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InSitu Selected for STUAS UAV Program, Potential Future Orders: Over $0.5 Billion
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The U.S. Navy Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has selected the InSitu Integrator unmanned aircraft for the Small Tactical Unmanned Air System (STUAS)/Tier II system, and awarded the system developer Insitu Inc., – a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Company – a contract worth nearly $44 million for the development and fielding of the service's next generation tactical UAS, this contract will support low-rate initial production of two systems, one each for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. Reportedly worth around $450 million, STUAS/Tier II calls for an initial fielding of 56 UAV systems, beginning in 2013. This follow-on contract worth up to $450 million. Initial operating capability is expected in fourth quarter fiscal 2013.
Insitu Awarded Small Tactical Unmanned Air System/Tier II Contract
"I'm looking forward to fielding the capabilities of STUAS to our forward deployed forces," said Capt. JR Brown, PMA-263 Program Manager. "This critical system will greatly increase their intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities in theater." According to Insitu Vice President of Emerging Programs and STUAS/Tier II Program Manager Bill Clark, the Integrator provides unsurpassed growth capability for expanding into new and future missions. The Integrator STUAS team led by The InSitu also includes the Harris Corporation, Corsair Engineering and Black Ram Engineering Services. Each Integrator system will comprise three or four unmanned aircraft, multi-sensor Electro-Optical (EO) payloads and a ground segment including launch, recovery and mission control elements.
Early Deployment Could See Mixed Integrator, ScanEagle Units
Under the initial $43.7 million contract awarded last week (29 July 2010) Insitu will begin the 24-month engineering, manufacturing and development phase to build and test its Integrator UAS satisfying STUAS/Tier II system requirements. Following this phase the Corps will have an option to buy up to five Integrator UAV systems in fiscal 2011 for quick deployment alongside the currently fielded ScanEagle. Such an early stage operation could expand the current operational capabilities offered by ScanEagle beang leased from Boeing. ScanEagle and Integrator could share the same launch and recovery systems. The ScanEagle UAS that recently completed 340,000 combat flight hours was also built by Insitu has been leased by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps since 2004, operated and supported in the field by civil contractors.
The Integrator uses a stabilized multi-sensor payload developed by Hudd Technologies' Alticam Vision.
Introducing a New Multi-Sensor Payload
As with any UAV system, the sensors, the mission systems and, primarily the sensor payload is the main driver for the system's success. Insitu's continued to rely on its successful partnership with Alticam systems, currently called Alticam Vision, a division of Hood Technology that provided InSitu with EO sensors for the Scan Eagle since its inception. The Integrator will be equipped with a new EO payolad developed by Alticam Vision. The company's gyro-stabilized 10″ diameter Multi-8000 turret that weighs 5.5 kg already provides simultaneous daylight and Near Infrared (NIR), Long Wave Infrared (LWIR) and Mid-Wave Infra-Red thermal imaging (MWIR) covering the 3-5, 8-12 micron and the 400-900nm visual and Near InfraRed (NIR) spectral bands. A laser range finding and laser marking, effective to distances of about 3,000 meters and, ultimately, laser target designation were a mandatory requirement by the U.S. Marine Corps. The Multi-8000 stabilized turret uses a matching aperture for each sensor, contributing to the distinctive look of the Integrator's foresection. For daylight and low-light level the 350,000 pixel CCD camera is fitted with a x36 optical zoom, while the FLIRs operate a fixed field of view with the 640×480 pixel MWIR using two magnifications – 2.5° and 10° while the 320×240 pixel LWIR, used mainly for orientation and situational awareness, opens a wide field of 24°. Hood Technology has already tested a miniature 'Nano SAR' system that could also be fitted to the Integrator. Sensor images will be transmitted through an encrypted line-of-sight digital data link provided by L-3 Communication Systems-West. Harris Corporation will provide the next generation communications relay payload to support secure ground communications.
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Reflections Of A Translingual Writer
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A well-known American author, translator and scholar of Russian and Jewish literature muses on what it means to emigrate and to live and write translingually while inhabiting several linguistic cultures at once. The concept of translingualism stands for words and other aspects of language that are relevant or similar in more than one language. Thus to be "translingual" may mean "existing in multiple languages" or "to have the same meaning in many languages."
I understand the predicament of being a bilingual writer. But I'm still not quite sure what it means to live and write translingually. Both rootless and rooted at once, translingual writers are supposed to work not in one language but in several at once, and not always simultaneously. Yet even in the not so recent the past, translingual writers used to exist all by themselves: artistically homeless and culturally stateless. Does literary translingualism mean that one is betwixt and between, both here and elsewhere? Think of the aloneness of Joseph Conrad in English, Samuel Beckett in French, of Paul Celan in German, Rachel Bluwstein in Hebrew. Is a translingual writer who's found a new home no longer writing in transit?
Let me turn, briefly, to the story I know best and sometimes call my own, that of ex-Russians—and ex-Soviets—writing in English. When the Russian diplomat Pavel Svin'in (Svenin) lived and published in Philadelphia in the 1810's, he was most certainly in a league of his own. When Abraham Cahan, the legendary editor of the Forward, and a Russian- and Yiddish-speaking immigrant from the Russian Empire, was learning to write fiction in English in the 1900's, he, too, had few worthy interlocutors. The St. Petersburg-born Vladimir Nabokov also had few translingual colleagues when he arrived in America from France in 1940.
