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Haloperidol by Omega
Haloperidol belongs to the class of medications called antipsychotics. Haloperidol works by blocking a chemical, dopamine, in the brain to decrease symptoms of psychosis. Haloperidol is used to manage acute and chronic psychosis and psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and manic states. It can also be used for the management of agitated behaviour in some people and can control verbal outbursts for people with Tourette's syndrome.
This medication may be available under multiple brand names and/or in several different forms. Any specific brand name of this medication may not be available in all of the forms or approved for all of the conditions discussed here. As well, some forms of this medication may not be used for all of the conditions discussed here.
Your doctor may have suggested this medication for conditions other than those listed in these drug information articles. If you have not discussed this with your doctor or are not sure why you are being given this medication, speak to your doctor. Do not stop using this medication without consulting your doctor.
Do not give this medication to anyone else, even if they have the same symptoms as you do. It can be harmful for people to use this medication if their doctor has not prescribed it.
5 mg/mL injection
Each 1 mL amber vial contains haloperidol 5 mg, lactic acid sufficient to adjust the pH within the range of 3.0 to 3.8, and water for injection USP.
50 mg/mL long-acting injection
Each mL contains haloperidol 50 mg (haloperidol decanoate 70.52 mg), benzyl alcohol 1.2% v/v as preservative, and sesame oil.
100 mg/mL long-acting injection
Each mL contains haloperidol 100 mg (haloperidol decanoate 141.04 mg), benzyl alcohol 1.2% v/v as preservative, and sesame oil.
In adults with psychosis or Tourette's syndrome, the usual starting dose of oral (taken by mouth) haloperidol ranges from 2 mg to 6 mg per day in 1 to 2 divided doses. Your doctor may gradually increase the dose to determine the most appropriate dose for you. Dosing depends on your age and needs and how well you tolerate the medication.
Seniors may require a lower starting dose, usually 0.25 mg to 0.5 mg taken 2 or 3 times a day.
In children 3 to 12 years old, the usual starting dose of oral haloperidol ranges from 0.25 mg to 0.5 mg taken 2 to 3 times a day. The doctor may recommend gradually increasing the dose and will determine the most appropriate dose. Dosing depends on how well the medication works for the child and how well it is tolerated. Haloperidol tablets should be taken with food or milk to avoid stomach upset.
Intramuscular injections of haloperidol can also be given to people with an acute psychotic attack or who are agitated or aggressive. Intravenous injections of haloperidol are sometimes used in hospitalized patients to treat delirium. The dose depends on the individual.
In the ongoing treatment of psychiatric disorders, long-acting haloperidol injections are used to help decrease the number of pills some people have to take. The starting dose of the injection depends on the dose of oral haloperidol the person was previously taking. The long-acting injection is given intramuscularly (into a muscle), usually by a doctor or nurse, every 4 weeks. For some people who start using the long-acting injection, they may be taking both the oral and injection forms of haloperidol at the same time.
Many things can affect the dose of a medication that a person needs, such as body weight, other medical conditions, and other medications. If your doctor has recommended a dose different from the ones listed here, do not change the way that you are administering the medication without consulting your doctor.
It is important that this medication be taken exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Do not stop using the medication because you feel better. If you miss a dose, administer it as soon as possible and continue with your regular schedule. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and continue with your regular dosing schedule. Do not administer a double dose to make up for a missed one. If you are not sure what to do after missing a dose, contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
Store this medication at room temperature, protect from light and moisture, and keep it out of the reach of children.
Do not dispose of medications in wastewater (e.g. down the sink or in the toilet) or in household garbage. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medications that are no longer needed or have expired.
Do not use this medication if you:
- are allergic to haloperidol or any ingredients of the medication
- have a decreased level of consciousness, including those caused by using alcohol or other sedating medications, or coma
- have a history of spastic disease, lesions of the basal ganglia, or Parkinson's disease
- have a tumour of the adrenal gland (pheochromocytoma)
- have a severe heart or blood vessel disorder
- have severe kidney problems
- have brain damage
- have liver disease
- have a blood cell disorder (anemia, low white blood cell counts, low platelets)
- are going to receive anesthesia through the spine or for a specific region of the body
Many medications can cause side effects. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent.
The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who takes this medication. If you are concerned about side effects, discuss the risks and benefits of this medication with your doctor.
The following side effects have been reported by at least 1% of people taking this medication. Many of these side effects can be managed, and some may go away on their own over time.
Contact your doctor if you experience these side effects and they are severe or bothersome. Your pharmacist may be able to advise you on managing side effects.
- breast enlargement and discomfort
- changes in menstrual periods
- constipation
- dizziness, especially when getting up from a sitting or lying position
- drowsiness
- dry mouth or excessive drooling
- headache
- increased or decreased sweating
- nausea
- vomiting
- unusual secretion of milk
Although most of the side effects listed below don't happen very often, they could lead to serious problems if you do not check with your doctor or seek medical attention.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
- having a feeling of internal restlessness
- heart palpitations or a racing heart
- increased blood pressure
- new or worsening constipation
- Parkinson-like symptoms such as tremor, rigidity, slowing of movement
- signs of liver problems (e.g., nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite, weight loss, yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, dark urine, pale stools)
- signs of an upper respiratory tract infection such as a cold (e.g., sudden lack of energy, fever, cough, sore throat)
- symptoms of high blood sugar (e.g., frequent urination, increased thirst, excessive eating, unexplained weight loss, poor wound healing, infections, fruity breath odour)
- symptoms of tardive dyskinesia: rhythmical involuntary movements of the tongue, face, mouth, or jaw (e.g., protrusion of tongue, puffing of cheeks, puckering of mouth, chewing movements)
- trouble sensing temperature (e.g., thinks it's cold when it is really warm, or vice versa)
- vision changes
Stop taking the medication and seek immediate medical attention if any of the following occur:
- priapism (painful, persistent erection of the penis that is not relieved by sexual activity)
- seizures
- signs of a serious allergic reaction (e.g., abdominal cramps, difficulty breathing, nausea and vomiting, or swelling of the face and throat)
- sudden onset of sustained, often painful muscle spasms; can involve the neck, tongue, jaw, eyes (eyes roll back and neck arches), or body (body arches)
- symptoms of neuroleptic malignant syndrome, a potentially fatal syndrome characterized by muscle rigidity, fever, labile blood pressure, and fluctuating levels of consciousness
Some people may experience side effects other than those listed. Check with your doctor if you notice any symptom that worries you while you are taking this medication.
Before you begin using a medication, be sure to inform your doctor of any medical conditions or allergies you may have, any medications you are taking, whether you are pregnant or breast-feeding, and any other significant facts about your health. These factors may affect how you should use this medication.
Cardiovascular effects: Cases of sudden death or altered heartbeats (torsade de pointes) have been reported by people receiving haloperidol, especially at higher than recommended doses of any formulation. If you have QT prolongation and electrolyte imbalances (especially potassium and magnesium) or are taking other medications that are associated with QT prolongation you should discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Dizziness when standing up: Haloperidol can cause dizziness, especially when standing from a sitting or lying position. If you have cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or are a senior, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed, since you may be more likely to experience this side effect.
Blood counts: This medication can decrease the number of neutrophils (a type of white blood cell that helps fight infection), red blood cells (which carry oxygen), and platelets (which help your blood to clot). Your doctor will do blood tests to monitor this. If you notice any signs of infection (e.g., fever, chills, or sore throat) or unusual bleeding or bruising, contact your doctor immediately.
