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Sir Alex Ferguson's side travel to West Ham on Wednesday knowing they need just seven more points to win a record-breaking 20th league title.
United lost an eight-point lead last term as City won a first title in 44 years via goal difference in the dying seconds of the season - and Ferdinand is wary of a similar collapse this term.
|Ryan Giggs is 100/1 with Coral to replace Sir Alex Ferguson as Man Utd manager
"We're not far off it but it's not over until it's over. We have to make sure we remain focused and apply ourselves in the right way.
"I'm not really surprised by the lead if I'm honest. When I look around the changing room I expect us to be winning games nine times out of 10.
"I believe in the squad, believe we can win games in various ways, winning ugly, playing fluent football, keeping a clean sheet.
"It would be great to win it again but until we do I don't want to talk much about it. Last season a lot of people got ahead of themselves."
Ferdinand's current deal is set to expire at the end of the season, but he is not concerned over his future at Old Trafford and says he is happy just playing "in the big games."
However, the 34-year-old says he has no intention of following Ryan Giggs' lead - who recently penned a new contract that takes him past his 40th birthday.
He added: "I'm just enjoying my football, playing in the big games, being a regular in the team. It enables you to hit a bit of form. I hope I can carry on.
"When you get to my stage you take it year by year. I'm working out my routine. But no-one else will be able to do what Giggs has done. He's got a certain body type, works on it and gets the best out of it."


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It's been a long time since I entertained the idea of entering a relationship with a woman. I'd more or less given up on that pursuit. It's now been more than a decade, and the reasons have been many, but mainly I felt I had much work to do on myself. I needed to find myself, as it were. I ...Read More »
Response to Brad Warner
Hey everyone. Well, here we are again. Brad Warner sent me an email today which he's now posted at his blog. As I told him, I'll certainly remove him from the website per his request. Anyway, I've said my peace on the matter. His ending comments sound quite a bit stuck IN mud, if you ask me. Yay, more work. ...Read More »
Sweeping Zen does not exist. It's just an idea.
This post is a little bit ironic. Amid the conversations going on lately surrounding different (yet related) issues of ethical conduct, I've been constructively schooled on some things — the kind of stuff we don't always like to hear. I've been told that I'm too angry and overt (in less flowery words) and, I've got to say, it's very true. ...Read More »
Come share some sewer water
This is very lonely work, in case you are interested in how it all works behind the scenes. I feel like a man being cheered on over a cliff. Sometimes I question why I even do this anymore. I know there are those who appreciate it, and those who understand why it's important. I'm so disillusioned anymore with Zen in ...Read More »
I'm sorry, was this an inopportune time? Maybe next week would have worked better?
I really am awestruck anymore by the reactions to scandals when they are published. The poor readers are tired of it all (let's just gloss over those victims). One man contacted me on Facebook to inform me I am the "Pee Pee Police." Another angry blogger previously commented that we're Sweeping Sins, now. These are just cute snapshots of an ...Read More »
Interview with Daeung Sunim (Video)
Here is a video interview I recently did with Daeung Sunim, the Korean Buddhist monk on a journey by bike across the Americas. I had the wonderful opportunity to host this sweetheart of a man. As he left at the train station, I walked away a bit sad, hoping that we might one day meet again. I can say, without ...Read More »
Bad journalism? Just tell the truth…
If there is one criticism of my work here that I find more ironic than any other, it is that I am a bad journalist. I started this piece by writing "criticism of Sweeping Zen" but quickly realized they aren't criticizing Sweeping Zen. No. They are talking, really, about the times when I choose to use my voice here (and ...Read More »
UPDATE: Eido Shimano NOT to lead sesshin at Providence Zen Center in 2013
UPDATED October 5, 2012 The Kwan Um School of Zen has offered an official statement on the matter of Eido Shimano booking a rental at their Diamond Hill Zen monastery in 2013. We are happy to announce that they have decided to decline renting out the space to Shimano and his followers. Here is the statement from Jason Quinn, the ...Read More »
Where do you stand?
By Adam Tebbe When I first began talking to Kobutsu Malone a while back, mainly over Skype, he said to me in no uncertain terms that I'd need to eventually decide where I stand on the issues facing the Buddhist community, namely that of misconduct (in all its shapes, sizes and genders). I didn't know quite what he meant by that at the ...Read More »
Fed-Ex letter from Ken McLeod's attorney
On Friday afternoon, I received the following letter via Fed-Ex from Robert N. Conrad, an attorney representing Ken McLeod of Unfettered Mind. DOWNLOAD PDF OF THIS LETTER (right click, select "Save Link As") Re: Sweeping Zen posting on August 24, 2012 by Abbess Myoan Grace Schireson Dear Mr. Tebbe: This office represents Ken McLeod. I understand that you are the ...Read More »
Newsflash: It isn't the sex, it's the trust
Trust isn't something I'm able to hand over blindly. I feel I'm open with others about how I feel, but I don't jump in to the waters before dipping my toes for a bit (especially not when I see bubbles). As a prospective male student, I'm not burdened by the risk of teacher/student sexual relationships. That doesn't mean it doesn't ...Read More »
Is Zen Forum International becoming like E-Sangha?
Zen Forum International began as an alternative (of sorts) for Zen practitioners to E-Sangha, an online forum that doesn't exist today which many criticized as being sectarian in tone and autocratic in governance. It was supposed to be a place where views could be expressed without suppression, a place where "controversial" takes on teachings like rebirth could be expressed without ...Read More »
I see a darkness
By Adam Tebbe I've been depressed and haven't been updating the site or meeting my responsibilities. This comes and goes at times. Part of me wants to make this in to some helpful little post where I get the girl in the end, but that wouldn't be real. Sometimes I get enveloped with darkness. I shouldn't have anything to complain ...Read More »
Does a dog have Buddha nature? In Thailand, maybe not
By Adam Tebbe A group of Thai Buddhists calling themselves the Knowing Buddha Organization has called for an "international boycott" of the Disney films dubbed Buddies (ie. Santa Buddies, Treasure Buddies) for having a cartoon character named Buddha. The character is a dog. If you're not asleep yet, please read on. This is the kind of stuff that makes me ...Read More »
The quit: No, it's not my first rodeo
"Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a hundred times." – Mark Twain Tomorrow is my quit date. Of course, I'm smoking one now as I write this. I may as well smoke in my sleep with all of the smoking I do anymore. I picked up the habit when I was fifteen or so. I remember being mocked by ...Read More »
42-year old Korean monk on the journey of a lifetime
If you ever find yourself stranded on a long dark stretch of highway, Dave Pope will be a sight for those sore eyes. Dave was traveling a stretch of unlighted highway between Kelowna and Vernon, British Columbia, when something caught his attention. "It was a flash out of the corner of my eye. Just a body hunched over a wheel ...Read More »

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Former Brazil international Zico believes Paris Saint-Germain's Lucas could be more crucial to the national team than Santos striker Neymar.
Lucas moved to the French league leaders in January while Neymar has remained in Brazil despite links to some of Europe's biggest clubs.
"Neymar is ahead, but I like Lucas a lot, and I think he can grow a lot playing in Europe," he told Brazilian TV show Bem, Amigos.
"He's a very objective player, who aims for the goal at all times but who plays for the team. I think he could be even more important for Brazil in the next World Cup than Neymar."
Zico also commented on Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo and discussed where they stand among the all-time greats of football.
"Messi is on a whole different level. Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are two players that, the way I see it, can have a spot amongst the best of all time."
He added that while Messi is good he has some way to go before being considered better than Maradona.
"Is he better than Maradona? I don't think so. Everything Maradona did, he did with a guy hanging on his neck during 90 minutes.
"Considering Messi's quality and everything he represents, I don't think I've seen him playing with a guy following him around the pitch the entire time with the sole purpose of not letting him play.
"The ones next to him are very good, but they're used to knowing he's going to get things done eventually. 80% of all Barcelona goals, Messi either scores himself or participates somehow.
"So, let's mark that guy to see how the others will react with Messi not being able to play as he'd like. And Maradona had to deal with that every match, Pelé also. I used to be marked like that as well."


