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Yellow fever

Fact sheet N°100
Updated March 2014

Key facts

  • Yellow fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes. The "yellow" in the name refers to the jaundice that affects some patients.
  • Up to 50% of severely affected persons without treatment will die from yellow fever.
  • There are an estimated 200 000 cases of yellow fever, causing 30 000 deaths, worldwide each year, with 90% occurring in Africa.
  • The virus is endemic in tropical areas of Africa and Latin America, with a combined population of over 900 million people.
  • The number of yellow fever cases has increased over the past two decades due to declining population immunity to infection, deforestation, urbanization, population movements and climate change.
  • There is no specific treatment for yellow fever. Treatment is symptomatic, aimed at reducing the symptoms for the comfort of the patient.
  • Vaccination is the most important preventive measure against yellow fever. The vaccine is safe, affordable and highly effective, and a single dose of yellow fever vaccine is sufficient to confer sustained immunity and life-long protection against yellow fever disease and a booster dose of yellow fever vaccine is not needed. The vaccine provides effective immunity within 30 days for 99% of persons vaccinated.

Signs and symptoms

Once contracted, the virus incubates in the body for 3 to 6 days, followed by infection that can occur in one or two phases. The first, "acute", phase usually causes fever, muscle pain with prominent backache, headache, shivers, loss of appetite, and nausea or vomiting. Most patients improve and their symptoms disappear after 3 to 4 days.

However, 15% of patients enter a second, more toxic phase within 24 hours of the initial remission. High fever returns and several body systems are affected. The patient rapidly develops jaundice and complains of abdominal pain with vomiting. Bleeding can occur from the mouth, nose, eyes or stomach. Once this happens, blood appears in the vomit and faeces. Kidney function deteriorates. Half of the patients who enter the toxic phase die within 10 to 14 days, the rest recover without significant organ damage.

Yellow fever is difficult to diagnose, especially during the early stages. It can be confused with severe malaria, dengue hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis, viral hepatitis (especially the fulminating forms of hepatitis B and D), other hemorrhagic fevers (Bolivian, Argentine, Venezuelan hemorrhagic fevers and others flavivirus as West Nile, Zika virus etc) and other diseases, as well as poisoning. Blood tests can detect yellow fever antibodies produced in response to the infection. Several other techniques are used to identify the virus in blood specimens or liver tissue collected after death. These tests require highly trained laboratory staff and specialized equipment and materials.

Populations at risk

Forty-four endemic countries in Africa and Latin America, with a combined population of over 900 million, are at risk. In Africa, an estimated 508 million people live in 31 countries at risk. The remaining population at risk are in 13 countries in Latin America, with Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at greatest risk.

According to WHO estimates from the early 1990s, 200 000 cases of yellow fever, with 30 000 deaths, are expected globally each year, with 90% occurring in Africa. A recent analysis of African data sources due to be published later this year, estimates similar figures, but a slightly lower burden of 84 000–170 000 severe cases and
29 000–60 000 deaths due to yellow fever in Africa for the year 2013. Without vaccination, the burden figures would be much higher.

Small numbers of imported cases occur in countries free of yellow fever. Although the disease has never been reported in Asia, the region is at risk because the conditions required for transmission are present there. In the past centuries (XVII to XIX), outbreaks of yellow fever were reported in North America (Charleston, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, etc) and Europe (England, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain).

The yellow fever virus is an arbovirus of the flavivirus genus, and the mosquito is the primary vector. It carries the virus from one host to another, primarily between monkeys, from monkeys to humans, and from person to person.

Several different species of the Aedes and Haemogogus mosquitoes transmit the virus. The mosquitoes either breed around houses (domestic), in the jungle (wild) or in both habitats (semi-domestic). There are three types of transmission cycles.

  • Sylvatic (or jungle) yellow fever: In tropical rainforests, yellow fever occurs in monkeys that are infected by wild mosquitoes. The infected monkeys then pass the virus to other mosquitoes that feed on them. The infected mosquitoes bite humans entering the forest, resulting in occasional cases of yellow fever. The majority of infections occur in young men working in the forest (e.g. for logging).
  • Intermediate yellow fever: In humid or semi-humid parts of Africa, small-scale epidemics occur. Semi-domestic mosquitoes (that breed in the wild and around households) infect both monkeys and humans. Increased contact between people and infected mosquitoes leads to transmission. Many separate villages in an area can suffer cases simultaneously. This is the most common type of outbreak in Africa. An outbreak can become a more severe epidemic if the infection is carried into an area populated with both domestic mosquitoes and unvaccinated people.
  • Urban yellow fever: Large epidemics occur when infected people introduce the virus into densely populated areas with a high number of non-immune people and Aedes mosquitoes. Infected mosquitoes transmit the virus from person to person.

There is no specific treatment for yellow fever, only supportive care to treat dehydration, respiratory failure and fever. Associated bacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics. Supportive care may improve outcomes for seriously ill patients, but it is rarely available in poorer areas.

1. Vaccination

Vaccination is the single most important measure for preventing yellow fever. In high risk areas where vaccination coverage is low, prompt recognition and control of outbreaks through immunization is critical to prevent epidemics. To prevent outbreaks throughout affected regions, vaccination coverage must reach at least 60% to 80% of a population at risk. Few endemic countries that recently benefited from a preventive mass vaccination campaign in Africa currently have this level of coverage.

Preventive vaccination can be offered through routine infant immunization and one-time mass campaigns to increase vaccination coverage in countries at risk, as well as for travelers to yellow fever endemic area. WHO strongly recommends routine yellow fever vaccination for children in areas at risk for the disease.

The yellow fever vaccine is safe and affordable, providing effective immunity against yellow fever within 10 days for 80–100% of people and 99% immunity within 30 days. A single dose of yellow fever vaccine is sufficient to confer sustained immunity and life-long protection against yellow fever disease and a booster dose of yellow fever vaccine is not needed. Serious side effects are extremely rare. Serious adverse events have been reported rarely following immunization in a few endemic areas and among vaccinated travelers (e.g. in Australia, Brazil, Peru, Togo and the United States of America). Scientists are investigating the causes.

In regard to the use of yellow fever vaccine in people over 60 years of age, it is noted that while the risk of yellow fever vaccine-associated viscerotropic disease in persons ≥60 years of age is higher than in younger ages, the overall risk remains low. Vaccination should be administrated after careful risk-benefit assessment, comparing the risk of acquiring yellow fever disease versus the risk of a potential serious adverse event following immunization for persons ≥60 years of age who have not been previously vaccinated and for whom the vaccine is recommended.

The risk of death from yellow fever disease is far greater than the risks related to the vaccine. People who should not recommended to be vaccinated include:

  • children aged less than 9 months (or between 6–9 months during an epidemic, where the risk of disease is higher than an adverse event of the vaccine);
  • pregnant women – except during a yellow fever outbreak when the risk of infection is high;
  • people with severe allergies to egg protein; and
  • people with severe immunodeficiency due to symptomatic HIV/AIDS or other causes, or in the presence of a thymus disorder.

Travelers, particularly those arriving to Asia from Africa or Latin America must have a certificate of yellow fever vaccination. If there are medical grounds for not getting vaccinated, International Health Regulations state that this must be certified by the appropriate authorities.

2. Mosquito control

In some situations, mosquito control is vital until vaccination takes effect. The risk of yellow fever transmission in urban areas can be reduced by eliminating potential mosquito breeding sites and applying insecticides to water where they develop in their earliest stages. Application of spray insecticides to kill adult mosquitoes during urban epidemics, combined with emergency vaccination campaigns, can reduce or halt yellow fever transmission, "buying time" for vaccinated populations to build immunity.

