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For the first time in many years, I will not be attending one of my favorite conferences – the ISTE conference.
During that week, on the opposite coast, I'll be teaching a one week course in an Educational Leadership graduate program locally.
In exploring ways to connect and learn along with passionate educators on the opposite coast at ISTE I wondered:
How can I connect virtually? What resources are best for others wishing to do the same? What resources can be shared with my classroom so that they can connect with some of the ideas at ISTE12?
This year's theme for ISTE is Expanding Horizons. This theme is a perfect tie in for connecting virtually!
7 Resources for Attending ISTE Virtually
- Twitter – If you are not on twitter, sign up for a twitter account. If you are new to twitter, access this Twitter Handbook for Teachers created by those at Powerful Learning Practice. It contains 'how to' resources, basics guides and a list of twittering educators which you can follow and also join. My virtualiste12 twitter list will be located here.
- Hashtag #ISTE12 – Follow the hashtag for the conference. Lists will connect you with a certain group but following the hashtags will give you a wide range of results and resources as you will see results from anyone using the hashtag. If you use the application Tweetdeck to access Twitter, you can create easy to follow columns for any list, search term or hashtag. To connect with others attending virtually use the hashtags #iste12 #virtual or #virtualiste12
- ISTE Ning – Join the ISTE 2012 ning. Create a group there or join a few.
- Full Program Guide – Read about the sessions, posters and events. Shared presentation materials are linked here. At the main site, you will also find news feeds, video clips and other updates.
- Google Reader – Set up a Google Reader account to follow bloggers at ISTE. By following ISTE Unplugged you will be able to find blogs to add to your reader. ISTE has a blogger list you can access or join too.
- Mobile Apps – ISTE Mobile App has a list of standards and the ISTE Connects Blog, ISTE12 Conference App lists sessions and more.
- ISTE Remote – ISTE has a pay option which provides access to certain sessions. See the schedule here http://www.isteconference.org/2012/program/participate_remotely.php
About the ISTE Conference
Sponsored by the International Society of Technology in Education, the ISTE Conference draws close to 20,000 people and is the gathering place for scores of educational technology enthusiasts.
Educators gather to discuss new trends, to talk about what works what does not. Sessions explore best practice and emerging trends. The vendor floor is full of product samples and representatives ready to answer your every question.
Most importantly, it is a fantastic place to connect with people. That is what makes it great. ISTE is about the people – the passionate educators and educational supporters who bring the best of today's learning strategies to our classrooms.
Though you may feel like a fish out of water not being at ISTE in San Diego, happily you can explore it before, during and after virtually! Taking advantage of virtual learning is more doable than ever before. Connecting with educators around the world is a lesson in 21st Century learning in and of itself!
This list is a beginning. What other resources would you add?
"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." Carl Rogers"
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Grass Roots
Although they are often ignored because of their "out-of-sight" nature, roots are an integral part of plants, playing important functions in regulating whole-plant growth. Studies demonstrate that maintaining a healthy root system is essential for managing turfgrass, especially under stressful conditions. Understanding the basics of root growth and function is helpful for developing effective management programs for maintaining high-performance turfgrasses.
Turfgrass roots have essentially three major functions:
Absorption: The primary function of roots is absorption of water and nutrients from the soil. Roots provide shoots with water and nutrients.
Anchorage: Roots anchor the plant in place to keep it from being washed away or blown away, or from being toppled.
Hormone synthesis: Roots are believed to be the primary source for cytokinins and gibberellins, which regulate shoot growth and development. The different root architectures or structures provide roots with efficient mechanisms for performing the various functions and controlling whole-plant growth.
Monocotyledonous plants (monocots), such as turfgrass, tend to have fibrous root systems. The growth and development of these root systems involve production of new roots, root elongation and branching. A typical fibrous system can be found in the grass family. A fibrous root system consists of one or several primary roots steming directly from the seed (seminal roots), as well as roots developed adventitiously from the lower stem nodes (adventitious roots, or crown roots). Both seminal and adventitious roots then produce lateral roots. Subsequently, any of these initial laterals may produce further laterals, and so on, for few or many further orders of branching (see "Turfgrass Roots," page G6). These roots remain active for long periods, and some of them support the plant during the entire course of its life. Generally for the grass family, crown roots (adventitious roots) begin development by the three-leaf stage, and all root support to the plant prior to this stage depends on the seminal root system. Also, during different stages of plant development, each of the two groups of roots supports different allotments of the shoots. Seminal roots support mainly the primary shoot, although some support is also given to the tillers. Adventitious roots, however, are connected only with one or with very few of their mother tillers. Seminal roots are more important for the survival of whole plants than are adventitious roots.
Soil environments can alter root distribution. Soil resources (water, fertilizer) are often unevenly distributed. Many plant species respond to these unpredictable conditions with morphological and physiological plasticity of roots, which is their ability to exploit available resources by increasing root growth. It is now widely accepted that plants can alter root distribution patterns and rates of nutrient uptake when a localized supply of nutrients is elevated. Root plasticity plays an important role in plant adaptation to heterogeneous environments. Plants exhibiting rapid and highly plastic responses in root growth and development may, under certain circumstances, be at a selective advantage because they can rapidly utilize the available resources. Although the relative importance of altered root morphology (root density, length, root hairs, etc.) vs. uptake kinetics is still debatable, it seems clear that many plant species are capable of rapidly adjusting both their morphology and physiology in the acquisition of limiting essential resources that become available in a localized patch of soil.
Root distribution, which is influenced by root birth, growth and death, strongly responds to spatial variations in water availability. Phenotypically, roots tend to proliferate or extend in localized wet zones in a soil profile. Species also exhibit distinct rooting patterns, which can have evolved to a particular climatic region. For example, in hot deserts and other arid regions where soil surface is wet periodically due to sporadic, light rainfall during the growing season, it is common to find that many plants have extensive, shallow root systems that appear to be appropriate for the adsorption of water following light rain. Prairie plants and cold desert plants growing in environments where there is often relatively abundant water at depth may have very deep root systems. When soil is dry in the surface, production of roots increase considerably in the lower layer where water is available. The ability of roots to follow moisture into deeper layers of the soil profile conditions the ability of a plant to tolerate or avoid short and long periods of drought.
Sporadic light rainfall often occurs in many semi-arid and arid regions following a prolonged period of drought, which can lead to brief periods of high water availability, resulting in increased plant physiological capacity. Improved shoot growth after soil rewetting may be largely determined by the ability of the root to resume water and nutrient uptake. Therefore, how fast root growth and water uptake respond to re-supply of water following a period of drought stress is also an important aspect of growth plasticity of roots. Rapid regrowth of existing roots and production of new roots are important for rapid exploitation of water and nutrients following rainfall or irrigation events. This ability may be expected to confer superior productivity under transient drought conditions typical in semi-arid regions. The continued response to increased water availability is made possible by the appearance of new roots. In some species, new roots are produced within hours after rewetting. The new root growth increases the absorption rate and expands the root system, which increases contact with wet soil.
Plants in regions where rainfall events are short and sporadic may favor roots that can readily proliferate near the soil surface so that water can be captured before it is evaporated (e.g., hot deserts). Species adapted to relatively wet sites where mineral nutrients are strongly limiting and patchily distributed may also tend to build fine root systems. On the other hand, areas where there are more distinct wet and dry seasons may favor root systems which promote development of a deep root architecture, which should favor substantial investment in large-diameter framework roots that can sustain growth through dry surface layers.
Evidence that predictable patterns to the vertical distribution of nutrients (and non-limiting water conditions) can influence the evolution of root architecture is illustrated by genotypic variation among turfgrass root systems. Turfgrasses that have been selected for high performance under drought stress tend to grow a higher proportion of their total root system near the soil surface than less nutrient-efficient cultivars or wild species, even under uniform nutrient distribution. The more shallow growth can be caused by many factors, including more lateral root initiation near the soil surface.
Water uptake from the soil is a crucial function of a root system and largely determines the water status of the whole plant. Water uptake capacity depends on root morphological characteristics (e.g., root length density and root distribution) and physiological properties (e.g., viability, osmotic adjustment and hydraulic conductivity).
