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Sunday, 30 June 2013
How to Meet an Online Friend in Real Life Without It Being Awkward
You're not looking to bang every person you meet online. Sometimes, you're just looking for friends. But somehow, meeting someone you know online platonically has become a far more awkward endeavor than a random OKCupid date. You know her but you dont know her. Do you shake hands? Do you hug? Do you do that open-palmed half-wave? God forbid she goes for the hug and you go for the handshake like you're in some jerking, uncoordinated, chest-poking dance.
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98% A Hijacking
All Critics (58) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (57) | Rotten (1)
To refuse to call A Hijacking a thriller is not to say it isn't thrilling, in a dryly cerebral way.
It's the second feature from the young writer-director Tobias Lindholm, and it showcases his gift for tightly focused stories told without an ounce of fat.
Lindholm doesn't present the film as a procedural for hostage negotiations because he knows too well that there are too many movable parts, too many things that can go wrong.
Methodical and tense ... has the feel of something based on real-life events ... boils down to an arresting portrait of two men, with different backgrounds and abilities, doing everything they can not to break.
We're impatient for action, any kind of action - but preferably the sort that involves a team of Navy SEALs, maybe led by Dwayne Johnson. Instead, we get something like a merger meeting.
Hand-held camerawork, so often a confounded nuisance, here makes the conditions on board the Rozen feel nauseatingly urgent.
A Hijacking delivers all the thrills the title suggests, but in none of the places you'd expect them.
The danger never reaches the level of chaos, but the subtext and metaphor in the slow-moving humanistic commentary on the motivations and byproducts of capitalism make for an intriguing film.
A smart movie derived out of the small moments that collectively comprise the hostage experience, rather than grandiose gestures.
Lindholm's you-are-there docudrama works as a tense thriller, but themes of negotiation and the ability to empathize provide a rich subtext.
...slow, mostly talk, but tense and realistic...
The level of suspense in this riveting Danish thriller doesn't build in sweeping melodramatic fashion, but rather at a low-key simmer that emphasizes authentic character dynamics.
A Hijacking accomplishes a tricky task, generating tension through talk rather than action.
This absorbing chronicle of a hijacking in the Indian Ocean has the strengths of the best procedural dramas -- it assumes a distanced and objective tone and packs an emotional wallop.
Moment by moment we find ourselves wondering what will happen next...
Auteur Tobias Lindholm does a striking job in grabbing your attention and running with it as he succinctly tells the story of "A Hijacking."
A Hijacking is an absorbing, highly moving film that's lingered heavily on the mind for a couple of days now.
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Saturday, 29 June 2013
Matthew Morrison Engaged To Model Renee Puente (Photos)
Matthew Morrison Engaged To Model Renee Puente (Photos)
“Glee” star Matthew Morrison, 34, is engaged to his girlfriend of two years, model Renee Puente! Morrison and Puente’s engagement news was announced by Elton John and David Furnish at their annual White Tie And Tiara Ball in London on Thursday. Elton later serenaded Matthew and Renee when he performed a duet of “Your Song” ...
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Supreme Court agrees to review Oklahoma abortion pill case
At issue is whether an Oklahoma law requires women and their doctors to follow a protocol that effectively limits access to chemically induced abortions. But first, the Supreme Court wants clarification on what, exactly, the state law outlaws.
The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Wednesday, June 26. The high court on Thursday agreed to review Oklahoma abortion pill case.
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EnlargeThe US Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to wade into a dispute over an Oklahoma regulation of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486.
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In a brief order, the justices agreed to take up the case, and then asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court to determine whether the disputed state law bars the application of certain drugs used in chemically induced abortions.
The court said that further proceedings in the case would be reserved pending receipt of a response from the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.
The action came in an appeal filed on behalf of the Oklahoma attorney general asking the justices to reinstate an Oklahoma law regulating RU-486 abortions that was struck down by the state high court in December.
The law sought to limit chemically induced abortions to a protocol of procedures that critics said were outdated and would effectively ban the procedure.
In his brief to the court, Oklahoma Solicitor General Patrick Wyrick asked the justices to examine whether the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled correctly when it invalidated the 2011 state law that had mandated that all drug-induced abortions in the state follow a specific protocol.
Under the law, abortion providers were required to follow instructions approved by the Food and Drug Administration back in 2000 when chemically induced abortions were first approved.
The Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice challenged the law, arguing that the 2000 protocol had since become obsolete and had been replaced by newer time-tested procedures and doses that were safer, more effective, and less expensive.
The new procedures allow a woman to self-administer a second drug at home rather than in a clinic. They also extended the effective use of the chemically induced abortion process from 49 days into the pregnancy to 63 days.