Historically, mosquito control campaigns successfully eliminated Aedes aegypti, the urban yellow fever vector, from most mainland countries of Central and South America. However, this mosquito species has re-colonized urban areas in the region and poses a renewed risk of urban yellow fever.

Mosquito control programmes targeting wild mosquitoes in forested areas are not practical for preventing jungle (or sylvatic) yellow fever transmission.

3. Epidemic preparedness and response

Prompt detection of yellow fever and rapid response through emergency vaccination campaigns are essential for controlling outbreaks. However, underreporting is a concern – the true number of cases is estimated to be 10 to 250 times what is now being reported.

WHO recommends that every at-risk country have at least one national laboratory where basic yellow fever blood tests can be performed. One laboratory confirmed case of yellow fever in an unvaccinated population could be considered an outbreak, and a confirmed case in any context must be fully investigated, particularly in any area where most of the population has been vaccinated. Investigation teams must assess and respond to the outbreak with both emergency measures and longer-term immunization plans.

WHO response

WHO is the Secretariat for the International Coordinating Group for Yellow Fever Vaccine Provision (ICG). The ICG maintains an emergency stockpile of yellow fever vaccines to ensure rapid response to outbreaks in high risk countries.

The Yellow Fever Initiative is a preventive control strategy of vaccination led by WHO and supported by UNICEF and National Governments, with a particular focus on most high endemic countries in Africa where the disease is most prominent. The Initiative recommends including yellow fever vaccines in routine infant immunizations (starting at age 9 months), implementing mass vaccination campaigns in high-risk areas for people in all age groups aged 9 months and older, and maintaining surveillance and outbreak response capacity.

Between 2007 and 2012, 12 countries have completed preventive yellow fever vaccination campaigns: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. The Yellow Fever Initiative is financially supported by the GAVI Alliance, the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO), the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), the Ministries of Health, and the country-level partners.

For more information contact:

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Telephone: +41 22 791 2222

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You can find our new and regularly updated blog, which includes an archive of the posts made here at

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

New Digital Collection

The Music Library is proud to announce a new digital collection: The Hemrick Nathan Salley Family Sheet Music collection: In collaboration with the Digital Collections department, two bound volumes of 19th- and early 20th-Century sheet music were digitized using the Zeutschel overhead scanner.

These volumes are focused on two areas: popular piano music from the mid 1800s, and songs for piano and voice related to blackface minstrelsy from 1899 to 1902. The mid 1800s volume contains some of the oldest popular sheet music found in the Music Library, while the minstrelsy volume contains songs that closely relate to works found in the Center for Southern African American Music's (CSAM) collection.

In addition to hundreds of pieces of popular sheet music, the Hemrick Nathan Salley Family Collection contains phonodisc and cylinder recordings, memorabilia, photographs, books, magazines, and musical instruments from the 1800s to the 1980s.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Music Author Recognition

From December 8, 2011 through January 27, 2012, the Music Library hosted the inaugural Music Authors Recognition event, celebrating recent publications and recordings by School of Music faculty. This will be a yearly recurring event. Items on display included books, articles, compositions, arrangements, recordings, and educational materials.

Featured authors: James Ackley, Jennifer Adam, Reginald Bain, Gail Barnes, Craig Butterfield, Neil Casey, Brad Edwards, Charles Fugo, Michael Harley, Julie Hubbert, J. Daniel Jenkins, Peter Kolkay, Bert Ligon, Scott Price, Joseph Rackers, John Fitz Rogers, Greg Stuart, Wendy Valerio, Scott Weiss, and Sarah Williams.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Youth and Music Exhibit

From November through the end of December 2011, the Music Library is featuring special collections items in an exhibit titled "Youth and Music." Throughout the history of classical music, composers have written works to be performed by children, for young audiences' enjoyment, or inspired by memories of youth. Furthermore, much of music history has been distilled for young audiences into educational books about famous composers' lives.

"Youth and Music" features composers Debussy, Bartók, and Handel, child prodigy violinist Camilla Urso, and instructional books about music history and performing in church choirs. The exhibit is located in the upstairs exhibit case in the Music Library, which is located on the second and third floors of the University of South Carolina School of Music.

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Monday, October 17, 2011

Music Publishers Association Exhibit

The Music Library is proud to announce the arrival of prizewinning music from the Music Publishers Association. Each year, the MPA's Paul Revere Awards for Graphic Excellence honor the year's best published sheet music and books about music. This exhibit travels around the country, and has already been featured at Old Dominion University. For two weeks only, October 10 to October 31, 2011, select first prize recipients will be on display in the upstairs exhibit case.

The Paul Revere Awards honor outstanding achievement in cover design, book design, publications for electronic distribution, and notesetting. There are further subdivisions of these categories, with awards for specific types of cover design (e.g. featuring graphic elements or featuring photography) and notesetting, featuring different instruments or orchestrations. So check out our exhibit upstairs to see diverse prizewinning music from John Corigliano, Richard Danielpour, Pablo Casals, and Children of Bodom. You can check out the complete list of winners here:

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Franz Liszt Bicentennial

October 22, 2011 will be the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hungarian pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor Franz Liszt (1811-1886). To celebrate his birthday, the Music Library has mounted an exhibit featuring materials from our special collections. On the second floor of the Music Library, you can see early editions of Liszt's compositions and arrangements, as well as a 19th-Century biography and an "artistic portrait" that imagines his daily life.

Additionally, there is a mini-exhibit of a recently-published graphic novel, Late Romantics, that features Lizst in historical fiction, along with vignettes about Saint-Saëns, Wagner, Berlioz, and Mussorgsky. Late Romantics was written and illustrated by Jack Phinney, Latham Luepke, and Ryan Duderstadt, who comprise Bearskunk Productions in Minneapolis. You can read the whole graphic novel here:

Finally, the Library of Congress is celebrating Liszt's 200th birthday in a big way. Check out their Liszt site to look at some of his music manuscripts and listen to performances of his works in the National Jukebox:

Friday, September 9, 2011

Updated Music Subject Guide

One of our other summer projects here at the Music Library was updating our Music Subject Guide:

Besides using this link, you can get to the Subject Guide from our "About the Music Library" page, or from the general list of LibGuides on the Thomas Cooper Library home page. We hope that you like what we've done.

The Music Subject Guide provides lots of helpful information about how to find anything and  everything in the Music Library, whether you are looking for books, scores, sheet music, journal articles, or audiovisual materials. Additionally, there is helpful information about copyright and proper citation techniques. We have also included a few links to some interesting music Web sites that you might want to check out. Of course, you are always welcome to contact us or visit us if you need help finding what you need.


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      Fundraiser for new classroom

      Northstar Academy is holding a fundraising dinner and auction to help offset the cost of a new classroom. The event will feature a silent and live auction. The items up for bid were donated by local businesses.

      Northstar completed construction on a new arts and culture room for the 2012 school year.

      The money raised at the dinner and auction will help with the cost of that new room.

      "We've had tremendous community support. Everything is donated. We have about 40 silent auction items, 50 raffle items, we'll have a live auction of gift baskets, theme baskets that the individual classes have put together. So it's really going to be quite an extensive drawing and event," said Karen Anderson, CEO, Northstar Academy.

      The construction of the arts and culture room cost the school $93,000.

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Aubrey Plaza Got In A Bikini For GQ And Then Endlessly Trolled Her Interviewer

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As we’re all aware, Aubrey Plaza is all over the place as an interview subject. For every riveting masturbation scene discussion there’s being the most awkward person alive on Ellen. The great thing for us is every installment is entertaining as hell, even if the same can’t be said for her interviewers.

