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Dr. Daniel J. Siegel TED talk – Dr. Dan Siegel speaks at TED
Dr. Daniel J. Siegel speaks at Ted about Mindsight, the neuroscience research which supports it. And about the time when he almost became a fisherman on West Vancouver Island…
As reported on Wikipedia, Dr. Daniel J. Siegel completed his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his post-graduate medical education at UCLA. His training is in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. Siegel was the recipient of the UCLA psychiatry department's teaching award and several honorary fellowships for his work as director of UCLA's training program in child psychiatry and the Infant and Preschool Service at UCLA.
Siegel is the author of several books on parenting and child development including The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being published by WW Norton in 2007, W W Norton page, The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience published by the Guilford Press in 1999 and Parenting from the Inside Out, which he co-wrote with Mary Hartzell in 2003 and was published by Tarcher.
Siegel is known for his work in Interpersonal Neurobiology, which is an interdisciplinary view of life experience that draws on over a dozen branches of science to create a framework for understanding of our subjective and interpersonal lives. Source – The Developing Mind (Siegel 1999).
Siegel's most recent work integrates the theories of Interpersonal Neurobiology with the theories of Mindfulness Practice and proposes that mindfulness practice is a highly developed process of both inter and intra personal attunement. Source – The Mindful Brain (Siegel 2007)
On October 2nd, 2009, Siegel was a guest presenter at the Greater Good Science Center Science of a Meaningful Life seminar "Forgiveness and Mindsight", along with psychologist Frederic Luskin. Together they offered tactics on promoting one's social and emotional well-being.
Dr. Dan Siegel works
– The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical Practice (WW Norton & Company: New York, 2009). Co-edited with Diana Fosha and Marion F. Solomon.
– Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body and Brain (WW Norton & Company: New York, 2003). Co-edited with Marion Solomon.
– The Mindful-Brain-in-Psychotherapy/ The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (WW Norton & Company, 2007).
– The-Mindful-Therapist/ The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration (WW Norton & Company, 2010).
– Forward to Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy by Kekuni Minton, Pat Ogden, and Clare Pain (WW Norton & Company, 2006).


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Apple has just released iOS 6.1.1 (build 10B145) for iPhone 4S.
The update fixes the 3G connectivity issues that was affecting iPhone 4S users, which we had reported over the weekend.
From the release notes:
This update fixes an issue that could impact cellular performance and reliability for iPhone 4S.
It is currently available via OTA. It is 23MB in size.
Jailbreakers should avoid upgrading your iOS device to iOS 6.1.1, until the evad3rs dev team release a new version of evasi0n jailbreak for it. Jailbreakers should also take a backup of the SHSB blobs for iOS 6.1 using TinyUmbrella before Apple stops signing iOS 6.1 firmware file, if you haven't jailbroken your iOS device with evasi0n yet.
It's quite strange that Apple has released an update only for iPhone 4S, as iOS 6.1.1 beta that was seeded last week was available for all iOS devices.
If you were facing the 3G connectivity issues, then let me know if things have improved after installing the update.
Update 1:
You download iOS 6.1.1 for iPhone 4S directly from here.
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planetbeing of evad3rs dev team has confirmed that evasi0n jailbreak still works with iOS 6.1.1. They will be releasing an update to support iOS 6.1.1 shortly.


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Note: Please see 1 of 5 for introduction. –SB
Now when these things begin to happen,
look up and lift up your heads,
because your redemption draws near.
. . . NASA has projected that the [next] Tetrad will begin [in] April 2014 and end in September 2015. [ http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html .] It will occur in the following sequence:
- Passover, April 15, 2014
- Feast of Tabernacles, October 8, 2014
- Passover, April 4, 2015
- Feast of Tabernacles, September 28, 2015
. . .
After the appearance of the second Blood Moon and before the third Blood Moon there will be a total solar eclipse on March 20, 2015.
What is the prophetic significance of these Four Blood Moons?
To help answer this very important question, we must review the journey we have taken since the beginning of this book.
It is very rare that Scripture, science, and historical events align with one another, yet the last three Four Blood Moon series or Tetrads have done exactly that. Remember, several Tetrads have occurred in the past five hundred years; only three have corresponded to the Jewish Feasts as well as being linked to historical events significant to Israel. Seven more Tetrads will take place in the twenty-first century, however only one of these seven, the Tetrad of 2014-15, will align itself with the Feasts of the Lord.
What were the common denominators of 1492, 1949, and 1967? They all centered on significant events related to Israel and the Jewish people, and they occurred on the Feasts of the Lord, but what about the future?
. . . we can rightly conclude that the next series of Four Blood Moons of 2014 and 2015 will also hold significance for Israel and the Jewish people.
Each of the three previous series of Four Blood Moons began with a trail of tears and ended with triumph for the Jewish people.
. . .
As mentioned earlier, I believe that the heavens are God's high-definition billboard. I believe that He has been sending signals and speaking to planet earth in the heavens since creation—we just haven't considered the meaning of the signals.
It bears repeating the King David acknowledged the heavens were God's billboard when he wrote:
The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament shows His handiwork.
Day unto day utters speech,
And night unto night reveals knowledge.
There is no speech nor language
Where their voice is not heard.
Their line has gone out through all the earth,
And their words to the end of the worlds.
. . .
Look at the word generation. When God was speaking to Abraham in Genesis 15, He labeled a generation as one hundred years. Some interpret the word generation in this passage as "race," meaning the Jewish people.
. . .
. . .
My parents were born at a time when the majority of people still traveled by horse-drawn carriages just as King David. In fact, not much had changed in the way of technology since the time of my great-grandparents. There were no telephones, no television, no faxes, no Xerox machines, and no computers! People communicated in person by letter, and only when someone died would you receive a telegram.
However, times have changed! Within the last few decades technology has exploded to the point that one can use a mobile phone to speak to anyone in the world and send messages via email, text, Twitter, and Facebook. We log on to the information highway by means of the Internet allowing access to any search engine available. You can watch your favorite television programs and movies through devices that can fit in your coat pocket. We share pictures, videos, and news instantly! Daily, this technology exponentially increases—just think of the number of times that you purchased the latest gizmo and it became obsolete before you walked out of the store!
There is no doubt that we are the generation that has experienced the knowledge explosion, but does more knowledge produce wisdom?
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom,
And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
. . .
The world still remembers the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were the only events in history where nuclear bombs were used in warfare. In the book of Revelation, John tells that four angels are going to be released to destroy one-third of the earth's population in one day. Before hydrogen bombs this was not possible! Now the world has enough nuclear power owned by the nations of the world to kill everyone on planet earth twenty times over.
Iran, with its radical religious leadership, has promised to share nuclear weapons with terrorist organizations around the globe. If and when Iran becomes nuclear, it will threaten and destabilize Western civilization. Iran's radical theology worships death, and a nuclear bomb will serve their theological concepts perfectly. . . .
. . . A Shemittah year occurs every seven years; it's known as a time of rest of the land much like the Sabbath, which occurs every seven days, is a time of rest for man. While observing Shemittah guarantees abundance, neglecting it leads to judgment.
Every seven years we experience a Shemittah year in which God allows something to happen that gets our undivided attention whether we are ready or not! Just look at what happened in the last several Shemittah years:
* The Shemittah year of 1973: The Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade occurred, . . .
* The Shemittah year of 1980: Saddam Hussein invaded Iran to signal the beginning of the Gulf War years.
* The Shemittah year of 1987: A supernova that could be seen by the naked eye for the first time since 1604 occurred. . . . That same year the U.S. stock market crashed.