In the 1970's and 1980's, many more writers came to the US and Canada from the USSR, riding the wave of the Jewish emigration. These new translinguals—Joseph Brodsky most famously—often felt strapped for style and voice as they forded the Hudson and the St. Lawrence. It has taken at least a generation for Soviet immigrants to find their literary bearings in the New World, and perhaps even longer to form a truly translingual neighborhood—a community—both in their own eyes and in the eyes of the American (and Canadian) cultural mainstream. Many of today's translinguals—the Leningrad-born Gary Shteyngart, the Moscow-born Anya Ulinich, the Minsk-born Boris Fishman, the Odessa-born Yelena Akhtiorskaya, the Tashkent-born Vladislav Davidzon (editor of this magazine) and others—left the former Soviet Union and its successor states as children or young people. They have their literary great-uncles and great-aunts on both sides of the Atlantic. Representatives of this new wave of American and Canadian translingualism write in English as they hearken back to Isaac Babel, Vasily Grossman and llya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov, but also to Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, S. J. Perelman and Mordecai Richler. They have translingual literary lovers and partners, friends and next-door neighbors. This doesn't diminish the fun of today's translingual literary commerce, but it does make it more of a Russophone—Russian-American and Ukrainian-American—family business, and also something of a community affair. "Whither shall we sail?" Pushkin might ask, if had he been Jewish, had immigrated to the US and mastered the English language.
In my book Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration, mainly set in Italy in 1987, a 20-year-old exile from Moscow discovers stories and novels by émigré authors. Back then, the black sand of a seedy Tyrrhenian public beach in the town of Ladispoli was my open-air reading room, and I read Russian-American translinguals as I contemplated living in the New World. Five months later, on a wet November afternoon, I walked across the campus of Brown University and knocked on the office door of the writer John (Jack) Hawkes. Hawkes was a legendary American postmodernist, the most famous writer on the Brown faculty, and I desperately wanted to take his fiction writing seminar.
Silver-haired, witty, verbally perverse, Hawkes listened to my rambling account of leaving Moscow, writing poetry and fiction in Russian, and coming to the US as a refugee. He waited, silently, lips twitching, then asked:
"Have you read Nabokov?"
Hawkes pronounced the second "o" in Nabokov's name with an extra roundness, as if caressing the stressed Russian vowel.
"Nabokov?" I asked, in disbelief. "Yes, I have."
"He's remarkable," said Hawkes, who was preparing to retire from Brown the following year. In 1965 his novel Second Skin competed with Nabokov's The Defense and Bashevis Singer's Short Friday for the National Book Award for Fiction. Saul Bellow's Herzog ended up taking the prize.
Hawkes had no interest in refusenik politics and no ear for immigrant anxieties. Yet he let me into his last fiction seminar. In the spring of 1988, a translingual novice surrounded by aspiring Brown writers—all of them American-born—I tried my hand at composing in English. Almost thirty years later, I'm still discovering the pleasures of writing in tongues.
Maxim D. Shrayer is the author, most recently, of "Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story" (in English) and "Bunin and Nabokov. A History of Rivalry" (in Russian). He is Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College.
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August 20,2008: Chinese made Airburst anti-personnel RPG rockets have been discovered in Afghanistan, after first being encountered in Iraq, where they were used by Iranian supported Shia rebels. The Chinese made RPG rocket is optimized for anti-personnel effect. To accomplish that, the shell bounces up about six feet, after first hitting the ground. Then the 5.7 pound warhead explodes, releasing hundreds of metal fragments. Casualties can be caused nearly fifty feet away. Because the warhead explodes in the air, and is full of metal fragments, it is more than three times as likely to kill or injure than the usual RPG warhead (which is designed to penetrate armor). The "Airburst Anti-Personnel" rocket also has a longer range (over 1,500 meters, more than twice that for the anti-armor rocket).
Iran buys these rockets from China, or maybe even makes its own copies. Iran denies supplying weapons to the Taliban or al Qaeda (which are violently opposed to the Shia brand of Islam practiced throughout Iran and southern Iraq.) But in the past, Iran has aided al Qaeda, and Iranian gunrunners will sell weapons to anyone who can pay.
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Q: Javascript Stopwatch Performance i am trying to display multiple Running Times in a table.
The table has 3 columns (nr, name, time). The time is displayed in that format 'hh:mm:ss.f', that means that i update the time every 100ms.
function updateTimes() {
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The code works and the time is displayed as expected on "normal" PCs, my problem are mobile Devices (Cell Phones). It seems that the update Intervall (100ms) is too fast for most of these devices, so the time starts to "jump". If I only update the times of existing table elements the "jumping" is not that hard, but if I add table rows its getting worst until the row is added.
 I use JQuery for manipulating the table.
Does anyone have an idea how i can improve my Performance?
Kind Regards
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*It would certainly help to use direct references to your elements instead of accessing them by $ selectors all the time. E.g. use $(live.childNodes[2]) instead of $("#" + live.Entry.Id + "_time"), or store references to the individual cells. Then you can drop all the id attributes of your cells.

