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Dago Aceves has just met the dog he wants to bring home. Her name is Maggie and she's a red-haired Corgi mix who captured his heart from behind bars at the Silicon Valley Humane Society. After they met in the shelter's greeting pen, he knew she was the one.
But it turns out that new doggie love is kind of like new people love–nerve-wracking. "I hardly slept last night, I was so anxious to see Maggie again," says Dago, a 25-year-old web developer who lives in Alameda, California. He says it feels like suddenly things are moving very fast.
Maybe that's because it took so long for him to get here. When he decided to get a dog, he agreed to follow our four-step happy adoption program. He took DogTime's Are you ready? quiz and found that he was. He answered our Dog Matchup and learned he leaned more toward couch potato than high energy dog. He used our DogFinder to search for adoptable dogs, and trainer Kelly Dunbar, a DogTime contributing editor, helped him zero in on Maggie.
Now all that remains is making sure Maggie gets along with DJ, Dago's housemate's dog as per the shelter's request. So the morning after meeting Maggie, Dago packs DJ into the car and heads an hour south. DJ, an older mutt with the wriggly energy of a puppy, hits it off immediately with Maggie, so the shelter gives Dago the green light to take her home.
Maggie comes home
For the little Corgi mix, it's an anxious homecoming. The first day, she shows telltale signs of canine stress: she gnaws on her paw, yawns frequently, and refuses to leave Dago's room. Only chicken jerky strips can induce her to eat, and when she finally takes in some kibble, it's only because Dago is handfeeding it to her piece by piece. When visitors come by to meet her, she stays shyly glued to Dago's side. When he's in the bathroom, Maggie stands watch outside the door, whimpering.
"She's bonded to me, but for the wrong reason," says Dago. "It's because she doesn't feel safe if she's not right next to me."
Anxious times
But that's nothing compared to the trials of housetraining and crate-training. Following DogTime's advice on how to handle your first week with a new dog, Dago buys a list of must-have supplies for new owners, including food, collar and leash, and chew toys. He dog proofs his house. He takes a few days off work so he can attend to her housetraining.
He's also just bought a new crate, considered a critical part of the housetraining process. He introduces Maggie to it on the first day home, and she goes in willingly enough so long as he's standing nearby. But the moment he walks away, the whining begins.
Keeping in mind Kelly Dunbar's advice about crate-training, Dago holds firm. He works with her, letting her in and out of the crate over and over again, and making sure she has a chew toy there when he's gone.
Housetraining hell
Dago also starts Maggie's housetraining program, watching or confining her when she's inside, and taking her outside at least six times a day. This gives her plenty of chances to pee or poop in the right place, so he can reward her, thus driving home the idea that eliminating outdoors is a worthwhile effort.
At least that's how it's supposed to work. Unfortunately, Maggie isn't getting the message. She seems determined to never go to the bathroom again. "Last night we stayed out walking the same stretch of block for about an hour," he says. "She never went."
When Maggie finally gives in to nature's call, she manages to slip away from Dago's watchful eyes and do it inside–first in Dago's housemate's room, then the bathroom, then the living room.
Recovering the joy of being dog
In spite of the whining and sleep deprivation–for dog and man both–Dago nonetheless relishes one of the great joys of adoption: watching a good dog find herself again, and start recovering from the trauma of losing home and family.
The first day Dago brings Maggie to work, the resident office dog tries hard to get her to play, but after a quick, half-hearted romp she goes straight back to Dago. Still, it only takes three days before she's relaxed enough to join in the fun herself. "I had to stop them when they started going through power cords,"says Dago.
About a week into her new life with Dago, she's already warming up to people–walking up to strangers, tail wagging, and responding to Dago's coworkers' calls. Though she continues looking to Dago first to make sure it's okay.
The perfect dog
She's also learning how to be a house dog. Where she once charged up the stairs with Dago hanging on behind, half-strangling herself in the process, she now leaves some slack in the leash. She's getting used to hanging out in her crate and riding in the car. After several days of cleaning up after her, and wondering if she could ever be trained, Dago now relies on her to pee outside his roommate's bedroom.
Dago and Maggie have become regulars at the neighborhood dog park, where Maggie plays with great enthusiasm, one eye trained as always on Dago. "She's opening up in a lot of different ways," he says.
Dago too is weathering the adjustment well, but he expected to. After steeping himself in DogTime's advice about those first few weeks at home, he knew bringing home a somewhat shy, untrained dog wouldn't be all nose kisses and snuggles. "None of this came as a big surprise," he says.
The two of them have fallen into a comfortable rhythm. He's now taking Maggie to the office every day, and enjoying long walks along the Bay on weekends–just as he'd fantasized he would get a chance to do. And he's more thrilled with his new dog than ever.
"She's everything that I wanted to find in a dog," he says. "She has a long life ahead of her, and I'm sure there'll be some surprises. But, really, she couldn't be more perfect."