Water uptake rate of root systems generally is considered to be proportional to root length density (RLD). However, this relationship of total root length to water uptake may not hold true in some cases, depending largely on plant species, soil water availability and soil depths. Water uptake is positively correlated with RLD when soil is moist, but not well-correlated when soil is dry, especially when water is available only deeper in the soil profile. Under soil drying conditions, water uptake correlates better with rooting depth than with RLD. Deep rooting has been considered an important trait of drought resistance in various species. Development of a deep root system could be related to a faster elongation rate of roots under drying conditions. However, when limited soil water is stored in deeper soil profiles, faster root extension into deeper soil profiles may be detrimental for plants because of rapid depletion of water. In contrast, water will be conserved if the plant has a sparse and poorly permeable root system with a slow rate of extension. Deep roots not only enhance water utilization in deeper soil profiles but also appear to act as a water transport system and can deliver water absorbed from deep in the soil profile to the surface dry soil at night (hydraulic lift).
As soil dries, root hairs increase in length and number. Increases in root hairs in dry soil have a pronounced effect on total root surface area. This response may be an adaptive mechanism to maintain liquid continuity around the growing roots and to provide greater root surface for nutrient absorption, because the rate of nutrient diffusion to the root decreases in drier soil. Root hairs can be sites for extensive mucilage production. Mucilage can enhance the ability of the hair to attach to soil particles, and thereby prevent air gaps from developing between the soil and root surface when the soil dries; reduce water efflux from plants into drying soils; and ultimately delay root desiccation. Extensive development of root hairs enhances water uptake and facilitates water retention under soil drying conditions.
Nutrient uptake is also an essential function of the root system. Mineral nutrients required by plants enter entirely or predominantly via roots. Each essential nutrient element must be taken up in an amount equal to or above the minimum needed to produce the amount of biomass that the conditions of growth allow. Being able to acquire these nutrients in soil depends upon plant and soil factors. Plant root uptake mechanisms restrict and select ions taken up to some degree, but this regulation is not absolute. Shoot physiological processes and reactions in which mineral nutrient are involved, such as in energy metabolism, protein biosynthesis, and internal transport, may affect plant growth rates and, thus, nutrient acquisition. The rate of growth and activity regulates nutrient uptake by controlling nutrient demands. Various reactions and processes in soils determine the accessibility or the supply of nutrients. Nutrient acquisition also involves rates of solubilization relative to root growth and mycorrhizal development, interactions between various ion species, pathways and rates of movement through soil pore species.
Plants may access nutrients by root proliferation through the soil, but generally, for most nutrient uptake, mechanisms of transport to the roots are involved in meeting with growth needs. Nutrient acquisition is assumed to be governed primarily by nutrient availability in the soil. Similar to soil moisture, nutrient distribution is also uneven in the soil in natural environments. Roots must respond to the heterogenous distribution of nutrients in order to supply sufficient nutrients to the shoot. Nutrient uptake rate per unit root mass or length is often higher for roots in nutrient-rich patches than those in uniformly rich or uniformly poor soil or solution. Higher specific rates of uptake may be a function of both higher nutrient concentrations in the patch and higher uptake capacity of the roots in the patch. Roots growing in nutrient-enriched patches exhibit elevated nutrient uptake capacity than roots in un-enriched soil.
As discussed earlier, root morphological and physiological characteristics play important roles in water uptake and supply to shoots. The plant is able to sense the water status in the soil and respond accordingly. Essentially, as soil moisture status declines, water uptake by the plant is reduced, leading to a reduction in the water content, water potential and turgor of leaves. Stomata and leaf growth react to these changes in leaf water status and turgor. Undoubtedly, this is the major mechanism by which plants sense large changes in soil moisture.
In recent years an increasing number of reports from several independent sources indicate that roots communicate to shoots information on soil moisture status by non-hydraulic means, which are mostly hormonal. You can see evidence of a root signal when one half of the root system is grown in a pot containing soil that is fully hydrated, while the other half is grown in a separate pot containing soil that has been depleted of moisture. In spite of the high leaf water status, reduction in stomatal conductance or leaf expansion is observed when a root system is partially exposed to drying soil, which illustrates that a root signal is evidence. Therefore, roots influence shoot water relations and growth not only by supplying water, but also by providing a feed-forward signal to the shoots. The interpretation of this accumulating evidence is that soil drying generates some kind of a chemical signal ("root signal") that moves up the plant, probably through the transpiration stream, to regulate growth and physiology of the shoot.
Abscisic acid (ABA) in roots has been found to be the chemical messenger that mediates plant responses to drought. Stomatal closure can be induced by increases in leaf epidermal ABA content. ABA is synthesized in roots in drying soil, which move through the transpiration stream to the leaves within in a very short time, where it induces stomatal closure. It appears that as greater parts of the root system are exposed to a drying soil, more ABA is being produced by the whole root. Water-stressed roots accumulate ABA more quickly and with greater sensitivity than leaves. Roots seem to be able to "measure" the degree of soil drying and send a corresponding chemical message to the leaves where stomatal conductance and transpiration are reduced.
While ABA produced in the root may affect leaf growth via the effect on stomatal closure and gas exchange, it may have also a direct effect on growth processes independently of stomatal closure. ABA is well known for its growth inhibition properties. Growth inhibition of plants as a result of water-deficit stress may be a result of ABA accumulation, although turgor loss or reduced assimilation of carbon as a result of decrease stomatal conductance, or direct effects on photosynthesis could contribute. Nevertheless, the root signal constitutes an early alert system, before the shoot experiences any hydraulic effect of the drying soil. Such an early alert system as conditioned by root exposure to a drying soil may be important for the survival of plants and their species in natural habitats.
While ABA signals in controlling stomatal closure is the most widely reported response of plants to ABA, many other processes of growth and development can also be affected by ABA in the absence of stress, including leaf area, plant height and root development. For a plant growing in a water-limiting environment, which results in raised endogenous ABA levels, some of these responses to ABA would help to maintain plant water status by reducing the demand for water, such as reduced plant size.
Root systems are essential parts of a plant. They have diverse morphology and architecture, and serve a multitude of functions. Root morphological characteristics are genetically controlled, but can be modified by environmental factors. The environment surrounding root systems, such as water and nutrient status in the soil, is highly heterogeneous both in time and space. Root systems have the ability to react to the heterogeneity. They possess phenotypic plasticity, which allow efficient water and nutrient uptake. The degree of plasticity varies largely with plant species and root morphological characteristics. Roots react to soil moisture status not only by morphological plasticity through water uptake, but also can send chemical signals to shoots. Soil drying generates some kind of a chemical signal, commonly believed as abscisic acid, that moves up from roots to shoots, probably through the transpiration stream, to regulate growth and physiology of the shoot.
Bingru Huang is an associate professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N.J.).
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Shuly Edwards is all too familiar with migraines. She used to get them as often as 20 times a month.
"It's like being hit by a truck," said Edwards. "You feel a throbbing in your head and shooting pain behind your eyes and you physically can't function."
She has three daughters under seven so when the migraines hit, they turned play time into pain.
Edwards tried medications, but they took hours to work and caused severe nausea. She heard about a clinical trial to test out a new migraine medication, Levadex, and decided to give it a try.
The new medicine is administered orally through an inhaler. It was developed by MAP Pharmaceuticals in Mountain View. The company reformulated a drug called DHE 45, which has been around for 60 years.
The drug is traditionally administered intravenously, which was inconvenient for patients.
"It also caused nausea," said Dr. James Wolfe at Allegery and Asthma Associates in San Jose. "The new delivery system allows patients to get relief more quickly and without suffering an upset stomach."
He looked at 40 patients in a double blind study and found that nearly 70 percent of those who took Levadex experienced migraine relief.
Edwards says her debilitating migraine went away in just 30 minutes. She also noticed that when she started using Levadex, she began getting fewer migraines.
"Clinical trials showed Levadex was able to keep the migraines away for 24 hours," said MAP CEO Tim Nelson.