Blood sugar: Haloperidol may cause an increase in blood sugar levels (may cause a loss of blood glucose control) and glucose tolerance may change. This may happen to people who have never had high blood glucose levels. People with diabetes may find it necessary to monitor their blood sugar more frequently while using this medication.
If you have diabetes or are at risk for developing diabetes, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Drowsiness/reduced alertness: Haloperidol may affect the mental or physical abilities needed to drive or operate machinery, particularly when you first start taking the medication or increase your dose. Avoid driving, operating machinery, or performing other hazardous tasks until you have determined how this medication affects you.
Hyperthyroidism: If you have uncontrolled high thyroid disease (hyperthyroidism), discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Kidney function: If you have decreased kidney function or kidney disease, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Liver function: If you have decreased liver function or liver disease, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Movement disorders: The use of haloperidol has been associated with a potentially irreversible movement disorder called tardive dyskinesia (TD). This syndrome involves the involuntary movements of facial muscles and the tongue. The risk of a person developing this syndrome is usually but not always linked to treatment duration and the total amount of antipsychotic medications taken.
If you develop signs and symptoms of TD during treatment with haloperidol, including sticking the tongue out, smacking the lips, pursing or puckering of lips, and blinking eyes rapidly, contact your doctor as soon as possible.
Prolonged erection (priapism): If an erection lasts longer than 4 hours (a rare occurrence), seek immediate medical assistance. If this condition is not treated quickly, tissue damage and permanent loss of the ability to have an erection could result.
Seizure disorders: Haloperidol may increase the frequency of seizures. If you have a seizure disorder or a history of drug- or medication-induced seizures, abnormal EEG, or head trauma, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Stopping the medication: If this medication needs to be stopped, it should be done gradually, under the supervision of your doctor. If you suddenly stop taking this medication, you may experience symptoms of withdrawal.
Take the medication exactly as prescribed by your doctor, and do not stop taking the medication without checking with your doctor first.
Pregnancy: This medication should not be used during pregnancy unless the benefits outweigh the risks. If you become pregnant while taking this medication, contact your doctor immediately.
Breast-feeding: This medication passes into breast milk. If you are a breast-feeding mother and are taking haloperidol, it may affect your baby. Talk to your doctor about whether you should continue breast-feeding.
Children: The safety and effectiveness of using this medication have not been established for children under 3 years of age.
Seniors: Seniors taking this medication may be more prone to develop side effects from haloperidol, especially fatigue and a decreased ability to sense thirst. Seniors taking haloperidol should ensure that they drink enough fluids to remain hydrated.
There may be an interaction between haloperidol and any of the following:
If you are taking any of these medications, speak with your doctor or pharmacist. Depending on your specific circumstances, your doctor may want you to:
- stop taking one of the medications,
- change one of the medications to another,
- change how you are taking one or both of the medications, or
- leave everything as is.
An interaction between two medications does not always mean that you must stop taking one of them. Speak to your doctor about how any drug interactions are being managed or should be managed.
Medications other than those listed above may interact with this medication. Tell your doctor or prescriber about all prescription, over-the-counter (non-prescription), and herbal medications you are taking. Also tell them about any supplements you take. Since caffeine, alcohol, the nicotine from cigarettes, or street drugs can affect the action of many medications, you should let your prescriber know if you use them.
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Happy New Year! This January, Mars continues to fade as it drops into the Sun's glare. It is low in the southwest at dusk.
Jupiter is now up all night long. Opposition, when Earth is directly between Jupiter and the Sun and Jupiter literally rises at sundown and sets at sunup, is Jan. 3. After that date, Jupiter only gets higher and more prominent in the evening sky. Face east/northeast at dusk and look for the brightest thing there (unless the Moon is also there), as Jupiter outshines all stars we see at night.
Venus is lower in the east at dawn than before. You can still observe it this month and next.
Saturn is a little higher in the morning sky this month. Look for it just in the south at dawn.
The Great Square of Pegasus sets in the west, while brilliant winter stars shine in the south. Orion, the Hunter, is almost due south. His two dogs, represented by Sirius and Procyon, are to his left. Above Orion is Taurus, the Bull with Aldebaran as its eye. Gemini, the Twins, are to Orion's upper left. Jupiter, outshining all stars in the night sky, is in Taurus between Aldebaran and the Pleiades. In the north, the Big Dipper has been out of sight under the North Star for a while. In January, though, you can look for the two pointer stars, which point at the North Star, peeking over trees and houses to the north/northeast.
Moon Phases in January 2013:
Last Quarter January 4, 9:58 p.m.
New January 11, 1:44 p.m.
1st Quarter January 18, 5:45 p.m.
Full January 26, 10:39 p.m.
At 11 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 1, the Earth passed as close to the Sun as it will get this year. Thus, Earth is now just past perihelion. If we're closer to the Sun now, why is it cooler (even in Houston)? Notice how low the midday Sun is right about now. Six months from now, take note of how high the Sun is in June and July. That's what makes it so much cooler now and so hot then.
The Earth's orbit is, in fact, almost perfectly circular; there is only a 3-percent difference between perihelion and aphelion distance. The 23.44-degree tilt of the Earth makes the Sun appear high if we tilt towards it and low if we tilt away, and dominates the small effect of Earth's changing distance.
The latest sunrise of the year (at Houston's latitude) occurs on Jan. 10. Earth, just past perihelion, has sped up a little in its orbit since it is a little closer to the Sun. As a result, sunrise, local noon, and sunset have been happening a little later each day since early December. The noon Sun is ever so slightly higher at noon each day since the solstice (Dec. 21), but as of today, the Sun is still very close to its solstice height. Beginning Jan. 11, the noon Sun's greater height in the sky again becomes the dominant effect (as it is for most of the year). From then until June, sunsets are getting later while sunrises are getting earlier.
On most clear Saturday nights at the George Observatory, you can hear me do live star tours on the observation deck with a green laser pointer. If you're there, listen for my announcement.
To enjoy the stars in any weather from the comfort of the HMNS Planetarium, click here for a full schedule.
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We have therefore constructed a simple and efficient career development process based on an annual review of talent which enables us to identify and develop potential. Each person's role in this process, from the immediate manager to the HR team and the employee him/herself, is clearly defined. What is more, the process is based on the use of simple tools that are shared by the entire group.
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* State mental health budgets slashed since 2009
* 11 mln mentally ill report 'unmet need' for care
* 'Cycling through the system'
By Sharon Begley
NEW YORK, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Lori, a 39-year-old mother in New Jersey, would like to save for the usual things: college, retirement, vacations. But those goals are far down her wish list. For now, she and her husband are putting aside money for a home alarm system. They're not worried about keeping burglars out. They need to keep their son in.
Mike, 7, began seeing a psychiatrist in 2009, after one pre-school kicked him out for being "difficult" and teachers at the public school he later attended were worried about his obsessive thoughts and extreme anxiety. He was eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
As she keeps trying to get help for him, "I am learning firsthand how broken the system is when dealing with mental illness," said Lori. (Surnames of patients and their families have been withheld to protect their privacy.)
"We fight with doctors, our insurance company, educators, each other; the list goes on and on ... It isn't even a system. It's not like there's a call center to help you figure out what to do and how to get help."
Last week, the National Rifle Association blamed mass shootings such as that at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on the lack of a "national database of the mentally ill," who, it claimed, are especially prone to violence.
Dr. Paul Appelbaum, professor of psychiatry, medicine and law at Columbia University, disagrees, however. "Gun violence is overwhelmingly not about mental illness," he said. "The best estimate is that about 95 percent of gun violence is committed by people who do not have a diagnosis of mental illness."