* The Shemittah year of 1994: Yasser Arafat returns to the Middle East. A rare earthquake occurred in North America on the New Madrid fault line; it spanned the Midwest of the United States up to Canada.
* The Shemittah year of 2001: America was attacked by radical Islamic terrorists killing nearly three thousand Americans on 9/11. This day became America's new day of infamy.
* The Shemittah year of 2008: America experienced a stock market crash on September 29 when the market fell 777 points in one day. It was the greatest one-day decline in the history of Wall Street.
Add seven years to 2008, and you have the year 2015, in which you also find the last two Four Blood Moons of 2014-15. . . .
We know that only three Tetrads have occurred in the last 500 years that are significant to Israel and also fall on the Jewish Feasts. We also know that these are the only Tetrads that have had a total solar eclipse somewhere within the series. The coming Tetrad in 2014-15 will also contain a total solar eclipse within its series. But what is different between the previous three Tetrads significant to Israel and the coming Tetrad?
Unlike the others, this series of Four Blood Moons contains a Shemittah year beginning September 25, 2014, and concluding on September 13, 2015. Astoundingly, this Shemittah year will begin on the first day of the Jewish New Year (Feast of Trumpets) of 2014 and conclude on the following celebration of the Jewish New Year (Feast of Trumpets) in 2015. Follow this phenomenon:
* The occurrence of a lunar eclipse is common.
* The occurrence of a total lunar eclipse is less common.
* The occurrence of a Tetrad or four consecutive Blood Moons (total lunar eclipses) is rare.
* The occurrence of a Tetrad with a total solar eclipse within its series is very rare.
* A Tetrad with a total solar eclipse that is significant to Israel's history and the Jewish Feasts is very, very rare.
* The occurrence of a Tetrad with a total solar eclipse historically significant to Israel and Jewish Feasts that includes a Shemittah year within its series is very, very, very rare.
* But a Tetrad with a total solar eclipse, historically significant to Israel and falling on the Jewish Feast with a Shemittah year that corresponds with the Feast of Trumpets (the Jewish New Year) within its series is astronomically rare.
. . .
. . .
The coming Four Blood Moons are aligning themselves, the next Shemittah year is nearing, the sages of old have foretold of events past and those to come, the enemies of Israel are surrounding the Land of Covenant once again, the signs of the terminal generation are complete. . . .
The fourth series of Four Blood Moons is coming! They are extremely rare even by scientific standards. God is shouting to us, "Something big is about to happen!" . . .
What they are telling us is that God is getting ready to change the course of human history once again [akin to the secular monolith in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey? –SB]. He is preparing to display the next series of signs in the heavens. What is going to happen?
. . .
Watch and pray! Be prepared, . . . The Church is soon to leave the world. We are seeing signs of the end of this age.
. . .
There will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the
stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with per-
plexity, the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts fail-
ing them from fear and the expectation of those things
which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the
heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of
Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Now when these things begin to happen, look up and
lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.


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We're spoiled for entertainment choices here in Los Angeles; sometimes I feel almost paralyzed by cultural options and end up in an almost catatonic state listening to old episodes of Dragnet. That almost happened the other day, when I was torn between whether to go to KDAY's Fresh Fest or Center for the Art of Performance's Ukrainian Block Party. South Los Angeles's Westside or the Westside Westside? UCLA territory or USC? The 2 or the 92?
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The Carnegie UK Trust was set up by Andrew Carnegie in 1913 to improve the wellbeing of the people of the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is one of the oldest and most respected charitable trusts in the British Isles.
To celebrate its centenary year in 2013, the Trust developed an exciting interactive timeline where you can explore highlights from the Trust's work over the past 100 years.
A book charting 100 years of the Carnegie UK Trust was published in April 2013.
Pioneering Philanthropy – 100 years of the Carnegie UK Trust looks at the broad range of work which the Trust has been involved with and highlights the Trust's contribution to the physical, social and cultural landscape of the UK and Ireland. The book is illustrated with material from our archives, tells stories of pioneering initiatives throughout the UK and Ireland, and shows how the Trust has been involved with many developments which have created the world we live in today.
The Trust plans to mark our involvement in music throughout our history by supporting two initiatives as part of our centenary celebrations.
A CD of Tudor church music drawn from the ten volumes published by the Trust in the 1920s was recorded by vocal group Stile Antico on the Harmonia Mundi label.
Titled The Phoenix Rising, the album was released in 2013 and listed as Amazon's 'Classical Album of the Year'.
Stile Antico performed this programme in several concerts across the UK and Ireland. More information is available via the Stile Antico website. To view a performance of The Pheonix Rising arranged by Sinfini Music click here.
The Trust commissioned six new arrangements of Christmas carols, and one newly composed carol, for adult choirs to sing with children's choirs. The six arrangements are of well-known carols, and the new carol has been written by Paul Mealor, who is well-known for his compositions for the Military Wives Choir, and royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
The music was published by Music Sales, and we worked with Making Music to make sure choirs all around the country were told about these new pieces and encouraged to perform them in 2013.
More information about the project can be found here.
We have digitised the Trust's minutes and reports from the last 100 years, which means they are now available online for anyone to view. Click here to explore the archive.
These materials will be particularly interesting for organisations which have received funding from the Trust in the past. If you find a particularly interesting story about your organisation or about a project which the Trust has supported we would love to hear about it - particularly if you think we should highlight it in the timeline. You can contact us at [email protected].
The Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy was hosted in Edinburgh on Thursday 17 October 2013 to mark the Carnegie UK Trust's centenary. The event took place at the Scottish Parliament, thanks to the support of the Presiding Officer, and was jointly hosted by the UK-based Carnegie Trusts.
This award is given every two years to one or more individuals who, like Andrew Carnegie, have dedicated their private wealth to public good, and who have sustained impressive careers as philanthropists. In 2013, the Medals Ceremony in Edinburgh was accompanied by a week of events celebrating the legacy of Andrew Carnegie.
For more information about the 2013 events click here.
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RWTH has been offering its employees the AVV Job Ticket since 2011. AVV Job Tickets are discounted transit passes for employees at companies or institutions. The Job Ticket aims to make using public transportation more attractive and reduce the use of personal vehicles.
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The job ticket contract with ASEAG and AVV has been extended for the period July 1, 2019 to December 31, 2020. Below you can find information on the online application process and on current job ticket prices.
Who can acquire an AVV Job Ticket?
Basically all public servants, employees, and apprentices of RWTH may acquire an AVV Job Ticket.
Except for the following individuals:
- Student and enrolled scientific assistants
- Employees who are simultaneously enrolled and are allowed to use a Semester Ticket
- Disabled individuals with a valid pass who have a token for free rides on public transportation
- Public servants on parental leave except those who are still working with less hours during the legal period before the parental leave starts
- Employees on maternity leave
- Public servants who are suspended or on sabbatical without pay
- Chronically sick RWTH employees who are receiving benefits from the Job Center and those in partial retirement who are no longer employed at RWTH
- Part-time employees in accordance with Section 8, Para 1, 1 of the Social Code IV – so-called "450-euro jobs" or those whose working hours amount to under half the monthly collectively agreed or standard company working time
- Visiting researchers, private lecturers, unbudgeted professors, and contract lecturers, if they do not have any other employment status or relationship with RWTH that authorizes them to acquire a job ticket, for example wissenschaftliche Beamte or academic staff
- Medical personnel, who work as part of the University Medical Center, specifically those who fall under Section 2 Paragraph 4 of the Cooperative Agreement between RWTH and Uniklinik RWTH Aachen from August 26, 2004
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The Job Ticket is valid in the second class of all of the buses and trains in the Aachener Verkehrsverbund, AVV for short. Outside the city of Aachen, the AVV encompasses the Aachen city region, the districts of Düren and Heinsberg and many neighboring communities in the VRS area.
