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Las zonas de exclusión aérea en Irak fueron un conjunto de dos zonas de exclusión aérea separadas que fueron establecidas en Irak por Estados Unidos, el Reino Unido y Francia tras la Guerra del Golfo de 1991 para proteger las operaciones humanitarias a la población kurda en el norte y a los musulmanes chiitas en el sur. Las aeronaves iraquíes tenían prohibido volar dentro de las zonas de exclusión. La vigilancia fue realizada por patrullas de aeronaves estadounidenses, británicas y francesas hasta la retirada de Francia en 1998.

Aunque las potencias que las aplicaban operaciones citaron la Resolución 688 del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU como autorización de las mismas, la resolución no contiene una autorización explícita. El secretario general de la ONU en el momento en que la resolución fue aprobada, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, calificó las zonas de exclusión aérea de 'ilegales' en una entrevista posterior con John Pilger.

Operaciones específicas

 Operación Proporcionar Confort
 Operación Zorro del Desierto
 Operación Foco del Sur
 Operación Vigilancia del Norte
 Operación Vigilancia del Sur

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Enlaces externos

Texto completo de la Resolución 688 (en inglés)
Operación Northern Watch (en inglés)
Operación Southern Watch (en inglés)
Artículo de Robert Dryfus sobre la ilegalidad de las zonas de exclusión aérea (en inglés)
 La ilegalidad de las zonas de exclusión aérea (en inglés)
 Zonas de exclusión aérea: La posición legal (en inglés)

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Can you "return" love? What about your heart? Dallas Woodburn's wonderful piece, "Receiptless," explores what happens when heartbreak comes alive. We can't wait to read her work at A New Horizon, our April 11 show at Cafe Stritch .
Dallas Woodburn
The year we launched Play On Words, Dallas was a Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. She has published work in Zyzzyva, The Nashville Review, and The Los Angeles Times, among many others, and her plays have been produced in Los Angeles, South Lake Tahoe, and New York City. Her debut short story collection Woman, Running Late, in a Dress won the 2018 Cypress & Pine Short Fiction Award and was recently published by Yellow Flag Press. Dallas is the founder of Write On! Books, an organization that empowers youth through reading and writing endeavors. Awards include the WordWave Playwriting Contest, the international Glass Woman Prize, and a second place American Fiction Prize. She blogs weekly at daybydaymasterpiece.com.
We are delighted to perform her piece, "Receiptless," next Wednesday, April 11, 7 pm at San Jose's Cafe Stritch.
I love the idea of collaborating with other artists and bringing new life to the written word onstage!
I was incredibly moved when I watched the performance by Laurel Brittan of Arcadia Conrad's piece "308 on 308" on your blog. Gave me goosebumps!
Name a book or performance that fundamentally affected you.
I was fortunate enough to attend a reading by Maya Angelou and her profound grace and wisdom swept through the large auditorium – everyone was stilled, hushed. Her presence was magnetic and intimate and beautiful.
I also loved a performance I attended in London of the play Woman in Black, which illustrated the amazing power of words to hold us spellbound in our imaginations. The entire play is presented as a story that is being told to the audience, with a very minimalist set design, and yet your brain fills in all the details and you feel wholly transported into the story.
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NHL 2K9 Xbox 360 Demo Skates onto Live Marketplace
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The free demo for NHL 2K9 is now live on Xbox Live Marketplace, 2K Sports announced today. The demo will only appear on Xbox 360; 2K Sports is not making one available for the PS3.
In the NHL 2K9 demo, fans can test out the control scheme, which has been simplified this year, while playing one three-minute period featuring last season's Stanley Cup participants, the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings.
Both teams are playable in the demo, with the game taking place at Joe Louis Arena, in Detroit.
The full retail version of NHL 2K9 includes a few other non-control tweaks this year, but none of them are testable in the demo. Among those changes are a Zamboni mini-game, playoff beards, a revamped fighting engine and an improved franchise mode.
NHL 2K9 will ship on September 9 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii and PS2.
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HSH Expansion
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Plans have been submitted for a £15m development which will create up to 50 jobs at the leading business park on the south bank of the Humber, in the UK. When completed, the state-of-the art facility at Europarc business park will increase HSH Coldstores' capacity in Grimsby by over 30,000 pallet positions.
The development is expected to create jobs across numerous roles including multi-skilled coldstore operatives, stock office administrators and LGV drivers.
Anthony Howard, Managing Director of HSH Coldstores, said: "This expansion is needed due to increasing demand for storage from existing and potential new customers. "I'm thrilled that we're expanding and planning our exciting new facility. Europarc is the perfect location, with its fantastic road links and other food–based businesses on site. "We're really proud to be working in partnership with Wykeland to invest in the local community and boost the economy. "It's fantastic we're in a position to expand in the current climate, but it's only possible because of the hard work and dedication of our whole team."
HSH Coldstores has more than 50 years of experience in the storage and distribution sector. Earlier this year it joined the Constellation Cold Logistics platform, a network of market-leading cold storage and logistics businesses across Europe. HSH's sister company, SAL Commercials, coordinates the transport element of the business and operates more than 40 refrigerated vehicles across the four existing sites, collectively travelling more than two million miles for customers annually.
The new facility will achieve a BREEAM "very good" rating for sustainability and will incorporate extensive solar panels to generate a portion of energy needs. Subject to planning consent, HSH Coldstores is aiming for it to be operational in the first quarter of 2022.
See HSH's website for further details: https://www.hshcoldstores.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/HSH-Holdings-Press-Release-Europarc-12-May-2021.pdf


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A: Why do you use gem for that? You can grab highcharts files directly from http://www.highcharts.com/

A: I was able to place the require statement in a folder and file specifically made for the controllers that would use the highcharts scripts.  I added javascript_include tags to reference the script files.

