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With S and T the stopping times for a sequence of -algebra , with for m<n.
How can I show that S+T is a stopping time?
You just have to use the definition of a stopping time...
Assuming S and T take their values in , S+T does too.
Now we have to check that , which is straightforward since
Since S is a stopping time, . And since is a sigma-algebra, a finite union of elements of will still be in . | <urn:uuid:3b0c4e1a-dc5a-416a-bac2-2b90d3aebb9c> | 2013-05-24T01:45:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Determine whether each of the following functions is one-to-one, onto, neither or both.
, given by
So, I think this is one-to-one and onto. So i need to prove it.
Claim: If , given by , then f is a one-to-one correspondence.
Proof: Assume , given by .
First we must show that f is one-to-one.
Let such that .
Hence, f is one-to-one. Here, do I need to use the fact that the codomain is (1, infinity) or the domain is (2, infinity)?
Now we need to show that f is onto. Let and take a = ....
Here I would have solved b = a / (a-2) for a, but I do not know how to solve this. Is there any other way to do this proof besides solving for a then substituting back in to show that it gives me f(a) = b? | <urn:uuid:1d1c95a8-faca-4635-b19a-97d8fb71d89b> | 2013-05-24T01:52:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Developmental control of cell fate and dysregulation in cancer
Our lab is broadly interested in stem/progenitor cell biology, and how studies of these cells might improve therapies in cancer and regenerative medicine. Our research is divided into two programs.
Dissecting regulatory networks that control growth factor signaling. The long-term goal of this program is to elucidate the mechanisms that regulate growth factor signaling during development and to understand how the integration of multiple signaling pathways leads to cell fate decisions by stem/progenitor cells. This work is fundamentally important: fine regulation of growth factor signaling and signal integration are crucial for proper cell fate decisions, coordinated development of organs, and for environmental and physiological cues to alter cellular responses. In humans, dysregulation of growth factor signaling is linked to developmental syndromes and many forms of cancer. We study regulation of signaling by the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), an evolutionarily conserved receptor that is implicated in a wide number of human cancers. With many key components of the EGFR pathway defined, the greatest challenges lie in understanding the extensive regulatory inputs and how they are coordinated to achieve specific outputs. For these studies, we focus on genetic approaches in the nematode C. elegans, which allows us to identify regulatory mechanisms that operate in the context of a whole animal. Precise patterning of the nematode vulva requires multiple levels of regulation of EGFR signaling and involves cross-talk with Wnt signaling, another growth factor signaling pathway involved in human cancer. Small deviations from this regulation result in quantifiable changes in vulval patterning. By studying vulval development, we have identified a number of new regulatory mechanisms. Current work is aimed at studying how neuromuscular activity controls the response of vulval progenitor cells to growth factors and determining how a specific receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase regulates EGFR signaling. In addition, we have isolated a number of mutations that cause excessive responses to growth factor signaling, whose molecular identities we are trying to determine.
Stem/progenitor cell biology in human lung. The long-term goal of this new program is to determine how self-renewal and differentiation is regulated in the epithelium of adult human central airways (trachea and mainstem bronchi), and to understand how perturbations in these processes lead to diseases like lung cancer. This work is fundamentally important because diseases of the central airways are some of the most common and lethal diseases affecting humans. For example, millions of North Americans suffer from asthma and cystic fibrosis, and lung cancer is the deadliest form of cancer worldwide. The molecular identities of the progenitor cells and their progeny, the number of steps involved in self-renewal and differentiation, and the specific signals that control these processes are largely unknown, especially in humans. To begin to address these questions, we have established an in vitro culture system for the isolation, expansion, and differentiation of normal human bronchial epithelial (NHBE) stem/progenitor cells. Current work is aimed at developing complementary in vivo xenograft assays and developing tools for real time imaging and high-throughput screening for regulators of self-renewal and differentiation. In addition, we are pursuing a number of projects in which we are already interrogating the contributions of specific signaling pathways.
- Monica Clifford
- Bo Ram Kim
Selected References:Link to Pubmed Publications
Modzelewska, K*, Elgort, MG*, Huang, J, Jongeward, G, Lauritzen, A, Yoon, CH, Sternberg, PW, Moghal, N. An activating mutation in sos-1 identifies its Dbl domain as a critical inhibitor of the EGFR pathway during C. elegans vulval development. (*These authors contributed equally.) Mol Cell Biol 2007; 27(10): 3695-3707.
Moghal N*, Garcia LR*, Iwasaki K, Khan L, Sternberg PW. Modulation of EGF receptor-mediated vulva development by the heterotrimeric G-protein Galpha q and excitable cells in C. elegans. Development 2003; 130(19): 4553-4566. (*These authors contributed equally.) [Comment in Science. 301(5639): 1447.]
Moghal N and Sternberg PW. Extracellular domain determinants of LET-23 (EGF) receptor tyrosine kinase activity in C. elegans. Oncogene 2003; 22(35): 5471-5480.
Moghal N and Sternberg PW. A component of the transcriptional mediator complex inhibits RAS-dependent vulval fate specification in C. elegans. Development 2003;130(1): 57-69.
Moghal N and Sternberg PW. The EGF system in C. elegans. Exp Cell Res 2003; 284(1): 150-159.
Moghal N and Neel BG. Integration of growth factor, extracellular matrix, and retinoid signals during bronchial epithelial cell differentiation. Mol Cell Biol.1998;18(11): 6666-6678.
Moghal N and Neel BG. Evidence for impaired retinoic acid receptor-thyroid hormone receptor AF-2 cofactor activity in human lung cancer. Mol Cell Biol 1995; 15(7): 3945-3959. | <urn:uuid:f8b7ad33-f29e-4873-9684-0ad3f37fac4d> | 2013-05-24T01:44:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Racing driver Karl Wendlinger (Austria) is now part of the Mercedes-AMG team. The 43 year-old will be on hand at AMG events as a new AMG brand ambassador, alongside DTM championship record holder Bernd Schneider and David Coulthard. Karl Wendlinger will also be bolstering the team at the AMG Driving Academy as an instructor and supporting the SLS AMG GT3 Customer Sport teams.
SLS AMG GT3 customer teams can book Karl Wendlinger for test or racing sessions as part of the driver support programme from AMG Customer Sports and draw on his great knowledge as a sports car expert. The 43 year-old will be supporting his colleagues Bernd Schneider and Thomas Jäger, who have accompanied the SLS AMG GT3 throughout its entire development and testing programme. Jäger has been working as a coordinator for AMG Customer Sports since 2010.
In his new role for Mercedes-AMG, Karl Wendlinger will be on hand as a point of contact at press and customer events. As a new member of the AMG Driving Academy's team of instructors, he will also be on location at race tracks. Here too, he will join forces with Bernd Schneider and Thomas Jäger, who belong to the AMG Driving Academy's core team, along with Bernd Mayländer (driver of the official F1™ Safety Car).
Return to the Mercedes fold
For Karl Wendlinger, this collaboration marks a return to the Mercedes fold: from 1990 to 1991 the Austrian was a member of the Mercedes junior team competing in the sports car world championship along with Michael Schumacher and Heinz-Harald Frentzen. In 1991 he switched to Formula 1. In 1994, Wendlinger raced for the Sauber-Mercedes team alongside Heinz-Harald Frentzen. "I'm happy to be returning to the Mercedes family," says Karl Wendlinger. "I'm looking forward to many joint projects with AMG. I'm relishing the opportunity to work alongside Bernd Schneider, Thomas Jäger and David Coulthard at selected AMG events."
"We are proud to welcome such a successful racing driver as Karl Wendlinger to the AMG team," says Ola Källenius, Chairman of Mercedes-AMG GmbH. "Karl Wendlinger is the likeable sort of character with whom people are keen to talk at our AMG events. His comprehensive technical knowledge and driving expertise will also be a boon to the AMG Driving Academy and the SLS AMG GT3 customer teams."
Successful career in sports car racing
Karl Wendlinger's motor sport career began in go-carting at the age of 14. In 1989 he won the German Formula 3 Championship. He subsequently competed in the DTM, Formula 3000 and the 24-hour Le Mansrace. After retiring from Formula 1, Karl Wendlinger raced in various touring and sports car series. His most outstanding successes on the race track include winning the FIA GT Championship (1999), 1st place in the 24-hour Le Mans race in the GTS-Class (in the same year), overall victory in the 24-hour Daytona racein 2000 and 2nd place in the 24-hour Nürburgring race (2003). Karl Wendlinger raced for various teams in the FIA GT Championship from 2004 to 2011. In 2007 he was runner-up with Jetalliance Racing. | <urn:uuid:08ec4dc7-b6bd-40a6-82a5-7026a37cb4ce> | 2013-05-24T01:38:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace repeatedly pressed senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod to explain why requests for additional security for Libyan diplomats were not heeded. But Wallace failed to clarify that the requests for additional security were focused on the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, not the consulate in Benghazi that was the target of a terrorist attack.
On the October 14 edition of Fox News Sunday, Wallace started his interview with Axelrod by discussing the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and airing a statement made by Vice President Joe Biden in the October 11 vice-presidential debate that "we did not know they wanted more security there." Wallace then said to Axelrod: "Just the day before, several State Department officials testified under oath that there were repeated requests for more security that were rejected. What is the vice president talking about?" Wallace later asked Axelrod, "Let me ask you directly: Does the president take personal responsibility for the fact that repeated requests for more security were made and were rejected, and that that may have contributed to the death of those four Americans? Does he take personal responsibility for that?"
But Wallace failed to explain that the requests for extra security were focused on the embassy in Tripoli, not the consulate in Benghazi, and that State Department officials believe that even if the requests had been granted, they would likely not have changed what happened in Benghazi, because they would have been ill-equipped to respond to the large scale of the assault. As The New York Times reported:
In the weeks leading up to the attack last month on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, diplomats on the ground sounded increasingly urgent alarms. In a stream of diplomatic cables, embassy security officers warned their superiors at the State Department of a worsening threat from Islamic extremists, and requested that the teams of military personnel and State Department security guards who were already on duty be kept in service.
The requests were denied, but they were largely focused on extending the tours of security guards at the American Embassy in Tripoli -- not at the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, 400 miles away. And State Department officials testified this week during a hearing by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that extending the tour of additional guards -- a 16-member military security team -- through mid-September would not have changed the bloody outcome because they were based in Tripoli, not Benghazi.
While it is unclear what impact a handful of highly trained additional guards might have had in Benghazi were they able to deploy there, some State Department officials said it would probably not have made any difference in blunting the Sept. 11 assault from several dozen heavily armed militants.
"An attack of that kind of lethality, we're never going to have enough guns," Patrick F. Kennedy, under secretary of state for management, said at Wednesday's hearing. "We are not an armed camp ready to fight it out."
Wallace is muddling facts and geography by overlooking that the security was targeted for the Tripoli embassy, not a consulate hundreds of miles away. | <urn:uuid:596cf0e0-5afb-446f-8069-28f5ff34fa68> | 2013-05-24T01:40:57Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Heartburn -- Overview
(Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease; Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease [GORD]; GERD; Reflux, Heartburn)
|Copyright © Nucleus Medical Media, Inc.|
- Exercising or strenuous activity immediately after eating
- Lying down, bending over, or straining after eating
- Prior surgery for heartburn such as vagotomy
- Certain nervous system disorders
- In-dwelling nasogastric tube
- Alcohol use, especially in excess
- Caffeine drinks such as coffee or carbonated soft drinks
- Citrus fruits
- Fried foods
- Spicy foods
- Foods made with tomatoes, such as pizza, chili, or spaghetti sauce
- Calcium channel blockers
- Theophylline, bronchial inhalers, and other asthma medications
- Burning feeling that starts in the lower chest and moves up the throat
- Feeling that food is coming back up
- Sour or bitter taste in the throat
- Sore throat
- Chronic cough
- Feeling of a lump in the throat
- Waking up with a sensation of choking
- Difficulty swallowing
- Bleeding and ulcers in the esophagus
- Vomiting blood
- Black or tarry stools
- Inflammation and scarring of the esophagus
- Barrett's esophagus— precancerous condition that can lead to esophageal cancer
- Dental problems, which may occur because of the effect of stomach acid on tooth enamel
When Should I Call My Doctor?
When Should I Call for Medical Help Immediately?
- Squeezing or chest pressure
- Pain in the left shoulder, left arm, or jaw
- Trouble breathing
- Sweating, clammy skin
- Pain that starts during activity or stress
- 24-hour pH (acid) monitoring
- Manometry to test muscle strength in the lower esophagus
- Keep a food diary of what you eat and what the reaction is. Make gradual changes to your diet and record the results.
- Avoid foods that trigger heartburn symptoms.
- Eat smaller portions.
- Allow at least 2-3 hours between meals and lying down, and exercise.
- Lose weight.
- Quit smoking.
- Avoid belts and clothing that are too tight. This may increase pressure on the abdomen.
- Elevate head of bed 6-8 inches.
- Proton-pump inhibitors block acid production in the stomach
- H-2 blockers decrease the amount of acid secreted by the stomach
- Antacids neutralize stomach acid
American Gastroenterological Association http://www.gastro.org
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases http://www.niddk.nih.gov
Canadian Institute for Health Information http://www.cihi.ca
Health Canada http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/what.php. Updated April 25, 2013. Accessed April 26, 2013.
Heartburn, gastroesophageal reflux (GER), and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases website. Available at: http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/gerd/. Updated April 30, 2012. Accessed April 26, 2013.
Heartburn. American Academy of Family Physicians Family Doctor website. Available at: http://familydoctor.org/familydoctor/en/diseases-conditions/heartburn.html. Updated July 2010. Accessed April 26, 2013.
Understanding Heartburn and Reflux Disease. American Gastroenterological Association website. Available at: http://www.gastro.org/patient-center/digestive-conditions/heartburn-gerd. Updated April 25, 2010. Accessed April 26, 2013.
Warning signs of a heart attack. American Heart Association website. Available at: http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HeartAttack/WarningSignsofaHeartAttack/Warning-Signs-of-a-Heart-Attack%5FUCM%5F002039%5FArticle.jsp. Updated March 22, 2013. Accessed April 26. 2013.
9/30/2008 DynaMed's Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/what.php: Jacobson BC, Moy B, Colditz GA, Fuchs CS. Postmenopausal hormone use and symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux. Arch Intern Med. 2008;168:1798-1804.
3/1/2010 DynaMed's Systematic Literature Surveillance DynaMed's Systematic Literature Surveillance: Maalox Total Relief and Maalox liquid products: medication use errors. US Food and Drug Administration website. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm200672.htm. Published February 17, 2010. Accessed April 26, 2013.
- Reviewer: Daus Mahnke, MD; Brian Randall, MD
- Review Date: 04/2013 -
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The treatment and management of non-Hodgkins lymphoma may involve radiation therapy, chemotherapy, biological modifiers, medications to help with side effects, and other treatments, such as bone marrow transplant. Different therapies may also be used in combination. Your doctor will recommend a treatment plan for your specific needs. In general, treatment options depend on the stage of the cancer, where it is located, symptoms, your age, and whether or not you have other medical conditions. Treatment may be delayed until the disease progresses to the point where symptoms occur.
The goal of treatment is to kill the cancer cells.
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Do you ever think about what the initials stand for on ads
that are in your face constantly, like TD Bank North (now TD
Bank) and TD Garden (formerly TD Bank North Garden)? Do you
ever wonder which successful U.S. company TD is? How about
Toronto-Dominion! TEA party is always in the politicial news.
NO, it's not THAT Tea. It's Taxed Enough Already. And there's
AIG-American International Group who was part of the reason
for the stimulus program and bailouts.
How about your daily time AM-anti meridian and PM-post
meridian and your radio terms AM-amplitude modulation and FM-
frequency modulation. Never give them a thought, right! More
everyday initials include VCR-videocassette recorder, DVD-
digital video disc, and DVR-digital video recorder. Do you
know what the call letters of radio and TV stand for? for
example, WCVB is Channel 5(V) Boston. The first letter W is
used for all stations east of the Mississippi and K for all
stations west of the Mississippi. Aren't you glad you asked?
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Like other pulmonate land snails, most slugs have two pairs of 'feelers' or tentacles on their head. The upper pair is light sensing, while the lower pair provides the sense of smell. Both pairs are retractable, and can be regrown if lost.
On top of the slug, behind the head, is the saddle-shaped mantle, and under this are the genital opening and anus. On one side (almost always the right hand side) of the mantle is a respiratory opening, which is easy to see when open, but difficult to see when closed. This opening is known as the pneumostome. Within the mantle in some species is a very small, rather flat shell.
Like other snails, a slug moves by rhythmic waves of muscular contraction on the underside of its foot. It simultaneously secretes a layer of mucus on which it travels, which helps prevent damage to the foot tissues. Some slug species hibernate underground during the winter in temperate climates, but in other species, the adults die in the autumn.
In rural southern Italy, the garden slug Arion hortensis was used to treat gastritis, stomach ulcers or peptic ulcers by swallowing it whole and alive. Given that it is now known that most peptic ulcers are caused by Helicobacter pylori, the merit of swallowing a live slug is questionable. A clear mucus produced by the slug is also used to treat various skin conditions including dermatitis, warts, inflammations, calluses, acne and wounds. | <urn:uuid:4f92c42b-35b4-439c-8f11-a29c761e704a> | 2013-05-24T01:57:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Old Devonian Wikipedia
||This proposal has been rejected.
This decision was taken by the language committee in accordance with the Language proposal policy based on the discussion on this page.
The closing committee member provided the following comment:
only living languages are accepted
Old Devonian is an emerging langauge which has begun to be revived after becoming extinct around the same time as Old Welsh and Old Cornish.
Arguments in favour
- 1. Almost nothing is known for sure about this language. Any reconstruction is likely to differ from the real unknowable language more than the sister Old Welsh and Old Cornish languages do.
- 2. It has no extant writings (it may indeed never have been written down, and certainly never had its own orthographical tradition).
- 3. At the time it became extinct it likely differed from Cornish no more than North and South colloquial Welsh differ now.
- 4. Biddulph's reconstructions have little credibility amongst linguists and even he was no more than tentative about them.
- 5. Unlike Cornish or Manx, there is no recent speech community from whom some sense of continuity can be gained.
- 6. In case it's raised, same points in spades refer to Cumbric. -- 19 March 2009 220.127.116.11
This is really a conlang based on one person's idea of what an extinct language might possibly have been like. It should be proposed and evaluated as a conlang. AnonMoos 12:46, 9 September 2009 (UTC) | <urn:uuid:83f6fce5-dc8b-4ab1-863a-c91c3f572872> | 2013-05-24T01:50:55Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In the muted light of an open doorway and a rosette window, two Jewish men are shown walking through the entry porch of the Regensburg synagogue. Altdorfer made two etchings of the temple just before it was destroyed on February 22, 1519: this view and one of the interior nave. Emperor Maximilian had long been a protector of the Jews in the imperial cities, extracting from them substantial taxes in exchange. Within weeks of his death, however, the city of Regensburg, which blamed its economic troubles on its prosperous Jewish community, expelled the Jews. Altdorfer, a member of the Outer Council, was one of those chosen to inform the Jews that they had two hours to empty out the synagogue and five days to leave the city. The date of the demolition inscribed at the top of the print suggests that Altdorfer made the preparatory sketches, as well as the etchings themselves, with the knowledge that the building was to be destroyed. The prints appear to have been quickly produced, quite possibly during the five days prior to the temple's destruction: the plate was not evenly etched, particularly in the areas of dense hatching, where the individual lines lose clarity. In addition, the slightly tipsy vaults appear to have been traced freehand rather than with a compass. Despite the seemingly sensitive portrayal, the print was not intended as a sympathetic rendering of an aspect of Jewish culture, but rather as a much more dispassionate recording of the site. It is thus the first portrait of an actual architectural monument in European printmaking. | <urn:uuid:0c7c4a72-4a4d-4d1b-a40c-c6ea93bcc2f1> | 2013-05-24T01:51:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Jan 15, 2008
Posted in: Miscellaneous
I'll assume that we've all heard of the Nobel Prizes, yes? Perfect, now how about the Ig Nobels? The Ig Nobels are a humorous offshoot of the prestigious Nobel Prizes, honoring individuals for achievements that makes people laugh and then think. What does this mean? Well, basically, scientists and researchers from around the world are selected because they have research that seems completely absurd. They are then voted on, discussed, and eventually cropped down to the final prize winners.
I know you're saying to yourself "I'm ridiculous! I can do really absurd research! I should win an IgNobel!" More power to you, but here's what you're up against:
In the category of Linguistics -- Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, of Universitat de Barcelona, for showing that rats sometimes cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards.
In the category of Peace -- The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, USA, for instigating research & development on a chemical weapon -- the so-called "gay bomb" -- that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other.
In the category of aviation -- Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano and Diego A. Golombek of Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina, for their discovery that Viagra aids jetlag recovery in hamsters.
Do you still think you're capable of something worthy of an Ig Nobel?
The reason I bring this up is because the Ig Nobels take place in Cambridge Massachusetts, the happy little home of MIT and Harvard. The ceremonies traditionally take place at Harvard and the informal lectures that follow several days later are at MIT. While I missed the ceremonies, I did make a point of going to the informal lectures.
The informal lectures are when you get a chance to actually hear the reasoning behind all of this research. Consider it a "Why" to the "Huh?!" Each speaker has 5 minutes to share all of their research and try to convince the audience that they aren't off their rocker. To avoid any speakers hogging the stage it's tradition to employ two members of the audience to help with moving the show along. When they asked for two volunteers I did the typical 6th grade "Me Me Me Me Me!" and waved my hand around from near the back of the lecture hall (actually, it was a subdued and altogether graceful raising of my hand). The MC picked me and said "Great, we have a time keeper! Do you have a watch with a second hand?"
Uh oh. I look at my watch. I stuttered for a bit. I look around at the 200 people in the room, all looking at me. I then look back down at the MC, at which point I had to confess.
"Actually, I'm wearing a binary watch."
Everybody around me and throughout the lecture hall just started laughing and clapping, it was pretty amazing. I was quickly handed a watch with a second hand by Mason '10 and was all set. I was teamed up with an associate time-keeper. Her job was to sit up front near the speaker and turn her cell phone up to an obnoxiously loud volume. My job was to call her every minute and tell her how many minutes were left in each person's presentation. Here's a picture of us exchanging phone numbers:
The rest of the ceremony went off very well, with me calling and her warning. We heard stories about homosexual mallards, bottomless bowls of soup, and vanilla extracted from cow dung, creating a great start to the day. I fully intend on going to both the ceremonies AND the lectures next year so I can get the true Ig experience. | <urn:uuid:67f91a1b-77f1-450a-88dd-dd10520f4aba> | 2013-05-24T01:45:14Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Wicked Queen
In The Wicked Queen, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the mythification of one of the most infamous queens in all history, whose execution still fascinates us today. Almost as soon as Marie-Antoinette, archduchess of Austria, was brought to France as the bride of Louis XVI in 1771, she was smothered in images. In a monarchy increasingly under assault, the charm and horror of her feminine body and her political power as a foreign intruder turned Marie-Antoinette into an alien other. Marie-Antoinette's mythification, argues Thomas, must be interpreted as the misogynist demonization of women's power and authority in revolutionary France.
In a series of pamphlets written from the 1770s until her death in 1793, Marie-Antoinette is portrayed as a spendthrift, a libertine, an orgiastic lesbian, and a poisoner and infant murderess. In her analyses of these pamphlets, seven of which appear here in translation for the first time, Thomas reconstructs how the mounting hallucinatory and libelous discourse culminated in the inevitable destruction of what had become the counterrevolutionary symbol par excellence. The Wicked Queen exposes the elaborate process by which the myth of Marie-Antoinette emerged as a crucial element in the successful staging of the French Revolution.
About the Author
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If you're searching for a job, you face a hard enough market these days without making things even worse by sabotaging your own efforts.
Here are eight ways that you might derail your job search without realizing it:
1. Not bothering to apply because you're sure you won't get the job. Sure, if it's a wild reach, put your time into other opportunities. But if you can make a reasonable case for yourself, then you shouldn't write off an opening just because you assume that others will be better qualified than you. For some jobs, hiring managers may be willing to take a risk on a less-experienced candidate who brings other strengths. You'll never find out if you don't try.
2. Obsessing over your resume and cover letter, to the point that you miss application deadlines or don't apply at all. It doesn't matter how perfect your cover letter is if no one ever sees it. If you tend to agonize and put off applying while you work to get things "perfect," set yourself a time limit: No more than 30 minutes spent per cover letter, and once you start writing one, you must send it that same day.
3. Not bothering with a cover letter at all. If you're applying for jobs without sending in a cover letter, you're missing out on one of the most effective ways to grab an employer's attention. A cover letter gives you a chance to make a compelling case for yourself as a candidate, totally aside from what's on your resume. Some job seekers convince themselves that because some hiring managers don't read cover letters, none of them do—which is far from true. At a time when most job seekers are wondering how they can stand out in a crowded field, a great cover letter is one of the best ways to strengthen your chances of getting noticed.
4. Being shy about telling people that you're looking for a job. If you're hesitating to let your network, family, and friends know that you're looking for work, hesitate no longer. There's no shame in being on the job market; it's very common, and most people are glad to help if they can. So let people know that you're looking! You never know who in your network might know of an opening for which you'd be perfect.
5. Getting defensive about a job that didn't work out. If you're asked about a job from which you were fired, you don't need to give an exhaustive account of what happened. Most interviewers are only looking for a few sentences and won't expect a detailed account. Be brief and to the point, upbeat, and don't sound defensive or angry.
