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The Center for the Digital Future at USC’s Annenberg School released their 2010 report on Friday, “Surveying the Digital Future,” and its findings reveal some interesting and contradictory feelings that Americans have about online content and the Internet in general.
Not surprisingly, Internet usage has increased in each of the nine years that Annenberg has conducted their study. According to the Center’s press release, America’s Internet usage per week has doubled since 2000, and the number of American households with broadband has increased eightfold in that time. However, there are still some notable gaps among certain age groups: of study participants ages thirty-six to forty-five, 15 percent did not use the Internet at all. Among ages forty-six to fifty-five, 19 percent were non-users as well.
Even just among people in the study who do go online often, there was a noticeable decrease in overall trust of the Internet and online content. From the press release:
*Sixty-one percent of users said that only half or less of online information is reliable—a new low for the Digital Future Project.
*Even more disturbing is that 14 percent of Internet users said that only a small portion or none of the information online is reliable—a percentage that has grown for the past three years and is now at the highest level thus far in the Digital Future Project.
Even when asked about the Web sites they visited most often, 22 percent of people said that only half or less of the information they found there was reliable. Makes you wonder why they don’t find different favorite sites? Or is this a subset of Internet users who will inherently distrust most things they find online, simply because it’s online?
The study’s questions also probed into the issue of trust in general: not just trust in online content, but concerns about the security and reliability of the technology that makes the Internet tick.
*Only 46 percent of users said they have some trust or a lot of trust in the Internet in general. Nine percent of users have no trust in the Internet.
Another telling statistic: When asked “Does communication technology make the world a better place?” only 56 percent of Internet users said yes, a number that is down from the peak of 66 percent in 2002.
As for the news biz, a disheartening—but far from shocking—revelation was that newspapers were only seen as “important or very important sources of information” for 56 percent of respondents (down from 60 percent in 2008). The Internet, on the other hand, was ranked as important by 78 percent, and television by 68 percent.
It was heartening that only 18 percent said they had stopped subscribing to a newspaper or magazine because they thought they could find the same content online. Likewise, 22 percent of newspaper customers “said they would not miss the print edition of their newspaper” if the print edition ceased production. Those numbers are high, but not as high as we might have come to expect from the media’s funereal drumbeat of the “death of print.”
When the survey participants were asked about how willing they’d be to pay for online content, they generally conceded that, as unwilling as they were, they understood that eventually this would become a necessity. They were split almost down the middle on whether they would prefer seeing Web advertising with their content or having to pay for content. The study found that half of the Internet users “never” click on advertising online, and 70 percent find advertising to be “annoying.” (Wow, only 70 percent?)
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"...JoAnne Reyes-Boitel, director of community organizing for the Austin Latina/o Lesbian, Gay & Transgendered Organization, which hosts Saturday's events: "Anzaldúa has a long history of providing a voice for people who don't believe they have one, whether it's because of their color, gender, gender representation, ethnicity, or health status." In addition to Saturday's happenings, ALLGO and Resistencia Bookstore are jointly planning a reading of Anzaldúa's work (see "Related Events," below)."¿Qué hacer de aquí y cómo?/ What do we do from here and how?" The urge to honor Anzaldúa, but more importantly, to not forget her, seems to have drawn the various constituent organizations together to shape her tribute...."
"...Don't forget! Your unlucky Valentine's Day (remember it falls right after Friday the 13th this year) might be a tad luckier, especially if you spend Friday night at the Austin Latino/a Lesbian & Gay Organization (ALLGO) Baile de Amor, Fri, Feb 13, 9am-1pm at Austin North Hilton & Towers, 6000 Middle Fiskville. Tickets are $15 in advance and $25 at the door...."
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"...Livin' healthy isn't easy, and self-care isn't frequently celebrated. But Allgo – Texas' queer people of color organization – is about to change all that..."
"...ALLGO'S DAY OF THE DEAD/DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS Allgo is, if anything, family and tradition. Their annual remembrance of loved ones passed is a reliable touchstone that kicks off the Austin holiday season..."
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"...ALLGO MOVIE NIGHT has moved to Monday to make way for D-Lo. This month's film: Passing for Almost Straight, a doc which wiggles into the lives of NYC-based professional male dancers..."
"...QPOC Movie Night: Brown Girls Head to allgo for a screening and convo on the first few episodes of this queer web series. Sat., Oct..."
"...For another, they're some of Austin's most talented QPOC/QTPOC artists. Joining them for allgo's Our Voices Community Showcase (9pm, Picturebox Studio, 701 Tillery, $5-10) – and rounding out a jaw-dropping lineup – is Wanda Cuesta Kruda, Mama Duke, Beanz and Rice, and Blakchyl..."

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Thursday marked the 9th Annual Salvation Army Apple Fest. It’s an event made of partnerships with the goal of not only raising money but also awareness for homelessness intervention and prevention.
Corporate partners like Applebee’s and MCL Restaurant & Bakery along with other nonprofit organizations joined The Salvation Army on the west side of Monument Circle for a day filled with fun, games, food and music. These partners got a chance to meet members of the community and mingle with The Salvation Army’s own employees and volunteers.
Here’s a quick breakdown of the event:
To start, the weather was absolutely amazing!!!
Applebee’s provided a fantastic menu of tasty chicken creations. (The chicken fajita rollup with the chipotle sauce was pretty amazing.) All the food was cooked and prepared fresh right under their tent by a staff of smiling faces. But hey, you need Applebee’s to have an Apple Fest.
The next stop was dessert. And of course it’s not Apple fest without Apple Crisp. Chef Ian from MCL Restaurant & Bakery whipped up a divine sweet treat with just the right balance of chewy caramel and sweetness. Fast Fact: 1,000 servings of Apple Crisp=250 pounds of apples (that’s 750 apples-try peeling all those) + 35 pounds of butter + 83 pounds of brown sugar + 166 cups of oats. (Make sure you adjust the recipe accordingly should you want to make up a batch.)