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Friday, 28 June 2013
PolitiFact Gets Facts Wrong on Abortion & Breast Cancer Link ...
PolitiFact put out a ?fact-check? this week that purports to debunk the link between induced abortion and breast cancer. Instead, it provides a guide on how to hoist yourself with logical fallacies?namely, the appeal to authority (?it?s true because experts say so?) and the argumentum ad populum (?it?s true because lots of people say so?).
They?re not shy about this, either: ?PolitiFact does not do medical or scientific analysis. We rely, as we do in other areas, on the most reliable and independent sources available.?
Now, the problem with the appeal to authority is that it?s an invitation to play ?dueling authorities.? So I?ll do that real quick.
Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2005-2006): ?Risk factors that have specific relevance to young women include reproductive factors, history of induced abortion or miscarriage, oral contraceptive use, smoking, and radiation exposure, most specifically for treatment of Hodgkin Disease.?
Department of Breast Surgery, St. George?s Hospital, London, U.K. (2005): ?The hormonal changes that take place in pregnancy cause breast tissue to proliferate and differentiate. Abortion interrupts this process and may leave the proliferated, undifferentiated breast tissue at higher risk of carcinogenesis.? ?There is no evidence to support a link between spontaneous abortion and breast cancer. Absence of a link with induced abortion is less clear, and further research should concentrate on investigating any relationship.?
Department of Surgery, College of Medical Sciences, University of Benin (2005): ?A protective role for xenoestrogens has been postulated and evidence is emerging in support of an increased breast cancer risk with abortion and prolonged use of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy.?
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2003): ?Induced abortion is a prevalent response to an unintended pregnancy. The long-term health consequences are poorly investigated and conclusions must be drawn from observational studies.? ?Reviewers were mixed on whether subsequent breast neoplasia can be linked to induced abortion, although the sole meta-analysis found a summary odds ratio of 1.2. Whatever the effect of induced abortion on breast cancer risk, a young woman with an unintended pregnancy clearly sacrifices the protective effect of a term delivery should she decide to abort and delay childbearing.?
University of Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX (1997): ?Early FFTP [first full-term pregnancy] confers protection [against breast cancer], while induced abortion confers risk. Most specific and controlled variables studies indicate 150% risk for abortions performed on women younger than 18 years of age.?
Then there?s Dr. Louise Brinton, the NCI researcher who helped organize the 2003 workshop PolitiFact mentions. Turns out she reversed her position on the abortion-breast cancer link in 2009. To wit:
A national study by Jessica Dolle et al. of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center examining the relationship between oral contraceptives (OCs) and triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), an aggressive form of breast cancer associated with high mortality, in women under age 45, contained an admission from Dr. Brinton and her colleagues that abortion raises breast cancer risk by 40%.
Brinton?s study, published in the peer-reviewed Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, shows an odds ratio (OR) of 1.4 for all instances of breast cancer for women who have an abortion. (For women who have never had one, the OR is 1.0?basically a ?control? number to which to compare all the others.)? The OR is 0.8 for women aged 20-29 who have carried one baby to term. (Again, 1.0 for women who have had no children.)? For women younger than 20 who have carried one baby to term, it?s 0.6.
Put simply, increasing abortions was associated with an increased risk for all forms of breast cancer, including triple-negative breast cancer, which is especially nasty. And it?s not a matter of ?breaking even?; having the abortion leaves you worse off than you were before you got pregnant.
(Keep in mind that PolitiFact uses the NCI, and the conference Brinton helped organize, to discredit the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer on the basis of ?response bias.? The CABC addresses and disputes the ?response bias? objection, but PolitiFact does not see fit to mention that in its fact-check.)
This is where PolitiFact would most likely move to the argumentum ad populum: ?You may have some studies, but we have more studies.? Michael Crichton addressed this dangerous treatment of science better than I can:
Let?s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world.
In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it?s consensus, it isn?t science. If it?s science, it isn?t consensus. Period.
In short, it doesn?t matter how many studies you have if they?re wrong.
So who?s wrong?
Well, aside from the data, there?s a big commonsense reason to suspect a connection between induced abortion and breast cancer. You can find it in PolitiFact?s own sources. I?ll use one of the National Cancer Institute links to demonstrate. (I can?t use the RCOG link, which basically says, Just trust us.)? According to the NCI, ?[w]omen who have their first full-term pregnancy at an early age have a decreased risk of developing breast cancer later in life.?
So here?s the scenario: you?re a young woman, and you?re pregnant. According to the NCI, this reduces your risk of developing breast cancer. (It?s not hard to find a lot of material supporting this claim.)? But then you get an abortion ? and your risk doesn?t change?
If you leave that pregnancy alone, it comes to term, thus decreasing your risk of breast cancer. But the NCI and others are going to tell us that cutting off a process that reduces your risk does not increase your risk?