You can also go to neighboring counties with your Job Ticket on certain bus lines. An overview is available in the document AVV Areas of Validity.
Travel Times
You can use your ticket around the clock and during your free time. The ticket can be used as a family and group ticket during the week starting at 7pm and on the weekend and on federal holidays. On these days, an additional adult and up to three children under 15 years of age can travel with you free of charge. This does not apply to the AVV Job Ticket for apprentices.
The price of the AVV Job Ticket at RWTH depends on your city of residence, that is the zip code registered with the Human Resources Department, and its respective tarif zone.
The prices for 2015 to 2019 are listed here, with the prices for 2020 in the appendix. The price for apprentices remains the same regardless of the place of residence.
Services connected to the ticket are the same for all employees, regardless of your place of residence.
Prices for the AVV Job Ticket for 2020
ASEAG will increase the prices for the AVV job ticket effective January 1, 2020.
The monthly prices for the job ticket are as follows for 2020:
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Monthly Price
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- As a monthly subscription of an additional 90,20 euros for rides in a part of the VRR for employees who live in certain communities in the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr or VRR zone.
- As a monthly subscription for an additional 37 Euros for adults and 21,50 euros for apprentices (region3tarif) for bus rides that cross border areas in the three-country point
The prices for the supplemental tickets are deterimed by the participating transportation assocations.
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Job ticket holdes can purchase so-called EinfachWeiterTickets (de) for individual rides into a neighboring Verkehrsverbund – a region outside the area of validity of the job ticket.
Please use the online form below to apply for a Job Ticket and/or Parking Permit.
You will need your TIM ID and password. After completing the application the Job Ticket will be sent to your person address.
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One of my favorite songs is Puff (the Magic Dragon) by Peter, Paul and Mary.
However, the way the song ends always depresses me. I get the feeling PPM didn't really like the way it ended either, as when they perform it, they end the chorus in the present tense.
Just last night, I I got an inspiration for another verse to the song, and would like to share it with you:
Yet in the midst of sorrow,
Puff got a big surprise.
A little girl with golden curl
And wonder in her eyes.
And so for our good dragon
The story starts anew;
Fresh adventures begin
With brand new friends,
Who knows? One might be you!
And then the chorus, now in the present tense.
What do you think? Does this verse complete the song? I wish I could get in touch with Peter Yarrow to see what he thinks of it. From what I've read, there IS a lost verse to the song where Puff finds a new friend, but the two authors can't remember what it is.


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Electronics supplier SparkFun designs dozens of products a year and they haven't patented a single one. It's worked out pretty well so far.
SparkFun is a DIY hardware supplier. It makes its living by shipping kits and components like bread boards, servo motors and Arduino parts to a mixture of students, hobbyists, and professionals making prototypes. Most of the stuff they sell is sourced from other suppliers, but where the company has made its name is in a stable of its own custom parts and kits, the designs for which it gives away for free.
"Every time I hear that a class of 8th graders are learning how to blink LEDs I realize that we're making a difference," says CEO Nathan Seidle in a post celebrating the company's 10th anniversary. "I also get the uneasy feeling that I could easily be replaced by a 15-year-old in a few years' time."
Always Designing the Next Thing
In an era of bloody patent warfare and venture capitalists obsessed with the secret sauce, this approach — common among maker suppliers — is striking. You can't help but wonder if Seidle could worry less about those fifteen year olds, if he'd stop giving them all his secrets.
Not so, says says Lara Boudreaux, SparkFun's Marketing Department Project Manager. "We find that people will copy your design no matter what you do," she says. "You might as well just play the game and go ahead and innovate. It's fun, it keeps us on our toes."
Instead of relying on patents for protection, the team prefers to outrace other entrants in the field. "The open source model just forces us to innovate," says Boudreaux. "When we release something, we've got to be thinking about the next rev. We're doing engineering and innovating and it's what we wanna be doing and what we do well."
SparkFun's rapid turnover model is one that echoes the fashion industry. Like the electronics world, fashion is rife with copycats and rip-off artists. And while the wolf of obsolescence is always at electronics' door, the wolf of being out of style is always at the door for clothes. Like SparkFun, fashion designers don't spend much time worrying about the copyists, they just keep releasing new looks.
"I'd never thought of that parallel myself, but in a way it makes sense," says Boudreaux. "That being said, I think the innovation vs. style is an important distinction. I think it's about more than staying 'in style,' it's about staying relevant and filling the needs of the community. If SparkFun creates a breakout board for a new sensor and then the sensor is updated, we need to update the breakout board."
Their weekly new product posts feel a lot like a fashion show, but for function.Though Boudreaux is reluctant to accept the parallel, the open hardware model means that SparkFun's existence depends not on any particular product, but on an ongoing relationship with customers that's not too dissimilar to the loyalty commanded by a fashion house. By working hard to keep their service exemplary and listening to their customers, the team at SparkFun has developed a community of loyal users and fans, ready to find out what's next. Their weekly new product posts (which recently passed episode 100) feel a lot like a fashion show, but for function. Besides, the company must see at least some value in their iconic red boxes and red PCBs.
Another way to understand SparkFun is through comparison is with the actions of the patent-hoarding giants. You can learn a lot about what a company cares about by looking at what they give away and what they protect.
Apple jealously guards its hardware designs, OS, and supply chain, while giving away the Darwin core and things like webkit. Google would love to give you free storage, high quality maps, document editing suites, and a pair of OSs, but don't bother asking them to open up PageRank, Adwords, or their jealously guarded server setup. Facebook has opened up its computing infrastructure, but good luck getting a peek at its social graph.
SparkFun's trick is that they are a hardware company that only kind of sells hardware. SparkFun's actual value is in the community of fans and loyal customers that keep coming back, and the expertise under its roof in servicing their needs.
A Constantly Changing Inventory
SparkFun orders parts from 500 suppliers. Their catalog has about 2,500 items at any given time. "We introduce around 15 new products every week," says Boudreaux, and they retire products at a similar rate, due to either low sales, or obsolescence — a common scourge in high-tech industries. Of the 2,500 items, about 400 are things designed internally. They introduce a new one of these just about every week, says Boudreaux. "We retire at a slightly slower rate, I'd say two to three products we design die every month, on average."
To handle the pace of change, SparkFun needs to keep its inventory lean. "It's something that we've struggled with and we continue to struggle with," says Boudreaux. "We try to do small runs and order in small quantities. Especially something that's going to be obsolete quickly."
To help manage the demand, they use an in-house software system called Sparkle that, along with inventory and CMS management, tries to predict demand for different components and ensure they get ordered with sufficient lead time to account for how long it takes to get there.
"If we stay agile, we stay relevant."How they ensure a steady stream of new offerings? "I would say the innovation (revisions and new releases) here at SparkFun is organic and not planned," says Boudreaux, "But we do a few things to make sure we are keeping up." The team monitors all costumer feedback from emails to the comment section that is present on every page of the company's site. They also ensure that team members have time to tinker in the office, write tutorials, and visit hackerspaces and maker events. "For us, designing (and revising) widgets is the job."
Though most ideas come from SparkFun's dedicated engineering department, anyone in the company can suggest ideas and contribute designs. From there, the ideas run through an internal process of design, review, prototyping, testing and release.
