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Philadelphia: Hundreds of Tetris fans are having a little fun with a big version of the classic video game.
The Philadelphia skyscraper-sized version created a spectacle on Saturday that organizers hope inspired onlookers and players to think about the possibilities of technology.
The 29-story Cira Centre, which has hundreds of LED lights embedded in its glass facade, provided a 100,000-square-foot "screen" for the gamers. Images of supersized shapes "fell" on two sides of the tower as competitors used joysticks to manoeuvre them into place.
The marvel kicked off a citywide series of events called Philly Tech Week. It also celebrates the upcoming 30th anniversary of Tetris, a game loved for its elegance and simplicity.


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DR. HOOK-Black belt?: Healthcare providers can't qualify
Tae Kwon Do is a Korean martial art that involves a lot of kicking, concentration, and kimchi. Let me tell you, it takes a lot of kimchi to be able to break a cinderblock with your bare hand. I went to Philadelphia (the City of Motherly Love, according to Homer Simpson) to see my 10-year-old nephew's black belt ceremony. I was truly amazed to be there to honor the new black belts.
The focus of the ceremony wasn't on breaking wood with bare hands or swinging nunchucks at 1,000 RPMs (though my nephew doesn't give me an inch on his Xbox karate video game). It was about commitment, honor, and leadership. So where is the leadership in medical world?
Okay, I'll be the first to say that Medicare is not perfect. In fact, it's far from perfect, but it does provide healthcare benefits for our senior citizens and for people who are permanently disabled. Also our indigent children get Medicaid– which is far from perfect as well. So with these two programs, we already have something of a national healthcare system. Still, between 37 and 47 million Americans aren't insured. It's only going to get worse the way things are going. Should there be national healthcare?
I'm writing this as a practicing physician, an employer who provides full health benefits to his employees, and as a patient. Our capitalistic paradigm for health insurance makes tons of money for the insurance people, leaving the rest of us in the cold to catch pneumonia (okay, you don't catch pneumonia from the cold, but it's a catchy expression). My business's health insurance premiums went up an additional $2,000/year/person– and I don't even use my insurance! Because premiums are becoming astronomically high like Oprah Winfrey's salary, small businesses like mine are going to fail.
People who are self-employed are really in a dilemma with getting health insurance. Either they can't afford it, or insurance will turn them down for having a history of a bleeding hangnail.
I just love the way the current model for managed care focuses on the doctors, while others in the medical field are making and wasting money like water, pharmaceutical lobbyists are best buddies with representatives on Capitol Hill, and ancillary services keep their medical practices alive by charging more and more. Sorry, but smarter college students aren't going into medical school, and fewer than 25 percent of current medical students are going into primary care, the lowest paid field.
I'm not bitter. I'm tired. I'm supposed to be at the peak of my medical career; instead I feel like a former child actor, washed up by the system. (Speaking of which, did you see the reality show on Peter Brady– Christopher Knight?)
I suppose a reader might say, "Not everyone is supposed to live a long productive life," like on the satire movie Thank You for Smoking. But if you believe in this philosophy, are you willing to give up your health insurance? Better yet, are you willing to pay for your own insurance only to get benefits so lousy they make a Yugo look like a Mercedes?
I do think patients must be responsible for their own health, and that will cost money. But at this point, I just see too many patients getting karate chopped by the current healthcare system. I don't think our country has a black belt in healthcare. I don't have the answers, but I know they have to come... soon!
Dr. Hook cracks a joke or two, but he's a renowned physician with a local practice. Email him with your questions.

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Lecture: Seamus Heaney's Idea of America
Dr. Edward O'Shea, professor emeritus of English at SUNY Oswego, will deliver the lecture: "Seamus Heaney's Idea of America: From American Pastoral to an American Tragedy."
Date: November 7, 2019 - November 7, 2019
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Wilson Formal Lounge, Haffey Hall
Hosted by the Irish Studies Program
About the Lecture
A close examination of Nobel Prize Winner for Literature Seamus Heaney's poetry, plays, and prose reveals his shifting perspectives on American culture from the California Sixties to 9/11. Professor O'Shea was a Fulbright Scholar at Trinity College Dublin earlier this year, where he delivered a version of this talk, as well as at the Heaney Exhibition at the new Cultural Center in the Bank of Ireland Building (the old Irish Parliament), and at Queen's University Belfast, co-sponsored by the Heaney Home Place.
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NYC elementary school adopts all-vegetarian menu
Associated Press Thanks to Wall Street Journal
NEW YORK — A city public school is one of the first in the nation to adopt an all-vegetarian menu, school officials said Tuesday.
Public School 244, in the Flushing section of Queens, has been serving tofu wraps and vegetarian chili since going all-veggie earlier this year, schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said during a lunchtime visit.
"I am proud of the students and staff for trailblazing this extraordinary path," Walcott said.
P.S. 244 opened in 2008 and houses just over 400 students in pre-kindergarten through third grade. The school, which wanted to offer the children healthy food options, started serving a vegetarian lunch three times a week and then increased it to four times a week before making the switch to an all-vegetarian menu every day.
It is the city's first all-vegetarian public school.
"We discovered early on that our kids were gravitating toward our vegetarian offerings, and we kept expanding the program to meet the demand," principal Robert Groff said.
Tuesday's menu included black beans and cheddar quesadillas served with salsa and roasted potatoes.
A staff member at the animal-welfare group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said he believes P.S. 244 may be the first all-vegetarian public elementary school in the nation.
"We think this is a really exciting development," said Ryan Huling, who coordinates PETA's work with colleges that serve vegetarian fare. "The school should be commended for providing students with low-fat, nutrient-packed brain food."
P.S. 244 is a zoned neighborhood school, so students who prefer meat-based meals would not be able to transfer out, nor would vegetarian children at other schools be able to transfer in.