"This is a breakthrough product," said Dr. Wolfe. He also says the drug was well tolerated by patients who suffered from asthma and migraines.
The inhaler didn't irritate asthma patients' lungs. The FDA has not yet approved Levadex as more clinical trials are needed.
If you suffer from migraines and are interested in participating in clinical trials go to the allergycare.com research page.


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Over the weekend my fiance and I did some shopping and I finally got around to taking photos and putting the stuff away. :) I enjoy my Tuesdays and Thursdays because I only have one class.
Joann Fabrics Picked up a set of Halloween Dish Clothes and a Bundle of Scrapbook paper.
Aren't these adorable?
The scrapbook paper is so cute, consists of all things sweet. Originally $19.99, on sale for $9.99, had a 20% off coupon (of course) bought for $7.99
Picked up two tops from JCPenney. I had a $10 off reward coupon so I got both for $3.00
I love this scarf, it's SO different from anything I have. And since all my scarves are 2 hours away this will have to do. :) $8.99 from Rue 21
Love the crotchet detailing.
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There seems to be a delay in the release of the 1.5 app by Apple (perhaps indirectly due to the Worldwide Developer Conference). We have updated the Unicode Bibles (CNV, CUNP, KRV, RCUV, RUSB, and SHINKAI) so that they can be searched, but this requires Accordance version 9.6 on Mac, and 1.5 on the iOS. Since 1.5 is not yet available, users who updated the module find it crashes the app.
We have therefore uploaded the old versions of these modules for Easy Install. If your Bible is crashing on the iOS mobile device, please remove it from the Library, redownload it in Easy Install, and DO NOT UPDATE the module until you have version 1.5 of Accordance. The updated module has been left online so that Mac users can update and enjoy the searching.
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The question I am asked the most often after revealing that I'm a professional standardized test tutor is, "How should I study for Test X?" The reply is always invariably a petition for more information such as the materials being used, past testing history, study habits, and anticipated testing schedule, all of which is just a baseline amount of information that I would then use to offer the most basic and topical plan of action. The reason for such a skeletal plan is because of a very simple reason: every student's needs are different and if I haven't spent any time observing a student's habits and logical process then I can't say what he or she needs. The effectiveness of tutoring lies in the customization and personalized guidance. A large part of a tutor's job is identifying where in the process of answering a question, between reading it to choosing the correct answer, is there a disconnect. The tutor then formulates a way for that particular student to most effectively bridge that gap. With that said, here are three of the most common issues many of my students face across different tests have.
1. Lacking the fundamental knowledge base that is being tested.
2. Having difficulty recognizing the topics being tested by the questions.
3. Executing a strategy for specific question types consistently.
The first issue is usually the easiest to diagnose. This issue is most notable with math questions but can manifest with verbal questions (albeit less alarmingly and thus usually more ignored, unfortunately). My opinion on this issue, shared by the pedagogy of Bell Curves, is that regardless of how much test-taking savvy you have, if you don't know the base content (e.g. geometry formulas, grammar rules, argument structure, etc.) there is absolutely no way to consistently answer questions correctly. The solution is pretty straightforward – study the material until you understand the rules and their applications.


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A Kids corner going on all day Saturday with some amazing activities happening there. Mini Cob House construction, seed balls and rocket stoves, nature games and more. The kids will have a blast!!
Music from amazing local musicians, free giveaways, organic meals. There is so much going on and yet ticket prices are just $125 for camping or $150 for bunkhouse (ask for special kids discount codes).


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Whenever I finish something, or feel like something is coming to a close; something big and has taken me a long time to do, my mind always jumps to the scene of the fourth Doctor Who regenerating into the fifth. I don't know why, but it's a nice poignant scene which carries the incredible line; it's the end, but the moment has been prepared for". It's that line that comes to mind when I can feel like something is the end, or that I have reached the end. But knowing what I am like, I will have prepared for it, so like when I finished reading the GONE book series, I found something to read to replace it with for instance. Well, in the case of this film, the moment has been prepared for, but the hardest hit is that it truly is The End!
Released in 2017 by 20th Century Fox, Produced by Lauren Shuler Donner and Simon Kinberg, and Directed by James Mangold; Logan is a superhero film starring Hugh Jackman returning for what is intended to be his last portrayal of Wolverine, a role he has held for 17 years. When the film was first announced on the heels of The Wolverine, I was really excited as I really loved The Wolverine. Come 2015 however with Jackman announcing his retirement from playing Wolverine, I was very sad, and had begun chasing my mind around for replacement actors (if there were any), forgetting of course that before that bridge is crossed, Jackman would still provide us with one last glorious hurrah.
The year is 2029; all mutants are supposedly dead except for a small group, and a now aging Logan (Hugh Jackman) works as a chauffeur on the border with Mexico and lives with friend Caliban (Stephen Merchant) and former mentor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) at an old smelting plant. Xavier is now growing old and senile with his psychic powers now grown beyond control with devastating effect and has to take medication to control it. One day Logan is approached by a lady called Gabriella (Elizabeth Rodriguez) who asks him to give her and a young girl called Laura (Dafne Keen), escort to a location in North Dakota. Logan reluctantly accepts the job as the money provided will allow him to buy a luxury yacht he wants to purchase. As he comes to collect them though he finds Gabriella has been murdered. Laura stows away in his car though and goes to the Smelting Plant where she becomes friends with Charles. Just as they arrive though, a platoon of soldiers led by Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook) arrive having captured Caliban, and are demanding that Logan hand over the girl. As men try to capture her though, she quickly attacks them in a very savage and brutal way, with steel claws coming out of her hands, decapitating and amputating several limbs.
Logan, Laura and Charles escape, and using Gabriella's phone, discover that Laura or X-23 as she was designated; was one of several young children born and bred by the Transigen Program headed up but surgeon Zander Rice (Richard E. Grant). The kids are injected with Mutant DNA and are bred to become mindless and dangerous soldiers, however unable to control the children's souls, they all don't want to do what they're told anymore and most of them escape including Laura. Because she was made from Logan's DNA, it is deduced that he is her father. Pierce with the help from the Reavers, use Caliban's ability to locate other mutants to find Logan, and while staying at a casino in Oklahoma City the trio are nearly captured, but Xavier has one of his moments and near paralyzes everyone in the city except Laura and Logan. Logan is able to get them out of the city, but does not believe in the mythical Eden of North Dakota where they are going, especially when he finds the co-ordinates referenced exactly in an X-Men comic. The trio are eventually given shelter by a family they help out on the road and the group bond together, as Laura discovers more of the outside world, one she never experienced having been locked up all those years. During the night however, Xavier is murdered by X-24, the final project of Transigen to replace the children, who also happens to be a copy of Logan, claws and all. X-24 captures Laura placing her in very restrictive shackles and takes her to Rice, but Logan arrives just in time to face himself having found the murdered family and the dead Charles. With some help, X-24 is pinned down, and Caliban uses a grenade to blow up rice's van. Logan saves Laura and the two head out in the night, burying Charles in the morning.
Beside himself, and with his healing still failing, Logan agrees to take Laura to Eden, still not believing it. Eventually they arrive at a mountain range with a community filled with the other surviving experimented children all run by Rictor (Jason Genao). There Logan learns that the children will be making an 8 mile hike across the Canadian border. Logan is ready to send Laura on her way, but Laura wants to know him as a father, although he is still down and out about losing his own friends, and sees himself less as a father, and more of a threat, and just wants to die. The kids attempt to make the hike, but are soon surrounded and chased by the Reavers. Using a healing serum from Transigen, Logan takes in the full dose knowing it will kill him but should give him strength to save the kids. The kids are soon rounded up and shackled except for Laura who gets surrounded, but rescued by Logan. The serum though begins to ware off just as he meets Rice, who happens to be the son of the man behind the Weapon X Program. X-24 is set loose on Logan, but Laura is able to free the other kids who kill Pierce. Logan is impaled on a tree during the fight, but using an Adamantium bullet, Laura kills X-24, which Logan had kept for years. Eventually succumbing to his wounds, Logan dies, unable to heal and the kids bury him before crossing the border.