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'We were putting out the flames with a Bunnings backpack'
UPDATE, 2.30pm:
A Hydeaway Bay woman has told how she and her partner fought a bushfire with "a Bunnings poison backpack filled with water" as it tore through their property overnight.
Zoe Willcocks said the fire broke out about 1pm on Sunday close to her Hydeaway Bay Drive property.
"We had the fire tear through our property and the neighbours' about 1pm, while the fire crew didn't arrive til about 3-4pm," Ms Willcocks said.
"It was me and my partner and about four locals controlling it for hours and hours and the back pack (in the photos) is just a Bunnings poison backpack that they filled with water instead."
Zoe said the fire started about five blocks up from the park, and quickly spread through the back of her block and over the road.
"We had cars piled up out the front as they could not pass from the blaze tearing over the road," she said.
"Our neighbour is away working but lost a few things around his house but not the house itself.
"With the four or so locals' help we managed to keep it from our place and just in time the fire crew (arrived)."
Zoe and her partner Nathan spent the night driving past to check where the fire was and "everyone went home to watch their own houses".
Her parents in the Hydeaway Bay Caravan Park were "up until 2am watching for any embers jumping into the park".
UPDATE, 1.33pm:
Incredible photos have emerged from a bushfire burning at Hydeaway Bay and Dingo Beach.
Zoe Willcocks snapped the photos above as she and her neighbours worked to extinguish the blaze that broke out Sunday afternoon.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services said their crews were undertaking backburning operations in the area.
"Dingo Beach and Hydeaway Bay residents may be affected by smoke and this may continue for several days," a spokesperson said.
"Residents should close windows and doors and if suffering from a respiratory condition, keep medications close by.
"Motorists should drive with caution and to conditions. If residents are concerned their property is under threat they are advised to call 000 immediately."
They said the fire was posing no threat to property, as of 12.20pm.
RESIDENTS and visitors of Hydeaway Bay Caravan and Camping Park were forced to flee a bushfire at the weekend, and it's continuing to burn this morning.
The fire threatened property and heavy smoke forced people to leave the caravan park.
The fire started at 2pm on Sunday, and burned for most of the night.
Another crew has been sent to fight the fire after it crossed the road and headed towards Dingo Beach.
Two crews initially responded, but this morning a third crew has been sent to battle the fire.
RELATED STORY: Fire threat eases as residents breathe a sigh of relief
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A spokeswoman at the caravan park said the fire came very close to the business.
"You couldn't breathe (with the smoke). We are warning people (visitors) about the smoke," she said.
Last night residents at the caravan park helped to fight the fire.
As of 10am on Monday, it was continuing to burn towards Dingo Beach.
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Volume 11
Chapter 1010: Marquis Wu Yun, Danger
The group of people numbered about twenty. They were dressed in different attires and were of all ages. It was apparent that they belonged to different factions.
Some of the most striking ones amongst them were a lady with black fingernails and a middle-aged man that looked like a Daoist, as well as a purple-robed man whose face was covered in scales.
The scaled-faced purple-robed man caught Yi Yun's attention the most. He was not greatly injured and it was hard to tell if he had experienced the Apocalyptic Fumes. If he had been embroiled in the Apocalyptic Fumes, even if it were just the periphery, it was enough to indicate how formidable he was. Few people could survive the Apocalyptic Fumes relatively unscathed.
But compared to these people, there were another two people who caught Yi Yun's attention. They were a fat and thin duo that Yi Yun noticed with a cursory glance.
Shi Fei! Shi Ping!
"Peng Peng Peng!"
The group of twenty people landed one after another. Shi Fei and Shi Ping had also seen Yi Yun.
As the saying goes, enemies see red at the moment they meet. Their Dao Domains were destroyed back when they competed with Yi Yun to become Felicitous Rain Lord's disciple. Their martial paths had been almost severed by Yi Yun. The first thing that they did when they saw Yi Yun was to circulate their energy, producing intense killing intent.
"How true it is that enemies often cross each other's paths!"
When Shi Fei and Shi Ping saw Yi Yun, they revealed a hideous smile. After their martial paths had been severed, the statuses that they enjoyed in the Immortal Rain Sect had plummeted. They had no choice but to receive the patronage of a powerful figure in the Immortal Rain Sect, to the point of them being almost no different to slaves. Only then, did they manage to survive in the Immortal Rain Sect.
They embarked on the expedition to the Azure Wood Great World with the intentions to go for broke while risking their lives. If they were able to find a heaven-defying treasure in the Azure Wood Great World, there was a tiny bit of possibility that they could reverse their fates, allowing them to continue down their martial paths.
But they had never expected to encounter Yi Yun here. To them, Yi Yun was a thorn in their side, a sty in their eyes. They yearned to skin him alive.
"So it's the two of you. To think that the two of you would come to the Azure Wood Great World. Is there any meaning for your trip here, considering that your Dao have already been destroyed?"
As Yi Yun spoke, he circulated the energy in his dantian, which had the three sword Qi that Felicitous Rain Lord had bestowed to him. That was the last thing he could rely on.
But even with the sword Qi, Yi Yun did not have absolute confidence when facing a true expert.
"You're courting death!"
The eyes of Shi Fei and Shi Ping suffused a deep sense of vicious hatred. Although they yearned to immediately kill Yi Yun, they lacked the confidence to do so due to the severe injuries that they had suffered from before, in addition to the apprehension they felt towards Yi Yun.
At that moment, Shi Fei and Shi Ping suddenly turned around and bowed to a person in the group. "Lord Marquis Wu Yun, the two of us implore Lord Marquis Wu Yun to kill that person for the two of us! The two of us will swear on the heavens that we will be dedicated to the Lord, never to balk at any sacrifice, even at the costs of our lives."
Bows amongst warriors had various forms — simple cupping of hands, a junior's bow, a bow between master and disciple, as well as the genuflection that was typically seen between master and slave. And now, Shi Fei and Shi Ping's act of deference was the latter.
This surprised Yi Yun slightly. For Shi Ping and Shi Fei to be sent by the Immortal Rain Sect to participate in Felicitous Rain Lord's disciple recruitment, it proved that they enjoyed a particular status in the Immortal Rain Sect. Even if it had plummeted as a result of their Dao Domains being destroyed, they should still have a certain amount of remnant pride. But now, they had submitted to someone else. It made it apparent that Marquis Wu Yun was no trifling figure in the Immortal Rain Sect.
"Are you Yi Yun?"
Marquis Wu Yun, who Shi Ping and Shi Fei begged, was the man in the purple robes.
He was burly and his cheeks were covered with a layer of scales. Even in the overcast world, the layer of scales still shimmered with a resplendent luster.
He could not be considered handsome, but he exuded a special charm that made him unforgettable to anyone who saw him.
"Was it you who previously crippled Shi Ping and Shi Fei?"
Marquis Wu Yun's words suffused an oppressive pressure. It stemmed from his terrifying strength, a cultivation level that Yi Yun could not discern at all!
He was from the Immortal Rain Sect, where he enjoyed a supernatural existence. That meant that he had immense talent, or at least it exceeded Shi Fei and Shi Ping's. In addition to his cultivation level that exceeded Yi Yun by two large realms, he was absolutely someone that Yi Yun could not deal with!
"That's right!" Yi Yun focused intently. Even though he had Felicitous Rain Lord's sword Qi, he did not have much confidence. After all, he could only produce a tiny portion of the might of Felicitous Rain Lord's sword Qi. He was unsure how useful it would be against such a mighty figure.
Marquis Wu Yun took a few steps towards Yi Yun. Although he was looking at Yi Yun, it was like everything was beneath his notice. He completely disparaged Yi Yun.
"Yi Yun… "
Yue Yingsha, who was beside Yi Yun, was feeling extremely nervous. She had never expected that they would encounter danger at the moment that they entered the Door to the 33 Skies. She was too weak, so she would not amount to anything against the group of people. And Yi Yun's trump card, the God Advent Tower had previously been drained of its energy.
"Shi Ping and Shi Fei are now under my patronage. In the future, they will be my servants, but I would still like to give them an answer. As Felicitous Rain Lord's disciple, I will spare you from death, but I will not let you off either. Back when you participated in Felicitous Rain Lord's disciple recruitment, you had made Shi Ping and Shi Fei choose between kneeling down or slapping themselves in the face. Today, I'll let you experience that choice. Either you kneel down to beg for their forgiveness or you slap yourself in the face a hundred times. Make your choice!"
Although Marquis Wu Yun spoke in a nonchalant manner, his tone was not something to be riposted. Absolute strength made him believe that he was free to determine Yi Yun's fate.
The mood changed dramatically as the air turned tense with a murderous hint to it.
Everyone was looking at Yi Yun, with many of them having gloating looks. Since they were in a group, a lot of them were from the Immortal Rain Sect. As Immortal Rain Sect disciples, they were displeased with Felicitous Rain Lord, who had betrayed their sect. With Yi Yun being Felicitous Rain Lord's personal disciple, they were also jealous of him because of the possibility of him eventually inheriting Felicitous Rain Lord's 'Ten Thousand Fey Divine Canon'. They yearned for Yi Yun's death.
Marquis Wu Yun did not choose to kill Yi Yun immediately because of the people present. It was difficult to keep the murder of Yi Yun a secret. This made him somewhat hesitant, but it was also impossible for him to spare Yi Yun.
"Lord, just kneeling or slapping himself in the face? That's too little!"
Shi Ping and Shi Fei turned anxious. They had their future martial paths destroyed, so there was no way that they could ease the hatred that they had for Yi Yun unless they tortured him to death.
"Shut up!" Marquis Wu Yun frowned. This made Shi Ping and Shi Fei immediately feel apprehensive. They did not dare speak to another word. Now, they were only servants, and similarly, Marquis Wu Yun did not think much of them either.
"Lord, Yi Yun has many treasures on him. Rumor has it that one of the treasures is close to the Divine Lord level," said Shi Fei through gritted teeth after a moment of silence. He did not say it with a voice transmission, but right in front of the twenty people.
Immediately, everyone looked at Yi Yun with an odd glint in their eyes.
A treasure close to the Divine Lord level!?
In fact, Shi Fei did not know what level Yi Yun's treasures were at. However, he had deliberately said it in such a manner. It was simple but also very vicious. By mentioning Yi Yun's treasure, the twenty people would target Yi Yun like a pack of wolves catching sight of a sheep. It was obvious what the sheep's outcome would be.
He did not believe that Yi Yun would survive the group's attacks when greed leered its head.