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A Men In Black video game is due out in the spring of 2012 to conicide with the release of a new Men In Black movie, Activision and Columbia Pictures said this morning.
The title will reportedly, in keeping with the spirit of the franchise, feature "action-packed, yet light-hearted gameplay mixed with edge-of-your-seat shooting excitement from the universe's most elite peacekeeping force," according to Activision.
"The Men In Black franchise is an unbeatable starting point to deliver a genre-bending gaming experience with a level of production value on par with Hollywood," stated David Oxford, Executive Vice President of Activision.
According to the publisher, the game will be available for "consoles and handhelds" on launch, though details on which exact platforms those will be have not yet been announced. The title is not yet rated.
The game will coincide with the release of the franchise's next film, Men In Black III, also slated for spring 2012.
The title is set to borrow from the films' "unique blend of action, humour, and eye-popping special effects" to create the gameplay experience. Men In Black will feature an original story with new characters, as well as some familiar faces from the franchise's history.
Mark Caplan, Vice President of Licensing at Sony Pictures Entertainment, stated, "With Activision bringing the Men In Black universe to life on next gen consoles for the first time, the Men In Black video game will be both familiar to fans, an exciting beginning for the uninitiated, and revolutionary for the franchise."
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Killzone 4 will release later this year on Sony's next-generation PlayStation, an industry source has told VideoGamer.com.
The unannounced game, which our source claims is currently in development at Guerrilla Games, could be revealed during PlayStation Meeting on February 20, where Sony is expected to unveil PlayStation 4.
Sony has tended to announce new games in Guerrilla's shooter series alongside its hardware reveals.
The platform holder released a trailer for Killzone 2 during the announcement of PlayStation 3 - something which was later criticised for being a "target render" rather than a true example of the console's capabilities.
It also confirmed that a Killzone title was in development for PlayStation Vita at the time of the handheld's announcement.
Our source's comments suggest that Killzone 4 could be a launch window title for the unannounced hardware, which is rumoured to go on sale by the end of 2013.
Guerrilla Games' latest release was Killzone 3, which released on PlayStation 3 in 2011. In addition to Killzone 4, the developer is known to be working on a new IP.
SCEE declined to comment when contacted by VideoGamer.com.
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You know a trend is well on the way to becoming business as usual when "independent" broker-dealers start jumping on the bandwagon. That certainly seems to be the case for the movement toward increasing the independence of financial advice. Traditionally, independent BDs have been one of the most conservative elements in the independent advisory world. For instance, some of us will remember when Miles Gordon, then CEO of Financial Network (now ING) led BDs to petition the NASD (now FINRA) to outlaw the emerging practice of registered reps managing client assets for a fee. By the time the BDs realized that AUM fees might not be such a bad idea, Schwab advisors had nearly a trillion client dollars under management.
Today, the issue is truly independent advice. Despite the Financial Services Institute's head-in-the-sand resistance to a genuine fiduciary standard for registered reps, a number of farsighted BDs are actively embracing a new level of advisor independence (including the fiduciary duty that goes along with it). Perhaps the poster kids for BDs' change of heart is the independent industry's largest firm: LPL Financial in Boston, through its hybrid RIA program, along with its largest hybrid affiliate, Independent Financial Partners. The success of firms like IFP and others, including HighTower Advisors (see "HighTower's Continuing Success Suggests a New Model for Independent Advice" on AdvisorOne.com), raises important questions about the meaning of independent advice and its future.
Independent Financial Partners in Tampa, Fla., has been in business in its present form since 2000, but got a major boost when LPL launched its hybrid program in October 2008, which now boasts 146 RIA firms and $22.7 billion in custodied assets.
Today, IFP services 425 independent advisors, generating $80 million in revenues on $3.5 billion in client AUM. Last year alone the firm added some 140 advisors. The attraction of IFP is three-fold: It offers a broad range of services designed for dually registered advisors and reps, uses its economies of scale to keep its payouts high and, most importantly, works to maximize the independence of its advisors. "Our structure," said IFP founder and CEO Bill Hamm, "is designed to give our advisors the ability to serve their clients according to their vision, not ours."
IFP uses $35 billion it has under "advisement" at LPL, which includes the retirement and estate planning portfolios that aren't included in its actual client AUM, to negotiate much higher payouts than most of its advisors would get on their own. For instance, LPL pays out 100% of client asset management fees, making its cut on the custody of those assets, and gives IFP 3% concessions on commissions generated, which, according to Hamm, the firm passes along to its advisors. Consequently, IFP advisors earn between 90% and 97% payouts, "with the average around 95%," he said.
On the service side, IFP offers a "multi-custodial" platform, meaning that its advisors are free to custody client assets at Schwab or TD Ameritrade should they or their clients feel it would be advantageous to do so.
While LPL charges an additional 5% fee for the oversight involved, the ability to choose among custodians greatly increases the independence of the IFP advisors and those who affiliate with other hybrid firms such as HighTower.
"Unlike other custodians [that] compete directly with their advisors for clients," said Derek Bruton, managing director and IAS national sales manager at LPL Financial, "the basic structure of LPL Financial's relationships with independent advisors allows us to maintain a singular focus on supporting their needs [...]."
IFP offers a broad range of investment and risk management products, some of which are commission-based, which I've always been against due to the conflicts involved. But in recent years, I've come to believe that the benefits of having all a client's needs met by one advisor outweigh the potential conflicts.
Of course, IFP's menu doesn't approach the level of sophistication offered by HighTower's menu of hedge funds, alternative investments and principle trading, which is designed to attract breakaway brokers who are used to wirehouse-level services. Still, IFP's lineup is more than you would see at many BDs and more than enough for most independent advisors. It's a telling indication that the independent world is beginning to recognize the distance between its and Wall Street's service levels—and the need to close that gap.
Another attraction of IFP and other hybrid firms is regulatory compliance. It's now clear that the most tangible result of Dodd-Frank will be a major increase in the oversight of RIAs.
The result will most likely be major increases in compliance costs for independent RIAs and a major boon for hybrid firms such as IFP and HighTower, which can use their economies of scale to keep compliance costs down. It's no coincidence that IFP is beginning to attract fee-only RIAs from outside LPL's ranks, including some NAPFA advisors. (With their reduced compliance issues, LPL lets them take home 100% of their AUM fees.)
"For RIAs on LPL's platform," said Bruton, "we offer a full suite of value-added compliance tools and systems to support their fulfillment of SEC and other regulatory obligations applicable to RIAs."
Traditionally, "independent" broker-dealers such as LPL are called independent because they allow their registered reps to own their own firms, and therefore, they are self-employed. Wirehouse brokers, in contrast, are W-2 employees of their brokerage firms. This affords the advisors at "independent BDs" a certain level of independence, but as registered reps, it's still a far cry from the independence of many RIAs.
To increase the independence of its advisors, IFP enters into written agreements with them that clearly spell out that clients belong to the advisors: When the advisors leave, the clients leave with them. What's more, IFP's agreement makes clear to all parties that its advisors are free to leave at any time for any reason. "Of course, that's perfunctory," said Hamm. "But it creates the mentality that we're here to serve the advisors and their clients, and not the other way around."
Perhaps the most important way IFP differs from firms like HighTower is in the ownership of affiliated advisors. HighTower buys an equity stake in its advisory firms, and in turn, those firms acquire a stake in HighTower. While this arrangement gives advisors a measure of control over the conduct of their custodian, it also gives the firm some control over its advisors, particularly in their ability to move to another firm.
In contrast, IFP has no such ownership arrangement and no plans to institute one. "We don't think ownership in our advisors is a good idea," said Hamm. "This way, it puts the onus on us to do the right things for our advisors. It seems to be working: we have very little advisor turnover. They rarely leave."
Which raises the question: Does partial ownership of advisory firms by their custodian or BD create more or less independence? Seems to me the litmus test should always be what's in the best interest of the clients. Is it better for advisors to be able to take their clients and find a better arrangement should the need or opportunity arise? Or is it better that advisors have some actual control over how their custodian conducts business?
Personally, I'm leaning toward advisors having the ability to keep business execs in line. For advisors, it's nice to have both models to choose from. Undoubtedly, time will reveal whether one model or the other contains enough serious flaws to make advisors and BDs move in the other direction.


