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Dr. Alevizatos has been practicing urology in Baltimore for more than 10 years. His urologic interests include erectile dysfunction and prosthetic surgery, and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).
He has served on the Surgical Quality Assurance, Cancer, and Medical Executive Committees at Good Samaritan Hospital and has served as the Physician Liaison for the Prostate Cancer Support Group.
- Washington and Lee University, B.A., B.S.
- Vanderbuilt University Medical School, M.D.
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Urology Residency


After Mercy Maston Achilles tear, Bombers trade for DB Darby
TORONTO — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have acquired American defensive back Alden Darby from the Toronto Argonauts in exchange for American offensive lineman Terry Poole.
Darby (five-foot-11, 195 pounds) joins the Blue Bombers after three seasons with the Argos. Over 43 games with the Argos, including 40 starts, Darby registered 137 tackles, one sack, eight interceptions and three touchdowns. He had 56 tackles and five interceptions in 17 games with Toronto in 2019.
The move comes after Bombers’ veteran DB Mercy Maston tore his right Achilles tendon in practice on Sunday, according to Bluebombers.com’s Ed Tait.
“Maston was in pass coverage late in Sunday’s session and became entangled with a receiver running on a route down the sidelines. He immediately signalled for Bombers head athletic therapist Al Couture, and after a few minutes made his way to a medical station and did not return to practice,” Tait wrote.
Maston had season-ending surgery on his Achilles on Monday.
Poole, 29, joined the Bombers in June of this year after stops in the XFL with the Houston Roughnecks and San Diego Fleet of the AAF. The six-foot-five, 325-pound lineman was a fourth-round pick of the Seattle Seahawks in 2015 before joining the Miami Dolphins and Houston Texans between 2016 and 2017.
The California native started his collegiate career at Monterey Peninsula College in California before a move to San Diego State where he was named a Mountain West Second-Team All-Star in his senior season for the Aztecs after starting all 12 games.
In the wake of Maston’s injury, the Bombers acquire a proven talent and add maintain some depth to their defensive backfield. The Argos get an o-lineman with a lot of football experience that’s new to the CFL.


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|Manufacturer and type designation||E392 (Huawei)|
|Download rate||100 Mbit/s|
|Upload rate||50 Mbit/s|
|Supported LTE bands||LTE 800/900/1800/2100 and 2600MHz|
|backward compatible with:||GPRS, EDGE, UMTS (2100/900 MHz),|
DC-HSPA+ / HSPA+ and HSDPA, GSM frequencies 850/900/1800/1900MHz (Quad-band)
|MIMO Support:||MIMO 2×2|
|Connector for external antenna||yes, 2 antenna connector( TS-9 is present)|
|LTE category:||LTE Category 3 (3GPP Release 8) modem|
|Dimensions (LxWxH)||(W x H x D) 14mm x 35mm x100mm and 40 grams|
|USB standard||USB 2.0|
|Memory card expansion||Yes, MicroSD up to 32 GB|
|Compatible Operating Systems||Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS (10.5)|
|Manual PDF||unfortunately not yet available online|
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Based on the LTE technology, the E392 could transmit data with both FDD and TDD. These are two different duplex methods. For FDD (frequency division duplex), which is common in Germany, there are 2 separate frequency bands to use to send and receive data simultaneously. For TDD (time division duplex), the sending and receiving transmitted on the same frequency band, but slightly delayed. FDD is to be found mainly in Asia. E-Plus also experimented with the technology, and this could perhaps bring in the future for use in Germany.
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In my family we had a lot of musicians. My grandfather, Volkmar Andreae, was a famous conductor. He has been musical director of the Swiss Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich for 43 years . Gustav Mahler wanted to have him as his successor to conduct the New York Philharmonic, but he declined the offer! My father, my mother and my uncle, who was my teacher, were pianists instead. I conducted concerts, where the three played with me as soloists.
After my studies in Zurich, Paris and Rome, in 1966 I won a conducting competition with the Tonhalle Orchestra, when Rudolf Kempe was chief conductor. He also invited me to his second orchestra; the Munich Philharmonic. In 1969 I was appointed as the youngest musical director in Switzerland, chief conductor of the Swiss-Italian Radio/Tv Symphony Orchestra where I remained for 21 years. In the meantime I was artistic and musical director of the Angelicum Orchestra in Milan from 1990 -1994. Since 1989 I am the conducter of the Orchestra Sinfonia Engiadina. From 2000 until 2010 I conducted the Orchestra dell’Insubria founded by me, and composed of young professional musicians, playing in the South part of Switzerland and the North of Italy.
Between my tours, I prepare many first performances of ordered compositions by composers as Feldman, Globokar, Bussotti, Sciarrino, Vogel, Wimberger, Holliger, Lehmann, Moret, Müller, Glass, Beck and many others.
One of my hobbies is music archaeology. I discovered, published and first performed works by Schumann, Liszt, Weber, Rossini and Donizetti.
The soul of the music speaks to my soul. Music begins where words end. (Goethe)
Conducting an orchestra represents for me a profound pleasure that extends to all musicians: a collective and very intense emotion.
The Symphony’s message can be summarized as follows:
1st Movement: Men’s path through the grey life, darkness and struggle of his existence.
( Sketches since 1809).
2nd Movement: The mind wants to liberate itself from the dark pictures and be pervaded with more friendliness. (Sketches first appearance 1815).
3rd Movement: The music expresses deep devotion, trust and hope. (In 1818 detailed notation of the plan: Adagio Cantique Ecclesiastique – pious singing in old tonalities).
Finale: the music of the preceding three Movements is rejected and a desire of a happier tone is expressed. Finally the theme of Joy breaks through with great exuberance.
( 1793: Beethoven’s first project to set in music Schiller’s )
The most significant verses:
“All men become brothers,
Accept this embrace, you millions!
The kiss is for the world!
Brothers, a loving father must dwell
Above the starry firmament.”
In our epoch I feel strongly feel that my duty as conductor is to disseminate this joyful message to the whole world.
In 1823 Beethoven applied for the position of conductor of the Viennese court Orchestra, but his candidature was rejected. All over Europe In this years, the cultural world lived in real Rossini drunkenness and Beethoven missed the resonance he should have deserved. In 1824 he wanted to settle in London. Only his aristocratic friends were able to convince him to remain in Vienna. During this period he was working on the Symphony No. 9 Op. 125, on the Diabelli Variations Op. 120 for piano and the Missa solemnis Op. 123.
Enlightenment and Humanism, the French revolution, the desire of justice, unrestrained freedom and brotherliness, love and beauty, the truth and the good, made part of the desires Beethoven had. This items had a great impact and formed together with his strong character an unmistakable individuality. His music expresses extreme contrasts of mental states and this requires from the musician the capacity of fast changes in his mental and sensitive state.
Beethoven and Schiller are both the pure impersonation of German idealism. In Europe there has been from the beginning a lot of criticism concerning the Symphony, especially about the last Movement. Beethoven himself wasn’t sure whether it was better to have an instrumental Finale. Even after the first performance, Beethoven told friends that the Finale was a failure. Spohr and Mendelssohn (Turkish music!) were perplexed, whereas Schumann, Berlioz and Wagner expressed great admiration.
I suppose that in Japan the deep adoration for this masterwork is mostly undivided.
For me it is a great honour and pleasure to conduct Beethoven’s 9.th Symphony in Japan, where this masterwork is performed more frequently than in all other countries and where its appreciation reaches inestimable benchmarks.
I admire Japan musicians and orchestras. They play with great accuracy, high technical abilities, remarkable unity and are especially flexible to follow the guideline of the conductor. Older musicians are more careful when they play in the orchestra and are usually characterised by a traditional and precise style due to their studies of the German school. Younger people research great expressivity, taking more risk in their way to make music, due to their international musical background. Japanese Orchestras demonstrate a considerable sense of collectivism, whereas in Europe we assist to more individualism.
Colleagues told me that the Orchestra is on a very high level and has in his ranks numerous excellent musicians. It is with real joy that I am looking forward to making music with them.
I expect that the Soloists, the Choir, the Orchestra and me, together with the audience , will become with joy, “brothers and sisters! “.
“A life without music is an error!” (Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher)