But experts on mental illness agree with one implication of the NRA's argument: families trying to get help for a loved one with mental illness confront a confusing, dysfunctional system that lacks the capacity to help everyone who needs it - and that shunts many of the mentally ill into the criminal justice system instead of the healthcare system.
"Public mental health services have eroded everywhere, and in some places don't exist at all," said Richard Bonnie, professor of law and medicine at the University of Virginia. "Improving access to mental health services would reduce the distress and social costs of serious mental illness, including violent behavior."
Because mental health care is in such short supply, emergency cases receive priority. If a young man has a psychotic break and threatens his mother with a knife, "you can call the police and initiate an emergency evaluation," said Bonnie.
A psychiatrist called to the local emergency room may agree that the man is an imminent threat to himself or others, or cannot provide for his basic needs - the criteria for involuntary commitment in most states. Anything short of that and even someone with a diagnosis of severe mental illness cannot be involuntarily committed.
Critics argue that this emphasis on civil liberties lets dangerous people roam the streets, and cite numerous cases where it has been fatal. In October, for instance, a Tacoma, Washington, man who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was in and out of mental hospitals for years confessed to killing his father with a hatchet.
One lesson of such tragedies, experts say, is that psychiatrists' ability to predict who will be violent "is better than chance, but not much better," said Dr. Marvin Swartz, professor of psychiatry at Duke University.
Another is that the shortage of in-patient treatment has led everyone from judges to mental health professionals to look for any excuse to avoid committing someone involuntarily. There is often no place to put them, and admitting one patient means discharging another who might be equally ill.
"Getting people into hospitals is extremely difficult because of the shortage of beds," said Columbia University's Appelbaum.
The shortage extends to out-patient services, too, largely as a result of continuing budget cuts. Since 2009, states have cut more than $1.6 billion from such spending, found a 2011 report by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), a nonprofit education and advocacy group. The result is "significant reductions in both hospital and community services," it said.
Connecticut, where Newtown is, is an exception. Its mental health budget rose from $676 million in 2009 to $715 million in 2012.
More typical are Illinois (a reduction in spending on mental health of $187 million in that period), Ohio (down $26 million) and Massachusetts (down $55.6 million). "There's a waiting list for our program (in Boston) and it's hard to get in," said psychiatrist and NAMI medical director Ken Duckworth, who treats mentally ill patients.
There is room in his program for 60 people. The waiting list has 20, he said, "and they're all psychotic."
It wasn't supposed to be this way. The Community Mental Health Center Act, passed in 1963, called for federal funding of outpatient psychiatric facilities in towns and cities "so people would at least know where to start" when they or a family member needed a mental health evaluation or treatment, said Appelbaum. "It was supposed to be a single point of entry." But only about 650 of the 1,500 centers were built, and federal funding for staffing tailed off after four years when Congress did not appropriate more.
As a result, of the estimated 45.9 million U.S. adults 18 or older who had mental illness in 2010, some 11 million had "an unmet need for mental health care," estimates the Alliance for Health Reform, a nonprofit advocacy group.
One of those 11 million is Joseph. Even though he became violent, tried to jump out of a moving car, hit his wife and threatened to burn down their house, it was not enough to keep him in the psychiatric unit of their local New Jersey hospital.
He "cycled through the system," said his daughter. He went to the local emergency room five times, was arrested four times, went to the psychiatric unit three times, and spent 25 nonconsecutive days in a psychiatric hospital - all in three months in 2010.
Joseph's psychiatrist and family believed he should be in a state mental hospital, but his doctor did not show up to testify at a commitment hearing and the main evidence presented was a threatening letter Joseph had written to his wife. He was not deemed a danger to himself or others, and was released.
He did, however, cycle between jail and the psychiatric ward, making him one of many cases that "wind up in the criminal justice system instead of the healthcare system," said the University of Virginia's Bonnie. "Families watch their loved one unravel and can't get assistance, and then they get ensnared in the criminal justice system and can't get them out."
The difficulty getting outpatient care for the mentally ill is particularly widespread because most psychiatric hospitals were closed during the "de-institutionalization" of the 1960s and 1970s, an effort to provide more humane care than in the sometimes nightmarish wards.
One facility that closed was Fairfield Hills State Hospital, which opened in 1933, housed just over 4,000 mentally ill, long-term patients at its peak in the 1960s, and closed in 1995. It was located in Newtown.
"It's a metaphor for what we've done about mental health treatment in this country," said Duckworth. "A town that had a major treatment facility for 60 years has a mass shooting by someone who was mentally ill. We don't have a coordinated system of screening for, let alone treating, mental illness."
Even a diagnosis of mental illness with a possibility of harming oneself or others is no guarantee of help, even for young people.
"We estimate that fewer than one-quarter of the children, teenagers and young adults who have a mental health problem receive any treatment whatsoever," said Bernadette Melnyk, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Ohio State University College of Medicine. "And of those who do get treated, a substantial amount of the treatment is not the best, evidence-based kind."
For instance, a combination of cognitive-behavior therapy and medication is most effective at treating depression. "But very few patients receive the psychotherapy because we have such a severe shortage of mental health providers," said Melnyk.
Trying to get that help can drain a family emotionally.
"There are no professionals to help us with the tantrums or hysteria at the dentist or getting a haircut," said Lori, the New Jersey mother. "When Mike has a fit or screams obscenities in public, strangers assume he's a spoiled brat or some sort of monster."
"I worry that if he does not take good care of himself . . . well, let's just say that I can empathize with Adam Lanza's (the Newtown shooter's) family, too," she said.
To be sure, protecting the public from crime spurred by mental illness is only one argument for better psychiatric care. Every person who needs such care and doesn't get it is one more individual whose dreams of a full and productive life are shattered.
Virginia's Bonnie saw that firsthand when, after the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting rampage by Seung-Hui Cho, scores of families told him of their struggles to get help for loved ones with mental illness.
One young man, a brilliant college student and athlete, suffered his first psychotic break as an 18-year-old freshman and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Robert was hospitalized nine times over 12 years, but when he attempted suicide after one stay his parents could not get him admitted again: he did not meet the "imminent danger" standard.
Feeling threatened by his "increasing psychotic behaviors," the parents told Bonnie, they called the police, who arrested and jailed Robert for breaking and entering the family home. Without treatment, his psychosis only became worse.
It is all too common for the mentally ill to wind up in the criminal justice system, not the health system, said Bonnie. "Families are suffering the consequences of the lack of mental health treatment all the time," he said. "Every once in a while they explode into public view" with a national tragedy like Newtown. (Reporting by Sharon Begley; Editing by Jilian Mincer and Steve Orlofsky)


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This Thursday, March 13, 2014, photo shows cracks in the dry bed of the Stevens Creek Reservoir in Cupertino, Calif. Due to the state's drought, a few rural places are in danger of running out of water.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is more certain than ever that global warming is changing Americans' daily lives and will worsen — conclusions that scientists will detail in a massive federal report to be released Tuesday.
Once people thought global warming was more in the future and more of an issue in other parts of the world, but the National Climate Assessment will emphasize how the United States is already paying the multibillion-dollar price for man-made climate change, said study co-author Donald Wuebbles, a climate scientist at the University of Illinois.
"We're already seeing extreme weather and it's happening now," Wuebbles said Monday. "We're seeing more heat waves, particularly in the West and in the South."