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Horticulture Show celebrates 100 years of plant science education
Horticulture Show celebrates 100 years of plant science education
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The annual Penn State Horticulture Show this fall celebrates its 100th anniversary.
Presented by students in the College of Agricultural Sciences' Horticulture Club, the event will be held Oct. 12-13 in the Snider Agricultural Arena, diagonally across Park Avenue from Beaver Stadium on the University Park campus.
"100 Years of Education" is the theme of the free show, which will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday. The homecoming football game is on Saturday.
Each year the show encourages visitors to explore various aspects of horticulture. This year, multiple stations were designed and built to showcase majors and minors within the College of Agricultural Sciences, including Agroecology, Horticulture, Landscape Contracting, Plant Sciences and Turfgrass Science.
"First and foremost, we always like to make the show a pleasant experience for guests," said Dan Stearns, Styer Professor of Horticultural Botany, who has been Horticulture Club adviser since 1991. "Our goal with this year's educational theme is to have visitors learn about horticulture as they stroll through."
President of the club, Samantha Rosado, a junior agricultural science major, noted that the design and theme of this year's show portrays the industry's growth over time.
"Many people involved in planning the show had similar ideas to design a timeline," she said. "We wanted to portray the beginnings of the horticulture industry to where we are now with sustainable agriculture and new technologies."
All plants featured in the show will be for sale. The proceeds help fund the next Horticulture Show and other Horticulture Club activities.
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For thousands of years, wolves hunted buffalo across the vast North American plains, until the westward settlement of the continent saw the virtual extinction of these vast herds and their eternal predators. However, this ancient relationship was not lost altogether and continues uninterrupted in only one location — the northern edge of Canada's central plains in a place named Wood Buffalo National Park. Today, the descendants of those ancient buffalo and wolves still engage in the epic life-and-death dramas across this northern land. Their story is captured in thrilling cinematic glory by a lone filmmaker who has followed them for more than 20 years.
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Published in April 1996 as a companion to the modern Jerusalem map, the "Jerusalem: The Old City" map features the city's many historical sites. The Christian, Armenian, Muslim, and Jewish quarters are shown in distinct colors, and there are notes describing the most significant sacred sites in the old walled city and beyond.
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Leon Kass: The Meaning of the Gosnell Trial
Eminent bioethicist Leon Kass on the dangers of a world increasingly indifferent to matters of human dignity.
The trial of Kermit Gosnell—a Philadelphia doctor charged in January 2011 with, among other things, murdering seven infants who survived abortions he performed—has been under way for a month. But it was only last week that the case was thrust into the national spotlight. Thanks to intense pressure from conservative critics of the media's apparent lack of interest in the case, the rest of the country has now glimpsed some of what went on for years in Gosnell's benignly named Women's Medical Society.
Investigators who raided the clinic in 2010 saw "blood on the floor" and smelled "urine in the air," according to the grand jury that indicted Gosnell. They also found "fetal remains haphazardly stored throughout the clinic—in bags, milk jugs, orange-juice cartons, and even in cat-food containers." Members of Gosnell's staff testified that the abortionist would deliver babies who had been gestating for as long as 30 weeks, far longer than the 24-week limit imposed by Pennsylvania law. Gosnell or staff members would gouge the infant's neck with scissors to sever the spinal cord, according to the grand jury report. Gosnell referred to the method as "snipping."
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These and other appalling details of the Gosnell trial elicit reactions that might be called revulsion or disgust or horror. The word that eminent bioethicist and physician Leon Kass prefers is "repugnance." This intense human reaction reflects a sort of deep moral intuition, he says, and it is one that deserves much more serious consideration than our too-sophisticated culture allows.
"As pain is to the body so repugnance is to the soul," Dr. Kass says as we sit down for an interview in his book-lined office at the American Enterprise Institute, where he is the Madden-Jewett Scholar. "So too with anger and compassion. Repugnance is some kind of wake-up call that there is something untoward going on and attention must be paid. These passions are not simply irrational. They contain within them the germ of insight. You cannot give proper verbal account of the horror of evil, yet a culture that couldn't be absolutely horrified by such things is dead."
The observation may not sound controversial, yet Dr. Kass, who was the chairman of President George W. Bush's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005, has often found himself in a minority among bioethicists when it comes to abortion, euthanasia, embryonic research, cloning and other right-to-life questions. Dr. Kass's emphasis on what he calls "the wisdom of repugnance," for example, has been assailed by liberal thinkers. The philosopher Martha Nussbaum, for instance, said in a 2004 critique of Dr. Kass's work that repugnance has been used in the past "as a powerful weapon in social efforts to exclude certain groups and persons."
Dr. Kass says his critics misunderstand the role of repugnance in his thinking. "It's not that repugnance is always right," he says. "There was once repugnance at interracial marriage, and there have been other repugnancies that turned out to be mere prejudice. But you wouldn't want to live in a society where people feel no guilt or shame just because guilt and shame are sometimes disruptive—or in a society that doesn't feel righteous indignation at the sight of injustice."
Degradation and its opposite, human dignity, are central elements of Dr. Kass's philosophy, and he fears that American society risks becoming disrespectful of dignity and indifferent to degradation.
Consider abortion. After years of calling for abortions that are "safe, legal and rare," the Democratic Party in its 2012 platform dropped such language altogether in an attempt to appeal to its feminist base. But viewing childbearing solely as a matter of personal reproductive choice, Dr. Kass says, "means we no longer see a child as a gift but as a product of our will to be had by choice only. That makes human choice the basis of all value"—at the price of the child, for "he or she comes from the hands of nature."
"Nascent life prior to birth," Dr. Kass says, "does not yet display any of the grand and glorious things for which we applaud humanity in its flowering. And yet it is the dignity of human possibility to be found in nascent life that should lead us treat it not less well than it deserves." He admits to being "agnostic" on the question of whether the embryo "is a human being equal to your grandchildren." Even so, Dr. Kass says, "in the face of our ignorance about its status, the embryo does have a certain claim on us. It is the bearer of human possibility, and we owe it not to mistreat it."
Despite his deep respect for the antiabortion movement—"the people who respect the dignity of nascent life have going for them not just 'Thou shalt not kill' but also a certain regard for the continuity of the generations and the renewal of human possibility"—Dr. Kass sometimes finds himself at odds with its advocates. The movement's narrow focus on nascent life, he worries, blinds it to the fact that "abortion is connected to lots of other things that are threats to human dignity in its fullness."
"Pursuing perfect babies, ageless bodies and happy souls with the aid of cloning, genetic engineering and psychopharmacology," he thinks, are among the most significant of those threats.
"Killing the creature made in God's image is an old story," he says. "I deplore it. But the new threat is the ability to transform that creature into images of our own choosing, without regard to whether the new creature is going to be an improvement, or whether these so-called improvements are going to sap all of the energies of the soul that make for human aspirations, art, science and care for the less fortunate. All of these things have wellsprings in the human soul, and they are at risk in efforts to redesign us and move us to the posthuman future."
Leon Kass was born in Chicago in 1939 to a family of Jewish immigrants. His childhood home was "Yiddish-speaking, nonreligious, lower middle class." At age 15, he was admitted to the University of Chicago where, he recalls, "I did very well on my science placement tests so my adviser made me a science major."
He entered University of Chicago's School of Medicine upon graduation, but not before "acquiring a prejudice in favor of reading old books slowly, a certain taste for philosophical questions, and a keen interest in liberal education."
While he was a medical student, he met and married his wife of nearly 52 years, the classics scholar Amy Kass. The couple went on to Boston, where he completed an internal-medicine internship and earned a biochemistry Ph.D. at Harvard.
"A funny thing happened to me in graduate school," he recalls. "My wife and I spent part of the summer of 1965 in Mississippi doing civil-rights work." The couple lived with a black farmer in Mount Olive, Miss., in a home that had no toilet or indoor plumbing. "I came back from this place with this conundrum: Why was there more honor, goodness and decency in these unschooled black farmers than I found in my fellow graduate students at Harvard, whose enlightened and liberal opinions I shared?"
The answer, he eventually concluded, was that his black hosts displayed "the dignity of honest work and religion"—things he didn't often find among his highly educated peers, most of whom "were only looking out for Number One." Around the same time, Dr. Kass's reading of Rousseau, C.S. Lewis's "The Abolition of Man" (1943) and Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel "Brave New World" (1931)—the latter remains a constant reference in his writings—led him to see that as science advances, morals don't necessarily improve; that the opposite might well be the case.
"And then it dawned on me that you didn't have to go Mississippi to find moral questions," he says. "There were big moral questions right at my feet in the biomedical profession."
After a number of teaching and research stints, in 1976 he returned to the University of Chicago as a professor in the college, later teaching in the graduate program called the Committee on Social Thought. (Dr. Kass retired from teaching in 2010, and he and his wife have in recent years worked together to create "What So Proudly We Hail," an anthology and e-learning project that promotes civic literacy and patriotic attachment through speeches, stories and songs.)
"Unlike questions of segregation and, before it, slavery, where evil was clear and the only question was how to deal with it," Dr. Kass says, "the evils that I saw close to my own area of work were ones that were embedded in very high-minded pursuits: better health, peace of mind and the conquest of nature. Yet they contained within them the seeds of our own degradation."
The trouble wasn't so much with science itself, he thought, as with "scientism," by which he means "a quasi-religious faith that scientific knowledge is the only knowledge worthy of the name; that scientific knowledge gives you an exhaustive account of the way things are; and that science will transcend all the limitations of our human condition, all of our miseries." Scientism's primary goal, Dr. Kass says, "is to put the final nail in the rule of revealed religion." But scientism "also hits traditional, humanistic understandings of the special place of the human being, of the importance of soul, of inwardness and purposiveness."
The idea that materialism "can cure men of the fear of God and the fear of death," as Dr. Kass puts it, is at least as old as ancient Greece. But today it has become especially potent thanks to "the new genetics, which bore more deeply than ever before into the molecular basis of living processes." Then there is the rise of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, which purport to explain "absolutely everything about human life" in materialistic terms.
Take the concept of human dignity. In a 2008 essay highly critical of Dr. Kass's work on the Bush bioethics council, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker questioned the value of dignity as a moral guide. "Dignity is a phenomenon of human perception," Mr. Pinker wrote. "Certain signals in the world trigger an attribution in the perceiver." The perception of human dignity, Mr. Pinker went on, is no different from how "converging lines in a drawing are a cue for the perception of depth."
That such an outlook is both blinkered and dangerous, Dr. Kass thinks, should be obvious to anyone who has ever been in love or felt other great emotions. "There's no doubt that the human experience of love," he says, is mirrored by "events that are measurable in the brain. But anybody who has ever fallen in love knows that love is not just an elevated level of some peptide in the hypothalamus."
Nor are degradation and dignity. The Gosnell trial and the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon have degradation written all over them. As for dignity, Dr. Kass says, "You see it in the way nurses treat people who come in for chemotherapy. You see it in the way a great hostess treats a handicapped guest, helping him without causing him embarrassment. You see it in the way people come close to where there is human suffering and are not put off by the horror but do what is humanly necessary."
His voice lowered almost to a whisper, he adds: "You saw it in Boston. Some people fled to safety—others rushed to the danger."
Mr. Ahmari is an assistant books editor at the Journal.
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HSBC Holdings Plc has agreed to pay $1.92 billion to settle a multi-year U.S. criminal probe into money-laundering lapses at the British lender, the largest penalty ever paid by a bank.
HSBC admitted to a breakdown of controls and apologized in a statement on Tuesday announcing it had reached a deferred-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, as was first reported by Reuters last week.
"We accept responsibility for our past mistakes. We have said we are profoundly sorry for them, and we do so again. The HSBC of today is a fundamentally different organization from the one that made those mistakes," said Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver.
"Over the last two years, under new senior leadership, we have been taking concrete steps to put right what went wrong and to participate actively with government authorities in bringing to light and addressing these matters."
The bank said it expected to also reach a settlement with British watchdog the Financial Services Authority.
U.S. and European banks have now agreed to settlements with U.S. regulators totaling some $5 billion in recent years on charges they violated U.S. sanctions and failed to police illicit transactions.
No bank or bank executives, however, have been indicted as prosecutors have instead utilized deferred prosecutions.
The deferred prosecution agreement, when detailed by U.S. Justice Department officials later on Tuesday, could yield new information about a failure at HSBC to police transactions linked to Mexico, sources familiar with the matter said. Details of those dealings were reported this summer in a sweeping U.S. Senate probe.
HSBC's settlement also includes agreements or consent orders with the Manhattan district attorney, the Federal Reserve and three U.S. Treasury Department units: the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Comptroller of the Currency and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
HSBC said it would pay $1.921 billion, continue to cooperate fully with regulatory and law enforcement authorities and take further action to strengthen its compliance policies and procedures. U.S. prosecutors have agreed to defer or forgo prosecution.
The settlement is the third time in a decade that HSBC has been penalized for lax controls and ordered by U.S. authorities to better monitor suspicious transactions. Directives by regulators to improve oversight came in 2003 and again in 2010.
Last month, HSBC told investors it had set aside $1.5 billion to cover fines or penalties stemming from the inquiry and warned costs could be significantly higher.
Analyst Jim Antos of Mizuho Securities said the statement on Tuesday indicates an extra $420 million for the settlement costs, calling it a "trivial" figure in terms of the company's book value. "But in terms of real cash terms, that's a huge fine to pay," said Antos, who rates HSBC a "buy."
HSBC shares fell slightly in early London trading to £6.40 [$10.26]. The bank's Hong Kong listed stock nudged up 0.3 percent to HK$79.70.
HSBC's settlement is the latest chapter in an embarrassing period for the bank, the result of a lengthy probe into Europe's biggest bank by U.S. law enforcement agencies as well as a U.S. Senate panel that in July issued a scathing review of HSBC.
In its statement, HSBC said it had increased spending on anti-money laundering systems, exited business relationships, and clawed back bonuses for senior executives. It also cited the hiring last January of Stuart Levey, a former top U.S. Treasury Department official, as chief legal officer.
Under a five-year agreement with the Justice Department, HSBC agreed to have an independent monitor evaluate its progress in improving its compliance.
HSBC also said that as part of the overhaul of its controls it has launched a global review of its Know Your Customer files, which will cost an estimated $700 million over five years. The bank has also increased its spending on anti-money laundering by around nine times between 2009 and 2011, it said.
HSBC's settlement comes a day after rival British bank Standard Chartered Plc agreed to a $327 million settlement with U.S. law enforcement agencies for sanctions violations, a pact that follows a $340 million settlement the bank reached with the New York bank regulator in August.
Such settlements have become commonplace. In what had been the largest settlement until this week, ING Bank NV in June agreed to pay $619 million to settle U.S. government allegations it violated sanctions against countries including Cuba and Iran.
Other banks that have reached settlements over sanctions violations are Credit Suisse Group of Switzerland, Lloyds Banking Group and Barclays Plc in Britain and ABN Amro Holding NV, a Dutch bank acquired by Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and a bank consortium in 2007. In the United States, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Wachovia Corp. and Citigroup Inc. have been cited for anti-money laundering lapses or sanctions violations.
HSBC's failings date to 2003, when the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and New York state regulators ordered the bank to better monitor suspicious money flows.
In 2010, a consent order from the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) ordered HSBC to review suspicious transactions moving through the bank. At the time, the OCC called HSBC's compliance program "ineffective".
In 2008, the U.S. Attorney in Wheeling, West Virginia, began investigating HSBC and how a local doctor allegedly used the bank to launder Medicare fraud.
Ultimately, that prosecutor's office came to believe the case was "the tip of the iceberg" in terms of the suspicious transactions conducted through HSBC, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and reported earlier this year.
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Smoke from a large fire in the Gila National Forest, in New Mexico, west of the Rio Grande (running parallel to the right edge), can be seen fanning out over a great area as it blows westward. The Gila National Forest covers approximately 2,710,659 acres (1,100,000 ha) of public land. Terrain ranges from rugged mountains and deep canyons to semi-desert. Due to the extremely rugged terrain, the area is largely unspoiled.