Pepsi covered the beverages and Two Men and a Truck served them. What great teamwork from two of our corporate sponsors. A few lovely ladies from divisional headquarters graciously took payments for the spectacular meal. (Remember, all proceeds go to Salvation Army programs and initiatives aimed at homelessness prevention and intervention.)
The circle rocked to the sounds of Bloomington-based band Tax Brandywine. Our volunteers may have even tried to keep time while ringing the bells and manning the red kettles.
Finally, the circle was lined with booths and games. There was truly something for everyone.
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It sounds like the Geordie Shore lass will be a married woman before she knows it...
Sam Gowland has revealed that he plans on being engaged to Chloe Ferry by this point next year and admitted that his girlfriend isn’t exactly subtle when it comes to dropping marriage hints.
The Geordie Shore lad revealed in an interview with the Daily Star that he’s already got the whole thing mapped out in his head – adding that he thinks “twenty four” is a pretty good age to pop the question.>> Watch Geordie Shore here
“Chloe asks me every day when I am going to propose and if I have the ring yet,” he said. “I know exactly how I am going to do it, and I know roughly when. I am nearly 23 but I want to be engaged by the time I’m 24.”
This isn’t the first fans have been waiting for an engagement announcement. Just recently, the internet was convinced the duo were set to walk down the aisle when Chloe teased “the best news ever” on social-media.
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The above result describes changes in the price of white Beans in the last one week. Result indicates higher variance in the wholesale and retail prices in Gboko main market, Benue state than other states in consideration. Though the market had the least wholesale price, it still had the highest retail price. Best wholesale price for White Beans is obtainable in Gombe Main Market, Gombe State.
The above table indicates that there are better wholesale and retail pricing per kilogram for Garri in Southern states than in Northern states. This could be due to comparative advantage enjoyed by Delta state where such crops are majorly grown and Lagos state as a result of nearness to market. Just as for Beans Production, result indicates higher variance in the wholesale and retail price of Garri in Benue state as compared to other states. More so, for better wholesale and retail pricing, minimum price for Garri can be gotten in Dawanau Market, Kano State.
Result shows higher margin between Lagos and Benue State as Gboko Main Market, Benue state records the lowest amount of Maize per kg. Abia state had the least comparative advantage on Maize production and thus had higher price wholesale price. For better retail pricing, minimum price can be gotten in Dawanau Market, Kano State.
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Presently gallic acid is obtained from tannin. An alternate preparation involves treating para-chlorophenoldisulphonic acid with potassium hydroxide a variant on the time-honored route to phenols from sulfonic acids.
It can be used in this way to calculate the amount of oxygen in air, notably via the use of the Orsat apparatus. Uses[ edit ] One can find its uses in hair dyeingdyeing of suturing materials and for oxygen absorption in gas analysis.
It also has antiseptic properties. Pyrogallol was also used as a developing agent in black-and-white developers, but its use is largely historical except for special purpose applications. Hydroquinone is more commonly used today. It is also used in isolation of inert gasses from a mixture of gasses,which requires absorption of oxygen from the mixture.
Use in photography[ edit ] Though a popular photographic developing agent in the 19th and early 20th centuries, pyrogallol largely fell out of favor around the s, although it was still used by a few notable photographers including Edward Weston. In those days it had a reputation for erratic and unreliable behavior, due possibly to its propensity for oxidation.
It experienced a revival starting in the s due largely to the efforts of experimenters Gordon Hutchings and John Wimberley. PMK[ edit ] Hutchings spent over a decade working on pyrogallol formulas, eventually producing one he named PMK for its main ingredients, pyrogallol, Metoland Kodalk [trade name of Kodak for sodium metaborate].
This formulation resolved the consistency issues, and Hutchings found that an interaction between the greenish stain given to film by pyro developers and the color sensitivity of modern variable-contrast photographic papers gave the effect of an extreme compensating developer.
From toWimberley experimented with the Pyrogallol developing agent.
PMK and other modern pyro formulations are now used by many black-and-white photographers. The Film Developing Cookbook has examples. This developer has both staining and tanning and negatives developer with it are immune to the callier effect. Can be used from little to large negative formats.
Safety[ edit ] Pyrogallol use, e.A 암페어. Abbe's Principle 아베의 원리. aberration 수차. ablation 융제. ablator 애블레이터. ABM 탄도탄 요격 미사일. abnormal explosion 이상 폭발. Methanol is used as solvent next to water (universal solvent) and as a raw material for the production of acetic acid, methyl tert-butyl ether, methyl acetate, motor spirit, vinyl acetate, acetic anhydride, formaldehyde, and styrene and these chemicals is used for the manufacture of adhesives, coating, photographic film, synthetic fiber, synthetic rubber and thermoplastic.
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President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he’s losing his patience over the Republican attacks aimed at his “you didn’t build that” comment.
“I have to tell you, I generally have patience with what the other side says about me, that’s a requirement of this job,” Obama said during a $5,000-per-plate fundraiser here, according to the pool report.
“And if you don’t like folks talking about you, you probably shouldn’t run for president. The one thing I do have no patience for is this argument that somehow what I’m criticizing is success… I want to promote success,” Obama said.
Obama’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee are trying to get past the remark that has become a center piece of Mitt Romney’s stump speech that the administration considers government the only way for individual success in the private sector. Earlier Tuesday, Obama launched an ad campaign in six swing states with the president speaking directly into a camera to explain himself and argue that Romney has taken his words out of context.
I have yet to see a libnozzle put Obama’s words “into context” and have the meaning change.
Again, I want to see Obama condemn the words of Elizabeth Warren. Warren’s little speech is IN CONTEXT, and the main theme of her speech is almost lifted word for word by Obama.