This final report is a rewritten and shortened version of a draft that was released in January 2013, with more scientific references, reviews by experts and the public, and a thorough review by the National Academy of Sciences, said Wuebbles and report lead author Gary Yohe of Wesleyan University in Connecticut. There is even stronger evidence than in 2013, Yohe said.
The draft came out just as meteorologists calculated that 2012 was the hottest year on record for the United States, but last year was slightly cooler than the 20th century average. And in the time since the draft report was released, the United States has seen lots of extremes.
Nineteen different state records were set for individual months, such as the hottest January in California this year. Six were for heat: Arizona, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and California. Nine states set monthly records for being too wet: Iowa (twice, setting records for April and May last year), Georgia, Michigan, New Jersey, Florida, Colorado, Oregon and Washington. Two states set records for lack of rain: New Mexico and Utah. Two set records for coldest individual months: Maine and North Dakota.
And since the draft was released, there's been a dramatic new extreme that a good part of the country is worrying about: The drought in California, where a few rural places are in danger of running out of water.
In January 2013, none of California was in either extreme or exceptional drought; now nearly 77 percent of the state is. It is too early to point directly at the near-record California drought as another sign of global warming, but it fits the pattern, Yohe and Wuebbles said.
The Obama administration will likely use the 840-page report as scientific justification to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gas from the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, gas and oil and to encourage local communities to adapt to changes in the climate. White House counselor John Podesta called it "the most authoritative and comprehensive source of scientific information" on how climate change will hit all parts of the nation and the economy.
"Hundreds of the best climate scientists from across the U.S., not just in the public sector but in the private sector as well, have worked over the last four years to produce this report," Podesta said in a Monday briefing at the White House. "This assessment is about presenting actionable science."
The National Climate Assessment: http://ncadac.globalchange.gov
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I've just finished The Fires of Vesuvius, Mary Beard's 2008 book on the ruins of Pompeii, and thought I would pass along some of the things that revised my very vague sense of what the lost city was all about. The book makes a great companion to Pompeii and the Roman Villa, creating a context for the artworks and the lives lived among them.
Writing on walls and public surfaces was evidently popular in Pompeii. Some examples: "Epaphroditus and Thalia." "Atimetus got me pregnant." "I won at Nuceria playing alea, 855½ denarii—honestly, it's true." "Celadus, heartthrob of the girls." (Beard concludes that this last example and other tributes to gladiators were written by the gladiators themselves.)
Pompeii was not engulfed by the eruption of Vesuvius without warning; tremors would have affected the town hours and possibly days in advance. The town's population is figured at between 6,400 and 30,000; of those, Beard estimates, at most 2,000 died in the disaster. The book opens with the terrifying episode of some who waited too long before trying to leave.
Riot at the Amphitheater
Twenty years before the end of Pompeii came what Beard calls its "second most famous appearance" in Roman history—a gladiatorial show that went bad when the rivalry between hometown Pompeii and visiting Nuceria progressed from name-calling to stone-throwing to open sword combat. There were so many casualties that the matter was taken to Nero, and Pompeiians were prohibited from holding similar events for ten years.
Pompeii was known for making and distributing a fish sauce called garum. The point of manufacture seems to have been outside of town. Pliny the Elder praised Pompeii's garum (while disparaging a local wine as likely to produce a hangover till midday). Pottery labels show that you could get kosher garum as well as "best," "premium best," and "absolutely the best" garum.
Mary Beard excels at dividing what is known about Pompeii from what is guesswork or wishful thinking. Did the emperor Nero visit the city? The author finds the evidence flimsy. She cites a recently discovered wall painting of Apollo that's been said to resemble Nero and thus demonstrate that Nero had used the location as a temporary residence. Or not, says Beard. But you can have a look for yourself. The painting is part of the Moregine Triclinium on display in Pompeii and the Roman Villa. (Oh, and I checked the wall label—there's no mention of Nero.)


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It was also the Bluebirds' first away success of the season and maintained their place in the Championship's top six, just a point behind early-season leaders Blackburn.
Star midfielder Peter Whittingham, having seen a brilliant first-half free-kick controversially disallowed, opened the scoring after 53 minutes with a rasping 20-yard left-footed shot.
And barely two minutes later the Bluebirds cut the Millwall defence apart with a slick move which was clinically finished off right-footed by Craig Noone from six yards.
The Welshmen have proved dominant on home soil so far this term, boasting a 100 per cent record, but they pitched up in the capital with only one point to show for their efforts on the road.
However, they doused the Lions' early fire and gradually took control, with Whittingham once again pulling the strings from midfield as Mackay's side stretched their impressive run to just one defeat in their last 16 league outings.
Tommy Smith twice went close to adding to Cardiff's tally just after the hour mark, while Noone had a shot from the edge of the penalty area well saved by Maik Taylor.
Millwall threw on Chris Wood, their new loan signing from West Brom, but they had been left flat and downhearted by Cardiff's quick one-two goal blast and have yet to keep a clean sheet in seven league and cup outings.
Both sides had made a bright start to the first half, with Millwall's Andy Keogh seeing a 12-yard right-footed shot blocked by Matthew Connolly, before Alan Dunne fired just wide from 15 yards.
At the other end Taylor pulled off a brilliant reflex save to keep out Whittingham's inswinging 10th-minute corner that looked set to creep into the net.
Two minutes later a well-struck shot by Nadjim Abdou from inside the box was superbly saved by Cardiff's David Marshall. Liam Trotter's 12-yard drive then flashed over the crossbar.
But Cardiff gradually began to get their passing game going and Whittingham had the ball in the Millwall net after 20 minutes, only to see his free-kick disallowed by referee Simon Hooper who had spotted an infringement at the front post, while both Jordon Mutch and striker Nicky Maynard drilled efforts wide of goal when well placed.
The Bluebirds took the contest by the scruff of the neck early in the second period, grabbed their goals, and then comfortably saw out the game to stay among the leading pack in the Championship.
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it's amazing crocodile dundee and flock of seagulls had a musical love child and their name is cut copy. ok i guess it's not fair to use a stereotypical austrailian reference to describe an austrialian band, but i could have said steve irwin (r.i.p.) or vegemite.
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To get the Florida black bear added to the federal list of endangered or threatened species, conservation groups and an animal welfare group are suing. About 3,000 live in the state and southern Alabama and Georgia, and Florida classifies the bear as threatened. Once numbered about 12,000 and roamed throughout the Southeast, the Florida bear is a subspecies of the American black bear.
Concluding the species was losing habitat but could survive if public lands were appropriately managed, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last considered the status of the Florida black bear in 2004.
"(A black bear) needs a lot of space and the way development is going in South Florida, the room it needs is being lost, degraded and fragmented," said Laurie Macdonald, Florida director for Defenders of Wildlife, one of the groups that filed the lawsuit Thursday.
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Katrina: What do you remember about Tarano?
Jack: I remember we had a pool. And Nanna and Papa came and they brought me a froggy to float in the pool with. At first I said, "I can't float with it! This is NOT a good idea!" But then I floated in it and I thought it was fun to float all over the water!
With Patrick's parents joining us, we were an entourage of six venturing through the hills, into Rome and Florence, and through the vineyards of Chianti.
Katrina: What did you like to do in Rome?
Jack: I liked to see beautiful things. I liked the Colosseum but it broke a lot.


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Nashville has landed a major country star for its season finale — and we're not talking about Rayna James.
Brad Paisley will appear as himself in the finale, TVGuide.com has confirmed. As first reported by Extra, Paisley will perform alongside Rayna (Connie Britton) and Deacon (Charles Esten) in the May 22 season finale.
