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Large earthquakes may broadcast warnings, but is anyone tuning in to listen?

December 12, 2007

Like geological ninjas, earthquakes can strike without warning. But there may be a way to detect the footfalls of large earthquakes before they strike, alerting their potential victims a week or more in advance. A Stanford professor thinks a method to provide just such warnings may have been buried in the scientific literature for over 40 years.

In October, Japan instituted a nationwide earthquake warning system that heralds the advance of a big earthquake; its sophisticated machinery senses the shaking deep in the earth and transmits a warning signal that can beat the tremors to the surface by seconds.

Antony Fraser-Smith, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and of geophysics, has evidence that big temblors emit a burst of ultra-low-frequency electromagnetic radio waves days or even weeks before they hit. The problem is that nobody is paying enough attention.

Fraser-Smith has been interested in electromagnetic signals for decades. Most of these waves come from space, he said, generated in the upper atmosphere by the sun and then beamed down to Earth.

In 1989, Fraser-Smith and his research team were monitoring ultra-low-frequency radio waves in a remote location in the Santa Cruz Mountains as part of a long-term study of the signals reaching Earth from space. On Oct. 5, 1989, their equipment suddenly reported a large signal, and the signal stayed up for the next 12 days. At 2:00 p.m. on Oct. 17, 1989, the signal jumped even higher, about 20 to 30 times higher than what the instruments would normally ever measure, Fraser-Smith said. At 5:04 p.m. the 7.1 magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake hit the Monterey Bay and San Francisco Bay areas, killing 63 people and causing severe damage across the region.

Fraser-Smith originally thought there was something wrong with the equipment. After ruling out the possibility of technical malfunctions, he and his research team started to think the Loma Prieta quake had quietly announced its impending arrival, and that their equipment just happened to be in the right place at the right time to pick up the message.

"Most scientists necessarily make measurements on small earthquakes because that's what occurs all the time," Fraser-Smith said. "To make a measurement on a large earthquake you have to be lucky, which we were."

Along with Stephen Park, earth sciences professor at the University of California-Riverside, and Frank Morrison, professor emeritus of earth and planetary science at UC-Berkeley, Fraser-Smith continued to study the phenomenon of earthquakes emitting electromagnetic waves through a study funded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

When the USGS terminated the funding in 1999, he decided to move on to other things. But he was recently drawn back into this issue by a local private company that wanted to use his methods to develop earthquake warning systems.

"I took a new look at the measurements, concentrating entirely on large earthquakes," Fraser-Smith said, "and all of a sudden I could see the forest through the trees."

He found three other studies describing electromagnetic surges before large earthquakes, just as he had found at the Loma Prieta site. The earliest report was from the Great Alaska earthquake (M9.2) in 1964. Up until now, most of the focus for earthquake warnings and predictions has been on seismological studies, but no seismic measurements have ever shown this kind of warning before a big quake, Fraser-Smith said.

This technique will probably only yield results for earthquakes of approximately magnitude 7 or higher, because background waves from the atmosphere will tend to mask any smaller signals. But these are the quakes people are most concerned about anyway, from a safety and damage point of view.

Some seismologists are suspicious that these results are real, Fraser-Smith said. But it would take little effort to verify or disprove them. He is calling for federal funding for a mission-oriented study that would place approximately 30 of the ultra-low-frequency-detecting instruments around the world at hotspots for big quakes. It would cost around $3 million to buy 30 of these machines, he said, which is cheap compared to the cost of many other large studies.

Every year, there are on average 10 earthquakes of magnitude 7 or higher around the world. So within just a few years, he said, you could potentially have 10 new measurements of electromagnetic waves before big quakes-surely enough to determine whether the previous four findings were real.

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Restricted working hours have had little effect in US

March 22, 2011

Reducing doctors' working hours from over 80 a week does not seem to have adversely affected patient safety and has had limited impact on postgraduate training in the United States, finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today.

Further work is now needed to assess the impact of reducing hours to 48 a week in Europe, say the authors.

There has been a progressive reduction in the working hours of doctors in training in both the US and Europe over the past 20 years. The maximum hours per week for trainees can range from 37 hours in Denmark to 80 hours in the US. The European Working Time Directive (EWTD) restricted the weekly hours for trainee doctors in Europe to 48 from August 2009.

While the aim of such legislation is to improve and safety, the medical profession has raised concern about the potentially on postgraduate training for junior doctors and the provision of high quality care for patients.

So a team of UK-based researchers set out to evaluate the impact of a reduction in working hours on educational and .

They reviewed 72 published studies from the US and UK and found that a reduction in working hours to less than 80 a week does not seem to have adversely affected and has had a limited effect on postgraduate training in the US.

However, studies on the impact of European legislation limiting working hours to 48 a week were of poor quality and had conflicting results, meaning that firm conclusions cannot be made, say the authors.

They believe that more high quality studies are urgently needed to evaluate the impact of restricting working hours on objective measures of medical training and patient safety, particularly in the European Union.

"Only then can both the public and the profession be reassured that the standard of medical training, and therefore the future care of patients, is of the highest possible quality and will be maintained or improved over time," they conclude.

Weak evidence, inadequate regulation, busier doctors, and discontinuity of care are all possible explanations for these results, says Leora Horwitz from Yale University School of Medicine in an accompanying editorial. For example, trainees are often asked to do the same amount of work in less time, while the decrease in hours worked has led to a substantial increase in discontinuity of care, handovers, and transfers.

"Without careful and continued attention to these matters, followed by adjustments to regulations and to practice as required, regulation of working hours is unlikely to have the beneficial effects for patients that regulators and the general public had hoped for," she concludes.

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Hyperlocal news website EveryBlock calls it quits

February 7, 2013
The Chicago skyline is seen from I-90 December 24, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. EveryBlock, a hyperlocal website built on the promise of drawing customers with neighborhood-based news, wrote its own obituary on Thursday.

EveryBlock, a hyperlocal website built on the promise of drawing customers with neighborhood-based news, wrote its own obituary on Thursday.

"We're sorry to report that EveryBlock has closed its doors," said a blog posting on the site, owned by News, part of the media group.

"It's no secret that the news industry is in the midst of a massive change. Within the world of neighborhood news there's an exciting pace of innovation yet increasing challenges to building a profitable business," it said.

"Though EveryBlock has been able to build an engaged community over the years, we're faced with the decision to wrap things up."

The site was launched in January 2008 with a grant from the Knight News Challenge program, amid excitement about the potential for hyperlocal news websites that could offer targeted marketing .

Founder Adrian Holovaty, who sold the site to NBC unit .com in 2009, said he was "saddened" by the closure.

"The premise of EveryBlock was to offer you a custom site devoted to in your neighborhood," he said on his blog.

"We showed you nearby public records (crimes, building permits, restaurant inspections), pointed you to automatically indexed articles (newspapers, blogs, forums) and provided a sort of 'geo-forum' that let you talk with people who lived near you.

"It was a great site, beautifully designed and lovingly crafted. It made a difference for people, particularly in Chicago."

One of the more prominent remaining hyperlocal sites is AOL-owned Patch, which is believed to be losing money on its hundreds of local operations.

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Changing ocean temperatures, circulation patterns affecting young Atlantic cod food supply

June 20, 2013
Eight boxes represent index areas for long-term sea surface temperature (SST) trends for the Northeast Shelf ecosystem; annual mean, minimum, and maximum SST for the period 1854-2011 was calculated for the index area. The grey shaded area of the Northeast Shelf was used in the calculation of thermal habitat distribution for the ecosystem. Credit: Kevin Friedland, NEFSC/NOAA

Changing ocean water temperatures and circulation patterns have profoundly affected key Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf zooplankton species in recent decades, and may be influencing the recovery of Atlantic cod and other fish stocks in the region.

NOAA researcher Kevin Friedland and colleagues looked at the distribution and abundance of important zooplankton species, sea surface water temperatures, and abundance. They found that zooplankton species critical for the survival of Atlantic cod larvae have declined in abundance in the same areas where Atlantic cod stocks have struggled to rebuild after an extended period of overfishing.

"Temperature is a governing factor in the growth, reproduction and distribution of . Shifting temperature distributions, whether triggered by natural or human factors, can cause the redistribution of plankton communities on regional and basin-wide scales," said Friedland, lead author on the study and a scientist at NOAA's Center (NEFSC).

The change in thermal habitats has had biological consequences on multiple levels in the food chain, according to the study in press in the journal Progress in Oceanography (available online).