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Official weigh-ins for this month's "UFC on FOX 6: Johnson vs. Dodson" event are scheduled for Friday, Jan. 25, at 5 p.m. ET (4 p.m. CT local time) at Chicago Theatre.
The nearby United Center hosts the following day's FOX-broadcast event.
Prior to the weigh-ins, "UFC 159: Jones vs. Sonnen" headliner and "The Ultimate Fighter 17" coach Jon Jones hosts a special Q&A session for members of the UFC Fight Club, the UFC's official fan club.
Doors to the venue open for UFC Fight Club members at 1 p.m. CT local time, and the Jones Q&A begins at 2 p.m. CT local time.
The general public is invited into the building at 3 p.m. CT local time, and UFC on FOX 6 fighters step on the scale one hour later.
UFC on FOX 6 takes place Jan. 26 and features the first flyweight title defense of Demetrious Johnson (16-2-1 MMA, 5-1-1 UFC) against top contender John Dodson (14-5 MMA, 3-0 UFC), as well as a co-feature between former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson (32-10 MMA, 7-4 UFC) and Glover Teixeira (19-2 MMA, 2-0 UFC) The night's four-fight main card airs on FOX, and preliminary-card bouts air on FX and stream on Facebook.
The full UFC on FOX 6 card includes:
MAIN CARD (FOX, 8 p.m. ET)
- Demetrious Johnson vs. John Dodson – for flyweight title
- Quinton Jackson vs. Glover Teixeira
- Donald Cerrone vs. Anthony Pettis
- Erik Koch vs. Ricardo Lamas
PRELIMINARY CARD (FX, 5 p.m. ET)
- T.J. Grant vs. Matt Wiman
- Clay Guida vs. Hatsu Hioki
- Ryan Bader vs. Vladimir Matyushenko
- David Mitchell vs. Simeon Thoresen
- Shawn Jordan vs. Mike Russow
- Pascal Krauss vs. Mike Stumpf
PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook, 4 p.m. ET)
- Magnus Cedenblad vs. Rafael Natal
- Michael Kuiper vs. TBA*
* – Not officially announced
For more on UFC on FOX 6, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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July 10, 2012 | By Paul Kelly
Danica Patrick turned laps around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a race car Tuesday, July 10 for the first time in more than a year, but this time she had a special passenger.
Patrick drove around the famous 2.5-mile oval in a two-seater version of her No. 7 GoDaddy.com/NASCAR Unites "An American Salute" Chevrolet, with iconic television personality Katie Couric in the passenger seat. She also gave Couric a tour of IMS. Both activities were part of a shoot for Couric's upcoming syndicated daytime talk show, which premiers Sept. 10.
The laps also served as a fun warm-up for Patrick's official return to the Brickyard when she makes her IMS stock-car debut in the Indiana 250 NASCAR Nationwide Series race Saturday, July 28 during the Kroger Super Weekend at the Brickyard.
"It feels really good to be at the track," Patrick said. "I enjoyed the laps that I made out there. I really, really enjoyed coming out of Turn 4 and coming down the front straightaway and seeing everything again."
Patrick last raced at IMS in the 2011 Indianapolis 500, in which she finished 10th. It was one of her six top-10 results in seven starts in "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" since 2005, when she earned Chase Rookie of the Year honors and captured worldwide attention after an electrifying fourth-place finish.
After dabbling in the Nationwide Series last year, Patrick made a full-time switch to NASCAR in 2012. She is running the full Nationwide season for JR Motorsports and is participating in a partial Sprint Cup Series season for Stewart-Haas Racing, with plans for a full-time Cup schedule in 2013.
Patrick is excited for the transition to stock-car racing at Indy. She is ninth in the Nationwide Series standings, with one top-10 finish for a team owned by Sprint Cup superstar Dale Earnhardt Jr.
"Obviously, I'm going to be a few inches or feet higher up in the seat from a visual perspective in a stock car, but nothing is going to feel better than to get back out there again," Patrick said. "I fell right into place. I feel so comfortable here and I have such a great emotion just coming into the track that I feel like that helps me overall be better because I feel so good and I feel so positive.
"It's good to be back here. I didn't think my first laps in a stock car around here would be a school stock car, but I thought it was a good lead-in to a couple of weeks from now when we're actually here for the real deal."
But Tuesday was all about fun. Patrick and Couric met and struck up a friendship during a ride of a lifetime for Couric.
"I was very, very, very, very, very quiet," Couric said of her initial reaction to the speed and roar of a stock car from the passenger seat. "I was nervous at first, but I had a lot of fun.
"I'm a huge fan of Danica's and have watched her career for many years now, and it was fun for me to get to spend some time with her and learn a little more about what makes her tick and about some of the choices she's made and things she's done in her life. I'm very impressed."


