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With the recent camera releases (or maybe Spring fever) I?ve been rather amazed watching various photography forums have major melt downs during the last few weeks. I said something about cameras and lenses just being tools, not life and death, and got immediately annihilated. They aren?t just tools, I was told, they are the means to make a living for some people, and the passionate hobby of others. That got me thinking, though: I have friends who make their living as carpenters, and others for whom woodworking is a passionate hobby. I got to thinking how silly their forums would seem if they acted like we do.

So, here?s a thread from Hammeruser.com:

Thread Title: Nails for Stiletto TB15?

Hammeruser: I?ve saved up for months and just got my Stiletto TB15SS titanium hammer. At $220 they?re pricey but with the replaceable stainless steel face, ultra light weight handle, and excellent balance I can see myself using this for many years. I?ve had it 3 days now and it?s just wonderful. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good framing nail to use with this hammer?

Hammergeek: You say it?s wonderful but I don?t see any photos of nails you?ve driven. I think it?s just overpriced crap.

Hammerfiend: You know, Ken Rockbuster said the Stiletto is really overpriced and he wouldn?t have one. For $14 you can get a Tekton rubber mallet set. It?s not any good for driving nails, but it is great for body work on your car. That?s what Ken recommends.

M.C.: If you really were a professional, you?d be using a Graintex SH 1660 sledgehammer. It?s got a 36 inch handle and 20 lb head and can tear through walls in a heartbeat. Your Stiletto can?t touch this.

Hammeruser: I do framing work and carpentry, so tearing through walls really doesn?t apply to my work.

M.C.: That?s because you have absolutely no skills. A good hammer user can drive nails with a 20 pound sledghammer with no problem. You?re one of those rich doctors, aren?t you, that thinks upgrading your hammer is going to make you a better carpenter?

Hammeruser: Here?s a picture of some framing I did with the hammer yesterday in about 2 hours. I really think it?s going to make me more productive.

Hammertime: I blew up those pictures 200%, ran them through Photoshop and measured the arctan radius of the depth of the nailheads. It?s obvious that you were torquing the hammer from right to left when using it, which makes all of the framing you did inconsequenctial and of no use to anyone. A better hammer doesn?t make up for poor technique.

Banger: A real carpenter could have done that with rusty wire and a rock. It?s not about the equipment, it?s about the carpenter.

Hammerangel2: User, don?t pay any attention to M.C., he?s an absolute Graintex fanboy and has lost all perspective.

M.C.: How would you know what I am? I?ve made hundreds of dollars every year with my Graintex tearing down walls, which makes me a full-time professional. You amateurs make me sick.

Newhammerer: I?ve got an order in for mine through Amazon, but I?m concerned about getting a bad copy. How do I test the hammer when I first get it to make sure I have a good copy?

Thor: You guys are all wrong. I do all my work with an SE 11? rock pick. M. C., haven?t you watched Shawshank Redemtion? That guy hammered through a prison with an SE 11. Sure it took a few years, but anything you really love doing you?ll be doing for years. Just because something is newer, doesn?t make it better.

Hammeruser: Could anyone make some suggestions about good nails?

WhammerHammer: Why don?t you read the manual, do a Google search, and stop wasting our time with inane questions? Besides which, if you were a really good hammerer it wouldn?t matter what type of nails you used.

Whacker: H2O just released their latest Impact Index and the Stilleto rated 92.745, the highest impact per oblique force applied they?ve measured (except for jackhammers).

BigBanger: I don?t trust anything H20 measures, they?re numbers are all crap and don?t reflect real-world hammering. Besides, they down score everything to be equivalent to a 6 ounce jewelers hammer, which makes no sense. I prefer a ?hand?s on? review. Maxwell?s reviews over at SilverHammer.com really let you know how a hammer does in the real world.

Nailguru2: Hammeruser, while others will stick with the mainstream manufacturers, I?d take a real hard look at Grip Rite galvanized zinc coated sinkers. They?re a classic design, the sharpest nails made, and have amazing microcontact. Plus they?re hand assembled in Germany, not mass-produced in Taiwan.

Hammergeek: All I can say is after reading this thread I?ve cancelled my order for the Stilletto TB15. I?ll wait until the price drops. In the meantime I?m thinking about buying a used TB10 on the Buy and Sell forum.

Banger: Why don?t you rent one for a few days and see how you like it? Hammerrentals.com has them for $29 for 4 days. You could build a nice shed in that amount of time and really get a feel for how it works for you.

WhammerHammer: I agree with Hammergeek. The price is insane. I?ve started a petition to boycott Stilletto until they make their prices more reasonable. They think just because there?s a 4 month waiting list for their new hammers they can charge whatever they want. They?d sell twice as many if they just charged $25.

Euronailer: You guys think you?ve got it bad? Over here the Stilleto is 300 Euros and we?ve got 17% VAT. You guys in the U. S. need to stop complaining. I may fly over to the U. S. and pick one up, the money I save would pay for 1/162 of my air fare.

Justgotmine. I just finished using my brand new Stilleto. Here?s some shots of nails I?ve driven. Do you guys think I have a good copy of the hammer? The nails seem a little crooked to me, but that might just be technique.

Hammerguru: Justgotmine ? looking at your images those are pretty long nails. Were you using good technique with a nail stabilizer? It also seems the hammer wasn?t lined up square to the target. It?s impossible for us to help you if you don?t eliminate all the other variables. It could be the hammer, could be the nails, could be technique.

Nailed?em: Nailguru, you?re always over here spouting about ?microcontact? and the way the nails ?render?. That?s all BS put out by you Grip Right elitists. I can get 4 boxes of Smegma nails for what just one box of Grip Right costs and they work just fine.

Banger: I had to try 4 boxes of Smegma nails to get just one that was sharp.

Nailguru2: I?m not a Smegma fan by any means, but if you get soft nails you can send them back to the factory to be resharpened under warranty. I had them resharpen a box of mine and they were incredible!

Nailer: Did you guys see that Hammerrumors.com says that Big Blu hammers is coming out with an X-2 in time for Hammerkina? It?s going to have a synthetic rubber grip, fiberglass shock absorbing, and a semi-square rocker face. I?m holding off any new purchases till I see some nails driven with that baby.

About the author: Roger Cicala is the founder of LensRentals. This article was originally published here.

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An al-Qaida turncoat testified Monday that the terror group's leaders recruited him in Afghanistan for a shoe-bomb suicide attack on airliners at the same time in late 2001 that spokesman Suleiman abu Ghaith issued statements threatening a "storm of planes."

Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, is on trial in federal court in Manhattan, where he is charged with conspiracy to kill Americans and provide material support to al-Qaida. Prosecutors allege he was a recruiter who knew at least some of the group's post-Sept. 11, 2001, terror plots.

Witness Saajib Badat said he didn't know abu Ghaith, but he met from late September to December 2001, with Osama bin Laden and military leader Abu Hafs al Masry and "brainstormed" with Sept. 11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed about bombing planes.

"I was supposed to fly to the United States of America," said Badat, who told jurors that "Plan A" was to destroy an airborne U.S. domestic flight, but that the al-Qaida leaders' "backup plans" targeted either a transatlantic flight or a European flight.

Badat, 34, a British citizen, was convicted in the United Kingdom of conspiring with shoe bomber Richard Reid in the 2001 plane plot.

He is now out of prison because of his cooperation with British authorities, but testified by video hookup because he remains under indictment in the United States and feared arrest.

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Reid has been imprisoned in the United States since his failed attempt to blow up an airliner.