"The geographic and depth distributions of fish and shellfish populations can also change based on their preferred thermal habitats. Future changes in thermal conditions are expected to lead to further shifts in the distributional ranges of species by, in many cases, the loss and gain of local populations," said Friedland.

Friedland and his colleagues found that ocean water temperatures of the Northeast have increased in recent decades, but these changes have not been uniform over the entire ecosystem. Warm water habitats (16 to 27 C, 60 to 80 F) have increased and cool water habitats (5 to 15 C, 41 to 59 F), historically the core habitats in the ecosystem, have declined; however, the coldest habitats in the ecosystem (1-4 C, 34-39 F) have either stayed the same or increased slightly during the study period 1982-2011. This discontinuity is attributed to changes in circulation in the northern Gulf of Maine associated with the Labrador Current.

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Larval cod. Image courtesy Wes Pratt, NOAA

Atlantic cod off the Northeast U.S. are managed as two stock units, the more northerly in the Gulf of Maine and the more southerly on and around Georges Bank. There are upward of ten known spawning populations within these two stocks, and the very young fish that they produce are found in specific larval development areas. Two zooplankton species that serve as food for Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) larvae are Pseudocalanus spp, and Centropages typicus. The former is associated with winter-spawning cod, and the latter with spring-spawning cod.

The researchers developed indices of zooplankton and cod abundance in six index areas, relating larval feeding and development areas to associated areas where adults reside. They found that Pseudocalanus spp has declined in abundance on parts of Georges Bank and in the eastern Gulf of Maine, areas where cod have been less abundant in recent years. Centropages typicus declined in abundance in the eastern Gulf of Maine as well. The areas where these zooplankton species have declined are spatially discrete and are related to the change in core thermal habitat of the ecosystem.

The abundance of zooplankton species is measured by the NEFSC's Ecosystem Monitoring Program (EcoMon), which conducts shelf-wide bimonthly surveys of the ecosystem. Data and observations from the NEFSC's spring bottom trawl surveys were also analyzed.

Although the researchers concentrated on recruitment success and population trends, many of the zooplankton species examined are important as prey for early life stages of other fish species and marine mammals. These zooplankton are important within the Northeast Shelf ecosystem, and can serve as model organisms to test the effect of thermal habitat on changes within the food web.

An Ecosystem Advisory issued by the NEFSC on April 25, 2013 provides additional information related to the Northeast Shelf ecosystem, notably a description of the extreme warming that occurred on the Shelf during 2012 and the associated shifts in thermal habitat.

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Why is that when you scuff with your shoes on, charges move (since electrometer moves back and forth), but if you don't have your shoes on, the electrometer doesn't move.

Here's the corresponding video detailing the event. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJSp8v0YJrA

It is at about 47 min of video from beginning. I don't get the logic behind it.

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In the linked video he is demonstrating that there is always some conductivity through any matter. He uses the well known phenomenon that when rubbing what is nonconducting material, charges separate from the surface atoms, and some stay on the mat and the opposing ones are seen on the electroscope. The fact that the electroscope stops showing charge when he stops scuffing means that the neutral balance is regained easily even though there is a large resistance to ground through his body and shoes. The small conductivity is enough to drain the charge back to ground, ground being 0 charges.

Without shoes the resistance to ground level is smaller and the rubbing does not build up charge measurable by the electroscope because it is immediately dispersed back to ground.

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Sun Spews Bubble Towards Earth

Yesterday, the sun spewed an enormous bubble of magnetically charged plasma towards Earth. Based on observations from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and ESA/NASA's Solar Heliospheric Observatory, NASA reports that two coronal mass ejections erupted at 9:55am EST on January 23, 2013 and one shot towards earth at a speed of over one million miles per hour.

The two coronal mass ejections erupting from the sun on Jan. 23, 2013. Movie credit: ESA/NASA misssion on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)

The sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, is wrapped by strong magnetic fields that trap the sun's plasma to its surface. At times, the magnetic field lines will snap and reconnect at other points on the sun's surface and the now-unbound plasma spews out into space as a coronal mass ejection, or CME. Large CMEs can contain a billion tons of matter and move several million miles per hour; comparatively, yesterday's CME was more of a dribble.

A picture of the Feb. 26, 2013 2012 aurora from the CME ejected Feb. 24, 2012
Muonio, Finland. Image credit: Thomas Kast / NASA
Earth-bound coronal mass ejections take about one to three days to arrive– sometimes, with quite spectacular effects. When coronal mass ejections reach the Earth's magnetic envelope, the magnetosphere, the magnetic field of the CME can warp the Earth's magnetosphere. While more intense CMEs can produce geomagnetic storms that interfere with satellite-based communication and electrical systems on Earth, the more common and more awesome mark are the bright auroras that appear near the poles.

To get space weather alerts (like wunderground – for space!) go to the NOAA prediction center.
Or read more about yesterday's CME here.

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  1. Please check the dates presented as a caption under the magnificent photo of the aurora. 2013 should be 2012.

  2. The photo caption reads February 26, 2013.... From the world of tomorrow!!!

  3. A question: Can there be a magnetosphere without an associated electric current?

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    A question: Can there be a magnetosphere without an associated electric current?
    And in reply "Well, they are the same thing, EM wave= electro-magnetic. But I see what you mean, you are asking it see linen unto can there be mass without atoms? Isn't that what DARK MATTER is? So I guess you question is more geared toward 'theoretical physics' I can't answer you question, but I hope I helped spark somebody's mind to get your answer.


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Video: Frank Ocean Debuts New Song At Coachella

Some technical problems stained Frank Ocean‘s performance last week at Coachella, but it sounds like he’s found his stride this week. He tweeted, “it would be this week that things go well that they don’t stream. hahaha.” We may not be able to stream the whole performance, but thanks to Karen Civil we’ve got this clip of the Odd Future affiliate debuting a new song last night. No title or info on the cut yet, but check it out below.

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In a nearly hour long BBC Radio 1 special, DJ Benji B teamed up with writer and composer Grant Windsor (who’s vibing hard to Benji’s selection) and a string ensemble to reinterpret a variety of dance music and hip-hop tracks. While Benji B mixed from a glass box, the musicians added new layers to some of 2012’s biggest tracks, including TNGHT‘s “Higher Ground,” G.O.O.D.’s “Clique,” and Jeremih‘s “Fuck U All The Time,” as well as some classics from Ossie, Bok Bok, James Blake and Radiohead. Check out the full tracklist and watch this highly successful mix of electronic and organic music below.

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Jack White Donates $200K to the National Recording Preservation Foundation

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Jack White Donates $200K to the National Recording Preservation Foundation

Jack White continues to act in a godfather capacity. After donating $142,000 to save Detroit's Masonic Temple in June, Billboard reports he's given $200,000 to the National Recording Preservation Foundation. The organization is a non-profit "established to preserve and make accessible the recorded sounds of the United States," i.e. preserve old recordings the way art preservationists preserve old art.

As the NRPF is in its earliest stages, Jack White's contribution will help set the organization into action. Executive Director Gerald Seligman said in a statement that White's donation "is our first and therefore provides the welcome opportunity to go from talk about the needs and priorities of audio preservation to concerted action." The NRPF can now begin giving out grants.

According to the Washington Post, Seligman said that, "Here we have a whole nation of cultural heritage in recorded sound [and] a lot of it is in precarious shape... Some was recorded on very fragile media-- like old cylinders, acetates, reel-to-reel tapes-- and it's turning into shards." White will also serve on the board of the foundation, which was established in partnership with the U.S. Congress. Seligman also said that it's possible the foundation will launch a commercial collection at some point, which seems like perfect Third Man Records fodder.

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KTL are Sunn0))) guitarist Stephen O'Malley and electronic noisenik/Mego label boss Peter "Pita" Rehberg, and the duo's moniker is an abbreviation of Kindertotenlieder, a theatrical collaboration between French performance artist Gisele Vienne and American novelist Dennis Cooper. O'Malley and Rehberg were asked to score the piece, whose title (which translates as "Songs on the Death of Children") has a long artistic history. It first emerged as a 425-poem opus written by German poet Freidrich Rückert in 1834 after two of his children died within a few weeks. Later, at the turn of the century, five of those poems were set to an orchestral song cycle by Gustav Mahler.