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The limitations of Windows 7 on netbooks
business, tech in changing society / By Scott Granneman / 7 June 2009 7 June 2009
From Farhad Manjoo's "I, for One, Welcome Our New Android Overlords" (Slate: 5 June 2008):
Microsoft promises that Windows 7 will be able to run on netbooks, but it has announced a risky strategy to squeeze profits from these machines. The company plans to cripple the cheapest versions of the new OS in order to encourage PC makers to pay for premium editions. If you buy a netbook that comes with the low-priced Windows 7 Starter Edition, you won't be able to change your screen's background or window colors, you won't be able to play DVDs, you can't connect it to another monitor, and you won't see many of the user-interface advances found in other versions. If you'd like more flexibility, you'll need to upgrade to a more expensive version of Windows—which will, of course, defeat the purpose of your cheap PC. (Microsoft had originally planned to limit Starter Edition even further—you wouldn't be able to run more than three programs at a time. It removed that limitation after howls of protest.)
A better alternative to text CAPTCHAs
business, science, security, technology / By Scott Granneman / 19 May 2009 19 May 2009
From Rich Gossweiler, Maryam Kamvar, & Shumeet Baluja's "What's Up CAPTCHA?: A CAPTCHA Based On Image Orientation" (Google: 20-24 April 2009):
There are several classes of images which can be successfully oriented by computers. Some objects, such as faces, cars, pedestrians, sky, grass etc.
Many images, however, are difficult for computers to orient. For example, indoor scenes have variations in lighting sources, and abstract and close-up images provide the greatest challenge to both computers and people, often because no clear anchor points or lighting sources exist.
The average performance on outdoor photographs, architecture photographs and typical tourist type photographs was significantly higher than the performance on abstract photographs, close-ups and backgrounds. When an analysis of the features used to make the discriminations was done, it was found that the edge features play a significant role.
It is important not to simply select random images for this task. There are many cues which can quickly reveal the upright orientation of an image to automated systems; these images must be filtered out. For example, if typical vacation or snapshot photos are used, automated rotation accuracies can be in the 90% range. The existence of any of the cues in the presented images will severely limit the effectiveness of the approach. Three common cues are listed below:
1. Text: Usually the predominant orientation of text in an image reveals the upright orientation of an image.
2. Faces and People: Most photographs are taken with the face(s) / people upright in the image.
3. Blue skies, green grass, and beige sand: These are all revealing clues, and are present in many travel/tourist photographs found on the web. Extending this beyond color, in general, the sky often has few texture/edges in comparison to the ground. Additional cues found important in human tests include "grass", "trees", "cars", "water" and "clouds".
Second, due to sometimes warped objects, lack of shading and lighting cues, and often unrealistic colors, cartoons also make ideal candidates. … Finally, although we did not alter the content of the image, it may be possible to simply alter the color- mapping, overall lighting curves, and hue/saturation levels to reveal images that appear unnatural but remain recognizable to people.
To normalize the shape and size of the images, we scaled each image to a 180×180 pixel square and we then applied a circular mask to remove the image corners.
We have created a system that has sufficiently high human- success rates and sufficiently low computer-success rates. When using three images, the rotational CAPTCHA system results in an 84% human success metric, and a .009% bot-success metric (assuming random guessing). These metrics are based on two variables: the number of images we require a user to rotate and the size of the acceptable error window (the degrees from upright which we still consider to be upright). Predictably, as the number of images shown becomes greater, the probability of correctly solving them decreases. However, as the error window increases, the probability of correctly solving them increases. The system which results in an 84% human success rate and .009% bot success rate asks the user to rotate three images, each within 16° of upright (8-degrees on either side of upright).
A CAPTCHA system which displayed ≥ 3 images with a ≤ 16-degree error window would achieve a guess success rate of less than 1 in 10,000, a standard acceptable computer success rates for CAPTCHAs.
In our experiments, users moved a slider to rotate the image to its upright position. On small display devices such as a mobile phone, they could directly manipulate the image using a touch screen, as seen in Figure 12, or can rotate it via button presses.
Extreme male brains
business, education, science / By Scott Granneman / 28 April 2009 28 April 2009
From Joe Clark's "The extreme Google brain" (Fawny: 26 April 2009):
… Susan Pinker's The Sexual Paradox, which explains, using scientific findings, why large majorities of girls and women behave almost identically at different stages of their lives – while large minorities of boys and men show vast variability compared to each other and to male norms.
Some of these boys and men exhibit extreme-male-brain tendencies, including an ability to focus obsessively for long periods of time, often on inanimate objects or abstractions (hence male domination of engineering and high-end law). Paradoxically, other male brains in these exceptional cases may have an ability to experiment with many options for short periods each. Pejoratively diagnosed as attention-deficit disorder, Pinker provides evidence this latter ability is actually a strength for some entrepreneurs.
The male brain, extreme or not, is compatible with visual design. It allows you to learn every font in the Letraset catalogue and work from a grid. In fact, the male-brain capacity for years-long single-mindedness explains why the heads of large ad agencies and design houses are overwhelmingly male. (It isn't a sexist conspiracy.)
In the computer industry, extreme male brains permit years of concentration on hardware and software design, while also iterating those designs seemingly ad infinitum. The extreme male brain is really the extreme Google brain. It's somewhat of a misnomer, because such is actually the average brain inside the company, but I will use that as a neologism.
Google was founded by extreme-male-brain nerds and, by all outward appearances, seems to hire only that type of person, not all of them male.
More on Google's server farms
business, science, technology / By Scott Granneman / 5 April 2009 5 April 2009
From Joel Hruska's "The Beast unveiled: inside a Google server" (Ars Technica: 2 April 2009):
Each Google server is hooked to an independent 12V battery to keep the units running in the event of a power outage. Data centers themselves are built and housed in shipping containers (we've seen Sun pushing this trend as well), a practice that went into effect after the brownouts of 2005. Each container holds a total of 1,160 servers and can theoretically draw up to 250kW. Those numbers might seem a bit high for a data center optimized for energy efficiency—it breaks down to around 216W per system—but there are added cooling costs to be considered in any type of server deployment. These sorts of units were built for parking under trees (or at sea, per Google's patent application).
By using individual batteries hooked to each server (instead of a UPS), the company is able to use the available energy much more efficiently (99.9 percent efficiency vs. 92-95 percent efficiency for a typical battery) and the rack-mounted servers are 2U with 8 DIMM slots. Ironically, for a company talking about power efficiency, the server box in question is scarcely a power sipper. The GA-9IVDP is a custom-built motherboard—I couldn't find any information about it in Gigabyte's website—but online research and a scan of Gigabyte's similarly named products implies that this is a Socket 604 dual-Xeon board running dual Nocono (Prescott) P4 processors.
Google's server farm revealed
business, tech in changing society, technology / By Scott Granneman / 5 April 2009 5 April 2009
From Nicholas Carr's "Google lifts its skirts" (Rough Type: 2 April 2009):
I was particularly surprised to learn that Google rented all its data-center space until 2005, when it built its first center. That implies that The Dalles, Oregon, plant (shown in the photo above) was the company's first official data smelter. Each of Google's containers holds 1,160 servers, and the facility's original server building had 45 containers, which means that it probably was running a total of around 52,000 servers. Since The Dalles plant has three server buildings, that means – and here I'm drawing a speculative conclusion – that it might be running around 150,000 servers altogether.
Here are some more details, from Rich Miller's report:
The Google facility features a "container hanger" filled with 45 containers, with some housed on a second-story balcony. Each shipping container can hold up to 1,160 servers, and uses 250 kilowatts of power, giving the container a power density of more than 780 watts per square foot. Google's design allows the containers to operate at a temperature of 81 degrees in the hot aisle. Those specs are seen in some advanced designs today, but were rare indeed in 2005 when the facility was built.
Google's design focused on "power above, water below," according to [Jimmy] Clidaras, and the racks are actually suspended from the ceiling of the container. The below-floor cooling is pumped into the hot aisle through a raised floor, passes through the racks and is returned via a plenum behind the racks. The cooling fans are variable speed and tightly managed, allowing the fans to run at the lowest speed required to cool the rack at that moment …
[Urs] Holzle said today that Google opted for containers from the start, beginning its prototype work in 2003. At the time, Google housed all of its servers in third-party data centers. "Once we saw that the commercial data center market was going to dry up, it was a natural step to ask whether we should build one," said Holzle.
My new book – Google Apps Deciphered – is out!
business, education, history, personal, social software, tech help, tech in changing society, technology / By Scott Granneman / 5 February 2009 5 February 2009
I'm really proud to announce that my 5th book is now out & available for purchase: Google Apps Deciphered: Compute in the Cloud to Streamline Your Desktop. My other books include:
Don't Click on the Blue E!: Switching to Firefox
Hacking Knoppix
Linux Phrasebook
Podcasting with Audacity: Creating a Podcast With Free Audio Software
(I've also contributed to two others: Ubuntu Hacks: Tips & Tools for Exploring, Using, and Tuning Linux and Microsoft Vista for IT Security Professionals.)
Google Apps Deciphered is a guide to setting up Google Apps, migrating to it, customizing it, and using it to improve productivity, communications, and collaboration. I walk you through each leading component of Google Apps individually, and then show my readers exactly how to make them work together for you on the Web or by integrating them with your favorite desktop apps. I provide practical insights on Google Apps programs for email, calendaring, contacts, wikis, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, video, and even Google's new web browser Chrome. My aim was to collect together and present tips and tricks I've gained by using and setting up Google Apps for clients, family, and friends.
1: Choosing an Edition of Google Apps
2: Setting Up Google Apps
3: Migrating Email to Google Apps
4: Migrating Contacts to Google Apps
5: Migrating Calendars to Google Apps
6: Managing Google Apps Services
7: Setting Up Gmail
8: Things to Know About Using Gmail
