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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Video: AllState CEO on Super Storm Recovery

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Autodesk Maya Certification

Introduction

If you are working in the media industry or run an advertisement agency that develops TV adverts for different media houses, it is important that you get Autodesk Maya Certification. The accreditation course is designed to validate your skills and knowledge in television development, production cycle filming, video gaming as well as design visualization.

By getting certified in Autodesk Maya, you will be essentially setting out your career path in the media industry. With the skills and knowledge acquired, you will be able to eventually start your own business specializing in gaming, TV shows or filming. However, the first step to realizing this dream is getting Autodesk Maya Certification.

Then again, the benefits of getting certified in Autodesk Maya extend to your employers and clients. Because the technology used on audiovisual keeps changing, employers are increasingly looking for new personnel that can easily adapt to the change. Moreover, employers are less willing to invest in your education since they?ll be making you more marketable for other companies. Getting Autodesk Maya Certification not only shows your current, but prospective employers that you are eager to learn new technologies.

On the other hand, if you have your own business, clients will be willing to do business with you since you have validated your experience and expertise.

Being Eligible for the Exam

The Autodesk Maya Certification course is a highly reputed accreditation course. Hence, prior to enrolling to the exam, there are a few qualification requirements that you have to meet. For instance:

You need to have at least 1 year of experience working with Autodesk Maya products. This is to ensure that you have the necessary practical experience to undertake the simulation exam.

- You should have excelled in the Autodesk Maya associate level exam.

This post has not listed all the prerequisites and as such it is important that you log into the official examination website and go through the requirements.

Topics Covered

Listed below are some of the topics covered in the Autodesk Maya Certification course alongside their objectives:

Animation: By the end of the topic you should be able to:

Asses an animated object by making use of Curve Editor.
Identify the different kinds of constraints used in creating an animated object.

Scripting: By the end of the topic, you should be able to:

Run different types of scripts.
Develop and run customized scripts.

Rigging: By the end of the topic, you should be able to:

Utilize weight tables.
Recognize bones.

Other topics covered in this course include cameras, data management, dynamics, effects and modeling.

Preparing for the Certification Exam

Listed below are tips that you can utilize to prepare for the Autodesk Maya Certification exam:

Acquaint yourself with the topics. Before anything else, make sure that you have familiarized yourself with the topics covered in the course alongside their objectives.
Get study materials. Make sure that you have examination materials and resources (e.g. books and practice tests).

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Ryan leads unbeaten Falcons over Eagles 30-17

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? Asante Samuel just wanted to give his former coach a little love.

Andy Reid turned him away.

Too bad for Reid his Eagles couldn't do the same to Atlanta's offense.

Matt Ryan threw touchdown passes on Atlanta's first three possessions against the Eagles and new defensive coordinator Todd Bowles, and the Falcons remained the NFL's only unbeaten team with a convincing 30-17 win over Philadelphia on Sunday.

Samuel, who played four seasons with the Eagles, had every reason to puff his chest after the Falcons raced to a 7-0 start for the first time in the franchise's 47-year history.

Reid had no desire to wish him well, the outspoken Samuel said. In the postgame locker room, Samuel mimicked Reid waddling away from him during the handshake.

"I was like dang, Big Red, what I did?" Samuel said. "So I just pat him on the belly a little bit. That big belly."

Reid has a pretty big target after the latest Eagles' debacle left him pondering his next big move.

The Eagles lost for the first time since Bowles replaced embattled Juan Castillo as defensive coordinator, a sign that personnel, as much as play-calling, is at fault.

"You don't go from the outhouse to the penthouse in one week," Bowles said. "Right now, we're in the damn outhouse."

In a desperate purge, Reid dumped his loyal coordinator.

His next move, perhaps, could be changing his quarterback. Reid softened his usual staunch defense of Michael Vick and said every Eagle after this "embarrassing performance" was being evaluated. Vick was a pedestrian 21 of 35 for 191 yards and a touchdown, and failed to beat his former team in his second start against the Falcons since returning to the NFL in 2009.

"Whatever decision Coach makes, I support it," Vick said. "The thing I know is, I'm giving it everything I've got out there when I step on the field. Deep down, as long as I know I'm doing that, giving it everything, that's all I can ask out of myself."

Philadelphia's struggles are no longer Samuel's concern.

"We're 7-0 over here baby," Samuel said. "If I was over there now, they have to go to work."

The Eagles (3-4) lost after a bye for the first time in 14 games under coach Andy Reid since 1999.

"That was an embarrassing performance," Reid said. "I'm stating the obvious. We need to get better. I need to do a better job. This is fixable. We have the talent."

Ryan finished 22 of 29 for 262 yards and three TDs for his first win against his hometown team in three tries.

The Falcons scored on their first six possessions before punting for the first time with 5:35 left.

"When you do that, it's going to be a good day," Ryan said.

This was a validation win for Atlanta. The Falcons entered with no victories over a team with a winning record and their opponents were a combined 13-24 going into this weekend. Perhaps that's why they were a surprising 3-point underdog despite Philadelphia's recent struggles.

"We like to have a lot of fun," Falcons coach Mike Smith said. "We have a very mature group. We have a bunch of guys who are mentors. We're good at focusing on the task at hand. We're on point when we kick off and guys have done a good job focusing all season."

Reid's Eagles have lost three in a row after starting 3-1.

The faint "Fire Andy!" chants from the upper deck show exactly who Eagles fans believe deserves the brunt of the blame for the biggest debacle in a season slipping away. Those fans who gutted out the elements weren't alone as (hashtag)Fire Andy was trending on Twitter late in the fourth quarter.

The anti-Reid fans may be seeing him in his final months with the team. Owner Jeffrey Lurie already stated before the season that another 8-8 finish would be "unacceptable."

The Falcons methodically drove 80 yards on 16 plays on the opening possession, converting five third downs. A holding call on defensive end Jason Babin kept the drive going after Ryan threw an incomplete pass on third-and-10. Ryan then threw a 15-yard TD pass to Drew Davis for a 7-0 lead.

Ryan tossed a 3-yard TD pass to Jason Snelling to make it 14-0. Penalties on Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Mychal Kendricks on separate third downs kept Atlanta's drive going.

After going three-and-out on the first series, the Eagles put it together on the next drive by mixing in seven runs among their 13 plays. LeSean McCoy scored from the 2 to cut it to 14-7.

But the Falcons answered quickly. Ryan connected with Julio Jones over Nnamdi Asomugha for the 63-yard score to put Atlanta up 21-7.

