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Chinese pollution is everyone's problem
About 20 percent of the world's population will be celebrating this weekend, welcoming in a new year with dancing dragons and fireworks.
Happy New Year, China.
You've wheezed and hacked your way through another click on the calendar. But instead of calling it the Year of the Black Snake maybe it should be the Year of the Black Lung, because that's what many more of you will have if you keep this up. You're making this world a very dirty place and we'd like you to please stop.
In news that should surprise no one, the Chinese government admitted two weeks ago that its air pollution had reached hazardous levels. The bigger shock is that they bothered to announce it all. Until now the government there has never acknowledged that it has a problem.
And yet its air pollution is very well-known. It was the most striking thing I noticed in two visits there. The sky was a constant brown and the street lights were shrouded in a persistent, dense fog. Honestly, it's like sitting in a giant hookah lounge.
It's the price they're paying for progress. While we in the West admire their economic development, we often overlook that China is also causing potential respiratory harm, not only to its own 1.3 billion people but also to the rest of the world.
Although Beijing is 6,200 miles away, it's conceivable that its air pollution could have some effect on the air quality here in California. Things blow around; it's just the way the atmosphere works.
"I think the answer to that is yes, it does have an effect, but it would probably be a fairly small contribution," said Sam Atwood, media relations director for the South Coast Air Quality Management District. His district monitors the air in this area. His counterpart in the eastern part of the county said basically the same thing.
"Two years ago when there was concern that radioactivity from Japan would show up in California it never materialized," said Violette Roberts. "There was nothing of significance and it's believed that most of it was absorbed by the ocean."
But a report in the academic journal Environmental Science and Technology a few years ago suggests that there could be more to this Chinese pollution problem than we realize. It was picked up by The Chemical and Engineering News and highlighted by the Wall Street Journal a little more than two years ago.
First, the report found a way to detect isotopes in the air that are commonly found in the coal-producing regions of eastern China and then it concluded that as much 30 percent of the San Francisco Bay Area's pollution matches those samples.
There wasn't much commotion over that report, so its accuracy may be in question. It's a case once again of who do we want to believe?
"I wouldn't trust those numbers to be very accurate," said UC Riverside chemical engineering professor Akua Asa-Awuku, who researches particles found in the air. "Less than 10 percent of China's pollution probably reaches us, depending on if it rains."
Asa-Awuku visited China last year and agrees there is an air pollution problem, similar perhaps to what California experienced 40 years ago.
"The Chinese say it's fog but if that was the case, it would be wet," Asa-Awuku said. "What I saw was dry."
Maybe it's just me being sensitive to all this because China really is a smudge pot. It burns more than half the world's coal and all of that is going up in smoke that drifts around the planet. News reports two weeks ago indicated that pollution levels there measured more than 40 times higher than the international recommended average.
So when I hear that members of the Murrieta City Council are exploring possible business and economic links to that country, I hope they keep this in mind. The business they court may seem green to us Americans, but their products may be produced in ways that contribute to world pollution. Those are questions that should be asked.
Because unlike the happiness that comes with another Chinese New Year, breathing dirty air is nothing to celebrate.
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$20,000 in merchandise stolen from Amherst computer store
Store owner says entire inventory wiped clean
A New Hampshire business owner is cleaning up after thieves hit his computer store in Amherst early Tuesday morning.
Matt Bernard, the owner of Brinestone Computers, was devastated to learn his store had been burglarized.
"They took everything: the demo units, the inventory, stock computers, etc.," said Bernard.
Thieves broke through the front door and took thousands of dollars of merchandise.
"Being frustrated is an understatement. There's a lot of emotions that come about in a situation like this. You're upset, mad, you're angry. You have to be resilient. So it's a mixed bag of emotions," said Bernard.
Bernard received two Purple Hearts during his time in the military, having served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He works to help other veterans get back into the civilian workforce.
Bernard said his inventory was wiped clean.
"Either an individual or several individuals had gone in through the front door by smashing the glass. Once inside, they were able to make their way out with $20,000 of computer equipment from Apple," said Detective Jim Crocker of the Amherst Police Department.
Among the items not stolen were the computers and electronics of the store's clients in for repair.
Police are asking anyone who has information about the crime to come forward.
Bernard said he just wants to have some sort of resolution in this incident.
"Justice hopefully will be served. I hope I get my computers back," said Bernard.
Bernard said he hopes to have the store back up and running at full capacity with computers from Apple that have been overnighted by Friday.


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The Spending Habits of India's Super Rich Revealed
If you are Indian and worth more than $4 million, you probably like Chinese food.
That was one of the findings of a Kotak Wealth Management report this week on the spending habits of India's rich.
As the common man waited for the good times to return, India continued to mint multi-millionaires last year and its super rich were on a spending spree, the report said.
The number of Indians worth of 250 million rupees ($4.2 million) or more rose 16% to 117,000 in the year ended March 31, the report said. That figure is up from 62,000 in fiscal 2011.
Last year more than 150 rich Indians Kotak interviewed on average increased their spending—as opposed to saving and investment—to 49% of their income, compared with 30% the year before.
"India's super rich are moving out of their comfort zones to put more (money) in the rare and the risky – exotic food, private equity and even space travel," said C. Jayaram, joint managing director of Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.
The Kotak survey tried to delve into the spending habits of this elite group of multimillionaires and found out that on average they seem to spend like the rest of us.
Like most people in India, the rich used the largest percentage of their discretionary spending on jewelry, clothes and holidays. It isn't until the bottom of their rankings of what they spent on that you find more rarefied items: art, wine and luxury watches.
When it comes to food, surprisingly—or maybe not -- Indian food comes in third after Chinese and Italian. It's not quite clear where they are eating good Lebanese, Mexican and Japanese food though, which are all hard to find in India.
The survey suggest you are more likely to find Indian millionaires at the mall than in the mountains. Shopping was picked as a reason for travel by the most millionaires—probably because there aren't enough nice shops in India for them to spend all their money. Beach holidays and hill stations were next in line. A few things that differentiate this group of super consumers from regular Indians: they go on safaris and can ski and when they travel it's usually in the business or first-class sections of the airplane.
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Man freed after decades on La.'s death row
SHREVEPORT, La. -- A man who spent nearly 30 years on Louisiana's death row was freed Tuesday after a court vacated his conviction in the murder of a Shreveport businessman.
Glenn Ford walked out of Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola at 5:40 p.m. Tuesday. The time spent behind bars for the Nov. 5, 1983 murder of Isadore Rozeman gave Ford the distinction of being the longest serving death row inmate.
Asked as he walked away from the prison gates after his release, Ford told WAFB-TV, "It feels good; my mind is going in all kind of directions. It feels good."
Ford said he does harbor some resentment at being wrongly jailed: "Yeah, cause, I've been locked up almost 30 years for something I didn't do."
Gary Clements and Aaron Novod, attorneys with the Capital Post Conviction Project of Louisiana, have been representing Ford.
"We are very pleased to see Glenn Ford finally exonerated, and we are particularly grateful that the prosecution and the court moved ahead so decisively to set Mr. Ford free," the said in a statement after Ford's departure from prison.
Undisclosed new evidence in the crime obtained last year set the wheels in motion for Ford's release. A court order vacating Ford's first-degree murder conviction and death sentence was filed Tuesday.
The attorneys say that new information corroborates what their client claimed all along: "That he was not present at nor involved in the crime for which he had been convicted and sentenced to death."
According to Ford's attorneys, his trial was "profoundly compromised by inexperienced counsel and by the unconstitutional suppression of evidence at his trial, including information from an informant, a suppressed police report related to the time of the crime and evidence of the murder weapon, which implicated the true perpetrator."
What's in Ford's future is unknown. Clements could not be immediately reached by phone or email for information on Ford's plans.
Ford, now 64, is a California native who moved to Shreveport to change his life.
