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I wanted to love Spacca Napoli. I really did. Having taken massive amounts of grief for allegedly dissing deep dish Chicago pizza by characterizing it as "at best, a good casserole" in my book Pizza: Slice of Heaven, I was hoping to swoon over Jon Goldsmith's VPN-certified pizzeria in the Windy City and put Spacca Napoli in my pizza pantheon. The friend I met there, Andrew Huff, founder of Gaper's Block, compared Spacca Napoli to Pizzeria Bianco. High praise, indeed, coming from a fellow as smart as Andrew.
I met Andrew there at 2:30 p.m. The day before, serious eater Michael Nagrant had taken me on a phenomenal tour of Chicago (more about that in a future post) that featured the cemita and the huarache of my dreams and the best Sicilian sweets I have ever tasted, so I thought I could continue my Chicago eats hot streak at Spacca Napoli.
I ordered one pie with bufala mozzarella (above) and another with fior di latte and sausage. I wandered around the place waiting for my pizzas and Andrew.
The pizzas arrived at my table just as Andrew showed up. They looked like typical VPN pizza: inch-high crust, dots of high-quality mozzarella, simple canned Italian tomatoes, fresh basil leaves, and a little extra-virgin olive oil. I wished the cornicione was higher, but maybe I'm nit-picking here.
I took a bite of the sausage pizza. The sausage was good, and the cheese was creamy, but the crust had no exterior crispness. In fact, it was downright limp. It was the pizza equivalent of what happens when all the air is let out of a bike tire. What had done this to my pizza? I could say it was the hot and ultra-humid weather, but the dining room was plenty cool. Even the open kitchen appeared to be air-conditioned.
Now, don't get me wrong. They were both fine pizzas, and I would be happy eating at Spacca Napoli every day. The bufala mozzarella was wonderfully tangy and had the slight sourness I love in the bufala mozzarella I eat in this country. I would even be ready to proclaim Spacca Napoli's greatness and shout it out to the world if I hadn't experienced true pizza greatness at Pizzeria Bianco and Una Pizza Napoletana. That kind of pizza greatness requires that the crust have a crisp exterior and give way to tender insides.
Spacca Napoli is pizza goodness, not pizza greatness. Sorry, Chicago. As the Cookie Monster would say, it's good, but it's not delicious. Another artisanal pizzeria, Great Lakes, opened a few weeks ago in Chicago. I tried to eat there with Mike Nagrant after our little Mexican food sojourn, but it was closed. I'll try to get there my next visit, which should be soon. After all, I love everything about Chicago except the pizza.
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American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten has announced that she'll call for the end of using "value added" measures as a component in teacher-evaluation systems.
Politico first reported that the AFT is beginning a campaign to discredit the measures, beginning with the catchy (if not totally original) slogan "VAM is a sham." We don't yet know exactly what this campaign will encompass, but it will apparently include an appeal to the U.S. Department of Education, generally a proponent of VAM.
Value-added methods use statistical algorithms to figure out how much each teacher contributes to his or her students' learning, holding constant factors like student demographics.
In all, though, Weingarten's announcement is less major policy news than it is something of a retreat to a former position.
When I first interviewed Weingarten about the use of test scores in evaluation systems, in 2008, she said that educators have "a moral, statistical, and educational reason not to use these things for teacher evaluation."
Two years later, Weingarten stated in a well-covered speech that student test scores could be appropriate if they measured growth in learning and were coupled with other measures. A few AFT affiliates, in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Hillsborough County, Fla., planned or started to use VAM; a few others selected non-VAM approaches but also started looking at gauges of learning.
So what accounts for this reversal?
Weingarten told Politico that the situation in the District of Columbia, in which a contractor goofed more than 40 teachers' scores, resulting in one being terminated, was essentially the straw that broke the camel's back. On Twitter, she cited research papers that have found the VAM estimates to be quite volatile from year to year. Although most states and districts are coupling the VAM estimates with other measures, Weingarten contends that "in the trenches" the test scores have dominated the systems. And, of course, many affiliates have pushed back against evaluation systems based on these, as in Florida, where teachers were furious about the fact that some of the calculations were based on students they didn't teach.
There are also the tricky rubber-hitting-the-road details, as in Pittsburgh, where the union has petitioned against the cutoff scores set on the evaluation system, which would result in approximately 9 percent of teachers getting the lowest rating over the current 3 percent, according to the Post-Gazette. (Just what that percent ought to be is a conceputal question with no firm answer.)
Weingarten's decision is probably not really a spur-of-the-moment one. It's been bolstered by an increasing anti-testing sentiment within the union. In 2012, the AFT consequently passed a resolution opposing many uses of tests and began a media campaign to the same end. Last summer, it issued a report on overtesting.
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The majority of Friday's running took place on a wet track, with only a small window in the morning allowing for slicks before the circuit required full wets later in the afternoon. Grosjean said the conditions gave him a chance to work on any issues the team had experienced when it rained last year and that it was now in a better position as a result.
"Last year it's not a secret that we were really struggling in the wet," Grosjean said. "Today we have been trying to work on it and trying to understand and it seems to be better. At least we've done some laps in the wet, which I hadn't done last year; I spun very early in the race in Malaysia and then we had only two qualifying I think in the wet so it wasn't much. So that was good and I think the baseline seems to be reasonable.
"In the wet you're never 100% comfortable when you drive at 200kph in a straight line, but it's better than last year. Still some work to do, to be honest, but it seems to be working better."
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"The Hunger Games" novelist Suzanne Collins has a new book coming out next year.
The multimillion-selling children's author has completed an autobiographical picture story scheduled for Sept. 10, 2013, Scholastic Inc. announced Thursday. The 40-page book will be called "Year of the Jungle," based on the time in Vietnam served by Collins' father, a career Air Force officer.
"Year of the Jungle" is her first book since 2010's "Mockingjay," the last of "The Hunger Games" trilogy that made Collins an international sensation. More than 50 million copies of the "Hunger Games" books are in print and the first of four planned movies has grossed more than $600 million worldwide since coming out in March.
Collins' next project will be intended for ages 4 and up, a younger audience than those who have read, and re-read, her dystopian stories about young people forced to hunt and kill each other. But "Year of the Jungle" will continue, in a gentler way, the author's exploration of war. James Proimos, an old friend from her days as a television writer who helped persuade Collins to become a children's author, illustrated the book.
"For several years I had this little wicker basket next to my writing chair with the postcards my dad had sent me from Vietnam and photos of that year. But I could never quite find a way into the story. It has elements that can be scary for the audience and it would be easy for the art to reinforce those. It could be really beautiful art but still be off-putting to a kid, which would defeat the point of doing the book," Collins, 50, said in a statement released by Scholastic.
"Then one day I was having lunch with Jim and telling him about the idea and he said, 'That sounds fantastic.' I looked at him and I had this flash of the story through his eyes, with his art. It was like being handed a key to a locked door. So, I just blurted out, 'Do you want to do it?' Fortunately he said 'Yes.'"
"How could I refuse?" Proimos said in a statement. "The idea she laid out over burritos and ice tea during our lunch was brilliant and not quite like any picture book I had ever come across. The writing is moving and personal. What Suzanne does so well here is convey complicated emotions through the eyes of a child."
According to Scholastic, "Year of the Jungle" will tell of a little girl named Suzy and her fears after her father leaves for war. She wonders when he'll come back and "feels more and more distant" as he misses family gatherings. He does return, but he has changed and his daughter must learn that "he still loves her just the same."
Collins has said before that she wanted to write a book about her father. In a 2010 interview with The Associated Press, she explained that her father was a trained historian who made a point of discussing war with his family.
"I believe he felt a great responsibility and urgency about educating his children about war," she said. "He would take us frequently to places like battlefields and war monuments. It would start back with whatever had precipitated the war and moved up through the battlefield you were standing in and through that and after that. It was a very comprehensive tour guide experience. So throughout our lives we basically heard about war."
Scholastic also announced Thursday that "Catching Fire," the second "Hunger Games" book and originally released in 2009, is coming out in June as a paperback.
The paperback edition usually comes within a year of the hardcover, but "Catching Fire" had been selling so well that Scholastic waited. "Mockingjay" has yet to be released as a paperback.
Next summer, Collins' five-volume "The Underland Chronicles," published before "The Hunger Games," will be reissued with new covers.
"`The Underland Chronicles,' with its fantasy world and 11-year old protagonist, Gregor, was designed for middle readers," Collins said in a statement. "The 'Hunger Games' trilogy features a teen narrator, Katniss Everdeen, and a stark dystopian backdrop for the YA (young adult) audience. 'Year of the Jungle' attempts to reach the picture book readers by delving into my own experience as a first grader with a father deployed in Vietnam."


