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#1 ? duffy98?

Posted 18 April 2013 - 11:50 AM

Just a quick mention about this one registry cleaner that I use for XP and used to use with Windows 98SE ... RegCleaner 4.3.0.780. Maybe some newer people have come along and didn't know about this particular cleaner. This cleaner will show software that is registered to the registry that you may not know is still in your machine. A good example is when I install a newer version of Shockwave ... during the install, there are two check marks for Google junk that I never install ... if I remember correctly, one is for the Google Toolbar and then something with Google Chrome (?). I always remove the check marks but when I run RegCleaner 4.3.0.780 the two Google entries are always there along with the Shockwave entries ... it looks to me that the Google entries were still installed even though I requested that they not be. I remove them once and for all with RegCleaner.

Many times when I uninstall a program this program will still show an entry or two by name so then I manually delete them and then run a few other cleaners for a nice clean registry ... plus it does several other things also.

RegCleaner 4.3.0.780

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RegCleaner is an easy to use program. With RegCleaner you can easily get rid of those old and obsolete registry entries created by software that you have destroyed ages ago. And by easily, I mean easily. You don?t have to be any expert to use this program.

Key Features
# Remove file types
# Remove entries of old software
# Uninstall and remove Software from the Add/Remove list
# Remove unused DLL files
# Remove unused Shared DLLs (Automatically detected)
# Automatic backup feature

... just to add, the last version of Shockwave Player that I just installed (current v12.0.2.122) I only seem to remember seeing one Google entry with RegCleaner even though there were two Google check marks during the install ... there usually were always two Google entries to remove. Maybe there is only one with newer versions, not sure.
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#2 ? submix8c?

Posted 18 April 2013 - 02:44 PM

Thx for reminder...

BTW, re - SWFLASH - you're getting the "consumer" one instead of the "licensed" one ("Just the flash, Ma'am" <- Joe Friday).

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#3 ? duffy98?

Posted Yesterday, 06:12 AM

Thanks submix8c for the heads up ... I wasn't sure what version I actually am using. I get my SW download at FileHippo ... which is the full version.

FileHippo

Browsers and Plugins Downloads

http://www.filehippo...tware/internet/

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Genome study suggests new strategies for understanding and treating pulmonary fibrosis

Apr. 19, 2013 ? A new genome-wide association study of more than 6,000 people has identified seven new genetic regions associated with pulmonary fibrosis. In findings published online in Nature Genetics on April 14, 2013, researchers at National Jewish Health, the University of Colorado and several other institutions found a number of genes associated with host defense, cell-cell adhesion and DNA repair, which provide clues to possible mechanisms underlying this currently untreatable disease.

"This research gives us several new targets for investigation of pulmonary fibrosis," said David Schwartz, MD, senior author on the paper, Professor of Medicine at National Jewish Health and Chair of Medicine the University of Colorado School of Medicine. "We believe that there are several relatively common genetic risk factors, which combine with repeated lung injury to cause this devastating lung disease."

Pulmonary fibrosis is a potentially deadly scarring of lung tissue. Although there are a number of known contributors to its development, most cases have no known cause. Without an approved medical therapy, patients with the most common form, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, survive an average of only two to three years after diagnosis.

"Pulmonary fibrosis has resisted our attempts to find a clearly beneficial treatment," said co-author Kevin K. Brown, MD, Vice Chair of Medicine at National Jewish Health. "This study gives us new insights into how the disease develops. By better understanding this, we can better focus future therapies."

Researchers from more than 20 institutions, led by National Jewish Health and the University of Colorado, confirmed three previously reported genetic risk factors and identified seven new ones, which together account for about one-third of the disease risk.

The team's findings confirmed the risk associated with specific changes in MUC5B, a gene that produces a protein in mucus. Researchers believe variations in this gene may lead to pulmonary fibrosis by interfering with mucosal defense, repair of lung alveoli or direct toxicity to cells.

The researchers also found stronger evidence for the role of telomeres, a protective section of DNA located at the tips of chromosomes. Shorter telomeres are associated with a reduced ability to divide and premature cell death. Previously, two rare genetic mutations had been associated with some forms of pulmonary fibrosis. The research team found common variants in and near those two genes, and a common variant in another gene.

The researchers also identified three genes associated with connections that hold adjoining cells together, known as cell-cell adhesion. Impaired cell-cell adhesion can lead to lost tissue integrity.

These findings support the researchers' belief that pulmonary fibrosis may be influenced by different genes in different people. Careful genotyping could identify different forms of the disease, allowing for more effective, individualized therapy.

The research was supported by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). "In addition to expanding the library of genetic changes that can underlie pulmonary fibrosis, this study's findings demonstrate that both rare and common genetic variants contribute significantly to pulmonary fibrosis risk," said James Kiley, PhD, Director of NHLBI's Division of Lung Diseases. "A key next step for research is figuring out how these genetic variants work with environmental factors in the development of the disease."