Atlanta converted their first nine third-down tries, including three by penalty. The Eagles finally held in the final minute of the second quarter and Matt Bryant's 43-yard field goal gave the Falcons a 24-7 halftime lead. Bryant kicked field goals of 29 and 30 on the next two drives.

The Eagles made it 30-17 on Vick's 7-yard TD pass to McCoy in the fourth quarter.

NOTES: The Falcons won in Philadelphia for the first time since Oct. 30, 1988. They were 0-6 with two playoff losses. ... The Eagles got their first sack in four games since Week 3. ... Eagles rookie Dennis Kelly took his first NFL snap, starting for the injured Danny Watkins (ankle) at RG. ... Falcons coach Mike Smith moved past Dan Reeves into first place on the club's all-time list with 50 wins.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ryan-leads-unbeaten-falcons-over-eagles-30-17-201351451--spt.html

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Friday, October 26, 2012

New Relic Connect ? A Way To See The Data Behind All Those Apps

New Relic has added the capability to monitor data across multiple applications and systems for deeper, more detailed views -- another sign that the new era of Internet models is taking the enterprise by storm.

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3 hurt in fighting in Greece at Europa League game

Associated Press Sports

updated 4:51 p.m. ET Oct. 25, 2012

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Riot police used pepper spray and stun grenades against hundreds of Greek soccer fans who tried to break through a police cordon at a Europa League game Thursday. The young fans hurled rocks and gasoline bombs at the police.

Three people were hurt and four detained from the violence that happened during and after a match between Panathinaikos and Lazio at Athens' Olympic Stadium. Before the game, police had intervened to separate rival fans.

The three injured fans were treated with first aid. Their injuries were not considered serious.

Panathinaikos and Lazio are in Group J of the European competition, with Tottenham and Maribor.

More news

Stunning day in Champions League

PST: To say Wednesday's games saw some huge upsets would be an understatement. From Shalke beating Arsenal to Borussia Dortmund beating Real, we break it down.

Sporting Kansas City?defeats Union

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - All that Sporting Kansas City needed Wednesday night was a draw against the Philadelphia Union to wrap up its second consecutive Eastern Conference regular-season title.

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Supercomputer simulates the heart with historic accuracy

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Devin Coldewey , NBC News

Sequoia, currently?the world's most powerful supercomputer, was built for upkeep of?nuclear weaponry. But researchers have put it to work on a groundbreaking simulation of?something a bit more salutary: the human heart.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, already well-known for work in high-performance computing, has commandeered the Sequoia supercomputer during what is known as its "shakedown period," when it's being set up and tested but isn't quite ready to for its intended purpose. LLNL and other organizations were given time-share access to the computer to do approved non-classified research.

Supercomputing is a competitive field, but for the moment Sequoia is the fastest on Earth: with more than 1.5 million computing cores producing 20 quintillion operations per second, it allows the researchers to simulate the heart at a far greater fidelity than ever before.

LLNL computational scientist Art Mirin describes the project: "Our heart code work has been a great opportunity to demonstrate Sequoia?s power with an application that most people consider important to society, in this case, cardiac modeling." So it's not just about digitizing the heart, but also about humanizing the computer.

The simulations divide the heart into thousands of little digital pieces, each composed of mathematical models that take input from and send data to other pieces. Their interactions require an enormous amount of calculations, even though the model only simulates electrical activity, not physical.

The best that could be done before was to simulate pieces about 0.2mm across, and it could take 45 minutes or so to simulate a single beat. With new software called Cardioid running on the Sequoia supercomputer, not only can they simulate more accurately (the pieces are 0.1mm across, about the size of an actual heart cell), but also hundreds of times faster: now a virtual heartbeat only takes 10 seconds to create.

This huge increase in performance makes many things practical: virtually testing arrhythmia drugs, for instance, or establishing baseline patterns against which real hearts can be compared.?And since heart disease is such a major health risk, especially in the U.S., an accurate electromechanical model of the heart is essential for future research in many other fields.

LLNL researcher David Richards described the potential benefits to Popular Mechanics:

At a very coarse level of resolution, everyone?s heart looks the same.?The details that differentiate individual hearts can be very fine, and our ability to model at extraordinarily high resolution, currently a factor of eight greater than previously, that allows us to capture very fine differences.

The time at Sequoia is running out, and the supercomputer will be running programs for the Stockpile Stewardship program, intended to ensure the country's nuclear warheads remain "safe, secure, and reliable well into the future." The researchers will have to fall back on less-powerful machines ? still far faster than even the fastest desktop, but not quite world-class ? to continue their research. But the powerful Cardioid simulation code will still allow for faster and more accurate simulation than before.

Further developments in the heart-simulation department at LLNL, as well as other applications of supercomputing power, should?appear in their internal Science & Technology publication.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC?News Digital. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/supercomputer-simulates-heart-historic-accuracy-1C6691906

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Video: Economy: Who Has it Right?

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Rebecca Edmonds, Single Mom, Dismissed From Air Force For Being Pregnant

Rebecca Edmonds, the daughter of a Navy captain, proudly followed in her father?s footsteps when she joined the armed forces. But her dream came to an abrupt halt when the Air Force found out that she was about to start a family of her own.

Edmonds, a graduate of Marquette University with a full scholarship from the Air Force, became pregnant 13 weeks before she was going to be commissioned as an officer, CNN reported. Six months into her pregnancy, she shared her news with the Air Force. In response, they revoked her $92,000 scholarship and ejected her from the ranks.

The Air Force strictly forbids single parents from enlisting -- a policy Edmonds alleges that she was unaware of when she found out she was pregnant. The Air Force put the single parent policy in place due to the difficult strains deployment puts on the children of single parents, according to CNN.

The U.S. military is committed to ensuring that enlisted members take care of family obligations, such as child care, before deploying for service. According to the 2012 research paper published by Indiana University ? Purdue University Indianapolis, a single parent must submit in writing that an individual not enlisted in the military will take responsibility over the child and individuals who do not comply could be immediately terminated from service.

The Air Force contends that if Edmonds was honest about her pregnancy from the beginning, she would not of been discharged so abruptly, according to CNN. In a letter written to Edmonds? attorney about the case, an Air Force official wrote, "If Ms. Edmonds had reported her pregnancy she would have been placed on medical recheck status until she gave birth.? The letter goes on to explain that Edmonds would only be able to be deployed ?if she were not a single parent, for example, if she were married, or had given the child up for adoption."