With this in mind, it?s easy to see why even PolitiFact?s own sources are squeamish about following its lead in calling the abortion-breast cancer link ?a ridiculous claim.? See, for example, the WHO link, titled ?INDUCED ABORTION DOES NOT INCREASE THE RISK OF BREAST CANCER,? capital letters and all. The actual text backpedals quite a bit: ?Two major studies have been carried out using this methodology [historical cohort study], and neither found an increased risk of breast cancer associated with first trimester abortion.? When you get past the theatrics?some might call it misinformation?the best you?ll get is ?we didn?t find one.?
Of course, at least a few people ?found one? when it came to puerperal fever (per Crichton above)?and the ?consensus? threw out the evidence for 125 years. But no such thing could happen today, right?
Here?s the bottom line: PolitiFact?s own sources attest to the likelihood that carrying a pregnancy to term reduces the risk of breast cancer. An abortion cuts off that existing protection. Therefore, abortion increases the risk of breast cancer.
This is as close to ?settled? as we?re going to get on this science at this time. If you want to play appeal to authority, reputable sources say there is a link between abortion and breast cancer. If you want to play argumentum ad populum, history has shown enough times that the masses are wrong.
We saw something like this in the debates over HR 1797, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. Democrats like Jerrold Nadler tried to dismiss the scientific evidence for fetal pain because it?s disputed by other experts (appeal to authority), or because it?s ?an outlier? (argumentum ad populum). Abortion proponents flatly refused to address the information on its merits. So here?s what it came down to: We can?t say with 100% certainty that pre-born children don?t feel pain from a dismemberment abortion. We?d prefer that our society continue aborting them anyway.
Now, in the face of significant challenges to the prospect that there?s no link whatsoever between induced abortion and breast cancer, PolitiFact and the abortion lobby would have doctors say nothing about it to women considering abortion. Where less invested heads might go with ?better safe than sorry? (to say nothing of ?informed consent?!), the abortion industry, who profits handsomely off women?s ignorance, sticks with ?better rich than safe.? And ?fact-checking? abortion-supporters appear okay with that.
Editor?s note: This essay first appeared June 25 on the Live Action News website and is reprinted with permission of the author.
Source: http://www.crisismagazine.com/2013/politifact-gets-facts-wrong-on-abortion-breast-cancer-link
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Pennsylvania State Police looking for horses to recruit for Mounted ...
The Pennsylvania State Police is looking for a few good horses.
The force?s 25-horse mounted patrol unit is seeking donations of horses to be used statewide for searches, crowd control, security, and patrol operations of remote areas.
?Pennsylvania troopers have a long history of patrolling from horseback,? Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan said. ?Since 1905, state police ranks have included horses ? and since then, with all the advanced technology, the horse is still a reliable tool in police work.?
Horses must be geldings between the ages of 5 and 15 years old. The horse has to stand at least 16 hands tall ? 5 foot 4 inches? at the shoulder, but less than 18 hands tall. Drafts and draft-crosses are preferred. Thoroughbreds and other ?hot bloods? are less desirable.
?The horses are effective in crowds because they elevate troopers, enabling them to see over people?s heads,? Noonan said. ?Mounted troopers also participate in parades, demonstrations and other public relations activities based on availability.?
The animals must have quiet, sound dispositions and be free of serious stable vices.? Horses will be accepted on a 90-day trial basis to determine their suitability. A veterinary examination will also be performed.
The Pennsylvania State Police maintains a stable at the Academy in Hershey and rely solely on donations for animals.
?Horses have been donated over the years from diverse backgrounds ? some were racehorses, others were family pets,? Noonan said.
To make a donation or get more information, please contact Corporal Michael Funk, at 717-533-9111, ext. 321 or at mifunk@pa.gov.
Source: http://fox43.com/2013/06/26/state-police-looking-for-four-legged-recruits-for-mounted-patrol/
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Westinghouse's 84-Inch 4k Touchscreen Makes Windows 8 Feel Epic
Westinghouse Digital's "Digital Whiteboard" is an 84-inch UltraHD monster that runs Windows 8. It costs $15,000, so for starters, this is headed to the lecture halls and boardrooms of the world. Unless you've got dollar, you won't see this beauty in your living room just yet. Which is a shame, because using it is like touching the future.
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Thursday, 27 June 2013
Marathon speech helps Democrats block Texas abortion bill
By Corrie MacLaggan
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas Democrats blocked a drive for new state abortion restrictions on Wednesday, after a marathon speech in the capitol caused some Republican supporters of the bill to cast votes past a midnight deadline.