In 2007; the German heavy metal band known as Scorpions released a single called Humanity. It is a song which poignantly depicts the destruction and downfall of the human race through its own acts and nothing more. It is a very heavy track and whose lyrics basically suggest, as delivered in the music video with a young boy simply saying "It's The End!" Now this track does not appear in Logan I should point out, but that is what comes to mind as I think on this film. It's the end of Hugh Jackman playing this part. This is an actor who has played a movie role for 17 years now. During that time there have been 3 American Presidents, 4 UK Prime Ministers, 4 (technically 5) Doctor Who's. It is an incredible amount of time to play a film role, most WWE Wrestlers don't even last that long, but here is Hugh Jackman still playing this role, now deciding he wants to leave. He deserves it rightly so, he is allowed to walk away given the energy, passion and devotion he has put into just one character. He has played other parts which help prevent typecasting, but possibly for the rest of his life, will be best remembered for being The Wolverine, you do not forget 17 years of the same thing in a flash. So, yes, it's the end of Jackman as Wolverine; but not just that. It's also the end of 2 major characters in a film series that has become one of the most critically and financially successful franchises in movie history. The X-Men film series is not ending, No! There are still more films to come including Deadpool Sequels (YES!). No, what we have here is something of what could be best described as a tragic ending, which is sad for Xavier, but more so for Wolverine as he has led a pretty tragic life.
The story of Wolverine is a tragic one as it's the life of a genuinely good person who has led a rough life. He is very old given that his healing prevents aging on a grand scale. Over the years he is going to meet people and see people die, a lot of people die if you live that long and that is not good for the mental soul. As life has passed by, something horrid happens to him, something so dark and miserable, but something that he has only partial memories of. So as life ticks by he has to remember these things not knowing entirely what it was, and spends life running instead of facing. Eventually though good things happen for him, he gets friends, and a family, and can care for people again, and have a proper life, but given as to who he is and what he is, none of this could possibly last, and as the years have gone by, and seen more people die, some by his own hands for the good of others, he resigns to a wishful death, and waits for it. It is a very sad story for someone who is not a bad man, someone who is actually a very good man, a caring man, a protective man. Yes, he is prone to a little bit of violence, but only when it is called for; doing what must be done, because without him to protect his friends, no-one can. Into this, we find ourselves confronted with the final act of The Wolverine. But it's not really a super hero movie, more of a personal journey as one man reaches his eventual end, but has one last thing to do.
Logan is actually a rather small film. It's not a mega big one like other super hero films of note, as this is not a character trying to save the world, but those around him, and as such we go less on a journey to save the world, but a more personal one. As such he is not referred to as The Wolverine, but because it's a personal story is known better as just Logan. Logan starts off in a similar vein as does The Wolverine, with Logan having to live and come to terms with his life and the death by his own hand of someone he loved. Now coming into this film we are told something similar has happened, but we don't know exactly what. But just like before, Logan is beat up and ruined and has resigned to live as much a recluse as possible while caring for Xavier who has become rather senile. Eventually though he is given a duty he does not want, that of looking after a little girl very much like him. He is meant to be the father, but has no care for her, caring for his friends than her; something which falters in the mind of Laura who wants to know who she is and know her father too. As the story continues and things happen as usual, the similarities between the two emerge as Laura is very much like he was in the first first X-Men, with Logan now having grown up. Logan is still resigned to wishing death upon himself, but knows that once more, he needs to do the right thing to help those that need his help resulting in one last blood bath for those who deny him and others peace. His Death though is not nice, nor peaceful, but more brutal for someone who has earned better. It is a film that makes you think deeply upon issues such as the harsh and sometimes quick deaths of others while others get a more natural one. It looks into how people desire Death, and how Death actually comes. It features a brutal end which dies just like death is a final stop. It really makes you think on if you believe that the world is a better place without you, how can you be certain of this? How do you not know that life right now is in fact better, because 'you' are around!
Logan is a small film and bolsters a small but pretty strong cast. Stephen merchant I find was actually pretty good as Caliban. Caliban has featured sort of twice in the past with his most recent piece being in Apocalypse as some garish and camp clown; here instead we see what he is truly like and capable of but also what kind of person he is given his history as one of the Morlocks. Gabriella's part is small but sweet and shares some backstory light on some of the films major issues and themes including who Laura is and why we should care. One thing though I find the film lacks is a strong villain. There are some good villainy characters and others who help fill in those parts like a few extras. Pierce himself has the nice sinister mechanical arm and some god talking points but feels more like a hindrance than a villain. Same can be said for Rice, who while is a deceptive schemer with a good voice, again just feels plain. I am not saying he's bad, it just feels like the villains are strong because they are many, but not because of whom they are. I mean X-24 feels like a wasted opportunity and a mistake being rewritten. His appearance as Logan is a bit like the Undertaker vs Undertaker match at SummerSlam 1994; kind of surprising, but still rather silly. It feels like a wasted opportunity to bring in a new monster. I thought maybe an enhanced Sabretooth, or Maverick, or someone big and scary to introduce. With a double Wolverine, it felt more like Weapon XI in Origins all over again, and we know what happened there don't we!
What villain's lack, heroes make up. The Transigen kids are a nice addition although faint on the film's radar, mostly as people to get into trouble and allow a moment of heroism, but for this film, it really comes down to Logan, Laura and Xavier. Xavier's part in this film is still pretty similar to past films but does do a lot more and shows what Stewart can do when allowed to do something very different. He is in some sense the comedy side kick and delivers some incredibly funny moments, but it's through his disorientated new life that shows how bad things have become. He remains something of a hindrance to Logan after all these years, but one Logan has come to care for, as rightly he should, as Xavier is practically his last and now only friend. His death in the film is a big shock, but not a sincere one, as don't forget we have seen him die before in more dramatic circumstances with this one more lost in the moment, but you do see his life pass in his eyes.
Laura spends most of the film rather quiet, does not say a single word until just before the final Act. Yes there are shouts, yells and screams, but no words. This form of silence allows retention of mystery as to who she is, but also allows expressing more deeply the life she had and the new world she is experiencing. Silence can be golden at times and really works in her favour, as we see this young girl come face to face with new things, not knowing what they involve or how to interact, but when finally realising who she is and where she is, she finally speaks, knowing that she needs to for the sake of Logan, but also so she can be heard. Her desperation to get to Eden comes more as a cross between hope and instruction from others, not necessarily her own entire belief, but somehow knows it's there even if Logan doesn't. Her skills as a fighter are incredible and are very similar to Wolverine, but she has some heart too, not a lot as this is crowded with the same anger Logan once had too, but as things come to a close, she knows that she must carry on, even though her father; something she wants and desires cannot help her, but in some way knows that still lives on inside her, respecting his death, and making his legacy live on in more ways than one.
Logan's design and perception of being much older and on the verge of death is an interesting one. We have seen him go through emotions before, but then he was not on the ultimate verge of giving up, more just conflicted. Now though he desires it, more than anything else. It's kind of hard to speak on his performance after 3 or so paragraphs of detailing his character, but one thing stands out more than most; his Death; His final hurrah. Coming into this film, I was thinking his last stand was going to be like in The Wolverine, one last heroic but still cynical fight to the death where he would come out on top but now no more energy left to continue. No, this time his death is more personal. It wasn't a long lasted blood bath, more one which required others to save him and take on his role, and one that required others to do the work, while he acted as a decoy, once again being more of a team member than a loner. But his death does have something else in it though. Going into this I thought it would be like The Wolverine, but in that, he was The Wolverine, now he is just Logan. Calling him The Wolverine, it's like a promise (like The Doctor), you know what he is, who he is and what he can do, but by putting 'the' before it he becomes a thing, not a person; this film is a much more personal one, so in this case it's not the death of The Wolverine, it's the death of Logan. That carries a more significant weight to it; it's not the death of a thing, but the death of somebody. Laura in a future film could become the New Wolverine, or someone else could take on that name; but you can't replace or take on the identity of Logan.