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Might have to look to Google or some other mapping tool provider.
I think it might be interesting to take a point/person on a web-based family tree member, back track names/birth dates/birth locations determine age time frames from death dates/locations and very advanced, include residence/immigration info back to oldest entries for that ancestry and plot those dates/locations on a global map as they progress forward to the family tree member selected.
Show icons in a color spectrum across that date range, maybe phase icons in/out based upon those birth/death dates.
Control display speed via a slider bar to control migration through time.
I think it would be interesting for members to be able to show migration sources/paths from earliest dates discovered to selected persons period.
I think it would be helpful to have a way to export that data for individuals to perhaps develop such a capability.
To whom it may concern at myDNAheritage,
Good Morning, my name is Roberto and I am writing you regarding my DNA test experience which I hope you can keep in mind,
I found out that most of my genetics proudly comes from the Iberian Peninsula, the reason why I am writing you it's because I felt disappointed with the short historical explanation that you give about the Iberian Peninsula.
I am a teacher specialized in history, I felt really disappointed when I read about the Iberian Peninsula negative description about the expulsion of the Jews in 1492 as ifthat event was the most remarkable event of the history of Spain and Portugal which I think is pure PROPAGANDA.
Let me tell you that France and England expulsed the Jews with much more cruelty and centuries sooner than Spain did. France did it since 1182 A.D. and England since 1290, or the territories of the Holy Roman Empire since 1348. Why when you describe the whole Iberian Peninsula you have highlighted that event when in Europe was made sooner and worse than Spain? and more brutally?!.
I have to say with all respect that a description of the history of the Iberian Peninsula can be made short, easy and funny if you wish, but please, it seems that you picked that description from a Wikipedia pamphlet which shows a total lack of interest and disrespect version against the history of my nation and the Portuguese nation.
I think you should seek advice by a proper historian because the descriptions that you give about Europe, in general, are based on cliches and a complete ignorance about the diversity of those countries, for example when you talk about the northwestern Europe area you mix that the western civilization with achievements made in Northern Europe and the Catholic church was created there and the exquisite food and wines are remarkable in that area. With all respect, but the pillars of the western civilization comes from Ancient Greece and Rome (Greco-Roman culture), then the Catholic church was born in Palestine and its see is placed in Rome (southern Europe). Northern Europe and Southern Europe are pretty different, especially in lifestyle, food, and wines.
Spain was in the 13Th century one of the best places to live in Europe for the Jews and they also experienced a great economic growth in Spain because England and France were the first countries that persecuted and expulsed Jews, later Germany and some parts of Italy.
The historical background of that negative event that we are not able to understand it with the actual mind of today, it is a common mistake of the people of today, if you are unable to understand the historical background or context of the 16th century way of thinking you will not understand the past nor even the present, therefore despite that the expulsion of the jews in Europe and Spain was something really bad (I agree), the whole Europe carried out those actions as well, therefore it is unfair that the Spaniards are the only blamed in Europe regarding your description.
Spanish history is full of prejudices and propaganda made by the enemies of Spain. In many films, Spain is seen asan intolerant "catholic" country with the terrible "Spanish Inquisition" (The Inquisition was invented in France by the way...), so nothing could be further from the truth. Let me recommend you some books such as the tree of hate by Phillip Wayne Powell who was written by an American and professor from California or scholars like Darío Fernandez Morera professor of Harvard University and you can have a better idea about Spanish history without prejudices or propaganda.
I recommended the test to my other family members and friends however after this insulting description I won't be able to recommend your DNA test any more because I have seen that other companies such as Ancestry.com treat the history of my country with much more respect and accurateness than yours.
I don't want to sound upset, however I would like to let you know how I feel about it and I would like to encourage you to revise that description.
I really appreciate your time for reading my letter and I apologised in advance if I sound a bit harsh, however I felt the necessity of saying something because as I have said before, I don´t like when someone mess and spread negative propaganda of my nation which is one of the five most important nations that have more contributed to universal history, therefore it shouldn't be described with those prejudices and lack of knowledge.
Thank you very much for your time
Yours Sincerely
Hi, I have been using the free version of Myheritage, both the web and the mobile version, for few years now. I am from Malaysia. I found Myheritage as an excellent tool to build my family tree. My family likes the simple way of building a complete family tree with all the details we used to keep in books, files and albums. In fact, most of the information were kept by the smaller families as we are living seperately and far from each other.
While the tool is widely use in the USA, Europe and most of the English spoken and Western countries, it is still very new in my country. Probably we are not used to keeping our heritage the way you all do it. Or perhaps, many of us do not use English as our main language. I would like to suggest Myheritage in the Malaysian/Indonesian language and customize it to the local way of keeping family heritage.
Thank you
1) There is a pedigree veiw of trees. This is critical with DNA matching.
2) I can easily link a dna test to someone in a tree. Clearly there is a way but where in the heck is it? I only gives me the option to upload DNA for a particular person. I uploaded the DNA already. How in the heck to I attach it?
3) It should be easy to merge two trees without downloading, editiing, and then uploading. I don't even know how I ended up with two seperate tress.
4) I want to see all women with maiden names only. I see this in settings, I change it, but I still see married names. Maddening. Nowhere else in the world of genealogy do we use married names for women.
MyHeritage is anything but user-friendly.
Please, please give us the option of changing to a pedigree view. Those of us who are hard core family history enthusiasts have been working with the pedigree view for years, in my case 50 years. Having everyone spread out when you have a tree of several thousand is unwieldy and difficult to follow.
I know a lot of people who are like me who won't make the best use of you site because they cannot get a pedigree view.
If we could get a pedigree view I would put several trees on the system, since I work on my own and several for other people as well.
Thanks for you consideration of my request,
Ethel Marie Deets
I wonder where the danish translations of relationships origins from?
Eg 1st cousin 3 times removed translates to 1. fætter i 3 plus 1´te led - this gives absolutely no meaning in danish.
His daugther is 2nd cousin twice removed and in danish 2. kusine i tredie led
1C3R grandfather is 2x great-grand father to the proband - or the 2x great-grand father to 1C3R is grandfather to the proband.
Confused? Don't be - go with the english terms - the danish seems to be unusable
I'm frustrated with the inefficient way the program checks for duplicates. How is it efficient to click between 2 possible duplicates and decide which one is correct. Why can't it be like Ancestry or other sites; check for duplicates and merge them in the same window? Why can't it be like that? It would be so much more efficient that way.
Check the attached photo for what I mean
This is driving me insane and I'm tempted to cancel and move to Ancestry to better control the bloat.
I would like to enter birth and death dates for ancestors who lived BC, as I can trace my roots to ancestors who died in 8 BC, but can't enter the information correctly, so I have to enter the year of death as 8. Even being able to enter -8 would be better.
NOT pleased! I have just wasted a lot of time trying to find a way of making a quick enquiry on MyHeritage and gone round in circles via Help Center and Contact Us. I have paid for MyHeritage service, yet there seems NO way to make a complaint. I don't have time to phone one of the numbers offered and also, its more efficient to email the query so that I can cite page references/urls. Also, it's better to have a record of the discussion, which you have by using email.
My original question is now less important, and my question now is what kind of company doesn't allow a way of sending complaints without phoning?
I have finished all but one of the Surveys.
I am unable to finish the Media Survey.
It contains many issues that are of interest in the US, but not in the UK.
Many of the questions I have no views on, but am not provided with an option to say "I have no views on this issue", so the survey remains unfinished.
Please add a third option to the Media Survey questions.
After a recent Smart Match the new parts of my tree were riddled with issues highlighted by Tree Check.
You have the technology.
Please run the Tree Check before offering a Smart Match, and either don't offer the match if there are issues, or at least give a warning that there are issues, and what they are.
The subject says it all !! Why have a button to take me to the record when it doessn't ?
If the pages could be moved from a pastel to a more vivid color and to increased contrast. I realize you wouldn't want to change a color scheme to suit one old dude - but - I've noticed that many of the people I encounter on genealogy-related sites are more my age.
Just a suggestion,
I spent some time to build my family tree and it's quite huge...
When I try to view and print the map, I discovered some very essential issues for easten users...
1. Name shown as Last Name First Name
2. No font can be selected to generate the PDF, all characters were shown as ???
3. Some translations are incorrect
If MyHeritage is trying to enter Chinese society like Taiwan and China, these must be done or it'll never work out!
-Jack Wang