No, I’m afraid what has happened here is that leftist ideology eeked out, 75% of the people, who are awake, were appalled, leftists couldn’t believe their message didn’t resonate and now they are trying to walk it back.
Too bad Joe the Plumber hadn’t asked a question prior to Obama saying what he said, that way libfilth could say, “he’s not even a plumber.”
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Dr. Rod Hochman, the soon-to-be sole president and CEO of Providence Health & Services, spoke about hospital growth and consolidation Wednesday at a Business Journal Live event at Olive 8 Hotel in Seattle.
“Growth is imperative,” Hochman said. “But the question is, how do you grow?”
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It’s a particularly relevant topic for Hochman. He was the longtime CEO of Swedish Health Services in Seattle and helped broker the deal that brought Swedish and Providence together in a now year-old affiliation.
Hochman echoed the thoughts of many health-care leaders I’ve spoken with recently – that hospitals won’t always be the centers of health care. Traditionally, hospital growth meant building or acquiring new hospitals, but in the future, it will expand to include things like home health care, web visits with the doctor and other innovations, he said.
“We’re going to have to give health care everywhere – virtually through your computer,” Hochman said.
That comes with the challenge of the changing economic model for hospitals, the move away from the fee-for-service system and the move toward paying for healthy patient outcomes.
The two organizations are standardizing different types of procedures and administrative activities, which he said is key to controlling costs as health systems try to adjust to health-care reform.
“The assumption is that we’re going to be paid less to do more and do it better,” Hochman said.
Providence is based in Renton and employs about 30,000 people in Washington state.
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Tonight, I decided to go to the Apple Store in order to play with the new MacBook. I wasn’t really excited, but since I write about technology, I thought it was important to at least take a look at it. Needless to say, I couldn’t take my eyes off of it.
Don’t get me wrong; the MacBook can’t really replace my MacBook Pro 13-Inch Retina. But the MacBook is ten times better looking than my MacBook Pro. I am absolutely shocked at how light this thing is. It feels like an iPad with a keyboard on it.
Speaking of the keyboard, the new butterfly keys are really hard to get used to. There isn’t a lot of tactile feedback on the keys, so there will be a learning curve. The new Force Touch pressure-sensitive trackpad is a nice addition, but something the user has to get used to as well. I think Apple is definitely ahead of the curve with the Force Touch trackpad.
The MacBook I used had a 1.1GHz processor and I was able to get most tasks done as fast as I did with my MacBook Pro. However, I am sure that if I was able to try Photoshop or Final Cut Pro, I would notice a huge difference as others have. Actually, I have been told Photoshop and Final Cut Pro are still workable on the new MacBook, but one has to be a little more patient with the speed.
The USB Type C connector may be the future of connection ports, but it leaves those in the present pretty frustrated. One has to buy adapters to connect current devices and that can cost a little too much extra. One of the really nice workers at the Apple Store said that it’s early in the game, but they expect adapters for just about every product by the end of May.
You should definitely go to the Apple Store and give the new MacBook a spin. There is one problem: If you happen to want to buy it there, you can’t. As of right now, one can only order the new MacBook and there is currently a three-week wait. I am assuming Apple is doing this to create more hype for the device. Judging by the amount of people who wanted to buy the device when I was there this evening, Apple may be making a mistake.
The good news is that the MacBook itself is not the mistake some people (like myself) thought it would be. It’s a slim and sexy MacBook Air replacement that will get you envious looks in coffee shops or other places where you use it.


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This item from Maggie Belle's Memories is now in the Shop Backroom.
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This Elegant Glass bread and butter plate with the Royal etch is by Fostoria in their lovely amber color. The Royal Etch #273 forms a band of stylized flowers and leaves on a stippled crosshatch background around the rim. One of the flowers is the design is a trumpet shape with six surrounding petals or sepals, while another is banded at the base creating a tropical crown-like effect. The plate has a paneled optic, and the rim curves up slightly.
This pretty glass plate measures 6-1/4 inches in diameter and 5/8 inches tall. It is not marked.
The Royal etch was made by Fostoria from 1928 to 1933. There are small vertical scrapes at about a dozen places around the inner rim, undoubtedly caused by something being stacked on top of it. You can see some of these in the photos as dark spots. There are no chips or cracks.
This is a lovely elegant depression era plate at an affordable price!
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Stevenage have signed Swansea City defender Curtis Obeng on a loan deal until the end of the season.
The 25-year-old has yet to make an appearance for the Premier League side since joining them from Wrexham in 2012.
The former England youth international has also spent time on loan at Fleetwood Town and York City in recent campaigns.
Obeng was an unused substitute for Boro last night as they went down 2-0 to promotion chasing Leyton Orient.
First half goals from Moses Odubajo and Chris Dagnall were enough for Orient to bag all three points and leave Stevenage still rooted to the bottom of the table with time beginning to run out.
More top news
Police think that a man from Essex who has been missing for a year has probably been murdered over his involvement with drugs.
Newmarket javelin thrower Goldie Sayers could finally get an Olympic bronze after a Russian athlete reportedly failed a drugs test.
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Here in 2015--on the brink of 2016--we are living in the age of the graphic novel. Talented artists and storytellers are churning out waves of graphic works for every age, sensibility, interest and purpose.
And it is fantastic.
But before graphic novels?
"Comic books" you say?
Okay. Comic books.
And twinkling there with his pen-wielding comrades at the beginning of the comic book--the serialized story told in pictures and carefully shaped words in bubbles--is George L. Carlson.
I stumbled on George Carlson's talents accidentally (as I stumble upon everything in this blog).
I was in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in one of many used bookstores my friend and I were scouring for treasures.
And there it was.
|"Fun For Juniors" by George Carlson|
Sigh. But back to George.