Before Badat's testimony Monday, prosecutors played clips of two October 2001 speeches by abu Ghaith, 48, the fiery Kuwaiti religious scholar who appeared with bin Laden and al Masry in a notorious Sept. 12 video celebrating the Sept. 11 attacks.

"The storms shall not lessen, especially the storm of airplanes," he said in an Oct. 13 clip. "As a word of advice, we strongly advise Muslims in America and Britain . . . not to board aircraft, and we advise them not to live in high rises and tall buildings."

Badat, balding with a neat mustache and a trim gray suit, barely resembled pictures from 15 years ago, when he sported an unkempt black beard. He said he first fell in with al-Qaida in 1999, at 19, when he went to Afghanistan after a religious awakening.

When his testimony resumes Tuesday he is expected to provide more details on his discussions with bin Laden and why, unlike Reid, he did not go through with the plot after flying back to Britain in 2001 with explosives.

In a videotaped deposition played last year at the trial of New York City subway bomb plotter Adis Medunjanin, Badat said bin Laden hoped that in the wake of Sept. 11 additional attacks on planes would devastate the airline industry and the U.S. economy.

He said in that deposition that he was worried about his family, and eventually decided to cooperate with authorities because he concluded that al-Qaida's leaders had manipulated young men like him who went to their training camps in Afghanistan.

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The fluttering ribbons came from near and far, their messages and prayers weaving a tapestry of emotions in lower Manhattan.

"Never give up hope" . . . "Let us love every neighbor" . . . "I pray we have a true respect for others, regardless of religion."

Organizers of "9/11 Ribbons of Hope" in Battery Park said they had collected more than 10,000 messages by Friday evening and are hoping for a total of 50,000 by the time the exhibit closes Monday morning. The ribbons, each bearing a handwritten message, are tied to 12 tall vertical mesh panels.

The messages were solicited from across the country by a New York City-based coalition of interfaith groups as part of the Prepare New York initiative, which aims to foster community in the aftermath of the controversy generated by a proposal to build a mosque near the World Trade Center site. Some groups mailed in batches of messages while others came in digital form that the coalition transferred on to physical ribbons.

Visitors can make and add their own ribbons to the exhibit until Monday.

"It's a simple gesture that all kinds of people can make, writing down a thought or prayer," said the Rev. Robert Chase, executive director of Manhattan-based Intersections International. "It's a forward-looking kind of thing instead of a retrospective."

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The ribbon that caught one visitor's eye read simply, "Forgiveness."

"I made a photo of this because I think it's a first step to beginning again," said Lorenzo Della Rocco, 30, of Bologna, Italy. "It's a good project. And it's important because it gives a voice to everyone, from those who say, 'Forgive,' to those who say, 'Fight on.' "

A visitor from London, Deborah Blaustein, 21, remembered that Sept. 11, 2001, coincided with her first day of secondary school. "9/11 affected the whole world. It affected us," she said. "It's actually weird coming here to New York, because we're not part of the story, but we are at the same time. We want to contribute to the healing."

Dialogue encouraged by interfaith events empowers New Yorkers, said the Rev. Chloe Breyer, executive director of the Interfaith Center of New York.

"Let us not be defined as victims," she said.


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The selection of Edward Webber as Suffolk County police commissioner made a certain sense, thanks to his intimate knowledge of police budget issues. But in recent weeks, the mess over his "retirement" surrounds him with an unfortunate Keystone Kops aura.

To be clear: There is nothing illegal about his "double-dipping" -- taking a pension from his former job as a chief of support services, plus his salary as the new commissioner: for a total north of $300,000. It's worth noting that his chief's salary was about $27,000 more than the commissioner's. With private-sector pensions declining, Webber's arrangement is a sensitive subject.

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In short, it wasn't improper, but in the execution, it's been almost comical.

Webber himself has to take some of the blame for the confusion. Unaccountably, before taking the oath of office as police commissioner, he failed to retire from his position as chief of support services, the job title he still had, while serving as acting commissioner. To clear things up, the county attorney, Dennis Cohen, wrote to state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to ask for an opinion on Webber's effective start date as commissioner. He took the oath of office on Sept. 5, but County Executive Steve Bellone later sent a letter to the county clerk, saying that Webber didn't really start as commissioner until Oct. 9.

Confused yet?

It's unclear why Webber didn't retire before taking the oath of office. But Bellone should have told the county legislature about the double-dip before the confirmation vote. It's Bellone's position that he assumed Webber would retire and that lawmakers should have known that he'd double-dip. That was a mistake.

With less assuming and more transparency, perhaps there would have been less confusion. If this mix-up ends up cutting Webber's compensation -- and that may be up to DiNapoli -- he has nobody to blame but himself. Let's hope his fiscal acumen -- a key to his appointment -- turns out to be as strong as advertised, and that the double-dip fiasco is just a blip.


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Serena Williams' record against Li Na is pretty lopsided. She's won eight of the nine matches between them.

They meet for the 10th time Friday in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, the second match on Arthur Ashe Stadium after the Flavia Pennetta-Victoria Azarenka semi.

But the past isn't necessarily a prelude to another Williams victory because Li never has been a pushover for the world's No. 1 player. Williams has had to earn every win over the best player China has ever produced. She has been pushed to three sets three times, and her most recent win over Li, at Cincinnati in August, was a grinding 7-5, 7-5 slugfest.

And now Li is comfortably into her first full year with new coach Carlos Rodriguez, who was the driving force behind seven-time Grand Slam champion Justine Henin. Li has said that Rodriguez has toughened her physically and mentally, and although she has won only one title this season, she has been contending regularly.

Li has come to embrace the pressure cooker of the Open, and she's not letting on whether facing the sport's most fiercesome player Friday is daunting.

"If you only think about what opponent is doing, of course you already lose the match before you come to the court," Li said Wednesday when asked about facing Williams. "For tennis, you have to figure out what you have to do on the court, what you should do."

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The 31-year-old Li decided last year that she needed to do something to revitalize her game and improve her marriage. Her husband, Jiang Shan, had coached her since she was a teenager and was her coach when she won the 2011 French Open, her one Grand Slam among seven career titles.

Rodriguez took over last August and Li won the second tournament under his championship eye two weeks later. In the offseason, she went through his strenuous workouts at the tennis academy he runs in Beijing. And, perhaps as important, he talked to her about life.

"I was feeling coach for me not only is about tennis coaching," she said of the decision to hire Rodriguez. "He teach me a lot off the court as well. You know, he tell me a lot [of his] experience, especially in press conference, communications with friends, with family, so many things.''

The decision to change wasn't easy, but for Li, it was necessary. She needed to take the chance to be better, to challenge the most dominant player, Serena Williams.

"I was feeling this year I tried to play same level starting at beginning of the year until now, so not like before," Li said. "Always have up, down, up, down . . . Change like half, half. After you change, maybe you lose everything . But on the other half, you can even [be] more better. Because I know if I didn't change, maybe I can stay, I don't know, like top 20. But I really want to push me to go to another level."

Which would be huge in China. When she beat Francesca Schiavone for the French Open title in 2011, it was reported that 116 million Chinese were watching, twice the population of France itself. Largely on the back of her popularity, there will be eight women's events in China in 2014.

"We think about the impact of Li Na, it has been quantum," Women's Tennis Association CEO Stacey Allaster said Thursday night. "We have 70 million fans engaged in social media and 40 percent of them are in China. That is the Li Na factor. We opened an office in Beijing in 2008 . . . If we look back from 2023, we will see more Li Nas playing. She has been enormous for us."