*Assuming that the bottleneck is element creation, you could create hidden table rows in advance and show them once you use them, hiding them again after use. That would require a major rewrite of these functions, though.

*I'm not sure how much overhead $('') adds. Maybe document.createElement('td') is significantly faster.

*(and this should actually come in the beginning of every performance-related change) Profile your code, e.g. using the Profile tab in Chrome's developer tools. It will show where exactly how much time is spent so that you know what the most expensive function calls are. I would assume that even if it's faster on the desktop, what's slowest on mobile will still be slowest on desktop.

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Ahmed Janka Nabay (* 5. Januar 1964 in Sedu; † 2. April 2018 in Kambia) war ein sierra-leonischer Sänger, Komponist und Bandleader. Er galt als einflussreicher Vertreter des Bubus, der traditionellen Musik der Temne.

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Ahmed Janka Nabay wuchs in Sedu, einem kleinen Ort im Osten von Sierra Leone als Sohn eines Bergarbeiters und Fischverkäufers auf. Nabay gehörte den Temne und Mandingo an.

Bekannt wurde Janka Nabay durch seine Teilnahme an der Fernsehsendung SuperSound Mitte der 1990er, einer afrikanischen Variante von Pop Idol, wo er eine moderne, elektronische Variante der traditionellen Bubu-Musik spielte. Die traditionell auf Bambusflöten gespielte Musik vermischte er mit Synthesizern und Drumcomputern. Seine größten Einflüsse waren nach eigenen Angaben "Michael Jackson, Bob Marley und Gott". Seine Popularität in Sierra Leone erreichte ihren Höhepunkt während des elfjährigen Bürgerkriegs in Sierra Leone, während dem seine Musik auch mehrfach zweckentfremdet wurde. So wurden er und seine Band vom Rebellen-General Sam "General Mosquito" Bockarie entführt und gezwungen vor dessen Armee aufzutreten.

Seine Heimat Sierra Leone verließ er 2003. Er floh in die Vereinigten Staaten, wo er in Washington, D.C. in verschiedenen Restaurants und Fast-Food-Ketten arbeitete.

Nach einigen Jahren, in denen er hauptsächlich vor anderen Flüchtlingen aus Sierra leone auftrat, entdeckte Radioproduzent und Journalist Wills Glasspiegel einige alte Aufnahmen von ihm aus Sierra Leone und stellte den Kontakt zum World Music-Label True Panther Sounds her, das zur Beggars Group gehört. 2010 erschien dort seine EP Bubu King, die zur ersten Bubu-Veröffentlichung in den Vereinigten Staaten wurde.

Janka Nabay formierte eine Band und veröffentlichte die beiden Alben En Yay Sah (2012) und Build Music (2017) über David Byrnes Label Luaka Bop. 2017 tourte er durch Europa. Als er versuchte zurück in die Vereinigten Staaten zu reisen, wurde er abgewiesen und seine Greencard eingezogen. Er kehrte zurück nach Freetown, wo er sich mit seiner Frau niederließ.

Janka Nabay verstarb am 2. April 2018 im Alter von nur 54 Jahren an einer unbekannten Baucherkrankung in Kambia.

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Q: Prove $k^7/7 + k^5/5 + 2k^3/3 - k/105$ is an integer I tried to prove this using induction.
Let $k=1$; then the equation gives
$$1/7 + 1/5 +2/3 – 1/105 = 105/105 = 1,$$
which is an integer. So it is true for $k=1$. Now let it be true for $n>k$. This gives
$$105|(15n^7 + 21n^5 + 70n^3 – n).$$
For $(n+1)$ we have
$$105|(15(n+1)^7 + 21(n+1)^5 + 70(n+1)^3 – (n+1)),$$
which is the same as
$$105|(15n^7 + 105n^6 + 336n^5 + 630n^4 + 875n^3 + 945n^2 + 629n + 175)$$
since $105|(15n^7 + 21n^5 + 70n^3 – n)$.
If $105|(105n^6 + 315n^5 + 630n^4 + 805n^3 + 945n^2 + 630n + 175),$
which is the same as if $$105|((105n^6 + 315n^5 + 630n^4 +945n^2 + 630n) + 805n^3 + 175),$$
which is the same as if $$105|((\text{multiple of } 105) + 805n^3 + 175).$$
I'm stuck at this part, because neither $805$ nor $175$ is a multiple of $105$, so how to prove that they are multiples of $105$?

A: I think you made a  mistake, and it should have been
$15n^7+105n^6+336n^5+630n^4+805n^3+735n^2+419n+105$
where you typed $15n^7 + 105n^6 + 336n^5 + 630n^4 + 875n^3 + 945n^2 + 629n + 175$,
so it should have been
$105n^6 + 315n^5 + 630n^4 + 735n^3 + 735n^2 + 420n + 105$
where you typed $105n^6 + 315n^5 + 630n^4 + 805n^3 + 945n^2 + 630n + 175$.
Can you take it from here?

A: The generating function is $$\sum_{k\ge 0} f(k)x^k=\frac{320}{(x-1)^3}+\frac{3672}{(x-1)^5}+\frac{1540}{(x-1)^4}+\frac{4584}{(x-1)^6}+\frac{1}{(x-1)}+\frac{2880}{(x-1)^7}+\frac{720}{(x-1)^8}+\frac{29}{(x-1)^2}$$ with $$f(k)=\frac12 k^7+\frac15 k^5+\frac23 k^3-\frac{1}{105}k$$. Since all the factors of this polynomial of $1/(x-1)$ are integers, all $f(k)$ are integers.
Another method of proof is that the polynomial has the recurrence $$f(k) = 8f(k-1)-28f(k-2)+56f(k-3)-70f(k-4)+56f(k-5)-28f(k-6)+8f(k-7)-f(k-8)$$ and to start an induction on $k$ by showing that the first 8 terms of $f(k)$ are integers. [Of course the recurrence is valid for any polynomial $f(k)$ of order 7 and the signed binomial coefficients are a well-known property of the recurrence.]