Ford's release was anticipated by the Rozeman's family. Dr. Phillip Rozeman, a Shreveport physician who is Isadore Rozeman's nephew, was given a heads up by the district attorney's office.
"From a personal viewpoint for our family, this was a hard time and it was tragic that he was killed. It had a major impact, especially on my father, I think it had a negative impact on his health," Rozeman said in a telephone interview. "My uncle was a kind and gentle person. He never hurt anyone."
An investigation is continuing into "certain individuals who are not only responsible for the Rozeman homicide but several other unsolved homicides in our community, some of them very old and some of them not so old," First Assistant District Attorney Dale Cox said.
He expects within the next 30 days to bring one or more of those unsolved cases to a grand jury. Cox also plans to contact Ford's attorneys to see if he would be willing to cooperate in the ongoing investigation.
Movement in Ford's decades-old case began last year when Caddo Parish prosecutors began filing motions in federal court indicating someone other than Ford had confessed to being Rozeman's killer. The court documents indicate a confidential informant questioned in an unrelated homicide identified Jake Robinson, one of four men initially charged in Rozeman's murder, as the triggerman, not Ford.
Few other details were provided until Thursday, when the motion spurring Ford's release plainly stated that if the new evidence had been known when Ford went to trial the outcome would have been different. "Indeed, if the information had been within the knowledge of the state, Glenn Ford might not even have been arrested or indicted for this offense," the motion states.
Ford, who did occasional yard work for Rozeman, repeatedly denied any part in the homicide even though the investigation showed he was in the area of the shop at the time of the murder. The businessman was found shot to death behind the counter of his Stoner Avenue shop.
Ford was 34 was first arrested in November 1983 for possession of stolen items recovered from Rozeman's store. He was charged in February 1984 with murder, as were three other men, George Starks and brothers Henry Robinson and Jake Robinson.
Witnesses testified Ford was trying to sell a gun that was the same caliber of the Rozeman murder weapon. And Ford's name is on a pawn shop receipt for items similar to what were taken from Rozeman's shop. But Ford identified the Robinson brothers as suspects in the murder.
An all-white jury convicted Ford and sentenced him to die in the electric chair. Charges were dismissed against the three other men.
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(CNN) -- Those who live in fear today imagine that America is being overrun by foreign, disease-carrying, tax-sucking criminal hordes. They cannot imagine that immigrants, whether documented or not, could ever contribute to our country. They refer to the children and families trying to cross the southern border as "illegals."
But to quote John Lewis, who fought 50 years ago for civil rights and fights now for immigration reform, "There is no such thing as an illegal human being."
Language matters. Words are expressions of power and identity. And even something as trivial as punctuation can say a lot about what it means to become American.
For instance, I never hyphenate.
As I explain in my new book "A Chinaman's Chance," I call myself "Chinese American" -- without a hyphen. American is the noun, Chinese the adjective. Or, rather, Chinese is one adjective. I am many kinds of American, after all: a politically active American, a short American, an earnest American, an educated American.
This is not a quibble about grammar; it's a claim about the very act of claiming this country.
The hyphenated form, "Chinese-American," to me signifies a transaction between two parties, as in Chinese-American diplomatic negotiation or Chinese-American commerce and trade. The hyphen implies a state of interchange across nations. It does not name a person, much less a citizen.
For the same reason, I never really accepted the label that my immigrant parents attached to me and other second-generation kids: "ABC," or American-born Chinese. I understand why they used it. They had been formed in China. They were deeply culturally Chinese and as they tried to make their way in this country and raise kids, they hoped those kids would think of themselves the same way.
We didn't, exactly. The second generation rarely does. While Chineseness was a deep influence on my palate and vocabulary and moral sensibility, I grew up in this land, an American. I went to Chinese school on Sundays, but I counted the minutes until I could get back to playing baseball with my best friend John. I was raised at home with a Chinese belief in family obligation and social propriety, but I was schooled everywhere else in an American spirit of individual invention and reinvention.
Actually, my immigrant dad taught me this. He's the one who introduced me to the noxious phrase, "a Chinaman's chance," which since the 1850s had meant "slim to no chance."
When he came here in the late 1950s, he decided, with his wry sense of humor, to reappropriate this slur. He would apply it playfully to commonplace situations, such as saying that the Yankees had "a Chinaman's chance" of making a ninth-inning comeback.
That's how I grew up. To call me "American-born Chinese" is to make my birthplace and upbringing incidental rather than central. It is to imply that wherever a person of Chinese ethnicity may be born, he is not truly of that place; he is just a sojourner, attached to a vast global web of Chinese.
That's not the way of our nation. In America, immigrants become American -- and by so doing, change America. The change is accelerating.
We've already become heavily Hispanic. Now -- to the surprise of many -- Asians have become America's fastest-growing group. People who look like me can no longer be presumed foreign until proven otherwise. We are becoming the new face of the United States.
In 1914 or 1814, when Italians or Irish were coming in great waves (uninvited by government, by the way, and unsanctioned by law), "becoming American" meant assimilating to a white, WASP way. In 2014, it means entering a vibrant and more complex omniculture that mixes the styles and memes of the entire world.
This shouldn't be scary. It should be exciting. For what makes America enduringly great is precisely this ability to synthesize the best of the rest of the planet.
That's our edge -- as long as we don't blow it. Yes, not blowing it includes taking illegal immigration seriously because borders do matter, and so does enforcing borders. But it primarily means keeping our eye on the bigger picture: that we are stronger when we are more inclusive and better when we activate our full diversity.
Welcoming and integrating legal immigrants is therefore a necessity. So is creating a pathway to citizenship for our undocumented neighbors, friends and colleagues so that we don't leave millions of people stuck in second-class limbo.
There will never be a simple answer to the eternal American question, "Who is 'us'?" But in this moment when jobs feel scarcer and life feels more zero-sum, we have to make a conscious choice to be bigger than our fears. That, without hyphens or hyperventilating, is the true American way.
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News from the world of Maths
Maths is now an integral part in the study of evolution, describing how mutation and natural selection affect a reproducing population. And now maths has shown that it if you want to get ahead in the evolutionary race, it really does pay to be nice. We were lucky enough to visit the other Cambridge earlier this year to interview Professor Martin Nowak about the mathematics of altruism.
As we are having a little cake of our own today, we thought we'd look back on another great birthday celebration... Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday!
Hungry? Why not try one of Vi Hart's brilliant Tex Mex Hexaflexgons – maths has never tasted so good!
Are you reading this page because you decided to or because you were destined to from the start of time? Plus shares Mick's sentiment that we are free to do what we want, any old time. But what does physics and mathematics have to say about free will?
Make your childhood dreams come true and join the Paris Fire Brigade as part of the 2012-13 Mathematical Competitive Game.
A team of physicists have curbed the hope that quantum physics might be squared with common sense. At least if we want to hang on to Einstein's highly respected theory of relativity. Their result concerns what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance" and it may soon be possible to test their prediction in the lab.
Struggling to solve today's sudoku? Is your tried and tested method hitting a brick wall and you feel like you are going around in circles? New research might make you feel a bit better: you might not necessarily be stuck... perhaps you are just in a patch of transient chaos on your way to the solution.


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The everything bagel is one of the most iconic flavors of New York, and the most satisfying. The mix of salt, onion, garlic, poppy, sesame, and caraway seeds, combined with the subtle sweetness from the underlying bagel, is hard to beat. But what if it could be improved? What if, instead of a bagel the "everything" mix was applied to a big, yeasty pretzel?
That's exactly what Du Jour Bakery has done with their everything pretzel. The shape is a bagel-evocative ring instead of the common knot, but the crust is a little thicker and more well baked than a bagel so you experience a significant crunch when you bite into it. There's a certain kid-like pleasure of ripping off pieces of pretzel and popping them into your mouth that you just don't get with eating a bagel.
If you're not in the mood for savory when you visit Du Jour, there are certainly plenty of items on the other end of the salty-sweet spectrum. Such as the nutella crepe.
