Three men were electrocuted to death on Thursday morning while working at a fish pond in Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar, near the entrance to the Hula Nature Reserve, northern Israel.
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Let me tell you about my experience at Vivadent so far.
I?had?my upper braces fitted on the 22nd of june wich is just a month ago,
and to be sincere and truthfull not one week has gone by without a complication
occurring.
First occurrence:
On the day of fitting the braces the archwire was left cut
too long causing the wire to cut? and scraping into the?right?cheek, as i only started
to feel the pain pass the closing hour going back to have it cut?was not an option,
the following day was Sunday wich is not part of there opening days. Went their
on the next Monday to have?it?cut off, and found out i could have used wax which I had no
knowledge of, no one at the surgery made the effort to explain it might happen after
just having braces fitted nor supply me with the wax until the day I came for the archwire
cutting.
Had to endure over two days of discomfort which led to very little eating done or talking,
I can actually say my mouth had to be closed for that period of time for me not to be in
pain.?
Within the same week on the 29th of june upper left 2nd mollar?brace?broke completely??????????????????????? off thooth while eating (nothing of a hard structure).
Sunday 6th of?July
upper right lateral brace?completely detached from tooth?only being held by the archwire.
Tuesday 16th of July
upper right cupsid?brace?completely detached only being held by the archwire
just few days after having the upper right cupsid reffited got detached once again
on the Friday 19th of July.
Vivadent is currently leaving me?in a possition were I have a?completely detached brace only hagging
through the archwire and no other?option then waitting until the 27th of July to have it reffited as the Orthodantist is on holiday and would not be back until then.
At every single occasion Vivadent had made me feel it has been of my own doing for the reason of the braces coming off, and just as a reminder this is just one month exactly into treatment.
So far the work of Vivadent has been very Patchy, Poor?and Unprofessinal, for what I paid it is not the quality of service I expected I would not recommend Vivadent to anyone.
Source: http://www.qype.co.uk/review/3914638
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Source: pocketnow.com --- Friday, July 19, 2013
Watch today?s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the Moto X event finally becoming a reality on August 1st. Nokia?s Lumia 521 is next, as it may not be hot in specs or features, but it sure is hot for its $100 price tag on T-Mobile. New Nexus 7 leaks show hardware details, and another look at Android 4.3 on the Nexus 4 show significant improvements in performance. VLC for the iPhone and iPad is next, as Apple has finally approved it again, but hurry up and download it before Apple changes its mind. We end today?s show talking about Sony?s new idea of bringing their ... Continue reading ? The post Moto X event, Sony smartphone camera, VLC for iOS & more ? Pocketnow Daily appeared first on Pocketnow . ...
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Cover art by Michael Edwards.
Through the series Mr Tompkins by George Gamow, and decades later, a single work, Alice in Quantumland by Robert Gilmore, the reader is able to take a tour with the characters, Mr Tompkins and the reconstituted Alice, to a world that appears physically implausible to our quotidian yet very real. The range of that experience exists outside our consciousness unless we can partake in time travel, move at close the speed of light, or navigate a timescale that is at the micro of a microsecond (or more). Additionally, you would require an energy level that is likely to make you spontaneously combust in your meat suit.
Jacket design by J.C. Suar?s for Copernicus, an imprint of Springer-Verlag.
And yes, there are actually very serious, non-science fiction types of discussion on the feasibility of time travel (I touched lightly on that subject in my very first Scientific American blog post) that you can find in books such as Paul J Nahin?s Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction,? Jim Al-Khalili?s Black Holes, Wormholes, and Time Machines, and Lawrence Krauss?s The Physics of Star Trek. But such discussions will be for another post.
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Time Travel, from comicvine.com
To live the life of an atom, or even the ?organs? constituting the atoms (the electrons, protons, neutrons, neutrinos, quarks, mesons, any other exotic microscopic physical entity you can think of), one must imagine oneself in a world similar to the ones Mr Tompkins and Gilmore?s Alice each occupies. Physicists resist the idea of thinking about the physical atom as merely particulate although biologists have no qualms in thinking that.
Image from solarwiki.ucdavis.edu
But really, the atom is probably a higher dimension creature (something that string theorists would like to see happen) whose manifestations of particular properties are based on what we are able to observe of them.? In our three-dimensional world (even it we count time, that merely allows the curvature or space to be accounted for, and not much else), we can only see whatever characteristics the atom is able to manifest under such circumstances: some magnetic properties, spin, energy levels, rotational direction, and wave-like functions when it interacts with another atom.