It's unclear how Vienne and Cooper's performance (set to debut in March of 2007) relates to these works, or whether the music on this album will be involved at all-- according to Mego, this is not the final soundtrack, but rather "a separate project"-- but if any of KTL's music is used, Kindertotenlieder should be one dark, scary piece of theater. These six tracks lean heavily toward the O'Malley side of KTL's aural spectrum, filled with blackened drones, quaking low end, and elongated sub-metal riffs. Rehberg's contribution is by no means negligible, but he bends his electronic washes and distorted noise to fit O'Malley's unwavering dirges. Fans of each artist will find a lot to drown in here, but KTL is more likely to strike an eternal chord with the Sunn0))) and Southern Lord crowds than with followers of Pita and his Mego cohorts.

Regardless of preference, any listener will be tested by KTL's opening cut, a 25-minute marathon of barren ambience aptly titled "Estranged". Over a distant rumble, the duo adds a few hesitant sounds: slow guitar chords, small slices of noise, and not much else. Those accents, however, are so sparse that it feels as if both men could have left the room during portions of their recording. The track's modicum of hypnotic chill could benefit from theatric visuals, but on record, "Estranged" would have worked better as an epilogue (and kind of does, as the shorter album-closing reprise "Snow").

Despite that slow beginning, the guts of KTL-- four tracks all titled "Forest Floor"-- are worth waiting for. Here, O'Malley and Rehberg's individual approaches mesh into a third distinct sound. The overlap between the former's glacial doom and the latter's busy noise gradually increases as each track thickens and expands. "Forest Floor 1" collects harrowing screeches like horror-film sound effects isolated into abstraction. On "Forest Floor 2", Rehberg doles out cutting jolts that sound like a laptop take on a Wolf Eyes fist-pumper, while "Forest Floor 3" strikes a spot-on median between two artistic forces, as O'Malley's massive tones are lapped by the crackling flames of Rehberg's abrasions.

The "Forest Floor" suite makes KTL a success, qualified only by "Estranged", and by the hope that the duo continues to work together on future projects. The theatrical work that KTL formed to score certainly seems intriguing, but even more enticing is the possibility that O'Malley and Rehberg might improve upon this fertile first meeting.

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Grand Californian Hotel at Christmas

Grand Californian Hotel at Christmas

We recently spent the night with friends at the Grand Californian Hotel & Spa at the Disneyland Resort. We stayed in a one bedroom suit with our friends this time.

The room was beautiful and spacious. There are little mouse touches all around. From the end of the counter to the stove top Mickey is around to make you smile.

In the Main Lobby there is a 6 story tall Christmas tree decorated with classic looking lanterns and Poinsettias along with other flowers. There are fantastic garlands run around the edges of the walkways above your head. During the evening a group of carolers sings in the lobby.

If you ever get to the Disneyland Resort you suggest you take a walk around the Grand Californian. It does not matter if it is Christmas or not. The property is beautiful and worth a couple of hours out of your stay. There are several nice restaurants there and even a quick service area called the White Water Café.

The main entrance to the Grand Californian is on Disney Way, the street that runs through the middle of the property. You can also enter from Downtown Disney and from the Disney California Adventure Park. You can also enter DCA from the Grand Californian. If you are a guest at the hotel you can enter DCA through the Grand entrance at any time. If you are not a guest you can use it most days after 11 am.

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I think “crime against humanity” has become a verbal tic for Turkey’s Islamic-supremacist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

In Vienna, at one of the UN’s nauseating “dialogues” between Islam and the West (you know, those conferences where Western leaders explain how much they admire Islam and Islamic leaders reciprocate by explaining how much they, too, admire Islam), Erdogan pronounced Zionism a “crime against humanity,” which he placed on a par with anti-Semitism. The latter is a subject Erdogan knows a thing or two about. As I recount in Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy (just released in paperback this week), Erdogan first burst on the scene almost 40 years ago as the 20-year-old writer-director-star of a theatrical production called Maskomya. As Andy Bostom edifies us, Mas-Kom-Ya is short for Masons, Communists, and, yes, Yahudi — Jews. In Erdogan’s telling, these were evil subversive groups whose common denominator was – all together now! — Judaism.

Spring Fever documents Erdogan’s application of “crime against humanity” label to calls for Muslims in Europe and America to assimilate in the Western societies where they’ve chosen to live. He also said it was a “crime against humanity” for Israel to defend itself in 2008′s “Operation Cast Lead” after over 3000 rockets and mortar shells were fired into Israeli territory by Hamas — the international terrorist organization that Erdogan’s Turkey lavishly funds and whose leaders he receives as dignitaries.

In this week’s Vienna speech, Erdogan reached unprecedented epistemological buffoonery when he explained that not only Zionism but Islamophobia is a “crime against humanity.” Either he does not know what a crime is or he does not know what a phobia is, but since a rational mental state is required for the former the latter doesn’t qualify. Or maybe Erdogan knows exactly what crimes and phobias are, but as an Islamo-fascist he figures such niceties should never get in the way of a good smear. Oh, almost forgot, Erdogan also said fascism was a “crime against humanity.” Between his invocation of anti-Semitism and fascism, we see that Erdogan at least knows how to project.

In 1975, a year after Maskomya had its run, Erdogan’s fellow Islamic-supremacists engineered the passage of U.N. General Assembly Resolution 3379, declaring that Zionism was a form of racism. The condemnation by the United States of this blatant act of anti-Semitism was unequivocal. The late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., asserted, “The United States … does not acknowledge, it will never abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act.” Even the fraudulent enterprise that is the U.N. eventually felt compelled to buckle under forceful American leadership (much of it provided in the Bush 41 State Department by a young assistant secretary named John Bolton). The noxious “Zionism equals racism” resolution was finally repealed in 1991.

Now, Erdogan has seen racism and raised it to a crime against humanity, but we’ve thus far heard no Moynihan-like condemnation from the Obama administration.

Notwithstanding that the prime minister’s claim to fame is imprisoning uncooperative journalists and political opponents on trumped up charges, President Obama has described Erdogan as one of his most “trusted friends” among world leaders. Although Erdogan is a top provider of material support to Hamas, a serious felony in the United States, Obama recently said of him: “The bottom line is that we find ourselves in frequent agreement upon a wide range of issues.” And, indeed, it is Erdogan who has been prodding Obama to repeat the administration’s Libya debacle by overtly supporting the Syrian “rebels” — the jihadist-rife, Muslim Brotherhood-dominated opposition seeking to topple the Iran-backed regime of Bashar al-Assad. It appears Obama and his second-term foreign policy team are poised to give Erdogan his way.

Sigh. Maybe for just a few minutes, Obama could pretend that Erdogan was a Republican and that anti-Zionism was the sequester …

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With the NCAA basketball season heading into the home stretch, there’s the usual gaggle of teams from major conferences who, for one reason or another, could find themselves on the outside looking in when March Madness rolls around.

Most bubble teams have only themselves to blame. They’re chances of making the big dance usually hang on doing well in their conference tournament. Their record alone won’t get them an invite. Chances are, they’ve had what the NCAA Selection Committee refers to as “bad” losses — a stumble or two against clearly inferior teams.

But where there’s hope, there’s life and several of the most prominent bubble teams can improve their chances immensely with a strong finish to the regular season and a good showing in their conference tournaments.

ESPN’s Joe Lunardi takes a look at 10 bubble teams who have some work to do (subscription only):

(Note: RPI, or Ratings Percentage Index is a complicated formula that takes into account a team’s winning percentage, their opponent’s winning percentage, and their strength of scheduled or SOS).

Brigham Young Cougars

The Cougars (20-10, RPI 35, SOS 21) have hung around the bubble longer than expected thanks to their off-the-charts SOS rankings and a pair of very solid nonconference victories (at Stanford, neutral against Texas). Last week’s home-court win over Gonzaga should keep them in the conversation.

What they need: A win in the regular-season finale at San Diego and nothing less than a run to the West Coast Conference tournament title game.

Missouri Tigers

The Tigers (19-9, RPI 49, SOS 70) haven’t distinguished themselves either outside the league or within a mediocre SEC. The long-ago win over UCLA is only going to go so far, especially now that Mizzou has been swept by the likes of Georgia.

What they need: Win out (regular season) and probably no less than a berth in the SEC tournament title game.

Providence Friars

The Friars (18-10, RPI 60, SOS 68) represent the muddled middle of the new Big East. With its best wins at home, Providence clearly has more work to do. I’m not optimistic given two of the Friars’ remaining three games are on the road (at Seton Hall, at Creighton), the second of which is Doug McDermott’s senior night.

