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#Throwback Thursday makes me hop into the DeLorean and think about life's wear and tear

For this week's #ThrowbackThursday I posted a photo on Facebook from my 1981 graduation from Stuyvesant High School in NYC. (More pics and stuff about my days there here.)
#ThrowbackThursday #TBT: NYC. Carnegie Hall, 1981. Stuyvesant HS graduation day. Contact lenses and big, blown-out hair (in the midst of reverting in the humidity). A grand time was had by all!
It was apparently a popular post, lol -- over 120 "likes" -- probably for the big hair. Of course it made me think about all those years of life that have transpired -- the wear-and-tear, the rheumatoid arthritis and various auto-immune diseases that the 1981 Pam had no clue about, of course, and the usual bits of business of aging -- bifocals, more lines, graying hair (less of it too).

So after barely surviving a horrendously hard week -- the hardest week in recent memory re: working and RA -- but it is what it is (until the plug is finally pulled). I've had to sleep in wraps on both hands all week (and elbow sleeves a few nights as well).

Today I came home and took some pics of myself -- and no tan or makeup to be found from 1981's iteration of me. I don't know why. Just because. Maybe it's to prove that while I feel like a shell of myself that I'm still here.

Maybe I'm fighting a bit harder to hang on day-to-day -- my hands and wrists were in such bad shape that I had trouble using pop-top lids without pain this week.

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Why can't my portrait in the attic take all of the pain too? :)

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Cricut Wild Card Cartridge

I recently purchased the Cricut Wild Card cartridge and it is amazing! You can make a variety of cards in a very short period of time. I will be teaching a class on October 27th that features this cartridge. This card only took me 10 minutes to make with Design Studio and the Cricut machine.

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Extras from Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's Golden Globes promos. Soexcitedforthis. [Vulture]

Joe Biden was in his element at the mock Senate swearing-in yesterday. As new and returning senators brought their family members to pose for photos with the V.P., Good Time Pappy Joe worked his zero-intimacy-issues magic on old women, old men, young women, young men and babies. No one was safe and everyone had their faces caressed. [Via Gawker and @MichaelHayes]

In case you missed it, a local station in Orange County had the most wondrously disastrous live New Year's Eve special featuring Jamie Kennedy, Shannon Elizabeth, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Macy Gray, who did *the* best countdown of all time. Gray's part starts at the 2:45 mark but you really need to watch the whole clip. OH MY GOD, THIS VIDEO. It's spectacular. [LAist via Dlisted]

Kansas City weekly The Pitch's ode to hometown HOTTIE Paul Rudd. [Via PenisPoilce]

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Mr. Bean and baby Christian Bale. [ThisIsNotPorn]

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Vidhi Parikh Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2013 7:42:57 PM(UTC)

All the antibiotics do not have side effects during pregnancy.

But there are some medicines which are harmful to developing baby in the womb.

In your case it depends on your actual health condition, what is the level of infection you are going through.

If you will treat it at early stage then it will not have its ill effects at growing pregnancy.

It depends on which medicine you are taking, at what stage of pregnancy, and why you are taking medicines.

Just talk to your doctor about your confusion, and follow his advise as he knows your physical condition thoroughly.

So visit your doctor and go for some tests if required.
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in fourth week of pregnancy, i have the complaint of UTI, can i take any anti biotics now.? Will it affect my baby.?


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For the second consecutive month, lack of seat belt use factored in a majority of Minnesota traffic deaths. In January, 13 of the 18 motorists killed were not buckled up, according to preliminary Department of Public Safety (DPS) Office of Traffic Safety crash data. In December, only five of the 23 motorists killed were belted.

"These fatalities only emphasize the point that if you don't buckle up, you are giving up the best defense you have to stay safe in the case of a crash," says Lt. Eric Roeske of the Minnesota State Patrol.

Officials say the unbelted deaths are factoring for the increase in deaths compared to this time in 2011. In January 2012, there were 19 deaths compared to 11 in 2011.

Most of the January unbelted deaths occurred in Greater Minnesota counties -- where belt compliance is historically low: Benton, Cass, Crow Wing, Faribault (2), Goodhue, Kandiyohi, Otter Tail, Rock, St. Louis, Wadena and Winona. One unbelted fatality occurred in the Twin Cities area (Dakota County).

Four of the unbelted victims were under age 30, six were ages 30-54, and three were and 55 and older.

In Minnesota it's the law for drivers and passengers in every seat to be belted.

Each year, more than half of the motorists killed in Minnesota crashes aren't belted -- translating to more than 150 deaths and 400 serious injuries annually. Eighty percent of the unbelted deaths occur on Greater Minnesota roads.

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 Seat belts restrain motorists in the vehicle's designed protective space, giving them room to live in the event of a crash. Seat belts also keep drivers correctly positioned behind the wheel.

 In rollover crashes, unbelted motorists are usually ejected from the vehicle -- in most cases, the vehicle will roll over them. In less severe crashes, an unbelted motorist may crack teeth out on the steering wheel or break their nose, and even slam into and injure others in the vehicle.

 Wear lap belts low and snug across the hips; shoulder straps should never be tucked under an arm or behind the back -- not only is this unsafe, it is illegal.

 Children under age 13 should always ride in the back seat. Children who have outgrown a forward-facing harness restraint should ride in a booster seat until they are 4-feet 9-inches tall.

 Pregnant women should wear the lap belt under the stomach, as low on the hips as possible and against the upper thighs. The shoulder belt should rest between the breasts.

 Airbags are designed to work with seat belts to keep vehicle occupants in a safe position during a crash -- airbags are not effective when the motorist is not belted.


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`Teamsters Union Local 320, which represents a substantial portion of Wadena County’s workforce, filed a civil lawsuit against the county on April 26 in Seventh Judicial District Court in Wadena.  Court file number 80-CV-13-286 has been assigned to the case. According to, the lawsuit deals with employment.

The Wadena County Board of Commissioners scheduled a special closed meeting about the suit on Thursday, May 2. County Attorney Kyra Ladd will meet with commissioners at the special closed meeting.  It is not known whether she will be assigned to defend the county, or whether commissioners may choose their labor attorney, Tom Fitzpatrick, to handle the case.

Attorney Kevin Michael Beck filed the suit on behalf of Minnesota Teamsters Public and Law Enforcement Employees’ Union Local 320.  Beck practices with the firm of Kelly and Lemmons, P.A.  The website lists his practice areas as employment and labor law, criminal defense, state/local/municipal law, general practice, and military law.  He has been in practice for five years.  He earned his bachelor’s degree from Carleton College, and his J.D. In 2008 from William Mitchell College of Law. Teamsters Union Local 320 is the only bargaining unit which has not settled with the county on a labor agreement for the 2013-2015 period.

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Neither marketing model is wrong, and both offer you insights into creating a marketing strategy that will work for your business.

By the way, NONE of these ideas and models are new; we’ve been talking about these concepts in marketing classes for decades. Let me explain…

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Photo by C. C. License at Flickr courtesy of J. Salmoral: While there is some overlap, the gifts of the Spirit that are listed by Paul (Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12, and Ephesians 4) display a considerable range. Add to those lists the gifts of craftsmanship given to Bezalel and Oholiab for the making of the tabernacle (Exodus 31), and a picture of God's lavish and diverse generosity is revealed. I am convinced that the college years ought to be a time for students to discern and develop the gifts that they have been given. Unfortunately, educational institutions are generally designed to provide a common education, not gift discernment and distinctive opportunities for each peculiar student -- like you.

Instead of developing an approach to education based on gifts, let me make a more modest proposal. Let's imagine an approach to education based on the fruit of the Spirit. There is really only one passage that employs this phrase, the fruit of the Spirit, and that is Galatians 5:22. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. The Holy Spirit wants to produce these attributes, these virtues, in every believer. Can you imagine academic work with these virtues in full view -- where our studying is done for the sake of love, and it is done with joy, and pursued patiently and kindly with others? And I don't imagine that these are the only virtues that the Holy Spirit is interested in producing in us.

Recently I was talking to some students, and we were trying to imagine a different list of the fruits of the Spirit, one that Paul might have written (in our imagination) for an academic community. No doubt the fruits listed in Galatians 5 apply, but what other virtues do students need to develop in order to honor the Lord of learning? We came up with a couple, and perhaps you will be able to imagine a couple more.

Humility. People who think that they know everything are not prepared to learn anything. Good learning doesn't begin until one becomes a student -- curious, open, teachable.