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Taxable-bond funds continued to dominate fund inflows, according to Morningstar data released Monday, raising the question: Is it 1999 for bond funds?
"The late 1990s equity and early 2000s housing markets were classic asset bubbles," said Morningstar editorial director Kevin McDevitt, CFA, in the report. "Whether the current bond market is on the same path is a matter of debate, but late-1990s equity-fund flows offer interesting comparisons with recent bond-fund inflows."
In April, taxable-bond funds collected nearly $17 billion in flows, down from last month's roughly $25 billion. Yet, taxable-bond funds have collected $96.9 billion in year-to-date inflows and are on track to match 2009's record $282.5 billion, according to Morningstar.
Across all fund types, long-term fund flows declined to $20.8 billion in March from $29.3 billion in April. Money-market funds lost $17.3 billion, as U.S-stock outflows rose to $9.3 billion.
The newly formed sector-stock asset class received about $560 million, says Morningstar, most of which went into real-estate funds. Diversified emerging-markets funds once again carried international-stock flows with $2.4 billion in new money.
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Looking at the absolute numbers, McDevitt says, "current bond-fund mania has eclipsed the late equity frenzy."
From 1995 to 2000, U.S.-stock funds collected $655 billion. Since early 2009, taxable-bond funds have amassed $728 billion. Plus, during that time, total taxable-bond assets doubled to about $2.2 trillion from $1.1 trillion.
Still, the Morningstar expert notes, "the vast majority of 1990s equity inflows likely came from new contributions rather than exchanges from other asset classes." And, unlike today, money-market flows remained positive during the late 1990s.
Much of the $728 billion in bond-fund inflows since January 2009 have come from investors "either abandoning equity funds or leaving money-market funds in search of higher yields," explains McDevitt.
In addition, the current rush into bond funds may be no more prudent than what occurred in the late 1990s, but it is at least "less speculative," the fund expert says.
"Fear, along with a desire for income, rather than greed seems to be the dominant emotion. An aging population and volatile equity markets have likely led some investors to cut back on equity exposure. At the other end of the spectrum, the Fed's zero-interest-rate policy has pushed savers reluctantly out of money-market funds and into bond funds in a desperate search for income," McDevitt said in the report.
Fund Families
Despite a recent $2 billion trading fiasco, JPMorgan "has been one of the more impressive growth stories in recent years" when it comes to funds, says Morningstar.
Over the past three years, the firm's asset base grew to $158 billion from $62.8 billion. And not just bond funds but actively managed equity funds—JPMorgan Large Cap Growth, JPMorgan Equity Income, and JPMorgan U.S. Equity—can take some credit for this achievement.
With about $158 billion in fund assets, JPMorgan trails Vanguard, PIMCO and T. Rowe Rice, while it is ahead of Dimensional Fund Advisors and DoubleLine.
Meanwhile, PIMCO Total Return led all funds with $2.7 billion in inflows; the fund's best monthly inflows since August 2010. DoubleLine Total Return's inflows have slowed in recent months, but the fund still absorbed $1.3 billion.


