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Edition No. 141 January 28 – February 3, 2017
Netballer Susan Pettitt on fighting her way back into the Australian Diamonds line-up. By Cindy MacDonald.
Credit: NETBALL AUSTRALIA
Another shot: Susan Pettitt, 32, netballer
I debuted with the Diamonds at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. It was a real shock when I made the team. I'd been invited into their selection camp just to help out as a training partner, and at the end of the camp they actually named me in the squad. So it was a whirlwind debut and a really special moment because it was in Australia in front of my family, which was cool.
It was pretty tough when I was dropped for the 2011 World Championships. I'd just played Commonwealth Games in 2010 and was very much one of the core members of the Australian team. Then when 2011 came around, I didn't have a great season. I had some personal things that I didn't deal with and I didn't train properly and just didn't perform. When [coach] Norma Plummer didn't pick me, she pulled me aside and had a chat with me, and I knew it was coming but it still didn't make it any easier. But Norma was fantastic and she really supported me and told me to have some time off and get my head straight.
It was probably the best thing for me. It made me realise the balance I needed in life and in netball. I took it really hard but I did take a couple of months off and came back refreshed and fired up and ready to play again. So I came back in 2012 and 2013 and then, I guess, to be dropped again for the past three or four years has been a really tough roller-coaster. But I haven't shied away from the challenges and I'm motivated to get back out there.
When I got the call-up [for the 2017 quad series against New Zealand, South Africa and England] it was fantastic. There are young players who are just biting at the bit to have a go. Some people probably say, "Why is she still trying to go around", but for me I knew I had enough good netball left in me and that I could give something to the Diamonds and my national league team.
It's about focusing on what I do individually and having some fun with it as well. Obviously international selection is what you're aiming for, but if you don't get it, you've got to still have fun with what you're doing. So I've been enjoying myself these past couple of years, even with those heartaches and hard times missing selection. I really worked on my fitness and trained hard in the off-season, but I probably trained smarter as well and knew what worked for me and what didn't.
The headspace thing is huge. I tell every kid I come across that the main thing is to have fun. If you're enjoying it, you do play well. You can go from one tournament to the next to the next – and I was very fortunate I was making all the teams – but I probably didn't recognise the importance of it. In the end, it became a bit of a job and I wasn't really cherishing it. So I had to get my headspace right. For me it was about taking the time to realise what I'd accomplished instead of worrying about the next tournament. It's definitely about getting that enjoyment and balance and acknowledging what you've achieved.
I was last in the Diamonds in 2013, so it'll have been four years by the time I get back on the plane. It's a long time between tours, but I do know the girls really well and I have a lot of experience internationally so I think I'll be fine.
I had 12 years with the New South Wales Swifts but I needed to refresh and change up what I was doing to keep me excited about netball. The Giants are perfect for that. I get to play with my old coach Julie Fitzgerald and [Swifts teammate] Kim Green in a new club, so it was an opportunity I couldn't turn down.
There's still a long way to go but it's amazing that we're getting the television and media exposure and people are starting to acknowledge and be interested in what we're doing. When I first started playing with the Swifts three different leagues ago, we were paying our own way to travel and to get to training and for our strapping tape and all those essentials that help you to perform. So there was no way then I imagined netball getting to this level of professionalism.
The Fast5 Netball World Series in Melbourne last October was so much fun to watch and be involved in [Pettitt captained the Australian team] and it was great to see the exposure it received. But there's nothing wrong with the traditional game and I think Fast5 is there just as a bit of entertainment. It also exposes some young players to international netball, which is good for the development of the game.
I've been running my own netball clinics for the past 10 years all around NSW and I love getting out in the regional areas to share my knowledge and experience and have some fun with the kids at a grassroots level. Hopefully I'll continue to do that for many years to come. I just want to give back to the sport as much as I can and if I can develop some young players that would be great.
My husband [Brad Pettitt] and I have just bought a bit of land in the Illawarra. I'd like to chill out, have some chooks and animals and be a country girl enjoying the simple life away from the busy crazy city. I grew up just outside Bega on a farm.
Yes, I do have a grandstand named after me in Bega, although I'm not sure how much of a grand stand it is. I was down there doing a clinic for the club years ago and all these people came and I thought, "What's going on?" Then the paper turned up and they did the unveiling [of the Susan Pratley Stand]. It's a nice little stand outside the netball court, so it was a lovely gesture.
This week's highlights…
• Cycling: Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
Saturday and Sunday, Geelong, Barwon Heads, Torquay
• Cricket: WBBL and BBL grand finals – Perth Scorchers v Sydney Sixers
Saturday, 10.45am and 4.15pm (AWST), WACA Ground, Perth
• Tennis: Australian Open women's and men's finals
Saturday and Sunday, 7.30pm (AEDT), Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne Park
• Netball: Australian Diamonds v New Zealand Silver Ferns
Sunday, 12am (AEDT), Durban International Convention Centre, South Africa
• Cricket: New Zealand v Australia, 1st ODI
Monday, 9am (AEDT), Eden Park, Auckland
• Swimming: Australian Open Water Championships
Until Sunday, 7am (ACDT), Brighton Beach, South Australia
This article was first published in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on Jan 28, 2017 as "Another shot". Subscribe here.
Cindy MacDonald
is The Saturday Paper's deputy editor.


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Are e-Cigarettes Safe, or Just Safer?
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Whether or not that is actually occurring, however, is simply unclear.
But Theodore Wagener, PhD, of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, says potential harms from e-cigarettes tend to be "overstated relative to the potential benefits," noting that the risk of accidental poisoning "is no different from many household devices and chemicals available in supermarkets." E-cigarettes might also represent a public health good, reducing secondary smoke exposures for nonsmokers, Wagener argues.
It's really just too soon to know, Brawley says, because too little research has been done.
"Truth be told, we need to study e-cigarettes more," American Cancer Society chief medical officer, Dr. Otis Brawley, tells The Advisor Blog. "I'm not a fan, but I'm certainly not willing to say they should be taken off the market because they are harmful."
Marketing spin and fearfulness have dominated the debate thus far, Dr. Brawley says.
"I see both e-cigarette advocates and manufactures making claims that are not scientifically proven, although they have not been disproven, either," he says. "And I see some tobacco-control advocates, too, exaggerate in the opposite direction, definitely exaggerating or overstating the harms associated with e-cigarettes — claiming harms we really don't have evidence for. There have been suggestions in the press from tobacco control advocates that e-cigarettes deliver carcinogens and cause biologic harm. That's an overstatement. We don't know that to be true. On the other hand, I've heard advocates claim e-cigarettes can be used as an effective way to withdraw from cigarettes. I don't know that to be true, either."
Indeed, although most e-cigarette users report using the devices to quit smoking, the median duration of e-cigarette use among former smokers appears to be nearly identical to that of simple tobacco abstinence: 100 days. A 2011 study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine reported that at 6 months since cigarette smoking cessation, 31% of e-cigarette users had not started smoking cigarettes again (95% CI: 24.8%-37.2%), although e-cigarettes did appear to help reduce the number of cigarettes smoked.
"The anti-e-cigarette crowd has one point that I see merit in: e-cigarettes might be a threat to antismoking laws," Brawley says. "And there's probably some kid who will see somebody using an e-cigarette and will decide to try cigarettes. The image of people using e-cigarettes is not good for tobacco cessation. That's one legitimate concern. But on health concerns, I'm on the fence."
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onAccountToAccountTransfer

                                        Server Chat API

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Methods

Retrieve Availability

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Sample Postman Collection

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The Login API includes the following 3 methods:

      Method
      Description

      Login
      Start a session in LiveEngage.

      Refresh
      Login session expires after 8 hours by default (unless changed in the UI). Refresh is called to continue a session longer than 8 hours.

      Logout
      Logout and end the login session.