The film does come packed like many other X-Men films with a cavalcade of special effects. These of course include 'very' detailed claws including spots of graphic detail and blood splatter; especially when piercing through the heads of some people. The mechanical hands are a nice treat showing off some more blood and limb coverage than usual. The film uses its special effects department in other ways too to create visions of the future including a scene involving driverless, but dangerous trucks. The film also comes with a soundtrack once again produced by Marco Beltrami featuring quite a few slow pieces which are used to heighten the level of reality but more a sense of realisation than anything else possibly to state that this is the end! Pieces like Old Man Logan, Don't Be What They Made You and Goodnight Moon cover this pretty well, but the soundtrack does of course know when to get busy though and of course creates action packed pieces for when a fight is on especially in a scene like the Forest Fight at the end and also when Logan is facing X-24. The one thing though that really stands out about this soundtrack though is the inclusion of several classic pieces by Johnny Cash. Logan's first trailer of course famously features the song Hurt, which really shows the direction the film intends to take so that the audience can really see how the film is likely to turn out but also more likely what it is all about. This piece though does not actually feature in the film, what does feature though is not a slow grim song, but a rather pleasant, peaceful and also happy song that really turns around the film's great tragedy and helps you gain some perspective.
A few months ago I went to see the film Ethel and Ernest based on the book of the same name written by Raymond Briggs. The film has a very sad ending, but turns this around in a sense by featuring a piece of music and images within the credit roll that suggest that while the ending was sad, it does not mean that everything was as there was some really happy moments. Here we have the sad ending and conclusion to the story of Wolverine (in film), but, while he has had great tragedy in his life, and it ended as such, there is some peace we can look back on. For one Logan has attained a peace from the devastation of his dark history, but also in that history there was also, happiness, joy, peace and of course love. This is held by the film playing The Man Comes Around in the credits, a light fluffy as well as casual piece, signifying not an entirely sad ending, but shows that there has always been another side to the coin, that in the misery, there was joy, and in the darkness there was also light; and so while Wolverine does bow out, we can take a moment of knowledge and recognition about the life he had, and the legacy that he leaves behind, not just in story, but also in the entertainment and joy he has given us as cinema goers.
Logan is a pretty sad point. I know the series will continue and new stars are appearing to take the helm and the future such as Ryan Reynolds, Sophie Turner and hopefully Dafne Keen too, but it is a sad point, more so when I think that there could have been more. When X-Men Origins came about and really failed like it did, that is the series lowest point, so when The Wolverine came along and excelled so much, it felt like a new beginning, like that is what Origins should have been, forgetting that film and becoming the first a Wolverine Trilogy. But now it has come to an end, it feels like only the surface was being scratched, and that more was on the way. It's like when Castle was cancelled last year; it was in it's prime, there was more to be told, and it just ended. That's what we have here, like something more could have come, but now we may never see that. You can only play a character for so long though, and an end would have come eventually. The end of something is exciting because you don't know how it's going to end, but eventually realization sets in, and you realize that it truly is the end. So even if it did continue, it would eventually end: but what an ending it was! Logan does not disappoint in providing one last fight, one last match, one last scene of steel claws, blood curdling action, eye grossing violence, but also one last moving scene as the great hero finally comes to rest in peace. Logan is a sad and tragic little film, but shows off plenty of emotion and heart in a film series that has defined just that in the super hero genre; and now Hugh Jackman can now go do something else, leaving a legacy that will live on in cinema forever, and one that no-one can match. There is only one true Logan, and only one true, Wolverine.


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Minn. Orchestra launches new season with clarinet festival
The Minnesota Orchestra's 10th season under the baton of Osmo Vanska will feature a clarinet festival, and full slate of guest soloists, including concerts by the recently retired concertmaster Jorja Fleezanis.
The launch of the new season will be first clarinet festival for the Minnesota Orchestra.
The orchestra released details of its classical and pops seasons Friday. The festival will feature an array of classical and jazz clarinetists, including Vanska himself. Fleezanis will play a week after current concertmaster Erin Keefe is featured in a series of concerts.
The bulk of the season will be presented at the Minneapolis Convention Center Auditorium as Orchestra Hall is renovated.
While Minnesota Orchestra Music Director Osmo Vanska is a clarinetist by training, general manager Bob Neu says the idea for the festival came about because both classical and pops programmers discovered they were booking clarinet concerts in the fall.
"They are playing very, very different kind of works. Actually we are still talking with Jorja about what he is going to do, but Jorja always likes to embrace new and unusual repertoire," Neu said. With Erin, there was very much a feeling that she wanted to do something that was very standard that would really introduce her to repertoire that our audiences know, the Mendelssohn concerto of course."


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If you want to watch the numbers fly past in dizzying array, California's Monterey Peninsula is the place to be this weekend — or this whole week, for that matter.
Yes, there's the fabled Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance this Sunday, and the various sideshows and general gasoline-fueled ambiance that permeates the scene. All that is a given, and the given includes simply strolling up and down the streets in Carmel or Monterey, watching the odd Lamborghini or Alvis slide smoothly by. That will cost you nothing.
But the real action is at the auctions. Six major auction houses are in town for the week and if yesterday's event at Bonhams' Quail Lodge Auction in Carmel Valley is any indication, those dollar bills (and euros) will indeed be flying.
Bonhams sold a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO for $38,115,000, a new world record for any car sold at auction. (It's not the highest price paid for one of these rare cars, however. Last year, a Connecticut collector sold his own 250 GTO privately for $52 million.)
And why are people paying so much for these cars? Only 39 of them were made — 36 in 1962 and 1963, and three more in 1964. Estimates are that only 33 of them still exist. Most of their owners are rich (Ed. note: this just in?) and most of these cars are stashed away in private collections.
Frankly, they are beautiful cars, although I would put the 1963-64 250 GT Lusso up there with the 250 GTO. By today's standards of performance car — you can buy any number of go-fast autos with 500-plus horsepower right off the showroom floor — the 250 GTO is fairly modest. It has a three-liter V12 engine that pumps out 300 horsepower (a new Mustang 5.0 GT beats that by more than 100 horsepower and you'd still have $38,071,000 left over if you bought the Mustang instead of the Bonhams Ferrari.)
Yet, and yet. A few years ago, a generous owner took me for a ride around Sonoma Raceway in his 250 GTO and it was absolutely thrilling. It was noisy, it was fast and it was fun. Then, too, when considering why these cars are so expensive, there is scarcity; this drives prices up. And so does the exclusivity of belonging to the tiny club of people who own one of these prized cars.
So… to the person who bought the car at Bonhams' auction — thanks for keeping the used car market solvent.


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The TSS Earnslaw, Queenstown's iconic vintage steamship turns a 100 years old on 18 October 2012.
To mark this historic occasion we're throwing a week long party and everyone's invited! With everything from special lake cruises, period costumes, bands, entertainment, food and lots of activities for the family, this is an event not to be missed.
View events schedule >So come join the festivities at the TSS Earnslaw Centenary Celebrations from the 14-22 October 2012 in Queenstown and be a part of a once in a life-time experience!
If you wish to book a trip on the TSS Earnslaw, please visit our Real Journeys website.
"It was always exciting on boat day as the mail and papers arrived along with anything that had been ordered from the outside world. All our groceries were ordered in bulk and sent up on the Earnslaw, enough for three months at a time.
We knew all the people who worked on the boats. Three Captains, Herbert, Tot Lucky and Scottie Munro, deck hand Scottie Burns and engineer Bill McInnes."
Launched by New Zealand Rail in 1912, the TSS Earnslaw is the last surviving and grandest steamship to have ever graced Lake Wakatipu. Named after Mount Earnslaw (the highest peak in the region), she is 168 feet in length, 24 feet across the beam and weighs 330 tonnes.
Originally built by J McGregor and Co in Dunedin, the TSS Earnslaw was dismantled and transported by rail to Kingston at the lake's southern tip for reassembly and launching.
The TSS Earnslaw has since served the remote farming communities around Lake Wakatipu, including the original Walter Peak Station.
Her working roles have included; cargo ship, livestock carrier, passenger transporter and pleasure steamer.