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1. Tasha E Fingerlin, Elissa Murphy, Weiming Zhang, Anna L Peljto, Kevin K Brown, Mark P Steele, James E Loyd, Gregory P Cosgrove, David Lynch, Steve Groshong, Harold R Collard, Paul J Wolters, Williamson Z Bradford, Karl Kossen, Scott D Seiwert, Roland M du Bois, Christine Kim Garcia, Megan S Devine, Gunnar Gudmundsson, Helgi J Isaksson, Naftali Kaminski, Yingze Zhang, Kevin F Gibson, Lisa H Lancaster, Joy D Cogan, Wendi R Mason, Toby M Maher, Philip L Molyneaux, Athol U Wells, Miriam F Moffatt, Moises Selman, Annie Pardo, Dong Soon Kim, James D Crapo, Barry J Make, Elizabeth A Regan, Dinesha S Walek, Jerry J Daniel, Yoichiro Kamatani, Diana Zelenika, Keith Smith, David McKean, Brent S Pedersen, Janet Talbert, Raven N Kidd, Cheryl R Markin, Kenneth B Beckman, Mark Lathrop, Marvin I Schwarz, David A Schwartz. Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for pulmonary fibrosis. Nature Genetics, 2013; DOI: 10.1038/ng.2609

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Engadget HD Podcast 345 - 04.16.13

4K TVs for less than $1,500? That's the new world we live in, as we dive into Ultra HD, next Xbox rumors and more on this week's podcast. Meanwhile, news of the death of Panasonic plasma R&D program was apparently greatly exaggerated, so we'll figure out what to expect from the manufacturer in the future. Finally, we've got a fresh update in the always interesting news category of Dish Network Does Things.

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Early investment in families helps children succeed in school

Apr. 15, 2013 ? An innovative program that supports parents and teachers of public school pre-kindergarten students improves early academic achievement, according to a new study published in the April 15 online edition of Pediatrics. In a five-year study of 1,050 minority pre-kindergarten students from disadvantaged neighborhoods in New York City, NYU Langone researchers found that ParentCorps, a family-focused, school-based program, led to better achievement test scores and overall school performance.

Children from low-income families are ten times as likely as children from middle-class families to drop out of high school, and only half of black and Latino students in U.S. public schools graduate, according to the U.S. Department of Education. The stress and strain of poverty makes the job of parenting even more difficult, and early childhood teachers in disadvantaged areas face significant challenges in creating classrooms that support early learning for all children. The new study found that engaging and supporting parents and early childhood teachers put children on a pathway to success.

"All parents want their children to succeed. Parents are often hopeful and worried as their children start school, so offering ParentCorps at this key transition gives parents support at a time when they are highly motivated to make positive changes at home," said lead researcher Laurie Miller Brotman, PhD, Prevention Science Professor at the Child Study Center at NYU Langone. "Implementing ParentCorps as part of universal pre-k in public elementary schools means that all parents have access to the latest evidence on how to promote children's social, emotional and behavioral development -- the foundation for success in school and life."

ParentCorps was developed by Dr. Brotman and her colleagues at NYU Langone in 2000 to promote self-regulation and early learning among children in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods. The program includes a series of group sessions for parents and children held at the school during early evening hours, and professional development for early childhood educators. ParentCorps helps schools engage families early on in their children's education, and supports parents and educators in using scientifically-proven strategies such as how to establish routines and rules, reinforce positive behavior and provide effective consequences for misbehavior.

The study is the second test of the impact of ParentCorps showing positive results on children's health and development. This study included nearly 90 percent of students enrolled in pre-kindergarten programs over four years in ten public elementary schools in two large New York City school districts with historically low high school graduation rates. Schools were randomized to receive ParentCorps or pre-k and kindergarten education as usual.

Results showed children in schools with ParentCorps had significantly higher kindergarten achievement test scores for reading, writing and math compared to children receiving education as usual, and more positive trajectories of academic performance from pre-kindergarten through kindergarten. In fact, by the fourth year of ParentCorps implementation in schools, the impact on reading achievement was comparable to the size of the achievement gap for poor and minority children, moving the average reader (50th percentile) to above average (69th percentile). Together with previously-reported program effects on obesity and behavior at school, findings indicate that ParentCorps has the potential to meaningfully improve children's lives.

"ParentCorps is one of a few programs shown to promote positive behavior, learning and health for young children living in underserved communities," said Dr. Brotman. "Public investment in programs that address disparities early in life can prevent costly problems later on and help children lead happier, healthier, more productive lives."

Dr. Brotman and her team are working with local and state leaders to bring ParentCorps to hundreds of elementary schools with pre-kindergarten programs serving low-income children.

Co-authors of the study at NYU Langone include Spring Dawson-McClure, PhD, Esther J. Calzada, PhD, Keng-Yen Huang, PhD, Dimitra Kamboukos, PhD, Joseph J. Palamar, PhD and Eva Petkova, PhD.

Study funding was provided by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, grant R305F050245 and by the National Institutes of Health grant R01MH077331.

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Incoming VoIP IVR to PSTN Dialing - Elastix Forums :: Open Source ...

Good afternoon everyone!

I'm very thankful for this forum and finally i'll give it the try to accomplish todays' solution.

I have a fully installed and running Elastix PBX with my VoIP Provider. It gives me a local DID number which allows me to keep the number no matter who provides me of the internet service.