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Parker Junior Wins Library Associates Research Award
Zachary Ludens received the $250 Augustana Library Associates Research Award, given in recognition of outstanding achievement in research methodology and writing.
Biology Professor Named Associate Academic Dean
Dr. Michael Wanous, associate professor of biology and faculty member at Augustana College since 1997, has been appointed Associate Academic Dean. He is currently serving as chair of the Natural Science Division.
Prieb Receives Alumni Achievement Award
While speaking at the Augustana Thought Leader Forum on Friday, April 23, Laurel Prieb '77 received the Augustana Alumni Achievement Award. Prieb is the Vice President of Western Operations for Major League Baseball.
Sioux Falls Junior Elected President of ASA
Joel Thompson, a business administration and government/international affairs major, has been elected president of the Augustana Student Association (ASA) for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Dan Schoen Wins Augustana Covenant Award for Excellence
Dan Schoen, junior history and philosophy major from Maple Grove, MN, is the recipient of the Augustana Covenant Award for Excellence, one of the College's five core values.
KELO-TV: Professor Conducts Study on Children's Vocabulary
Dr. Olivia Lima, assistant professor of Psychology, was recently featured on KELO-TV for her research study that focuses on preschoolers' word learning in a school setting.
Augustana Students Involved in Plain Green Conference
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Augustana Students Sweep Research Competition
Augustana students Jared Soundy and Marissa Kern won outstanding undergraduate poster citations at the South Dakota Academy of Science meeting April 10 in Spearfish, SD.
Augustana Professor Appointed as Fulbright Scholar
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There are certain parts of the internet today that got very excited about Star Drive, an upcoming 4X space game. They're excited because, a long time after the game was little but a twinkle in its developer's eyes, it's shaping up to be everything a nostalgic 90's gamer/serious space nerd is looking for.
Seeing as I'm both, count me in. Though, you could have counted me in the moment I saw space bears. And funny little space owls. And dudes with space pipes.
Players will be exploring, colonising, designing ships then dropping them into battle, with combat looking more involved than some of the genre's other more passive efforts.
You'll be able to preorder the game on Steam soon; until then, you can check out the official site below.
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Millions of Fox fans will not have to go without their favorite shows after all.
The TV network and Time Warner Cable agreed to a long-awaited deal late Friday, preventing a threatened blackout that would've stopped Fox watchers from seeing their favorite football games, prime-time shows or any other network programming.
Fox said earlier this week it would yank its 14 networks from Time Warner once the contract between the parties expired at midnight Thursday, New Year's Eve.
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Fox and Time Warner announced New Year's Eve they would continue the talks into 2010, and reached an agreement Friday afternoon.
The terms of the agreement were not disclosed in full, but a statement from Fox and Time Warner called the negotiations "fair" and clarified that the deal would also include Bright House Networks.


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President Donald Trump and other policymakers from the world's top economies gathered in Argentina last weekend.
Katherine Marshall spent countless hours this year discussing what faith groups can contribute to the G20 agenda. As she read the "G20 Leaders' Declaration," published after this weekend's meetings in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she searched for the fruits of her labor.
"I did a word search for 'interfaith,' 'religious' and a few other things. I came up with zero results," said Marshall, senior fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.
The declaration promises future improvements in access to education, food security, gender equality and other areas. It doesn't mention how faith groups can help governments achieve these goals.
Marshall wasn't surprised about the results of her search. One of the things she's learned through her work with the G20 Interfaith Forum, an annual gathering of religious leaders, scholars and humanitarian organizations that aims to bring religious insights to the attention of G20 political leaders, is that becoming more visible in the G20 process is complicated.
Political leaders may acknowledge that religion inspires community service work and produces moral citizens, but they need a little more convincing to give faith groups a seat at the G20 Summit table.
"Being aware of and addressing the big issues in ways that … policymakers find useful can help get their attention," said Brian Grim, who participated in this year's forum, which took place in Argentina in September.
Moving forward, the G20 Interfaith Forum will continue to adjust how it coordinates and communicates with secular leaders, Marshall said.
"This is a continuing process," she said. "We're already working on Japan," where the G20 Summit will gather in 2019.
Coordinating agendas
The G20 Summit is an annual gathering of leaders from the world's wealthiest countries. Participants take turns hosting the event, and hosts set the meeting agenda.
As a result of this structure, each year brings new challenges for the G20 Interfaith Forum, which has met for the last five years. Each host country has unique interests that must be addressed.
"This isn't a typical academic meeting," Marshall said.
Forum organizers want to ensure their conversations are relevant, so they base much of their schedule on the G20 Summit agenda. Argentina chose the future of work, the infrastructure of economic development and food sustainability as this year's key G20 themes, so the forum featured discussions on fair labor practices, economic inequalities and environmental concerns, as the Deseret News reported in September.
"It's no accident that the lists of topics and so forth were consistent," Marshall said.
After the forum concluded, organizers summarized the three days of discussions and promoted related policy recommendations. This document sought to make it easy for secular leaders to bring religious actors and interests into their policy plans.
For example, G20 Interfaith Forum leaders note that faith leaders can be valuable partners in efforts to address climate change. "The challenges we face are not merely technological, but ethical. Religious communities are vital to addressing these dimensions," they wrote.
The policy recommendations also included more general calls to improve religious literacy and protect religious freedom. The document, like the forum as a whole, urges secular leaders to welcome religious voices to their discussions.
"Achieving longer term G20 objectives … depends on heavy lifting coming from religious communities around the world," this year's list of recommendations explained.
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As Marshall noted, the G20 Summit's summary declaration doesn't mention religion by name. Although the forum has formed valuable partnerships over the last five years, they aren't yet major players in the G20 process.
"Interfaith (activism) is not a central part of the G20 process," Marshall said.
In order to become a central part, the G20 Interfaith Forum could try to become an official engagement group, formalizing its relationship to the G20 Summit. Engagement groups provide their policy recommendations directly to political leaders, rather than relying on more informal networks to spread the word.
However, many obstacles stand in the way of this shift, including some resistance from forum participants, as the Deseret News reported in October. Some people worry that becoming a formal engagement group would mean giving up the freedom to discuss topics that aren't on political leaders' radars.
"We must … not link our work to the G20 so that we aren't limiting our capacity," said Alvaro Albacete, deputy general secretary of KAICIID, an international, multi-religious organization, during this year's forum.
In the short term, the G20 Interfaith Forum will have to rely on more subtle adjustments to increase its impact, organizers said.
For example, the forum could take cues not just from the G20 Summit's formal agenda, but also anticipate current events, said Grim, who is president of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation. Trade talk dominated this year's G20 Summit because of the ongoing clash between the U.S. and China, and it will likely also occupy leaders' attention next year in Japan, he said.
"Other issues that are likely to come up are security and demographics. Japan, China and Korea all have below replacement level fertility rates," Grim said.
Although it may be a while before formal G20 Summit documents include a shout out to faith, each year brings new partnerships and "clarifying" discoveries, Marshall said.
"The fact that there isn't an explicit mention of religion (in the G20 Leaders' declaration) doesn't mean the Argentina government and other governments didn't hear or weren't interested in it," she said. "I think we've come a long way."


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Super Bowl Sunday is upon us! You've already placed your bets on the winning team via as many boxes you can get your hands on, and now all that's left is to find a place to watch. We've scoured NYC to find the best spots to watch the game, and even found an option for the ladies.