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Mountaire Farms, Inc., doing business as Mountaire Farms of North Carolina Corp., will pay $48,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a lawsuit for retaliation filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. Mountaire Farms is a Delaware-based agricultural food processing company that operates a poultry processing facility in Lumber Bridge, N.C.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Frantz Morette began working as a translator for a group of Haitian workers at Mountaire Farms' Lumber Bridge facility in December 2010. The EEOC's complaint alleged that Morette complained repeatedly to his supervisors and the human resources department that the Haitian workers were being treated poorly by Mountaire Farms' supervisors as compared to their non-Haitian coworkers. Morette told company management that supervisors often refused to allow the Haitian workers to take bathroom breaks while allowing non-Haitian workers to do so and refused to provide the Haitian workers with the training necessary for the higher-paying jobs at the facility. Morette also informed company management that the Haitian workers were often harassed by their non-Haitian supervisors and co-workers by having chickens and chicken parts thrown at them.
The EEOC's suit further alleged that sometime around Sept. 1, 2011, Morette notified one of the company's managers that a supervisor was refusing to allow a Haitian worker to take a restroom break while allowing other non-Haitian workers to do so. A few days later, Morette was fired, the EEOC said, in retaliation for his complaints.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which protects employees and applicants from retaliation for making complaints about discrimination. The EEOC filed suit on Aug. 28, 2013 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Southern Division (EEOC v. Mountaire Farms, Inc. d/b/a Mountaire Farms of North Carolina Corp., Civil Action No. 7:13-CV-00182) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
In addition to monetary damages, the two-year consent decree resolving the suit requires Mountaire Farms to revise its existing anti-discrimination policy to include procedures for reporting discrimination; give assurance that the company will protect the confidentiality of discrimination complaints to the extent possible; give further assurance that Mountaire Farms will not retaliate or take action against a person who makes a complaint about discrimination; and institute a procedure for investigating such complaints. Mountaire Farms will also post a copy of its anti-discrimination policy at all of its facilities and train its employees on anti-discrimination laws annually.
"It is of great concern to the EEOC when an employer fires an employee simply because he complained about unlawful conduct," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District Office. "The anti-retaliation provisions of Title VII are essential to the attainment of a workplace free of discrimination."
Eliminating policies and practices that discourage or prohibit individuals from exercising their rights under employment discrimination statutes, or that impede the EEOC's investigative or enforcement efforts, is one of six national priorities identified by the agency's Strategic Enforcement Plan.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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The senior horse population is, and has been, on the rise. But with increasing age comes the potential for health problems. So what are the best ways to ensure senior horses stay healthy all through their golden years?
Mary Rose Paradis, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVIM, an associate professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences at Tufts, in N. Grafton, Mass., shared the following tips on how to maintain senior horses' health.
"In the past 20 years, we appear to be seeing more horses over the age of 20 years in our hospital," Paradis said. "A small study indicated that from 1989 to 1999 we saw an almost sixfold increase in horses presenting with problems who were 20 years of age or older."
Paradis said that it can be difficult to determine if health problems seen in older horses are caused by age itself or by a disease process. Additionally, she said, "older horses have many of the same medical issues as young horses, but some conditions appear to increase with age."
She also noted that old horses appear to be more medicated than younger horses: "When owners were asked about the use of medications for chronic problems, 25% of old horses versus 6% of young horses were on regular medications," she said.
Nonetheless, "older horses can lead healthy lives into their 30s, particularly if care is taken to address the problems as soon as they're recognized," Paradis said. Thus, she recommends that aging horses should have annual or biannual veterinary geriatric assessments, which include:
- A thorough physical examination, focusing on body condition, dental wear, appetite, hair coat abnormalities, musculoskeletal stiffness or lameness, ophthalmic abnormalities, and cardiac health;
- Blood work, including a complete blood count, chemistry profile, adrenocorticotropic hormone levels, and insulin levels; and
- A fecal egg count.
Then, Paradis described some common health conditions in horses over 20 years of age and how to best manage them.
Gastrointestinal and Dental Problems
Paradis said that, in one study, colic was the most common reason for senior horses to be evaluated at a referral center, and another study showed that gastrointestinal lesions were the most common reason for death in horses 15 years or older.
Dental disease, Paradis said, likely plays a significant role in the development of colic and choke in older horses. A British study showed that "95% of the horses more than 15 years of age had dental abnormalities," she continued. "This was often overlooked by owners who reported that only 10% of their old horses had dental disease, and an additional 15% of owners reported that their horses exhibited quidding (dropping) of hay."
To attempt to reduce the incidence dental disease and related gastrointestinal problems, owners and veterinarians should monitor horses' dental health regularly but proceed with caution when problems arise.
"Radial correction of severe dental disease may not be effective in improving the animal's ability to eat forage," Paradis said. Instead, she recommended shortening overgrown and sharp teeth carefully to improve the horse's comfort, and changing the horse's diet as necessary.
Body Condition, Weight Loss, and Nutrition
Although many people associate aging with weight loss, Paradis said one study's results showed that 68% of horses 20 years or older had a moderate or good body condition score and 28% of horses were considered fat or very fat, while only 4% had a poor or very poor score. Thus, the researchers concluded that obesity is typically a bigger concern for aging horses than weight loss.
Should an older horse start to lose body condition, however, she recommended a veterinarian perform a diagnostic work up, as they would with younger horses, to identify the problem. Horses lose weight as a result of either decreased caloric intake or increased caloric needs.
"The caloric decreased intake in the older animal might be caused by a lack of good-quality feed, poor appetite secondary to a debilitating disease, poor dentition, maldigestion, and malabsorption," she explained. "Reasons an older horse may have an increased utilization of calories may be related to environmental cold, increased level of exercise (which is less likely), and increased catabolism (the body's breakdown of complex molecules, such as protein and fat, to simpler compounds) secondary to a debilitating disease."
Once the veterinarian and owner identify the cause of weight loss, they can implement feeding adjustments with the goal of increasing body condition.
Moving forward, Paradis touched on feeding senior horses: "Essentially, when dealing with healthy older horses, their nutritional requirements may not differ from that of the younger adult." Thus, the diet should be based around forage with supplemental concentrates as needed.
Paradis said many senior horse feeds contain a variety of important components for the aged horse's diet, including:
- Extruded ingredients to increase digestion;
- Pre- and probiotics to increase digestive flora;
- Higher fat concentrations to increase caloric intake;
- Higher protein concentrations to help maintain or build muscle mass; and
- Amino acids to aid in muscle maintenance, hair coat quality, and hoof quality.
Because dental problems often preclude senior horses from properly consuming and digesting long-stem forage, like hay, Paradis said many senior feeds are advertised as complete—meaning they're designed to be fed without additional forage.
However, Paradis said, "often feeding the geriatric horse comes down to feeding whatever they will eat. Horses with poor dentition will have problems with hay and whole grains. Alternative forages include grass, hays with minimal stem, and soaked hay cubes or haylage."
Paradis cautioned that the challenges with feeding senior horses arise when the horse has health problems requiring a specialized diet. Horses with obesity, equine metabolic syndrome, and insulin resistance, for instance, have specialized dietary requirements; how to feed such horses was beyond the scope of Paradis' lecture, but additional information can be found on TheHorse.com.
If questions arise about feeding a particular senior horse, contact a veterinarian or equine nutritionist for advice.
Musculoskeletal Disorders
Next, Paradis turned her attention to musculoskeletal disorders in senior horses. She said these problems were the second most common presenting complaint in one study, and lameness causes included laminitis (most in association with pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction, or PPID) and degenerative disease.
Additionally, she said, older horses were significantly more likely to consume long-term medications to treat musculoskeletal pain than younger horses.
"It is hypothesized that earlier injury to joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments set up the geriatric horse for progressive degenerative changes," she relayed.
Paradis offered the following recommendations for managing osteoarthritis-related and other musculoskeletal pain in older horses:
- Provide non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs judiciously;
- Increase mobility to reduce pain, and avoid stall rest;
- Modify the horse's training program so to not overtax his body's abilities;
- Work horses consistently, rather than infrequently or just on the weekends;
- Consider adding a nutriceutical, such as glucosamine-chondroitin sulfate, which has been shown to improve lameness grades, flexion test scores, and increase stride length; and
- Contemplate adding complementary therapies, such as acupuncture, chiropractic, or massage therapy, to the horse's health care regimen.
Respiratory Disorders
The third most common presenting complaint for geriatric horses was respiratory disease, Paradis said.
"Although recurrent airway obstruction (or RAO) or heaves is not restricted to old horses, age has also been determined to be a risk factor for RAO," Paradis said. In one study, 19% of older horses that were receiving medication were being treated for heaves, she noted.
RAO treatment centers on decreasing inflammation and bronchoconstriction (tightening of the airways), which can be accomplished via:
- Reducing environmental allergens, such as dust;
- Providing 24-hour turnout;
- Eliminating hay—which can contain dust—from the horse's diet;
- Improving ventilation if the horse must be stalled; and
- Administering oral or inhaled corticosteroids and bronchodilators.
Other Health Concerns
Paradis said ophthalmic problems and neoplasia (tumors) are also common health problems for senior horses.
"Although not commonly reported by owners, in a study by Ireland et al., 94% of horses more than 15 years of age had at least one abnormality identified by external ocular and ophthalmologic examination by a veterinary investigator," Paradis said. The most common ocular problems identified in aging horses were vitreous (the gel that fills the eyeball between the lens and the retina) degeneration, senile retinopathy (age-related non-inflammatory damage to the retina), and cataracts.
When it comes to neoplasia, both squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and melanoma incidence increase with age, Paradis said, which SCC being the most prevalent and melanomas mostly seen in grey horses.
"In one study of SCC, affected animals had a mean age of 16.5 years of age," she explained. SCC is most commonly seen in eye structures or in the genitals. If not caught early it can metastasize to the lymph nodes and result in more serious problems. Additionally, Paradis said that "approximately 80% of aged gray horses have evidence of external melanomas. These rarely metastasize, but in a study of central nervous system tumors, melanomas were the second most prevalent tumors and appear to be age-related."
End of Life Decisions
"The veterinarian is often asked when it is best to euthanize the older horse," Paradis said, despite the fact that this question doesn't have one, firm answer.
According to one study, the top six reasons for aged horse euthanasia were:
- Lameness;
- Colic;
- Chronic illness;
- Acute illness;
- Laminitis; and
- Bone fracture.
Factors that influenced euthanasia, she said, included a "hopeless" prognosis, veterinary advice, and poor quality of life.
Ultimately, the decision to euthanize a horse rests with the horse owner in consultation with their veterinarian and should be treated as an individual decision for each animal and situation.