Democratic Senator Wendy Davis spoke for more than 10 hours on Tuesday in a bid to run out the voting window on a measure that would place a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Republican Governor Rick Perry, a strong opponent of abortion, could still revive the proposal by calling the legislature into a new special session.
Davis's filibuster attempt stalled about two hours ahead of the deadline over a complaint that she had violated rules. The Republican-controlled Senate then began voting on the bill, amid protests from spectators.
Republican Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, after meeting with lawmakers, said some of their votes came in after midnight local time (0500 GMT), the effective end of the 30-day special session.
Dewhurst bemoaned the "unruly mob" at the capitol, according to the Dallas Morning News.
The bill called for stricter standards for abortion clinics.
Republican backers said it would protect women's health and that the ban on late-term abortions would protect fetuses, based on disputed research that suggests fetuses feel pain by 20 weeks of development.
Opponents said it would force nearly all Texas abortion clinics to close or be rebuilt.
"This fight showed once again that we are all better off when women and their doctors - not politicians - are the ones making medical decisions," said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund. "We made history tonight, but we know this isn't the end of the fight to protect women's access to health care in Texas."
Davis, who began speaking at 11:15 a.m. local time, was prevented by procedural rules from deviating off-topic or taking a break by eating, leaning against her desk, sitting down or using the rest room.
Republicans tried to disrupt her by charging that she had meandered off-topic; this included a protest when a colleague of Davis's helped her to adjust a back brace.
Davis whittled away chunks of time by reading testimony and messages from women and others decrying the legislation, reciting previously suggested changes to the bill and tapping into her own past as a single mother at 19.
She said the bill would have choked off her own access to a local Planned Parenthood clinic.
"I was a poor, uninsured woman, whose only care was provided through that facility. It was my medical home," said Davis, 50, several hours into her speech.
Lieutenant Governor Dewhurst, who is Senate president, suspended the filibuster after about 10 hours, to cries of "let her speak" from supporters.
Democrats appealed the ruling, sparking a row over parliamentary rules.
After the session, Davis said on social media: "An incredible victory for Texas women and those who love them."
NATIONWIDE DEBATE
The U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, but conservative states have enacted laws in recent years that seek to place restrictions on the procedure, especially on abortions performed late in pregnancy.
Twelve states have passed 20-week bans, including two states where the bans take effect later this year, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights. Courts have blocked the bans in three of the 12 states - Arizona, Georgia and Idaho.
Earlier this month, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill banning abortions 20 weeks after fertilization. The measure is extremely unlikely to become law because Democrats control the U.S. Senate and the White House.
The Texas proposal would allow exemptions for abortions to save a woman's life, and in cases of severe fetal abnormalities.
"In Texas, we value all life, and we've worked to cultivate a culture that supports the birth of every child," Perry said.
The abortion debate simmers elsewhere in the United States.
North Dakota's only abortion clinic filed a federal challenge on Tuesday to a new state law, the most restrictive in the country, that would ban procedures to end pregnancy once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, as early as six weeks.
A Philadelphia jury last month convicted abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell of murdering three babies during abortions at a clinic in a high-profile case that focused national attention on late term abortions.
(Writing and additional reporting by Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Scott Malone, Angus MacSwan and Bernadette Baum)
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Atiz BookDrive Mini
The first thing you need to know about the Atiz BookDrive Mini is that it's meant primarily for libraries (corporate and otherwise); archivists; and others who have a professional need to scan books and other bound material. But you probably guessed that from the price. The second thing is that it's not what you probably think of when you picture a scanner. It's essentially a camera stand and book holder plus software that lets you scan (and yes, scan is the right word) by taking photos. If you need to scan bound pages without risking damaging the original, it can actually be a bargain.
Book scanners come in two basic varieties. Some, like the Plustek OpticBook 4800, are similar to standard flatbeds, except that the platen comes to the edge of the scanner. To scan, you put one page of a book on the platen, with the facing page and that side of the book hanging straight down along the side of the scanner. That lets the page you're scanning lie flat, so you don't have to worry about the bound side rising up away from the platen, where it may not be in focus and text lines will look curved.
This kind of book scanner works well enough, but having to scan one page, turn the book to scan the facing page, then turn the page and start again is cumbersome. It's also easy to forget whether you just scanned a left or right page, so you have to look at the book to reorient yourself. Worse, letting a heavy book hang down along the side of the scanner can potentially damage old, fragile originals.
The V-Shaped Advantage
Scanners like the BookDrive Mini offer a better alternative. Instead of a flat platen, the book rests in a V-shaped cradle. That lets you open the book and see both facing pages, with page sizes up to 10 by 15 inches in the case of the BookDrive Mini. The cradle is near the base of a frame that also serves as a stand for two cameras. Each camera is pointed down at an angle to shoot one page, with the camera on the right pointed at the left page and the camera on the left pointed at the right page.