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Paisley's wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, currently stars on Nashville as the mistress of Rayna's estranged husband, Teddy (Eric Close).
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Snow slows power restoration efforts
Snow falling from Maine to Michigan
Snow has begun falling in places still hustling to get power back on after a weekend ice storm that turned out the lights for hundreds of thousands of people from Michigan to Maine and into Canada.
Parts of Maine that have been without electricity since Sunday anticipate 3 to 7 inches of snow Thursday.
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More than 100,000 people in Michigan, another 101,000 in Canada and 30,000 in Maine are still without power.
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Engagement Session at the Rose FestivalSunday, June 28th, 2009
I've always thought it would be fun to shoot some portraits at a carnival, so when Erik called up and said they wanted to do engagement photos at the Rose Festival, I was all over it. We had to reschedule once when the fun center shutdown due to a nasty storm, but the next day it was perfect. Still a little cool and possibly rainy so the crowds were small, making my job much easier. First we rode the carousel, I used a Canon speedlight with a pocketwizard attached and just held it in my left hand to the side on real low power while shooting at a 20th of a second to show motion.
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Clean green machines: Don't forget the car!
You take short showers, buy local produce, maybe even have a rain barrel or two. Have you looked in the driveway yet? Unless you're a particularly enthusiastic greenie who's eschewed personal automotive travel altogether, chances are you've got at least one car parked out there. Getting it clean used to mean wasting gallons of water– either from your own spigot or a professional car wash spray. Not anymore, thanks to Virginia Ecological Detailing, a new mobile car cleaning business whose owner claims he can get even the filthiest car sparkling without water, electricity or any toxic chemicals– and he can do it anywhere, anytime.
"We use a 32-ounce bottle of solution and turn around and do the whole vehicle," says Robert Kirkpatrick, the 27-year-old entrepreneur who launched the company this year and has been scrubbing cars in downtown parking spots, driveways and anywhere else his customers might summon him– even in the middle of the night.
"Cab drivers call, sometimes at 2 or 3 in the morning," he says, "because someone got sick in the vehicle." Prices for a full detail range from $185 for a small car to the low-$200s for larger vehicles, and for an extra $15 he can be on site immediately even after hours– between 5:30pm and 7:30am.
Kirkpatrick is not the first auto detailer to shun water. Back in the drought of 2002, Express Car Wash on Seminole Trail battled the shutdown of carwashes by pioneering its own "dry wash" system, which used a solution of the chemical butyl glycol. It enabled that business to stay open, but Kirkpatrick says he wanted to take dry cleaning a step further– in the green direction.
The key to that, says Kirkpatrick, is the use of the right tools– various brushes take the place of vacuums– and the use of green cleaning products, which are soy-, coconut- and lemon-based.
What's good for cars is also good for humans, he says.
"A lot of detailing company employees have to wear gloves," he notes. "When using ecologically friendly products, you don't have to worry about it getting on your skin, irritation, that sort of thing."
An entrepreneur since his childhood spent in various foster homes around the state, when he mowed lawns to earn spending money, Kirkpatrick says he's not only determined to help the environment– he's aiming to help the local economy by providing jobs to those who need them most. In addition to advertising for staff, he's looked to the downtown homeless day shelter, the Haven, for new hires, and says his staff of seven is now ready to tackle jobs large and small.
"I look for people who are desperate, who want a job, and are willing to do hard work," he says.
In addition to detailing, Kirkpatrick says he's recently added paint-free dent removal to his list of offerings, and will soon offer eco-friendly auto-repair as well. He attributes his ambition to the hardships he faced early in life.
"Foster care, teaches you not to rely on anyone else," he says, "to keep on dreaming, to try to be better in life."
For Kirkpatrick, it seems, the American dream really is green.Read more on: Car detailingRobert Kirkpatrick
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UPDATE 9/13 at 1:30PM: Amoeba Hollywood is SOLD OUT of wristbands for this show.
King Krule is in LA for 2 sold out shows at The Echo, but you can also catch him at a special all-ages show at Space15Twenty (across the street from Amoeba) on Saturday, September 14th at 2pm!
To get into the show, purchase Six Feet Beneath The Moon on CD or LP at Amoeba Hollywood starting on Friday, September 13th and you'll get you a pair of wristbands to the show. Limit one pair of wristbands per customer, while supplies last. Or follow @space15twenty on Instagram for additional details on attending the show.
Six Feet Beneath The Moon is the long-anticipated debut album from Southeast London's King Krule (aka Archy Marshall). He broke out in 2011, at the tender age of 16, with his eponymous EP released on True Panther Sounds. King Krule's sound, a hypnotic mixture indebted to working class British songsmiths like Billy Bragg as much as to NY No-Wave and hip hop, carries a maturity and depth far beyond his years.


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This fragment from a recent email from my (first year) student is the best reason why mobile phones (which now give access to Web) should remain strictly forbidden in examinations.
> for Q A5 of the 2009 paper qb
> isnt the igen vector -1,1 ?
> this is what i get from, using an online calculator found here
> http://www.arndt-bruenner.de/mathe/scripts/engl_eigenwert2.htm
Yes, indeed, if the matrix [ 1 , 2\\ -2 , -3 ] from the exam is entered into the online calculator, it produces an eigenvector [-1\\ 1]; my answer that was questioned by my student was [1\\ -1]. Alas, computation, especially quick user-friendly automated computation, cannot replace understanding.


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Loosely translated "Hey look a GUZZI with sagging boobs.
Loosely translated "Hey look a GUZZI with sagging boobs.
The thing about traveling is, you never want it to end and you can't wait to get home.
I answer to Roy, Chief, or Sarg.
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An old prospector shuffled into town leading a tired old pack mule.
The old man headed straight for the only saloon to clear his parched
throat. He walked up and tied his old mule to the hitching rail. As he stood there brushing some of the dust from his face and clothes, a young gunslinger stepped out of the saloon with a gun in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other.
The young gunslinger looked at the old man and laughed, saying, "Hey
old man, have you ever danced?" The old man looked up at the gunslinger and said, "No, I never did dance . . . never really wanted to."
A crowd had gathered as the gunslinger grinned and said, "Well you old fool, you're gonna dance now," and started shooting at the old man's feet.
The old prospector, not wanting to get a toe blown off, started
hopping around like a flea on a hot skillet. Everybody was laughing, fit to be tied.
When the last bullet had been fired, the young gunslinger, still
laughing, holstered his gun and turned around to go back into the
saloon. The old man turned to his pack mule, pulled out a double-barreled
shotgun, and cocked both hammers. The loud clicks carried clearly through the desert air. The crowd stopped laughing immediately.The young gunslinger heard the sounds too and he turned around very slowly. The silence was almost deafening. The crowd watched as the young gunman stared at the old timer and the large gaping holes of those twin barrels. The barrels of the shotgun never wavered in the old man's hands, as he quietly said, "Son, have you ever licked a mule's ass?" The gunslinger swallowed hard and said, "No sir . . . but . . . I've
always wanted to."
There are a few lessons for us all here:
Never be arrogant.
Don't waste ammunition.
Whiskey makes you think you're smarter than you are.
Don't mess with old men . . . they didn't get old by being stupid!
I just love a story with a happy ending, don't you?
Remember: OLD MEN DESERVE RESPECT
In the end, you will regret much more those things you didn't do, than those which you did.
I was in Home Depot the other day pushing my cart around when I collided
with a young guy pushing his cart.
I said to the young guy, "Sorry about that. I'm looking for my wife
and I guess I wasn't paying attention to where I was going."