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The atom had fascinated philosophers of old, from Democritus to Aristotle to Lucretius to Leibniz to Newton. It also fascinated fiction writers and artists. There was the idea of the atom as a particle in ancient Greece (but I think most of you reading this know that), and, between the 18th and 19th century, there was also the idea of the atom as being a field, conceptualized in the early 19th century as the theory of vortex.1
Image from www.pa.uky.edu
The people grappling with the idea of the vortex atom were also the ones trying to work out the problem of certain observable paradoxes in thermodynamics relating to certain behavior of the atoms. The theory fell into disrepute by the mid-nineteenth century, though not the concept of the atomic field; otherwise, we would not have the beginnings of the gauge interactions, also known as the interactions of the known particles of nature, that are important to shaping the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
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Less we think only boys come out to play here, there were also women involved, even if their involvement were not as well publicized. While Marie Curie, Pierre Curie and their little troop over in France were making progress in their study of radiation with only the most rudimentary understanding of the character of the atom, given that much of the work leading to understanding its nature only took place in the first two decades of the twentieth century, the German-Jewish-Austrian women in the form of Marietta Blau and her assistant, Hertha Wambacher2, were doing their experiments with nuclear isotopes with the help of their portable emulsion unit that are the fore-runners of the films used in the cameras of the twentieth century.
Marietta Blau. Photo from jwa.org
Their experiments were rudimentary versions of what the accelerators are doing today, though the idea is not novel, since people like Chadwick and Rutherford were also doing some bombarding of their own over at Cambridge, England. However, Blau and Wambacher perfected the emulsion technique that enabled them to isolate and capture very sharp and detailed images of the interactions at the nucleic level. Their work was going on at around the same time when some other guys were looking at the same sort of collisions but at the cosmic level, through the cosmic rays.
Hertha Wambacher. Image from www.i-l-g.at
Cosmic rays, as high-energy charged particles, are sets of naturally occurring particles found through the process of atmospheric nuclei decay. They are also foundational to the study of neutrinos. Interest in neutrino physics came about as the result of the physicists?? attempts at resolving the enigma surrounding the conservation of momentum and energy of the protons, electrons, and neutrons.? Neutrons were produced in greater abundance when large nuclear reactors were built in the aftermath of the Second World War. The physicists found that the laws of conservation were violated because of the possible existence of a third element that was neither proton nor electron.
An illustration of the cosmic rays by Simon Swordy of the U of Chicago. Image from nasa.gov
According to the law of conservation, the disintegration of neutron should produce equal part electrons and equal part protons, but this was found not to be the case. Therefore, Enrico Fermi named it for a particle which is supposed to exhibit zero mass and zero charge (a sort of ?virtual? particle at that time) so as to counteract the ?shortfall? that would have resulted from the proton and electron not being consistently emitted as a ?neutrino.? More of the story of the cosmic rays can be found in this lucid paper by Alexander W Stern, who was also one of the important players in the story of quantum mechanics.3
Later, physicists would begin to think about how the collisions of this atomic matter, at different energy levels, could result in the possibility of reproducing, in tiny doses, the conditions that had enabled the formation of our universe. In fact, even as they are keeping an eye on what is going on at the cosmic level, through cosmology and astrophysics, they are trying to understand the extend in which some of the physics are replicated at the atomic level. This was what drove the decades of work that led to the discovery of the Higgs boson, though that was not, by all means, the only important discovery.
They want to know how understanding a specific property of strong interaction at the subatomic level can help explain why so much of our universe is constituted of dark matter. They also want to know if understanding more about the properties of the atom would allow them to understand how gravity, currently a bit of an outcast in quantum theory, can be connected to all the other atomic level interactions that are going on. Most importantly, they want to understand how the atom constitutes the meaning of life at the most fundamental level, though this is more of a big picture comprehension than an attempt to answer a specific scientific question.
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The atom is singular in its reduction to itself, in that it does not contain or uphold the metaphysical. However, the very notion of thinking about the atom, external to quantifiable and objective measurements, already sets up the way in which we would like to think about the atom. Otherwise, how did we end up with the tragicomedy that is Schr?dinger?s cat, that story of a long-distance relationship between Alice and Bob, and the parable of how one twin ages but not the other when the former decides to take a short holiday in space alone, and a paradoxical personality disorder that is maybe not so paradoxical if we think of its behavior statistically, or, think of the atom as being legion rather than singular, a particle-field hybrid.
Image from tvtropes.org
The big boys who pioneered the way we thought about physics in the twentieth century spilled the ink (of their fountain pens), quarreled, and wrote papers arguing that they each had a better explanation on what the electron, and therefore the atom, is like. Is an atom wave-like or a particle, and what mathematics is the best way for describing its physical state? In fact, besides coming up with mathematically infused and experimental analysis of the atom, they also wrote what later became the narratives of philosophy of quantum physics.4 The conversation about interpreting that atom began from the time when one among them got interested in what the atom was like and decided to write about it for his PhD dissertation on the electron theory of matter.
The atom dances at the center of an attempt at conciliation between supposed definite properties (and therefore, strong sense of certainty) in classical physics and one where causality can only be partially spied through the effects observable of the properties as found in quantum physics.
The Solvay Conference of 1927, featuring some of the who?s who in quantum theory. Image from socwall.com
However, atoms live in a micro-evental level where quantum rules dominate the operation.? Although we might be able to use classical mechanics to talk about some of their properties, such as in the case of thermodynamics and the black body, there is a threshold limit to when that changes and one has to then speak of the atom as exhibiting the behavior of quantum effects. One of the way of thinking about the atom across these two spectrum has been through the idea of the simple harmonic motion (SHM). The SHM allows us to think about an oscillating atom, when put in the same space as a bunch of other atoms, as producing certain effects that could then be visualized through the use of specific calculus, such as integration. The SHM connects the mathematics that operates in the classical physical world with that of quantum physics.