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Murphy: It is great to be back
PUBLISHED: 11:33 29 October 2014 | UPDATED: 11:33 29 October 2014
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Daggers forward made comeback from long-term injury earlier this week
It was a huge boost for everyone associated with Dagenham & Redbridge on Monday when Rhys Murphy played the full 90 minutes and found the net in the Essex Senior Cup third round tie against non-league Barkingside.
The 23-year-old forward might not have been happy with his performance but after such a prolonged spell on the sidelines through injury, he was delighted to be back in the fold.
Murphy was in positive spirits after the game and joked he was pleased to return to full training, just so he could spend some time away from Daggers physio John Gowens - who has helped him recover back to full fitness.
"I wouldn't say I was pleased with my performance against Barkingside, I don't think any of us could be happy with the way we played," said the forward.
"But, for me personally, to get through 90 minutes after seven or eight months I am very happy with that.
"It is great to be back in the fold. When you are injured it is a horrible and lonely place.
"I have been in with the physio and obviously that is John, who at times does your head in, but he has been good with me and it is nice to finally be back."
The former Arsenal youngster believes he is fully over his injuries and is hoping to put the tough last few months behind him.
He has enjoyed getting into the swing of things again with his team mates and has loved being back on the training field.
Murphy added: "It is great be backing in training. When you are coming in every day and you can't go out there with the boys, it can be very frustrating.
"So it is nice to be back out there, shouting at everyone and giving as good as you get with the boys and having a bit of fun.
"It has been a really rubbish few months over the summer and the back end of last season watching your team mates play and you can't help or do anything about it.
"It is the worst thing as a professional footballer to be out injured but thankfully it is all behind me now.
"I can look to the future and hopefully work hard, get back in the team and start scoring goals again."
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On the occasion of the forthcoming edition of the EQUIP AUTO, the international trade show for automotive aftersales and services for mobility (Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, 17 - 21 October 2017) a wide array of innovative, digital and connected services will be presented, offering tangible proof that repair workshops today are undergoing their digital revolution!
Here are a few examples…
- AUTODATA LTD: Guided diagnostics model
The diagnostic guide Assist Me by AutoData is a complement to existing databases to help the repair professional pinpoint faults, by adding to the electronic research with electrical or physical measurements. A tree of checks and plans lead the technician from the fault to the faulty component. The database contains more than 79,000 diagnostic trouble codes and provides guided solutions for more than 74% of the most popular models in Europe. Assist Me thus reduces diagnostic errors and the time spent on diagnostics. The end result is therefore lower downtime in the workshop!
- AUTODISTRIBUTION: connected car solution
Gold Trophy – Services for Connected Mobility category
AD Connected Box is a mobile application for the motorist that allows him to connect his car to his smartphone and enjoy personalized services and assistance with how to run his vehicle on a daily basis: vehicle geo-localization - digitalised service records - key check-up information and alerts on maintenance of key parts - on-demand diagnostics - personalised repair estimates, etc.
The terminal is also aimed at garages in the AD network which are thus offered a range of services: ultra-rapid connection (plug and play), to all vehicles on the road - an administration tool for customers and their connected vehicles - access to data from the vehicle, its use and the driving environment (topology, weather, accidents, etc.).
- BRAIN BEE SPA: connected automatic diagnostics
Connex is latest-generation electronic vehicle diagnosis and maintenance system which is easy to use, fast and efficient. The tablet (working on Windows or Android) offers access to regularly updated vehicle data, repair tutorials, and gives users the opportunity to exchange online with diagnosis specialist technicians.
The system is made up of an interface plugged into the vehicle (Connex BT on Bluetooth) and the diagnosis and communication 'brain', Connex Smart.
- DAF CONSEIL: online fault search tool
myDIAG+ is an online application aimed at multi-brand repair professionals. It offers repair assistance based on distance exchanges between the mechanic and technical advisers.
Connecting myDIAG+ to the diagnostic tool speeds up the search. The device is available in 7 languages. The database is constantly enhanced with repairers' requests and solutions.
- EGI FRANCE: camera measurement of wheel alignment
The Argos wheel aligner measures the wheel alignment of vehicles in the space of a few seconds, quickly and easily, without having to mount targets or sensors on the wheel. This device is suitable for all types of car lift. It generally takes about 20 minutes to perform this type of measurement. Argos can therefore fit into the garage's workshop equipment and help the mechanic in diagnosing vehicle faults, time-efficiently.
- RAVAGLIOLI: access to vehicle data by automatic number plate recognition
When a car enters the workshop, the Shoot & Go system (a computer terminal or a smartphone and an app) immediately identifies the vehicle type by reading the number place and using character recognition software.
If the garage's management system has an Archive section, the vehicle's history is then identified to display the previous work carried out. The final result is time saving and error suppression.
- ROBERT BOSCH FRANCE: 3D camera tyre wear measurement
Gold Trophy – Equipment and Tyre Services category
The TTM scanner automatically carries out a quick and automatic analysis of tyre tread wear using a new technique with 3D video cameras. Results can be displayed on all types of screen available in the workshop (tablet, smartphone, computer, etc.).
In the space of a few seconds, as the vehicle passes over the scanner, the machine performs the exhaustive analysis of the tyres (problems, irregular wear, etc.).
- ROBERT BOSCH FRANCE: exchange of digital data in the workshop
Gold Trophy – Services for Professionals category
In workshops there are many software packages and a lot of equipment that need information about the customer, the vehicle, the fault or required maintenance. While all these systems exchange with the user, they do not talk to each other.
Bosch Connected Repair links up software systems (DMS, Cataloguing and Diagnostic), workshop equipment and vehicle service or repair information and protocols.
Advantages: no more typing errors thanks to the vehicle's identification being distributed to all connected equipment - time saving and workflow optimization for service and repair operations - easy and quick access to stored test results from previous visits, etc.
- ROBERT BOSCH FRANCE: Experience Based Repairs social platform
OEM data is constantly enhanced with a wide range of faults together with their causes and identification methods. The Experience Base Repair module (EBR) today offer access to all of this information held on a database of more than 500,000 data sheets
Accessible by subscription online, EBR is available 24 hours a day and worldwide. Repair pros can give a mark to each case used, propelling the most suitable fixes to the top of the search engine result list. .


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If you've spent any time browsing the web, chances are pretty good you've run into a page with an error code on it.
You've likely seen numbers 404 ("not found") or 403 ("forbidden").
Less commonly spotted is error code 418, which makes your browser proclaim "I'm a teapot."
If it sounds like a joke, it is: Way back on April Fool's Day in 1998, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) — a group that sets internet standards — proposed "a protocol for controlling, monitoring, and diagnosing coffee pots." That document defined status 418 thusly: "Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code '418 I'm a teapot.' The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout."
The error code has since become a running gag.
Go to Google.com/teapot, and see for yourself. Programming languages like Node.js and Google's Go both include the 418 error as a little Easter egg, as does Microsoft's ASP.NET framework. Someone even rigged a teapot to act as a web server, just so it can proudly display error 418 when you visit it.
On Thursday, however, the future of code 418 was briefly called into doubt. In a GitHub thread, Mark Nottingham, the chairman of the IETF working group that oversees hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), argued that the 418 error was never a part of the standard, which governs how web browsers communicate with web servers.
People should stop treating 418 as a core part of the HTTP standard, and free up the error number for more serious concerns, he said in his post.
"I know it's amusing, I know that a few people have knocked up implementations for fun, but it shouldn't pollute the core protocol," Nottingham wrote.
This prompted a swift, but fiery, debate of the future of the web's teapot error code. Fortunately, this story has a happy ending.
The pushback
The biggest champion of the teapot status was 15-year-old programmer Shane Brunswick. Brunswick, who will be a sophomore in high school this fall, started a "Save 418" movement, giving it the #Save418 hashtag.
The teapot error is something "that puts a smile on your face," Brunswick told Business Insider. It's a silly little thing from the early internet that's worth preserving, he said.
"It's a reminder that the underlying processes of computers are still made by humans," Brunswick said. "It'd be a real shame to see 418 go."
Others pointed out that the teapot status has been treated as a part of HTTP for so long that removing it could actually cause technical problems for many sites. That scored technical points for Brunswick's side.
Nottingham wasn't expecting such a big response, he told Business Insider. He just wanted to clarify 418's status — or lack thereof. And he took Brunswick's opposition in stride.
"I'm a bad, bad man," Nottingham quipped on Twitter, with a link to Brunswick's website.
While some have tried to chastise Brunswick for being disrespectful, Nottingham said that above all, he really appreciated that a teenager was taking such an interest in a standard that's almost three decades old.
"I'm really happy that the next generation of developers still care about HTTP so deeply," Nottingham said.
Happy ending
Ultimately, after a day of debate, Nottingham and Brunswick came to an accord that seems to have made everybody happy. On Friday afternoon, Nottingham filed a proposal to adopt 418 as an official HTTP code. If and when it's approved, "I'm a teapot" will officially become a core part of the web.
In response, Brunswick updated his website: "Thanks for everything Mark Nottingham, you put up a good fight! =)"
The issue is now closed, with programmers cheering that their teapots are safe. For his part, Nottingham is keeping a healthy sense of humour about the situation.
"If you ask me, it's a tempest in a … ah, never mind," Nottingham wrote in an email to Business Insider.
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Net Neutralitea is in danger, everybody! #SAVE418
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— Mark Nottingham (@mnot) August 10, 2017
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The long-term objective of this proposal is to understand how the activity of stem cells is properly regulated to maintain homeostasis and tissue integrity. The hair follicle, one of the important skin appendages, is an ideal paradigm to address this problem. Hair follicles undergo cycles of growth (anagen), destruction (catagen) and rest (telogen) phases. Hair follicle stem cells (HFSCs) are located in a permanent protrusion of the hair follicle, a structure known as the bulge. HFSCs in the bulge cycle infrequently. During normal homeostasis, HFSCs only proliferate in a very transient window of anagen, while remaining quiescent during all the other phases. HFSCs can also become activated upon wounding. Dis-regulation of HFSC activity results in severe consequences. For example, alopecia (hair loss) and delayed wound healing may arise from inefficient activation of HFSCs. On the contrary, skin tumors, such as basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, can derive from HFSC hyper-proliferation. Stem cell activity is heavily influenced by their microenvironment, known as the niche. Traditionally, studies about niche focus only on the surrounding heterologous cell types, i.e., cells originated from a different lineage. Recent studies including my own discover the importance of stem cell progeny as niche components in several vertebrate and invertebrate stem cell systems, which is previously unrecognized. In the hair follicle, my preliminary studies have identified two important progeny populations as critical regulators for HFSC proliferation. The central hypothesis to be tested by this proposal is that feedback regulation from HFSC progeny is crucial for the proper behavior and activity of HFSCs. This hypothesis will be tested in this grant application by experiments that: 1) examine candidate signals expressed by the progeny 2) determine the contributions of the progeny to HFSC activation under physiological and pathological conditions and 3) identify novel functional factors expressed by the progeny to regulate HFSCs. Candidate signals will be investigated during the mentored phase. The contributions of progeny under dynamic conditions as well as identified novel factors expressed by the progeny will be follow-up during the independent phase. Successful completion of the proposed experiments will significantly advance our understanding of the cell types and signals that regulate HFSC proliferation and quiescence. In addition, these proposed studies will potentially lead to the development of therapeutic treatments for skin disorders associate with aberrant stem cell activity. My long-term career goal is to lead a successful, independent, and well-funded laboratory studying skin and stem cell biology. My graduate and postdoctoral training up to date has prepared me technically and intellectually to develop rigorous research projects. This career development award and my proposed research plan will further provide me with opportunities to expand my knowledge in skin stem cell biology and mouse genetics, gain new skills in bioinformatics analysis, mouse embryo manipulation, image-based FACS analysis, and further accumulate experience to improve mentoring, presentation, and writing skills, all of which are critical to my fuure success as an independent researcher. The reagents generated during the mentored phase will also help to build up my research program in the independent phase. The Rockefeller University together with its two neighboring institutions, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, offer a prime research environment and many workshops and courses to support my proposed research and my career development. I will have constant interactions with my mentor Dr. Elaine Fuchs, my collaborator Dr. Olivier Elemento, and the skin and mouse developmental biology communities in the New York area. Together they will assess my progress and provide critique or advice. In summary, the proposed studies and career development plan will better prepare me for my independent scientific career, ensure that I achieve my long-term career goals, and allow me to make continuous contributions towards our understanding of how stem cell activity is regulated in homeostasis and disease.
Stem cells have the remarkable ability to renew themselves long-term and to give rise to downstream differentiated lineages of an organ. This study focuses on how stem cell progeny regulate stem cell behaviors in the hair follicle. The results will provide better insights into the underlying causes of stem cell dysregulation that can lead to hair loss or skin cancers.
|Perdigoto, Carolina N; Dauber, Katherine L; Bar, Carmit et al. (2016) Polycomb-Mediated Repression and Sonic Hedgehog Signaling Interact to Regulate Merkel Cell Specification during Skin Development. PLoS Genet 12:e1006151
|Hsu, Ya-Chieh; Li, Lishi; Fuchs, Elaine (2014) Transit-amplifying cells orchestrate stem cell activity and tissue regeneration. Cell 157:935-49
|Hsu, Ya-Chieh; Li, Lishi; Fuchs, Elaine (2014) Emerging interactions between skin stem cells and their niches. Nat Med 20:847-56