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text: Using a combination of immunoprecipitation and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis techniques, patterns of antibody responses to a number of components in rye pollen extract have been studied in hyperimmune mouse sera. Common laboratory strains of mice were investigated, including AKR, C3H/He, SwR, Ist, Asn, Balb/c, C57BL10, DBA2 and BD1:F1 hybrids. All strains responded vigorously to the immunisation protocol used (rye pollen extract/alum followed by a booster dose in aqueous media) when tested with non-discriminating assay procedures such as haemagglutination or passive cutaneous anaphylaxis directed against the whole rye pollen extract. However, markedly variable antibody responses were observed between strains and between murine and human sera when considered in relation to individual rye extract components. Particularly noteworthy was the relatively poor response of all mice to the low molecular weight rye antigen component (11,000 daltons). This material was readily detected by human sera derived from pollenosis patients. Notable also was the fact that no single rye component was detected by all mice sera. These results illustrate the complex serological response induced by heterogeneous antigen mixtures, such as grass pollen extracts.

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The publication discusses the extensions of uncomplicated Fourier research ideas to the Clifford algebra framework.
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An academic destination designed to bring together disciplines in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the A. Glenn Hill Center for STEM Education at North Dakota State University was recognized for design excellence during the 2017 AIA North Dakota Design Conference and Exposition held Oct. 9-11.
A collaborative design effort between BWBR and Zerr Berg Architects, the A. Glenn Hill Center provides space for multiple undergraduate disciplines to meet, collaborate, and discover under one state-of-the-art roof.
“Students learn best in an active and energizing atmosphere,” said Stephanie McDaniel, AIA, LEED AP, a principal at BWBR and lab and academic planner on the center. “The A. Glenn Hill Center creates an environment that engages student in meaningful and collaborative work, and it gives the university a facility to create cross-disciplinary environments that can adapt to changes in technology and needs.”
Opened in 2016, the STEM center features spacious auditoriums, flexible teaching labs, and active learning classrooms. Physical barriers are removed to support immersive, mobile teaching styles that boost students’ experiential education. Movable furniture combined with pod-like group tables, screens, electronic device plug-ins, and whiteboards shift away from traditional lecture-style methods to provide students and faculty a richer connection in real time.
While programmed to support STEM learning, a multi-story entry and open seating lined by floor-to-ceiling windows invite the rest of the NDSU community to fully engage in the STEM experience. Brightly colored furniture options mix with open and closed study alcoves along the main corridor to complete invite students into cross-disciplinary discussions and studies. Laboratories and classrooms accommodate multiple uses, equipment, and teaching styles in order to adapt to the needs of the entire campus.
To aid in the design, BWBR also sponsored two NDSU architectural design graduate students to complete evidence-based design research on collaboration in information spaces in higher education an energy-efficient design. Their findings were incorporated into the building design.
“Great design really empowers people to do great work – and to do great work together,” said Craig Peterson, AIA, LEED AP, associate principal at BWBR and project design leader who is also a graduate of the university’s architectural program. “This high performance facility gives NDSU a tool to train the region’s future STEM innovators, and it also serves to bring together the entire campus community as a place of collaborative interaction on many levels. Generations will be proud of what comes out of the A. Glenn Hill Center.”

