service were suspended until further notice.
There were also messages of encouragement and condolences, such as: "#CommunityAlert: Chief Ed Deveau thanks Watertown residents for their exceptional patience & cooperation" and "The BPD extends thoughts and prayers to the family and friends of fallen hero and MIT Police Officer Sean Collier."
After the door-to-door search did not find Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the authorities had lifted the shelter-in-place order, the BPD tweeted more messages of encouragement, including community alerts from the news conference. One noted that Col. Alben of the State Police said, "the effort was there today; unfortunately the result wasn't" and another noted, "the search continues & the suspect will be caught. If you see the suspect call 9-1-1." BPD also posted a community alert via Mayor Tom Menino saying, "Together we will get through this crisis."
As the law enforcement news conference was ending, police were closing in on the suspect hidden in a boat parked in a backyard. BPD tweets asked residents in the Franklin Street area of Watertown to "shelter in place," followed by "Heavy police presence in area of Franklin St in Watertown. Residents remain inside."
Soon after, BPD tweeted the news: "Suspect in custody. Officers sweeping the area. Stand by for further info."
A few minutes later, at 8:58 p.m., it sent the following: "CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect is in custody," which Twitter users retweeted nearly 144,000 times.
Fiandaca says that Twitter was a valuable tool for managing the information and helped the BPD "connect directly with the community." The public information department responded to all requests as quickly as possible, she says, and its tweets as well as its followers' retweets built a cohesive community, reduced panic, engaged the public during the search for suspects and kept people safe.
The matter-of-fact tone and the attention to accuracy made the BPD an important and trusted source of news.
"We're not in the business of sensationalizing or trying to create emotions," Fiandaca says.
The goal with Twitter was to provide useful and accurate information that would encourage public safety.
So what's next? The BPD is redesigning its blog and website, developing a new mobile app and adding live chats with BPD members, such as the commissioner.
Fiandaca adds: "We'll be thinking of new ways to keep all the followers we gained."
Laura Kane says:
Awesome job! This is an excellent use of social media and makes me very proud of our profession.
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This reinforces how proud I am to work in PR! Great job Cheryl!
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The good news from the event is that residents near the Fukushima Daiichi plant weren't exposed to high levels of radiation. The bad news is that some plant workers may have been exposed to higher levels, and the plant itself sustained serious damage. Three of its reactor cores probably ruptured, and cracks reportedly surfaced on the outside of the four-foot-thick concrete containment walls.
"There are two ways to look at it," James F. Stubbins, a professor of nuclear, plasma, and radiological engineering at the University of Illinois, told Design News. "You could say it's a once-in-400-year event, so maybe the actions of the designers could be understood. On the other hand, there could have been better preparation."
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In retrospect, it also appears that plant officials could have reacted to the emergency more expeditiously. "There should have been more planning for events beyond their design specs," Stubbins told us. "They wasted a lot of time when they could have been pumping seawater. Management didn't want to ruin the reactors."


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Sigh. I suppose it's normal that my first post in a few weeks here would be about Facebook.
So, some dude set up a mischievous fake Facebook profile for some other dude in London, and ended up having to pay £22,000 in damages for libel and breach of privacy.
A businessman whose personal details were "laid bare" in fake entries on the Facebook social networking website has won a libel case at the High Court.
Mathew Firsht was awarded £22,000 in damages against an old school friend, Grant Raphael, who created the profile.
I'm not exactly sure how much £22,000 equals in real money, but I think the conversion process in my head puts it hovering somewhere near a gazillion dollars.
Why is this
semi somewhat passingly important?
Well, for one, the medium in question here isn't some vague nebulous cloud like "The News" or "TV" or "A Tabloid" or "The Internet" - it's Facebook Inc. That means that Facebook itself now has so much pull and acceptance as a media presence - even though the Facebook network itself is a closed one, invisible and inaccessible to non-members - that its hyper-dynamics are every bit as relevant as the entirety of television or radio. So there you have it - Facebook is now the media.
Of course, it has been for a while. But what's even super-suckier is that the slide towards monopolistic media consolidation has become so subversive that everyone - even so-called liberals / progressives - champion Facebook (and every other gated-community social networking corporation) blindly as "a good thing" that will do more good than harm, when it has already proven to be quite the opposite. Of course, these are the same people who think that Twitter is going to change the world for the better, that OLPCs are going to improve education in developing nations, and that iPhones make our lives easier and better. To put it politely, I'm not overly concerned about what these people think.
Anyway, I have to give props / knuckles to the High Court for even taking the case seriously to begin with, much less actually seeing it through. I imagine far too many legal scenarios would involve the judge saying something akin to "But it's just the Internet - it's not real! Case dismissed." He'd be right of course, but I'm happy about this ruling because it sheds light - albeit a dim one - that the shit you put online (namely, on Facebook) can affect the shit that happens in your real life in a very, umm, real way. The lesson here, I believe, is:
Thou shalt not create fake profile of frenemies on Facebook wherein thyst calleth said frenemies liars, crooks and douche-a-bags.