Login

Request

      Method
      URI

      POST
      https://{domain}/api/account/{accountId}]/login?v=1.3

Use the LivePerson Domain API to get the agent API domain using agentVep as the serviceName parameter value.

Request example:

http://api.liveperson.net/api/account/12345678/service/agentVep/baseURI.json?version=1.0

Query Parameters

      Parameter
      Description
      Type
      Required
      Notes

      v
      API version number
      number
      Required
      Default Value: 1.3

Headers

      Header
      Description

      Content-Type
      Application/JSON

      Accept
      Application/JSON

Body

Example:

{
    "jwt": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwidW5pcXVlX25hbWUiOiJyZWVtZCJ9.cGB0LX8hlOeEWKjRIJUUtik8p5Vum8vTQXyxOVJ1FXg"
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JWT payload :  {
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  "unique_name": "name@liveperson.com"
}

Note: See https://jwt.io/ for further information on JSON Web Tokens.

Or (depending on configuration):

{
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    "Password": "password"
}

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Response Codes

      Code
      Response

      200
      OK - Successfully logged in (see note).

      400
      Bad request - Problem with body or query parameters.

      401
      Unauthorized - Bad Authentication (invalid site or agent).

      500
      Internal server error.

Response cookies

      Cookie
      Description

      Session_id
      Login session ID (should be passed to the refresh and logout methods).

Note: The Bearer can be found at the bottom of the response.

Example:

{
  "csrf": "d5d07326cfe2240b9453e19e8092c59844921dcdc6ebb105c55fea9ed45c9d77",
  "wsuk": "766900772095619056",
  "config": {
    "loginName": "name",
    "userId": "3705342610",
    "userPrivileges": [
      100,
      101,
      1730,
      1731,
      1732,
      1733,
      1734,
      1735
    ],
    "serverCurrentTime": 1474549184722,
    "timeDiff": -25200000,
    "serverTimeZoneName": "Europe/Athens",
    "serverTimeGMTDiff": 10800000,
    "isLPA": false,
    "isAdmin": true,
    "accountTimeZoneId": "Europe/Athens"
  },
  "csdsCollectionResponse": {
    "baseURIs": [
      {
        "account": "123456",
        "baseURI": "domain.domain.net",
        "service": "smt"
      },
      {
        "account": "123456",
        "baseURI": "domain.domain.net",
        "service": "agentVep"
      }
    ]
  },
  "accountData": {
    "agentGroupsData": {
      "items": [
        {
          "id": -1,
          "deleted": false,
          "name": "Main Group"
        }
      ],
      "revision": 1
    }
  },
  "sessionTTl": "28800000",
  "bearer": "9cf6ee24b6a1031e202f292a0ad20c8f52bfd9f01abc8b9489365995052c6603"
}

Note: Response contains csrf (should be saved and used in refresh and logout), bearer, wsuk, siteConfig, csdsCollectionResponse, accountData and sessionTTl.

Refresh

Request

      Method
      URI

      POST
      https://{domain}/api/account/{accountId}/refresh

Headers

Request cookies

      Cookie
      Description

      Session_id
      Login session ID (taken from the Login response cookie).

      Header
      Description

      Content-Type
      Application/JSON

      Accept
      Application/JSON

Body

      Parameter
      Description

      csrf
      CSRF - Taken from the Login response body.

Example:

{
    "csrf":"87f9c1e535b03494194d0b5e76b48ca8f4497114a8ba20afb22a67f375a29adb"
}

Response

Response Codes

      Code
      Response

      200
      OK with empty body (see note).

      401
      Unauthorized - Bad Authentication (invalid site or agent).

      500
      Internal server error

Note: In case csrf is invalid, response code is 401 - Unauthorized with the following body:

{
  "error": {
    "time": "Sep 22, 2016 4:10:15 PM",
    "message": "CSRF token invalid! The CSRF token on request does not match the CSRF token on the session",
    "internalCode": 10,
    "responseStatus": "UNAUTHORIZED"
  }

Cookies

Session_id containing the login session ID.

Logout

Request

      Method
      URI

      POST
      https://{domain}/api/account/{accountId}/logout

Headers

Request cookies

      Cookie
      Description

      Session_id
      Login session ID (taken from the Login response cookie).

      Header
      Description

      Content-Type
      Application/JSON

      Accept
      Application/JSON

Body

      Parameter
      Description

      csrf
      CSRF - Taken from the Login response body.

Example:

{
    "csrf":"87f9c1e535b03494194d0b5e76b48ca8f4497114a8ba20afb22a67f375a29adb"
}

Response

Response Codes

      Code
      Response

      200
      OK with empty body (see note).

      401
      Unauthorized - Bad Authentication (invalid site or agent).

      500
      Internal server error.

Note: In case csrf is invalid, response code is 401 Unauthorized with the following body:

{
  "error": {
    "time": "Sep 22, 2016 4:10:15 PM",
    "message": "CSRF token invalid! The CSRF token on request does not match the CSRF token on the session",
    "internalCode": 10,
    "responseStatus": "UNAUTHORIZED"
  }
}

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People presents an annual NAACP Image Award.  Winners are selected by the NAACP president in recognition of special achievement and distinguished public service. The following are winners for the President's Award:

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A Worthy Successor: Destiny 2 Review
Riordan Zentler
Halo developer Bungie's latest effort, Destiny 2, is significantly more enjoyable than its predecessor. Simultaneously, the game is sometimes too comfortable following in the original's footsteps. It's working out for them, though–critical review aggregate Metacritic shows Destiny averaged a 76% rating, while Destiny 2 is thus far averaging an 85% rating.
A plethora of improvements have been made upon the original's rewarding and addicting formula, addressing its most obvious flaws. Each area–Earth's "European Dead Zone," Jupiter's moon Io, Saturn's moon Titan, and so on–now features a detailed and thorough map. Your adventures around the game's massive environments feel less meandering, and the rewards for exploring are impactful.
Destiny's progression system was convoluted and misleading, with its confusing "light levels" acting as a barrier-to-entry for new and/or casual gamers. Worse, most activities became a waste of time upon completing the campaign, plaguing the game's replay value.
As a first-person shooter with role-playing game influences, Destiny 2 still rewards gamers for 'grinding' by repeating activities, but its progression system no longer punishes players for choosing one activity over another. Everything you do goes directly toward finding Legendary-tier gear and weaponry.
For a game that boasted a massive size and 'open-world' influences, the original Destiny felt hollow past the first 12 or so hours of gameplay. Destiny 2 escapes that critical error of its forerunner. While the game still encourages you to repeat activities, its new Adventure quests, Lost Sectors and Regional Chests allow you to explore and feel rewarded for searching every last nook and cranny. Completionism in Destiny 2 feels rewarding and purposeful.
As with all of Bungie's games, taking on hordes of enemies feels as gratifying as ever. The gameplay and gunplay is tight and efficient, with every shot feeling impactful and calculated. It may sound like common sense, but many shooters in the gaming industry have feedback issues–animations don't match up with what's actually happening, sound effects don't complement the graphics, and so on. You'll find none of that in Destiny 2.
The graphics are incredible across the board. The game's immense environments are elaborate and awe-inspiring. The vast, electrified oceans on Titan and the rolling sand dunes of Io look real and instill the player with a genuine heart of adventure–what if humans really could inhabit other celestial bodies some day? In short, the science-fiction setting is capitalized upon flawlessly.
Destiny 2's one weak point is its storyline. With many gamers still captivated by the plot of Bungie's Halo franchise, this can come as a surprise. It's a huge step up from Destiny's hollow and uninteresting plotline, but the story of Destiny 2 isn't very inspiring either; it's too comfortable rehashing old storylines. When the plot of Destiny failed to wow the developer's fans, it seems they basically copied-and-pasted Halo's story into Destiny 2.
Bungie could benefit from taking risks–the plotline of Halo is worn out, as is the 'silent protagonist' trope that basically died after the releases of The Last of Us and BioShock Infinite in 2013. Despite the few risks Destiny 2 makes, it is nevertheless a massive, gorgeous game, full of replay value that will captivate and reward its players for years to come.
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It seems we are finally getting back to some summer weather and it sure feels good, doesn't it? That was some spell we've been under. Hopefully we can put all of that behind us and enjoy a beautiful late summer and fall. We sure deserve it.
We're hopeful that some nice weather and a bit of organic fertilizer lightly sidedressed along our rows will get things going in the right direction again.
2. Spread eggplant slices on 2 baking sheets or trays. Brush 1/4 cup oil over both sides of eggplant slices. Spray another baking sheet with cooking spray and arrange tomato slices on it. Season eggplant and tomatoes with pepper.
4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray six 7 to 10 ounce ramekins or custard cups (about the same diameter as an eggplant slice) with cooking spray.
5. Assemble the towers: Using a wide spatula, layer an eggplant slice, a tomato slice and a basil leaf in each ramekin. Sprinkle with about 1 tablespoon feta (or use mozzarella slice). Repeat the layering once more, then top with an eggplant slice. Press down lightly.
6. Place ramekins on a baking sheet and bake until heated through and juices are bubbling around the edges, 25 to 35 minutes.
7. To serve, run a paring knife around the sides of each ramekin. Invert a plate on top and, grasping ramekin and plate with oven mitts, carefully invert the ramekin onto the plate. (Use caution as both the ramekins and juices are extremely hot.) Remove the ramekins. The juices will form a sauce around the tower. Drizzle each tower with 1 teaspoon oil and garnish with a basil sprig. Serve hot, warm or at room temperature.