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Innovation Awards 2020
Finalists Announced
EDGE 2020 Goes Virtual

Sun Java Enterprise System and PureMessage deliver comprehensive integrated spam and virus protection

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sydney, 22 April 2004

Sophos, a world leader in anti-virus and anti-spam solutions, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), has announced the integration between Sophos PureMessage and the Java(TM) System Messaging Server, a key component of the Sun Java(TM) Enterprise System. Available today from Sophos, this new PureMessage module enables an integrated solution to protect against spam, viruses and other security threats for high-volume messaging environments such as telecommunication carriers, universities and large enterprises.

"Given the business-critical nature of e-mail, organisations must develop a comprehensive approach to mail hygiene and message control, while also ensuring compliance with internal and federal communication policies and regulations," said Matt Cain, vice president with analyst firm META Group's Technology Research Services. "Ideally, they should choose a solution that provides multiple areas of protection at the server or gateway level. This type of approach to e-mail management creates procurement, operational and functional efficiencies and results in the lowest TCO for large organisations."

Large organisations must address e-mail-borne security without introducing another layer of management complexity or a new communication bottleneck to their network. The integrated Sophos and Sun solution enables the Java Enterprise System to communicate directly with PureMessage via channel architecture in the Java System Messaging Server. This provides customers with high performance message processing and consolidated protection, through a seamless administrative experience, without requiring a third-party Message Transfer Agent to broker the communication. Organisations can get up-to-date protection against messaging threats using one of the fastest, most comprehensive and easy-to-deploy solutions on the market.

"Deploying systems with scalability and high availability services capable of delivering millions of e-mail messages per day, while simultaneously helping to protect users from unwanted spam and viruses enables organisations to realise the full potential of their messaging and collaboration systems," said Patrick Dorsey, marketing director, Communication and Collaboration Products for Sun Microsystems. "This new solution from Sun and Sophos further enhances the proven scalability and content filtering capabilities of the Java Enterprise System enabling enterprises and ISPs alike to increase user productivity through the reduction of spam in their inbox."

As a critical component of the Java Enterprise System, the Java System Messaging Server is the market leading platform in the ISP market with more than 220 million licenses sold and provides a high-performance, highly secure messaging offering. Scaling from thousands to millions of users, it is integrated with the Java System Calendar Server and Java system Instant Messaging software and is ideal for service providers, enterprises, academic institutions and government agencies that want to consolidate messaging servers and reduce the total cost of ownership of their messaging and collaboration infrastructure.

"Sophos customers have come to expect the highest level of e-mail-borne threat protection, including scalability that meets the demands of the highest-volume messaging environments," said Shawn Thomas, director of market development for Sophos. "The combination of Sophos PureMessage with the Java Enterprise System high-volume messaging component provides greater infrastructure choice to our largest customer environments."

The Java Enterprise System provides extensive security features that help ensure the integrity of communications through user authentication, session encryption, and content filtering to help prevent spam and viruses so enterprises and service providers can provide secure, reliable messaging services for entire communities of employees, partners, students, faculty and customers.

Sophos PureMessage protects organisations against viruses, spam and other e-mail-borne security threats. Combining industry-leading anti-virus and anti-spam technologies with flexible policy management and world-class support, PureMessage is the most comprehensive, flexible and mature mail filtering solution for businesses.

Protecting against network downtime, productivity loss, and vulnerability of informational assets, PureMessage safely removes up to 98 per cent of spam at the gateway, using the latest anti-spam techniques. Quarantine digests enable end-users to easily access blocked messages, eliminating the business impact of false positives. Industry-leading virus detection tools scan for known and unknown viruses, protecting the network against malicious code. Corporate communications policies are easily enforced using PureMessage's flexible policy manager for complete, precise control over mail filtering.

Notes for Editors

About Java Enterprise System
Serious software made simple, the Java Enterprise System seamlessly integrates award-winning and market-leading enterprise network services that are needed by every organization to successfully build and deploy their own business critical applications. This comprehensive standards-based software system is delivered as a single, pre-integrated entity on a predictable release cycle, at an affordable cost. Radically simplified customer pricing -- $100 per employee per year (U.S. list price) -- delivers the peace of mind CIOs need to focus on what they do best: leverage IT to achieve their business goals. The Java Enterprise System shared network services provided the following functionality and capabilities: Web and Application Services, Network Identity Services, Portal Services, Communication and Collaboration Services, Availability Services and end-to-end Security Services.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work.

About Sophos.
Sophos is a world leading specialist developer of anti-virus and anti-spam software. Sophos is headquartered in the UK and protects all types of organisations, including small- to medium-sized businesses, large corporations, banks, governments and educational institutions against viruses and spam. The company is acclaimed for delivering the highest level of customer satisfaction and protection in the industry. Sophos's products, backed by 24 hour support are sold and supported in more than 150 countries.

Sophos's regional head office for Australia and New Zealand is in Sydney and hosts one of the company's three Computer Virus Research and Development Laboratories to provide global support services.

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Associate Director of Admission
Biography In Brief
Casey graduated from Chapman in 2004 with a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance. Upon graduation, she decided to further develop her love of music-theater at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she earned a Master of Music in Opera and Vocal Performance. While actively pursuing and seeking out new performance opportunities, she discovered her desire to support and invest in the talent and gifts of young students. As a Chapman student, she was heavily involved in the School of Music, including domestic and international touring, Opera Chapman, and loved working as an admission intern for three years. She is excited to be back at Chapman University, and looking forward to supporting the next generation of students and artists at Chapman.
Advice from Casey
The next few months will seem incredibly overwhelming. Between touring campuses, filling out multiple college applications, and preparing for SAT/ACT or AP exams, it's difficult to also balance your last year of high school! Remember to relax, breathe, and enjoy time with family and friends; there's nothing a good laugh with great company can't cure!
Favorite spot on campus:
There are several spots on campus I enjoy, but I love the spaces where our students can connect outside of the classroom. Whether it's working out together in our new Fitness Center, attending study sessions in our Student Union or having lunch in the Attallah Piazza, it's always refreshing seeing them connect while developing lifelong friendships.
Best admission memory
As an admission intern, I loved talking to prospective students and parents about my Chapman experience. It was so rewarding the first week of my junior year when a new freshman found me on campus and told me he had been on my tour the year earlier. Hearing about our programs, community and experience from a student perspective sparked his desire to be here and to be involved on our campus. To this day, we still keep in touch!
Best Chapman memory
Some of my best memories stem from my involvement in the School of Music. Whether it was traveling domestically or internationally with the Choir, participating in American Celebration, collaborating with faculty, or performing with Opera Chapman, the opportunity to work with different types of performers and personalities made my time at Chapman extremely valuable. What's the most fun for us now is to celebrate each other's successes since our days at Chapman. Some of us are teaching, others are pursuing performance opportunities abroad and a few of them made it to Broadway! At the end of the day, we love reuniting and talking about our time at Chapman together.
Words to Describe Myself: Creative, Dedicated, Social
Favorite Subject: History
Role Model: My Dad
Favorite Musical Performer/Band/Composer: Lake Street Dive, The Black Keys, Renee Fleming
Most Prized Possession: My lovable little dachshund, Olive
Book you Would Read Again: The Giving Tree
Favorite Summer Activity: BBQ and bike riding at the beach with friends.