More hilarity ensues at the end of that article, which has a link to another article entitled "Vanishing Act - How to disappear without a trace - legitimately".
Well, Beebs, for starters, you might want to close your effin' Facebook account. ;)
£22,000 is about $44,000
£22,000 is about $44,000 US
Thanks - I was being
Thanks - I was being flippant. :|


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Restoring a Corvette to the nth degree is the ultimate goal of most Vette devotees, but to some, drop-dead gorgeous just isn't good enough. In our search for the world's most eye-pleasing '73 Corvette (hey, we have some pretty esoteric tastes), we were led to Helotes, Texas, where Jeff Lilly Restorations had just completed an astonishingly complete frame-off restoration of a Mille Miglia Red '73 Stingray.
"Owner Rich Wilson had driven 'Red' around for many years with many memories, and it had 41,000 original miles on its odometer when it arrived at my shop," Lilly says. "I asked him the history of the car, and he said he bought it new, it was his very first Corvette, and he had a sentimental attachment to it."
With an output rating of just 190 hp, the base '73 Vette was far from the kind of fire-breathing musclecar exemplified by its LT-1 and LS5/6 predecessors. But what the newer model lacked in power, it more than made up for in increased popularity. A total of 30,464 Corvettes were produced that year, an increase of 3,460 units over the previous 12-month span.
The '73 Vette resembled its earlier C3 siblings, though with a few important differences. For the first time ever, GM installed a body-colored, urethane-covered aluminum safety bumper designed to handle up to 5-mph front-end impacts. Also engineered for the car were a domed hood, steel guard-beam doors, a fixed rear window, new chassis mounts, air-duct-type front fender vents, a coolant-recovery system that allowed overflow coolant to recirculate back into the radiator, and improved sound dampening.
Two performance upgrades were available in 1973. The first was the L82 350ci engine, a new, $299 option that boosted the Vette's output to 250 hp. The second was the LS4 454ci big-block, rated at 275 hp. Wilson's Corvette received the L82 engine, making it one of 5,710 Corvettes thus equipped for the model year.
To begin the restoration, Lilly removed the Vette's body from its frame. Then, he steam-cleaned the chassis and fiberglass shell separately, removing 35 years of oil, grease, dirt, and other contaminants. His next step was to blast the fiberglass to a bare shell with plastic media. "There were hundreds of small cracks in the body that needed repairing. She was a decent car to start with, but still pretty rough," he recalls.
Lilly stripped the chassis, removing the drivetrain and the original suspension components, then media-blasted the frame with aluminum oxide. After priming, sanding, and painting the frame, he wrapped it with several layers of plastic for protection and lowered the fiberglass shell back onto it. Once the new body mounts were installed, it was time to move on to the bodywork.
Once the body was straight, Lilly used Glasurit paints to recreate the Vette's original hue, laying down six coats each of base and clear before color-sanding. "There's only one way to ensure color-sanding is dead-on," Lilly says. "We view the car inside a building with overhead fluorescent lights approximately 10 feet from its body. If the outer edges of the reflection of the light on the body are perfectly straight, the car is color-sanded correctly. If there are waves in the outer edges of the image's reflection, the color-sanding was not done effectively. This is called 'paint flutter,' and our goal was to make sure there was none of it on this Corvette."
At that point, Lilly removed the plastic protecting the frame and reassembled the restored suspension components. These included unequal-length A-arms, coil springs, and a stabilizer bar up front, along with trailing arms, toe links, and an antiroll bar for the rear. The only mods include better-handling Bilstein shocks at all four corners and a fiberglass transverse leaf spring.
An owner-requested engine rebuild allowed Lilly to reuse the engine's crank and connecting rods, along with new TRW 0.010-over cast pistons. Other engine specifics include Chevy No. 330545 cylinder heads featuring 76cc combustion chambers, 1.5-ratio stamped-steel rockers, 2.02/1.60-inch steel valves, a compression ratio of 9.0:1, and a factory-spec replacement cam. For spark, A PerTronix HEI distributor was chosen to supplant the Vette's original dual-point distributor, while the original (though rebuilt) Rochester Q-jet and factory cast-iron intake were charged with dictating the distribution of fuel to the cylinders. Up top, a K&N unit took on filtration duty within the Corvette's original air-cleaner assembly.
The remainder of the powertrain retains mostly original components as well. An OE-style clutch, an M21 close-ratio four-speed, a factory driveshaft, and a 3.36-geared rearend complete the configuration. Although "Red" originally shipped with 15x8-inch Rallyes wrapped in GR70x15 radials, the car now shows off 17x8-inch Vintage Cobra wheels matched to Goodyear Eagle 245/55VR17 rubber. Front and rear braking is directed by SSBC Force Ten calipers clamping 11.75-inch GM rotors.
The Dark Red interior is stock appearing, using a plethora of NOS pieces along with OE-reproduction leather seat covers, carpeting, and door panels from Al Knoch.