The young guy says, "That's OK. It's a coincidence. I'm looking for
my wife too. I can't find her and I'm getting a little desperate.
I said, "Well, maybe we can help each other. What does your wife
look like?"
The young guy says, "Well, she is 24 years old, tall, with blond
hair, big blue eyes, long legs, big boobs, and she's wearing tight
white shorts, a
halter top and no bra. What does your wife look like?"
I said, "Doesn't matter --- let's look for yours."
Most old guys are helpful like that.*
The thing about traveling is, you never want it to end and you can't wait to get home.
I answer to Roy, Chief, or Sarg.
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4. A mouse trap placed on top of your alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
5. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives. Then you'll be afraid to cough.
6. You only need two tools in life - wd-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and should, use the wd-40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.
7. If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.
Daily thought:
Some people are like slinkies - not really good for anything but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs.
Will I Live to see 80?
Here's something to think about.
I recently picked a new primary care doctor. After
two visits and exhaustive lab tests, he said I was doing
'fairly well' for my age. (I just turned sixty-something.)
A little concerned about that comment, I couldn't
resist asking him, 'Do you think I'll live to be 80?'
He asked, 'Do you smoke tobacco, or drink beer, wine or hard liquor?
'Oh no,' I replied. 'I'm not doing drugs, either!'
Then he asked, 'Do you eat rib-eye steaks and barbecued ribs?
I said, 'Not much... my former doctor said that all red meat is very unhealthy!'
'Do you spend a lot of time in the sun, like playing
golf, boating, sailing, hiking, or bicycling?'
'No, I don't,' I said.
He asked, 'Do you gamble, drive fast cars, or have
lots of sex?'
'No,' I said...
He looked at me and said,.. ÔÇÿThen, why do you even give a s**t?ÔÇÖ
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One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift.
The next year, I didn't buy her a gift.
When she asked me why, I replied,
"Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!"
And that's how the fight started.....
My wife and I were watching "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" while we were in bed.
I turned to her and said, 'Do you want to have Sex?'
'No,' she answered. I then said, 'Is that your final answer?'
She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying, 'Yes..'
So I said, "Then I'd like to phone a friend."
And that's when the fight started...
I took my wife to a restaurant.
The waiter, for some reason, took my order first.
"I'll have the rump steak, rare, please."
He said, "Aren't you worried about the mad cow?"
"Nah, she can order for herself."
And that's when the fight started.....
My wife and I were sitting at a table at her high school reunion, and she kept staring at a drunken man swigging his drink as he sat alone at a nearby table.
I asked her, "Do you know him?"
"Yes", she sighed,
"He's my old boyfriend.... I understand he took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear he hasn't been sober since."
"My God!" I said, "Who would think a person could go on
celebrating that long?"
And then the fight started...
When our lawn mower broke and wouldn't run, my wife kept hinting to me that I should get it fixed. But, somehow I always had something else to take care of first, the shed, the boat, making beer; always something more important to me.
Finally she thought of a clever way to make her point.
When I arrived home one day, I found her seated in the tall grass, busily snipping away with a tiny pair of sewing scissors. I watched silently for a short time and then went into the house. I was gone only a minute, and when I came out again I handed her a toothbrush. I said, "When you finish cutting the grass, you might as well sweep the driveway."
The doctors say I will walk again, but I will always have a limp.
My wife sat down next to me as I was flipping channels.
She asked, "What's on the TV?"
I said, "Dust."
And then the fight started...
Saturday morning I got up early, quietly dressed, made my lunch, and slipped quietly into the garage. I hooked up the boat up to the van, and proceeded to back out into a torrential downpour.
The wind was blowing 50 mph, so I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad all day. I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped back into bed. I cuddled up to my wife's back, now with a different anticipation, and whispered, "The weather out there is terrible."
My loving wife of 5 years replied, "And, can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that?"
And that's how the fight started...
My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary.
She said, "I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds "
I bought her a bathroom scale.
And then the fight started......
After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply for Social Security.
The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver's License to verify my age.
I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home.
I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later.
The woman said, 'Unbutton your shirt'.
So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair.
She said, 'That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me' and she processed my Social Security application.
When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office...
She said, 'You should have dropped your pants.
You might have gotten disability, too.'
And then the fight started...
My wife was standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror.
She was not happy with what she saw and said to me,
"I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly.
I really need you to pay me a compliment.'
I replied, "Your eyesight's damn near perfect."
And then the fight started...
The Atheist!
An atheist was walking through the woods, admiring all that the accidents evolution had created. "What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!" he said to himself.
As he was walking alongside the river he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. Turning to look, he saw a 7-foot grizzly bear charge towards him. He ran as fast as he could up the path.
He looked over his shoulder and saw the grizzly was closing. Somehow, he ran even faster, so scared that tears came to his eyes.
He looked again and the bear was even closer. His heart was pounding and he tried to run faster. He tripped and fell to the ground. He rolled over to pick himself up but the bear was right over him, reaching for him with its left paw and raising its right paw strike him. At that instant the atheist cried: "Oh my God..."
Time stopped. The bear froze. The forest was silent. Even the river stopped moving.
As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky: "You deny my existence for all these years, teach others that I don't exist and even credit creation to a cosmic accident. Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?"
The atheist looked directly into the light: "It would be hypocritical of me to ask to be a Christian after all these years, but perhaps you could make the bear a Christian?"
"Very well" said the voice.
The light went out. The river ran. The sounds of the forest resumed.
....And then the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together, and bowed its head and spoke: "Lord, for this food which I am about to receive, I am truly thankful."
A university creative writing class was asked to write a concise
essay containing these four elements:
- religion
- royalty
- sex
- mystery
The prize-winning essay read:
"My God," said the Queen. "I'm pregnant. I wonder who did it?"
Why did the chicken cross the road?....
to see his FLAT-mate..
"He who make a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"
Dr. Johnson
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we get naked now?"
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dear, I have a headache" syndrome.
N A G A M E N T: When administered to a husband, provides the same
irritation as nagging him all weekend, saving the wife the time and trouble
of doing it herself
A man wakes up in the hospital, bandaged from head to foot.
The doctor comes in and says, "Ah, I see you've regained consciousness. Now you probably won't remember, but you were in a huge pile-up on the freeway. You're going to be OK, you'll walk again and everything, but your penis was severed in the accident and we couldn't find it."
The man groans, but the doctor goes on, "You've got $9,000 in insurance compensation coming, and we now have the technology to build a new penis. They work great but they don't come cheap. It's roughly $1,000 an inch."
The man perks up. "So," the doctor says, "You must decide how many inches you want. But I understand that you have been married for over thirty years, and this is something you should discuss with your wife.
If you had a five incher before and get a nine incher now, she might be a bit put out. If you had a nine incher before and you decide to only invest in a five incher now, she might be disappointed. It's important that she plays a role in helping you make a decision."
The man agrees to talk it over with his wife. The doctor comes back the next day, "So, have you spoken with your wife?"
"Yes I have," says the man."And has she helped you make a decision?"
"Yes" says the man.
"What is your decision?" asks the doctor..
"We're getting granite countertops."
Ralph Sims
Why did the turtle cross the road?
To get to the Shell station.
St Peter decides to take the day off to go fishing, so Jesus offers to keep an eye on the Pearly Gates. He is not sure what to do, so Peter tells him to find out a bit about people as they arrive in Heaven, and this will help him decide if he can let them in.