A policy that strictly forbids individuals from giving up custody of their child for the purpose of joining the ranks is outlined on the Air Force?s website. If a single parent attempting to join the Air Force indicates that their child is in the custody of someone else, they are required to acknowledge that ?his/her intent at the time of enlist was not to enter the Air Force with the express intention of regaining custody after enlistment.?

Edmonds isn?t the only single parent with dreams of joining the armed forces. In 2009, it was estimated that more than 30,000 single mothers had deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Researchers like Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Blanchard, the director of behavior medicine at Nellis Family Medicine Residency in Nevada, have have highlighted the need for more services for single parents in the military.

Although mothers serving their country face a unique set of battles when it comes to balancing their job and their family, many women in other professions have also alleged they were unjustly fired due to pregnancy. Jamera Lee Massop of Jamaica, N.Y. contends that she was abruptly fired from her job as an administrative assistant when she was six months pregnant. Jarretta Hamilton, previously a fourth-grade teacher in the Atlanta area, filed a lawsuit against her school district for being fired after telling her principal she was pregnant.

Edmonds case is currently under review. She told CNN that she hopes that her case will make the military reconsider its current policy on single parents enlisting for service.

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'Zombie' planet: Weird world may be back from the dead

Victoria Jaggard, physical sciences news editor

(Image: ESA; Hubble, M. Kornmesser; and ESO, L. Cal?ada and L. L. Christensen)

Is the Hubble Space Telescope a planet reanimator?

The orbiting observatory first revealed the exoplanet known as Fomalhaut b, but soon afterward astronomers pronounced the world dead, writing it off as a blob of dust. Now NASA claims to have brought Fomalhaut b back to life as a shrouded planet.

Fomalhaut is a bright, young star about 25 light years from Earth. It is surrounded by a disc of debris most likely left over from the star's formation - the perfect place to spawn planets.

In 2008 astronomers using Hubble data announced that a bright object was orbiting in a gap in the disc, a sign of a planet carving its way through the debris. The discovery was hailed as the first exoplanet portrait made in visible light.

But follow-up tests began ushering the planet toward its deathbed. No other telescopes, including Hubble's infrared cousin Spitzer, could find Fomalhaut b in images.

What's more, the original data from Hubble said that the planet varied wildly in brightness and orbited at an unexpectedly fast clip based on its position in the debris disc. This led astronomers to conclude that the bright object was no planet, just a clump of wandering dust.

Thayne Currie, an astronomer at the University of Toronto, wasn't ready for Fomalhaut b to give up the ghost. His team applied new analytic techniques to the original Hubble data and collected fresh observations from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii. They used a similar image-processing method as the researchers who discovered Fomalhaut b to filter out the light from the star and make any planets easily visible. They also employed a more advanced technique. Neither filtering method showed brightness variations for the object.

"Honestly it is unclear to us exactly how the original authors ... got that result in the first place," Currie said in an email to New Scientist. The new data also show the object moving at just the right speed for it to be a planet.

The team thinks the best explanation is that Fomalhaut b is a planet a bit more massive than Jupiter that's engulfed in a cloud of dust. "It could be shrouded in dust because the planet is still surrounded by a swarm of small, boulder- to asteroid-sized planetesimals that are colliding and thus making dusty debris," Currie said. The dust would explain why the planet continues to be undetectable with current infrared telescopes. It's also possible the colliding bodies are moons in the making, he added.

Their work may not be the nail in the coffin, though, as researchers need more data to back up Fomalhaut b's revived planethood. And if the new model is correct, Fomalhaut b just lost one of its biggest claims to fame: the light from the object would be coming from the shroud of dust rather than the planet itself, which would mean it's no longer among the handful of worlds that have had their picture taken.

Journal reference: arxiv.org/abs/1210.6620

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

New Honda City with Audio Visual Navigation launched at Rs 9.72 ...

Home ? Cars News, General, Honda ? New Honda City with Audio Visual Navigation launched at Rs 9.72 lakhs in India

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After announcing the launch of a new modified City sedan for CNG kits earlier today, Honda India has announced the launch of a new City variant which will feature?"Interactive Intelligence" AVN - Audio Visual Navigation. The price of this new City with AVN starts from Rs 9.72 lakhs for the manual and Rs 10.46 lakhs for the automatic.

The new Honda City MT AVN and City AT AVN will feature features like bluetooth, DVD player, audio visual navigation, touchscreen, CD player, and connectivity for USP, iPod, AUX. On the inside, the new City will features plush seats with leather upholstery with leather wrapped gear shift knob (MT) and leather strapped steering wheel.

Speaking on the occasion Mr. Jnaneswar Sen, Sr Vice President, Honda Cars India Ltd. said "Honda City is one of the most successful car brand in the country and certainly the most desirable sedan in its category due to its unmatched values of performance, mileage and overall reliability. We are extremely happy to bring the City with a CNG option for our customers. Adapting the CNG technology is another step to keep low cost of ownership for our customers and will add to the appeal of the car, as it will not only be cheaper to run and maintain but also eco-friendly.?In line with the preferences of our customers, we are delighted to introduce the new variant with Audio Visual Navigation which makes the car even more desirable in its category."

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GSLIS Jobs and Opportunities Blog ? Call for papers, Computer ...

December 7 ? 9, 2012
Sponsored by the University of Bridgeport
Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, Communications Society and Education Society (Connecticut Section)

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

CISSE 2012 provides a virtual forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of the-art research on computers, information and systems sciences and engineering. CISSE 2012 is the eighth conference of the CISSE series of e-conferences. CISSE is the World?s first Engineering/Computing and Systems Research E-Conference. CISSE 2005 was the first high-caliber Research Conference in the world to be completely conducted online in real-time via the internet. In 2005, CISSE received 255 research paper submissions and the final program included 140 accepted papers, from more than 45 countries. Last year, CISSE 2011 received more than 300 submissions and the final program included 105 accepted papers, from more than 80 countries.

The virtual conference will be conducted through the Internet using web-conferencing tools, made available by the conference. Authors will be presenting their PowerPoint, audio or video presentations using web-conferencing tools without the need for travel. Conference sessions will be broadcast to all the conference participants, where session participants can interact with the presenter during the presentation and/or during the Q&A slot that follows the presentation. This international conference will be held entirely on-line. The accepted and presented papers will be made available and sent to the authors after the conference both on a DVD (including all papers, PowerPoint presentations and audio presentations) and as a book publication. Springer, the official publisher for CISSE, published the previous seven CISSE book proceedings.

Conference participants ? authors, presenters and attendees ? only need an internet connection and sound available on their computers in order to be able to contribute and participate in this international ground-breaking conference. The on-line structure of this high-quality event will allow academic professionals and industry participants to contribute their work and attend world-class technical presentations based on rigorously refereed submissions, live, without the need for investing significant travel funds or time out of the office.