What turns the cameras plus cradle into a scanner is the way they work. The cameras connect to your computer, using your hard drive as camera memory, so they're sending files to disk. You also control the cameras from your computer, including adjusting the camera settings, giving the Capture command, and managing the files on your hard drive. The only difference from using a standard flatbed scanner is that instead of a sensor moving across the page one line at a time to capture the image, you're using the sensor in each camera to capture an entire page at once.
Scanning with this kind of book scanner is a lot faster and easier than with the flatbed kind. Once you have the settings right for a given book, all you have to do is give the command to capture the first two facing pages, turn the page, and repeat. Atiz says that with typical settings, you can scan about 700 pages per hour. That works out to a little over 11 pages per minute on average, and seems to be a reasonably relaxed pace based on my tests.
Pricing and Rentals
The BookDrive Mini is available only from Atiz, with somewhat different pricing than with most products. One choice is to buy the frame and software by itself for $6,295, and get the cameras elsewhere. Atiz says that the software will work with any Canon SLR camera, and the company will be happy to advise you on the best model for your needs.
If you want a single source for everything, you can also get the cameras through Atiz, in which case the price will depend on which cameras and lenses you get. The standard choice is the Canon-EOS Rebel T3i camera with 18 to 55mm zoom lenses, for $8,679.83 for the bundle.
There's also a third choice. If you need to digitize only a limited number of books, you have the option of renting a scanner. Atiz says this done on a case by case basis, however, so there's no standard price.
One final issue is the option to pay for setup and installation plus a full day of on-site training. According to Atiz, company representatives show up at 8 AM, have the installation done by 10 AM, and then spend the rest of day training groups of up to four people each, taking one hour to 90 minutes for each group. The price for the day is $3,700.
Atiz says that most BookDrive Mini buyers set up the unit themselves, with setup support by phone and Skype included in the price of the scanner. The on-site setup is more common with Atiz's larger BookDrive scanner ($13,985 without cameras). The BookDrive is designed for page sizes up to 16.5 by 24.2 inches on each half of the cradle, making it suitable for scanning broadsheet newspapers like The New York Times.
Installation Issues
Whether or not you plan to install the BookDrive Mini yourself, make sure you have enough room for it. The scanner measures 34 by 32 by 40 inches (HWD) and weighs 57.2 pounds. And if you're doing it yourself, expect to spend more than the two hours Atiz takes. Assembling the pieces is a little like putting together prebuilt furniture. It's not all that complicated, but it takes time.
Installing the BookDrive Capture and BookDrive Editor Pro software is mostly standard fare, except that the installation routine doesn't automatically check with the Atiz website to see if you have the latest version. The smart approach is to ignore the disc that comes with the scanner and go to the website to download the program manually. (For my tests, I used BookDrive Capture 6.0.1 and BookDrive Editor Pro 6.0.9). Note too that the Capture program hooks into the Canon EOS camera utility, so you have to install the Canon utility too.
One other departure from standard for the software is that it requires a security dongle, with a separate dongle for each program. Making this much less of a problem than it could be is that the scanner comes with a four-port USB hub. So instead of tying up two USB ports with the dongles, you get a net gain of one.
Scanning
Unless you paid for training, getting started with the BookDrive Mini is harder than it should be, because the software doesn't offer anything like a Wizard to help step you through setting up for scanning a book. There isn't even a help file installed on your computer. Expect to spend some time on the phone with tech support to get started.
That said, the basic process is simple enough once you've learned it. For example, it's important to turn the cameras on in the right order, so the software will know which one is the left page and which is the right. You also have to turn on the white LED lights, and adjust each camera's zoom, focus, position, and settings for the particular book you're about to scan. With different size books, for example, you'll need to adjust the zoom, and you'll want to make sure both cameras give you matching brightness for the pages.
For fine-tuning image quality, you'll also want to take advantage of the Image IQ feature. Atiz provides an image IQ chart with color patches, black and white patches, and other details. When you scan it, the software compares the scan with what it already knows the chart looks like. It then uses that information to manage color and other quality issues in the scanned pages.
Once everything is set up, scanning is almost trivial. In addition to the V-shaped cradle to hold the book, the scanner has a spring-loaded V-shaped glass platen to sit over the pages and help keep them flat. The platen is on a track, so it can move up and down, with springs helping it move easily. To keep it out of the way, you can move it to the top of the track, where it's held in position by magnets. To scan, you move it to the bottom position, just over the book pages, give the Capture command from your keyboard, lift the platen up, flip the page, and repeat.