6. Being bitter and letting it show. It's easy to start feeling pessimistic if you put a lot of time into applying for jobs and it hasn't paid off with an offer. But if you're bitter, it'll almost certainly show when you talk to employers, and that will kill your candidacy faster than a spotty resume or bad interview answer ever could.
7. Not showing your enthusiasm for the job. Sometimes I interview a candidate and end up unsure if she's even particularly interested in the job. If you're excited about the job, say so! Hiring managers are human—we like it when we feel a real interest from you.
8. Being too quick to assume that you're out of the running, so not following up. After a job interview, do you obsess over all the little mistakes you think you made, and beat yourself up for not giving different answers? Some people take this to such an extreme that they decide they obviously failed the interview, and so they don't bother to do any follow-up. Obsess if you must, but don't let it deter you from following up after the interview to reiterate your interest. Your self-assessment may not line up with theirs.
Alison Green writes the popular Ask a Manager blog, where she dispenses advice on career, job search, and management issues. She's also the author of Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Leader's Guide to Getting Results and former chief of staff of a successful nonprofit organization, where she oversaw day-to-day staff management, hiring, firing, and employee development. | <urn:uuid:34999616-e8ca-409f-ae80-7cd8f169cf21> | 2013-05-24T01:53:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|Read the full profile here.|
Rochelle Goyle is a gargoyle from Scaris.
In English, she is voiced by Erin Fitzgerald.
Rochelle is from Scaris, France. She occupied a roof near a great cathedral. For most of her life, her social atmosphere has been occupied solely by other gargoyles, which began to displease her as she reached adolescence. Unlike most other gargoyles she knows, who are content to minimize what they learn of the world in order to never feel like they are missing out, Rochelle wants to know all there is to know and chose Monster High as her stepping stone after several years of considering the pros and cons. Her parents, who are supportive of her, approve of her decision.
Due to the sedating environment she grew up in, Rochelle has a philosophical disposition towards the possibilities of life and the choices People make to take them but also to not take them. She isn't safe from her own scrutiny either, as she is perplexed by how swiftly and deeply she has fallen in love with Deuce Gorgon despite knowing he is already in a committed relationship with Cleo de Nile.
Rochelle is an aggressive individual. Even little things can provoke her into a confrontation that might not be the better solution. This aggression most often presents itself when one of Rochelle's family or friends is at risk of being harmed. Rochelle is fiercely protective of her loved ones and will go far to keep them safe. But while well-meant, it isn't always appreciated, because Rochelle's protectiveness sometimes denies her loved ones their own autonomy. Rochelle doesn't mean to do this though, and has trouble coping when the realization of her error hits her.
She seems to have taste in combining modern chic with older, classical elements, much like Draculaura. She has long, pink hair with pale teal streaks running through it. Her face is very animal-like, complete with striking, large pink eyes. On her back are tiny, stone wings, and on top of her head are horn-like ears. Her skin is also speckled, giving it a stone-like appearance. She has bright pink lipstick with grey and light pink eye makeup.
Except that her parents are gargoyles, nothing is known about Rochelle's family.
According to her bio, her best friends are Ghoulia Yelps and Robecca Steam. The friendship with Ghoulia was formed when Rochelle warned her of the werecat twins' prank, which would have caused her to travel through potholes, Ghoulia thanked her for her warning and they became friends. Rochelle became friends with Robecca when she was roller skating, when the obstacles were turned on she was unable to fly, Robecca saved her from falling into a pit of water.
Her pet is a gargoyle griffin named Roux and she has belonged to Rochelle from the time she was hatched.
Rochelle has a boyfriend in Scaris named Garrott DuRoque. Since she went to the USA to attend Monster High, contact between them has become less and less. Rochelle missess Garrott dearly and hopes to see him again when she returns to Scaris during Spring.
Despite having a boyfriend, Rochelle is romantically inclined and without Garrott's company a tad needy. As a result, Rochelle has developed feelings for Deuce Gorgon, whom she met when she was late for class and bumped into him in the halls of Monster High. Deuce lost his glasses and was surprised to find gargoyles are immune to his gorgon powers. Rochelle, meanwhile, got a good look at him and his beautiful eyes and instantly fell in love with him. Though she knows Deuce has a girlfriend whom he is very loyal to, she's not ready to give up on him yet, and keeps looking for ways to continue to see him. For example, she had her pet, Roux, steal Deuce's casketball to lure him to her, so they could have a chance to to get to know him better and talk alone. Rochelle has discussed her feelings about him with her friend, Robecca Steam, who disapproves of her pursuits, fearing for her friend is in for "the inevitable heartbreak".
- September 22, 2011: Mattel requests the trademark for Rochelle Goyle.
- December 30, 2011: The Walmart website sets up pages in preparation of the releases of Rochelle Goyle, Robecca Steam, Venus McFlytrap and Jackson Jekyll.
- February 11, 2012: Whereas her three doll peers are on display at the American International Toy Fair, Rochelle Goyle is represented only by a silhouette-type cardboard cutout.
- February 13, 2012: Rochelle Goyle's profile is published on the Freaky Fab 13 microsite.
- February 28, 2012: Rochelle Goyle makes her diary debut in Meowlody & Purrsephone's 'Campus Stroll' diary.
- Late March, 2012: Rochelle Goyle's first doll is released as part of the Main V4 series.
- Late March, 2012: Rochelle Goyle's profile art is revealed.
- April 13, 2012: Rochelle Goyle's profile is published on the Monster High website.
- April 13, 2012: Rochelle Goyle makes her 3D cartoon debut in "Escape From Skull Shores".
- September 5, 2012: Rochelle Goyle makes her Ghoulfriends book debut in Ghoulfriends Forever.
- November 29, 2012: Rochelle Goyle makes her 2D cartoon debut in "The Halls Have Eyes".
- Her catchphrase is "Timeless beauty set in stone".
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Oscar the Chimp
The Cutest Animals in Documentaries - An Earth Day Celebration
oscar and his little log
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Stanley Kramer made his reputation during the 1950s and 60s as one of the few producers and directors willing to tackle issues most studios sought to avoid, such as racism, the Holocaust and nuclear annihilation. He came to Hollywood an aspiring writer and hooked on with MGM, working first as a scenery mover and carpenter and then in their research department before spending three years there as an editor. He wrote for radio as well as for Columbia and Republic Studios for awhile, but it was as a strong-willed independent producer that Kramer would finally make his mark. Though his first feature (“So This Is New York”, 1948) flopped, he hit his stride with his next one, the intense and exciting anti-boxing pic “Champion” (1949), which propelled Kirk Douglas to stardom and launched Mark Robson’s career as an important director.
The series of commercially successful economy productions that followed, by turns prestigious and socially responsible and all scripted by “Champion” screenwriter… read more | <urn:uuid:5016ec6c-6933-4866-bb27-bbf84ad932eb> | 2013-05-24T01:46:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Singer-songwriter Jewel has penned numerous lyrics empowering women after heartbreak and loss, and now she hopes to do the same for breast cancer survivors.
Jewel's latest song, "Flower," was written to raise awareness about the importance of breast reconstruction options for breast cancer survivors. The singer is heading to New Orleans next month to perform "Flower" and other hits at a benefit concert for the cause.
"Reconstruction is a huge part of the healing process," Jewel told The Associated Press. "It's not just vanity. It's a part of what makes us women. It's a part of our identity as women. Patients should at least be informed about their options."
Jewel said she originally wrote "Flower" years ago as a relationship-based song. It was never released, but it was about empowering women.
"The chorus in that song kept coming back to me, and I thought it was so fitting for this cause, so I rewrote the lyrics for these women," she said.
The chorus compares a woman battling cancer to "a flower pushing up through concrete to thrive."
Jewel shot to fame in 1996 with her self-written breakout hit, "Who Will Save Your Soul," and has had success in pop and country genres with hits like "Stronger Woman," ''Foolish Games," ''You Were Meant For Me," ''Hands," ''Stand" and "Intuition."
She said she was surprised to hear a lot of breast cancer survivors are not informed about their breast reconstruction options, even though reconstruction is now considered a medically necessary part of breast cancer treatment that is covered by Medicare and most major insurance providers.
"There should be a plastic surgeon involved from the very beginning," she said. "We have to be our own advocates."
Jewel is the national spokeswoman for the Beast Reconstruction Awareness (BRA) campaign and has partnered with the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the Plastic Surgery Foundation to raise awareness and money for breast reconstruction-related research and to the charitable care of breast reconstruction patients.
Proceeds generated by downloads of "Flower" on iTunes or Amazon.com will benefit the effort, as will proceeds from the Oct. 29 concert at the New Orleans Theater in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
Tickets for the concert go on sale Friday.
Jewel says she's always considered herself an advocate for women but since becoming a mother last summer to her now 1-year-old son, Kase, "I'm an even bigger fan of women."
Kase is the first child for Jewel and her champion bull rider husband, Ty Murray. They live on a ranch in Stephenville, Texas.
"Becoming a mom, I gained so much more respect for women and what they go through," she said.
Motherhood has also inspired new work: Jewel wrote and recorded two soothing child-friendly albums — "Lullaby" and "The Merry Goes 'Round." On Sept. 18, she's releasing a children's book called "That's What I'll Do," which will include a CD accompaniment of a song by the same title.
"It's a love song I wrote for my son," she said. "It's one I sing to him every night. It's a creative, fanciful, whimsical way of telling him all the ways that I love him, and it's a song I thought other parents would enjoy sharing with their children."
On the Net:
Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day, http://www.bradayusa.org | <urn:uuid:61839630-da00-47c8-996f-0db6d5a18f0e> | 2013-05-24T02:00:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Are you having back pain with any of the following?
We understand that you are experiencing one or more of the health issues that might be impacting your back pain.
We recommend that you discuss these health issues with your doctor before proceeding with this program.
Once you are cleared by your doctor to do this program, we hope it helps you find relief from your back pain.
Some people can keep the big picture in mind. They see the final ribbon at the end of the race, and that keeps them going. If you have trouble envisioning the end result, try taping a list on your mirror of the ways regular exercise can strengthen and tone your body. Or display a picture of the dress or smaller size pants you want to fit into. Some people prefer tracking their progress little by little and giving themselves daily rewards.
Choose activities that are convenient and linked to something pleasant. A visual cue can motivate you to get moving. Online tools or mobile applications can help you stay motivated and focused on your goals.
Rewards give us something to look forward to now, as well as in the future. Create a list of nonfood rewards to give yourself after you are active or when you meet a specific goal. Here are some examples:
Seeing how far you have come can help you to keep going. Track your weight and physical activity so you can see changes on the scale, your calorie intake, and activity patterns. We recommend paying attention to the benefits of activity:
It is important to find a time and place to exercise that are convenient for you. You might need to experiment, but you will be more likely to stick with your plan if it is convenient.
Try to associate exercise with something pleasant. If you listen to your favorite music when riding the exercise bike, you will be more likely to get on the bike more often. By making an activity more enjoyable, you can change a possible grind into something you look forward to.
Create a visual reminder of what you are trying to achieve. If you are trying to get back to the size you were when you got married, put a picture of yourself on your honeymoon in your wallet. If you are trying to be healthier for your grandchildren, put a picture of them in your gym bag.
Keeping up with a regular exercise routine can be challenging. Remind yourself of how good exercise feels, especially when time is limited and your schedule seems packed.
Here are some questions to think about when you feel waning motivation and need a mental boost:
Remember to congratulate yourself when you have had a good week of consistent activity.
If you have an emergency medical condition, call 911 or go to the nearest hospital. An emergency medical condition is any of the following: (1) a medical condition that manifests itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity (including severe pain) such that you could reasonably expect the absence of immediate medical attention to result in serious jeopardy to your health or body functions or organs; (2) active labor when there isn't enough time for safe transfer to a Plan hospital (or designated hospital) before delivery, or if transfer poses a threat to your (or your unborn child's) health and safety, or (3) a mental disorder that manifests itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity such that either you are an immediate danger to yourself or others, or you are not immediately able to provide for, or use, food, shelter, or clothing, due to the mental disorder.
This information is not intended to diagnose health problems or to take the place of specific medical advice or care you receive from your physician or other health care professional. If you have persistent health problems, or if you have additional questions, please consult with your doctor. If you have questions or need more information about your medication, please speak to your pharmacist. Kaiser Permanente does not endorse the medications or products mentioned. Any trade names listed are for easy identification only. | <urn:uuid:eefc615a-6ef4-4f1f-964a-b0b3aa948607> | 2013-05-24T01:58:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Are you having back pain with any of the following?
If you smoke or use tobacco products, quitting is the best thing you can do for your health and the health of your loved ones. Good planning, support, and the latest quit tobacco medications can help you succeed.
Congratulations! If this is the day you're quitting smoking, you have just made one of the best decisions you could for your health. Think about it: Even if you put out your last cigarette less than an hour ago, you are now smoke-free and have already begun experiencing the benefits.
After you have your last cigarette, throw away all of your cigarettes, matches, lighters, and ashtrays. Try to get them as far away from your house as possible – drop them in a dumpster downtown or destroy your cigarettes (soak them in water, cut them into pieces) before you throw them away. This will help you view them as "out of the question" and keep them from being a temptation.
The day you have your last cigarette is your last day as a smoker, but it's also the first day of your smoke-free life. Celebrate these changes by looking forward rather than back:
You have a unique and meaningful set of reasons for wanting to quit smoking. As you approach your quit date and then spend your first few days without using tobacco, revisiting those reasons can help you stay motivated and committed. You might find yourself becoming distracted by withdrawal symptoms or by the differences between your new smoke-free life and your old one. Keeping your motivations close at hand can help you remember that you're doing this for very real and important reasons.
It can be helpful to deliberately think of yourself as a nonsmoker, several times a day. It can even be helpful to say aloud, "I do not smoke. I am a nonsmoker." Remember:
Within 12 hours after you have smoked your last cigarette, your body will begin to heal itself. The levels of carbon monoxide and nicotine will drop rapidly, and your heart and lungs will begin to repair the damage caused by cigarette smoke.
Within a few days, remarkable changes begin to happen in your body, including:
In a few weeks to a few months:
Focus on the benefits still to come. In as little as 5 years, your risk of stroke may be reduced to that of people who have never smoked. In 10 years, your risk of lung cancer will decrease by half.
Celebrate these changes and remember that every day without tobacco improves your health.
Especially in the first few days after you quit, give yourself as many reasons not to smoke as possible. Keeping busy can be an effective strategy, especially if you fill your schedule with supportive people and activities to help keep your mind off quitting.
Putting yourself in situations where it is difficult or impossible to smoke can be a helpful way to reinforce you own motivation. Swim, go to the movies, play tennis, and spend time with people who know you're quitting and who can help you. Avoid places where smoking is permitted or ones that have strong associations for you and will make you want to smoke.
Especially as you're starting out as a nonsmoker, it's important to limit your exposure to high-risk situations that will make you want to use tobacco. It is important to:
Your body has become accustomed to a regular supply of nicotine and tobacco. When you quit tobacco, you may experience some symptoms of physical withdrawal, including:
Quit tobacco medications are proven to be effective in easing some of these withdrawal symptoms. Take steps to treat the symptoms you experience by trying the following:
Put your planning into action to manage the situations you feel will make you want to smoke. Continue to develop your quit plan as you learn more about what works and doesn't work in the first few tobacco-free days.
Anticipating the situations that make you feel like using tobacco is an important way to prepare for quitting. These triggers are different for everyone, but may include:
Now that your quit day has arrived, it's useful to stay aware of these triggers and try to avoid them as best you can. Some (eating, stress, and others) are unavoidable, so it's good to anticipate the cravings you may experience and have a plan in place to manage the situation without using tobacco.
There are many ways to fight cravings and urges caused by quitting tobacco. You're the best judge of what's the most useful for you, but some or all of the "Six D" strategies may help you resist the urge to smoke:
No plan is foolproof. Even a carefully built quit plan needs to be flexible enough to respond to challenges. If a coping strategy you've chosen is less effective in relieving withdrawal or fighting cravings, switch to plan B. Having a couple of strategies in your pocket can help you react if you notice one of your coping strategies isn't working.
Variety in coping strategies can help. What works well once may become less effective with time. It can help to have a second set of strategies to try to replace the ones you used just after quitting.
Quit tobacco medicines are drugs that help people quit smoking. They can ease the cravings and other symptoms you might feel as your body withdraws from nicotine, the addictive drug in cigarettes and other tobacco products. This allows you to focus on your other strategies for living life without tobacco. People who use quit tobacco medications are twice as successful at becoming smoke-free as people who don't.
After you stop smoking, pay attention to the way you feel. The right amount of the right type of medication should relieve some of your cravings and withdrawal, so you can function more or less normally.
If you are using medications and are experiencing intolerable symptoms of withdrawal or if you are experiencing intolerable side effects, let us know as soon as possible. We may be able to recommend a different dosage, medication, or combination of medications to help you.
When you quit tobacco, you may experience some symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. This is a normal part of your body adjusting to life without nicotine. Common symptoms of withdrawal may include:
If these symptoms are intolerable, the amount or type of medication that you're taking may be adjusted to better reduce symptoms. If you're using the patch, you'll get a steady supply of nicotine throughout the day, but other types of nicotine replacement medication, like the gum and lozenge, allow you to use the amount that works best for you up to a maximum dosage. If you're experiencing symptoms of withdrawal that are too strong to manage with the medication you have been prescribed, let us know so we can review whether adjusting your treatment would help.
Rarely, people can experience nicotine overdose from using too much nicotine medication. This is most common in children who accidentally chew nicotine gum or play with nicotine patches. Follow your doctor's instructions on the quit tobacco medications you're using and keep nicotine replacement and tobacco products away from children.
Getting support from your friends, family, community, and health care team can help you feel better about quitting and be more successful in the long term. Supporting yourself is important, too, as is celebrating your successes. It can be helpful to:
If you have an emergency medical condition, call 911 or go to the nearest hospital. An emergency medical condition is any of the following: (1) a medical condition that manifests itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity (including severe pain) such that you could reasonably expect the absence of immediate medical attention to result in serious jeopardy to your health or body functions or organs; (2) active labor when there isn't enough time for safe transfer to a Plan hospital (or designated hospital) before delivery, or if transfer poses a threat to your (or your unborn child's) health and safety, or (3) a mental disorder that manifests itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity such that either you are an immediate danger to yourself or others, or you are not immediately able to provide for, or use, food, shelter, or clothing, due to the mental disorder.
This information is not intended to diagnose health problems or to take the place of specific medical advice or care you receive from your physician or other health care professional. If you have persistent health problems, or if you have additional questions, please consult with your doctor. If you have questions or need more information about your medication, please speak to your pharmacist. Kaiser Permanente does not endorse the medications or products mentioned. Any trade names listed are for easy identification only. | <urn:uuid:e56c3b38-a7d8-474a-bcd5-182e6a86e0a6> | 2013-05-24T01:45:27Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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LAMP is an acronym which represents a set of popular open-source solutions used to power web sites and web hosting servers. More specifically it refers to the Linux Operating System, the Apache Web Server, the MySQL database server and programming languages such as PHP, Perl and Python. The myhosting.com LAMP Solution Stack includes all of these solutions on either the Debian Linux or CentOS operating systems.
Apache-powered websites continue to command the largest share of web sites on the internet. The open-source community surrounding Apache, Linux, MySQL and the various scripting languages is unparalleled. The result is a wide array of applications and web-based solutions, often leaders in their market, built specifically for the platform.
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Beauty and the Beast was based on the traditional French fairy tale “La Belle et la Bête” by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. Walt Disney had discussed the possible animation of this classic tale in the late 1940s, but could not find a satisfactory way to deal with the tale’s imprisonment sequence. In 1989, producer Don Hahn took the project off the shelf and created one of the Disney Studio’s masterworks. As occurred in the case of several Disney animated productions, Beauty and the Beast was transformed into a highly successful stage adaptation in 1994.
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What do you do if you are a very talented painter, AND you are a grandmother of a unique and very special child named Simon?
You present this magnificent portrait as a gift to your daughter, who is Simon's mother.
If you look carefully at the background of the painting, you will see that it contains dozens and dozens of glowing stars.
"Why the stars?" I asked Barbara, as I marveled at her glowing portrait one day recently in her studio.
She smiled. "Because when my children were little, and they asked where they had come from, and I wasn't ready to dive into the birds and bees talk, I told them they had each emerged from a star up in the sky."
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Bristol Sheeran Marie Palin (born October 18, 1990) is the second child and oldest daughter of former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd.
After Palin became a single mother at age 18, she began to publicly advocate teenage pregnancy prevention, and is now a paid speaker on the subject of teen pregnancy.
She competed in the fall 2010 season of Dancing with the Stars, where she received lower scores from the judges than some other contestants but was voted through week after week by fans. She reached the finals, finishing in third place.
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February 14th, 2012 10:20 AM #1Senior Member
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I met someone named Jevgenijs today. Does anyone know where this name comes from or how to pronounce it?Josephine Athénaïs - Josephine Ivy - Myriam Athénaïs - Vivienne Josephine
Athena Beatrice - Beatrice Cecile - Eleanor Anne-Sophie -Myriam Beatrice - Meredith ElizabethAmbrose Aristide - Ulysses Aristide
Girls: Bérangère, Bérénice, Honorine, Mazarine Boys: Augustin, Emeric, Hugo, Lambert, Lucien, Maxence, Yves
February 14th, 2012 08:35 PM #3Senior Member
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This looks like a take on Eugene. Y sounds are written with Js in several languages, and u and v have history together. Eugene in Russian is often transferred from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Roman with Yevgeny. That ij combo is classically Dutch, like Rebecca Romijn Stamos (who is now Rebecca Romijn again). But it looks too Slavic for that. I think ij is used in some Slavic languages. Googling around, the name seems to hit some people of Latvian origin. So, I think that's it - Latvian version of Eugene/Yevgeny.
I'd guess the pronunciation is Yev jen ees, but I could be wrong.
February 14th, 2012 08:56 PM #5Ashley
twenty-something name lover dreaming of adoption.
Isabelle | Arianne | Olivia | Violet | Rachel | Liliana | Charlotte | Eleni | Hannah | Eva | Catherine | Tess | Zara
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Those days when you wake up in the morning and you...
When you see a picture of you from 2 years ago,
joanswag: When you see a picture of you from 2 minutes ago,
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The first weekend of April brought a pair of Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis) to Prairie Ridge Ecostation. What are Cattle Egrets? They are small white herons that hunt for insects and other small animals in pastures and along roadsides.
Why are they named Cattle Egrets? Their name refers to their habit of following cattle or other large grazing animals. They do this to catch any small animals the grazers stir up.
What do the egrets eat? Other than large insects, Cattle Egrets will eat many small animals including worms, frogs, and lizards.
Are Cattle Egrets rare? These egrets can be quite common in the Eastern United States. Curiously, they made their way here from Africa and were unknown in North America until the 1940's.
We have had fun watching the Cattle Egrets here at Prairie Ridge. Have you seen any Cattle Egrets recently? If you have, please e-mail us and let us know where and when.
For more information about Cattle Egrets visit the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
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Objection 1. It would seem that the time for contrition is not the whole of this life. For as we should be sorry for a sin committed, so should we be ashamed of it. But shame for sin does not last all one's life, for Ambrose says (De Poenit. ii) that "he whose sin is forgiven has nothing to be ashamed of." Therefore it seems that neither should contrition last all one's life, since it is sorrow for sin.
Objection 2. Further, it is written (1 John 4:18) that "perfect charity casteth out fear, because fear hath pain." But sorrow also has pain. Therefore the sorrow of contrition cannot remain in the state of perfect charity.
Objection 3. Further, there cannot be any sorrow for the past (since it is, properly speaking, about a present evil) except in so far as something of the past sin remains in the present time. Now, in this life, sometimes one attains to a state in which nothing remains of a past sin, neither disposition, nor guilt, nor any debt of punishment. Therefore there is no need to grieve any more for that sin.
Objection 4. Further, it is written (Romans 8:28) that "to them that love God all things work together unto good," even sins as a gloss declares [Augustine, De Correp. et Grat.]. Therefore there is no need for them to grieve for sin after it has been forgiven.
On the contrary, Augustine in De Poenitentia [De vera et falsa Poenitentia, work of an unknown author] says that "when sorrow ceases, penance fails, and when penance fails, no pardon remains." Therefore, since it behooves one not to lose the forgiveness which has been granted, it seems that one ought always to grieve for one's sins.
I answer that, As stated above (Question 3, Article 1), there is a twofold sorrow in contrition: one is in the reason, and is detestation of the sin committed; the other is in the sensitive part, and results from the former: and as regards both, the time for contrition is the whole of the present state of life. For as long as one is a wayfarer, one detests the obstacles which retard or hinder one from reaching the end of the way. Wherefore, since past sin retards the course of our life towards God (because the time which was given to us for the course cannot be recovered), it follows that the state of contrition remains during the whole of this lifetime, as regards the detestation of sin. The same is to be said of the sensible sorrow, which is assumed by the will as a punishment: for since man, by sinning, deserved everlasting punishment, and sinned against the eternal God, the everlasting punishment being commuted into a temporal one, sorrow ought to remain during the whole of man's eternity, i.e. during the whole of the state of this life. For this reason Hugh of St. Victor says [Richard of St. Victor, De Pot. Lig. et Solv. 3,5,13 that "when God absolves a man from eternal guilt and punishment, He binds him with a chain of eternal detestation of sin."