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The newly announced free to play multiplayer action game, BattleCry. NOT and FPS Action combat game. Yep, not sure it was worth it. However you can see more of the game in this E3 2014 interview. Game based on inspiration from God of war Devil may cry and Arkham Asylum. There will be three factions, [...]
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Being a tourist has its time and place. There are times when sitting by a pool may be just what you need.
For those who squirm at the thought of sitting poolside for over an hour, for those who itch to explore, to learn, to meet real local people and hear their stories, being a tourist is not an option.
For those who want to exert their traveler muscles, for those who plan to stay awhile, living in a foreign land, here are a seven things to remember.
This state of ignorance, not knowing our surroundings, feels vulnerable. And it is best experienced as "childlike wonder". So, like a child, we need to start asking questions. Be inquisitive.
We westerners value independence so much we hesitate to ask for help. We'd rather ask Siri or our map app. But everything Siri tells you, you could learn from the comfort of your own home.
You're in a real place with real people. Ask them what you want to know! Better yet, ask them what they think you should know about their home.
People love to share their story and their home. Where should you eat? What should you see? Who should you meet?
Trip advisor is great but it can't beat local knowledge.
You might find a gem — a great hole-in-the-wall restaurant, a swimming hole, hiking trail or shop. Besides, you might make a friend.
Adversity enlightens us more than anything else….
Be careful to not load your suitcase with unstated expectations.
Do not demand that this be THE perfect trip. A canceled flight does not ruin a trip. It is part of the adventure. Enduring it together is where your family can bond (and bicker and whine).
My daughter recently told me, "I'm tired of houses. I want to go to an airport." Long layovers can be fun.
Worst case, they make for good travel stories later.
Do not expect this trip to be the thing that reignites the spark in your marriage. Do not count on a trip to make your family cohesive or to heal fissures in your relationships.
Travel is a chance to strengthen family bonds but it can't heal past hurts.
Travel cannot guarantee you'll never need counseling or hard conversations. It will give you fresh eyes if you let it. It will unearth assumptions and values you didn't even realize you were holding.
When we forget this, we perpetually compare with home. We note all the things we do "better". How life at home is easier. Of course it is! If convenience and ease are your top priorities, just stay home!
Travel will stretch and challenge you. It will inconvenience you, and ultimately change you. That is its gift.
And please, do NOT offer locals unsolicited advice on how they might do their job more efficiently.
No one likes a know-it-all. Alienating people is guaranteed to leave you feeling lonely and disconnected.
Even desolate roads and deserted buildings hold stories. Learn as many as you can. Photo by Dane Dean on Unsplash.
Learning will increase your empathy for the people and culture. It will give insight into some cultural values and traditions. You won't "get" why people think the way they do but you can gain insight into how their worldview and assumptions differ from yours.
At a minimum, read the Lonely Planet write-up on the area.
Even desolate roads and deserted buildings hold stories. Learn as many as you can.
Without our Lonely Planet, we wouldn't have known that our drive trip across the Argentina pampa took us by the homestead of fugitive bandits. Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and Etta Place tried the rural life in Patagonia (near Cholila) for a few years.
Everyone should learn English, shouldn't they?
No. They should not. You are in their land. Learn the language. At least a little.
Google translate is good enough. No, it is not. Google translate is great for inserting a word or two into a sentence, but when you start translating full paragraphs, it gets sketchy. At best, it is awkward to read. At worst, things are lost in translation.
We were once given a written report on our child's day at day care. Two run-on sentences filled an entire page. It was clear it had been translated from Korean by Google translate. Its precise meaning was less clear. Something about non-compliance (the kid was two and didn't speak Korean).
Even if languages aren't your forte, you can learn some basics. Start with "Hello", "Please", "Thank you", "Yes" and "No." Most people will appreciate your effort.
Once we deviated from that script, I was done. But it was a good start. I repeated the same phrases so many times they started to sound pretty solid.
Move. Get out and explore. Mingle with the locals. Opt for the hole-in-the-wall or the picnic lunch over the hotel filled with foreigners.
Hit the local market. Do some research ahead of time. If you are supposed to barter, barter. If you're not, respect those norms.
Exploring, navigating unfamiliar terrain, communicating in an unfamiliar language — all this is exhilarating. And exhausting.
An illness showed Wayne Muller that "…even emotions require energy. Friendliness, being open to conversation,… " All these little things "drain us in small, imperceptible ways".
Negotiating unfamiliar streets and conversing in a new language (or via gestures) take mental and physical tole.
Allow yourself some downtime. Rest on a park bench, people-watch in a café, or a nap back at your room.
This is especially important if you're traveling with kids!
Push kids too hard and everyone suffers. My mantra for travel with traveling kids is limit over-tiredness and limit over-stimulation. Both are fine for awhile, but recovery time needs to be built in. After a long day of sight-seeing, consider eating take-out in your room so kids can crash early.
Adopt a posture of curiosity and adaptability.
Don't demand your way. Explore. Stay curious. Ask. Look. Listen. Learn.
Don't worry about the delays and inconveniences. Remember they make for good stories later.
What have been your best and worst travel experiences? Have you seen these attitudes in action — or their opposites?