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text: SARASOTA, FL -- The Flanzer JCC has now become a YMCA branch. Due to increasing operating costs and financial difficulties, the JCC turned the 70,000-square-foot center over to the Sarasota Family YMCA. After the center lost more than $200,000 in 2005, the JCC leadership felt like membership couldn't increase fast enough to keep up with the rising maintenance costs and other expenses. The center, which is now called the Flanzer JCC/YMCA Branch of the Sarasota Family YMCA, plans to operate the facility like any other YMCA branch. Sarasota County YMCA members can use the fitness center, and Flanzer's 3,000 members can visit the other YMCA branches. Four JCC employees were let go, and about 50 of the JCC employees retained their jobs, according to an article in the Herald-Tribune.


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I have recorded many TV shows via DVB-S on my PC over the years and would now like to burn them to DVD. I want to transcode them so I can fit several per DVD. Is it okay to transcode them so that the file sizes of the videos end up being exact fractions of the total DVD capacity, so when they are burned to the DVD there will be no space left, or would it be better to calculate the file sizes so there is eventually some space left, like about 5% or 10%? If I burn to the full capacity of the DVD, will there be a reduction in compatibility and reliability, especially a few years from now, because the data is so close to the edge of the disc? Has anyone ever experienced such an issue?
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Low quality media, which unfortunately is just about everything sold these days, has problems when approaching the end of the disc. If you buy Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim (anything except their Life series), and you will probably have to buy online, you will have more success getting out towards the edge of the disc. My personal recommendation is that you don't try to completely fill up the disc. You'll find it essentially impossible to get your encodes exactly what they are calculated to be and you definitely do not want to try to overburn on DVD discs as my experience is that this is significantly less likely to work than on CD-R discs. Just come relatively close to the end of the disc and with good media, you should be OK. I recommend burning at slower speeds like 4x as you should get better results pushing the envelope that way.
Just to piggyback on jman98's suggestions don't forget to leave a little room for a menu. If you are making a basic static menu it shouldn't be very large at all. But if you want to throw in a bunch of bells and whistles it will take up more space on the disc meaning you'll be able to fit less on the disc.
Also note that making motion menus will add a lot of time to the authoring time of the disc (not the burning itself but the creation of the video_ts folder on your harddrive). If you have at least a dual core processor I don't think it should be too excessive but it will be longer than a static menu would take.Donatello - The Shredder? Michelangelo - Maybe all that hardware is for making coleslaw?
And if you count on every MB, dont forget that DVD-R holds a few more MB than DVD+R, ALWAYS.*** Now that you have read me, do some other things. ***
Thanks for the replies.
I will be using MeGUI to transcode from MPEG2 to AVC. There is a target file size option,which I've tested, that outputs a file that is about a megabyte less than the specified target filesize. So I'll only be short of a few megabytes of the total target capacity, which is fine.
I will just burn the transcoded files to the DVD, no menus or other files.
I will be using the following Verbatim DVD+R media:
I don't intend to use the discs as DVD-Video for DVD player playback. They will be used only to archive the video.
I would have kept the original files and created DVD-Video compliant discs, but because the video was broadcast with a bitrate of about 13Mbps, it took up far too much space.
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text: A drunk walks into a bar, orders a shot and and immediately pukes all over his own shirt. "Wha' my gonna do now? My wifez gonna kill me." "Relax," the bartender says, "give me a five-dollar bill." The bartender folds up the bill and puts it in the guy's shirt pocket. "Tell your wife some drunk puked on you and gave you five bucks to have your shirt cleaned." "Thass a great idea!" When the drunk gets home his wife answers the door. "Where have you been? What happened to your shirt?" He tries to put on a sober voice and says, "Relaaax honey, some drunk guy puked on me and gave me five bucks to have my shirt cleaned." The drunk's wife reaches in his pocket, grabs the money, and says, "There's $10 in here!" "Oh yeah, he sh!t my pants, too."


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What do you all think about it? Do you feel like these studies are done in an unbiased way? I just don't feel like I can trust any study on statins, there is such a controversy surrounding them.
I was on them for 13 years due to family history of high cholesterol. I went off them to have a child and I have not gone back on them.
My type one grandfather has heart disease but he also smoked. He passed away in 1987 at a young age, Diabetes testing and control really sucked then. That is an understatement in itself.
Do I really need to worry about Heart Disease because I am type 1?
Has statin use dropped the countries number of deaths related to heart disease or stroke? Where is that study showing the drop?
Read it and tell me what you think about it all?
How many of you are on statins?
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(CNN) -- If you're not on medicine to lower your cholesterol yet, you might be soon.
In what's being called a tectonic shift in the way doctors will treat high cholesterol, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology on Tuesday released new treatment guidelines calling for a focus on risk factors rather than just cholesterol levels.
The new guidelines could double the amount of people on medication to lower their cholesterol, experts say.
"This is an enormous shift in policy as it relates to who should be treated for high levels of cholesterol," said Dr. Steven Nissen, chief of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.
The biggest change from the old guidelines, he says: Ignore the numbers.
"For many years, the goal was to get the 'bad' cholesterol levels -- or LDL levels -- below 100," Nissen said. "Those targets have been completely eliminated in the new guidelines, and the threshold for treatment has been eliminated."
In their place, the guidelines suggest using specific risk factors to determine who should be treated with cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and who should simply make lifestyle changes.
Among the four questions to ask to determine risks: Do you have heart disease? Do you have diabetes (Type 1 or 2)? Do you have a bad cholesterol level more than 190? And is your 10-year risk of a heart attack greater than 7.5%?
According to the new guidelines, if you answered yes to any of those four questions, you should be on a statin. Period.
For those who do not fit those criteria, the committee behind the new policy says lifestyle and behavior management should be sufficient to help manage high cholesterol.
"The focus for years has been on getting the LDL low," said Dr. Neil Stone, committee chairman.
"Our guidelines are not against that. We're simply saying how you get the LDL low is important. Considering all the possible treatments, we recommend a heart-healthy lifestyle and statin therapy for the best chance of reducing your risk of stroke or heart attack in the next 10 years."
Calculating risks
So how do you and your doctor determine if your 10-year risk of a heart attack is above 7.5% and you should be put on a statin?
A simple calculation, said Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones, chairman of the committee that developed the equation.
"We were able to generate very robust risk equations for both non-Hispanic white men and women as well as African-American men and women," Lloyd-Jones said. "Those equations factor in age, sex, race, total and HDL ('good') cholesterol levels, blood pressure levels, blood pressure treatment status as well as diabetes and current smoking status."
Each of those factors is assigned a numerical value and can be used to determine individual risk percentage using an online calculator.
The hope, Lloyd-Jones said, is that by doing these calculations, patients can be more informed about their risks when going to see doctors.
"The greatest strength behind these guidelines is that they hit at the heart of prevention -- which is that lifestyle, rather than treating isolated risk factors, is the key to reducing risk of chronic disease," said Dr. Sharon Horesh Bergquist, an assistant professor of medicine at Emory University, in an e-mail.
"We tend to focus on 'quick fix' answers such as a pill ... whereas the risk reduction from lifestyle changes, such (as) exercise three-four days a week, reduces risk nearly double to that from any one of the medication interventions."
Double the prescriptions
By changing the way doctors evaluate a patient for statin therapy, Nissen said these new guidelines will effectively double the number of Americans eligible for statin therapy, bringing the total to about 72 million.
So does this mean big bucks for the pharmaceutical companies? Nissen said no -- and in fact, it may mean a downturn in their business.
"Now, except for Crestor, they're virtually all generic -- you can get a three-month supply for $10," he said. "So there's really no money to be made with statins anymore."
He goes on to say that while prescriptions for these drugs will increase dramatically, the guidelines all but shunned other cholesterol-lowering drugs such as Zetia, a big moneymaker for Merck & Co.
Aside from the financial aspects of medicating 35 million more Americans, using statins in a much broader population has been controversial.
Some people, such as cancer expert Dr. David Agus, advocate giving everyone older than 45 a statin, due both to cholesterol-lowering properties and potential benefit in reducing cancer.