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A sample DLL
The DLL we will build will consist of a single source file "example_dll.cpp":
#include <stdio.h> #include "example_dll.h" __stdcall void hello(const char *s) { printf("Hello %s\n", s); } int Double(int x) { return 2 * x; } void CppFunc(void) { puts("CppFunc"); } void MyClass::func(void) { puts("MyClass.func()"); }
The following header "example_dll.h" declares the interface of the DLL, and is used both when building the DLL and when building an executable that uses the DLL:
#ifndef EXAMPLE_DLL_H #define EXAMPLE_DLL_H #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif #ifdef BUILDING_EXAMPLE_DLL #define EXAMPLE_DLL __declspec(dllexport) #else #define EXAMPLE_DLL __declspec(dllimport) #endif void __stdcall EXAMPLE_DLL hello(const char *s); int EXAMPLE_DLL Double(int x); #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif // NOTE: this function is not declared extern "C" void EXAMPLE_DLL CppFunc(void); // NOTE: this class must not be declared extern "C" class EXAMPLE_DLL MyClass { public: MyClass() {}; virtual ~MyClass() {}; void func(void); }; #endif // EXAMPLE_DLL_H
Note that the three functions defined by the DLL have been declared slightly differently (for illustration purposes).
Building the DLL
To build the DLL use the following commands:
g++ -c -DBUILDING_EXAMPLE_DLL example_dll.cpp
g++ -shared -o example_dll.dll example_dll.o -Wl,--out-implib,libexample_dll.a
The -DBUILDING_EXAMPLE_DLL compiler option causes the DLL's functions to be declared as "dllexport", meaning that they will be "exported" from the DLL and available to client applications. The "-shared" option tells the linker to create a DLL instead of an .exe, and the "--out-implib" linker option causes an import library to be created, which is used later on.
The import library created by the "--out-implib" linker option is required iff (==if and only if) the DLL shall be interfaced from some C/C++ compiler other than the MinGW toolchain. The MinGW toolchain is perfectly happy to directly link against the created DLL. More details can be found in the ld.exe info files that are part of the binutils package (which is a part of the toolchain).
Building a client executable
The following source code "example_exe.cpp" demonstrates calling the DLL's functions:
#include <stdio.h> #include "example_dll.h" int main(void) { hello("World"); printf("%d\n", Double(333)); CppFunc(); MyClass a; a.func(); return 0; }
To build the above example program, use the following commands:
g++ -c example_exe.cpp
g++ -o example_exe.exe example_exe.o -L. -lexample_dll
The option -lexample_dll specifies that the executable be linked with the library libexample_dll.a. The option -L. instructs the linker to search for libraries in the current directory, which is necessary because "." is not in the default search path (this requirement can be avoided by placing libraries in the MinGW lib directory).
It is worth mentioning that the same executable may be built without an import library using the following command:
g++ -o example_exe.exe example_exe.o example_dll.dll
If this method works for your application then there is usually no need for an import library.
Building and using a DLL without the dllexport/dllimport attibutes
If you pass the -no-undefined and --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc options to the linker, you don't have to add dllimport or dllexport attributes to the source code that the DLL is made with ; all functions are imported/exported automatically by default, just like in unices.
Is dllhelpers http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/dll-stuff/index.html [4] still a useful extra reference, or is it just too outdated? -- GregChicares?
There is an important thing to note with the above example functions:
Both hello(const char *) and Double(int) are surrounded by
#ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif and #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif
in the header file. This has the rather important consequence that their exported names use C-style name mangling (i.e. their names are "as is").
The function CppFunc( void ) is not inside an extern "C" {...} block and thus uses C++-style name mangling. This has the consequence that the exported name depends on the compiler used to generate the DLL. It is by design that such generated names are different from compiler to compiler.
The important and often overlooked consequence of this is that from the above DLL only the functions hello(const char *) and Double(int) are seamlessly callable from e.g. MS VC++ while CppFunc(void) is not (assuming the DLL is created by MinGW).
A similar statement goes for C++ classes exported in a DLL, i.e. for the class MyClass. For further reading search the Web for the keyword "ABI" and possible in conjunction with "C++". See also MixObjects.
Note: Someone else might want to provide more links here
A way to circumvent this problem is either using COM or create C-style wrapper functions to encapsulate the C++ ABI.
See Also
This page: DLL [5].


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The farnell piview is pretty clearly an active converter that draws it's power from the HDMI port and seems to work fine with the Pi and most monitors (we use them a lot at Manchester raspberry jam). Presumablly they found a converter chip that was low enough power to get away with it.
The RS one looks similar but I don't have personal experiance with it.