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Archive: June 2003
The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.
2 June 2003
Violent crackdown on protests marks G8 summit
Hundreds arrested at French-Swiss border
- Greek lawyers to sue Blair for war crimes
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- SARS outbreak deepens economic decline in South East Asia
In wake of US reprimand
Threat of military coup grows in Turkey
The theory of "self-organization"
Interview with Luis Zamora of Argentina's Autonomy and Freedom movement
3 June 2003
- Bechtel advises subcontractors seeking Iraqi deals
- US: CEO pay continued upward spiral in 2002
- Bush administration steps up war on environment
- G8 summit: a widening gap between reality and rhetoric
German interior ministers demand speedy deportations
Refugees from Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo targetted
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Russian mathematician announces proof of celebrated Poincaré Conjecture
- Otro crimen de guerra de los Estados Unidos: el uso de municiones de uranio empobrecido en Irak
- Australia: Staff expose inhuman conditions at Woomera Detention Centre
4 June 2003
- Indonesia targets civilians in its military offensive in Aceh
- US-Europe tensions grow as Washington talks down the dollar
- France: Strikes, mass demonstrations to oppose attacks on pensions
- Hormone replacement therapy: Study reveals increased dementia risk
- Two police killings underscore class tensions in New York City
- Photos indicate torture and sexual abuse by British troops in Iraq
- The case of Eric Rudolph: Right-wing terrorism and the Bush administration
G8 summit protesters denounce US occupation of Iraq
On-the-spot report from Thônex-Vallard
- US prepares for military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay
5 June 2003
- Australian prime minister an enthusiastic promoter of the WMD fraud
Filmmaking and American social life
Blue Car, written and directed by Karen Moncrieff
A presidential visit to Auschwitz
The Holocaust and the Bush family fortune
- US raid on Palestinian embassy in Baghdad: an act of political gangsterism
- More job losses at Swedish telecom giant Ericsson
- Strike at Sydney metal company enters 12th week
Tens of thousands march in Lima
Peruvian workers defy state of emergency
6 June 2003
- WSWS/SEP meeting in Berlin: "The strength of the US government has been grossly exaggerated in Europe"
- G8 summit gives go ahead for US offensive against Iran and North Korea
Friedman: We did it "because we could"
New York Times covers up for lies on Iraq war
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Philippine military implicated in brutal murder of human rights activists
- Newspaper ban exposes growing conflict in Tongan ruling circles
7 June 2003
- G8 dismiss the African catastrophe
- Britain: Blair defeats motion for inquiry into Iraqi WMDs
- Letters to the WSWS
- Split verdict in Detroit terror trial exposes government frame-up
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australia: Why Mr Rivkin has gone to jail
9 June 2003
US attorney general defends civil liberties abuses
Ashcroft dismisses report on post-911 dragnet
- Letters to the WSWS
- Heat wave kills more than 1,200 in south India
- Berlin meeting on Iraq war: "A turning point in international politics"
- Britain: Workers sacked by text message
10 June 2003
- Budget deadline looms for California
Release of Living History
Hillary Clinton "tell-all" book leaves "right-wing conspiracy" in the shadows
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Toronto: New SARS outbreak provokes nurses' protest
- Spain's governing Peoples Party loses support in close vote
- El estupro de Irak
- Entrevista con Luis Zamora dirigente del movimiento Autonomía y Libertad de Argentina
- Martha Stewart: the indictment of an American icon
Wage-cutting deal at New Castle Machining and Forge
Pay cut for auto workers means payoff for UAW
11 June 2003
- Bush administration ratchets up pressure on Ottawa
- US: 13,000 Arab and Muslim men face deportation
- World economy sliding towards deflation and recession
- Australia: Higher education reform package advances "user-pays" agenda
- Opposition to US Middle East "Road Map" escalates
- Britain: Protest by steelworkers highlights pensions crisis
12 June 2003
- Berlin population to pay for bank bailout
Crisis over missing Iraqi WMDs
Britain: Blair, advisor boycott parliamentary inquiry
- Danish government challenged over missing Iraqi WMDs
Two films about Latin America: distortion and reaction
Assassination Tango and The Dancer Upstairs
US mortgage financier in derivatives trouble
What is going on at Freddie Mac?
- Iraqi "bioweapons" trailers: another "smoking gun" goes up in smoke
13 June 2003
- France: Millions join one-day strike against pension cuts
- Indonesian prosecutors attempt to link Muslim cleric to terror network
- US launches major military offensive in "liberated" Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Beyond the roots of American popular music
Examining the legacy of Alan Lomax
- Northern Ireland: "Dirty war" probe provokes conflicts
- Sean Penn's Times statement: patriotism and the struggle against US militarism
14 June 2003
- Australian Labor mired in leadership turmoil
- US suffers Latin American rebuke at OAS meeting
- England's schools in funding crisis
- The death of Jürgen Möllemann and the decay of German politics
- French protesters speak out on pension cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- BBC and Guardian cover up US role in Iraq looting
16 June 2003
- Argentina's Kirchner: caught between the IMF and social unrest
- Hundreds of jobs cut in Belfast
- Papua New Guinea liquidity crisis sees new calls for Australian intervention
- Australian government bans Sydney Film Festival movie
Investigating the foundations of equality
God, Locke and Equality by Jeremy Waldron
17 June 2003
- Australian government resumes push for detention without trial
- European Union plans drastic restraints on right to asylum
- Unexploded cluster bombs blanket Iraqi cities
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Failed coup attempt in Mauritania
- Tokyo aid conference fails to restart Sri Lankan peace process
- London public meeting of the World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party
18 June 2003
- Australia: Lack of monitoring highlights health dangers at Alcoa plants
WSWS interviews local residents
"Kwinana is the cancer capital of Western Australia"
- Attac holds G8 counter-summit in Geneva
- Washington's war of terror in Iraq
- US marines sent to Liberia
- Arrest of Portugal's elite in paedophile scandal
Thirty years down the road
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Manchester, England
19 June 2003
- One-third of US children born in 2000 at risk for diabetes
US authorities investigating but
Still no answers on Freddie Mac crisis
- Sharon blows up the "Road Map"
Four German soldiers killed in Kabul attack
Victims of Social Democratic/Green government policies
- Why the LTTE has targetted SEP members in northern Sri Lanka
- Rioting in Michigan town exposes social tensions
- 50 years since the execution of the Rosenbergs
20 June 2003
- Massive police presence in Michigan town
- Thousands protest against Iranian government
- American troops shoot down two Iraqi protesters
- US prepares military blockade against North Korea
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- EU expansion worsens Portugal's economic crisis
- New reports on criminality at WorldCom
- England: Wedgwood cuts 1,000 jobs, as unemployment rises
21 June 2003
Ten years since the Mack Avenue fire
Housing crisis deepens in Detroit
- Terrorism and the origins of Israel—Part 1
- Communist Refoundation: Italian Stalinism's new "experiment" with electoral opportunism
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New Zealand military to join occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan
- Canada: State vendetta against anti-poverty activist to continue
- Three hundred years of Petersburg—festival's facades hide destitution
- Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq: Bush's "big lie" and the crisis of American imperialism
23 June 2003
- Letters to the WSWS
- Another day of action in France
- US appeals court approves secret roundup of immigrants
- US proconsul cancels municipal election in Iraq
- Terrorism and the origins of Israel—Part 2
- Sydney Opera House architect wins major international award
24 June 2003
- Indonesian military intensifies operations in Aceh
- California budget targets health care
- Iraq and Al Qaeda: another lie unravels
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Software giant Oracle bids for right to destroy jobs
- Spain extends military presence in Iraq
- Ben Jonson's Volpone: black comedy from the dawn of the modern era
25 June 2003
- US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action
- US: New coal dust standards mean increased black lung for miners
- German Green Party backs cuts in social programs
WSWS interview:
Father protests indefinite detention of son at Guantanamo Bay
- Israel: Privatisation drive follows government's austerity plan
- Jordan: Elections provide a fig leaf for unpopular regime
Secret arrests and detentions
Bush invokes "enemy combatant" rule against defendants
In the aftermath of Iraq
Australian government prepares intervention in Solomon Islands
26 June 2003
Austrian government imposes cuts in pensions
Right-wing regime ignores mass protests
- Chris Marsden addresses London meeting: "A turning point for class relations in Europe"
- Letters to the WSWS
- Fijian Vice President faces trial on coup charges
- Bush administration targets Iran for US aggression
- WSWS/SEP London meeting: "The working class needs its own international strategy"
- Spain: Post-election horse-trading exposes rampant corruption
27 June 2003
- Burmese junta refuses to release opposition leaders
European Union sends troops to Congo
First independent EU military mission
- Britain: Why Blair has delayed again on the euro
- American military morale shaken by Iraq quagmire
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
New York Times reporter Judith Miller accused of "hijacking" military unit in Iraq
More on the "newspaper of record" and WMD lies
- Australia: Opposition parties head off genuine probe into the government's WMD lies
28 June 2003
- New formula to further cut financial aid for US college students
- France: Court dismisses charges in tainted blood scandal
- Rising popular anger behind attack on British troops in southern Iraq
- Ireland: Ulster Unionist Party could split
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Quebec: Liberal budget initiates new anti-working class offensive
- What is the US military doing on the Iraq-Syria border?
30 June 2003
- Letters to the WSWS
- Bush packs US federal courts with right-wing ideologues
- Washington presses India to send troops to Iraq
- The politics of US Medicare "reform": cynicism, cowardice and social reaction
- SARS reveals public health breakdown in Taiwan
El imperialismo en Iraq: lecciones del pasado
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Better things for which to spend Greenbrae tax
Instead of spending thousands of dollars foolishly on median strips that only need weed pulling, watering, wood chips and low maintenance in the unincorporated area of Marin, the Greenbrae Property Owners Association and County Service Area No. 16 should instead focus attention on funding a "special traffic enforcement team" with the Marin sheriff and Marin's California Highway Patrol to go after the motorists in the same areas who continually use their cellphones and text while driving and run stop signs.
It will only get worse when the Marin Municipal Water District replaces water lines and when the dreaded Sir Francis Drake Boulevard Rehabilitation Project begins.
It makes sense to me and it will help to keep us safe at the same time.
— Ron Naso, Kentfield
'Overwhelming' evidence
supports immunizations
The anti-immunization letter published in Saturday's IJ (on the same day as the March for Science) demonstrates how science illiteracy continues to plague society.
For over two centuries, since Edward Jenner pioneered vaccination against smallpox, immunizations have saved countless lives that in earlier generations were lost to diseases such as smallpox, measles, polio, meningitis and whooping cough. Our public health measures in support of immunization, such as California's SB 277, were backed by the professional organizations of physicians and nurses based on overwhelming scientific evidence.
As a pediatrician, I have the ability and the privilege to protect children from life-threatening and brain-damaging diseases by using the best tools that modern science has provided us: immunizations.
You can educate yourself even more about the science behind immunizations by going to reputable websites such as HealthyChildren.org (from the American Academy of Pediatrics) and cdc.gov (the Centers for Disease Control).
— Michael Harris, MD, San Rafael
Vaccinations 'have done widespread good'
How ironic to see two letters celebrating science (Readers' Forum, April 22) juxtaposed with Mr. Lamb's anti-vaccine letter, "Required vaccines still raise questions."
Vaccinations may still raise questions for him, but those questions have been thoroughly answered for most of us.
Part of the reason people can hold strong anti-vaccine views is that they never see anyone suffering from the results of no vaccinations.
No one has smallpox anymore. Few people struggle on braces and crutches like my husband's school friend who survived polio, as so many did not. Few limp and go through life with misshapen limbs like my mother, who also had polio.
Rather than causing widespread harm, as Mr. Lamb would encourage us to believe, vaccinations have done widespread good.
On Saturday, we celebrated science. We applaud the science that gave us immunity from diseases that, before vaccinations, caused such widespread devastation.
— Elaine C. Johnson, Greenbrae
Thanks to the Elks for helping Earth Day fete
I'm writing to express my thanks to the Elks Lodge on Mission Avenue for hosting Marin Earth Day on Saturday.
The property was beautiful, and the vegan food they prepared was delicious.
I was happy to see people learning about how our food choices really do affect the environment and the planet.
— Stan Rosenfeld, Fairfax
Part of battle against greenhouse gases
Marin IJ readers who look at the inserts in their electric bills that show where their electricity comes from will recognize that John P. Huberty's assertions about electricity generation and electric vehicles are wrong.
In his April 23 letter to the editor, "Electric vehicles are not as green as touted," Mr. Huberty questions the benefits of electric vehicles in fighting climate change by discussing fossil fuel electricity generation and methane leaks from the petroleum industry.
The latest available Power Content Label (2015) shows that 58 percent of Northern California's electricity is from greenhouse gas-free sources. Many residents are choosing to buy 100-percent green electricity that is completely from fossil fuel-free sources.
Electricity generation is moving from fossil fuels to solar and wind. On March 11, California set a new record with 50 percent of the electricity in the state coming from solar. Electricity from wind, solar and hydroelectric generation does not produce the greenhouse gases that are causing climate change.
Every business day new solar generation is added to the electricity grid. This trend is happening worldwide with even Beijing, China shutting down its last coal-fired generating plant and last Friday, England went for a day without coal for the first time since the 1800s.
Not only is solar and wind electricity cleaner than electricity from fossil fuels, it is less expensive.
The electricity used to charge electric cars is much cleaner than Mr. Huberty asserts and importantly, continues to get cleaner especially here in Marin.
The methane leaks coming from the petroleum industry are not related to electric cars. Electric cars do not use gasoline, diesel or engine oil. No drilling, fracking, pipelines, or refineries are needed to support electric cars.
Driving electric cars eliminates the need for activities that can result in methane leaks.
The California Air Resources Board's 2016 Greenhouse Gas Emission Summary reported that electricity generation accounts for 20 percent of the GHGs produced and is decreasing and transportation produces 36 percent of the greenhouse gases and is increasing. It's clear that replacing gas cars with electric cars is the most effective step we can take to slow climate change.
— Dale Miller, San Rafael
Eliminating wood smoke pollution a healthy move
Thank you for calling attention to the ongoing problem of particle pollution in the North Bay.
Besides cars and trucks, the biggest air pollution problem in the Bay Area is from wood burning. Breathing particle pollution — or soot — can shorten life and send those most at risk to the emergency room, including individuals with lung and heart disease.
As with any pollution, children are especially at risk. Their lungs do not fully form until the age of 18 and exposure to wood smoke can lead to reduced lung function and risk of future lung disease. Breathing wood smoke has also been associated with lung cancer.
One fireplace or wood-burning stove can produce levels of smoke in a neighborhood that exceed federal air quality standards and affect many neighborhoods.
The American Lung Association in California urges the public to avoid wood burning and to use cleaner heating alternatives including gas heaters, electric heat pumps and other devices. For low-income residents who rely on wood burning for heat and cooking, some air districts offer incentive programs to help switch out wood-burning appliances for the cleanest devices.
To protect our children and our communities, we must eliminate wood smoke pollution so we can improve our health and the air we share.
— Eugene Belogorsky, MD, Santa Rosa, volunteer physician, American Lung Association in California