What they need: Three more wins, regardless of opponent or location. The Friars are going down to the wire.

St. John’s Red Storm

The Red Storm (18-11, RPI 63, SOS 30) and Providence have each won on the other’s court. It could be we see an elimination game between the two at the Big East tournament. Conveniently that would also be a home game for St. John’s, but it was Tuesday’s home loss to Xavier that made this much harder than necessary.

What they need: Same as Providence. The Red Storm need three more wins, regardless of opponent or location.

Tennessee Volunteers

The Volunteers (17-11, RPI 56, SOS 10) will live to fight another day after a workmanlike road victory at Mississippi State. Tennessee is now third in a two-team SEC pecking order, but with a very favorable schedule the rest of the way. I actually like the Vols’ chances.

What they need: Tennessee can and should run the table to reach 11-7 in the conference. Avoiding a bad loss in the SEC tournament might be enough.

A minimum of 20 wins is necessary to even be considered for selection to the tournament. At least, for the major conferences. But what about teams from weaker conferences?

Sam Houston State might be considered a true bubble team. Their overall record is 19-7 and are second in the Southland Conference to perennial power Stephen F. Austin. SFA is currently 25-2 and is a near shoo-in for the tournament.

But Sam Houston State might end up winning 23 games and be frozen out of the tournament. Their paltry SOS rank is 274 and their opponent’s SOS is even worse — 320. They have played only 2 games against teams in the top 50 RPI — Toledo and SMU — and been blown out of both.

The only way Sam Houston State is going to make it into the tournament is if they beat Stephen F. Austin to win the Southland Conference. The smaller colleges and universities in Division I have been complaining about this for years, but the NCAA has turned a deaf ear to them. The big conferences bring in the big bucks and that’s the way it is. The lion’s share of slots in the 68 team tournament will go to teams in the top conferences.

The teams mentioned above being on the bubble basically have their fate in their own hands. For a few of them, their efforts are likely to come up short.

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Tuesday, 16 October 2012

The Liverpool Care Pathway – consensus statement from 22 organisations

Twenty two leading healthcare organisations last month published a statement about the Liverpool Care Pathway to counter adverse publicity in the mainstream press.

I have written extensively on this controversial end of life treatment protocol before and won’t rerun the arguments here except to say that this new statement is well overdue and hopefully will go some way to quelling concerns.

The full statement, which has had surprisingly little publicity, reads as follows:

Consensus Statement: Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP)

Published misconceptions and often inaccurate information about the Liverpool Care
Pathway risk detracting from the substantial benefits it can bring to people who are dying and to their families. In response to this we are publishing this consensus statement to provide clarity about what the Liverpool Care Pathway is - and what it is not.

The hospice movement in the UK is famous around the world for looking after dying people with dignity and skill. Since the late 1990s, the Liverpool Care Pathway has been helping to spread elements of the hospice model of care into other healthcare settings, such as hospitals, care homes and people’s own homes.

The Liverpool Care Pathway:

•Requires staff ensure all decisions to either continue or to stop a treatment are taken in the best interest of each patient. It is not always easy to tell whether someone is very close to death – a decision to consider using the Liverpool Care Pathway should always be made by the most senior doctor available, with help from all the other staff involved in a person’s care. It should be countersigned as soon as possible by the doctor responsible for the person’s care.

•Emphasises that people should be involved in decisions about their care if possible and that carers and families should always be included in the decision-making process. Of those who responded as part of the evaluation, 94% said that they had been involved (National Care of the Dying Audit – Hospitals, MCPCIL/RCP, 2011).

•Relies on staff being trained to have a thorough understanding of how to care for people who are in their last days or hours of life.

•Is continually evaluated in all the places where it is in use.

The Liverpool Care Pathway does not:

•Replace clinical judgement and is not a treatment, but a framework for good practice.

•Hasten or delay death, but ensures that the right type of care is available for people in the last days or hours of life when all of the possible reversible causes for their condition have been considered.

•Preclude the use of clinically assisted nutrition or hydration - it prompts clinicians to consider whether it is needed and is in the person’s best interest. GMC guidance (2010) provides specific information regarding this issue.

In response to a question asked in the House of Lords on 20th June 2012 the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health, Earl Howe, said (see full parliamentary debate here):

“The Liverpool Care Pathway has sometimes been accused of being a way of withholding treatment, including hydration and nutrition. That is not the case. It is used to prevent dying patients from having the distress of receiving treatment or tests that are not beneficial and that may in fact cause harm rather than good.”

The Liverpool Care Pathway has been suggested as a model of good practice in the last hours and days of life by successive national policy frameworks (DH, 2003 and 2006), the national End of Life Care Strategy (DH, 2008), Quality Markers and Measures for End of Life Care (DH, 2009), General Medical Council guidance (2010) and the NICE quality standard for end of life care for adults (2011).

We support the appropriate use of the Liverpool Care Pathway and make clear that it is not in any way about ending life, but rather about supporting the delivery of excellent end of life care.

Age UK
Alzheimer’s Society
Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland
Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
British Geriatrics Society
British Heart Foundation
English Community Care Association
Help the Hospices
Lindsey Lodge Hospice
Macmillan Cancer Support
Marie Curie Cancer Care
Motor Neurone Disease Association
Multiple Sclerosis Society
National Care Forum
National Council for Palliative Care
National End of Life Care Programme
National Nurse Consultant Group (Palliative Care)
Nuffield Trust
Royal College of General Practitioners
Royal College of Nursing
Royal College of Physicians
Sue Ryder

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  2. Elizabeth RGN MA Bioethics26 November 2012 at 17:24

    Peter - did you watch the Newsnight debate on LCP. Mary Warnock of 'it is the duty of everyone diagnosed with dementia to die..as they are a burden to the NHS' and Terry Pratchett who campaigns for the legalisation of assisted dying.The difference between them is Mary Warnock does not mind involuntary euthanasia - no consent but interestingly Terry Pratchett said he was very troubled by what he heard - no emphasis on the 'informed consent of the patient concerned'. Because that is what is patently missing from the LCP - the informed consent of the patient which is a breach of GMC regulations. Apart from abortions, this is the only procedure that is allowed to go ahead without expressed and informed consent! Each consultant on the panel and your article states that the patient is placed on the LCP if the doctor decides it is in the 'patient's best interests' - regardless it appears of what the patient or his family feel is in his best interest.

    As you know an advanced directive can only consent to the 'withdrawal of medical treatment' (and thanks to Evan and John Harris food and fluids were redesignated from normal nursing care to a 'medical procedure' to facilitate the killing of Anthony Bland) - and advanced directive cannot insist of treatment being continued and prevent the withdrawal of medical treatment against the patient's expressed consent.

    Our local hospital is the hospital that received the greatest payout. There is also a payout for organ harvesting - not an incentive according to the Organ Donation Taskforce but the 'removal of financial obstructions for Trusts to engage in the identification of potential donors and calling the transplant team'. In addition the organ harvesting criteria have been conveniently changed to allow older donors and the use of 'less than optiminal organs' -works nicely doesn't it.

    I am very surprised to hear you supporting the LCP unequivocably - not requiring a re-assessment. You state that the decision to place a patient on the LCP is taken by 'the most senior doctor on duty'. Well recent research shows due to lack of senior staff and properly trained junior doctors, patient are much more likely to die overnight and over the weekend - why therefore do you think this is safe?

    Also the RCP has just released a report led by Mike Richard highlighting the practice of doctors and Trusts withholding treatment or surgery from cancer patients for whom the doctor decides is 'futile' and not in the 'patient's best interest' with the result that these patients are not receiving the correct care and are dying before they should. Ring a bell?

    Finally I would address my fellow medical and nursing colleagues and ask 'why are you so pathetic and unprofessional that you are not prepared to scrutinise this practice and why is your only response to the appalling stories (which I have heard personally not via the DT or the DM) I have heard to aggressively defend yourselves.' It clearly demonstrates you do not really have any concern for your patients but only for you fragile egos!

    1. UK medical student27 February 2013 at 05:29

      In your first paragraph you talk about consent being necessary for being placed on the LCP. Good practice says 'yes' but legally, the answer is 'no'. A key part of the LCP is stepping down invasive procedures, so doctors do not need to get consent for that. Think about it: you have no legal right to a new treatment from your doctor/ nor a continuation of an old treatment, even if you think you need it. E.g. Patient: 'I want a cast.' Doctor: 'But your leg isn't broken.' Patient:'But I demand you put a cast on! I have the right to any treatment that I want.' Doctor:'Oh okay.' What a disaster. Stepping down treatment is always down to the clinical judgent of the clinicians and in a dying patient it is better for the experienced dr to make the call than families who may never want to let go, whatever the cost to patient's integrity.