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GO Burger is using their burgers as a form of betting. They are customizing their burgers—one for the Giants, and one for the Patriots. Order your team's burger during the first half and you will win a free beer or cocktail if your team is ahead at halftime. Order your team's burger during the second half and you will win a free beer or cocktail if your team wins. Don't like burgers? There are other options to eat, but not other chances to win. 1448 Second Avenue, New York, NY / 212-988-9882
Southern Hospitality
Southern Hospitality is almost exclusively catering to Giants fans. Patriots fans are more than welcome, but they will not be able to enjoy the free Big Blue shots every time the Giants score. For $80 per person, you get a top shelf open bar, plus a family-style dinner and guaranteed seating for the game. 1460 Second Avenue, New York, NY / 212-249-1001
Neely's Barbecue Parlor
Looking for a place to watch the game that has a classier spin on bar food? Hop over to Neely's where they are offering a Super Bowl menu filled with delicious options, including Applewood Smoked Chicken Wings with chipotle barbecue sauce and Maytag blue cheese dip, Pulled Beer Can Chicken Sliders with white barbecue sauce, and "Pig Skins" potato skins filled with slow smoked pulled pork topped with smoked gouda. 1125 First Avenue, New York, NY / 212-832-1551
Clubhouse Cafe
Go to the Clubhouse Cafe if you're looking for kosher food options. Clubhouse has the Super Bowl fare down, and it's all kosher. Come enjoy some rib-eye sliders, chicken wings, fried chicken, and more while watching the game on multiple large flat screens. No cover charge to enter. 155 W 46th St, New York, NY / 212-354-3838
Hudson Terrace
Trying to class up your Super Bowl Sunday? Try the swanky Hudson Terrace. It'll cost you $60 to enter, but you'll have access to the appetizer buffet and a complimentary cocktail or beer. If you want to treat yourself, you can purchase VIP access for $120 and you'll have access to the appetizer buffet and to an open bar from 6PM until your team wins—or loses. 621 West 46th Street, New York, NY / 212-315-9400
For $49, YOTEL is offering unlimited food and specialty drinks to celebrate Super Bowl Sunday. Enjoy unlimited access to crispy chicken wings, beef sliders, fries, grilled pork spare ribs and as many Manning Margaritas and Bloody Brady Sangrias (and draft beers) as you can stomach. 570 10th Avenue, New York, NY / 646-449-7700
The Tea Set Bistro
This one's for the ladies—who hate Super Bowl Sunday. There's no need to pretend to be interested in football when you can escape the bar scene and wander over to Tea Set Bistro to enjoy a champagne teatime for $40. What's champagne tea time, you ask? It's a cocktail made of luxury organic teas mixed with champagne, created by the owner of Tea Set Bistro himself, Jacques Doassans. 235 West 12th Street, New York, NY / 646-476-8731
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Film directors have long turned to the world of classical music to create atmosphere and add an extra layer of meaning to their movies - from Wagner's music in Apocalypse Now to Beethoven in A Clockwork Orange. Here, we pick six of the most unexpected and imaginative uses of classical music on the silver screen…
The Lone Ranger: Rossini's William Tell Overture Rossini's lengthy opera about the exploits of the Swiss folk hero is best known for the final section of its overture - and much of its fame is thanks to The Lone Ranger. The series, which started out on radio before migrating to television and the silver screen, followed the escapades of the masked hero and his companion Tonto as they fought injustice in the Old West of America. Rossini's William Tell Overture (or at least part of it) became the show's signature tune. And in this year's Disney blockbuster of the same name, starring Johnny Depp, Rossini's music once again played a starring role.
Brief Encounter: Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 Among the composer's most popular works, this Concerto has long been associated with cinematic romance. David Lean's Brief Encounter (below) of 1945 uses the piece as a symbol of the relationship between a suburban housewife and a doctor. The concerto can also be heard throughout Billy Wilder's comedy The Seven Year Itch, the opening of the work repeatedly appearing in the fantasies of middle-aged executive Richard Sherman as he dreams of seducing The Girl (Marilyn Monroe).
Manhattan: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue Arguably no film maker is as connected to a city as Woody Allen is to Manhattan, and no composer captured the giddy glamour and excitement of New York like Gershwin. The beginning of Allen's classic black-and-white film Manhattan opens with a montage of shots of the town set against Gershwin's jazz-soaked Rhapsody in Blue to create one of the most iconic openings in cinema.
M: Grieg's 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' from Peer Gynt Originally from Grieg's incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play of the same name, the presence of the piece in films is a sure sign of danger round the corner. Its most ominous manifestation is in Fritz Lang's 1931 thriller, M, with child killer Hans Beckert (played by Peter Lorre) whistling the melody whenever he is overcome by murderous urges. Even when Lorre is not on screen, the tune indicates that his character is lurking nearby.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: JS Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor The use of the Toccata and Fugue under the opening credits of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931) is undeniably eerie (see below). No less creepy is the use of the music in Billy Wilder's 1950 film noir, Sunset Boulevard. The Toccata wakes William Holden's character on his first night staying with fading star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). A more light-hearted use of the work is in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, accompanying a farcical rugby match between students and teachers.
Moonrise Kingdom: Britten's Noye's Fludde Wes Anderson's quirky film about two young misfits who run away together also serves as an homage to the music of Benjamin Britten (whose centenary the musical world has been celebrating this year). Indeed, the film's climax is a performance of Britten's opera for children, Noye's Fludde, and other works including Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra and Simple Symphony appear throughout the film. In the trailer (below), look out for Noah himself and any number of children dressed as animals…
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Manuel Pardo listens as his sentence is read in 1988.
Updated at 8:15 p.m. ET : STARKE, Fla. -- A former police officer who murdered nine people during a 1986 crime spree was executed Tuesday after his attorneys' last-minute appeals were rejected.
Manuel Pardo, 56, was pronounced dead at Florida State Prison at 7:47 p.m., about 16 minutes after the lethal injection process began. His attorneys had tried to block the execution by arguing that he was mentally ill, but federal courts declined to intercede.
Reporters could not hear his final statement because of an apparent malfunction in the death chamber's sound system. A white sheet had been pulled up to his chin and IV lines ran into his left arm. He blinked several times, his eyes moved back and forth and he took several deep breaths. Over the next several minutes the color drained from his face before he was pronounced dead.
Pardo spent Tuesday afternoon with eight family and friends and ordered a Cuban-style meal of roasted pork chunks, white rice and red beans, fried plantains with tomato and avocado, topped with olive oil, the Miami Herald reported. For dessert, he had pumpkin pie and Cuban coffee.
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Officials said most of Pardo's victims were involved with drugs. Pardo contended that he was doing the world a favor by killing them over three-month period in early 1986.
"I am a soldier, I accomplished my mission and I humbly ask you to give me the glory of ending my life and not send me to spend the rest of my days in state prison," Pardo told jurors at his 1988 trial.
Ann Howard, a spokeswoman for Florida's Department of Corrections, said that Pardo visited with eight people Tuesday. He also met with the prison chaplain and a Roman Catholic bishop.
Pardo ate a last meal of rice, red beans, roasted pork, plantains, avocado, tomatoes and olive oil. For dessert, he ate pumpkin pie and drank egg nog and Cuban Coffee. Under Department of Corrections rules, the meal's ingredients have to cost $40 or less, be available locally and made in the prison kitchen.
Pardo was dubbed the "Death Row Romeo" after he corresponded with dozens of women and persuaded many to send him money.
Pardo, a former Boy Scout and Navy veteran, began his law enforcement career in the 1970s with the Florida Highway Patrol, graduating at the top of his class at the academy. But he was fired from that agency in 1979 for falsifying traffic tickets. He was soon hired by the police department in Sweetwater, a small city in Miami-Dade County.
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In 1981, Pardo was one of four Sweetwater officers charged with brutality, but the cases were dismissed.
He was fired four years later after he flew to the Bahamas to testify at the trial of a Sweetwater colleague who was accused of drug smuggling. Pardo lied, telling the court they were international undercover agents.
Then over a 92-day period in early 1986, Pardo committed a series of robberies, killing six men and three women. He took photos of the victims and recounted some details in his diary, which was found along with newspaper clippings about the murders. Pardo was linked to the killings after using credit cards stolen from the victims.
Regino Musa, the brother of one of Pardo's victims, said it's difficult to grasp that the execution will finally happen. He and his elderly mother planned to attend.