My issue is that i want to use my local pstn service as the outbound route, just for cheaper facts, so i acquired the classical Linksys/Sipura SPA3000. It is currently allowing the extension to call through it after i set the dialing plans but here comes my certain doubt.

I would like to call through the DID number, and configure an IVR that allows me not only to call the PBX extensions, but also give me access to the pstn line to call an external mobile, for example.
What i'm looking for is not only the chance to call, but also allow me to redirect the calls when i'm not at home.

Some solutions i've tryed is to add an IVR choice which is supposed to call my specified number, but i think it tries to make the call through the VoIP provider (which just hangsup the call. Also tryed to configure the call forwarding in the Sipura Gateway and assigned a sip extension to the Sipura Phone. It only works for local extensions but when trying to be accesed through IVR asterisk show me a Congestion error and hangs up the call.

If you could help me over here i'll be more than thankful.

Thank you very much for the read,

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2 kids die after pulled from pool on Long Island

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) ? Two young siblings reported missing on New York's Long Island died Sunday after they were pulled from a neighbor's pool, police said.

Police received a 911 call at about 3:30 p.m. from a mother reporting that her 5-year-old son and a 7-year-old daughter disappeared from their home in Central Islip, according to Detective Sgt. Edward Fandrey of the Suffolk County police homicide squad.

While searching the neighborhood in 50-degree temperatures, a police officer spotted a shoe floating in a next-door neighbor's aboveground pool, which was uncovered and contained blackish water, Fandrey said.

Officers jumped into the 4-foot-deep pool and discovered the unconscious bodies of Ralph Knowles and Sharon Knowles. The brother and sister, who were fully clothed, were taken to Southside Hospital, where efforts to resuscitate them failed, Fandrey said.

He said the pool's owner had been cited by the town for improper fencing.

"The exposed side of the stockade fence was facing out, instead of the smooth side," said Fandrey, who added that the slats made it easier to climb over the shared fence.

The home where the children lived is owned by a nonprofit that provides housing to homeless families, Newsday reported.

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Chinese data weighs on stocks as gold tanks again

LONDON (AP) ? Weaker-than-expected Chinese economic growth figures weighed on markets Monday as the price of gold slid another $100 to hit a two-year low amid concerns that a 12-year bull run for the commodity has come to an end.

Though Beijing government figures showed that the world's second-largest economy expanded 7.7 percent in the first quarter of the year compared with a year earlier, the figure was down on the previous period's 7.9 percent rate and was worse than expectations for a modest increase to 8 percent.

The report stoked worries about the strength of China's economy at a time when a run of U.S. economic data has disappointed and Europe remains embroiled in its crisis over too much government debt.

"Weak economic growth in China has taken investors by surprise," said Mike McCudden, head of derivatives at stockbroker Interactive Investor. "With the recent run or weaker global economic data investors have reached an impasse and without a great deal in sight this week to inspire them, we should see markets drift lower."

In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 1.1 percent at 6,313 while Germany's DAX fell 1 percent to 7,678. The CAC-40 in France was also 1 percent lower at 3,692.

Wall Street was poised for a lower opening, with Dow futures down 0.3 percent and the broader S&P 500 futures 0.5 percent lower. The focus during the U.S. session will be on the next batch of quarterly corporate earnings statements from financial companies, including Citigroup, Charles Schwab and First Republic Bank.

Much of the interest in financial markets though is centered on gold, which has taken a battering over recent sessions.

By late-morning London time, an ounce of the yellow metal was trading $100.10, or 6.7 percent, lower at $1,401.50. Gold has fallen sharply over recent trading sessions from over $1,600 10 days ago and there is talk in the markets that a number of institutions are cashing in following a reduction in gold price predictions from leading investment banks, including Goldman Sachs. Earlier, it fell to $1,398.80, its first foray below $1,400 since March, 2011.

Many reasons have been put forward to explain the sudden change of course, including speculation that Cyprus may sell a chunk of its reserves to finance its part of its financial rescue. Though that may not materialize, it was enough to prompt some investors to think that a gold-selling strategy may be used elsewhere in the troubled eurozone.

Another reason put forward is that the Federal Reserve will outline a strategy to withdraw its monetary stimulus later this year despite recent mixed signals out of the U.S. economy, the world's largest. One of the reasons why the price of gold has been so well-bid in recent years is a direct result of the Fed's policy ? the new dollars created under so-called quantitative easing have found themselves recycled in financial markets and many of them have gone to the perceived haven of gold.

"Investors are clearly turning away from gold here, using the price action as justification for unwinding positions and taking capital away from what was once considered as almost a one-way bet," said David White, a trader at Spreadex. "Even those naturally contrarian are struggling to find reasons to own gold."

The sharp decline in the price of gold has had knock-on effects throughout commodity markets. The price of oil has been in retreat too and the benchmark New York rate was down another $2.70 at $88.59 a barrel.

Subdued investor appetite for risk, as evidenced by the performance of stocks, was evident in the currency markets too, where the euro was trading 0.4 percent lower at $1.3057.