"We want to get new product innovations into the hands of early adopters as soon as possible," says Boudreaux, "They eat these products up, even if the products are not ready for the mainstream & educator community due to minimal documentation or stability." Boudreaux describes a symbiotic relationship with these early adopters, where feedback helps SparkFun revised and improve products for use by the rest of the community. "We have to be willing to kill ideas that don't work, take a lot of tough criticism, and move fast. If we stay agile, we stay relevant."
Fast. But Not Too Fast
The risk of this rate of change is that SparkFun can end up outpacing some of their customers. For example, educators need to be able to rely on access to a stable product, so they can run a piece of curriculum and order new and replacement parts that still exist over the course of a year or longer. For this reason, SparkFun has started making products that step out of the frantic pace of innovation, such as their SparkFun Inventor's Kit part of its selling point is SparkFun's promise to keep it around.
"There's balance in everything," says Boudreaux, "Innovation does not necessarily need speed in order to create valuable change. Sometimes innovation works at a slower pace, but that does not mean it is any less valuable to those that benefit from it, and we are constantly balancing the needs of two very different customers."
Meanwhile, the rest of the SparkFun catalog churns on, unprotected and unencumbered by patents; racing to get the latest, coolest things in the hands of its customers.
In a recent talk, Seidle likened the alleged protections that patents offer to IP Obesity. "If your idea is unique, easily copied, and can be sold for profit in a local market, it will be," he argues. "Ok, but that's what patents are for, right? I don't think they help much. Patents can cost $30,000 to $50,000. And the USPTO is so backed up you'll have to wait three to five years to even hear back on their decision. Ask yourself, how much does technology change in five years?"
"Maybe you think I'm naive," he continues, "Maybe you think an open source company can't be scaled above 150 people. That's fine, I'm sure patents will work for you. But for myself, my 135 co-workers, 75 million dollars of sales, 600,000 customers and our 431 unpatented products wish you good luck."
Want to take them on? You could do worse than poking through the company's blog where they've been documenting production and business practices for years. Eventually, says Boudreaux, they even want to open source Sparkle. "It's a wild ride," she says, "but a fun one for sure."
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Higher sales helped Johnson & Johnson post a much bigger fourth-quarter profit than a year ago, when a slew of charges depressed results.
The New Brunswick, N.J., company says net income was $2.57 billion, or 91 cents per share, up from $218 million, or 8 cents per share, in 2011's fourth quarter.
Excluding about $800 million in one-time acquisition and litigation charges, earnings in the latest quarter would have been $3.38 billion, or $1.19 per share. That beat the expectation of analysts by 2 cents per share.
The maker of prescription drugs, consumer health products and medical devices says revenue totalled $17.56 billion, just shy of analysts' average estimate of $17.69 billion.
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Anthony Weiner may be poised for a political comeback, at least according to some of the shadowy sources the New York Post tapped for its report. The former congressman has what the Post describes as a "$4.5 million political war chest," along with a little extra motivation to get back in the game as soon as possible — the public match on his campaign funds is set to expire in 2013.
Though Weiner reportedly has mayoral ambitions, hooded sources speaking from behind veils of steam in the back-alleys of Brooklyn say that a bid for public advocate — largely seen as a "cleansing" stepping stone on which Weiner can prove that he isn't going to send boner pics to his staffers — is more likely. "The general feeling," says a source (maybe Anthony Weiner's cat? does he have a cat?), "is that you can't text pictures of your penis to a girl, then lie about it, then get kicked out of the House and then run for mayor right after." That sort of behavior's fine for a public advocate and all, but the Mayor of New York City ought to be held to a higher standard. If the Mayor doesn't occupy the moral high ground all the time, how will he or she enforce the city's myriad Big Gulp and smoking restrictions? Don't even try to answer that question because it will literally make your head explode.
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Step One: Your first action when examining an email should be to check its subject line. Spammers try their best to make their emails look legitimate, yet an email's heading often betrays its true motive. Come-ons for things like herbal medicines and home-equity loans are usually quite easy to spot, since they often have hyperbolic headings like "Incredible Bargain," "Special Report," or "Limited Offer." Phishing messages can usually be identified by headings such as "Immediate Action Required" or "Verify Your Account." All of these emails can be erased with no regret.
Any messages without a heading should also be checked out more thoroughly, since it may be either spam or a genuinely important letter that was sent in haste.
Step Two: An email's "from" line can provide significant clues about a message's worthiness. You already know the names of people you regularly correspond with, so it's easy to spot messages from these individuals. On the other hand, emails with a from line that contains only a company name are almost always spam or phishing lures. To research any message's legitimacy, check out the email's return path to verify that it leads back to the person or organization that it purports to come from.
The trickiest emails to decipher are the ones sent by total strangers, who may be spammers or individuals posing a genuine business question or offer. The only method of determining the legitimacy of these messages is to investigate still further.
Step Three: The dates can sometimes provide a clue to an email's value, and take less than a second to check. If a message with a far past or future date suddenly arrives, it's more than likely from a spammer seeking attention.
Step Four: If you're still not sure about a particular message's authenticity, examine its content. If an email addresses you as a "friend," "valued customer," or "colleague," you can be sure that its sender doesn't know your name.
Poor grammar, bad spelling and awkward, non-native use of English are other signs that should arouse your attention. Also look for Web links that lead to suspicious sites (such as a message from someone supposedly at Acme Co. that contains a link leading to a non-Acme Co. site). Con artists also often use URLs that resemble the name of a well-known company but are slightly altered by adding, omitting or transposing letters.
Step Five: Never open an attachment unless you know who sent it, or at least understand why it was sent to you.
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The Principalship: A Reflective Practice Perspective, Sixth EditionThomas J. Sergiovanni (0-205-57858-6)The Principalship: A Reflective Practice Perspective focuses on how school leaders can create outstanding schools using reflective practice and moral authority.New to This Edition Expanded coverage of instructional leadership emphasizes the principal's role in helping to plan, provide, and supervise teaching and learning (Chapters 12 and 13). Case studies describing effective schools encourage students to engage in decision-making about the topics discussed. Discussions about the building of communities of practice (Chapter 5) andshared leadership (Chapter 8) describe these as a way to move beyond collegiality to the development of a shared practice that is more effective for student achievement. Helping teachers become smarter at what they do, a theme of past editions, continues as a theme of this edition with an all new emphasis on the development of smart schools where individual intelligences are aggregated. Smart schools lead to smart students. "Some Reflections" features have been added to most chapters as a way to involve the reader in reflection and to provide groups of readers with a shared experience that will enrich classroom discussions. A new online Instructor's Manual with test questions is available to adopters of this text by contacting your local representative.Here's what a colleague says about this book..."One of the best, if not the best, texts ever written for aspiring school administrators. The gentle blend of theory and practicality make it a must read for aspiring school administrators. I enjoyed teaching from this text more than any other."-Philip V. Bender, Indiana State UniversitySergiovanni, Thomas J. is the author of 'Principalship', published 2008 under ISBN 9780205578580 and ISBN 0205578586.[read more]
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Following on from the earlier article on running MySQL Cluster on a single Windows host, this one looks at installing and running over multiple Windows machines.
In this post, the MySQL Cluster database will be split over 3 Windows machines:
- 2 hosts with each running 1 data node
- 3rd host running management node and 2 MySQL Servers
The first step is to download and install the software on each of the Windows hosts. There are 2 main ways that you can install MySQL Cluster on Windows – the first is an MSI installer and the second is extracting the files from a Zip archive – this article focuses on using the Zip file as the single host article used the MSI installer. You can get the Zip archive from the Cluster downloads page on mysql.com
Make sure that you choose the correct file MSI vs. Zip, 32 bit vs. 64 bit. Also make sure that you don't download the source code rather than the binaries (you can tell the source archive as it's a much smaller file).