Reply to Objection 1. Shame regards sin only as a disgraceful act; wherefore after sin has been taken away as to its guilt, there is no further motive for shame; but there does remain a motive of sorrow, which is for the guilt, not only as being something disgraceful, but also as having a hurt connected with it.
Reply to Objection 2. Servile fear which charity casts out, is opposed to charity by reason of its servility, because it regards the punishment. But the sorrow of contrition results from charity, as stated above (Question 3, Article 2): wherefore the comparison fails.
Reply to Objection 3. Although, by penance, the sinner returns to his former state of grace and immunity from the debt of punishment, yet he never returns to his former dignity of innocence, and so something always remains from his past sin.
Reply to Objection 4. Just as a man ought not to do evil that good may come of it, so he ought not to rejoice in evil, for the reason that good may perchance come from it through the agency of Divine grace or providence, because his sins did not cause but hindered those goods; rather was it Divine providence that was their cause, and in this man should rejoice, whereas he should grieve for his sins.
Reply to Objection 5. Satisfaction depends on the punishment appointed, which should be enjoined for sins; hence it can come to an end, so that there be no further need of satisfaction. But that punishment is proportionate to sin chiefly on the part of its adherence to a creature whence it derives its finiteness. On the other hand, the sorrow of contrition corresponds to sin on the part of the aversion, whence it derives a certain infinity; wherefore contrition ought to continue always; nor is it unreasonable if that which precedes remains, when that which follows is taken away.
Objection 1. It would seem that it is not expedient to grieve for sin continually. For it is sometimes expedient to rejoice, as is evident from Philippians 4:4, where the gloss on the words, "Rejoice in the Lord always," says that "it is necessary to rejoice." Now it is not possible to rejoice and grieve at the same time. Therefore it is not expedient to grieve for sin continually.
Objection 2. Further, that which, in itself, is an evil and a thing to be avoided should not be taken upon oneself, except in so far as it is necessary as a remedy against something, as in the case of burning or cutting a wound. Now sorrow is in itself an evil; wherefore it is written (Sirach 30:24): "Drive away sadness far from thee," and the reason is given (Sirach 30:25): "For sadness hath killed many, and there is no profit in it." Moreover the Philosopher says the same (Ethic. vii, 13,14; x, 5). Therefore one should not grieve for sin any longer than suffices for the sin to be blotted out. Now sin is already blotted out after the first sorrow of contrition. Therefore it is not expedient to grieve any longer.
Objection 3. Further, Bernard says (Serm. xi in Cant.): "Sorrow is a good thing, if it is not continual; for honey should be mingled with wormwood." Therefore it seems that it is inexpedient to grieve continually.
On the contrary, Augustine [De vera et falsa Poenitentia, work of an unknown author] says: "The penitent should always grieve, and rejoice in his grief."
Further, it is expedient always to continue, as far as it is possible, those acts in which beatitude consists. Now such is sorrow for sin, as is shown by the words of Matthew 5:5, "Blessed are they that mourn." Therefore it is expedient for sorrow to be as continual as possible.
I answer that, We find this condition in the acts of the virtues, that in them excess and defect are not possible, as is proved in Ethic. ii, 6,7. Wherefore, since contrition, so far as it is a kind of displeasure seated in the rational appetite, is an act of the virtue of penance, there can never be excess in it, either as to its intensity, or as to its duration, except in so far as the act of one virtue hinders the act of another which is more urgent for the time being. Consequently the more continually a man can perform acts of this displeasure, the better it is, provided he exercises the acts of other virtues when and how he ought to. On the other hand, passions can have excess and defect, both in intensity and in duration. Wherefore, as the passion of sorrow, which the will takes upon itself, ought to be moderately intense, so ought it to be of moderate duration, lest, if it should last too long, man fall into despair, cowardice, and such like vices.
Reply to Objection 2. The words of Ecclesiasticus refer to worldly joy: and the Philosopher is referring to sorrow as a passion, of which we should make moderate use, according as the end, for which it is assumed, demands.
Objection 1. It would seem that our souls are contrite for sins even after this life. For the love of charity causes displeasure at sin. Now, after this life, charity remains in some, both as to its act and as to its habit, since "charity never falleth away." Therefore the displeasure at the sin committed, which is the essence of contrition, remains.
Objection 2. Further, we should grieve more for sin than for punishment. But the souls in purgatory grieve for their sensible punishment and for the delay of glory. Much more, therefore, do they grieve for the sins they committed.
Further, contrition can be so great as to blot out both guilt and punishment. If therefore the souls in purgatory could have contrition, it would be possible for their debt of punishment to be remitted through the power of their contrition, so that they would be delivered from their sensible pain, which is false.
I answer that, Three things are to be observed in contrition: first, its genus, viz. sorrow; secondly, its form, for it is an act of virtue quickened by charity; thirdly, its efficacy, for it is a meritorious and sacramental act, and, to a certain extent, satisfactory. Accordingly, after this life, those souls which dwell in the heavenly country, cannot have contrition, because they are void of sorrow by reason of the fulness of their joy: those which are in hell, have no contrition, for although they have sorrow, they lack the grace which quickens sorrow; while those which are in purgatory have a sorrow for their sins, that is quickened by grace; yet it is not meritorious, for they are not in the state of meriting. In this life, however, all these three can be found.
Reply to Objection 1. Charity does not cause this sorrow, save in those who are capable of it; but the fulness of joy in the Blessed excludes all capability of sorrow from them: wherefore, though they have charity, they have no contrition.
Reply to Objection 3. The pain which the souls suffer in purgatory, cannot, properly speaking, be called satisfaction, because satisfaction demands a meritorious work; yet, in a broad sense, the payment of the punishment due may be called satisfaction.
The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas
Second and Revised Edition, 1920
Literally translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
Online Edition Copyright © 2008 by Kevin Knight
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Examples of patterns of dyslexia in four different people
. ‘You don’t hear what is said, you hear something else’. This pattern causes sounds to be distorted in the ear.
. A pattern contains sounds and noises and the way in which they are perceived. This causes sounds and noises to be perceived in a distorted way.
. You can’t read.
. Not being able to distinguish letters, he perceives a group of letters as one block. He can’t clearly perceive the outlines of a separate letter. For example, the difference between ‘m’ and ‘n’, ‘b’ and ‘p’, ‘o’ and ‘a’ is difficult to see.
. If he wants to read a letter, it’s as if there is a barrier on his forehead, so that the information can’t get through to the brain. The process of taking in information stops at the forehead.
. ‘You can’t see letters’. This activates a pattern in connection with the functioning of the brain whereby the letter he thinks he is reading is retrieved from the brain. This letter is stored as chemical data. This reacts with substances so that the letter is distorted. The information retrieved becomes something unfamiliar and creates an additional confusion, so that a totally different letter is read or written. When this happens for various subsequent letters, we get bizarre words.
. He doesn’t see the space between the words. Consequently he will link up the words. He loses words, he simple doesn’t see them. For example, he sees the first and the third word from a series of three words. He doesn’t see the second. This pattern isn’t in the form of a concept, like for example ‘you don’t see spaces between words’, nor in the form of an image. However, when I sense the pattern, I do know the meaning of the contents.
. An inclination to make two letters into one whole, for example ‘kk’ in ‘bookkeeper’ becomes ‘k’, ‘nn’ in ‘nanny’ becomes ‘n’.
. You can’t write letters.
. ‘You can’t write’. This activates another pattern: the letters are not visible, the eyes don’t see how the letters are written. There is a signal from the brain that influences the movement of the hand during writing, so that a wrong letter is written.
. You may not see letters (the letters can be vaguely perceived).
. The letters belong together; everything is one block, there is no separation.
. You may not see a word. A word can only be perceived vaguely or isn’t visible, not seeing a word that is there, skipping it.
. When seeing a letter or a word, a signal is sent to the brain so that the eyes are influenced and perceive vaguely or perceive something else.
. ‘You make mistakes, you can’t write without mistakes, there are always mistakes’. This activates a pattern regarding the functioning of the brain that causes retrieved data from the brain to react with the substance, so that the data is distorted and a mistake is written.
. ‘Insecurity when reading or writing. A doubt crops up when reading or writing. Not being sure of the letters or the words. No longer knowing how something is written’. This activates a pattern regarding the functioning of the brain that causes the brain functions to stop when retrieving data, so that no information can be retrieved from the brain, so that he can’t know.
. The letters dance, the eyes don’t see. This activates a pattern that causes a signal to be sent to the brain, so that the eyes don’t perceive perfectly.
. A mistake occurs during the conversion of a letter into chemical data in the brain. Distorted data are stored in the brain when learning about letters and words and the structure of language.
. ‘You can’t remember words, you can’t remember spelling’. This causes information to be lost in the brain.
. ‘You can’t form words’. This causes an absence of feeling for language and it prevents an automatism from coming after the rules concerning the construction of words have been learnt for some time.
. You can’t distinguish letters (in a word), you see one whole.
. Everything is one block.
. Not being able to see a sharp outline. Not being able to perceive a letter in a clearly defined way, perceiving vaguely.
. The eyes don’t see, the eyes can’t distinguish.
. You can’t read, you can’t see, you can’t write.
. You can’t read, you don’t see the letters, it happens in a stumbling way. You skip parts, you don’t see the words.
. The letters stand close together, you can’t see the difference between them.
. Not being able to see a word, not being able to see a text. When she sees a text, then she doesn’t see some words and she sees other words instead of the ones that are there. The text is formed in the brain, the signal picked up by the eyes is formed in the brain, so that she sees something else.
. You may not be able to read, you have to be stupid, you may not read.
. When she has read a sentence, then she immediately forgets it, and she rereads the sentence.
. Not being able to distinguish words (or a sequence of letters), like for example, the word ‘block’ is seen by her as ‘bolck’.
. Not wanting to make an effort when the level of reading becomes more difficult (for example, she skips difficult words).
. ‘You can’t remember’. This prevents her from knowing the words she reads and then she just reads something at random.
. The brain can’t follow anymore. When a text is read, a signal is given to the brain as a result of which the brain functioning is briefly interrupted.
. When processing information in connection with language, a wrong chemical process in the brain starts so that data are converted into chemical compounds in a wrong way.
. Misinterpreting a letter. When seeing a letter, a signal is sent to the brain, as a result of which the formula of the chemical encoding of the letter is changed, so that another letter is perceived.
. The brain processes for converting data into chemicals are functioning randomly and don’t follow a fixed formula, so that mistakes occur.
. Not being able to remember a word. She keeps the word in mind and when she starts to write, she has forgotten the word.
. You can’t write, you can’t form letters. This activates a pattern that blocks the motor system of the hands so that she starts to write slowly and consequently loses words, because the writing can’t keep up with the thinking.
. There is a space of time between hearing and writing. In this space of time, the sound is changed in the brain, so that she writes something else or some letters aren’t heard correctly, hence writing wrong.
. You don’t know how you write something, therefore you just write something. You don’t think, you can’t think. You act on impulse, you just write something at random.
. When she reads something, there is a signal from the brain to the eyes, so that the view is interrupted for a moment, and she perceives another letter than the one that is there. The eyes perceive a letter in a distorted way.
. Hastily, quickly, quickly. Thinking too little before she writes something down, writing something at random as a result of which there are mistakes.
. You can’t learn a language, you can’t master a language.
. You may not know letters, you may not be able to write.
. You don’t have an insight in a language, you can’t remember spelling rules.
. Not being able to think when writing. The brain processes that normally occur when reasoning about language, stop.
. ‘You may not write’ combined with a signal to the brain as a result of which the processes for retrieving data are temporarily interrupted.
. When she sees or has to write a letter, then a signal is sent to a wrong location in the brain (where another letter is stored) so that wrong data is retrieved.
. Not being able to remember words, not being able to remember the sequence of words. A wrong formula of how letters are interconnected is stored in the brain (according to the rules of a language).
. Not being able to assess words correctly. Misunderstanding words, turning words around, hearing different words.
. Words in the sentences get lost. Words that don’t succeed are linked together so that a word in between is omitted.
. You can’t understand the words (i.e. difficult words).
. Not being able to understand special sounds (əɪ, ʊ, ɑʊ, …) sχ, χ, … or hear them correctly and therefore turning them into another sound or another spelling, namely writing them as you hear them.
. When a sound is heard, then it is looked up in the brain, but when it isn’t found, another sound is used.
. Not knowing what to do with long words. Not being able to overlook the whole and therefore splitting up compulsively. Not being able to understand a long word, not being able to understand too many letters linked together. Hence, a word has to be split up.
. When she sees or hears a word: doubting the meaning, not being able to place it immediately, and not being able to write it as a result.
. Not knowing how she has to write something, not being able to remember how she has to write something. This activates a pattern in connection with the functioning of the brain: the brain functions are interrupted briefly when retrieving data, as a result of which the information retrieved gets lost once more (she has forgotten once again) and hence she writes something different. Or there is a mistake when addressing the location of a word and another word is retrieved from the brain.
. ‘You can’t remember’, activates a pattern in connection with the functioning of the brain that prevents letters, words and spelling rules from being stored in the brain. The brain processes are briefly interrupted so that the information doesn’t get lost.
. Data are normally converted into chemical information and these chemical compounds react with other chemicals and the end product is stored in the brain. A pattern causes the data to be converted into a wrong chemical form and hence these substances react with wrong chemical compounds for storage so that they are stored at a wrong location. When a word has to be remembered once again, then the word can’t be found anymore because it is stored at a wrong location. Therefore words aren’t recognized when reading and she doesn’t know how to write words either, because she doesn’t remember. It’s as if it’s a new word and then she just writes something at random.
. The letters are linked together. There is no distinction between two or more letters. The letters are perceived as one block. The letters aren’t perceived separately.
. You can’t see.
. The letters dance.
. A pattern clouds the eyes: the eyes can’t perceive some letters sharply. There is a signal in the brain that causes the electrical signaling to the eyes by the nervous system to pass in thrusts, so that the letters are otherwise perceived differently, since the eyes don’t perceive continuously, but with very small pauses. Hence it’s difficult to distinguish letters that look alike.
. There is a catch in the eyes when writing (the transmission once again happens in thrusts, with interruptions) and in the motor system: the muscles of the hand are blocked and contorted, hence writing slowly and with difficulty due to an altered functioning of the brain.
. When writing, he can no longer see the letters that have already been written correctly due to the catch in the eyes. The letters that have already been written, become one block, so that he can’t trust this to write the next letters. He can’t perceive clearly what he has already written.
. The knowledge of the form of the letters comes through from the brain too slowly: the brain slows down during the process of retrieving information from the brain, so that he writes more slowly.
. Yet another memory blockage: the letters don’t emerge from the brain during writing. Hence doubting very much about the right letters.
. A pattern makes him lose parts of what is dictated: he doesn’t hear some parts. He thinks he has already written parts that are not there yet. He hears things that aren’t there, so that he writes things that aren’t dictated (this information is stored in the form of image in the pattern, not in concept form).
. You have to write mistakes.
. ‘It’s not like this, it’s different’. This makes him doubt about the spelling of a letter when writing.
. He has to deform the letters, he has to write another letter than the one it has to be (pattern in the form of an image).
. He can’t see the whole (pattern in the form of an image).
. He can’t remember. He can’t remember the spelling of a word. He can’t remember the rules of spelling. It confuses him. He can’t think logically with regard to the rules of a language. Hence he writes things as he hears them.
. When he has to remember or apply the rules, there is a very unpleasant feeling in his head and his thinking blocks. He simply writes what he hears in order to escape this.
. ‘You can’t write’ activates a pattern that blocks the brain when reasoning when he writes. The brain processes that normally take place when reasoning (retrieving and comparing data very quickly), are blocked.
Person 4: Patterns of dyslexia combined with poor language abilities.
. Letters belong together, letters are one whole. An image of letters that flow into one another. (This pattern will cause letters to flow into each other when looking at it, so that it’s difficult to perceive the separate letters of a word).
. A pattern with an image of a horizontal beam. This beam has to represent a collection of letters (a word), but the individual letters can’t be distinguished.
. ‘You can’t see’. It’s fixed in the pattern that it’s about letters that have become faint. The outlining of a letter has become faint as a result, so that the form of a letter is difficult to distinguish.
. The letters dance, you can’t see the letters.
. ‘You don’t write’ and the joint of the wrist going tense, so that it’s difficult to form letters.
. ‘You can’t understand’. It’s about writing, the writing of a language. ‘You can’t understand how the letters belong together’.
. A pattern with the formula of a chemical. This chemical has to do with the storage of letters in the brain. There is another variation of the chemical according to the kind of letter, so that it is stored at another address in the brain according to the kind of letter. The variant of the chemical isn’t present for some letters, so that some letters are understood with great difficulty.
. An image of a sentence that consists of separate parts (words). There is confusion about the words and how they belong together. Hence, he will split up the words the wrong way or link them the wrong way, or add or omit words.
. The letters of a words are not clearly visible, hence letters at the end and in the middle of a word are omitted or added, it is difficult to perceive whether there is an ‘i’, ‘ɪ’ of ‘ɛ’, or, for example, he doesn’t see whether there is a single or a double ‘n’ or ‘d’ or whatever, and whether there is an ‘e’ or ‘a’ or whatever at the end of the word.
. There is confusion about difficult combinations of letters. He can’t understand this, like for example, the sound ‘χt’. So, he’ll write a sound he doesn’t understand in the way he hears it. For example, he can’t understand the sound ‘əɪ’, and he’ll write something else.
. There is confusion about difficult combinations of parts of words. He has difficulty distinguishing between the separate parts, like for example ‘responsible’. So, he’ll write: ‘resonsile’.
. ‘You can’t learn a language’. Knowledge with regard to language is very poorly stored in the brain. Hence when having to remember language (when reading and writing), the knowledge isn’t an automatism and he has to think hard how to read and write time and again.
. When he sees or hears a word (for example in a dictation), it’s not immediately clear how he has to read or write this word. He has to analyze the word letter by letter, he has to think about it. Little or no knowledge of words and combinations of letters is stored in his brain (and in the energies around him). He has to analyze a word letter by letter time and again.
. You can’t understand the rules of a language. Hence writing something at random.
. You can’t learn a language, you don’t know how to write. Together with this, there is a feeling of confusion.
. In the same way he doesn’t see all the parts of a word, he doesn’t hear all parts of a word either. For example, he doesn’t see the ending, therefore he will write the word wrong.
. He can in fact understand the rules about the endings of verbs in Dutch (the dt-rule), but he has difficulty applying it because he has difficulty perceiving whether a ‘d’ or a ‘t’ or a ‘dt’ has been written.
. There is confusion about letters, there is confusion about words, there is confusion about language. There isn’t any feeling for language, for how a language is put together, both with regard to vocabulary and to grammar. Language is something confusing. He can’t understand the rules or the context of a language.
. ‘You can’t remember’. This is about difficult combinations of letters.
. ‘You can’t understand language’ and the rules concerning language aren’t or are insufficiently stored in the brain. The normal processes for storage are blocked.
. You can’t understand the words in the context of a language (= grammar). And a feeling of confusion, not knowing how it has to be done.
. Confusion about words. He can’t understand the structure of a word, he can’t understand the formation of words. Therefore he will write something at random.
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The White House has dismissed a fresh audio message thought to be from Osama Bin Laden, and pledged once again to track down the al-Qaeda leader.
Rumours about the state of Bin Laden's health have abounded
US Vice-President Dick Cheney rejected an apparent offer of a "long-term truce", describing it as a "ploy".
Arabic TV station al-Jazeera aired the tape, later authenticated by the CIA.
The message contained threats of new attacks within the US and abroad, but US security officials said they would not raise the national threat level.
It is the first time Bin Laden has been heard from since December 2004.
Analysts believe the tape dates from at least 22 November as the speaker refers to reports that President Bush planned to bomb al-Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar.
Stick and carrot
Speaking on the Fox News TV network, Mr Cheney said it was too early to draw firm conclusions about the tape, but added that al-Qaeda was "unlikely" ever to sit down and sign a truce.
"I think you have to destroy them. It's the only way with them," the vice-president said.
In the audio message, Bin Laden appeared to suggest that a US withdrawal from Muslim lands could prompt agreement over a truce.
But the speaker also threatened fresh attacks in the US, as well as a continuation of strikes within Iraq.
In his message, the man purported to be Bin Laden referred to the allegation of a US plan to attack al-Jazeera, calling Mr Bush "the butcher of freedom in the world".
The speaker on the tape said the reason there had not been an attack in the US since 11 September 2001 was not because of superior US security, but because the group had been engaged in activities in Iraq - and because operations in the US "need preparations".
"The operations are happening in Baghdad and you will see them here at home the minute they are through (with preparations), with God's permission," he said.
On Fox News, Mr Cheney said: "Obviously no-one can guarantee that we won't be hit again. But our nation has been protected by more than luck."
US officials have said they believe Bin Laden is hiding in a mountainous area on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
In a video message broadcast last month, al-Qaeda's number two Ayman al-Zawahiri declared that Bin Laden was alive despite a prolonged absence and rumours about ill-health or possible injury.
The offer of a truce came in light of the fact that US public opinion polls now show growing opposition to the war in Iraq.
"We have no objection to responding to this with a long-term truce based on fair conditions," the speaker said.
"We do not mind offering you a truce that is fair and long-term... so we can build Iraq and Afghanistan... there is no shame in this solution because it prevents wasting of billions of dollars.
"Your president is misinterpreting public opinion polls which show that the vast majority of you support the withdrawal of your forces from Iraq."
White House spokesman Scott McClellan quickly dismissed the truce offer saying: "We do not negotiate with terrorists. We put them out of business".
Bin Laden offered Europe a similar pact following the Madrid train bombings of March 2004.
Correspondents say it is an attempt to frighten the public and drive a wedge between them and their governments, which say it is necessary to stay to distance in Iraq, not pull out troops.
The BBC's Justin Webb in Washington says that in the US the immediate political effect of the tape will probably be to boost support for President George W Bush. | <urn:uuid:f914127f-5729-4620-b395-72189ca0daca> | 2013-05-24T02:06:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Lord Varley left Parliament for a position in the coal industry
Former Cabinet minister Lord Varley has died at the age of 75, the Labour Party has announced.
Eric Varley served as energy secretary from 1974 to 1975 and industry secretary from 1975 to 1979.
He was MP for Chesterfield for 20 years until 1984 before becoming chairman of private coalmining company Coalite.
Sir Gerald Kaufman, who served under him in the Department of Industry, said he was a "very loyal member of Labour and widely respected Cabinet minister".
Lord Varley was given a life peerage as Baron Varley of Chesterfield in 1990.
Among the other Labour Party figures paying tribute was Tony Benn, who succeeded Lord Varley as Energy Secretary in 1975 and also took over from him as Chesterfield MP in 1984 after boundary changes meant Mr Benn lost his Bristol South East constituency.
Mr Benn said: "I worked very closely with Eric Varley over the years.
"He had a very long stretch as an MP and was very well respected. It is a great loss to the party."
Lord Varley was born in Poolsbrook, Derbyshire, and educated at Chesterfield Technical College and Sheffield University.
By 1968, he was parliamentary private secretary to Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
He quit the Commons in the aftermath of Labour's disastrous 1983 general election campaign.
Gordon Brown's spokesman said: "The prime minister was sad to hear the news of Lord Varley's death and his thoughts are with his family and friends at this very difficult time."
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According to the International Continence Society, overactive bladder is a symptom-defined condition characterized by urinary urgency, with or without urgency incontinence, usually with urinary frequency and nocturia (night-time urination). The term overactive bladder is appropriate if there is no proven urinary tract infection or other obvious pathology.
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The research is based on a questionnaire conducted 2003-2004 among 3,000 Finnish women and 3,000 Finnish men. Their ages ranged from 18 to 79. The subjects were taken from the population register.
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So let's say you're a type of head of state, a prime minister. And you're going around Europe on a tour of the G8 nations. And you're Roman Catholic. Why not stop by the Vatican and give the pope a Sony camcorder?
That's what Taro Aso, prime minister of Japan and a member of Japan's tiny Roman Catholic minority, did Tuesday. According to Sony Insider, the product appears to be an HDR-XR500V HandyCam. They're good consumer models and a great papal gift.
We're wondering if Il Papa will actually use the thing, … Read more | <urn:uuid:099d5f9c-3410-4215-91c0-f3299a9f4a38> | 2013-05-24T01:59:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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People living around New York City now have access to Aereo's cloud-based television service, the company announced today.
Although Aereo was previously only available in New York's five boroughs, the company has expanded (PDF) its offering to people living in the city's metropolitan area. The region, commonly known as the designated market area, includes 29 counties in New York state, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. According to Aereo, that expansion has brought its total market size to 19 million people.
Aereo is a cloud-based television service that allows users to sign up and access shows across a wide array of networks. From a smartphone, tablet, or notebook, users can watch 30 over-the-air broadcast channels, as well as Bloomberg Television. The service also works on Roku boxes. (CBS, publisher of CNET News, is in active litigation with Aereo with respect to the legality of its service.)
Aereo's service, which includes DVR (digital video recorder) functionality that lets users pause and rewind live programming, as well as save it for future viewing, costs $1 per day. The company's monthly fee is $8, and its annual $80. | <urn:uuid:a6770ab1-80a2-4e78-beda-c18600a8587a> | 2013-05-24T01:44:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Even if your cloud provider is at fault should your company fall out of compliance, the law will come after you.
When it comes to moving functions to the cloud, there's no such thing as being too thorough.
Thomas Trappler was recently named a " Cloud Luminary" by CA Technologies, along with Vivek Kundra, Nicholas Carr, Timothy Chou and others. Computerworld congratulates him for receiving this honor.