Earlier in Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 finished 1.6 percent lower at 13,275.66, falling for a second straight trading day after a series of gains. The Bank of Japan's aggressive monetary easing to lift borrowing and spending drove Japanese stocks to their highest close in nearly four years last week as well as weighing heavily on the yen. However, the yen has gained some ground over the last couple of sessions, and the dollar was 0.4 percent lower at $97.77 yen.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng sank 1.4 percent to 21,772.67 while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.9 percent to 4,967.90 and China's Shanghai Composite Index shed 1.1 percent to 2,181.94.

South Korea's benchmark index narrowed its losses amid expectations that policymakers in major economies may put pressure on Japan to halt the yen's slide, which has hurt South Korean exporters. The Kospi closed at 1,920.45, down 0.2 percent.

Associated Press

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Gillmor Gang: Speculation, Music, Death | TechCrunch

The Gillmor Gang ? Kevin Marks, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor ? spared no expense to bring you the finest in up-to-date tech commentary. In other words, we tore into Twitter Music, ignored Facebook Home, dissected the internals of AirPlay, and cashed our Bitcoin checks.

Our attention is a zero sum game, and whether it?s West Wing or Twitter pointers into the musicsphere, how we make our streaming choices will determine who the big winners are. What we?re really waiting for is the tipping point when the streamer artists crossover and recapture the idea that the creators are the real coin of the realm.

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Venezuela's choice: Chavez disciple or fresh start

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People line up to cast their vote at a polling station in Petare shantytown, Caracas, on April 14, 2013. Venezuelans headed to the polls on April 14.

By Alexandra Olson and Frank Bajak, The Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela ? Voters who kept Hugo Chavez in office for 14 years were deciding Sunday whether to elect the devoted lieutenant he chose to carry on the revolution that endeared him to the poor but that many Venezuelans believe is ruining the nation.

Across Caracas, trucks blaring bugle calls awoke Venezuelans long before dawn in the ruling socialists' traditional election day get-out-the-vote tactic. This time, they also boomed Chavez's voice singing the national anthem.

Nicolas Maduro was riding on Chavez's endorsement with a campaign largely silent on the issues but freighted with personal attacks that was otherwise little more than an unflagging tribute to the polarizing leader who died of cancer March 5.

Chavez's longtime Chavez foreign minister pinned his hopes on the immense loyalty for his boss among millions of poor beneficiaries of a socialist government's largesse and the heft of a state apparatus that Chavez skillfully consolidated.

The governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela deployed a well-worn get-out-the-vote machine spearheaded by loyal state employees. It also enjoyed a pervasive state media apparatus as part of a near monopoly on institutional power.

Challenger Henrique Capriles' aides accused Chavista loyalists in the judiciary of putting them at glaring disadvantage by impoverishing the campaign and opposition broadcast media by targeting them with unwarranted fines and prosecutions.

Capriles' main campaign weapon was simply to point out "the incompetence of the state," as he put it to reporters Saturday night.

Maduro, 50, was still favored, but his early big lead in opinion polls halved over the past two weeks in a country struggling with the legacy of Chavez's management of the world's largest oil reserves. Millions of Venezuelans were lifted out of poverty under Chavez, but many also believe that his confederates not only squandered but also plundered much of the $1 trillion in oil revenues during his time in office.

People are fed up with chronic power outages, crumbling infrastructure, unfinished public works projects, double-digit inflation, food and medicine shortages and rampant crime that has given Venezuela among the world's highest homicide and kidnapping rates.

"We can't continue to believe in messiahs," said Jose Romero, a 48-year-old industrial engineer who voted for Capriles in the central city of Valencia. "This country has learned a lot and today we know that one person can't fix everything."

In Caracas, 59-year-old street vendor Jose Alzualde said he believed, however, that "Chavez's legacy should continue." He said Venezuela "needs a united country in order to advance. There are political divisions that should end."

Capriles is a 40-year-old state governor who lost to Chavez in October's presidential election by a nearly 11-point margin, the best showing ever by a challenger to the longtime president.

He showed Maduro none of the respect he had accorded Chavez. Maduro hit back hard, at one point calling Capriles' backers "heirs of Hitler." It was an odd accusation considering that Capriles is the grandson of Holocaust survivors from Poland.

"Capriles ran a remarkable campaign that shows he has creativity, tenacity and disposition to play political hardball," said David Smilde, an analyst with the Washington Office on Latin America think tank.

At his campaign rallies, Capriles would read out a list of unfinished road, bridge and rail projects. Then he asked people what goods were scarce on store shelves. The opposition contends Chavez looted the treasury last year to buy re-election with government largesse. It also complains about the steady flow of cut-rate oil to Cuba, which Capriles says will end if he is elected.

Venezuela's $30 billion fiscal deficit accounts for about 10 percent of gross domestic product.

Maduro, a former union activist and bus driver with close ties to Cuba's leaders, constantly alleged that Capriles was conspiring with U.S. putschists to destabilize Venezuela and even suggested Washington had infected Chavez with the cancer that killed him.

He focused his campaign message on his mentor: "I am Chavez. We are all Chavez" and promised to expand anti-poverty programs.

Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue think tank said Maduro campaigned "ineptly," trying too hard to "replay the Chavez script" and alienating moderate Chavistas.

Whoever wins Sunday will face no end of hard choices.