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Razorbacks Stymie Wildcats In Big Win
Clarke paces Arkansas past Kentucky, 73-60
Coty Clarke had 14 points and 12 rebounds as Arkansas did its best to make a renewed case for a NCAA tournament bid with a convincing 73-60 win over Kentucky on Saturday.
Clarke also had six assists for the Razorbacks (18-11, 9-7 Southeastern Conference), who improved to 17-1 at home. Their only loss in Bud Walton Arena this season came to then-No. 6 Syracuse on Nov. 30, and they are now 33-4 at home under second-year coach Mike Anderson.
"A heck of an effort by our basketball team," said head coach Mike Anderson after the game. "I was concerned about how we would respond coming off a tough loss on the road at LSU, and I think we came out and we did what we normally do here. We defend it."
Marshawn Powell had 15 points and BJ Young added 13 for Arkansas, which snapped a two-game losing streak with the win.
Arkansas native Archie Goodwin led the Wildcats (20-9, 11-5) with 14 points, while Willie Cauley-Stein had 13 and Ryan Harrow 10.


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The 12 Most Popular Pets on the Web [WOOF]
Earlier this year, Facebook reported that 83 million accounts on its massive social site are fake. And 23 million of those accounts are non-human entities, such as animals.
While one out of 10 pets has a social media profile, there are a couple of pets that have claimed worldwide fame. The most famous cat on Twitter, @sockington, has more than 1.4 million followers. And you can't put together a list of famous social pets without mentioning Facebook's beloved Boo, who has more than 5 million Likes and counting.
But these animals' fame isn't limited to the interwebs. YouTube's favorite boxed cat Maru used his viral fame to land a starring role in a Uniqlo ad campaign.
Animal rescue charity SPANA rounded up the top social petworking stars in this meowsome infographic. Did they miss any of your favorite web pets? Tell us in the comments.


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Tennessee toddler shoots self in head by accident and lives
MANCHESTER, Tenn. -- Police in Manchester say a 3-year-old toddler accidentally shot himself in the head with a relative's gun, but was listed in stable condition at a Nashville hospital.
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Police said the toddler got the weapon and shot himself in the head, and the bullet penetrated the skull and exited.
He was conscious as he was flown to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and was listed in stable condition, according to the TV station.


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Fed up with the antics of State Senator Hiram Monserrate – which include abusing his girlfriend and holding the State Senate hostage last year by jumping ship and voting with Republicans – the Queens Democratic Party has decided to run a challenger in next year's primary: Assemblyman Jose Peralta.
Peralta is a well-liked polished Corona politician who has represented the area for several years now. He's also been a one-time political ally of Monserrate, and the pair often appeared in public together. Now, however, they're opponents, and we expect there is going to be a lot of dirty laundry aired out in the months before next September's primary. But why wait until next summer, the jabs and barbs have already started to fly!
Peralta was recently accused of funneling money from the Corona-Elmhurst Economic Development Corporation in a story printed in the Daily News, a story that Peralta alleges is false and planted by Monserrate himself.
In fairness, the paper trail that makes the case that Peralta skirted both laws governing non-profits as well as campaign contributions is confusing at best. We won't get into all of the specifics, but it does appear that if there was any impropriety on the part of Peralta, it was the result of innocent mistakes.
According to Peralta's chief accuser, Humberto Suarezmotta, a local community activist, the fact that the Corona-Elmhurst Economic Development Corporation is no longer in business and the sign on its 104th Street office has been taken down, is evidence that Peralta was breaking the law.
According to Peralta, the reason the corporation is no longer in operation is because its executive director recently underwent a major surgery, and the funds for the group – some of which came from Congressman Joseph Crowley – have been frozen until a new person can be found to lead the organization.
(Coincidentally, Congressman Joseph Crowley heads the Queens Democratic Party, which is challenging Monserrate, so it doesn't surprise us that his name was dragged into this as well.)
In an omen of things to come, we believe, Peralta wasn't shy about denouncing the allegations, as well as getting in a few hard jabs at Monserrate in the process. Here's a portion of his statement:
"This is all part of Hiram Monserrate's dirty bag of tricks to confuse his constituents. Recently he was on NY1 calling the victim of his domestic abuse 'drunk,' 'erratic,' and 'aggressive.' Now he shamefully wants to change the subject and obscure the fact that he is an abuser and unfit to hold office."
How many times do you think we are going to be reminded over the next year that Monserrate pled guilty to abuse?
Monserrate and Peralta have been on the political scene together for a long time and used to be fairly tight, and if there is dirty laundry and skeletons in the closet you can be sure that each knows plenty about the other one.
And if this story, which seems inconsequential at best, is any indication, the gloves are going to come off real soon, if they haven't already.


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Top Ten Emmy Red Carpet Fashion Moments
From best ripped-from-the-runway look to best use of a reptile accessory, The Wall Street Journal's Elizabeth Holmes recaps the best and worst Emmy Award red carpet fashion moments.
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Not sure if this has ever been discussed, but when I was playing the Spinners' "Truly Yours" CD recently, I came across a song entitled "I Want My Baby Back." It was a totally different song than Edwin Starr's probably better-known song with the same title.
That struck me as odd that Motown would have had two different songs with the same title. You would think that would cause issues with record-keeping, etc. Any ideas as to whether this was the only such occasion in the Motown catalog?