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Higher Chemo Drug Dose Prolongs Lives of Leukemia Patients
Dec. 5 -- THURSDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- A high dose of the chemotherapy drug daunorubicin prolonged survival for patients with previously untreated acute myeloid leukemia (AML), preliminary results of a study sponsored by the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) show.
AML is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. This study included 633 patients, aged 16 to 60, who were randomly assigned to receive either high-dose or standard-dose daunorubicin.
Both doses were given in combination with another chemotherapy drug called ara-C (cytarabine). The patients in the high-dose group received 90 milligrams of daunorubicin per square meter of body surface area (90 mg/m2) on each of the first three days of treatment. The standard dose is 45 mg/m2.
Patients in the high-dose group had a median overall survival of 23.7 months, compared to 15.1 months for those in the standard-dose group. Both groups had similar frequencies of serious treatment-related toxicity, according to the study, conducted by a network of researchers led by the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG).
"The findings of this large clinical trial are important, because they will likely change practice and improve the outcome for many patients with AML," Dr. Martin Tallman, chairman of the ECOG leukemia committee and a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chicago, said in an NCI news release.
Daunorubicin is already FDA-approved for treatment of AML, which means that patients with the disease may gain immediate benefit from the findings.
More than 13,000 people in the United States will be diagnosed with AML in 2008. Most cases occur in adults, and about half occur in those younger than 60. Only about one-third of AML patients survive the disease, and the odds of survival decrease with age.
More information
The American Cancer Society has more about acute myeloid leukemia.
SOURCE: U.S. National Cancer Institute, news release, Nov. 17, 2008


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Emergency Procedures for Conducting State Business
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act, R.S. 29:721, et seq., a state of emergency/disaster was declared through Proclamation No. 92 BJ 2012; and
WHEREAS, the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act, R.S. 29:721, et seq., confers upon the Governor of the State of Louisiana emergency powers to deal with emergencies and disasters, including those caused by fire, flood, earthquake or other natural or man-made causes, to ensure that preparations of this state will be adequate to deal with such emergencies or disasters, and to preserve the lives and property of the citizens of the State of Louisiana;
NOW THEREFORE, I, BOBBY JINDAL, Governor of the State of Louisiana, by virtue of the authority vested by the Constitution and the laws of the State of Louisiana, do hereby order and direct as follows:
SECTION 1: For procurement and contracting, strict compliance with R.S. 39:1481, et seq., and R.S. 39:1551, et seq., shall not be required. However, all State agencies should comply with the following conditions:
A. An appointed official within the agency, or the equivalent for elected officials in higher education, must determine that the failure to strictly comply with the statutory restriction is necessary due to the emergency;
B. A centralized point of contact for each agency must monitor all transactions conducted without strict statutory compliance, maintaining copies of all documentation. Documentation should specify whether the purchase falls into the "emergency" or "permanent" category and whether the purchase relates to Hurricane Isaac and all documentation must be maintained and available for audit and FEMA reimbursement purposes;
C. Written competitive quotes and/or offers must be obtained whenever possible and agencies must take the necessary steps to assess that fair and equitable pricing is being offered;
D. Performance-based contracting should be used where practical;
E. Statewide contracts should be used where practical;
F. To the maximum extent possible, such emergency contracts should be only for the duration of the emergency or to allow the agency time to comply with normal competitive bidding requirements if the goods or services will be required for an extended period of time;
G. Copies of contracts which would otherwise require approval by the Office of Contractual Review or the Office of State Purchasing and the supporting documentation discussed above must be provided to these agencies within 30 days or sooner, if practical. Additionally, ISIS agencies should enter small purchases into the AGPS/CFMS database as soon as practical. The Office of Contractual Review or the Office of State Purchasing shall review the contracts and documentation to determine compliance with this Executive Order; and
H. Payments to contractors should be made only after verification that all goods and services meet contract requirements.
SECTION 2: The Inspector General is directed and authorized to monitor those transactions conducted outside the scope of regulatory statutes, orders, rules and regulations to insure that those transactions are directly related to the emergency situation and are prudently handled and, if any inappropriate transactions are noted, those situations shall be reported directly to the Governor.
SECTION 3: All cabinet members, statewide elected officials and department heads are authorized to transfer the directions, job assignments, personnel, and functions of their departments for the purpose of performing or facilitating emergency services as necessary.
SECTION 4: All available resources of state government should be utilized as reasonably necessary to cope with this emergency.
SECTION 5: This Order is effective upon signature and shall remain in effect until amended, modified, terminated or rescinded by the Governor, or terminated by operation of law.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand officially and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of Louisiana, at the Capitol, in the city of Baton Rouge, on this 28th day of August, 2012.
Bobby Jindal
Tom Schedler
Secretary of State


text: Home > Focus Key political risks to watch in the Philippines By Manuel Mogato, Reuters Posted at Feb 20 2013 12:15 PM | Updated as of Feb 20 2013 08:15 PM Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MANILA - The government and the country's largest Muslim rebel group have agreed a preliminary deal that may end a 40-year conflict that has killed more than 120,000 and displaced 2 million. President Benigno Aquino hopes this will pave the way for economic growth and development in the south, a poor region but one that sits on considerable resources. Moody's upgraded its ratings of the county in October, following Standard & Poor's in July, though S&P said further upgrades depend on Manila raising income levels or sustaining revenue reforms. In 2012, the economy grew 6.6 percent, beating expectations and putting its rate of expansion second only to China. Still, much of the country is dilapidated and vulnerable to natural disaster. Typhoon Bopha (Pablo) killed thousands in the south late last year, and heavy rains in August swamped huge swathes of Manila, killing more than 100 people and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. Internationally, by far the greatest concern is the South China Sea, contested waters where the US-backed Philippines are increasingly running up against China. Following is a summary of political risks to watch: INTERNAL SECURITY Negotiators from the government and the Muslim rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) reached a deal on a roadmap to set up a new autonomous Bangsamoro region in the south of the mainly Roman Catholic state, signaling an end to a long insurgency. Still, the 11,000-member MILF is not the only active rebel group. Maoist guerrillas have attacked private mining projects on southern island Mindanao, destroying around $70 million worth of equipment, and threatening more attacks. In general, internal security remains weak, persistently highlighted by foreign embassies in travel advisories, with law enforcement hobbled by corruption, lack of police resources, and easy availability of guns on the street. What to watch: - Implementation of the political deal to set up an autonomous region. This will include the demobilization, disarmament and reintegration of former Muslim rebel fighters, imposition of local taxes to cut government subsidies, and revenue-sharing arrangements with oil and gas producers. - Any more attacks on mines or other businesses, and how investors respond. The Philippine army has said it lacks the resources, so has asked firms to hire private militias to guard their businesses. SOUTH CHINA SEA The Philippines is at the centre of Asia's most likely military flashpoint: the South China Sea. Last year a regional summit failed to agree a position on the competing claims of various nations, and what appears to be the increasing alignment of Washington with Manila risks infuriating China. In January the Philippines asked an international tribunal to intervene in its longstanding dispute with China and declare that Beijing's claims are invalid, a move China rejected. That came soon after U.S. and Philippine officials agreed on an increase in the number of U.S. military ships, aircraft and troops rotating through the Philippines, though officials from both countries say there is no plan to revive permanent U.S. military bases there. Manila will not surrender claims to its exclusive economic zone, as defined by the United Nations, but it cannot hope to confront China militarily. Beijing wants one-one-negotiations, but Manila and other claimants prefer a multilateral approach, which opens the way for an indirect role for the United States. China wants the United States to stay out of the dispute. What to watch: - New security arrangements between Washington and Manila to increase the U.S. military footprint in the Philippines, the U.S. fighter jets and warships the Philippines is able to buy, and how China responds to any Filipino military buildup. - Any action taken by the tribunal of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on Manila's request for intervention. - Fresh approaches by Manila to pursue its claims on the disputed Spratly Islands. Aquino has said Manila is looking into at least five other options to pursue its claims after China rejected arbitration, including asking for intervention from the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Germany. Commercial activity in the South China Sea. Manila has accepted exploration bids on two oil and gas in the disputed areas, and an Anglo-Filipino company may start drilling oil wells later this year in the Reed Bank, another area claimed by China. - Spending on upgrades of air and naval equipment, including radar stations. The Philippines plans to roll out $1.8 billion in defense spending in the next four years, but says its actions are not aggressive. ECONOMIC GROWTH; CHURCH V STATE? Mining firms want the Philippines to lift an 18-month moratorium on new projects, but this will not happen until lawmakers approve new legislation on mineral revenues and a presidential executive order is signed. Congressional approval is likely to hold up permits further, stalling up to $12 billion in new investments planned over the next five years, including Southeast Asia's biggest undeveloped copper-gold mine, the $5.9 billion Tampakan project by global miner Xstrata Plc and Australia's Indophil Resources NL in the south of the country. Still, the economy is performing well. With 6.6 percent growth in 2012, the Philippines is an example of expansion in contrast to Europe and the United States. Authorities are struggling to control an inflow of capital that has pushed up the currency and threatens asset price bubbles, and government is concerned about the impact of a strong peso on the competitiveness of its exports and the growing outsourcing sector. Separately, Parliament approved in December a highly controversial reproductive health bill, requiring the government to hand out contraceptives to poor people, a policy bitterly opposed by the Catholic church. The move, the first time in more than a decade an elected politician has taken on the bishops and won, was a sign of Aquino's confidence and his bedrock of national support, but is unlikely to be the last battle between church and state. What to watch: - Possible ratings upgrades after the passage of new alcohol and tobacco sales tax rates. The tax reform measures are likely to push the Philippines towards investment grade. - When the mining moratorium is lifted, and how quickly resources firms start work on new projects. - Growth figures, and central bank policy moves. - Political fallout from Aquino's challenge to the influential Roman Catholic bishops in pushing reform of contraception laws. Share Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Section Main Story,Focus,MILF,peace deal,philippines,china,economy,west philippine sea,halalan2013 Read More: MILF peace deal philippines china economy west philippine sea halalan2013