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Q: Python bruteforce combinations given a starting string I'm trying to do a bruteforce string generator in Python and itertools.combinations_with_replacement seemed to do just the trick.
gen = itertools.combinations_with_replacement('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ',12)
for combination in gen:
  check(''.join(combination))

Say the user runs the program for some hours and reaches up to string aaaeabdouzIU.
Is there any way given a string where they left off to start making combinations from that point onwards?
So if I pass the string 'acc' it should start trying 'acd','ace',...
itertools.combinations_with_replacement does not provide this natively, is there any way someone could achive this?

A: Taking the original code from the itertools man page copy the code for the combinations_with_replacement code but replace line 7 with new indices starting from your entered word.
inputStr='acc'
indices=[pool.index(l) for l in inputStr]

And then run the rest of the code from the man page.
EDIT: For a complete running function:
def combinations_with_replacement(iterable, r, startWord=None):
    # combinations_with_replacement('ABC', 2) --> AA AB AC BB BC CC
    pool = tuple(iterable)
    n = len(pool)
    if not n and r:
        return
    if startWord is None:
        indices = [0] * r
    else:
        assert len(startWord) == r
        indices = [pool.index(l) for l in startWord]
    yield tuple(pool[i] for i in indices)
    while True:
        for i in reversed(range(r)):
            if indices[i] != n - 1:
                break
        else:
            return
        indices[i:] = [indices[i] + 1] * (r - i)
        yield tuple(pool[i] for i in indices)

A: It's easy if you know, given a combination, how to generate the next one.
One way to do it could be to define a mapping from combination to natural numbers, and the inverse mapping, from natural numbers to combinations. For example you can use base62_encode/base62_decode from Base 62 conversion
def next_comb(s):
    return base62_encode(1+base62_decode(s))

and a generator to generate all combination given a starting point:
def generate_all(start='a'):
    while True:
        yield start
        start = next_comb(start)

Usage:
for comb in generate_all():
    print(comb)

or, to resume computation from a starting point:
for comb in generate_all(starting_point):
    print(comb)


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Where You Can View the Northern Lights
Sept. 17, 2005 12:01 am ET
What it is: A chance to see one of nature's biggest light shows. Next week's fall equinox opens what might be called aurora borealis season. In fall, long, crisp, clear nights make for excellent viewing of the natural lights that illuminate the northern sky with a show of reds, purples, greens, yellows and blues.
Why now: This season is starting with a bang. Some aurora watchers are reporting unusually vivid displays due to a series of active sunspots that erupt and interact with the atmosphere to generate the colored lights. The effect: Auroras are visible farther south than usual.
How it works: Northern lights occur when charged particles from the sun shoot along the magnetic fields over the earth's north and south poles, interacting with the atmosphere and causing molecules to light up. Last week, David Aguilar, a spokesman for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, trained his camera at the undulating lights above Concord, Mass. "You can see the movement in the sky," he says.
Where to see it: The far north remains the best place to view the lights. Dirk Lummerzheim, an aurora forecaster at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, says no special equipment is needed -- binoculars can actually diminish the experience by cutting off the view of the night sky. "It's best if you just stand outside and swivel your head around," he says.
Viewing locations: When temperatures drop, Blachford Lake Lodge in Canada's Northwest Territories has an insulated tent on a frozen lake for light watching, while the Chena Hot Springs Resort in Fairbanks guides guests up a nearby peak to see the lights at midnight against polar darkness.


Cluck Means Go.Whoa Means Stop.
It's really pretty easy to work on "water issues". You don't need a creek. You don't need a pond. You don't need an ocean. You need a hose! And while the main theme of this lesson appears to be "go through water", it really isn't that at all. The BIG lesson is "cluck means always go forward CALMLY when told to do so. Even if you don't think it's a good idea". In this case "you" means, the horse. To even begin to attempt this lesson the horse has to have passed several "tests" in the round pen or arena. In short, successfully stopping and turning in the long lines, before ever venturing outside the pen.
On this day, Jet had been very brave before starting the work on the water. He had "aced" all the easy questions, long lining with skill and confidence around shrubs, mailboxes and other "stuff" around the property before we started with "what you do about water" part of the lesson.
For this session with Jet we used a black trailer mat, which he walks over all the time, and a hose. Mike did make it a little extra challenging by deciding to have the water actually spraying! It speaks to the faith we have in Jet's attitude that we were sure he could handle it. It would make the lesson a bit longer with that extra challenge, but we were sure he'd long line over in the end. Make no mistake, driving over versus leading over is significant! I'm certain he would have followed me over this obstacle just fine! However, this session was about going straight forward when told by a handler that you can't see. Think about the horse's perception when you are riding. They can't see you! Jet did a great job! Many thanks to Nicole Krauss and Lily Shepardson for setting this session up for me! Now I think Jet wants a water park to play in!
Below, Jet is really enjoying the water, but definitely not ready to commit those feet to stepping on the scary blackness. Remember, horses have terrible depth perception, which is one of the reasons that they are very leery about water hazards in the first place.
This lesson took a LONG time! I don't mind. It takes as long as it takes. In my experience the "feeling" the horse experiences about his first encounter with a "hazard", is what he'll remember the longest. Time invested at this point will pay huge dividends very quickly! If he becomes excited at this moment, he's going to tend to associate "water" with "excitement". If I push him too quickly he can end up associating "water" with "hurry". This is especially true with Arabians.They remember everything! These darn Arabians are ALWAYS thinking and the key thing is to figure out what they are thinking.
About now, Jet is thinking that the spray is pretty fun stuff!
However, while I'm willing to be very supportive and patient, there are certain "rules" that Jet must obey. And ultimately there is a lesson to be learned. If I "cluck", he must move forward. He does NOT have to move forward fast or far. This sort of "go slow" has already been established in his lessons in the round pen and around the easy obstacles. Forward, at this stage means one calm, straight step forward. If that happens it's BIG, BIG deal! After that, the rest is easy. The great big NO WAY, the move that will get him a slap on the fanny, is any hint of going backwards. That's where "rearing and spinning" are born. You don't EVER want your horse to think that going in reverse is the answer to "cluck means go"!
After a long time spent just getting relaxed and "contemplating" the water question, Jet initially tried a "duck to the right" followed by a "duck to the left" move to avoid stepping on the wet mat. Both times, he responded perfectly to my correction in the lines and straightened himself out. Eventually, he (twice!) tried an actual "run around the outside edge" move, which was useful as it proved to be a "test of his brakes". And while I did succeed in stopping him, he was strong enough to make me really dig in to hold him. Since he failed to "whoa" on light pressure (which he knows how to do when in a different situation) I definitely used enough pressure on those lines to make him stop, which he found a bit uncomfortable. I'm fine with that. I did not want him to find running away with me very fun at all. Keep in mind, that bit pressure was never a jerk! But I definitely did not let him drag me…I resisted and stood my ground until he was stopped. This is a lesson that I could not have done nearly as well if I had been mounted.
By the end of the session, Jet took proper walk steps forward through the water. And his overall knowledge of what "cluck" and "whoa" mean were reinforced. And yes, it means "go because I said so" and "stop and be still" even when you don't want to!