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Leviticus 20:13 King James Version (KJV)
13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
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Results from a Swedish study linked women's midlife stress to Alzheimer's disease later in life. The paper was published in the BMJ Open online medical journal. It was reported in the Washington Post and National Public Radio, and even received a brief mention on Saturday Night Live.
Weekend Update anchor Cecily Strong quoted the study and quipped that every woman in the world was destined to develop the disease. But the truth is both more complex and more comforting than that, said Utah State University researcher Maria Norton, who was a co-author on the paper.
The study used data collected in a longitudinal study of 800 women in Gothenburg, Sweden. The representative sample was interviewed about stressors in their lives in 1968, then followed over 38 years. The conclusion of the latest paper to spin off from this study was that a woman's midlife stress — like a death in the family, a divorce, or losing a job — "may have severe and long-standing psychological consequences."
Those who reported the most stress were 15 percent more likely to develop dementia, and 21 percent more likely to develop Alzheimer's.
Stress likely has long-term effects on people of both sexes and all ages, Dr. Norton said. That's the bad news. The good news is that people can also control many of the factors that contribute to AD.
Norton is an associate professor in the Family, Consumer and Human Development Department and a principal investigator at USU's Center for Epidemiologic Studies. Her role in writing the paper came during a three-week sabbatical in Sweden, where she worked with another of the paper's co-authors, Dr. Ingmar Skoog of Gothenburg University. (Skoog had been involved in USU's Cache Valley Memory Study in the 1990s.)
Dr. Lena Johansson of Gothenburg University was the study's lead author, and five additional researchers from Gothenburg University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden also joined the effort. The paper's eight collaborators examined the data collected from the Swedish study and worked to analyze it.
Researchers who began collecting that data in 1968 began their work long before Alzheimer's disease was a household term — but the researchers had the foresight to ask questions about potential stressors in the women's lives.
The latest findings from the Swedish study add to a growing body of research indicating stress can be associated with AD later in life.
But AD doesn't have just one cause. And while a number of risk factors are associated with a higher risk of AD — and some, like genetics, are outside a person's control — a lot of contributing factors can be controlled through lifestyle, Norton said.
Much of the advice will sound familiar: maintain a healthy weight, eat right, exercise, don't smoke. Norton said it also makes sense to learn how to deal effectively with stress, since stress hormones can actually damage the brain if it's constantly bathed in them.
Her current work continues to examine the association between stress and Alzheimer's disease.
Related links:
- BMJ Open article
- FCHD researcher's study results land in the Washington Post, NPR and Saturday Night Live
- For Middle-Aged Women, Stress May Boost Alzheimer's Risk
- A new study links stress in middle age with dementia later in life
- SNL Weekend Update
- USU Department of Family, Consumer and Human Development
- USU Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Contact: Maria Norton, firstname.lastname@example.com
Writer: JoLynne Lyon, 435-797-1463


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Our Fruit
The beautifully yellow bunches of Chiquita bananas you find at the store may seem a bit like babies did when you were young—they have magically appeared perfectly formed and ready for you to enjoy.
But it wasn't a stork who delivered your favorite yellow fruit. From hanging out with its bunch of friends in the heat to arriving perfectly ripe and ready for your plate, each Chiquita banana's story is an epic journey full of joy and mouthwatering fruit! Could there be anything better??


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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- FBL Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: FFG) will announce its third quarter 2012 earnings after the close of market on Thursday, November 1, 2012. The third quarter earnings release and financial supplement will be posted on the FBL Financial Group website (www.fblfinancial.com) at that time.
FBL Financial Group will hold a conference call to discuss third quarter 2012 earnings on Friday, November 2, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. ET. The conference call will be webcast live on the Internet. Investors and interested parties who wish to listen to the call on the Internet may do so at www.fblfinancial.com.
The call may also be accessed by telephone at (877) 317-6789. A transcript of the prepared comments from the call, as well as an audio replay, will be available shortly after the call on FBL Financial Group's website. An audio replay will also be available via telephone through November 16, 2012 by calling (877) 344-7529 and inputting code 10018873 when prompted.
About FBL Financial Group. FBL Financial Group is a holding company whose purpose is to protect livelihoods and futures. Its primary operating subsidiary, Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company, underwrites and markets a broad range of life insurance and annuities to individuals and businesses, which are distributed by multiline exclusive Farm Bureau agents. In addition, FBL manages all aspects of two Farm Bureau affiliated property-casualty insurance companies for a fee. FBL Financial Group, headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol FFG. For more information, please visit www.fblfinancial.com.
FBL Financial Group, Inc.
Kathleen Till Stange, 515-226-6780
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It seems to me that the undergraduates I teach have particular difficulty with proofs that involve reasoning about algebraic calculations that arise only theoretically. Since I have in mind doing some pedagogical/expository writing around this issue, I want to assemble for myself as many characteristic examples as I can.
I'll give two examples now, and more on demand if it turns out I haven't made myself clear.
1) The proof of the transcendentality of $\pi$ such as one finds in Baker's Transcendental Number Theory, involves a product of many factors, each corresponding to hypothetical conjugate of $\pi$, and leading to a sum having size exponential in the hypothetical degree of $\pi$, all this to set up an application of the fundamental theorem on symmetric polynomials.
2) The proof of the Bruck-Ryser theorem on finite projective planes involves using geometry to create a hypothetical identity and then doing repeated substitutions to reduce the number of variables.
Challenges to clearly illustrating the mechanism within these two proofs include counterfactual hypotheses (for contradiction) and exponential complexity. Many of my students simply have very little feeling for what the distributive law says beyond the multiplication of two binomials, so I have a particular interest on proofs that hinge on analyzing the result of products with many factors each of which has many summands.
Thanks in advance for all contributions. Please give citations for paradigmatic proofs rather then mentioning theorems only, by name or statement. Please, if in doubt, post, but I'm particular interested in important results within the reach of advanced undergraduates and/or beginning graduate students.