The atom can exist at zero-point state (some like to equate that with the vacuum state), when it is at the lowest energy and temperature state, but for the most part, it is always in motion (even if the motion is vibrational). It has presided over the study of developments not only in thermodynamics but also in electricity and magnetism. Faraday, who did not at all know anything about the developments of the modern theory of the atom, given that his work took place in the early part of the nineteenth century, intuited the notion of the electric current in terms of electromagnetism. However it took both Maxwell and P.A.M Dirac to put all of that into mathematical perspective. But Faraday understood the connection between that and the developments that were also going on in physical chemistry at that time (which had the idea of elements, their breakdowns and chemical bonds even if not our current way of describing them), and wrote about it in his fifth series of the Experimental Researches in Electricity that had appeared in the Philosophical Transactions in 1833, the same journal that Bohr would publish his doctoral work in 1909.5
The atom decays over time, breaking down through chains of fission (rarely fusion since that consumes a lot of energy. However, that might change with the building of the first fusion reactor) and branching out into new child modes with each decay over its lifetime. The decay happens at the level of its nucleon, and the energy emitted is considerable. This is what had enabled the development of medical technology through radiation physics and nuclear medicine. At the same time, the degeneracy (or energy positions of one or more sub-atom particle at any single moment in time), allows for the development in laser physics and in precise time telling (as precise as one can get) through the atomic clock. The February of this year, for a winter school relating to Timing and Transformation in Switzerland, I had produced a poster on the ontology of time as represented in quantum level physics, and even created a comical sketch to accompany it!
Whatever the constituent level in which we are looking at, and regardless of the energy level of our interest, the study of atom has been spread broadly, over the course of more than a century, and over the study of many subfields in physics. Many instruments of great sophistication and wonder had been developed, and continue to be developed, for the study of the atomic figure. In December 2012, I gave a talk at Oregon State University while a resident scholar with its History of Science Special Collections and Archives that incorporated the subject of instrumentality and instrumentation that grew as a result of the connection between developments in nuclear and particle physics. You can find that here, with accompanying slides.
It is in thinking about the atom and what it can do that we have arrived at the interpretation of its myriad possibilities and potentialities in quantum mechanics, or why a physical entity can even be thought of as possessing a measurable quantity. But, there are many operations at the physical state, including the physics of life, that are not necessarily measurable in the mechanical sense, only because the interactions are less direct, and involve multiple bodies that are neither subatomic nor at the leve of quantum energy. This is where we then enter into the study of complex systems and how that is then used, instead, for thinking about the dispersal and cycles of energy at a more macroscopic level. But at this level, we are no longer thinking about the atom as a single atom in itself, but rather, as the conglomeration of many to create life at the level of a single organic cell and beyond. But complex level systems also involve inorganic bits of life that are built out of the same atomic system. Therefore, the atom itself, broken down to its most basic level, problematizes the anthropic principle: what constitutes life at a measurable or quantifiable level?
In the next installment, I will discuss networks of energy and information involving the idea of teleportation that is one of the new (or not so new) developments in quantum computation found in the work of foundational physical theorists and experimentalists. This is also where I will bring up the connection between the cybernetics of informational science and quantum information through the work of historical figures such as Von Neumann and Von Foerster, both born into the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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1See Kragh, H. (2002), The Vortex Atom: A Victorian Theory of Everything. Centaurus, 44: 32?114. doi: 10.1034/j.1600-0498.2002.440102.x.
2 More details on their work can be found in Peter Galison?s Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics, chapter three. Also, see Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early Twentieth Century Vienna by Maria Rentetzi, which can be found online < http://www.gutenberg-e.org/rentetzi/>.
3http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1933JChEd..10?24S. Also if you are interested in some prehistory of the developments of interpretation in quantum mechanics, you might be interested in this letter be John A Wheeler (advisor to Richard P Feynman) and Alexander W Stern http://ucispace.lib.uci.edu/bitstream/handle/10575/1123/Wheeler%20to%20Stern%2025-May-1956.pdf?sequence=1.
4 I suggest reading Helge Kragh?s Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth-Century, as a good place to start, and you can go on from there, through its exhaustive list of bibliography.
5 See http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/bohr-listing-of-all-works.html
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PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) ? The Army says it's responsible for the low-flying military helicopters with spotlights that buzzed around the small town of Port Angeles, Wash., late Thursday. An Army official is apologizing for the unannounced training mission.
Dozens of residents called police to ask what was going on. Mayor Cherie Kidd said Friday the choppers, in her words, "terrorized my city."
The mayor says no one had advance warning, and city officials spent hours Friday trying to determine where the helicopters came from ? or, as she put it, "who had invaded Port Angeles."
The Peninsula Daily News reports (http://is.gd/LDLhv2 ) Army Col. H. Charles "Chuck" Hodges Jr. termed the episode "totally unacceptable" and added his apology. In his words, "At the very least we should have notified local authorities of the exercise."