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1. Rio Connect Core or RIO GripShooter shooting Line attached to backing.
2. RIO Skagit Max, RIO Max Short or RIO Scandi Body spey head looped to shooting line.
3. RIO MOW tips or RIO VersiLeaders with multiple sink rates looped to spey head.
4. An Appropriate Leader.
With these systems, each two-handed rod fly fisher will be primed for any spey situation they would encounter and only have one reel!
This is the line between the Backing and the Spey Head. It is much thinner than a typical floating line, which allows the head to pull it out easily for greater distance when casting.
RIOs ConnectCore Shooting Line The ultra-low stretch core technology produces high-energy shootability combined with low memory for clearing casts and optimal strike detection on the swing. The easy-grip front coating and large welded Hi-Vis front-loop make this the easiest line to handle while casting and when changing out your Spey Head. It costs a little more but it is worth twice the price!
RIO GripShooter Shooting Line -GripShooter shooting lines are your best choice for making your longest casts. They feature a strong single strand flat monofilament material for maximum shootability and distance. The front 14 of the line incorporates a standard fly line coating for easy grip control during the cast (and cold conditions) and has an integrated front loop for easy Spey Head change outs.
RIO Skagit Max Head -
Skagit Max Spey Heads are the ultimate design in Skagit style lines for maximum power, efficiency, and effortless casts. The taper design makes rod loading and cast delivery easier than ever and the ConnectCore technology delivers low-stretch casting energy, strike detection, and rod feel. The short and powerful head taper packs a big punch and easily lifts out heavy tips and large flies with supreme ease. Use with RIOs Mow Tips.
RIO Scandi Body Head -
The Scandi Body is a 23, easy-to-cast spey head which combines the power of a Skagit design with the smooth finesse of a scandi style head. These comfortably handle MOW Tips or VersiLeaders and are fabulous on switch rods and shorter spey rods. With RIO Connect Core technology for high-energy casts, easy rod feel, and low-stretch strike detection. Features an orange back-end welded loop for easy and correct rigging.
RIO Max Short Head -
Max Shorts are very short (17-20) and powerful Skagit style spey heads that make it easy to cast heavy tips and large flies in tight quarters. They work best on switch rods and shorter spey rods under 13 and are a favorite for smaller rivers where room is limited and heavy tips and / or flies are desired. With RIO ConnectCore for superior casting power, rod feel, and strike detection.
The Tip attaches to the end of the Head and is crucial in determining the depth your fly will swing through a run.
Tips come in a variety of sink rates, from full floating to sinking at 8-9 inches per second. The length of most tips will be between 10' and 15'.
M.O.W. Tips-These tips are very unique because they blend both floating and sinking portions together into one tip, most of which are 10' long, giving the angler precise mending control of the depth and speed of the their swing. They come in the following dimensions:
1. 10ft floating tip,
2. 7.5 ft of floating line seamlessly integrated into 2.5 ft of sinking tip,
3. 5 ft of floating line seamlessly integrated into 5 ft of sinking tip
4. 2.5 ft of floating line seamlessly integrated into 7.5 ft of sinking tip
5. 10ft level sinking tip.
M.O.W. Tips should be used with Skagit Max and Max Short spey heads and can be used with Scandi Body heads. They come in 3 separate weights:
1. Light (T-8) for spey heads of 475 grains and less,
2. Medium (T-11) for spey heads between 475 and 575 grains, and
3. Heavy (T-14) for spey heads of 575 grains or more.
VersiLeaders These 10 coated monofilament tips match-up perfectly with all Scandi style heads including the RIO Scandi Body. They are lighter and less chunky than MOW tips and make for smooth, fun casting with lighter flies. Available in six densities:
1. Floating,
2. Intermediate (1.5 ips.),
3. Type III (2.6 ips.), Type IV (3.9 ips.),
4. Type VI (5.6 ips.) and
5. Type VII (7.0 ips.)
The leader is straightforward, for sinking tips about 4' of tippet tied to the end of the sink tip will do the trick. Depending on the size of fish being pursued, Ox-3x tippet is all that is typically necessary and when in doubt error on the side of heavier rather than lighter. When using a floating tip, a 9' leader will typically work great.
Correct Lines for Spey and Switch Rods in grains
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Celebrity guest bloggers The Guncles, from Oxygen's reality show Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood and dads to toddler Simone, open up about their plans to add (or not) to their family. Read their earlier posts about how they chose open adoption, all about their birth experience in a small Southern town and the nail-biting moments before they could finally leave the hospital with their baby in their arms, and just who they'll turn to when Simone has questions about "girl stuff."
The old adage is right: Time flies by. It's hard to believe that our little Simone is about to turn 2 in a few weeks. How is that even possible? Fellow parents, you know what we're talking about. With a blink of an eye, our little baby has become this beautiful little girl. We're so proud of her. She can count to 20 (and to 10 in Spanish!) and can recite her ABC's from A to Z—all on her own. With a few more eye blinks, she'll be off to kindergarten. Time flies by. And speaking of time flying by, we keep wondering if it's time for us to start our journey to adopt again. Is two our magic number or are we meant to have just one child?
Since we adopted in the public eye and are talking a lot about adoption in interviews, people are always asking us if we'll have a second. We feel the love and know people (family, friends and fans) are rooting for us. We would ideally like for Simone to experience having a brother or sister, since neither of us have one. It's definitely a lot to think about! So many pros and cons run through our minds. We had such an amazing experience adopting Simone that we do have a fear of not having another great adoption experience. More or less, we think, Can we get lucky twice? Through our adoption mentoring service, Hold My Hand, we share advice with people, like us, who are making their dreams of becoming a family come true with adoption. Like any parent, we have fears. Can we handle two kids? We're already so busy with raising Simone... Can we raise another too? The truth is, it's scary.
For the past year, we've had Simone enrolled in a toddler program at school. It's been one of the best decisions we've made. She's learned so much and she (and we) have made amazing friends. As Simone gets older, we think a lot more about school life after preschool. Living in Los Angeles, many of our friends send their children to private schools. And in Los Angeles, school tuitions can run as much as $26,000 to $32,000 per year. That is mindboggling to us. If we have two children… How would we ever afford upwards of $60,000 per year of school tuitions?!!!! But then again, we think... We can't think of it as a strictly financial decision. Yes, the cost of living definitely has to be considered. And no, we can't afford 60K per year flying out the door for grade school tuitions. We'll just have to find a neighborhood to move to with a well-rated public school system. We'll be fine. We'll make do. We keep telling ourselves that.
We know so many of you can relate to our same fears. Two children means more daycare, more school plays and sporting events. More of everything. Some folks tell us there's no difference between having one child and two. How can that be? At the end of the day (and with all fears aside), we dream of having another child.
Unlike conceiving a child the natural way, with adoption it's a whole new set of people. We'll have to start from scratch. All new brochures, websites, home inspections. At least this time though, we'll be familiar with the process! We feel so incredibly spoiled with our relationship with Simone's birthmother. As we mentioned in previous posts, she is an amazing woman. We can only hope that whomever we meet for our second child will be equally amazing. It'll be hard shoes to fill, that's for sure!!
We'll share more about our (possible) journey to adoption #2… Soon!
You can find us on Twitter: @ScoutMasterson @TheBillHorn and on Facebook: Facebook.com/TheGuncles.
-- The Guncles, Bill & Scout


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How would you like to cuddle up to a soft, cushy plushie of…the herpes virus? How about diarrhea? Or maybe E. coli is more your style.
Thanks to Connecticut toy company GIANTmicrobes, you can buy creepy/cute stuffed toys modeled after icky viruses and bacteria (chicken pox, Salmonella) and gross maladies like athlete's foot.
Each toy is a magnified plush version of a real microorganism, with two button eyes that are supposed to somehow convince you that the Flu virus is huggable.
If you can get past the yuck-factor, GIANTmicrobes can be used as learning tools—every germ comes with an image and information about the microbe it represents.
As for me, the only thing these germy playthings make me want to do is wash my hands and pop a double-dose of vitamin C.
What do you think? Are GIANTmicrobes cute or creepy?


