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Windows 7 ready to clobber XP as top OS
Windows 7 seems poised to steal the crown from XP as the world's top OS, according to new stats from Net Applications.
June 4, 2012 8:34 a.m. PT
Net Applications
Look out Windows XP, Windows 7 is hot on your tail.
After a long reign as the world's dominant OS, XP is in danger of being knocked off its perch by the current flavor of Windows.
Surveying the OS landscape in May, Net Applications pegged Windows XP's market share at 44.8 percent and Windows 7's at 40.5 percent. That's the narrowest gap between the two since Windows 7 debuted in 2009. It's also a significant change from April when XP held a 46 percent share and Windows 7 a 38.8 percent share.
For more than ten years ago, Windows XP has held strong as the top OS in the face of later versions. Punching bag Windows Vista has actually lost share over the years, now holding just over 7 percent of the market. But Windows 7 has continued to climb, slowly but surely creeping to the top.
Compare the stats for last month with May of 2011 when XP accounted for 55 percent of the OS market and Windows 7 just 27 percent. If the pace continues, Windows 7 should overtake Windows XP sometime in the next several months.
The move to Windows 7 has been slow, especially among enterprises. Individual users can more easily jump from one OS to another. But companies face a huge task migrating all their PCs and users to a new OS. I went through a couple of OS migrations in my old IT job, and they can be daunting.
All hardware and software must be tested for compatibility. Users have to be trained. And the physical migration itself has to be run and completed within a certain amount of time.
Windows XP has also been popular for so long because it works. It's proven itself a robust and stable OS, and one capable of running the applications on which many businesses and users rely.
But with support for XP set to expire in less than two years, more companies have been switching to Windows 7. Microsoft itself has been pushing the upgrade, even going to far as to tell businesses on XP not to wait for Windows 8. So the passing of the crown from XP to Windows 7 may have taken its time, but it's been inevitable.
Windows XP holding on as dominant OS
XP loses ground to Windows 7 but still top OS
Windows 8 due 'for the holidays,' but will biz bite?
And what about Windows 8?
The new OS is still a blip on the radar, ending last month with a market share of little more than a tenth of a percentage point.
Of course, that's to be expected with a product that was only available as a downloadable beta, aka Consumer Preview. We'll have to see if the newly-launched Release Preview picks up more steam after the June stats are released.
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SIGH – Disaster, Pestilence & War
Articles Interviews
by Robin Syversen
Etter nettopp å ha sett Sigh for første gang på årets Brutal Assault Festival, inntar jeg presseteltet i håp om å få noen ord fra bandet. Etter omtrent en time i kø med reportere fra diverse fanziner og blader setter jeg med ned med grunnlegger og vokalist Mirai, samt hans nyeste medlem Dr. Mikannibal som står for kvinnelig vokal (kun growling) og saksofon. En lett nervøsitet legger seg over meg når jeg plutselig sitter ansikt til ansikt med ett band som faktisk har vært med siden den første fremveksten av norsk black metal. Det er ikke hver dag man får mulighet til å snakke med ett av de få bandene som ble signet på Deathlike Silence Productions. Mye har dog skjedd siden den gang. På konserten ble det utelukkende spilt låter fra de to siste albumene, så en naturlig start blir å snakke om bandets siste slipp.
What would you say is the biggest difference between "Hangman's Hymn" and "Scenes From Hell" ?
Mirai: Well, some say that these two albums are similar, while others say that they are completely different. I think they are both right. If you look at the symphonic elements, they are similar. But the topic on "Scenes From Hell", or world view if you will, which is presented through music, is totally different from any of our previous albums. Another big difference is that the symphonic elements on "Scenes From Hell" are not programmed, but recorded with real orchestral instruments. Also, the songs are a little bit longer and more complex on "Scenes From Hell".
"Hangman's Hymn" appears to be a more straightforward mix of classical elements and black metal. "Scenes From Hell", on the other hand, seems to apply a bit more avant-garde elements such as saxophone and Hammond organ.
Mirai: That is true, though I wouldn't call it avant-garde. In this day and age I view these elements of our music as quite normal. I would say that "Hangman's Hymn" is quite easy to approach, not containing any "avant-garde" or progressive elements, while "Scenes From Hell" has more of these elements embedded into it.
On the heavy metal documentary "Global Metal" Marty Friedman said that he loved Japanese metal because it more freely mixes genres and styles in a manner that could never be done in Europe or America. He claimed that Japanese metal wasn't confined by the same boundaries and limitations as the European and American metal scene. What are your reactions to this statement?
Mirai & Dr. Mikannibal: We don't agree with that at all.
Mirai: Japanese pop music is not avant-garde at all, it is only made for consumption. It is a commodity. To Marty Friedman, J-pop is his bread and butter. But this has nothing to do with real metal.
Dr. Mikannibal: Marty might have been referring to the Japanese metal genre "visual key". This genre is all about appearance and entertainment, but it is not exactly metal…
Mirai: It's not music!
So do you feel that Sigh is a part of the Japanese music scene?
Mirai: No. Actually there are many Japanese black metal bands, but most of them are just copycats with no originality to it. Very few of them would stand a chance on the international market. Still, there are some great bands, but not many.
Both Global Metal and other metal magazines have pointed out that breaking through in Japan, for American and European bands, is not such a big thing as it used to be in the 80's. Has the Japanese audience lost interest in American and European metal to the benefit of domestic Japanese acts?
Mirai: I think so. I also think it is connected with how Japanese culture has gradually become more popular in America and Europe.
Dr. Mikannibal: Japan is also one of the few countries were the domestic music always has been supported by its own people.
On your earlier albums, such as "Infidel Art" or "Ghastly Funeral Theater", Japanese tradition and culture was clearly reflected in artwork and lyrics. Would you say that "Scenes From Hell" reflect Japanese society in some kind of way?
Mirai: I would say so. Especially since the war (WWII) is one of the topics on "Scenes From Hell". The brass melodies orchestrated on "Scenes From Hell" is for the Japanese people reminiscent with World War II, since it resembles a war march. To the Japanese audience the music reminds them of a military march. The American and European audience react very differently. They call it circus music. I guess there is a difference of perception between American and European audience as opposed to the Japanese audience.
What about the artwork on "Scenes From Hell". Is it reflecting the music, the lyrics or both at the same time?
Mirai: Both. Everything on "Scenes From Hell" is closely connected. Artwork, lyrics and music is all interrelated with the theme of the album. "Scenes From Hell" is about war, death and hell. All the elements on the album is perfectly connected.
As for religion in Japan, it seems like every individual can freely subscribe to any religion of choice, though no one takes religion literarily.
Mirai: This is true. It is all about traditions. Funeral rites are done according to Buddhist tradition, Christmas is celebrated in the vein of Christianity, while on New Year we visit our Shinto shrines. I really don't think young people care, or that they even know the difference between Buddhism and Shinto.
So with an album title such as "Scenes From Hell" it is interesting to ask about the connotations of it. Being that you are a black metal band, in the Norwegian black metal environment, such a title would immediately be taken to be an antireligious message. But this is not the case with "Scenes From Hell", is it?
Mirai: No, the album is about disaster, pestilence and war. It has no religious meaning at all. Reality is much worse than imaginary hell. 100.000 people were burned to death in one night during World War II in Tokyo. That is scary.
How about the reception for your album. How has it been in Europe and America, and how has it been in Japan?
Mirai: We probably do it best in the US. But Europe also gives us much better reception than we get in Japan. When it comes to the Japanese metal fans, they prefer American or European alternatives. This is quite natural I think, since heavy metal is western culture and western music for them.
Dr. Mikannibal: That is what we do as well. We listen to western metal, never Japanese metal.
Mirai: There is no reason why Japanese fans would pick up Japanese bands first, especially when it comes to extreme metal. That kind of music doesn't have that big following in Japan. Even when larger bands visit from Europe or America, the venues are quite small.
How has the including of your new female member affected the band?
Mirai: For the band it is much better in a live setting. Our studio albums have a lot of overdubs going on that previously was hard to recreate in a live setting. With an additional member this situation has improved. I saw her (Dr. Mikannibal) perform with another death metal band and thought her performance was brilliant. Her vocal was great, she could play saxophone and she could speak English really well. This is very unusual among Japanese people, as they rarely understand that much English.
How has the audience welcomed you as a member of Sigh?
Dr. Mikannibal: My first performance was at the Inferno Festival in Oslo. There I was surprised that people came up to me and told me that my performance was great. I feel that Sigh has gained some new fans because a female member joined, but at the same time there are some diehard fans that complain about the changes in the band.
Mirai: I don't think this is fair. If she joined the band for appearance only, that would be one thing, but that is obviously not the case with Dr. Mikannibal.
How about your influences. What influenced you in the initial phase of the band, and what are your influences today?
Mirai: Well, I have two major musical backgrounds that influenced me. Firstly I have been trained in classical piano for 20 years, since I was 4 years old. That is why classical music always has been the biggest influence for me. Then, as a teenager I started to listen to heavy metal music in the 80's. Today I still listen to a lot of heavy metal, but mostly the same things I listened to as a teenager.Are there any good bands in recent years at all?
Mirai: I listen to some new bands. I like "Three Inches of Blood", "Municipal Waste" and "Skeletonwitch".
Dr. Mikannibal: I mostly listen to Jazz music at the moment. I do listen to some metal also, but never really got into black metal. When it comes to metal, I mostly listen to death metal.
What are the future plans for Sigh?
Mirai: In September we will be the opening act for Mayhem as they will be doing three shows in Japan. After that we are not sure what will happen. At the moment our record contract with The End Records is over, so we will have to hunt for a new label. Hopefully we can release our ninth album next year sometime.
What about releasing a Sigh DVD?
Mirai: I don't know. Since we have changed a lot of labels over the years, four or five I think, I anticipate that there would be a lot of problem in relation to different songs belonging to different labels and so forth.
Any final words?
Mirai & Dr. Mikannibal: We would love to come back and play in Norway.
http://www.myspace.com/sighjapan
MARK KLOEPPEL (Misery Index) – Song writing makes a guitarist unique
APOLLYON (Aura Noir) – Jeg synger med sjela