"It's about time. It's been so long, you just want to get it over with," said Musa, whose sister, Sara Musa, was killed by Pardo. "I still have nightmares and I don't have words to describe it. I can't believe that it's happening."
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Bar Bites: Animal-Style Grilled Cheese Bruschetta
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As a life-long SoCal resident, I've always been lucky enough to have an In-N-Out within a 10-minute drive (at most) from wherever I've lived. And although I've been privy to much of the burger joint's legendary secret menu, my usual burger order routinely consists of a Double-Double Animal-Style, medium-rare, topped with a whole grilled onion, and a bag (or two) of chilis on the side.
And when that particular burger is flanked by fries and a soda, I'm usually good to go. But every now and then, when I'm feeling a bit more ravenous, I'll add an Animal-Style Grilled Cheese to my order—you know, as an appetizer.
For the uninitiated, a grilled cheese at In-N-Out not only features two slices of American cheese melted and sandwiched in a toasted hamburger bun (though you can get it that way), but it also comes stock with lettuce, tomatoes, raw onions, and a thousand island-like spread.
In other words, an In-N-Out grilled cheese is more or less a Double-Double sans meat. An "Animal-Style" grilled cheese, however, calls for the addition of pickles, extra spread, and grilled onions to the mix. Yes, even devoid of any meat, a grilled cheese at In-N-Out can be a hearty endeavor. And while noshing on this hearty grilled cheese recently, I realized how much better it would be if it were only paired with a chilly alcoholic beverage.
Really, anything at In-N-Out would be that much better when washed down with alcohol, but I felt particularly compelled to re-imagine the Animal-Style grilled cheese as a tipple-friendly appetizer at home. So that's what I did. I developed a homemade version of In-N-Out's Animal-Style Grilled Cheese. But in bruschetta form.
To make my beast of a bruschetta, I knew I had to start with the "spread." Anything "Animal-Style" at In-N-Out is lashed with a healthy dose of their thousand island dressing, so I wanted to replicate those same tangy-sweet flavors to spread onto my toast. Luckily for me, and for everyone really, Kenji already unlocked the mysteries of In-N-Out's spread within this recipe here. Since Kenji's spread recipe is so amazingly spot-on with the original incarnate, I used it as is for my bruschetta (if it ain't broke...).
With the spread conundrum conveniently solved for me, I moved on to the next Animal-Style benchmark—the grilled onions. Traditionally, Animal-Style grilled onions are of the chopped, slow-cooked, and caramelized variety. But because I didn't want to spend too much time caramelizing onions on the stovetop, I decided to go the whole grilled onion route by simply grilling slices of unseparated onion rings on my barbecue grill. I also decided that the tomatoes would benefit from a quick char on the grill as well. And while huge slices of ripe hot-house tomatoes are the norm on any In-N-Out burger, I went with sliced plum tomatoes because their small size fit perfectly on a sliced piece of baguette.
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After quickly grilling the veg, I brushed one side of the baguette slices with olive oil, and slathered the other side with the homemade spread. Then on top of the spread I placed two dill pickle chips, as well as a folded slice of good American cheese. When each slice of bread was given the spread, pickle, cheese treatment, I then placed a grilled tomato slice, along with some grilled onion rings, atop each of them. Finally, I placed the bruschetta over indirect heat on my grill just until the bottom of the bread toasted and the cheese melted. All that was missing was the lettuce. But believe me, grilled lettuce is limp, and fresh lettuce distracted from the overall gooeyness and char of the finished bruschetta.
The resultant bruschetta was gloriously Animal-Style-ized. I mean, what's better than a grilled cheese that's actually grilled on the barbecue? An Animal-Style grilled cheese, that's what! And when served in the guise of bruschetta, it's perfect for your next dinner party or backyard barbecue. It's also a great way to dress up a grilled cheese, or to make casual a bruschetta, depending on your viewpoint. Either way, this Animal-Style bruschetta nicely echoes its inspiration with toasted bread, gooey cheese, grilled onions, and homemade spread. And it's especially good with a cold beer, a glass of chilled white wine, or even a rosé if that's how you roll.
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I am trying to install the version 4.4.0 but I am facing a problem when compiling "libexo". I have the following error messages :
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I am using Suse Linux 10.1. I checked some dependancies : dbus is version 0.60-30, hal is version 0.5.6-33.11, udev is version 085-30.16.
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Thanks for this fast & appropriate answer. I upgrade to hal 0.5.8 (using opensuse 10.2 repositories) and everything was OK.
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Police have launched a homicide inquiry into the disappearance of missing man Amandeep Singh and say they are looking for his body.
Mr Singh, aged 22, has now been missing for 26 days.
What had previously been listed as a missing person case was upgraded to a murder inquiry this morning.
Extra detectives and ESR scientists have been brought in to support the inquiry.
The Indian national left his home at the western end of Gladstone Road in Gisborne at 11pm on December 29.
He was driving his silver Mazda Lantis car (WG5108), which was found abandoned in Dalton Street in the suburb of Kaiti about 11am the following morning.
Officer in charge of the inquiry Detective Sergeant Kevin Ford says police believe Mr Singh is dead.
"Our long-term aim is to find his body and return it to his family."
Police believed people in the community knew what has happened to him.
"We appeal to them to come forward."
The team of ESR scientists assisting the investigation yesterday examined the car Mr Singh owned, in the hunt for clues that will assist with the inquiry.
Det Sgt Ford would not comment on the result of that examination at this stage.
"We have also got some out-of-town detectives here to help."
Investigators are still particularly interested in confirming the movements of Mr Singh's car over the 12-hour period before it was found in Dalton Street.
"It was found in an empty section in the street, about half way down the street," says Det Sgt Ford.
Police earlier this week revealed that Mr Singh's bank accounts had not been touched since his disappearance.
Mr Singh's family in India and friends in Gisborne have all expressed deepening concern for his safety and wellbeing, as have police.
His disappearance is a common talking point in the community, with many people expressing concern that someone could go missing for such a length of time in Gisborne.
"What has happened to him?" a local resident said this morning. "It's such a worry that someone could just vanish here.
"Someone must know where he is." .
Det Sgt Ford says police want to know where he went and who he was with on the night of December 29.
"It is known he left home alone at 11pm that night.
"We believe he went to either the BW campground area or the Rhythm and Vines music festival, but we are not sure."
Mr Singh was a field worker for a contracting company that does a range of work in the Poverty Bay area.
He had been in Gisborne since September last year.
Anyone with information that can assist the homicide inquiry is asked to contact Det Sgt Ford at Gisborne police station, phone 06 869 0200.
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Western wear isn't just for the rodeo
Paul McCartney has worn pearl-snap shirts on "Saturday Night Live." Kid Rock has rocked the snaps, too. In fact, countless musicians and actors, such as Texas' Matthew McConaughey, often don new or vintage versions of the Western wear.
With the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in full swing, it doesn't hurt to follow the lead of the cool kids when working the style.
"Back when I started the band as the Dead Crickets (in 1992), that kind of Western cool shirt thing was the way to go," said Kevin Geil, 48, lead singer and acoustic guitarist for the San Antonio band Two Tons of Steel. "Everybody had 'em, so you'd go out looking for them.
Geil's first shirt - brown with a tan yoke and cuffs and gold inlays - was made by H Bar C, a clothier established in 1906.
"I bought it at a vintage clothing store (Camarillo's) in San Antonio. I still have it; my wife wears it. It's one of the coolest pearl snaps I have."
Geil now owns more than 50 snap shirts, both new and vintage. Many of his new shirts are from Walls, a ranch- and workwear clothing company.
Geil considers a shirt's cut, color and piping when he buys.
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"The old ones in the '70s have the big collars and the cuffs, and they are kind of gaudy," Geil said. "I don't think they'll ever go out of style."
Rockmount Ranch Wear founder Jack A. Weil (1901–2008) is credited with inventing the Western snap shirt in 1946.