After a while, Jesus sees a little old man with white hair approaching who looks very, very familiar. He asks the old man to tell him about himself. The old man says, "I had a very sad life. I was a carpenter and had a son who I lost at a relatively young age, and although he was not my natural child, I loved him dearly."
Jesus welled up with emotion. He threw his arms around the old man and cried, "Daddy!"
The old man replied, "Pinocchio?"
"You must be fast, 'cause I was hauling *** when I passed you!"
A lawyer is struck dead at the tender age of 30. At the pearly gates he pleads that he is too young to die. St Peter looks at his list and replies "according to you billable hours you just turned 93"
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Why did the chicken cross the road halfway?
She wanted to lay it on the line.
"He who make a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"
Dr. Johnson


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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
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Phone: +49 341 3550 327
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Research Interests
From my background in Evolutionary Biology, I developed a lively curiosity for ultimate causal questions. In particular, I am interested in the evolution of human traits concerning life history, sociality and behavior more in general.
My PhD project stems from the general theme of the evolution of human childhood and tries to address the problem looking at foraging behavior in human populations. Is the long time humans spend as children useful for their future fitness? When and how do they learn some of the information relevant to their successful development? Which is the relative contribution each individual gives to their own growth? I am looking for the answers to these and other questions by observing children foraging in the island of Pemba, offshore Tanzania.


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10 bold (and possibly even correct) predictions for the second half
Matt Garza could be heading back to the AL East, and to a pennant race. (Brian Kersey/Getty Images)
In the business of writing about baseball, you're expected to make predictions. Whether you arrive at your prognostications via NASA-caliber number-crunching, gut feeling, or entrail reading, history has shown that most of them will be wrong. For every pick that gives you a false sense of superiority for being right, another will be so spectacularly wrong you'll wish it was entered into the federal witness protection program if not buried under a parking lot.
What follows here are a handful of predictions for the second half (presented in roughly chronological order). Some are bold or even outlandish and some a bit more off the wall. The only guarantee I can make is that by season's end, at least one of them will make me want to crawl under my desk, and serve as a cautionary tale.
1. Matt Garza will be traded to the Red Sox, who will win the AL East with his help
Garza is the best available starter on the market, and he's been on a roll lately, with a 1.24 ERA over his last six starts, all of at least 6 2/3 innings. While other teams such as the Rangers and Diamondbacks may be interested, the Sox will be convinced to pull the trigger by Garza's previous success in the AL East and by Clay Buchholz's slow progress in his return from neck and shoulder woes. It won't be painless (though my crystal ball is notoriously cloudy on the identity of traded prospects), but the move will pay off by helping the Sox return to the postseason for the first time since 2009.
2. The Phillies will trade Michael Young but otherwise stand pat at the deadline, yet finish well below .500
General manager Ruben Amaro Jr. is convinced he's got a contender on his hands, because the Phils are 48-48, have gone 24-14 within their division, and man, Delmon Young is really starting to come around. Despite that, their run differential (-56), lack of depth and thin minor league system suggests they won't be able to bear the losses of Ben Revere, Ryan Howard and Roy Halladay. Even with those hurdles, Amaro will refuse to trade pending free agents Chase Utley and Carlos Ruiz, and he won't unload either Cliff Lee or Jonathan Papelbon, thus shrinking the July 31 trade market considerably. He'll unload Young on the Yankees, but the return will be minimal and won't help either team; the Phils will finish below .500 for the first time since 2000.
3. Neither Ryan Braun nor Alex Rodriguez will serve suspensions this year for their connections to Biogenesis, but they won't escape scot-free
It won't be for lack of trying on MLB's part. With the union and the commissioner's office apparently in agreement that the latter isn't bound by the 50-100-lifetime scale for first, second and third positive tests, Bud Selig will overreach in his attempts to levy additional punishments to the two marquee players, the former for his successful appeal of a 2011 positive test, the latter for having failed the supposedly anonymous 2003 survey test, and both for allegedly lying to investigators about their connections to the Miami-area Biogenesis clinic. The union and the players' lawyers will mount appeals that will push any penalties into next season, and ultimately limit the damage to 50-game suspensions. Some of lesser-known players named in Biogenesis records will agree to suspensions and begin serving them before season's end, but at least one will manage to beat the rap, after which MLB will dismiss yet another arbitrator, setting up an ugly war when they propose stricter penalties for first-time offenders.
4. The Yankees will miss the playoffs
They're 51-44 at this writing, three games back in the wild-card race, but while they've hung surprisingly tough without Curtis Granderson, Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira for most of the season, the bet here is that they've peaked before the cavalry of returns and deadline acquisitions has arrived. With their offense scoring less than four runs per game, it's been their pitching that's kept them afloat, but their run differential is in the red (-2). A closer look shows that at least among their starters, only Hiroki Kuroda and fill-in Ivan Nova have been preventing runs at a better-than-average rate, while CC Sabathia has been maddeningly inconsistent and Andy Pettitte has looked his 41 years. For the first time since 2008, the Yankees will be on the outside looking in come October.
JAFFE: 13 ways to survive the All-Star break
5. Ned Yost will be fired before the end of the season, but the Royals will somehow finish above .500
Dayton Moore's bold offseason moves to acquire pitchers Ervin Santana and James Shields have improved the Royals' run prevention considerably, though their offense is still languishing thanks to Yost's inability to keep Alcides Escobar (.246/.277/.328) out of the number two spot, as well as the lack of power shown by hitters such as Eric Hosmer, MIke Mosutakas, Alex Gordon and Billy Butler, none of whom is slugging higher than .427. Yost will take the fall sometime next month, and interim hitting coach George Brett — on whose watch Hosmer has hit .311/.347/.530 since taking over — will reluctantly become interim manager George Brett. The move won't get the team into the playoffs, but it will be enough for it to make a late push to an 82-80 finish, its first winning season since 2003. Barbecue will rain down in Kansas City.
6. With a big September, Stephen Strasburg will lead the Nationals back to the postseason
At 48-47, last year's darlings have underachieved considerably, but Washington has still got too much talent to stay down all year. It says here that the Nats will be one of the NL's strongest teams in the second half. The offense, which has averaged 4.42 runs per game in July, will continue to come around, but it will be on the strength of their pitching that they make it back to October. Strasburg, who was shut down last September as he approached his innings cap, will make up for lost time by dominating down the stretch, and Washington will nab one of the NL wild-card spots but won't surpass the Braves atop the NL East.
7. Yasiel Puig's big series against the Giants in late September will push the Dodgers to victory in the NL West
Currently hitting a searing .391/.422/.616 through his first 38 games, the Dodgers' rookie sensation will keep whatever disappointment he had over being left off the NL All-Star team under wraps, but he will get even. With his flair for the dramatic, he'll be a factor in the September 24-26 series between the Dodgers and Giants in San Francisco, collecting key hits that enable Los Angeles to clinch first place in enemy territory during the season's final week. Meanwhile, the defending world champions will finish below .500, in part because Hunter Pence returns to his home planet.
8. The Pirates will end their streak of futility and make the playoffs
They haven't finished above .500 or made the playoffs since 1992, but they currently hold a 56-37 record. Unlike the past two years when late-season collapses crushed their dreams of a winning season, this time it will be different thanks to the team's pitching depth and a well-stocked farm system that will let Pittsburgh deal as needed. It says here that Alex Rios will be the big corner bat they obtain.