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New Delhi: The Patiala House Court on Thursday granted four-day custody of Rajiv Saxena, a co-accused in Agusta-Westland VVIP chopper to Enforcement Directorate (ED). However, the ED had asked for eight-day remand of Saxena.
It is to be noted here that Saxena was extradited to India from UAE on Wednesday. Apart from him, Deepak Talwar, a corporate lobbyist was also brought to India. He was also produced at Patiala House Court on Thursday.
Last year, Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in the VVIP chopper deal, was extradited to India from Dubai. The extradition took place days after a Dubai court rejected his plea against the move. Currently, he is under judicial custody till February 26.
It is seen as a major success for the Prime Minister and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, who had been pushing for the extradition.
The Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VIP helicopter deal, finalised during the previous government of Manmohan Singh, had got mired in allegations of kickbacks. The 54-year-old Michel is an accused in the case along with some others including former Air Chief SP Tyagi.
According to the Enforcement Directorate charge sheet filed in a court here two years back, Michel had received kickbacks to the tune of 30 million Euros from AgustaWestland for the deal involving a purchase of 12 VIP helicopters.
The deal, signed in 2007, was scrapped in 2013 following the bribery allegations.


Vegetable tanned leather is one of the fundamental heritage of Tuscany, Italy.
Raw hides preserved with salt arrives in the tannery, and master cutters separate the skin into each parts.
Salt, impurities and hair are removed during the soaking and liming process in the large wooden drums.
After all traces of grease and flesh are removed from the skins, they are brought back to the drums to rinse to lower their ph and restore optimal condition for vegetable tanning.
The tanning agents, or Tannins, are extracted from quebracho, chestnuts, and mimosa trees. The tannins are powders extracted from fruits, leaves and roots, and each tannin gives different finishing to leather.
The skins are soaked in water and tannins for several days for slow tanning, or tanned in the drums.
Warm and bright colours, soft touch, resistance, and its unique scent are the distinguishable characteristics of vegetable tanned leather.
The wooden drums are again used for dyeing process, and also for fattening to soften the skins.
The skins are removed from excess moisture, and then enlarged and given uniform thickness. Afterwords, the skins are naturally air-dried to remove residual moisture, whether temperature kept constant and humidity controlled.
Staking follows to give the skins flexibility and softness. Finally, the skins are ready to be processed.
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Quality Markers of Red Wines from Spanish Region of Castilla-La Mancha using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
Comparative Study of the Thermal and Microwave Oxidation in olive oil. 31P-NMR Quantitative Determination of 1,2 and 1,3-Diglycerides and Other Minor Compounds.
The Clermont-Ferrand-Theix Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) was proud to organize the 10th International Conference on the applications of Magnetic Resonance in Food Science to celebrate its 10th anniversary. This scientific event was held from 13 to 15 September 2010 in Clermont-Ferrand.
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Learning goals: Observing clouds and the shapes they make is a great way to foster the imagination of children - it is an incredible source of inspiration and story-telling.
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The impact of loans on SME growth in India
Micro, small and medium enterprises are vital to India's economy and growth.
According to the World Bank, they account for more than 80 per cent of total industrial enterprises, employing an estimated 117 million people, and contributing to more than 40 per cent of manufacturing output and exports.
However, these small businesses identify access to finance as a key constraint to growth. The World Bank estimates that this credit gap amounts to $230bn.
In order to understand how our investments in financial institutions were benefitting the MSMEs they lend to, we were eager to take a closer look at the issue. We partnered with IFC, part of the World Bank Group, and RBL, an Indian financial institution we invest in, to carry out a study to understand what impact loans from financial institutions have on MSME growth in India.
RBL is a mid-sized scheduled commercial bank, which serves around 2 million customers in India. The company was an ideal partner for such a survey given their interest in supporting underserved and unbanked customers, strategic focus on mass banking, and launch of MSME products across India in 2012 (comprising of business instalment loans, loans against property, and MSME lending).
Over 100 of RBL's MSMEs were randomly selected and interviewed by local survey firm Market-Xcel, collecting data on sales, income, assets and employment at their firm, before and after the loan.
The results:
1. Access to credit had a significant relationship with job creation
On aggregate, 5,600 – 7,200 jobs are estimated to have been created by MSMEs receiving a loan from RBL, from 2013-15.
2. MSMEs exhibited impressive financial performance
80 per cent of all SMEs grew their sales, income and assets since the loan, at average annualised rates of 9, 10 and 7 per cent respectively.
3. RBL is reaching first-time borrowers of formal finance
55 per cent were first-time borrowers of formal finance, having previously relied on personal finances, family and friends, and money lenders.
Firms with female management (22 per cent of the sample) exhibited stronger financial performance than average, and were more likely to hire women.
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Sexual Dimorphism in Temporal Discrimination.
While EMBASE screening, one comes across abstracts of interest. I was a little struck by the following abstract. I am sure all sorts of hilarious one-liners suggest themselves relating to this study, but right now I can't think of any:
The temporal discrimination threshold (TDT) is the shortest time interval at which two sensory stimuli presented sequentially are detected as asynchronous by the observer. TDTs are known to increase with age. Having previously observed shorter thresholds in young women than in men, in this work we sought to systematically examine the effect of sex and age on temporal discrimination. The aims of this study were to examine, in a large group of men and women aged 20-65 years, the distribution of TDTs with an analysis of the individual participant's responses, assessing the "point of subjective equality" and the "just noticeable difference" (JND). These respectively assess sensitivity and accuracy of an individual's response. In 175 participants (88 women) aged 20-65 years, temporal discrimination was faster in women than in men under the age of 40 years by a mean of approximately 13 ms. However, age-related decline in temporal discrimination was three times faster in women so that, in the age group of 40-65 years, the female superiority was reversed. The point of subjective equality showed a similar advantage in younger women and more marked age-related decline in women than men, as the TDT. JND values declined equally in both sexes, showing no sexual dimorphism. This observed sexual dimorphism in temporal discrimination is important for both (a) future clinical research assessing disordered mid-brain covert attention in basal-ganglia disorders, and (b) understanding the biology of this sexual dimorphism which may be genetic or hormonal.
Via the magic of Google ripping off the veil of anonymity which the abstracts are presented with on Embase is simplicity itself, and imagine my surprise when it turns out this paper came from a centre very familiar to me indeed. Go SVUH!
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Anyone tried making a sealed shrimp terrarium?
22/01/2014 · Tadege shrimp farming page - Tadege is a regular guy that got into shrimp breeding many years back and now sells a lot on Aquabid and through his website. He explains the process and a lot of things that get forgotten about when someone wants to get into breeding/selling shrimp…... Ecosphere shrimp lifespan exceeds 5 years. Specific results depend on observing the conditions as for the lighting and temperature. The company has some samples which are more than 8 years old and yet still pretty alive and active.
True enough, shrimp don't eat snail eggs. Killing them all might not be necessary though. Do you know which snails you have ? Ramshorns don't reproduce as quickly as the little bladder snails do, or the larger pond snails and they keep glass clean.
When we moved out of OKC and gave up all the tanks, I missed them—so for my birthday in 2000, I got a little ecosphere egg with five little shrimp in it.
24/11/2007 · ok i want to make an ecosphere(for those of you who dont know what that is, its a self contained ecosystem that requires no care except for proper lighting) ive seen them at brookstone with shrimp in them but i wanna go a step further and add fish.
So, if you havent seen an Ecosphere, they are basically a self-sustaining air-tight bowl with little shrimp, and they last like a year or two. I want to try to make one myself with an air-tight jar. I know how they work, so I can pretty much try it right now.