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NICE: A second resort on France’s Riviera coast, Villeneuve-Loubet, announced on Saturday a ban against burkinis after Cannes banished the full-body swimsuit from its beaches.

The town’s mayor told AFP that he made the decision to bar the burkini worn by some Muslim women because of sanitary reasons.

“I was informed that there was a couple on one of our beaches where the wife was swimming fully dressed,” Lionnel Luca said.

“I considered that unacceptable for hygienic reasons and that in general it was unwelcome.”

The mayor of Cannes, famous for its annual film festival, said he had signed off on the burkini ban out of “respect for good customs and secularism”, a founding principle of the French republic.

But prohibiting the burkini has caused an uproar with anti-racism organisations and human rights groups vowing to go to court to seek to overturn the “deeply worrying” ban.

In the city of Marseille this week, a waterpark cancelled plans to host a private event for women wearing burkinis after the idea sparked an uproar.

The issue comes at a highly sensitive time for relations with Muslims in France after two attacks last month linked to the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.

Mayor Luca referred to the attacks in disputing charges that the burkini ban was discriminatory, saying it was intended “to avoid any disturbance to public order in the region which was hit by attacks”.

On July 14 the nearby Riviera city of Nice was the target of an attack claimed by IS which killed 85 people, when an Algerian ploughed a truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day.

And on July 26, a priest was killed in his church in northwestern France by two attackers who had proclaimed their allegiance to IS.

Islamic dress is a hot-button issue in France, where the full-face veil is banned in public places. But there is no ban on wearing religious symbols or clothing.


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Ireland trio set for Pakistan return

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LONDON: Ireland are set to welcome back Niall O’Brien, Craig Young and Boyd Rankin for their forthcoming one-day international series against Pakistan.

The trio all missed the recent drawn series against Afghanistan but will be available for next month’s two ODIs with Pakistan at Malahide, near Dublin.

O’Brien, who struck 72 in Ireland’s 2007 World Cup win over Pakistan, is fit following a calf problem, while Young is back after an elbow injury.

Meanwhile Rankin is set to make his return to Irish cricket, having briefly represented England in just one Test, against Australia at Sydney in 2014.

“It’s great to have an almost full-strength squad to choose from,” said Ireland coach John Bracewell on Thursday.

“The bowling unit performed superbly against Afghanistan with the younger seamers in particular putting their hands up,” the former New Zealand off-spinner added.

“The return of Boyd and Craig adds to that department and gives us plenty of options which is exactly what a coach wants.

“The return of Niall adds experience to the top order. We tried a few different permutations with the batting order last week — some of which worked and some which didn’t.

“Ed Joyce was obviously the stand-out performer in his new role as opener, and it was great to see Gary Wilson return to form.

“It should be a fantastic series — there’s a great recent history between the two countries with some great matches over the past decade, and I’m certain it’ll be two tough games when we meet in Dublin next month.”


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Sydney, July 11 (IANS) English Premier League (EPL) outfit Arsenal FC arrived here for the first time in over 40 years on Tuesday, as they prepare to face Australian club sides Sydney FC and the Western Sydney Wanderers.

Although Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admitted that he doesn’t know much about the local Australian teams, he said the ability to adapt quickly in a new environment with new players will be a good test for the former EPL champions and is an important part of the pre-season, reports Xinhua news agency.

“This is the time of year we prepare to make our success,” Wenger told Xinhua on Tuesday.

Wenger confirmed that Thursday night’s match against Sydney FC at ANZ Stadium, would be the first appearance in an Arsenal jersey for newly-signed center-forward Alexandre Lacazette.

Despite the omission of the London-based club’s top goal scorer last season, Alexis Sanchez and German international defender Shkodran Mustafi, who were granted extended rest periods after competing in the final of the Confederations Cup, Arsenal will field a star-studded line-up featuring the likes of Mesut Ozil, Olivier Giroud, Aaron Ramsey, Theo Walcott, Per Mertesacker, Laurent Koscielny and Petr Cech.

When asked about Saturday night’s clash at ANZ Stadium, head coach of the Western Sydney Wanderers, Tony Popovic said, “we are honoured to play against someone as highly regarded as Arsenal Football Club and our fans are looking forward to it.”

After the two clashes here, the Arsenal squad will make their way to Shanghai to face German powerhouse Bayern Munich on July 19, before travelling to Beijing on July 22 where they will battle London rivals Chelsea.

“We know we have a lot of fans in Asia, and we look forward to discovering them,” Arsenal captain, Per Mertesacker said.

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Avon HMO CEO Advocates Health Insurance And Entertainment Sector Collaboration

LAGOS, 15 July 2014 — Ahead of the first annual Nigerian Entertainment Industry Health Insurance Convention, Adesimboavon pix 1 Ukiri, MD/CEO of Avon HMO, has announced a call for collaboration between Nigeria’s entertainment and health insurance industries.

Avon HMO, a top health insurance company in Nigeria, is leading the charge to ensure that entertainers have adequate access to health care. MrsUkiri, who will be one of the panellists at the forthcoming convention, says the collaboration will drastically reduce incidences of premature death within the industry.

She said: “In recent times, the Nigerian entertainment sector has lost a number of its members due to health complications. The unfortunate thing is that some of these health complications are treatable. In some cases, the entertainers are forced to appeal to the public for funds to treat themselves. I think the time is right for the entertainment and health insurance industries to work together to proffer solutions to this problem. Collaboration between the industries will surely put a stop to the needless deaths.”

MrsUkiri expressed her displeasure that health care services were still being paid for out-of-pocket in Nigeria and called for the entertainment industry to utilise the health insurance industry.

“The reason quality health care services are considered expensive is because most people pay from their pocket, but that shouldn’t be the case. No matter their status in life, people should not suffer financial ruin because they want to access quality healthcare services, and this includes the entertainment sector. The solution lies in health insurance and we are going to use the convention to speak to the stakeholders in the entertainment sector,” she said.

She praised the organizers of the Nigerian Entertainment Industry Health Insurance Convention for putting the event together and expressed optimism that the platform will serve as a springboard for other sectors to work with the Health Insurance industry towards achieving Universal Health Insurance.

She said: “I think the organizers of the event deserve commendation for this bold initiative. They have risen up to the challenge and that is very encouraging. We hope we can replicate this in other sectors in the country because it is only a healthy population that can attain economic and social growth and development.”

The convention is a major feature for the maiden edition of the Nigerian Entertainment Industry Lecture Series (NEILS). The event, which is in partnership with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), the Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Nigeria Medical Association, is expected to have key stakeholders from the entertainment as well as the health insurance industries in attendance.

Avon Healthcare Limited (Avon HMO) provides healthcare services to individuals, families, groups, companies and the government. We offer a comprehensive line of products and services that caters to the unique needs of all our members, through a network of over 300 hospitals and clinics spread across the 36 states and major local government areas in the country.

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Modi wishes women's cricket team for World Cup final

New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday wished the women’s cricket team before the start of the final of ICC Women’s World Cup and said he joined the 125 crore Indians in wishing them the very best.

“As our women’s cricket team plays the World Cup final today (Sunday), I join the 125 crore Indians in wishing them the very best! Captain Mithali Raj has been leading from the front. Her cool approach to the game shall surely help the entire team,” Modi said on Twitter.

“All the best Smriti Mandhana! Have a great game out there and play with calm and poise. India wishes Poonam Raut the very best for the Women’s World Cup Final. Her game makes all of us very proud,” he added.