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Good news for local PS2 players. Sony Entertainment Online’s President, John Smedley, has tweeted some further news on Aussie Planetside 2 servers for the game:
So it looks like in just over a week you’ll have some rather nice ping times compared to North American servers, although the game itself doesn’t officially launch until the 20th November. That said, are you pumped?
[via Alex at the Gamers of Oceania Facebook Group]

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Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus Cav., Asteraceae) is an herbaceous plant that is grown for landscape use. During August and September of 2008 in five public and three private gardens located in Monopoli (Apulia, southern Italy), 3 to 8% of the plants showed severe symptoms of vine decline, stunting, gradual yellowing and wilting of the leaves, and final collapse of the whole plant. External symptoms were associated with brown or black streaking of the vascular tissue of roots, collar, and stem. Dead plants had numerous microsclerotia embedded in the xylem of plant tissues. Stem, collar, and root sections (0.5 cm long) from symptomatic plants collected in five gardens were surface disinfested in 5% NaOCl for 1 min and transferred to petri dishes containing potato dextrose agar (PDA) amended with 100 μg ml--1 of streptomycin sulfate and 10 μg ml--1 of neomycin. After 10 days of incubation, at 25°C in the dark, hyaline hyphae with dark microsclerotia (37 to 112 μm) and verticillate conidiophores were produced. Conidia were single celled and hyaline with dimensions of 3.3 to 7.8 × 1.8 to 3.3 μm (mean dimensions 4.2 × 2.5 μm). According to morphological characteristics, the fungus was identified as Verticillium dahliae Kleb. (1) (isolates no. Vd1818, Vd1819, and Vd1820 stored in a collection at the Department DiSACD, University of Foggia). Molecular analyses were performed on the basis of nucleotide sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS1-5.8S-ITS2) of ribosomal DNA. ITS sequences of this fungus, compared with sequences found in GenBank and attributed to V. dahliae (no. GQ130129, GQ130130, GQ130131), showed 98 to 99% sequence similarity. Healthy 40-day-old plants of C. bipinnatus (garden cosmos) cv. Sonata Pink Blusk and C. sulphurous (yellow cosmos) cv. Bilbo, obtained from seeds previously disinfested for 1 min in 3% NaOCl and ascertained to be healthy by isolation on PDA medium, were used for pathogenicity tests. Plants were grown in 3-liter pots in a steam-disinfested peat, sand, and soil mixture (2:1:1) in the greenhouse at 23 to 26°C. Ten plants of each cultivar were inoculated by root dipping into a conidial suspension of each fungal isolate (1.5 × 106 CFU ml--1). Six noninoculated cosmos plants of each cultivar served as controls. The experiment was repeated three times. First symptoms of wilting were observed on all inoculated plants of each cultivar 20 days after the inoculation; at 40 days, symptom severity ratings on plants were taken, in which 1 = asymptomatic, 2 = stunted, 3 = wilting, and 4 = dead. All three isolates caused vascular discoloration, stunting, wilting, and plant death. The mean disease rating was 3.2 and did not differ significantly among isolates. The pathogen was consistently reisolated from infected plants, fulfilling Koch's postulates. Noninoculated plants remained healthy. To our knowledge, this is the first report of Verticillium wilt on cosmos in Italy. The finding is important since other ornamental plants that are susceptible to Verticillium wilt are also grown in landscapes in the region. The disease was previously reported in Turkey (2).
References: (1) G. F. Pegg and B. L. Brandy. Verticillium Wilts. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK, 2002. (2) E. Sezgin et al. Turk. Phytopathol. 14:43, 1985.