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WICHITA — An abortion opponent's letter to a Wichita doctor saying someone might place an explosive under her car is constitutionally protected speech and not a "true threat" under existing law, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten summarily found in favor of Angel Dillard in the 2011 civil lawsuit brought by the Justice Department under a law aimed at protecting access to abortion services. The 25-page decision handed down comes after a flurry of sealed filings seeking summary judgment.
The judge wrote that the government supplied no evidence that actual violence against Dr. Mila Means was likely or imminent.
"It was a great victory for the First Amendment," said her attorney, Don McKinney. "Obviously, we agree with the opinion. I appreciate the court held the U.S. Department of Justice accountable to the law and the evidence."
He portrayed his client's reaction to the ruling as "joy," noting she had been deposed for eight or nine hours by the government.
"It was a long, difficult case," McKinney said. "The government was very energetic and all the government lawyers worked very hard."
The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said in an emailed statement that it is reviewing the court's order and evaluating its options.
"The right of doctors to deliver lawful reproductive health services free from threats of violence is protected by federal law," the department said.
The government sued Dillard under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) after the Valley Center woman wrote Means a letter in January 2011 when Means was training to offer abortion services at her Wichita clinic. At the time, no doctor was doing abortions in Wichita in the wake of Dr. George Tiller's murder by an abortion opponent.
Dillard wrote in her letter that thousands of people from across the nation were scrutinizing Means' background and would know "your habits and routines."
"They know where you shop, who your friends are, what you drive, where you live," the letter said. "You will be checking under your car every day <0x2014> because maybe today is the day someone places an explosive under it."
The judge noted in his decision that Dillard sent the letter openly with her return address on it.
Dillard had testified in her deposition that "I did what the Lord asked me to do. He impressed upon me that I needed to write the letter and I did."
Her husband, Dr. Robert Dillard, also testified in his deposition that the agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation who called them about the letter in April 2011 told the couple that he personally, and the FBI in general, were frustrated by the Justice Department's lawsuit because they "felt it was undermining the trust and relationships that they were trying to develop with people who were not extremists but were still pro-life," according to the court filing.
When questioned about that conversation, FBI agent Sean Fitzgerald did not "directly deny," making such comments but testified he was trying to build rapport with the Dillards, the judge noted.
The judge also rejected the government's request for a permanent injunction prohibiting Dillard from again contacting Means. He was persuaded by the defense argument that she would have no reason to do so since Means no longer has any plans to offer abortion services in Kansas.
The court also noted the government's argument that Means had refrained from contacting Means while the lawsuit was pending.
"If the glare of publicity and the prospect of additional government legal action are sufficient by themselves to prevent further communications by Dillard, they would remain even in the absence of separate injunction relief," the judge wrote. "That is, the government effectively concedes that Dillard is a rational person, at least in sensing the folly of additional communications with Dr. Means."


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Users are already aware of the two famous name of smartphone manufacturer Samsung and HTC and we all knows that they both come up every year in world's biggest event MWC with their biggest flagship which sets the year milestone for both of them. This year HTC launched HTC ONE M9 and the competitor Samsung introduce Galaxy S6 and the curved screen version of the handset called Galaxy S6 Edge. There is no doubt that these are the well balanced Android Phones and users love to use them but still there is a much difference found between both of them and here we are going to discuss everything minutely and try to give the best comparative review to the users. Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge have only one difference and that is the edge screen rest of the specs are same.
Design and Built
Samsung is well known and they are too conscious about their smartphones and always used premium material for designing their smartphone body and on the other hand the Taiwanese manufacturer is also smart and well aware of the latest trend and also wants to win the race so they both introduced their smartphones with the full metal body for increasing the endurance of the mobiles. By dimensions and weight both have slightly different HTC One M9 is slightly bigger than Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge. According to the dimensions the One M9 measures 144.6 x 69.7 x 9.6 mm and has 157 grams weight and the Galaxy S6 is measured as 143.4 x 70.5 x 6.8 mm by dimension and has 138 grams of weight as we already told there is no difference found between the regular and Edge version of the handset.
The second main tough completion presences in display of the mobile which is the most important component of any smartphone development and without the screen the handset is like the person without eyes. Samsung is quite famous to use AMOLED display and they continue the trend and used Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen in Galaxy devices the screen measures 5.1 inches and has 1440x 2560 pixels resolution and this is the upper edge of Galaxy over the HTC because the One M9 has 5 inches screen and the type of the screen is Super LCD3 capacitive touchscreen and delivers 1080x 1920 pixels resolution. Both the smartphones screen is protected with Gorilla Glass 4 which increases the life cycle of the mobile display. But the Galaxy S6 screen gives more bright and vivid result to the users because of its high pixels resolution.
Operating system
Both are the typical Android Mobile and come with the latest version of operating system called Android 5.0 Lollipop. The operating system is very convenient for everyone and there is no flaw still found in the operating system. The user interface of both the mobiles are changed Samsung used their own design TouchWiz and the HTC runs their own Sense 7 user interfaces. By the working ability both the interface is same but they both have a difference of some features placement like apps drawer and other.
Processors and Memory
Now we are going to talk about an essential part of any smartphone yes your guess is right we are talking about the processor and memory of the smartphones which gives the challenge to the others. Galaxy S6 has the power of Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & Quad-core 2.1 GHz Cortex-A57 processor paired with Samsung's home made chipset Exynos 7420 and has Mali-T760 GPU for performing the graphical tasks and on the other hand HTC placed Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & Quad-core 2 GHz Cortex-A57 CPU and has Qualcomm MSM8994 Snapdragon 810 and Adreno 430 GPU. The speed and working performance of the processors, chipsets and GPU's are same as they are.
Both the mobiles come with 3GB massive RAM but there is a difference present between the ROM options and increment of ROM externally. The HTC One M9 only come with 32GB ROM option which can be extendable up t0 128 GB externally via microSD card, but Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge appear with three types of ROM option 32.64 and 128 GB and all these are built in and the smartphone don't have the card slot for increasing the ROM externally. So here HTC goes up in comparison with Galaxy S6.
Camera the most desirable feature of the users and they want to use the mobile with the good camera features and for fulfilling the purpose the manufacturers placed a powerful camera inside the handsets. Samsung placed 16 megapixel rear camera with 2988 x 5312 pixels resolution and has optical image stabilization, autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, Auto HDR and panorama and has 5 MP front-Facing camera with 1080p@30fps, dual video call, Auto HDR for capturing the perfect selfies and comparatively HTC used 20.7 MP, 5376 x 3752 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED (dual tone) flash with 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p@120fps, HDR, stereo sound rec features and the front-facing camera is based on 4 MP front-facing camera with 1080p@30fps, HDR. Once again, HTC is on top of Samsung because of its well enough and giant rear camera.
Security Features
The security is the top most issue for the users now Samsung is very sharp and they completely facilitate the users in every aspect. The Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge has Fingerprint sensor (PayPal certified). Samsung Pay (Visa, MasterCard certified) but there is no such thing found in HTC ONE M9 so in the security mean Samsung totally beat the HTC.
Both the handset has the powerful power source but HTC has some more. Galaxy S6 is energized by Non-removable Li-Ion 2550 mAh battery and the HTC ONE M9 is featured with Non-removable Li-Po 2840 mAh battery. The Galaxy S6 offers the rapid and wireless charging which is possible only with the help of specially designed charging pad and in the competition HTC provide fast charging option which charge 60% of the battery in just 30 minutes but both have the same drawback they both are featured with non-removable battery.
Final Words
Both the smartphones belong to the Android family and there is no difference found between the operating system but there is something more in HTC ONE M9 and in the some aspects Samsung Galaxy S6 is the best. Well, users have the open option to select the best one between both of them and satisfied them self against their respectable money.