The Capture software controls the cameras, saving each page in its own file, using JPG or RAW format, and indexing the pages as right or left and in numeric order. It also shows you the scan results of each page so you can check the quality as you go, and it offers conveniences like being able to replace pages you've already scanned or insert new pages, and then reindex the pages, which means renaming the files, so the page numbers will still be in the right order.
After you've finished scanning, you can open the scanned files in BookDrive Editor, where you easily crop the pages, apply digital enhancements like despeckling and deskewing, and then resave the pages or convert them to PDF, PDF/A, TIFF, or multi-Tiff. There is no optical character recognition (OCR) feature, but if you have an OCR program, you can open the files and convert them to whatever format the program supports, with searchable PDF the obvious choice.
The BookDrive Mini's price alone ensures that it will be of interest to only a small audience. But keep in mind that although it's expensive compared with scanners like the OpticBook 4800, it's less expensive than most scanners with similar V-shaped cradle designs. And even compared with the OpticBook 4800, the time you save with faster scanning can easily pay for the difference in price if you scan enough books.
More than that, if you need to scan old, fragile originals, a scanner with a V-shaped cradle is the best way to keep the original safe. For all of these reasons, the Atiz BookDrive Mini can actually be a bargain. It should make the short list for any company or other organization that needs to scan a large number of books at up to 10- by 15-inch format.
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Keeper 5.0
Most password managers start as desktop applications, with mobile versions added as the product evolves. Keeper 5.0 ($9.95 per device per year) turns that model on its head. Keeper for iOS and Android came out last year, while its PC-based version wasn't fully finalized until recently. Keeper's password capture and replay process isn't as fully automated as some of its competitors, but by involving the user in the process it handles login scenarios that baffle the competition.
Keeper runs on a wider variety of platforms than most. You can install its desktop application for Windows, Mac OS, or Linux, or install its browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. Sorry, Internet Explorer fans, there's no extension for IE.
Pricing and Syncing Options
You can download and install Keeper on any one device for free, and the free edition will manage as many passwords as you like. Its encrypted password storage will remain totally local, which also means you won't be able to log into your passwords from another device. It's also possible to create a Keeper account and use it strictly through the Web application, also free.
However, paying the $9.95 per year subscription for one device opens up quite a few options. You can back up your encrypted credentials to the cloud, for starters, and you can sync between devices. A paid Keeper subscription lets you share credentials with other users, and also qualifies you for 24/7 live support.
You can, of course, add paid subscriptions for all of your devices. However, my Keeper contacts explain that many users pay for one subscription and then use the Web app on other PCs and tablets. At $9.95 per year, a one-device Keeper subscription costs less than LastPass 2.0 Premium ($12 per year) or Dashlane 2.0 ($19.95 per year).
Security Choices
Those looking for maximum security may choose to use Keeper on a single device, without syncing. It's worth noting, though, that Keeper encrypts your data before syncing it to the cloud. Your password isn't stored anywhere, so if you forget it, you'll have to start over. By the same token, the people at Keeper can't be legally compelled to turn over your passwords.
LastPass always keeps your encrypted data on its secure servers. Dashlane gives you the choice of syncing or not. RoboForm Desktop 7 is strictly local, while RoboForm Everywhere 7 will sync across multiple devices.
Keeper's unusual Wi-Fi Sync option lets you sync multiple devices while keeping your data within the local network. With this sync option enabled, your devices can all sync with each other when connected to your own network. Changes made on a device that's away from the network won't be passed along until that device returns, naturally.
As with all password managers, Keeper requires a strong master password that protects all of your other passwords. Unlike LastPass and Dashlane, it doesn't enforce strong password rules, doesn't rate your master password as you type, and doesn't include an actionable security report on the strength of your saved passwords.
By default Keeper logs off after 30 seconds, requiring re-entry of the master password to continue. If you step away from your desk it will probably lock down before your nosy officemate tries for a peek. You can raise the idle-time cut off as high as 10 minutes, but you can't turn it off. That seems like a fine feature to me.
In addition, Keeper can self-destruct after five wrong password attempts. If someone has stolen your laptop, they're not likely to guess the password in five tries. You made it strong, right? Self-destruct here means that it will wipe out the local encrypted copy of your password data. If you recover the computer you can restore the data from a cloud backup.
It's possible you might switch from Keeper to some other password manager. If you do, you'll probably want to erase all of your data from cloud storage. A click of a button (and a confirmation) will do just that.