Others say that with the potential side effects from statin use -- muscle pains and soreness, a potential moderate increase in liver disease and a risk for developing Type 2 diabetes -- they should be used with care.
Nissen, who strongly disagrees with Agus' suggestion on statins, said a measured approach is best.
"If you have a young woman who is otherwise healthy, giving (her) a statin doesn't make any sense at all," Nissen said. "I do believe the evidence is solid that if you have risk, that statins are enormously beneficial."
Other recommendations
In addition to the guidelines on evaluating cholesterol risk, the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology released two other sets of guidelines relating to overall heart health.
One report gives guidelines for eating a heart-healthy diet, including reducing saturated and trans fats as well as limiting sodium to 2,400 milligrams per day -- 30% less than the average American consumes on a daily basis.
The other report dealt with treatment guidelines for physicians on managing weight loss in their patients. They include a call to create individualized weight loss plans and recommend counseling with a dietitian or other certified weight loss professional for at least six months.
That report also goes on to suggest that doctors should begin offering bariatric surgery as a potentially viable option to improve health for patients with a body mass index over 40, or those with a BMI over 35 and other complicating factors.


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A number of very good questions and answers on this site refer to specifically Catholic doctrine or terminology. I've been one to ask for clarification on these terms at times, however I think it's clear that asking for clarification every time I see a Catholic term I'm not familiar with will drag this site down rather quickly (as well as make me look like I have nothing better to do than ask the same type of question repeatedly).
Can someone (hopefully a Catholic!) recommend a good resource (preferably online) that explains common Catholic terminology in an accurate and respectful manner, to someone from a non-Catholic background?
If we get some good answers, I'll probably suggest this question for site FAQ inclusion.


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So I just saw this post on one of my FB friend's wall. I don't want to respond to it but WTF?! I never heard this before and I don't really know what to make of it:
"The book of Genesis is just as far-fetched as Scientology and Mormonism. But not even half as far-fetched as someone who doesn't believe in a higher power.
Atheism isn't a choice, its a disease that can be cured with scripture. So go out and tell all your atheist friends something they don't want to hear... This may be the time they actually cave in and drop their beliefs for yours."
This guy and I went to a Catholic high school together and I really can't wrap my head around this statement. Ok, he's admitting Genesis is a load of crap, good. Of course, that's kinda the Catholic Church's stance on Genesis...sooo not as good as it good be, especially considering the rest of the status. A disease? I don't think I have ever before heard that attack and ya. What do you make of this status? How would you respond if someone said this to you (better to be prepared than not)?
Can we please call this evangelizing "militant" like all the Christians/Catholics do to us?
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Atheism isn't a choice, its a disease that can be cured
Didn't Hitler say something similar about Jewish people? It's a step below militant imo...unless you take the Christian meaning of militant, at least.
If recent developments in Mali are anything to go by, religion does not like to tolerate any other then their own version, no competition allowed. Joking aside, you get the point with this Emo Phillips skid.
LOL...I don't care who you are that thar was some funny stuff. :D
Honestly, I think it's their answer to the claim that religion is a mental disorder, or a virus. I mean, I have to admit... I really don't like when people who are religious are accused of having a mental disorder, or some sort of brain virus. I think it's dishonest and simply snarky. I've known many highly intelligent Christians. I was a Christian, and now I'm not. A mental disorder doesn't just go away when you stop believing something.
Obviously, the idea that atheism is a disease is bullshit. But so is the idea that religion is a mental disorder. We're just flinging poo at this point.
I think people say this because they are so sick and tired of all the negativity they experience. It's a way to rant, and yes it's probably our way of 'flinging poo' but I doubt we all actually believe it's a disease. It's a way to express our dislike and disagreement for their views.
Theists probably say it for the same reason, but someone like this actually believes it's a disease and that's when things get dangerous.
Discounting people, via some mental illness assertion, does seem a little too convenient and self serving. Sadly, under some conditions, these beliefs can appear as part of an OCD, paranoid, or other mental condition. During my first student experience with atheism, as a co-director for an SOS group, we had a few folks on both sides, show serious excesses, but atleast no one was hurt. Passions can get the better of us at times. Commitments to the many versions of 'certainty', can give honesty a tough place to hang.
Our scepticism needs to be also directed at the 'versions of certainty'. Prematurely adding more decimal places, to an as yet rough measurement, does not really help. Theists adding the terms such as 'truth', 'absolute', 'immortal', etc, seem grasping at best. A 'certainty' based upon grasping, sustained by faith, seems a place supported by wet mud.
As atheists, expecting others to agree with us on details that 'seem' obvious to us, may have forgotten how long it took some of us to get it. Others that do not get 'it', are they mentally ill, deeply more enlightened than us, excessively content, or not yet exposed to that last datum that might rationally kill their commitment?
A few years ago, I viewed a Nazi film titled, 'Der Erwige Jedea'. It was rather obvious how the Nazi assertions concerning the values of the jews, their religion, ritual animal killing, etc could be used to paint the Jewish character as undesirable. As an example of inhumanity, we should consider this an ugly training film for racism and guestions of ethics. I often forget ...
"We're just flinging poo at this point." Nice touch!
My personal take on this:
"The book of Genesis is just as far-fetched as Scientology and Mormonism. But not even half as far-fetched as someone who doesn't believe in a higher power."
I understand that there is something greater than myself; it's called the universe. I also understand that my actions within it will effect others, so I try to make those actions positive. If by 'a higher power' you mean some type of god, then I'd say that is as far fetched as belief in centaurs, pixies, and flying fire serpents.
"Atheism isn't a choice, its a disease that can be cured with scripture."
Atheism is neither; it is the default position of being unconvinced by poorly crafted, pseudo-intellectual bullshit that is used to justify magical thought, and superstitious nonsense.
"So go out and tell all your atheist friends something they don't want to hear... This may be the time they actually cave in and drop their beliefs for yours."
Or, exercise some good judgment, and pay heed to the old saying, "It's better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you're an idiot, than open your mouth and remove all doubt."
"It's better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you're an idiot, than open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Sadly, this does not become active in reference to theists, till they are within a large group of atheists. Theism, is the local crazyness of choice it seems...
I don't know how much I'd agree. I think the fundamentalists and proselytizers are an embarrassment to most believers. Every time I've been in a conversation/debate with an evangelical, there have been cultural Christians looking on, and nearly all of them seem to enjoy watching the evangelical get skewered.
It's the cultural theists that make those discussions worth the effort. Those people have already decided that the dictates of their church are ridiculous. The wheels are already in motion, and it just takes some gentle nudging to get them rolling down the path that so many of us have already traveled.
I wish you could spread it by coughing. Even if it was an STD. But no, It takes intellectualism and courage. In fact in many parts of the world it has become eradicated.


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Your forum account has been activated and added to the member's list.Sans Deity 10:18, 28 September 2007 (CDT)
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I see you tried to use a template copied from another MediaWiki-based wiki. In case you didn't know why it failed, it's because we don't have the required parser functions (#ifdef and the like) on this wiki. We do have a slightly less convenient Template:If that can be used in place of #if, but no templates for #ifdef and #switch. (I don't even know if it's possible to replicate the functionality of those two functions with what we have here.) - dcljr 12:53, 19 November 2007 (CST)
- Yeah, it was a pretty lame attempt. I was trying to get a template merge, finally I just grabbed the template for wikify from this wiki and called it a day. No real need to be fancy, just wanted something to say that Jesus fulfilled prophecy is pretty much a dupe of Messianic prophecy, and was feeling adventurous in the realm of cargo cult programming. If you notice when I trashed the template for ambox I used fail summary. Although, actually the wikify and merge templates probably share like 95% of the same info and could be rereferenced to an box template (which would help if those templates needed a change). Tatarize 04:15, 20 November 2007 (CST)
- I tried such a thing with Template:Stub master, which all of the stub templates now use. Of course, that's only for stubs... You can use Iron Chariots Wiki:Sandbox and Template:Sandbox for further experimentation if you want to work on a general-purpose "box" template. BTW, I just deleted Template:Ambox (although I accidentally hit the Enter key before I finished the edit summary — urgh!). In the future you can use {{delete}} to mark any page you want an administrator to delete. - dcljr 01:57, 22 November 2007 (CST)
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I've noticed that you haven't been nesting section headers properly in some articles. The first section header in an article should be == Like this ==, with double-equals signs, not triple. Each sub-section level below that should add only one additional equals sign (on each side), like so:
Lead section. ==First section header== First section. ===Subsection=== Interesting prose. ====Sub-subsection==== More interesting prose. ===Subsection two=== Blah, blah, blah. ==Second main section== Yada, yada. ==Third main section== The end.