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A stock exchange is an institution, organization or association that serves as a market for trading financial instruments such as stocks, bonds and their related derivatives. Most modern stock exchanges, like NYSE Euronext, have both a trading floor and an electronic trading system.
Increasingly, exchange owners and operators are getting themselves listed on their own exchanges and have become private companies just like any other company. This is the case with companies like NYSE Euronext, Deutsche Boerse AG and the NASDAQ OMX Group. These companies have evolved into international groups operating on different continents and gathering multiple activities like traditional stock markets, derivatives markets and commodities markets.
Stock exchanges have a vital function in modern economies as places where investors and companies can meet and exchange capitals. They offer standardized instruments which are traded with transparency contrary to what happens in OTC transactions. They display prices and volumes for every products they trade.
In the 80's and 90's with the development of computer technologies, stock exchanges have been dematerialized and most of the transactions now happen electronically though some exchanges have kept floor trading activities like the NYSE. Euronext has adopted a fully electronic system.
Traditional stock exchanges have met increasing competition from fully electronic platforms. Electronic trading has reduced the cost of entry into the market and several new exchanges have recently developed.
The first stock exchanges date back to the Middle Age in Europe with debt trading between merchants. However the first stock trading can be found in the 17th century with the creation of various companies to explore European colonies such as the Dutch East India Company. Historically stocks and bonds were traded in a physical place or building with traders gathering on the floor and exchanging financial titles by hand.
14c Stocks were instruments of punishment. [1] The original Stock Market was a fish and meat market in the City of London on or near the later site of Mansion House, so called perhaps because it occupied the site of a former stocks. 1809 Place where securities are bought and sold. Stock + market. [2]
12c Markets were a place to meet at a fixed time for buying and selling livestock and provisions, to trade, deal in, buy, wares, merchandise, public building or space where markets are held" first attested mid-13c. Sense of "sales, as controlled by supply and demand" is from 1680s, market research is from 1926. [3]
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Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini makes two changes to the side which drew against Premier League strugglers QPR.
Matija Nastasic starts at the back for the Premier League title holders alongside Joleon Lescott, who also faces a potential international appearance mid-week as England face Brazil.
Samir Nasri is left on the bench alongside Carlos Tevez, with Edin Dzeko and Argentine Sergio Aguero being the chosen strike partnership as Manchester City look to close the gap on the league leaders.
For Liverpool the side which drew against Arsenal remains the same apart from one change at the back for the Reds, with teenager Andre Wisdom being withdrawn and replaced by Spaniard, Jose Enrique.
Jordan Henderson will be looking to make it three goals in as many Premier League games for the Merseyside club, whilst upfront Sturridge is once again partnering Luis Suarez, who will be looking to add to his tally of 17 Premier League goals this season.
Manchester City: Hart; Zabaleta, Nastasic, Lescott, Clichy; Garcia, Barry; Milner, Silva; Dzeko, Aguero.
Subs: Pantilimon, Rodwell, Kolarov, Sinclair, Nasri, Tevez, Maicon.
Liverpool: Reina; Johnson, Agger, Carragher, Enrique; Lucas, Gerrard, Henderson; Downing, Suarez, Sturridge.
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Handling Specialty helped pioneer the modern automotive assembly line back in the early 80s with the development of ergonomic and efficient skillet lifts for the North American auto industry. The lift allows the vehicle to to be raised and lowered by foot controls. As the line moves, employees adjust each vehicle's height to their own ergonomic requirements.
This lift application was extremely successful, and Handling Specialty went on to custom engineer and manufacture variations of the skillet lift for the Big Three automakers for many years, and continues to manufacture various lifts for the auto industry to this day.


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Introducing the highlight of summer 2016: The DISCOVER CHINA program!
Discover China is new and unique travel education program which allows its' participants to experience the local traditional life of Hong Kong and China. It's organised in collaboration of Interface Education and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
Discover China gives its' participants great insight into the Chinese culture, economy, and heritage, while allowing them to admire the stunning landscapes, and while activating their taste buds with a wide variety of authentic Chinese cuisine. Discover China will take its' participants far beyond the tourist-trodden paths and will enable them to experience a wide variety of activities, as well as face-to-face interactions with the friendly locals.
An adventure of lifetime
Discover China is a unique adventure, and its' primary goal is to introduce its' participants to the rich natural, cultural, and historical aspects of the destinations in which they will visit. Discover China is ideal for those who wish to better understand Chinese culture within a short period of time, admire wonderful places and meet new people. What better place to start exploring the Guangdong Province in exotic Southern China than Hong Kong?
A new way of seeing things
New destinations often include an unknown culture and a new way of looking at the world and life. A chance to visit new destinations also means new life experiences! During the Discover China journey, you won't think of these destinations as locations anymore, but rather, you will think more about how they have given you a new way of seeing the world. Participants will build lasting memories and wonderful friendships as they expand their views of the world!
Get in touch with the locals
During this journey, participants will meet and interact with many kinds of locals; including students, hard working factory laborers, farmers and wise village elders. Discover China provides its' participants with travel companions who are local English-speaking university students. They will give all Discover China participants great insight into local student life and student culture. Participants can practice their Mandarin Chinese with these local students, while building long lasting friendships along the way!
Unforgettable experiences
Have you ever wanted to experience new things, yet never could quite put your finger on exactly what? You now have a one-of-a-kind chance to dive right in to a culture as rich as the lands it originated from!
During this unique journey, you as a student will experience the following activities which will make your journey truly unforgettable:
- Learn Mandarin Chinese at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
- Admire Hong Kong's iconic skyline at the top of Victoria Peak
- Enjoy an authentic Hong Kong street market experience in Sham Shui Po
- Experience the manufacturing plants and meet the hard working laborers
- Embrace Southern Chinese Culture in the Lingnan Impression Park
- Visit a 400 year old Ancient Village, and get to know the Hakka people
- Be amazed at a Silkworm Farm, and learn about silk production
- Try communal farming and get your hands dirty while having some fun!
- Learn traditional Chinese arts: calligraphy, painting, and paper cutting
- Try out the most famous Chinese Martial Art: Kung Fu
As you can see, this isn't your typical sightseeing tour. This is an educational adventure filled with numerous activities and experiences. It takes you away from the beaten path to help you discover the natural beauty, culture and life of China, which is often overlooked by the average tourist.
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For whom: Students and parents
When: The 7th – 17th of August 2016 and the 21st- 31st of August 2016
Application Deadline: The 7th of July 2016 and the 21st of July 2016
Price: 1,880 USD / 1,760 Euro per person
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Five long years ago, Rose Shaffer's life seemed sweet. A nurse since the early 1970s, Shaffer had spent most of her sixty years working at various Chicago hospitals, rising through the caregiver ranks and raising three kids. Now in the twilight of her career, she'd been hired as director of nursing at a home health agency in the suburb of Lombard. The position made Shaffer proud–she knew her salary could pay off the mortgage on her house a little sooner. At the time, her cousin Barack Obama was fast becoming a rising star in the Illinois State Senate.
Seven months into her new job, Shaffer suffered a heart attack, and an ambulance rushed her to Advocate South Suburban Hospital. Shaffer assumed she was automatically covered–health insurance was a given at her previous nursing jobs. She thought she'd filled out the proper forms. But she hadn't.
A week later, Shaffer received a bill from Advocate for the three days she'd been hospitalized. It was for $18,000. Shortly thereafter, Advocate began sending letters to Shaffer demanding payment. Then, a summons to appear in court was tossed on her porch. Advocate was suing her.
Shaffer was terrified and didn't show at her court date. She says she even received a letter from the Cook County Sheriff's Department, threatening arrest unless she appeared. Under pressure from Advocate and now behind on her mortgage payments, Shaffer filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy in December 2002, which meant her debtors would garner a reduced portion of the money she owed.
"The hospital saved my life, but now they were trying to kill me," Shaffer says.
Rose Shaffer's experience has become disquietingly common. Since 2000, Harvard associate medical professors Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein, along with Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren and Ohio University sociology and anthropology professor Deborah Thorne, have been compiling data on bankruptcies in the United States. Their study, published on February 2 by the medical policy journal Health Affairs, found that between 1981 and 2001, medical-related bankruptcies increased by 2,200 percent, an astonishing explosion in a relatively short period of time. This spike far outpaced the 360 percent growth in all personal bankruptcies during roughly the same period.
In addition, the study uncovered surprising information about the affected population. While poor, uninsured Americans have long been the most obvious victims of a defective healthcare system, it's the middle class that suffers most in this case, accounting for about 90 percent of all medical bankruptcies, says Warren.
"The people we found to be profoundly affected are not some distant underclass. They're the very heart of the middle class," Warren says. "These are educated Americans with decent jobs, homes and families. But one stumble, and they end up in complete financial collapse, wiped out by medical bills."
With so many middle-class American households potentially vulnerable, you might think politicians would seek a solution sensitive to their interests. Yet the momentum in Washington is in the opposite direction–toward bankruptcy "reform" that would make things worse for people who have been financially ruined by illness.