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Krombach is a small river of Bavaria, Germany. It flows into the Kahl in Blankenbach.

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List of rivers of Bavaria

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Rivers of Germany


First authored publication titled "Ultrasound Beam Simulations in Inhomogeneous Tissue Geometries Using the Hybrid Angular Spectrum Method", was one of the most cited articles in IEEE Ultrasonics. The paper introduced a fast FFT-based algorithm to model acoustic beam simulation in complex media. The project is described in detail here.
First authored publication titled, "Ultrasound Beam Simulations in Inhomogeneous Tissue Geometries Using the Hybrid Angular Spectrum Method" was listed in Editor's selection of articles, for its impact in reducing calculation times for complex wave propagation. The project is described in detail here.
Awarded a $100,000 grant as a primary investigator for my postdoctoral work at Stanford. The technique eliminated the CT component of a surgery, while dramatically reducing the number of MR measurements required from 3000 to just one. More details on the project here.
First authored publication," Non-invasive patient-specific acoustic property estimation for MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery", was chosen as a finalist for the best graduate student paper. Technique demonstrated the measurement of acoustic properties for the first time in in-vivo experiments, more details here.
Awarded the award at the 2nd International Symposium on MR-guided Focused Ultrasound in Chantilly, Virginia for work on a to measure acoustic properties for the first time in in-vivo experiments, more details here.
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The cause of her death was Pneumonia. Greta Garbo (Swedish Actress) Boyfriend/Husband /dating /Affairs? 2 days ago 1935-11-01 2017-07-10 2018-11-23 Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson) (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish actress primarily known for her work in the United States during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its subsequent Golden Age. Sexy silly silent flick with Greta Garbo, who two-times (actually three-times) her husband with his old buddy, who's visiting Paris from "The Argentine" (Argentina, looking like the Old West). They meet at a masquerade-ball at the beginning, and she proceeds to try to break him down, win him over, destroy his life, what-have-you. Karl Gustafsson was the father of famed Hollywood actress Greta Garbo. He was the husband of Anna Lovisa Johansson.
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Greta Garbo died on 15 April 1990 and her place of death is New York City, New York, United States. The cause of her death was Pneumonia. Greta Garbo (Swedish Actress) Boyfriend/Husband /dating /Affairs? 2020-02-04 · In the movie "Grand Hotel," Greta Garbo uttered the line that came to define her: "I want to be alone." But if that's what she really wanted, she should have never come to Palm Beach.Eighty 2016-09-18 · Greta Garbo was dubbed "the Swedish Sphinx" due to her enigmatic personality. Although Garbo was an international movie star, she shied away from the press, her fans, and Hollywood events. Greta Garbo is outstanding far better than Keira Knightly in a new version. This black and white film is a great classic and the portrayal by Garbo of Anna Karenina is mature and tragic as the story was written.
Greta Garbo was in 17 on-screen matchups, including Clark … 2017-12-07 2005-09-11 Greta Garbo died on 15 April 1990 and her place of death is New York City, New York, United States. The cause of her death was Pneumonia.
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He was by her site from the 1940s to 1960s. It seems he wanted to marry Garbo. But he was married to Valentina Schlee. He couldn't get divorce.
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And behind the private and moody public persona that she became known for, she lived a life full of both scandal and tragedy. Here are glamorous facts about Greta Garbo. 2 dagar sedan · She studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and played a major role in Gösta Berlings Saga (1924). The film's director, Mauritz Stiller, gave her the name Garbo and secured her a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood. With Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan. The married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.
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Greta Garbo, the enigmatic and elusive star of some of Hollywood's most memorable romantic movies of the 1930's and a 50-year focus of curiosity and myth, died yesterday at … Greta Garbo stars as a luminous member of high society, whom women envy and men desire--and who must fight for her life after her husband comes home unexpectedly and sees his wife, her handsome young admirer and The Kiss. Charles Guarry (Anders Randolf) walks in on his wife, Irene (Garbo), innocently kissing Pierre Lassall (Lew Ayres). Greta Garbo's birth name was Greta Lovisa Gustafsson. Born in Sweden on September 18, 1905, … 2020-08-13 An amnesiac Italian countess (Greta Garbo) becomes a singer with a cruel lover (Erich von Stroheim), then reunites with her husband (Melvyn Douglas). In the late 1920s, Salka and her husband, Berthold Viertel, left Berlin for Hollywood, where Berthold wrote screenplays and directed films and Salka began acting in motion pictures.
Gray Gustafson Reisfield, the sole heiress to her aunt Greta Garbo's estate and a woman who was a long-time companion to the late Swedish-born actress, has died.
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The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a historic Roman Catholic church in Újlak, in the Budapest II district of Hungary.

History
Above its main entrance is a Latin inscription (CREATORI 1705 CREATURA) announcing the year the parish was founded.

The current building was erected between 1746 and 1766 by  and .

The main altar was designed by Kristóf Hickisch and inaugurated in 1799. The bell tower, designed in the middle of the main façade, had to be demolished in 1765 due to a static defect, and the tower to the south side was replaced. The top had to be renovated twice due to elemental disasters (a rainstorm in 1875). Its present form was given by Miklós Ybl in 1877. It was then that it gained the eclectic look it has today. It was renovated in 1957-1960 and again in 1997.

Church interior

Underneath the triple arch line, which holds the organ gallery, is the one-nave interior covered with three vaults. In terms of proportions and layout, it seems larger than its actual extent; curved side lobes on both sides increase the spatial effect, with "retracted" wall sections for absorbing the horizontal forces of the arch straps.

The murals were painted in the 1920s.

Artwork

The painting on the main altar is the Visitation of the Virgin Mary to Saint Elizabeth. During a visit by Falconer József Ferenc, there was a sculpture by Frigyes Held (1799). The rotating sanctuary is about the former 1761 altar. One pulpit (1747-48), gift of a Buda clarinet, 1774; the altar of St. Anna on the other side of a triumphal arch - from a church in Matthias - can be used here in 1779.

A carved Pietà statue was supplied in 1818 by Lőrinc Dunaiszky. The side altars are made up of donations from new citizens and their dear saints (St. Sebastian's plays a multiplier role). It was claimed to be Saint Florian (1778). Another next step: St. Anthony of Padua (1777–78), followed by an altar of the Virgin Mary (1760). The closest to the main altar is the Altar of the Heart of Jesus, formerly the seat of St. John of Nepomuk, in 1782. It was likely a statue from 1902. The Rieger organ, as of 2022, is not working, and it needs repair.

In the 20th century, religious halls were added to the originally 18th-century parish building.