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Nagarjuna showed what was wrong the Abhidharma argument. He stated that the multiple philosophical divisions of Buddhism were created on "distinctions that must be seen as tentative rather than absolute." Kasulis writes that Nagarjuna came up with a resolution to this argument. This solution was pure and simple. Nagarjuna wrote down all the key distinctions that the diverse philosophical "groups" assumed.
These original Buddhist ideals were established by, “the legendary Bodidharma”, who stressed the power and importance... ... middle of paper ... ...phy of Zen Buddhism is deeply concerned with the idea of unrealized reality. Which lays the groundwork for how he believes individuals can proceed in order to understand this misunderstood sense of existence. The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism provides a unique vehicle in which to see and comprehend life. Work Cited: Koller, John M. Asian Philosophies. Ed.
The Noble Eightfold Marga( ways or paths ) :- The goal of a theravada buddhist is to become an arhat . The layperson is asked by theravada buddhism to follow the middle path between the two extremes . The goal of a mahayana buddhist is to attain buddhahood . The eight ethical concepts are recommended by the 4 Noble Truths and we are told that an end to sufferings is possible by following the eight Noble steps .Sufferings and a rebirth are created by cravings , clinging and accumulation of karmas .Buddhism tell us that the bad effects are created by cravings and clinging . Karmas can be cancelled by self-control , meditation and mindfulness .
It is craving and the theory of agitation that causes the theory of the self to develop. Thus, this discussion of the agitation about what is non-existent leads to a more detailed discussion of the self in paragraphs 22 to 29. Towards the end of the Buddha’s discussion of impermanence and the not self, he introduces the theory of the “well taught noble disciple.” This well taught noble disciple has abandoned that agitation of the nonexistent self. This introduction of the “well taught noble disciple” leads the Buddha discuss the arahant in paragraphs 30 to 36. The arahant is well taught noble disciple who has gained insight and achieved nirvana.
The Core Teachings of Impermanence and How We Respond to Change "Impermanent, subject to change, are component things. Strive on with heedfulness!" This was the final admonition of the Buddha Gotama to his disciples. (Piyadassi Thera) Siddhatta Gotama who is also known as “Buddha,” was the founder of Buddhism. “Buddha” is a general term for a person who has attained enlightenment.
Notions of Selflessness in Sartrean Existentialism and Theravadin Buddhism ABSTRACT: In this essay I examine the relationship between Sartre's phenomenological description of the "self" as expressed in his early work (especially Being and Nothingness) and elements to be found in some approaches to Buddhism. The vast enormity of this task will be obvious to anyone who is aware of the numerous schools and traditions through which the religion of Buddhism has manifested itself. In order to be brief, I have decided to select specific aspects of what is commonly called the Theravadin tradition as being representative of Buddhist philosophy. By choosing to look primarily at the Theravadin tradition, I am by necessity ignoring a vast number of other Buddhist approaches. However, in my view, the Theravadin sect presents a consistent Buddhist philosophy which is representative of many of the major trends within Buddhism.
It is a fact that Buddhism was founded by the Gautama (the Buddha) in the land of India. Nevertheless, what gave rise to Buddhism and why the Buddha rejected other ideologies of his time such as hedonism and asceticism and developed one own principle called “the Middle Path?” To answer the above questions, this essay examines existing teachings during Buddha’s era (six century BCE), through careful study of contemporary school of thought and practice such as Brahmanism, the Ājīvika, Lokāyata, the Agnostic (Ājñāna), and Jainism. Speaking in terms of text and context, for us to be able to understand the Buddha’s teaching, it is very crucial to comprehend his background, the society and milieu that he lived. It is also important to learn of prior and contemporary’s teachings of his time. And by study these areas we would have better knowledge and be enlightened to why the Buddha has chosen the Middle Path.
The Dhammapada is a religious work that is meant to provide a certain set of religious and ethical values, as well as a certain manner of perception of life and the problems that life brings along with the solutions. Although the verses may be looked at as trying to create good or bad people, the verses are actually trying to get people to understand what is good and what is bad in the Buddhist religion. In other words, the book is trying to produce someone who will think and comprehend the ideas of the Buddha. A person who reads the text should be able to form his or her opinions about enlightenment and Nirvana. The same is true for a person who is listening to the text being read.
He essentially believed that life was a series of events that were all conditioned by certain factors. This theory of dependent co-origination is one of the staple elements of Buddhism's history, concept of "dharma", and the religion's understanding of the surrounding world. At an early age, the Buddha led the life of an ascetic. He devoutly searched the world to find an enlightened truth or "nirvana". The Buddha promoted his answer to enlightenment, or "the middle way", after he reached a state of nirvana.


ITV are due to relocate part of the popular soap opera Coronation Street to Media City UK.
Soap opera Coronation Street will be partially relocated to offices in Media City UK as part of ITV’s drive to combine much of its output in one commercial property.
Coronation Street staff will join other ITV employees in taking up residency in their new offices in Salford Quays when the site is due to open in 2012, after agreeing a deal with Peel Media.
The move will see the majority of ITV’s media output move into Media City UK, close to the new BBC site and next to the Imperial War Museum. (more…)
With the Salford Quays development, mediacity:uk, the first phase only one year away from full completion, it would be apt to see what this new development wil offer the UK.
mediacity:uk is a 200-acre property development in Salford, that will heavily focus on the media industry, touting itself as a ‘true community atmosphere’. It aims to become a thriving city within a city, which will be just as much about living as it is working.
Developed and managed by a partnership of Central Salford Urban Regeneration Company, Peel Holdings and Salford City Council, it will house 700,000 sq ft of offices, 250,000 sq ft of HD studios including the largest one in Europe, public park and events space, 378 apartments, a 218 bed Holiday Inn, a Booths supermarket and a 2,200 space car park.