9: Integrating Gmail with Other Software and Services
10: Integrating Google Contacts with Other Software and Services
11: Setting Up Google Calendar
12: Things to Know About Using Google Calendar
13: Integrating Google Calendar with Other Software and Services
14: Things to Know About Using Google Docs
15: Integrating Google Docs with Other Software and Services
16: Setting Up Google Sites
17: Things to Know About Using Google Sites
18: Things to Know About Using Google Talk
19: Things to Know About Using Start Page
20: Things to Know About Using Message Security and Recovery
21: Things to Know About Using Google Video
Appendix A: Backing Up Google Apps
Appendix B: Dealing with Multiple Accounts
Appendix C: Google Chrome: A Browser Built for Cloud Computing
If you want to know more about Google Apps and how to use it, then I know you'll enjoy and learn from Google Apps Deciphered. You can read about and buy the book at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Google-Apps-Deciphered-Compute-Streamline/dp/0137004702) for $26.39. If you have any questions or comments, don't hesitate to contact me at scott at granneman dot com.
A single medium, with a single search engine, & a single info source
business, education, social software, tech in changing society, technology / By Scott Granneman / 5 February 2009 5 February 2009
From Nicholas Carr's "All hail the information triumvirate!" (Rough Type: 22 January 2009):
Today, another year having passed, I did the searches [on Google] again. And guess what:
World War II: #1
Israel: #1
George Washington: #1
Genome: #1
Agriculture: #1
Herman Melville: #1
Internet: #1
Magna Carta: #1
Evolution: #1
Epilepsy: #1
Yes, it's a clean sweep for Wikipedia.
The first thing to be said is: Congratulations, Wikipedians. You rule. Seriously, it's a remarkable achievement. Who would have thought that a rag-tag band of anonymous volunteers could achieve what amounts to hegemony over the results of the most popular search engine, at least when it comes to searches for common topics.
The next thing to be said is: what we seem to have here is evidence of a fundamental failure of the Web as an information-delivery service. Three things have happened, in a blink of history's eye: (1) a single medium, the Web, has come to dominate the storage and supply of information, (2) a single search engine, Google, has come to dominate the navigation of that medium, and (3) a single information source, Wikipedia, has come to dominate the results served up by that search engine. Even if you adore the Web, Google, and Wikipedia – and I admit there's much to adore – you have to wonder if the transformation of the Net from a radically heterogeneous information source to a radically homogeneous one is a good thing. Is culture best served by an information triumvirate?
It's hard to imagine that Wikipedia articles are actually the very best source of information for all of the many thousands of topics on which they now appear as the top Google search result. What's much more likely is that the Web, through its links, and Google, through its search algorithms, have inadvertently set into motion a very strong feedback loop that amplifies popularity and, in the end, leads us all, lemminglike, down the same well-trod path – the path of least resistance. You might call this the triumph of the wisdom of the crowd. I would suggest that it would be more accurately described as the triumph of the wisdom of the mob. The former sounds benign; the latter, less so.
Many layers of cloud computing, or just one?
business, tech in changing society, technology / By Scott Granneman / 20 December 2008 20 December 2008
From Nicholas Carr's "Further musings on the network effect and the cloud" (Rough Type: 27 October 2008):
I think O'Reilly did a nice job of identifying the different layers of the cloud computing business – infrastructure, development platform, applications – and I think he's right that they'll have different economic and competitive characteristics. One thing we don't know yet, though, is whether those layers will in the long run exist as separate industry sectors or whether they'll collapse into a single supply model. In other words, will the infrastructure suppliers also come to dominate the supply of apps? Google and Microsoft are obviously trying to play across all three layers, while Amazon so far seems content to focus on the infrastructure business and Salesforce is expanding from the apps layer to the development platform layer. The degree to which the layers remain, or don't remain, discrete business sectors will play a huge role in determining the ultimate shape, economics, and degree of consolidation in cloud computing.
Let me end on a speculative note: There's one layer in the cloud that O'Reilly failed to mention, and that layer is actually on top of the application layer. It's what I'll call the device layer – encompassing all the various appliances people will use to tap the cloud – and it may ultimately come to be the most interesting layer. A hundred years ago, when Tesla, Westinghouse, Insull, and others were building the cloud of that time – the electric grid – companies viewed the effort in terms of the inputs to their business: in particular, the power they needed to run the machines that produced the goods they sold. But the real revolutionary aspect of the electric grid was not the way it changed business inputs – though that was indeed dramatic – but the way it changed business outputs. After the grid was built, we saw an avalanche of new products outfitted with electric cords, many of which were inconceivable before the grid's arrival. The real fortunes were made by those companies that thought most creatively about the devices that consumers would plug into the grid. Today, we're already seeing hints of the device layer – of the cloud as output rather than input. Look at the way, for instance, that the little old iPod has shaped the digital music cloud.
Preserve links after a website move with mod_rewrite
tech help / By Scott Granneman / 11 December 2008 11 December 2008
My blog was at http://www.granneman.com/blog, but I then moved it, after several years of living at its old address, to http://blog.granneman.com. I wanted to preserve all my links, however, so that someone going to http://www.granneman.com/blog/2008/04/20/after-a-stroke-he-can-write-but-cant-read/ would instead end up at http://blog.granneman.com/2008/04/20/after-a-stroke-he-can-write-but-cant-read/.
To do this, I edited the .htaccess file in http://www.granneman.com/blog to read as follows (For =LT=, substitute a < , and for =GT=, substitute a >):
=LT=IfModule mod_rewrite.c=GT=
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^granneman.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://blog.granneman.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.granneman.com$
=LT=/IfModule=GT=
Works perfectly.
An analysis of splogs: spam blogs
business, security, tech in changing society / By Scott Granneman / 21 November 2008 21 November 2008
From Charles C. Mann's "Spam + Blogs = Trouble" (Wired: September 2006):
Some 56 percent of active English-language blogs are spam, according to a study released in May by Tim Finin, a researcher at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and two of his students. "The blogosphere is growing fast," Finin says. "But the splogosphere is now growing faster."
A recent survey by Mitesh Vasa, a Virginia-based software engineer and splog researcher, found that in December 2005, Blogger was hosting more than 100,000 sploggers. (Many of these are likely pseudonyms for the same people.)
Some Title, the splog that commandeered my name, was created by Dan Goggins, the proud possessor of a 2005 master's degree in computer science from Brigham Young University. Working out of his home in a leafy subdivision in Springville, Utah, Goggins, his BYU friend and partner, John Jonas, and their handful of employees operate "a few thousand" splogs. "It's not that many," Goggins says modestly. "Some people have a lot of sites." Trolling the Net, I came across a PowerPoint presentation for a kind of spammers' conference that details some of the earnings of the Goggins-Jonas partnership. Between August and October of 2005, they made at least $71,136.89.
In addition to creating massive numbers of phony blogs, sploggers sometimes take over abandoned real blogs. More than 10 million of the 12.9 million profiles on Blogger surveyed by splog researcher Vasa in June were inactive, either because the bloggers had stopped blogging or because they never got started.
Not only do sploggers create fake blogs or take over abandoned ones, they use robo-software to flood real blogs with bogus comments that link back to the splog. ("Great post! For more on this subject, click here!") Statistics compiled by Akismet, a system put together by WordPress developer Mullenweg that tries to filter out blog spam, suggest that more than nine out of 10 comments in the blogosphere are spam.
Maryland researcher Finin and his students found that splogs produce about three-quarters of the pings from English-language blogs. Another way of saying this is that the legitimate blogosphere generates about 300,000 posts a day, but the splogosphere emits 900,000, inundating the ping servers.
Another giveaway: Both Some Title and the grave-robbing page it links to had Web addresses in the .info domain. Spammers flock to .info, which was created as an alternative to the crowded .com, because its domain names are cheaper – registrars often let people use them gratis for the first year – which is helpful for those, like sploggers, who buy Internet addresses in bulk. Splogs so commonly have .info addresses that many experts simply assume all blogs from that domain are fake.
Google PageRank explained
business, law, technology / By Scott Granneman / 20 November 2008 20 November 2008
From Danny Sullivan's "What Is Google PageRank? A Guide For Searchers & Webmasters" (Search Engine Land: 26 April 2007):
Let's start with what Google says. In a nutshell, it considers links to be like votes. In addition, it considers that some votes are more important than others. PageRank is Google's system of counting link votes and determining which pages are most important based on them. These scores are then used along with many other things to determine if a page will rank well in a search.
PageRank is only a score that represents the importance of a page, as Google estimates it (By the way, that estimate of importance is considered to be Google's opinion and protected in the US by the First Amendment. When Google was once sued over altering PageRank scores for some sites, a US court ruled: "PageRanks are opinions–opinions of the significance of particular Web sites as they correspond to a search query….the court concludes Google's PageRanks are entitled to full constitutional protection.)
Tim O'Reilly defines cloud computing
business, technology / By Scott Granneman / 31 October 2008 3 May 2009
From Tim O'Reilly's "Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing" (O'Reilly Radar: 26 October 2008):
Since "cloud" seems to mean a lot of different things, let me start with some definitions of what I see as three very distinct types of cloud computing:
1. Utility computing. Amazon's success in providing virtual machine instances, storage, and computation at pay-as-you-go utility pricing was the breakthrough in this category, and now everyone wants to play. Developers, not end-users, are the target of this kind of cloud computing.
This is the layer at which I don't presently see any strong network effect benefits (yet). Other than a rise in Amazon's commitment to the business, neither early adopter Smugmug nor any of its users get any benefit from the fact that thousands of other application developers have their work now hosted on AWS. If anything, they may be competing for the same resources.