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Do you know any collaborative translation tool?
I've seen the suggestions in this answer, but I'm specifically searching for a tool to translate books (so large documents made of paragraphs, mostly), with possibility for other users to check/correct/validate other users' translations, roles (admins, validators...), and if possible something that has a nice API so I can convert the result into LaTeX to publish the book.
The tool could be SaaS (preferably free) or open-source (to be hosted on LAMP or similar).


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Steve Job's commencement address at Stanford last June has certainly made the rounds by now. That doesn't make it less timely or less valuable. Unlike the pompous proclamations of many speakers, Mr. Job's words seem real, heartfelt and wise.
He told three personal stories, all of them cautionary tales. The last one seems most relevant at this time of year:
"About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months..."
"I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy... I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery...."
"No one wants to die...And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent."
We all need to get our spiritual lives in order. We all want to "repent the day before we die." We don't want to leave behind resentments, regrets, fractured relationships. Many of us understand this intellectually.
But understanding and practice can be miles apart. We'd like to live with this recognition before we're forced to do so. We'd like to grow and change on a daily, even hourly basis. We'd like to repair our relationships and reap the rewards in this world, not wait until the last minute. We'd like to wake up today. But frequently we don't unless we're forced to.
Steve Jobs, by his own account, was forced to. Thank God, his story has a happy outcome -- in all respects.
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectation, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important...".
Like those listening Stanford graduates, we all have the world before us, and we can all make choices about how to live it.
Steve Jobs received a relatively mild wake-up call. He chose to learn and grow from it. And he chose to share his wisdom with us so that hopefully we won't need our own private message.


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Herschel Project Scientist: An interview with Göran Pilbratt
What is it that you personally most await from this mission?
Clearly, Herschel will enable a big step forward in our understanding of how stars and galaxies form and evolve, unveiling some of the many secrets still hidden. Ultimately, the mission will answer questions about our own Galaxy, our star, its planets, moons and comets; and about us. We're trying answer: how did all this come about, how the Universe became what it is, and where we fit in.
According to you, what does the scientific community most await?
Different people in the community will give you different answers depending on their particular interests, but these answers will all revolve around galaxies and stars, their planetary systems, and the interstellar medium out of which they form. To all of them, Herschel will provide observing opportunities that have not been available before!
What do you think the greatest scientific challenges will be, once the mission is in place and starts collecting data?
One reason why a mission like Herschel has not been done before, is because it is difficult to implement, it is such a challenge. To an important extent, we are doing things for the first time. Although we have an idea, in fact a plan, obviously, we will have to learn how best to use our observatory as we go, how to reduce the data we get from observations, and how to interpret the results. We are breaking new ground!
Would you share with us what fascinates you most about this particular field?
Herschel's part of the spectrum, the far infrared, is the last poorly explored 'gap' in the spectrum, between the infrared and the radio. We may find types of galaxies not known to or recognised to exist. We will look into nurseries of stars in our galactic neighbourhood and we will really peer into the wombs of as yet unborn stars.
Is the spacecraft and the mission, now that it is ready, vastly different from what you imagined when it was first proposed more than two decades ago?
[A resounding yes!]
The science instruments have been changing constantly and we have had several different telescope concepts; but possibly the most remarkable difference is that when FIRST was confirmed the fourth cornerstone mission in 1993, the spacecraft did not have a cryostat at all, but was equipped with a big battery of cooling machines. The cryostat was brought back into the design after its success on ISO. The mission we are flying today is much more powerful than the one put on my desk in 1991.
You, as other scientists here at ESA, are an inspiration to young kids out there wanting to study science and about space. Did you ever dream about this? What would you tell all of those aspiring scientists out there?
I remember that when I went to school as a kid, I was already very interested in astronomy. I'm not sure how it started, but I always read a lot when I was young. But I never saw it as a possible way to make a living, a possible career if you like, until much later when I started on my PhD. I was never even an 'amateur' astronomer.
When it is time to make fundamental choices in life, you should follow your heart, I certainly never chose an education because it would be 'useful', and every single course that I chose, I did because it interested me.
Göran Pilbratt
ESA Herschel Project Scientist
Born: 20 January 1956 in Göteborg, Sweden
Göran received his PhD from Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden in 1986. His thesis topic was 'Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations of superluminal sources'.
In the same year, he joined ESA as a Research Fellow and was initially involved in ESA studies on space-based VLBI missions. He was appointed ESA Staff Scientist in 1988.
In 1991, Göran was appointed Study Scientist for FIRST, and became Project Scientist for the mission in 1995. Following his proposal, the mission was renamed Herschel in December 2000 to celebrate the bicentenary of the discovery of infrared light by William Herschel.
Göran lives in the Netherlands. When not working, he likes to be on the water, sailing, under water, diving, or on frozen water skiing, and enjoys good meals before and after these activities. He also enjoys reading.