Industry. Learning isn't like falling off a log. Granted, we do learn a great deal quite effortlessly. But by the time college rolls around, most of what we are trying to learn requires a good bit of effort. Good students work hard.

Collegiality. Good students not only work hard, but they work together. A number of qualities need to come together for you to become a good partner in the learning process. Humility and industry, along with kindness and gentleness seem like a good start. But I imagine that you can have these qualities and still be a bit of a loner. Being collegial first requires this -- valuing your partners.


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The 5 Year Plan for the NHS

One of the things that the Health and Social Care Act (2012) did was to set up NHS England (initially called the NHS Commissioning Board) to run the NHS. Supposedly independent from the Department of Health, its responsibilities include making sure that the NHS has an efficient system of commissioning (planning and buying healthcare services), and supervising clinical commissioning groups (CCGs).  In practice, this seems to mean that NHS England, an unelected body, can set out radical proposals to change the NHS without any discussion in parliament and without any explicit political mandate.

The Five Year Forward View (FYFV) is just such a proposal, and it’s already in the early stages of being implemented. NHS England’s Director, Simon Stevens, published the FYFV in October 2014, six months after his return from the USA where he worked for the health insurance giant, UnitedHealth. He was also a founder member of The Alliance for Healthcare Competitiveness that lobbies for the inclusion of health services in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

The FYFV claims that for a number of reasons, such as growing pressure on health services, the NHS needs to undergo fundamental change. It argues that continuing with a comprehensive, tax-funded NHS is possible, but only if action is taken on prevention and new ways of delivering care that improve efficiency. The emphasis is on integrated care and ‘new care models’ that allow dismantling of the traditional boundaries between the NHS and social care, between physical and mental health, and between GP services and hospital care through developing new ‘networks of care’.

The FYFV also refers to vague ‘wider system improvements’ (such as ensuring a ‘modern workforce’) and the need for the NHS to become a more active agent of ‘health-related social change’. It calls for the NHS to learn from international developments, such as developments in Spain (e.g. the ‘Alzira’ model), where publicly funded, ‘integrative’ health care facilities are provided by private companies on the basis of a fixed fee per registered patient, or the Accountable Care Organisations developed in the US. Although it doesn’t make obvious reference to it, the FYFV seems to draw heavily on a report from the King’s Fund, Accountable Care Organisations in the United States and England.

Besides NHS England, a number of organisations involved in running and overseeing health and care services helped to develop the FYFV, including Public Health England, Monitor, Health Education England, the Care Quality Commission and the NHS Trust Development Authority (see Explanation of terms for details of these different bodies). Unspecified patient groups and clinicians were also involved, as were unnamed ‘independent experts’, possibly representatives of the private sector or think tanks such as the Kings Fund.

So far, the FYFV has received a fairly uncritical response. For example, while the Labour Party thought that FYFV left some important questions unanswered (e.g. about competition), it seemed on the whole to support the proposals ( The British Medical Association said it was ‘encouraged’ by the plan and its recognition of the current strain on GPs. The Royal College of Nursing made little comment on the proposed changes but expressed concerned that these could not be achieved without more NHS funding and improved pay for the nursing workforce.

And at first sight, the FYFV does seem fairly NHS-friendly: it sings the praises of the NHS and the values that underpin it. The FYFV says that it wants the radical change that it calls for to be driven by local clinicians and managers, rather than being centrally imposed. It also appears to call on the government to increase NHS funding. There is certainly very little in the plan that obviously suggests any intention to dismantle the NHS.

However, the FYFV can also be seen as part of a long-term strategy, dating back to the early Thatcher years, aimed at gradually restructuring the NHS so that it can become an insurance-based health care system similar to that of the US (see our webpage A long term plan). Different governments over the past 20 or so years have already implemented many of the key stages of this strategy: now the FYFV allows some of its final steps.

In our opinion, the FYFV is carefully written so that the extent of the radical changes it proposes is hidden in plain sight. In what follows, some of the main proposals of FYFV are set out in three sections relating to the main issues that the FYFV says need to be addressed, namely:

  1. The demand on services,
  2. The efficiency of services and the workforce, and
  3. How services are funded.

The FYFV argues that one of the ways of reducing demand on services is to introduce ‘targeted health support’ to cut sickness-related employment. Although it doesn’t mention it, this dovetails with an initiative on the part of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) called Fit to Work.

Fit to Work aims to save costs through the use of a health and work assessment and advisory service, currently outsourced to Health Management Ltd (a UK company owned by US corporation Maximus), to “better manage sickness absence” and get people back to work. In essence, after someone in work has had (or is expected to have) four weeks of sickness absence, their GP will refer them to Health Management Ltd for assessment and a Return to Work Plan. The Plan will then be made available to the employer, the employee and their GP. Significantly, after issuing a Return to Work Plan, the GP will no longer be responsible for providing a Fit Note: instead, the employer will be responsible for decisions about fitness to work. This shift in the care of the sick employee from GP to employer is justified on the grounds that ‘work is good for health’.

Alongside Fit to Work, the FYFV’s proposal for targeted health support includes ‘intensive lifestyle intervention programmes’ consisting of group sessions focusing on issues such as diet or exercise, together with annual assessments, in order to change behaviour that might lead to conditions like obesity or diabetes. Plans include incentives for employers to provide approved workplace health programmes for their employees. It’s unclear what happens if someone fails to follow these programmes or fails to get the desired results – i.e. whether they will face punitive measures as an employee, or perhaps as a patient. There are already signs of NHS care being denied to those apparently following less healthy lifestyles: one CCG in Devon, for example, in response to limited funding, has announced all routine surgery is being denied to patients who are obese or who smoke (see article below under ‘Sources’).

Besides attempting to regulate the health behaviours of individuals, the FYFV also wants to make patients responsible for managing their own healthcare through taking advantage of new forms of technology, such as mobile phone apps, to get health care advice. These developments are described as ’empowering patients’, but they run in tandem with changes being demanded in the workforce, such as new roles, new payment patterns, and probably fewer qualified staff, in order to cut costs.

Matched with this, the FYFV says it wants patients to have greater control over their own care, including the option of integrated personal budgets to pay for health and social care. There are serious concerns that these kinds of personal budgets are less about increasing choice and control for individual patients and more about laying the foundations of a health care system based on an annual, fixed-sum voucher on which to reconstruct the NHS as US style, insurance-based form of health care (see our page on personal health budgets).  And there are fears that integrating social care (which is means-tested) with healthcare (which is not) could lead to NHS care becoming means-tested too.

In emphasising the need to make people responsible for their own health and health care the FYFV makes no mention of the social causes of ill health, such as the particular conditions that individuals are born into and that shape their daily life, or the influence of social or economic policies on people’s health.

The FYFV calls for ‘sometimes controversial system efficiencies’, some of which are given more prominence than others. According to the FYFV, the main ways of achieving these efficiencies will be through a radical restructuring of both the NHS and its workforce.

  • Restructuring the NHS

In line with dissolving the traditional boundaries of the NHS, the FYFV wants to see services integrated around the patient, the development of new roles and skills, and out-of-hospital care becoming a much larger part of what the NHS does.

To this effect, the FVFV calls for stronger ‘health-related powers’ to be given to local government and elected mayors to allow “local democratic decisions on public health policy that go further and faster than prevailing national law” on issues that affect physical and mental health. There are no further details on the nature of these extended powers, and how they might be regulated, although the FYFV seems to be referring to the recent government strategy to devolve powers (including the control of pooled health and social care budgets) to local areas (as with Greater Manchester).

Radical new ways of delivering care will be developed, such as new care models, to provide best value for money while improving patients’ experience. These new models are to be developed rapidly and extensively – in fact, implementation is already under way with a number of ‘vanguard sites’. According to NHS England, “Through the New Care Models programme, complete redesign of whole health and care systems are being considered”. While the FYFV emphasises that there is no one size that fits all and that the exact nature of the models used will be decided on locally, the choice of model will be ‘guided’ by NHS England.

There are already examples of GP practices forming federations or networks to help them survive in a competitive market, either sharing ‘back room’ administration, staff or occasionally premises. The FYFV encourages such initiatives but is really pushing for more extensive forms of ‘integration’. Here we give just two examples of the kinds of models outlined by the FYFV: these are the ones that, so far, seem to have caught the most attention.