That being said, to the extent that developers become committed to the platform, there is the possibility of the kind of developer ecosystem advantages that once accrued to Microsoft. More developers have the skills to build AWS applications, so more talent is available. But take note: Microsoft took charge of this developer ecosystem by building tools that both created a revenue stream for Microsoft and made developers more reliant on them. In addition, they built a deep — very deep — well of complex APIs that bound developers ever-tighter to their platform.
So far, most of the tools and higher level APIs for AWS are being developed by third-parties. In the offerings of companies like Heroku, Rightscale, and EngineYard (not based on AWS, but on their own hosting platform, while sharing the RoR approach to managing cloud infrastructure), we see the beginnings of one significant toolchain. And you can already see that many of these companies are building into their promise the idea of independence from any cloud infrastructure vendor.
In short, if Amazon intends to gain lock-in and true competitive advantage (other than the aforementioned advantage of being the low-cost provider), expect to see them roll out their own more advanced APIs and developer tools, or acquire promising startups building such tools. Alternatively, if current trends continue, I expect to see Amazon as a kind of foundation for a Linux-like aggregation of applications, tools and services not controlled by Amazon, rather than for a Microsoft Windows-like API and tools play. There will be many providers of commodity infrastructure, and a constellation of competing, but largely compatible, tools vendors. Given the momentum towards open source and cloud computing, this is a likely future.
2. Platform as a Service. One step up from pure utility computing are platforms like Google AppEngine and Salesforce's force.com, which hide machine instances behind higher-level APIs. Porting an application from one of these platforms to another is more like porting from Mac to Windows than from one Linux distribution to another.
The key question at this level remains: are there advantages to developers in one of these platforms from other developers being on the same platform? force.com seems to me to have some ecosystem benefits, which means that the more developers are there, the better it is for both Salesforce and other application developers. I don't see that with AppEngine. What's more, many of the applications being deployed there seem trivial compared to the substantial applications being deployed on the Amazon and force.com platforms. One question is whether that's because developers are afraid of Google, or because the APIs that Google has provided don't give enough control and ownership for serious applications. I'd love your thoughts on this subject.
3. Cloud-based end-user applications. Any web application is a cloud application in the sense that it resides in the cloud. Google, Amazon, Facebook, twitter, flickr, and virtually every other Web 2.0 application is a cloud application in this sense. However, it seems to me that people use the term "cloud" more specifically in describing web applications that were formerly delivered locally on a PC, like spreadsheets, word processing, databases, and even email. Thus even though they may reside on the same server farm, people tend to think of gmail or Google docs and spreadsheets as "cloud applications" in a way that they don't think of Google search or Google maps.
This common usage points up a meaningful difference: people tend to think differently about cloud applications when they host individual user data. The prospect of "my" data disappearing or being unavailable is far more alarming than, for example, the disappearance of a service that merely hosts an aggregated view of data that is available elsewhere (say Yahoo! search or Microsoft live maps.) And that, of course, points us squarely back into the center of the Web 2.0 proposition: that users add value to the application by their use of it. Take that away, and you're a step back in the direction of commodity computing.
Ideally, the user's data becomes more valuable because it is in the same space as other users' data. This is why a listing on craigslist or ebay is more powerful than a listing on an individual blog, why a listing on amazon is more powerful than a listing on Joe's bookstore, why a listing on the first results page of Google's search engine, or an ad placed into the Google ad auction, is more valuable than similar placement on Microsoft or Yahoo!. This is also why every social network is competing to build its own social graph rather than relying on a shared social graph utility.
This top level of cloud computing definitely has network effects. If I had to place a bet, it would be that the application-level developer ecosystems eventually work their way back down the stack towards the infrastructure level, and the two meet in the middle. In fact, you can argue that that's what force.com has already done, and thus represents the shape of things. It's a platform I have a strong feeling I (and anyone else interested in the evolution of the cloud platform) ought to be paying more attention to.
How technologies have changed politics, & how Obama uses tech
history, politics, technology / By Scott Granneman / 6 October 2008 6 October 2008
From Marc Ambinder's "HisSpace" (The Atlantic: June 2008):
Improvements to the printing press helped Andrew Jackson form and organize the Democratic Party, and he courted newspaper editors and publishers, some of whom became members of his Cabinet, with a zeal then unknown among political leaders. But the postal service, which was coming into its own as he reached for the presidency, was perhaps even more important to his election and public image. Jackson's exploits in the War of 1812 became well known thanks in large measure to the distribution network that the postal service had created, and his 1828 campaign—among the first to distribute biographical pamphlets by mail—reinforced his heroic image. As president, he turned the office of postmaster into a patronage position, expanded the postal network further—the historian Richard John has pointed out that by the middle of Jackson's first term, there were 2,000 more postal workers in America than soldiers in the Army—and used it to keep his populist base rallied behind him.
Abraham Lincoln became a national celebrity, according to the historian Allen Guelzo's new book, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America, when transcripts of those debates were reprinted nationwide in newspapers, which were just then reaching critical mass in distribution beyond the few Eastern cities where they had previously flourished. Newspapers enabled Lincoln, an odd-looking man with a reed-thin voice, to become a viable national candidate …
Franklin Delano Roosevelt used radio to make his case for a dramatic redefinition of government itself, quickly mastering the informal tone best suited to the medium. In his fireside chats, Roosevelt reached directly into American living rooms at pivotal moments of his presidency. His talks—which by turns soothed, educated, and pressed for change—held the New Deal together.
And of course John F. Kennedy famously rode into the White House thanks in part to the first televised presidential debate in U.S. history, in which his keen sense of the medium's visual impact, plus a little makeup, enabled him to fashion the look of a winner (especially when compared with a pale and haggard Richard Nixon). Kennedy used TV primarily to create and maintain his public image, not as a governing tool, but he understood its strengths and limitations before his peers did …
[Obama's] speeches play well on YouTube, which allows for more than the five-second sound bites that have characterized the television era. And he recognizes the importance of transparency and consistency at a time when access to everything a politician has ever said is at the fingertips of every voter. But as Joshua Green notes in the preceding pages, Obama has truly set himself apart by his campaign's use of the Internet to organize support. No other candidate in this or any other election has ever built a support network like Obama's. The campaign's 8,000 Web-based affinity groups, 750,000 active volunteers, and 1,276,000 donors have provided him with an enormous financial and organizational advantage in the Democratic primary.
What Obama seems to promise is, at its outer limits, a participatory democracy in which the opportunities for participation have been radically expanded. He proposes creating a public, Google-like database of every federal dollar spent. He aims to post every piece of non-emergency legislation online for five days before he signs it so that Americans can comment. A White House blog—also with comments—would be a near certainty. Overseeing this new apparatus would be a chief technology officer.
There is some precedent for Obama's vision. The British government has already used the Web to try to increase interaction with its citizenry, to limited effect. In November 2006, it established a Web site for citizens seeking redress from their government, http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/. More than 29,000 petitions have since been submitted, and about 9.5 percent of Britons have signed at least one of them. The petitions range from the class-conscious ("Order a independent report to identify reasons that the living conditions of working class people are poor in relation to higher classes") to the parochial ("We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to re-open sunderland ice rink").
I for one welcome our new OS overlords: Google Chrome
business, technology / By Scott Granneman / 2 September 2008 2 September 2008
As some of you may have heard, Google has announced its own web browser, Chrome. It's releasing the Windows version today, with Mac & Linux versions to follow.
To educate people about the new browser & its goals, they release a 38 pg comic book drawn by the brilliant Scott McCloud. It's a really good read, but it gets a bit technical at times. However, someone did a "Reader's Digest" version, which you can read here:
http://technologizer.com/2008/09/01/google-chrome-comic-the-readers-digest-version
I highly encourage you to read it. This browser is doing some very interesting, smart things. And it's open source, so other browsers can use its code & ideas.
If you want to read the full comic, you can do so here:
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
BTW … I don't think Chrome has the potential of becoming the next big browser; I think instead it has the potential to become the next big operating system. See http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/meet-chrome-googles-windows-killer/ for more on that.
Synchronizing Outlook & Google Apps
tech help, technology / By Scott Granneman / 25 July 2008 25 July 2008
http://www.plaxo.com
(web-based)
OggSync
http://oggsync.com
ScheduleWorld
http://www.scheduleworld.com
iCal4OL
http://ical.gutentag.ch
Google Calendar Sync
https://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=89955
How Google motivates employees
business, language & literature, technology / By Scott Granneman / 20 April 2008 20 April 2008
From Larry Page's "How to Motivate Your Staff" (Business 2.0: December 2003: 90):
We wrote a program that asks every engineer what they did every week. It sends them e-mail on Monday, and concatenates the e-mails together in a document that everyone can read. And it then sends that out to everyone and shames those who did not answer by putting them on the top of the list. It has run reliably every week since we started, so for every week of our company's history we have a record of what everyone did. It's good for performance reviews, and if you're joining a project team, in five minutes you can read what your team members did the last few weeks or months.
Great, wonderfully-designed consumer products
business, cool stuff, technology / By Scott Granneman / 23 October 2006 23 October 2006
From Farhad Manjoo's "iPod: I love you, you're perfect, now change" (Salon: 23 October 2006):
There are very few consumer products about which you'd want to read a whole book — the Google search engine, the first Mac, the Sony Walkman, the VW Beetle. Levy proves that the iPod, which turns five years old today, belongs to that club.