Wishing another player, Harmanpreet Kaur, he said: “Who is not a fan of Harmanpreet Kaur? Her stellar innings in semi finals will always be remembered. Do your best today!”

He also wished other players of the team, including Deepti Sharma, Veda Krishnamurthy, Sushma Verma, Jhulan Goswami, Poonam Yadav and Rajeshwari Gayakwad.

“Good luck to Deepti Sharma for the finals. She adds immense value to the team & her game has changed the course of many matches. The experienced Veda Krishnamurthy gives a much needed stability to the middle order. All the best for today,” Modi said.

“Sushma Verma plays the important role of the wicket keeper. Remember, catches win matches (smiley). Jhulan Goswami is India’s pride, whose wonderful bowling helps the team in key situations. All the best Jhulan,” he added.

Modi said: “Shikha Pandey’s all round performances are crucial to the team. Best of luck! Poonam Yadav’s fantastic bowling can be lethal for even the best batsmen. Best wishes! Rajeshwari Gayakwad is known for her economic bowling performances. Good luck!”

England captain Heather Knight won the toss and elected to bat first against India in the final of the ICC Women’s World Cup on Sunday.

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No legal bar in having separate flag for Karnataka: CM

Bengaluru, July 18 (IANS) Asserting that there was no legal bar on states to have a separate flag, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said the state government would consider if the panel set up to design it so favoured.

“As the Constitution does not bar states from having their own flag for a separate identity, we will consider it if the panel recommends,” he said in a statement.

The state government on June 6 constituted a nine-member committee to design a state flag as a symbol of identity and to unfurl it on its formation day on November 1 every year.

“There is nothing wrong in having our own identity even in the form of a separate flag. There is no legal restriction on it. Let us wait for the panel’s recommendation and its design to decide on it,” reiterated Siddaramaiah.

The committee, headed by Kannada and Culture Principal Secretary M. Lakshminarayana as Chairman, has the Secretaries of Law, Home, Parliamentary Affairs and Personnel and Administrative Reforms Departments as members.

Presidents of Kannada Sahitya Parishat (literary academy) and Kannada Development Authority (KDA), Hampi University Vice-Chancellor and Kannada & Culture director are the other members of the panel.

“The committee was set up in response to a memorandum submitted by Kannada protagonists and pro-Kannada organisations for a common identity, as the state was carved out in 1956 by merging Bombay Province and Hyderabad-Karnataka region with the old Mysore areas of the Madras Presidency,” an official in the Chief Minister’s office told IANS.

Though Kannada social and cultural organisations have been using a flag in red and yellow colours across the state over the last six decades, there is no legal sanction or official recognition to it from the state government not is it hoisted on the Rajyotsava Day (formation day) on November 1.

“The flag was designed by Y. Ramamurthy and A. Krishna Rao in the mid-1960s, when the state was renamed Karnataka from Mysore. We also have a separate state anthem, penned by popular Kannada poet Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa or Kuvempu,” said the official.

Barring the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir, which has its own flag under Article 370 of the Constitution, no state has a separate flag.

The previous BJP government in the state (2008-13), however, opposed the demand for a separate flag in 2012, as it considered to be against the unity and integrity of the country, which has the Tricolour as the national flag.

“The flag code does not permit states to have their own flag as it is against the spirit of the country’s unity and integrity,” said former Kannada and Culture Minister in the BJP government Govind Karjol then in the assembly.

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Teach Modi a lesson for making you stand in queue this election,’ said Kejriwal in Lucknow

Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday during a rally in Lucknow attacked the Prime Minister on demonetization and persuaded residents of Uttar Pradesh not to vote for BJP in the forthcoming state elections.

“Teach Modi a lesson for making them standing in queue to withdraw money from account,” said Kejriwal during the rally towards end of his speech.

“You made Modiji the Prime Minister by giving him 73 out of 80 seats,” said Kejriwal.

The AAP leader added, “This time it is your duty to teach him a lesson as well.

The BJP during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections had won a whopping 71 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh. The state will see assembly elections early next year.

Kejriwal even added that hardcore supporters of  the Bharitya Janta Party have also turned against the party after the note ban.

“I met a person who has been voting for the BJP for the last 30years. He told me that he and his family members only voted for BJP but now they will cast their vote to any other party but not BJP.”

He attacked the BJP-led government’s move to exempt political parties from income tax regulations while depositing scrapped Rs1000 and Rs500 currency notes.

The AAP leader has demanded an independent commission to probe the bank accounts of all the political parties over the last five years.

Kejriwal stated during the rally that 70 percent of donations received by the BJP are in cash.

“I would request Modiji to request party workers of take donations through cheques then ask people to go cashless,” said the Delhi CM.

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"Lost futures" as traps

Still gathering stuff about "failed futures" for a project, I ran across this interview of Matt Jones by Adaptive Path peeps that is very insightful. Some excerpts I found relevant for my project:

"RF: You’ve mentioned the danger of “lost futures,” based on the success of a given device. One model becomes wildly popular, and other, more interesting ways of looking at the problem get cast aside… or at least ignored when they could be doing the most good.

MJ: Exactly - the gravity well of the iPhone is going to be hard for anyone developing innovative UIs to escape for the next few years. In hardware, you’re subject to the determinism of sourcing components.

RF: Our friends the cognitive anthropologists have warned us about the implications of subscribing to the wrong cognitive artifacts…

MJ: So everyone for the last 2/3 years has been offered the same touchscreen components more or less by a few suppliers. And we all (more or less) have similar dimensions we can work within in a touch UI.

RF: So thinking in hardware becomes even more constrained?

MJ: To an extent. UIs will not be so diverse in the next few years… inside a BigDeviceCo you’re going to find it hard to justify the investment in the out-there stuff (as always). But there’s still innovation a plenty to come, its just that for the next few years it’ll be all 16:9 touchscreens, I guess. And then… hopefully someone will Wii on their parade and breakthrough with something as different as the iPhone was to the existing crop of smartphones. That’s my hope anyway. And I think it might be in the area of physical/gestural interfaces, matched with ambient/visualisation tech to give us more natural ‘Everyware‘."

Why do I blog this? I am trying to collect material about what Jones calls "lost future" (in design+foresight), I quite like his stance here, not only about the example discussed (that 16:9 touchscreen device coming from Cupertino) but, rather, its possible consequence: how it eclipses other innovation. There are different consequences of failed futures, some are about traps like in this examples; others are about perpetuation of wrong ideas.


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Tuesday, April 07, 2015

3cloneB - Sreottrzeuvtree EP [Psychocandies 034]

Finally there's new stuff to come from the Psychocandies-camp here with this new - and pretty much unpronounceable - three track single produced by 3cloneB. As one would expect from the labels prior releases the main theme to be dealt with here is obviously Acid - served in a stripped down and hypnotic manner by the spiralling, oldskool reminiscing opener "Vega Runner", going down the dark, ultracompressed to distortion, clap heavy alley of minimalism in "Sreottrze" whilst the title track even increases distortion levels to a certain extent, creating an alternative, yet tripping and well-psyched out variation of its predecessor. This is Acid  from hell.

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Emigration from Scotland: Emigrants' Correspondence

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Year:  1936
Reference:  Haldane papers, MS.6038, ff.144-150
Description:  Letter of Alexander D. Bruce, Unionville, Ontario, Canada, to Elizabeth Haldane, Cloan, Auchterarder, Perthshire, enclosing a narrative giving details of the settlement of his family in Upper Canada.