When purchasing gold coins, there are a number of local options. These include coin shops and shows, as well as pawn shops. Buying from a pawn shop can be a great way to get a good deal on gold coins, though the selection is often limited and buying here requires doing your research.
If you prefer to invest in gold jewelry rather than coinage, a pawn shop is among the best places to buy it. Pawn shops will nearly always have a selection of gold jewelry on hand. Such shops are notorious for buying anything gold. This means that most are skilled at identifying the real from the fake, so you can rest assured that you're not buying anything counterfeit.
However, their stocks of gold coins are frequently limited to the most popular types, such as American Gold Eagles. If you're looking for anything rare, a pawn shop is probably not going to offer it. This extremely limited selection means pawn shops will likely not serve as a steady source of gold coins.
This is a hit-or-miss prospect; a given pawn shop may have no gold coins in stock at the moment, or it may have a whole collection that has recently been pawned. If you're after a specific coin, a pawn shop is not the best place to find it.
There is also the worry about buying stolen goods. Gold coins are frequently taken during burglaries because they are easily identified as valuable. After the thief pawns the goods, these gold coins may end up for sale in your local pawn shop. Many collectors shy away from such purchases because of ethical concerns over buying coins stolen from fellow investors. The prospect of buying stolen goods is certainly something to think about before visiting a pawn shop to add to your collection.
This anonymity does have an advantage. Many investors like to buy from pawn shops because they can walk in with cash and walk out with gold. Unlike with online purchases, you don't need to send a check and wait for your gold to arrive in the mail. This immediate gratification and the extra security that come with having the gold in your hand by the time you leave the shop is why many investors choose to visit in-person dealers like pawn shops to purchase their gold.
Another downside of shopping at a pawn shop is that they likely won't be able to tell you anything about the coins you see. If you're a new collector with lots of questions, don't expect to get answers for them here. Before buying from a pawn shop, make sure you know your prices.
Because pawn shops carry a wide array of merchandise, not just coins, they may not have a good idea of the current market value of a particular coin. As such, prices may be much higher or lower than you'd find elsewhere. Remember to factor in sales tax if you're in a state that charges taxes on precious metal purchases.