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Copestylum melleum är en tvåvingeart som först beskrevs av Jannicke 1867.  Copestylum melleum ingår i släktet Copestylum och familjen blomflugor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Blomflugor
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Head of the Redeemer is a 33×22 cm oil on panel painting of the head of Christ by Giovanni Bellini, dating to 1500–1502 and now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. It is a fragment of a larger scene of the Transfiguration; another fragment from the same work bears a scroll with the signature IOANNES BELLINUS ME PINXIT ("Giovanni Bellini painted me").

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Q: Drupal field of type "Node Reference" filtered by custom field I have created a content type named Contact.
I want to make one of the fields, Relation, in this type reference a node of the same type.
So I have created a field of type Node Reference. This gives me a field which is auto-completed by the title of the type. What I would like is to auto-complete by the first name and/or last name.
I created a view for the contacts, in which I added the filters for Last Name and First Name, and in the preview it does what I want.
However, how do I use it in my field to achieve what I want?
Thanks in advance,
Yusuf

A: Are you using the node title for something specific? If not, you could try a module like http://drupal.org/project/auto_nodetitle which can hide the title and automatically fill it based on a pattern.


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Civil Asset Forfeiture — Legalized Theft or Necessary Law Enforcement Tool?
By Heather Trela
In July 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Justice Department would allow federal agency forfeiture, also known as "federal adoptions" of assets seized by state and local law enforcement agencies. The practice, an expansion of civil asset forfeiture, was curtailed by the Obama administration in 2015 by then-Attorney General Eric Holder. Though civil asset forfeiture is not necessarily well-known to the public, the practice is unpopular across the political spectrum.
Civil asset forfeiture allows law enforcement officers to seize assets that they suspect, by a "preponderance of the evidence," were involved in a crime. Unlike criminal forfeiture, where assets cannot be seized without a conviction, the person whose property is confiscated does not have to be convicted or even charged with a crime; the property, not the owner, is considered the defendant. Law enforcement is able to keep what is seized, or keeps the profits if assets are sold off. Once property is seized through civil asset forfeiture, the burden of proof is on the owner to prove its innocence by going to court. Unlike the more familiar judicial standard of innocent until proven guilty, assets seized though civil asset forfeiture are guilty until proven innocent. Civil asset forfeiture is big business; in 2014, the total annual dollar value of assets seized by federal law enforcement ($5 billion) surpassed total burglary losses ($3.5 billion).
Civil asset forfeiture has a long history, though the greatest increase in its practice coincides with the war on drugs of the 1980s. Proponents of civil asset forfeiture, such as Attorney General Sessions, argue that it "helps law enforcement defund organized crime, take back ill-gotten gains, and prevents new crimes from being committed, and it weakens the criminals and cartels."
Items such as illegal firearms and explosives that are taken through civil asset forfeiture are unable to be used in additional criminal activity. Civil asset forfeiture is also justified as providing material support to law enforcement, as proceeds from assets seized can be used by law enforcement to fund items like new vehicles, additional training, and bulletproof vests, making up for any budget shortfalls. Opponents to civil asset forfeiture argue that it is a violation of the constitutional right to due process and that by allowing law enforcement offices to financially benefit from the practice it creates an incentive to "police for profit." There are also concerns that many innocent people are swept up in civil asset forfeiture and that it is rife with abuses, including using the money seized for such nonessential items such as margarita machines, tickets to sporting events, election materials, and holiday parties.
Civil asset forfeiture has always been somewhat controversial and several states have passed legislation to put limitations on its practice. Three states — North Carolina, New Mexico, and Nebraska — have abolished civil forfeiture entirely. Fourteen states (including North Carolina, New Mexico, and Nebraska) require a criminal conviction for most or all forfeiture cases. Fifteen states (including North Carolina and New Mexico) and the District of Columbia require that the government bear the burden of proof for innocent-owner claims. Other states have passed regulations that require reporting of seizures and final dispositions to state government agencies or limiting/prohibiting proceeds to law enforcement.
The federal adoptions provision that the Department of Justice reinstated, however, provides a loophole for law enforcement to get around any restrictions on civil asset forfeiture in their state. Under federal adoptions, state and local agencies can circumvent state laws on civil asset forfeiture by partnering with a federal agency to seize property that is believed to violate federal law. Up to 80 percent of the proceeds from equitable sharing is then returned to the state or local agency. Through federal adoptions, state and local law enforcement agencies are able to use the potentially more lenient federal standard of proof ("preponderance of evidence") to seize assets that otherwise may be restricted by state statute. Marijuana dispensaries could be particularly vulnerable to being targeted through federal adoption, as the drug is classified as illegal by the federal government despite legalization in many states. The use of civil asset forfeiture and adoptive seizures, therefore, is not only an issue of civil liberties but also yet another federalism battle for the Trump administration
The Department of Justice directive to reinstate federal adoption of civil asset forfeitures may be prevented however. In September, the House of Representatives approved three amendments to a spending bill that would prohibit the Department's ability to use funds on implementing the order. In November, a bipartisan group of senators sent a letter to the Senate Rules and Administrative Committee chairman also urging the defunding of the implementation by the Department of Justice, because "Adoptive forfeiture and equitable sharing are particularly egregious elements of civil asset forfeiture because they not only violate due process but also attack principals [sic] of federalism."
It remains to be seen if such efforts will ultimately limit the Department of Justice's ability to expand the use of adoptive seizures, but it has created a rare opportunity for bipartisan agreement.
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Even if you have a disability plan through your employer that is regulated by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), you may not fully understand many facets of the law and your rights under your benefit plan. The following are some frequently asked questions about ERISA disability plans.
ERISA is a federal law that was enacted to protect the rights of private employees when they are offered certain benefits by their employer. While the law does not require employers to provide benefits, it does regulate employee rights if benefits are provided. ERISA regulates long-term disability insurance plans, as well as health care plans, life insurance policies, retirement plans, and more.
When Does ERISA Apply To My Disability Claim?
You purchased your policy through a professional association or outside of work.
What Rights Are Provided By ERISA?
To be free from retaliation for making a benefits claim.
These are only some of the many rights you have under ERISA. It is important to understand that ERISA also provides certain rights for your employer and for plans/plan administrators, as well. Therefore, the law does not always work completely in an employee's favor.
Can I Appeal a Denial of ERISA Benefits?
If you make a claim for long-term disability benefits under an ERISA plan and receive a denial or only receive partial benefits, you definitely have the right to appeal that denial. However, you must follow certain procedures to do so and the process can be tedious. First, you must appeal directly to the plan administrator. Your appeal can involve medical evidence of your disability and information from medical and occupational experts demonstrating that you cannot work. If you are not successful with the administrative appeal, you then have the right to file a legal claim with the court to try to appeal the decision.
It is only natural for you to have many questions about your rights under ERISA. This is a complex law with many requirements, though it can be very beneficial if you understand the rights it provides. At Michael Bartolic, LLC, our experienced ERISA attorneys can not only help you understand your rights in regard to your ERISA disability plan, but can also stand up for your interests if those rights are violated by your employer or plan administrator. Please call for more information at 312-635-1600 today.


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Il Copa Petrobras Argentina 2001 è stato un torneo di tennis facente parte della categoria ATP Challenger Series nell'ambito dell'ATP Challenger Series 2001. Il torneo si è giocato a Buenos Aires in Argentina dal 12 al 18 novembre 2001 su campi in terra rossa.

Vincitori

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 Agustín Calleri ha battuto in finale  David Nalbandian 3-6, 6-1, 6-3

Doppio

 Federico Browne /  Ignacio Hirigoyen hanno battuto in finale  Gastón Etlis /  Martin Rodriguez 6-4, 7-6(6)

Collegamenti esterni

ATP Challenger Tour 2001


Last month we heard radios across the country blare out the classic tune "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year". I think we were a little bit early on that. Because for any citrus lover out there, the most wonderful time of year is upon us. That's right. It's SUMO Citrus time. Time to get excited once again for the largest, sweetest, most flavorful mandarin eating experience you are going to have all year. Forget the Halos, put down the Cuties, and grab yourself some Sumos, maybe even a case or two.
Before I get into where to buy them this year, I wanted to share with you some information on this year's crop directly from the SUMO growers themselves. I talked with Guy Wollenman and he is very excited about this year's crop. The harvest has come early and the flavor is outstanding. Guy said it was the best he has ever tasted, even at this early stage. He also said his other varieties of citrus he grows are tasting really well too. This season hasn't come without it's challenges. They have had some below freezing temperatures, so they have had long nights running wind machines to protect the fruit. Good news – no damage to the Sumos. In fact, he believes the cold weather has actually improved the eating quality of the fruit as well as helping keep the fruit on the trees longer which extends their marketing season. Good news indeed!
Here is a reminder to everyone. They aren't going to arrive in every store at the same time. It takes time for them to be transported across the country. And since it's winter time there is also a chance that a winter storm is going to slow the process down. So be patient. Just because you didn't find them where you expected to yet, doesn't mean they won't get there.
Some other notes about this year's list. On national scale the best place to look for Sumos is your local Whole Foods Market. They have really embraced it. The Fresh Market as well. Some Kroger and Safeway stores may carry them but only specific store, not chain wide. I have never seen them in a Kroger in Michigan before. If you live in the eastern part of the country, Wegman's will probably be your best source for Sumos. Check with any of the smaller, specialized store and chains in your area.
If you want to buy them by the case I discovered H Mart is a great store for that. They are a wonderful Asian grocery chain with stores in California, Michigan (Troy), New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Illinois, and Texas. You can also request whole cases at Whole Foods Market and get a 10% case discount.
As I hear about them, I will list store locations in parentheses that have had confirmed Sumo sightings. If you find them at a store not in this list, let me in the comment section below and I will add it.
These are a couple recipes I came up with that utilize Sumo Citrus.
Where can I buy sumo mandarins in Sydney, Australia now?
No, they are not available to the public to buy.