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Journalism, PR, Ad students win awards
Loyola press release - April 19, 2007
(New Orleans)� Several Loyola University New Orleans students and student organizations have been honored recently.
The student newspaper, the Maroon, took home the third place general excellence award, as well as several individual staff members winning awards ranging from first third place and an honorable mention, from the annual Louisiana Press Association Better Newspaper Competition on Saturday, April 14, 2007 and several awards from the Society of Professional Journalists- Region 12 Mark of Excellence Awards at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AK on March 31, 2007.
This year�s Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) Bateman team placed in the top 10 in the nation and earned an honorable mention for their campaign for Family Caregiving 101.
And the Advertising Team placed 3rd in district competition Friday, April 13, 2007. The team also won a special judges award entitled, "Outstanding Creative Innovation."
Maroon honored at Louisiana Press Association Better Newspaper Competition
At the Louisiana Press Association Better Newspaper Competition, the Maroon took home the third place general excellence award. First place awards were presented to Loyola mass communication sophomore Ramon Vargas in the category �Best Sports Story or Sports Feature� for his article, "Ties that Bind," and to finance senior Chris Senac in the �Staff Generated - Color Over 1/2 Page� for his "Funky Butt" ad.
Economic arts and sciences senior Faheem Iqbal took home a second place award for �Staff Generated - Black and White 1/2 Page or Under� for his "Mona's Cafe ad."
Senac also took home another award a third place award for his "Pit Stop" ad in the �Staff Generated Color Over 1/2 Page.�
Mass communication sophomore Lauren LaBorde's column, "I am not Chris Rose," took the third place award for �Best Column.�
Mass communication freshman Nicole Mundy was awarded an honorable mention in the category �Best Sports Story or Sports Feature� for her article, "Killer Instincts."
Louisiana Press Association's (LPA) mission is to unite Louisiana newspapers as a cooperative association which creates and fosters an economic, political, and legal environment where newspapers can compete and flourish as providers of information and information services. The LPA is the official trade organization for Louisiana newspapers and provides representation in the legislature and educational services.
Maroon honored at Society of Professional Journalists- Region 12 Mark of Excellence Awards
Collegiate journalists submitted more than 3,300 entries in 39 categories across the Society of Professional Journalism�s regions for the Society of Professional Journalists- Region 12 Mark of Excellence Awards. First place regional winners will advance to the national round of judging, which takes place in early April. Winners will be announced in mid-May.
Mass communication junior Daniel Monteverde won �Breaking News Reporting� for ��Pathways� Unveiled� and first place in �Online News Reporting� for ��Pathways� Protested.�
Kelly Brown and Jared Bailey, A �06, won second place in �Feature Writing� for �Washed Away.�
Ramon Vargas won second place for �Sports Writing� for �Ties that bind� and Nicole Mundy won third place for �Sports Writing� for �Killer Instincts.� Ramon Vargas and Nicole Mundy jointly won first place for �Online Sports Reporting� for �Tulane vs. Loyola.�
Additionally, mass communication sophomore Catherine Cotton and mass communication junior Michael Nissman jointly won second place for �Two or More Pages Photo Layout� from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. The award was given at Columbia University in New York City.
The Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) honor the best in student journalism. The SPJ is the nation�s most broad-based journalism organization, dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism and stimulating high standards of ethical behavior.
Bateman team places in national top ten
Bateman team director and mass communication senior Cristy Rivera, psychology senior Lyse Jackson, mass communication juniors Andre Breaux and Stephen Brown, and marketing junior Katherine Hebert made up the presenting team. The team is lead by Dr. Cathy Rogers, associate professor of the school of mass communication.
The Loyola PRSSA Bateman team competes each spring in the Bateman Case Study Competition, the PRSSA annual case competition. It is the premier public relations competition in the country, in which Loyola consistently places as one of the top teams in the nation. Over the past eight years, the Loyola University New Orleans team has placed in the finals every year and won the national championship three times. They have won a top-three ranking in the nation for the past seven years. This year, the competition's cause was FamilyCaregiving101.org, a starting place for family caregivers and adults caring for ill or aging family members to find help. The team's objectives for this year's campaign was to raise awareness of family caregiver issues in the Greater New Orleans area and drive more traffic to the Family Caregiving 101 website.
�Congratulations to Professor Rogers and the Bateman team,� said Dr. Walter Harris, Jr., provost and vice president for academic affairs. �They are continuing their long and distinguished record of successful competition. It is a true credit to their talent and leadership and a credit to the university.�
The competition was established by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) in 1973 to allow members of PRSA an opportunity to exercise the analytical skills and mature judgment required for public relations problem-solving. Past case studies have dealt with nuclear energy, the American Heart Association, a nonprofit community-centered family counseling service provider, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and most recently Ford Motor Credit Company.
Ad Team places third in district competition
The five members of the 14-member advertising team presented at the competition, mass communication seniors Mollie Partesotti and Jeremy Claud, and mass communication juniors Michael Miller, Ted Makarewicz, and Anna Toujas. This year�s team was led by Robbie Vitrano, part-time instructor and 1985 Loyola arts and sciences alum. Vitrano is also the creative director at Trumpet Advertising, the company that contributed to creating the "Forever New Orleans� advertising and marketing campaign designed to bring visitors back to New Orleans.
The Advertising Team competes each spring in the National Student Advertising Competition sponsored by the American Advertising Federation. Selected students work on a real-world campaign for a national company. Past sponsors have included Toyota, Pizza Hut, Hallmark, VISA, and other nationally recognizable companies. As part of the project, students develop a comprehensive campaign for the client including research, creative ideas, and media recommendations. In addition to preparing a professional plans book, they travel to compete at the district competition in April. Loyola�s district includes Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and Tennessee. In the past 10 years, Loyola University New Orleans has won the District competition on average every other year.
For more information, please contact the Office of Public Affairs at (504) 861-5888.
Loyola University New Orleans is a Jesuit-Catholic institution with a total student enrollment of 4,724 including 800 law students.