"In those days, when cowboys rode into town they wore simple chamois shirts and denim Levis," Weil said in an interview that was published by Design Observer shortly after his death. "They had two or three months' pay in their pocket to raise hell with and get drunk, and I got the idea that they'd buy a few fancy shirts while they were at it."
He made the shirts close fitting so they wouldn't snag on brush and used longer-lasting snap closures. He also patented the saw-tooth pocket design common on Western shirts. He then marketed the style to the general public, because he realized he couldn't make enough money selling shirts solely to cowboys.
Chris Wise, 26, bassist for the Houston indie folk-rock band Buxton and a staffer at Cactus Music, is always on the lookout for a pearl-snap shirt, favoring vintage over new. One of his favorite shirts is a beige number with white, maroon and teal stitching.
"I got it at Leopard Lounge about a year ago," Wise said. "I like the (stitching); I like the fit. I like that if I want to continue to wear it, I can't completely let myself go."
Wise says he often scours resale and vintage shops while he's touring.
"I really like Agora, in Athens, Ga. I dress very simple, so I'm very particular about something being too flashy or busy."
In Houston, Wise shops at Taxi Taxi or Goodwill, but most often he trades with friends.
Another Houston collector is Mike Hildebrand, who, with Laura Levine, owns Replay on 19th Street in the Heights. Hildebrand has collected pearl-snap shirts for nearly 15 years. After scoring about 10 at a garage sale a decade or so ago, he began selling them.
"I picked them up and sort of went crazy," Hildebrand said. "When I was bartending, I would set up a blanket at what was called Swap and Bop.People would set up at the Continental (Club) and buy, sell and trade stuff from musical instruments to Hot Wheels. ... People in the music business and the cool crowd were starting to wear them."
Hildebrand says at one time he had approximately 150 shirts in his personal collection, but has since pared them to between 40 and 50.
"Every shirt I had in my closet was a Western snap shirt," said Hildebrand, who, like Geil, favors shirts from the '70s with a lot of piping and embroidery. "I remember in the '70s my dad was wearing them. He was wearing long-sleeve, cotton snap shirts with big collars. I loved that."
Hildebrand recommends looking for older shirts made in the U.S., because the quality is usually better than in new garments. He also says to consider your personality and style when shopping.
"Get one that you are going to wear," Hildebrand says. "If you aren't an over-the-top person, get something simple. They've been around forever. There really is no era for snap shirts."


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I also feel bad for a collaborator who actually discovered a certain effect and reported it to our lab (with nice figures and stuff). The first author just decided to repeat what the collaborator had done and now has the privilege of publishing it without even mentioning the collaborator (not even in the acknowledgement section). I wanted to ask the 1st author about it but I did not want to interfere in other people's business.
Im itching to return the deceitful favor.....but nah...I don't wanna stoop down to that level. I wish I had the heart to actually report some of the wrong doings to the journal (and the collaborator)...especially how some of the experiments were carried out and have been reported to be statistically significant (I talked to the first author several times about it, but nah, wouldn't budge)!
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Circulatory system disease accounted for one-third of all deaths in Canada (71,749 deaths) in 2005—the last year of published data.1 It remains the leading cause of hospitalization in the country, accounting for 14 per cent of the total.2
There are many types of circulatory diseases. More than half of circulatory system deaths in Canada are due to ischemic heart disease, also known as coronary artery disease, which is a condition that affects the supply of blood to the heart. The blood vessels are narrowed, reducing the supply of oxygen and nutrients to the heart, which can eventually result in a heart attack. Deaths due to cerebrovascular diseases (known as strokes) account for about 20 per cent of circulatory disease deaths in Canada.3
Canada ranks 4th out of the 16 peer countries, and earns an "A" grade. The most recent year of published data on circulatory disease mortality rates for Canada is 2004, with 161 deaths per 100,000 population. The estimated mortality rate for 2009 was 131 deaths per 100,000 population.4
The top three performing countries on this indicator are Japan, France, and Australia. In 2009, top-ranking Japan had a mortality rate due to circulatory diseases of 107 per 100,000 people. Finland is the worst performer on this indicator, with 204 deaths per 100,000 people.
Canada reduced deaths due to circulatory diseases from 584 per 100,000 population in 1960 to an estimated 131 in 2009—an average decline of 3 per cent per year. Only Australia managed a larger cut in its mortality rates—by 3.3 per cent, on average, per year.
The decline in the Canadian mortality rate is attributed to medical advances, new pharmaceuticals, and reductions in major risk factors, such as a decline in tobacco use.
Use the pull-down menu to compare the change in Canada's mortality rate due to circulatory diseases with that of its peers.
Canada has been a "B" performer since the 1970s.
France has been the only country to consistently earn an "A" over five decades. Japan improved to an "A" grade in the 1980s.
Other countries are losing ground: Germany fell to a "D" in the 1990s and 2000s; and Italy and the Netherlands fell to "C"s in the 2000s.
Finland has been a consistent "D" grade performer over the past five decades.
Circulatory system diseases encompass abnormalities of the heart and vessel system. They include cardiovascular diseases, such as heart disease and stroke, and hypertensive diseases.
Circulatory system diseases can be genetic or acquired. Lifestyle factors, such as diet and smoking, are hugely influential on the likelihood of developing a circulatory disease. Circulatory system diseases are also largely age-related.
The leading conditions contributing to circulatory system disease burden and mortality are hypertension (high blood pressure), stroke, and ischemic heart disease (coronary heart disease).
Risk factors for circulatory diseases include tobacco consumption, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, and heavy alcohol consumption. According to the World Health Organization, behavioural risk factors are responsible for about 80 per cent of coronary heart disease and strokes.5
These behavioural risk factors, in turn, may result in metabolic risk factors such as hypertension, raised blood glucose (possibly leading to type 2 diabetes), raised blood lipids, and obesity. Hypertension affects more than one in five people and is one of the major risk factors for heart disease.6
Other determinants of circulatory diseases include socio-economic determinants such as poverty (which affect behavioural factors) and heredity.
Physicians believe circulatory system diseases are mostly preventable. To prevent ischemic heart disease—the most prevalent cardiovascular disease in Canada and other industrialized countries, and the leading cause of death worldwide—the renowned Mayo Clinic in the U.S. recommends five strategies:7, 8
Addressing the modifiable risk factors that exist in a large proportion of the population would make a significant positive impact on the economic and emotional cost of circulatory disease.
A number of countries have developed health promotion policies to help prevent circulatory disease through behaviour modification. The U.K., for example, developed a program in partnership with the food and drink manufacturing industry to reduce salt content in about a quarter of manufactured foods.9
The U.S. government recently introduced a measure to promote healthy eating by replacing the food pyramid, which highlighted healthy foods to eat throughout the day, with the food plate, which provides an image of a plate divided into the major food groups (fruit, vegetables, grains, protein, dairy) that people should consume in each meal. A benefit of the new plate design is that it indicates the relative proportions that should be consumed from each of the food groups. The new guide encourages Americans to dedicate half of their meal plates to fruit and vegetables.10
Because of recent treatment advances, many individuals who would have died of circulatory disease in the past are now living with the disease. But although a reduction in mortality due to circulatory disease has increased life expectancy for Canadians, a longer life lived in poor health is not necessarily indicative of improved health outcomes.
Circulatory disease has a major impact on a patient's quality of life. According to a survey conducted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation in 2000, 90 per cent of the population with no history of circulatory disease reported "good, very good, or excellent" health. Meanwhile, respondents with self-reported heart disease or who had suffered a stroke claimed much lower levels of "good, very good, or excellent health," at 51 per cent and 37 per cent respectively.