The concept and format of CISSE is ground-breaking. The PowerPoint presentations, final paper manuscripts and time schedule for live presentations over the web had been available for weeks prior to the start of the conference for all registrants, so that the participants can choose the presentations they want to attend and think about questions that they might want to ask. The live audio presentations were also recorded and are part of the permanent CISSE on-line archive ? accessible to all registrants- which also includes all the papers, PowerPoint and audio presentations.

Potential non-author conference attendees who cannot make the on-line conference dates are encouraged to register, as the entire joint conferences will be archived for future viewing.

The CISSE conference audio room provides superb audio even over low speed internet connections, the ability to display PowerPoint presentations, and cross-platform compatibility (the conferencing software runs on Windows, Mac, and any other operating system that supports Java). In addition, the conferencing system allowed for an unlimited number of participants, which in turn granted us the opportunity to allow all CISSE participants to attend all presentations, as opposed to limiting the number of available seats for each session.

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format through the website of the conference at: http://www.cisseconference.org/2012

Accepted papers must be presented in the virtual conference by one of the authors. To submit your paper, please visit http://www.cisseconference.org/2012

CISSE 2012 is composed of the following four conferences:

International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering (SCSS 2012)

Topics: Grid Computing, Internet-based Computing Models, Resource Discovery, Programming Models and tools, e-Science and Virtual Instrumentation, Biometric Authentication, Computers for People of Special Needs, Human Computer Interaction, Information and Knowledge Engineering, Algorithms, Parallel and Distributed processing, Modeling and Simulation, Services and Applications, Embedded Systems and Applications, Databases, Programming Languages, Signal Processing Theory and Methods, Signal Processing for Communication, Signal Processing Architectures and Implementation, Information Processing, Geographical Information Systems, Object Based Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Real Time Systems, Multiprocessing, File Systems and I/O, Kernel and OS Structures.

International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe 2012)

Topics: Optical Networks and Switching, Computer Networks, Network architectures and Equipment, Access Technologies, Telecommunication Technology, Coding and Modulation technique, Modeling and Simulation, Spread Spectrum and CDMA Systems, OFDM technology, Space-time Coding, Ultra Wideband Communications, Medium Access Control, Spread Spectrum, Wireless LAN: IEEE 802.11, HIPERLAN, Bluetooth, Cellular Wireless Networks, Cordless Systems and Wireless Local Loop, Mobile Network Layer, Mobile Transport Layer, Support for Mobility, Conventional Encryption and Message Confidentiality, Block Ciphers Design Principles, Block Ciphers Modes of Operation, Public-Key Cryptography and Message Authentication, Authentication Application, Stenography, Electronic Mail Security, Web Security, IP Security, Firewalls, Computer Forensics.

International Conference on Engineering Education, Instructional Technology, Assessment, and E-learning (EIAE 2012)

Topics: Instructional Design, Accreditation, Curriculum Design, Educational Tools, 2 -2 -2 Platforms, Teaching Capstone Design, Teaching Design at the Lower Levels, Design and Development of e-Learning tools, Assessment Methods in Engineering, Development and Implementation of E-learning tools, Ethics in Education, Economical and Social Impacts of E-learning.

International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation (IETA 2012)

Topics: Advanced and Distributed Control Systems, Intelligent Control Systems (NN, FL, GA, .etc), Expert Systems, Man Machine Interaction, Data Fusion, Factory Automation, Robotics, Motion Control, Machine Vision, MEMS Sensors and Actuators, Sensors Fusion, Power Electronics, High Frequency Converters, Motors and Drives, Power Converters, Power Devices and Components, Electric Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation, Process Automation, Factory Communication, Manufacturing Information System Advances in Manufacturing Systems, Industrial Applications of Multi Media, Intelligent Systems Instrumentation, Industrial Instrumentation, Modeling and Simulation, Signal Processing, Image and Data Processing, VR and Parallel systems.

Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format through the website of the conference at http://conference.cisseconference.org/2012

Accepted papers must be presented in the virtual conference by one of the authors. To submit your paper, please visit http://www.cisseconference.org/2012

Paper submission Deadline: October 29th, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: November 14th, 2012
Final Manuscript and Registration: December 1st, 2012

Source: http://alanis.simmons.edu/blogs/jobs/2012/10/23/call-for-papers-computer-information-and-systems-sciences-and-engineering-conference-bridgeport-ct/

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Gingero.us: Work It: Alli Works in Early Intervention

This post is the first in what will be a semi-regular series featuring rad ladies who have chosen awesome and challenging careers. I'm happy to introduce Alli, who is an Early Intervention Case Manager. Take it away, Alli!

My name is Alli Yinger and I'm a native of York, Pennsylvania. I'm 38 years old and I have an 8 year old daughter. I am active in my community as a Board Member of the York Academy Regional Charter School, where my daughter attends 2nd grade and a contributor and supporter of Planned Parenthood. I presently work for the County of York in the Mental Health/Mental Retardation division of Early Intervention.

Tell us about your job!

Early Intervention is a free program that serves children ages 0-3 from York and Adams Counties who are at risk for developmental delay or who have a diagnosis which qualifies them for therapy services. Our therapy services range from Speech Therapy, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Nursing Services, Behavior Therapy, and Special Instruction.

My specific job title is Service Coordinator so I serve as a case manager for children and their families. I ensure that they get services and community supports they need, whether it be our services through in-home therapy or private therapy (which is not free but available) if they choose or WIC, Food Stamps, Medical Assistance, or Social Security.?Our services are held in a child?s home so I spend a lot of time in my car. Sometimes I can drive up to 900 miles a month.

I have a special group that I service within Early Intervention which is very close to my heart. I work specifically with our families who have babies in the NICU (the York Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit). My daughter, Sophia was born when I was 24 weeks pregnant weighing only 1lb 8oz and was 12 ? inches long. We spent almost 5 months in the NICU. She received Early Intervention Services for 3 years until she graduated and then moved to LIU services because she is legally blind in one eye and has some other vision issues. I go to the NICU and talk with the families there about Early Intervention and what we can offer. This gets the family ready for bringing their baby home and what will happen next.?

How did you come to this profession?

When Sophia was 2 years old I decided to go back to college. I had attended college right out of High School, but it wasn?t for me. I spent most of my 20?s working as a retail store manager. I went back and majored in Philosophy and Literature, which are two of my loves.