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Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Immigration bill clears Senate test
FILE - In this April 18, 2013 file photo, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. At the start of a crucial week for far-reaching immigration legislation backed by the White House, the Senate headed Monday for the first test vote on the measure offering the prize of U.S. citizenship to millions and pouring new technology and manpower into the border. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)
FILE - In this April 18, 2013 file photo, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. At the start of a crucial week for far-reaching immigration legislation backed by the White House, the Senate headed Monday for the first test vote on the measure offering the prize of U.S. citizenship to millions and pouring new technology and manpower into the border. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)
FILE - In this June 21, 2013 file photo, Sen. John Hoeven, N.D., leaves the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. At the start of a crucial week for far-reaching immigration legislation backed by the White House, the Senate headed Monday for the first test vote on the measure offering the prize of U.S. citizenship to millions and pouring new technology and manpower into the border. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Historic immigration legislation cleared a key Senate hurdle with votes to spare on Monday, pointing the way to near-certain passage within days for $38 billion worth of new security measures along the border with Mexico and an unprecedented chance at citizenship for millions living in the country illegally.
The vote was 67-27, seven more than the 60 needed, with 15 Republicans agreeing to advance legislation at the top of President Barack Obama's second-term domestic agenda.
The vote came as Obama campaigned from the White House for the bill, saying, "now is the time" to overhaul an immigration system that even critics of the legislation agree needs reform.
Last-minute frustration was evident among opponents. In an unusual slap at members of his own party as well as Democrats, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said it appeared that lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle "very much want a fig leaf" on border security to justify a vote for immigration.
Senate passage on Thursday or Friday would send the issue to the House, where conservative Republicans in the majority oppose citizenship for anyone living in the country illegally.
Some GOP lawmakers have appealed to Speaker John Boehner not to permit any immigration legislation to come to a vote for fear that whatever its contents, it would open the door to an unpalatable compromise with the Senate. At the same time, the House Judiciary Committee is in the midst of approving a handful of measures related to immigration, action that ordinarily is a prelude to votes in the full House.
"Now is the time to do it," Obama said at the White House before meeting with nine business executives who support a change in immigration laws. He added, "I hope that we can get the strongest possible vote out of the Senate so that we can then move to the House and get this done before the summer break" beginning in early August.
He said the measure would be good for the economy, for business and for workers who are "oftentimes exploited at low wages."
As for the overall economy, he said, "I think every business leader here feels confident that they'll be in a stronger position to continue to innovate, to continue to invest, to continue to create jobs and ensure that this continues to be the land of opportunity for generations to come."
Opponents saw it otherwise. "It will encourage more illegal immigration and must be stopped," Cruz exhorted supporters via email, urging them to contact their own senators with a plea to defeat the measure.
Leaving little to chance, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced it was launching a new seven-figure ad buy Monday in support of the bill. "Call Congress. End de facto amnesty. Create jobs and economic growth by supporting conservative immigration reforms," the ad said.
Senate officials said some changes were still possible to the bill before it leaves the Senate - alterations that would swell the vote total.
At the same time, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., who voted to advance the measure during the day, said he may yet end up opposing it unless he wins a pair of changes he is seeking.
Senate Democrats were unified on the vote.
Republicans were anything but on a bill that some party leaders say offers the GOP a chance to show a more welcoming face to Hispanic voters, yet tea party-aligned lawmakers assail as amnesty for those who have violated the law.
The party's two top Senate leaders, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and John Cornyn of Texas, voted against advancing the measure. Both are seeking new terms next year.
Among potential 2016 GOP presidential contenders, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida was an enthusiastic supporter of the bill, while Cruz and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky were opposed.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated the legislation will reduce the deficit and increase economic growth in each of the next two decades. It is also predicting unemployment will rise slightly through 2020, and that average wages will move lower over a decade.
At its core, the legislation in the Senate would create a 13-year pathway to citizenship for an estimated 11 million immigrants living illegally in the United States. It also calls for billions of dollars to be spent on manpower and technology to secure the 2,000-mile border with Mexico, including a doubling of the Border Patrol with 20,000 new agents.
The measure also would create a new program for temporary farm laborers to come into the country, and another for lower-skilled workers to emigrate permanently. At the same time, it calls for an expansion of an existing visa program for highly-skilled workers, a gesture to high tech companies that rely heavily on foreigners.
In addition to border security, the measure phases in a mandatory program for employers to verify the legal status of potential workers, and separate effort to track the comings and goings of foreigners at some of the nation's airports.
The legislation was originally drafted by a bipartisan Gang of 8, four senators from each party who negotiated a series of political trade-offs over several months.
The addition of the tougher border security provisions came after CBO informed lawmakers that they could potentially spend tens of billions of dollars to sweeten the bill without fearing higher deficits.
The result was a series of changes negotiated between the Gang of 8 and Republican Sens. John Hoeven of North Dakota and Bob Corker of Tennessee. Different, lesser-noticed provisions helped other lawmakers swing behind the measure.
In a speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, likened some of them to "earmarks," the now-banned practice of directing federal funds to the pet projects of individual lawmakers.