If there’s one common quality among media-marinated New Yorkers, it’s this: the fastest way to their hearts is through the byline. The roster of contributors to AOL’s flagship local guide, Digital City NY, launched this week, is therefore intentionally spectacular, including ex-Daily News editor Pete Hamill with a weekly column on city life, playwright Wendy Wasserstein on her favorite urban oases, monologuist Spalding Gray on his exile to Long Island, and coverage of the Alley from the editors of @NY.
But the two most important names aren’t on the marquee. Wharton grad John Borthwick and ex-Time writer Guy Garcia were a pair of entrepreneurs with a company name, an available living room, and an excess of vision back in the fall of 1994. Bestowed a tidy sum from a brain-surgeon friend, they launched a production house for Web properties called WP Studio and within the year unveiled the edgy, Downtown scene guide Total New York and the art laboratory ada ‘web. From the beginning, Garcia and Borthwick perceived a need for name-brand contributors, and their sites have featured Sting, Jenny Holzer, and Carlos Fuentes.
AOL execs may not have always understood ada’s user-hostile interfaces or Total’s gritty style, but they admired (and wanted a piece of) the creators’ ambition. Last February, the Digital City division of the Vienna, Virginia, juggernaut purchased WP Studio to lead the development on AOL’s own local NYC guide, the model for a planned national rollout of dual AOL/Web guides later this year. Rechristening their company Digital City Studio, Borthwick and Garcia went to work shaping AOL’s most massive content project for its biggest subscriber market (800,000 in the New York area).
Despite the influx of money into online city guides, it’s not yet clear there’s an audience. Microsoft’s Sidewalk, launched last May, went through a national staffing reduction last week, shaving off three to four staffers from each of their 10 local efforts to “allow for more efficiencies on the business side,” according to Eric Etheridge, executive producer of the site (to which the Voice contributes listings information). Undaunted, the other major venture CitySearch (newyork.citysearch.com), flush with investments from The Washington Post, Intel, the Home Shopping Network, and others and partnered locally with Time Out NY, expects to be in 27 cities by the end of 1998.
AOL chose to hold back until now, but the waiting wasn’t pretty. Digital City NY is a significant upgrade from the paltry offerings in AOL’s current WebGuide local information service, which Borthwick and Garcia helped set up last year. Flavorless categories and editorially suspect listings (DC Studio’s own TotalNY gets a rave) make WebGuide basically brochure material, but with a planned obsolescence: Digital City NY cannibalizes and augments the WebGuide database.
More tellingly, DCNY explores avenues “that Sidewalk and CitySearch haven’t touched,” says Borthwick–reader-generated reviews and “neighborhoods” of user content. And while Sidewalk has a cache of talented scribes, they’re not selling them with the same brio.
But in Digital City Studio’s rush to go mainstream, how long will AOL tolerate its eddies TotalNY and ada ‘web? Garcia assures that the quirkier sites will continue publishing, though the top editors from TotalNY and ada ‘web have already been inculcated as art and film “critics” on DCNY–suggesting an editorial siphoning that could easily turn into simple consolidation. One staffer who has worked on the ancillary DC Studio says AOL is keeping them on as “R&D” and won’t meddle. “AOL’s like a stodgy but avuncular relative living in a nearby town, who you stay in touch with, you’re very nice to, but don’t actually have to spend too much time with. When you do, it’s to play show-and-tell.” For Garcia and Borthwick, their work–and reputations–are now up for public trial. You can be sure that relative is watching damn closely.
Click the Vote
It’s a common pathology of tech journalism: a heralded new product never materializes, slinking into “vaporware.” But when the smoke and mirrors wander way beyond the trade press, a little follow-up is in order.
Take “online elections.” Last fall, both CyberTimes and Hotwired fawningly covered the planned Costa Rican Internet voting system, which was to be implemented for their national elections on February 1. Based on Project Bosnia (which is also adrift), the Costa Rica initiative–a joint effort among the Villanova University School of Law, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the Center for Information Law and Policy–was intended to help solve one of the roiling inefficiencies of the country’s election process. Currently, the government pays for a massive busing system to get its citizens to a legal ballot box because, under Costa Rican law, voting is mandatory, and if citizens haven’t registered to vote in the region where they live, they have to return to their birthplace. The plan was to test online voting in four or five sites, using trained children to teach the adults how to use the computers.
Though the country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal backed it initially, they pulled their support for reasons that aren’t entirely clear to the Americans on the project. AT&T researcher Lorrie Cranor, who worked on the election’s security issues, ventured that the government “was fearful that the losing party would try to appeal because of it–that doing [the Net elections] could disrupt the rest of the election.”
No surprise. Online elections haven’t been tested anywhere yet, and the chances that they would succeed in a “developing” nation with little computer literacy were slim at best. In fact, Project Costa Rica barely made it off the white boards before it was nixed. Its advocates now hope to attempt a national test in 2002.
The End of Op-Eds?
CyberTimes, the technology-centered and original-reporting hub of the New York Times Web site, is undergoing a significant overhaul, including deep-sixing some of its 10 (count ’em 10) columns, which were the bedrock of the site. To avoid duplication with the Times’s new consumer electronics section and Web site Circuits, launching next month, CyberTimes will more fully develop individual features, and, say sources, is considering moving to a newsbyte format like that of CNet’s news.com.
CyberTimes may never have been as relevant as its print version, but coverage in the two-year-old “Digital Metropolis” column–slated to be cut–had legitimized many Alley firms. CyberTimes editor John Haskins says, “We want to expand our tech coverage and see how to use the people differently. We haven’t let anyone go yet.”
“It’s troubling to see them give up,” said one source involved in the changes. “They shouldn’t try to be CNet–it’s a terrible dilution of a great journalistic tradition.”
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Travel Route: Bagan Garmin Chuluu – Mandalgov – Tsagaan Suvraga
“The desert is so huge and the horizon so distant that it makes a person feel small as if he should remain silent.” from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Is touring Mongolia challenging?
Touring Mongolia can be challenging. Outside Ulan Bator, you can’t count on public transportation, and there are only a few hotels. The roads are mostly unpaved, and the distances are such that often you don’t pass a human habitation for days at a time. Thus, I teamed up with an English guide named Jess, who runs a tour company with Turuu, her local driver. I put my trust in them and let them lead. We traveled together for 23 days. We were a company of four tourists; a Swiss couple, a Canadian woman, and me driving in a Russian UAZ/Furgon. Sleeping accommodations were either tents, Gers, or hotels, and food was fully provided.
How vast is Mongolia?
Mongolia is a vast country, half the size of Europe, surrounded by two mighty nations: China and Russia. Half of the three million inhabits live in and around the capital, Ulan Bator. What’s left is a vast land with mostly nomadic people who still live in Gers, just like their ancestors back in the days of Genghis Khan.
Where is Mandalgov?
Mandalgov is a frontier town in North Gobi. Every place we have visited so far, including the capital city Ulan Bator, looks like a frontier or, as the American expression goes: “the wild-wild west.”
What is Gobi Oasis Tree Planting Project?
Gobi Oasis Tree Planting Project is a family run conservation site. I planted a tree in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. A single young tree can absorb 26 pounds of CO2 per year; thus, it’s a small way to contribute to carbon emissions management.
What is Tsagaan Suvraga, the White Stupa?
Tsagaan Suvraga, the White Stupa, is a limestone formation with fantastic color combinations. I felt ecstatic, a sense of joy from seeing this pure beauty.
Impressions from the Gobi Desert
A drive south, 75m (120km) to Tsagaan Suvraga, is a vast and endless horizon landscape.
The Gobi is a bleak place, vast, harsh, and silent. A place of profound emptiness and isolation. If you want to fall off the radar, come to the Gobi.
Sunrise at the Gobi, the camels come for water. A camel’s firm and a tall hump are signs of good health, while a floppy hump means the camel needs food and water.
The Gobi Desert is an endless emptiness. Living here requires a tough state of mind. Local people have learned to adapt to this rough way of life.