And with The To-Do List opening Friday she’s out everywhere promoting, presenting various weird and oddly charming/attractive versions of herself to interviewers and audiences alike. Here are some exceptionally troll-y highlights from when she recently hung out with GQ’s Mark Byrne in a small town in upstate New York where she was shooting a movie.

On why she’d be behaving that evening:

“If I wasn’t shooting tomorrow, I’d drink a lot,” she says, less than five minutes into our interview. “I’d burn it to the ground.”

When asked about her career aspirations:

“I want to be Catwoman,” she says… She lets the edge of her lip lift just the smallest amount, a hint of a smile. “I want my shot at Catwoman, and I want it soon.”

When the phone rings and it’s his girlfriend:

“Tell her you’re staying here for the night,” she says, “because a murderer kidnapped you.” Her eyes flare. “What if you find out I’m not shooting a movie here? I’m going to follow you on my bike and kill you.”

When she invites him into the place she’s staying to show him the knife she’d kill him with:

 “This is it,” she says. “I practice picking it up quickly.” She perches on the bed and picks it up, twice, quickly.

And finally, when he later listens to the portion of the tape from when he left his recorder on the table (and presumably went to the bathroom):

“Vagina,” she says into the voice recorder. “Penis. Balls.” She starts laughing to herself. “Old person’s penis. With a top hat on it. And a mustache. On the beach.”

“Penis, vagina, penis, vagina, penis, vagina. Penis penis. Aaaand penis.”

The whole read is really quite interesting and it isn’t all trolling, just mostly. There are also some more images to go along with the above and below, if you’re into that sort of thing.

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Monday Suck-Off: Sebastian Janikowski vs. Garrett Hartley [Poll]

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ASYLUM POLL: Is the kicker over-valued in football?

For once, I have taken a side in KSK’s debate of the weekly “Meast” and “Least” awards. Well, for the Least anyway. While Ufford has been clamoring for the Saints as a team “Least” recipient. Not only did they let barely get into overtime against the Atlanta Falcons, but they clock-blocked themselves just before blocking the game-winning field goal after getting a stop on Atlanta’s opening drive in OT). My counter-argument for Hartley was pretty simple: If he makes that 29-yarder to win the game, none of that other stuff matters.

But Hartley’s clubhouse lead might have gone out the window when Sebastian Janikowski missed a 32-yarder at the end of regulation. The Raiders kicker’s miss gave the Arizona Cardinals their second win of the season. I’d argue that OT field goal attempts are less pressure-packed that regulation-time field goal attempts, game-winning or otherwise. Plus Janikowski is the kind of guy that will make one from 55 yards out and then miss an extra-point, whereas Hartley has showcased his ability to miss from all over the field on more than one occasion.

So who ya got? Janikowski? Hartley? Or did we forget someone? It feels right giving the suck-off to a kicker. It’s not like they do any real work out there anyway.

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The Best And Worst Of TNA Impact Wrestling 2/21/13: Kaz, Stop Trying to Make Fetch Happen

By 02.22.13

Hulk Hogan: This is undoubtedly my biggest hope. Hulk Hogan had his issues with Dixie Carter, faced Sting (the former general manager), had a quick face turn, and then…Sting is gone? And now the Hulkster is in charge? Maybe he didn’t show up at the wedding to support the union of Brooke and Bully, but in fact knew what was going to happen and wanted to make sure that a) his daughter was protected, and b) to throw off any suspicion that he could ever be involved. It was a red and yellow herring all along! He carries the weight and respect to make perennial employees like Devon and Mr. Anderson follow his lead, and I truly doubt the strippers and beer are a big enough pull to abandon everything they’ve done for TNA in the past. I think Hulk has laid some serious groundwork in the progression of his character from “invulnerable dude who should shut up and get off of my television” to “genuine and conflicted father and businessman,” and the reveal, if handled with the same aplomb, could be a defining moment in TNA history.

Jeff Jarrett: See: slapnuts, #. See also: history of TNA, 11 years of

Eric Bischoff: His son is in Aces & Eights. Traditionally he is arrogant enough to believe that if he is involved in something in the back, he should be involved on television. It’s a total copout, but TNA has proved they are not above using him as a crutch to fall back on.

Bully Ray: Monster heel to doting husband and son-in-law? Doesn’t care about anyone but himself to I would do anything for Hulk Hogan’s love, and I would do that (that being Brooke Hogan)? It’s a stretch, for sure. Earning the trust of Hogan, Sting, and by extension Dixie only to join his brother and betray them all would be the ultimate dick move, but it’s not one I would be against. As a main player in the epic saga of Hulk Hogan, this is a totally understandable and acceptable option.

Sting: Maybe everything isn’t sunshine and roses and awkward nicknames at the top. Maybe he’s been bromancing the Hulk out of a secret resentment: His fame, his popularity throughout his career, the willingness of Dixie and the fans to forgive him for his Immortal transgressions. Maybe it stings (ha!) everytime Hulk calls him the greatest wrestler of all time, because in his mind it’s true, but the number of Little Stingers vs. Hulkamaniacs is so disproportionate has taken him to a dark place of jealously and anger, and if he can’t have the number one legacy, he’ll do whatever it takes to steal what little Hulk has left.

Abyss: You know, Joseph Park’s brother? The timing is right, and “he’s a crazy effed up monster who likes pain and wants to cause pain in new and creative ways” sounds legit. It’s a long shot, but we all know Abyss to be an intelligent fellow. Maybe Joseph Park is part of the long con. The odds are doubtful, but hey, it’s not Jeff Jarrett, and no one would see it coming, so sure, why not.

AJ Styles: Oh, AJ. TNA’s default wrestler. Need a guy in the X-Division? Why not AJ? Need a guy to further a storyline but not actually take anything away from it? Why not AJ? Aces & Eights started before the whole Claire Lynch fiasco, but using that as the true tipping point into madness and resentment for the company would take some creativity and continuity black spots, but if done right it could be the most brilliant move of AJ Styles’ career.

Kurt Angle: A long-shot for sure, but turning “the guy who got played” into “the guy running the game” is a viable storytelling option. It’s not one that should happen, but again, it’s not Jeff Jarrett, soooo….

Karen Jarrett: The only acceptable Jarrett. It makes little sense, but she’s nice and pretty and I miss having her on TV. And how cool would it be to have a woman avenging her husband, and being a true force to be reckoned with? When I say she is the only acceptable Jarrett, goddamnit I mean it.

Bruce Pritchard: He’s been a bit of a mysterious figure thus far. We know he’s there, we know his title, but he doesn’t really serve much of a purpose on the show he’s on all the time. He’s heavily involved in the Gut Check decisions, and as we have seen many a Gut Check participant-shaped Aces & Eights member. We already know he has a thing for ill-fitting leather outerwear. This could be the introduction of a whole new power player.

Scott Steiner: Maybe this whole “suing TNA because he’s crazy as balls” thing is just a work, and HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Just kidding.

So tell me, who do you think is the higher power? Will TNA roll this storyline into a ball, turn it sideways, and then drop it? Will we see what could turn out to be one of the most interesting and well-planned storylines in the company’s history? How crappy is it gonna be when all of this conjecture is rendered moot by the appearance of Double J because we can’t have nice things? Sometimes I wonder if Aces & Eights are getting better, or if my ideas of what could happen are just getting more and more grandiose to the point of justifying what’s happening on screen, so definitely let me know what you think of the directions this could go in in the comments below.

Until next week, keep those thinking caps on, and #VoteJosephPark!

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Vladimir Herzog(IPS) - At 8 a.m. on Oct. 25, 1975, Brazilian journalist Vladimir Herzog voluntarily reported to the São Paulo headquarters of the government’s intelligence agency and was never seen alive again.

The facilities he had been summoned to were just one of the detention and torture centers that were active during Brazil’s last dictatorship.