During that time in college I had a job where I worked in homes with people who had physical and or mental challenges and some behavioral challenges too. As a Philosophy and Lit major I received a terrific liberal arts education, with a strong ability to think critically and to write well. But, I loved working with people and social work as a whole was very attractive to me.

After graduation I got a job working as a parent educator for Catholic Charities. We worked with families who were trying to reunite with their children who were in foster care or with families who were at risk of losing their children. I loved this job and it was the hardest thing I have ever done and I did it well. After I was laid off due to downsizing, I spent the next year getting Sophia through Kindergarten and I took my Civil Service test so I could get a job as a caseworker with the county. I was called for an interview for an Early Intervention position that became available and I got the job. I have been here since 2010 and I love what I do each day.

What does your average workday look like?

I spend a few hours each week in the NICU speaking with families and I also do NICU rounds every third week to get an update on the babies and their families who are in the NICU. Aside from that, an average day could be me checking emails, scheduling appointments to do reviews (we monitor progress of our children every 3 months with our therapists), doing intake appointments, doing evaluation appointments to see if a child qualifies for services, and a lot of paperwork.

What are your clients like?

We see a mix of socioeconomic backgrounds and ethnicities and races. Having a baby in the NICU does not discriminate and so we have young families, moms and dads as young as 15 sometimes and no, not all of the young parents are from the city. We serve very poor families and very rich families and we serve those in between.

What are some common misconceptions that people have about your job?

I think that sometimes people think that the families we serve are not good parents and that is why their children are delayed in their development. Sometimes people think that the mom must have been using illegal drugs or drinking during her pregnancy and that is why their child is delayed developmentally. These are simply not true. Yes, we do have some babies who were exposed to drugs during their time in utero, but that is by no means who we see as a whole. Anyone can have a child or baby who is developmentally delayed.

Do you have any advice for someone who wants to work in Early Intervention?

It's a demanding career and it can be exhausting and sometimes we bring our work home, both literally and figuratively. You have to take your civil service test first and you must have some previous caseworker/social work background. Talk with families who have been involved with Early Intervention and talk with some caseworkers themselves.

What's the worst aspect of your job?

Families who just don?t care for or nurture their children. Families who let their babies sit in a swing all day or in their bouncy seat. Families who don?t love their children.

What's the most amazing part of your job?

It's so rewarding to watch a child who is developmentally delayed ?catch up? and do what they should be doing in their development. It's amazing to do an intake with a family and see a child who is very much delayed and then to see them in 3 months and watch what they can do? it's really moving and emotional. Babies in their first year of life have to do so much and they have to work really hard developmentally.

Is there anything else you'd like to share?

I feel lucky each day to get to come to work and to see my families and to meet new ones. I get to share part of my life with them and they share their lives with me. I believe in what I do with all that I am and I give all of myself to my families.

If you're local to the York/Adams area, you can reach Early Intervention at (717) 771-9893. If you'd like to learn more about the program, you can visit the?York/Adams Mental Health - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities page on the?Early Intervention?program. Another great resource is Zero To Three, which is a nonprofit dedicated to promoting the health and development of infants and toddlers.

Thank you so much for sharing, Alli! If you have any questions for Alli, please feel free to ask in the comments.

Have you ever considered social work?

Source: http://www.gingero.us/2012/10/work-it-alli-works-in-early-intervention.html

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Monday, October 22, 2012

What Obama and Romney will say, and what the truth is

Monday's debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla.?the last of the presidential race?will focus on foreign policy. What to expect from President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who are neck-at-neck in recent polls? Some bluster on China, hedging on Libya, and possibly, silence on Syria. Naturally, expect some campaign spin, too.

To clear the candidates' smoke around foreign affairs, we've collected and fact-checked the key foreign policy points to keep in mind during the debate, from trade to terror.

Libya

Romney: The president's greatest vulnerability on foreign policy is possibly the controversy surrounding the terrorist attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team in Benghazi, Libya on September 11 of this year. The attack remains subject of an ongoing investigation, so any discussion suffers for a lack of the complete, official account of what happened that day.

In the last debate, when answering a question about Benghazi, the candidates spent almost the entire time discussing the semantics of phrases like "act of terror" rather than scrutinizing the actual attack. Romney accused the president of refusing to call the murders a terrorist attack until 12 days after the incident.

Romney will probably avoid fussing over vocabulary this time around. At the Town Hall-style debate last Tuesday he was fact-checked in real time by moderator Candy Crowley. As she noted, 18 hours after the event, President Obama said this in the Rose Garden:

No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.? Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America.? We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act.? And make no mistake, justice will be done.

As for the statements of Ambassador Susan Rice?whom Romney and Republicans claim diverted from the "terrorism" message, calling the murders spontaneous on Sep. 16?it's been known for some time that she and other officials were given talking points by the CIA, which ended up muddying the administration's position on the nature of the attack.

There are many other aspects of the president's handling of the attack that Romney may criticize?but if he returns to the "terror" talk, Obama is likely to have the transcript ready.

Obama: At the same time, the president is not being fully straightforward about why the Benghazi issue has become such a hot topic.

What is clear so far?from testimony given to a House investigation of the attack?is that the State Department denied requests for increased security personnel from its regional security officer for Libya; this included the city of Benghazi, where Stevens and his team were stationed.

President Obama will likely continue to avoid any direct comment on the potential negligence of the State Department in this matter, especially since Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has gone on record exculpating the president of any of the decision-making that took place leading up to the attack.

Afghanistan

Romney: Both candidates have heard the American people loud and clear: most people have totally soured on the continuing war effort in Afghanistan. The fact that only 27 percent of the public believes in the campaign has now motivated a usually hawkish Mitt Romney to lend his support to the president's 2014 withdrawal plan.

In a recent interview to ABC, GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan claimed that his running mate has ?"always agreed" with the timetable. Politifact uncovered several instances in which Romney did indeed voice support for that deadline?but usually with the hyper-qualifying addition that he would have to judge the "situation on the ground."

This could be the difference between withdrawal in 2014 and a renewed commitment to infrastructure, counterinsurgency, and military training in Afghanistan for several more years. As Josh Rogin notes in Foreign Policy magazine, even notable Republicans are aware of the elasticity of Romney's declared Afghanistan policy; and so while it is not a claim in direct conflict with the truth, his insistence that he has a clearly defined broad strategy for America's longest and now very unpopular war does not ring true with many both in and out of his party.

Iran

Romney: Romney is known to downplay the observable effects of the Obama administration's sanctions on Iran. He repeats variations on the line that he delivered earlier this year: that Obama "could have gotten crippling sanctions against Iran," but did not.