References
 https://web.archive.org/web/20191213083135/https://www.esztergomi-ersekseg.hu/plebaniak/sarlos-boldogasszony-plebania-budapest-ujlak

Roman Catholic churches in Budapest


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Le terrier brésilien ( en portugais) est une race de chiens originaire du Brésil. La race est issue de croisements entre des chiens autochtones et des terriers ramenés par les jeunes Brésiliens après leurs études dans les universités européennes durant le .

Le terrier brésilien est chien de terrier de taille moyenne, de construction solide et svelte. La tête est de forme triangulaire vue de dessus, avec un stop prononcé. Les oreilles semi-dressées sont de forme triangulaire. La queue peut être longue ou naturellement courte. Elle est écourtée au Brésil. La robe est blanche avec des taches noires, bleues ou marron et des marques feu.

Le terrier brésilien est un chien de compagnie très actif et intelligent.

Historique
Du  au début du , les jeunes Brésiliens partis étudier dans les universités européennes, et notamment françaises et anglaises, revenaient souvent mariés à de jeunes Européennes. Celles-ci ramenaient avec elle des petits terriers, probablement des fox terriers et des Jack Russell terriers, qui, après s'être adapté au climat du Brésil, ont été croisés avec des chiens autochtones. Le terrier brésilien est issu de ces croisements.

Avec  au livre des origines français (LOF) en 2012, la race est peu représentée en France.

Standard

Le terrier brésilien est un terrier de taille moyenne, de construction solide et svelte. Bien proportionné, le corps s'inscrit dans un carré. Au Brésil, la caudectomie est traditionnellement pratiquée, mais la queue peut être naturellement courte ou longue. La queue naturellement longue est en vérité courte puisqu'elle ne dépasse pas le jarret. Les membres sont droits vue de face. Les antérieurs sont légèrement plus écartés que les postérieurs bien musclés.

La tête a une forme triangulaire vue du dessus : elle se rétrécit notablement à partir des yeux jusqu'à l'extrémité du museau. Le stop prononcé est accentué par la déclivité du museau. Les yeux de forme ronde sont de préférence de couleur foncée, sauf pour la variété bleue, où ils sont gris-bleu, et pour la variété marron, où ils peuvent être marron, verts ou bleus. Les oreilles de forme triangulaire se terminent en pointe. Semi-dressées, la pointe tombe en direction de l'angle externe de l'œil. Les oreilles ne sont pas coupées.

Le poil est court, lisse, fin sans être doux et bien couché. Le poil est plus fin sur la tête, les oreilles, sous le cou, à la face intérieure des membres antérieurs et des postérieurs. La robe est blanche marquée de noir, marron ou bleu. Des marques feu sont obligatoirement présentes au-dessus des yeux, sur les faces latérales du museau et à l'intérieur des oreilles. La tête est toujours marquée dans la région frontale et sur les oreilles.

Confusion avec d'autres races
Le terrier brésilien peut être confondu avec le fox-terrier à poil lisse, toutefois cette race présente des lignes corporelles plus carrées.

Caractère
Le terrier brésilien est décrit dans le standard de la Fédération cynologique internationale (FCI) comme vif, actif et éveillé, amical avec sa famille. Le terrier brésilien est plutôt méfiant avec les étrangers. C'est une race intelligente qui apprend facilement des tours.

Utilité

Le terrier brésilien est un chien de compagnie joyeux et très actif. Il a des aptitudes pour l'agility. Au Brésil, il est utilisé comme chien de cirque.

Santé
Le club français d'élevage de la race recommande de tester les terriers brésiliens pour la dysplasie de la hanche, une malformation très douloureuse et héréditaire.

Notes et références

Annexes

Liens internes
Terrier
Liste des races de chiens

Liens externes

 Le standard de la race sur le site de la SCC

 Club français de l'Airedale terrier et de divers terriers, affilié à la Société centrale canine.

Race de chien originaire du Brésil
Chien d'agrément et de compagnie
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Andrea Majocchi – chirurgo e scrittore italiano, figlio di Giuseppe
Antonio Majocchi – architetto, pittore e scultore italiano
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ABE JULIAN ORTEGA , 45, of Brighton died Dec. 17. Services were Dec. 22, with burial at Brighton Cemetery. Mr. Ortega was born in Denver on Sept. 1, 1956. He married Debbie Martinez. He was a musician. Survivors include his wife; son Julian of New Mexico; daughters Tonya, Juliana, Christina and Jessica, all of New Mexico; father Abe of California; mother Jennie Maes of Brighton; brothers William Maes, Danny Maes and Christopher Maes, all of Brighton; sister Juanita Maes of Brighton; companion Cynthia Fournier; three grandchildren.
Abe Julian Ortega , 45, of Brighton, a mechanic, died Dec. 17 in Brighton. Services were Dec. 22 at Tabor Funeral Home. Interment was in Elmwood Cemetery.
He was born Sept. 1, 1956, in Denver. He attended school in Brighton. He was a mechanic specializing in radiator repair. His interests included fishing, comedy, music, and playing the saxophone and guitar.
He is survived by a son, Julian ; four daughters, Tonya, Juliana, Christina and Jessica, all of Las Cruces, N.M.; his father, Abe, California; his mother, Jennie Maes; three brothers, William Maes, Danny Maes, and Christopher Maes, all of Brighton; a sister, Juanita Maes, Brighton; three grandchildren; and his companion, Cynthia Fournier.


One foot in the electro sounds, the other in the spirit dear to the Motown, Kellylee Evans gives us a repertoire on the border of jazz, soul and groove, all with talent and generosity.
Three years after her last concert in France, and after many adventures, the Canadian singer, miraculously real, returns to us!
To discover at the opening of the Jazz Festival of Saint-Germain-des-Prés on May 16th!