According to Lilly, the goal of the restoration was to bring both longevity and additional beauty to the '73. "I built it to withstand the test of time," he says. "We had to put a lot of time into the fit to make sure all of the gaps were exactly 3/16 inch. An average person overlooks factory imperfections, but this car had to be as close to perfect as humanly possible. Fit and finish are what you look for when you critique a show car, and that's what we accomplished with this Corvette."
Spending several thousand hours of work on a high-production '73 Corvette may seem extreme to some, but as Lilly explains, the car owner's motivation went beyond practical concerns: "I think many people are concerned about cost, but when there's sentimental attachment to a car, quality becomes the first priority," he says. "This Corvette is the owner's baby-it's a family member to him, and because of that, he wanted the ultimate restoration for it."
For more details on the '73's build, as well as photos from before, during, and after its restoration, visit www.jefflilly.net.


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No I did not miss that. I have shot large format for years and know perfectly well about the use of hyperfocal focus setting.Reportage involves a lot more than shooting acceptably sharp at infinity with the camera set to hyperfocal point.
Intgeresting, and I'm not going to argue with or question any of that. An alternative view...CoC gets a lot of time on the net but personally I think that for many it's a non issue or at best a red herring. For it to be crucial I suppose we'd need to start by knowing the image size and the viewing distance but these days many people never actually print the vast majority of their images and I bet rarely view at the image size and distance to make the numbers as pure and correct and vital as the internet would have us all believe that they are.Personally I solve these issues by ignoring the whole CoC thing. To me it's an irrelevance or at least has only been an issue once in my life, when producing artwork for a stage play. When doing something like that it does matter (people sat at the back wont see small detail at the back of the stage) and the CoC could be into inches but it's never ever mattered to me in my decades of taking pictures with cameras. All I care about is that the hardware I use is capable of producing the detail that I want at an image size bigger than I'll ever print. My current gear does that. My 5Dc and lenses seem to be ok, they were designed to work together so that's no surprise, and my G1 is ok too even when ignoring the new sharp lenses designed for MFT (x2 crop, smaller CoC, sharper lenses, more image magnification etc) and going with old manual Rokkor and Zuiko lenses. I'm sure that throws the numbers out but it doesn't seem to matter, not to me anyway.Anyway, front to back DoF. Unfortunately I think that it probably does as much damage as good. Personally I think that being selective with focus and letting it drift rather than aiming for a fudge from front to back produces a more natural looking result, but of course we do have to keep in mind some guesstimation of what the final image size and viewing circumstance will be... but I'm not going to get tied up in CoC calculations. Plus there are many who seem to strive for near to infinity "sharpness" when their scene doesn't need it. This is another thing that we see on the net IMVHO, people using setting gleamed from DoF tables that result in a DoF that exceeds their scene. Then there's the Merklinger method, easier to deal with if you don't want to either memorise or carry DoF tables.Having got all that off my chest... I often focus on my main subject. I often shoot with shallow DoF. I often shoot with the intent that my image will look more or less natural and as the eye sees it with things in the distance being less defined than things in the foreground. I also tend to ignore diffraction, a boost to contrast and fiddling with levels and saturation post capture seems to hide the nasties well enough if and when I decide that small apertures are required and no one has ever said to me anything like "That shots ruined by diffraction" or "What's your CoC here?"Sorry about all that
I have two issues with hyperfocal shooting and neither of those is absolute.1) If you calculate hyperfocal distance the calculation will assume some CoC. What I have seen, critically sharp images would require a small CoC. In my experience I would say that setting the CoC equal to pixel pitch is needed for optimal sharpness. 2) If we use a to large CoC we get into a situation where almost nothing is really sharp. Infinity will not be in correct focus and neither will foreground be perfectly sharp.
BTW, setting the CoC to pixel pitch simply is defining the depth of the plane of focus. That is not DoF.
Hi,But of course it is DoF, although personally I use 1.5x sensel pitch because when the CoC reaches that diameter I can see microcontrast starting to suffer. This is the perfect parameter to calculate Focus Stacking intervals, IOW DoF.Cheers,Bart
Only for pixel peeping. That is not a real world viewing condition. Naturally, the problem comes up that given the same shooting conditions and optics, a given format will have different DoF just because the sensor is divided into more or less units. Naturally, that is false.BTW, a CoC value does not change micro contrast. It actually does nothing to the image. CoC is simply modeling perception. You have a model for 100% monitor view and your personal taste.
CoC means circle of confusion. DoF tables are calculated based on maximal permitted CoC. That means that close and far DoF limits will be rendered with the CoC used as parameter, but somewhere in between there will be zone with much smaller CoC.
On a very high performance system a point will be rendered as a point in the focal plane. If the image is defocused the point will not any longer be rendered as a point but as disk. The diameter of the disk is CoC.
Is 1/width of the PSF more or less a Gaussian function of distance from the focal plane? Such that focus setting and aperture size are its two parameters?
When doing focus stacking (typically merging several shots of larger aperture, with smaller PSF in each focal plane), do you typically end up with a more rectangular function? (within some range, everything is really sharp, outside that range sharpness falls of more rapidly).
At the same time, I don't understand why anyone would routinely shoot smaller than f/11 with the likes of a D800.


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