This particular treasure had all the earmarks of a book carried around, perused, penciled, then set aside only to be discovered again. The red cloth cover showed the typical stains and blotches of age, and I imagined a long-ago child perhaps spilling his or her glass of milk on it, or grabbing it with fingers still greasy from lunch.
Inside many of the puzzles had been done by that long-ago child. Their carefully formed letters and ability to follow the twists and turns of mazes and labyrinths made me guess he or she was maybe 8 or 9 years old. Some of the letters had the tell-tale loops and tilts of a child just learning cursive.
I was delighted.
But more than this, I fell in love with the whimsical beauty of this book. George Carlson was clearly a lover of riddles and puns, and this single book was fraught with them.
Later in the book is more serious fare--a game of questions that included no fewer than 189 questions (and answers in the back) covering science, history and American popular culture and current events (from the time). In this section the pictures and accompanying text were carefully crafted in bright, eye-grabbing colors.
I had to know.
It didn't take me long before I found a two part series on "The Comics Journal" website (tcj.com) written by Paul Tumy about none other than George Carlson!
Mr. Tumy was clearly infinitely more enamored with George Carlson than I was. His two part series about George (I'll call him "George", but very respectfully) included countless brilliant photos of a wide (and hard to find) range of George's works, from his earliest published magazine work in 1913 to his well-known cover of "Gone With the Wind" and continuing work on joke and riddle books for children. (2, 3)
Clearly the range and scope of George's work is breathtaking. I closely examined each of the many photographs of George's work that Mr. Tumy included in his articles. Yes, George's art was a product of his time--the people he drew were predominantly white, interspersed with anthropomorphic animals. He did illustrate a range of children's story books and non-fiction books about Native Americans which I would be very interested in exploring if I could get my greedy hands on them. One of these is, in fact, considered one of the first graphic novels, entitled "Red Men" with author Jimmy Thompson. According to Mr. Tumy, "Red Men" tells tales of Native American pre-European life--a disturbing and unfortunate title for a book that I would consider reading as a glimpse into how Native American life was interpreted in the past. (4) So overall, the most part, no, George's work was not especially diverse.
However what I seized upon was the man himself.
According to Mr. Tumy, there just isn't much known about George outside of what can be gleaned from his work.
He had never been interviewed. Moreover, according to Mr. Tumy, there was, and is only one known photograph of him.
Mr Tumy guessed that this photograph may have been taken around 1939, just after he had completed the "Gone With the Wind" book jacket. (3)
So now I had a face to go with the art. But to be honest, this photograph only created more questions. To look at George's art, I would've expected someone a bit more flamboyant, if not in dress then in facial expression.
Yet there he sits, staring at the camera with a perplexing expression of nervousness bordering on dread. A regular fellow in a tie, white pressed shirt and dark pants.
A regular fellow with a storm of creativity raging behind his calm eyes.
Or so I am projecting upon him, I confess.
Which leads me to my other discoveries about George L. Carlson.
Mr. Tumy points out that one reason George's work has not been more well-known is that he never really attached himself to one big publisher. He self-promoted everything he published.
In fact, George did not start out as a comic book illustrator and writer--he started out creating illustrations for children's books, magazines and commercial art. (3) He was 55 years old before even stepping a toe into doing comic book work! (3)
All of this, I must tell you, rings very close to home for me. Perhaps I even see a bit of myself in George--rather shy, typing away at my stories, timidly submitting them sans agent only to receive polite rejections--with a certain measure of relief I must confess. After all, writing alone is a comfortable known. Putting my writing out into the world is a frightening thing, albeit my goal.
And if George can jump into a whole new creative realm at the age of 55, then there might still be some wiggle room for me.
Which brings me back to the book in my hands--a beautifully, hilariously illustrated and crafted book of puzzles, riddles and jokes for children--1 in a set of 8 as it turns out. (2,3)
I like to think George won't be entirely forgotten and I'll tell you why.
In 1940, Oglethorpe University's president Dr. Thornwell Jacobs came up with an idea to seal in a crypt beneath his Atlanta, Georgia university a time capsule of sorts. (3) In this time capsule Dr. Jacobs wanted to compile a museum-like display of human civilization up to that point covering science, art and history. (3)
The "Crypt of Civilization" as it was called, is to be opened in the year 8113 AD, the point at which the same number of years would have elapsed from 1940 to the future as had elapsed from the dawn of civilization to 1940. (3)
Dr. Jacobs chose one artist to illustrate panels that would be displayed prominently on the walls of the Crypt to provide instructions and information for whoever opens the crypt. (3)
That artist was George L. Carlson.
So while the world may have forgotten George, in 6000 years perhaps he will be rediscovered.
A rather comforting thought for those of us who wheedle away our time secretly creating.
The day after I posted this blog entry, the Mental Floss website posted a write up about the "Crypt of Civilization". Probably coincidence. Definitely coincidence. However I will fantasize for awhile that someone over at Mental Floss (my favorite magazine and website ever) stumbled across my blog, this blog, and got just a teeny bit inspired.
To learn more about the "Crypt of Civilization" check out
1. "Fun For Juniors". George Carlson. The Platt & Munk Co. Inc. Publishers. New York.1937.

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Intel office wants industry secrets
Agency faces IT challenges similar to other government departments
- By Brad Grimes
- May 20, 2004
Chris Tucker of Ionic Enterprise Inc. said agencies that use geospatial intelligence systems have inherent interoperability problems.
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The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, directed by Stuart Shea of Northrop Grumman, will bring together integrators and vendors to share information.
J. Adam Fenster
At a top-secret industry conference this week, a federal agency with no budget to speak of will tell integrators and technology vendors how they can win business helping defense and intelligence agencies.
It's not that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency doesn't have money to spend. The agency recently doled out $1 billion for commercial satellite imagery and plans to place another $500 million order in September. Rather, NGA is tight-lipped about its budget, which is largely classified and comes from a variety of sensitive sources, including the intelligence community and Defense Department.