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Corry Kamachi and Wildwind Boats are back on the water big-time with a new, rather fantastic catamaran: the Wildcat45. The boat's inspired by that ultimate in speed sailing, the America's Cup 45.
As most sailors know, the 34th America's Cup is on track to take off next year in San Francisco, where race teams will compete aboard huge, high-tech AC-72 catamarans.
Before that final shootout takes place however, a two-year regatta series is underway using reduced-size AC-45 boats.
OK, I use the term "boat" here somewhat advisedly; I'm not talking about the dinghy your mom sails to church on Sunday. The AC-45 is different; it's a super-speed-extreme, water-based, wind-powered platform. It's more like something CERN would sail to near lightspeed in the Large Hadron Collider, and then smash to study the quarks emitted.
Ok, I admit that video uses edited clips to make a point. I also agree there is huge excitement, history, and spectacle associated with the Americas Cup series. This is the absolute ultimate contest of no-holds-barred sail power.
The global significance of the AC regatta and the mythic stature of the AC yacht designs raise a high challenge to virtual boat builders. Not many have the skill, street-cred, and frank audacity to bring this kind of boat to Second Life. Luckily, Corry Kamachi and Wildwind are at the top of the list that do!
Corry's built boats in SL for several years under the Wildwind label. She's primarily focused on contemporary, hi-tech race boats and she's had her eye on the AC 45 for a long time.
Well sportsfans, that new Wildcat45 just hit the water, and its pretty fantastic. It's the big catamaran many SL racers were wishing for this past year, and frankly it's a good deal more. Let me fill you in on just a few of the details.
The physical design and dimensions of the Wildcat45 very closely match the real-life AC 45 Rule. Go look at the America's Cup blueprints, then grab a tape measure and walk around the Wildcat45 in Second Life; it's impressive. The craft work and care that went into this realistic build is evident, from the towering sail rig down to the tiny details.
When you open the Wildcat 45 v1.0 box, you'll actually find two versions of the boat included. They superficially look the same, but one is mesh and the other is sculpted. Although there are major advantages to mesh construction in SL, most sailors know that Second Life is having difficulty updating the grid servers to support mesh vehicles. Wildcat45 acknowledges this problem, and gives you the best of both worlds.
The box also includes detailed notecards about the boat's operation as well as instructions about adjusting settings and textures to fit a sailor's personal preferences. The options are full-featured; you can set the com channel, the operation mode, the sheet-step size, and adjust the sit and cam positions.
If you want to change the boat's textures, there are several subfolders that include templates for the hull, sails, and rigging. There are also specific UV maps and sculpti textures that should give experienced sailors everything they need to pimp their ride.
Most of my comments apply to the mesh construction version; I'm guessing in a month or so that will be the version sailors prefer. A few days ago I commented about a new realism that's emerging in SL sailcraft, partly due to mesh construction. SL vessels are evolving an ever-closer match to their real-life counterparts, and the Wildcat45 is a great example of this trend, in both appearance and performance.
The boat has two symmetrical hulls , with all the hardware and rigging you would expect from the real boat. Collision tests with Wildwind45 show that "the boat you see is the boat that bangs into things" (that's good). However, the mast and sails are phantom while underway, as are both rudders.
Wildcat45 does not have a mainsail; it has a hard wing instead that functions like an airplane wing. On the leach end of the wing (the trailing edge) there's also a large adjustable panel that works to adjust lift (more on that below).
In addition, the boat comes with two headsails: a normal, working jib and a much larger gennaker that provides an extra boost sailing downwind.
Wildcat45 also comes with a redesigned Wildwind Control HUD with a dual column of buttons that control many standard sailing functions. However, a skipper can optionally do away with the HUD and sail the boat just with chat commands.
The boat comes with two additional "Info HUDs" that provide very detailed feedback about boat speed, sail status, and wind parameters. One of the Info HUDs is for a crew member, since the Wildcat45 crew can actively switch sides on this boat to adjust heel angle and maximize speed.
If you're familiar with sailing Wildwind boats, and particularly if you know the ACJ-35 or ACJ-90, you're in for a big surprise. A lot has changed in the Wildwind design to make the engine and features of the boat more realistic and sheer fun to sail.
First of all, Wildwind has switched to use map compass headings instead of the old draftboard compass system that was a Tako legacy. That makes life a lot more convenient!
Wildcat45 has built-in boat wind, and a skipper can set the numerical wind direction and speed using chat commands. The boat has a separate racing mode that picks up cruise wind settings from a race line WWC. You can easily tell which boats are sailing in race mode since they automatically display the user-set race numbers at the top of the wing.
The biggest and best change in the Wildwind engine is the use of full-strength apparent wind effects! Nearly all earlier Wildwind boats used a 'weighted' headwind adjustment that was about one-third the real life Apparent Wind correction. Although there were good arguments in favor of this adjustment, the use of a proprietary wind algorithm made it difficult to race the boats in a mixed fleet, and it made the boats less realistic.
Well sports fans, that's all history. 🙂 The Wildwind engine now uses the standard real-life calculations to turn real wind parameters into the apparent wind forces that drive the boat. That's a very nice thing!
Let's talk sailing! When a skipper raises sail on a catamaran, one of the first and most important goals is to get the windward hull out of the water. Riding on one hull cuts the drag effects in half, and the boat starts to fly.
You might think this is only a problem sailing upwind or on a reach, when heel effects are maximum. Well, you'd be wrong. 🙂 Ask Russell Coutts!
Since heel is so important to boat speed, the Wildcat45 has a few ways for a sail team to adjust the angle. Both the skipper and crew can hike to either windward or lee positions to get the boat flying at optimal heel, and under high wind conditions it may be necessary to spill wind to keep from flipping over.
The chart to the right should give you a rough idea of what to expect sailing this boat. It shows boat speed plotted against real wind angle with a constant breeze of 9.7 kn. Sailing with the jib at an upwind heading of RWA 50, the boat already exceeds real wind speed. As the boat falls away from the wind, it quickly maxes out at roughly 120-125% RWS, until the boat falls gets to a heading of RWA 110.
Beyond that point the jib becomes progressively less efficient, so it's a good time to raise the gennaker. From RWA 120°-140° the gennaker will give an extra speed boost to a maximum of 125-130% RWS. By RWA 150°, the sails are no longer providing significant lift and the boat is primarily driven by drag effects.
This boat wants to fly, not be pushed, so drag effects are pretty inefficient. There is a realistic, rapid decline in performance over RWA 150° to a boat speed that's roughly 60% RWS.
If you want to check the boat out and pick one up for yourself, stop by Wildwind over in Borden, or get one at Tradewinds in Dex!
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WASHINGTON, DC. FEBRUARY 21, 2014: His Holiness the Dalai Lama met with President Obama this morning at the White House. This was the third meeting between the Tibetan spiritual leader and the sitting American President. The earlier two meetings, also in the White House, took place on February 18th 2010 and July 16th 2011.
In an almost hour-long meeting, His Holiness shared his core commitment related to promotion of human values, fostering interfaith dialogue and preservation of Tibetan people's unique culture and rich tradition. The two leaders also discussed issues related to morality and leadership, and how one can produce new generation of ethical leaders in the 21st century.
President Obama said that he was honored to meet His Holiness again. He reiterated his support for the preservation of the unique religious, cultural, and linguistic traditions of Tibet. The President extended support for His Holiness' Middle Way Approach policy and reiterated that Chinese government should have constructive dialogue with His Holiness' representatives without any precondition. President Obama asked His Holiness the Dalai Lama about Tibet and His Holiness explained the current situation. President Obama expressed his deep concern about the worsening human rights situation in Tibet and Tibetan areas in China.
Honorable Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay welcomed the meeting between His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and President Obama. "I welcome President Obama's strong endorsement of the Middle Way Approach policy and constructive dialogue without any precondition. This meeting sends a powerful message of hope to Tibetans in Tibet who are undergoing immense suffering. The meeting reflects the American government and people's continued commitment to freedom and democracy," said the Sikyong.


Six years ago, Loren Krytzer was down on his luck, to say the least. The onetime carpenter was forced to live on a paltry disability check each month after losing his foot in a car accident. After paying $700 in rent in Leona Valley, California, "LT," as he is known by his friends, was left with only $200 a month for basic living expenses. He was in such financial straits, he moved his children to Louisiana to live with their grandmother.
Krytzer took the blanket to John Moran auction house in Monrovia, California, where he gave a detailed history of the textile. It was passed down from his great-great-great-grandfather John Chantland in the 1800s. In 2012, the auction house determined it was one of the finest and rarest Navajo chief's blankets in the world and put it up for auction with a $150,000 opening bid.
The blanket was won by "Antiques Roadshow" host, Don Ellis, the same man who appraised the blanket Krytzer saw on TV the year before. The final price: $1.5 million.