Besides causing considerable difficulties for patients and affecting quality of life, circulatory system diseases have a significant economic cost. In Canada, total costs for three types of circulatory disease (coronary heart disease, stroke, and hypertensive heart disease) were estimated to be $21 billion in 2005.11 These costs include both direct costs (drugs, hospitals, physicians) and indirect costs. Indirect costs include mortality costs (costs associated with forgone income), long-term and short-term disability costs, and federal and provincial fiscal losses resulting from premature mortality.12 Not only do circulatory system diseases affect the health system, they also affect the overall economy through missed work and lower productivity.
1 Public Health Agency of Canada, "Leading Causes of Death and Hospitalization in Canada" (accessed January 23, 2012).
2 Ibid.
3 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD Health Data 2011.
4 Missing data up to 2009 were obtained by projecting the most recent year of data using a 10-year average annual growth rate. This was done for the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.
5 World Health Organization, "Cardiovascular Diseases", September 2011 (accessed January 10, 2012).
6 Public Health Agency of Canada, "Hypertension Facts and Figures" (accessed January 10, 2012).
7 Public Health Agency of Canada, "Six Types of Cardiovascular Disease" (accessed January 10, 2012).
8 Mayo Clinic, "Five Medication-Free Strategies to Prevent Heart Disease" (accessed January 10, 2012).
9 Clifton Coles, "Lifestyle diseases strike new targets: Fat, salt contribute to Third World health woes," The Futurist, March–April 2003 (accessed September 23, 2009).
10 United States Department of Agriculture, "ChooseMyPlate.gov" (accessed January 10, 2012).
11 Louis Thériault, Carol Stonebridge, and Sabrina Browarski, The Canadian Heart Health Strategy: Risk Factors and Future Cost Implications (Ottawa: The Conference Board of Canada, January 2010), 2. Note: the 2005 figure is in constant 2008 dollars.
12 Ibid., 1.
The annual number of deaths due to circulatory diseases per 100,000 population.
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The data on this page are current as of February 2012.


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How do I get rid of the cellulite on my thighs?
Cellulite is caused by irregular patterns of connective tissue beneath the skin, and as the adipose (fatty) tissue, which forms in compartments of little honeycombs, pushes into the skin, it causes the dimpling of cellulite. It has been shown that people who have cellulite have different patterns of connective tissue than people who don't, and men tend to have this pattern much less than women. Cellulite is not directly a function of excess weight, but a genetic difference in the way adipose tissue and connective tissue form. In fact, cellulite affects people whether they are overweight or not. Biochemically, cellulite does not behave any differently than other fat, and there is no health risk from cellulite (some evidence even suggests that lower extremity fat is protective against chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease).


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Just a Quick Question:
Honestly, any web site playing music (that's SO 2002) is one I instantly scratch off the list. Sorry. I just don't want to deal with it.
Turn off the volume on your computer, you say? Well, no thanks. I'm a music lover, and my newest affair is with Pandora, so my speakers are always playing good music.
'Til I hit a dorky wedding site, that is.
Horseback Riding in Toscana
Ok, it's just a DIFFERENT way to experience it :)
Anyway, for our horse portion of the trip, we stayed at the Rifugio Prategiano Hotel near Montieri, in the Maremma area of southern Toscana ("Tuscany"). We were there a week, with 5 full days of riding around the area.
The first day, Sunday, we just did a half-day ride to get used to the horses and, frankly, to break ourselves in gently to riding for 5-6 hours per day!
The next day we rode out from the hotel and from then on out, where we ended up in the afternoon was where the horses would "camp" (they'd bus us back and forth) 'til we got there the next morning. We ended up riding a huge, somewhat lopsided loop around the hotel area, never ending up more than a 40-minute car ride back to the comfort of our rooms each afternoon.The first night the horses stayed at a villa called Ancqua. We ended up meeting a Maremman cowboy (a butero) - Gino - who was our guide for a morning.


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Phils Take Game 1!
Some quick thoughts on yesterday's game, before I settle in to watch Game 2 on TV. No visual aids today.
The "August" version of Cliff Lee was in the park yesterday, going the distance as the Phils beat the Rockies 5-1. Thank goodness it wasn't "September" Lee that showed up! Today Cole Hamels takes the mound – let's hope we get "2008 Postseason" Cole, and not the inconsistent 2009 version.
Though it looked like a nice sunny day, the gusting, swirling winds made for some entertaining fielding. On one pop-up, the ball must have taken a U-turn while in flight, as Jimmy Rollins first ran out to short left, then abruptly ran back towards third base before making the catch. The wind also robbed Jayson Werth, and possibly Ryan Howard, of homers.
I can breathe a little easier with the Phillies victory yesterday, but if they can win today I will definitely feel more comfortable.
Speaking of TV, I despise the coverage by TBS. They seemed to be having some sort of technical difficulties yesterday, as the sound kept cutting out. I also have it on good authority from Jenn of Phillies Phollowers, who was there in person, that the crowd was REALLY LOUD. You would not have known that from the broadcast – the crowd sounds were buried in the mix, leaving the announcers all too easy to hear. Maybe I should try muting the TV and listening to the local radio broadcast :-).


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Apex Manor - Words and Music- 2011
3.23.11 11:34am
Apex Manor rose out of the ashes of The Broken West, and got started as a result of a challenge issued by an NPR music blog. Their debut album 'The Year of Magical Drinking', is out now, and they joined WFUV's Alisa Ali in Studio A for a conversation and performance. [1/19/11]


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Kalenna (Of Dirty Money) - Go To Work
"Kalenna has dropped her highly anticipated single "Go To Work" crowning her the Queen of Ciroc"
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Anyone interested in trading in their iPhone for a Windows Phone? Anybody?
While Apple reports record first weekend sales after launching the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, Microsoft it seems is running around trying convince folks to ditch their iPhone and jump to a Windows Phone. No, really. After a similar promotion where Microsoft stores would accept an iPad in trade in against a Windows 8 tablet, Forbes reports the folks from Redmond are to begin accepting iPhones as well:
According to an inside source at Microsoft, Microsoft Stores will begin giving a minimum $200 in-store credit for iPhones on Friday as part of its "#timetoswitch" campaign, obviously hoping consumers will use the cash to buy a Windows Phone.
On the one hand, you can't blame them for trying. There's a bunch of iPhone 4 and 4s owners out there who might be eying up something newer, shinier and with a little more junk in the trunk, that might not feel they can stretch to a new iPhone 5s. But, it reeks quite a lot of Microsoft trying to buy customers, rather than concentrating more on selling the value of Windows Phone as a platform.
The in-store credit could also be used towards another Microsoft device – perhaps a Surface 2 – but the iPhone trade-in program will reportedly be called "#timetoswitch," so it's clear where the true intentions lie. I just can't help but feel it's a shallow attempt at wooing customers who may ultimately end up disappointed. There's plenty to like about Windows Phone – I'm quite fond of my own Lumia 920 – so surely Microsoft would be better served marketing the heck out of it and advertising its strengths, than simply blindly buying customers?
The question remains; Anyone out there interested in trading in their iPhone for a Windows Phone? Anybody?
Source: Forbes via Windows Phone Central


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|Kodak Park in Colorado
And, since Polaroid kept much of the receiver design a secret, the only book-form reference we have is the Focal Press book by Andre Rott and Edith Weyde entitled, "Photographic Silver Halide Diffusion Processes", and certain of the early Edwin H. Land essays, such as published by McCann, particularly Volume 1, "Polarizers and Instant Photography". Then there are several patents, long expired, that hint of certain tips, tricks and practical implementations of "the receiver". These are, by far, the most valuable to us, and it is good that the companies concentrated on patents, which as you know have a limited lifetime, so anyone, including you, can now use them.
|Very small clumped and dispersed nanoparticles
Aqueous Coatings vs Solvent-Based Coatings
There are thousands of coatings and many techniques for coating sheet products such as paper, plastics, films and fabrics. We need to coat baryta paper - the paper that is normally used for photo prints - with the special materials mentioned previously to form the receiver sheet, and produce the positive print. Aqueous coatings, as the name suggests, are water-based. Water is a good and environmentally safer solvent for paints, for instance, and for things such as gelatin emulsions, candy, food, and printing. But solvent-based coatings have their own advantages: Oil paints use a solvent (volatile petroleum oils) to maintain a sticky, adhesive and semiliquid state. The solvent evaporates into the atmosphere. Other solvent-based materials contain alcohols, or light oils similar to paint thinner. Oil paints can be stronger, and tougher, and have other chemical advantages, but industrial coatings with solvent-based materials also require additional steps to capture and clean the evaporated solvents. Often this is termed "solvent recovery".