Pirates' Jason Grilli lands on cover of SI
9. Chris Davis won't reach 61 homers
Having already set a career high with 37 homers through the Orioles' first 96 games, Davis is on pace to finish with 62, which would conveniently push him past Roger Maris' former single-season record, one which Davis views as the standard to beat due to the PED connections of the men who surpassed him. Davis will cool off — yes, I'm making a bold prediction that the outlier will regress — and finish with a total in the mid-50s, but it will be enough to help the Orioles win a wild-card spot for the second straight year.
10. The rest of the postseason field, noted so that we can all laugh in October
The Tigers will pull away from the surprisingly strong Indians in the AL Central. The Rangers will edge the A's in the AL West, though the latter will join the Orioles in the wild-card game. The Braves will hold onto the NL East and the Cardinals to the NL Central, with both surmounting challenges by the wild-card-winning Nationals and Pirates. The Diamondbacks will be passed by the Dodgers in late September thanks to their porous bullpen and the erosion of their rotation depth.
The Astros will finish with a better record than the Marlins, which will spell the end for Jeffrey Loria in Miami
The race to the bottom is a close one, with the Astros (33-61) just 2 1/2 games worse than the Marlins (35-58) at the All-Star break. Don't expect things to finish that way. The Marlins will need to shut 20-year-old rookie sensation Jose Fernandez down at some point, but it will be the trades of Greg Dobbs, Juan Pierre and Placido Polanco -- believe it or not, they're the best the organization can do at some positions right now -- that will really sink Miami. After the team loses 110 games, an angry mob will hand Loria and his prized art collection over to marauding pirates, though it will later be discovered that this was a setup to allow him to evade the Securities and Exchange Commission.
He'll open an art museum in Fiji.
VERDUCCI: Top 10 storylines for the second half
SHEEHAN: All-MLB team at All-Star break


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Be aware that the uid is unique in a single mailbox. That means a message can have as much uids as mailboxes
imap_uid — This function returns the UID for the given message sequence number
, int
This function returns the UID for the given message sequence number. An UID is a unique identifier that will not change over time while a message sequence number may change whenever the content of the mailbox changes.
This function is the inverse of imap_msgno().
由 imap_open() 返回的 IMAP 流。
The message number.
The UID of the given message.
This function is not supported by POP3 mailboxes.
Be aware that the uid is unique in a single mailbox. That means a message can have as much uids as mailboxes
Please note that message_id in the header is NOT the UID - and its dangerous to use as many mail progs don't put a message id in
I would like to point out that, at least in the case of Gmail, the UIDs of emails are changed if they are moved from one folder to another. Even if moved back to the same folder the UIDs get incremented and thus changed.
I found this the hard way after relaying on the notion that UIDs do not change as I found almost everywhere in the docs.
The uid will change in case of unsing imap_expunge. Be shure that
all work ist done before using imap_expunge.
clarification for Andreas' note about imap_expunge()...
imap_expunge() does indeed change the UID, but only *after* the IMAP stream has closed and then reconnects.
You can use imap_expunge() as many times as you want within one IMAP stream (no reconnects) and the UID stays the same while the Msgno will change with imap_delete() followed by imap_expunge().
A little quirk of UIDs in a PUBLIC folder in MDaemon (and perhaps other servers?). The UIDs may be unsynchronised between users if the server's option to store flags on a per-user basis is turned on. That is, a message may have a UID of 5 for one user (meaning it was the 5th message to enter the box) but 3 for another user (who perhaps subscribed to the box later). If this is a problem, turn off the per-user option for the mailbox.


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FAmSCo members are elected for a term of two (2) major releases of Fedora, subject to be called by the Chair of the Committee, an absolute majority vote of FAmSCo, or by the Fedora Project Board .
Since the FAmSCo was chartered in between Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7, the first set of terms will expire after Fedora 8 is released, and then terms will expire after every subsequent Fedora release.
Upon the decision to call the election, the Chair shall notify the Committee first, and then the Ambassadors. It is the Chair's duty to notify the Ambassadors even in the event that the Fedora Project Board or the Committee itself have made the decision to hold elections.
Nomination period will open immediately upon the Chair's announcement of the elections, and will continue for two weeks. Two days (48 hours) after the completion of the nomination period, the voting period will open and continue for one week.
A reminder email to those who are eligible to vote but haven't done so will be sent three days before the close of the election.
The election results will be announced in the firstname.lastname@example.com and other public lists, as necessary.
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There will be 7 seats on FAmSCo, of which 5 must be filled at all times. Replacement election must be called immediately if number of Committee members drops below 5.
Candidates may be any member of the Ambassadors group in the Fedora Accounts System. This helps ensure FAmSCo members have some experience with the processes of Fedora Ambassadors but still allows relatively new contributors to sit on FAmSCo and bring fresh ideas to the table.
Candidates must self-nominate at least two days before the voting period opens by writing their information onto the wiki (Fedora account, email and irc nick, statement of past contributions and what they hope to accomplish while a member of FAmSCo.)
In order to hold an election a minimum number of candidates are necessary. This will be the number of open seats + 25%. If there are 7 seats available, there will need to be at least 9 candidates. If not enough candidates have signed up by the deadline, the election will be held back by one week for more candidates to be nominated. If there are still not enough candidates, the candidates who are present will be voted upon (or merely confirmed if there are less candidates than open seats.)
If a candidate no longer wishes to be on FAmSCo, they have to withdraw their name from the list of nominations at least 24 hours before the voting period opens, to avoid having their name being added to the ballot.
Members of FAmSCo will keep their seats until the next election.
Members can step down at any time for any reason, upon sending a message notifying of their resignation to the firstname.lastname@example.com
Members can be removed from the Committee for misconduct by the Fedora Project Board or by an absolute majority vote of the FAmSCo. If an election becomes necessary upon member removal, the member cannot self-nominate for this election.
The removed member CAN self-nominate for the next orderly election.
Election of the Chair
No later than one week after the election is complete, the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee will elect a chairperson, subject to mandate by the Fedora Project Board within one week upon election by the FAmSCo.
FAmSCo Chair can be removed by the Fedora Project Board or by an absolute majority vote of the FAmSCo.
New Chair has to be elected within one week upon removal of the Chair.
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No later than one week upon confirmation by the Fedora Project Board , FAmSCo Chair will appoint the Vice-Chair. Vice-Chair can be re-appointed by the Chair, or by a simple majority vote of the FAmSCo.
New Vice-Chair has to be appointed within one week upon removal of the Vice-Chair.
Any member of the Ambassadors group in the Fedora Accounts System is eligible to vote in the FAmSCo elections.
Voting System
The voting model for the election aims to be simple, easy to audit, and fair in case someone resigns and their runner-up is selected. We have chosen a specific method of Range Voting to address these criteria.
A voter receives a ballot listing all the candidates. For each candidate the voter assigns from 0 to number of candidates points. At the close of the election, the points for each candidate are tallied and the ones with the most points win a seat. For example, if we have 20 candidates running for 7 seats, the voter will be presented with a ballot where they can assign 0-20 points to each candidate. After voting, the 7 candidates with the most points will win the election.
Each voter can submit only one ballot, and all votes are final for any given election.
There are no term limits imposed by this policy. If FAmSCo chooses to impose term limits for its internal positions (Chair, VP, etc) those should be specified in the FAmSCo bylaws rather than in this document.


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I am the Austrian Reseller of Poco System products. For my market (Austria, Germany and Switzerland) it would be really interesting to know when the German version of Poco Mail 4.x will be available.
I still can sell only the version 3.4 in German, but every time I request a new licence I get one for Poco Mail 4.x which is not satisfying for my customers who ordered a German version.
Greetings from Vienna
Christian Gerwig