Say you've got an application that's been running in-house but is now nearing end of life. You find a cloud service that can achieve the same result. You evaluate the vendor's infrastructure and security mechanisms, processes and procedures and determine that they're sufficient to meet your needs. You're looking forward to outsourcing this to the cloud and relieving yourself of all the associated responsibilities. It's all smooth sailing ahead, right?
Maybe, but unfortunately, there's one more thing: You can't outsource your compliance obligations to a cloud vendor.
If you move a function to the cloud that's governed by legal or regulatory requirements and later your company falls out of compliance due to an error on the cloud vendor's part, the law won't go after the vendor - it will come after you. So you need to ensure that the cloud vendor can fully comply on your behalf.
What kinds of laws might apply in a cloud scenario? Two recent clients of my "Contracting for Cloud Computing Services" seminar offer good examples.
The first is in the healthcare industry and was contemplating using a cloud service that would involve personal health information. Of course, such information is covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which mandates standard practices to ensure security, confidentiality and data integrity for healthcare-related data. Under HIPAA, the use of a cloud service is viewed as disclosing information to a third party. Any cloud vendor that handles your organization's HIPAA information should be subject to a business associates contract, under which the vendor essentially affirms that it will handle the data in compliance with HIPAA.
The other client, an institution of higher education, was investigating using a cloud service for a function involving student data. In such cases, the applicable regulation is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). FERPA is intended to protect the privacy of student education records by limiting how and to whom they can be disclosed. Under FERPA, the use of a cloud vendor can also be viewed as inappropriately disclosing information to a third party. One solution is to contractually identify the cloud vendor as a "school official" and state its obligation to ensure that data is handled in compliance with FERPA.
Other laws or external regulations that frequently come into play with the cloud include:
Requires financial organizations to enter into contracts with third parties that they share their customer information with (including cloud vendors) to ensure that the third party handles that information securely. Executives of those financial organizations can be held personally liable for failure to do so.
Defines specific security mandates and requirements for financial reporting to protect shareholders and the public from accounting errors and fraudulent practices. SOX dictates which records are to be stored and for how long and requires the data owner to know the location of the data in the cloud and to maintain control of it. Failure to comply can result in fines and/or imprisonment.
While not a law, PCI DSS applies to all organizations that hold, process or exchange credit card information and was created to provide increased controls around data to ensure that consumers are not exposed to potential financial or identity fraud and theft. If your organization needs to be able to process credit card payments, then it can be important to confirm that your cloud vendor complies with PCI DSS, and at what level.
These are just a few examples. Whatever the legal/regulatory compliance requirement, it's important that your contract obligate the cloud vendor to comply, and potentially include related details and/or instructions.
Technology and laws continuously evolve, but technology tends to do so at a much more rapid pace. The result is that laws have a difficult time staying current and pertinent. Though you may have initially done an effective job at capturing any compliance requirements in the contract, it's important to track any subsequent technical and legal changes and their impact on your use of the cloud service and the vendor's continued compliance. To ensure that your contract remains current relative to pertinent laws, it's important to review things at least once a year and potentially update to reflect any pertinent changes.
Thomas Trappler is director of software licensing at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a nationally recognized expert, consultant and published author in cloud computing risk mitigation via contract negotiation and vendor management. For more information, please visit thomastrappler.com.
Read more about cloud computing in Computerworld's Cloud Computing Topic Center.
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Note to self, if you're thinking about putting a message in a bottle and sending it down a river, put your name and telephone number on it -- you just might see it again. Thirty-five years after Sean Keown set afloat a glass bottle stuffed with a handwritten note at a favorite swimming hole along the White River in Rochester, Vermont, 14-year-old Justin Shepard found it, 75 miles away. Even though the bottle was uncorked when he found it near the Bellows Falls dam, the soggy note was still readable. Sheppard called the phone number to no avail. He turned to the Internet instead, where he was able to track down the note's writer. Shepard mailed a copy of the note to Keown, and it arrived last week.
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WHAT IS FREEDOM?
I did not understand President Bush’s inauguration speech. He used the word “freedom” twenty-seven times, but what freedom means to him was not clear. Words can mean different things to different people and freedom is an example of that. To some people freedom means no responsibility. To others it means having power and ability to assume responsibility. Is it freedom to be taken care of, or does freedom mean to be able to take care of oneself? Is a baby free before it is born when it has no responsibility for its own physical needs, or is it free when it has been released from the confinement of the womb and must begin to do for itself? Does freedom mean we are free to use the Bible as a guide to our behavior? Or does it mean freedom from God?
"Freedom" is a good word, but it cannot stand alone. It needs an implied or stated explanation and that was not evident in President Bush’s speech. When a prisoner is allowed to leave his place of confinement, he gains his freedom from jail. Those who knew that he was imprisoned would understand his new situation if they were told he gained his freedom, because jail is implied. A recently divorced man or woman might say, "I'm free!", but only those who knew the situation would understand that they meant free of the obligations of marriage. On the last day of school in spring the children shout that they are free. They mean they are free from the necessity of going to school. They are free to play and have fun. If a merchant gives you a gift with no strings attached you might say it was free of cost or obligation. If you no longer hurt, you have freedom from pain. When our country was born its first citizens said they were free. They meant their country was free from the political domination of England.
People use the words, "free" and “freedom” to mean many things. “Free” is even heard at funerals, especially when a person has suffered in his lifetime: "At last he is free!" In this case "free" means freedom from pain and suffering, but it also means dead. What about freedom from want and fear? Couldn’t that mean the same thing as freedom from pain and suffering? Couldn’t it also mean dead? What about being free to have an abortion? That certainly does mean freedom to make someone dead.
In the Western world we often speak of personal freedom, but here, too, the meaning is vague. The idea of personal freedom is a subjective concept. A situation of freedom to one person can seem like unbearable bondage to another. I have two relatives from one family whose ideas on personal freedom are totally different. The sister likes to travel, meet new people, participate in group activities, and face new challenges. She is married to a man whose work provides many such opportunities. She is happy and emotionally comfortable with her choice. If she had to live all her life on the farm where she was born, and see mostly the people she had known in her own community she would be miserable.
Her brother, no less intelligent, owns a farm and loves farming. He enjoys being in surroundings familiar to him since childhood. Even a single day's journey away from his beloved land is a chore and a burden to him. His idea of freedom is staying close to home. Both of my relatives live lives of freedom because they were able to choose the type of life they wanted to live. Their concepts of freedom involved choices, and those choices were personal and emotional.
How far does personal freedom go? Does personal freedom mean believing, doing, and saying whatever we wish to believe, do, or say, whenever or wherever we wish--having no obligations to anyone? Some would claim their right to total release from all laws, rules, and obligations. Living with those who have this total concept of freedom could be extremely unpleasant and perhaps dangerous.
President Bush seems to believe that democracy means freedom. He said it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world. Does this leave United States citizens in a state of freedom? Or has the President placed a perpetual burden on citizens of his own country? Does freedom mean we must accept every burden we are told to bear and every restriction that this all-encompassing concept of freedom demands?
In the Bush speech we were also told that there now is a broader definition of liberty. That also troubles me. What it seems to mean is that the government is always at liberty to give away, rather than sell public lands and public goods, as was done following the Homestead Act. It means that the government is at liberty to control citizens’ retirement savings since the passage of the Social Security Act. It means the government was at liberty to give veterans extra compensation for their service only if they used that compensation for education, as was the case with the GI Bill of Rights.
And I do not understand what President Bush meant when he said, “We will widen ownership of homes and businesses, retirement savings and health insurance.” Did he mean more individuals would own homes and businesses? Or did he mean that individual ownership would be widened and eventually give way to communal ownership? I don’t know. Do you?
The concept of self government was discussed in the speech, but not clarified. I know that there are philosophers and writers who sincerely believe there is no such thing as individual self government or human freedom because humans are merely biological automata or robots who have no real control over their own thoughts, feelings, and actions. These materialist thinkers believe that everything we do can be explained by material causes. Heredity and environment account for everything. They deny the directing and controlling power of the will. This materialist concept is used to justify the notion that environmental influences should be set up for the masses and controlled by social, psychological, political, and economic “scientists.”
President Bush used the word freedom twenty seven times and the word liberty more than a dozen. I have heard it said that he made a wonderful speech, but to me it seemed to be full of contradictions. I do not really know what freedom and liberty mean to our President, and it worries me.
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The New York Rangers snapped a three-game losing streak, defeating the New York Islanders 4-3 on Sunday. Marian Gaborik scored the Rangers' third powerplay goal of the game in overtime to extend the Isles' losing streak to three games.
The Rangers never led in regulation. John Tavares put the Islanders up 1-0 midway through the period with his 28th goal of the season. Brad Richards responded seven minutes later with the equalizer on the Rangers' first powerplay. Matt Moulson again took the lead back in the second period, but again Richards was there to tie the game nine minutes later.
Andrew MacDonald put the Islanders up 3-2 in the closing minute of the second period, but Brian Boyle tied the game again just 3:29 into the third period for the Rangers' only even-strength goal of the game. In overtime, Gaborik put the puck over the right shoulder of Evgeni Nabokov from 17 feet away with just six seconds on the clock to give the Rangers a much-needed win. Nabokov turned back 32 of 36 shot faced. Henrik Lundqvist had just 16 saves on the night. | <urn:uuid:c9e336b1-e245-4d23-a3c5-65ecb704e7c3> | 2013-05-24T01:58:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Location of death: Moscow, Russia
Cause of death: unspecified
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Executive summary: Soviet soccer star
Soviet goalkeeper, playing for the Dinamo FC in Moscow 1949-71. Named "World - Keeper of the Century" by a FIFA poll held in 2000. A leg was amputated after a knee injury, complications of which later caused his death in 1990.
European Footballer of the Year 1963
Order of Lenin 1967
Hero of Socialist Labor 1989
Risk Factors: Amputee
SPORTS FRANCHISE HISTORY
Dynamo Moscow 1949-71
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(Latin septuagesima, the seventieth).
Septuagesima is the ninth Sunday before Easter, the third before Lent known among the Greeks as "Sunday of the Prodigal" from the Gospel, Luke 15, which they read on this day, called also Dominica Circumdederunt by the Latins, from the first word of the Introit of the Mass. In liturgical literature the name "Septuagesima" occurs for the first time in the Gelasian Sacramentary. Why the day (or the week, or the period) has the name Septuagesima, and the next Sunday Sexagesima, etc., is a matter of dispute among writers. It is certainly not the seventieth day before Easter, still less is the next Sunday the sixtieth, fiftieth, etc. Amularius, "De eccl. Off.", I, I, would make the Septuagesima mystically represent the Babylonian Captivity of seventy years, would have it begin with this Sunday on which the Sacramentaries and Antiphonaries give the Introit "Circumdederunt me undique" and end with the Saturday after Easter, when the Church sings "Eduxit Dominus populum suum." Perhaps the word is only one of a numerical series: Quadragesima, Quinquagesima, etc. Again, it may simply denote the earliest day on which some Christians began the forty days of Lent, excluding Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday from the observance of the fast.
Septuagesima is today inaugurated in the Roman Martyrology by the words: "Septuagesima Sunday, on which the canticle of the Lord, Alleluja, ceases to be said". On the Saturday preceding, the Roman Breviary notes that after the "Benedicamus" of Vespers two Alleluias are to be added, that thenceforth it is to be omitted till Easter, and in its place "Laus tibi Domine" is to be said at the beginning of the Office. Formerly the farewell to the Alleluia was quite solemn. In an Antiphonary of the Church of St. Cornelius at Compiègne we find two special antiphons. Spain had a short Office consisting of a hymn, chapter, antiphon, and sequence. Missals in Germany up to the fifteenth century had a beautiful sequence. In French churches they sang the hymn "Alleluia, dulce carmen" (Guéranger, IV, 14) which was well-known among the Anglo-Saxons (Rock, IV, 69). The "Te Deum" is not recited at Matins, except on feasts. The lessons of the first Nocturn are taken from Genesis, relating the fall and subsequent misery of man and thus giving a fit preparation for the Lenten season. In the Mass of Sunday and ferias the Gloria in Excelsis is entirely omitted. In all Masses a Tract is added to the Gradual.
APA citation. (1912). Septuagesima. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13721b.htm
MLA citation. "Septuagesima." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13721b.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Paul Soffing. In Memory of Frederick Geiger.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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You can always rely on the Tories, can't you ?
In Scotland they stand under the banner of "The Conservative and Unionist Party" and claim to be totally opposed to Scottish independence and tribal nationalism. So when Alex Salmond announced that if the Scottish Parliament did not pass his SNP budget, he would resign, you'd imagine that the Tories, true to their "unionist" principles would have jumped at the chance to vote against the SNP, wouldn't you ?
Don't be silly, they then voted with the SNP whilst strangely, according to the BBC, the SNP's own Green allies abstained. The Lib Dems and Labour, realising the SNP had a majority with the Tories help, abstained on the issue too.
Whatever next for Scotland, a Unionist and Nationalist coalition ?
Those Unionist voters in Scotland have every right to feel conned. | <urn:uuid:eac8151a-665a-4c03-9824-f31f2d1d7684> | 2013-05-24T02:04:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The monograph is organized around the following questions: 1) What are the "root causes" of terrorism? 2) Why and how do some individuals become terrorists? 3) How do terrorists generate and maintain support? 4) What determines terrorists’ decisions and behaviors (for example, what roles are played by ideology, religion, and rational choice)? 5) Why do individuals disengage or deradicalize? and 6) How can strategic communications be more effective? A chapter on the economics of terrorism reviews quantitative empirical reserch bearing on all of these questions. A chapter suggests ways to represent social-science knowledge analytically, but so as to be readily communicated. And, finally, a chapter looks across the other chapters to highlight particular cross-cutting topics of interest. | <urn:uuid:6cc50feb-2890-40c5-b8df-5dc57125e78f> | 2013-05-24T01:44:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The shortest path between any two points on a snooker table is the straight line between them but what if the ball must bounce off one wall, or 2 walls, or 3 walls?
Find a condition which determines whether the hyperbola y^2 - x^2 =
k contains any points with integer coordinates.
This is a beautiful result involving a parabola and parallels.
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Licensing and Regulatory Boards and Commissions
Nevada Dairy Commission
Dairy Commission Administrative History
The Nevada Dairy Commission was established by the Nevada Legislature in 1955 for the purpose of ensuring that an adequate and continuous supply of nutritious, wholesome, fluid milk and dairy products is available to Nevada consumers. Laws and regulations allow the Dairy Commission to monitor the dairy industry through auditing and investigative activities. The Dairy Commission is dedicated to promoting a business climate that is economically viable for those who produce and process dairy products in Nevada.
The original legislation established that it is the policy of the state of Nevada to promote, foster and encourage intelligent production and orderly marketing of commodities necessary to its citizens, including milk; and to eliminate speculation, waste, improper marketing, unfair and destructive trade practices and improper accounting for milk purchased from producers.
The purpose of the act to establish the Dairy Commission was:
- To provide funds for administration and enforcement of the act, by assessments to be paid by producers of fluid mild and fluid cream or both, and from licenses issued to distributors.
- To authorize and enable the commission to prescribe marketing areas which are necessary due to varying factors of costs or production, health regulations, transportation and other factors in said marketing areas.
- To authorize and enable the commission to formulate stabilization and marketing plans.
- To enable the dairy industry with the aid of the state to correct existing evils, develop and maintain satisfactory marketing conditions and bring about a reasonable amount of stability and prosperity in the production and marketing of fluid milk and fluid cream.
The original legislation in 1955 established a Commission of five members: one producer, one distributor, one producer-distributor, one operator of a retail store, and one member a representative of the consuming public. The Commission appointed employees necessary to carry out the provisions of the legislation.
The Dairy Commission is funded from fees collected through licenses, permits, and assessments on regulated dairy products. It does not receive funds from the State General Fund.
The 1955 legislation classified fluid milk into three classes with class one being milk marketed as milk, class two being ice cream and class three being butter and cheese. It also directed the Commission to hold public hearings in the State Marketing Areas to determine Stabilization and Marketing Plans for these areas.
The legislation did not provide adequate funds for the Commission to operate so it returned to the Legislature in 1957 and received supplemental legislation. This included increasing the Commission to nine members. The new Dairy Commission had its first meeting on May 22, 1957 and employed as its first Secretary-Administrator Clarence J. Cassady.
The Commission established three Marketing Areas for Nevada which were the Western Marketing Area based in Reno, the Eastern Marketing Area based in Ely, and the Southern Marketing Area based in Las Vegas. Public hearings were held in these Marketing Areas in 1956 and 1957 to establish area Stabilization and Marketing Plans which set minimum prices necessary to accomplish the purpose of the legislation. The categories of these minimum prices established were producer, wholesaler, and retailer. This price fixing on the producer, wholesale, and retail levels became the most controversial of all the duties of the Dairy Commission. The Commission always emphasized that these were floor prices and it was very rare for a retailer to sell milk anywhere near the floor and that high milk prices could not be blamed on the Nevada Dairy Commission.
Over the years the nine member commission which was made up of members of the Dairy industry was thought to be an inadequate regulator of the industry as too many of the members had conflicts of interest. A climax came in the mid-1970s when scandal ran through the Nevada dairy industry involving illegal rebates and kick back payments. In 1976 a Nevada Legislative Bulletin recommended a large overhaul of the Dairy Commission; the 1977 Legislature followed through with the interim study recommendations to change the makeup and the purpose of the Nevada Dairy Commission.
The 1977 legislation reduced the number of the members of the Dairy Commission to three and decreed that one member shall be a public accountant or a certified public account, one member shall be an agricultural economist, and one member shall be experienced in banking or finance. The legislation for the management of the Commission was greatly rewritten and the way that the Dairy Commission did its business greatly changed. Public hearings and commission meetings became much less contentious and the number of applications that were rejected dropped. The price fixing powers of the Commission were greatly reduced as minimum retail prices could no longer be set by the Commission. This legislation and restructuring of the Commission led to only minimum wholesale prices being set by the Commission through a formula established by the staff and members of the Dairy Commission for each of the classes of fluid milk.
The Nevada Dairy Commission when established in 1955 was placed administratively under the Governor’s Office as one of the boards and commissions whose members were appointed by the Governor. In 1993 the Commission became a unit of the new Department of Business and Industry. The members of the Commission continue to be appointed by the Governor and the Executive Director of the Commission continues to function as the Secretary of the Commission.
Sources for further information:
Dairy Commission website
Biennial Reports of the Dairy Commission, available at the Nevada State Library 29-D14/1:-. Reports available for 1957-1976
Problems Confronting the Dairy Commission. Bulletin No. 77-12, Legislative Commission of the Legislative Counsel Bureau, State of Nevada, November 1976. Available as a pdf file.
Records 1956-2001 23.0 cubic feet
Commission Meetings 1976-2001 13.0 cubic feet
Meetings of the Dairy Commission are held monthly in each of the three marketing areas. The Marketing Areas are the Eastern, Western and Southern Areas.
Public Hearings 1957-1996 8.0 cubic feet
Public hearings are held in each of the three marketing areas, usually on the same day as Commission meetings. The purpose of hearings is to amend the Stabilization and Marketing Plans of the Marketing Areas, and in recent years for amending the Nevada Administrative Code.
License Files 1957-1972 1.0 cubic feet
Regulation Files 1966-1986 0.5 cubic feet
Correspondence Files 1956-1979 0.5 cubic feet
Top: dairy cattle at Reno, Nevada, ca 1911. From Agricultural Nevada by C.A. Norcross, Commissioner, Industry, Agriculture, and Irrigation. San Francisco: Sunset Magazine Homeseekers Bureau, .
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Oh dear, I seem to have created a minor firestorm in the blogosphere. For the record:
If anybody could be arsed to actually READ the whole thread to which I posted the link, I'm sure they'll find I had NOTHING to do with identifying the other blogger, I just happened to be there at the time, along with about 50 other forum members.
My post had nothing to do with his opinion and everything to do with showing proof of him being an overwrought drama queen.
All this flummery about me "coming after" his family or having "twisted reasons" is utter cock. I have "done" nothing before and I have "done" nothing "again".
If you had no knowledge of the person in question, no preconceived notions about either myself or the other blogger, you'd think I was dealing with a bit of an overwrought drama queen. Well, I certainly would.
And people have blindly swallowed his reasoning as to why I made the post. Well, I suppose he should be pleased with the credibility he has. He has certainly managed to hype this to buggery, which will do his stats no end of good.
I would merely make the observation that I simply grabbed a link to the largest of his many "shitbins" and posted that. You can choose to believe that or not. You'll notice that it wasn't me who banged on about his details being available in that thread. All I said was "he has form for being an overwrought drama queen, here's proof."
If you need more proof that he's an overwrought drama queen, how about "coming after" his family for "twisted reasons"? He's certainly pushing that meme. Apparently, if any of his kids stubs a toe from now on, that will be my fault and he'll be "coming for me."
Also, this apparently constitutes a direct official LPUK attack (with full approval from the inner circle) on a former member for having a contrary opinion, rather than a humorous side-swipe by a rank-and-file member at an overwrought drama queen.
It's all a vicious conspiracy to get one of the blogosphere's leading lights extinguished. And his family. And his pet fish. (I don't know if he has one, I'm just guessing.)
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Our main goal here is to give a quick visual summary that is at once convincing and data rich. These employ some of the most basic tools of visual data analysis and should probably become form part of the basic vocabulary of an experimental mathematician. Note that traditionally one would run a test such as the Anderson-Darling test (which we have done) for the continuous uniform distribution and associate a particular probability with each of our sets of probability, but unless the probability values are extremely high or low it is difficult to interpret these statistics.
Experimentally, we want to test graphically the hypothesis of normality and randomness (or non-periodicity) for our numbers. Because the statistics themselves do not fall into the nicest of distributions, we have chosen to plot only the associated probabilities. We include two different types of graphs here. A quantile-quantile plot is used to examine the distribution of our data and scatter plots are used to check for correlations between statistics.
The first is a quantile-quantile plot of the chi square base 10 probability values versus a a discrete uniform distribution. For this graph we have placed the probabilities obtained from our square roots and plotted them against a perfectly uniform distribution. Finding nothing here is equivalent to seeing that the graph is a straight line with slope 1. This is a crude but effective way of seeing the data. The disadvantage is that the data are really plotted along a one dimensional curve and as such it may be impossible to see more subtle patterns.
The other graphs are examples of scatter plots. The first scatter plot shows that nothing interesting is occurring. We are again looking at probability values this time derived from the discrete Cramer-von Mises (CVM) test base 10,000. For each cube root we have plotted the point , where is the CVM base 10,000 probability associated with the first 2500 digits of the cube root of i and is the probability associated with the next 2500 digits. A look at the graph reveals that we have now plotted our data on a two dimensional surface and there is a lot more `structure' to be seen. Still, it is not hard to convince oneself that there is little or no relationship between the probabilities of the first 2500 digits and the second 2500 digits.
The last graph is similar to the second. Here we have plotted the probabilities associated with the Anderson-Stephens statistic of the first 10,000 digits versus the first 20,000 digits. We expect to find a correlation between these tests since there is a 10,000 digit overlap. In fact, although the effect is slight, one can definitely see the thinning out of points from the upper left hand corner and lower right hand corner.
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As Lindsay tweeted, "Why did I get put in jail and a nickelodeon star has had NO punishment(s) so far? + These are the moments that I appreciate my life experiences, living without regrets and Disney for supporting me as an actress-night all*"
Last night, Bynes was pulled over for driving under a suspended license, and her car was taken away. The "What I Like About You" star had been ordered not to drive after a DUI charge and two counts of hit-and-run. Photos recently surfaced of Amanda driving a trashed car through "Do Not Enter" signs, and smoking something out of a pipe. There were also reports of her talking to herself in public.
Still, given LiLo's own history with the law, and the lenient treatment she's received in the past, one would think that she would lay off Amanda.
Lindsay has quite the history of feuds. Who else has she fought with in the past?
Lindsay Vs. Francesca Eastwood
Last month, Linds made quite an entrance at Francesca's birthday party. "Francesca was celebrating with around a dozen friends in a private area when Lindsay came over and started screaming that Francesca should leave. She was yelling, 'I'm a star, she's a nobody, get her out of here!'"
According to the witness, "One poor guy came over and tried to calm [Lindsay] down and she acted aggressively. At that point security told her to leave and it was totally embarrassing. She is acting like some bad '80s film star, and it is hard to watch because she needs help."
The daughter of Clint Eastwood has no hard feelings. As she comments, "I'm not sure what exactly sparked Lindsay's outburst. Regardless, I still had an amazing birthday and Parent Trap is still my favorite movie."
Lindsay Vs. Hilary Duff
LiLo and Hilary famously feuded for an entire decade after Lindsay accused Hilary of stealing her then-boyfriend Aaron Carter. This month, they decided to bury the hatchet and to meet up. Apparently these two now "text all the time."
According to an insider, "[Lindsay] feels like Hilary could be a good influence-she has a healthy marriage, just had a baby and doesn't care about clubbing. Hilary has already put the word out to her husband, Mike, to think about potential setups for Lindsay."
Lindsay Vs. Paris Hilton
These two ladies were once good friends, but in 2006, it all went downhill when Lindsay hooked up with Paris' ex, Stravros Niarchos. Yet Paris and Lindsay seemed to have moved on. In summer 2011, an insider reported, "they've put their past behind them and have bonded over all the stuff they have in common. They both feel screwed over by Hollywood and their older friends."
These two may have been screwed over by Hollywood, but they've both managed to avoid a lot of prison time!