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The Jeep® brand continues to surprise audiences at this year's Geneva International Motor Show.
After setting a new global sales record in 2018, the Jeep brand welcomes 2019 as the year of an evolution that remains true to those core values that have been at the heart of the brand for almost 80 years. The Jeep brand has always pioneered new segments and new technologies: its legend started in 1941 with the Willys-Overland, the first 4×4 vehicle, followed in 1946 by the Willys Wagon, which first introduced the concept of the Sport Utility Vehicle. Its legendary reputation for off-road capability has lasted ever since. Comfort, handling and connectivity have been increased over time, in parallel with the all-terrain performance of Jeep SUVs. Today, the Jeep brand is making another major evolutionary step toward respecting the environment and reducing the total cost of ownership by presenting its new plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) models. A no-compromise hybrid solution, which integrates the unmatched technical layout of each Jeep SUV, will power both the Jeep Renegade and Jeep Compass and will turn them into vehicles that provide absolute freedom while taking their capability to the next level through some of the most advanced eco-friendly technology.
New Renegade and Compass PHEV: Power and Range
In the spotlight at the Jeep stand in Geneva, these new plug-in hybrid models are equipped with batteries that are rechargeable from an external power outlet and, as a consequence, can store more electric energy. This choice allows for the use of more powerful electric motors, which translate into a pure electric range of approximately 50 kilometers and about 130 km/h full electric top speed for both Renegade and Compass.
The electric units work in synergy with the new 1.3-litre turbo petrol engine to increase efficiency and power overall. For the Renegade, the power sits in the 190 and 240 hp range resulting in outstanding on-road performance: 0-100 km/h is reached in approximately 7 seconds. The same figures – although still pending homologation – are achieved by the first plug-in hybrid Compass. Also, on the Compass, the simultaneous action of the internal combustion engine (ICE) and the electric motor delivers up to 240 hp of maximum power.
In addition, the new Jeep SUVs with plug-in hybrid technology are more fun to drive courtesy of improved acceleration and fast engine response. They are also extremely quiet and respectful of the environment with CO2emissions lower than 50 g/km.
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Charles Barkley: Democrats Pay Attention to Black Voters Only 'Every Four Years' and 'Do Nothing' for Them
By H. Alan Scott On 9/19/19 at 2:48 PM EDT
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Charles Barkley has a new target to slam-dunk: Democrats. The legendary NBA player had a thing or two to say about their treatment of black Americans in a new interview, saying the politicians care about them only "every four years."
Barkley made the comments in a wide-ranging interview on Michael Smerconish's SiriusXM radio show. He spoke about his work helping Alabama Senator Doug Jones get elected in 2017 during a bitter election with Republican Roy Moore that captured the national spotlight. Jones became the first Democrat to win a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama in nearly 40 years.
"We need to start holding you Democrats accountable," Barkley recalled telling Jones. "Because they've been taking black people's votes—and they only talk to black people every four years. All of these politicians only talk to black people every four years because they want their vote."
Barkley accused Democratic lawmakers of abandoning black communities once the race is won. "When they get elected, they do nothing in the four years in between," he said.
Charles Barkley speaks at the podium prior to his sculpture being unveiled at the Philadelphia 76ers training facility on September 13 in Camden, New Jersey. Mitchell Leff/Getty Images
Barkley has been a frequent critic of President Donald Trump but told Smerconish that he doesn't think "everyone who voted for Trump" is racist. Only "some of them are," he said.
In July, after attending the Democratic debate, Barkley was hesitant to call Trump a racist when asked point-blank by reporters.
"I'm leery of calling people 'racist," Barkley said. "He says some things that can be construed as racist.... When he has the opportunity to denounce white nationalism and things like that, he could do a much better job."
This is what Charles Barkley thought about last nights #demdebate. See more on our story. (📸 by @dnewhauser)
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The former Philadelphia 76er and Phoenix Suns power forward has long been involved in politics. Once affiliated with the Republican Party, the Alabama native has previously toyed with the idea of running for office in the state as a Republican, Democrat and independent.
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"I really believe I was put on Earth to do more than play basketball and stockpile money," he told CBS News in 2006 about a possible run for office. "I really want to help people improve their lives, and what's left is for me to decide how best to do that."
He officially left the Republican Party in 2006, saying, "I was a Republican until they lost their minds," CBS reported at the time.
As for who he's supporting in 2020, Barkley hasn't made up his mind. He has said in previous interviews he's been impressed by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. He told Smerconish he likes former Housing Secretary Julián Castro and Mayor Pete Buttigieg, but is frustrated by the Democratic National Committee debate system.
"I like both of those guys, but they never got to talk," Barkley said.


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I found this on the Arduino blog recently: Matt Leggett has been having some fun with wearable pixels. He sewed an alcohol sensor, some LEDs and an Arduino processor into a jacket. The idea is that you breathe into the sensor and the LEDs light up to show how inebriated you are. Too many lit LEDs and your friends should call a taxi for you. Perhaps the Arduino could even make the call automatically. Maybe Moritz Waldemeyer or Vega Wang could incorporate this into their wearable electronics.
I think this could be done without needing to blow into a sensor. After all, too many drinks and you might not remember how! SoberSteering is developing a car steering wheel that senses blood alcohol levels through ones skin. Maybe their sensor could be built into clothing and sense alcohol levels in real time.
I know of more than a few fellow bloggers who probably wouldn't wear this kind of this kind of clothing. For them, it would mean pixels everywhere would keep them from going anywhere, by car at least <grin>. Or, at the very least, they may stop getting served earlier in the evening.
In fact, MicroTiles might never have been invented if certain unnamed inventors had been wearing Leggett's invention!


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Capitalizing on all the information we put into our cell phones, Verizon Wireless is selling all our app usage and location information to marketers, reports CNET's Declan McCullagh.
Capitalizing on all the information we put into our cell phones, Verizon Wireless is selling all our app usage and location information to marketers, reports CNET's Declan McCullagh. Part of what it calls the Precision Market Insights initiative, Verizon is not only tracking consumers, it is sharing that information with other companies, and possibly linking it to databases with more of your personal information. "We're able to view just everything that they do," Bill Diggins, U.S. chief for the Verizon Wireless marketing initiative, said at an industry conference earlier this year. "And that's really where data is going today. Data is the new oil."
If it sounds creepy, that's because it might not be legal, even though Verizon did the bare minimum to make it sound that way by only selling the information in aggregate and also providing an opt-out feature. Still research by Paul Ohm, a professor at the University of Colorado Law School, who now works at the Federal Trade Commission suggests this might all violate federal wiretapping law because it digs deep into our cell phone transactions, notes McCullagh.* As this stuff gets kind of murky, we spoke with Ryan Calo, an affiliate scholar for the Center for Internet and Society and Assistant law professor at the University of Washington, who explained how exactly this could violate the FTC's privacy guidelines (and also creep you out).
There are a few things that Calo told us to consider in this situation: Anonymity, the ability to opt-out, Verizon's clarity, possible harm, and then the wire tapping issue. Verizon must comply with all of these things, not just one. "Even if you give consumers notice about a particular practice and you permit them to opt-out at least the FTC has been clear that you can't bury the lede," he told The Atlantic Wire. Let's see how the cell phone company did.
What Verizon Is Doing: Verizon has said that it doesn't give these marketers the information of individual customers, but does so in aggregate. For example, if a company wants to know about the behavior of 35 year old white males, they can get the cell phone behaviors of that audience, but not of a specific man in that group.
Does it Pass the Privacy Test? As long as the wireless carrier doesn't give specific URLs to these marketers about your specific behavior and is geared to a general audience, Calo believes that this should be fine.
What Verizon Is Doing: The company does allow users to opt-out of the tracking on the Verizon Wireless websites. Users have to first sign in and head to the My Privacy section of the website. There, the subscriber will apparently find three different boxes to uncheck, as pictured below.
Though, when we went to the site, it did not show up as such, giving us just one "do not track" button to click.
Does it Pass the Privacy Test: Yes, Verizon offers an opt-out option. But the harder it is to opt-out, the more likely it is to violate FTC privacy guidelines. This confusion certainly won't help the wireless carrier's case.
What Verizon Is Doing: The company sent out emails to customers informing them of the new policy. It also has a lengthy section on its site explaining the program.
Does It Pass the Privacy Test: Calo compares this to a case in which Sears technically explained everything it did with a similar tracking program, but the FTC came down on it for not giving enough notice to customers.
Does It Pass the Privacy Test: Not necessarily. "It is totally possible for you to be harmed in a way that implicates privacy, even if the person harming you doesn't know who you are," Calo told us. "Because of Verizon's Precision Market Insights, you end up getting charged more, or end up missing a deal—those are the kinds of things where it doesn't matter where they know who you are." However, he also notes that it doesn't sound like these marketers are using this information for targeted ads, but just to know more about Verizon customers, in which case it's less likely the consumer will be "harmed."
What Verizon Is Doing: In order to give these marketers this information it is possible Verizon is doing what is called "deep packet inspection." Meaning it giving up more information than we might like. Calo explains it like this: "Verizon has no business figuring out what I'm saying. They need to be able to connect me to Gmail but they don't need to read my communications," he said.
Does It Pass the Privacy Test: If Verizon is indeed doing that deep packet inspection, it could be violate the Wiretap act, says Calo. But, Ryan Radia, associate director of technology studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute think tank told McCullagh that he thinks the opt-out exonerates Verizon.
*This post originally stated McCullaugh spoke with Paul Ohm. Rather, he was referencing an article he wrote, before he started working at the FTC.