A) Multispecialty Community Provider (MCPs)

According to the British Medical Association, there are different versions of this model. These can range from:

–    little more than an extension of what is already happening in some areas, where federations of GPs extend the services they currently provide, to

–    versions where a CCG reorganises services around different GP practices, to

–    the large-scale version described in the FYFW.

In the FYFV version, a group of GP practices comes together with a variety of health practitioners to form an organisation providing the majority of out-of-hospital care for a registered list, probably of 30 – 50,000 patients. The MCP is funded through a capitated contract – i.e. on the basis of a flat fee for each patient registered, irrespective of how many visits a patient makes or how many treatments are given.

The MCP will combine GP care with community-based services such as district nursing, health visiting, dentistry, and pharmacy, and -potentially – mental health services and social care. It could provide many of the specialist services currently provided by hospitals, such as chemotherapy and dialysis, on an outpatient basis. Over time, MCPs may employ hospital consultants, have admitting rights to hospital beds and/or manage the health service budget (or even the combined health and social care budget) of their registered patients. (MCPs are described as providing ‘horizontal integration’.)

B) Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS)

PACS are single organisations contracted to integrate GP, hospital, community and mental health services for a registered list of patients, on the basis of a fixed budget per head and on a long-term basis. They are similar in some ways to MCPs but extend further, incorporating all core hospital services and ‘redesigned’ emergency care and urgent care services. PACS are also likely to cover wider geographical areas, serving a population similar to that covered by a small District General Hospital (about 200 – 250,000 patients), if not more. Some PACS may provide new GP-based services. There will also be a requirement for PACS to offer personal health budgets. In time, PACs might become accountable for the entire health needs of a registered list of patients across different care settings. (PACS are described as providing vertical integration.)

[For details of other care models referred to, see].

Both of these care models are similar to the Accountable Care Organisations found in other countries like the US.

Despite acknowledging that there is no appetite for wholesale reorganisation, this is nonetheless what the FYFV wants to bring about. What’s more, it’s reorganisation coming on top of the massive change that followed the HSC Act (2012) that has already led to chaos and poor staff morale.

The FYFV says that the changes it calls for will be different and less disruptive than after the Act because they will be locally driven: NHS England will be backing ‘local leadership’ in place of the ‘distraction of further national reorganisation’. However, it’s hard to see how a series of radical, local changes taking place across the whole of the NHS in England is anything other than a national reorganisation, especially when strongly steered or ‘co-developed’ by a central organisation like NHS England.

The FYFV prompts many concerns about how such reorganisation will affect NHS services, such as the possibility that patients will have to travel further for in-patient and emergency services. New models of care based on a fixed budget for each registered patient and designed with cost containment in mind could lead to pressures on staff to minimise hospital referrals or other treatments.  Plus there is no evidence that what’s being proposed will save money, and little to no detail (given the sell off of NHS property or the acknowledged shortage of GPs and nurses) about where the new buildings, equipment and staff required will come from.

However, one of the biggest concerns is about the future of the NHS itself. The FYFV calls for the use of new models of care (such as MCPs or PACs) that have not been developed for a universal, publicly funded health service like the NHS but, instead, evolved in the US to meet the needs of an insurance based system. It’s only a short step from setting up a structure for the NHS that is compatible with an insurance-based health care system to turning the NHS into a system based on insurance.

And in line with the thinking behind the development of current models of care in the US, the FYFV suggests that its plan depends on not prescribing any specific model, but on innovation and adaptation to the local context. This suggests that while individual organisations like MultiSpecialty Providers may integrate care for their registered patients across organisational boundaries, the NHS more broadly will become increasingly fragmented.

  • Restructuring of the NHS workforce

The FYFV calls for substantial changes to the NHS workforce, saying that new care models won’t be effective unless there is a ‘modern workforce’ with the right numbers, skills, values and behaviours. So, according to the FYFV, this means

  • There needs to be local flexibility in the way payment rules, regulatory requirements and other mechanisms are applied;
  • More support should be available for employers to increase productivity and reduce the waste of skills and money: consideration needs to be given to the most appropriate employment arrangements to allow staff to work across organisational and sector boundaries;
  • Health Education England will commission and expand new health and care roles, to ensure a flexible workforce;
  • Working patterns and pay and terms and conditions will be looked at, in order to work towards rewarding high performance, supporting job and service redesign and encouraging recruitment and retention of staff across the country.
  • A dramatic increase in the use of volunteers: the new models will “draw on the ‘renewable energy’ of carers, volunteers and patients themselves”.

 The proposals for workforce efficiencies depend on disregarding the current, nationally agreed system called Agenda for Change (AfC) that assesses jobs and determines the appropriate pay for most NHS staff. Since 2004, this system has ensured that pay and conditions of employment have been consistent across the NHS and meet the requirements of equal pay law. In contrast, the FVFV proposals support the introduction of local agreements that are likely to drive down pay, and risk pay becoming a source of industrial relations conflict. Local pay agreements may also introduce damaging competition for staff between NHS organisations. The FYFV expects NHS employees to accept new roles, working patterns and skill mixes that will support service ‘redesign’ but that will probably also mean downgrading staff (expecting them to do the same job for less pay); getting less qualified staff to take on nursing and medical work; reducing or ending pay for working unsocial hours; and reducing the number of staff per patient.

This is a recipe for a poorly paid workforce with low morale. It is highly unlikely that such a workforce will be able to deliver quality patient care.

Both Monitor and NHS England have calculated that, without radical change, by 20120/20 there will be a gap of almost £30 billion a year between the demand on services and NHS funding. The FYFV calls for

  • £22 billion to be found from within the NHS through efficiency savings as a result of ‘wider system improvements’, reduced demand on services, new care models, and ‘new options’ for the NHS workforce.
  • Unlocking’ NHS assets (e.g. selling land or buildings ripe for development);
  • Increased government funding of the NHS in flat real terms (taking account of population growth), amounting to £8 billion above inflation.

The FYFV claims that £22 billion can be saved by efficiencies of 2 to 3% by 2020. This is highly ambitious compared with the kind of efficiencies achieved by the wider UK economy or other countries’ health care systems. These savings are also sought on top of those already wrung from the NHS over the past five years through the Nicholson Challenge: every ounce of fat has already been trimmed.

At the same time, no consideration is given to how savings can be made by ending the highly costly business of running the NHS as a competitive market, or preventing money being wasted on exorbitant PFI debt repayments.

 The long –term plan

Letwin, J Redwood (1988) Britain’s biggest enterprise: Ideas for radical reform of the NHS. Written for the Centre for Policy Studies.

Madsen Pirie, Eamonn Butler, 1988, The health of nations. The Adam Smith Institute,

The Five Year Forward Plan

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How routine surgery is being denied to those who are overweight or smoke

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Before the conquest of Native North America, it is estimated that millions of people lived in the arid deserts, stone cold mountains, wandering rivers and mist-covered seashores. For the most part, their impact on the land was local and based on lessons learned from generations of dependence on the natural environment for survival. The genocide and diseases visited on the Native peoples of this country left decimated populations on fragments of their aboriginal lands. Tribes were forcibly relocated to unfamiliar places and were punished for practicing their customs and religions and speaking their languages. Within this legacy, the struggle to preserve language, story, song and lands continues.

All around the world, as species and cultures are driven to the edge of extinction, we are finally learning the relationship between cultural and biological diversity. If we protect places we must also protect the rich cultures and their knowledge. Native peoples lose their cultural foundation as the Earth suffers from contamination and exploitation, whether from coal, oil, gold and uranium mines, or nuclear waste dumps and weapons testing.

At the same time, there are many exciting efforts to revitalize culture and reclaim ancestral lands. Master/apprentice language programs match language bearers with youth eager to learn their language and ways; video and audio ethnography is helping to teach new generations traditional arts and sciences; land acquisition projects are establishing cultural and ecological preserves where the land is protected and tended by ceremony.

Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity

Biodiversity is usually measured by the number of plants and animal species and cultural diversity is measured by the number of indigenous languages spoken. Around the world, the places with the highest biological diversity, like the Amazon rainforest, are also the places of the highest cultural diversity. These eco-cultural “hotspots” contain some of the rarest and most valuable ecosystems and species in the world. They are also the traditional homelands to indigenous nations who hold the knowledge of how to sustainably use and live within these unique landscapes.

Worldwide, the preservation of biological diversity is inextricably related to the preservation of cultural diversity. For native peoples, culture and environment are deeply interwoven. They are one in the same because everything comes from the Earth and the land is often where ancestors reside. Particular plants, animals and landforms are religious symbols, sources of food and healing materials, and characters in myths and stories. When the land loses its nature and the plants and animals that enliven it, the stories and the songs live in shadow, and ways of life disappear. But in some locations, land and culture are being reclaimed and revitalized.