This a low-budget, well-written, well-conceived well-acted thriller based on some clever manipulations of society. What would good people do under pressure and with no fear or reprisal? It's an interesting look at a social experience gone terribly wrong.
Sequel The Purge 2 is already in the works, after The Purge made approx $34 million opening weekend, on a budget of $3 million.
The Sandins are a rich family living in a gated community. This is a near future where the "new founding fathers" have given everyone a way to resolve their aggressive tendencies: once a year, for twelve hours, anything goes. The annual Purge.
The result is a weirdly polite society . . .
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An Osprey at Yakumo this afternoon, a nice end to a very very quiet week. There were at least 5 Ospreys around, presumably the parents and this year's fledgelings.
Not much else around here, a male Scaup, a few Goosander, a few Pacific Swift. At Shikabe later in the day it had gotten dark and cloudy, not ideal weather to take pic of the Green Pigeons.
Back in Hakodate I tried to find the Wrynecks from last week but nothing doing there. The odd Little Cuckoo, Common Cuckoo, Black Browed Reed Warbler and Chestnut Eared Bunting were still singing but I suspect next weekend will see not much singing at all.
Last week was birdless except for a Kingfisher on the river and the first young Grey Wagtail of the summer (they breed further upstream).
Terrific shots! I am still waiting to see an Osprey.
I'm also listening to the cricket, things seem to have steadied a bit, Broad's very confident - I just hope he doesn't get *too* confident...!
Well now I'm worried we've set India a gettable target, it's only about 4 an over.....................am I being unduly pessimistic?
Tendulkar didn't seem at his best, but the England bowlers bowled well to winkle the Indians out.
The dropped catches by Strauss and co. could have cost them dearly, though.
I wish my Osprey images were as nice and boring as yours! It's a great photo, and the sequence is really good too.
John-yes I thought those dropped catches and the dodgy decisions in the 2nd Indian innings may have cost us the game, but in the end they won quite easily, let's hope they can keep it up as I'm sure India won't be anywhere near as poor again.
Those pigeons look huge in flight Stu. Won easy in the end but I hope it doesn't go to their heads.
What great shots! I think we may get the better of India in this series!
I love the fishing sequence of the Osprey. You have been grumbling on how you haven't been able to capture this behaviour. So, are you happy now?
I'd be, if I were you.
I am having a lot of fun reading all the comments left by passionate Indian cricket supports in public fora.
England looks definitely set to wrest the No.1 Test spot from Indians. This series will turn out to be a long toil for them with all those injured and unfit.
Re Indian cricket fans on blogs, wow talk about one eyed jingoism, they make England soccer fans look like reasonable fair minded folk.
Those are the shots of Osprey that I wish for! Very terrific series!


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Steve Webb and Shirley Williams in New Year Honours list
I have very mixed feelings about seeing Liberal Democrat colleagues in honours lists. As with the knighthood for former MP and pensions maestro Steve Webb and the Companion of Honour for Shirley Williams it is great to see those who have contributed so much to improving the lives of others rewarded.
Tim Farron has rightly been critical of the many honours handed out to members of a very under-performing department, HMRC. Steve and Shirley do, by contrast, have positive contributions to our society and fellow citizens to justify being honoured.
And yet… compared to those who put their lives physically at risk every day in a public service, or those whose jobs involves quite remarkable extremes of physical or mental punishment to fulfilling their tasks, being a politician in the UK is – thankfully – for nearly everyone nearly all the time a pretty tame affair by comparison. It's also one where success for a frontline politician brings plenty of public acknowledgement already.
There are many other, mostly unknown, better recipients of a system designed to give public thanks on people for their achievements.
So congratulations to Steve and Shirley on their honours which mark achievements that deserve praise and thanks. But I hope they don't mind if I wonder who out there I haven't heard of who would have been even better recipients.
UPDATE: As pointed out on Facebook, long-time Liberal Democrat activist Tony Halmos has been awarded a BEM for his work outside politics – his work with the City of London and on the Magna Carta celebrations.
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Got Allergies? Check Your Digestion!
(The Best Years in Life) Recently, a red blinky light came on in my Tahoe. Pesky little thing, so I cut the wire. Ah, peace at last. The next day I heard a rattly sound in the engine and now it won't start.
Naw, just kidding about my Tahoe. I wanted to illustrate how people deal with their bodies, which are much more precious than any car.
See the drugs on the table? (We will deal with the flu shot and donut in a minute.) Allegra and Xyzal are for allergies.
Got allergies? Maybe your blinky light is telling you to check your digestion. When you are stressed, whether it's emotional, physical, or environmental, your adrenal glands increase cortisol. Cortisol is catabolic and will destroy the delicate lining of your digestive tract (Secretory IgA immunoglobulin), and soon you will have what is called "leaky gut." Undigested bits of food will enter your bloodstream which will trigger your white cells to attack. Bingo, allergies!


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James Figg (before 1700 – 8 December 1734; also spelt James Fig) was an English prizefighter and instructor in historical European martial arts. While Figg primarily fought with weapons including short swords, quarterstaffs, and cudgels, he also played an important role in boxing's development. In 1719, he opened a London fighting venue that could seat more than 1,000 spectators and was one of the first of its kind. In 1725, he organised and promoted modern history's first international boxing match at his amphitheatre. He claimed to have won more than 200 matches during his career, and was posthumously considered the first boxing champion.

Little is known about Figg's early life, except that he came to London from Thame, Oxfordshire. In London, Figg gained a reputation as a skilled fighter and set up a business training students in combat with weapons and fists. He promoted fights with both male and female combatants at his venue as well as bouts of animal blood sport. He also set up outdoor boxing booths and rings in fields, parks, and fairs around London. By the end of his career in the early 1730s, Figg had fought in front of European royalty, including George II and the future Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, as well as aristocrats, politicians, writers, artists, and actors, and was one of the better-known personages in London. Among depictions of Figg in art and literature, art historians most discuss him for his friendship with William Hogarth and his appearance in several of the artist's paintings and engravings.

Fighting career
James Figg was born in Thame, Oxfordshire, sometime before 1700, though various sources dispute the exact year. Little is certain about his early life before 1714, by which time he was a student of the defence instructor Timothy Buck of Clare Market.

In 1719, Figg opened an amphitheatre and fighting school in London adjoining the City of Oxford tavern in Oxford Road, Marylebone, where he taught bare-knuckle boxing, fencing, quarterstaff, and cudgel combat. While boxing had existed for decades, and a fenced enclosure existed in Hyde Park for practitioners of historical European martial arts, Figg appears to have been one of the first people to turn combat sport into a business. His venture was one of the earliest and most noted indoor fighting venues of its time. His students included early professional prizefighters such as William Flanders, William Gill, and Thomas Sibblis, as well as men of the gentry and nobility. Figg was also a fight promoter and hosted matches fought by both male and female combatants such as Thomas Allen, John Gretton, Bob Whitaker, and Elizabeth Wilkinson, as well as bouts of animal blood sport, including bear-baiting and tiger-baiting.

Though Figg posthumously gained a reputation as a boxing pioneer, he primarily fought with weapons such as short swords, quarterstaffs, and cudgels. The only known occasions on which Figg fought public boxing matches were at the Southwark Fair where he would fight fair-goers, though he also set up fighting booths and rings in fields and parks including Smithfield, Moorfields, St George's Fields, and Hyde Park. However, Figg played an important role in organising and promoting the first international boxing match in modern history. On 20 January 1725, Figg arranged a match between Venetian gondolier Alberto di Carni and English drover Bob Whitaker. George II watched the fight from a specially constructed royal box.

Figg fought semi-regular matches with recurring opponents, a common practice among prizefighters at the time. For example, he fought a man named Rowland Bennet on at least 23 occasions over the course of his career, and in 1730, Figg reportedly fought another man three times in two months. He also fought matches in which he and another weapons master would face off against another pair of fighters.