The Kaplan Center is right on top of the latest trends and treatments, telling patients what new medicines or procedures are on the horizon that could bring relief to chronic pain problems. — G.W., Patient with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.
If only there was a single pill that could resolve your chronic pain. The reality, however, is that the causes of chronic pain are multidimensional, and effective treatment requires a multidimensional approach.
At the Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine we offer patients a unique diagnostic protocol — taking the time to talk with patients to understand their symptoms, their medical history, which treatments have and haven't worked in the past, and reviewing patients' musculoskeletal, physiological and even emotional systems.
Once accurately diagnosed, we find that patients with chronic illness make the quickest and the most complete recoveries when they follow a comprehensive treatment strategy that addresses their unique medical needs. By combining treatment modalities in a way that specifically targets an individual's medical issues, our patients are able to achieve a more rapid, complete, and permanent resolution of their chronic illness — often avoiding surgery, using far less medication and experiencing fewer side effects than with conventional medicine.
At the Kaplan Center we offer strategic pain management — a comprehensive treatment approach that may incorporate one or more of the modalities listed below.
The Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine offers patients acupuncture within the context of their entire treatment plan. Research has demonstrated that it can have direct and lasting positive effects on the body's neurological (nervous), endocrine (hormonal), and immunological (disease-fighting) systems. In 1998, a Consensus-Conference Panel of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that acupuncture is an effective non-invasive modality in treating a variety of medical and pain problems, including migraines, osteoarthritis, and infertility. Read more..
Slowing down the aging process means nurturing your body on a cellular and spiritual level. We do this by using evidence-based medicine with a whole body approach which means applying scientifically proven alternative therapies to treat our patients' physiological concerns, along with providing the emotional support that is so strongly linked to overall health. Read more..
There are a variety of treatments available to patients suffering from biotoxicity or neurotoxicity disorder, but there is certainly no "one-size-fits-all" remedy. Your treatment plan will be individually tailored after consideration of your overall medical history, your current symptoms, your genetic makeup, your history of exposure to biotoxins and your lifestyle. The essential aspect of treatment is the detoxification regime, a 2-step process whereby the biotoxins are first drawn out of whatever tissue in the body is storing them, and then toxins are bound at the molecular level so they can be eliminated from the body via urination. Read more..
In treating chronic pain, there is an important role for invasive measures, such as epidural steroid injections, the surgical implantation of dorsal-column stimulators and other surgical options. But there is also a multitude of effective, non-invasive manual treatment options available to patients, with far fewer side effects and risks. Read more..
For women who are pregnant or trying to conceive, the Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine offers a number of strategies for optimizing a woman's health before, during, and after her pregnancy. We recommend the following strategies to women who want to experience a successful pregnancy and deliver a healthy baby. Read more..
Using Heart Rate Variability (HRV) to gain an objective assessment of your Autonomic Nervous System is a huge advantage in gauging progress toward the ultimate goal of living longer with better health and energy. Read more..
If you have medication sensitivities, are concerned about drug interactions, or you are just interested in enhancing your health, our physicians and dietitian are happy to talk with you about the herbal compounds, nutritional supplements and some homeopathic remedies that may benefit your health and well-being. Read more..
Often we find that patients suffering from chronic pain, illness, or fatigue have been living with hormonal imbalances that have never been properly diagnosed. Read more..
LDT is a gentle way to support the body's lymph system in removing toxins from the body and can be a valuable addition to a detox protocol (i.e. patients undergoing treatment for heavy metal or mold toxicity). Read more..
Meditation can not only have positive and rapid changes in the brain, we find that our patients who meditate typically sleep better, have less pain, less anxiety and depression, and a better general sense of well-being. Read more..
Although food provides us with both nutrition and pleasure, poor nutritional choices can lead to serious health problems. If you follow an essentially healthy diet, but still find yourself ill or in pain, you might be eating the wrong foods for your body. Read more..
In treating chronic pain, there is an important role for invasive measures, such as epidural steroid injections, the surgical implantation of dorsal-column stimulators and other surgical options. Read more..
In treating chronic pain, there is an important role for invasive measures, such as epidural steroid injections, the surgical implantation of dorsal-column stimulators and other surgical options Read more..
Our goal is to identify the most effective and least invasive means of helping you heal. For example, in treating low back pain, we have found that acupuncture, osteopathic manipulation, physical therapy and even dietary changes often can be more effective than medication or surgery. Read more..
Individuals with chronic pain and illness not only suffer physically — they often suffer emotionally. Emotional pain can range from anger and grief, to feeling emotionally numb, to clinical depression. Read more..
Patients are increasingly seeking non-surgical treatment options for orthopedic and sports injuries and Regenerative Medicine is one of the fastest growing fields in medicine. If you have sustained a tendon or ligament injury, or suffer from chronic back or neck pain, you may be a good candidate for Prolotherapy, Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP), or Stem Cell Injections, depending on your unique medical condition. Read more..
Sleep deprivation, caused by insufficient sleep or poor quality of sleep, impairs the body's immune system, physical reflexes, emotional stability and cognitive functions. It can also lead to increased muscle, joint and nerve pain. Read more..
Trigger points are an often neglected, key cause of pain in many individuals. If you have a tender, hypersensitive part of your musculoskeletal system that causes you pain, stiffness, or limited range of motion, you may be experiencing the extremely common pain of a trigger point. Read more..
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3 Days to Kill
Posted on February 24, 2014 by R.L. Terry
(c)2014 EuropaCorp
A well-rounded action movie with heart and a little humor. "3 Days to Kill" is an action movie about terminally ill CIA secret service agent Ethan Renner (Kevin Costner) who is persuaded out of retirement for one last job in exchange for an experimental drug that could save his life. Shortly after receiving an acute terminal medical diagnosis, Ethan decides to retire from his dangerous career for one last shot at being a husband and father. Meanwhile, Ethan is tasked with watching his daughter while his wife goes to London for a few days. But when a mysterious female CIA operative offers Ethan a life-saving cure in exchange for capturing a notorious terrorist, he reluctantly accepts. Now, with his daughter's safety in his hands for the first time in a decade and the powerful drug's debilitating side effects taking hold, the hunt begins.
Has director McG gone soft? Is it possible that the director of the "Charlie Angels" reboot and "Terminator: Salvation" has a family-friendly side? Isn't he the same director known for over-the-top action flicks? McG is a filmmaker in transition, mixing metaphors, genres and feelings in this action-thriller, espionage-comedy, family-drama jumble.
Two elements that often appear in action movies are sexual content and profanity. Surprisingly, this movie contains neither, so it is a great movie for the entire family. The cinematography was executed well and the writing was quite good. Very few action movie cliches in this film; and the plot, although a little unrealistic, follows a mostly logical and believable course of events. The action sequences are underlined by the father-daughter and husband-wife reconciliation relationships in the film, which gives it a heartwarming feel. Definitely enjoyed this film better than "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit."
The film is helped by Costner's self-deprecating, aw-shucks charm. From his Oscar wins for "Dances With Wolves" to his sweetheart turn in "The Bodyguard," Costner understands his strengths and plays to all of them at times here. Kostner is a convincing older Bond type, and is a pleasure to watch in this role. Even though I do not typically look to action movies for excellent performances, he demonstrates that even action movie heros can deliver excellent commitment to character.