Language Endangerment and Survival

Globalization and its homogenizing process is effective at destroying linguistic diversity through dominant national languages in schools, governments and media. The Western values of consumerism, individualism, and ethnocentrism all contribute to the loss of language diversity. English-only assimilation policies in the U.S. have been effective at decreasing the number of Native American languages from an estimated 300 at the time of contact to 153 today. The Society for Indigenous Languages classifies sixty-seven of these native languages as nearly extinct, and it is estimated that 80 per cent of indigenous languages are moribund - spoken by only a few. The languages are vanishing with the elders who are the keepers of the ancestral voice and collective memory.

Yet, many indigenous peoples resist this representation of language extinction, or dying languages. It’s a fact that there are less native speakers today and, in some cases, no living speakers of some languages. But does that truly mean the language is dead? Jessie Little Doe Fermino, a Wampanoag Tribal member and linguist, shares her traditional perspective: “If we do not keep our responsibility to language, we have not killed language. In fact, we do not have that much power. The spirit of language cannot be destroyed by humans; it can only be neglected and not honored.”* Other native people refer to a language that has no speakers as being “dormant,” or as Hoskie Benally says, “it is waiting there for us in the four directions.”

Native languages are being awakened and recovered through Immersion schools, master-apprenticeship programs, audio and video recordings, ethnographic research, oral history documentation and ceremonial practices.

* Moore Quinn, Cultural Survival Quarterly, Summer 2001, 17

Land Issues

On every continent, indigenous peoples are struggling to protect their cultures and lands and to assert their rights to use and celebrate the diversity of the Earth through their traditional cultural, economic and religious expressions.

Four southwestern California tribes of Cahuilla and Chemehuevi people are purchasing 2,500 acres of desert wilderness in the Old Woman Mountains. The preserve is home to the endangered Desert Tortoise and Big Horn Sheep. This project of the Native American Land Conservancy (NALC) will be a precedent-setting project where cultural preservation and environmental protection will come together with a management plan that protects ecological processes while encouraging indigenous ritual and ceremony.
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Israeli, Palestinian authorities appeal for calm as deaths of teens fans fire of vigilantism

July 4, 2014 at 6:11 PM EDT

JEFFREY BROWN: In addition to the clashes in East Jerusalem, the Israeli air force struck targets inside of Gaza tonight after Hamas fired rockets again today into Southern Israel. The exchange happened despite word of a possible cease-fire between Israel and Hamas being mediated by Egypt.

Journalist Josh Mitnick has been reporting the story on all fronts for The Wall Street Journal. I spoke to him a short time ago.

Well, Josh Mitnick, you were at the funeral today. What would you add to what we heard from Lindsey Hilsum?

JOSH MITNICK, The Wall Street Journal: Yes.

Well, there was a real air of anger and militancy in the air. The debris from several days of riots in Jerusalem had not been cleaned up. I saw mourners praying amid shattered glass of a light-rail station, and people were — there are chants, religious chants, anti-Israel chants, chants for revenge, chants for blood.

And people were saying that they thought the Israeli police were treating this with kid gloves. They were angry that the Israeli police had not come to the conclusion that they confidently believe that this was a lynching. And they were frustrated also with the Palestinian Authority and President Mahmoud Abbas for not embracing them. And they accused him of collaborating with Israel.

JEFFREY BROWN: And are there signs of protests and violence spreading in the West Bank, of further escalation?

JOSH MITNICK: You know, that is the concern of the Israeli — of the Israeli army. And it’s also — I assume that is the concern of the Palestinian Authority.

And, at this moment, that has not happened. It’s — at this moment, it has been contained to Jerusalem. From what I understand, is that the President Abbas has an interest in this not spreading.

And, ironically, in the rest of the West Bank, President Abbas has his own security forces, which basically try to lower the flames of the conflict. In East Jerusalem, it is a different story, however. President Abbas doesn’t have the control, and it is more easy for the protesters to go out to the Israeli — the Israeli police and protest and engage in clashes.

JEFFREY BROWN: Well, the Israeli government has, of course, condemned the killing, but is there any more information on the investigation into finding who did it?

JOSH MITNICK: You know, I spoke with a police spokesperson today, and he said that they are still investigating several different motives.

Again, as I said, this is — this — the fact that the police have not classified this as a nationalist crime very insulting to the family. They have not released details of the autopsy yet. They will only say that the body of the boy was severely injured.

JEFFREY BROWN: And, in the meantime, rocket attacks from Gaza and Israeli military planes in reprisal going into Gaza, what are authorities on both sides saying about that situation?

JOSH MITNICK: That right.

For the last week, there has been a tit-for-tat, trickle of rockets into Israel and Israeli planes launching reprisals. The Israeli military, in a rare appeal for calm yesterday, said that they are not interested in escalating the situation, but that if the militants in Gaza and if Hamas doesn’t get control of the situation there, they are prepared to escalate, so something of a veiled threat mixed with a message of mollification.

Hamas also has been putting out mixed signals, some of the members of its political leadership, of the government there saying that they are not interested in escalation, however, a statement from the military wing of Hamas saying that they are not willing to engage in any cease-fires and they will not impose their control on the other militant groups in Gaza Strip.

JEFFREY BROWN: And, Josh, very briefly, if you would, how much fear — what is your sense of the level of fear that this could escalate to something that the region hasn’t seen in some time?

JOSH MITNICK: Well, if we compare this to different intifadas in the past, and especially 2000, the difference is that the Palestinian president, the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, has consistently come out against the use of violence.

And it’s assumed that he is actively working to cool the flames. However, there is an air of vigilantism in the West Bank. There is a new, relatively recent phenomenon of vigilantism among pro-settler groups, who have carried out revenge attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank.

So, as long as this air of taking the law into one’s own hands continues, then it is anyone’s bet, and things could get — could spiral out of control.

JEFFREY BROWN: Josh Mitnick, thanks so much for joining us.

JOSH MITNICK: Thank you.


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The European Central Bank’s new headquarters, still under construction, right, are seen alongside other buildings within the city, across from the River Main in Frankfurt, Germany. Photo by Hannelore Foerster/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

Some might be expecting comment on the State of the Union here, but really, I don’t see much point. I’ve been listening to these speeches for decades now, and they are not policy proposals so much as articles of faith: “Here’s what I believe in. Here’s what I’d like to do.” Then comes the political process, and all the haggling – if not downright obstructionism – that will drastically modify, if not completely keel-haul, anything the President suggested last night.

Liberal commentators like Mark Thoma bemoan a massive short-term jobs proposal, given that some 27 million Americans, according to our own U-7 reckoning, are still un- or underemployed. Conservatives like Greg Mankiw are “disappointed, and even a bit surprised, that the President adopted the xenophobic approach to outsourcing and international trade” and “misleading claims about Warren Buffett’s tax rate.”

The reaction of markets has been positive: The Dow up slightly as of 1:30 p.m.; U.S. government interest rates, down.

Meanwhile, the action remains in Europe, where our own Margaret Warner is now headed. I was particularly struck this week by a fascinating pair of posts on the Eurocrunch.

Here’s conservative pundit Ed Yardeni early in the week:

“There’s a big relief rally under way in European bond and stock markets. The Italian bond yield fell as low as 6.00 % this morning. It was as high as 7.26% on January 9. The MSCI Europe stock price index is up 4.7% ytd, matching the S&P 500’s gain. It is now back above its 200-day moving average.

The point of this data dump is that European cyclical and financial stocks are pointing to better times. Many of them plunged during the second half of last year, but have retraced 50 percent or more of their losses since bottoming in early October. The MSCI Europe index lost 25.4 percent from last year’s peak on February 16 through last year’s low on September 22. Since then it has regained 50.2 percent of that loss, though it still remains 12.6 percent below last year’s peak.

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That’s all quite impressive given that S&P downgraded nine euro zone nations on Friday, January 13. In its statement, S&P explained, “In our view, the policy initiatives taken by European policymakers in recent weeks may be insufficient to fully address ongoing systemic stresses in the Eurozone.” However, the agency said it believed euro zone “monetary authorities have been instrumental in averting the collapse of market confidence.”