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Special and Named Printed Collections

The nucleus of this collection of early English plays was formed by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762). It was built up by her son-in-law, the third Earl of Bute (1713-92), and added to substantially by her grandson, the first Marquis of Bute (1744-1814), who most notably acquired the Shakespeare quartos. The collection was bought from Major Michael Crichton Stuart in 1956 and contains 1,266 English plays and includes 17 16th-century editions, 530 17th-century and 650 18th-century editions. The earliest work is John Lyly's Sapho and Phao (1584). There are 39 Shakespeare quartos, 16 printed before the first folio in 1623, including first editions of The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth (1600), The Merchant of Venice (1600), and Troilus and Cressida (1609) and many examples of 17th- and 18th-century adaptations of Shakespeare's works. The other Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline dramatists are mostly well represented, notably Lyly, Chapman, Middleton, Dekker (including a perfect copy of The Converted Curtezan of 1604), John Ford, Massinger, Shirley, Webster, etc. Among Restoration and 18th-century dramatists Dryden is pre-eminent with 30 plays, and there are first editions of Congreve, Vanbrugh, Farquhar, Addison, Steele and Sheridan. These leading figures in the English drama are complemented by the works of a host of minor playwrights of the 18th and the 19th century. The collection also includes a number of prompt books, mainly of the 19th century, from the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.

The Shakespeare quartos are recorded (as Crichton Stuart copies) in H.C. Bartlett and A.W. Pollard, A Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto, 1594-1709, New Haven, 1939. M.P. Linton, 'The Bute Collection of English Plays', Times Literary Supplement, 21 December 1956, 772. ----, 'The Bute Collection of English Plays', Friends of the National Libraries Annual Report 1956-57, 8-10. W.T. Johnston, Scottish dramatists [electronic resource], Livingston, 2005. ----, 'The Bute Collection of English Plays', Stechert-Hafner Book News, April 1958, 89-91. ----, 'Prompt-books in the Bute Collection of English Plays', Theatre Notebook, 11 (October 1956), 20-23. ----, 'National Library of Scotland and Edinburgh University Library Copies of Plays in Greg's Bibliography of the English Printed Drama', Studies in Bibliography, 15 (1962), 91-104.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Living is All About Choices, Chances and Mistakes

"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something." - Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman has an excellent outlook for the New Year. He encourages individuals to forever be trying new things and working to improve themselves. A person can never allow themselves to become lax in their motivation to forever find a better method/way to live their life. Life is forever about decisions and making choices. All too often people get too wrapped up in making an incorrect decision. The focus should be on to make a particular decision. Life is about the decisions that we make and the struggles and triumphs that we experience along the way. Far too many people life their lives afraid to make a mistake. I in fact have found myself too wrapped up in “never wanting to be wrong”. I think that sometimes I forget that everyone is going to be wrong at times and that is okay. I think that the lesson in life is learning to be graciously incorrect and humble in your mistakes. I think that this lesson is learned over time and is perfected in the years that we live. Maturity plays a large part in knowing yourself and knowing how to humbly learn from your missteps and mistakes. The path of life would be rather uneventful if nobody made any missteps or mistakes. Obviously nobody hopes for mistakes but they are inevitable. Life is not perfectly laid out and people have to always be prepared for how they will handle when things go wrong. A person has to prepare for how they will proceed forward when there are hiccups or things happen that aren’t expected. I don’t entirely second the sentiment of Neil Gaiman because obviously I wish that people never had to go through the discomfort of mistakes; yet I realize that they are necessary and the secret lies in how a person thinks about them. Graciously being able to accept your mistakes and move forward is the true secret to life from what I have read. I love to read and study great thinkers and learn how they have best come to handle uncertainties and mistakes in life. I think that much can be learned from elders and those who are willing to share their experiences throughout life. I would love to hear who else shares my affinity for great thinkers. I thank you for reading and I feel that much can be gained from studying from elders who have already passed through the portion of life that we are at. It is my hope for all of you that you will be prepared and better able to tackle and accept any mistakes or missteps that you will come across in life.

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Food, Drink and Places to Eat in and Around Snettisham

Snettisham is a great location for getting out and about in Norfolk and eating out is varied.  Seasonal local seafood is very good along the coastal areas and the usual complement of eclectic eateries are prevalent.

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 North Alps Broad Band Network » Activities

What is the NPO North Alps Broad Band Network?

 North Alps Broad Band Network is an organization established to promote sustainable mountain tourism in the Japanese North Alps.
Like-minded owners of lodges in the southern area of the North Alps participate in the NPO as board members.
As of 2010, there are 18 lodges in the southern area of the North Alps operating the organization together.
Our activities rely on our website’s membership fee which allows us to “protect nature, such as alpine flora or snow grouse”, “preserve the environment by maintaining and improving mountain trails”, and “provide better remote medical services and rescue operations” in the North Alps.  We will continue to make every effort to further promote and develop mountain tourism in the North Alps via this mountain network.
On this website, with collaboration from the member lodges, we provide live images/video and weather information directly from the mountains.

Our Activities

■ Informatization via wireless LAN in Mountain Areas

Informatization via wireless LAN

Introducing wireless LAN: Web cameras and MPEG-2 encoders installed at the lodges send you high-quality images and movies and support other services using the Internet contents.  Also, each lodge provides various information including daily on-site today’s weather reports.

■ Ensuring Secure Mountain Climbing and Conserving Environment by Improving Mountain Trails

Ensuring Secure Mountain Climbing

Improving Mountain Trails: We improve and develop mountain trails and protect nature so that each and every climber can enjoy the North Alps.

■ Protecting the North Alps’ Unique Nature, such as Alpine Flora and Snow Grouse

Protecting the North Alps' Unique Nature

Protecting Alpine Flora: We monitor the area to prevent digging or stealing of alpine flora living in the North Alps, while vitalizing and restoring their ecosystems.
Also, we protect the habitat of alpine wildlife such as snow grouse to prevent damage to their ecosystem from the recent increase in climbers.

■ Providing Better Mountain Medical Services and Rescue Operations Linked to an Increased Number of Elderly Climbers

Providing Better Mountain Medical Services

Remote Medical Services: Connecting the lodges with local hospitals or doctors via a high-speed network, we support remote medical services. We can use the network to send images/movies of injured climbers or patients requiring urgent attention from the lodges to the hospitals, receiving first-aid instructions from doctors or medical students.

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Organization: Manitoulin Family Resources - Mindemoya
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    Manitoulin Family Resources (MFR) is a multi-service non-profit organization serving women, children, and families of Manitoulin Island, Espanola, and the North Shore Region of Lake Huron. Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of individuals and families by providing resources, advocacy, support, and education through the agency's three program areas of Children's Services, Violence Against Women Prevention, and Emergency Food Assistance.
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000 children looking for immediate assistance after Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu.

Based on the 2013 Demographic Health Survey, immunization insurance and nutritional status of children under five had been suboptimal in this poor country. There is harm to buildings, water supply, lack of school and furniture supplies. Schools have already been closed except as evacuation centres since the Cyclone hit and at least 70,000 school-aged children, from early childhood through secondary college, are losing out on schooling and a feeling of normalcy and security also.We excluded from the analysis 1459 women who reported a history of cancer , 3519 who reported a brief history of coronary disease, 989 who reported a current pregnancy, 677 who didn’t report elevation or weight, 450 with a calculated BMI of less than 15.0 or 50.0 or more, 91 for whom data on smoking status were missing, 91 for whom data on years of education were missing, and 30 who died before 30 years. After all exclusions, 51,695 females remained. Evaluation of Body Covariates and Size In 1995, we collected information on self-reported height , current weight , and waist circumference at the level of the umbilicus. In a validation research involving 115 participants, Spearman correlations for self-reported versus technician-measured elevation, weight, and waist circumference were 0.93, 0.97, and 0.75, respectively.20,21 Details on years of education, marital status, vigorous exercise, alcohol intake, and cigarette smoking position was obtained at baseline.