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We the People of Egypt fully support our government actions to crack down on the Terrorist Group of Muslim Brotherhood. The terrorist group has been the author of criminal acts against civilians, humanities and the nation institutes. They have killed and tortured those who opposed to their regime or Mohamed Morsi, they have burned churches, city councils and government buildings and illegally possess war arms that they have used to kill 47 police officers, they have attacked and killed savagely the Personnel and officers of the Police station of Kerdassa. We expect that the security council members to support the Egyptian government in their actions against terrorism. This operation is no different then the operation that France has conducted in Mali to crack down on terrorism, it's no different either from that conducted by the USA in Afghanistan. I expect from France, USA, UK, Sweeden, Australia and Germany to support the Egyptian government. We are fighting the same terrorist enemy in our own soil.
We the people of Egypt are determined to defend the unity and the integrity of our Egyptian soil from those terrorists.
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AC Milan supremo Silvio Berlusconi has claimed that he would pick Stephan El Shaarawy over Napoli star Edinson Cavani if he had to make a choice between the two.
The Uruguayan impressed at the weekend with a hat-trick against Roma and has already netted 25 goals in all competitions for the Partenopei this season.
Nevertheless, even though Berlusconi is full of respect for the Uruguay international, he would still pick the 20-year-old El Shaarawy instead, thanks to his Rossoneri performances this term.
"Cavani is a great player and he can take Napoli to new heights," he told Radio RTL.
"I'm very attached to El Shaaray, though, so I would pick him instead if I had to choose."
El Shaarawy has netted 14 goals in 19 Serie A appearances this season.


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Marty Straube
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Strategic sourcing equals reliable cost reduction
Briggs & Stratton beats cost-reduction goals two years in a row
Briggs & Stratton, the world's largest manufacturer of air-cooled gasoline engines, is taking a more strategic approach to purchasing. By using SAS® Business Intelligence to analyze spending, the company significantly enhanced its cost-reduction performance.
"We beat our cost-reduction numbers two years in a row," says Marty Straube, Engine Group Vice President. "The ability to analyze data is the foundation to being able to embark on that kind of performance."
We beat our cost-reduction numbers two years in a row. The ability to manipulate data is the foundation to being able to embark on that kind of performance.
Marty Straube
Prior to using SAS to analyze its purchasing spending, the company took a typical transactional approach to purchasing, with a strong focus on pricing.
The company's SAP transactional system provides volumes of data, but without an analytical solution, the company couldn't do anything with the data. "I don't think we had a good view of what we bought and where we bought it from," explains Tom Glatch, Purchasing Data and Systems Integrity Specialist for Briggs & Stratton. The department often worked more on anecdotal data rather than relying on fact-based decisions.
"We have one supplier that has two plants, and supposedly quality from one plant was far superior to quality at the other. But when we looked at the data, we realized we had the plants reversed. The plant we thought was the problem child was actually the better of the two," Glatch said.
Since using SAS, Briggs & Stratton has:
- Discovered it has too many suppliers for some products and not enough for others. "In case of natural disaster, you don't want to have just one supplier," Glatch says.
- Created a supplier scorecard that shows quality, delivery, purchase-price variance, defects and other metrics. "It is really easy to see trends in commodity cost changes," Glatch says.
- Developed a supplier portal so suppliers can view details on delivery times, quality and invoices.
"Our buyers can take a data set with millions and millions of rows and pull up a report literally in seconds," Glatch says.
Briggs & Stratton uses SAP ECC 6.0. In undertaking the analysis and scorecard project, it used SAP's classification system to assign commodity codes to purchases. SAP pulls 12 months of data into the scorecard and shows the company's top 50 suppliers.
"You get so much data from SAP, but it is hard to analyze without SAS," Glatch says.
The buyers work with the data through the reports that reside on the platform forSAS Business Analytics. Glatch can also handle custom requests using the point-and-click SAS Enterprise Guide. If the custom request looks like something all buyers could use, the process or report is surfaced to the appropriate personnel on the SAS BI system.
Glatch's success with the supplier scorecard in the engine group has won him recognition. "We've just cloned it for our Home Power Products division, our Yard Power Products division and our Service division," Glatch says.
The company needed a big-picture look at its purchasing spending.
With SAS® Business Intelligence the company harnesses the data from its SAP system to study quality, purchase price variance, delivery and defects.
The savings in purchasing represented reliable cost reduction execution and strategic sourcing strategy.


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Trespass is defined by the act of knowingly entering another person's property without permission. Such action is held to infringe upon a property owner's legal right to enjoy the benefits of ownership. Criminal charges, which range from violation to felony, may be brought against someone who interferes with another person's legal property rights. Criminal trespasses, depending on the venue of jurisdiction and case circumstances, fall under different subsets of law. When a trespass is carried out against another person, rather than against his/her property, the trespasser is likely to be charged with assault or battery. Actions violating the real property of another are handled as Trespasses to Land. Violations to personal property are handled as torts.
Under Tort Law, a property owner may bring a Civil Law suit against a trespasser in order to recover damages or receive compensatory relief for injury suffered as a direct result of a trespass. In a tort action, the plaintiff must prove that the offender had, but knowingly violated, a legal duty to respect another person's right to property, which resulted in direct injury or loss to the plaintiff.