Given that Obama has presided over biting sanctions on the Islamic Republic?sanctions that Iran's leaders identify as responsible for the battering of its currency and wider economic turmoil?this talking point requires clarification. When asked about it, Romney's campaign told PolitiFact that the GOP candidate was specifically referring to an instance in 2010 when the administration failed to pass a U.N. resolution sanctioning the Iranian Central Bank.

Setting aside the probability that the veto-prone U.N. giants Russia and China would've blocked that particular resolution if it were pushed by any U.S. administration, it looks as though Romney is hoping this maneuver will come off to undecided voters as a broader failing of Obama's Iran policy

Obama: The Obama campaign has pushed back on this Romney line, stating that the president is waging an unprecedented diplomatic and economic effort to squelch the ayatollah's nuclear program. But the administration overreaches when it makes statements giving the impression that before Obama's presidency "there was no international pressure on Iran," to quote VP Biden.

PolitiFact.com notes a few serious international initiatives the Bush administration undertook to stifle the Iranians' nuclear program:

Resolution 1737, passed in 2006, which banned trade with Iran in all items, materials, equipment, goods and technology that could contribute to the country's development of nuclear-weapon delivery systems.
Resolution 1747, adopted in 2007, which banned the country's arms exports and restricted the travel of additional individuals engaged in Iran's nuclear activities.
Resolution 1803, approved in 2008, which froze the assets of people involved in the nuclear program.

Despite the current campaign of sanctions, the theocratic regime has not renounced its nuclear ambitions. However, rumblings this past weekend of possible one-on-one negotiations has analysts wondering if there may finally be ground for a diplomatic solution.

So while Romney will likely try to undermine the severity of the administration's sanctions, expect Obama to leave out the fact that, not only do sanctions predate his taking office, but they still haven't achieved their main purpose.

China

Obama: The tall tales over "sticking it to China" continue: in the last debate, Obama turned to his opponent and said, "you're the last person who's gonna get tough on China."

This came after the usual attacks on Romney for investing in Chinese firms; the president often alleges that Romney is a "job exporter" and usually exaggerates the personal involvement the GOP nominee has had in his investments abroad. Super PACs supportive of the president echo this line of attack, broadcasting that thousands of Chinese employees "owe their jobs" to Romney.

While it's true that a good deal of Romney's money is invested in China, Obama's charges that Bain-affiliated companies shunned America while running straight for Asia are mostly misleading: a larger trend in the global market determined their production would be located in China.

What's more, Obama tends to conflate the fact that many Chinese employees found jobs at companies that Romney had invested in with the more controversial idea that Romney "outsourced" American jobs as a matter of protocol.

Romney: Last time around, Romney repeated his charge that the president allows China to cheat trade agreements through currency manipulation, declaring that Obama has had "seven opportunities to stop them" by slapping the "manipulator" label on Beijing via the Treasury. Romney says he wouldn't hesitate to use the label, which would pave the way for settling the issue via the International Monetary Fund.

It's true that the Obama administration has passed labeling China a "manipulator," but what makes this charge hyperbolic is that it's never been clear that doing so would stop it from cheating. As PolitiFact notes, it was tried in 1994 to no avail. Plus, the idea that the Obama administration has simply been appeasing China amid its economic mischief is false: Sticking with Romney's magic number, the administration has filed seven trade complaints against China through the WTO.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-romney-libya-china-iran-truth-115325187--election.html

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Is Wiz Khalifa And Amber Rose's Baby A Boy Or Girl?

Amber Rose lets out her and Wiz's baby secret on Twitter.
By Rob Markman

Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose attend the 2012 Grammy Awards
Photo: Getty Images

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CAPS LOCK DAY COMES BUT TWICE A YEAR!

Know Your Meme

By Helen A.S. Popkin

No sooner have we taken down the Columbus Day decorations and it's that time of year again ? INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY! Why, it'd sneak up on us, if IT DIDN'T INSIST ON SHOUTING ... symbolically, anyway.

Now in its 13th year, International Caps Lock Day is the biannual event?(Oct. 22 and June 28) launched by software developer Derek Arnold on Oct. 22, 2000, with this explanation, posted on a now-disabled webpage:

International Caps Lock Day is in fact a testament to the small mindedness of certain Western individuals: the majority of the world?s population writes in scripts which have no concept of letter casing. Therefore it is advised to laugh at anyone who invokes this day as an excuse to dismiss local typographical conventions: they are simply making an ass out of themselves.

It's also the special day on which we make that extra effort to annoy our Internet friends and co-workers and run afoul of case-sensitive passwords by abusing what, in some circles, is called the "Billy Mays" key ? so named for the unmodulated pitchman Billy Mays, who passed away on June 28, 2009. It is in Mays' honor that Arnold added the second International Caps Lock Day to the calendar.

With this addition, International Caps Lock Day modernized slightly more than its official website, which boasts a "mobile" version and a Twitter account, and alleges to be a member of the "Family Matters" webring (it is not).

Speaking of Twitter, if you're wondering how International Caps Lock Day is spending itself, look no further than the micro-blogging site:

Twitter

Helen A.S. Popkin goes blah blah blah abut the Internet. Tell her to get a real job on?Twitter?and/or?Facebook. Also,?Google+.??

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Police find fire, chaos at Wis. spa where 7 shot

This photo provided by the Brookfield Police Dept. shows Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer, Wis. Deputies are searching for Haughton on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, who's suspected of wounding multiple people in a shooting at a spa near a suburban Milwaukee shopping mall. (AP Photo/Brookfield Police Dept)

Police and swat team members respond to a call of a shooting at the Azana Spa in Brookfield, Wis. Sunday , Oct. 21, 2012. Multiple people were wounded when someone opened fire at the spa near the Brookfield Square Mall. Deputies are still looking for the gunman. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

A police officer responds to a call of a shooting at the Azana Spa in Brookfield, Wis. Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. Multiple people were wounded when someone opened fire at the spa near the Brookfield Square Mall. Deputies are still looking for the gunman. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

Police and swat team members respond to a call of a shooting at the Azana Spa in Brookfield, Wis. Sunday,Oct. 21, 2012. Multiple people were wounded when someone opened fire at the spa near the Brookfield Square Mall. Deputies are still looking for the gunman. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

Spectators and media look toward the Azana Spa as police and swat team members respond to a call of a shooting at the Azana Spa in Brookfield, Wis. Sunday , Oct. 21, 2012. Multiple people were wounded when someone opened fire at the spa near the Brookfield Square Mall. Deputies are still looking for the gunman. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) ? A Wisconsin man who had been accused of domestic violence and slashing his wife's tires took a gun into the spa where she worked Sunday and shot seven women, three fatally, before killing himself, a police chief said.