But NGA's business, combining maps and imagery to describe and assess places and events on Earth, has become increasing important in the government's war on terror, homeland security efforts and other initiatives. As a result, the agency is investing heavily in a variety of technology areas and working closely with industry to accomplish its goals.
"The growth in geospatial intelligence is exponential," said John Ray, manager of defense and intelligence business development at ESRI Inc., a Redlands, Calif., developer of geographic information systems and mapping software. "It has become a new and powerful framework on which to hang, analyze and display all other intelligence information."
Mark Schultz, director of NGA's corporate relations office, said geospatial intelligence is fundamental to the U.S. national security strategy. Many of the government's next-generation defense initiatives, such as Future Combat Systems and network-centric warfare, can't succeed without it.
"It's a natural way to array information, understand what you're seeing and take action on it," he said.
Although Schultz couldn't reveal details of what NGA will present to contractors at its May 26 industry day, he described for Washington Technology some of the areas where the agency is exploring new solutions.
Significantly, many of NGA's IT requirements have little to do with satellite imagery, remote sensors and other specialty geospatial technologies. To accomplish its goals, the agency also requires high-bandwidth networks (wired and wireless), Web services, data storage solutions and more.
This means the opportunities to work on geospatial intelligence contracts are greater than companies might perceive and are not limited to what one usually thinks of as intelligence agencies, experts said.
"Intelligence, to some extent, is a dirty word, but it shouldn't be," Day said. "Geospatial intelligence can be about finding the right place to open a Starbucks."
Although none of them will be running coffee shops, Day said the Interior Department, including the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Agriculture Department, including the Forest Service, are customers of geospatial intelligence solutions. Schultz said NGA collaborates with several civilian agencies.
"The challenge at any of these agencies will be building the enterprise systems [to enable geospatial intelligence] and integrating them into their workflow," Day said.
Sharing information is critical to successfully exploiting geospatial intelligence, Shultz said. NGA is working hard to build an integrated National System for Geospatial-Intelligence, which will provide an interoperable network for pulling data together and making it accessible across agencies.
Related to that, Shultz said, the practice of actually assembling geospatial intelligence and making it available must undergo fundamental change, with large object-oriented databases and Web services playing key roles.
Until recently, geospatial data was transmitted in large files and assembled by the end user on powerful workstations. In the new paradigm, processing geospatial data will take place on back-end systems, and it will be made available through Web browsers, said Chris Tucker, chief executive officer of Ionic Enterprise Inc. and former head strategist at In-Q-Tel, the Central Intelligence Agency's private venture fund.
Getting data in and out of current systems to allow for this processing and distribution is the real challenge.
"You can't go into a customer that doesn't have at least two geographic information systems, and an Oracle spatial database, and some other database," Tucker said. "They automatically have an interoperability problem."
Alexandria, Va.-based Ionic develops software so agencies can publish geospatial data as standards-based Web services. The company builds its products around OpenGIS specifications, which are developed by the non-profit Open GIS Consortium and endorsed by NGA.
In addition to information sharing, next-generation visualization technologies will be important to the government's ability to understand the data it's looking at and take appropriate action. Interestingly, Schultz said, gaming companies have been on the cutting edge of visualization techniques that allow 3-D exploration of geospatial data.
"The power of visualizing information is understood only by a few," Shultz said. "As that becomes more apparent, you're going to find a huge industry grow up here."
Commercial products and services will be important to NGA's evolution as the geospatial intelligence community weans itself off homegrown applications and augments its own data sources, Schultz said. Last fall, the agency awarded a five-year, $500 million contract to Longmont, Colo.-based DigitalGlobe Inc. for high-resolution images from the company's commercial satellites. And it's considering extending a similar contract to Thornton, Colo.-based Space Imaging Inc. to provide additional imagery.
In 2002, NGA (then known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency) hired Northrop Grumman Corp.'s IT division to develop the Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit, a set of off-the-shelf applications to replace the Defense Department's proprietary tools for handling geospatial data.
[IMGCAP(2)]Stuart Shea, vice president of Northrop Grumman IT's space and intelligence unit, said the tool kit is now being installed.
Recently, the IT industry created a new springboard to continue development and implementation of commercial products at federal agencies.
The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, of which Shea is director, brings together systems integrators and technology vendors to share information and build comprehensive, integrated solutions. The group, announced this month, includes Boeing Co., DigitalGlobe, ESRI, Harris Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp., Northrop Grumman, Oracle Corp., Science Applications International Corp., Raytheon Co. and others.
"Until recently, the geospatial intelligence contractor community has lacked focus," Shea said, adding the foundation will encourage new technologies. "The greatest technological development is happening in small, agile companies," he said.
Schultz said because procurement cycles can be long, NGA "needs to be joined at the hip with industry" to ensure access to the best new technologies. The agency's InnoVision directorate is tasked with forecasting future needs and identifying the latest solutions.
Schultz said the rate of change at NGA will accelerate over the coming years. "There's a huge sense of urgency here," he said.
Staff Writer Brad Grimes can be reached at email@example.com.


Do you have the right tools to contain construction dust and prevent patients and staff from getting sick?
As a facility manager, have you gotten a call whereupon you learn that your already large workload is about to get even bigger? Perhaps it’s from the entities above and beyond your station calling to inform you that an extensive renovation is being planned and started within the next year — one large enough to complicate your job for a while. Sure, their excitement is palpable, but your left eye starts to twitch uncontrollably.
So, what does this have to do with dust containment tools? Well, everyone knows that selecting the right tools makes a job easier, and you are about to have LOTS of dust in the air. Ergo, this helpful article will give you insight into the tools that will help you keep airborne dust at bay, eliminating contaminated air that could wreak havoc on patients who are already compromised.