Herzog was editor-in-chief of the news department at the São Paulo-based television network TV Cultura, and had been called in for questioning by the Information Operations Department of the Center for Internal Defense Operations (DOI-CODI) for his alleged connections to the then-illegal Brazilian Communist Party (PCB).

He died under torture, but his death was made to look like a suicide by the military in an attempt to cover up the murder. A photograph released later showed Herzog hanging in his cell, but in a position that clearly revealed that the military’s suicide version was a farce.

The picture quickly became a symbol of the lies of the military regime.

Denounced by the Union of Professional Journalists of São Paulo, the death of “Vlado” – as he was called by friends and family – had profound repercussions, triggering a wave of protests and setting off a mass movement that played an instrumental role in bringing down the dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985.

More than 37 years later, Herzog’s murder could be the case that finally sets Brazil on the path of investigating the crimes and abuses committed throughout its long dictatorship.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States (OAS) accepted a petition to open an inquiry to determine the responsibility of the Brazilian government in Herzog’s death, understanding that the state has not fulfilled its duty to investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators.

The IACHR will submit a report with its findings to the central-left administration of President Dilma Rousseff and, if the government fails to implement its recommendations, it will bring the case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

In 2010, the court issued a ruling condemning Brazil for its failure to open up criminal inquiries and prosecute the perpetrators of the “arbitrary detention, torture and forced disappearance of 70 individuals during the dictatorship, including members of the Communist Party and peasants from the region,” who were part of the Araguaia guerrillas, a group that operated from1972 to 1974 in Marabá, state of Pará.

Attempts to bring the perpetrators of human rights abuses committed during the past dictatorship have been thwarted by a 1979 amnesty law (No. 6,683) passed by the military regime that pardoned anyone involved in political crimes or human rights violations in the period between Sept. 2, 1961 and Aug. 15, 1979.

Despite this obstacle, the Rousseff administration made great progress in this sense with the establishment of a National Truth Commission (created by Law No. 12,528) in 2011, mandated with investigating cases of forced disappearances of political opponents during the dictatorship.

This law was enacted in 2012 and sets a term of two years for the commission to complete its mandate. According to the document “Direito à Memória e à Verdade” (The Right to Memory and Truth), prepared by the government, at least 150 dissidents arrested or kidnapped by repressive forces during that period are still missing today.

Their relatives continue to search for their remains or for any information on the fate of their loved ones.

Photo of protests in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. (April 2012)The truth commission is not the only effort to reveal the truth of the dictatorship’s abuses, as an increasing number of committees are being formed by state representatives, students and workers.

“Every action seeking truth and justice organized by the younger generations, to learn about and fight for human rights in Brazil is a new blow dealt against the dictatorship and the state of emergency,” Maria do Rosário Nunes, the presidency’s human rights secretary, said on Jan. 19 at the launching of the Journalists’ Truth Commission.

“Brazil has been slow to join the debate on truth commissions, which is aimed at recovering (collective) memory and obtaining justice for the deaths and disappearances committed during the dictatorship, and it’s far behind other countries, such as Uruguay and Argentina,” Beth Costa, general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), told IPS.

“But the IFJ and the National and Latin American Federation of Journalists welcome this firm decision by the government of Brazil,” she added.

Costa acknowledged the government’s difficulty in countering historical resistances, which date back to the period of national re-democratization.

“For years there was resistance from the military, which still has an impact through the seats held in parliament by the country’s conservative parties, many of which backed the military regime,” she said.

The members of the National Truth Commission face the challenge of filling in the information gaps that exist in the cases of disappearances and assassinations, and in the files that were put at their disposal for the investigation, which may not be complete despite the Data Access Act that Rousseff passed along with this specialized body.

“Some 25 journalists were killed during the dictatorship,” journalist Audálio Dantas told IPS. A former president of the Union of Professional Journalists of São Paulo, Dantas headed the protests to expose Herzog’s staged suicide.

Dantas, who currently heads the National Commission of Brazilian Journalists for Memory, Justice and Truth, detected major gaps in the government’s files, which he consulted as part of the research for his book “As duas guerras de Vlado Herzog” (The Two Wars of Vlado Herzog), published in 2012 by Editora Civilização Brasileira.

When he tried to access the case files, he was asked to furnish a copy of Herzog’s death certificate.

“This demand was not only absurd, it was disrespectful to Vlado’s memory. Meeting this request would have entailed accepting as true the cause of death recorded by the certifying doctor, Harry Shibata, a DOI-CODI collaborator, who signed the certificate without ever seeing the body, ruling it a suicide,” Dantas wrote in his book.

“The Truth Commission finally succeeded in having the certificate amended,” he told IPS. Now it states that Herzog’s died as a result of “injuries and abuses suffered while in the São Paulo second army facilities (DOI-CODI).”

Beth Costa believes that reconstructing the history of the journalists who were forcefully disappeared by the dictatorship will be a key step in rebuilding the country’s collective memory and in the process of re-democratization of its institutions, especially at a time in which Brazil is listed among the countries with the greatest number of journalists murdered in the line of duty.

Freedoms such as the right to report freely and safely and the right to be informed are once again at risk. This was made patently clear when newspaper reporters André Caramante, of Folha de São Paulo, and Mauri Konig, of Paraná’s Gazeta do Povo, were forced to leave the country after receiving death threats for exposing police misconduct.

Dantas recalled that, in addition to guaranteeing the safety of all media professionals, the government must weed out certain elements from police forces, which were left over from the dictatorship and form extermination squads.

“It’s shameful that after successfully fighting off political repression we are now incapable of battling the repression that is a daily reality in the peripheries of our large cities and inside our police stations,” he said.

“The government is afraid to tackle this problem, perhaps because most middle and upper class people believe that seizing and executing without trial is an acceptable practice. It’s the country’s biggest shame today,” he charged.

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In recent years, natural disasters have been striking North America with increasing frequency and intensity. Hurricane Sandy has served as a wake-up call for the building, real estate investment, and insurance industries, as well as for government at all levels and ULI.

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At a 2014 ULI Spring Meeting panel, ULI senior fellow John McIlwain noted that the pace of climate change is exceeding all models. Even if the entire world could reach net-zero levels of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, experts now say, it could take another 10,000 years to return to today’s already elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. “That’s why planning for resilience is so important,” he explained. “We will be living with the effects of climate change for generations to come.”

McIlwain went on to describe how climate change could start affecting real estate in a very real way. “Developers and investors need to think and plan long-term; it can take five to ten years to plan, entitle, and develop a project, and that project can be financed for up to 30 years,” he said. But it may become difficult or impossible to obtain financing or even insurance in areas that are more prone to natural disasters.

Jeffrey Alpaugh of March & McLennan Companies presented statistics showing that losses due to natural disasters are trending upward, with a ten-year average of $184 billion and $56 billion in insured losses. Hurricane Sandy alone—which was more than twice the diameter of Hurricane Katrina—caused $20 billion in insured damages. The superstorm’s impacts included cancellation of some 20,000 flights and closing the New York Stock Exchange for two days for the first time in more than a century.

The U.S. insurance industry, however, has “weathered the storm,” he said, remaining well capitalized due to new capital sources—including hedge funds and even Chinese investments—along with a relatively mild 2013 season. Nonetheless, he went on, the insurance industry is beginning to take a closer look at coastal development—a trend that is likely to continue.

Private developers and investors also are taking a closer look at resilience. The international property group Grosvenor, for example, has just released the results of its three-year study of resilient cities. Richard Barkham, Grosvenor’s global research director, said that the study was motivated by a desire to come up with a more holistic way of evaluating risks to long-term investment.