My inspiration was Mixed media Canvas by NATALIE MAY at Happydaks.
Detail of chipboard scroll by Maya Road and brushes.
Some of the supplies and tools I used were: Prima – Finnabair – Vintage Vanity Collection – Clear Acrylic Stamps – Music Notes, Crack/Rock Texture wood mounted rubber stamp by All Night Media, Memories™ Mists Merlot, pink lemonade and blueberry shake, Perfect pearls mist-perfect pearl and Heirloom gold, stencils/masks, a craft-knife, Modge Podge mat by Plaid, alphabet stencil, foam brush, paintbrushes, mounting squares, ink-pad, eye-shadow applicators, light-blue Pearlescent paint by Color Factory, used credit card, wire, Ultimate tag kit 5 from Around the block, book it biggest board by Fancy Pants, wooden alphabet by Craft Medley, brad, card-stock, chipboard, Acrylic paint, fibers, buttons, hot glue, glue-gun, emery board, embroidery cloth, tags, newspapers, chipboard scroll by Maya Road, etc.
Cosmos painted by my mother.
My mother was a self-taught artist, she painted under the name Mirra. I am fortunate to have a few of my mother's paintings and photos of most.
Plastic embroidery mesh used as a mask.
A paper doily and an empty transparent pop dots.
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Award-winning architect and interior design practice gpad london ltd has completed Stylus, a high-end office redevelopment in the St. Luke's Conservation Area in Old Street. Dating from 1886, the façade is the only original feature retained. The 37,000 sq. ft. of new floorspace responds to demand for contemporary office space in Silicon roundabout.
Echoing the building's origins as a Victorian gramophone factory, the entrance includes 'The Dream Machine', a custom-made, steampunk-inspired reception desk. Designed alongside Mamou-Mani Architects, it consists of 3D-printed glowing flutes attached to the salvaged goods lift motor.
The entrance and lower floors create a sense of space and set the tone for the rest of the building, which remains sympathetic to its industrial past. Exposed services and black steel beams throughout act as a nod to the building's history, while the otherwise neat, contemporary style caters for the tech and media companies which are highly concentrated in the area and require flexible working space. Terrazzo floors flow seamlessly throughout the building creating a unified, elegant look.
Large areas of glazing maximise the amount of daylight flowing into the interior. On the west elevation, powder-coated Crittal-style windows emulate the original fixtures. Brick was used as a key material to respect the surroundings and the 19th century façade. Protruding patterns and a mixture of different colour bricks add detail and texture.
Maximising the floorspace was key and Stylus now comprises of six floors of column free B1 office space. A new fourth floor includes a green roof with views over the vibrant area. Living walls both on the basement floor courtyard and roof terrace create a link to the large amount of green spaces within close proximity and make for pleasant breakout spaces for office workers. Improved amenities in the basement include cycle storage, lockers, showers and changing facilities, provided in line with BCO and council requirements.
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After the Virginia Tech massacre
America's tragedy
Its politicians are still running away from a debate about guns
LeadersApr 21st 2007 edition
IN THE aftermath of the massacre at Virginia Tech university on April 16th, as the nation mourned a fresh springtime crop of young lives cut short by a psychopath's bullets, President George Bush and those vying for his job offered their prayers and condolences. They spoke eloquently of their shock and sadness and horror at the tragedy (see article). The Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives called for a "moment of silence". Only two candidates said anything about guns, and that was to support the right to have them.
Cho Seung-hui does not stand for America's students, any more than Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris did when they slaughtered 13 of their fellow high-school students at Columbine in 1999. Such disturbed people exist in every society. The difference, as everyone knows but no one in authority was saying this week, is that in America such individuals have easy access to weapons of terrible destructive power. Cho killed his victims with two guns, one of them a Glock 9mm semi-automatic pistol, a rapid-fire weapon that is available only to police in virtually every other country, but which can legally be bought over the counter in thousands of gun-shops in America. There are estimated to be some 240m guns in America, considerably more than there are adults, and around a third of them are handguns, easy to conceal and use. Had powerful guns not been available to him, the deranged Cho would have killed fewer people, and perhaps none at all.
But the tragedies of Virginia Tech—and Columbine, and Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, where five girls were shot at an Amish school last year—are not the full measure of the curse of guns. More bleakly terrible is America's annual harvest of gun deaths that are not mass murders: some 14,000 routine killings committed in 2005 with guns, to which must be added 16,000 suicides by firearm and 650 fatal accidents (2004 figures). Many of these, especially the suicides, would have happened anyway: but guns make them much easier. Since the killing of John Kennedy in 1963, more Americans have died by American gunfire than perished on foreign battlefields in the whole of the 20th century. In 2005 more than 400 children were murdered with guns.
The trigger and the damage done
The news is not uniformly bad: gun crime fell steadily throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. But it is still at dreadful levels, and it rose sharply again in 2005. Police report that in many cities it rose even faster in 2006. William Bratton, the police chief of Los Angeles (and formerly of New York), speaks of a "gathering storm of crime". Politicians on both sides, he says, have been "captured" by the vocal National Rifle Association (NRA). The silence over Virginia Tech shows he has a point.
The Democrats have been the most disappointing, because until recently they had been the party of gun control. In 1994 President Bill Clinton approved a bill banning assault weapons (covering semi-automatic rifles plus high-capacity magazines for handguns) and the year before that a bill imposing a requirement for background checks. But Democrats believe they paid a high price for their courage: losing the House of Representatives in 1994 shortly after the assault-weapons ban, and then losing the presidency in 2000. Had Al Gore held Arkansas or West Virginia or his own Tennessee, all strongly pro-gun, he would have won the election. These days, with hopes for a victory in 2008 dependent on the South and the mountain West, it is a brave Democrat who will talk about gun control. Some of them dismiss the very idea as "insensitive".
Mr Bush however, has done active damage. On his watch the assault-weapons ban was allowed to lapse in 2004. New laws make it much harder to trace illegal weapons and require the destruction after 24 hours of information gathered during checks of would-be gun-buyers. The administration has also reopened debate on the second amendment, which enshrines the right to bear arms. Last month an appeals court in Washington, DC, overturned the capital's prohibition on handguns, declaring that it violates the second amendment. The case will probably go to the newly conservative Supreme Court, which might end most state and local efforts at gun control.
Freedom yes, but which one?
No phrase is bandied around more in the gun debate than "freedom of the individual". When it comes to most dangerous products—be they drugs, cigarettes or fast cars—this newspaper advocates a more liberal approach than the American government does. But when it comes to handguns, automatic weapons and other things specifically designed to kill people, we believe control is necessary, not least because the failure to deal with such violent devices often means that other freedoms must be curtailed. Instead of a debate about guns, America is now having a debate about campus security.
Americans are in fact queasier about guns than the national debate might suggest. Only a third of households now have guns, down from 54% in 1977. In poll after poll a clear majority has supported tightening controls. Very few Americans support a complete ban, even of handguns—there are too many out there already, and many people reasonably feel that they need to be able to protect themselves. But much could still be done without really infringing that right.
The assault-weapons ban should be renewed, with its egregious loopholes removed. No civilian needs an AK-47 for a legitimate purpose, but you can buy one online for $379.99. Guns could be made much safer, with the mandatory fitting of child-proof locks. A system of registration for guns and gun-owners, as exists in all other rich countries, threatens no one but the criminal. Cooling-off periods, a much more open flow of intelligence, tighter rules on the trading of guns and a wider blacklist of those ineligible to buy them would all help.
Many of these things are being done by cities or states, and have worked fairly well. But jurisdictions with tough rules are undermined by neighbours with weak ones. Only an effort at the federal level will work. Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, has put together a coalition of no fewer than 180 mayors to fight for just that. Good luck to him.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline "America's tragedy"