In 2006, a company called TED Systems was called upon to test 350 fire alarm devices located above the ceiling in a children's hospital. Before removing a single ceiling tile, of course, they had to rig a makeshift tent around it with zip poles and plastic, bring in a ceiling access ladder, and set up a blower to create negative pressure to contain any dust that might escape. The problem was, the whole rig took half an hour to set up or take down. Further, they did not know the exact location of each alarm. This meant they might lift a tile, only to see they were nowhere near an alarm. As HEPACART lead engineer Jeff Pirner tells the story, "we were going to be there the rest of our lives."
Out of sheer necessity, then, the first HEPACART dust containment carts were born. Early steel-and-wood prototypes quickly gave way to welded aluminum versions. Our dust containment solution was so obviously superior that once other contractors in the hospital saw them, they wanted to buy them. In 2007 the newly created HEPACART company began selling sleek aluminum units looking very much like the HEPACART dust containment unit you can buy today.
As early users quickly discovered, efficiency goes up dramatically with a mobile dust containment unit. Roll it beneath a tile, put on the parking brake, plug in the power cord, raise the fire-retardant telescoping enclosure until the foam seal presses against the ceiling. That's it. You're ready to enter the ceiling in a minute or two instead of half an hour or more. Plus, the interior LED lights and HEPA filtration provides a clean and safe working environment.
Once the job is finished, workers can leave the ladder, tools, and supplies inside before closing up the unit just as quickly as they set it up.
Many jobs involve pulling Ethernet cable, optical fiber, or electrical wiring through the ceiling in a hospital or other high-risk environment. The simplest way to do that would involve two HEPACARTs — the first used to feed cables into an open ceiling tile, and the second providing access to the ceiling at many subsequent points to pull, secure, connect, and test.
However, much as we might get warm and fuzzy feelings inside as we contemplate selling lots of HEPACART units, we must tell you that a more economical approach is available.
In place of that first dust containment cart, substitute a Cabling Access Point (CAP), fitting it neatly in place of a ceiling tile. The CAP provides a small opening with rollers to guide cables gently through it into the plenum space above. It comes in varied designs to accommodate everything from delicate optical fiber cables to large cable bundles, as well as various tile openings.
With a CAP in place, workers can feed cable quickly and cleanly, without exposing anyone to dust from above the ceiling grid. As with everything HEPACART, installing and removing any CAP product is a simple matter, taking only a minute or two.
Now we come to the part of this post that directly addresses your need for an antacid: construction. If you thought dust was a big deal in the maintenance scenarios just described, hold on to your Maalox because things are about to get interesting.
Let's start with demolition, construction, and renovation confined to a single room. Instead of entering via a ceiling tile, you need to walk through a door. HEPACART's AnteRoom is designed for safe, dust-free access to any room. Roll the all-aluminum AnteRoom up to the wall in front of the door, install it in less than five minutes, and you have a dust-containing, clothes-changing vestibule. In addition, it comes with external duct adapters for any negative air machine, not just one of ours.
Now you've created an isolated work environment that contains dust and meets ICRA Class IV specifications while providing an entry and exit point via an anteroom.
Finally, we've come full circle to that stomach-clenching phone call about that major renovation project. Since we've described products that provide ways to enter ceilings and rooms safely and efficiently, why not apply the same thinking to walls.
Typically during construction projects, temporary walls can consist of anything from heavy plastic sheeting over a wood framework to reusable fabric to conventional drywall (really not the best temporary solution with the labor costs, demolition, and the waste removal required at the end).
STARC Systems RealWall and LiteBarrier are reusable, portable wall systems that include doors, windows, ports for air management, and a clean look that reflects well on your organization while helping you meet requirements for dust and fire containment.
We know that healthcare facility management is a big job and that safeguarding the health of patients, staff, and visitors during maintenance and construction is an important part of it. The right tools can make a big difference in how efficiently and effectively you accomplish that goal.More reading


Although the choice of liberal icon Jimmy Carter as commencement speaker at Liberty University might be surprising, an expert explains why this fits in with the dream of conservative schools.
A minority politics scholar assesses black progress 52 years after MLK's death based on poverty, jobs and wealth. 'In some ways,' she concludes, 'we've barely budged as a people.'
Labour movements on both sides of the Atlantic have a rich history that's worth rereading now.
Bernie Sanders' single-payer health care plan is bound to be expensive and politically impossible. A simple expansion of Medicare offers a cheaper and more passable path to universal care.
People can make things happen.
The TPP should still bring enough benefits for the remaining countries to make it worthwhile to go through the trouble of enacting it.
In this year's election, the system of majority voting didn't allow voters to express their opinions adequately. If they had, the choice would have been between Kasich and Sanders.
If news pundits had been paying closer attention to memes, they may have been less shocked by the result of the 2016 US presidential election.
The US election confirmed the death of an extraordinary economic era. Now, control of the next must be wrested from the emboldened nationalists.
Tired of escalating health care costs, health care policymakers in Colorado have put a vote for universal coverage on the ballot in that state. Could the other states learn anything from it?
Debate over trade and immigration have caused rifts within parties this year. An international relations expert explains how these global issues will continue to challenge our two-party system.
Historically unpopular presidential candidates are making voters uneasy on both sides of the aisle. An expert on conflicted voters explains why this poses an unprecedented challenge for campaigns.
President Obama still believes there's hope to pass the 12-nation TPP deal before he leaves office, but the chances seem very slim.
A moral philosopher considers whether you should vote out of fear.
The major presidential candidates each gave an economic address this week. Get behind the problems they identified and the promises they made with this roundup of key coverage from our archive.
Income inequality and political polarization have both surged in recent decades and are the worst they've ever been. Is one causing the other?
Until the 1930s, American radicals stood apart from the two mainstream parties. That changed when a muckraking journalist ran for governor of California.
Claiming you were cheated or betrayed is not the best way to deal with political defeat.