Which IL Concealed Carry Class Do I Need to Take?
When the news broke that Illinois citizens would, after so many years of extensive debate, protest and political action, be able to legally carry a concealed firearm, it was well known that firearms safety classes would be an important prerequisite. This in itself sparked even more questions: How do I get my IL concealed carry permit? Where are pistol basics classes held? Which tests do I need to take if I'm an experienced shooter… and this is just a sampling of questions we hear every day.
Since this is a completely new concept to so many responsible Illinois citizens, we wanted to help clarify some information, regarding the IL concealed carry classes needed to obtain one's IL CCL card.
How do I get my IL concealed carry permit?
This one is by far on the minds of more responsible Illinois gun owners than perhaps any other. Fortunately, the process is actually a lot of fun… provided you enroll in the right class. The very first step on your way to constitutional freedom is getting you Illinois FOID card (Firearm owner identification). If you don't have it, you can start the process here. If you already have a valid IL FOID card, you're one step ahead of the game. From there, you can enroll in the NRA Basic Pistol Safety course… the next step on your way to obtaining your IL concealed carry license.
Which tests do I need to take to obtain a CCL permit in Illinois?
The specific concealed carry courses you will be required to pass, will depend heavily on how much prior pistol safety training, and/or certifications you have. This is most applicable to any active or retired military, former police, security professionals and other groups. If you have none of these, you will be taking the full 16-hour safety & concealed carry course. If you're an expert (and can prove it, legally) you will likely only need to take a one day 8-hour course.
Where are Chicago pistol basics classes held?
From what we've gathered over the years, the most popular firearms safety & certification classes are offered at regions far outside the greater Chicago area. This includes the far southern, northern & western suburbs, as well as mid-, central and downstate locations. At Concealed Carry of Illinois LLC, we began offering official NRA Pistol Safety classes, in addition to IL Concealed Carry certification throughout Chicago in September of 2013.
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Florida judge throws out GOP-friendly congressional map
May 12, 2022 by Editorial staff
A Florida state judge has thrown out the congressional map passed by the Republican legislature and pushed by Governor Ron DeSantis, ruling that it violated state law by drawing Black voters out of a north Florida district.
Circuit Judge Layne Smith ruled Wednesday that the enacted map violates the state's constitutional amendments on redistricting because "it diminishes African Americans' ability to elect candidates of their choice" in Florida's 5th District.
He called for the state to adopt a map that restores the district's previous shape, which would stretch from Jacksonville to Tallahassee and have a near majority-Black voting age population.
The originally adopted version of the map reduces Florida's 5th District to nearly a third of its original size, while dispersing about 370,000 Black voters among four other districts, according to evidence brought to the court by the map's challengers and voting rights groups.
"The minority vote is lowered enough that you would expect it to be substantially harder for minorities to elect the candidate of their choice," Smith said.
Smith that there would be a written order signed by Friday so the state's defendants may appeal. They will be able to appeal the decision to the state's 1st District Court of Appeal, though Smith said that court could then send it up to the Florida Supreme Court.
Mohammad Omar Jazil, an attorney for Florida's secretary of state, noted that a stay on Smith's decision would automatically be triggered if defendants file an appeal.
"I fully expect the appellate court to get this and move as quickly as they can," Smith said.
Democratic Congressman Al Lawson, who represents Florida's 5th District, said he was pleased by Smith's decision and said "it is critical to maintain congressional district 5, so minority voters have a voice at the ballot box in November."
"DeSantis is wrong for enacting this Republican-leaning map that is in clear violation of the US and state constitutions," he said. "I am optimistic that future courts will also do what is right."
As the original map was moving through the legislature, DeSantis and his allies cited issues with compactness while pushing for a drastic change to Florida's 5th District. They had also claimed the district violates the US Constitution because it assigns voters "primarily based on race."
"Race and political partisan data is in no way related at all to my drawing of any of the districts on the map," said Alex Kelly, DeSantis' deputy chief of staff, during a presentation of their map to a Florida Senate committee in April .
Smith declined to rule on whether Florida's 5th District violates federal voting rights law, saying that was a decision for another court to make.
DeSantis' map also favored his party and could have given the party the net gain of four seats in Florida alone. All seven members on Florida's Supreme Court were appointed by Republican governors.
Aaron Navarro
Aaron Navarro is an associate producer for the political unit at CBS News, focusing on House and gubernatorial campaigns as well as the census and redistricting.
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Investing 101 for teens in South Korea gain popularity
By Kim Hae-yeon
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Korean teenagers have jumped on the stock investment bandwagon, as investment tutorials targeted at students -- as young as elementary school kids -- have soared over the winter holidays.
Bae Jin-han from the Fine Start Academy recently launched a lecture series over the winter vacation aimed at teens interested in investing in stocks.
Nicknamed "super ant" -- a term referring to retail investors -- Bae is a parent of a 15-year-old child who made 600 million won ($543,000) worth of assets with just a few million won, by success in stock investment.
In November 2020, following requests by parents who wanted Bae to share his know-hows with their own kids, Bae held a special, closed lecture session for middle and high school students. The feedback was much more positive than he had expected, which led Bae to openly recruit students for a 12-round lecture series in January this year.
The online class, which teaches students how to invest directly in stocks, attracted scores of teenage students despite the rather burdensome cost of 660,000 won for the two-week course.
The classes are a sign that there is an existing market for parents hoping to start finance education at an early age, but it has also sparked worries that the courses promote speculation and materialism among the younger generation.
The first lecture session, which recruited 15 students both here and overseas, ended in great success. The youngest applicant is known to be a sixth grader in elementary school.
Bae Joo-han, Bae's older brother and co-chair of the company Decamon which organizes the lectures, said, "It is important to know how to manage assets through experience from an early age, especially in times when it becomes harder to maintain one's assets with savings alone."
"Our intention here is to become a facilitator along the process," Bae added.
The scope and depth of the lecture program is different from the basic investment courses that financial companies provide.
The class starts out with "How to read economic and industrial articles," and "How to choose an investment company," before moving on to deeper analyses and eventually teaching students how to form an investment portfolio.
Fine Start Academy also plans on launching a subscription service, so that it can continue to provide investment information to students, while also offering one-on-one consultations.
Meanwhile, the number of stock investment accounts opened in South Korea under the age of 19, increased 17-fold in a single year, from 6,838 accounts in 2019, to 115,623 in 2020, according to online financial institution Kiwoom Securities. Its share of private securities accounts has also increased from 1 percent to 5 percent.
By Kim Hae-yeon (hykim@heraldcorp.com)


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Janice van Klaveren is een Surinaams zangeres. Ze zingt solo en als achtergrondzangeres en maakte deel uit van Ed & Friends, The Kasimex Houseband en Las DiVas.

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Van Klaveren werd rond 1989/1990 geboren. Ze volgde de imeao en daarna, van 2010 tot 2014, de opleiding International Tourism Management aan de IBW Hogeschool. Toen zij 23 was en haar zus Janet 21, deden ze beide mee aan de Tropical Beauties Suriname 2013; haar zusje behaalde toen de tweede plaats.

Ze was zangeres in bands als Ed & Friends en The Kasimex Houseband en deed in 2014 mee aan het tweejaarlijkse songfestival SuriPop. In mei van dat jaar trad ze toe tot Las DiVas, een muziekgroep van vijf zangeressen die werd opgericht en gemanaged door Conchita Berggraaf. De groep ging rond 2017 uit elkaar.

Daarnaast treedt ze op als gastartiest, zoals in april 2017 tijdens de show van hiphop-artiest Donavey, en heeft ze op de achtergrond gezongen voor artiesten als Jhesiral (Rodney Winsi), Pinas Emanuel, Prince Koloni, Turbulence en Young Boss, en was ze langere tijd de vaste achtergrondzangeres van Kater Karma.

In april 2019 maakten zij, Damaru en meer dan tien andere artiesten hun opwachting in het eerste seizoen van de YouTube-serie V-MSD LIVE dat werd geproduceerd door Vania's Muziekschool Studio's. In december van dat jaar zongen zij en Anveny Watson het verkiezingslied dat door Olu Abena werd geschreven en de verkiezingen van 2020 aankondigde.

In augustus 2020 nam zij met  J Prophet het duet The way you make me feel op. De samenwerking inspireerde haar om aan eigen muziek te werken, waar ze op 19 november gevolg aan gaf met de release van haar solonummer Mi e gwe (Ik ga weg).

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This is the first in a series of profiles on Australia's leading Fintech Entrepreneurs.
CEO of Tyro Payments, Jost Stollmann, is not your everyday briefcase wielding, cappuccino sipping banking executive. In fact, until he'd stepped foot on the shores of Australia, after circumnavigating the world from his homeland of Germany, he'd never worked a day in a bank in his entire life. Fast forward 10 years however, and Stollmann is one of the driving forces behind the success of local independent eftpos provider Tyro Payments. Along with remaining founders Andrew Rothwell and Peter Haig, Stollmann has navigated the fledgling fintech company through treacherous start-up seas – from securing scarce investment in a barren early-stage funding environment, to gaining an almost impossible to acquire banking license, right through to surviving the 'Valley of Death' during the Global Financial Crisis.
A vocal advocate for banking reform, especially when it comes to small business, Stollmann can often be heard publicly lamenting the lack of innovation and progress made by Australia's staid banking oligopoly. The recent Financial Systems Inquiry saw Stollmann and his team call for a ban on interchange fees, who's meteoric rise over the past few years through the proliferation of card types, or 'gaming of the system' has caused immense stress on local small businesses. These fees, incorporated into the charge each merchant pays to their bank when they accept card payments, has effectively allowed credit card issuers, Australia's major banks, to use small business to subsidise the reward programs of Australia's top income bracket, to the tune of $300 million dollars. The very same stratospheric interchange fees on platinum and premium credit cards have also been touted as one factor in the unpopular rise of surcharging by small merchants, desperate to recover costs in order to subsidise their ever shrinking margins.
Breaking into the banking sector in Australia is certainly not for the faint-hearted. Yet Stollmann's love affair for mission impossible has proven a handy ace up the Tyro team's sleeve, allowing them to do just that, and turn a profit. And rather than defend his hard-fought for outcrop from other challengers, Stollmann and his team have opened up their doors and arms to the local fintech community, launching Australia's first ever fintech hub, one floor above their Sydney CBD offices. It's just another example of an ingrained banking culture of secrecy and smoke and mirrors that Stollmann and his team are determined to turn on its head. And while the retail banking sector in Australia remains a formidable opponent, Stollmann's drive to continue the technology driven, small business banking success story that is Tyro Payments looks set to continue well into the future.
This is the first story in my Fintech Founders series. You can read them all here.