Many factories operate at half capacity because strict currency controls make it hard for them to pay for imported parts and materials. Business leaders say some companies are on verging on bankruptcy because they are unable to extend lines of credit with foreign suppliers.

Chavez imposed currency controls a decade ago trying to stem capital flight as his government expropriated large land parcels and dozens of businesses. Now, dollars sell on the black market at three times the official exchange rate and Maduro has had to devalue Venezuela's currency, the bolivar, twice this year.

Meanwhile, consumers grumble that stores are short of milk, butter, corn flour and other staples. The government blames hoarding, while the opposition points at the price controls imposed by Chavez in an attempt to bring down double-digit inflation.

A 40-year-old lawyer who sometimes works with the government said as he walked with his wife and two small children to the polls in central Caracas that he was fed up and voting for Capriles.

"But I can't say that openly because I could lose work," said the man, who would only give his first name, Marcelino.

"But we can't have fear," his wife, Lisette Ruiz, told him. "If Maduro wins everything is going to get worse."

Capriles said he will reverse land expropriations, which he says have ruined many farms and forced Venezuela to import food after previously being a net exporter of beef, rice, coffee and other foods. But even Capriles said currency and price controls cannot be immediately scrapped without triggering a disastrous run on the bolivar.

High international oil prices remain a boon for Venezuela, underpinning its economy. Chavez spent $500 billion to bolster social programs, trimming the poverty rate from 50 percent to about 30 percent.

But critics say the government has misused the oil industry, ordering the state oil company PDVSA into food distribution and financing of social programs while neglecting needed investment, causing production and refining to drop.

Venezuela's oil revenue is down from $5.6 billion five years ago to $3.8 billion in 2012, and PDVSA's debt climbed to $40 billion last year. The country even imports 100,000 barrels a day of gasoline from the United States.

Associated Press writers Fabiola Sanchez in Caracas and Vivian Sequera in Valencia, Venezuela contributed to this report.

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Diamond as a building material for optical circuits

Friday, April 12, 2013

The application of light for information processing opens up a multitude of possibilities. However, to be able to adequately use photons in circuits and sensors, materials need to have particular optical and mechanical properties. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now for the first time used polycrystalline diamond to manufacture optical circuits and have published their results online in Nature Communications (DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2710).

"Diamond has several properties that allow us to manufacture all components of a ready-to-use optomechanical circuit monolithically, so to speak," says KIT research group leader Wolfram Pernice. "The elements thus manufactured that is, the resonators, circuits, and the wafer, are attractive because of their high quality."

Diamond is optically transparent to light waves of a wide range of wavelengths including the visible spectrum between 400 and 750 nm. It is due to this fact that it can be used specifically in optomechanical circuits for applications in sensor technology and fluorescence imaging, or for novel optical biological measuring methods. Whereas the high refractive index of diamond and the absence of absorption allow an efficient photon transport, its high modulus of elasticity makes it a robust material which adapts excellently to rough surfaces and releases heat rapidly.

So far, optical circuits have been manufactured using monocrystalline diamond substrates i.e., highly pure crystals with typically no more than one impurity atom to every one billion diamond atoms. Such circuits are bound to be small and their application to optical systems has required sophisticated fabrication methods.

Now, for the first time, the research group headed by Pernice used polycrystalline diamond for the fabrication of wafer-based optomechanical circuits. Even though its crystal structures are more irregular, polycrystalline diamond is robust and thus can be more easily processed. It is due to these specific properties that polycrystalline diamond can be used on much larger areas than monocrystalline material. Polycrystalline diamond conducts photons almost as efficiently as the monocrystalline substrate and is suitable for industrial use. As a matter of fact, monolithic optomechanical components could not have been manufactured without this new material.

Optomechanics combines integrated optics with mechanical elements e.g., with nanomechanical resonators in the case of the optomechanical circuit developed by Pernice and his group. These oscillatory systems react to a certain frequency. When that frequency occurs, the resonator is excited into vibration. "Nanomechanical resonators are among today's most sensitive sensors and are used in various precision measurements. It is extremely difficult, however, to address such smallest components through conventional measuring methods," explains Patrik Rath, first author of the study. "In our study, we have made use of the fact that today, nanophotonic components can be manufactured in the same sizes as nanoscale mechanical resonators. When the resonator responds, corresponding optical signals are transferred directly to the circuit." This novel development has allowed the combining of once separate fields of research and has enabled the realization of highly efficient optomechanical circuits.

Integrated optics works in a similar manner to integrated electrical circuits. Whereas optical circuits transmit information via photons, conventional electronic circuits transfer data via electrons. Integrated optics aims to combine all components required for optical communication in an integrated optical circuit to avoid a detour via electrical signals. In both cases, the respective circuits are applied to slices less than one mm in thickness i.e., to the so-called wafers.

The polycrystalline diamond was manufactured in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the company Diamond Materials in Freiburg, Germany. The prototypes manufactured within the Integrated Quantum Photonics-project at the DFG Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) in Karlsruhe open up new ways for entirely optically controlled platforms that are increasingly needed in fundamental research and advanced sensor technologies. These technologies include accelerometers that are integrated in various electronic devices such as airbag sensors or smartphone waterlevels.

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The Past and the Future of International Adoption: An Expert&#39;s ...