Lindsay Vs. Scarlett Johansson
ScarJo is not exactly sure how the feud with LiLo started. In 2008, she told Allure, "I really don't know that person. I only met her, like, three times."
When asked about Lindsay allegedly writing something rude about her on a bathroom wall in New York City in 2006, Scarlett claims she really has no idea how it all started. "That's what I heard. I don't know what the motivation was behind that. I remember it was something really vulgar - I mean, shockingly so, like, 'Whoa, what, who are you?'"
Was Lindsay right to attack Amanda? Or is she being a hypocrite?
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By CHIP CUMMINS
DUBAI -- The weekend election victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad deals a blow to some moderate Arab officials, who have grown increasingly alarmed by Iran's regional ambitions and hoped his ouster might rein in Tehran.
But it could also speed up a key Arab goal: international consensus for tough action against Iran's nuclear program.
"You're not going to waste months and months trying to understand where the new guy is coming from," said one Arab official.
Tensions between many Arab capitals and Tehran have escalated because of Iran's sponsorship of proxies Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, and its nuclear program. Iran says it's pursuing peaceful nuclear energy, but Western officials worry it wants to develop weapons.
Among some Arab officials, an Ahmadinejad defeat was seen as an opportunity to push regional rapprochement on a number of issues -- from territorial disputes to business and trade ties.
They saw Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mr. Ahmadinejad's biggest challenger, as an attractive alternative at the bargaining table to the erratic, anti-American firebrand president.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the final say in all matters of state. A new president would have limited scope to alter Iranian foreign policy. But the more sober Mr. Mousavi, a former prime minister, had at least criticized some of Mr. Ahmadinejad's foreign policy as adventurism.
"The continuation of Ahmadinejad certainly poses challenges for the U.S. and the Gulf states," said Hady Amr, director of the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar.
Still, many Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have courted Mr. Ahmadinejad in recent years, unwilling to openly antagonize their large Persian neighbor.
Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa congratulated Mr. Ahmadinejad on his victory, telling reporters in Cairo Saturday that he hoped it would translate into "progress in relations between Iran and the Arab world."
A late-campaign outpouring of support for Mr. Mousavi helped drive optimism across the Mideast that change in Iran could be afoot. Recent electoral battles elsewhere in the region also pointed to a possible shift toward the center among the region's voters, following years of political gains by anti-Western Islamist groups like Hezbollah and Gaza.
In May, Kuwaiti voters dealt a setback to the country's Islamist parties, and also voted in four women parliamentarians, the country's first elected female lawmakers. Earlier this month in Lebanon, a Western-backed coalition of politicians fought off a strong challenge by a bloc led by Hezbollah, the Shiite political and militia group funded by Iran and Syria.
Saudi officials were especially heartened by the Lebanese polls. Riyadh had long seen itself as a stabilizing force in the region, and a counterweight to Iran's regional super-power status. The election in Lebanon turned into a political proxy battle pitting Saudi and the West against Iran and Syria. And for the first time in a long while, Saudi and the West came out on top.
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ATLANTA - Alfonso Soriano hit three home runs in the first four innings and the Chicago Cubs continued their strong road play by beating the Atlanta Braves 9-1 on Friday night.
Soriano led off the game with a homer off Lance Cormier's first pitch before adding another first-pitch homer in the second inning.
Soriano's third homer came in the fourth inning, leaving him in excellent position to become the 16th major league player - and the first Cub - to hit four homers in a game.
The Cubs have won five of their last six games. The Braves have lost six of seven, including four straight in which they have scored a combined seven runs.
In the fifth inning, Braves reliever Oscar Villarreal threw three balls to Soriano before issuing an intentional walk. The walk drew boos from the fans at Turner Field.
Soriano, facing reliever Blaine Boyer in the seventh, grounded out to shortstop Edgar Renteria. He singled and was thrown out trying to stretch it into a double in the ninth against Chad Paronto.
Soriano's only other three-homer game also came against the Braves on April 21, 2006, while playing for the Nationals in Washington.
The three homers gave Soriano 10 for the season.
Sean Marshall (2-2) gave up only four hits and one run in six innings in his second win over the Braves in six days.
Marshall walked two batters and had four strikeouts. He also beat the Braves 9-1 Sunday in Chicago, when he gave up six hits and one run in 6.2 innings.
It was the second straight strong start against Atlanta by a Cubs' left-hander. Rich Hill gave up three hits in eight innings in Thursday night's 2-1 win over the Braves.
The Cubs improved to 16-15 in road games, including 4-1 on their current road trip.
Cormier (0-2) gave up five runs in 32/3 innings.
Cormier, who allowed nine baserunners and three runs in the first two innings, gave up five hits and walked six batters. Cormier walked Mark DeRosa with the bases loaded in the first to force in the Cubs' second run.
In two starts against the Cubs, Cormier has given up 14 hits and 13 runs in 7 2-3 innings.
Michael Barrett hit a homer to left in the fourth to knock Cormier out of the game.
Cesar Izturis led off the fifth with a double off Villarreal and scored from third on Felix Pie's fly ball to left.
The Cubs added two runs off Boyer in the seventh. Felix Pie's single to center drove in Izturis. A throwing error by first baseman Scott Thorman on Derrek Lee's infield hit allowed Pie to score from second.
Pie went 2-for-4 with 3 RBIs.
The Braves, held to only three hits in a 2-1 loss to the Cubs on Thursday night, struggled again. Their only run off Marshall came in the third when Kelly Johnson hit a triple down the right-field line and scored on Yunel Escobar's infield hit.
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Prohibits retaliatory personnel action by an employer against an employee who discloses or threatens to disclose an activity, policy or practice of the employer that is in violation of law; removes requirement that such violation of law present a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety.
- Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO LABOR
- Jan 10, 2011: REFERRED TO LABOR
BILL NUMBER:S1641 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting certain retaliatory personnel action by employers PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To protect individuals that disclose acts of employers that violate the law, while maintaining the "substantial and specific danger to public health or safety" requirement for the disclosure of acts that violate rules or regulations. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Paragraph (a) an1ends section 740 of the labor law by limiting the "substantial and specific danger to public health or safety" requirement to only the disclosure of violations of rules and regulations. Paragraph (a-1) adds a new sub-section to section 740 of the labor law that protects employees that disclose to a supervisor or public body activities, policies, or practices of their employer that violate the law. EFFECTS OF PRESENT LAW WHICH THIS BILL WOULD ALTER: The current law protects employees that disclose - to their supervisors or a public body - only those activities, policies, or practices of their employer that present a substantial and specific danger to the public health or safety. This bill would amend the current law so it would protect the disclosure - to an employee's supervisor or a public body - of all activities, policies, or practices of an employer that violates the law. However, the bill would retain the "substantial and specific danger to public health or safety" requirement for the disclosure of activities, policies, or practices of an employer to a supervisor or a public body that violate a rule or regulation. JUSTIFICATION: Scandals such as Enron and at the New York Stock Exchange have spotlighted a recent trend of misconduct by businesses and organizations nationwide. As an attempt to prevent such scandals and ensure that the law is enforced, provisions must be taken to protect individuals who disclose information to the authorities about the illegal acts of their employers. The present law protects only those disclosures that create and present a substantial and specific danger to the public health or safety. While this provision is important and necessary to the enforcement of rules and regulations, it fails to protect individuals that make good faith disclosures regarding illegal acts that do not pertain to public health or safety. This consequence only frustrates the purpose for such a law and restricts the enforcement of several laws designed to protect the people. For example, the Court of Appeals denied an action by an employee, who alleged her employer was billing the City of New York for the services of employees that did not exist, because fraud does not involve a "substantial and specific danger to the public health or safety." REMBA V. FEDERATION EMPLOYMENT AND GUIDANCE SERVICE, 149 A.D.2d 131 (lst Dept. 1989), aff'd 76 N.Y.2d 801. In addition, a mental health aide was not protected under the present law when she reported the rape of a patient to the authorities, because the act only affected the health and safety of a single individual and not the public at large. KERN V. DEPAUL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, INC., 139 Misc. 2d 970 (Monroe S.Ct. 1988), aff'd 152 A.D.2d 957 (4th Dept. 1989). Furthermore, an action is in current litigation on behalf of two computer technicians who were fired from their jobs when they reported to police 150,000 images of child pornography that they had found on the computer of a New York Law School professor. While this matter has yet to be litigated, it is doubtful given past decisions that the present law will protect either employee. Because of the law's limited application, employers can still seek retribution against their employees for disclosing information about many illegal act and/or practices without any recourse on behalf of the employee. This amendment is necessary to ensure that the laws of New York are enforced and the citizens who report these acts are protected. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: S.2155 of 2008 02/01/08 Referred to Labor S.5975 of 2009 06/19/09 REFERRED TO RULES 01/06/10 REFERRED TO LABOR FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: None. EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1641 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N SENATE January 10, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SAMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting certain retal- iatory personnel action by employers THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 740 of the labor law, as amended by chapter 442 of the laws of 2006, is amended and a new paragraph (a-1) is added to read as follows:
(a) discloses, or threatens to disclose to a supervisor or to a public body an activity, policy or practice of the employer that is in violation of [
law,] rule or regulation which violation creates and presents a substantial and specific danger to the public health or safe- ty, or which constitutes health care fraud; (A-1) DISCLOSES, OR THREATENS TO DISCLOSE TO A SUPERVISOR OR TO A PUBLIC BODY AN ACTIVITY, POLICY OR PRACTICE OF THE EMPLOYER THAT IS IN VIOLATION OF LAW; S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06120-01-1 | <urn:uuid:391f8673-2e4b-483a-87a4-f000f482da1f> | 2013-05-24T01:45:09Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Fox Island is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pierce County, Washington, United States, on an island of the same name in Puget Sound. It is located approximately five miles from Gig Harbor. The island was named Fox by Charles Wilkes during the United States Exploring Expedition, to honor J.L. Fox, an assistant surgeon on the expedition. The population was 2,803 at the 2000 census. | <urn:uuid:cd2218fd-be4c-46db-b351-ffe29f25f9de> | 2013-05-24T01:58:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Welcome to Apache OpenNLP
The Apache OpenNLP library is a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text.
It supports the most common NLP tasks, such as tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity extraction, chunking, parsing, and coreference resolution. These tasks are usually required to build more advanced text processing services. OpenNLP also includes maximum entropy and perceptron based machine learning. | <urn:uuid:7067ba0e-6b31-41f5-87bc-65ec222354d9> | 2013-05-24T02:05:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Q: What does it mean if my cat has a cold?
A: When I was in veterinary school, I was taught to not call upper respiratory infections in cats a “cold.” The argument was that it gives the impression that they get the same disease we get. Throughout years of practice, however, I have learned that the easiest way to describe the upper respiratory complex to a client is to indeed call it a “cold.” The cat cold is akin to most aspects of feline living, though; cats are not humans in cat-suits and truly make up their own rules.
Feline upper respiratory disease is made up of a complex network of bacteria and viruses that are commonly found in the environment. Most, if not all cats, have been exposed to these pathogens at birth. Feline herpes virus is the biggest culprit for the development of chronic sinusitis and conjunctivitis in cats, with acute outbreaks commonly occurring during periods of developmental stress or transition (for example, during the first week of being placed in a new home). In this sense, the cat cold behaves very similarly to the human cold, but the bugs are different.
It is important to remember that cat colds are usually self-limiting, just like human colds. If you give a bright and alert sneezing kitten some time, the sneezing will likely go away. Veterinary advice or treatment should be sought, however, if any thick or yellow/green discharge appears from the eyes or nose, or if the cat or kitten stops eating or is lethargic. It is possible for more severe cases to develop fevers and/or pneumonia, but this is rare. Some cats need antibiotics if secondary bacterial infections are suspected. However, it is important to note that oral anti-virals in cats are reserved for refractory or severe cases due to expense and the potential for side effects. Ocular anti-viral therapy for concurrent conjunctivitis is much more commonly used but must be administered multiple times per day. Finally, another form of treatment is L-lysine, an important amino acid, which has been shown to decrease viral DNA replication thereby speeding up healing time and reducing the ability for cats to shed the virus in a multi-cat household.
Overall, prevention is the key. Regular visits to your veterinarian and completion of the core vaccination protocol in kittens and adult cats will lessen the severity of clinical signs associated with the cat cold for the life of the cat. Some cats may be predisposed to catching the cold, such as “smushed-face” kitties (for example, Persians) or cats that are constantly introduced to strays and/or environmental stressors. The cat’s ability to fight colds improves as the cat matures and many will never have a cold their entire life. Perhaps yet another reason cats have it better than us… | <urn:uuid:8045484c-dd05-4cf2-b663-49c894b9e9aa> | 2013-05-24T01:51:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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[en] Two monitoring campaigns were conducted in northern Algeria to assess the contamination level of pesticides and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in ambient air. Six pesticides (alpha- and gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane, fenitrothion, malathion, chlorpyrifos and lambda-cyhalothrin) were monitored at two different sampling locations during the first campaign. The passive sampling was performed at a semi urban/industrial site but also in a rural area between July to September 2008. The pesticides levels, analyzed by GC/MS/MS, ranged from 16pgm(-3) to 11ngm(-3). The second campaign was carried out from May to November 2009. The polychlorodibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (dl-PCBs) concentrations were evaluated at an urban/industrial and at an industrial site. The PCDD/Fs and dl-PCBs, analyzed by HRGC/HRMS, ranged from 249 to 923fg TEQ m(-3). In addition to passive sampling, active sampling using an isokinetic sampler was also performed at an industrial waste incinerator. The PCDD/Fs and dl-PCBs found was 268pg TEQ m(-3). This paper presents the first measurements of PCDD/Fs, dl-PCBs and pesticides in rural, urban and industrial areas of northern Algeria. | <urn:uuid:dfe68084-6e51-419f-9c03-ca02731a398b> | 2013-05-24T01:38:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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[en] Hydrothermal vent environments, particularly those associated with the vestimentiferan Riftia pachyptila, are believed to be among the highest chitin-producing systems. In order to elucidate the chitin cycle in these environments, we estimate the in situ chitin degradation rates of tube-worm exoskeletons. Our in situ experiments show that the tubes of Riftia are highly stable structures. Comparative measurements of the degradation rates of Riftia tubes and crab shells immersed at deep-sea vents show that the tubes would be degraded within 2.5 years, whereas the time for the total degradation of the vent crab (Bythograea thermydron) carapaces would not exceed 36 days. The importance of the microbial participation in this degradation was estimated for Riftia tubes. Based on previous work, we calculated chitin production by a population of Riftia tubes of about 750 g m(-2) year(-1) (763). From our in situ experiments, we estimated a microbial chitinolysis rate of about 500 g m(-2) year(-1) (496) (65% of the chitin produced). Exoskeletons containing beta-chitin appear more stable in natural environments than those containing alpha-chitin and would thus be less available as carbon and nitrogen sources. In contrast, isolated beta-chitin was hydrolysed faster than alpha-chitin during in vitro degradation experiments; for instance, Riftia beta-chitin was degraded about 3- to 4-fold faster than Bythograea alpha-chitin. A stabilization process by disulfide bonds of the proteins-chitin link, rather than the crystalline form of the chitin (alpha/beta), accounts for the resistance of Riftia tubes to enzymatic attacks. | <urn:uuid:363864b6-f658-4c73-a394-e6dd0e91d9fc> | 2013-05-24T01:45:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I throw the apple at you, and if you are willing to love me, take it and share your girlhood with me; but if your thoughts are what I pray they are not, even then take it, and consider how short-lived is beauty.
…I loved you for your own sake, whereas other men love what belongs to you; and your beauty, which is not you, is fading away, just as your true self is beginning to bloom. And I will never desert you, if you are not spoiled and deformed by the Athenian people; for the danger which I most fear is that you will become a lover of the people and will be spoiled by them. Many a nobleman has been ruined in this way.
We make our decisions based on knowledge, not numbers.
He said the soul was treated with certain charms, my dear Charmides, and that these charms were beautiful words.
Yea, by the dog of Egypt, I should greatly prefer a real friend to all the gold of Darius, or even to Darius himself.
And therefore, my boy, if you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful and good; but if you are not wise, neither father, nor mother, nor kindred, nor anyone else will be your friends.
What’s fine is hard.
- Greater Hippias
It is, then, in the nature of the good man to do injustice voluntarily, and of the bad man to do it involuntarily.
- Lesser Hippias
My present state of mind is due to our previous argument, which inclines me to believe that in general those who do wrong involuntarily are worse than those who do wrong voluntarily, and therefore I hope that you will be good to me, and not refuse to heal me; for you will do me a much greater benefit if you cure my soul of ignorance, than you would if you were to cure my body of disease.
- Lesser Hippias
And, what, Socrates is the food of the soul?
Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Unamed friend: And is this stranger really in your opinion a fairer love than the son of Cleinias?
Socrates: And is not the wiser always the fairer, sweet friend?
I hope I’ll never be so busy that I’d forego discussions such as this, conducted in the way that this one is, because I find it more practical to do something else.
For my part, I’d be pleased to continue questioning you if you’re the same kind of man I am, otherwise I would drop it. And what kind of man am I? One of those who would be pleased to be refuted if I say anything untrue, and who would be pleased to refute anyone who says anything untrue; one who, however, wouldn’t be any less pleased to be refuted than to refute. For I count being refuted a greater good, insofar as it is a greater good for oneself to be delivered from the worst thing there is than to deliver someone else from it.
What’s this, Polus? You’re laughing? Is this now some further style of refutation, to laugh when someone makes a point, instead of refuting him?
I think it is better to have my lyre or a chorus that I might lead out of tune and dissonant, and have the vast majority of men disagree with me and contradict me, than to be out of harmony with myself, to contradict myself, though I am only one person.
For it’s a shameful thing for us, being in the condition we appear to be at present – when we never think the same about the same subjects, the most important ones at that – to sound off as though we’re somebodies. That’s how far behind in education we’ve fallen. So let’s use the account that has now been disclosed to us as our guide, one that indicates to us that this way of life is best, to practice justice and the rest of excellence both in life and in death. Let us follow it, then, and call on others to do so, too, and let’s not follow the one that you believe in and call on me to follow. For that one is worthless, Callicles.
Whither haste ye, O men? Yea, verily ye know not that ye are doing none of the things ye ought…
…and I went and tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated me, and his enmity was shared by several who were present and heard me.
Men of Athens, I am grateful and I am your friend, but I will obey the god rather than you, and as long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy, to exhort you and in my usual way to point out to any one of you whom I happen to meet: Good Sir, you are an Athenian, a citizen of the greatest city with the greatest reputation for both wisdom and power; are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation and honours as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?
For I am certain, O men of Athens, that if I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago and done no good either to you or to myself. And don’t be offended at my telling you the truth: for the truth is that no man who goes to war with you or any other multitude, honestly struggling against the commission of unrighteousness and wrong in the state, will save his life; he who will really fight for the right, if he would live even for a little while, must have a private station and not a public one.
For if I tell you this would be a disobedience to a divine command, and therefore that I cannot hold my tongue, you will not believe that I am serious; and if I say again that the greatest good of man is daily to converse about virtue, and all that concerning which you hear me examining myself and others, and that the life which is unexamined is not worth living – that you are still less likely to believe.
Nay, if this be true, let me die again and again… What infinite delight would there be in conversing with them and asking them questions! For in that world they do not put a man to death for this; certainly not… Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth – that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would have you trouble them, as I have troubled you, if they seem to care about riches, or anything, more than about virtue; or if they pretend to be something when they are really nothing… The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways – I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
Then, my friend, we must not regard what the many say of us: but what he, the one man who has understanding of just and unjust, will say, and what the truth will say.
Meno: That, Socrates, appears to me to be an admirable answer.
Socrates: Why, yes, because it happens to be one which you have been in the habit of hearing.
And how will you enquire, Socrates, into that which you do not know? What will you put forth as the subject of enquiry? And if you find what you want, how will you ever know that this is the thing which you did not know?
Had I the command of you as well as of myself, Meno, I would not have enquired whether virtue is given by instruction or not, until we had first ascertained what it is. But as you think only of controlling me who am your slave, and never of controlling yourself, – such being your notion of freedom, I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.
Is not this the result – that other things are indifferent, and that wisdom is the only good, and ignorance the only evil?
This may be true, Cratylus, but is also very likely to be untrue; and therefore I would not have you be too easily persuaded of it. Reflect well and like a man, and do not easily accept such a doctrine; for you are young and of an age to learn. And when you have found the truth, come and tell me.
Consider this, fair youth, and know that in the friendship of the lover there is no real kindness; he has an appetite and wants to feed upon you: as wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.
- Phaedrus, quoting Lysias
Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings… the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art… So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense… madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
…it is much nobler to be serious about these matters, and (prefer) the art of dialectic. The dialectician chooses a proper soul and plants and sows within it discourse accompanied by knowledge – discourse capable of helping itself as well as the man who planted it, which is not barren but produces a seed from which more discourse grows in the character of others. Such discourse makes the seed forever immortal and renders the man who has it as happy as any human being can be.
Socrates: Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as a temperate man and he only can bear and carry. – Anything more? The prayer, I think, is enough for me.
Phaedrus: Ask the same for me, for friends should have all things in common.
Socrates: Let us go.
There was a time when I was running about the world, fancying myself to be well employed, but I was really a most wretched thing, no better than you are now. I thought that I ought to do anything rather than be a philosopher.
And at the touch of him every one becomes a poet, even though he had no music in him before; this also is proof that Love is a good poet and accomplished in all the fine arts; for no one can give to another that which he has not himself, or teach that of which he has no knowledge. Who will deny that the creation of the animals is his doing? Are they not all the works of his wisdom, born and begotten of him? And as to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?–he whom love touches not walks in darkness.
Who when he thinks of Homer and Hesiod and other great poets, would not rather have their children than ordinary human ones? Who would not emulate them in the creation of children such as theirs, which have preserved their memory and given them everlasting glory?
…if you mean to share with me and to exchange beauty for beauty, you will have greatly the advantage of me; you will gain true beauty in return for appearance—like Diomede, gold in exchange for brass.
Yet the exchange of one fear or pleasure or pain for another fear or pleasure or pain, which are measured like coins, the greater with the less, is not the exchange of virtue. O my dear Simmias, is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?– and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage or temperance or justice.
Such was the end, Echecrates, of our friend, whom I may truly call the wisest, and justest, and best of all the men whom I have ever known.
…the flattery of the rich by the poor, and all the pains and pangs which men experience in bringing up a family, and in finding money to buy necessaries for their household, borrowing and then repudiating, getting how they can, and giving the money into the hands of women and slaves to keep – the many evils of so many kinds which people suffer in this way are mean enough and obvious enough, and not worth speaking of.
I cannot refuse, said Parmenides; and yet I feel rather like Ibycus, who, when in his old age, against his will, he fell in love, compared himself to an old racehorse, who was about to run in a chariot race, shaking with fear at the course he knew so well…
Theaetetus: Yes, Socrates, and I am amazed when I think of [these contradictions]; by the Gods I am! And I want to know what on earth they mean; and there are times when my head quite swims with the contemplation of them.
Socrates: I see, my dear Theaetetus, that Theodorus had a true insight into your nature when he said that you were a philosopher, for wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates: And are you still in labour and travail, my dear friend, or have you brought all that you have to say about knowledge to the birth?
Theaetetus: I am sure, Socrates, that you have elicited from me a good deal more than ever was in me.
Socrates: And does not my art show that you have brought forth wind, and that the offspring of your brain are not worth bringing up? …But if, Theaetetus, you should ever conceive afresh, you will be all the better for the present investigation, and if not, you will be soberer and humbler and gentler to other men, and will be too modest to fancy that you know what you do not know.
And the wish of all of us, who are your friends, is and always will be to bring you as near to the truth as we can without the sad reality.
They cross-examine a man’s words, when he thinks that he is saying something and is really saying nothing, and easily convict him of inconsistencies in his opinions; these they then collect by the dialectical process, and placing them side by side, show that they contradict one another about the same things, in relation to the same things, and in the same respect. He, seeing this, is angry with himself, and grows gentle towards others, and thus is entirely delivered from great prejudices and harsh notions, in a way which is most amusing to the hearer, and produces the most lasting good effect on the person who is the subject of the operation… he who has not been refuted, though he be the Great King himself, is in an awful state of impurity; he is uninstructed and deformed in those things in which he who would be truly blessed ought to be fairest and purest…
…every man seems to know all things in a dreamy sort of way, and then again to wake up and know nothing.
I mean to say, that if arithmetic, mensuration, and weighing be taken away from any art, that which remains will not be much… The test will be only conjecture, and the better use of the senses which is given by experience and practice, in addition to a certain power of guessing, which is commonly called art, and is perfected by attention and pains.
Here, first of all men for pure justice famed,
And moral virtue, Aristocles lies;
And if there e’er has lived one truly wise,
This man was wiser still; too great for envy.
- Plato’s epitaph, according to Diogenes
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Translate Balkans | into Italian | into Spanish
Definition of Balkans
1 (also Balkan Mountains) a range of mountains stretching east across Bulgaria from the Serbian frontier to the Black Sea. The highest point is Botev Peak (7,793 feet; 2,375 m). 2the countries occupying the part of southeastern Europe that lies south of the Danube and Sava rivers and forms a peninsula bounded by the Adriatic and Ionian seas in the west, the Aegean and Black seas in the east, and the Mediterranean Sea in the south. | <urn:uuid:d4393535-daa0-46ad-8a33-403f67f7fb72> | 2013-05-24T01:45:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
is a 2006 war film
and the sequel to Behind Enemy Lines
. The film was written and directed by James Dodson
, starring Nicholas Gonzalez
, Matt Bushell, and Joseph Steven Yang
. Despite its title, the film does not follow the first part, and was released direct-to-video
on October 17, 2006.