Related: Resilient Cities Research Report

The Grosvenor study ranked 50 of the world’s most important cities. Although these cities account for only 7 percent of the world’s population, they represent the major focus of most global real estate investment and consume the lion’s share of the world’s resources. The study weighed “adaptive capacity” equally with vulnerability in order to assess overall resilience.

Results from the study indicate that Canadian cities are the world’s most resilient, taking the three top positions. Two inland U.S. cities—Chicago and Pittsburgh—come in next. The top ten most resilient cities are in North America and northern Europe, and the ten least resilient—including Mexico City, São Paulo, and Mumbai—are in emerging markets.

While the Grosvenor study was intended to support the company’s own real estate investment strategy, it was made public in order to aid public sector planning as well. Many cities already are developing and implementing plans to increase their resilience, as explained by Susan Anderson, director of planning and sustainability for Portland, Oregon.

Portland’s solutions include physical improvements (such as building codes and infrastructure) and building healthy and connected neighborhoods. Stringent stormwater management regulations for new development are an example of physical resilience. But there is also a rule allowing virtually any single-family home to add a small “accessory dwelling unit” to help strengthen communities. If a natural disaster were to disable public transportation systems, Portland’s army of popular food trucks would be mobilized to bring food, water, and supplies to the populace.

And while many cities are busy developing plans and policies to increase their own resilience, some characteristically entrepreneurial real estate developers aren’t waiting for plans or regulations; rather, they’re just doing what they think will work. One case study, presented by ULI’s Dean Schwanke, focused on 1450 Brickell, a high-rise office building in downtown Miami built between 2007 and 2010.

Following the devastation of Hurricane Wilma in 2005, Relia Group decided to use impact-resistant blue glass on all levels of its new building, not just on the lower floors as required by code. This glass, designed to resist winds of up to 300 miles (482 km) per hour, cost twice as much as standard code-compliant glass. But 1450 Brickell is now fully leased in a submarket with high office vacancies—thus helping to make the business case for resilient buildings and cities.


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Co.Exist: The Cities That Spend The Most On Bike Lanes Later Reap The Most Reward

Co.Exist posted an article last week exploring a recent study out of New Zealand showing that for every dollar a city spends today on creating separated bike lanes, up to $24 could be saved in future pollution and healthcare costs.

They found huge differences: If the city built a network of separated lanes and slowed down traffic speeds, it could increase cycling by 40% by 2040, but adding a few lanes in a few places might only increase bike traffic by 5%. The more people ride, the more the cost savings would add up for Auckland–the biggest factor being a reduction in health care costs. A smaller investment would have little impact at all; the city is so bike-unfriendly that major changes are needed.

Though the study focused on Auckland, the researchers think that the general principles would apply to other cities where cars rule the road. “Auckland is very similar in design and transport patterns to many US cities, so we expect our findings to be relevant to the US,” MacMillan explains. The exact savings would be different; the study wasn’t trying to predict exact numbers, but show how different scenarios compare to each other.

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Jedward have made it through to their second Eurovision Song Contest final.

The Dublin-born twins were one of 10 acts to get through from the first semi-final and will take to the stage in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Saturday to perform their pop track Waterline.

The former X Factor contestants, real names John and Edward Grimes, are representing Ireland for the second year in a row.

They are hoping to place higher than last year, when they came eighth with Lipstick.

The 20-year-old twins were dressed in silver armour-like costumes with their famous spiky hair worn flat.

Their performance ended with the energetic brothers jumping into a fountain in the middle of the stage.

They will go up against favourites the Russian Grannies - Buranovskiye Babushki - who also made it through.

The second semi-final will take place on Thursday.

France, Italy, Germany, Spain, the UK and Azerbaijan have already qualified for the final.

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Question: What was your favorite teacher’s youngest child’s first pet’s name?
Answer 1: StupidQuestion TeacherPet Booyah
Answer 2: Green polka dots
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As part of account creation, many sites require you to answer secret questions. This isn’t only for security. It provides a self-service way for you to reset your password, which is easier for the company, and maybe for you, too. (Remember when you used to call customer care for things like this?) But security questions can be hard to design and use.

Problems with security questions

A system must present users with enough questions so they can pick a couple to answer and remember. Here are some questions and categories that can cause problems:

  • “Where was your first kiss?”  I’ve seen this make some people laugh, but embarrass others.
  • “What’s your favorite …?” Preferences change often, so answers are hard to remember.
  • “What was your phone number growing up?  Let users know if hyphens, parentheses and spaces count.
  • “What’s your youngest child’s first name?”  If you have another child (or have none), this won’t work.
  • Marriage dates, location or attendants.  Not everyone is married.
  • Pet names or types.  Some people don’t have pets.

Here are some real examples: the first is from Yahoo.com, the second from BarnesAndNoble.com. How many questions could you answer now and remember later? How many just leave you scratching your head? [Images aren’t uploading. Working on it. Sorry…]

Some of the seret questions at Yahoo.com

Some of the secret questions used at BarnesAndNoble.com

And there’s the question of whether security questions are useful at all. GoodSecurityQuestions.com points out that

The reality is, security questions present an opportunity for breach and even the best security questions are not good enough to screen out all attacks. There is a trade-off; self-service vs. security risks.

People who know you may know enough to answer your questions; people who don’t know you may be able to find out the answers (how many people on Facebook and LinkedIn know what schools you went to?).

I just came across an interesting example at the Minor League Baseball sites. When I indicated that I’d forgotten my password, I got this screen. Oddly, I had to pick which security question I’d answered and then answer it. As if I could remember that! [Added 25 Sep 2012]

At the Minor League Baseball site, you have to remember which question you answered

At the Minor League Baseball site, you first have to remember
which question you answered and then remember the answer.

Solutions for users answering questions

One of my most interesting ideas I came across is to answer a completely different question. You might use “green polka dots” when the question is “What street did you grow up on?” That’s harder for someone to guess, but harder for you to remember unless you use it everywhere (which isn’t secure).

Danah Boyd, writing on Apophenia, suggests combining a “snarky bad attitude phrase” with a clue from the actual question, plus a unique word. For example, she writes “when I’m asked the following question: What is your favorite sports team? My answer would be: StupidQuestion SportsTeam Booyah“.

Solutions for designers picking questions to include

Here are some tips for selecting questions for your application:

  1. It’s OK to have some questions that don’t apply to everyone, but have enough choices so everyone can comfortably use a few.
  2. Questions shouldn’t be so obscure that people have to write their answers down.
  3. Answers shouldn’t be too easy for someone to figure out.
  4. Answers should be unique — there should be just one.
  5. Answers should be stable over time, unlike favorite things.
  6. Have reminders about punctuation and case, both for initial and subsequent entries.
  7. Consider allowing people to specify their own questions in case none of the provided ones work.

Usability testing helps

It may seem trivial to test security questions, but it does help. We got some good feedback in a recent project and changed the questions in our list. There’s nothing like showing your work to real users.

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  1. Ron Perkins says:

    Interesting, I’ve always wondered what to do about those questions!

  2. Ward says:

    Real-world question from a forgotten site: “What was your least favorite childhood nickname?”

    Dredging up painful memories, whether or not one answers the question, seems like a poor idea.

    • Paul says:

      Most security questions are a security risk more severe than weak passwords. In many cases, the answers are easily enumerable (e.g. the make of you first car). The best design would allow the user to decline use of security questions.

  3. Tim says:

    Forget things people who know you could sneer or find out. I’m always surprised at how many sites ask things which are a matter of public record, like mother’s maiden name or place of birth.

    • Hal Shubin says:

      Good point. Could it be that they don’t take it seriously? But large companies must have security officers these days.

      I didn’t look into how long ago secret questions started, and whether it goes back to a time when personal information wasn’t so readily available. That would be good to look into.