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Friday, October 7, 2011

I hate the departure from Bangkok (and Singapore) to Tokyo.  The flight leaves at 6:05 AM, so you need to leave the hotel at 3 AM, which means you must wake up before 2:30.  Everything went fine, and I got through customs by 3:45AM.  Surprisingly, all the stores in the airport were open at this early hour.  However, the Thai First Class Lounge was not.  I went to their Royal Silk Lounge and, as it is early evening and already dark in New York City, I had a Bloody Mary with assorted dim sums.

The flight to Narita was uneventful.  I did not feel like breaking any new records.  United's First Class in this leg was far better than the Honolulu-Narita flight, which is a whole lot better than the San Francisco-Honolulu First Class, but the Thai First Class was far, far superior to anything United has.

It was less than seven months ago, on March 12, to be exact, that I landed in Narita and took five hours to struggle my way to the Tokyo Westin.  Today, it only took 2 hours of relaxation on the Airport Limousine bus.

All went well, and half a day after leaving my hotel in Bangkok, I was in the Tokyo Westin Hotel.  I was greeted with a sunset:

Can't see it, but Mount Fuji is somewhere on the horizon.  Here is just a typical shot:

The Japan Times today had an article cataloguing the desolation of the Great Tohoku disaster, and, in particular, the tragedy of Fukushima.  Here are some sobering reminders:

  -  The radioactive zone is bigger than the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:

  -  20,000 people are dead or still missing.

  -  The projected cost is now at $225 billion.

  -  Chernobyl's exclusion zone is "only" two-thirds the size of Switzerland, but, a quarter century after the cataclysm, 300 people have, apparently, illegally moved back "home."  Supposedly, this zone was deemed uninhabitable for a few centuries.

  -  Birds have shown genetic mutations.  For example:

Scientists studying the wildlife in contaminated regions around Chernobyl have found that many bird, mammal and even insect populations have suffered significant declines as a probable consequence of having “low-dose” cesium-137 radiation routinely in their diets.  Half the bird species have disappeared, and only 1/3 of their original numbers remain in the most contaminated areas, as compared to areas with normal background radiation. All the birds living in these radioactively contaminated regions have smaller brains, and 28% of male birds have no sperm while another 12% have inactive sperm.

  -  The Fukushima (Lucky Isle in Japanese) danger zone is 25 times smaller than Chernobyl's, but the prefecture where these nuclear powerplants are located had a population of 2 million and was half the land size of Belgium.

  -  Japan is excruciating as to how the radioactive debris will be treated and disposed.

  -  No matter how you spin it, Fukushima Prefecture:

      -  will for a long, long time be stigmatized by the fact anyone from this location might have radiation (jobs, marriage, whatever),

      -  agriculture and tourism will probably never recover,

      -  many will never be able to return home in their lifetime,

  -  I'll not try to explain it here, but click on "why Fukushima is more dangerous than Hiroshima and Nagasaki" to appreciate the dark implications of nuclear fission powerplants.

So, is nuclear power dead?  Apparently not.  Read Michael Richardson's take on the face of nuclear power:

  -  New Japanese Prime Minister  Yoshihiko Noda is pro-nuclear.

  -  Vietnam will press ahead with 13 nuclear reactors by 2030.

  -  China will start approving new nuclear power plant projects next year: from 11,000 MW in 2010 to 40,000 MW in 2015 (doesn't seem right, but check out this article).

  -  The International Atomic Energy Agency forecasts 200 new nuclear reactors by 2035.

  -  Saudi Arabia still plans to spend $100 billion for 16 nuclear reactors by 2030.

  -  As the USA did in the 1950's, and India and Pakistan repeated, many developing countries want nuclear power to provide the uranium/plutonium for weapons.

Here we go again!

Carl Weinberg said...

The proliferation issue (making bomb material) has alway been the hidden issue of nuclear power. As long as the industry stays with the existing designs and fuel cycle that will not change. The waste problem will just become unmanagable with several hundred reactors around the world. This is another dilema in the path to a sustainable future.

Now that the Cold War is over, we don't need to stay with the current fission cycle. The thorium version makes a lot more sense. Abu Dhabi is actually contemplating one of these. As I don't think fusion will be commercialized for a while yet, I'm afraid we need fission, and the thorium cycle seems best:


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Pogo Sticks of Doom and Other Gems From a Massive Toy Fair

The Toy Fair is exactly what it sounds like. It’s been going on for 111 years, and it’s huge. This year, more than 1,150 toy companies squeezed into New York City’s Javits Convention Center to show off the new things kids will be clamoring for later this year. Toy traditionalists and forward-thinkers have much to get excited about: While apps, robots, and meme-based toys are all trending, plenty of old-school playthings are in the mix, too.

There was plenty for us older “kids” too. A home version of the classic Chexx bubble hockey table from the early 1980s — complete with customizable teams and your very own “Boo” button — was on display at the show. If you’ve always craved a 1965 Volkswagen Camper Van but want to avoid paying for gas, there was an actual-size, four-person Volkswagen Camper Van tent. And if you want to hone your ping-pong skills but don’t have anyone to compete against, the Joola iPong Pro is essentially a table-tennis pitching machine with a 100-ball hopper.

But enough banter. Let’s go look at some toys.

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iPhone 6 Metal Frame Allegedly Leaked, Suggests Thin Device

Even though the iPhone 5s was released a few months ago, we have already seen many rumors for Apple’s next generation iPhone 6. Apple leaker C-Tech, who is either a hit or a miss, posted the photos below of what appears to be the iPhone 6 metal housing.

The photos show the device being very thin, (as rumors have pointed to, perhaps 6mm) making the iPhone Air name rather appropriate. You can also see the larger back frame, lining up to other rumors that the iPhone will feature a larger display around 4.7 to 5 inches.

Obviously the authenticity of these photos cannot be verified, but do you think the images are legit?

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Apple’s iPad now available in Staples brick-and-mortar stores

Venerable office supply chain Staples has reportedly begun selling Apple’s iPad in its real-world outlets just four months after the retailer kicked off online sales of the tablet.

Staples is said to offer only Apple’s latest models — the iPad Air and Retina display-equipped iPad mini — in its stores, rather than the entire iPad lineup, though the older versions remain available for purchase online. The change was first reported by CNET.
Bringing the iPad in-store marks another milestone in Framingham, Mass.-based Staples’s current alliance with Apple, which began last spring when the company started carrying smaller Apple products like the Apple TV and AirPort wireless networking lineup.
The relationship expanded in December with online iPad sales, and it was speculated at the time that Staples would be allowed to carry the tablets in stores if certain performance targets were met. Wednesday’s launch suggests that those targets, which are thought to have included weekly online sales referral quotas for each brick-and-mortar store, were reached.
One item that remains unclear is exactly how the iPad will be marketed in Staples outlets. The tablets are featured on dedicated Apple-designed kiosks in most third-party iPad retailers, and in some cases small “store-within-a-store” arrangements are struck when broader ranges of Apple products are on offer.

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Choose the Right Charger and Power Your Gadgets Properly

You accidentally left your micro USB charger back at the hotel… 500 miles away. Now it’s time to buy a new one. You pick up a cheapie from your nearest electronics retailer and hey, what gives? What used to take 3 hours to charge now takes 12.

Turns out not all chargers are created equal, even if they look similar. Here are some quick buying guidelines that’ll save you time and ensure you’re using a charger that’s optimized for your device’s power requirements.

First, some background. Charging power is based on three things: power (P, measured in Watts), current (I, measured in amps or milliamps), and voltage (V, measured in volts). The amount of power is determined by the equation P = IV. In other words, power is the product of current multiplied by voltage. Because larger devices like tablets have substantially bigger batteries than smartphones, chargers designed for the former tend to deliver energy at a higher rate (a higher current).

For example, consider these charging scenarios for the Retina iPad mini. You could use a Lightning connector plugged into a computer (via USB), an iPhone charger connected to a wall socket, or an iPad charger connected to a wall socket. A PC USB charger delivers 2.5 Watts of power (5 volts at 500 mA). An iPhone charger delivers 5 Watts (5 volts at 1000 mA). A Retina iPad mini charger delivers 10 watts (5.1 volts at 2100 mA).