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The Huawei Mate 9 has three features that could well define 2017’s smartphone crop: barely-there display bezels, AI, and a dual camera. Did Huawei succeed in creating something decent for[...]

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Lunatic Fringe plays a key role in renewing neurons

Rajalaxmi Natarajan Ph.D.
July 26th, 2017

The brain has a remarkable ability to generate new neurons in the hippocampus, the center of learning and memory, throughout our lifespan. The rate of neurogenesis (formation of new neurons) is affected by many factors, both internal and external. For e.g. physical activity and enriched environment enhance it, while loneliness and depression dampen it. Remarkably, about 700 new neurons are integrated into neural circuitry each day in the human center for learning and memory, but their numbers decline with age.  Decreased neurogenesis has been associated with age-related cognitive decline and psychiatric disorders, such as anxiety and depression. Thus, adult hippocampal neurogenesis has garnered significant interest because targeting it could be a novel potential therapeutic strategy for many disorders.

Adult neurogenesis occurs through a sequential cascade of cell types, which starts with primary neural stem cells (NSCs) dividing asymmetrically to produce secondary progenitor cells called the amplifying neuroprogenitors (ANPs), which then mature into neuroblasts (NBs) and eventually into fully differentiated granule cells i.e. mature neurons. NSCs are essential for adult neurogenesis – without them, this phenomenon cannot take place. However, the NSCs pool is finite and the space NSCs inhabit together with their descendants is restricted. How is the fate of this complex community of cells regulated? What mechanisms preserve NSCs so that they can form new neurons throughout life while also ensuring optimal number of neurons?  To understand how NSCs are precisely regulated, it is crucial to study them in isolation from their progeny, which had not been possible so far. Now, researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine and Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital have developed a novel Lunatic fringe (Lfng) reporter and lineage tracing mouse model that selectively labels primary NSCs. Using these mice, researchers have found a novel mechanism by which descendants of NSCs are able to send feedback signals to alter the division and the fate of the mother cell. These findings have been published in the latest edition of the journal eLife

“Our initial goal for this study was to find a gene that leads to selective expression in primary NSCs. Based on the information obtained from publicly available expression databases, we started with roughly 750 potential candidate genes. It took enormous amount of hard work and meticulousness to systematically narrow it down to a single gene – it was like looking for a needle in the haystack. After extensive analysis, we were convinced that Lunatic fringe, a member of the well-studied Notch signaling pathway, was the selective marker of NSCs,” said Mirjana Maletic-Savatic, M.D. Ph.D., assistant professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Neurology at Baylor and Texas Children’s Hospital, who led this study.

Previous studies in many vertebrate and invertebrate models have shown that Notch signaling pathway participates in the regulation of stem cell fate. However, the precise mechanism and the fine-tuning of Notch signaling in the adult hippocampal neurogenic niche have remained elusive until now.

Interestingly, NSCs and their progeny physically cluster closely around one another, which makes it an ideal environment for direct cell-cell communication between Notch receptor-bearing NSCs and membrane-bound ligands on the adjacent secondary progenitors (Jagged) or neurons (Delta).

This study by Maletic-Savatic and colleagues shows that Lunatic fringe helps NSCs to distinguish between Delta-expressing neurons and Jagged-expressing secondary progenitor cells (aka ANPs). It modifies the Notch receptor by glycosylation i.e. addition of carbohydrate molecules, so that the modified receptor responds to ligands differently than the native Notch receptor. Lunatic fringe-mediated glycosylation amplifies Delta-Notch signaling but dampens Jagged-Notch signaling.

When surrounded by Delta-expressing neurons, most neural stem cells remain in a stand-by mode protected from random activation and unnecessary division. On the other hand, when NSCs have already been activated to divide, they produce secondary progenitors (ANPs), which upon maturation express Jagged1 that can bind to the modified Notch receptor to eventually slow down Notch signaling in the NSC, leading to its eventual exit from the cell cycle. This allows division of every NSC to be finely regulated to prevent excessive division and premature exhaustion of its potential.

“This study and the mouse model we have generated is a huge step forward in the field of neural stem cell biology because now we not only have a benchmark to specifically label primary NSCs but have identified a key quality control step that determines their fate,” said Fatih Semerci, postdoctoral fellow in the Maletic-Savatic lab and the lead author of this study. "Lunatic fringe allows neural stem cells to decide whether to stay dormant or to divide, and once they start to divide, whether to continue or stop."

This study has far-reaching implications on the field of neurogenesis  because age-related mental decline and psychiatric disorders such as anxiety and depression have been associated with a reduced ability to generate new neurons in the hippocampus, the center of learning and memory. The formation of neurons is affected by many factors, both internal and external. This study provides critical foundational knowledge needed to further understand and manipulate how natural biological process (e.g. aging), behavioral stimuli (e.g. physical exercise) and disease conditions (e.g. epileptic seizures) affect the formation and maintenance of adult-born neurons.


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“I’m guessing that a lot of you are here today to see what the new look and new face of Yahoo is all about,” he told an audience of some 1,500 technology enthusiasts at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. “Well, I’m sorry to disappoint you. It’s still the same old face. I’ve been around since the beginning.”

Mr. Yang, a co-founder of Yahoo, was picked last summer to run the company in part to end a string of disappointments for Yahoo shareholders. Before his keynote speech was over, Mr. Yang had offered the audience and shareholders a glimpse of what may one day be the new face of Yahoo — a revamped set of online services that company executives hope will help turn around Yahoo’s fortunes.

But it was only a glimpse. Mr. Yang displayed a prototype version of Yahoo’s popular e-mail software that had been transformed into a powerful communications hub.

It could, for example, tap into social networks to give higher priority to messages coming from senders with close ties to their recipients.

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And it could use other developers’ programs to help organize a dinner for a group of people.

Mr. Yang said other Yahoo services would be similarly overhauled to open them to the rest of the Web and to run outside applications. Such a strategy has successfully been embraced by Facebook and others. The goal, Mr. Yang said, is to turn Yahoo into a primary online “starting point” for consumers.

Analysts have been waiting for changes at Yahoo, and they have questioned whether Mr. Yang can lead Yahoo’s transformation quickly enough before competitors gain more ground and before investors become restless.

“Maybe it’s too generous, but I would give them six to nine months to prove that these initiatives are having an impact,” said Mark Mahaney, an analyst with Citigroup.

Successfully transforming the Yahoo portal is only one of the challenges facing Yahoo. It must also revitalize its advertising business and find a way to compete more effectively with Google in Internet search, a vital source of revenue. But the portal changes are a critical element of the company’s strategy to hold on to its large audience.

“It would have been unimaginable five years ago to think that Yahoo’s total audience would decline,” Mr. Mahaney said. “It is not unimaginable now.”

Kim Moy, managing editor for Yahoo’s front page, discussed news items at a recent meeting. Liz Lufkin, right, the senior director of news programming, presides over front-page meetings at Yahoo’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Credit Noah Berger for The New York Times

Yahoo’s audience it still growing. But its lead in important areas has eroded. With 136 million people in the United States visiting its sites in November, Yahoo remains the most popular property on the Web, according to comScore, a company that tracks Internet traffic. Yet Google surpasses Yahoo in search by an ever-growing margin. And in just a year, Google has managed to narrow Yahoo’s overall lead in Internet traffic from 22 million visitors to fewer than five million.