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Well, I finally gave up on having Linux as my workstation here at work. While it was cool having virtual desktops, a real stable environment, etc, it really came down to productivity - something that Linux just couldn't provide me with (perhaps it's b/c I grew up on Windows):
  • Scroll wheel: Sure I had a crappy OEM Logitech mouse, but Linux for some reason couldn't handle it. It sure comes in handy when dealing with a lengthy piece of code.
  • Printing: Got a Novell network and got it set up, but for some KDE applications, it wouldn't work and for others (StarOffice, the console 'lpr' command) it would.
  • CD Ripping: I was using RipperX (on the old drive) and it would take hours to rip a CD. Needless to say, RealJukebox does this in minutes.
  • CD Burner: I could only burn a CD and after doing a modprobe ide-scsi. cdrecord is an awesome application - I do give that props... but ...
  • CD Mounting: After getting my new CD-RW drive installed, I couldn't mount CD's anymore.
  • Coding: I'm not a gvim or emacs guy - I like project-based IDE's to work within. I tried Glimmer and Komodo, both of which were either slow or had functionality missing that I needed. I'm now using Crimson Editor on Windows right now.

So now I have a cheesy/instable Win98 workstation, but at least I found a virtual desktop shareware app (Cool Desk) and Putty & WinSCP are cool apps, too.

Of course, I'm just waitin' 'til I get a new tiBook/OS X, hopefully later this year.

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        But my copy has just decided that it wants to crash any installers that run. On the bright side, Emperor: Battle for Dune is already installed. On the not so bright side, programs that my gf would like to learn to use aren't.

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It's the height of summer and I have a cold, bah. Anyway, while the command line tools are good, the easiest way to manage Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances is by using the Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2 - pointy-clicky starting virtual machines.

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So much for being unaffected. I was awake for hours last night, unable to sleep, thinking "what happens if *I* got laid off? We'd be so fucked", going around all the possibilities. I don't know of anywhere here that's hiring. Can't move back to NZ because of mother-in-law's dependence on Medicare. Tried to calculate whether 16 hour days of burger-flipping would pay the mortgage, and decided it wouldn't. Tried to calculate whether Jenine could work at being a CAD jockey and earn more than the cost of daycare, and realized I didn't have enough data.

What a bloody miserable time to get the shaft.

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    Heads up, keep on going. Don't let these things strike you down.

    Have you finished that PHP book ('cause I'm interested on the Perl one you said would come after you've finished with it!)??? :-))

    Bad things happen all the time. What you have to do is to support your friends, help them as much as you can if they get laid off and keep doing your work. If you stop now, it will be worse.

    If you get laid off, then there's absolutely nothing you can do now. The friends you've helped will help you.
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musicalbeep.h add console beeps to your C programs, using 'musical parameters'.

gauztris N/CURSES tetris clone. Works on Linux/*BSD/Solaris. Added new timing code, plays better now.

svgagauztris SVGALIB tetris clone, needs a little work. not in synch with above curses version.

SNAFU ncurses clone of Intellivision game, Snafu (aka Tron Light Cycles),
2 players only, no AI for computer play.

TK/Perl XMAME frontend, OLD, hasn't been updated since 1997. This is also still included in the Xmame source under the contrib/ directory.


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Avg. Price Paid: $32,807 - $35,941
Original MSRP: $51,970 - $56,765
MPG: 15 City / 20 Hwy
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2010 Lexus GX Interior

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The GX’s cabin stands out for luxurious, high-quality materials. Reviewers find the controls easy to use, but say the sheer number of them can be daunting at first.

  • "The cabin is as sumptuous as ever, with high-quality materials everywhere you look and touch along with generous fillets of wood trim and metallic accents." -- Edmunds
  • "For some, there might be too much technology crammed into the GX 460. The dashboard, center stack and steering wheel are an absolute riot of buttons, with knobs and sliding panels that hide more buttons and knobs." -- Popular Mechanics
  • “The overall look of the center stack and center console area is cleaner and more elegant than before. All of the controls are easy to use, and liberal use of sound deadening material makes the cabin pleasantly quiet." -- Truck Trend
  • "The metal-look control knobs are satisfying to see and operate." -- Automobile Magazine

First- and Second-Row Seats

Reviewers are impressed with the GX's ability to seat seven passengers in three rows. While the first-row seats are the ultimate in comfort, some say the second row lacks padding.

A leather-trimmed interior is standard, though Premium models upgrade to perforated Semi-aniline leather. Heated and ventilated front seats are included on all models, and the Premium model also gets heated middle-row outboard seats. The heated seats and upgraded leather are available on the base model as part of the Comfort Plus Package.

  • "The GX 460's cabin faces the challenging mission of accommodating seven passengers in three rows while making one and all feel like lotto winners. The effort is a success in the first row where the instrument panel glows with polished wood, elegantly simulated metal, and enough electronic gadgets to overwhelm a Best Buy clerk. Other occupants suffer with insufficient padding to support them comfortably on a long trip.” -- Automobile Magazine
  • “Five adults will fit inside without rubbing too many shoulders. The flat-bottom second-row seats aren't that comfortable given the price range, but room for toes, knees and heads is more than adequate and at least the second-row seat folds flat for useful cargo loading." -- Edmunds
  • "The front seats couldn't possibly be better shaped or more comfortable." -- Popular Mechanics

Third-Row Seats

The GX’s third row isn’t a comfortable place to be unless you’re a child. However, this is a typical complaint for three-row SUVs in this class.

  • "In the third row, despite the fact that you're sitting over the rear axle (which keeps your knees high), legroom has gotten a lot better." -- Truck Trend
  • "Access to the third row is a tight scrunch on the right side only and the kids sentenced to those seats are likely to feel they've been punished for bad behavior." -- Automobile Magazine
  • "Headroom increases slightly overall, but legroom is less in all regards, particularly in the rearmost seats, which are nearly pressed against the rear glass and are best left to the munchkins of the family; they're probably the only ones that can climb back there without hurting themselves, anyway." -- Car and Driver
  • "But while the rear seats are great at folding, they're rather thinly padded and flat. The front passengers ride on thrones, while everyone in back gets bleacher seating with modest legroom." -- Popular Mechanics

Interior Features

The 2010 Lexus GX comes fully loaded with standard features and luxurious touches. The base model comes with dual-zone automatic climate control, remote keyless entry, 10-way power-adjustable front seats, heated front seats, a nine-speaker Premium Sound System, XM Satellite Radio, a USB and iPod port and Bluetooth capability.

The Premium model adds three-zone automatic climate control, power-folding outside mirrors, a Perforated Semi-aniline leather-trimmed interior, heated steering wheel and heated middle-row outboard seats.

An HDD Navigation System including voice commands is optional on either model.

  • "The instrument cluster is a delightful array of three liquid-crystal displays and four glowing needle and digit gauges. Scrolling through the menu allows displaying such useful info as which way the front wheels are pointing." -- Automobile Magazine
  • "As with any Lexus, the cabin is a hush-hush environment and fit and finish are first rate, save for the faux metal trim on the dash, which is sculpted to look like it was milled from a billet slab yet appears a bit chintzy." -- Car and Driver
  • "With its muted use of wood trim, brilliantly illuminated instrument cluster, ‘machined steel bar’ plastic trim and elegant upholstery, the GX 460's cockpit certainly has its charms and delights. But there's got to be a better way of packaging all the controls. And shedding some of the more esoteric features would tone things down." -- Popular Mechanics

The GX provides a maximum 64.7 cubic feet of cargo space with the second and third rows folded down, which is less than last year’s model offered. If you’re using the second and third rows for people, the GX’s cargo space is extremely limited. The versatile seats are a plus, however. The second row reclines, slides and folds down. Even better is the power fold-flat third row, which folds down at the touch of a button.