The credit rating agency has turned into a contrary indicator. Recall how well U.S. Treasury bonds performed after S&P downgraded the U.S. government in early August. Financial markets are clearly increasingly impressed with the power of the European Central Bank’s Long Term Refinancing Option bazooka. So are European leaders, who recently heeded the ECB’s warning against backsliding on their commitment to tighten budget rules.

In the Monday, December 12 Morning Briefing, I wrote the following about the LTRO., which the E.C.B. announced on Thursday, December 8: “Could it be that the ECB just became the indirect lender of last resort for European governments by acting so aggressively as the lender of last resort for the banks?” In my opinion, the ECB had just averted a sovereign debt and banking meltdown by agreeing to lend an unlimited amount to the commercial banks so they can do the same for governments at a very profitable “carry” spread.

That was a fairly controversial view at the time. Indeed, when I appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box on December 12, guest host Neel Kashkari, who oversaw the U.S. Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) under U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, disagreed with my upbeat assessment. Many other commentators were equally skeptical that the European banks would take advantage of the carry trade by purchasing more European government bonds. Now that the markets have done so well, the consensus seems to be that the ECB saved the day.

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal included an article titled “Secret Weapon: Europe’s Loan Plan.” The article stated that the LTRO has been more like a stealth bomber than a bazooka. It restored confidence by ensuring that Europe’s banks had access to financing. It forced the shorts in European bonds and stocks to cover their positions. The article reported that banks with the biggest European government bond trading desks are showing interest in profiting from the carry trade opportunity created by the LTRO. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if European leaders such as French President Nicolas Sarkozy quietly remind their friends at the banks that they should buy government bonds as a quid pro quo for the liquidity provided by the ECB, which saved their collective derriÃ¨res. After the LTRO was announced, Sarkozy told reporters that was his expectation. I dubbed it “Sarkozy’s Moment.”‘

Except for the Y2K “crisis,” which Yardeni warned of loud and long, he has consistently looked on the bright side over the course of his career, including a cheery assessment of the housing market in late 2006 with me and Nouriel Roubini on the sidewalks of New York. Sometimes he’s been right; other times, as in 2006, he’s been rather spectacularly wrong. If investment banker and economist prognosticator Ken Courtis is right, Yardeni is again missing the boat. The Courtis comments were sent to me by Yale historian Paul Kennedy. His 1988 book about (among other things) imperial overreach in general, and U.S. overreach in particular, “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers,” has sparked new interest in recent years. It begins in debt-ridden 16th century Spain, debt-ridden again (or perhaps “debt-ridden still”) more than half a millennium later. But these days Spain is simply symptomatic of Europe in general.

“We have an ‘interesting’ situation emerging in Europe,” writes Courtis. “Since mid-Nov, the ECB [European Central Bank aka Europe’s Fed] has been pumping money into the financial system faster and on an even larger scale than the Fed did previously.
The tsunami of money has been so large, that during the last week, the ECB balance sheet became larger than that of the Fed, which itself is several times larger than it was before the Bush Bubble popped.

A great part of the money that the ECB had announced a few weeks back for its 500 billion Euro, three-year loan facility, at 1 percent, which they had said was for banks to use to buy government bonds — and so make turn on the spread — has ended up being used by some of the most dangerously weak banks in Europe to rebuild their balance sheets!

How? you might ask, and it is a really good question!

Not surprisingly it was the Italians who ‘discovered’ the ‘loophole’. Was this new ECB facility concocted so that the ‘loophole’ would be ‘discovered’? Whatever, this is how much of this money has ended up refinancing the banks — a sort of EU TARP as it were.

First, the EU banks took out about 500B Euros of this three-year money at 1 percent interest. But as the ECB defined the collateral that could be put up as a counter party to the loans in such a broad way –actually the collateral can include virtually any financial security, except the paper linked to the kitchen sink. (Maybe with a wiggle that could be included as well.) So rather than buying up high-yielding sovereign debt, and capturing the spread, the Italian banks – and others will now follow– issued their own securities and served them up as collateral… So that means these banks now have in place 1 percent financing for the next 3 years! And as it is ECB money, it is considered equivalent to equity!

This gives a whole new definition to “kicking the can down the road.”

It is hard, for me at least, to see the flaw in Courtis’ reasoning. But as I often point out, following John Maynard Keynes, economic vitality is all about “animal spirits,” i.e., optimism. If the ECB can keep the game going, who’s to say how far the can can be kicked?

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  richierich 08:20 12 Apr 04

Dont believe I am suffering from this but am paranoid about it. I have McAfee firewall and norton AV and run spybot and adaware. Just wondering what the risks were and how to avoid them. Im on broadband so I presume if I was hijacked to a premium rate dial up I would see it all slow down.
Im a bit ignorant about this but have read some horror stories.

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  richierich 08:29 12 Apr 04

Seems a lot of people share these concerns. I feel a bit more secure about my broadband connection now.At least with that problem.

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Anyone know where i can get a good price on a 64Mb or 128Mb card for this camera? (smartmedia)

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  passing through 23:10 28 Nov 12

I get the usuall ammount of spam, like everyone else but there is one or two who keep coming back. One is from aka veriaReports. It's not much 4 or 5 a day but marking them as junk mail > add sender to blocked senders list or junk mail> add senders domain to blocked senders list, they still get through to the junk mail box.

Is there any way of blocking them, full stop, from arriving to the mail box?

  Secret-Squirrel 08:53 29 Nov 12

"One is from ........veriaReports........Is there any way of blocking them, full stop, from arriving to the mail box?"

If "veriaReports" is the sender's name and appears on all messages, and you're using a POP e-mail account, then you could try experimenting with a Windows Live Mail "Message Rule":

1) On the "Folders" ribbon, click "Message Rules".

2) In the "New Mail Rule" windows, select "Where the From line contains people" then click the blue link at the bottom and enter the sender's name as it appears in the e-mails you receive.

3) The best Action for this rule needs to be "Delete it from server".

4) Finally, give your rule a name and click the "Save Rule" button.

If that doesn't block those spam messages then perhaps you could use the "Where the subject line contains specific words" condition instead. However, be very careful how you setup rules especially when the action is to delete from server!

  Woolwell 14:33 29 Nov 12

Depending on your isp/email provider it may be possible to block them using webmail so that they get diverted to the webmail spam/junk folder so they do not get downloaded when you use Windows Live Mail.

  passing through 18:44 29 Nov 12

Thanks Woolwell

Have tried that and so far all OK.

  passing through 18:46 29 Nov 12

No matter how many times I click on the tick symbol. It will not turn green.

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Windows XP fonts won't work

  CLONNEN 12:39 10 Mar 06

I sold someone a cdrom which contained over 2600 fonts - TrueType format.

She says she has Windows XP and that the first 9 fonts she tried would not install on her computer.

Is there a reason for this? I thought all TrueType fonts worked on all versions of Windows. Am I wrong?

  rmcqua 12:46 10 Mar 06

They should certainly work with Windows XP. Are you sure she knows how to install them? (Just drag and drop into c:/windows/fonts)

  pj123 12:53 10 Mar 06

I would have thought so too. But fonts don't need "installing" just copy them to the Fonts folder and they should become available.

I am running Win 98SE and I have a cd with 950 fonts on it. All I did was drag and drop them into the fonts folder. I also made a separate Fonts folder on another partition and copied them into there as well as a backup.

  CLONNEN 12:54 10 Mar 06

The only thing I can think of is that maybe they aren't Truetype fonts - I think there were some other fonts in the FONTS folder on the cdrom - icons with Red A's I think. It's a bit difficult without having the disc contents in front of me.

I have asked her to get back to me with actual font names of the one's which don't work.

She says most of the fonts work okay but some won't work at all.

  pj123 13:18 10 Mar 06

Fonts with Red As on them are System Fonts not Truetype. So the reason why they didn't seem to work is probably because they are already on the computer. So all that needs to be copied across are the fonts without the Red A icon.

  CLONNEN 18:59 10 Mar 06

Have just located another cdrom the same as what I sold her - went into the FONTS folder on the disc and decided to start my investigations with the very first font listed AAR012.TTF otherwise known as Andrus (Truetype).

Went to the Windows/Fonts folder did File - Install New Font - selected the disc drive/fonts folder - selected the Andrus font at the top of the list which appeared and this error message pops up :

Unable to install the Andrus (TrueType) font. The font file may be damaged. Check with your font vendor about obtaining a new file.

According to Google this means info is missing from the file which is necessary in Windows 2000/XP - something about font family names and other stuff?