Hodges says he has launched an investigation.
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Information from: Peninsula Daily News, http://www.peninsuladailynews.com
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/army-says-helicopters-buzzed-washington-city-004213314.html
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Public release date: 12-Jul-2013
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heather.rilkoff@mail.utoronto.ca
647-206-8328
University of Toronto
TORONTO, ON Males and females face different challenges in accessing treatment for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), according to a new study from researchers at the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Uganda Ministry of Health and Imperial College London. The study, published by PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases on July 11, explores the role of gender in access to treatment in the Uganda National Neglected Tropical Disease Control Program.
NTDs are a group of parasitic, viral and bacterial diseases that affect at least a billion people worldwide. Predominantly seen in rural and underserved communities in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, NTDs can pose significant health risks for both male and female populations. International donors have been funding mass-drug distribution programs to treat neglected tropical diseases for over a decade.
"For females, NTDs, such as schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminths (worms), can cause pregnancy complications," says lead author Heather Rilkoff. "On the other hand, NTDs are thought to be somewhat more prevalent in males because men are more likely to have occupational roles, such as farming and fishing, which increase their exposure to the diseases."
The study suggested that men tend to have more difficulty accessing treatment, which is typically distributed annually house-to-house, as they may spend little or no time at home during the day due to occupational roles such as farming, trading or truck driving, which take place away from the household. Females, on the other hand, tend to be home more often and are more likely to receive treatment.
However, the study also found that women who were pregnant or breastfeeding at the time of the annual distribution, and the community health workers who distributed the medicines, were often unaware of which medicines were safe to take, when it was safe to take them, and where women could find access to the medicines once they were no longer pregnant or lactating. WHO guidelines advise not providing two of the four medicines used in the program to pregnant or breastfeeding women until several months after delivery. In some communities, pregnant women were not given any treatments at all, even though they could still potentially receive treatments for schistosomiasis and helminth infections. This might lead to a large proportion of women who consistently miss treatment every year.
"This could have implications both for the individual women and the long term impact of the program. In these communities, a woman might spend 50% of her reproductive years pregnant or breastfeeding. Unless women are aware of when they're allowed to take the medicines, and where to access treatment once the annual mass treatment is over, large proportions of women will go untreated year after year," says Rilkoff.
Mass-treatment programs, which train community members to distribute medicines within their communities, have been identified as an effective strategy to treat affected populations. However, limited evidence is available to discuss challenges to treatment access, adherence, delivery and monitoring at the community level.
"While there were often similarities across communities involved in the study in terms of gender-based challenges to accessing treatment, there were differences as well. Ensuring that there is health education and effective training of community health workers in each community will definitely help, but the nuances we see between communities also suggests that each community should be supported to create their own solutions to these issues."
The study suggests a more comprehensive understanding of the nuances and challenges of community-based treatment programmes is needed to address gender-related challenges and ensure future success of the programmes.
"The international community have put in significant efforts to establish these programs. But because the programs are community-based, there really needs to be more resources devoted to supporting the volunteer health workers who administer the medicines to address the gender-related challenges that they face, and to ensure that they are able to carry out their duties without taking time away from their own livelihoods," says Rilkoff.
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This study was co-authored by Heather Rilkoff, of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Edridah Muheki Tukahebwa, of the Uganda Ministry of Health, Fiona Fleming and Jacqueline Leslie, of the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Imperial College London and Donald C. Cole, of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
For more information, please contact:
Heather Rilkoff, MPH
Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
647-206-8328
heather.rilkoff@mail.utoronto.ca
Jelena Damjanovic
University of Toronto
Media Relations
416-946-5240
jelena.damjanovic@utoronto.ca
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Public release date: 12-Jul-2013 Share ] Contact: Heather Rilkoff
heather.rilkoff@mail.utoronto.ca
647-206-8328
University of Toronto
TORONTO, ON Males and females face different challenges in accessing treatment for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), according to a new study from researchers at the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Uganda Ministry of Health and Imperial College London. The study, published by PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases on July 11, explores the role of gender in access to treatment in the Uganda National Neglected Tropical Disease Control Program.
NTDs are a group of parasitic, viral and bacterial diseases that affect at least a billion people worldwide. Predominantly seen in rural and underserved communities in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, NTDs can pose significant health risks for both male and female populations. International donors have been funding mass-drug distribution programs to treat neglected tropical diseases for over a decade.
"For females, NTDs, such as schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminths (worms), can cause pregnancy complications," says lead author Heather Rilkoff. "On the other hand, NTDs are thought to be somewhat more prevalent in males because men are more likely to have occupational roles, such as farming and fishing, which increase their exposure to the diseases."
The study suggested that men tend to have more difficulty accessing treatment, which is typically distributed annually house-to-house, as they may spend little or no time at home during the day due to occupational roles such as farming, trading or truck driving, which take place away from the household. Females, on the other hand, tend to be home more often and are more likely to receive treatment.