"There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem." Most likely it was Pentecost. Jesus found his way to the famous pool and saw there a crippled man, who had lain there for many years, in the hope of a miraculous healing. We don't know why Jesus chose this man to heal; perhaps it was because Jesus knew how the man would respond.
Jesus asked the man if he wanted to be cured. It wasn't such a silly question as we might think. The man had waited for thirty-eight years; he might well have been content to stay an invalid and live on handouts. After all, to be healed would demand huge change in his life and he would have to find a way to earn a living. Jesus also asks us whether we really want to be changed.
Then Jesus spoke the word of command. "Take up your bed and walk!" It's as if he said, "You do it!" In fact, that's just what he did say. The man had to act, and God gave the power, the strength, the ability. God is not in the business of frustrating us as we respond. The man was able to get up and walk.
Nonetheless the man's obedience to Jesus soon got him into trouble with the authorities. It was the Sabbath and he was not supposed to be carrying his bed or anything else. When we act in response to Jesus, there may well be strife with the authorities; there may be difficulties and possibly suffering. But God's words, God's vision, achieve the purpose for which they are sent-in this case, a healing and testimony of the ministry of Christ. In John's gospel, this is the first of several incidents in which Jesus and his message begin to be rejected, leading ultimately to the cross.
Why did the man act? Because Jesus told him to, and because the man discerned within himself that Jesus had made it possible for him to walk. "Faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ", as Romans 10.17 says.
Notice that the text says that when Jesus spoke the word of healing "at once the man was made well, took up his mat and began to walk." (The bed by the way, was easily carried, just a light pallet, stretcher or mat.) The fact of the healing-the ability to walk, to take action, came from the words of Jesus.
That is not to say that healing does not sometimes may take time. Nor does it say that sometimes we may have to think and struggle within our minds to reach a position of understanding, belief, and faith. But it does say that God's words to us in Christ themselves empower us to respond.
Paul and his travelling companions had been in the provinces of Phrygia and Galatia, in what is now Turkey, but were directed by the Holy Spirit not to minister in the province of Asia, to the east. Nor were they allowed by God to go into Bithynia. So they must have been wondering, quite literally, "Where to next?"
Don't we, in our own lives and our life as a church often ask the same question, "Where to next?" It's a question we best come to when we are not captive to old ways of doing things or paralysed by traditions and property.
Not that I'm saying that we shouldn't have tradition. On the contrary, I rejoice in much of our tradition as God-given. But we must not be captive to tradition and old ways of doing things. Jesus' words empowered the man beside the pool to break free from the crippled past and to move.
Similarly with Paul and his friends; the previous plans-no doubt good plans-had been countermanded by the Spirit. So Paul was ready to act when he heard afresh from God. He went to Macedonia-and so began the ministry of the church in Europe.
So, here we have two examples-Paul, and the man beside the pool-of changed lives in response to a word from God. But, we might well ask, how can we hear in such a way, how can we recognise that God is speaking to us? The man beside the pool may never have seen or heard Jesus before, but it was Jesus after all, and his words had unique authority.
Most importantly, of course, God speaks through the scriptures. The scriptures themselves also describe many gifts of the Holy Spirit through which we may hear from God-gifts of prophecy, gifts of a word of wisdom, gifts of a word of knowledge, discerning of spirits, gifts of a special kind of faith, gifts of tongues and interpretation of tongues. I'm confident that the Holy Spirit gives and uses such gifts in the church today.
One thing important in recognising and responding to our Lord is, simply, practice. As always, we can begin simply. Responding to God is often a matter of doing what is good, of keeping a sensitive conscience, of obeying the great commandments of love for God and our neighbour. As we read and pray, as we learn to respond to the inner promptings of God in our minds and in our consciences, we become schooled in the way of God, the pathways of the Spirit.
A most important way that God speaks with us, personally and as a body, is through the ministry of preaching-the faithful week-by-week exposition of the scriptures. Our rector, the Reverend Rob Lamerton, may not cast himself in the role of a great prophet; but he is most wonderfully the person given to us by God from whom to hear in the preaching of the Scriptures. Each time the Bible is opened from this pulpit, because of God' grace and God's gift, the Holy Spirit speaks to each of us and to all of us.
For example, let's remind ourselves of some of the things that we heard during the Epiphany season. After returning from his leave, Rob first spoke to us the second Sunday after Epiphany, the 14th of January. The Gospel was about the wedding where Jesus turned the water into wine. "Jesus", Rob said, "is the one who replaces Jewish tradition with celebratory joy! God is one who rejoices over his people as a bridegroom rejoices over the bride. It's rejoicing at restoration-the restoration of God's people!"
"It raises the question", Rob said, of "how do we go about restoring God's people? We can be frightened and uncertain what to say . . . we now need the ability to tell our faith story which is made up of many faith stories!"
The next week, the third Sunday after Epiphany, Rob reminded us that "The times in the life of the Christian and others when God seems to intervene, giving strength and direction, hope and comfort, wisdom beyond knowledge, are times that we need to reflect on and talk about as ways of putting a human framework to the gift, the blessing, the grace of God."
A week later, the 28th of January, Rob concluded his sermon by reading from 1 Corinthians 13-the discourse on love. Rob said, "When we are tempted to be annoyed at God because we think God should treat us better, maybe we should read this passage, ponder it for ten minutes, and then make our confession for about two hours!"
On the 5th Sunday after Epiphany, we were reminded us that, even though God may not call many of us to be missionaries on the other side of the earth, God does challenge us to be the best at what we are-in our daily round, in care and faithfulness. "We are not made worthy by how we respond," Rob said. "We are made worthy simply by the fact that it is God who calls us."
On February 11th, reflecting on Jesus 'sermon on the plain'-the "level place"-Rob thought aloud about how we Christians are called to live out our faith in the midst of all that is around us-among people of all faiths and none. He posed for us the question of how we can relate to "the crowd who have not yet comprehended the call."
The final Sunday in Epiphany was the celebration of the Transfiguration of Our Lord. "It makes us think of change", Rob said, "and how we come to see things differently." Again there was the question of how we can bridge the gap between our church community and the community around us. "Let us ponder what has opened our eyes to know a little more of God," Rob said, "and move on with our eyes open to change!"
Yes, we have heard richly from God. Have we responded? Have we obeyed? Like the man lying beside the pool in Jerusalem, the question for us is not, "What does Jesus say?" but whether we will do it.