Our detective work tells us that traditional receivers are made of both aqueous (water) and solvent based materials, which have to work together to form the nucleating layer. Sounds complex? Yes it is. We are fortunate to have the experience of coaters, some who were with Kodak, Polaroid and other important firms in the coating business, to help us understand the manufacturing tradeoffs as we near decision points on the processes needed to produce New55 FILM. Even they, however, find this field of coated nanoparticles something they will have to learn about, too.
Secrecy is needed in industry, this we understand, and trade secrets are essential to keep. But when companies die, the knowledge can, and often does die. Look at the many industries and technologies from the Roman Era until today - medicine, surgery, navigation, pigments, gold plating, and many many more - that were lost because nobody dared write down how to do it out of fear of copying. It was not until the 18th Century when patents allowed inventors to bring forth their ideas for public review in return for 20 years of exclusivity, and look at what happened since then. But not everything to be known is written, and it certainly is not on the internet, or google searchable.
So that was the subject-of-the-week, amid many sourcing and vendor efforts, phone calls, visits, quotations and buying the things we need to finalize the design. Onward.


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The House resumed from September 28 consideration of the motion that Bill C-55, An Act to amend the Oceans Act and the Canada Petroleum Resources Act, be read the second time and referred to a committee.
House of Commons Hansard #209 of the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was protection.


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Rubens Barrichello ... Rookie of the Year!
Proving you can teach an old dog new tricks, Rubens Barrichello was named the Rookie of the Year after his 11th-place finish at the Indianapolis 500.
The 40-year-old Barrichello, who switched to Indycar after being released by Williams at the end of last season, was in the top ten at the three-quarter mark before being edged out by Helio Castroneves.
"It was a great achievement today," he said. "My first oval experience, it was very different than anything I've done. I'm very proud of what the team achieved. It's a pity that we didn't finish top 10 but I can be proud of that for my first time out.
"People were racing hard, it's just madness out there sometimes."
Another former Formula One stalwart - 48-year-old Jean Alesi - was the oldest man to make his Indy debut, but his day ended early and in frustration. He was black flagged by the officials after nine laps because his Lotus was too slow.
"We tried many things to avoid a lack of performance but it couldn't be overcome," Alesi said."It was frustrating but the regulation is fair and I leave with a lot of respect for the Indy 500. I hope to return next year. I will start to prepare now."


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Bristol's drone-dance duo Fuck Buttons are a group we like very much, despite their swear filter-breaking, slightly rude name. We like them so much we gave their new record a million out of ten (actually nine...), it's really a masterpiece of fuzzed-up brilliance.
So we're pretty made up that we've got the video PREMIERE of a wonderfully shot video of them performing in San Francisco from earlier last month, a performance at the Bottom of the Hill venue. The track is 'Rough Steez' and is taken from their current LP Tarot Sport, which is available in any shop worth their name.
You don't need more blabbering on about them any more, watch the video for yourself, and behold their brilliance.
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|Drake Hogestyn and Deidre Hall
Daytime Dial: Without getting yourself into trouble, you must tell me everything you can about John and Marlena's return.
Drake Hogestyn: In the time they've been gone, John has been working on his recovery. There is an event in Salem, the opening of the Horton Town Square, in honor of Tom and Alice Horton, and John and Marlena make an appearance. John is just starting to get the full capacity of his extremities back. Another event unfolds, and that is that certain authorities have been waiting for John Black to land on American soil, because there are some issues that will create an umbrella story line that defines all the characters.
On Sept. 26, we're turning a page of "Days of our Lives." We're bringing back a lot of fan favorites — when I walked on that show, it took me three hours to get from the parking spot to the dressing room, because I saw cameramen that I haven't seen in forever; we're laughing and scratching in the hallway. I walked down the hallway between Studio 2 and 4, and they are breaking for lunch, and out walks Matt Ashford and Christy Clark and Patrick Muldoon, and it's just this warm, fuzzy feeling of throwback in the history of "Days." We're laughing and crying, and the energy that's going through NBC right now, and "Days" in particular, is just amazing.
What we're going to do is, we're going to take the audience back to that period of time when our show was at the apex. When everybody was on board in the late '80s and early '90s, when we had engaging stories and compelling actors and very well-defined, character-driven stories. And that's what we're doing now.
DD: That's exactly when I started watching, around 1989 or 1990, and it was, without a doubt, the best soap on television. So I am thrilled you are going back to those roots.
DH: This is exactly what I'm talking about, Cindy. That's when everybody was on board with the show. We had all that romance; we had action, adventure, intrigue and mystery that "Days" was famous for, and that's what we're going back to. With Marlene McPherson and Darrell Ray Thomas, they know the history of the show. They've been there. They came aboard with Jim Riley, even though Jim had some crazy story lines that came out of left field.
As long as the actors played the thread, played the grain of truth in there, the audience would always be on board. The stories are contemporary, and by that I mean they are torn right out of the headlines of the front page of every paper in the nation of what is going on with the economic times, and John is right in the center of all of that right now. These are topics people are going to relate to because it is affecting their lives, and how are we going to play that out on "Days of our Lives"? That is the interesting, organic part of it.
DD: With John Black back in town, I know one person who could really use his guidance: his son, Brady.
DH: We had one scene and almost everyone was there, and Marlena says, "Everybody's here," and I said, "Not everybody." And she knew that I was looking for Brady. After the highlight of the night is over, I do approach him. It goes as John expected. There have been conversations between the two of them while John was away, and John has been disapproving of choices Brady has made in his life. But it looks as though Brady is starting to try to change his life around on his own. We'll see, but I do think there are some great dynamics there.
DD: Are you looking forward to working with the newer actors, many of whom came aboard while you were gone?
DH: Definitely. I'm looking forward to working with Eric (Martsolf, who plays Brady). Our ships were passing in the night back then. He came on board at the very end of 2008 — I was anchoring my ship somewhere else, and he was setting sail. That's a very interesting transformation too, and the same thing with Galen Gering. These actors came over from another show ("Passions"), and they were finding their shoes of the characters on "Days of Our Lives," and it was very established at that time. Now, it's like I'm entering their show, and you can see how comfortable they are with their characters and the relationship their characters have formed with other characters on the show. Now John and Marlena are entering that orbit. Now we're finding how to work with these other actors who are now established on the show. This is a really nice dance that is going on. I'm enjoying it a lot.
DD: Are there some quintessential John Black-type scenes you are looking forward to playing?
DH: That's a really good question. As you get older, you have to change also. You're not going to be the swashbuckler. Every once in a while, they might throw me a bone like that. But what I wanted to do, what I think is cut out for Deidre (Hall) and myself, is to take that audience back and put them emotionally in that warm and fuzzy, safe place, especially in these troubling economic times where marriages are dissolving left and right over financial ruin. If you stay strong as a couple, and you are holding hands, and you love each other, and you believe that the power of two can get through anything. That is going to be our goal: to keep the audience on board, the ones who got us there for all those years.
And I don't take anything for granted. You're only as good as your last show. When I played professional baseball with the Yankees, you were only as good as your last game. So, every day you roll up your sleeves, and you can't wait to show America what's on the next page. And right now, with the engaging story we have, everybody is just bringing it with both barrels right now. I think the audience is really going to respond to this in the most favorable way. And when they turn the show back on, and they see some of these old fan favorites engaging again, it's going to put that audience in that great place.