However, the study also found that women who were pregnant or breastfeeding at the time of the annual distribution, and the community health workers who distributed the medicines, were often unaware of which medicines were safe to take, when it was safe to take them, and where women could find access to the medicines once they were no longer pregnant or lactating. WHO guidelines advise not providing two of the four medicines used in the program to pregnant or breastfeeding women until several months after delivery. In some communities, pregnant women were not given any treatments at all, even though they could still potentially receive treatments for schistosomiasis and helminth infections. This might lead to a large proportion of women who consistently miss treatment every year.
"This could have implications both for the individual women and the long term impact of the program. In these communities, a woman might spend 50% of her reproductive years pregnant or breastfeeding. Unless women are aware of when they're allowed to take the medicines, and where to access treatment once the annual mass treatment is over, large proportions of women will go untreated year after year," says Rilkoff.
Mass-treatment programs, which train community members to distribute medicines within their communities, have been identified as an effective strategy to treat affected populations. However, limited evidence is available to discuss challenges to treatment access, adherence, delivery and monitoring at the community level.
"While there were often similarities across communities involved in the study in terms of gender-based challenges to accessing treatment, there were differences as well. Ensuring that there is health education and effective training of community health workers in each community will definitely help, but the nuances we see between communities also suggests that each community should be supported to create their own solutions to these issues."
The study suggests a more comprehensive understanding of the nuances and challenges of community-based treatment programmes is needed to address gender-related challenges and ensure future success of the programmes.
"The international community have put in significant efforts to establish these programs. But because the programs are community-based, there really needs to be more resources devoted to supporting the volunteer health workers who administer the medicines to address the gender-related challenges that they face, and to ensure that they are able to carry out their duties without taking time away from their own livelihoods," says Rilkoff.
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This study was co-authored by Heather Rilkoff, of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Edridah Muheki Tukahebwa, of the Uganda Ministry of Health, Fiona Fleming and Jacqueline Leslie, of the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Imperial College London and Donald C. Cole, of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
For more information, please contact:
Heather Rilkoff, MPH
Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
647-206-8328
heather.rilkoff@mail.utoronto.ca
Jelena Damjanovic
University of Toronto
Media Relations
416-946-5240
jelena.damjanovic@utoronto.ca
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Becky Yeh - California correspondent ? (OneNewsNow.com) Wednesday, July 10, 2013
A pro-family activist says he was threatened by police and church leaders in one California city for peacefully holding signs about sharing the Christian faith.
Activist and author James Lambert says he was threatened when he stood outside a San Diego church with signs that encouraged Christians to share the gospel. He was perplexed on the first Sunday, when he was allegedly confronted by one of the pastors who asked him to leave the sidewalk upon which he was standing. He claims the pastor was angry and contacted local authorities to remove him.
"One of the pastors there refused to shake my hand and talk to me and immediately asked me to leave the sidewalk that he claimed belonged to the church -- the public sidewalk that went up and down the street," Lambert accounts.
The following Sunday, Lambert says no church leaders tried to stop him. Instead, local authorities arrived and threatened that if he showed up again, he would be officially cited and possibly arrested.
"Sometimes I have a simple message of asking Christians to share their faith, and that's all the signs were all about," he asserts. "They weren't nasty; they were very polite, and they were just asking for Christians to share their faith, and they talked about some of the statistics about the surprising number that do not."
He has since contacted the church and received no response.
Source: http://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2013/07/10/church-bothered-by-urge-to-share-gospel
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As every parent knows,?keeping?the family organized is not easy. I think things get even busier as the kids get older too! I?m sharing three tips that have worked for our family today.
As I mentioned last week, Sony was kind enough to send a Sony VAIO Tap 20 portable all-in-one PC?for me to review, and I?ve started using it as a central organization point our family schedule and to-do list.
One of my favorite elements of this computer system is an app called ?Organizer.?
Sony includes the Organizer app automatically with the the Sony VAIO Tap 20. I?ve loved using this computer so far. I?m enjoying its fast Intel Core i7 processor, lots of memory and lots of hard drive space. And as I mentioned in my last post, it can be used in any position ? like a regular desktop computer or like a tablet, or anywhere in between! I love the touch screen!
I?ll share with you three of my favorite family organization tips and tell you?how you can enter to win your own Sony VAIO Tap 20 next:
I?ve discovered that there is so much technology available that can help make our lives more organized, it just makes sense to use these resources. Instead of relying on a paper calendar like I did in years past, now all of our calendar information is online and our family members can access it wherever we are. This has really helped as my kids have gotten older and even busier!
My three favorite?family?organization tips?are:
I?ve really enjoyed the Organizer touch app on the new Sony VAIO Tap 20. It even syncs with our family Google Calendar!
But it has a super fun interface that makes it easy for anyone in the family to stop by and add to the calendar, add to the grocery list, or just add a fun note! It has easy explanatory videos and a cute clothesline UI!
And Sony?s offering a Sony VAIO Tap 20 to one of you!
To enter to win a Sony VAIO Tap 20,
Check out the features HERE.
And then just?tweet your favorite Sony VAIO Tap 20 feature
using the #TryVAIOTap20 and #SonyVAIO hashtags for a chance to win!