Note that =Single equals signs= should never be used because the title of the article itself is at that level. - dcljr 14:11, 27 November 2007 (CST)


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Industrial rents in Sydney have been consistently higher than in Melbourne. In 2012, Sydney super prime net effective rents (NER) attracted a 40% premium compared to Melbourne; today it is closer to 90% (figure 1).
Strong growth of industrial supply over the past five years in Melbourne outstripped demand, having a moderating impact on rents and causing incentives to grow from 7.5% in 2012 to 25% in 2017. At the same time, Sydney saw constrained supply, particularly in inner city areas as well as withdrawals of industrial stock for residential conversion. This has placed upward pressure on rents.
With this rent spread increasing, Melbourne looks more attractive from an industrial occupier perspective. However, there has been no shortage of occupiers willing to pay Sydney rents.


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An addiction is a compulsion that is hard to keep in check. It may at first seem harmless, then spiral out of control. People can become addicted to many things.
Alcohol dependency
As alcohol is socially acceptable, it often goes unnoticed that someone has developed a dependency to it for some time, particularly when there is pressure from peers making it hard to say 'no'. Alcohol dependency is much more common in men and can result in socially unacceptable behaviour such as excessive anger and aggression. Alcohol brings down our mood, which can complicate other issues such as depression. Click here for further information.
Drug and substance dependency
It is possible to become dependent on 'over-the-counter' medication as well as illegal drugs. Like alcohol, drug dependency rates are much higher among men. Drug dependency can result in alienation from loved ones, unemployment and criminality. Once the body becomes addicted to a drug, it can be extremely hard to stop. Coming off drugs can be tough on your mind and body. You may experience cramps, fever, headaches and goosebumps as well as many other symptoms.
It can sometimes seem impossible to get away from gambling, with casinos, scratch cards, betting shops and lotteries everywhere, not to mention the internet! It has been estimated that up to 3% of the population is addicted to gambling, and most of them are men. For many, it's the thrill of the risk that provides the biggest incentive – more so than actually winning. Gambling addictions can result in financial ruin, but also depression and suicide as well as having devastating consequences on family relationships and friendships.
The internet
It can be hard to draw the line sometimes between necessary internet use and internet addiction. However, if you feel compelled to go online or your behaviour becomes furtive, or starts to impact on your life – perhaps by disrupting sleep patterns or normal social interactions – it may be time to think about whether you are addicted.
Feeling compelled to excercise or exercising excessively is particularly common among men, and the problem is increasing, perhaps due to increasing pressures on men to have the 'ideal body'. Whether exercise is used as a form of control or due to vanity, it can take over a person's life, at the expense of of family, relationships, a job and finances.
Reasons for developing an addiction
Despite the large amount of research in this area, experts don't fully understand why some people become addicted to some things. It's possible that a number of factors combine, such as:
Genes: some people may be genetically more vulnerable to becoming addicted. Personality may also be a factor.
Childhood and family: childhood experiences may make some people more susceptible to addiction. Abuse in childhood has been linked to addiction later in life.
Social and cultural factors: when things are easily accessible and socially acceptable, it is easier to become addicted to them.
Breaking an addiction
Provided the person with the addiction wishes to stop, there are plenty of resources available:
Self help – Self-help groups can be useful for providing support and keeping people on track. There are also many good books on this subject including those listed below.
- Recovery from addiction: A practical guide to treatment, and quitting on your own by William Cloud and Robert Granfield
- Overcoming your addictions by Windy Dryden and Walter Matweychuk
- Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening by Robert Meyers and Brenda Wolfe
- 7 tools to beat addiction by Stanton Peele
- Beat the booze: a comprehensive guide to combating drink problems in all walks of life by Edmund & Helen Tirbutt
Professional help – in the case of drugs, medication may be prescribed by a GP to help alleviate withdrawal symptoms, but in most types of addiction, it is important for the person to deal with their addictive thoughts and psychological therapy of some sort is likely to be recommended. This may be counselling or a residential treatment.
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KANO, Nigeria — Ten Christians had their throats slit and militants killed two police officers during attacks on churches and border posts in a fresh wave of violence in northern Nigeria, officials reported Sunday.
The Islamist group Boko Haram was thought to be behind the slaughter of the Christians late on Saturday in the northern town of Chibok, local officials said.
"The attackers came in around 9:00 pm chanting 'Allahu Akbar', which made us suspect they are Boko Haram," said a local government official on condition of anonymity.
"They moved into selected homes in the predominantly Christian part of the town and slaughtered 10 people like sheep," the official added.
"Who else apart from Boko Haram members would go into homes and slit the throats of 10 people?" said another local official.
"They came armed with guns but decided to butcher their victims." Local resident Ezekiel Damina said: "The men came in large numbers and went into homes which… were carefully selected, and slaughtered 10 people while shouting 'Allahu Akbar' (God is Greatest).
"They then set houses in the area on fire. They just sacked the neighbourhood." The group was also suspected of being behind a series of attacks Sunday on churches and border posts in northeastern Nigeria, which according to residents left at least two policemen dead.
Around 50 gunmen in cars and on motorcycles carried out attacks on three churches and border posts with neighbouring Cameroon, opening fire on police, residents said.
Among the security posts burned were offices for immigration, customs and the secret police and a quarantine building in the city of Gamboru Ngala, about 140 kilometres (80 miles) from the Boko Haram stronghold of Maiduguri.
Gunmen went into town "chanting 'Allahu Akbar' and burned down the divisional police station and three churches," said Hamidu Ahmad, a resident."I saw two bodies in police uniform not far from the police station. One of them was sprawled by the roadside while the other was seated in a police van," another resident, Sani Kani said.
Another local witness gave the same report but said it was not immediately clear whether worshippers had been in the churches at the time of the attacks.
Residents reported gun battles between the assailants and police reinforcements who arrived from Maiduguri. Police and the army could not immediately be reached for comment. Boko Haram has often targeted churches in its bloody insurgency, as well as police and other symbols of the establishment in Nigeria. On November 25, 11 people were killed in twin suicide bombings targeting a church at a military barracks in the northern town of Jaji. Violence linked to the Boko Haram insurgency in northern and central Nigeria is believed to have left some 3,000 people dead since 2009, including killings by the security forces.
Two weeks ago leaflets were circulated around Gamboru Ngala by suspected Islamists saying that women were required to wear the Muslim veil and banning the sale of cigarettes, residents said. "A tailor named Adamu was shot dead last week by some suspected Boko Haram members for making clothes for women the group consider obscene," said resident Hajara Umar.
Boko Haram, which can be loosely translated from the northern Hausa language as "Western education is a sin", has claimed many attacks in northern and central parts of Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and top oil producer. Nigeria's population of some 160 million is roughly divided between the mainly Muslim north and the predominantly Christian south.
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Musings | Where will my spinning take me?
Like most women my age, which I will actually disclose is 32, I am virtually obsessed with my weight. Not necessarily in a productive way. As in I'm very good at complaining about it but not necessarily about taking action. I'll own that. It's always on my mind.
There are the questions. Constant questions. And you know you think them too. Did I eat too much today? Should I eat this now because of what I may have to eat later? Does this have processed sugars in it? What shouldn't have I eaten today? How does that skinny bitch eat a grilled cheese? If I don't eat this now can I get out of working out later? Who are these people that can handle 1 cheat day and not get thrown off the wagon?
As I embarked on a new diet and workout routine I've realized something. I enjoy spinning because it gives you the illusion of having achieved something and getting somewhere. In my case, I've spun my way to China.