Party platforms help create parties, not the other way around. A political party expert explains what platforms are, why they matter and for whom.
Bernie Sanders may have endorsed Hillary Clinton, but politics as usual has had its day. It's time for progressivism to move fast.


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SCHOLARSHIP PRE-DETERMINED BY THE LAW IT INVESTIGATES?
On the final count, Westerman encourages legal scholars to continue doing what they have always done, to wit doctrinal law; only they could do with an update and apply some more rigorous techniques of empirical research to get their facts (or effects) right. She thinks that what legal scholars do, and can do, is largely determined by the categories and the reasonings inherent to the object they are investigating: law, or rather some specific legal order, as it struggles with the ever changing facts of socio-political life. This order emerges and re-emerges without a premeditated plan or method, let alone a methodology, much like, after some tinkering, order re-emerged in her mother’s cupboard, according to parameters of integrity and continuity.2
I want to take issue with this – rather Savignyian3 – thesis, that scholarship on law (‘legal science’ if you wish) is predetermined by the categories and the reasonings in law. My alternative thesis is that the two are certainly related (as legal scholarship is a hermeneutic enterprise), but in a much more complicated way than Westerman suggests. Legal scholarship is indeed supposed to offer a theory of a legal order, but not necessarily in the terms of that legal order.
Let us start at the common place, where Westerman and I agree. Legal scholars are well advised to improve on their scientific knowledge of how facts are construed. Here is an example, derived from Van Fraassen.4 Let me slightly change the context and the story for our purposes. Suppose a city considers reorganising a department of civil servants due to its sub-standard performance. A group of civil servants in that department brings charges against the city, claiming that lighting and ventilation condition in their workplaces harm their wellbeing, hence their ability to perform according to standard (let’s call that their productivity), hence their individual chances of tenure, or promotion, or getting fired in a reorganisation. Here, I continue with Van Fraassen:
The city hired a statistician who showed conclusively by means of sampling that the productivity among workers in ill-lit and ill-ventilated spaces was no less than among workers in general (or in better lit, better ventilated spaces) – the productivity level was the same in both groups. So the complaint was concluded to be baseless.
(. . .) (T)he second statistician broke the data down by looking separately at women and at men. She showed clearly that among women, the productivity was less for workers in the ill-lit and ill-ventilated spaces than elsewhere. She also showed that among men, the productivity was less for workers in ill-lit and ill-ventilated spaces than elsewhere! So relevance of working conditions did not show up until there was a subdivision by this third factor (gender). How is this possible? That is precisely Simpson’s paradox; correlations can be washed out, or on the other hand brought to light, by averaging in different ways. Here is the solution to the puzzle: under all conditions the women were more productive than men working under the same conditions, but the women were predominantly working in poor conditions.
For those who want to check, I also quote Van Fraassen:
To make this concrete, imagine a very small situation, involving only 4 men and 7 women. Under good conditions the women produce 8 items per hour and the men 4. Under bad conditions the women produce 4 items per hour and the men 2. But two men and two women work in good conditions, with two men and five women assigned to bad working conditions. In the bad workplace, the production is 2(2) + 5(4) = 24 items per hour. In the good workplace, the production is 2(4) + 2(8) = 24 as well, precisely the same.5
5 × 4 items = 20
2 × 8 items = 16
2 × 2 items = 4
2 × 4 items = 8
I propose to extend Van Fraassen’s example by one legal turn. The city dismisses this reasoning by saying that the whole statistical exercise shows only one thing: if men would just work harder, there would be no issue of good and bad working conditions in the first place, as the department would perform according to expectations. These working conditions are not just good or bad, they are ‘good enough’ for all practical purposes, if only men would be less lazy in general. The city admits that the present situation is possibly harmful for female workers in particular, it promises to take measures to improve male performance and postpone reorganisation, but it denies that it is liable. So according to the municipality, there is no (relevant) correlation between production and working conditions, whereas the civil servants say there is.
Here I pause and ask Westerman what it means here that ‘the legal system functions as a theoretical framework that selects the facts and highlights them as legally relevant ones’?6 It is only trivial to say that there are no legal rules on averaging in, for instance, the Dutch, the German, or the French legal system, as far as I know. Indeed the whole concept of averaging is unknown in law, and no judge would hold a defendant liable by dint of not having his statistics right. What is more important, however, is this: the legal order does not give us any explicit ruling on which statement of fact is the more appropriate one considering the rules it upholds. And yet, although statistics will not be part of the law’s language, it may be part of the language that says what the law says. Scholars with sufficient knowledge of the Dutch legal order, for instance, will be able to predict that officials will have much more sympathy for the second way of averaging than for the first. It is also clear why: this has to do with equal opportunities, non-discrimination, etc, ie with norms that are explicitly promoted by law. The connection is there, however, not by virtue of the authority of the legal order, but by virtue of what legal scholars find pertinent in that legal order. So Westerman is right in claiming that legal scholarship feeds on the categories of the legal order, but not in the sense that these pre-determine the categories of legal scholarship.
Now let us suppose – for a second example – that this case goes to court, where there are three judges who will decide by majority vote in chambers. The rule they have to apply in this case is that if the working conditions are of unequal quality, and if unequal conditions bring harm to individual civil servants by affecting their productivity, the city is liable for having these bad working spaces renovated before a certain date. We can easily see that these judges may get into what contemporary literature on judgment aggregation calls a discursive dilemma.7
Bad working conditions?
How should these votes be counted? What is majority vote in this case? If we go by the conclusions, the majority vote will be that the city is not liable. However, if we go by the premises, we see that the majority of judges think that there are bad working conditions, and that there is

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RGV's or rather Pooja Bhatt's new discovery the Indo-Brazilian model Nathalia Kaur who did not make much of an impression with the song 'Dan Dan' in the film 'Department' has certainly moved the next level by bagging Pooja Bhatt's film 'Jism 3'. Unlike the previous two editions, the third part will star two leading ladies and will the raunchier than before. So will Sunny Leone be seen once again in the film? Will Nathalia be able to outshine Sunny Leone? Tell us what do you think.