You can see the complete rules here.
Also,
?Stay up to date on the latest Sony product news on Facebook (@Sony), Twitter (@Sony Electronics, #SonyVAIO, #TryVAIOTap20), YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram and at their blog (blog.sony.com).
How do you keep YOUR family Organized??
Let me know in the comments!
xoxo?
(This post was sponsored by Sony and Intel, but all opinions and ideas are mine. See my?disclosures.)
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NEW YORK (AP) ? The stock market is rising to record highs after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank would continue to support the U.S. economy.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 151 points, or 1 percent, to 15,443 after the first few minutes of trading Thursday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 17 points, also 1 percent, to 1,670.
The early advance put the Dow and S&P above their previous record closes set in May.
All 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 rose.
Investors also bought bonds after being reassured that the Fed was not in a hurry to pull back on its huge bond-buying program.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.59 percent from 2.63 percent late Wednesday.
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MANCHESTER: Manuel Pellegrini on Wednesday admitted part of his role as Manchester City manager will be to help nurture young talent and save the club spending heavily on transfer fees in the future.
City, who were bought by Sheikh Mansour's Abu Dhabi United Group in 2008, have been the Premier League's highest spenders in the transfer market in recent years.
With the new financial fair-play rules to curtail the spending of clubs like City, Pellegrini seemed to suggest a slight departure from that policy in the long term.
"We have to have a different style here in the club," said Pellegrini?, who on Wednesday spoke to the media for the first time since he was appointed as Roberto Mancini's successor.
"I mean a different style in the way Man City must work in the next few years.
"It is impossible every year to buy three, four, five expensive players. We need a mix with young players, who work exactly the same as the first team, and as the Under 21s.
"There are a lot of things we can improve. What Roberto Mancini and the other coaches have done we will continue working at and adding different things."
Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano was recently quoted as saying that he wanted Pellegrini to win five trophies in the next five years.
Former Malaga boss Pellegrini knows he will be under pressure to compete for all trophies on all fronts but the 59-year-old Chilean believes that is only part of his mandate at Eastlands.
"As a coach of course we always want immediate success," he added.
"If that will bring us trophies, perfect, we have more chances to win that way. In the same way we are working with young players and we will continue to.
"I'm here not only to win trophies - the Premier League, the Champions League, the FA Cup - I am here to work with young players.
"To win trophies is very important but I am not here just for that. I will do my job here completely with Ferran, with Txiki Begiristain (Manchester City sporting director), with Patrick Vieira (elite development squad manager) also working with young players."
Pellegrini has already boosted his squad with the signings of Brazil midfielder Fernandinho from Shakhtar Donetsk for ?30 million and Spain winger Jesus Navas from Sevilla for ?15 million.
And the City manager confirmed a player's nationality will not be an important issue when asked whether he would target any English players.
"We need good players, yes. Good English, Argentinian, South American players. We are trying to have a strong squad in all positions," Pellegrini said.
"I think that all the clubs have the same problem with English players. Arsenal or Chelsea do not have a lot of English players but we have here very important young players.
"Is signing English players a priority? It is important but not a priority. We have very good English players like Joe Hart and James Milner.
"It is very difficult at an important club to have only national team players.
"We will see. I am sure that players can arrive when we are on the club's tour of South Africa and Hong Kong. We are not in a hurry. We have people and choices."
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Microsoft has been releasing a?series of?commercials that show how the iPad falls behind its Windows 8 counterparts, and the company's latest commercial highlights how the Surface RT is a better device than the iPad by focusing on several key features of the RT.
The commercial focuses on the?Microsoft tablet's?kickstand, USB port and touch covers; the commercial shows that the iPad does not have any of these features and falls short in competing with the Surface.
Microsoft is not shy that it is fighting to take back the market with these commercials. The iPad is clearly the market leader, and Microsoft is emphasizing that Windows 8 devices have more features and cost less than the iPad.
For Microsoft, its new fiscal year (which kicked off July 1)?will be a crucial time to see if the company can grow its share in mobile markets that include Windows Phone and the Surface. Microsoft has been slow to the market with its tablet and smartphone offerings but has been picking up steam in the last few months.
It will be interesting to see how the company's?impending reorganization plays into the promotion of these goods, as you can expect quite a few Microsoft?s employee bonuses will be based around the success of these devices in the mobile marketplace.
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FORT HOOD, Texas -- Jury selection is set to start Tuesday in the long-awaited murder trial of the Army psychiatrist accused of opening fire with a semi-automatic gun at Fort Hood nearly four years ago.
Several soldiers who survived the mass shooting hoped no last-minute problems would again delay the case, saying waiting to testify in Maj. Nidal Hasan's court-martial has caused them to miss family reunions, vacations and other events.
"I'll believe it when it happens, because there's been so many delays," said Retired Staff Sgt. Shawn Manning, who was shot six times during the Nov. 5, 2009, rampage inside a medical building. "We've been given a window (of when to testify) on and off since 2010."
Hasan, 42, faces execution or life without parole if convicted in the rampage that left 13 dead and nearly three dozen wounded on the Texas Army post.