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Understanding Sequential Immunization Strategies
How are researchers using a step-wise approach to try to train the immune system to fend off HIV?
By Kristen Jill Kresge
Antibodies are one of the main ways the body fights off infection. These powerful proteins are also the key to the protection afforded by most, if not all, vaccines. So it is not surprising that HIV vaccine researchers have set their sights on antibodies. However, HIV presents some extraordinary challenges.
One of the challenges is that HIV is constantly changing or mutating in an effort to evade the immune responses the body mounts against it. Many people who are infected with HIV develop antibodies against the virus, but because the virus mutates so quickly, these antibodies are typically ineffective at controlling HIV infection. HIV's furious mutation also results in the numerous different strains of the virus that are in circulation around a globe. Ideally, a vaccine would be able to protect against the majority of these strains, which is another challenge for vaccine researchers. It takes a special type of antibody to block most HIV strains. Researchers refer to these antibodies as broadly neutralizing because they are capable of inactivating or "neutralizing" diverse strains of HIV.
In recent years, researchers have identified scores of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) from HIV-infected individuals. The immune systems of a small percentage of HIV-infected individuals make these antibodies after years of infection. These antibodies have been shown to neutralize most HIV strains in laboratory tests. Scientists are studying these antibodies extensively to learn how and why they develop, and what makes them able to neutralize HIV so well. They also have tested these bNAbs in animals and shown that they can protect against infection. This suggests that a vaccine that induces such antibodies might protect against HIV. Inducing these antibodies through vaccination, however, is a difficult task.
Now, thanks to new technologies and a clearer picture of how these antibodies bind to and interact with the heavily armored and notoriously unstable outer surface of HIV, researchers are developing multiple vaccine components and testing them in sequence to see if they can guide the immune system to make these highly specialized antibodies. Researchers have tested this sequential vaccination strategy in mice and have shown that this step-wise approach can induce antibodies that are able to neutralize some strains of HIV. Although these antibodies are not as broadly neutralizing as the antibodies isolated from naturally infected people, researchers think these studies in mice provide proof that a sequential immunization strategy can induce bNAbs and that this approach should be further optimized and eventually studied in human trials.
Why is sequential immunization necessary?
There are many reasons why bNAbs may be difficult to induce through vaccination. These antibodies only rarely develop in natural HIV infection because the immune cells that give rise to them aren't that common. And when bNAbs do develop naturally, it usually only occurs after a couple of years of infection. Also, all of the bNAbs that researchers have isolated to date are unusual. These antibodies have many characteristics that make them more sophisticated than normal antibodies.
One of their unique characteristics of these antibodies has to do with their structure. The bNAbs against HIV that researchers have isolated and studied so far have all accrued many changes in their structure that occurred in response to constant exposure to the ever-mutating virus. The changes in the structure of the antibodies make them better able to bind to and neutralize HIV. The more times that the antibody changes or mutates, the more "mature" the antibody becomes, and the better it is a t neutralizing HIV.
The process of maturation, through which an antibody mutates and becomes better at neutralizing HIV, is critical to the design of vaccines. Many scientists have hypothesized that multiple different vaccine components (the active ingredients of vaccines that are known as immunogens) would likely be required to guide the human immune system to make such "mature" antibodies. To test this, researchers from several different institutions have developed a series of vaccine immunogens and tested them in mice engineered to have more human-like immune systems. The first immunogens are intended to activate the appropriate immune cells, and the subsequent immunogens are meant to guide the antibodies produced by these cells to undergo the changes that will make them better at neutralizing HIV.
A batch of recently published studies shows that this sequential immunization approach did encourage the antibodies induced by the vaccine candidates to undergo the process of maturation. This approach led to the development of antibodies that were similar to, but not as good at neutralizing HIV as the bNAbs that were isolated from HIV-infected volunteers. Although this was only tested in mice so far, researchers are calling these studies a "significant milestone" in HIV vaccine development.
Now that researchers have shown that a sequential immunization approach can be used to shepherd the development of bNAbs, they are eager to further refine and optimize this approach. First, researchers want to optimize the vaccine immunogens so that they can induce antibodies capable of neutralizing even more HIV strains. Second, they need to take into consideration that humans have a much more diverse and complex immune system than humanized mice, and so even an approach that is successful in animals may not work as well in humans.
Eventually, researchers hope to advance some of these sequential immunization strategies into early-stage human trials.
Vol. 14, No. 05 – October 2016
In the Epidemic's Heart
Some of the Vaccine-Related Sessions at HIV R4P


Interbrand has acquired retail consultancy HMKM, in a move Interbrand says will 'turbo-charge' its offering.
HMKM was established in 1990 and works for clients including Nike, Selfridges and Galeries Lafayette.
The consultancy has its headquarters in London and works for international clients.
HMKM says it will continue to operate under its existing brand following the acquisition, and the leadership team, which includes managing director Alison Cardy and interior design director Christian Papa, will remain with the company.
Jez Frampton, global chief executive of Interbrand, says, 'We have an existing group of people retail-wise – this move significantly turbo-charges our offering.