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Review: The Heart of Betrayal by Mary E. Pearson
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Series: #2 in the Remnant Chronicles
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (Macmillan)
Source: ARC from the publisher
Rating: THIS IS FREAKIN' AWESOMEEEE
Intrigue abounds in this hotly anticipated sequel to The Kiss of Deception!
Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape. Desperate to save her life, Lia's erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komizar that she has the gift, and the Komizar's interest in Lia is greater than anyone could have foreseen.
Meanwhile, nothing is straightforward: there's Rafe, who lied to Lia, but has sacrificed his freedom to protect her; Kaden, who meant to assassinate her but has now saved her life; and the Vendans, whom Lia always believed to be barbarians. Now that she lives amongst them, however, she realizes that may be far from the truth. Wrestling with her upbringing, her gift, and her sense of self, Lia must make powerful choices that will affect her country... and her own destiny.
The thing about The Heart of Betrayal is that it's so totally different from The Kiss of Deception that is should feel like a mismatch, or jarring, but mostly, it feels awesome. TKoD was crack fantasy with fun ship wars and a snarky heroine and mystery galore, but THoB is the DEEP, GOOD, BLOODY, TWISTY, BRUTAL BAD ASS STUFF. It's so fun. It's full of girl power, and plotting, and lies upon lies which is basically the hallmark of this series. But basically, this book is made of crack and win and badassery and magic and lush writing and LIA. LIA. FOR. QUEEN.
Okay. Coherency. We can do this.
shut up Tyra
We left off at the end of TKoD with Lia and Rafe finally learning who the other was just as Kaden, Assassin of Venda, has brought them as prisoners to the harsh and unforgiving country of Venda to be put upon the mercy of the extra harsh and extra unforgiving Komizar. It will take all their smarts and manipulative powers (of which they both have MANY) to get out of it alive.
My fave parts of the book: LIALIALIA, Venda!!!. KOMIZAR!!!, Aster and Calantha, LIA, MY EMOTIONS, world-building, THE PLOT IS ALWAYS THICKENING aka things can always get worse, finally understanding the real deal with Lia's gift and the magics and whatnot, the delicious foe-yay and ship fuckery, even though i don't really ship the ship(s) like burning but the betrayals galore and hearts getting metaphorically stabbed is always my thing. I'd say my only complaints are how incredibly and rather unrelentingly earnest the prose is, though it's fucking epic and completely gorgeous and so visual.
Sometimes Pearson's descriptions were so good that I marked the page so I could write them down later. Also, the slowness. This is a lush, settle-in-and-buckle-up sort of book, with a serious page count and a heaping of details weighted against a plot that's always moving and danger that is ever-present.
Also, the romance. Yeah, I'm on board. I'm totally rooting for them, and they're cute, but both boys are a liiiiiitle flat for me to truly ship them like BURNING (though we get excellent backstory and some nice development from them both in this one, particularly Kaden). It's also kind of hilarious how the boys in their POV chapters are all "LIA LIA BBY ONE TRUE LOVE PRETTIEST LOVELIEST FIERCEST LIA I WILL SAVE U" and in her chapters Lia is like "literally when can I stab a Vendan fucker and get me out of here". Also bad ass ladies Calantha and Aster, even though Aster is like twelve and adorbs but still LAYDEEZ
Lia, of course, is a boss. A boss. A sassy, whip-smart boss of a princess and I want to be her when I grow up.
No seriously shut up Tyra
She refuses to be a pawn in this game of kingdoms, refuses to be a chip in a game played by men and kings, and holy shit, is she something to behold in this. She's in a brutal situation--forced to play a part by the Komizar, a prisoner, and entirely powerless--but the way she manages to spin things to her advantage and wrest power when she has none is glorious. She's sort of like Venda, a country I LOVED getting to know. Venda has terrible soil and no food and shitty windows and is basically hell on earth, but it's people are hardy, and they always make something from nothing. Seeing Lia bond with Venda, despite the Komizar, despite the fact that its the barbarian enemy, is beautiful.
THEN THERE'S THE KOMIZAR. Oh man. i don't want to say much about him, but I fucking loved him. Shades of Darkling, but a little wilder. He wears his ruthlessness for all to see, but there's hope in him. Or is there? I DON'T KNOW YOU'LL HAVE TO READ AND FIND OUT.
I devoured this book. I loved it hardcore. TKoD was a fun read, but THoB is frickin' phenomenal. THE ENDING is INSANE and that last hundred pages are like falling downhill and Bellamy Blake in a hand basket that ending and what and GAH and need the third one. Need it so. Freaking. Desperately. I have theories about things to come, but I truly have no idea how our heroes are going to make it out of this one. BUT I HAVE TO KNOW. BUT JUST. THIS BOOK. I CAN'T. IT ALL. GAH.
Notable quotables (taken from an ARC):
Now I understood why Sven preferred soldiering to love. It was far easier to understand and far less likely to get you killed.
I'd give him his [spoiler], but that didn't mean I couldn't turn some fraction of this moment to my advantage, and fractions of moments after that, until they added up to something whole and fiercesome, because with my last dying breath, I would make him regret the day he ever laid eyes on me.
"Which do you desire more? Me or the fervor of your people? Make your choice now, because I promise you--you can't have both."
"I'm sorry. Truly. But life is hard. Pull your Vendan head out of your ass and get used to it."
There are no rules when it comes to survival, I reminded myself. But I wished there were. The betrayals seemed never to end.
"I don't play games, Kaden. I wage wars. Don't make me wage one on you."
"Though some might seek to make it appear otherwise, I am not a bride to be bartered away to another kingdom, nor a prize of war, nor a mouthpiece for your Komizar. I am not a chip in a card game to be mindlessly tossed into the center of the pot, nor one to be kept in the tight fist of a greedy opponent. I am a player seated at the table alongside everyone else, and from this day forward, I will play my own hand as I see fit."
#TeamLia
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OMG TYRA GIFS. I am so ready.
I am with you on the ships and I'm kind of on ships but then totally willing to abandon them and mostly just I'm going wherever Lia is going. The boys are a wee bit flat. They should work on sculpting their personality pecs. Or something.
It's also kind of hilarious how the boys in their POV chapters are all "LIA LIA BBY ONE TRUE LOVE PRETTIEST LOVELIEST FIERCEST LIA I WILL SAVE U" and in her chapters Lia is like "literally when can I stab a Vendan fucker and get me out of here". <- omg most accurate hilarious Lia you boss bitch
Yessssss the bonding with Venda feels. She was all ew they're savages and then oh hey learning and oh shit maybe my people fucking suck too.
"Bellamy Blake in a hand basket" brb craughing
ooo i only sort of liked the first book but you make me want to keep reading thank you!!
Holly July 20, 2015 at 8:23 PM
LIA FOR QUEEN. LIA FOR SAVIOR. LIA FOR PRESIDENT. #TeamLiaRulestheWorld She's one of the fiercest, most badass heroines I've read about in a book, and I loooove it. She was literally all: I am going to stab all these Vendans and no boys are getting in the way of that. It's the best. Lia's the best.
I do love the boys dearly, though I definitely want MORE development for them (they need to be more well-rounded, for sure). I don't really ship anyone. Like Lia loves who she loves, but I just love someone else, and well... Haha. But it's not about the love triangle. It's about Lia, and I love that she doesn't need the romance to make her strong. She's strong on her own and will literally do what she has to do to survive and save herself and the people she loves.
I loved TKOD a lot, but this one was 1000% better and stronger and more intense and oh my god how am I going to survive without the third book now? I'm scared, I'm nervous, I'm excited. I have theories and stuff but I don't wanna delve deep into them for my own sanity. This waiting for a year thing is going to be so long and hard.
#TeamLia forever and always. Also, your review is pure gold and I loved reading it. :)
Alexa S. July 21, 2015 at 5:10 PM
*stands up and applauds* I seriously agree about The Heart of Betrayal! I wasn't all that impressed with The Kiss of Deception, but HOB? It totally BLEW. ME. AWAY. I think it's just because I liked Lia even more in this one, because like you've said - she's a total boss. Everything - the world, the characters, the plot - just gets more interesting in this book, and I can't wait to see where Pearson takes us in the next and final installment.
Lyn Kaye July 26, 2015 at 12:11 AM
I am actually so happy to hear that the two books are different. I liked the first one, but the romance drug the whole thing down. I am so excited to get my hands on this beauty!!
Kay August 6, 2015 at 3:20 PM
IT'S SO FREAKING AWESOME! I want the next book now!!!
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