While all of these will charge your iPad, using the USB connected to a PC will charge your Retina mini four times slower than if you used the iPad charger it came with. Conversely, if you use a tablet charger for your smartphone, it’d charge up faster than normal (Note: Some devices like the iPhone will only draw up to 1A of current no matter the charger). If you play mix-and-match with these types of chargers like this, don’t worry — you’re not going to blow up your phone or anything crazy like that. And the myth that charging your device at a faster rate will reduce the life of your device’s battery is false. For some older devices, the higher specced charger just won’t work at all, while newer devices will just charge faster.

Ultimately, it’s really the amperage that determines how fast a charger will supply power to your device. If you want quicker charging, look for a wall or car charger that delivers 2100 mA of current at 5 volts (or whatever voltage the device you’re trying to charge is specced at).

If you’re grabbing a new charger off the shelf, there are a couple other things you should consider. One of them is the logo that identifies compliance with international standards. These can be faked. The CE mark is a popular one, and as someone in this forum thread unfortunately discovered, his substandard charger sported a fake CE mark. The C and E in the actual logo should each be approximately a half circle, and if you continued the circle of each letter fully, the two circles would just link together in the middle.

If a charger has incorrect capitalization for the current and power output it’s supposed to deliver (think “MA” instead of “mA,” for milliamps), that could be a sign that the charger isn’t up to snuff too. Having no manufacturer label on the device could also be a red flag.

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Chances are you’re not reading this on a mobile device

Analytics startup has released its third bi-monthly “Authority Report” on Wednesday, and the big finding is that the majority of traffic for some top online publishers still comes via laptop and desktop computers.

The company analyzed the screen sizes of devices that its customers’ readers use to access their content, and found that about 60 percent of all traffic came from devices with screen ratios of 16:9 or 16:10, indicating it came mostly from laptops or desktops. Overall, traffic from mobile devices accounts for between 10 and 20 percent of traffic, peaking at nearly 20 percent in the evenings and with most of it — at least 13.8 percent — coming from Apple iPads or iPhones.

The 2,000 screen sizes driving 99.5 percent of traffic. Source:

This is the third time has released a report on traffic trends. A highlight of its first report was Feedly’s dominance as the reader app of choice in lieu of Google Reader, while its second highlighted the high percentage of traffic coming from so-called dark search. There’s an interactive version of the screen-size chart (and a couple others) available online

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How to Tweak iOS to Improve the Battery Life of Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch

These are some tips on how to improve the battery life of your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch running iOS.  Some of these tips apply to just iOS 7 but many can be applied to older versions of iOS as well.

Let us know how much your battery life improves in the comments!

Disable Background Application Refresh
iOS 7 brings the ability for apps to refresh their content when on Wi-Fi or cellular and even use location services. To preserve battery life, we recommend disabling Background App Refresh completely.  Note that doing this will kill location services for your applications, so you won’t be able to use Navigation in the background – therefore you may want to fine-tune this setting based on your preferences. In addition, you may want to close applications you aren’t using via the Multitasking Switcher (Double press the Home button and swipe an app preview up and out of the list).
● Settings > General > Background App Refresh

Turn Off AirDrop when you’re not using it
You should turn off AirDrop when you do not need it. This prevents you from using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when not in use when the device is in “discoverable” mode. Simply swipe up on control center to turn it off.
● Control Center

Turn Off Automatic Downloads and Updates
iOS 7 brings the ability to automatically update apps, however that works in the background and can take a toll on your battery life.  Tap the settings icon, scroll down to iTunes & App Store and turn off all automatic downloads. If you still want automatic app updates, try enabling them while turning off cellular data.
● Settings > iTunes & App Store

Brightness is the most obvious battery-draining cause on the iPhone. Obviously, try to limit and reduce your brightness at all times. Going a step further, you can disable automatic brightness to improve battery life since the phone will no longer check the ambient light and determine the “best” brightness.
● Settings > Wallpapers & Brightness

Control your Push Notifications
Apple’s iOS is designed to in a way preserve battery life when using push notification. That is, the number of push notifications you receive have a minimal effect on battery life.  However, when receiving notifications that cause your screen to light up and phone to vibrate, your battery life will be affected. We recommending setting some notifications to not show any alerts. You can set alerts to ‘None’ on a per app basis.
● Settings > Notification Center

Disable Email Push
Push emails immediately send an email or ‘push’ from a server to your phone, rather than requiring you to manually refresh the mail app. You can set the mail application to fetch instead of push, or even better, set to manual for best battery life. You can fine tune this setting for each email account, but for best battery life performance, set all accounts to “Fetch Manually.”
● Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data > Push

Frequent Locations
iOS 7 brings a new “Frequent Locations” feature. While this new addition can be great for your “Today” tab in Notification Center by giving you an estimated time of arrival to your most visited locations , it can affect battery life. To turn this off, visit
● Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services, then toggle the Frequent Locations to the off position.

Location Services
iOS has many system location services that check your location to improve compass calibration, cell network search, and more. We recommend turning off most of these system services to improve battery. However, if you use the compass often, or travel often, some settings should be left on such as “Compass Calibration” or “Setting Time Zone.”  We leave “Cell Network Search” on as well.

Apps must request approval from you as well. If you really need location services for an app, obviously leave them on.  However, you might not want some applications to fetch your locations, so feel free to toggle them off here as well. For instance, if you don’t care for Twitter tweeting your location, turn it off!

Disable Wi-Fi & Bluetooth when not in range, Turn on Wi-Fi when in range
Be sure to always turn off Wi-Fi when you’re out of range of a known network. This prevents the iOS device from constantly checking for known networks in range. Whenever you can use Wi-Fi, use it! Wi-Fi is much more efficient than cellular data so you can save battery this way. Be sure to set Ask to Join Networks off to stay connected to that network. Similarly, be sure to turn off Bluetooth at all times that you can.
● Settings > Wi-Fi
● Settings > Bluetooth

Disable Cellular Data
If you don’t care for using cellular data for some apps and services, turn them off.  iOS has many different toggles for cellular data use and some are hidden, so be sure to check all of them listed below!

● Settings > Cellular
● Settings > Safari > Reading List
● Settings > iTunes & App Store

Reduce Motion
iOS 7 brings a nice parallax effect on icons and alerts, but this constantly tracks your motion to provide the effect. Reduce motion to prevent this and improve battery life.
● Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion

Don’t use Dynamic Moving Wallpapers
iOS 7 comes with dynamic wallpapers that move around based on the movement of your device. These moving backgrounds consume much more battery power than regular wallpapers so we recommend that you stay away from them and use Still wallpapers.
● Settings > Wallpapers & Brightness > Choose Wallpaper

Disable Siri Raise to Speak
Disable Siri’s raise to speak function to prevent the iPhone from constantly checking the proximity sensor to see if the device has been raised to your ear.
● Settings > General > Siri

Turn Off Spotlight Search to prevent file indexing
Spotlight indexes your entire device’s filesystem to provide instant search results of your most used contacts, apps and more. Indexing can cause a strain on the battery life, so try to turn OFF any items on the list that you don’t use to prevent the OS from indexing that type of data.
● Settings > General > Spotlight Search

Having your phone constantly vibrate can affect battery life as well, but having a vibrate feature is extremely useful. Try to disable vibrate for some contacts/notifications/text messages.
● Settings > Sounds

Cellular Data
If you’re in a 4G Area only, we recommend turning off LTE connectivity.  Leaving LTE on actually drains the battery by constantly checking for an LTE signal (and if your carrier does not have LTE in your area, this is a waste). Similarly, if you’re in a 2G area only, disable 4G/LTE connectivity as well.

However, if you are in an LTE area, we recommend leaving LTE on since Apple actually cites better browsing (in hours) on LTE versus 4G connectivity.

● Settings > Cellular > Enable LTE

Set Auto-Lock to 1 Minute to reduce the amount of time it takes for the iPhone’s display to shut off. Better yet, always lock the device immediately after use to prevent the ~1 minute your display would be on.
● Settings > General > Auto-Lock

Use Airplane Mode when in an area without cellular service
If you’re in a known dead zone that has no cellular service, turn on Airplane mode until your reach an area with cellular service. This prevents the phone from constantly checking for a signal, and can be a main cause of battery drain.

Turn off iTunes Wi-Fi Sync in iTunes
If you don’t use Wi-Fi Sync, and often leave your iTunes open on the same network as your iPhone, turn off Wi-Fi sync.