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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi holds talks with US Secretary of State, UN Secretary-General
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi held talks with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Manila yesterday.
At the meeting, they discussed issues including democratic transition, the peace process, the economy, investment and the latest developments in Rakhine State.
Following the meeting, the State Counsellor attended the 20th ASEAN Plus Three Summit, the ASEAN Plus Canada 40th Anniversary Commemorative Summit, and the ASEAN-EU 40th Anniversary Commemorative Summit in Manila.
After the luncheon hosted by the President of the Philippines Mr. Rodrigo Duterte, State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi attended the 12th East Asia Summit, and the 15th ASEAN-India Summit.
In the evening, she attended a ceremony to sign the Consensus on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers, the closing ceremony of the 31st ASEAN Summit and a ceremony to hand over the chairmanship of ASEAN to Singapore.
At the ceremony, Mr Duterte expressed words of thanks and Singapore Prime Minister Mr. Lee Hsien Loong took over the chairmanship and extended greetings. Also present at the ceremony were leaders of the 10 ASEAN countries, leaders of ASEAN dialogue partners, the Secretary-General of ASEAN permanent representatives of ASEAN and senior officials of ASEAN nations.
On Monday evening, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi attended the ASEAN Plus Three Leaders' Interface with the East Asia Business Council, the 9th Mekong-Japan Summit and the 9th ASEAN-UN Summit at the Philippines International Convention Centre (PICC). She also met with UN Secretary-General Mr. Antonio Guterres, exchanging views on the latest development in Rakhine State and the UN's participation in implementing the special advisory commission's recommendations in Rakhine State.— Myanmar News Agency