Google has also made inroads against MyYahoo with a rival personalized home page service called iGoogle. Sites like Facebook and MySpace, meanwhile, have amassed huge audiences.

Traditional portals like Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft have long sought to keep users captive by offering them an array of information, communications tools and online shopping. But lately, their grip on consumers has been loosened as a new generation of users increasingly rely on search engines to find their way on the Web and spend more time on social networks. Yahoo said its transformation is all about remaining relevant in this new environment.

“We need to become more social, and we need to become more open,” said Jeff Weiner, who as executive vice president for the network division is leading the effort to retool Yahoo’s sites and services. “There is a huge opportunity to become more relevant to people.”

Mr. Weiner, 37, a protégé of the Yahoo chairman and former chief executive Terry S. Semel, said that to be an effective starting point, Yahoo needs to offer all the basic tools that users rely on routinely — including e-mail and instant messaging, search, news and maps. But it also has to become a place that helps users discover and connect to interesting content and services around the Web.

The effort to open Yahoo to the rest of the Web has already started. In the fall of 2006, the company brought in Liz Lufkin, a veteran of Web news operations at The San Francisco Chronicle and USA Today.

Twice a day, Ms. Lufkin, senior director for front page content programming, oversees a meeting where editors and producers from all parts of Yahoo contribute ideas and content for the “today module.”

That is a prominent box on Yahoo’s front page that displays what the company considers its most important material. Ms. Lufkin and her team rotate that content hourly to provide users a mix of news, information and entertainment.

Last year Yahoo began linking from the module to sites that were outside of Yahoo’s network. Several Yahoo properties, like Yahoo Finance, have long referred users to articles at partner sites.

But this was different. The recipients of these twice-a-day “link outs” were sites that often had no relationship with Yahoo. And the links came directly from the most important real estate on a page that received 96 million visitors in the United States in November, more than any page on the Internet. The links are a “fire hose” of traffic, as Yahoo insiders describe them, that used to be dedicated to driving users to other Yahoo sites.

“They want more people to come to Yahoo and spend more time there,” said Scott Kessler, an analyst with Standard & Poor’s. “If it means providing access to third-party content and applications, so be it.”

Jerry Yang, a co-founder of Yahoo, said at the Consumer Electronics Show that he wanted a more far-ranging online gateway. Credit Paul Sakuma/Associated Press

Ms. Lufkin’s team constantly monitors the site to make sure the content is drawing users’ interest. Yahoo editors also use information provided by Yahoo’s search team that captures the pulse of the Web that day to make programming decisions.

The morning after the Iowa caucuses, for instance, the search team noticed a seemingly odd surge in queries for the National Football League draft, which, they said, was probably coming from fans whose teams had recently been knocked out of the playoffs. With the N.F.L. draft still months away, Yahoo had no plans to do a feature on the topic.

“We know because of our search intelligence that people are interested in it now, so we are looking into doing something sooner, rather than later, perhaps even this weekend,” Ms. Lufkin said.

Yahoo is now planning to build on these changes, with a more sweeping effort to assess what is popular on the Web and to incorporate it into its front page. The company is also looking for ways to bring some of the personalized features of MyYahoo to the masses that visit the main Yahoo page.

Mr. Weiner said that recent traffic gains suggested that the changes were working. Traffic to Yahoo’s front page rose by more than six million users in the last year, according to comScore.

Relying more on outside content and services, however, also means relying less on some of Yahoo’s own properties. The company has begun a process, which some insiders and analysts say was long overdue, of phasing out or consolidating some services, like Yahoo Photos, premium music, auctions and Yahoo 360, a largely unsuccessful social network. Yahoo executives declined to comment on demands by some analysts for more aggressive consolidation and layoffs.

The goal of opening Yahoo to third-party applications that are integrated with the company’s own services remains months away. Yahoo engineers have yet to complete the technological underpinnings of this software “platform.”

Still, Mr. Yang’s demonstration of a powerful new Yahoo mail at the electronics show was the most detailed peek at what a fully transformed Yahoo might look like.

Mr. Yang opened an e-mail message in which the Yahoo co-founder David Filo suggested having dinner at a Las Vegas burger joint. He dragged that message onto a Yahoo Maps icon. A map pinpointed the restaurant’s location, along with ratings and reviews.

Then, Mr. Yang dragged onto the same map icon a thread of e-mail messages from a group of Yahoo executives involving a back-and-forth discussion of dinner plans. The map quickly highlighted a list of suitable restaurants based on the culinary preferences of the various executives. Finally, Mr. Yang dragged a selected restaurant into an icon from a service called Evite, which immediately sent a dinner invitation to all members of the group.

Mr. Filo, who joined Mr. Yang on stage at the end of the presentation, said, “We are not that far away from a lot of this.”

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Stefan Sagmeister during the installation of “The Happy Show” exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Credit Ryan Collerd for The New York Times

The quest for happiness has been the direct or indirect subject of a huge chunk of intellectual endeavor: philosophy, theology, psychology, economics and, of course, literature, which has tended to cast a jaundiced eye on the matter. “To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness,” Flaubert wrote, “though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.”

The world of design aims ultimately at happiness, too, through the elegance of a font or the feel of an iPhone. But a few years ago the Austrian-born graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister decided to take on the problem of happiness more directly, in much the same way he has approached ad campaigns and the celebrated album covers he has designed for David Byrne and the Rolling Stones.

“I know how presumptuous it sounds,” he said recently, smiling, in his offices on West 23rd Street in Chelsea. “I also knew I had to find a way to limit it, because it’s just too crazy-huge a problem. You could spend your whole life on it, as lots of philosophers have.”

Stefan Sagmeister writing on an elevator door, part of his “Happy Show” exhibition. Credit Ryan Collerd for The New York Times

Happiness is not a problem that Mr. Sagmeister has struggled with much personally. On a scale of 1 to 10, he rates himself a provisional 8. But in 2008, during a yearlong sabbatical in Indonesia that he chose to devote mostly to making furniture, he received some blunt feedback from a close friend. “He said if I was taking a whole year off, and at the end of it I had only some tables and chairs to show, then it would be pretty skimpy, wouldn’t it?” Mr. Sagmeister said. “And that somehow seemed true, even though I didn’t want to hear it.”

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So he started to work instead on an ambitious, unusual feature-length documentary, “The Happy Film,” a kind of delivery vehicle for several years of thinking and reading about the nature of happiness. The film is not yet finished, but it has spun off an equally unusual art — or maybe design, or maybe amateur sociology — exhibition, “The Happy Show,” that opens on Wednesday at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and later travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

The approach of the show to its momentous topic can be gauged partly through one of its invitations: a thin, scrumptious-looking slice of Austrian beerwurst, vacuum-sealed in plastic, with the word “HAPPY” cut out of it.

“Because, when you get down to it, it seems that the two things that lead most quickly and reliably to happiness are having sex and eating rich, fatty foods,” said Mr. Sagmeister, who worked for weeks to perfect the sausage invitation with a fellow designer, Jessica Walsh.