Figg's greatest rival appears to have been Edward Sutton, a tobacco pipe maker of Gravesend, against whom he fought a series of heavily publicised matches, including one in which Figg suffered his only recorded defeat, having taken a wound in the belly and being "cloven in the foot". In 1725, the poet John Byrom visited Figg's amphitheatre where he saw Figg fight Sutton. He reported: "Figg had a wound and bled pretty much; Sutton had a blow with a quarterstaff just upon his knee, which made him lame, so then they gave over". On 6 June 1727, Figg defeated Sutton at the former's amphitheatre before an audience of approximately 1,000 spectators, including Prime Minister Robert Walpole, Poet Laureate Colley Cibber, and satirist Jonathan Swift.

In October 1730, the Ipswich Journal reported: "the invincible Mr. James Figg fought at his Amphitheatre Mr. Holmes, an Irishman, who keeps an Inn at Yaul near Waterford in Ireland, and came into England on purpose to fight this English Champion". It was reported that during the bout, Holmes had his wrist cut to the bone and was therefore forced to retire. It was stated that this fight was the 271st contest Figg fought without defeat.

Later life and death
After 1730, Figg largely gave up serious fighting, though he fought exhibition matches with Jack Broughton. In December 1731, he also won a sword fight against John Sparks at the Little Theatre in Haymarket, which was attended by foreign dignitaries including the Duke of Lorraine and Count Kinsky.

In June 1731, Figg began teaching at new premises in Poland Street, and his student Thomas Sibblis took over the Oxford Road amphitheatre.

Figg died on 8 December 1734 and was buried in the churchyard of St Marylebone on 12 December. Little is known of his family except that his wife gave birth to a son the day after Figg's funeral. His former student George Taylor took over Figg's business after his death.

The Gentleman's Magazine of April 1735 published the following epigram:

Brave Figg is conquer'd, who had conquer'd all,
Yet death can boast but little by his fall,
For, half afraid, he threw a leaden dart,
And maim'd him, e'er he pierc'd his noble heart.
Th' undaunted hero, grimly, as he fell,
Look'd for his arms, and swore by heav'n and hell,
Death never should his conquest have secur'd
Had he fought fairly with a staff or sword.

Legacy
By the end of his career, Figg was a recognisable and famous person in London. Royalty, aristocrats, politicians, writers, artists, and actors attended his fights, and in autumn 1729, Figg was made gate-keeper to upper St James's Park by the Earl of Essex. He appeared in the writings of John Byrom, Henry Fielding, and Alexander Pope, and his portrait was sketched and painted by artists John Ellys and Jonathan Richardson.

Artist William Hogarth was also a friend and admirer of Figg, who appears in several of the former's paintings, including Southwark Fair, in which he brandishes a sword on horseback, and in The Levée, the second entry in the series A Rake's Progress, in which he stands third from the left holding quarterstaffs among the rake's tutors. Figg may also be the bald man lying on the floor in A Midnight Modern Conversation, though Hogarth captioned the picture: "Think not to find one meant resemblance there, we lash the Vices but the Persons spare". Hogarth's painting The Pugilist was long attributed as a portrait of Jack Broughton, but Hogarth scholar Elizabeth Einberg and boxing historian Tony Gee have both claimed that it is probably of Figg.

Figg was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Bare Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame in 2010. A blue plaque dedicated to him was unveiled at The James Figg Pub (formerly The Greyhound Inn), Cornmarket, Thame, on 14 April 2011.

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Notes and references

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External Sources
Section on James Figg in Boxiana, or Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism, Pierce Egan 1830

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1734 deaths
17th-century births
17th-century English people
18th-century English people
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Burials at St Marylebone Parish Church
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People from Thame
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Alex Iles to appear at TCU Jazz Festival
Renowned Los Angeles jazz trombonist Alex Iles will be the guest artist at the 34th annual TCU Jazz Festival, which debuts Friday, Director of Jazz Studies and Professor of Music Curt Wilson said.
Iles, who works as a musician and has performed with such names and acts as Joe Cocker, Hans Zimmer and Prince, said that when he plays at festivals like these he often makes some new friends while bumping into some old ones.
"It has a real familial feel to the whole thing, so it's really more of a celebration of the music than anything," he said.
Iles said he enjoys participating in school festivals because he gets to interact with so many different kinds of people.
"Festivals like this with a lot of school groups, you get to hear people who are in various stages of learning about the music," he said. "It's really exciting to get to hear people starting to play and discover this music for themselves."
Wilson said convincing Iles to come to TCU for the first time was not difficult. All he had to do, he said, was ask.
"We've performed with over 50 international jazz artists," Wilson said. "They're just like you and I. You pick up the phone, and if they're available, and the price is right, they'll do it."
Iles' main source of employment comes from recording for television and film, like the upcoming "Pirates" movie, he said. He considers himself to be a studio and freelance musician, but he would not necessarily characterize himself as a jazz musician, since he does not devote his life to it, he said.
"For me to think of myself as a jazz musician, I think, is an insult to real jazz musicians," he said.
For him, an audience teeming with teenagers means that they will be more receptive to his music.
"It's a great audience because the kids are really excited about the music and learning about it, and they're the ones that are going to keep it alive and share it with other people," he said.
Mostly, Iles said he just hopes everybody in the audience will be tapping their toes.
"Musically, we're going to play pretty straight-ahead swinging stuff," Iles said. "It's all very tied into the tradition of straight-ahead jazz and big band music."
Iles will perform with the TCU Faculty Jazz Combo, Jazz Trombone Ensemble and Jim Milan's Matty Matlock Tribute Band Friday night.
Nineteen middle and high school jazz bands will perform Saturday while being evaluated by a panel of six professional musicians from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wilson said. Awards will be handed out to the top performing school bands at 7:30 p.m..
Wilson said his big band will perform with Iles on Saturday night, and Joey Carter's big band will also take the stage. He said he started the TCU Jazz Festival his second year here, and plans to retire this semester after 35 years at TCU.
"It's going to be really bittersweet for me," he said.
Wilson is a native of Fort Worth and earned his biomedical engineering and master of music degrees from TCU, completing his composition studies at the University of North Texas.
"I'm sad to leave all the students," Wilson said. "I've been doing this for a lot of years, and I'll miss them the most."
Joe Eckert, assistant professor of saxophone, will be taking over the band next year, he said.
The lineup for the weekend:
Friday features
Los Angeles jazz trombonist Alex Iles
with TCU Faculty Jazz Combo, Jazz Trombone Ensemble and Jim Milan's "Tribute to Matty Matlock"
7:30 p.m. at PepsiCo Recital Hall
$10 admission at the door
Saturday features
28 area high school and middle school jazz ensembles
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. at Ed Landreth Auditorium and PepsiCo Recital Hall
Awards concert with TCU Big Bands and guest trombone artist Alex Iles
7:30 p.m. at Ed Landreth Auditorium
For more information, call 817-257-7640 or visit music.tcu.edu
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Now reading: How High Jacket - Hikerdelic x Tim Burgess - What you need to know
How High Jacket - Hikerdelic x Tim Burgess - What you need to know
How did it come about?
"The question I get asked the most about The Charlatans isn't 'How does it feel to headline a festival?', it's 'Where's the jacket from in the 'How High' video?'" Tim Burgess
And with that, a collaborative project was born. The 'How High' Jacket takes inspiration from a garment worn in an iconic music video, for a song released 25 years ago. Taking the basic design elements from that piece of outerwear, Hikerdelic have brought together something that is both of its time and of this time. It'll serve you well as weave your way in and out of the festival crowds, and be equally at home as you scale a moderately difficult Peak District hill.
Is it decent quality?
It's made from 100% nylon fabric, specially chosen for its durability, while a waterproof coating ensures only the more persistent precipitation penetrates it. Despite its rain-repellent qualities, the 'How High' Jacket is also breathable to ensure maximum suitability for all seasons, including summer.
What about that logo?
The commemorative logo has been specially commissioned by local illustrator Daren Newman, whose eye-catching work has adorned many a Hikerdelic garment, and more than a few musical projects too. It takes the Hikerdelic Core Logo as a starting point and adds the words 'How High' and the number 25 to mark the quarter-century that has passed since the song was released.
Remind me... 'How High'?
How High was the hit that completed a hat-trick for The Charlatans, following One to Another and North Country Boy into the top ten of the UK charts.
What size should I buy? And what if it doesn't fit?
When choosing which size to buy, please be aware this is a pre-order and as such, we're unable to accept cancellations of orders. We're happy to offer a credit note or exchange, where possible, but please be aware this project works well because the customer understands the spirit in which it was created. With this in mind, we have compiled an extensive sizing chart and advise that if you're in any doubt about which size to purchase, measure a jacket you're happy with the fit of and get as close to that as you can.
It's a pre-order, but when will I get it?
The estimated delivery date of this jacket is the first week of September. We will issue regular updates via social media on this subject.
The sales window for the 'How High' Jacket begins 9th June 2022 at 11am BST. It will close on Sunday 12th June 2022.
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#131 in Best Medical Schools
Founded in 2000, Florida State University College of Medicine is a Public school located in Tallahassee, FL. It is the graduate medical school at Florida State University. Florida State University College of Medicine is ranked 131st in Best Medical Schools and 6th in Lowest Acceptance Rate. The following statements briefly introduce Florida State University College of Medicine along with key academic facts.
The average MCAT Score of enrolled students at Florida State University College of Medicine is 506 - the average MCAT score of U.S. medical schools is 511.
The average GPA of enrolled students at Florida State University College of Medicine is 3.7 - the average GPA score of U.S. medical schools is 3.75.
The 2023 medical school tuition at Florida State University College of Medicine is $68,619 - the average medical school tuition is $61,378.
The acceptance rate* at Florida State University College of Medicine is 1.47% - the average acceptance rate of U.S. medical school is 6.30%.
Total 494 medical school students have enrolled to Florida State University College of Medicine for academic year 2021-2022.
2023 Florida State University College of Medicine Tuition & Fees
The 2023 tuition at Florida State University College of Medicine is $28,987 for Florida residents and $68,619 for out-of-state students. The 2023 tuition & fees is is same as the previous year rate (2022). Florida State University College of Medicine's tuition is 14.02% higher than average tuition of U.S. medical schools and 12.2% higher than average tuition of Florida medical schools.
The medical school tuition differs and more expensive than the regular undergraduate and graduate programs. The average undergraduate program tuition & fees at Florida State University is $6,517 for Florida residents and $21,683 for out-of-state students. The average graduate schools tuition & fees other than medical school is $11,553 for Florida residents and $26,707 for out-of-state students
The average living costs including room & board and transportation costs is $33,194.
Florida State University College of Medicine 2023 Tuition & Fees
Florida Residents
Florida State University College of Medicine Tuition & Fees
Florida Public Medical School Average
$6,517 $21,683
The tuition for MD program varies by medical years depending on mandatory fees and required course works. The estimated COA (cost of attendance) for the standard four(4) years MD program at Florida State University College of Medicine is $238,415 for Florida residents and $397,872 out-of-state students based on the current tuition rate. The COA includes the costs for tuition & fees, room & board, transportation, books & supplies, and other personal miscellaneous expenses. The next table summarizes medical school costs for four(4) years by year and cost item.
Florida State University College of Medicine Year by Year Cost of Attendance
$101,813 $90,464 $105,264 $100,331 $397,872
The average MCAT score of enrolled students at Florida State University College of Medicine is 506. Compared to the average MCAT of all medical schools, the MCAT score of Florida State University College of Medicine is around average of U.S. medical schools (the average score is 512).
The average GPA is 3.7 and it is around average compared to other medical schools (the average GPA is 3.73).
Florida State University College of Medicine 2022 MCAT and GPA
MCAT - Florida State University College of Medicine
Florida Medical Schools
GPA - Florida State University College of Medicine
The 2022 acceptance rate at Florida State University College of Medicine is 1.47% where 8,152 applicants have applied to and 120 students have accepted and finally enrolled to school. The acceptance rate at Florida State University College of Medicine is much lower (extremely difficult to get in) compared to other medical schools in united states (the average acceptance rate is 3.52%). Note that the acceptance rate means the percentage of applicants who are accepted and enrolled (not just accepted).
Florida State University College of Medicine 2022 Acceptance Rate and Yield
For the academic year 2021-2022, total 120 first-time students have enrolled in Florida State University College of Medicine.By residency, 97.5% of new students is Florida residents and 2.5% of enrolled students from other States. By gender, 54.2% of enrolled students is women and 45.8% is men students.
A total of 494 students have enrolled to Florida State University College of Medicine. By gender, there are 205 male and 289 female students at Florida State University College of Medicine.
2021 Student Population at Florida State University College of Medicine