1. Tell us first please your personal experience with adoption. I know that you are an adoptee, briefly what is your story?

My personal experience regarding adoption began in August 1955 when I was born to an unwed mother in Taejon, South Korea.? My father was likely a military/foreign born man that had a relationship with my birth mother.? Since the country of South Korea was struggling within the confines of a postwar economy and social structure, my mother had very little help while trying to raise me.? Though I have no details, she was probably expelled from her family and was left to raising me while living on the streets or shelters of South Korea and Seoul.? She had moved to Seoul because of anonymity and a greater level of humanitarian aid being provided by organizations such as World Vision.? This was the time that Bill Pierce began World Vision?s ministry in South Korea along with Harry Holt and his efforts to find homes for the orphans left in South Korea? resulting in what is now today known as Holt International.

Because of rampant illness within the country, my mother decided to take me to an orphanage in Seoul in order to have a better chance at surviving a number of diseases that claimed many children (Chicken Pox, Measles and Mumps).? Unfortunately, these diseases were also running through the orphanages in epidemic proportions.

Concurrently, in Omaha, NE, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Brown had just lost a child during childbirth due to the inability to breath independently after being born.? Because of the Brown?s commitment to provide a family to a child that might not otherwise have the opportunity to thrive in a family environment, they reached out to Dr. Jack Falkenberg in Kissimmee, FL, who was working with humanitarian/non-profit organizations in Korea.? He directed the Brown?s to Rev. Charles Stokes (Methodist Seminary, Seoul, Korea) who asked Dr. Stokes to see if he could help find a child who needed a home.? Dr. Stokes went to a few orphanages and looked down the many rows of cribs to identify a little boy that could use a home.? He wrote a letter to the Brown?s and let them know he was going to begin the paperwork in order to determine what needed to happen to facilitate the adoption.? A week later, the Brown?s received a letter telling them of the good news!? Two days afterward, they received a phone call from Dr. Stokes regretfully telling them that the little boy in the orphanage, that he had chosen, had died the day before and that he wanted to let them know how sorry he was.? A few weeks later the Brown?s decided to have Dr. Stokes go back to the orphanage and find another child.? This time, when he arrived at the orphanage, Dr. Stokes chose me as the Brown?s adopted child.? Five months later I was on a plane to Omaha, NE to begin my new life!

There was very little interest on my part to explore much of my past because South Korea growing up in Nebraska.? When I went to college I was introduced to more of the Korean culture through friends. I finished college and went to work in Southern California after which I was married and began to think about a family. After numerous tries to begin a family, my wife and I decided to look into adoption. My adopted mother noted that Dr. Stokes was retired but was still alive, so I contacted him.? He said he would contact his associates still in South Korea and let me know what would be the best way to proceed.? I was not adopted through an agency but rather through the private channels I outlined earlier.? Dr. Stokes wrote me a letter and said that the? only agency to use would be Holt International. I began the process and have two adult adopted children from South Korea. They are both a blessing and have enriched my life and helped me see God?s hand in it all!

What has brought me to this point in my opinions of adoption is the fact that I served on Holt International?s Board of Directors, was the Chairman of the Board from 2006-2008 and was also the President/CEO from 2008-2011.? I have a different perspective than most regarding international adoption and want to share it with you through this article.

2. What was your professional experience with adoption?

My professional experience with adoption is also my experience at an advocacy/management level with international adoption.? I was elected to the Holt International Children?s Services Board of Directors in the Fall of 1999.? I served as a director until Fall of 2006 when I was elected as? Board Chair.? At the end of my tenure as Chairman, I was asked to be the President/CEO of Holt International.? I served as President/CEO until Fall 2011.? During my tenure I was elected to the Board of Directors at Interaction, Both Ends Burning Campaign and Rofori Corporation.? Of note, the Interaction organization is the largest collection of humanitarian aid organizations in the world.? Membership includes over 200 non-governmental organizations including, World Vision, Save The Children, United Nations Foundation and Oxfam.

3. I will always be grateful to Holt for facilitating the adoption process of my three children. I?m often asked though why after the Eurasian orphan crisis was over, why Holt continued to facilitate adoptions from Korea?

After the war in Korea was over, there were many Eurasian/Amerasian children left to fend for themselves or were at the mercy of a humanitarian effort that often fell terribly short in supporting the children?s needs.? The truth is that in any country that the United States went to war in, there were many children of mixed race that were left behind, ie. Vietnam, Korea, Western Europe. The difference is that in Western Europe, those children looked like any child in any U.S. city.? When the children are of defined racial facial/body differences, the country that the children are left in subjects all children that are not of a specific family line, to the prejudices that have been in place over thousands of years. No amount of ?good will? can overcome this type of bias.