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|route = bicycle
|Rutas ciclistas o rutas para bicicletas nombradas, numeradas o señalizadas de cualquier otra forma como tal, pudiendo transcurrir a lo largo de convencionales, pistas forestales o sendas ciclistas exclusivas.
|Grupo: Ruta
|Usado en estos elementos
|Combinaciones útiles
|Buscar Wikidata
|Estado: de facto
|Herramientas para esta etiqueta
|Cycle routes: puede tener carencias, errores no corregidos o partes que todavía no han sido traducidas.
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Bicycle routes or bike routes.
- 1 Rendered Cycle Maps
- 2 Tagging cycle route networks
- 3 Tagging cycle node networks
- 4 Relations
- 5 Mountainbike routes
- 6 Usage
- 6.1 Transnational
- 6.2 Australia
- 6.3 Austria
- 6.4 Belgium
- 6.5 Baltic States: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
- 6.6 Canada
- 6.7 Czechia
- 6.8 Denmark
- 6.9 France
- 6.10 Finland
- 6.11 Germany
- 6.12 Hungary
- 6.13 Iceland
- 6.14 Italy
- 6.15 Luxembourg
- 6.16 Netherlands
- 6.17 Norway
- 6.18 Slovakia
- 6.19 Spain
- 6.20 Sweden
- 6.21 Switzerland
- 6.22 United Kingdom
- 6.23 United States
- 7 Related pages
Rendered Cycle Maps
Just looking for bicycle maps and bike maps?
|international cycling map created from OSM data is available, provided by Andy Allan. The map rendering is still being improved, the data are updated every few days. It shows National Cycle Network cycle routes, other regional and local routes, and other cycling-specific features, such as:
|CyclOSM A free cycle-oriented map with more features than OpenCycleMap. See its wiki page CyclOSM.
|Waymarked Trails: Cycling by Sarah Hoffman is a layer superimposed over mapnik (Standard Map Layer) which shows marked cycle routes around the world. Updated minutely, it renders actual routes without the state=proposed tag. Therefore no proposed routes (or proposed numbering protocols) are displayed.
Tagging cycle route networks
Four levels of hierarchy are currently in use: international, national, regional, and local. Routes may be marked by tagging each way according to the following table. For an alternative using relations that will also be rendered on the cycle map, see Relations/Routes#Cycle routes (also mountain bike).
It is often better to use relations to tag cycle routes rather than the tags in this table (see below for the relation tagging scheme). But please check that a relation doesn't already exist before creating one.
|Designates that a road or path is part of an International Cycling Network route.
|Designates that a road or path is part of a National Cycling Network route.
|Designates that a road or path is part of a proposed National Cycling Network route.
|rcn=yes / proposed
|As above, but for regional cycle routes.
|lcn=yes / proposed
|As above, but for local cycle routes.
|A international cycle route, where number is the route number. icn=yes is implied
|A national cycle route, where number is the route number. ncn=yes is implied
|A regional cycle route, where number is the route number. rcn=yes is implied
|A local cycle route, where number is the route number. lcn=yes is implied
route=ncn was previously used, but is currently deprecated due to clashing with other routes that may share the same way.
Tagging cycle node networks
Cycle node networks (for example look here) are common in the Netherlands, Belgium an Germany, but not in the UK. In contrast to the standard cycle route networks, where the path has a reference number, in a cycle node network the junctions are numbered. Signs along the way indicate the junction you are heading towards, so a given path will have a sign pointing in one direction indicating "1" and in the other direction indicating "4".
We use the same tags, but apply the reference numbers to the junction nodes. The same principles could in principle be used for national and local cycle node networks, but currently regional is in main use in both Belgium and The Netherlands.
|Designates that a road or path is part of a Regional cycle node network
|Designates that the node represents a numbered junction in the regional cycle node network
Please refer to the pages below for country specific details:
An expanded way of tagging cycle node networks, which is currently already being employed in parts of Belgium and The Netherlands, is described at Cycle Node Network Tagging.
It is preferred to tag the cycle routes using relations instead of tagging the ways. But please check that a relation doesn't already exist for your chosen route before creating one. Links to country-specific overview pages of cycle networks are below.
The tags on the relation are slightly modified from the standard tags. An example cycle route relation would have the following tags:
|See mountainbike for details on tagging mountainbike routes.
|Specify the network as an international route, a national route, a regional route, or a local route, as per the normal tagging of cycle routes. For tagging mountainbike routes more specific look here mountainbike
|(optional) In countries that have (for instance) multiple regional route networks, this tag indicates the specific route system, much the way network=* does on road route relations.
|(optional) NCN, RCN, and LCN references work best on the map if just the number is used, so for NCN 4: "4". The network or cycle_network tag correctly distinguishes the type, so just use "ref" and not "ncn_ref" or similar.
|(optional) The name of the route e.g. Jubilee Cycle Way
|(optional) Routes are sometimes not official routes pending some negotiation or development -- the opencyclemap rendering shows these routes dotted.
|distance=distance in km
|(optional) The distance covered by a route in km
|ascent=ascent in m
|(optional) The ascent covered by a route in meters. If a route has start and end point at different altitude use descent too
|descent=descent in m
|(optional) The descent covered by a route in meters. Use it only if it differs from the ascent (different altitude at start/endpoint of a route).
|(optional) Use roundtrip=no to indicate that a route goes from A to B. Use roundtrip=yes to indicate that the start and finish of the route are at the same location (circular route).
Relation role: Cycle routes sometimes have different paths depending on the direction you are travelling. In this case, ways in the relation should have a role of forward or backward as described in Relation:route#Members. The direction is rendered on the cycle map (example).
Mountainbike routes
- See Mountainbiketours for cycle routes that are primarily for mountainbikes.
- Additionally, have a look at the Mountainbike portal for tagging guidelines to ways suitable for mountainbiking.
Since the tagging is generic, it is up to each country to decide how to map the cycle networks that exist in their country onto the hierarchy of national/regional/local.
The EuroVelo (wikipedia) network consists of 13 routes, with a total distance of 72,978 km, developed by the European Cyclists' Federation. The route references are in the format EVxy, e.g. EV12 for the North Sea Cycle Route.
See the European Wikiproject EuroVelo for further details.
The Greenway Project aims to build an international network of bicycle and other non-motorized trails focussed on Eastern European countries. The motivation is to provide local people and visitors with access to natural and cultural heritage areas.
See the European Wikiproject Greenways for further details.
Western Australia
See: Western Australia
See: WikiProject Austria/Radwege
See the Belgian cycle route conventions and their project page for full details.
Baltic States: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
The project BaltiCCycle.eu collects all information on cycling in the Baltic States (BaltiCCycle.eu_Routes)including the International Routes EuroVelo, R1, Iron Curtain Trail, the National Cycling Routes in Estonia (EstoVelo)
- Canada#Trans Canada Trail
- Fr:Route verte (Québec)
See: Da:Bicycle/Network-Routes
See: Fi:Valtakunnalliset pyörämatkailureitit
See DE:Bicycle/Fahrradroutensammlungen for overview of German cycle route collections.
See WikiProject Hungary/Kerékpárút for overview of Hungarian cycle route collections.
See WikiProject Iceland/Cycleways for an overview of Icelandic cycle routes and ways.
See WikiProject Italy/Ciclovie for an overview of Italian cycle route collections.
See WikiProject Luxembourg/Cycle Route Network for an overview of Luxembourgish cycle route network (Pistes cyclables).
Zie: Fietsroutes.
See WikiProject Norway/Sykkelruter i Norge.
See Slovak Cycling Routes for full details.
See Spanish Cycling Network for full details.
See Swedish Cycling Network for full details.
See Swiss Cycle Network and Swiss Mountain Bike Network for full details.
United Kingdom
Note: CycleStreets is a major user of cycling-related data in the UK area. Information on its interpretation of tags may be of interest (and the developers strongly welcome feedback on this).
CycleStreets has produced a fully-designed and downloadable 'Get mapping' guide, with particular focus on adding data for improving bicycle routing.
|Sustrans' National Cycle Network National routes (red numbers). See WikiProject United Kingdom National Cycle Network for a list and to see if a relation has already been set up. References shouldn't be given a prefix i.e. use 54 and not N54. Remember to map the mileposts too - see WikiProject_United_Kingdom_Sustrans_Mileposts.
|Add to an existing relation or create a new relation or use ncn=*, ncn_ref=*
|Sustrans' National Cycle Network Regional routes (blue numbers). See WikiProject United Kingdom National Cycle Network too for a list and to see if a relation has already been set up. References shouldn't be given a prefix i.e. use 47 and not R47.
|Add to an existing relation or create a new relation or use rcn=*, rcn_ref=*
(Sign showing both national and regional spur).
|LCC's London Cycle Network. See WikiProject United Kingdom London Cycle Network.
|lcn=*, lcn_ref=*
|Ipswich, other towns etc. local cycle networks
|lcn=*, lcn_ref=*
|The National Byway
See National Byway.
|The Pennine Bridleway, a 209 km route parallel to the Pennine Way hiking trail
|The Scottish Borders region has several signed long distance routes: the Border Loop (402 km), North Sea Cycle Route, Southern Borders Loop, 4 Abbeys Cycle route, Tweed Cycleway. There is also a signed local network depicted by coloured circles
|Border Loop 149461 149461
4 Abbeys 3159944 3159944
Tweed cycleway 3160049 3160049
United States
See United States Bicycle Networks and U.S. Bicycle Route System for full details.
Related pages
- Bicycle tags on OSM A slippy map that renders cycling related OSM tags
- Cheltenham Standard - a discussion of how to tag the suitability for cycles of all-purpose roads
- Cycle_routes/cyclability
- amenity=bicycle_parking
- amenity=bicycle_rental
- shop=bicycle
- vending=bicycle_tube
- barrier=cycle_barrier
- reference=* - motor vehicle routes
- crossing=*
- WikiProject_U.S._Bicycle_Route_System
- WikiProject Europe/EuroVelo


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