Repeat this on each of the hosts that will run a Cluster node (or download it once and then copy it to each of the hosts).
Extract the contents of the Zip archive to "c:mysqlcluster".
I prefer to keep the configuration and data files separate from the software and so I create a new folder "MySQL_ClusterMy_Cluster" in my home directory and in there create "conf" and "data" folders. Within the "data" folder on 192.168.0.19, create a sub-folder for each of the 2 MySQL Server (mysqld) processes and then copy "c:mysqlclusterdatamysql" to each – this creates the mysql database for each of the MySQL nodes containing data such as privileges and password.
To get access to the executables from the command line, add "c:mysqlclusterbin" to the PATH environment variable.
Create a "config.ini" file within the "conf" folder that was created on the host to run the management node (ndb_mgmd) – which in this example is 192.168.0.19:
[ndbd default]
As both of the MySQL Server nodes will also run on 192.168.0.19, we create a cnf file for each of them in that same "conf" folder:
Note that the "ndb-connectstring" is not strictly needed as the MySQL Servers happen to be on the same host as the management node but they've been included to make it clearer what to change if you moved those nodes to another machine.
The information from this table can help you set up the firewall rules to allow the nodes to communitcate with each other but if possible, turn off the firewall for connections between these 3 nodes.
The next step is to start the nodes (processes) but before then, a hint.
If you run each command from a different command prompt then your screen will quickly fill with Windows. Instead, rather than just typing "c: <command>" use "c: start /B <command>" (for example "c: start /B ndbd –initial") so that multiple processes can be run from the same Window. To keep things simple, the "start /B" has been skipped for the rest of this article.
The first process to start is the management node; run the following from the "<home>DocumentsMySQL_ClusterMy_Cluster" folder on 192.168.0.19:
192.168.0.19: ndb_mgmd --initial -f conf/config.ini --configdir=./conf
Next, start the data nodes on 192.168.0.201 and 192.168.0.4:
192.168.0.201: ndbd -c 192.168.0.19:1186 --initial
192.168.0.4: ndbd -c 192.168.0.19:1186 --initial
and then finally start the MySQL Server nodes on 192.168.0.19:
192.168.0.19: mysqld --defaults-file=confmy.101.cnf
192.168.0.19: mysqld --defaults-file=confmy.102.cnf
Finally, check that all of the nodes are up and running:
192.168.0.19: ndb_mgm
-- NDB Cluster -- Management Client --
ndb_mgm> show
Connected to Management Server at: localhost:1186
Cluster Configuration
[ndbd(NDB)] 2 node(s)
id=2 @192.168.0.201 (mysql-5.1.39 ndb-7.0.9, Nodegroup: 0, Master)
id=3 @192.168.0.4 (mysql-5.1.39 ndb-7.0.9, Nodegroup: 0)
[ndb_mgmd(MGM)] 1 node(s)
id=1 @192.168.0.19 (mysql-5.1.39 ndb-7.0.9)
[mysqld(API)] 2 node(s)
id=101 @192.168.0.19 (mysql-5.1.39 ndb-7.0.9)
id=102 @192.168.0.19 (mysql-5.1.39 ndb-7.0.9)
Known limitation of running MySQL Cluster on Windows:
- No angel process for data nodes -> processes will not be automatically restarted even if you set StopOnError to FALSE
- Running nodes as Windows services is not really practical (as well as software limitations, would still need to activate processes through ndb_mgm)
- Safe to run management node or MySQL Servers (or NDB API Apps) on Windows in production: will soon be supported
- See open MySQL Cluster bugs reported for Windows:
- You tell us! Help us get to GA quality on Windows:
- bugs.mysql.com
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"The new storage infrastructure, comprising ETERNUS DX systems and DataCore SANsymphony, has allowed us to significantly improve redundancy. Transferring data from one data center to another is now an entirely automated process that takes a matter of seconds."
Albin Schänzle, Process & IT Management, C. Josef Lamy GmbH
The LAMY brand is synonymous with premium quality writing instruments both within its native Germany and internationally. C. Josef Lamy GmbH, which is based near Heidelberg, has been an independent family company for over 80 years. The LAMY brand was established in 1952 with the innovative Lamy 27 fountain pen. Since the sixties, the company has been known for its distinctive "Lamy design". Today, the company, which produces over six million writing instruments every year and has an annual turnover of over €50 million, is not only the market leader within Germany, but also counts among the German designer brands that hold a special position within the global market.
Lamy had already invested heavily in the development of a virtualized server and client infrastructure, helping it to increase the flexibility of its IT systems while at the same time reducing energy costs and administration requirements. Lamy operates a split data center separated over two zones at the company's Heidelberg headquarters. Previously, however, the PRIMERGY servers and ETERNUS DX storage systems had not been mirrored, but had instead simply been shared over the two zones. Two PRIMERGY RX300 servers in each zone had become responsible for delivering the performance of 170 virtualized clients (Fujitsu Zero Clients). In the event of a failure of one half of the data center, 85 clients would therefore have been left without data. The storage components themselves were not redundantly designed either. "We were then given instructions by the senior management to deliver constant IT system availability," explains Albin Schänzle, Head of Process & IT Management at LAMY. "We therefore had to find a solution for enhancing our already highly virtualized environment." Another objective was to improve the performance of the zero clients in use.


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Funnyjunk's Lawyer Charles Carreon Just Keeps Digging: Promises He'll Find Some Law To Go After Oatmeal's Matt Inman
from the wow deptWow. Just... wow. Following the net fight between The Oatmeal webcomic creator Matt Inman, and aggregator of non-funny stuff, Funnyjunk, we've been pointing out that Funnyjunk's lawyer, Charles Carreon needs to stop digging himself deeper into the hole he's found himself in. Instead, he seems to have decided on the opposite strategy, and he's digging deeper and deeper every minute.
If you don't recall, he was trying to shut down the fundraising effort that Inman set up in response to Funnyjunk's threat. And then he accused Inman of "instigating security attacks" against his website. The latest is that he's now redirected his own website to a sales page for his book, but also has done an interview with Dave Thier at Forbes, in which he's even more aggressive in fighting back against Inman and those who are mocking him. It's really quite incredible. Thier describes Carreon as being "excited about this bizarre new world he had stumbled into" and now focused on somehow pinning the blame on Matt Inman:
In his 20 years as a lawyer, he says, he's written hundreds of letters like the one he sent Inman, but the response to this one was unique.Except, uh, nowhere has Inman "declared netwar" nor has he encouraged anyone to hack Carreon's website. If it's true that scriptkiddies have gone after Carreon's website, that's unfortunate, but it's a ridiculous (and obnoxious) stretch to pin the blame for that on Inman. Of course, associating someone with incompetence, with stupidity and with douchebaggery is broadly a statement of opinion. There's a First Amendment thing we have that generally says that's okay. People can call each other stupid douchebags, and we like that in America.
"So someone takes one of my letters and takes it apart. That doesn't mean you can just declare netwar, that doesn't mean you can encourage people to hack my website, to brute force my WordPress installation so I have to change my password. You can't encourage people to violate my trademark and violate my twitter name and associate me with incompetence with stupidity, and douchebaggery," he says. "And if that's where the world is going I will fight with every ounce of force in this 5'11 180 pound frame against it. I've got the energy, and I've got the time."