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Crime Prevention:
What Teens Can Do Against Terrorism
How Young People Can Help Their Communities to Prepare and Respond
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Teens have been involved in preventing crime for many years. They have worked with elders, peers, and children in settings ranging from neighborhood parks to schools to senior citizen centers to shopping malls. They have addressed subjects such as home and personal security, vandalism prevention, child abuse prevention, and drug prevention. They have proved their capacity and willingness to help. What can teens do about preventing and responding to terrorism and other civic emergencies? There's a lot!
You and Your Family
- Learn how to report crime or suspicious activities or situations, and report promptly and effectively.
- Make sure you know how to handle mail safely. Do not open any mail that looks suspicious; call local emergency authorities immediately. Help develop family action plans and take responsibility for updating them.
- Assist in gathering a family supply kit and keeping it fresh.
- Help identify "take with" items in event of an emergency evacuation.
- Identify any special needs you personally have for supplies and take responsibility for them. Learn CPR and first aid to help with medical emergencies.
- Help older relatives or neighbors who live in your area to prepare for emergencies.
Your Neighborhood
- Encourage your family to join or help start a Neighborhood Watch program in your community.
- Build up ties to neighbors and schoolmates. The better these relationships, the more likely you will successfully respond together to any emergency, which in turn makes you and your family safer.
- Learn how to report suspicious actions or situations promptly and effectively.
- Help organize clean-ups and fix-ups so that neighbors can more readily spot potential trouble.
- Get training in child care so you can help watch children while their parents work on prevention or recovery strategies.
- Enlist youth groups you belong to (religious, scouting, 4-H, or similar groups, to name a few) to help out in the neighborhood in emergencies. Get training as a group. Offer your computer skills to provide a neighborhood directory and an inventory of skills and assets that your neighbors are willing to share. Visit http://www.ncpc.org/topics/preparedness/ for more information.
- Help to conduct the neighborhood survey. Offer your help in developing a neighborhood plan for preventing and responding to emergencies. Gather a group of young people and identify ways in which you can assist in planning and in carrying out plans.
- If you have a special skill (perhaps you have volunteered in a hospital or worked at a police station as a volunteer), share it with your neighbors.
Your School
- Find out whether your school has a group of volunteer students to help out in emergency situations. If so, join up. If not, offer to help start such a group.
- Learn about school policies in different kinds of emergencies. In partnership with the faculty and administrators, help educate other students on how these policies work.
- If your school does not have an electronic security system with cameras and controlled access, suggest that one be installed.
- Start a School Crime Watch if your school does not already have one.
- Join with other students to become a Community Emergency Response Team. Ask your local fire department about training or visit www.fema.gov to learn more about these civilian volunteers who received specialized medical and emergency response training.
- Work out ways to help students discuss fears and concerns about emergency situations that arise while you are at school. Ask counselors about training peer counselors to help in emergency or tense situations.
- Work with younger students in your school and with students in lower level schools to help them understand emergency policies. Because you're a bit older, these children will often look up to you and listen to you. You could even become a mentor to one or two younger children.
- Develop student announcements, school newspaper inserts, bulletin boards, and other communications that help keep students (and others) up to date on homeland security issues, especially as they apply to your community.
- Energize student support for first responders through educational visits, fundraising drives, and discussions of procedures in place and issues confronted.
Your Community
- Speak with others who live outside your neighborhood about the importance of preparing intelligently for emergencies and how neighbors can work together. Offer to connect them with what's happening in your neighborhood so they can learn from your experience.
- Volunteer in hospitals, police stations, fire and ambulance stations, and similar primary response agencies. Use your talents and your willingness to work to pitch in for the whole community.
- Talk with youth groups about what your school or neighborhood has done or is doing to become better prepared to deal with emergencies.
- Offer to bring to other parts of the community programs you have developed for younger children.
- Use youth talent (anything from a basketball marathon to a battle of the bands) to raise funds for local emergency agencies.
- Sign up with the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, or another emergency-response organization as a volunteer.
- Speak up at public hearings for the needs and concerns of youth and children in emergency situations. Work with other young people to come up with a list of ways you can help and ways the community can help you.
- Sign up (if you are old enough, which depends on your area) as a volunteer firefighter, or attend a citizens' or a youth academy, if your police department offers one.
- Talk with youth groups and youth-serving organizations around the community about working together to help your neighborhoods and each other develop and sharpen emergency prevention and response skills.


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Thursday's Child: The Trip Journal
29 comments:
- Tasha said...
I love this idea, Beth. Thank you so much for sharing. I am going to snag this concept for trips when my children are just a little older. It must be wonderful to go back and get to remember your trips through your family's drawings and notes.
- September 22, 2011 at 8:51 AM
- Angela said...
I like the castle with the spires which look they belong in St. Petersburg. And no, it's not surprising that such a fabulous writer would put text in with her illustrations. :)
- September 22, 2011 at 8:55 AM
- GratefulPrayerThankfulHeart said...
What a treasure this journal is! Not just a recording of places you have visited but the precious growth of your children through their sweet drawings. What fun to revisit through their young eyes :)
- September 22, 2011 at 9:20 AM
- Jess said...
This is such a great idea and will be a treasure for your children's children too :) I always kept trip journals, but they were mostly full of exagerrated descriptions of any mishaps we had. Ah, memories :)
- September 22, 2011 at 9:29 AM
- Valerie Gamine said...
How adorable! I love "The Scream". :D
What a brilliant way to record a vacation, drawings speak volumes and they have so much more personality than photos.
- September 22, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- Joanne said...
I love using journals for specific purposes, and this one is beautiful. What a treasure chest filled with gems of your travels along with a document of your journey as a family.
- September 22, 2011 at 10:54 AM
- Heather said...
What a wonderful idea! Makes me wish I could start vacationing all over again.
- September 22, 2011 at 11:38 AM
- A.L. Sonnichsen said...
That is so wonderful! What a fantastic thing to be able to go back and re-experience all your trips. I AM impressed with your husband's drawing ability, too. :)
- September 22, 2011 at 2:34 PM
- Carol said...
So cool to look back and treasure such wonderful trips you took as a family and to see how your children have matured through the years through their drawings and writings. What a fantastic tradition, I love it.
- September 22, 2011 at 3:16 PM
- Barbara said...
Super idea, Beth. Wish I had thought of it when mine were little. The kids would have had great fun doing that.
I kept journals of my travels as I got older but now I go right to the computer and post trip info with photos. I guess those have become my "journals." But I still come home with lots of notes to remind me of things.
- September 22, 2011 at 3:20 PM
- Lorraine said...
Wonderful tradition! Great idea! These are special treasures that they will always have to look back on:)
- September 22, 2011 at 8:32 PM
- Julie said...
I love the idea of a journal! We had a summer lake house a few years ago and I kept a journal. Such fun memories.
- September 22, 2011 at 9:16 PM
- laurie said...
Thats really a great idea!
- September 22, 2011 at 10:17 PM
Oh my word! Mom made Billy and I keep journals of all of our family vacations and we had so much fun doing them, but now we have so many of them. I love the idea of consolidating an entire family worth of memories into one book and continuing it as an ongoing story. Thank you for sharing this wonderfully practical, extremely touching idea!
- September 22, 2011 at 10:39 PM
- Belinda said...
Those pictures are too precious! This is the best travel journal.
- September 22, 2011 at 11:11 PM
- Miriam said...
How wonderful, to visit beautiful places :), Miriam@Mealtess Meals For Meat Eaters
- September 23, 2011 at 12:48 AM
- Liz That Skinny Chick Can Bake said...
How fabulous!!! I love that you all joined in this tradition. How I wish I could turn back the clock and do this, too...I think this is the best keepsake ever :)
- September 23, 2011 at 7:46 AM
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- September 23, 2011 at 2:46 PM
- Cindy said...
I do love journals, I have several going right now. Love the kids take on life. I think my grandchildren are getting journals for christmas.
- September 23, 2011 at 5:45 PM
- Elaine said...
How precious! This is a wonderful tradition, Beth. Thank you for sharing it with us.
- September 23, 2011 at 9:07 PM
- Sue said...
What a priceless treasure! In my closet I actually have the trip journal(I was in charge of it)from when I was 11 and we went from CA to MA. Not nearly as inpressive as yours, but it does provide a few laughs now and then:)
- September 23, 2011 at 11:31 PM
Really neat! I have a little book I take and make notes each day of a trip. I don't think I've ever drawn a picture though. I think I need to challenge myself to do that next time!
- September 24, 2011 at 9:49 AM
- Mary said...
This is a wonderful tradition! I am going to do this with my kids now. I love it!!
- September 24, 2011 at 9:52 AM
- Monet said...
What a wonderful idea, my sweet friend! I love reading all these different trips and memories. It makes me excited about when Ryan and I have kids of our own! Thank you for sharing, as always...you warm my heart!
- September 24, 2011 at 11:43 PM
- Janet Johnson said...
How fun is that? What a great tradition! I may have to borrow from you (again!). :D
- September 25, 2011 at 10:19 AM
- Kirsten from http://ComfortablyDomestic.com said...
What a fantastic idea! I've never kept a travel journal, however I do keep a food journal. Surprised? We will definitely start the travel journal tradition on our next vacation.
- September 25, 2011 at 11:09 PM
- shaz said...
On our first real big family holiday recently, I started a trip journal too! What a coincidence to come over here and read about yours. My girls didn't write in the journal as we went along (too tired after a day of sightseeing), I just left spaces for them to draw and write when they felt like it, I'm sure they'll love looking back on this in the years to come.
- September 27, 2011 at 8:22 AM
What a cool idea. These drawings are just as precious as photos taken during a trip.
- September 29, 2011 at 4:47 AM
- nancy at good food matters said...
as someone who started out as a visual artist before venturing into the culinary arts, I applaud these travel journals. You've encouraged such creativity! I love all the drawings. Especially the totem.
- September 30, 2011 at 4:51 PM