The shootings set off a confusing, six-hour search for the gunman that locked down a nearby mall, a country club adjacent to the spa and the hospital where the survivors were taken. The search froze activity in a commercial area in Brookfield, a middle-to-upper class community west of Milwaukee, for much of the day. Ultimately, he was found dead in the spa.

Authorities said it would take time to sort out exactly what happened, and emphasized they were still interviewing witnesses and rescuers and did not have a firm timeline of events. At a news conference Sunday night, Mayor Steve Ponto called the shootings "a senseless act on the part of one person."

The chaos started around 11 a.m. at the Azana Day Spa, a two-story, 9,000-square-foot building across from a major shopping mall. The first officers on the scene found the building filled with smoke from a fire authorities believe was set by the suspect, Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer, Brookfield Police Chief Dan Tushaus said.

They also found a 1-pound propane tank they initially thought might be an improvised explosive device, Tushhaus said. That slowed the search of the building as law enforcement agents waited for a bomb squad to clear the scene.

Tushaus said later that police didn't know whether the gunman brought the propane tank to the spa or it was left by a contractor.

The search also was complicated by the layout of the building, with numerous small treatment rooms and several locked areas, Tushaus said. While officers initially thought the gunman had fled the building, they later found his body in one of the locked areas, he said.

The bodies of the victims were also found in the spa. Tushaus said investigators were still working to identify them. He said the four survivors were between the ages of 22 and 40. He didn't know if they were employees at the spa or customers, and it wasn't clear if the man's wife was among the victims.

Haughton had recently been arrested after witnesses identified him as the person who slashed his wife's tires, police said.

He appeared in court Thursday. A four-year restraining order was issued, and Haughton was ordered to turn any firearms over to the sheriff's department.

Haughton's father, Radcliffe Haughton, Sr., spoke to a television station and The Associated Press shortly before police announced that they had found his son's body. In telephone interviews from Florida, he said he had last spoken to his son a few days ago, but didn't have any indication anything was wrong. He begged his son to turn himself in.

After learning of his son's death, he said only: "This is very sad."

A sea of ambulances and police vehicles collected at the scene shortly after the shooting. A witness, David Gosh of nearby West Allis, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he was returning from duck hunting with his father and a friend when he saw a woman emerge from the spa, screaming, as she ran into traffic.

"She ran right out into the street was pounding on cars," Gosh told the newspaper. Moments later, a man with a handgun ran out. He appeared to be chasing the woman but then went back inside, Gosh said.

At the hospital where the victims were taken, staff members were escorted inside during the temporary lockdown and critically injured patients were accepted with a police escort. Officers were stationed at entrances.

The hospital released a statement saying two women had undergone surgery, and one was in critical condition. Another was expected to have surgery Sunday night.

The shooting investigation and manhunt paralyzed a normally bustling shopping district. Inside the mall across the street from the spa, people waited patiently for updates. Gina Kralik, a bartender at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, said people had been allowed to leave at one point but then police had decided not to let anyone come or go from the mall.

"We're just sitting watching the news and also trying to find out what's going on," she said about 3 p.m.

Austin Della, 17, was working at a department store in the mall when he heard announcements over the loudspeaker asking people to move their cars out of one parking lot. The mall was then locked down for almost three hours, he said, and customers joked about the good service they would get as the only clients in the store.

"Everyone was really calm," Della said. "If not for all the announcements, I don't think anyone would have known that anything was happening."

It was the second mass shooting in Wisconsin this year. Wade Michael Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran and white supremacist, killed six people and injured three others before fatally shooting himself Aug. 5 at a Sikh temple south of Milwaukee.

The shooting at the mall took place less than a mile from where seven people were killed and four wounded on March 12, 2005, when a gunman opened fire at a Living Church of God service held at a hotel.

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Associated Press writer Steve Karnowski in Minneapolis contributed to this report.

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9 killed in clashes in southeast Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? Turkey's state-run agency says clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdish rebels in the southeast of the country have left nine people dead.

The Anatolia news agency says Saturday three Turkish troops and three Kurdish rebels were killed in fighting that broke out in Hakkari province, near the border with Iraq.

The agency said rebels also attacked a military unit in Bitlis province, northwest of Hakkari, killing three government-paid village guards who are helping the Turkish security forces.

The attack comes amid a sharp escalation in violence over the past few months in Turkey's southeast, where the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, are fighting for self-rule for Kurds.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed since the group took up arms in 1984.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/9-killed-clashes-southeast-turkey-092105063.html

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Watch LG Use IPS Displays to Trick Elevator Passengers Into Thinking They're About to Die

There's nothing quite like a good prank, and what prank is better than convincing innocent people that they are about to meet their bitter, messy end? That's the path LG went down for this ad, where they use IPS displays to fool people—however briefly—that an elevator's floor is falling out from beneath them. More »

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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Foster kids do equally well when adopted by gay, lesbian or heterosexual parents

Friday, October 19, 2012

High-risk children adopted from foster care do equally well when placed with gay, lesbian or heterosexual parents, UCLA psychologists report in the first multi-year study of children adopted by these three groups of parents.

The psychologists looked at 82 high-risk children adopted from foster care in Los Angeles County. Of those children, 60 were placed with heterosexual parents and 22 were placed with gay or lesbian parents (15 with gay male parents and seven with lesbian parents).

The age of the children ranged from 4 months to 8 years, with an average age of 4, while the adoptive parents ranged in age from 30 to 56, with an average age of 41. Sixty-eight percent of the parents were married or living with a partner.

The psychologists studied the children two months, one year and two years after they were placed with a family. The children underwent a cognitive assessment by a clinical psychologist three times during the course of the study, and the parents completed standard questionnaires about the children's behavior at each of the three assessment periods.

The psychologists found very few differences among the children at any of the assessments over the two-year period following placement. On average, children in heterosexual, gay and lesbian households achieved significant gains in their cognitive development, and their levels of behavior problems remained stable. Their IQ scores increased by an average of 10 points, from about 85 to 95 ? a large increase, from low-average to average functioning.

"The children showed meaningful gains in heterosexual, gay and lesbian families," said Justin Lavner, a UCLA doctoral candidate in psychology and lead author of the study. "Their cognitive development improved substantially, while their behavior problems and social development were stable."

The study is published in the October issue of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

The children had multiple risk factors at the time of adoption, including premature birth, prenatal substance exposure, abuse or neglect, and multiple prior placements. The psychologists acquired information regarding these biological and environmental risk factors from birth records, court reports and Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services records.