For color commentary, we turn to Ken at Popehat, who decides to educate Carreon on the First Amendment:
The implications of Mr. Carreon's position are profoundly chilling. Under the rule he seems to suggest, if you write about bad behavior by someone else, even if you don't urge action, you run the risk that you will be held liable when one of your readers is inspired to hack or threaten or harass. Perversely, this means that the more criminal or unconscionable or horrific the conduct you are describing, the greater legal risk you take by writing about it. That's not the law, thank God. The very suggestion is un-American and contemptible.But Carreon has decided that "there must be a law!" against this, and dammit, he's going to find it:
Moreover, note that Mr. Carreon is suggesting that it is actionable not only to inspire people to undertake (alleged) illegal action, but actionable to inspire people to "associate me with incompetence with stupidity, and douchebaggery." In other words, if your criticism of someone's conduct leads others to form an opinion of him, and express that opinion, that's actionable. That's true to the extent that someone states false facts about a person — for instance, by falsely accusing them of child abuse. But The Oatmeal offered satirically expressed opinions about Mr. Carreon's conduct in a letter which The Oatmeal presented to his readers to review. To the extent that The Oatmeal opined that Mr. Carreon is incompetent, stupid, and a douchebag, those are classic opinions absolutely protected by the First Amendment. Under First Amendment law governing defamation, they are particularly protected because The Oatmeal presented the facts based on which he drew his opinions — namely, the letter itself. Under the theory that Mr. Carreon seems to be advancing, if I wrote you a letter suggesting that your wife beds down with diseased ocelots and calling for your children to be flogged, and you publish the letter and say that it suggests that I am a disturbed person of low character, then I would be legally responsible if people formed the same opinion based on the evidence you provided. Indeed, under Mr. Carreon's apparent theory, if he criticizes The Oatmeal's response to him as vulgar or unprofessional or uncivilized, he's legally responsible for people agreeing with him. This is not law, this is madness. And bear in mind that Mr. Carreon markets himself as a First Amendment champion.
He may have a very difficult time proving that Inman "instigated attacks," as he said on his website, but he's certain he can find some legal recourse for what's going on right now – "California code is just so long, but there's something in there about this," he says.Back to Ken at Popehat, who notes in response, why yes, there is a law:
Carreon tells Thier that he welcomes "the opportunity to confront legally the misuse of a new technology." First of all, it's not that new, and he might want to do some digging into other clueless lawyers who have sought to shut down online criticism of themselves. Carreon is still digging and he's going to lose very, very badly in court with the arguments he's making right now. Given his statements to various reporters, he's already made it clear that he's seeking to suppress speech and that he's willing to use any law he can find to do so. That's a particularly short-sighted thing to do, given California's relatively strong anti-SLAPP law, which one hopes Carreon familiarizes himself with.
Oh, Mr. Carreon, indeed there is. There's California's magnificent anti-SLAPP statute, under which you'll be paying the attorney fees of anyone you sue. There's California's judgment debtor exam law, under which you can be interrogated about your income and assets in preparation for garnishing your income and, if necessary, seeking liquidation of your assets to satisfy a judgment for attorney fees against you. There's California's sanctions statute, under which you can be sanctioned for bringing suit to harass or without adequate legal or factual basis.
Read them carefully. And think. Think hard. Step back from the precipice. This can get better, by you letting it go. Or it can get worse. Much, much worse.
But, really, there's the bigger issue: what the hell is he thinking at this point? And isn't there anyone with a basic grasp of the internet who knows him who can sit him down and tell him to stop digging?
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Astronauts in the United States and Europe sent congratulations to Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner today (Oct. 14), showering the daredevil with praise after he broke the world record for the highest skydive during a harrowing supersonic freefall.
Baumgartner, 43, set the new record for the world's highest skydive when he jumped from an altitude of 128,097 feet (39,044 meters) — the equivalent of just over 24 miles (39 kilometers) —and broke the sound barrier during his long descent back to Earth. The daring supersonic jump caught the eye of professional astronauts, even if Baumgartner did not leap from the official edge of space 62 miles (100 km) up.
Related: Skydiver jumps into stratosphere 24 miles over New Mexico
"Simply awesome job #Felix...now that's what I call pushing the limit!" British astronaut Tim Peake of the European Space Agency wrote via Twitter as astro_timpeake.
Baumgartner's jump, called the Red Bull Stratos mission, was sponsored by the energy drink of the same name and webcast live, with camera views from the ground and from the skydiver's capsule. [ Photos: Skydiver's Makes Record 24-Mile Supersonic Jump ]
"You go Felix!!!" NASA astronaut Nicole Stott added in her own Twitter post (Astro_Nicole), which included screenshots of webcast. Later, Stott celebrated Baumgartner's safe landing: "Felix Baumgartner on the ground! 128000ft!"
Related: Supersonic skydiver cheered by the Internet
Baumgartner spent 4 minutes and 20 seconds in freefall and hit a preliminary top speed of 833 mph (1,342.8 kph), breaking the sound barrier as he hit Mach 1.24, Red Bull Stratos officials said.
"I didn't feel a sonic boom because I was so busy just trying to stabilize myself," Baumgartner said in a statement after landing, adding that he went into a tough spin at the jump's beginning. "It was really a lot harder than I thought it was going to be."
Baumgartner broke the record for the world's highest skydive, longest freefall without a drogue cute, highest manned balloon flight and fastest freefall during the leap, which began with a balloon launch from Roswell, N.M.
Red Bull Stratos officials said that in addition to breaking several standing records, the project was aimed at understanding how the human body responds to the extreme environment near the edge of space.
Related: 8 craziest skydives of all time involved huge leaps of faith
Several NASA and ESA astronauts appeared to be following Baumgartner's skydive attempt live. Some noted that the skydiver was the fourth-highest person near Earth, beat only by the three astronauts living on the International Space Station, which orbits more than 240 miles (386 km) above the planet.
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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, an Italian Air Force officer who writes on Twitter as Astro_Samantha, repeatedly posted links to the live Red Bull Stratos webcast to ask the public (and her fellow astronauts) if they were watching. She marveled at the live views of Earth from more than 24 miles.
"Look at that! Who says technology doesn't possess beauty?" Cristoforetti wrote.
The previous skydiving record, which stood unbroken for 52 years, was set in 1960 by U.S. Air Force Capt. Joe Kittinger when he made his own stratospheric jump from an altitude of 102,800 feet (31,333 m). Kittinger served as an team advisor on the Red Bull Stratos mission, and was Baumgartner's capsule communicator during the historic supersonic skydive.
"Records are made to be broken," Kittinger said in a post-jump news conference. "And a better champion could not have been found than Felix Baumgartner."
Praise for Baumgartner's leap did not only come from individual astronauts. ESA and NASA also weighed in on the jump.
"Congratulations … from all of us at ESA!" the European Space Agency wrote via Twitter.
"Congrats Felix Baumgartner and #spacejump team. We're working on supersonic flight for the rest of us - with a plane!" added officials at NASA's Langley Research Center in Langley, Va., which is researching future supersonic flight concepts.
Even private spaceflight companies sent congratulations to Baumgartner. The private space tourism company Virgin Galactic lauded the flight on its official Twitter account.
George Whitesides, Virgin Galactic's president (gtwhitesides), conceded that his company's SpaceShipTwo passenger spaceships will fly higher than Baumgartner when they make begin their commercial suborbital space launches, but passengers will always return home inside the spacecraft. Baumgartner's feat, Whitesides added, stands apart.
"Felix is a truly brave explorer, and his jump will benefit space exploration," Whitesides wrote.
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WASHINGTON — Fourteen men were charged with operating an online child exploitation network that investigators said preyed upon hundreds of boys across the United States and overseas, authorities announced Tuesday.