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Job openings in the U.S. rose in January, rebounding from a slump the prior month and showing the labor market will keep making progress in 2013.
The number of positions waiting to be filled climbed by 81,000 to 3.69 million from a revised 3.61 million the prior month, the Labor Department said today in Washington. Hiring also picked up while firings slowed.
Budding job opportunities suggest companies are gearing up for stronger demand in 2013, which would help the nation's 7.7% unemployment rate drift lower throughout the year. Job gains also indicate businesses weren't discouraged by political bickering as Congress debated how to cut the budget deficit.
"We've got a long way to go to get back to a fully employed economy, but we are on the road," James Glassman, a senior economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York, said during an interview on Bloomberg Radio. "If you look at the labor market data, you can't find any evidence of this political debate that is going on, the fiscal cliff, all that."
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Knowing and doing what is expected of me.
A responsible person does not wait for a "to do" list. Responsibility is knowing within one's self what needs to be done and carrying these duties out.
Louisa May Alcott, best known for her book Little Women, grew up in an extremely poor family. Louisa's father avoided regular work and some considered him a ne'er-do-well while others esteemed him an unappreciated genius. Yet Louisa formed what she deemed to be the course for her life amid her family's struggles.
Louisa May Alcott was determined to become a published writer, but there was more behind her spirit than a thirst to see her name in print. Louisa was driven by a sense of responsibility for her family. She determined to see to it that her parents would be provided for in old age, and that her sisters would receive the clothing and education they needed. In short, Louisa was motivated to develop her talents out of responsibility for her family.
At 16, Louisa published her first story in a Boston magazine and earned $5. She continued to write for magazines. Six years later, she compiled several stories into her first book, Flower Fables. Her reputation — and income — as an author slowly began to blossom. Louisa became independently wealthy but never lost her sense of responsibility for her family. To their dying days, she honored and cared for her parents, and late in her own life, she adopted the orphaned daughter of one of her sisters. Louisa May Alcott's life is a testimony to responsibility.
As a sister, daughter, aunt and citizen — in each of her roles, she had incumbent responsibilities to fulfill. She dedicated herself to their performance. Responsibility is knowing, owning and accepting the duties that accompany one's roles in life, whether spoken or unspoken, voluntary or obligatory. Responsible efforts do what needs to be done because it is right; trusting that in the long run good character always yields the best results.
Children are very good at remembering anything you may have told them you would do or allow them to do. Set a good example of responsibility by fulfilling the commitments you have made to your children. Avoid making promises that you will not be able to keep.
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This device provides non-invasive beat-to-beat blood pressure measurements and can be worn over the upper arm for prolonged durations. Phase and waveform analyses are performed on filtered proximal and distal photoplethysmographic (PPG) waveforms obtained from the brachial artery. The phase analysis is used primarily for the computation of the mean arterial pressure, while the waveform analysis is used primarily to obtain the pulse pressure. Real-time compliance estimate is used to refine both the mean arterial and pulse pressures to provide the beat-to-beat blood pressure measurement.
This wearable physiological monitor can be used to continuously observe the beat-to-beat blood pressure (B3P). It can be used to monitor the effect of prolonged exposures to reduced gravitational environments and the effectiveness of various countermeasures.
A number of researchers have used pulse wave velocity (PWV) of blood in the arteries to infer the beat-to-beat blood pressure. There has been documentation of relative success, but a device that is able to provide the required accuracy and repeatability has not yet been developed. It has been demonstrated that an accurate and repeatable blood pressure measurement can be obtained by measuring the phase change (e.g., phase velocity), amplitude change, and distortion of the PPG waveforms along the brachial artery. The approach is based on comparing the full PPG waveform between two points along the artery rather than measuring the time-of-flight. Minimizing the measurement separation and confining the measurement area to a single, welldefined artery allows the waveform to retain the general shape between the two measurement points. This allows signal processing of waveforms to determine the phase and amplitude changes.
Photoplethysmography, which measures changes in arterial blood volume, is commonly used to obtain heart rate and blood oxygen saturation. The digitized PPG signals are used as inputs into the beat-to-beat blood pressure measurement algorithm. The algorithm consists of the following main components:
• First harmonic isolation bandpass filters take the raw PPG signals and separate out the first harmonics.
• Three harmonic lowpass filters take the PPG signal and filter out all spectral components outside the first three harmonics. The first three harmonics are used for regeneration of the pulse pressure waveforms.
• Phase analysis engine takes the first harmonics of the PPG signals and computes the phase difference between them in real time using a cross-correlation-based algorithm. The phase difference is to the first order correlated to the MAP (mean arterial pressure).
• Compliance estimation engine takes information on the general shape of the waveforms and the phase delay to compute the local compliance of the artery. The higher the arterial pressure, the higher the Young's modulus and thus the lower the compliance.
• MAP computation engine obtains the phase delay and compliance information and provides the mean arterial pressure.
• Waveform analysis engine takes the PPG signal containing the first three harmonics and provides the signal processing needed for compliance (elasticity) estimation and pulse pressure computation.
• Pulse pressure computation engine takes the filtered PPG signal and an estimate of the arterial compliance to re-generate the pulse waveform.
• B3P computation engine takes the MAP and the pulse pressure computations and combines them with a blood pressure model and calibration data to produce the final signal of interest — the beat-to-beat blood pressure.
This work was done by Yong Jin Lee of Linea Research Corporation for Johnson Space Center.
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Recovery Console Restore Points
Being computer technicians we all dread to see that little screen that comes up during start up that says one of these things:
Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SOFTWARE
Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file): \SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE or its log or alternate
So what do these errors mean? Well simply put, it PROBIBLY means you have a corrupt registry. Not only does that mean time, it also means that if you dont have another computer to Daisy-Chain your Hard Drive in, your data is pretty much screwed. (Unless you use some other more advanced methods that I will not be going into today).
This tutorial will guide you through restoring the registry hives using Windows restore points IN the Recovery Console. Now as you may or may not know Microsoft has a KB article devoted to restoring a corrupt registry however it will not allow you to make a choice of what date you wish to restore to... Also its not meant for OEM versions of Windows because it misses the Repair folder at the root level . The MS article is located at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822705
This process described below can be used on OEM versions of Windows, Ive tried it and it works quite well. So, lets get started shall we...
What you will need:
-Bootable Windows CD with Recovery Console
What to do:
-Configure your computers BIOS boot order to boot from the CD-ROM first.
(For instructions on how to do this go to the venders website)
-Boot off the CD
-When you get the menu that says Press Enter to continue with the installation of Windows XP, or press R to repair a Windows installation using the recovery console, ----press R-----
- Now select the windows install. Most likely its number 1 unless you have multiple windows partitions.
Here is the real fun!!!!
At the C:\WINDOWS> prompt type:
1. Type cd \ and press the <Enter> key.
2. Type cd system~1\_resto~1 and press the <Enter> key.
3. Type dir and press the <Enter> key. A list of the restore points appears listed chronologically beginning with RP1. Choose the restore point folder which is dated the day prior to the occurrence of the error reported.
4. Type cd rpX (where X is the restore point you chose in the step above) and press the <Enter> key.
5. Type cd snapshot and press the <Enter> key.
6. Type dir and press the <Enter> key.
7. Type copy _registry_machine_system c:\windows\system32\config\system and press the <Enter> key. Overwrite _registry_machine_system? (Yes/No/All): appears.
8. Type Y and press the <Enter> key.
9. Type copy _registry_machine_software c:\windows\system32\config\software and press the <Enter> key. Overwrite _registry_machine_software? (Yes/No/All): appears.
10. Type Y and press the <Enter> key.
11. Type copy _registry_machine_sam c:\windows\system32\config\sam and press the <Enter> key. Overwrite _registry_machine_sam? (Yes/No/All): appears.
12. Type Y and press the <Enter> key.
13. Type copy _registry_machine_security c:\windows\system32\config\security and press the <Enter> key. Overwrite _registry_machine_security? (Yes/No/All): appears.
14. Type Y and press the <Enter> key.
15. Type copy _registry_user_.default c:\windows\system32\config\default and press the <Enter> key. Overwrite _registry_user_.default? (Yes/No/All): appears.
16. Type Y and press the <Enter> key.
17. Remove the operating system CD and type exit to restart the computer.
Congratulations you have just restored your computer to an earlier date by using the Recovery Console
I found this out while playing around in the recovery console
Please excuse my spelling, i did use a spell check


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PRESS RELEASE: This Year's State University System Admissions Tour May Break Attendance Records
~Universities host events for middle and high school counselors guiding students~
~Final stops on the annual tour are this week at FAU, FIU, FGCU, and USF~
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - More than 2,500 counselors from across the state are going "back to college" at a state university to learn best practices and new changes in Florida law - and could set a statewide record for the annual gatherings in the process.
The Annual State University System Admissions Tour is a service sponsored and coordinated by the State University System and the Florida Board of Governors, in partnership with the Florida Department of Education.
The compelling effort provides middle and high school counselors coordinated opportunities to meet face-to-face with university admissions personnel on a wide range of issues. To further maximize the effort, the State University System also invites experts from the Florida Department of Education to present information regarding changes in education that affect students while in middle school and high school, such as changes to standard diploma requirements or the Bright Futures college scholarship program.
State University System Chancellor Frank T. Brogan is proud of the program"s popularity and growth - and noted that the tour schedule was expanded this year to help accommodate the increasing interest.
"Our universities are open year-round and every one of them has an open door to any questions or need for assistance by the schools whose students pursue a higher education, but this special annual event ensures we maintain and strengthen that bond, and I am grateful to the host universities this year on the tour for making this effort so successful and even more accessible," Brogan said.
This year, the growth and popularity of the program translated quickly to full capacity at four of the seven spots long before the event occurred, indicating there may be an attendance record set.
This week marks the final stops on the tour.
Sept. 7: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton (registration closed).
Sept. 8: Florida International University, Miami (registration closed Sept. 2).
Sept. 9: Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers (registration closed Sept. 3).
Sept. 10: University of South Florida, Tampa (registration closed).
This year, with changes to the admission standards and changes in the law due to Senate Bill 4, the demand has been higher than ever. It is anticipated that approximately 2,500 counselors statewide will attend the events.
"We appreciate the leadership and partnership of the State University System to bring this program to our dedicated counselors who are committed to ensuring that our students complete graduation requirements and succeed in their next steps," said Florida Department of Education Commissioner Dr. Eric J. Smith.
The tour this year also was supported in new ways by The College Board and ACT, Inc., the national testing company. Representatives from both organizations also are on-hand for questions and to discuss any issues one-on-one with counselors.
Earlier stops on the tour last week were the Florida State University"s Panama City campus, the University of North Florida in Jacksonville and the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
For more information, parents and students are encouraged to connect with school counselors.