Jury selection will begin Tuesday afternoon following a morning hearing in which the judge, Col. Tara Osborn, is expected to finalize routine matters. Last week she rejected Hasan's latest delay request and sternly restated that proceedings will start Tuesday.
The pool of nearly 150 officers will come from Army posts nationwide, including Fort Hood. All won't be brought in initially, because only six will be questioned each day, the judge has said. Potential jurors, who must be of Hasan's rank or higher, have already filled out a questionnaire prepared by prosecutors and the defense.
Hasan, who is serving as his own attorney but can get help from his former defense attorneys, will have a jury consultant on hand. Jury selection is expected to last at least a month, and once testimony starts in August, that could take another two months.
Death-penalty cases in the military require at least 12 jury members, more than in other cases. And unlike other trials, their verdict must be unanimous in finding guilt or assessing a sentence.
Potential jurors will arrive to a military courthouse that has been transformed into a fortress. The building on the edge of the Texas Army post is surrounded by hundreds of stacked freight car-size shipping containers, and by tall dirt- and sand-filled barriers designed to protect it against the impact of a bomb blast. Armed soldiers stand guard around the building.
Although Fort Hood's security plans are sealed by the military judge's orders, the increased measures are evident. In the courthouse, everyone passes through a metal detector ? which was not there before Hasan's case. In addition to news reporters and those involved in the case, only victims' relatives are allowed in the small courtroom. No other spectators are allowed.
The tight security measures at Fort Hood appear to be the most extreme for any court-martial on a U.S. Army post. Just two years after a bomb attack was thwarted in the neighboring city of Killeen, some military law experts say, the community once again could be targeted by supporters of Hasan, an American-born Muslim who has tried to justify the deadly rampage as protecting Taliban leaders in Afghanistan.
"He's admitted he's on the side of terrorists ... so this area is now a high threat level for jihadists," said Jeff Addicott, director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio. He is not involved in Hasan's case.
In Killeen, law enforcement officials won't discuss security specifics. But businesses are receiving posters that read: "If you see something, say something." They feature the picture of a gun store employee who helped avert a deadly attack in 2011 when he alerted authorities of a suspicious customer who turned out to be an AWOL soldier from Fort Campbell, Ky.
Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo was arrested at a Killeen motel where authorities found pressure cookers and other bomb-making components, a loaded gun, 143 rounds of ammunition, a stun gun and al-Qaida magazine article on how to make an explosive device. Abdo, who became a Muslim at 17, said he planned to blow up a restaurant full of Fort Hood troops ? his religious mission to get "justice" for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Abdo was sentenced last year to life in federal prison.
As Hasan's trial approaches, some in Killeen are concerned. Guns Galore store manager Cathy Cheadle ? whose sales representative Greg Ebert appears in the poster by the question: "He said something; would you?" ? said she hopes the community remains on high alert.
"If one tried it and didn't succeed, I think everybody wants to be in the news and ... somebody else would think, `I want to succeed,'" in an attack, Cheadle said. "I think people should be that alert anyway. As a test, how many people would walk by a backpack and not say anything?"
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LIVE VIDEO ? George Zimmerman faces charges of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Editor's note: This is a live feed of a criminal trial and may contain graphic imagery and language that could offend some viewers.
By Tom Winter, James Novogrod and Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News
An animation that illustrates what may have happened in the fatal confrontation between neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman and teenager Trayvon Martin could be key to jurors? understanding of what led Zimmerman to shoot Martin and should be admissible, Zimmerman?s defense team argued Tuesday.
The animation, which according to defense attorney Mark O?Mara has been reduced to ?more like a series of stills,? originally included punches being thrown by Martin, 17, at Zimmerman. The punches have now been excluded.
Judge considers allowing defense's animation of Trayvon Martin's shooting into evidence. NBC's Sarah Dallof reports.
On Tuesday, in a continued push to get the animation presented to the jury ? which prosecutors argue would be misleading to the jury ? the defense brought in the crime scene and accident recreation animation graphic artist who was hired to reconstruct his version of the Martin-Zimmerman confrontation. Jurors were not in the courtroom during the hearing.
Daniel Schumaker of California-based Contrast Forensics said he uses a variety of pieces of software, equipment, robotic lasers that measure three-dimensional space, and ?motion-capture? suits to recreate crime scenes and accidents.
O?Mara asked Schumaker why crime scene and accident reconstruction technologies are beneficial.
?It?s perfect for court because then you can ? it gives you a running log of all the movements. Say, for example, somebody hits something and causes a certain amount of damage. With this suit, I can do that same action and from the accelerometers, you could see how much force it took to cause that amount of damage,? Schumaker said.
?The engineers that have developed it, they not only use it for motion-capture like this, but it?s used in biometrics, for physical rehabilitation and physical therapy,? he said.
Zimmerman, 29, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Martin, 17. He has pleaded not guilty and says he shot Martin after being attacked on Feb. 26, 2012, after the two encountered each other in a gated community in Sanford, Fla.