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A man was sentenced to 2 years in jail with an option of fine for seducing another mans wife in Bauchi state. The sentence was made in a magistrate court under the Penal Court.
The issues for women’s rights are many. Not least a complete disregard for the wife as a rights bearing citizen. It needs to be throughtly unpacked and brought to the attention of women’s rights activists in Bauchi.

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What is the largest animal ever eaten by a Venus flytrap?
Dionaea muscipula is one of the few carnivorous species in the plant world, so it's only natural to wonder about the biggest creatures they can lure & eat.
Asked by: James Massey, by email
The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) has evolved to digest insects and so it grows traps appropriate to this prey.
If a trap closes around prey that’s larger than about a third of the size of the trap (2-3cm), it may not be able to close tightly enough to prevent the animal from escaping.
Nevertheless, larger strains have occasionally been found with the skeletons of small frogs inside them.

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“Telehealth care” could be one way to treat growing ranks of asthma sufferers worldwide, reducing the time and cost of care for these patients and perhaps making treatment more accessible to a wider number of people, said University of Edinburgh researcher Susannah McLean and colleagues.
The researchers examined 21 studies in which asthma patients interacted with health care workers via telephone, videoconferencing, the Internet, text messages or a combination of technologies. In most cases, the patients began their care with a face-to-face visit.
It can be “very hard to pinpoint the ‘active ingredients’ of a telehealth care intervention,” said McLean, making it difficult to determine why telehealth care benefits some patients and not others.
In all, more than 10,000 adults and children participated, from the United Kingdom, Portugal, the Netherlands, Brazil, Australia, Croatia, Japan, Taiwan and the United States.
The review appears in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The
Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates research in all aspects of health care. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing trials on a topic.
McLean said that there is “always a risk” that patients diagnosed incorrectly through telehealth care could “receive insufficient support for their needs and their safety will be compromised.” However, the Cochrane authors found no evidence that telehealth patients received worse care than those who received face-to-face care.
McLean suggested that patients and health care workers might also be using the Internet-calling software Skype and Web 2.0 applications like Facebook, but these technologies “have not yet made it into the asthma literature,” she said.
More research is needed, the Cochrane experts said, to determine whether telehealth care for asthma is cost-effective, and whether different forms of telehealth care are more effective than others.
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The Cochrane Library (http://www.thecochranelibrary.com) contains high quality health care information, including Systematic Reviews from The Cochrane Collaboration. These reviews bring together research on the effects of health care and are considered the gold standard for determining the relative effectiveness of different interventions. The Cochrane Collaboration is an international nonprofit, independent organization that produces and disseminates systematic reviews of health care interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions. Visit http://www.cochrane.org for more information.
McLean S, et al. (2010) Telehealthcare for asthma. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010, Issue 10.