4. Tell us a little bit about what you saw as you traveled around the world visiting different countries and orphanages.

There continues to be some type of concerted effort in the adoption world to help children find the ?right? type of home so that they can live a life of meaning on some level. There is not a country on this planet that can take care of all children within their borders. ?It?s an impossibility! The governments themselves are underfunded and lack direction.? Overseas organizations (such as U.S. humanitarian organizations) use an imperialistic mindset and don?t take time to learn a culture in which to work within both structurally and socially.? There have literally been billions of dollars spent on needless projects in Africa and Asia.? The other issue is that all of the aid and help are fragmented. There is no voice that singularly stands out and clearly directs the organizations toward bettering lives.? These organizations need to take a handful of four or five initiatives and make them functional.? For example, if Heifer International could abolish world hunger by 2025, World Vision could take advantage of Heifer?s structure and feed the people in the programs that they manage through Heifer.? If Charity Water were to make clean water a possibility to over 75% of the world, Physicians for Peace could perform surgeries and know that the patient won?t die of infection three weeks after the surgery due to unclean water.? Yet, these organizations raise money, manage, create infrastructure internationally all independently.? It was comical to see another employee in an international airport leaving/arriving as I left knowing that they were going to see the same governmental officials as I had just seen in their upcoming visit.? Lack of cross-organizational coordination is a huge issue!

5. There is a lot of conflicting numbers about how many orphans there are in the world, can you clarify that?

Most statistics you see these days are a reflection of how the reporting agency wants things to look to the public and those that view the numbers.? UNICEF, with it?s large scope and function, counts orphans as those vulnerable children that have lost at least one parent.? In this case, if a mother is watching over the children and the father has gone to another city/country to work and may not come back for years, that child has been counted as a ?vulnerable? child translating into ?orphan? in communication.? The child still has the birth mother there but the larger playing field makes UNICEF?s work seen expansive.? International adoption agencies usually use a more focused criteria.? For example, if an abandoned child has no caretaker, then he/she is orphaned and in need of placement into a home.? Sometimes the child is adopted in country, domestically, or the child is placed into the United States.? It all depends on what the organization wants to say.? If an organization wants to expand it?s services, that organization may say it has discovered more children to feed and clothe although some of those children may not be orphaned but they are on some level ?vulnerable? to abandonment in the long run.? Foster care is usually a short term fix because foster parents usually have families of their own and are taking the child into their home for a finite time period.

6. In my understanding of international adoption, there needs to be some world events, like the Korean War or China?s one child policy to create large numbers of children that need to be adopted. What is the current state of international adoption and is there anything that might precipitate the large numbers of children being adopted from their countries?

Through history, families have reacted positively to war/famine/natural disasters, by opening their homes for children to become part of these families.? In reality, the ongoing need for adoption never stops or starts.? It just continues to be a problem.? When the ?tsunami? his on Christmas Day in Thailand, many adoption agencies were flooded with calls to find out what would happen to the children that were orphaned.? I can tell you that not many children were adopted through that natural disaster.? Most of the children were taken in by family/friends and provided a home within their country.? It?s a cultural issue that allows children to find their own level of care.? For some reason many in the western cultures think they know better but all of these types of issues have been going on for centuries.? In the instance of Korea after the war, Korea was a war torn mess.? The Japanese had occupied Korea just before the North Koreans/Chinese attacked. In fact, the Japanese made the Koreans change their names to Japanese names to make it easier to occupy South Korea.? By the time the war was over, South Korea couldn?t take care of the adults, much less the children.? There were multi-ethnic children in the streets and there were Korean children who had nobody in the country to care for them.? The only option was to look for help and World Vision and Holt International provided an opportunity to help.? Adoption in South Korea will ultimately come to a halt.? But South Korea also acknowledges that there are many children that still are born to unwed mothers and need a family.? I credit them for that admission!? Culturally, Koreans have a difficult time raising someone else?s child.

7. Whenever I hear the words ?adoption industry,? I am somewhat mystified by these words and the implication that there are huge profits to be made from this industry. Do you agree with this?

To consider adoption as a ?profitable? industry is a misnomer at best and a serious error in rationality at the worst!? Most of the costs to adopt are hard costs that have been set by either the sending country or by processes through the agency.? There are organizations that supplement the costs of international adoption for the adopting family (Shohanna?s Hope).? Many organizations that facilitate adoption also try to perform humanitarian work within the countries that they bring children from.? For example,? Ethiopia allows an agency to place Ethiopian children only if the organization is willing to create infrastructure and programs that will help with the development of the country as a whole.? Hospitals, schools and homes have all been built as a result of adoptions being completed with children from Ethiopia.? When a person looks at a non-profit?s tax return (Form 990) it will show where the money is spent.? You can?t be a? 501C3 organization without posting the return.? Some mistake overall program costs for only costs of adoption.? My question is, if children are being taken from the country, why shouldn?t an organization try to better the lives of those that stay within their country of birth?? People are ignorant to the truth.

8. When you think the future of international adoption will be? What will you continue to play?

My personal opinion is that international adoption will continue in some form even in the face of overseas pressures to stop the practice and the coming push to reform domestic adoption in the U.S. thus making it easier to adopt children domestically.? The number of orphan visas in 2003 was over 20,000 and for 2013, it may be as low as 7,000.? Children still need homes that will otherwise either die or age out and live in the streets where they were born. ?For all of the West?s do good attitude, not much has been accomplished.? What has been accomplished is that some of ?us? were able to have a home!?? Is that worth going the extra mile and trying to reform the system?? I say yes along with some 400,000 of my brothers and sisters in adoption.? We must be better at what we?re doing and truly believe that a child?s interest is number one! In my opinion, the question of? what?s best for the child has been replaced by what?s best for my career, what?s best for the country, what?s best for the birthmother under the disguise of women?s rights, what?s best for the adoptive parents and what?s best for the organization?s programs.? The Child must be considered first, not as an afterthought.