The story is not linked to the first part of the series. Instead, it focuses on a fictional explanation for the Ryanggang explosion
in 2004, in which an unexplained mushroom cloud occurred in North Korea.
After reconnaissance satellites detect a large, three-stage Topol
intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a nuclear weapon
in North Korea
, which can strike anywhere in the continental United States, a fictional United States President Adair T. Manning (Peter Coyote
) orders a team of U.S. Navy SEALs
to destroy the missile and the launch site. The team led by Lieutenant Robert James (Nicholas Gonzalez
aborts the mission after it receives new information, but by the time the abort order is sent, four SEALs, including James, have already parachuted into North Korean territory. When North Korean forces led by Commander Hwang (Joseph Steven Yang
) find the SEALs, two of the Navy SEALs are killed in a gun battle, and James and Callaghan are captured and tortured by North Korean troops.
After South Korean
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I answered the question on osteoporosis that was posted recently and realised I'm not sure if I'm taking the right combo of vitamins, given I have osteoporosis myself. K2 and D3 are fine, I take those, but I also take 600 or 800mg of magnesium citrate (I partly use this to prevent constipation, which I suffer from mildly) but I don't supplement calcium although I eat cheese a couple of times a week, loads of greens (though not sure if calcium is very bioavailable in those) sardines with bones a couple of times a week, loads of bone broth (has that got calcium?)
I was reading an old question on magnesium and calcium RDAs and there was mention of a 2:1 ratio of calcium to magnesium which would mean I need 1,600 mg of calcium - no way do I get this. So should I cut back on magnesium (in which case other constipation remedies welcome!) or add more calcium or even supplement with calcium which I really don't want to do having read so many horror stories. Or am I ok with what I'm on? Anyone know any more about this? | <urn:uuid:0f987b50-dfa8-440e-b1ca-e45d2532c015> | 2013-05-24T01:30:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Constitution of Sun and Stars
This site claims that the sun and stars are not balls of gas as most people believe, but are actually liquid.
Cosmic Rays from the Sun
Potentially dangerous cosmic rays are being generated by the sun, with increasing frequency and intensity.
Does Our Sun Have a Doomsday Twin?
The idea that our solar system is made up of the Sun and a shadowy partner, either a brown dwarf or a massive planet, in a wide binary system.
Venus, the Sun, and What?
Purports to show, through photos, that on Jan. 12-14, 1998, the sun and Venus exchanged energy by some mysterious process. | <urn:uuid:c8a8821a-9683-4a70-b6e7-112359a7574c> | 2013-05-24T01:37:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Microsoft Reports Fourth Quarter Earnings "The company also announced revenue of $32.19 billion for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2003, a 13 percent increase over the $28.37 billion reported last year. Operating income was $13.22 billion, compared to $11.91 billion in the prior fiscal year. Net income for fiscal year 2003 was $9.99 billion and diluted earnings per share were $0.92, which included after-tax charges for investment impairments of $0.07, charges related to legal settlements of $0.06, and a one-time tax benefit of $0.01. For the previous year, net income and diluted earnings per share were $7.83 billion and $0.70, which included after-tax charges for investment impairments of $0.26, charges related to legal settlements of $0.04, and a gain on the sale of Expedia of $0.08.
Server Platforms had strong revenue growth of 17 percent compared to the fourth quarter of last year, fueled by 24 percent growth in Windows Server (TM) revenue and 34 percent growth in Microsoft® SQL Server (TM) revenue. In addition, the company reported increasing demand for enterprise editions of its core server products, as customers continue to turn to Microsoft for their mission critical workloads. In the fourth quarter, Microsoft launched the Windows Server 2003 family of products, which is already seeing strong customer adoption." | <urn:uuid:0ec90303-9d68-4a5e-a9a8-979fd0fc2935> | 2013-05-24T02:05:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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array parseAddressList (
string $address = ''
string $defaultDomain = 'localhost'
Extracts the given addresses into their parts.
string $address - the address(es) to validate
string $defaultDomain - the default domain to use in case of absence in the given email address.
boolean $nestGroups - whether to return the structure with groups nested for easier viewing.
boolean $validate - whether to validate atoms. Turn this off if you need to run addresses through before encoding the personal names, for instance.
array - a nested array of anonymous objects.
If $nestGroups set to FALSE, you can jump over the next paragraph.
Every array entry contains an object per group. This object has two attributes:
The addresses array consists of an array of anonymous objects for each address. This object comes with the following attributes:
|Error code||Error message||Reason||Solution|
|NULL||every||The given address string is not RFC822 compliant||The error code contains a description of the error.|
This function can be called statically.
Extract some addresses
$address = 'My group: "Richard" <richard@localhost>;, email@example.com (A comment)';
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Boo Hoo Hoo...I have two beautiful babies. Boo Hoo Hoo...I have wonderful in-laws who are willing to help us out. Boo Hoo Hoo...I'm thin. Boo Hoo Hoo I have accumulated so many material items that they are difficult to pack. Boo Hoo Hoo...I have a career that I enjoy and am paid pretty well for. Pity me!
Shut it, Peeveme.
I am stressed but need to change my mindset.
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VM management API
virtManager/connection.py is a thin wrapper around the
libvirt Python module. The primary purpose of the wrapper
is to isolate the code which periodically polls libvirt to
identify VM lifecycle changes. Thus the rest of the application
code can simply hook onto signals such as
vm-removed. If libvirt later obtains ability to have asychronous
notification of state changes, only this module need be changed.
Guest domain handle
virtManager/domain.py is a thin wrapper around the
libvirt.domain Python module. The primary purpose of the
wrapper is to provide a means to track resource utilization
over time, by periodically sampling & recording the virtual
The code for the VNC console widget is pure Python, which leverages the RFB protocol handler code from the pyswf2vnc application for most of the work.
vncClient/vnc.py contains the RFB extensions & GTK widget for
rendering the VNC console and sending mouse/keyboard events back
to the server. The RFB code integrates the VNC socket with the
GTK main event loop for non-blocking IO. It also provides for taking
a screenshot of the console.
RFB protocol handler
vncClient/rfb.py contains the pyswf2vnc code for handling the
RGB protocol. This is unchanged from the pyswf2vnc codebase.
RFB data manipulation routines
vncClient/image.py contains functions used for efficiently
decoding the framebuffer updates coming off the wire. It can
use either Python Imaging, or Python Game libraries, however,
the former is preferred due to smaller dependancy chain.
GTK windows / dialogs
There is a 1-to-1 mapping between Python modules and GTK windows defined in the Glade data file.
The open connection window is used to collect information required to connect to a hypervisor.
The host summary window displays a summary of all virtual machines known to a hypervisor / host. This is an implementation of the host summary mockup.
Guest performance / configuration
This is an implementation of the guest console mockup.
The standard application
about dialog window.
A simple dialog for controlling a couple of GConf preferences, although these will likely be changed in near future.
None of the GTK window modules know anything about each other, so
when a button
"show console" is pressed, they merely emit a
signal indicating a particular action is requested. The UI engine
class registers a bunch of signal handlers to integrate the actions
from the various windows.
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eBay offers a wide selection of advertisements for housing, which may include apartments, commercial housing, shared housing and other forms of accommodation. Accommodation may be furnished or unfurnished and ads may provide a description of the size of the property and the amenities and utensils that are available. Perhaps you are starting a family and want to move into larger accommodation in your local area. Or you might be a student or a young professional hoping to find a shared house or a studio flat to rent in the area. Finding housing in Phoenix has never been easier thanks to eBay Classifieds ads. | <urn:uuid:4e1c1eff-c6e3-4b15-804a-db0cdc3888bf> | 2013-05-24T01:31:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Reading Shakespeare has dramatic effect on human brainDecember 18th, 2006 in Medicine & Health / Medical research
Research at the University of Liverpool has found that Shakespearean language excites positive brain activity, adding further drama to the bard's plays and poetry.
Shakespeare uses a linguistic technique known as functional shift that involves, for example using a noun to serve as a verb. Researchers found that this technique allows the brain to understand what a word means before it understands the function of the word within a sentence. This process causes a sudden peak in brain activity and forces the brain to work backwards in order to fully understand what Shakespeare is trying to say.
Professor Philip Davis, from the University's School of English, said: "The brain reacts to reading a phrase such as ‘he godded me' from the tragedy of Coriolanus, in a similar way to putting a jigsaw puzzle together. If it is easy to see which pieces slot together you become bored of the game, but if the pieces don't appear to fit, when we know they should, the brain becomes excited. By throwing odd words into seemingly normal sentences, Shakespeare surprises the brain and catches it off guard in a manner that produces a sudden burst of activity - a sense of drama created out of the simplest of things."
Experts believe that this heightened brain activity may be one of the reasons why Shakespeare's plays have such a dramatic impact on their readers.
Professor Neil Roberts, from the University's Magnetic Resonance and Image Analysis Research Centre, (MARIARC), explains: "The effect on the brain is a bit like a magic trick; we know what the trick means but not how it happened. Instead of being confused by this in a negative sense, the brain is positively excited. The brain signature is relatively uneventful when we understand the meaning of a word but when the word changes the grammar of the whole sentence, brain readings suddenly peak. The brain is then forced to retrace its thinking process in order to understand what it is supposed to make of this unusual word."
Professor Roberts and Professor Davis together with Dr Guillaune Thierry, from the University of Wales, Bangor, monitored 20 participants using an electroencephalogram (EEG) as they read selected lines from Shakespeare's plays.
In this initial test electrodes were placed on the subject's scalp to measure brain responses.
Professor Roberts said: "EEG gives graph-like measurements and when the brain reads a sentence that does not make semantic sense it registers what we call a N400 effect – a negative wave modulation. When the brain reads a grammatically incorrect sentence it registers a P600 effect – an effect which continues to last after the word that triggered it was first read."
Researchers also found that when participants read the word producing the functional shift there was no N400 effect indicating that the meaning was accepted but a P600 effect was observed which indicates a positive re-evaluation of the word. The team is now using magnetoencephalography (MEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMI) to test which areas of the brain are most affected and the kind of impact it could have in maintaining healthy brain activity.
Professor Davis added: "This interdisciplinary work is good for brain science because it offers permanent scripts of the human mind working moment-to-moment. It is good for literature as it illustrates primary human thinking. Through the two disciplines, we may discover new insights into the very motions of the mind."
Source: University of Liverpool
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"On the Unitarity of Critical Gravity, Other Higher-Derivative Theories, and High Spin Randall-Sundrum Theories"
Special limits of theories with higher time derivatives in Anti de Sitter space exhibit interesting features: they realize logarithmic representations of the conformal algebra and they possess a structure akin to gauge theory. These results can be obtained by a simple study of the scalar product of free fields. This study shows that "critical" gravity in dimension larger than 3 is non-unitary, but that the spectrum of certain other higher derivative theories, such as the Flato-Fronsdal singleton dipole theory, contains a unitary subsector. Unitarity of a high spin generalization of the Randall-Sundrum construction will be also discussed. | <urn:uuid:17f2721f-7c79-4916-b948-a6afe5a5952a> | 2013-05-24T02:04:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Command-T is an awesome vim plugin installed by default on the Pivotal workstation. There are some great keyboard shortcuts that make it even better.
Normally to use Command-T, you type leader-f, locate your file using the fuzzy finder, then hit <CR> (vim-speak for carriage return) to open it. But instead of <CR>, you can hit the following:
<CR> open the selected file <C-CR> open the selected file in a new split window <C-s> open the selected file in a new split window <C-v> open the selected file in a new vertical split window <C-t> open the selected file in a new tab
<C> is control. To learn more about Command-T, type
At the vim prompt. Thanks to my pair today, Ian Zabel, for showing me this stuff. | <urn:uuid:ce5be442-76aa-4c82-970c-e88dbc972d92> | 2013-05-24T01:50:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Major Section: HISTORY
Example Forms: ACL2 !>:puff* :max ACL2 !>:puff* :x ACL2 !>:puff* 15 ACL2 !>:puff* "book"where
General Form: :puff* cd
cdis a command descriptor (see command-descriptor) for a ``puffable'' command. See puff for the definition of ``puffable'' and for a description of the basic act of ``puffing'' a command.
Puff*is just the recursive application of puff.
Puff*prints the region puffed, using
To puff a command is to replace it by its immediate subevents, each
of which is executed as a command. To
puff* a command is to replace
the command by each of its immediate subevents and then to
each of the puffable commands among the newly introduced ones.
For example, suppose
"ab" is a book containing the following
(in-package "ACL2") (include-book "a") (include-book "b")Suppose that book
defuns for the functions
Now consider an ACL2 state in which only two commands have been
executed, the first being
(include-book "ab") and the second being
(include-book "c"). Thus, the relevant part of the display
pbt 1 would be:
1 (INCLUDE-BOOK "ab") 2 (INCLUDE-BOOK "c")Call this state the ``starting state'' in this example, because we will refer to it several times.
:puff 1 is executed in the starting state. Then the first
command is replaced by its immediate subevents and
:pbt 1 would
1 (INCLUDE-BOOK "a") 2 (INCLUDE-BOOK "b") 3 (INCLUDE-BOOK "c")Contrast this with the execution of
:puff* 1in the starting state.
Puff*would first puff
(include-book "ab")to get the state shown above. But then it would recursively
puff*the puffable commands introduced by the first puff. This continues recursively as long as any puff introduced a puffable command. The end result of
:puff* 1in the starting state is
1 (DEFUN A1 ...) 2 (DEFUN A2 ...) 3 (DEFUN B1 ...) 4 (DEFUN B2 ...) 5 (INCLUDE-BOOK "c")Observe that when
puff*is done, the originally indicated command,
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[Pmwiki-users] Single-Word WikiWords
Patrick R. Michaud
Tue May 4 12:39:13 CDT 2004
I can come up with an easy way to automatically convert "Group.Name"
and "Group/Name" into links, but I suspect that's not exactly what you're
To rephrase your question -- are you looking for a method such that
single-word pagenames are automatically converted to a link if a
page by that name already exists? I.e., if I have pages named "Java",
"PHP", and "Perl", and I write the text
Dr. Patrick R. Michaud taught a course covering Perl and PHP.
then "Perl" and "PHP" would be links to the corresponding pages (because
they exist), while "Dr", "Patrick", and "Michaud" would be left alone?
I might be able to build something like this. OTOH, it may significantly
slow down the processing/formatting of pages, since every capitalized
word would have to be checked to determine if there's a page of the same name.
Let me know.
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:58:25PM -0400, Michael_Paulukonis at divintech.com wrote:
> I'm a very new user/admin of PmWiki, just having installed it last
> week. Despite my preliminary flailings about, several others in my
> department are already quite interested and building pages! But
> they've brought up some issues that I'm researching--one of which I'm
> completely failing to find any answers to in the archives or
> To use a single-word as a WikiWord we have to use a free link. But is
> there any way to make future occurences of that Word (now existing as
> Foo.Page) automatically link to the page, instead of having the admin
> or others edit it in? Or, by extension, have any set series string
> link to a particular page. PhpGiggle
> (http://www.biermana.org/index.php?p=12) provides a system to convert
> particular strings/words to embedded links (<a href="foo">...</a>),
> but that isn't exactly what we need for the PmWiki set up. The other
> users just don't want to type extra markup every time they enter the
> words "Java" "Perl" or "Jython"....Nor am I keen on the idea of
> patrolling the RecentChanges & fixing the markups each morning.
> Is their a "plug-in" include, or some system variables that I'm
> Great system!
> Michael J. Paulukonis
> Technical Support Specialist
> Diversified Information Technologies
> 570-343-2300 Ext 3043
> Pmwiki-users mailing list
> Pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
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off the top of my head: thomas alva edison, dmitri mendeleev, satyendranath bose, a. p. j. abdul kalam, louis pasteur, carl sagan, pierre curie and albert einstein
God doesn't exist.
Thomas Edison's father had to flee from Canada due to an unsuccessful rebellion, but his family was never poor.
Dmitri Mendeleev was poor, but only once he was 13 when his mother's factory belw up and his dad died.
Satyendranath Bose's father was an important engineer for the East Indian Railway Company, and even early in life he was a proclaimed genius.
Wikipedia doesn't talk about "a. p. j. abdul kalam"'s past.
Louis Pasteur was poor.
Carl Sagan's family was lower class, but not poor. However, everybody during the great depression was poor.
There's nothing about Pierre Curie's economic status, but I'm guessing his father must have had some high scholarly position because he taught his own son everything.
Albert Einstein was born to an upper-class non-religious Jewish family and attended a fancy Catholic School for the first few years of his life.
huh i couldve sworn einstien was poor. we were given this short story to read about him in my English class by Patrick pringle which documented his expulsion from school and it described the awful apartment he lived in alone because his father was always in Vienna and stated that his father couldn't afford university fees or something, and I assumed all that was at least remotely factual.
Also. How to create your own religion:
1. Abandon your critical thinking processes. Possessing a mental disorder is generally considered a big help.
2. Believe that you're in a personal relationship with a higher being and that you have access to information and wisdom no one else does when really you're just substituting information for air out of your ass and wisdom for ignorance.
3. Convince people of similar mental state (ie; retarded) to buy into your fantasies and assist you in the global proliferation of your beliefs. Promise great rewards and everlasting life in an ethereal paradise if the tenets and benedictions of your religion are followed to the letter.
4. ? ? ? ?
LIKE Jesus? I AM Jesus!
Last edited by ShadowRaven; 03-06-2011 at 12:40 AM. Reason: lolpics
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(CNN) - Third-party Colorado gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo, the former Republican congressman, wants GOP nominee Dan Maes out of the race, telling CNN the Tea Party-backed candidate is a "total fraud."
"He's a Republican, but tough crap; I don't care if he's a Republican, he's not the right candidate," Tancredo said.
Tancredo confirmed to CNN that until now he was willing to withdraw his third party candidacy if—and only if—Maes was willing to drop out of the race and allow the party to replace him with another candidate.
"He can't win," Tancredo said of Maes. "He's not a credible candidate."
But Maes' communications director, Nate Strauch, said the Republican candidate has "flatly rejected" Tancredo's offer.
"If Tom Tancredo wants to affect the governor's race, he needs to go through the proper nomination process," Strauch said. "Dan Maes has rejected this culture of backroom deals from the start, and he certainly won't be changing that philosophy for a third-party candidate."
With that, Tancredo said he's no longer willing to withdraw from the race and has raised close to $100,000 for his independent bid.
Tancredo is a former five-term Republican congressman who became well known for his fierce anti-illegal immigration stance. He ran for president in 2008 as a Republican but joined the American Constitution Party this year. His candidacy could divide the Republican vote, giving Democrat John Hickenlooper – the mayor of Denver – a walk to victory.
"A lot of people blame me for the situation because I'm in the race," Tancredo said. "But as I explained to them, this was a disaster before I even came."
"I also believe in my heart it's easier for me to win a three person race than for Dan [Maes] to win a two person race," he added.
Maes has come under fire for his lack of political experience – he’s never held public office – and for being slapped with a number of campaign financial violations.
Two Colorado Republican sources told the Denver Post that the Republican Governors Association would not fund advertisements in the state to help Maes win election. And when Mitt Romney announced six Colorado endorsements on Thursday, Maes' name was left off the list.
Tancredo has heavily criticized Maes for his characterization of his business career and his choice of lieutenant governor, former Colorado state Rep. Tambor Williams.
"He just picked a lieutenant governor candidate who was the most pro-choice member of the legislature and he claims to be a strong pro-life person," the former presidential candidate said. "He's a total fraud.
When Williams was a state legislator, she voted to essentially kill a bill that would ban partial-birth abortions. When Maes announced her as his running mate on Tuesday, she was asked to clarify her position.
"I will probably say I am pro-life, with the exceptions that we have come to respect…the life of the mother, rape, incest," Williams said, according to Fox affiliate KDVR. "I think there are times when pro-life has to give way to the best of possible choices, and they're never, ever easy."
Strauch denied that Williams is pro-choice and suggested Tancredo would be better off attacking Hickenlooper.
"If Tom insists on continuing his quixotic campaign, the least he could do is train fire on the Democrat in this race, a man who never met a tax increase he didn't like. Tambor Williams is a well-respected, pro-life conservative, and no amount of hot air from a third-party candidate will change that," Strauch said.
Tancredo also denied online speculation that he might offer the lieutenant governor slot to conservative blogger Michelle Malkin.
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There was no doubt in the days leading up to Election Day that Hurricane Sandy disrupted political campaigns. But now that it has passed, do you think the signs should be removed immediately, or do you feel there are there more pressing priorities in light of the storm?
Bill Faulk, a representative for Brookhaven town supervisor-elect Ed Romaine, said the campaign staff has plans to remove the signs as soon as possible. "We've asked our campaign volunteers to retrieve all outstanding signs and either return them to HQ or keep them at home," he said. "Our effort to remove them began the day after Election Day."
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Man arrested for drug-related shooting
Portland police arrested a man early Tuesday for firing a gun during a drug-related dispute.
No one was hurt in the incident.
Joseph Goldbacher, 53, was booked into the Multnomah County Jail on charges of possession of cocaine, unlawful use of a weapon, unlawful possession of a firearm, possession of a loaded firearm in the city, discharge of a firearm in the city and disorderly conduct in the second degree.
According to police, at about 12:31 a.m., officers from East Precinct responded to the report of shots being fired in the area of 15920 S.E. Division St. Police were told that someone might have been shot and that several people were chasing the suspect.
Officers found Goldbacher in the parking lot of Montego's Bar. He was armed with a handgun when officers arrived, but dropped the weapon and was taken into custody.
Police learned that Goldbacher was in the area to allegedly buy drugs and apparently fired two shots from his handgun during a dispute with several people. One bullet hit the side of a building in the Anderson Villa Apartments. The other went through a fence and into the ground.
The other people involved in the incident did not remain in the area and have not been located. | <urn:uuid:c4074a76-0035-4d07-9ed2-66a085a27142> | 2013-05-24T01:32:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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C++ is the canonical example of a language that combines low-level and high-level features1. It doesn't simulate anything, it provides native support for almost every high-level construct you'll usually find in a common high-level language and almost every low-level construct you'll find in C.
But of course the terms are highly relative, there was a point in time (not that long ago2) where C was considered a very high level language. And there are quite a few other languages that offer considerable low-level functionalities while still commonly regarded as high-level, and vice versa, the lines are kind of fuzzy.
As for the syntax, that's something that naturally affected by the language's level of abstraction. Low-level generally means:
In computer science, a low-level programming language is a programming language that provides little or no abstraction from a computer's instruction set architecture. Generally this refers to either machine code or assembly language. The word "low" refers to the small or nonexistent amount of abstraction between the language and machine language; because of this, low-level languages are sometimes described as being "close to the hardware."
So naturally a low-level language adopts a syntax that's closer to machine code, which is inherently non human friendly. Quite a few languages, like C++, have adopted a wide variety of syntactic sugar, as a mechanism to make things easier to read or to express. But syntactic sugar is something that almost every high level language has opted for, C++'s sugar alone doesn't make it a low-level language.
As for the complexity of a low & high-level language, it's also natural: It's a tool with multiple goals, every single goal adds to its complexity. That's unavoidable regardless of the goal. High-level languages are not "better" than low-level one, they are just more concentrated on one goal. Languages that are designed with ease of use as a primary goal tend to be high-level, but that's only important if the necessary trade-offs to achieve the goal don't affect your applications.
Low or high level doesn't really matter, languages are primarily tools. You should choose the one that best fits whatever you're building in combination with what skills you have. Most popular languages are multi-purpose and Turing complete, in theory they are valid choices for building almost anything. There are no absolutes, of course, you may win in some areas if you opt for a high-level language and in others if you opt for a lower-level one, even within the same application.
Most large scale applications mix and match, following the "right tool for the job" mentality, and that's a more efficient approach, imho, than trying to have your cake and eat it too.
1 But please note that there isn't a definitive answer on what's considered a strictly high-level feature and what a low-level one.
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Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
In psychology, biological psychology, also known as biopsychology and psychobiology, is the application of the principles of biology to the study of mental processes and behavior. A psychobiologist, for instance, may compare the imprinting behavior in goslings to the early attachment behavior in human infants and construct theory around these two phenomena. Biological psychologists may often be interested in measuring some biological variable, e.g. an anatomical, physiological, or genetic variable, in an attempt to relate it quantitatively or qualitatively to a psychological or behavioral variable, and thus contribute to evidence based practice.
The study of biological psychology dates back to Avicenna (980-1037), a Persian psychologist and physician who in The Canon of Medicine, recognized physiological psychology in the treatment of illnesses involving emotions, and developed a system for associating changes in the pulse rate with inner feelings, which is seen as an anticipation of the word association test. Avicenna also gave psychological explanations for certain somatic illnesses, and he always linked the physical and psychological illnesses together. He explained that humidity inside the head can contribute to mood disorders, and he recognized that this occurs when the amount of breath changes: happiness increases the breath, which leads to increased moisture inside the brain, but if this moisture goes beyond its limits, the brain would lose control over its rationality and lead to mental disorders.
Biological psychology as a scientific discipline later emerged from a variety of scientific and philosophical traditions in the 18th and 19th centuries. In philosophy, men like Rene Descartes proposed physical models to explain animal and human behavior. Descartes, for example, suggested that the pineal gland, a midline unpaired structure in the brain of many organisms, was the point of contact between mind and body. Descartes also elaborated on a theory in which the pneumatics of bodily fluids could explain reflexes and other motor behavior. This theory was inspired by moving statues in a garden in Paris.