  • "Another concern is access to the cargo hold. The GX's cousin-Toyota's 4Runner-has a simple roof-hinged hatch with a roll-down rear glass. But here the door swings open on a right-side hinge, which exposes users to traffic. In addition, attaching a trailer severely restricts the door's opening angle." -- Automobile Magazine
  • “The third row now can fold flat electrically, and the second row can slide fore and aft as well as recline. The rear glass also can be opened separately from the side-hinged hatch, which is good because swinging out the big rear door in tight confines or with a trailer in tow likely will result in a trip to the body shop." -- Car and Driver
  • "It's also worth noting that overall cargo capacity is down considerably. In the GX 470, the third-row seats could be taken out, leaving up to 49.7 cubic feet of space. Fold the GX 460's third-row seats and it only opens up 17 cubic feet of space. Space behind the third row is down from 13.2 cubic feet to 4.2 cubic feet." -- Edmunds
  • "The GX's cargo door still opens with the handle on the left side, opening to the right; the problem with this style of door is that when the vehicle is parked by a curb and someone is unloading gear, they have to walk all the way around the open door (and closer to traffic). If it opened right to left instead, anyone who got something out of the cargo area would be better shielded from other vehicles on the road." -- Truck Trend


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I've orded a book called 'Content Strategy for Mobile' which should be an interesting read however, surely if your content is good enough for your desktop site should the same not apply for mobile? Why would you need a content strategy just for mobile?

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I suspect the introduction to your book will tell you the author's opinion on the subject. –  Yamikuronue Feb 8 '13 at 17:06
Indeed it does! –  Roger Attrill Feb 8 '13 at 17:46
is this the book you are referring to: abookapart.com/products/content-strategy-for-mobile –  Charles Wesley Feb 8 '13 at 17:53
Indeed I am Charles. –  Reloaded Feb 8 '13 at 17:59
Many would claim that your penultimate statement is correct. It should, however, be turned around due to the "mobile first" paradigm: "If your content is good enough for mobile, then it's also good enough for desktop..." –  Jørn E. Angeltveit Feb 9 '13 at 12:13

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People tend to consume different content on their mobile devices to what they would consume on their desktop devices, and each has different capabilities when it comes to using it. So the strategy is to show people the type of content on their mobile devices that they would typically consume more on mobile, or in a format that would be easier for them to consume on mobile. The same goes for desktop.

For many sites, they only have one type of content, in which case they should of course show the same content on each device, but they should consider how they format that content. On my phone, I want content to be more readable, and fancy layouts are generally just frustrating. On my desktop, I have more space, and would like a different layout to the content, even if they are fundamentally the same.

In summary, you should choose the content and the format of that content based on what makes the most sense given the device that a person is consuming that content on.

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Hi John, thank you for a great answer. I was wondering about "people tend to consume different content on their mobile devices to what they would consume on their desktop". I thought that was apparently a "myth" and that people wish to consume the same content on both devices? Be great to get your insight on this. –  Reloaded Feb 8 '13 at 17:36
@Reloaded A typical example is that it is easier to create on a laptop than on a tablet, so any content that I am likely to want to make notes is easier to consume on my laptop. But content that is just reading, I can do on each just as well. Focus on what each is good at, and where someone would prefer one over the other. –  JohnGB Feb 8 '13 at 18:32
While it may be easier to consume said content on your laptop, there's no good argument to prevent people from getting to it on any device. In fact, the biggest argument for allowing it is that more and more people are accessing the web only through mobile devices. –  DA01 Aug 19 '14 at 19:25

There's no such thing as content strategy for mobile.

That's the first line in the introduction of this book.

It then goes on to say - as you will find out when you get the book:

There is such a thing as a content strategy that plans for how you’ll publish and maintain your content across all these new and emerging platforms: smartphones and tablets, sure, but also smart TVs, refrigerators, in-car audio systems—even the desktop web. But “holistic enterprise content strategy” just doesn’t have the same ring to it, right? Mobile’s the buzzword on everyone’s lips right now, so that’s the label we’ve slapped on this problem.

When we talk about content strategy for mobile, we’re not talking about publishing different content to be read on smartphones. That wouldn’t be much of a strategy—who can afford to create content for only one platform? If content strategy means developing a plan for how you will create, deliver, maintain, and govern your content, then content strategy for mobile looks at the special challenges in getting your content onto a variety of devices, screen sizes, and platforms—including mobile web, native apps for iOS, Android and Windows, and, yup, even the desktop.

When we talk about content strategy for mobile, we’re also not talking about delivering content to serve the “mobile context.” “Mobile” seemingly implies motion, mobility. We imagine a hurried businesswoman, dashing through the airport, glancing at the screen out of the corner of one eye. But like the “dial” tone, the “return” key, and “cut and paste,” the word “mobile” has expanded to mean something different from its analogue in the physical world. Anyone who’s ever pecked at his mobile phone from the couch, too lazy to walk over to his desktop computer just a few feet away, knows exactly what we’re talking about. Anyone who’s ever waited for hours in that same airport, passing the time transfixed by a tiny glowing screen, knows the same thing. “Mobile” doesn’t necessarily mean you’re on the move.

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Thanks Roger, excited to read this now! –  Reloaded Feb 8 '13 at 17:51

People really don't tend to consume different content on their mobile devices. Looking at data from my clients, the top 20-50 searches and top 20-50 pages viewed on desktop and mobile tend to be very consistent.

Beyond that, we have to take into account some new behaviors, like the rise of the "mobile only" user (31% of Americans who access the internet from their mobile device say that's the way they always or mostly access the internet, according to Pew Internet.) We have to consider sequential usage of devices, where people start a task on a mobile phone and pick it up later on the desktop (90% of people report using their device this way, according to Google.) In both of these cases, users benefit from having the same content on every device.

Stop making assumptions about how users want to consume content differently on mobile. Instead, put a plan in place for delivering all of your desktop content on mobile devices. Aim for content parity. If you think some content isn't worth having on mobile, then it's not valuable to your desktop users either.

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Published September 04, 2007 Cooking Time (mins)
Main Ingredient Paneer Cheese Preparation Time mins

Recipe of Shahi Paneer

Ingredient Name Quantity Unit
Paneer (cottage cheese)  250 Grams
Beaten curd  1/4 Cup
Milk  1/2 Cup
Tomatoes (chopped fine)  1 1/2 Cup
Ginger chopped fine  1/2 Slice
Green chillies chopped fine  2-3 Numbers
Cardamoms (crushed)  2-3 Numbers
Garam masala  1/2 Teaspoons
Red chilli powder  1/2 Teaspoons
: Tomato sauce  2 Teaspoons
Ghee or butter  3 Teaspoons
Salt   To Taste

  1. Chop paneer into 2quot; fingers.
  2. Heat half the ghee. Add onion, ginger, green chilli and cardamom. Fry for 3-4 minutes. Add tomatoes and cook for 7-8 minutes, covered. Add curd and cook for 5 minutes. Add 1/2 cup water and cool.
  3. Blend in a mixer till smooth.
  4. Heat remaining ghee, add gravy and other ingredients except milk and paneer. Boil to get a very thick gravy.
  5. Just before serving, heat gravy, add milk and paneer fingers and boil for 3-4 minutes.
  6. Garnish with chopped coriander and grated paneer.

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revision. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify
the Virginia Court of Appeals.

Present: Judges Bumgardner, Kelsey and Senior Judge Hodges

Record No. 0858-03-2

Michael C. Allen, Judge

(Richard L. Locke; Robert W. Partin; Locke &

Partin, PLC, on brief), for appellant.

No brief for appellee.