Any ideas on how to update the file so that it can work in Windows XP?

  CLONNEN 19:13 10 Mar 06

Have just tried to force it into the folder manually - copied AAR012.TTF from disc and attempted to paste it into the Windows XP Fonts folder - an error popped up :

Unable to install the font. File "...\AAR012.TTF" is either invalid or damaged.

  CLONNEN 11:40 16 Mar 06

Finally found a solution - used FontAgent to repair and optimize the TTF files and then opened and resaved them in FontLab (making sure to turn on the Autohint option). THEN the resulting TTF files could install into XP with no problems.

Had to do the FontAgent and FontLab stuff on Windows ME (wouldn't work in XP - FontAgent kept saying files were corrupt and it was unable to repair)

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windows xp wont boot!!!!!!

  aceguymiller 16:43 09 Sep 13

hi i need some help with installing windows xp or even windows 2000 onto my mates pc. this is the problem - the pc has windows xp installed but wont boot into it - it boots to the screen where you can choose safe mode and run when last good config. the keyboard (i have tried 4 keyboards with no luck) is not recognised and there fore i cant choose of the menu to try other boots modes. when i start pc and hold down delete key it boots into the main option page where you can change boot options (of dvd - hard disk - floppy) and bios and so on - i cant understand if it recognises keyoard then why not on the screen to boot into safe mode of role back to good config. so basically it just goes round in a circle starting going to screen with boot options (which i cant choose) and restarts!!!! its doing my head in never seen anything like this before
hope someone can help me thanks

  onthelimit1 16:45 09 Sep 13

Have you tried a keyboard with PS2 plug, rather than a USB one?

  aceguymiller 16:52 09 Sep 13

is that the old round connection tried an adapter usb into ps2 plug but keyboard not recognised cant think anything i can do lol!!!! frustrating

  AndySD 17:14 09 Sep 13

Hi aceguymiller

You may find that the USB/PS2 connector you are trying is not for a keyboard its for a mouse (I had this problem which is why I keep an old PS2 keyboard)

  aceguymiller 19:45 09 Sep 13

thanks for replies got shot of a ps/2 keyboard worked a treat!!!!

  bumpkin 21:11 09 Sep 13

aceguymiller, " got shot of a ps/2 keyboard worked a treat!!!!"

For the benefit of myself and other members can you please explain what you mean

  onthelimit1 08:09 10 Sep 13

If you mean it's now working OK, you can now plug a USB keyboard in and windows will install the driver. Shut the PC down before removing the PS2 connection.

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Google's Safe Browsing Blacklist

Many of the Websites blacklisted by Google are actually legitimate Websites that have been hijacked to serve up malware, according to security firm Zscaler.

Zscaler's Julien Sobrier analyzed Alexa's list of the top one million Websites and found 621 were also identified as malicious on Google's Safe Browsing blacklist. Sobrier found that of the 621 sites, most of them were legitimate Web sites that had been hijacked and were serving up malicious content such as fake antivirus and booby-trapped PDF files without the site owner's knowledge.

Major Web browsers, including Mozilla Firefox, Apple's Safari, and Google Chrome use the blacklist to prevent users using Google's search engine from clicking on links to flagged Websites. Browsers that use Safe Browsing display a warning screen informing users to not visit the bocked sites. Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Opera does not use Safe Browsing at this time.

"No site is safe from hijacking," Sobrier wrote. "Personal websites and top-10,000 sites are all likely to be infected at some point."

Attack Types
According to Sobrier's analysis, the attackers usually modified the compromised page to run JavaScript code to redirect to a malicious site or to open an iFrame containing malicious content hosted elsewhere on the Web. Users are being redirected to the "same type of malicious pages that we've seen for years now, such as fake AV scareware, fake Flash updates, survey scams, etc," Sobrier wrote in a follow-up post on the ThreatLabZ blog May 18.

"That means that users are still not educated enough to recognize fake software updates and still fall for the same old tricks," he added.

Several of the sites displayed a page that "looks a lot like YouTube" and urged visitors to upgrade their installation of Adobe Flash in order to view a scintillating video. Others displayed an image or a pop-up window claiming the computer was already infected with malware and urging users to download an antivirus to clean up the problem. Finally, Sobrier identified sites tricking users into signing up for "free" trials or gifts by filling out pages and pages of online surveys.

"This type of scam [surveys] is very, very common. It's amazing that is [sic] still works," Sobrier wrote.

Sobrier noted that Safe Browsing blocked the entire site that contained the attack JavaScript code or the iFRAME instead of the actual domain containing malware. This was a problem because the original source was still free to serve up its malicious payload to unsuspecting visitors. A site that had been hacked, but not yet blacklisted by Safe Browsing, would impact users so long as the malicious domain remained unblocked.

Webmasters Need to Pay Attention
Webmasters must be vigilant, accordign to Sobrier. Considering Alexa ranked sites by traffic, Webmasters should have noticed a significant drop in their traffic shortly after the compromise and being blacklisted. Only IE and Opera users would be visiting the site from search engines, a fact that should be readily apparent if the Webmaster was checking the logs. They should be investing in products to detect traffic anomalies, getting blacklisted, or to scan the site for malicious code.

"Owners of these very popular websites have not invested in keeping their website safe," Sobrier said, calling his findings "disappointing."

Sobrier's findings echo a similar project by Kaspersky Lab's Stefan Tanase earlier this year. Tanase had emailed Webmasters of 100 websites infected with malware informing them of the problem. In his note, he provided some information about how the infection may have occurred, such as a weak FTP password allowing hackers to upload a malicious script, or modify an existing file. In return, he asked for some data on the infections in the form of log entries. When no one responded to his request, he reached out to another 200, and finally got six replies.

One of the responses was from a Webmaster who was no longer actively maintaining the site because it was part of an older project and was no longer in use, Tanase said during his presentation at the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit in February.

"The assumption I made is that webmasters don’t know their sites are infected," Tanase said. "The reality is that webmasters don’t care if their sites are infected."


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Samsung Galaxy S5

Most eager Samsung fans picked up their Galaxy S5 smartphone last month. But those DIYers who like the freedom of an unlocked handset can now snag a developer edition from Verizon.

The carrier's 16GB Developer Edition is available now in charcoal black for $600.

Sporting the same 16-megapixel rear camera and 2.5GHz quad-core processor as its carrier-edition sibling, Verizon's developer version comes with an unlocked bootloader for adding custom firmware.

The off-contract phone is identical to Verizon's off-the-shelf gadget, with a heart rate monitor and fingerprint scanner, as well as Android's newest operating system, KitKat 4.4.2.

Visit the online shop to order your Developer Edition GS5; just add the phone to your cart to see the full $599.99 price tag. You'll also need to fill out the developer information survey with details about your work, any tools Samsung should provide, and your favorite OS platform.

Verizon opened pre-orders for the GS5 in early April, offering the smartphone for $250 with a two-year contract. Those who chose to buy the phone off-contract paid the full unsubsidized $600 price.

Samsung's next-gen flagship device debuted at Mobile World Congress in February, boasting a 5.1-inch full HD Super AMOLED display and integrated fitness components like a built-in heart rate sensor and an upgraded S Health app to track nutrition and wellness.

It also pairs with Samsung's new Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo, and Gear Fit smartwatches.

Meanwhile, rumors of a Galaxy S5 Mini continue to heat up: GSMArena last week spotted a Samsung handset with the model number SM-G800F, widely rumored to be the S5 Mini, on the Korean phone maker's Finnish website.

Other reports tip a 4.5-inch 720p screen, quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor, and 8-megapixel rear camera, as well as Android 4.4 KitKat, 1.5GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and a 2,100 mAh battery and 2-megapixel front cam.

For more, see PCMag's review of the Samsung Galaxy S5 on Verizon. Also check out the Samsung Galaxy S5's Most Dangerous Feature, and The Top 10 Questions About the Samsung Galaxy S5.


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Sony E3 2014 Press Conference

LOS ANGELES—Sony's Monday night E3 press conference ran the gamut from highlights of major upcoming AAA titles and indie game promotions to hints at future PlayStation features and products.

PlayStation TV, PlayStation Now, and Project Morpheus
PlayStation Now is Sony's upcoming video game streaming system that promises to bring previous generations of games to the PlayStation 4, which does not support backwards compatibility. Sony announced that the service will be available in open beta on the PS4 starting July 31 in North America. It will initially only be available on the PS4 and will only include PlayStation 3 games, but Sony plans to expand the service to include the PlayStation Vita and certain Sony smart HDTVs in the future.