Law enforcement officials said the arrests were part of a worrisome trend in which children are being enticed by adults to post sexually explicit images of themselves that are then shared online. In this case, authorities said, users of an underground network posed online as girls to coerce boys into sharing with them child pornography images.
"These alleged perpetrators preyed upon the most innocent, most vulnerable members of our society with no regard to the immediate or lasting harm they caused to their victims and their families," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said at a news conference.
The investigation, called "Operation Round Table," was led by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and federal authorities in Louisiana, where the alleged leader of the operation lives.
The roughly 250 victims were spread across 39 states and five other countries — Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada and New Zealand. Most were boys between 13 and 15. Two victims were 3 or younger, authorities said.
The pornographic images were shared on an underground website on the Tor network, an online anonymity network that masks the location of servers and conceals an Internet user's location. The subscription-based website operated from about June 2012 until June 2013, had more than 27,000 members and shared more than 2,000 webcam-captured videos, mostly of young boys, authorities said.
Eleven of the 14 men, including the man authorities say was the administrator of the network, are being prosecuted in Louisiana. The other three are being charged in New York, Colorado and Wisconsin.
Authorities accuse Jonathan Johnson, of Abita Springs, La., of being the leader of the operation. They say he admitted creating multiple fake female personas from his home and encouraged others to do the same in an effort to entice boys to produce sexually explicit images of themselves. The 27-year-old also instructed members and uploaders on how to avoid getting caught by law enforcement, prosecutors say.
Online court records show Johnson was charged last month through a criminal information, a document that typically signals a guilty plea is near. A change of plea hearing is scheduled for March 27, according to the records. Johnson has been in custody since his arrest last June and faces from 20 years to life in prison.
A lawyer for Johnson did not immediately return a call seeking comment on Tuesday.
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Thousands Join March For Babies
Organizers: 85 Percent Of Funding Comes From Charity Walk
Thousands of people joined the March for Babies at Paul Brown Stadium on Sunday.
Organizers said about 12,000 people took part in the charity walk.
Many of the participants had been personally touched by a premature birth.
Christin McCormick said her daughter, Camryn, was born at 26 weeks and weighed 1 pound 16 ounces.
"I feel like it's by the nurses and doctors that took care of her and by the grace of God she's still here, she's definitely a miracle," McCormick said. "She was born at Good Samaritan (Hospital) and stayed there for two months and then we were transferred to Children's Hospital. She was there for a heart surgery and we were there for a month, went back to Good Sam for a month, then back to Children's for a month before we ever went home."
The family said Camryn is now a healthy 2-year-old surrounded by friends and family.
The Centofanti family also has their own story to tell.
Vince Centofanti said his daughter, Nina, was born weighing 2 pounds 15 ounces, but is doing great now.
"We need to make sure we do what's right and try to get the answers so that more babies are born full turn," Centofanti said.
As the ambassador family, the Centofanti's kicked off the walk which started at the stadium and ended at Sawyer Point.
Organizers said such events are very important to keeping the March of Dimes operating.
Workers said 85 percent of their funding for research and programs comes from the March for Babies alone.


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11 July 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
The IMI2 program is expected to launch in January 2014 and last through 2024 and will involve the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
Singapore: The European Commission (EC) and other leading pharma giants have come together to invest $4.4 billion into programs that would be focused on innovation in the health sector over the next 10 years.
The main aim of this is to help in the advancement of new antibiotics and develop treatments for major health risks like Alzheimer's disease. These funds would further help in the advancement of the second phase of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) that resulted in about 40 projects involving pharma companies, universities and others. The initiative that began in 2007 will now have a IMI2 version that will aim at enticing corporate investments in the field of pharma in EU countries.
The EU has further said that since Europe's pharma sector faces strong competition from US and emerging markets in Asia, the IMI program comes at the right time. The EC has targeted pharma and four other tech-driven industries as the focus of $22 billion in research spending, with the help of industry, to create badly needed jobs in EU countries.
"The EU must remain a leader in strategic global technology sectors that provide high quality jobs. This innovation investment package combines public and private funding to do just that. This is a perfect demonstration of the leverage effect of the EU budget for growth and jobs," José Manuel Barroso, president of the EC, said in a statement
The IMI2 program is expected to launch in January 2014 and last through 2024. The initiative will involve the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, whose members include Novartis, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline and most of the world's largest drugmakers.


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For Windows customers without immediate access to MSDN (or the defunct TechNet), acquiring genuine Windows ISOs has been a frustrating and ridiculously complex experience: Microsoft tells you to ask your hardware manufacturer for a Windows ISO; the hardware manufacturer either ignores the request or sends you a crap-filled recovery DVD, frequently charging you for the inconvenience.
That changed several years ago, when Microsoft contracted with outsourcing company Digital River to provide download services for Windows bits. But in the past few days, the links for Windows 7 SP1 versions at Digital River stopped working. It isn't clear if there's a technical problem or if Microsoft's contract with Digital River has lapsed.
Most Windows customers came to know about Digital River through various Windows student/academic discount offers: Digital River apparently ran the student discount programs and provided "genuine" Windows bits for download. Over the years, many Windows experts -- including MVPs posting on the Microsoft Answers forum -- pointed customers to the Digital River links that contained real, direct-from-Microsoft copies of the software. Microsoft MVP and Answers forum moderator Andre de Costa put it this way:
Since it is being download directly from Digital River servers, as long as you own a genuine license, which you probably should have already, then you are free to download it. The way I see it, the license takes precedence over the medium. If you bought Windows 7 retail, then it will already be accompanied with install media, if you bought it from the Microsoft Store for instance, you have the option of downloading it anytime you want or have discs shipped to you or if its a box license, you will have two physical discs. The persons these Digital River downloads would be most suitable for, even if they didn't purchase through the Student upgrade program are persons with OEM preloads who might have lost their recovery partitions or media and can't bother with the process of obtaining recovery media. Same applies to retail discs, the process of ordering, shipping, nominal fee.
Worth noting: A year ago, Digital River announced in an SEC filing that it had come to an agreement with Microsoft to "build, host and manage the Microsoft Store, an e-commerce store that supports the sale and fulfillment of Microsoft and third party software as well as consumer electronics products, to customers throughout the world." It's possible that downloads from the Microsoft Store may, in fact, be coming from Digital River servers.
Links to Digital River's servers for Windows 7 SP1 bits were widely published shortly after SP1 was released. While using Digital River's bandwidth to download Microsoft products seems a gray area, the fact is that Windows 7 SP1 would run for up to 30 days without a product key -- clearly, Microsoft allowed installation of the product by those who didn't have a product key -- and the only way to get a permanent copy of Win7 SP1 was by purchasing a key from Microsoft or one of its dealers.
Starting about March 20, the Win7 SP1 links to Digital River stopped working. I can find no explanation from either Microsoft or Digital River for the interruption. A request for information from Microsoft's PR agency didn't bring an immediate answer. (I'll update this post with future details.)
Oddly, the Digital River links for Windows 7 itself are still working fine. According to Jan Krohn at HeiDoc.net, the only versions currently available from Digital River are the windows 7 RTM (not SP1) versions in U.S. English and Spanish.
If you want Windows 7 SP1 in either U.S. English or Spanish, you have to download and install Win7 from one of the links, then go through the (lengthy) process of applying Service Pack 1 from Windows Update.
It's possible that Digital River's servers are down and have been down for a week. Given Digital River's prominence in the e-commerce community, however, that seems unlikely.