Robert Deane, father, and Ellen Gardner, mother, are divorced

and had three children during their marriage. Father appeals a

decision of the trial court denying his motion for a change in

custody of two of the parties’ children. Father contends on

appeal that the trial court erred in: (1) finding no material

change in circumstances; (2) not awarding custody to him;

(3) ignoring the express preferences of the children to live

him; (4) awarding mother attorney’s fees; (5) disproportionately

allocating the guardian ad litem fees; (6) granting mother a

change in visitation; and (7) not finding that mother was

from arguing there was no material change in circumstances. Upon

reviewing the record and father’s brief, we conclude that this

appeal is without merit. Accordingly, we summarily affirm the

decision of the trial court. See Rule 5A:27.

The parties were married in 1982. The parties had three

children during the marriage: Jason, who was born in 1983,

who was born in 1987, and John, who was born in 1990. The trial

court entered a final divorce decree on May 23, 2001, nunc pro

tunc to September 25, 2000, awarding primary physical custody of

the children to mother and visitation to father.

The record indicates that, after entry of the September 2000

custody order, the relationship between mother and two of the

children became strained, particularly when mother indicated she

wanted to move to Atlanta with the children. Father filed a

motion for an injunction to prohibit the move to Atlanta. He

filed a motion to amend custody and visitation, requesting

of the children.

By order entered on May 31, 2002, the juvenile and domestic

relations district court (J&DR court) found no material
change in

circumstances had been proven and dismissed father’s motion to

modify custody and visitation with respect to Kacey and John.

parties agreed that Jason’s best interests would be served by

vesting his physical and legal custody with father, which the

court ordered.

Father appealed the J&DR court’s decision concerning Kacey

and John to the trial court. Mother also filed a motion to

visitation during the summer vacation time period. On November

25, 2002, the trial court held a hearing on the issues. At that

time, Kacey was fifteen years old and John was twelve years old.

The guardian ad litem was involved with the case from the

time of the original custody award. He filed several reports

the courts. In his supplemental report filed on November 22,

2002, he wrote that John desired a "50/50" custody

Kacey had earlier expressed a desire for a "50/50"

arrangement, but later expressed a desire to live with father

ten days, then mother for four days, stating that she had a

"better relationship" with her father. The record
indicates that

both children do well in school.

In his report, the guardian ad litem also stated that he

asked father what changes warranted consideration of the

and visitation arrangements. Father cited mother’s visit to

Atlanta with the intent of possibly moving there and a

deterioration in communication between the parents.

The record also contains several letters from Richard Grosse,

a licensed clinical social worker, to the guardian ad litem.

Grosse had met with members of the family. In a letter dated

February 22, 2002, Grosse expressed concern about the parents’

"inability" "to work together." He wrote
that each parent claims

the other is uncooperative. Grosse opined that any

the children were experiencing "intrinsically stem[med] from the

inability of [the parents] to develop a parenting

Grosse stated that both father and mother were "responsible

Father testified at the hearing that since September 2000,

"things" "have deteriorated rather rapidly"
and that mother exerts

more "control" over the children. He described mother

"autocratic," and he stated that his relationship with
mother has

become more tense. Father testified that Kacey has been

away" from her mother, especially since the issue of moving

Atlanta arose because Kacey did not want to move. Father

testified that Kacey has anger toward her mother.

Father also stated that in November 2001, mother suddenly

left the area for three months, leaving the children in his

Father testified that mother did not tell him or the children

where she was going. However, mother did visit with the children

during this time period. The parties appear to dispute the facts

about this time period. The report of the guardian ad litem

indicates that, during this time, the parties sold the marital

residence where mother had been residing and mother’s future

housing arrangements were not secured at the time of the

She, therefore, asked father to keep the children until her

housing situation was remedied.

Father testified that he believes it would be best for the

children that he have primary physical custody of them because

communicates well with the children, he supports the children

emotionally, he has a flexible work schedule allowing him to

attend certain school events, and he provides a safe and secure

environment where they do not have to worry about what they say.

He stated that he has a close bond with the children. He

recognizes the children need both parents to be involved in

lives, which is what he desires. Father also expressed a desire

to have flexibility in the visitation schedule, with each parent

having a few weeks with the children during the summer.

The trial court met in camera with Kacey.

At the conclusion of father’s evidence, mother moved to

strike the evidence on the ground that father failed to show a

material change in circumstances and that it was in the best

interests of the children to change the custody arrangement. The

guardian ad litem deferred to the motion to strike. The trial

court stated that it considered the evidence presented, the

supplemental report of the guardian ad litem, and the arguments

counsel in light of the factors set out in Code ? 20-124.3. The

trial court agreed with mother and concluded that the evidence

not establish a material change in circumstances requiring a

modification in custody. The trial court modified the summer

visitation schedule so that each parent had three

weeks of vacation with the children, with father designating his

three weeks by April 1 of each year.

As the party seeking to modify custody, father bore the

burden to prove: (1) there had been a material change of

circumstances since the most recent custody award and (2) that a

change in custody would be in the best interests of the

See Hughes v. Gentry, 18 Va. App. 318, 321, 443 S.E.2d 448,

(1994). "This rule advances the obvious benefits of

stability in the life of the child whose custody is the subject

the conflict between the parents." Id. at 322, 443 S.E.2d
at 451.

"Whether a change of circumstances exists is a factual

that will not be disturbed on appeal if the finding is supported

by credible evidence." Visikides v. Derr, 3 Va. App. 69,
70, 348

S.E.2d 40, 41 (1986).

We review the evidence in the light most favorable to mother

as the prevailing party below. Turner v. Turner, 3 Va. App. 31,

34, 348 S.E.2d 21, 22 (1986). So viewed, we cannot conclude that

the trial court erred in finding father failed to prove a

change in circumstances occurred between the entry of the

September 2000 order and November 2002. The record shows that

parents have difficulties working together on issues related to

the children and, as the trial court stated, the children have

become "immersed in the litigation." Many of the
tensions and

poor communications cited by father as reasons to change custody

could be resolved if the parents developed a "cooperative

parenting partnership" as suggested by the licensed

social worker. The record shows that mother and Kacey have had

some difficulties in their relationship and Kacey expressed a

desire to spend more time with father. John expressed a desire

spend equal time with each parent. However, the preference of

children was but one factor for the trial court’s consideration,

was not dispositive of the issue, and did not rise to the level

supporting a change of custody. Indeed, the record indicates the

children are doing well in school while in mother’s custody.

Therefore, the trial court did not err in denying father’s

Furthermore, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in

making a change in the visitation schedule. The trial court

stated that the change improved the scheduling for both parents.

Moreover, in modifying the visitation schedule, the trial court

granted father’s request that he not be required to return the

children until Monday mornings in the summer so that he could

the children on weekend trips. Father’s argument that mother was

estopped from requesting a change in visitation is without

"’An award of attorney fees is a matter submitted to the

trial court’s sound discretion and is reviewable on appeal only

for an abuse of discretion.’" L.C.S. v. S.A.S., 19 Va. App.

721, 453 S.E.2d 580, 587 (1995) (citation omitted). Under the

circumstances of this case, we find no abuse of discretion by

trial court.

Furthermore, an award of guardian ad litem fees, like any

award of attorney’s fees, "is a matter for the exercise of

trial court’s sound discretion after consideration of the

circumstances and equities of the entire case." Davis v.
Davis, 8

Va. App. 12, 17, 377 S.E.2d 640, 643 (1989). We cannot say that

the trial court abused its discretion in requiring father to pay

eighty percent of the guardian ad litem fees.

Accordingly, the decision of the circuit court is summarily

[1]Pursuant to
Code ? 17.1-413, this opinion is not

designated for publication.

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