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TEMPE, Ariz. -- Albert Pujols didn't sound concerned that his offseason right knee surgery would impact his ability to get ready for the regular season, but he'll be navigating through Spring Training more cautiously this year.
Pujols arrived to the Tempe Diablo Stadium facility on Tuesday, three days prior to the first full workout, and has been taking batting practice alongside Josh Hamilton. For now, though, he isn't doing much running.
"Just really taking it easy and just working my way into it," Pujols said. "My main goal is to try to be ready by Opening Day. It's not for Spring Training. Spring Training, obviously, you get your work and everything done. But one thing is we have plenty of time, so I'm not going to rush myself or take this injury into the season. I feel great right now."
Pujols' arthroscopic knee surgery, done early in the offseason, stems from running the bases in Fenway Park on Aug. 22. He missed the next four games, started the next 16 at designated hitter and didn't quite feel right the rest of the way.
"You saw how I played the last six or seven weeks of the season -- I was in a lot of pain," Pujols said. "Everything is good. I rehabbed well. This Spring Training will be different than last year, where I was doing everything. Right now, I'm kind of easing in."


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Delta Air Lines is launching its own version of "Top Chef" with a competitive culinary show that will be aired in-flight and award the winner the chance to help create the carrier's menu.
In partnership with Food & Wine magazine, the US carrier has announced plans to produce an original video series called "The Cabin Pressure Cook Off: The Search for the Next Delta Chef," which will pit four award-winning chefs against each other.
The collaboration is meant to help mark the 25th anniversary of the publication's Best New Chefs awards. All four contenders -- Hugh Acheson, Linton Hopkins, Kelly English, and George Mendes -- are past recipients of the award.
Acheson helms Empire State South in Atlanta; Hopkins comes from Restaurant Eugene also in Atlanta; English helms Restaurant Iris in St. Louis and Mendes is chef of Aldea in New York.
The new chef will work alongside Delta's culinary team to develop the new in-flight menu. The original series will be modeled after cooking show competitions, presenting chefs with culinary challenges which will be judged by the carrier's cooking team -- celebrity chef Michael Chiarello, Michelle Bernstein and sommelier Andrea Robinson -- in addition to Food and Wine publisher Christina Grdovic.
The series will launch in October, airing on the carrier's in-flight entertainment system, as well as on delta.com and foodandwine.com.
It isn't the first time an airline has opened up their in-flight menu planning to the public. Earlier this year, Cathay Pacific also invited fans to submit a noodle recipe that would be served to passengers traveling between North America and Hong Kong.
San Francisco's Don Hoang's recipe of soy grilled chicken with blackened jantaboon noodles served with rice wine vinaigrette grabbed top honors and will be featured on select flights between six North American gateways.