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Written by: MIN on 10/02/2018 14:14:46
As a young teenager in the mid naughts, few bands meant as much to me as The Killers and their two first LPs, the massively successful "Hot Fuss" and "Sam's Town". Admittedly, most bands occupying Fox's teenage show the O.C.'s soundtrack had somewhat of an impact on me in this very receptive period of my life, but especially The Killers stuck. Recalling our previous review of The Killers' album "Battle Born", I, too, am a firm believer that the band unfortunately went in a different direction when they released "Day & Age", focusing largely on hit-singles over the engaging storytelling found on "Sam's Town". As the years went by, I got over The Killers, and although I recall enjoying "Battle Born" to a larger extend, I never quite got into it like I would've several years prior. Today, however, I'm tasked with the job of reviewing the band's latest record, "Wonderful Wonderful", which, right off the bat, sounds huge; the production value is enormous, there are world music influences, children's choirs and slick synths and grooves – and although most of this sounds like your typical Killers record, something inside feels broken.
Granted, the entire band contributed to this record, but it feels increasingly like Flowers calling the shots, reflected in the fact that half of the band won't be touring on The Killers' current tour. All too often, it feels like someone should've maybe told Flowers to stop his ideas and just let the natural order of the songs take their course and run out, but instead he always seems to add something extra and unnecessary to them; try as he might, Flowers will never be Freddie Mercury, no matter how excellent his singing is. The worst example of this is during the ballade "Rut", which beautifully highlights Flowers' voice and follows a linear path, but towards the end takes a detour of U2-like proportions, where a choir sings "I'll climb and I'll climb" repeatedly (a gamble otherwise perfected on "All These Things That I've Done" off the band's debut record), ultimately ruining a decent song. "The Man", too, could've turned out well if the chorus had been cut short, but alas it does not and instead you're stuck with the infuriatingly cringe-worthy "Who's the man? Who's the man? I'm the man" repetitiveness before the next verse starts.
Even the songs on the album's latter half, where the band gets a helping hand from Australian musician Alex Cameron, lack real punch; "Out of My Mind" is boring in all of its 80s-inspired synth- and guitar work, and the blues riff-turned-electro of "The Calling" never manages to convey the early 90s-feeling of Depeche Mode. The only exceptions arrive during the single "Run for Cover", which somehow manages to stay focused and ultimately comes off as a solid effort, and the epic "Tyson vs. Douglas", which wonderfully combines the band's gigantic framework with decent interior.
An overall symptom throughout the record (besides Flowers' shenanigans) seems to be uninspired songwriting; everything sounds neat, every delivery is spot-on, yet "Wonderful Wonderful" is a boring album to sit through. Despite the claims I heard of a "return" for the band, not a single song manages to boast the prowess of the chorus in "Runaways", the fun of "Human" and "Spaceman" or the gripping tales of "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine" and "When You Were Young". "Wonderful Wonderful" is a chapter in the book of Killers best left as a placeholder in your record collection, only occupying space to complete your collection of records by a once great band.
Download: Run for Cover, Tyson vs. Douglas
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Christian Slater is set to start in a new Disney Channel show entitled 'Milo Murphy's Law'.
The 47-year-old actor will voice Elliot Decker, the arch-nemesis of the titular Milo Murphy - voiced by Grammy-winning satirist Weird Al Yankovic - in the upcoming animated series which will air on the Disney Channel starting April 3.
'Milo Murphy's Law' follows the story 13-year-old Milo, a descendent of the Murphy's Law namesake and the personification of the law which says anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Elliot Decker is a volunteering school crossing guard and "self proclaimed Safety Tsar" who spies on Milo as the boy embarks on turning catastrophe into adventure, as Elliot believes him to be a danger to the other people in the city.
Speaking about his role in a promotional video, Christian said: "Elliot Decker, the self-proclaimed Safety Tsar, is certainly a guy who is dealing with Milo Murphy. It's difficult and challenging as that kid is always getting into some kind of trouble. I'm doing everything I possibly can so that he doesn't cause any problems."
Christian also says he is a "huge fan" of Elliot's look in the show, as the animated character sports sunglasses and a mullet style haircut.
Other members of the voice vase include Sabrina Carpenter, Vanessa Williams, MeKai Curtis, and Ming-Na Wen.
The programme has been created by 'Phineas and Ferb' creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff 'Swampy' Marsh, who will also lend their voices to futuristic time travellers Vinnie Dakota and Balthazar Cavendish.
'Milo Murphy's Law' airs on Disney Channel every Monday from April 3.
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Workplace Stress Impacts Health Care Workers
Stress can adversely affect a physician's decision making, Bengt Arnetz and colleagues found in a recent study supported by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation. The research team is now planning to apply for a National Institutes of Health grant to expand that study.
In the general workforce, about 10 percent of employees are depressed, Arnetz said. In his own profession, it is more like 30 percent, which he attributed to the high stress among health care workers and lack of a systematic strategy to build energy and recover from work stress.
"Burnout is huge in the practice of medicine," he said, "and burnout affects the quality of care."
Over the years, he has studied how stress affects the work of police officers, emergency room workers, journalists and others, and he found the results are similar, whatever the profession. "We looked at almost everybody," he said. "The basic needs are
very similar."
Arnetz has been studying psychophysiology – the relationship between the brain and the body – since 1983 when a hospital in his native Sweden hired him to look into the health of its medical providers. The Swedish telecom company Ericsson later commissioned him to research the cause of physical problems among white collar employees in its research and development department.
Backed by a database of more than 600,000 workers, Arnetz developed a tool – a questionnaire validated by biological data – to measure the stress level of workers.
Stress, he found, was adversely affecting the health of the workers and contributing to lower productivity. After Ericsson took steps to reduce the stress, the productivity of its workers improved, as did their health. "It changed my perspective to look at not only individuals, but at populations of workers," Arnetz said. "What are the management characteristics that contribute to productivity and health?"
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It's simple-made-elaborate for Chef de Cuisine Jacques Qualin, the man in the kitchen at celebrity chef Jean-George Vongerichten's J&G Steakhouse, which sits atop The Phoenician.
"It's a steakhouse but we don't want to do like a basic steakhouse," he said. "[So] we're trying to play on the side dishes, and the sauces, and the appetizers."
Fancy trying on those chef whites for an evening? Here's a recipe for sweet corn ravioli with basil butter and cherry tomatoes, one of Qualin's side dishes.
Ravioli Filling:
½ pound corn kernels ½ pound charred corn kernels 2 ounces minced shallots 1/2 of a Thai chili pepper, minced 1.5 TSP minced rosemary 1/2 ounce sugar 1 TSP salt 1 ounce butter 10 ounces heavy cream
Sweat shallots in butter using two rondeaus until tender. Add fresh corn kernels and cook until bright yellow, then slowly add cream and cook like a risotto. Once all cream has been added and reduced until the kernels are barely above the cream, add salt and remove from heat. Puree until smooth. In a large mixing bowl over an ice bath, stir in chili, rosemary, sugar and charred corn kernels and let cool.
Pasta Dough:
1 pound all-purpose flour 10 egg yolks 3 eggs 1 TBSP olive oil
Combine all the ingredients in a Hobart mixer with a dough hook and work until the dough comes together. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and let sit for 1 hour. Roll dough through a pasta machine, starting with the largest setting and gradually getting thinner, then twice through the smallest setting so pasta is rolled out thin.
To fill ravioli, use 0.7 ounces of filling per ravioli.
Lay one sheet of pasta dough, arrange balls of ravioli filling, and egg wash the dough with a brush in between. Take a another sheet of dough and gently cover the filling, sealing the dough tightly together. Cut the ravioli with a 3-inch cutter.
Tomato Salad:
8 ounces Del Cabo, Golden Cherry tomatoes, washed and split 1 ounce shallots, peeled and sliced 1/8 inch thick ½ TSP salt 1 ounce red wine vinegar 1/2 ounce olive oil 1/2 of a Thai Chili pepper, washed and minced
Place tomatoes and shallots in a bow, and sprinkle with salt. Add the vinegar, chili and olive oil. This salad must be mixed 15 minutes prior to use, and is good for 1 hour at room temperature. Combine all and mix well.
Basil Puree:
4 ounces freshly picked basil 4 ounces Safflower oil 1TSP salt
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Blanch basil for 10 full seconds in rapidly boiling water in the steam kettle. Then, shock it by placing it in an ice bath. Squeeze out excess water and add safflower oil and salt. Puree all ingredients on high speed until bright green. Shock in a bowl over ice.
To Serve:
Corn removed from cob Mixed baby basil 1 tsp minced shallots
Sauté shallots in foamy butter and add corn. Sweat out, then add water that almost covers it. Mount with butter and emulsify. Season with basil puree and add raviolis, which have been poached in simmering water. Sauce should be creamy and brothy, not thick and bright, light green. Place in a small bowl and top with the cherry tomatoes, then sprinkle with baby basil.