It's also possible that Digital River's contract with Microsoft is being tested. MVP and Answers Community moderator J W Stuart points to an article in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, dated last May, that says, "Digital River Inc. shares rose 4.25 percent on Wednesday after it announced that it had extended is distribution deal with Microsoft to March 2014. Microsoft is Digital River's largest customer, accounting for about 28 percent of the Minnetonka company's revenue last year."
Perhaps we're witnessing the beginning of the end of easily accessible, verified genuine Windows 7 bits.
This article, "Windows 7 SP1 downloads dry up at Microsoft distributor Digital River," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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Waukesha DA looks into hotel controversy
Subcontractors say they are owed money after helping with Radisson Hotel project
The Waukesha County district attorney said he is meeting with village leaders in Menomonee Falls on Friday about the new Radisson Hotel.
Subcontractors who worked on the project requested the meeting after complaining they haven't been paid for all of their work.
"I have to admit, I think it looks great. I think every contractor kicked in and did a beautiful job," said Barry Bloom, general manager for Assured Electric.
Bloom is proud to see the Radisson Hotel in Menomonee Falls lit up and open for business, but he wants to know why the village hasn't paid his company the last $70,000 for completing the electrical work.
"It seems as though they made a bad deal with a bad group of investors, and now they're looking to stem their losses by not finishing paying the contractors who did the work," said Bloom.
The rehab of the Radisson was a $17.6 million project, part of the Main Street redevelopment.
Before the job was done, the general contractor was out.
"When the general contractor went out of business, we were dealing directly with the village of Menomonee Falls. It was their money," Bloom said.
So, the city acted as lender.
But, published reports outlined problems with the owners group.
One investor filed for bankruptcy, and another was involved in a civil suit.
The hotel went into a receivership, and the remaining $1.2 million of the project is in escrow.
Bloom said all the work is done.
The hotel has been open a year.
He's banded together with a dozen other sub-contractors.
They believe the total owed is between $600,000 and $700,000.
The village administrator said he can't comment on much because of pending litigation.
The village is trying to get the hotel foreclosed on because of significant financial default on the part of the owners group.
Bloom said the village will no longer talk to the subcontractors.
They claim that not being paid could make or break them.
"We're hoping they understand they're putting small businesses like ourselves at risk here," said Bloom.
Waukesha County District Attorney Brad Schimel told 12 News his meeting with village leaders is simply to ensure the money is still in the escrow account, and that he doesn't suspect any criminal activity.


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In the United States, the month of March marks Women's History Month. (And today, March 8, is International Women's Day!) This year's theme is "Women's Education — Women's Empowerment" and the Library would like to highlight some of the material we own on the topic:
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Learn about the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. This database includes many primary resources, support materials, chronology, and teaching tools.
Women's History Month (Library of Congress)
WIG: Women, Internationalisms, and Gender (Binghamton University)
Women's History Sourcebook (Fordham University)
Women Working (Harvard University)
Aletta: Institute for Women's History (includes extensive list of websites on women)
National Women's History Project
Essential Texts in Feminist Theory & Feminist Thought (NYPL Blogs)
Women's Leadership in American History (CUNY)
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Amoeba Music Hollywood Weekly Hip-Hop Top Five Chart: 01:29:10
1) BlakRoc Blakroc (V2/Cooperative)
2) Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (Interscope)
3) Jay Z Blueprint 3 (Roc Nation/Atlantic)
4) Fashawn Boy Meets World (Loud)
5) Oh No Dr. No's Ethiopium (Stones Throw)
If the newest Amoeba Music Hollywood hip-hop chart above looks similar to the SoCal store's chart from three weeks ago, well, that's because it is exactly the same. All the top selling hip-hop releases from the past few weeks' weekly charts at the Hollywood store have been consistently selling well and hence holding steady in their respective chart slots at the Sunset Blvd. store. Both Jay-Z and the Black Eyed Peas' now months-old 2009 releases continue to sell phenomenally well, and not just at Amoeba but across the nation also. They are still simultaneously holding down spots on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart, ranking at #9 and #31 respectively on the national sales based chart. Meantime, instrumental versions of seven of the great tracks off the recommended self-titled BlakRoc album, composed and performed by The Black Keys for the emcees Mos Def, Raekwon, Pharoahe Monch, Ludacris, etc etc, were unveiled this week on the website The Black Keys Fan Lounge.


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In the cut and thrust of the modern steel industry, it's all too easy to forget to recognize the achievements of individuals and enterprises that have helped drive the industry forward.
Modern markets demand a focus on short-term results, and sometimes recognition of what might be lasting contributions is worryingly momentary. That's one reason why it was such a pleasure recently to help present the first AMM Awards for Steel Excellence.
There were some truly outstanding nominations for the array of awards, and it seemed long overdue that the industry should recognize its finest achievements and achievers. As Tom Graham notes in his column this month (page 74), the tributes to former Nucor Corp. chief executive officer Ken Iverson, AMM's Titan of Steel, were particularly touching. The contribution of Iverson is a prime example of steel industry heritage that we must work hard to preserve.
With that in mind, AMM is pleased to announce that it is launching the AMM Steel Hall of Fame. As far as we know, this will be the first institution of its kind for the industry, joining baseball, football and rock and roll, among others, in giving proper recognition to its greatest contributors. Initially, at least, the Hall of Fame will be a virtual one, with the inaugural inductees recognized during the presentation ceremony for next year's AMM Awards for Steel Excellence.
Over the next several months, AMM will call for nominations to the Hall of Fame and you will be able to make your suggestions either online or at the AMM booth at any one of a number of industry events, starting with AMM's Steel Raw Materials Strategies Conference in Minneapolis Sept. 28-29 and Scrap and Scrap Substitutes Conference in Philadelphia Oct. 19-20. A highly qualified panel will make the final selection of the first inductees.
Personally, I'm intrigued to see who makes the cut. One would think that some names are slam dunks surely Andrew Carnegie can expect "the call to the Hall." But what about some of his fellow founding fathers of the U.S. industry? Will Charles Schwab, Henry Clay Frick, J.P. Morgan, Elbert Gary and William Henry "Judge" Moore make the cut?
AMM's Hall of Fame will not be limited to people who made their careers in the United States, so there should be strong contenders from Europe and Japan. German pioneers like Friedrich and Alfred Krupp and members of the Thyssen family must come into consideration, while there also are worthy contenders from other historical steelmaking powers such as France, Luxembourg, Spain and the United Kingdom.
One Brit who must be a strong contender is Henry Bessemer, whose process revolutionized steelmaking. There will doubtless be other champions of technology to consider. From the early pioneers to modern-day metallurgists, technologists have always been the heartbeat of the industry and a major reason why steel remains as relevant today as it was in Carnegie's time.
But the Hall of Fame need not be only for those long since past. Unlike other Halls of Fame, AMM does not insist that a candidate be deceased or retired to be eligible. Has anyone had a greater impact on the steel industry in the past 50 years, for example, than Lakshmi N. Mittal?
There will surely be much debate as the candidates are whittled down to form the initial class. I invite your participation in the process and look forward to the results.
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The tradition continued this year, as the entire family (both Wheat's and Coon's) headed to the westside of Fort Worth for the Turkey Trot. Unfortunately, Robyn had to work (T-Day was her holiday to work), but she was with us in spirit.Jaxson wasn't too fond of turkey, the edible kind or the large one made of fabric that crossed his path at the starting line - don't worry Jax, I took care of him after you turned your back. (wink, wink)
Boo, Mimi, Papi, and Pops took care of Jax while I participated in the 10K (which I had a personal best of 49':42"), and the little guy was a trooper to say the least in the cold weather.


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