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Looking for some great Adobe Creative Cloud discounts? We have you covered, but let’s clarify something first; What is common between Deadpool, Gone Girl, and The Terminator? Yes, not only were they blockbuster hits but also, they were all edited on Adobe Premiere Pro.
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Apps Included In Adobe Creative Cloud – Part 1:
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Apps Included In Adobe Creative Cloud – Part 2:
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Individuals can save up to 35% on Creative Cloud’s entire collection with annual payments. You will get more than 20 desktop and mobile apps in this pack, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and Acrobat.
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Adobe Creative Cloud offers a package of Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Lightroom Classic, and Adobe Photoshop on desktop and iPad with 20GB of cloud storage at an annual plan of $ 9.99 per month- paid monthly or an annual prepaid plan of $ 119.88 a year.
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As of this publication, Adobe Creative Cloud is offering 30% off on adobe premiere elements 2022. So instead of paying $ 99.99, you will be paying $ 69.99.
- Automated editing: It adjusts frames, fixes grainy footage, selects specific areas to add effects
- Guided edits: Its AI guides you throughout the editing process
- Polished movies: Adobe Premiere 2022’s instant movie feature will turn your raw footage into stunning movies in no time. Choose video clips, select a theme, and hit the ‘Apply’ button.
- Add text to video: You can create cute short videos for social media and add animated text to them.
- Elements Organization: When you import your video clips on Elements Organiser, it automatically applies smart tags on your clips for better organization. You can also turn your static thumbnails into GIFs.
- Pick the perfect aspect ratio: Different social media platforms have different aspect ratios. Premiere Elements allows you to customize the aspect ratio of your video for different platforms.
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- Add fun animated overlays: You can add exciting overlays to your videos to add a little animation to them.
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Officials Debate Whether, How To Set Up Health Exchanges
Lawmakers in Maryland, Nebraska and Kansas consider bills to advance or block the marketplaces. California officials wrestle with the nitty gritty of implementation.
The Associated Press/USA Today: Md. Lt. Gov. To Speak To Senate, House Committees About Legislation To Implement Health Reform
[Maryland's Lt. Gov. Anthony] Brown will testify Wednesday before a state Senate committee in favor of legislation that builds on the state's efforts to create a Health Benefit Exchange, which is intended to help individuals and small businesses buy health insurance (Breitenbach, 2/22).
The Associated Press: Nebraska Health Insurance Plan Debate Begins
The road to Nebraska creating its own health insurance exchange could be a long one, as indicated Tuesday by nearly three hours of testimony before lawmakers. Lawmakers began discussion on two bills that would form the Nebraska Health Benefit Exchange Act, a plan offered as an alternative to the federal health insurance plan now being scrutinized by the U.S. Supreme Court (Avok, 2/21).
The Associated Press/Houston Chronicle: Protest Of Obama Policies Advances In Kan. House
A bill conservative Republicans see as an important step toward giving Kansas full control over health care programs received first-round approval Tuesday in the state House, advancing another protest from the GOP-controlled Legislature against Democratic President Barack Obama's policies (Hanna, 2/21).
Kansas Health Institute News: Health Care Bills Advanced
Legislators in the House today moved forward a bill that would authorize Kansas participation in the Interstate Health Care Compact. ... Once 20 or more states have joined the compact, proponents of the bill have said, the member states will demand that Congress ratify an agreement to return tax dollars used to fund Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program to the states (2/21).
California Healthline: Working Out the Details of the Exchange
With a June deadline looming for submitting its Level II implementation grant, the exchange board finds itself grappling with some of the hard questions and sticky details around creation of the Health Benefit Exchange. ... According to executive director Peter Lee, other news discussed at the exchange board meeting included: [considering] cost-sharing with qualified health plans (Gorn, 2/22).

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Here is super fast but tasty dish I made the other night. I used a little of Wildtree's Sweet Onion Dressing over chicken and sprinkled some cheddar cheese on it. The onion dresssing is just the right combo of onion and sweetness...so tasty!It's great for those nights you don't have time to plan or are just exhausted from the day and want something easy, tasty, and homemade!
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see also Jaundice
Many babies, especially babies born before term, develop a yellowish tinge within 2-3 days of birth due to immaturity of liver, which cannot process the yellow pigment bilirubin (a by-product of continuous breakdown of red blood cells) fast enough. Both skin and white of eyes turn yellow, and baby may become lethargic and half-hearted about feeding; in an otherwise healthy baby, jaundice fades after a few days. Standard treatment is to give baby plenty to drink to flush out excess bilirubin; if bilirubin level remains high, baby may be exposed to ultraviolet light to make bilirubin water soluble so kidneys can eliminate it (there is a risk of very high bilirubin levels causing brain damage); in very severe cases, baby may need a blood transfusion.
In a few cases, jaundice may be due to haemolytic Anaemia caused by rhesus incompatibility (baby’s red blood cells come under attack from mother's antibodies) or bile duct atresia; former is referred to as haemolytic jaundice, and appears within 24 hours of birth; latter is known as obstructive jaundice, and usually onsets a week or so after birth, accompanied by Diarrhoea and loss of weight. Haemolytic jaundice may require a blood transfusion, or no treatment at all, but outlook for obstructive jaundice is poor unless bile ducts can be surgically repaired.
Specific remedies to be given every 2 hours for up to 10 doses when first signs of jaundice appear
- First choice Chamomilla 30c
- If Chamomilla is not effective Mercurius 30c
- If jaundice is due to rhesus incompatibility Crotalus 30c