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Healthy Revenues Prevail in Second Quarter
United Rentals announced that total revenues for the second quarter 2006 increased 12 percent to $995 million. In its general rentals segment, which includes rental of construction, aerial, industrial and homeowner equipment as well as related services and activities, second quarter 2006 revenues were $865 million, an increase of 12.2 percent compared with $771 million for the second quarter 2005.
First half 2006 revenues for general rentals were $1.62 billion, an increase of 13.3 percent compared with $1.43 billion for the first half of 2005. However, traffic control rental results were softer, leading United to revise its earnings per share estimate from the $2.17-to-$2.27 range to the $2.15-to-$2.25 range, forecasting "continued strong performance in our core business partially offset by a softer outlook for traffic control."
Baton Rouge, La.-based H&E Equipment Services announced that total second-quarter revenues increased $64.8 million to $202.5 million from $137.7 million in the second quarter of 2005. The company is increasing its 2006 revenue outlook from its previously announced range of $710 million to $740 million to approximately $750 million to $780 million.
Finning International, Edmonton, Alberta, reported 2006 second-quarter revenue of CA $1.3 billion, an increase of 2.2 percent over the second quarter of 2005. Second-quarter net income was $56.6 million or 63 cents per share, an increase of 21.2 percent in earnings per share compared with the second quarter of 2005. All figures are presented in Canadian dollars. The current exchange rate at press time is $1 CA = $.89173 U.S.
Las Vegas-based Ahern Rentals posted a 25.6-percent revenue increase in the second quarter ended June 30, with total volume rising from $50.4 million in Q205 to $63.3 million for the same period in 2006, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Ahern's rental volume increase was an even more robust 31.5 percent, rising from $42.8 million in last year's second quarter to $56.3 percent this year.
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An account of the Esperanza Fire from an animal rescuer
Posted at July 6, 2019	@ 1:01 am	by cDCCD6eb	in Uncategorized
As families fled their homes in the early morning hours on Thursday October 26, there was no warning. The Esperanza Fire southeast of Los Angeles and West of Palm Springs, California, had ballooned under the influence of Santa Ana winds to more than 19,000 acres as of the morning of October 27. No time to get the animals, no time for crates or even a leash. Sadly, owners left behind not only their horses, lamas, donkeys, chickens, rabbits, but also their dogs and cats.
Many of the families who did manage to evacuate their pets found themselves in the parking lot at the Fellowship in the Pass Church Red Cross Shelter where a MuttShack Animal Rescue team caught up with them.
Pam Anderson, Director of the emergency Red Cross shelter said that many people with animals had come and left.
The air was thick with smoke, and ash was raining down on the parking lot where dog owners, not able to take their dogs into the shelter were camping out in pup tents andin their cars.
Those who could afford it checked themselves into pet friendly hotels in nearby towns.
Some were prepared. Jane Garner, a small dog breeder was able to get all her animals out, and had set up her puppy runs alongside her RV in the parking lot. Others were not doing too well, having left home without as much as a leash.
The same scenario played out at the Red Cross shelter at Hemet High School. Animals were being boarded in vans, trailers and cars and small travel crates.
When MuttShack Animal Rescue arrived, a small fracas had sent several dogs off in different directions, running out of the school parking lot down busy streets necessitating an instant rescue response.
The Incident Command for the Esperanza Animals, Ramona Humane Society in San Jacinto welcomed MuttShack's offer to help at the shelters.
Ramona Humane Society had recently published a notice in their Newsletter about the newly passed "PETS Act"and warned owners not wait until a major disaster such as an earthquake or fireto prepare. "Be proactive to ensure that your pet will be taken care of."
MuttShack and PetSmart Charities set up ad hoc facilities for the animals at both shelters.
The Red Cross shelter, run by Madison Burtchaell of the Orange County Red Cross was very accommodating about allowing a small emergency pet shelter adjacent to the School.
Barbara A. Fought of PetSmart Charities, an organization that works with animal welfare organizations and provide assistance in disasters, provided crates and emergency supplies.
MuttShack and Red Cross volunteers, Martin St. John, Tom Hamilton, and Steve Meissner helped assemble the crates to secure a safe environment for evacuated pets.
It was a great relief for evacuees who had camped out in the parking lot to finally leave their vehicles and relax at the shelter, setting up their cots to grab some sorely needed rest.
Firefighters and residents reported loss of wildlife and animals. The Esperanza fire burned 34 homes, consumed 40,000 acres and cost five Firefighters their lives before it was contained four days later on October 30. Firefighting operations cost nearly $10 million.
MuttShack Animal Rescue is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization active in disasters and dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and care of lost or discarded dogs, cats and other animals.
HIV-positive man receives 35 years for spitting on Dallas police officer
An HIV-positive man was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday, one day after being convicted of harassment of a public servant for spitting into the eye and open mouth of a Dallas, Texas police officer in May 2006. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that no one has ever contracted HIV from saliva, and a gay-rights and AIDS advocacy group called the sentence excessive.
A Dallas County jury concluded that Willie Campbell's act of spitting on policeman Dan Waller in 2006 constituted the use of his saliva as a deadly weapon. The incident occurred while Campbell, 42, was resisting arrest while being taken into custody for public intoxication.
"He turns and spits. He hits me in the eye and mouth. Then he told me he has AIDS. I immediately began looking for something to flush my eyes with," said Waller to The Dallas Morning News.
Officer Waller responded after a bystander reported seeing an unconscious male lying outside a building. Dallas County prosecutors stated that Campbell attempted to fight paramedics and kicked the police officer who arrested him for public intoxication.
It's been 25 years since the virus was identified, but there are still lots of fears.
Prosecutors said that Campbell yelled that he was innocent during the trial, and claimed a police officer was lying. Campbell's lawyer Russell Heinrichs said that because he had a history of convictions including similarly attacking two other police officers, biting inmates, and other offenses, he was indicted under a habitual offender statute. The statute increased his minimum sentence to 25 years in prison. Because the jury ruled that Campbell's saliva was used as a deadly weapon, he will not be eligible for parole until completing at least half his sentence.
If you look at the facts of this case, it was clear that the defendant intended to cause serious bodily injury.
The organization Lambda Legal (Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund), which advocates for individuals living with HIV, says that saliva should not be considered a deadly weapon. Bebe Anderson, the HIV projects director at Lambda Legal, spoke with The Dallas Morning News about the sentence. "It's been 25 years since the virus was identified, but there are still lots of fears," said Anderson.
The Dallas County prosecutor who handled the trial, Jenni Morse, said that the deadly weapon finding was justified. "No matter how minuscule, there is some risk. That means there is the possibility of causing serious bodily injury or death," said Morse. Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins stated: "If you look at the facts of this case, it was clear that the defendant intended to cause serious bodily injury."
Contact with saliva, tears, or sweat has never been shown to result in transmission of HIV.
A page at the CDC's website, HIV and Its Transmission, states: "HIV has been found in saliva and tears in very low quantities from some AIDS patients." The subsection "Saliva, Tears, and Sweat" concludes that: "Contact with saliva, tears, or sweat has never been shown to result in transmission of HIV." On Friday the Dallas County Health Department released a statement explaining that HIV is most commonly spread through sexual contact, sharing needles, or transfusion from an infected blood product.
Emergency declared in US state of Washington, eight additional casualties, many still without power
Posted at June 28, 2019	@ 1:05 am	by cDCCD6eb	in Uncategorized
A state of emergency was declared Sunday for the U.S. state of Washington by governor Christine Gregoire, as additional reports of storm-related casualties surfaced. The state National Guard has been deployed to aid in distributing supplies.
Thousands were still without power in the coastal and Puget Sound regions, though most urban areas were back with power as late as Sunday afternoon, and outages were mostly contained to rural and unincorporated areas. Puget Sound Energy reported that roughly 500,000 energy customers out of the 700,000 who lost power were back in service by Sunday evening. Seattle City Light, the city's independent municipal utility, reported only 18,000 customers still without power as of Monday morning, down from a peak of 175,000.
Four additional deaths related to the post-storm power outage had been reported as of Monday, bringing the total number of casualties to eight. A man in Gig Harbor was electrocuted by a downed power line while walking his dog. Another man in Spanaway died when an unattended candle caused a house fire.
Two died from carbon monoxide poisoning in separate incidents related to use of combustion devices indoors. Roughly a hundred additional cases of non-fatal carbon monoxide poisoning were reported from people using generators or grills indoors. News radio stations and authorities warned the public to stay away from downed power lines and not to use grills indoors. Dr. Neil Hampson at Virginia Mason's hyperbaric unit, where a number of victims were being treated, warned it could be "the worse case of carbon monoxide poisioning in the country".
On Monday, four new carbon-monoxide deaths were reported in a family of five in Burien due to an indoor generator. In Canada, which had some damage from the week's storms, two southern British Columbia carbon monoxide deaths were also reported. Despite continued warnings, hospitals are still seeing cases of carbon monoxide poisoning, including a family in w:Shoreline, Washington which was taken to the hospital after they reported symptoms due to their indoor grill. Neighbors of the Burien family suggested that noise concerns are leading people to place noisy generators indoors.
The massive power outage left many stores and gas stations unable to operate. Some businesses opened with the help of backup generators, conserving power by foregoing heat and refrigeration, exterior lighting, and half the interior lighting. Most stores had run out of "D" size batteries, the most common size for flashlights, as well as firelogs and other essentials. Gasoline shortages were reported throughout the area, with one man selling excess fuel for as high as $15 per gallon, over 5 times the average retail price.
The Red Cross set up shelters throughout King and other affected counties for those without power or food. Hotels reported no vacancies as whole families took shelter in powered hotels, especially in Seattle. Restaurants also reported brisk business as people sought out a hot cooked meal. Tons of perishable food were expected to have become unsafe after the prolonged outage disabled refrigerators and freezers both in homes and stores.
Many of those without power visited nearby friends and family living where power had been continued or restored, while others traveled out of the area to places that had not been affected. The widespread outage made long-distance traveling treacherous on some major routes, with roadway lighting, cellular towers, and services disabled by the outage.
Most major roadways which were closed during the storm were reopened on Friday. The 520 Floating Bridge over Lake Washington, a major conduit to the technology-rich Eastside, sustained minor damage. Amtrak, which had halted its Cascades service, resumed Saturday evening. Sea-Tac Airport resumed operations with a reduced flight load, after a transient power outage on Friday disabled the airport radar and caused all planes to be grounded until it was repaired.
Blues musician Pinetop Perkins dies at age 97
American blues musician Pinetop Perkins, a first generation Delta bluesman, died in Austin, Texas, on Monday at the age of 97. His death was announced by his agent, Hugh Southard. Perkins suffered from a cardiac arrest as he took a nap and paramedics failed resuscitate him. During his 80-year career Perkins remained active until the end, even performing publicly as recently as last month.
A boogie-woogie piano player, he was a guitarist until a knife fight damaged his left arm. He was primarily a sideman. Throughout his career he worked with several big names including Sonny Boy Williamson, Ike Turner and slide guitarist Robert Nighthawk. He worked for Muddy Waters for more than a decade, including playing on Muddy's great comeback albums of the late 1970s. He was 75 before an album was released under his own name.
Perkins also made history this year by becoming the oldest Grammy award winner. He won the best traditional blues album at February's ceremony for his album, Joined at the Hip: Pinetop Perkins & Willie "Big Eyes" Smith.
Tributes have been paid to Perkins. Southard said "That drive to keep playing the blues kept is what kept him alive." He also commented on Perkins simple lifestyle saying "Two cheeseburgers, apple pie, a cigarette and a pretty girl was all he wanted."
Perkins was born in in 1913 in Mississippi and grew up on a plantation there. In a 2008 interview in No Depression he said, "I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano. What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years."
He left behind no family and will be buried in his hometown of Belzoni, Mississippi. He had been living with an associate in Austin since 2004.
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Latest trial of the One Laptop Per Child running in India; Uruguay orders 100,000 machines
India is the latest of the countries where the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) experiment has started. Children from the village of Khairat were given the opportunity to learn how to use the XO laptop. During the last year XO was distributed to children from Arahuay in Peru, Ban Samkha in Thailand, Cardal in Uruguay and Galadima in Nigeria. The OLPC team are, in their reports on the startup of the trials, delighted with how the laptop has improved access to information and ability to carry out educational activities. Thailand's The Nation has praised the project, describing the children as "enthusiastic" and keen to attend school with their laptops.
Recent good news for the project sees Uruguay having ordered 100,000 of the machines which are to be given to children aged six to twelve. Should all go according to plan a further 300,000 machines will be purchased by 2009 to give one to every child in the country. As the first to order, Uruguay chose the OLPC XO laptop over its rival from Intel, the Classmate PC. In parallel with the delivery of the laptops network connectivity will be provided to schools involved in the project.
The remainder of this article is based on Carla G. Munroy's Khairat Chronicle, which is available from the OLPC Wiki. Additional sources are listed at the end.
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Seek Out Honesty When Looking For An Auto Mechanic
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Buying a vehicle is one of the major investments that people make throughout their life. Because of that, it is important that this investment is taken care of with proper maintenance. In order to do this, you will need to seek out an auto mechanic in Fort Collins, CO who will be able to effectively keep your vehicle running for years to come. Because most of us will be at the mercy of an auto mechanic Fort Collins, CO, it is imperative that you seek out a company that is honest with you. Here's how to do it:
Reputation Will Be Important
One of the first things that will tell you if an auto mechanic is honest is if they have a good reputation. You will be able to find out if a mechanic is reputable in a few ways. You may be able to get recommendations from trusted friends and family, for instance. You also may be able to determine if an auto repair shop is reputable based on their reviews from other customers. You should always try to look up reviews online when looking for an auto repair shop for this reason.
Contact Them and Use Your Instinct
Most people know when they are being taken for a ride, which is why in this case, if you feel as if your instinct is good, you may want to use it. By contacting and auto repair shop and speaking to someone about the needed repairs, your instinct may very well tell you if this is a company that you can trust or if you should move on to someone else. If you feel as if they are honest, perhaps you should give them a shot at repairing your car.
Compare Them to Others
If you are still not certain that a repair shop you are considering is honest, you can compare their prices and services to others in the area. For instance, if one mechanic tells you that you need one repair, say on your brakes, and charge you one price and another tells you that four things are wrong with your vehicle and charge you five times as much as the first, something is wrong…
As you can see, there are some great ways to make sure that you are working with an honest company. Before leaving your car with anyone, make sure they meet the requirements above.
If you are seeking out a very honest and reliable auto mechanic in Fort Collins, CO, contact A & B Import Auto. Get in touch with them for more information.
Guantanamo inmate Murat Kurnaz transferred to Germany and released
After being held for more than four years at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, German born Turkish citizen Murat Kurnaz was transferred to German custody by U.S. authorities on Thursday. An hour later, he was released.
Kurnaz was picked up in Pakistan in 2001 when riding a bus. He was first transferred to a prison camp in Afghanistan and then transferred to Guantanamo bay. He was designated an "enemy combatant" even after German law enforcement and US intelligence officials concluded that there was no information tying him to al-Qaeda or other terrorist activities.
Kurnaz's lawyers have charged that Kurnaz was tortured while being held in Afghanistan and – to a lesser degree – while at Guantanamo Bay. Even on the flight back to Germany Kurnaz was shackled on hand and feet, tied to the ground and blindfolded.
Pentagon spokesman Chito Peppler said that the conditions for the prisoner transfer of Kurnaz to Germany included guarantees that Kurnaz be treated humanely by German authorities and that Germany take steps to ensure Kurnaz would not pose any threat to the world.
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Dozens of people killed in Mogadishu, Somalia car bombings near Sahafi Hotel
On Friday at about 4 p.m. local time, four car bombs detonated near Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. About four to five armed attackers reportedly attempted to enter the hotel through a hole in the wall. The attackers were shot by police and the hotel security guards. This has resulted in the death of at least 53 people and injury of at least 100 people, Agence France-Presse news agency quoted officials on Sunday morning.
A witness, Abdiaziz Ibrahim, who was a former spokesperson for the Internal Security Ministry, said the attackers were dressed in police uniform, according to CNN. The victim count continued to rise on Saturday. According to a police official, some of the bodies were burnt and impossible to identify.
al-Shabab, a militant Islamist group in Somalia, claimed the attack. According to Reuters, they said the hotel was a "government base" where "government officials" were always present.
The owner of the hotel also died in the attack. The hotel was located in the vicinity of Somalia's Criminal Investigations Department.
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House Democrats are prepping their agenda for the coming year in the event that the "Blue Wave" does hit in the 2018 midterm elections, as a legislative plan by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi will focus on reducing health care expenses, pushing a $1 trillion infrastructure package, and changing the ethics and lobbying laws.
These planned legislative efforts are a part of the "For the People" slogan pitched by House Democrats, but rather than embracing the progressive populist politics on the rise on the party, Pelosi is proposing Democrats follow the "pay-go" system, which means Congress can only fund entitlements and other spending ventures by cutting the budget or decreasing spending elsewhere.
As for the details of their plan, the health care initiative will focus on reducing premiums and slashing prescription drug prices, the infrastructure package is being presented as an effort to create jobs and raise wages, and the reform effort looks to allow more people access to voting and reform the campaign ethics laws.
Additionally, Democratic lawmakers in House committees are ready to hold hearings and start investigations into potential unethical behavior and crimes committed by members of the Trump administration, but they aren't leaning into cries for impeachment yet.