Other philosophers also helped give birth to psychology. One of the earliest textbooks in the new field, The Principles of Psychology by William James (1890), argues that the scientific study of psychology should be grounded in an understanding of biology:
|“|| Bodily experiences, therefore, and more particularly brain-experiences, must take a place amongst those conditions of the mental life of which Psychology need take account. The spiritualist and the associationist must both be 'cerebralists,' to the extent at least of admitting that certain peculiarities in the way of working of their own favorite principles are explicable only by the fact that the brain laws are a codeterminant of their result.
Our first conclusion, then, is that a certain amount of brain-physiology must be presupposed or included in Psychology.
James, like many early psychologists, had considerable training in physiology. The emergence of both psychology and biological psychology as legitimate sciences can be traced from the emergence of physiology from anatomy, particularly neuroanatomy. Physiologists conducted experiments on living organisms, a practice that was distrusted by the dominant anatomists of the 18th and 19th centuries. The influential work of Claude Bernard, Charles Bell, and William Harvey helped to convince the scientific community that reliable data could be obtained from living subjects.
The term "psychobiology" has been used in a variety of contexts, but was likely first used in its modern sense by Knight Dunlap in his book An Outline of Psychobiology (1914). Dunlap also founded the journal Psychobiology. In the announcement of that journal, Dunlap writes that the journal will publish research "...bearing on the interconnection of mental and physiological functions", which describes the field of biological psychology even in its modern sense.
Relationship to other fields of psychology and biologyEdit
In many cases, humans may serve as experimental subjects in biological psychology experiments; however, a great deal of the experimental literature in biological psychology comes from the study of non-human species, most frequently rats, mice, and monkeys. As a result, a critical assumption in biological psychology is that organisms share biological and behavioral similarities, enough to permit extrapolations across species. This allies biological psychology closely with comparative psychology, evolutionary psychology, and evolutionary biology. Biological psychology also has paradigmatic and methodological similarities to neuropsychology, which relies heavily on the study of the behavior of humans with nervous system dysfunction (i.e., a non-experimentally based biological manipulation).
Synonyms for biological psychology include biopsychology, behavioral neuroscience, and psychobiology . Physiological psychology is another term often used synonymously with biological psychology, though some authors would make physiological psychology a subfield of biological psychology, with an appropriately more narrow definition.
Research methods Edit
The distinguishing characteristic of a biological psychology experiment is that either the independent variable of the experiment is biological, or some dependent variable is biological. In other words, the nervous system of the organism under study is permanently or temporarily altered, or some aspect of the nervous system is measured (usually to be related to a behavioral variable).
Disabling or decreasing neural functionEdit
- Lesions - A classic method in which a brain-region of interest is enabled. Lesions can be placed with relatively high accuracy thanks to a variety of brain 'atlases' which provide a map of brain regions in 3-dimensional stereotactic coordinates.
- Electrolytic lesions - Neural tissue is destroyed by the use of electric run through.
- Chemical lesions - Neural tissue is destroyed by the infusion of a neurotoxin.
- Temporary lesions - Neural tissue is temporarily disabled by cooling or by the use of anesthetics such as tetrodotoxin.
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation - A new technique usually used with human subjects in which a magnetic coil applied to the scalp causes unsystematic electrical activity in nearby cortical neurons which can be experimentally analyzed as a functional lesion.
- Psychopharmacological manipulations - A chemical receptor antagonist enduces neural activity by interfering with neurotransmission. Antagonists can be delivered systemically (such as by intravenous injection) or locally (intracebrally) during a surgical procedure.
Enhancing neural function Edit
- Electrical Stimulation - A classic method in which neural activity is enhanced by application of a small electrical current (too small to cause significant cell death).
- Psychopharmacological manipulations - A chemical receptor agonist facilitates neural activity by enhancing or replacing endogenous neurotransmitters. Agonists can be delivered systemically (such as by intravenous injection) or locally (intracebrally) during a surgical procedure.
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation - In some cases (for example, studies of motor cortex), this technique can be analyzed as having a stimulatory effect (rather than as a functional lesion) .
Measuring neural activity Edit
- Single unit recording - The measurement of the electrical activity of one neuron, often in the context of an ongoing behavioral (psychological) task.
- Multielectrode recording - The use of a bundle of fine electrodes to record the simultaneous activity of up to hundreds of neurons.
- fMRI - Functional magnetic resonance imaging, a technique most frequently applied on human subjects, in which changes in cerebral blood flow can be detected in an MRI apparatus and are taken to indicate relative activity of larger scale brain regions (i.e., on the order of hundreds of thousands of neurons).
- Electroencephalography - Or EEG; and the derivative technique of event-related potentials, in which scalp electrodes monitor the average activity of neurons in the cortex (again, used most frequently with human subjects).
- Functional neuroanatomy - In which the expression of some anatomical marker is taken to reflect neural activity. For example, the expression of immediate early genes is thought to be caused by vigorous neural activity. Likewise, the injection of 2-deoxyglucose prior to some behavioral task can be followed by anatomical localization of that chemical; it is taken up by neurons that are electrically active.
Genetic manipulations Edit
- QTL mapping - The influence of a gene in some behavior can be statistically inferred by studying inbred strains of some species, most commonly mice. The recent sequencing of the genome of many species, most notably mice, has facilitated this technique.
- Selective breeding - Organisms, often mice, may be bred selectively among inbred strains to create a recombinant congenic strain. This might be done to isolate an experimentally interesting stretch of DNA derived from one strain on the background genome of another strain to allow stronger inferences about the role of that stretch of DNA.
- Genetic engineering - The genome may also be experimentally-manipulated; for example, knockout mice can be engineered to lack a particular gene, or a gene may be expressed in a strain which does not normally do so (the 'knock in'). Advanced techniques may also permit the expression or suppression of a gene to occur by injection of some regulating chemical.
Topic areas in biological psychology Edit
In general, biological psychologists study the same issues as academic psychologists, though limited by the need to use nonhuman species. As a result, the bulk of literature in biological psychology deals with mental processes and behaviors that are shared across mammalian species, such as:
- Sensation and perception
- Motivated behavior (hunger, thirst, sex)
- Control of movement
- Learning and memory
- Sleep and biological rhythms
However, with increasing technical sophistication and with the development of more precise noninvasive methods that can be applied to human subjects, biological psychologists are beginning to contribute to other classical topic areas of psychology, such as:
- Reasoning and decision making
Biological psychology has also had a strong history of contributing to the understanding of medical disorders, including those that fall under the purview of clinical psychology and psychopathology (also known as abnormal psychology). Although animal models for all mental illnesses do not exist, the field has contributed important therapeutic data on a variety of conditions, including:
- Parkinson's Disease, a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that often impairs the sufferer's motor skills and speech.
- Huntington's Disease, a rare inherited neurological disorder whose most obvious symptoms are abnormal body movements and a lack of coordination. It also affects a number of mental abilities and some aspects of personality.
- Alzheimer's Disease, a neurodegenerative disease that, in its most common form, is found in people over the age of 65 and is characterized by progressive cognitive deterioration, together with declining activities of daily living and by neuropsychiatric symptoms or behavioral changes.
- Clinical depression, a common psychiatric disorder, characterized by a persistent lowering of mood, loss of interest in usual activities and diminished ability to experience pleasure.
- Schizophrenia, a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality, most commonly manifesting as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions or disorganized speech and thinking in the context of significant social or occupational dysfunction.
- Autism, a brain development disorder that impairs social interaction and communication, and causes restricted and repetitive behavior, all starting before a child is three years old.
- Anxiety, a physiological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components. These components combine to create the feelings that are typically recognized as fear, apprehension, or worry.
- Drug abuse, including alcoholism
Nobel Laureates Edit
The following Nobel Prize winners could reasonably be considered biological psychologists. (This list omits winners who were almost exclusively neuroanatomists or neurophysiologists; i.e., those that did not measure behavioral or psychological variables.)
- Charles Sherrington (1932)
- Edgar Adrian (1932)
- Walter Hess (1949)
- Egas Moniz (1949)
- Georg von Bekesy (1961)
- George Wald (1967)
- Ragnar Granit (1967)
- Konrad Lorenz (1973)
- Niko Tinbergen (1973)
- Karl von Frisch (1973)
- Roger W. Sperry (1981)
- David H. Hubel (1981)
- Torsten N. Wiesel (1981)
- Eric R. Kandel (2000)
- Arvid Carlsson (2000)
- Richard Axel (2004)
- Linda B. Buck (2004)
- Behavioural genetics
- Behavioral neuroscience
- Biological psychiatry
- Biopsychcosocial approach
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Developmental psychobiology
- Embodied philosophy
- Evolutionary psychology
References & BibliographyEdit
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January PRRI/RNS Religion News Survey
Religious Voters Agree on Importance of Jobs/Economy, Disagree on Economic Inequality
CRITICAL ISSUES DRIVING THE ELECTION
Across party lines, all voters say that jobs/unemployment is a critical issue facing the country. More than 8-in-10 Republican (83%), Democratic (83%), and Independent (83%) voters view this issue as critical.
- There is also strong cross-party agreement that the federal deficit is a critical issue, although there are differences in degree. Eighty-one percent of Republican voters say the federal deficit is a critical issue, compared to 70% of Independent voters and 61% of Democratic voters.
- White evangelical voters are roughly twice as likely as unaffiliated voters and white mainline Protestant voters to say abortion (41%) and same-sex marriage (38%) are critical issues, although even among evangelical voters these issues rank much lower than jobs/unemployment (82%), the federal deficit (77%) and national security (58%).
There are major partisan and religious differences in the importance of the growing gap between the rich and poor.
- Democratic voters are more than twice as likely as Republican voters to say that the growing gap between the rich and the poor is a critical issue (63% vs. 30%).
- Approximately half of white Mainline Protestants (48%) and Catholics (47%) cite the growing gap between the rich and the poor as a critical issue. Only 33% of white evangelical Protestant voters say the growing gap between the rich and the poor is a critical issue—the lowest of any religious group.
Young voters (ages 18-34) and senior voters (ages 65 and over) also have significantly different issue priorities.
- Young voters and senior voters largely agree that jobs/unemployment (82% and 81% respectively) and the federal deficit (66% and 68% respectively) are critical issues.
- Compared to voters overall and senior voters, young voters are much less likely to say immigration is a critical issue. Only three-in-ten (30%) say it is a critical issue, compared to 41% of seniors.
- Young voters are more likely than senior voters to say the growing gap between rich and poor is a critical issue (51% vs. 44%).
- Senior voters are more likely than young voters to say same-sex marriage is a critical issue (34% vs. 22% respectively) although the issue ranks at the bottom of the priority list even for seniors.
A GENERAL ELECTION PREVIEW
In national head-to-head named matchups against Obama, Romney outperforms Gingrich, but Obama has a clear advantage over both candidates at this point in the campaign.
- Gingrich trails Obama by 19 points (33% to 52%) amongall voters, while Romney trails Obama by a smaller but still significant 11-point margin (37% to 48%).
- In matchups against both candidates, Obama generates much more excitement among his supporters than either Gingrich or Romney do among their supporters.
- In a Romney-Obama matchup, less than half (49%) of Romney voters report that they would be excited about voting for Romney. In contrast, two-thirds of Obama voters say they would be excited to vote for him.
- In a Gingrich-Obama matchup, a majority (55%) of Gingrich voters say they would be excited to vote for the former Speaker. In contrast, 65% of Obama voters say they would be excited to vote for him.
The patterns of religious support in a Romney-Obama vs. Romney-Gingrich matchup are similar, with the notable exception that Romney is running stronger among Catholic voters.
- Romney maintains a strong advantage over Obama among white evangelical voters (60% vs. 22%). At the other end of the spectrum, Obama has large leads over Romney among religiously unaffiliated voters (58% vs. 25%). Obama leads Romney by 8 points among Catholics (48% vs. 40%). White mainline Protestant voters are again nearly evenly divided (41% for Obama vs. 43% for Romney).
- In a Gingrich-Obama matchup, white evangelical Protestant voters strongly support the former Speaker (58% to 26%). Meanwhile, Obama has overwhelming leads among unaffiliated voters (61% vs. 22%), and Catholic voters (56% to 32%). White mainline Protestant voters are again evenly divided (41% for Obama vs. 41% for Gingrich).
- White evangelical Protestant voters who report that they would support either Romney or Gingrich are less excited about voting for the respective GOP nominees than the candidates’ other religious supporters.
THE REPUBLICAN CONTEST
- There are strong signs that the Republican contest is becoming a two-man affair. Romney is now showing a 7-point national lead over Gingrich among Republican and Republican leaning voters (34% to 27%). Less than 1-in-5 Republican and Republican-leaning voters say they would like to see Ron Paul or Rick Santorum as the nominee (14% and 17% respectively).
- For Republicans, the contest between Gingrich and Romney appears to be hinging on electability. Nearly half (48%) of Republican and Republican leaning voters report that Romney has the best chance of defeating Barack Obama in the general election, while only half as much say Gingrich has the best chance (24%).
- On nearly every other indicator of candidate strengths, Republican and Republican leaning voters are about as likely to say that Gingrich and Romney fit the description including, “shares your religious values” (13% vs. 15% respectively), “best reflects the core values of the Republican Party” (22% vs. 26% respectively), “has the best plan to create jobs and promote economic growth” (27% vs. 31% respectively), “is most qualified to be President” (34% vs. 32% respectively), and “is most likely to bring change to Washington” (25% vs. 22% respectively).
- Romney continues to struggle among white evangelical Protestants. When asked which current Republican candidate they would most like to see nominated as the Republican Party’s candidate, 35% of white evangelical Republican voters named Gingrich, 22% named Santorum, and only 17% named Romney.
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- Consequences of altered eicosanoid patterns for nociceptive processing in mPGES-1-deficient mice (2007)
- Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2)-dependent prostaglandin (PG) E2 synthesis in the spinal cord plays a major role in the development of inflammatory hyperalgesia and allodynia. Microsomal PGE2 synthase-1 (mPGES-1) isomerizes COX-2-derived PGH2 to PGE2. Here, we evaluated the effect of mPGES-1-deficiency on the noci-ceptive behavior in various models of nociception that depend on PGE2 synthesis. Surprisingly, in the COX-2-dependent zymosan-evoked hyperalgesia model, the nociceptive behavior was not reduced in mPGES-1-deficient mice despite a marked decrease of the spinal PGE2 synthesis. Similarly, the nociceptive behavior was unaltered in mPGES-1-deficient mice in the formalin test. Importantly, spinal cords and primary spinal cord cells derived from mPGES-1-deficient mice showed a redirection of the PGE2 synthesis to PGD2, PGF2α and 6-keto-PGF1α (stable metabolite of PGI2). Since the latter prostaglandins serve also as mediators of noci-ception they may compensate the loss of PGE2 synthesis in mPGES-1-deficient mice.
- Antinociceptive activity of the S1P-receptor agonist FTY720 (2008)
- FTY720 is a novel immunosuppressive drug that inhibits the egress of lymphocytes from secondary lymphoid tissues and thymus. In its phosphorylated form FTY720 is a potent S1P receptor agonist. Recently it was also shown that FTY720 can reduce prostaglandin synthesis through the direct inhibition of the cytosolic phospholipase A2 (cPLA2). Since prostaglandins are important mediators of nociception, we studied the effects of FTY720 in different models of nociception. We found that intraperitoneal administration of FTY720 reduced dose-dependently the nociceptive behaviour of rats in the formalin assay. Although the antinociceptive doses of FTY720 were too low to alter the lymphocyte count, prostanoid concentrations in the plasma were dramatically reduced. Surprisingly, intrathecally administered FTY720 reduced the nociceptive behaviour in the formalin assay without altering spinal prostaglandin synthesis, indicating that additional antinociceptive mechanisms beside the inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis are involved. Accordingly, FTY720 reduced also the nociceptive behaviour in the spared nerve injury model for neuropathic pain which does not depend on prostaglandin synthesis. In this model the antinociceptive effect of FTY720 was similar to gabapentin, a commonly used drug to treat neuropathic pain. Taken together we show for the first time that FTY720 possesses antinociceptive properties and that FTY720 reduces nociceptive behaviour during neuropathic pain.
- Soluble epoxide hydrolase limits mechanical hyperalgesia during inflammation (2011)
- Background Cytochrome-P450 (CYP450) epoxygenases metabolise arachidonic acid (AA) into four different biologically active epoxyeicosatrienoic acid (EET) regioisomers. Three of the EETs (i.e., 8,9-, 11,12- and 14,15-EET) are rapidly hydrolysed by the enzyme soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH). Here, we investigated the role of sEH in nociceptive processing during peripheral inflammation. Results In dorsal root ganglia (DRG), we found that sEH is expressed in medium and large diameter neurofilament 200-positive neurons. Isolated DRG-neurons from sEH-/- mice showed higher EET and lower DHET levels. Upon AA stimulation, the largest changes in EET levels occurred in culture media, indicating both that cell associated EET concentrations quickly reach saturation and EET-hydrolyzing activity mostly effects extracellular EET signaling. In vivo, DRGs from sEH-deficient mice exhibited elevated 8,9-, 11,12- and 14,15-EET-levels. Interestingly, EET levels did not increase at the site of zymosan-induced inflammation. Cellular imaging experiments revealed direct calcium flux responses to 8,9-EET in a subpopulation of nociceptors. In addition, 8,9-EET sensitized AITC-induced calcium increases in DRG neurons and AITC-induced calcitonin gene related peptide (CGRP) release from sciatic nerve axons, indicating that 8,9-EET sensitizes TRPA1-expressing neurons, which are known to contribute to mechanical hyperalgesia. Supporting this, sEH-/- mice showed increased nociceptive responses to mechanical stimulation during zymosan-induced inflammation and 8,9-EET injection reduced mechanical thresholds in naive mice. Conclusion Our results show that the sEH can regulate mechanical hyperalgesia during inflammation by inactivating 8,9-EET, which sensitizes TRPA1-expressing nociceptors. Therefore we suggest that influencing the CYP450 pathway, which is actually highly considered to treat cardiovascular diseases, may cause pain side effects. | <urn:uuid:6f040a05-70a0-4e1a-bcad-1e24499aa512> | 2013-05-24T01:46:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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- 2001 (8) (remove)
- Statistical coalescence model with exact charm conservation (2001)
- The statistical coalescence model for the production of open and hidden charm is considered within the canonical ensemble formulation. The data for the J/psi multiplicity in Pb+Pb collisions at 158 A·GeV are used for the model prediction of the open charm yield which has not yet been measured in these reactions.
- Open and hidden charm production in heavy ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies (2001)
- We consider the production of the open charm and J/psi mesons in heavy ion collisions at BNL RHIC. We discuss several recently developed pictures for J/psi production and argue that a measurement at RHIC energies is crucial for disentangling these di erent descriptions.
- J / psi suppression and enhancement in Au + Au collisions at the BNL RHIC (2001)
- We consider the production of the J/psi mesons in heavy ion collisions at RHIC energies in the statistical coalescence model with an exact (canonical ensemble) charm conservation. The cc quark pairs are assumed to be created in the primary hard parton collisions, but the formation of the open and hidden charm particles takes place at the hadronization stage and follows the prescription of statistical mechanics. The dependence of the J/psi production on both the number of nucleon participants and the collision energy is studied. The model predicts the J/psi suppression for low energies, whereas at the highest RHIC energy the model reveals the J/psi enhancement.
- Statistical coalescence model analysis of J / psi production in Pb + Pb collisions at 158 A GeV (2001)
- Production of J/psi mesons in heavy ion collisions is considered within the statistical coalescence model. The model is in agreement with the experi- mental data of the NA50 Collaboration for Pb+Pb collisions at 158 A·GeV in a wide centrality range, including the so called anomalous suppression domain. The model description of the J/ psi data requires, however, strong enhancement of the open charm production in central Pb+Pb collisions. This model prediction may be checked in the future SPS runs.
- Power law in hadron production (2001)
- In high energy p+p(bar) interactions the mean multiplicity and transverse mass spectra of neutral mesons from eta to Upsilon (m = 0.5 - 10 GeV/c^2) and the transverse mass spectra of pions (m_T > 1 GeV/c^2) reveal a remarkable behaviour: they follow, over more than 10 orders of magnitude, the power-law function:The parameters C and P are energy dependent, but similar for all mesons produced at the same collision energy. This scaling resembles that expected in the statistical description of hadron production: the parameter P plays the role of a temperature and the normalisation constant C is analogous to the system volume. The fundamental difference is, however, in the form of the distribution function. In order to reproduce the experimental results and preserve the basic structure of the statistical approach the Boltzmann factor e^(-E/T) appearing in standard statistical mechanics has to be substituted by a power-law factor (E/Lambda)^(-P).
- Charm estimate from the dilepton spectra in nuclear collisions (2001)
- A validity of a recent estimate of an upper limit of charm production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 158 AGeV is critically discussed. Within a simple model we study properties of the background subtraction procedure used for an extraction of the charm signal from the analysis of dilepton spectra. We demonstrate that a production asymmetry between positively and negatively charged background muons and a large multiplicity of signal pairs leads to biased results. Therefore the applicability of this procedure for the analysis of nucleus-nucleus data should be reconsidered before final conclusions on the upper limit estimate of charm production could be drawn.
- Transverse momentum spectra of J/psi and psi prime mesons from quark gluon plasma hadronization in nuclear collisions (2001)
- Recent results on transverse mass spectra of J/psi and psi prime mesons in central Pb+Pb collisions at 158 AGeV are considered. It is shown that those results support a hypothesis of statistical production of charmonia at hadronization and suggest the early thermal freeze-out of J/psi and psi prime mesons. Based on this approach the collective transverse velocity of hadronizing quark gluon plasma is estimated to be <v^H_T> \approx 0.2. Predictions for transverse mass spectra of hidden and open charm mesons at SPS and RHIC are discussed.
- Chemical freeze-out parameters at RHIC from microscopic model calculations (2001)
- The relaxation of hot nuclear matter to an equilibrated state in the central zone of heavy-ion collisions at energies from AGS to RHIC is studied within the microscopic UrQMD model. It is found that the system reaches the (quasi)equilibrium stage for the period of 10-15 fm/c. Within this time the matter in the cell expands nearly isentropically with the entropy to baryon ratio S/A = 150 - 170. Thermodynamic characteristics of the system at AGS and at SPS energies at the endpoints of this stage are very close to the parameters of chemical and thermal freeze-out extracted from the thermal fit to experimental data. Predictions are made for the full RHIC energy square root s = 200$ AGeV. The formation of a resonance-rich state at RHIC energies is discussed. | <urn:uuid:b9b9dc86-7b25-4520-97f3-01a128d1fe4c> | 2013-05-24T01:45:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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- The L76V mutation in HIV-1 protease is potentially associated with hypersusceptibility to protease inhibitors Atazanavir and Saquinavir: is there a clinical advantage? (2011)
- Background: Although being considered as a rarely observed HIV-1 protease mutation in clinical isolates, the L76V-prevalence increased 1998-2008 in some European countries most likely due to the approval of Lopinavir, Amprenavir and Darunavir which can select L76V. Beside an enhancement of resistance, L76V is also discussed to confer hypersusceptibility to the drugs Atazanavir and Saquinavir which might enable new treatment strategies by trying to take advantage of particular mutations. Results: Based on a cohort of 47 L76V-positive patients, we examined if there might exist a clinical advantage for L76V-positive patients concerning long-term success of PI-containing regimens in patients with limited therapy options. Genotypic- and phenotypic HIV-resistance tests from 47 mostly multi-resistant, L76V-positive patients throughout Germany were accomplished retrospectively 1999-2009. Five genotype-based drug-susceptibility predictions received from online interpretation-tools for Atazanavir, Saquinavir, Amprenavir and Lopinavir, were compared to phenotype-based predictions that were determined by using a recombinant virus assay along with a Virtual Phenotype™(Virco). The clinical outcome of the L76V-adapted follow-up therapy was determined by monitoring viral load for 96 weeks. Conclusions: In this analysis, the mostly used interpretation systems overestimated the L76V-mutation concerning Atazanavir- and SQV resistance. In fact, a clear benefit in drug susceptibility for these drugs was observed in phenotype analysis after establishment of L76V. More importantly, long-term therapy success was significantly higher in patients receiving Atazanavir and/or Saquinavir plus one L76V-selecting drug compared to patients without L76V-selecting agents (p = 0.002). In case of L76V-occurrence ATV and/or SQV may represent encouraging options for patients in deep salvage situations. | <urn:uuid:e9f07bab-9916-4e06-a1c9-a6139d68d362> | 2013-05-24T01:32:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Project SEMACODE : a scale-invariant object recognition system for content-based queries in image databases
Rüdiger W. Brause
- For the efficient management of large image databases, the automated characterization of images and the usage of that characterization for searching and ordering tasks is highly desirable. The purpose of the project SEMACODE is to combine the still unsolved problem of content-oriented characterization of images with scale-invariant object recognition and modelbased compression methods. To achieve this goal, existing techniques as well as new concepts related to pattern matching, image encoding, and image compression are examined. The resulting methods are integrated in a common framework with the aid of a content-oriented conception. For the application, an image database at the library of the university of Frankfurt/Main (StUB; about 60000 images), the required operations are developed. The search and query interfaces are defined in close cooperation with the StUB project “Digitized Colonial Picture Library”. This report describes the fundamentals and first results of the image encoding and object recognition algorithms developed within the scope of the project. | <urn:uuid:676fdcb5-eed1-48eb-ac01-15b032e2c1de> | 2013-05-24T01:52:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Through an online survey, the authors determined the readiness and confidence of paramedics in New South Wales, Australia, to respond to a CBRNE incident, which may differ from their “routine” emergency work. They identified some specific occupational and dispositional factors, which may help in designing future training.