He cited a provision creating a $1.5 billion jobs fund for low-income youth and pair of changes to benefit the seafood processing industry in Alaska. Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., issued a statement on Friday trumpeting the benefits of the first; Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, and Mark Begich, a Democrat, took credit for the two others.
Grassley also raised questions about the origin of a detailed list of planes, sensors, cameras and other equipment to be placed along the southern border.
"Who provided the amendment sponsors with this list?" asked Grassley, who is a member of the Judiciary Committee that approved an earlier version of the bill. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano "did not provide the committee with any list. Did Sikorsky, Cessna and Northrup Grumann send up a wish list to certain members of the Senate?"
Randy Belote, a spokesman for Northrup Grumann, said in an email the firm has "not had the opportunity to review the comments nor... provided the committee a 'wish list' of its systems to consider."
Officials at the other two companies did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick and Jim Kuhnhenn contributed to this report.
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Exercise benefits patients with type 2 diabetes
June 25, 2013 ? Moderate-intensity exercise reduces fat stored around the heart, in the liver and in the abdomen of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus, even in the absence of any changes in diet, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.
Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body does not produce enough insulin, a hormone that regulates the movement of sugar into the cells, or when the cells resist the effects of insulin. The disease can lead to a wide range of complications, including damage to the eyes and kidneys and hardening of the arteries.
Exercise is recommended for people with diabetes, but its effects on different fat deposits in the body are unclear, according to the study's senior author, Hildo J. Lamb, M.D., Ph.D., from the Department of Radiology at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands.
"Based on previous studies, we noticed that different fat deposits in the body show a differential response to dietary or medical intervention," he said. "Metabolic and other effects of exercise are hard to investigate, because usually an exercise program is accompanied by changes in lifestyle and diet."
For the new study, Dr. Lamb and colleagues assessed the effects of exercise on organ-specific fat accumulation and cardiac function in type 2 diabetes patients, independent of any other lifestyle or dietary changes. The 12 patients, average age 46 years, underwent MRI examinations before and after six months of moderate-intensity exercise totaling between 3.5 and six hours per week and featuring two endurance and two resistance training sessions. The exercise cycle culminated with a 12-day trekking expedition.
MRI results showed that, although cardiac function was not affected, the exercise program led to a significant decrease in fat volume in the abdomen, liver and around the heart, all of which have been previously shown to be associated with increased cardiovascular risk.
"In the present study we observed that the second layer of fat around the heart, the peracardial fat, behaved similarly in response to exercise training as intra-abdominal, or visceral fat," Dr. Lamb said. "The fat content in the liver also decreased substantially after exercise."
Dr. Lamb noted that the exercise-induced fat reductions in the liver are of particular importance to people with type 2 diabetes, many of whom are overweight or obese.
"The liver plays a central role in regulating total body fat distribution," he said. "Therefore, reduction of liver fat content and visceral fat volume by physical exercise are very important to reverse the adverse effects of lipid accumulation elsewhere, such as the heart and arterial vessel wall."
The findings point to an important role for imaging in identifying appropriate treatment for patients with type 2 diabetes, which the World Health Organization projects to be the seventh leading cause of death worldwide by 2030.
"In the future, we hope to be able to use advanced imaging techniques to predict in individual patients which therapeutic strategy is most effective: diet, medication, exercise, surgery or certain combinations," Dr. Lamb said.
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'Full House' star Jodie Sweetin files for legal separation from ... - Zap2it
Third time, apparently, was not the charm for "Full House" star Jodie Sweetin, as the actress has filed for legal separation from third husband, Morty Coyle.TMZ reports that the former TGIF tween filed legal documents in L.A. County, citing irreconcilable differences. She and Coyle had only been married since March, 2012. The couple have one daughter, two-year-old Beatrix. Sweetin is asking for full custody.
She's also asked the judge to give her sole ownership of the 2000 Toyota Avalon, while asking that the judge force Coyle to split a $200 Kohl's credit card balance with her.
Sweetin and Coyle kept their marriage a secret for over a year, only revealing the truth after their first anniversary. "We had wanted to keep it quiet and intimate for a while, but felt that on our first wedding anniversary, it was time to share!" she told People in April 2013.
One wonders what changed so quickly.
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Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Red Hot on the Green: 6 Golfing Essentials
Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/06/gl_summergolf/
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High Speed Footage Reveals an AK-47 Works Even Better Under Water
The AK-47 can be considered the Timex watch of the gun world. It takes a licking, and keeps on ticking, except that by ticking we of course mean firing round after round of ammunition. The automatic machine gun is based on a gas recoil system that uses the hot expanding gases of a bullet being fired to automatically rechamber the next round, and surprisingly, it appears to work even better under water.
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