The children adopted by gay and lesbian families had more risk factors at the time of their placement; out of nine risk factors, they averaged one additional risk factor, compared with the children adopted by heterosexual parents.

"The children adopted by gay and lesbian parents had more challenges before they were adopted and yet they end up in the same place, which is impressive," said Letitia Anne Peplau, a distinguished research professor of psychology at UCLA and co-author of the study.

At a time when tens of thousands of foster children lack stable homes and concerns about the suitability of gay and lesbian adoptive parents limit the pool of potential parents, the study indicates that gay and lesbian parents can provide nurturing homes for these children in a manner similar to that of heterosexual parents.

"There is no scientific basis to discriminate against gay and lesbian parents," Peplau said.

Asked whether children need a mother and father, senior author Jill Waterman, a UCLA adjunct professor of psychology, said, "Children need people who love them, regardless of the gender of their parents."

The study participants were recruited from UCLA TIES (Training, Intervention, Education, and Services) for Families as part of a broader study on the development of children adopted from foster care. UCLA TIES for Families promotes the successful adoption of high-risk children from foster care to nurturing homes.

Waterman expressed gratitude to Susan Edelstein, executive director of UCLA TIES for Families, and the Adoptions Division of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services for their support of this project.

More than 100,000 children in foster care in the United States are awaiting adoption, said Lavner, who has a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Adoption policies toward gay men and lesbians vary among the states. Every state allows single gay and lesbian parents to adopt, but not all states allow same-sex couples to adopt; California does.

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Global Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Market (Delivery - SBWire

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/18/2012 -- ReportReserve?s announces the inclusion of a new report in ?Technology? industry

Summary:

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have evolved to overcome the inherent limitations of the Internet in terms of user perceived Quality of Service (QoS) when accessing Web content. A CDN replicates content from the origin server to cache servers, scattered over the globe, in order to deliver content to end-users in a reliable and timely manner from nearby optimal surrogates. Content distribution on the Internet has received considerable research attention. It combines development of high-end computing technologies with high-performance networking infrastructure and distributed replica management techniques. The three components of the CDN architecture are: Content Provider, CDN Provider and End-Users. The Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Market research report covers exclusively in addressing the latest trends, worldwide forecasts, driving forces and application segments.

The report focuses on the latest trends and advancements in CDN solution that provide strategies, process models, and Information Technology (IT) to design, manage and optimize the quality of experience. The report also includes market analysis and forecasts across various CDN types, solutions, service providers, verticals, size of the organization and geographical regions.

MARKETS COVERED

This report segments the Content Delivery Networks market by Type, Solutions, Service Providers, Organization Size, verticals and Geographies. These segments are further sub-segmented into:

On the basis of type:

The market is segmented into two types: Video CDN and Non-video CDN.

On the basis of solutions:

The market is classified on the basis of solutions such as CDN Delivery, CDN Analytics and Monitoring, Encoding & Digital Rights Management (DRM), Transparent Caching, and VMS Content Management System (CMS) & Online Video Providers (OVP).

These solutions are again segmented into:

CDN Delivery: CDN Delivery Technology and CDN delivery Hardware
CDN Analytics and Monitoring: CDN Analytics and CDN Monitoring
Encoding & Digital Rights Management (DRM): Encoding and DRM
VMS Content Management System (CMS) and Online Video Providers (OVP): Video CMS, Video Indexing and Online Video Providers
On the basis of service providers:

The market is segmented on the basis of service providers such as Commercial P2P CDN, Free CDN, Telco CDN and Traditional Commercial CDN.

On the basis of organization size:

The market is classified in Small and Medium Business (SMB) and Large Enterprises on the basis of organization size.

On the basis of verticals:

The market is segmented on the basis of verticals such as Advertising, Media & Entertainment, Gaming, E-commerce, Internet Service Providers (ISP), Mobile Operators, Consumer Electronics, Online Music Retailers, Healthcare, Higher Education, Government and others.

On the basis of geographies:

Geography is classified into North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia-Pacific (APAC), and Latin America.

STAKEHOLDERS

Content Providers
Content Makers
Data Centre Providers
Internet Service Providers (ISP)
Internet Access providers
Internet Backbone Providers
CDN provider
Advertisers
Content Delivery Network report will provide market data, market dynamics (drivers, restraints, trends and opportunities), key players, and competitive outlook. It will also provide market tables for covering the sub-segments and micro-markets. In addition, the report also provides 32 company profiles and overview of 23 other key innovators.

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Hundreds of Nevadans Rally to Support Homeownership ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. ? October 19, 2012 ? (RealEstateRama) ? Hundreds of Nevadans came out today to attend a Rally for Homeownership to voice their unwavering support for homeownership and its importance to families, communities and a growing economy.

Speakers at the rally included:
? U.S. Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.)
? Clark County Commission Chairwoman Susan Brager
? U.S. Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nev.)
? Katherine Archuleta, national political director, Obama for America
? U.S. Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas), Romney for President
? Former U.S. Rep. Dina Titus
? Dave Tina, president-elect, Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors
? Nat Hodgson, executive officer, Southern Nevada Home Builders Association
? Bob Nielsen, immediate past chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder from Reno, Nev.

Local radio host Chet Buchanan served as master of ceremonies for the nonpartisan event.

?I remember when I bought my first home,? said Sen. Heller. ?I was 25 years old, and to this day that is the most important financial decision I?ve ever made. For most Nevadans and most Americans, buying a home will be the most important financial decision they make. I want to make sure that your grandkids and my grandkids have the opportunity to make that same decision, the opportunity to own their own home.?

The rally was held at the Clark County Government Center Amphitheater in Las Vegas and was sponsored by the Southern Nevada Home Builders Association and NAHB.

?We?ve got to make sure that credit is available to people who want to buy a home,? said former Rep. Titus. ?And we?ve got to make sure that credit is available to builders who want to build a home.?

Rally participants represented a broad range of interests including home owners, small business owners, church groups, home builders and real estate agents, consumers, business leaders, politicians, merchants and manufacturers, bankers, students and many others.

?The citizens in Las Vegas and across the nation can send an important message to politicians when they cast their ballots on Nov. 6,? said NAHB Immediate Past Chairman Nielsen. ?Homeownership puts families in homes and Americans in jobs. Our nation?s elected leaders must support pro-housing policies that will boost employment, generate revenues for all levels of government and build a strong and prosperous nation.?

For more information, visit www.protecthomeownership.com/rally.

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