Schumaker was hired in April 2012 by the defense to do a recreation of their confrontation. He said he used coroner photos, police reports, audio from 911 calls, and witness statements for his recreation. He also flew from California to the crime scene to use a motion-capture suit on-site.
?There?s a couple volunteers from your law office that put the suits on. Then as far as the timing, for the second part of the scenario where they were on the ground, I used the audio from the 911 call for the timing of it to time it with the shot of the gun,? he said, referring to the moments before the gun went off when the two were on the ground fighting each other, according to witness accounts and Zimmerman?s statement to police.
Prosecutors filed a motion last Friday to block the animation, arguing, among other objections, that it ?artificially depicts lighting conditions? on the rainy night Zimmerman and Martin tussled and ?relies in part upon statements in police reports, some of which were in fact contrary to testimony repeated by the same witness in court.? They also object to the animation because it wasn?t presented at any pretrial hearings.
Editor's note: George Zimmerman has sued NBC Universal for defamation. The company strongly denies the allegation.
Past coverage:
Trayvon Martin's father: Screaming on 911 call is my son
Mothers' testimony opens, closes day at Zimmerman trail
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George Zimmerman sits at the defense table at his trial in Seminole Circuit Court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 8, 2013. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teen, in 2012. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)
George Zimmerman sits at the defense table at his trial in Seminole Circuit Court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 8, 2013. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teen, in 2012. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)
Tracy Martin, the father of Trayvon Martin, testifies in George Zimmerman's trial at the Seminole Circuit Court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 8, 2013. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his son, in 2012. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)
Sondra Osterman, a friend of George Zimmerman, listens to the 911 tape while while on the witness stand at Seminole Circuit Court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 8, 2013. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teen, in 2012. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)
LeAnne Benjamin, a friend of George Zimmerman, smiles while identifying him in court during testimony in his trial in Seminole Circuit Court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 8, 2013. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teen, in 2012. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)
The parents of Trayvon Martin, Tracy Martin, right, and Sybrina Fulton, listen to the testimony of Sanford police officer Chris Serino during the George Zimmerman trial in Seminole Circuit Court, in Sanford, Fla., Monday, July 8, 2013. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teen, in 2012. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) ? An expert on gunshot wounds hired by the defense testified Tuesday that George Zimmerman's account of how he fatally shot Trayvon Martin is consistent with the forensic evidence.
Dr. Vincent Di Maio said that the trajectory of the bullet and gun powder on Martin's body support Zimmerman's version that Martin was on top of him when Zimmerman fired his gun into Martin's chest. The gun's muzzle was against Martin's clothing and it was anywhere from two to four inches from Martin's skin, he said.
"This is consistent with Mr. Zimmerman's account that Mr. Martin was over him, leaning forward at the time he was shot," said Di Maio, the former chief medical examiner in San Antonio.
The pathologist also said it was likely Martin was conscious for 10 to 15 seconds after the shooting as a reserve supply of oxygen ran out of his body, and during that time it was possible for him to have moved his arms. Zimmerman's account that he had placed Martin's arms out to his sides after the shooting contradicts a photo taken after the shooting that shows Martin's arms under his body. Defense attorneys contend Martin moved his arms.
Di Maio also explained that if clothes taken into evidence are wet and packaged in plastic bags, and not paper bags, it can ruin the samples since "bacteria multiplies and you get mold and it stinks to high heaven." Defense attorneys believe DNA evidence found on Martin's hooded sweatshirt and undershirt was degraded since the clothing wasn't packaged properly.
Earlier in the morning, Judge Debra Nelson considered prosecutors' request to bar the defense from showing animation depicting the fight between Martin and Zimmerman. Nelson held an evidence hearing with jurors out of the courtroom, but ultimately postponed her decision and more arguments on the matter until later in the afternoon.
Prosecutors object to the animation, saying it isn't an accurate depiction.
Defense attorneys called the man who created the animation to testify. To recreate the fight, Daniel Schumaker went to the crime scene and had employees in motion-capture suits re-enact what happened based on coroner photographs, police reports, the coroner's report, witness depositions and photos taken by responding police officers, he said.
The fight took place on a dark, rainy night in February 2012 and there were no eyewitnesses who saw the entire fight. Several witnesses saw and heard parts of the struggle that left Martin dead with a bullet in his heart.
Testimony in previous days has focused on a 911 call that captures screams from the struggle between Martin and Zimmerman.
Convincing the jury of who was screaming for help on the tape has become the primary goal of prosecutors and defense attorneys because it would help jurors evaluate Zimmerman's self-defense claim. Relatives of Martin's and Zimmerman's have offered conflicting opinions about who is heard screaming.
Zimmerman's mother and uncle testified last Friday it was Zimmerman screaming, while Martin's mother and brother also took the witness stand last Friday to say the voice belongs to Martin. Martin's father testified Monday that he initially couldn't tell if the screams came from his son, but later decided they did.
Zimmerman himself once said during a police interview that the screams didn't sound like him, though he and his family later said the screams were his.
Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and says he shot Martin in self-defense during a scuffle in the townhome complex where he lived. Martin was there visiting his father and his father's fiancee.
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