The PS Vita TV came out in Japan last year, and though PCMag put the imported Japanese unit through its paces, it still hasn't officially hit North American shores. That will change this fall, though the device will be re-branded as the PlayStation TV in the U.S. It will still be a PlayStation Vita in a tiny box that you connect to your HDTV. It will retail for $99, with a limited edition that includes a DualShock 3 gamepad and a copy of The Lego Movie game.

Sony's Project Morpheus virtual reality headset is getting a lot of attention, and the company announced that it will be on display at the PlayStation booth at E3, with two new tech demos. There was no word on pricing or availability for consumers.

LittleBigPlanet 3, Uncharted 4, "Project Beast," and Let it Die
The LittleBigPlanet and Uncharted games are among the most prominent in Sony's first-party lineup, and both will come to the PlayStation 4.

LittleBigPlanet 3

Sony announced LittleBigPlanet 3 by jumping straight into a demonstration of the game without even introducing it, much to the cheers of the crowd. The new title introduces three additional sack people beyond Sack Boy, each with their own abilities. Oddsock is a sack dog that can wall jump and run faster than any other character. Swoop is a sack bird that can fly. Toggle is a sack person that can switch between large and small versions to get through tiny cracks and push large switches. LittleBigPlanet 3 will be just as reliant on user-generated content as its predecessors, but confirmed backwards compatibility with LittleBigPlanet and LittleBigPlanet 2 levels mean a massive amount of gameplay available at launch. LittleBigPlanet 3 comes out in November.

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End is also confirmed for the PlayStation 4, but Sony offered few details beyond its ominous name and a trailer (below) that featured series star Nathan Drake convincing his friend Sully to help him with one last job. It's planned for next year.

Bizarre game auteur Goichi Suda (Suda 51) is bringing his latest game to the PlayStation 4 as an exclusive. Let It Die is also light on details, but it seems to involve a lot of stylized murder.

From Software's long-rumored "Project Beast" has been revealed as Bloodborne, a game that appears to be similar to the company's Souls games but with a slightly more industrial setting that features shotguns. Bloodborne was not explicitly announced as a PS4 exclusive, but Sony holds the game's trademark in the United States and will likely publish the title.

Powers on PSN
Brian Michael Bendis's comic book series Powers is getting a television adaptation exclusive to the PlayStation Network. Bendis appeared at the press conference to promote the upcoming series, which is currently in production. It's about a pair of detectives solving crimes involving superheroes. The first episode will be available to all PlayStation 4 owners for free, and the entire series will be free to PS Plus members.

HD Remakes
The Last of Us only came out last year, but it's already getting a remake for the PlayStation 4. The Last of Us Remastered will feature improved graphics for the new system. However, it's not the only game that's getting spruced up for the PS4.

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Sony announced that Tim Schafer's classic adventure game Grim Fandango will be getting a high-definition remake for the PlayStation 4. Grim Fandango in its current form is available on PC, but the PS4 version will feature improved graphics.

The original Ratchet and Clank will also see a remake for the PlayStation 4. Ratchet and Clank got an HD remake as part of the Ratchet and Clank Collection for the PlayStation 3, but it was a relatively simple upconversion of the original game. The PS4 remake will feature overhauled graphics and new gameplay sections.

Besides full exclusives, the PlayStation 4 will get semi-exclusives in the form of timed releases, DLC, and beta access for certain third party games. An alpha version of Activision's Destiny will arrive for PS4 owners starting Thursday, while the full beta launches July 17. Sony proclaimed that PS4 owners will be able to "Play it First, Play it Better," and even announced a bundle with an exclusive color variant. A "Glacial White" PlayStation 4 bundle including Destiny will be available on Sept. 9.

EA's Battlefield: Hardline and Deep Silver's Dead Island 2 are also getting exclusive beta access on the PlayStation 4 before the games' full launch, and the PS4 version of Dead Island 2 will feature an exclusive player lass and level.

The PlayStation 4 is currently the only console with Diablo III (though it's been available on PC for over a year), and its exclusive content will expand with the Ultimate Evil Edition's introduction of a Last of Us-themed dungeon with clickers and other infected enemies from the game.


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In this Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, file photo, a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier delivers mail in Atlanta.

School districts must take responsibility

The horrific murder-suicide in a San Bernardino elementary school has rightly caught the attention of our nation. Needless to say, the entire student body and school staff have to be emotionally traumatized by this tragedy. The loss of life in such a senseless fashion is very upsetting. The young innocent students, one of whose life was needlessly cut short, is haunting.

As the community of San Bernardino once again faces national attention through tragedy, questions are being asked: “How could this have been prevented?”

As a school board member in neighboring Rialto, I am committed to ensuring that all our policies that address safety include protection against danger to our students and staff. Safety must be the highest priority, even if it means each school operates as a closed campus. There is no greater responsibility at our schools than to ensure the safety of our students.

There have been plenty of tragic events in schools across our nation in recent years. Clearly they are signals that the leadership of our school districts should take note of and implement policy which ensures our students are protected.

In this situation, a deranged person was allowed to walk onto the campus of a school with a loaded gun to cause harm and ultimately death to his estranged wife and an innocent child. How can a policy that allows that be a protective policy?

— Edgar Montes, Rialto

School staff had no knowledge of conflict

Re: “Police: Shooting victim withheld fears from school colleagues” [News, April 11]: Please let me begin by expressing my deepest condolences to the families of Jonathan Martinez and Karen Smith. With all due respect to Ms. Smith and family, I strongly believe if Ms. Smith had notified the school office about her current marital status and of his threats, things would have been different.

Although she hadn’t taken his threats seriously, I wish with all my heart she had, then maybe the school would have called her to come to the front office because her estranged husband had something to give her instead of allowing him to go to her class.

The school staff did everything right, followed protocol, but they’re not mind readers.

— Lydia Gutierrez, San Bernardino

Too little, too late?

It’s human nature, isn’t it? The stop sign is put in place after the accident. I just read your front-page article about the North Park shooting, and the new security measures that have resulted [“Security policy changing at campus,” News, April 14]. District Superintendent Dale Marsden told a gathering of parents Thursday that fingerprinted volunteers will now be the only non-staff members allowed through the campus office and into the classrooms. He also said that classrooms will be fitted with secure locking doors, but not until this summer. These changes affect North Park only.

These measures seem reasonable, and I’m kind of surprised that they were not already in place. But based on the information in your paper, it appears that the shooting was targeted, and the only connection with North Park is that the intended victim happened to work there. So, two questions: Since it not a North Park issue, why effect changes in North Park only, and not the entire district? And if lockable doors are necessary, why wait until summer?

— Walter T. Haessler, Temecula

Thanks for looking out

I want to thank the gentlemen that stepped in to help my father on March 20 at the Vons recycling center on Yucaipa Boulevard.

My dad is an 86-year-old Korean War veteran who was shot, lost the majority of his hearing and suffered nerve damage in his legs during his service in the U.S. Marine Corps. He has this nerve damage because he suffered frostbite as he sat in snow in the mountains of Korea during that war protecting the rights and freedoms we enjoy here at home.

As he was taking his cans from his car, he stumbled and touched the car next to him so he didn’t fall to the ground. The owner of this car jumped out, and instead of asking him if he needed help or was OK, grabbed my dad and started shaking him around and threatening him.

Two gentlemen stepped in to help my father and protect him from this large idiot. I am sure that this jerk is used to hurting people who cannot defend themselves. It took courage to step in and protect someone you didn’t know.

Twenty years ago my dad lost his son, my brother, who was a victim in a robbery that went bad. It is a relief to know that someone out there cares enough about others and would put themselves in harm’s way to help a stranger in need. Thank you for helping out my dad and doing the right thing so we still have him around to love.

— Kathy Lovell, Yucaipa

Destroying Syria

I am grateful for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intervention in Syria last year, which allowed the U.S. to gracefully exit the tragedy of the Syrian civil war. Our tactical missile strike should not alter the situation where Syria remains Russia’s albatross. It’s clear that Assad, ISIS, Sunni, Shiite Muslims, Kurds would rather destroy Syria by bloodshed than patriotically negotiate or even surrender.

— George Chung, Redlands

State Legislature sets its own agenda

Re: “Storms took huge financial toll on state’s roads” [News, April 10] is a bit deceiving. Here’s a news flash: If you have a small hole in your roof and you don’t fix it, your whole roof can come in the next time it rains. By not fixing the small holes you create larger, more expensive fixes later on. Most people with common sense know this, but we know that the majority of our Legislature lacks such virtues.