Informs Nuzhat al-Dawlah about his mission to evict the Sadat from Sifidan village and requests his compensation.
Letter from Tahmasbquli about the cutting off of Khanum Shahzadah Kuchak's inheritors' pensions. He is requesting an investigation of the case.
The document reads: "The guardians of Astan-i Quds received ten coins, each worth two thousand, for the stipends for this year on behalf of myself, Ashraf al-Saltanah, and for Bihjat al-Dawlah, who are servants of Astan-i Quds; five coins are for Ashraf al-Saltanah and five for Bihjat al-Dawlah." On the margin: "three tumans issued as financial draft by the chief treasurer." Dated November or December 1895.
The document reads: "It should be clear that Anis al-Dawlah's stipend (four tumans and three kharvars [one kharvar is 100 mans, roughly 300 kilograms] [of wheat]) for the rabbit year was sent by me to Dar al-Khilafah in November or December 1896."
Settlement transfers rights to ten tuman allowance of the deceased Marziyah Khanum from her brother, Mulk Ara, to her son, Akbar.
The document in part reads: "The deceased ʻAli Khan was sterile and had no children of his own and his wife is a citizen of Ottoman Empire. They adopted an orphan girl and raised her from her infancy. They are poor and in need of help."
Letter addressed to Sadr-i Sharif regarding the late Habib Allah Khan's stipend and his wife's receipt.
Mashhadiyah Sultan Khanum has received six tumans and given it to Karbalayi Muhammad Khan Sultan. There is a receipt for the payment of five tumans by 'Amid Lashkar for Muhammad Khan's stipend on the margin. He has sent this money to Muhammad Khan's children via Bayram the village chief of Varaqah .


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Q: Light Travel Delay in Kerr Render Engine me and a friend are working on a render engine which can visualise Kerr Black Holes with a volumetric accretion disk and astrophysical jet. So far, this is what we got;

As you can see, we have the following working;

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*Accurat numerical integration of the Kerr Metric to draw the image of the BH (i.e trace the rays in curve spacetime)

*Single Scatter model for Volumes (i.e the Volumetrics use  a, for this situation, accurat model. We did tests with Multiple Scattering (Monte Carlo) and the results look basically identical but take 100s of times longer

*Volume integration along the spacelike geodesic´s (i.e the Volume is sampled while the ray marches through the scene, meaning the effects of curved spacetime are represented in the image of the disk)

This is all fine but a few things are missing. Such as Redshift, Doppler Beaming, the whole Astrophysical jet, accurat colors for the disk and much more. However, i am not smart enough to tackel any of those entirly on my own. I am much more familiar with rendering the party and doing that side of the work.
However, one effect i may just be able to do is Light travel delay. As far as i understand it, because some rays take their sweet as time to really interact with anything the image of the disk would have noticable distortions. I.e parts of the disk should look fairly normal where as others appear to be "behind" in terms of time.
Now, fairly naive approach to this would be to just messure the length of the geodesic each time the Volume is sampled and use this length together with some scale factor and c to determain how long it would have taken the ray to get there.
But, i was told this is indeed a naive approach because it just kind of ignores the whole black hole chillin nearby. Which would obviously have effects due to Time dilation.
But that is the thing, i am not sure how to do this. Since i am a bit bad at explaining stuff i dont understand, in the following i want to breakdown how the rendering works so that there is no miscommunication. So that yall smart people can point me to the right path on how to impliment light travel delay.
How the rendering works
As is so often, here the rays are traced backwards. So rays (photons if you will) are emitted from the camera location and wander about, Pathtracing. The general way it works goes like this;

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*Compute stepsize, this depends on where the ray currently is. The closer it is the the EH, the smaller the step becomes. This happens in stages. Let d be the distance to the center, then the stepSize equals; d > 10 = 20, d < 10 = 2, d < 4 = exponential function. This function lowers the step size exponentially down to a threshold of 0.075. Though the step Size may get as small as 0.0001 to illiminate discontinuations on the Y-Axis.