Paramedics play a pivotal role in the response to major emergencies. Recent evidence indicates that their confidence and willingness to respond to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives-related (CBRNE) incidents differs from that relating to their “routine” emergency work. To further investigate the factors underpinning their readiness to respond to CBRNE incidents, paramedics in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, were asked to complete a validated online survey instrument. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to examine associated factors determining readiness. The sample of 663 respondents was weighted to reflect the NSW paramedic population as a whole. The univariate analysis indicated that gender, length of service, deployment concern, perceived personal resilience, CBRNE training, and incident experience were significantly associated with perceived CBRNE response readiness. In the initial multivariate analysis, significantly higher response readiness was associated with male gender, university education, and greater length of service (10-15 years). In the final multivariate model, the combined effect of training/incident experience negated the significant effects observed in the initial model and, importantly, showed that those with recent training reported higher readiness, irrespective of incident experience. Those with lower concern regarding CBRNE deployment and those with higher personal resilience were significantly more likely to report higher readiness (Adjusted Relative Risk [ARR] = 0.91, 95% CI: 0.84-0.99; ARR = 1.40, 95% CI: 1.11-1.72, respectively). These findings will assist emergency medical planners in recognizing occupational and dispositional factors associated with enhanced CBRNE readiness and highlight the important role of training in redressing potential readiness differences associated with these factors. | <urn:uuid:b93fa870-3fa9-435f-a6f4-3717f8c45856> | 2013-05-24T01:38:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Published August 9, 2011
One night two months ago, Taliban insurgents on motorcycles crossed a tract of dun Bactrian desert north of Mazar-e-Sharif. Under moonlight sifting through the thatch of warped mulberry limbs, they steered through the ancient village of Karaghuzhlah, dismounted at a simple mud-brick mosque, and handed the mullah two identical letters. The letters announced that the village now belonged to the Taliban, and demanded the payment of zakat, a religious tax to underwrite the militia's holy war.
A few days later, apparently to reinforce the message, Taliban fighters fired several rockets at a police checkpoint on the southeastern outskirts of the village. Around the same time, the Taliban began to switch off the local cell-phone towers every night. From 6 p.m. until dawn, no one could call for help.
"Karaghuzhlah is now in Taliban's hands," a district police official told me then.
In the last year, the Taliban have claimed control over scores of settlements in Balkh province, an alkaline scar tissue of dozens of fratricides, ethnic cleansings, and invasions that curves northward from the sawtooth Hindu Kush. But what does it mean for a village to have fallen into the hands of the insurgency? Does the Taliban deliver any comfort to the Pashtuns, a minority among local minorities here that often sees the mostly Pashtun militants as its only chance at protection from the dominant Uzbeks and Tajiks? Does it devastate the Hazaras, who survived waves of genocidal campaigns when the Taliban were in power? Does it make it even harder for the village sick to receive medical help, or does it facilitate treatment?
Does it mean anything at all?
I headed to Karaghuzhlah to find out. Policemen who guarded the sandbagged northern boundary of Mazar-e-Sharif, the provincial capital, refused to let me take the tumbledown dirt track that rattles past their checkpoint, the quickest route to the eclipsed village.
"Karaghuzhlah is under Taliban control," they said, in lieu of explanation. "We cannot guarantee your safety there." Yet, the same police official who in June told me that the Taliban had annexed Karaghuzhlah assured me, "Karaghuzhlah is absolutely safe."
I took a circuitous route to the village. It was entirely unguarded.
On the surface, the Karaghuzhlah to which I returned looks no different than the Karaghuzhlah I visited back in May, before the Taliban laid claim to the village -- unchanged, probably, for centuries. No black flags fly from Karaghuzhlah's mosques, and no cartoonish men in sinister black turbans whip their way through crowds of the immodest and impious. Kids still play in muddy ditches. Men still squat in the shadows of mosque walls to gossip and stare darkly at the road. Women still chase scrawny chickens away from tandoori ovens where conchas of unleavened bread bronze. There is still no power, no hospital, no decent roads. At first glance, only the seasons have changed: Instead of saccharine mulberries, unshucked almonds now dry in the sun on clay stoops.
Yet over this millennial Afghan landscape the insurgency casts a pall, a subtle anxiety that flits from one threshold adorned with hand-sewn taweez charms to another like the mynah birds that beset the village. Some villagers say, yes, the Taliban have been back several times in the last two months, always on motorcycles, always at night. Other say, no, we haven't seen them, we don't think they have been back. But one must stay circumspect nonetheless. "Even men no longer go outside after dark," an apricot farmer's wife tells me.
I pass the street where I spent a night in a policeman's house once, in winter. The iron bukhari stove in the room had gone out. As I drifted off on my thin tick mattress the last thing I saw in the convulsing light of a single generator-fed light bulb was my host gently spreading an extra blanket over me: an impromptu act of kindness, simple, immense. The policeman, I'm told, no longer comes home for the night from Mazar-e-Sharif where he works. None of the villagers who work for the government or foreign organizations do: The Taliban kill them as traitors. Last month, for example, they killed a schoolteacher in the village of Siogert, not 15 miles away. Near the policeman's house in Karaghuzhlah, a soldier's house stands shuttered. The home of a U.N. security guard. The small compound of another police officer.
"People are afraid," says Hussein Ali, the village timekeeper whom the villagers call the Historian. "God only knows what's going to come next." As we talk, he orders a grandchild to bring him some homegrown almonds and, squatting on the floor, begins to smash almond hulls with a glass cup. He goes at them fiercely, as though the nuts have personally insulted him. There is no reason for him to be shucking almonds: It is Ramadan, just past noon, and the first meal of the day is not until after 7 in the evening. But he goes on, whacking his cup at pound after pound of almonds, far more than his family will need for the night.
After the Taliban attack, the police disbanded the checkpoint and pulled out of the village. Then, under an U.S.-financed program to recruit untrained vigilantes to fight the insurgency -- because the regular forces are spread out too thin -- it armed 20 local arbaki, as such militiamen are called, with rocket-propelled grenade launchers, Kalashnikov assault rifles, and a PK machine gun.
The arbaki program has had varying degrees of success in Afghanistan. In Kunduz province, Balkh's neighbor to the east, the vigilantes have been terrorizing and robbing civilians and fighting over territory; this month, the government ordered them to disarm within 20 days.
The commander in charge of the Karaghuzhlah arbaki is Shamsuddin, a former mujahideen who had fought against the Taliban once alongside Ahmad Shah Massoud. He assures me that Karaghuzhlah is "absolutely secure." He also tells me that no Taliban have ever set foot here, which I know to be untrue. I recall that when I first met Shamsuddin, last winter, he was threatening to join the Taliban in protest over a nighttime raid on a Karaghuzhlah household by American troops.
"We don't care about either the government or the Taliban," Mohammad Azghar, a driver, tells me. "Neither is going to look out for us or change our lives. We have to look out for ourselves and live for ourselves."
He is probably right. Twenty-five hundred people eke out a living in Karaghuzhlah, whose ancient cob walls girdle a maze of orchards and a tangle of irrigation canals. Most tend their orchards and fields in the scorching sun, working by hand and in sandaled feet, as their forefathers did when this land was contested by the Soviets, the British, the Mongols, the ancient Greeks. They have survived in the crosshairs of war for generations. None of the invaders have improved their lives. They were raised in a land that doesn't change; it only changes hands.
I stop by the house of Noor Bibi. A few days before the Taliban riders delivered their night letters to the village mullah, the police delivered to Noor Bibi the body of her son, a policeman who had been serving in Kandahar. He was killed when his car hit a roadside bomb the Taliban had buried in the dirt. The explosion tore out half of his back.
In Noor Bibi's crepuscular living room, women sit along the thick cob walls and fan themselves with trapeziums of embroidered cardboard. They helped her wash the young man's mangled remains. They consoled her while the men of the house placed her son's body in the ground by the mosque. Now they nod as she explains how the war creeping over her land has stripped her people of hope.
"My son worked for the government and he was killed by the Taliban," the orphaned mother says. "If he worked for the Taliban he would have been killed by the government. There is no place where we can go and live in peace."
As I head out the door, Noor Bibi sends one of the women to the trellis that leans against the east side of her house. Over my protestations she thrusts a plastic bag full of grapes into my hands: another act of kindness in Karaghuzhlah. We bow to each other. A mynah bird stares from the threshold. | <urn:uuid:cb766cfe-c1eb-4e47-bf87-681685765f81> | 2013-05-24T01:44:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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...simple remedy of the savages, who eat theirs. These few words of admonition would be incomplete if I did not impress upon you that policy is the only honesty. Art is short and life is long, and a stitch in time debars one from having a new coat. You can take a drink to the horse, but you can't make him well; and nothing succeeds like failure. Vice is the only perfect form of virtue, and virtue---- Easy there! Steady! Avast! Belay! Which!
The Boeotians are dull folk, no doubt, butLife would be dull without them.Imagine a wilderness of Wildes! It would be like a sky all rainbows. Then what beautiful whetstones the Boeotians are! Abuse them, by all means, so long as they will pay for it. But what a blessing that the minds capable of taking the artistic view of life are rare enough to keep the race sane! The coarser forms of egotism seem less baneful to the brain-tissue. You claim to be an Athenian, but the Athenians did not smoke cigarettes. It is true that tobacco had not been invented, but... Wilde, Oscar
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Tyra Banks took the witness stand Wednesday in New York at the trial of 38-year-old Brady Green, who is accused of stalking her. Banks told the judge that as a result of his harassment, she fears for her safety.
Banks also testified that she fears for the safety of her staff, her family and anyone who is with her. As a result, she said she has been forced to hire security because she is afraid to be alone.
Green has allegedly threatened to kill one of her employees for refusing to give him tickets to her show.
Saying that Green is “more aggressive” than the usual fan, she added that while she doesn’t fear for her life, “I fear for my safety. I fear for my staff and for the people in my vicinity.”
Green’s lawyer during cross examination denied that his client ever called or emailed Tyra and said Green never threatened her or members of her staff.
Green faces up to 90 days in jail if convicted. (Photo: Splash News) | <urn:uuid:6e834154-77a4-4ede-b625-183fc8c5510d> | 2013-05-24T01:40:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Fundamental principles and objectives of Renaissance Artists and Writers Association (RAWA)
RAWA has been established for genuine artists and writers to inspire the society. It proclaims that all genuine artists and writers should unite and expand the consciousness of the public and move the society forward through their sympathetic endeavours.
The word 'renaissance' has not been used merely in the sense of revival of learning but in a wider context. A true renaissance is a renaissance in all fields, in all spheres of life: physical, mental, and spiritual. A spiritual renaissance without a renaissance in the mental and physical worlds would be one-sided and would retard the development of the physical and intellectual side of life. Spiritual development still requires the proper development of intellect and the provision of the physical necessities of life.
RAWA provides an outlet for our artists and writers to realize their innate spiritual potentialities. The supreme trait in art or literature is its spiritualizing quality. Whether art or literature is discursive, imitative, mechanical, organic, conceptual, anti-conceptual, representative or non-representative in nature, the touchstone of great works of art and literature resolves the psychic crisis of a particular civilization, nation or the whole world through its aesthetic creed.
In the world of today, we find the artist and writer driven more and more into isolation from the society. In the commercialized society, the mechanization of life has almost submerged the individual's talent. With the passing of the patronage of art and literatur into the hands of the business classes, the standards of artistic and literary excellence have come down. A commercialized society demands commercialized entertainments, and this has led to a degeneration and decadence of art and literature.
RAWA has the following objectives:
1) To promote the ideal of "service and blessedness" in art and writing. When one's motives of expression are directed towards the upliftment of society, there is, in return, a sense of fulfillment in the person that cannot be equaled by any level of meaningless creation. That sense of fulfillment is termed here as 'blessedness', and the sense of selflessness is termed here 'service'. RAWA rejects the idea of “art for art's sake”.
2) To improve the psycho-spiritual development of society through art and literature.
3) To suggest solutions to the outstanding problems of human society through art and literature.
4) To inculcate the ethical and spiritual values of life in the human society.
5) To create a proper psychological environment for the establishment of universalism by staging a powerful crusade against all sectarianisms.
6) To arrest the trend of excessive commercialization of modern art and literature, and to create a healthy trend of utilizing both art and literature for the growth and evolution of human civilization.
7) To create a strong moral movement through art and literature against all sorts of immoral forces responsible for the degradation of modern society.
8) To provide encouragement and opportunity to the new generation of artists and writers by creating a powerful artistic and literary movement based on the higher values of life.
9) To attend to the various social, political, and economic handicaps confronting talented artists and writers.
10) To inculcate a positive philosophy of life in the society, which is presently haunted by a negative and pessimistic outlook.
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A Boeing Plant II Primer
ramp that these three historic airplanes roll across, and the building
they leave is one of the most historic aviation sites in the world.
First produced here are the Boeing 307 Stratoliner and the
Douglas DB-7 bomber (under license.) But Plant II became the home
of the B-17.
Here, in April 1944, are the 16
B-17 Flying Fortress bombers produced in this building - that day, and
every day! Click here for a Personal Note
about those B-17s.
October 1944, the first Boeing XC-97 rolled out of these doors - later
to become the C-97 transport, KC-97 Tanker, and B-377 commercial
Stratocruiser. (See the camouflage on the roof?)
WW II, the plant was completely camouflaged to look like a residential
area as protection against possible Japanese air attack.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, myriad B-50 bombers and
C-97 Transports are being produced in this factory.
On 12 Sept 1947, a radical new airplane - the Boeing B-47 six-jet
bomber Prototype is rolled out. This airplane is the direct
lineal matriarch for all the jet airplanes Boeing has produced since.
On 29 Nov 1951, in the darkness and wet of a Seattle night, the Prototype Boeing
B-52 8-engine Bomber is rolled out and across East Marginal
Way. She's shrouded in secrecy and covered by canvas and
tarps. This amazing airplane is still in front-line combat
to this day.
Here 277 B-52s are being produced where the earlier
airplanes once were assembled.
in 1966, the first Prototype Boeing twin-jet 737 was manufactured in
this building and rolled out of these doors on to this ramp. This
airplane (which I worked on - then, and which I still work on - now,)
is in the Museum's collection. She's the first of more than
8000 737s built or ordered since then.
This first 737, and 44 years later, the Super Connie, are
my bit of Plant II experience.
And so, today - History meets History as the last three airplanes roll
out of these doors.
Plant II is truly aviation Hallowed | <urn:uuid:f2453f87-da20-419e-a0e7-22d6a135ea69> | 2013-05-24T01:52:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A suggested checklist for developing a PDP
1. Clinical issues
Is my practice within accepted guidelines? If there are areas
where it departs from these, can I defend my practice?
Can I measure or describe the outcome or effectiveness of my
Do I subject my clinical work to peer
Am I regularly involved in clinical audit? If not, what steps
should I take to rectify this?
Do I have a special interest? Do I wish to develop my
expertise in this area?
Do I change my practice in response to new evidence? Should I
rethink this area?
Do I tend to focus my CPD activities around my special
interests or enthusiasms? Does that perpetuate deficits/blind spots
in other areas?
2. Training & teaching issues
Am I fulfilling my obligations as an educational
Do I use my supervision sessions with my junior doctor
Do I know enough about effective educational techniques?
Do I have adequate critical appraisal skills for evaluating
research evidence? Can I pass these skills on to my junior
How could I set about improving my teaching/facilitation
Do I know of/avail myself of teaching improvement
3. Clinical organisational issues
Do I have the appropriate skills and expertise for new service
Do I have a formal management role? If not, should I?
Do I need to rethink my priorities/commitments?
Do I need to learn new techniques for dealing with
Do I need to learn more about business planning, etc.?
Do I need to become more effective in chairing/managing
Do I need to become more effective at developing
Do I need to improve my leadership skills?
Do I need to improve my IT skills? | <urn:uuid:24f892dc-bc4d-4eaa-aad7-7060bdfe75e8> | 2013-05-24T01:44:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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When faced with the possibility of cooperating for mutual gain, states that feel insecure must ask how the gain will be divided..
A state worries about a division of possible gains that may favor others more than itself. That is the first way in which the structure of international politics limits the cooperation of states. A state also worries lest it become dependent on others through cooperative endeavors and exchanges of goods and services... The world's well-being would be increased if an ever more elaborate divisions of labor were developed, but states would thereby place themselves in situations of ever closer interdependence...
In an unorganized realm each unit's incentive is to put itself in a position to be able to take care of itself since no one can be counted on to do so. The international imperative is "take care of yourself"! Some leaders of nations may understand that the well-being of all of them would increase in their participation in a fuller division of labor. But to act on the idea would be to act on a domestic imperative, an imperative that does not run internationally...Waltz's argument may not apply perfectly to the EU, since he claims that the fundamental impediment to cooperation is the threat of conflict. The era of European wars is long over, but there may nonetheless be something to Waltz's argument. In the midst of economic crisis, tensions between European countries have hardened, and the crisis has caused bickering among EU member nations.
On another note, a recent FT/Harris poll of the British public found that only one in three Brits wants to remain in the EU. | <urn:uuid:2e536669-015e-4499-9d77-47d6823c94e1> | 2013-05-24T01:57:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I'm currently looking to upgrade my current pair of JBL EON 15G2's to use with live bands. I would like to be able to put a reasonable amount of kick, bass, 4x vocals, keys and guitar. I would also like to add trumpet and sax on occasions.
I have been doing this quite successfully with my EON15G2's for a few years but would like more power, clarity and bass without having to use subs (if possible). The maximum weight I want to be carrying is around 20-22kg.
I have tried the new JBL EON 515XT's but found that these didn't have as much bass extension as the older EON 15G2's (though on paper the are quoted to be the same). They also didn't cope as well at higher volumes of bass and suffered from a little port noise.
I've been doing quite a bit of research and have shortlisted the following within my rough budget £1500 :-
Turbosound Milan MI5
FBT Promaxx 14a
Has anyone on here had any experience with any of the speakers mentioned?
Which would you recommend for using with full bands in rooms holding around 250 people with kick and bass going through them and reasonably high volumes 130db+? | <urn:uuid:e554aaa8-c989-4580-bf75-33e23a2280d1> | 2013-05-24T01:31:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein
What if I could tell you that you personally held the answers within you to everything that you are facing in life…
Would you believe me?
How many times in life have we wondered, "What if this event didn't happen?" or "What if I made this choice instead of that one?" In other words how many what if statements are clouding your judgement of today, filled with regrets, filled with the past and ignoring the present. Yes, I said ignoring the present. If you're too busy thinking of the past, you are not thinking about the now which leads to tomorrow. If tomorrow never comes, it's because you were stuck in the what if, the past, and not looking at the blessings you have now.
To which I hear, "I'll take complex thoughts for One Million Dollars, please Alex". Yes, of course there would be a Jeopardy statement somewhere and this is indeed one of those million-dollar questions. How often do we put money into reinventing ourselves whether it's clothing and haircuts or money spent in therapy sessions to find out what the childhood connection is to our adulthood anger and depression, it could even be from the expectations placed upon us by society, culture and religion… Between money and our authentic selves being lost somewhere down the funnel, we at some point in our lives stop and realize that we are barking up a tree, it's just not the one we want to be barking at. Money is an illusion, it won't make you happy. So how do you figure out what happiness is in a materialistic world. If you're singing or thinking of Madonna right now, well…
Moving along! What would happen if we decided to forgive ourselves for our past mistakes, and accept that this is who we are right now… today? Would you be able to do it? What could you do in service to others, out of acts of kindness to bring that Love back to yourself? What changes would you need to make to personally accept yourself?
Yes, these questions are stumpers, but the answer is simple… Start now! You know what it is that you need. You know what it is that you want, and you are the only person that knows what the next step is. Take some time out for yourself, grab a writing pad and pen, or your iPhone or iPad… whatever works, and sit down or lay down, again, whatever words… let your Inner Wisdom… your inner self do the talking.
Often, more times than not, what stumps us is our inability to hear our own Inner Voice. Trust me when I say that our Inner Voice is bound to get grumpy and throw all sorts of confusion and random spitfire thoughts through your mind that were so completely off base you had to actually ask yourself, "Where the heck did that come from?" There's a reason… You know those times where you walked into a room, and you knew that if you continued walking to the right something would happen, but you kept walking anyway and ended up falling into the dessert tray in a high end restaurant? If you answered no, congratulations for listening to your gut instinct! If you answered yes, listen to your gut instinct!!!
Here's the secret to everything: We know the answers!
Start thinking of life in terms of, "I want…" and make the list! Yes, make the list and post it to where you can see it everyday! Work on the top five things that come to mind, and then cross them out as you accomplish them. Better yet, place the list on the mirror that you look into every morning with a personal message from me…
Remember to smile! Yes… Seriously!!!
Take a giant leap off of the ledge of your safety box. By safety box, I mean step away from your normal routine, patterns that create your daily life. The routine that you feel "safe" doing, simply because you are accustomed to doing it. By stepping away and experiencing something new, you are giving yourself something unexpected… a breath of fresh air. Stop doing the, "What would it be like…", you only live once. Help yourself to release the past and accept the now without judgements, doubts or fears.
Remember the Golden Rule: The only person that can judge you is yourself, otherwise… you're simply placing judgements while looking in the mirror. [Mystery Statement]
The renewal of your mind will strengthen your entire being. The physical, the spiritual and it will also strengthen your relationships.
Everything in life…
… is a choice. Live it well!
May your path be well lit! | <urn:uuid:1409d7f2-bd33-4d04-ad5e-5166af869810> | 2013-05-24T02:05:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|Noah Webster's Dictionary|
1. (n.) A change of place from higher to lower; as, a descent from a mountaintop.
2. (n.) Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
3. (n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.
4. (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
5. (n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
6. (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
7. (n.) That which is descended; descendants; issue.
8. (n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
9. (n.) Lowest place; extreme downward place.
10. (n.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone.
Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia
de-send', de-sent' (yaradh; katabaino, "go down"); (katabasis): Of Yahweh (Exodus 34:5); of the Spirit (Matthew 3:16); of angels (Genesis 28:12 Matthew 28:2 John 1:51); of Christ (1 Thessalonians 4:16 Ephesians 4:9). "He also descended into the lower parts of the earth" is variously interpreted, the two chief interpretations being the one of the incarnation, and the other of the "descent into hell" (1 Peter 3:19). The former regards the clause "of the earth," an appositive genitive, as when we speak of "the city of Rome," namely, "the lower parts, i.e. the earth." The other regards the genitive as possessive, or, with Meyer, as governed by the comparative, i.e. "parts lower than the earth." For the former view, see full discussion in Eadie; for the latter, Ellicott and especially Meyer, in commentaries on Eph.
H. E. Jacobs
DESCENT, OF JESUS
See APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS.
Descent (22 Occurrences)
Luke 19:37 As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen, (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
John 1:13 who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God. (WEY NIV)
Acts 4:6 Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest. (See NAS)
Romans 1:3 who, as regards His human descent, belonged to the posterity of David, (WEY)
Romans 9:8 In other words, it is not the children by natural descent who count as God's children, but the children made such by the promise are regarded as Abraham's posterity. (WEY)
Hebrews 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. (KJV WBS)
Hebrews 7:6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises. (KJV WBS NIV)
Hebrews 7:16 and hold His office not in obedience to any temporary Law, but by virtue of an indestructible Life. (See RSV)
Genesis 10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. (See NIV)
Joshua 7:5 The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, and they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water. (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)
Joshua 8:14 It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. (See RSV)
Joshua 10:11 It happened, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, that Yahweh cast down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than who the children of Israel killed with the sword. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
2 Kings 12:20 And his servants rose up and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash in the house of Millo, at the descent of Silla. (DBY)
Ezra 2:59 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: (See RSV)
Nehemiah 7:61 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel: (See RSV)
Nehemiah 9:2 The seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. (See NIV)
Nehemiah 13:3 It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude. (See RSV NIV)
Esther 6:13 Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him." (WEB)
Isaiah 30:30 Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones. (WEB)
Jeremiah 48:5 For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction. (WEB ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 44:22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. (See NIV)
Daniel 9:1 In the first year of Darius, son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who hath been made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans, (See NAS NIV) | <urn:uuid:499213b7-370b-4527-8bf2-fa883e77cd16> | 2013-05-24T01:58:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Date of this Version
Virtual queue-based marking schemes have been recently proposed for Active Queue Management (AQM) in Internet routers. We consider a particular scheme, which we call the Adaptive Virtual Queue (AVQ), and study its following properties: its stability in the presence of feedback delays, its ability to maintain small queue lengths, and its robustness in the presence of extremely short flows (the so-called web mice). Using a linearized model of the system dynamics, we present a simple rule to design the parameters of the AVQ algorithm. We then compare its performance through simulation with several well-known AQM schemes such as RED, REM, Proportional Integral (PI) controller, and a nonadaptive virtual queue algorithm. With a view toward implementation, we show that AVQ can be implemented as a simple token bucket using only a few lines of code.
Active queue management (AQM), ECN marking, Internet congestion control
Date Posted: 19 November 2004
This document has been peer reviewed. | <urn:uuid:43c02310-4efd-483f-a614-611b3d1fd6d5> | 2013-05-24T01:44:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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