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Last year has been definitely a difficult one for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership deal, or else TTIP. It's not a secret that the huge protests that the EU-US trade agreement had to face this year and that the momentum that other mammoth trade pacts like the TPP have gained have somehow weakened the trans-Atlantic project. However, the new approach by some key leaders could unveil how they have agreed on the unanimous scope of making 2016 the conclusive year.
Merkel's public endorsement
What the first few days of this new year are saying, however, is that authorities are now determined to change pace, and that the next twelve months could bring big news for the huge trans-Atlantic deal. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said last week that TTIP has more advantages than drawbacks, and could be a model for other free-trade agreements. "No standard already in existence in the European Union today will be lowered in the trade agreement with the US", she said last Saturday in her weekly podcast. "The TTIP could be an example for other deals", she also added, where social and ecological standards could play "a more important part".
The words of the German Chancellor represent an unprecedented case. Surely Chancellor Merkel has already expressed support towards TTIP in the past, but it is the first time a European head-of-state of the importance of Ms. Merkel openly takes a political position in favour of the EU-US trade agreement, and also speaks of a trade model to follow, regardless the controversies around the proposed agreement. After a year in which the EU-US deal has faced a wide lack of support, especially in Germany, Chancellor Merkel's speech sounds like a public endorsement of TTIP.
EU standards "untouched"
Indeed Germans have been very critical of the trans-Atlantic trade deal in the last few months, with thousands of protesters filling the streets of the main German cities to raise their voices against alleged proposed changes to EU food standards. In her podcast, Chancellor Merkel underlined the importance of keeping high EU standards untouched and called for more transparency in the negotiations in order to win the public's trust.
2016 deadline
Another point Germany's Merkel touched during her speech last week was the deadline for the fulfilment of the trade deal, a very hot topic indeed. Although TTIP was initially set to be concluded by the end of 2015, the 2016 deadline gained momentum during the negotiation phase, and the delegations started to work with a view to this deadline. However, in the last few months, despite the open confidence expressed by senior negotiators like US Chief Negotiator, Dan Mullaney, who repeatedly said it was "important" to try to finish the negotiations during the Obama's Presidency, also the 2016 deadline started to rather look too optimistic.
"If all goes well"
Now German Chancellor Angela Merkel openly backed the "Obama deadline" and said she was "hoping to complete the TTIP deal" during US President Barack Obama's time in office, which ends this year, as she already said last December in Brussels and was reported by Bloomberg. What now seems to be more solid though is that the two sides seem to be pushing harder on trying to finish talks during the last year of the Obama administration as a planned goal. Bloomberg BNA last week quoted EU Ambassador to the US David O'Sullivan that, if all goes well, TTIP could be concluded "sometime in 2016", although probably it would not take effect "until 2018".
Tim Bennett's confidence
Also Tim Bennett, Director General and chief executive officer of the Transatlantic Business Council, told Bloomberg BNA that wrapping up TTIP was doable by late 2016. Mr. Bennett, who was exclusively interviewed by the European Sting during 2014 European Business Summit in Brussels, said that waiting until 2017 to close negotiations could "close the window of opportunity". Mr. Bennett expressed "strong scepticism" that TTIP talks could be restarted once the current US administration leaves, as 2017 will be focused "on putting a new Cabinet in place", as reported by Bloomberg.
Hot points
The truth is that the two sides are still far from the point of reaching a final version of the trade agreement, with many open questions still too hot to handle: food safety issues, regulatory issues and health are still focal matters. When last year, for instance, the British Medical Association's urged the British government to protect the public character of Britain's health system from an alleged privatisation of the sector that TTIP would allegedly bring, and incredibly louder alarm bell rang, and it was clear the "battle" was very far from fading.
Also the discussion around the investor-state dispute settlement clause, the mechanism that would allow corporations to sue governments in tribunals if they believe to have been obstructed by local laws, are still very vivid. The European Commission has proposed reforming the ISDS system by establishing an appeal mechanism and an international court and the US will have to review the proposal and react to it, although many believe the point is very important for the Americans.
Big expectations on next round
The next TTIP negotiations round is expected to take place the week commencing February 22 in Brussels and eyes are already set towards the Belgian capital. What is certain is that 2016 will be a crucial year for TTIP, as being the year in which the long awaited finalisation of the agreement either will take place or not.
It's just how the game will be played in the next 12 months that will totally shape TTIP's fate.


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Harvard and the University of Michigan will partner on initiatives and summits to address economic opportunity and the opioid epidemic, the universities announced jointly Wednesday.
The Equality of Opportunity Project, led by two Harvard professors, will work with the University of Michigan's Poverty Solutions initiative on developing "interventions" in Detroit, Mich. regarding economic mobility. The schools will also plan two policy summits together on the national opioid crisis featuring experts in government, medicine, public health, and other fields, according to a press release.
The collaboration comes as University President Lawrence S. Bacow is scheduled to return to Michigan — his home state — this week to participate in a panel of high-profile former Detroit natives who have returned to the city for the program.
"I am delighted that Harvard will be partnering with one of the country's leading public research universities to make progress on issues that are among the most pressing of our time," Bacow said in the press release. "I am also excited to further deepen Harvard's work in Michigan where we will engage with local partners, contribute to solutions and learn from collaborators in Detroit and beyond."
The partnership will work with Detroit and its mayor, Mike E. Duggan, to develop and implement new programs on neighborhood revitalization, affordable housing, and youth-focused initiatives. University of Michigan's Poverty Solutions initiative, created in 2016, seeks to reduce poverty in the United States, and the Equality of Opportunity Project studies the causes of economic success and failure across the country.
Duggan said in the press release that he is excited about the schools' partnership.
"We are trying to build a comeback that includes all Detroiters and we welcome the support of these two prestigious institutions in that effort," he said.
The policy summits on the opioid epidemic — one of which could take place as early as this winter — will address issues including opioid prescriptions, drug overdose detection, access to treatment, and criminal justice, according to the press release.
Michigan associate professor Chad Brummett, the co-director of the Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network, will lead the University of Michigan's end of the collaboration, while Mary T. Bassett, the newly appointed director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard, will head the effort from Harvard.
Bacow's trip to Michigan comes amid criticisms — including some from policymakers in Washington — that Harvard and its peer institutions are out of touch with the rest of the United States. Bacow, who took office in July, has pledged to counter this perception by traveling across the country to make the case for higher education.
—Staff writer Jamie D. Halper can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @jamiedhalper.
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Who has not grown up with it, then we are of course talking about peanut butter. About the most used siege in Dutch cuisine. Many people like it, of course there is also a group that needs to smell peanut butter and gets goose bumps. What about this with our dog? Does a dog like peanut butter taste good, is not it dangerous for your dog? These are all questions that may arise, please read below for the answers to your questions.
What is peanut butter ?
Peanut butter is a spreadable food made for ground peanuts, the origin of peanut butter actually lies in the United States and was developed in the 18th century. You can consume peanut butter in different ways, for example bread spreads or as peanut sauce with the other ingredients added.
Nutritional values ? of peanut butter
Besides that peanut butter is incredibly rich in all kinds of fats, and many more good nutrients such as :
Vitamin A
Vitamin B6
Vitamin B12
Vitamin C
Vitamin D
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It can always go wrong .. the costs of draining the stomach of the dog (or worse ..) are sky-high. In almost all cases it is a lot cheaper to give the dog a cheap basic insurance. Compare here the list of cheap dog insurances where you can insure your dog the best and cheapest possible.
Dangerous for your dog ?
Peanut butter is not dangerous for your dog to a limited extent, in fact your dog thinks it is very tasty, besides that it is also very nutritious for your dog. It can only be that your dog has a nut allergy, it can be a danger for your dog. So if your dog does not have a nut allergy, you can feed your dog a little bit of peanut butter.
Do you have to go to the vet ?
If your dog has an allergy, or if you have any doubts, it is wise to contact your vet if your dog has eaten peanut butter. If your dog has eaten too much peanut butter while he has no allergy, this can also be a sensible choice, to be sure to take it insecure, we therefore always advise you to consult your veterinarian.