Turn off Home Sharing
Streaming a movie or song from a computer to your iOS device can cause a huge battery drain. We recommend not using home sharing at all unless it is a feature you really like.
● Settings > Music
● Settings > Video

Set up as new iPhone
If you previously had a jailbreak, and no longer have one, try setting up an iPhone as new instead of restoring form backup. This way you don’t restore unnecessary files.

Some users claim that turning off iPod equalizer will improve battery life, but in our tests (and others across the web) this does not seem to be the case. But if you really want to, turn off equalizer.
● Settings > Music > EQ

Limit Ad Tracking
There are some reports that limiting ad tracking might improve your battery life.  You may want to experiment with this setting to determine if it makes a difference on your device.
● Settings > Privacy > Advertising > Limit Ad Tracking

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This Week’s Apple Rumors, Ranked From Dumbest to Most Plausible

Each week, there are dozens of Apple rumors, reports, and patent filings that hint at what’s coming out of Cupertino next. Some are legit, but most are totally bogus. We’ve parsed the week’s rumors, ranking them in order from “utterly ridiculous” to “duh, of course.” First up…

ASK AGAIN LATER: Apple Inventing Solar Charging Accessory Apple’s been dabbling in the solar power game for a while — at least according to its intellectual property filings. The company’s latest invention to come out of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is a solar panel accessory that doesn’t need a power converter and would work with a MacBook, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch via USB or a power connector. They key part of the patent is the power management circuitry, which could be embedded in the device itself. Could we start seeing partially solar powered devices or accessories from Apple in the not too distant future? It’s definitely possible.

ASK AGAIN LATER: Retina iPad Mini Could Launch November 21 let slip in a product listing that the iPad mini with Retina display would be released November 21, a week before Thanksgiving. This particular release date is interesting — Apple usually releases products on a Friday (like the iPad Air, which just went on sale today). However, with holiday travel, Black Friday, and all that jazz, it could make sense for Apple to give iPad mini admirers some extra time before the weekend officially lands to get their hands on the new tablet. Or maybe the 21st isn’t the real date after all.

SIGNS POINT TO YES: Job Listing Indicates Apple Working on Maps’ Transit Directions It’s about time: Two job listing seem to show that Apple is working on adding transit directions to Apple Maps. The positions are “Maps Public Transit Engineering Manager” and “Public Transit Software Engineer,” and both would (logically) work on the Maps team to improve its “Transit Routing” platform. If it wants to be competitive with mapping app leaders like Google, transit directions are a must. It makes complete sense that Apple would want to beef up its team on this front.

WITHOUT A DOUBT: Apple Experimenting With Curved Glass Wrist-Worn Devices According to The New York Times, Apple is exploring a wristwatch-like device made of curved glass. Between the company’s recent wearables-related hires, other whispers from employees and suppliers, and CEO Tim Cook’s frequent teases, it’s almost a given that Apple is working on some sort of wearable device. Apple has also patented a means for bending glass, providing evidence the company is taking some time to explore the curved glass space. (Corning has been working on curved Gorilla Glass for a while now too). As for when we’ll see these devices and what they’ll look like, that’s still anyone’s guess

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Good keynote from Brad Anderson: Cloud Optimize Your Business with Microsoft Management Solutions

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Iphone 5 quality control costs

Analyst Shaw Wu expects “vintage conservative” guidance from Apple ahead of their quarterly earnings report this Thursday. While he still expects Apple to have a big holiday quarter, he believes that Apple will partially absorb quality control costs associated with the iPhone 5.

This news follows Foxconn‘s own claims that the iPhone 5 is such a hard device to assemble.

Beyond the iPhone 5, Wu believes that Apple’s margins will also be pushed lower by the anticipated launch of a smaller 7.85-inch iPad. He expects Apple will sell its so-called “iPad mini” at lower margins than the full-size iPad, at least initially, allowing the company to achieve a lower price point and take on competitors like the Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Google Nexus 7

Wu expects Apple to sell 25-26 million iPhones, 16.5 million iPads, and 4.8 million Macs. Wu believes Apple’s near-term gross margins will be between 40.5 percent and 41.5 percent, slightly lower than Wallstreet’s estimate.

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Thin Ipad Mini with 3g to be Produced in Brasil

The much rumored iPad mini will be produced in Brazil; although, testing to collect data for the cutting machine has already been done in China, reports Macotakara.
Citing a ‘reliable source’ the production phase for the new iPad will begin in September and the tablet will ship in time for the holidays.  The iPad mini appears to have a 3G model; however, their sources says not all carriers are found in the list of resellers.
This source, who seems to look a prototype, told that new tablet (iPad mini?) had same height with Nexus 7 and slight larger width. Even though front projection size is larger than rivals, thickness of that new tablet is considered to be thinner than current most thinnest tablet Kindle Fire, and to be similar with iPod touch (4th generation) by this source.
Both the WSJ and Bloomberg have also reported that Apple intends to launch an iPad mini this year.
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[chimera-dev] python for finding clashes

Jean Didier Pie Marechal JeanDidier.Marechal at uab.cat
Tue Oct 28 07:15:48 PDT 2008

Hi everyone,

I am writing a script for which I need the number of clashes for a given selection for continuing.

My first thought was to simply run in my script:
runCommand("findclash selection ignoreIntraRes false")
after having selected the region I was interested in.
However, I realize that I come to the recurrent problem: having the information I am interested in printed in the reply log. I don't know how to have the info passed into an array or any kind of variable in the  python environment. Could you tell me how to do so please?

On the other side, I would be pleased if you could tell me what is the correct arguments I have to pass and syntax I have to use for the functions  detectClash and/or cmdDetectClash (which I guess is the basis of the same findclash).

All the best,

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Time: August 22, 2009 from 10am to 8pm
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Explore Inverness Florida. Kayak slalom course, demos, food, sunset paddle, raffles, prizes all for a good cause. Give blood and at Paddlers For Plasma and get a two for one on raffle tickets. A friend and fellow paddler was recently diagnosed with brain cancer. Chris has undergone surgery and is currently undergoing therapy. As one might expect there are numerous bills that aren't covered by insurance. All proceeds from the event as well as any donations received will go to Chris.

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Unable to attend myseldf as I live to far from Florida. However I support the idea totally. I ran aNPO called Paddlers for Pats and we promote organ and tissue doanation. Check our site Cheers and hope all goes well fpr Chris Cheers greg

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New Masks, Food Items, Potions, and all types of new stuff!

We've added completely new cosmetic items to our main lobbies, including completely new textures, sounds, and animations! Find out about each brand new item by clicking the button below!

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Over the course of June we reviewed our ban records from the start of PlayMindcrack untill the end of November 2014. We wanted to do a one time review of bans and pardon some of the minor offenses. We have reviewed almost 9000 bans and have pardoned people for some of the following offenses:

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Levi Pearson levi at cold.org
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Steven Alligood <steve at bluehost.com> writes:

> Before you can convincingly argue against SPF, you need to come up
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situation, but that doesn't make them unworthy of consideration.

Finally, ease of implementation is NO EXCUSE for brokenness.  If X is
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Kelly Fulfer is the pastor at Trinity Family Center at 601 South Avenue B. Kelly, his wife Elizabeth and their four children moved to Portales 3 1/2 years ago after previously serving seven-and-a-half years as a pastor in Bernalillo. Originally from Mountainair, Kelly met Elizabeth in her hometown of Truth Or Consequences. Because of the […]

First person: Pastor returns to answer call

Pastor Gary Piepkorn was a chaplain at Cannon Air Force Base when the Faith in Christ Lutheran Church in Portales opened. Piepkorn moved away from Cannon and after several years, retired from the service at Onizuka Air Station in California. Around the time he retired, Faith in Christ Lutheran Church needed a pastor and they […]

Cowboy services offered at church

Brad Morgan has been the pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Portales for just over a year. Among the different services he conducts at the 18th Street place of worship is “Cowboy Church” every Tuesday night. Morgan, 37, previously served in various capacities at Bethel Baptist and Emmanuel Baptist churches in Portales. Are there real […]

Pastor stays active by teaching

Clyde Davis

Clyde Davis has been pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Portales since 2001 and has lived in the area since 1997. How long have you been a pastor? I was ordained in 1981 at the Pittsburg Presbyterian Seminary. Why did you choose to be a pastor? While in college studying education, I became involved with […]

Pastor: Calling was chosen for me

Pastor David McFadden. First Baptist Church What did you choose to be a pastor? It wasn’t so much something I chose. It was something that was chosen for me. During summer break while attending college, I was invited to a Bible study by a young lady. I went more for the lady than the Bible […]

Pastor follows calling

David Bennett has been a pastor for the Church of Christ (3rd and Kilgore) for eight and half years. Why did you choose to be a pastor? From the time I was twelve years old it is all I ever wanted to do. It probably had to do with my upbringing. It also had to […]

Nov. 28, 1944

The new pastor of First Baptist Church, Rev. W. E. Barnes, at a City Council meeting, spoke of his perception of Portales since moving here in early November. He mentioned, among other things, the well-kept homes, which “made Portales a place of happy and contented residents,” according to the Portales Tribune.