Madoline Warfield's story would make many cringe.
"I kept seeing bugs on the couch and I found bites all over my neck", said Warfield.
After seeing the bites she moved out so management could treat the apartment, but one day after the treatment, we found the bugs still crawling on her couch.
"I have a son to take care of, we shouldn't have to live like this. We don't have anywhere else to go", said Warfield.
The nearly 200 units at Eden Green are subsidized housing, living conditions and bugs have always been a problem, but not to this extent.
Bob Beale, President of Premiere Property Management said, "We took over in May, I think the problem was significant and it had built up for many years. It's the worst problem we have at the moment"
When Premiere took over Eden Green over 3 months ago they said it was in the worst condition of any property they managed and they said the clean-up process will take time.
Housing and Urban Development inspections have given Eden Green the lowest score of all federally subsidized housing in Allen County for the last 2 years. The Indianapolis property management company resigned in May, shortly after disputing HUD's scores and Michigan's Premiere Property Management has taken over.
The company has a perfect rating with the Better Business Bureau and president Bob Beale said the bug infestation is better after an extensive extermination process. He agrees with Madoline that some residents are as much a problem as the bugs, that's why the company has begun an aggressive eviction plan to rid the facility of problem residents.
"we've been identifying residents that don't belong here and have had problems in the past, residents that are interfering with people that really deserved good affordable housing, so we're pursuing them as well", said Beale.
Premiere has a long term plan for major renovations at Eden Green. They feel it can be their best section 8 property based on the commitment from the local community and city officials. Neighborhood Code was encouraged by their meeting with Premiere after they opened a case that will monitor the bug infestation problem.
As for Madeline, after 2 weeks of staying somewhere else, she threw away her furniture and moved back into the apartment. The bugs seem to be gone.
Premiers told us treating the problem is extremely difficult because the bugs are often brought back into the apartments through furniture or other means. The problem is certainly not unique to this area as many facilities across the country have struggled recently with controlling bed bugs.
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Bibi’s bad bet: Netanyahu damaged political chances by backing Romney
Barack Obama’s reelection may be bad news for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Their icy personal rapport aside, experts warn that Netanyahu’s over-involvement in the US campaign could drive apart the two nations and derail his own electoral prospects.
Netanyahu did little to conceal his preference for who he wanted in the White House for the next four years, RT Middle East bureau chief Paula Slier said. His government’s spats with the Obama administration over Palestinian peace talks and Iran’s nuclear program too often went public, shaking the image of the US as an unblinking ally of Israel.
In September, Obama refused to side with Netanyahu’s warmongering stance towards Iran and agree to a ‘red line’ that would trigger a US attack on the country. In previous years, Washington pressured Tel Aviv to freeze construction of settlements in the occupied territories, a move that contradicted Netanyahu’s accommodating stance towards settlers.
Another barrier to negotiations is the pair’s rumored dislike for each other.
Relations between the two administrations hit a new low when Netanyahu openly supported Republican candidate Mitt Romney in the US presidential administration. Romney is a longtime personal friend of the Israeli PM. Netanyahu welcomed Romney to Israel during a campaign visit to the country, and also appeared in Republican campaign ads.
Most American Israelis also favored the Republican candidate. Of the roughly 80,000 who voted from Israel, four in five voted Romney, RT’s Slier says.
However, Jewish voters in the US sided with Obama, as in the last election: Around 70 percent of American Jewish voters picked the Democrat on Tuesday. In a poll conducted by Democratic firm GBA Strategies on behalf of the liberal Jewish advocacy group J Street, Jewish voters were far more concerned with the US economy, not policy towards Israel or Iran, in casting their ballot.
Several critics now argue that Netanyahu gambled for Romney and lost, and that his decision may have damaged US-Israeli relations.
“I think that a prime minister in Israel doesn't do two things. He doesn't interfere in the elections in the US and he doesn't gamble on one of the candidates. This definitely caused damage,” Israeli opposition leader Shaul Mofaz told Channel 2 TV.“We are the junior partner in this relationship. Both men want to succeed, they need to cooperate in order to succeed and I think it’s not an insurmountable challenge for Netanyahu to fix the relationship,” Itamar Rabinovich, former Israeli ambassador to the US told RT.
Compounding Netanyahu’s woes, he may also find his US counterpart more difficult to negotiate with now.
“I think in general second term presidents are not good for Israel – because a lot of them put focus on the Israeli Palestinian issue and they put unnatural pressure on both sides to make compromises which are not good for either side – because they don’t have to be reelected and they’re looking more to legacy,” Mitchell Barak, the founder of Israel-based political research firm Keevon said.
Backpedaling on his aggressive rhetoric could now hurt Netanyahu’s political image as a stalwart, which would in turn damage his reelection prospects in Israel’s January elections. He leads in opinion polls at the moment, but analysts say that a major stumble could prompt a serious electoral challenge from heavyweight opponents like former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
In a speech to American leaders of the Jewish community on Wednesday, Olmert, hinting at possible political ambitions, accused Netanyahu of damaging relations with the US
"Following what Netanyahu did in the last few months, raises the question whether or not our prime minister has a friend in the White House. I am not sure of that, and it could be very significant for us at a critical time," he said.
But further alienating Obama could leave Israel with insufficient support if it makes good on its threats to unilaterally attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Netanyahu and his ministers maintain that the window of opportunity for such an attack is closing soon, but the Obama administration opposes military action and favors its continuing push for crippling economic sanctions against Iran.
Some experts question whether Israel has the offensive capabilities to destroy Iran’s nuclear program without US support.
“In order to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities, you need many strikes, over an extended period of time. Only one country in the world is capable of doing that – and I don’t think that they will do it – and that’s the United States,” Yiftah Shapir of the Institute for National Security Studies told RT.
Netanyahu may ultimately have painted himself into a corner: Both the risk of military action and easing his warmongering rhetoric could carry negative political consequences.


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