Another news flash: Now that the governor and his group have taken more money from Californians to “fix” the roads (and subsidize unprofitable rapid transit projects), you can almost bet that the Legislature will now be diverting some of the other highway funds we pay for road repairs into the general fund to support their other agendas, like a train to nowhere and supporting illegal invaders.

— Tom Knowles, La Verne

Throw them out

This voter will remember the state Legislature’s ramming through of Gov. Brown’s limp fuel tax bill in the next several election cycles and vote against the lazy incumbents who allowed this travesty to happen without input from us who have to pay for it. If they refuse to pay attention to those who elected them, we will throw them out.

— Mike Roach, Moreno Valley

Believers remember

Both the Jewish Seder and Christian celebration of Resurrection Sunday (Easter) cause the believer to remember what God has done. This memory should “lead to a call to action,” as Rabbi Marcia Tilchin noted (“An Easter and Passover of firsts for congregations across Southern California”).

We don’t need to go far to move to action toward the goal of healing. Families need healing. Spouses need to learn to communicate in love. Families need reconciliation. The shooting in San Bernardino once again causes me to pray for marriages and families (and safety in schools).

Passion week is a time to focus on Christ’s sacrifice. Even on the cross He prayed for the soldiers who were literally killing him. The Bible teaches: Children, respect your parents. Husbands, love your wives and wives, respect your husbands. We all need mercy, forgiveness and grace —  that is what Jesus supplies so freely.

— Laura E. Gonzalez, Ontario

Norma Torres’ town hall

I attended Norma Torres’ town hall on March 25. Not wanting a repeat of the March 23 town hall hosted by Freddie Rodriguez, which I also attended, Torres made sure that wouldn’t happen.

The Indivisible Claremont group (not in her district) called in the troops to attend the meeting. They arrived at 7 a.m. to prevent the other side from getting in. Many of those in attendance did not live in the 35th District. However, anyone wearing a Trump hat or shirt was asked to write down their address. If they didn’t live in the district, they didn’t get in. A man wearing an NRA hat who lived in the district was told it was full, which was not true.

This meeting was for her to further her agenda, not to hear from her constituents. She even made a comment that the “immigration system is broken so people are forced to come here illegally.” Really?

— Toni Holle, Chino

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Corona High School students work on a robot in their engineering class in 2015. Corona High is one of 10 campuses in the Corona-Norco Unified School District to earn 2017 state gold ribbon awards.

Forty-two Inland middle and high schools have struck academic gold.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced 275 winners of the Gold Ribbon Schools Awards Program on Tuesday, April 18.

Corona-Norco Unified, the Inland area’s largest school system, led all districts with 10 winners, followed by seven in Temecula Valley Unified and five in the Chaffey Joint Union High School District. Murrieta Valley and Riverside Unified each had four schools.

“We’re very proud,” Corona-Norco Superintendent Michael Lin said Wednesday, April 19. “I give all the credit to our teachers.”

Corona-Norco’s 10 awards were the second most in the state behind the Los Angeles Unified School District, which had twice as many winners but has almost 12 times as many students.

The honor replaces the California Distinguished Schools Program, which is on hiatus while the state creates new testing and accountability systems. The state recognized elementary schools last year.

Schools are lauded for doing a better job putting into action Common Core-based academic content and performance standards in English Language Arts, math, science and English Language Development. Common Core standards stress critical thinking and problem solving to prepare kids for life after high school.

Winners offer standards-based activities, projects, strategies and practices that can be copied by other agencies. The schools feature excellent teaching, learning and collaborating, as well as successful conflict resolution and rewards for positive behavior, Torlakson said in a news release.

“These terrific schools are leading the way in embracing the new rigorous academic standards and showing others how to help students succeed on their way to 21st Century careers and college,” Torlakson stated.

Lin noted that Corona-Norco’s overall scores on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress rose about 8 percentage points last year, nearly triple the average growth in the state and county.

The district is focused on meeting students’ social and emotional needs so they can achieve academic success, Lin said.

Corona High won an additional award for its STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Academy and career technical education program, which includes wood shop, automotive technology, metal shop and welding.

“It’s a great validation for the work our teachers are doing and the progress are students are making,” Principal Tony Gonzalez said.

Gonzalez attributed his school’s higher test scores mirroring the district’s increase to teacher training and support programs that lead to improved instruction.

“In this district, we truly value the teacher’s voice and giving them freedom to determine what’s best for their kids rather than commanding them,” Gonzalez said.

The biggest challenge was learning the Common Core way to teach math. Algebra one, two and geometry are now blended in the same course rather than taught separately, he said.

Teachers “have been given autonomy and time to work together and figure out what they need to be adjusting in the classroom,” Gonzalez said.

Richardson Prep Hi, a sixth-through-eighth grade magnet school that draws students from throughout San Bernardino City Unified, was honored as a model for having high expectations and support for all students.

Principal Keith Keiper noted the school’s Academic Intervention and Monitoring (AIM) program, which helps kids improve reading during lunch and with homework and study skills after school.

Richardson has won several honors, including a National Blue Ribbon School award last year.

“It’s never old hat,” said Keiper, who is in his first year as the school’s principal. “We focus on the growth mindset. They may not know it now, but it doesn’t mean they won’t know it.”

The winners will be honored in May during ceremonies in Costa Mesa, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Visalia and Sacramento.

For a list of winners, visit http://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr17/yr17rel28.asp

Corona-Norco Unified: Citrus Hills, Corona Fundamental, Ramirez, El Cerrito, Raney, Norco and River Heights middle schools; Corona, Kennedy Middle College and Santiago high schools.

Hemet Unified: Western Center Academy

Menifee Union: Bell Mountain Middle School

Murrieta Valley Unified: McElhinney, Shivela and Warm Springs middle schools; Vista Murrieta High School.

Perris Union: California Military Institute

Riverside Unified: Earhart and Miller middle schools; King High School; Riverside STEM Academy

San Jacinto Unified: San Jacinto Leadership Academy

Temecula Valley Unified: Bella Vista, Stanley, Temecula and Vail Ranch middle schools; Chaparral, Great Oak and Temecula Valley high schools.

Barstow Unified: Barstow STEM Academy

Chaffey Joint Union: Alta Loma, Etiwanda, Los Osos, Montclair, Rancho Cucamonga high schools.

Morongo Unified: Twentynine Palms High School.

Redlands Unified: Cope and Moore middle schools.

San Bernardino City Unified: Richardson Prep Hi Middle School

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White Rock residents warned of water-testing scam

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  • May 18th, 2017 2:45pm

Major White Rock projects move ahead

Highrise buildings OK’d for city centre, five-storey development for North Bluff Road

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White Rock ‘looking at review’ for OIPC order

City examining options for appealing order from the Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner.

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Sources’ Gala exceeds $200,000-goal, confers honours

Event recognizes Gordon Hogg & Laura Cornale for contributions to White Rock/South Surrey community

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City of White Rock alters stance on chloramine

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  • Apr 26th, 2017 10:30am

Arts and Entertainment on the Semiahmoo Peninsula

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Attacker of South Surrey senior receives 13-year sentence

Langley man had pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and sexual assault

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City of White Rock ordered to release utility-purchase info

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  • Apr 21st, 2017 6:00am

Anniversary party salutes City of White Rock history

Luncheon celebrates White Rock’s formative years

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White Rock backs 13-storey ‘tower’ near hospital

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New home for Chinese Village Club

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Setting the scene

White Rock-raised location manager Nicole Chartrand nominated for international award for series The Man In The High Castle

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An evening of music, food

Blues and Bites gala at Semiahmoo Secondary raises much-needed funds for parent-run Autism Support Network

  • Apr 4th, 2017 8:00pm

Grounds for celebration in White Rock

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  • Apr 4th, 2017 2:00pm

White Rock looks at phasing in towers

Council members flag construction parking as a growing issue in the uptown area

  • Mar 31st, 2017 5:00pm

Team Hogg to bid adieu …for now

Surrey-White Rock MLA prepares to close up shop at his constituency office after two decades in the B.C. Legislature

  • Mar 31st, 2017 3:00pm

New higher White Rock developments mulled

City council moves revised Forge project forward to public hearing; defers consideration of Marcon development for Thrift Avenue

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No free parking on White Rock waterfront

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