Pastor set to trade places

Freedom New Mexico It’s been a long time coming, but after 35 years in active ministry, the Rev. Joel H. Horne says he’s looking forward to trading his place behind the pulpit for sitting by his wife in the pew. Horne, who will turn 70 this Halloween, will officially retire Sunday as the senior pastor, […]

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Portales Valley News reported that the new pastor of the Methodist church, Rev. R. F. Davis, would be preaching the following Sunday, his sermon entitled “Forward March.”

Churches should determine marriage rules

According to a local pastor, the 5.4 magnitude earthquake that hit Southern California last week was not just one of those typical seismic events that take place with some regularity in these parts. It was “(a)nother queer quake trying to get California’s attention.” Apparently, the Lord is mad about the legalization of gay marriage in […]

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Symonds to address Library Friends Rev. Jeff Symonds, pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Portales and a long-time maker of doll houses and miniatures, will present the program at the next regular meeting of the Friends of the Portales Public Library. The group will meet at

Local pastor, teacher publishes prayer book

By Janet Bresenham, Freedom New Mexico For most of Mara Mitchell Andrews’ 31 years of life, her father Gary has been working on researching and writing a comprehensive, practical study on prayer. Through the years, she watched as her father used a manual typewriter and made copies of his study, first for his doctoral dissertation […]

Pastors worthy of honor

By Joan Clayton: Religion Columnist Our pastors are vital to our spiritual well being. Pastors are the first ones called in a time of crisis. They sacrifice their time, often at the expense of their family, in order to minister to others. Just the pastor’s presence brings comfort and relief. They are on call 24/7 […]

September 13, 1996

• Lester L. Vinson, former pastor of the First Baptist Church of Elida was called to serve as interim pastor of Iglesia Bautista Bethel church, located on North Indio. • The Faith Temple Lady Conquerors were preparing to host an eight team volleyball match at the Baptist Children’s Home. • Southwest Books and More was getting set […]

Holiday prompts special services

By Helena Rodriguez: Freedom Newspapers On that first Christmas night, as Joseph and Mary reportedly searched for lodging before the birth of Jesus, they were foreigners in another land, dependent on the help of strangers. It is the same kind of compassion and call for social action that pastor Clyde Davis will focus on when […]

McVey joins Central Christian

By Michael Harrell: PNT Staff Writer David McVey has joined Central Christian Church in Portales as a new pastor this summer. McVey, 50, moved to Portales with his wife, Lola, and their son from Charleston, W. Va in May. There he was the senior minister for the Kinds Way Christian Church in Nitro, a suburb […]

McFadden called to pulpit of FBC

Bryant Million: PNT Staff Writer The First Baptist Church of Portales has been without a pastor for the last 20 months but that will all change this Sunday with the church’s first service by their new pastor, David McFadden. McFadden recently moved to Portales from Kerrville, Texas, where he pastored at the First Baptist Church […]

June 14, 2006 Elida News

By Roberta Burkstaller: PNT Correspondent Pope new director at CSC Amanda Pope is the new director of the Community Services Center in Portales. Anyone in Elida interested in CSC’s volunteer program can call her at 356-8576 or stop in and talk with her at 1100 Community Way in Portales. Hull called to San Jon Rev. […]

Pastors are our national treasures

Joan Clayton: Religion Columnist Pastors who respond to God’s call to ministry are special people. October is Clergy Appreciation Month and is observed by affirmation and encouragement for our pastors. These spiritual leaders are gifts from God. Ministers and their families live in a world that never stops. Their workload is large and tedious. Many […]

Pastor: Love is best response to destruction

By Tonya Garner: Freedom Newspapers Boarded up windows and remnants of spray paint mar the facade of the Llano Estacado Metropolitan Community Church. Located on Fourth Street in downtown Clovis, the church has been vandalized twice in the last two weeks, according to church officials and police. Church members fear their lifestyle has attracted the […]


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Hippowdon Temple is an area in Almia, located north of the Haruba Desert. The temple contains many traps, such as disappearing floors, arrow panels that push the player in various directions, and cannons that launch balls of sand. The Yellow Gem can be found here guarded by a Cresselia. Regigigas can also be found here post-game if the player brings Regice, Regirock, and Registeel.

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Type Steel

Steel-type Pokémon (Metal-type in the TCG) are made of, or coated with, steel. They, along with Rock-type Pokémon and Ground-type Pokémon, are the three types that represent earth's minerals (all three are immune to the Sandstorm weather condition) with steel representing metal. Steel Pokémon are known for their resilience and strength.

Magnemite and Magneton were the first Pokémon to be reclassified from a single-type (Electric-types) to a Steel/Electric dual-type. This was because, like the Dark-type, Steel Pokémon were not introduced until Generation II, and the Magnemite family were first introduced in Generation I.

To date, there are 6 single-steel-type Pokémon, including Arceus with the iron Plate.

Steel-type Pokémon possess 11 resistances, higher than any other single Pokémon type. They also have a full immunity to Poison attacks. They are highly effective against Ice and Rock-types but have weaknesses to Fire, Ground and Fighting-type attacks.

Steel types are renowned for having the largest amount of resistances defensively, but have a large amount of resistances offensively, too.

Abilities of Steel Pokémon

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Steel Pokémon families

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081 Magnemite 082 Magneton 462 Magnezone Electric
Template:Not from type 205 Forretress - Bug; Only Forretress is Steel
Template:Not from type 208 Steelix - Ground; Only Steelix is Steel
Template:Not from type 212 Scizor - Bug; Only Scizor is Steel
227 Skarmory - - Flying
303 Mawile - - Fairy
304 Aron 305 Lairon 306 Aggron Rock
374 Beldum 375 Metang 376 Metagross Psychic
379 Registeel - -
385 Jirachi - - Psychic
Template:Not from type Template:Not from type 395 Empoleon Water; Only Empoleon is Steel
410 Shieldon 411 Bastiodon - Rock
Template:Not from type 413C Wormadam - Bug (Trash Cloak)
436 Bronzor 437 Bronzong - Psychic
Template:Not from type 448 Lucario - Fighting; Only Lucario is Steel
Template:Not from type 476 Probopass - Rock; Only Probopass is Steel
483 Dialga - - Dragon
485 Heatran - - Fire
Template:Not from type 530 Excadrill - Ground; Only Excadrill is Steel
Template:Not from type 589 Escavalier - Bug; Only Escavalier is Steel
597 Ferroseed 598 Ferrothorn - Grass
599 Klink 600 Klang 601 Klinklang
624 Pawniard 625 Bisharp - Dark
632 Durant - - Bug
638 Cobalion - - Fighting
649 Genesect Bug
Honedge Ghost

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Me and my friend are trying to trade pokemon and we can connect and have brilliant connection etc, we get in the room and can see each other and stuff but whenever we try and trade, battle, talk etc it says on my screen 'jack wants to trade' and when it says connecting it connects, then doesn't do anything... Any ideas?

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Plenty of people are having that same issue and there is only one reason:all the people are trading in Pokemon White that the Nintendo Servers are getting Jammed, causing Problems like this. I sadly don't have a solution exept if you are in that friends house, use the Union Room to trade. Hopefully the problem fixes and we all can trade again. Hope this helps...

answered Mar 22, 2011 by Psychic x
If you are in your friends house just use ir on your c-gear, no need for silly rooms
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We tried again, and I'm talking apart him being in his house and me in mine. It says '.... Has contacted you' then it has a little spinny arrow like a clock, basically the loading icon, it doesn't let me do anything or respond, then goes off and says 'standing by...' At the top. Its really annoying me now, any answers will be appreciated. And thanks PB10 :)

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