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Source: http://adoptionvoicesmagazine.com/expert-connection/the-past-and-the-future-of-international-adoption-an-experts-opinions-and-experiences-2/

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Johns Hopkins experts to present genetics advances at international meeting this weekend

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Presentations will highlight progress in understanding genetic disease

Johns Hopkins genetics researchers Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D., and David Valle, M.D., will each present at the joint conference of the Human Genome Meeting 2013 and the 21st International Congress of Genetics. The conference, which will take place in Singapore April 13-18, 2013, will focus on the genetics and genomics of world health and sustainability. Chakravarti and Valle are the former and current director, respectively, of the Johns Hopkins University McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine.

Both Chakravarti and Valle will speak at the conference's "Mendelian Genetic Diseases" session, to be held on April 13 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. local time. Chakravarti will relate his findings about Hirschsprung's disease, an inherited intestinal disorder that, he has found, can be caused by a number of different rare genetic variations. Valle will speak about the work of the Baylor-Johns Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genetics, a four-year, National Institutes of Health-funded search for the culprits behind single-gene diseases usually called Mendelian disorders.

On April 18 at 8:30 a.m., Chakravarti will chair a plenary discussion in which he will reflect on progress in genomics since the sequencing of the human genome 10 years ago, focusing on the areas of ethical issues, identifying disease genes and understanding gene mechanisms. Related stories:

Chakravarti:

Genome-Wide Hunts Reveal New Regulators of Blood Pressure: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/genome_wide_hunts_reveal_new_regulators_of_blood_pressure

The 1,000 Genomes Project: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/geneticmedicine/news/NewsletterStories/2010_12/2010_12_1000_genomes.html

Teasing Apart the Genetics of a Complex Disorder: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/geneticmedicine/news/NewsletterStories/2010_09/2010_09_Aravinda.html

New Genes Implicated in High Blood Pressure: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/New_Genes_Implicated_in_High_Blood_Pressure

Big Man in Genes: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hmn/W02/top.html

Valle:

Individualized Medicine Comes to Johns Hopkins: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/geneticmedicine/news/NewsletterStories/2009_03/2009_03_feature.html

Johns Hopkins Researchers Discover New Schizophrenia Gene: http://m.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/Johns_Hopkins_Researchers_Discover_New_Schizophrenia_Gene

The Johns Hopkins Center for Inherited Disease Research Receives $101 Million: http://m.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/the_johns_hopkins_center_for_inherited_disease_research_receives_101_million

New Database to Speed Genetic Discoveries: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/new_database_to_speed_genetic_discoveries

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Contact: Shawna Williams
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Presentations will highlight progress in understanding genetic disease

Johns Hopkins genetics researchers Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D., and David Valle, M.D., will each present at the joint conference of the Human Genome Meeting 2013 and the 21st International Congress of Genetics. The conference, which will take place in Singapore April 13-18, 2013, will focus on the genetics and genomics of world health and sustainability. Chakravarti and Valle are the former and current director, respectively, of the Johns Hopkins University McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine.

Both Chakravarti and Valle will speak at the conference's "Mendelian Genetic Diseases" session, to be held on April 13 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. local time. Chakravarti will relate his findings about Hirschsprung's disease, an inherited intestinal disorder that, he has found, can be caused by a number of different rare genetic variations. Valle will speak about the work of the Baylor-Johns Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genetics, a four-year, National Institutes of Health-funded search for the culprits behind single-gene diseases usually called Mendelian disorders.

On April 18 at 8:30 a.m., Chakravarti will chair a plenary discussion in which he will reflect on progress in genomics since the sequencing of the human genome 10 years ago, focusing on the areas of ethical issues, identifying disease genes and understanding gene mechanisms. Related stories:

Chakravarti:

Genome-Wide Hunts Reveal New Regulators of Blood Pressure: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/genome_wide_hunts_reveal_new_regulators_of_blood_pressure

The 1,000 Genomes Project: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/geneticmedicine/news/NewsletterStories/2010_12/2010_12_1000_genomes.html

Teasing Apart the Genetics of a Complex Disorder: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/geneticmedicine/news/NewsletterStories/2010_09/2010_09_Aravinda.html

New Genes Implicated in High Blood Pressure: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/New_Genes_Implicated_in_High_Blood_Pressure

Big Man in Genes: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hmn/W02/top.html

Valle:

Individualized Medicine Comes to Johns Hopkins: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/geneticmedicine/news/NewsletterStories/2009_03/2009_03_feature.html

Johns Hopkins Researchers Discover New Schizophrenia Gene: http://m.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/Johns_Hopkins_Researchers_Discover_New_Schizophrenia_Gene

The Johns Hopkins Center for Inherited Disease Research Receives $101 Million: http://m.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/the_johns_hopkins_center_for_inherited_disease_research_receives_101_million

New Database to Speed Genetic Discoveries: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/new_database_to_speed_genetic_discoveries

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