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AUL Launches the "New Frontier" in Protecting Women from Abortion Industry Abuses
Abortion, News, Planned Parenthood, Statements
"The Women's Protection Project provides legislators with a complete set of tools for curbing growing abortion industry abuses," said AUL's Dr. Charmaine Yoest.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (12-09-13) – Lawmakers developing plans for up-coming state legislative sessions will have "a unique package of legal tools available for protecting women and girls from the profit-driven abortion industry that consistently ignores the deadly consequences of abortion," announced Americans United for Life President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest. "But, new this year is an enforcement module that provides the legal means to hold abortion providers who harm women and girls accountable."
"This legislative package represents the new frontier in pro-life protections, combining what we know about the deadly health risks of abortion with constitutionally sound legal language," said Dr. Yoest.
In advance of the 9th edition of AUL's Defending Life, comprised of model legislation crafted to meet the needs of legislators, AUL is releasing the Women's Protection Project, anticipated to set the pace for legislators interested in developing the most up-to-date protections for women.
The Women's Protection Project includes
The Women's Health Defense Act prohibiting late-term abortions based on increasing evidence of the negative impact that such abortions have on women's health, as well as concerns about the pain felt by an unborn child. Unlike other available legislative models prohibiting late-term abortions, AUL's model is the only one to directly attack the Supreme Court's primary rationale for affirming Roe v. Wade – the "reliance interest." The specific language and animating principles of this model directly undercut the Supreme Court's ill-informed assumption that abortion is good for women and beneficial to women's health.
AUL's Women's Right to Know Act ensures that women considering abortions are given medically accurate information about abortion, its risks and complications, and its life-affirming alternatives.
Drawing on more than a decade of AUL leadership and experience with regulating abortion facilities, theAbortion Patients' Enhanced Safety Act mandates that abortion clinics meet the same patient care standards as other facilities performing outpatient surgeries.
AUL's Abortion-Inducing Drugs Safety Act requires that abortion providers follow the protocols approved by the FDA for RU-486 and other abortion-inducing drugs and eliminates opportunities for abortionists to promote unsafe and impersonal "telemed" practices or to provide these dangerous drugs according to the unproven, profit-enhancing protocols being championed by the abortion industry.
The Parental Involvement Enhancement Act provides 10 different options to strengthen existing parental consent or notice laws including requirements for notarized documents, requirements for identification and proof of relationship for the person consenting to or receiving notice of the abortion, and specific evidentiary and other standards for a judicial bypass hearing when a minor is seeking the waiver of her state's parental involvement requirements.
AUL's innovative Child Protection Act has three major components designed to protect America's girls. The first is a requirement that all those working in an abortion clinic – including administrative staff and volunteers, not just licensed medical personnel – report suspected child sexual abuse to state officials. The second component is a requirement that, when an abortion is performed on a girl under the age of 14, the abortionist retain forensic evidence that can be used in any subsequent investigation or prosecution. The final component provides legal remedies for parents when a third-party such as an abortion clinic employee or a teacher attempts to aid a child in obtaining an abortion without involving her parents as required by the laws of her home state.
NEW THIS YEAR: Finally, among its other tragedies, the Kermit Gosnell case highlights the abject failure of some state officials to adequately enforce abortion laws. To remedy this problem, AUL has developed a statutory enforcement module providing criminal, civil, and administrative remedies that can be used to ensure compliance with and enforcement of any abortion-related law or regulation.
Consistently of interest to lawmakers has been the "Abortion Patients' Enhanced Safety Act," AUL model legislation requiring abortion clinics to meet the same patient care standards as other facilities performing outpatient surgeries. In the wake of public outrage over Kermit Gosnell and his West Philadelphia "house of horrors" abortion clinic, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia have enacted laws mandating that abortion clinics met the same or similar standards as those applicable to ambulatory surgical centers. In each case, legislative action was precipitated by evidence of substandard abortion facilities and inferior patient care.
For example, in June 2010, the Alabama Department of Public Health forced the closure of the Beacon Women's Center in Montgomery following a three-month investigation into "serious violations of state health codes." In Texas, more than 20 abortion clinics and individual providers have had complaints filed against them, been investigated by state officials, and/or been cited for violations of the state's abortion clinic regulations or other legal requirements since 2009. Similarly, during 2012 pre-licensure inspections conducted pursuant to the state's new law regulating abortion facilities, a number of clinics including a Planned Parenthood clinic in Virginia Beach were identified as failing to meet patient care standards.
"Clearly, Kermit Gosnell is not the aberration that the abortion industry so desperately wants us to believe that he was," said Dr. Yoest. "Instead, it is clear that today's legal abortion clinics are all too often the 'back alleys' that abortion advocates have repeatedly warned us about."
To download AUL's Women's Protection Project, click here.
To learn more about how abortion harms women, click here.


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