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March 10. 2013 12:14AM
Trinity students capture VEX title
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CONCORD — Jacob Eldred of Trinity High School guided his aluminum contraption toward an opponent's robot, keeping the other robot from scooping up bean bags to place in goals during the final round of the VEX Robotics challenge held Saturday at the New Hampshire Technical Institute.
After the minutes ticked by, Eldred and his teammates were crowned regional champions of a robotics challenge that its organizers call a less expensive, more accessible alternative to the large-scale FIRST Robotics competition, whose regional contest was held last week at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester.
Dan Larochelle of the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation, who is one of the event's organizers, said schools pay registration fees of $75 for the first team and $25 for each additional team, then competition entry fees that range from $35 to $50. Kits to build the robots start at $550.
By comparison, the entry fee for one team for the FIRST program ranges from $5,000 to $6,500, which buys a team the robotics kit and entry to one competition.
Fees are $4,000 for additional regional events and $5,000 for the FIRST championship.
"It's more affordable, more accessible and more sustainable," Larochelle said of the VEX competition.
Dave Kelley, mentor for the eight teams Pembroke Academy entered into the VEX competition, said Pembroke competed in the FIRST competition last year, but decided to switch venues to give more kids an opportunity to compete.
"For the money we did one robot (in FIRST), we can do eight robots here," Kelley said. "With one robot, there's only so much for the kids to work on. With eight, the kids get to own their own robots."
Saturday's "sack attack" competition called for teams to build robots that place bean bags in various goals in a square field.
Robots could either score on goals or defend against opposing robots.
Eldred's team — he was part of an alliance that included a team from Pembroke Academy and from North Middlesex Regional High School in Townsend, Mass. — outlasted 71 other teams to claim the regional title. Six teams from the regional competition qualified to compete in the VEX world championships, which will be held April 17 through 20 in Anaheim, Calif., Larochelle said.


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Size matters. Which is one of the main reasons the Internet of Things (IoT) is, and is likely to remain, a very dangerous place.
"The embedded-system space makes the attack surface of the non-embedded space trivial by comparison," said Dr. Daniel Geer, keynote speaker at the Security of Things Forum in Cambridge, Mass. on Wednesday.
Geer, chief information security officer at the venture capital firm In-Q-Tel and an adviser to U.S. intelligence agencies, added a partial caveat: "Perhaps I overstate that. Perhaps that is not true today," he said. "But by tomorrow it will be true. In the embedded world, which makes the PC, phone and whatnot market seem trivial by comparison, performance stays constant while the cost goes down."
The explosively expanding attack surface is not the only major reason for security risks on the IoT, he said. Another is diversity -- the lack of it. Referring to what he called a "computer monoculture," Geer noted that, "a cascade failure is much easier to detonate in a monoculture when an attacker only has to weaponize one bit of malware, not 10 million."
[Related: In the digital ocean, there are more predators than protectors
He said he is "entirely sympathetic" to the reason for that monoculture. "Making everything almost entirely alike is and remains our only hope for being able to centrally manage it all in consistent manner," he said.
But, he said it is a clear risk-management decision, with major central control implications: "Would you rather have the inordinately unlikely event of an inordinately severe impact, or the day-to-day burden of everything being different all the time?" he asked, noting that the choice comes with a trade-off. "When we opt for monoculture by choice, we had better opt for tight central control," he said.
A third major problem, Geer said, is that embedded devices tend to be long-lived, but also lack a remote management interface. "A fundamental question," he said, "is whether immortal embedded systems are angelic or demonic.
Clearly, he leans toward the demonic view. "That combination -- long-lived and unreachable -- is the trend that must be dealt with and possibly even reversed," he said, given that Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are, "easier in an environment where much of the computing is done by devices that are deaf and mute once installed, or where those devices operate at the very bottom of the software stack."
Geer said decisions about whether embedded devices must, "self destruct by some predictable age or that remote management be a condition of deployment is, dare I say, the national policy question," he said. "But in either case, the Internet of Things, which is to say the appearance of network-connecting microcontrollers and seemingly every device that has a power cord or a fuel tank, should raise hackles on every neck."
That, he said, is because of the fourth problem:"The root source of risk is dependence," and people and society are becoming ever more interdependent, "especially on the expectation of stable system state."
That system, he said, is more fragile than most people think. "As society becomes more technologic, even the mundane comes to depend on distant digital perfection," he said, using the nation's food supply as an example.
"Our food pipeline contains less than a week's supply, and that pipeline depends on digital services for everything from GPS-driven tractors to drone-surveilling irrigators to robot vegetable-sorting machinery to coast-to-coast logistics to RFID-tagged livestock," he said.
"Is all the technological dependency and the data that fuels it making us more resilient or more fragile?" he asked.
There is no easy fix either, Geer said, noting that if an embedded system does not have a management interface, "then a late-discovered flaw cannot be fixed without visiting all the embedded systems, which is likely to be infeasible."
But if it does have such an interface, then an "opponent of skill will focus on that, and once a break is achieved will use those selfsame management functions to ensure that not only does he maintain control over the long interval, but you'll be unlikely to know that he's there."
So, Geer suggested, embedded systems should be made more like humans in some ways. Those with no remote management interface, "and thus out of reach, are a life form, and as the purpose of life is to end, they must be designed so as to be certain to die at some fixed time."
Those that do have such an interface, "must be sufficiently self protecting that they are capable of refusing a command.
"That is the core of my thesis," he said, but added that, "the future obviously will not be so simple, nor am I making it out to be."
Indeed, for the average home Internet user, it could be very uncertain. Geer said most routers are almost comically insecure, given that they have, "drivers and operating systems amounting to snapshots of the state of Linux, plus the lowest-end commodity chips extant at the time of the router's design."
They are cheap, but remarkably old, he said, and therefore highly exploitable. "There are numerous methods of attacking both the operating system and the device drivers, and to do so remotely," he said. "It (the attack) need never be detectable by any means whatsoever from the interior of the network it serves."
An attacker, he said, could then command the router to, "stop processing anything it henceforth receives, start flooding the network with a broadcast signal that causes other peers to do the same, and zero the onboard firmware, thus preventing reboot for all time."
The only way for the user to "fix" the problem is to, "unplug all the devices, throw them in the dumpster and install all new ones," he said.
And that, of course, won't fix it either, because the new ones are, "likely to have the same vulnerability spectrum that made this possible in the first place. So this is not quick trip to big box store, but rather flushing the entire design space and pipeline inventory of every maker of home routers," he said.
Geer said one way to deal with the problem is "a very important work now appearing under the title of 'Language Theoretic Security,' or LangSec," which posits that for software to be trustworthy, it needs to be able to recognize valid inputs "as a formal language," and reject the rest.
But, he said, "for complex input languages, the problem of full recognition of valid and expected inputs may be, in the formal sense, undecidable, in which case no amount of input checking or testing will suffice to secure the program. Many popular protocols and formats fell into this trap."
And the bottom line, he said, is that the monoculture, as convenient and relatively low-maintenance as it is, may not be sustainable. "Is it time to say that software per device has to be as unique as possible?" he said.
That time may already be here, he said, noting the Moon worm, "that is now working its way through the world's Linksys routers. It may not be that the forest might burn -- it may be that it is already afire. It may be that we are one event away from being unable to distinguish a hostile action from an industrial accident, and that matters a lot, at least in Washington."
Which means, he said, it may become mandatory, "to distribute software to endpoint devices based on diversity compiling on a 'onesies' basis."
Otherwise, "in a world of rising interdependence, APTs will not be about the big-ass machines," he said. "It will be about the little ones. It will not be about devices that have a host name and a console. It will go against the ones you didn't even know about."
And the only answer, he said, is to reduce the interdependence of billions of devices. "It cannot and will not be damped by any laying on of supply chain regulations," he said.
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Vanessa Hudgens: Hurricane Sandy Telethon!
Vanessa Hudgens lends a hand during the Hurricane Sandy Celebrity Telethon Fundraiser hosted by MSG Network and the Garden of Dreams Foundation held at Fuse Studios on Friday night (November 9) in New York City.
The 23-year-old actress joined many others including Katrina Bowden, Lisa Ling and Vinny Guadagnino.
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Later that night, Vanessa joined Katrina and a couple of other friends at the New York Knicks basketball game at Madison Square Garden.
The Knicks beat the Dallas Mavericks, 104-94.
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