“The Happy Show” is very text-based. Above, an exit gets a new meaning. Credit Ryan Collerd for The New York Times

But Mr. Sagmeister’s extensive reading — primarily in the field of positive psychology, a movement focused on well-being, pioneered by Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania and explored by fellow psychologists like Jonathan Haidt — led him to a slightly more complex view. The conclusion he reached was that the three most widely agreed-upon routes to happiness were meditation, cognitive behavioral therapy and psychotropic drugs. He decided to spend a considerable amount of time testing each on himself, while filming the process.

“The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy, the same way one trains one’s body?” he said. “In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and I’m never going to break the world record for the five miles. It’s partly genetics; I’m just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?”

With Dr. Haidt signed on as an adviser to the film, Mr. Sagmeister began his positive-psychology self-research project in 2011 in Bali, where he went to meditate for the first time in his life, spending three months in intensive sessions.

Back in New York, he began therapy (another first), taking a camera crew to each visit. He and his therapist, Sheenah Hankin, talked about issues like the recent death of his mother, to whom he was very close, and his desire at 49 to settle down and have a family.

An exhibit in “The Happy Show,” which opens on Wednesday. Credit Ryan Collerd for The New York Times

“The guy came in, and he was basically happy,” Dr. Hankin said. “That doesn’t happen often here.” The Philadelphia exhibition, which features an extended trailer for the film and a virtual funhouse of didactic interactive displays, functions much less like a design show than like an three-dimensional glimpse into Mr. Sagmeister’s travels in self-improvement.

“I went in thinking I was going to be doing a project with a graphic designer, and it’s only in the past few months that I’ve realized I’m doing a project, really, with a writer and poet,” said Claudia Gould, the longtime director of the Institute of Contemporary Art who left last year to take over the directorship of the Jewish Museum in New York. “Maybe he won’t end up being a graphic designer when everything is said and done.”

Mr. Sagmeister isn’t ready to answer that question just yet. He is willing to report, midresearch, that therapy seems much more effective than meditation in increasing overall happiness. But he will soon begin the final phase of the film — drugs — so the verdict is still out. The pharmaceuticals will probably be by prescription, though he had entertained the idea of sampling heroin, “because when are you going to get a chance to try something like that in a controlled environment like this?”

In an e-mail last week, he reported that he had spoken to a friend with some experience in the area and had decided that it was a level of happiness he probably could not afford. “Truly awful the first time, you just throw up, and by the time it actually gets to be enjoyable, you are already hooked,” he wrote. “I will leave it alone and stick with the pills.”

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Friends say a priority is making amends with his wife, formerly Holly Knowlton, shown with him at West Point in 1974. Credit Bettmann/Corbis

ARLINGTON, Va. — Here on an expensive but otherwise unremarkable street in the suburbs of Washington, David H. Petraeus is managing a new life in the doghouse.

He is seeking forgiveness from his furious wife, missing his old job as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, fighting off cabin fever — and plotting a comeback.

Friends say that Mr. Petraeus, who resigned from the C.I.A. on Nov. 9 because of an extramarital affair, so far has offers to teach from four universities, a grab bag of book proposals from publishers in New York and an interest in speaking and serving on corporate boards. He has hired Robert B. Barnett, the Washington superlawyer, to handle his future, and friends say he has not even ruled out becoming a talking head on television.

But no one in Mr. Petraeus’s tight circle of defenders disputes that for now the world of one of the nation’s most celebrated generals has shrunk spectacularly. Once talked of as a future Republican candidate for president, the former commander of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan spends his days largely at home in self-imposed exile, e-mailing and talking to friends on the phone. He works out on a stationary exercise bike, unable, at least in the first days of the scandal, to get out for his daily runs.

Friends say he remains as ambitious as ever, but sounds different.

“Basically he’s the same guy but considerably more subdued, in terms of his spirit,” said Mr. Petraeus’s close friend Jack Keane, the former vice chief of staff of the Army. “And that’s understandable. His voice doesn’t have the same peppiness in it.”

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Friends fret that a man used to a turbocharged schedule — not to mention motorcades, secret trips to the Middle East and invitations to the best tables in Georgetown — has too much time on his hands.

“I asked him whether he’d seen a certain article, and he said: ‘No, send it my way. I’m looking for something to read right now,’ ” said a close friend who asked not to be identified discussing Mr. Petraeus’s private life. “He kept such a grueling schedule. This is uncharted territory for him right now.”

Another friend, who also asked not to be named, had similar thoughts. “Several of us are concerned,” the friend said. “He’s a very active individual. He needs to stay active.”

Mr. Petraeus’s friends say his first priority is to make things right with Holly Petraeus, his wife of 38 years, and their two grown children, but Mrs. Petraeus has not been keeping her husband company at home during the day. A spokeswoman for the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where she works, said on Wednesday that Mrs. Petraeus has been at the office every day since the scandal broke.

A motorcade took him home Friday after testimony at Congress. Credit Luis M. Alvarez/Associated Press

Mrs. Petraeus, who runs the agency’s Office of Servicemember Affairs as a consumer advocate for military families, wrote two blog posts for the agency’s Web site this week: one with a co-worker warning about deceptive mortgage advertisements, and another, written solo, about the perils of buying a flood-damaged used car. “Once you’ve signed the contract you’re committed, so Know Before You Owe!” she concluded.

Her expertise, USA Today reported earlier this year, comes from the financial mistakes she and Mr. Petraeus made as newlyweds: buying a red sports car that spent more time in the shop than on the road, putting down a deposit on an apartment they had not seen, acquiring a foosball table as their first piece of furniture.

Now the man who married up — Holly Petraeus was not only the daughter of the superintendent of West Point when Mr. Petraeus was a cadet there, but the descendant of military officers going back to the Civil War — is taking it a day at a time with his wife. “They will weather this storm,” said John A. Nagl, a friend of Mr. Petraeus and a retired Army lieutenant colonel who fought in Iraq. “And that’s mostly because Holly is a deeply forgiving soul.”

Their house, on a verdant Arlington street of $1 million and $2 million homes — for security reasons, the address is listed in no public property records — is expected to be Mr. Petraeus’s center of operations at least until the first of next year, the earliest his friends say he could venture out from the wilderness with a Barnett-approved new job or position.

Mr. Barnett’s clients have included Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, fired by President Obama in 2010 as the NATO commander in Afghanistan, and Oliver L. North of the Reagan-era Iran-contra affair.

Mr. Petraeus, who remains under investigation by the C.I.A. for whether he misused the perquisites of his position to facilitate the affair, is in the meantime, friends said, mulling over how he became entangled with Paula Broadwell, whom he met when she began researching a book on him.

“The way he describes it, he said, ‘You know, I wasn’t sure right away that she was writing a biography; I thought it was a book on Afghanistan,’ ” said one of the friends, referring to Ms. Broadwell’s decision to turn her unfinished dissertation into a book on Mr. Petraeus. The friend did not explain how Mr. Petraeus could have had such a view. “It sort of developed over time, and he realized belatedly that it was about him.”

When Ms. Broadwell told Mr. Petraeus that her book advance was well into the six figures, the friend said Mr. Petraeus decided, “Well, I better help her to get it halfway right rather than pushing her away to have something come out that was half-baked.”

Mr. Petraeus has said that he broke off the affair over the summer, but friends said he told them he continued a relationship with Ms. Broadwell to help her with her dissertation. “He was trying to put it back on a more professional plane,” the friend said. “He thought he could do that.”

Friends say Mr. Petraeus will never write a book about his experiences, although one confidant said the former C.I.A. director is considering a book on what the friend termed “leadership.”

As Mr. Nagl put it: “He’s the most ambitious guy I’ve ever seen. I’m absolutely confident he’s going to succeed again.”

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