From the flowers shaking act to bold smooches, Bollywood has come a long way. However, while kissing onscreen is still justifiable, there have been quite a few events where real life kisses created a stir. Here's a look at some of the most controversial real life lip locks in Bollywood.


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Britt Lower’s body statistics and plastic surgery facts are all here! Check out her height, body measurements, weight, shoe size, and whether she has undergone cosmetic surgery!
Britt is best known for her roles in the movies such as Roomie (2012), The Letter (2012) or Mutual Friends (2013). In 2014, Britt was seen on the premiere Beside Still Waters wearing red satin dress. It was so short that it revealed almost everything from her nicely shaped legs. Lower was accompanied there with her co-stars, Chris Lowell, Jessy Hodges, Reid Scott, Ryan Eggold, Brett Dalton, Beck Bennett, Erin Darke and Will Brill.
We have gathered all body measurements and statistics of Britt Lower, including bra size, cup size, shoe size, height, body shape, and weight.
|Height||1.68 m, 5’6” (feet & inches)|
|Weight||55.3 kg, 122 pounds|
|Cup Size (US)||Cub Size A|
|Shoe Size (US)||8.5|
|Dress Size (US)||6|
Which plastic surgery procedures have Britt Lower done? Below we have compiled a list of all known facts about the stars beauty enhancements:
Plastic Surgery Pictures
Check out these pictures of Britt Lower. Is there any plastic surgery involved?

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Objective: The analysis of the presence of PIK3CA and B-RAF gene mutations in relation to ERK and AKT activation in diffusely infiltrating astrocytomas, in order to determine their potential role in tumor aggressiveness.
Methods: Polymerase chain reaction-single strand confirmation polymorphism (PCR-SSCP) and sequencing analysis were used for PIK3CA and B-RAF gene mutation detection. pERK and pAKT expression were examined by immunohistochemistry.
Results: PIK3CA mutations were found in 2 (3%) cases of glioblastomas whereas none of these cases displayed mutations in exon 15 of B-RAF gene. Neither low grade astrocytomas nor anaplastic astrocytomas revealed any mutations in these genes. Nuclear and cytoplasmic pERK immunoreactivity was displayed in 100% and 82% of cases, respectively. pERK nuclear expression was positively correlated with pERK cytoplasmic expression (p = 0.0067). Moreover, pERK nuclear expression increased in parallel with tumor grade (II, III v/s IV, p = 0.0262). Nuclear and cytoplasmic pAKT immunoreactivity was displayed in 97% and 100% of cases, respectively. Similarly, pAKT nuclear expression was positively correlated with pAKT cytoplasmic expression (p = 0.0074). pAKT cytoplasmic expression increased with increasing tumor grade (II,III v/s IV, p = 0.0930), although the latter relationship was of marginal significance. pAKT cytoplasmic expression was also positively correlated with pERK nuclear expression (p = 0.0156).
Conclusions: Our study reports the low frequency of PIK3CA and B-RAF mutations in astrocytomas, despite the presence of activated ERK and AKT proteins. Moreover, the correlation of pERK nuclear and pAKT cytoplasmic expression with tumor grade suggests the possible crucial role of the activation of these proteins in human gliomagenesis.


An Iranian Scientist May Have Invented A Time Machine- Ali Razeghi Introduces The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine
Are you ready to travel into the future? Time Machines are real, and they can take you to the future.... Well, if you trust this one Iranian scientist. Scientist Ali Razeghi has invented a time machine called "The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine". We have the full details on this gem.
According to The Telegraph, this gem doesn't require 1.21 Gigawatts:
The device can predict the future in a print out after taking readings from the touch of a user, he told the Fars state newsagency.
Razaeghi, 27, said the device worked by a set of complex algorithims to "predict five to eight years of the future life of any individual, with 98 percent accuracy".
So wait, it isn't even 100% right? That's just wrong! Sorry to break your heart if you planned on actually going to the future:
"My invention easily fits into the size of a personal computer case and can predict details of the next 5-8 years of the life of its users. It will not take you into the future, it will bring the future to you."
I'm guessing this can't work. But maybe this machine predicted I'd say that 10 years ago.


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On her way to becoming arguably the most innovative, unique and emotionally resonant comedian in the country, Maria Bamford has seen her cult following grow ever larger.
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Maria Bamford has emerged over the last year as one of the most critically revered comics -- especially among her peers -- in the country while bravely addressing the stigma of mental illness as part of her act.
I always end up in the kids free area of the backyard near the grill and cooler, patting the dog and wondering why my friend's husband said I had a boob job.
"When I get back to LA I'm going to have to go see my doctor because I've been feeling really... attracted to him."
I was nervous for my show at the Women in Comedy Festival. Arriving to the venue on Barbara-time (half an hour early), I had plenty of time to scope o...
Judging by the audience reaction, at the end of night one the Women in Comedy Festival was off to a raucously good start.
WICF doesn't have a lineup of comics who are "funny for a girl," but simply an amazing, strong lineup of hilarious, acclaimed comics from all over the country.
I hope you will join me on this ride of twists, turns, jumps, dips, and inevitable lady part jokes. Let women reign and the people laugh. Let my people laugh!
Politicos may lay claim to 2010 as Year of the Woman, but if the Fourth Annual Women in Comedy Festival is any indication, they may have to hand that title over to the Year of the Funny Woman.
It's day one of the Women in Comedy Festival and I can't wait to be back in Boston.
Our friend Dylan Gadino from Punchline Magazine made the wise choice to attend the 3rd Annual Women In Comedy Festival this past weekend, and he got t...
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