*Once the step Size is computed, we check break conditions. So if the ray is outside the draw distance it gets shot, if it is at the Event Horizon it gets shot.

*Assuming the ray is still alive, we then check if the current ray position is inside the bounding volume of the disk. If so we perform the local volume integration. If not;

*using a 4th order integration scheme the ray is marched "forward" according to the equations of motion of the Kerr Metric. This happens in 3+1 space, so

*The 4D spacetime coordinates are converted to a vec3 to move the ray in cartisian space because thats how computers work. And well then it is back to 1.

here you can see how this looks in action. These are 6 Geodesics of the render from above moving around from the cameras origin.
Now, what i would like to be able to do is to look at a ray´s position at step 3 when the Volume is sampled, look at its past and say "with all effects taken into consideration, this particular ray´s light would have reached the camera in 5 seconds". And then use these 5 seconds or whatever to rotate the disk accordingly. So that each ray sees a slightly differnt rotation due to time dilation and the travel delay.
What this would visually mean, i think, is that if you for example move the camera backwards faster than light the disk should rotate backwards.
As such, the core question i have is how i can calculate this idk call it "local time" for a given ray position knowing its "past", which technically is the future because it is backwards traced but whatever.
I really hope this is understandable. Thank you for reading, any help, helps :D

A: In order to include the effect of time delay, you will need to keep track of the global time "position" of each of the rays. It seems you are already calculating this in step 4, but then throwing it away in step 5. So just keep track of it.
Having kept track of the global time of the ray, in step 3 you integrate against the disk at the that position at that particular time.
In order to do this, you will need some sort of model for the dynamics of the disk. In the question you suggest just using a rigid rotation of the disk. As a first approximation this is okay, but not very realistic. In practice there will be differential rotation with the inner edge of the disk rotating faster then outer edge.

A: Since you are ray tracing in four dimensions, you already have the emission time of the light: it's one of the four coordinates of the intersection point of the null ray with the accretion disc.
You should not think of the travel time as something extra to calculate. Instead, you should imagine that you are ray tracing a static four-dimensional scene (because you are). If you place the camera at the correct position in 4D, and fill the world-tube of the accretion disc with some appropriately helical pattern, then you'll automatically get the right light-travel-time effects. There's nothing more that you need to do.

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Specia Homo sapiens  cuprinde, după unii autori, o întreagă listă de subspecii arhaice de om (Homo), ce  contrastează cu oamenii moderni (subspecia  Homo sapiens sapiens), din perioada începând în urmă cu 500.000 de ani. Alți autori consideră aceste subspecii drept specii. Lista "umbrelă" a acestor specii arhaice  include Homo heidelbergensis, Homo rhodesiensis, Homo neanderthalensis și, uneori, Homo antecessor.. Astăzi, se crede că oamenii moderni ar fi evoluat din indivizii cuprinși în categoria Homo sapiens arhaic, care, la rândul lor, ar fi evoluat din Homo erectus. Varietățile cuprinse în grupul Homo sapiens arhaic sunt parte a speciei numită Homo sapiens întrucât mărimea creierului lor era foarte asemănătoare cu cea a oamenilor moderni. Mărimea creierului indivizilor Homo sapiens arhaic varia între 1.100 și 1.400 cm3, care coincide cu intervalul de variație al volumului creierului oamenilor moderni.

Din punct de vedere fizic, grupul de subspecii ale speciei Homo sapiens numite generic homo sapiens arhaici se disting ușor față de oamenii moderni întrucât aveau un schelet mai masiv, cu oase mai grele, respectiv aveau un craniu format din oase mai groase și mai rezistente, arcade orbitale mai proeminente și o bărbie mai puțin pronunțată decât cea a oamenilor contemporani.

Terminologie și definiții
Existența categoriei de "oameni arhaici"  este disputată, neexistând o unitate de vederi până în prezent. Există două categorii de păreri.

Potrivit unor cercetători, Homo sapiens reprezintă o specie care, la rândul ei, cuprinde  mai multe subspecii. Aceste subspecii includ atât formele arhaice de oameni, cât și pe omul modern. După aceste părei, oamenii moderni aparțin subspeciei Homo sapiens sapiens. Formele arhaice de oameni sunt reprezentate de: omul de Neanderthal (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis), omul din Heidelberg (Homo sapiens heidelbergensis).

Alți taxonomiști nu consideră formele arhaice și moderne ca aparținând aceleiași specii, ci, mai degrabă, ca fiind specii diferite, în acest caz fiind utilizată taxonomia standard, ca de exemplu Homo rhodesiensis sau Homo neanderthalensis.

Frontierele între formele arhaice și moderne de Homo sapiens, pe de o parte, și între formele arhaice și Homo erectus, pe de altă parte, sunt incerte. Cele mai vechi fosile cunoscute aparținând omului anatomic modern, cum ar fi fosilele Omo de acum 195.000 de ani, Homo sapiens idaltu de acum 160.000 de ani și fosilele de la Qafzeh de acum 90.000 de ani sunt recunoscute ca aparținând oamenilor anatomic moderni. Totuși, aceste fosile precoce prezintă un amestec de trăsături arhaice și moderne, ca, de exemplu, arcadele supraorbitare moderate și nu proeminente ca la formele arhaice.

Creșterea volumului creierului

Apariția oamenilor de tipul Homo sapiens arhaic este uneori utilizată ca exemplu de echilibru punctat, teorie emisă de Niles Eldredge și Stephen Jay Gould în 1972. Un astfel de echilibru are loc atunci când o anumită specie suferă evoluții biologice semnificative într-un scurt interval de timp. Ulterior, datorită neliniarității evoluției propusă de această teorie, specia poate evolua foarte puțin pentru o lungă perioadă de timp, până la următoarea punctuație.

Motivul esențial al folosirii teoriei echilibrului punctat este saltul extraordinar al volumului creierului, de la circa 900 cm3 la indivizii speciei Homo erectus până la circa 1.300 cm3, în cazul grupului Homo sapiens arhaic, volum al creierului care s-a menținut constant până la Homo sapiens sapiens.

Originea limbajului articulat
Robin Dunbar consideră că Homo sapiens arhaic a fost primul hominid care a folosit limbajul. Bazându-se în analiza sa pe relația dintre mărimea creierului și mărimea grupului de hominide, el ajunge la concluzia, susținută de mărimea importantă a creierului la Homo sapiens arhaic, că aceștia trăiau, în mod necesar, în grupuri ce depășeau 120 de indivizi. Dunbar susține că nu ar fi fost posibil ca hominizii să trăiască în grupuri atât de mari fără să fi folosit limbajul, deoarece, în lipsa acestuia, nu ar fi existat o coeziune a grupului și acesta s-ar fi dezintegrat. Cimpanzeii, care nu au un limbaj articulat, trăiesc în grupuri mai mici, de până la 50 de indivizi.

Fosile
 Sima de los Huesos
 Saldanha Man
 Altamura Man
 Kabwe Skull
 Steinheim Skull

Vezi și

 Human
 Evoluția omului
 Evolution of human intelligence
 Homo sapiens idaltu
 Homo erectus
 Recent African Origin
 Early human migrations
 Middle Paleolithic
 Neanderthal interaction with Cro-Magnons

Referințe

Legături externe

 Michael Pietrusewsky, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i,  EARLY AND LATE "ARCHAIC" HOMO SAPIENS AND "ANATOMICALLY MODERN" HOMO SAPIENS , note pentru lucrări practice de antropologie
 Donald Johanson, Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa? pe  situl actionbioscience.org consultat pe 7 august 2011
 Homo sapiens, Museum of Natural History
 Cine l-a impuscat pe Homo rhodesiensis?, 3 noiembrie 2008, Adrian Nicolae, Descoperă

Antropogeneză
Antropologie
Arheologie
Epoca pietrei mijlocii
Evoluția omului
Paleoantropologie
Preistorie
Homo sapiens


Joy Scruggs became the Head Women's Basketball Coach at Emory & Henry in 1981 and over the next 28 seasons, led the program to a total of 384 wins, 19 winning seasons and an ODAC Championship in 1988. Scruggs led the Wasps to 22 ODAC Tournament wins, and five appearances in the ODAC finals. For her success, she was selected as ODAC Coach of the Year three times–in 1984, 2002 and 2003.
Nine of her players have been inducted into the Emory & Henry Sports Hall of Fame, fifteen were named All-ODAC First Team and three were seleced as ODAC Players of the Year.
Scruggs is also known for her own collegiate playing career at the University of Tennessee. A 5'3″ guard, she played for the Lady Vols in the first year that the legendary Pat Summit coached the team. Upon her graduation from UT, she coached and taught at Girls Preparatory School in Chattanooga before joining the E&H coaching staff in 1981. She helped transition the E&H women's program to Division III and to the ODAC in 1982, only one year after NCAA began sponsoring women's athletics.
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the artists come from my village-since leaving Kenya for further studies in the US early 70's I miss these beats.Friends who kept some those records ended up being damaged.Been a headache to find them.If found I'm one of those fellows who will try and purchase whatever is available.Good job guys.