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Google is fearlessly trudging on with its Chromebook push in the education market. The company announced on Friday that there are now 2,000 schools using Chromebooks for Education around the world. Just three months ago, there were 1,000 schools, showing an impressive adoption rate so far.
As part of the milestone, Google offered a list of schools that recently joined the Chromebook camp:
- Transylvania County Schools in rural North Carolina deploying 900 devices.
- St.Thomas Aquinas High School in Florida going one-to-one with 2,200 devices.
- Rocketship Education in the Bay Area of California using 1,100 Chromebooks.
Unfortunately, Google likely chose to list the schools taking on large numbers of Chromebooks, so it's unfair to say each school is adopting about a thousand devices. For all we know, some may be just rolling out a hundred or even less as a test run.
It would be great if Google could break out actual Chromebook numbers in the education market, but that might be asking for too much. Nevertheless, the company may one day offer up a milestone, say when there's 1 million devices being used by schools.
The education segment aside, Chrome OS is gaining attention from more and more manufacturers. In 2012, only Samsung and Acer were on board. This year it looks like we'll see that list rapidly expanding, with two new entrants revealed just last month.
First, Lenovo joined the fray with its education-focused ThinkPad Chromebook, available to schools from February 26. The 11.6-inch device will be powered by an Intel processor, feature an anti-glare display with a 1366 x 768 resolution, offer three USB ports, a webcam, and a 6-cell battery.
At the same time, details of an HP Chromebook also leaked out in January. The device will have a 14-inch display, a 16GB solid-state drive, a 1.1GHz Intel Celeron Processor 847, 2GB of memory, and more than four hours of battery life per charge.
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DreamScape Design Philosophy
Don Hopkins
Kaleida Labs
is an open ended interactive multimedia simulation environment for ScriptX, also known as an
Actualized Fantasy Screen Waster
(not to be confused with a Virtual Reality Screen Saver). The
DreamScape Demo
given at the Apple World Wide Developer Conference flies through its many features.
These are some of the concepts around which DreamScape was designed.
Constructive Experience.
Open ended set of tools, rules, and resources that you can use together in creative ways, resulting in both predictable and unexpected behaviors.
Nurturing Environment.
As opposed to a Killer App. Provide creative people with fertile ground in which to plant their seeds.
Dynamic Extensibility.
Author new rooms and parts on a regular basis, that people can plug together and dynamically load at run time.
Distributed Multimedia Publishing.
Distribute suites of plug-in rooms and parts on-line, by using KMP as a WWW Helper Application. Distribute bulky media on CDROM or via FTP, that is referred to by light weight up-to-date plug-in parts published regularly on Web servers.
Transparent User Interface.
Content is more important than control panels.
Direct Manipulation.
Graphical representation, intuitive response to input, modeless, continuous feedback.
Multithreaded Animation.
Everything on the screen is happening at once. You don't have to click, stop, and wait for an animation to finish before doing something else.
Gestural Interaction.
pie menu
"flicking" gesture for moving between rooms, connecting and disconnecting maps. Throwing gesture to move objects around dynamically. Painting tools effected by gestures. Butterfly and robot apply gestures to the parts they're holding, in the same way you do when you drag them around.
Navigation Metaphor.
Consistent two way links, maintained by the editable map view, so you can remember your way around. The map editor interface makes it easy to build topologically flat maps, but still allows you to make tangled un-geographic "hyperspace" links.
Simulation Metaphor.
Continuous physical processes like motion, gravity, and friction are simulated, so the number of states the system can be in is virtually infinite. Spatial navigation without simulation only has as many possible states as spaces ("you are here").
Deconstructionist Interface Model.
Object oriented design techniques deeply effect the very nature of the interactive experience. Whatever that means.
Users and Agents on Common Ground.
You can interact directly with simulated agents, because you're both part of the same environment. The butterfly can pick flowers and paint with them, as easily as you can. The painting tools respond to the gestures of whoever's holding them, human, butterfly, robot, or any cyborganic combination! You can even pick up a waving robot arm, grab the fluttering butterfly with it, shake her around, and paint with the flower she's holding! The flower, or whatever the butterfly has ahold of, will respond to the combined gestures of you, the robot arm, and the butterfly! Fortunately, she can't pick you up and paint with whatever you're holding -- that would be taking it too far.
Plug-In Authoring Tools.
Dynamically loaded map window lets you jump around and edit room connections. Dynamically loaded sets of painting tools with themes, that draw in interesting and appropriate ways, in response to gesture.
Director as ScriptX Authoring Tool.
Leverage off of ScriptX's Director Importer Toolkit, so artists can use Director for what it's good at, assembling animations and positioning registration points, then easily import their artwork into ScriptX, without programming. So it's easy to make all kinds of animated parts with sound effects and moving registration points, and painting tools that scatter images around like the "Image Hose" in Painter, that all plug together in wonderful ways.
Finder as ScriptX Authoring Tool.
Leverage off of the capabilities of the Finder and File Manager as much as possible. People know how to use the Finder, and it's very good for certain tasks, like naming and organizing directories, source and media files. Organize projects in directories and files, which work across all platforms, instead of storing source code and media in some special database format. ScriptX build scripts automatically process everything in certain directories, so you can just put your stuff into place and run a script, without programming.
ScriptX as Web Authoring Tool.
Coming soon: "Save as HTML"! Check out the
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Android also has the claim of being Linux, which in theory means it has access to the existing - incredibly mature - Linux software ecosystem. In practice for most people this is moot, since their focus is on the very different type of software available from the Play Store. For developers though, this can be important. For me the distinction is important partly because I'm already familiar with Linux, and partly as a matter of principal. In my world computing is very much about control. I love the idea of having a computer in my pocket not because it gives me access to software, or as a means of communication, but because it's a blank slate just waiting to perform the precise tasks I ask of it. That sounds authoritarian, but better to apply it to a computer than a person. I'm pretty strict about it too. Ever since being exposed to the wonder of OPL on a Psion 3a (way back in 1998), direct programmability has always been one of the main critiera when choosing a phone.
This weekend was the Easter Bank Holiday, meaning a lengthy train ride across the country to visit my family. I wanted to download some radio programmes and possibly some videos to watch en-route, but didn't get time before we set off. I'd managed to install the Android version of BBC iPlayer on my Jolla, but for some reason this doesn't cover BBC Radio, which has been split off into a separate application. Hence I embarked on a second journey while sitting on the train: installing get_iplayer entirely using my phone. This meant no use of a laptop with the Sailfish IDE, and building things completely from source as required.
The experience was enlightening: during the course of the weekend I was able to install everything from source straight on my phone. This included the rtmp streaming library and ffmpeg audio/video converter all obtained direct from their git repositories, all just using my phone.
Why would anyone want to do this when you can download the BBC radio app from the store? You wouldn't, but I still think it's very cool that you can.
Here's how it happened.
get_iplayer is kind-of underground software. It shouldn't really exist, and the BBC barely tolerates it.
It's written in Perl and is currently available from http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer. Getting it is just a matter of running the following command in the shell:
git clone git://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git
Perl is already installed on Sailfish OS by default (or at least was on my phone and is in the repositories otherwise). There were some other Perl libraries that needed installing, but which were also in the repositories. I was able to add them like this:
pkcon install perl-libwww-perl pkcon install perl-URI
Because it's Perl, there's no need to build anything, and at this point get_iplayer will happily query the BBC listing index and search for programmes. However, trying to download a programme generates an error about rtmpdump being missing.
The rtmpdump library isn't in the Sailfish repositories, but can be built from source really easily. You can get it from http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu, and I was able to clone the source from the git repository:
git clone git://git.ffmpeg.org/rtmpdump
Building from source requires the open-ssl development libraries, which are in the repositories:
pkcon install openssl-devel
After this it can be built (although note developer mode is needed to complete the install):
cd rtmpdump make devel-su make install cd ..
As part of this build the librtmp library will be created, which needs to be added to the library path.
echo /usr/local/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/librtmp.conf ldconfig
This should be enough to allow programmes to be downloaded in flv format. However, Sailfish won't be comfortable playing these unless you happen to have installed something to play them with. get_iplayer will convert them automatically as long as you have ffmpeg installed, so getting this up and running was the next step. Once again, the ffmpeg source can be cloned directly from its git repository:
git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
The ffmpeg developers have done an astonishing job of managing ffmpeg's dependencies. It allows many extras to be baked into it, but even without any of the other dependencies it'll use the autoconfig tools to allow a minimal build to be created:
pkcon install autotools cd ffmpeg ./configure make make install cd ..
ffmpeg is no small application, and compiling it on my phone took over an hour and a half. I know this because we watched an entire episode of Inspector Montalbano in the meantime, which get_iplayer helpfully tells me is 6000 seconds long!
Nonetheless, once completed the puzzle is complete, and get_iplayer will download and convert audio and video to formats that can be listened to or viewed on the Sailfish media player.
For me there's something beautiful about the ability to build, install and run these applications directly on the phone. get_iplayer is command-line, so lacks the polished GUIs of the official applications, but it's still very efficient and usable. I get that this makes me sound like Maddox, but that only makes me more right.
Three, my mobile carrier, insists I'm using tethering and cuts my connection whenever I try to download files using get_iplayer. It's annoying to say the least, but highlights the narrow gap between GNU/Linux on a laptop and GNU/Linux on a Sailfish OS phone.


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KAMLOOPS, B.C. - An off-leash dog and its anxious owner are alive thanks to the quick actions of three Kamloops, B.C., men who put their own lives in danger to pull the pair to safety.
Tom Blair says he and two buddies were in a restaurant overlooking the ice-covered Thompson River late Wednesday afternoon when they saw a dog run onto the ice, with its owner in pursuit.
Within moments, both had broken through the thin ice and were struggling in the frigid water as the three men raced to help.
Blair says he sprawled on the ice in his T-shirt while his friends lay spread-eagled behind him, each holding a leg of the man in front, as Blair pushed a stick toward the struggling woman and she grabbed on.
That's when one of the men behind Blair also shattered the ice, and all three had cracked through by the time other rescuers arrived with ropes to pull them, the woman and the dog to safety.
Despite the harrowing rescue, the four humans and the dog are okay, although the woman was taken to hospital to be checked over. (CHNL)


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