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Denny Hamlin? Says he's okay to start-and-swap in Sunday's Talladega 500. Others question that....
By Mike Mulhern
TALLADEGA, Ala.
While listening to Waylon, Willie and the boys, trying to keep the firewood dry, and reflecting on a bit of how NASCAR racing has changed over the years...
This is the home of the 'Big One,' and there have been a lot of those.
Tony Stewart's block-and-crash last fall was memorable, for sure.
And maybe Denny Hamlin and NASCAR executives might want to check out this video: Big Ones
Rain washed out Saturday qualifying for Sunday's Talladega 500/Aaron's 499, and that puts Carl Edwards and Martin Truex Jr., Friday's two fastest in first round practice, on the front row for the 12noonCT/1pmET start.
Hamlin got back in the car Friday for the first time since his March 24th crash in California, and he ran 16 laps at speed at Talladega Superspeedway, then letting relief driver Brian Vickers take over.
Hamlin got NASCAR's okay to drive in Sunday's 500, though some in the stock car garage are questioning why Hamlin is in such a rush to race again, given the seriousness of his back injury. Hamlin says he has been given medical clearance to run the full 500 miles, but says he plans to turn the car over to Vickers at the first caution.
Hamlin says he plans to make that driver swap by crawling through the roof, while Vickers slides in through the window.
Jack Roush teammates Carl Edwards (R) and Ricky Stenhouse (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
With rain in the forecast for Saturday's qualifying, drivers worked Friday to get in enough practice for Sunday's 12pmCT/1pmET start. With qualifying rained out, most of the starting grid is set by practice speeds (new this year, rather than point standings): the 10 fastest were Ford's Edwards (199.675 mph), Toyota's Truex, Ford's Marcos Ambrose, Ford's Joey Logano, Chevy's Ryan Newman, Chevy's Matt Kenseth, Toyota's Hamlin/Vickers, Chevy's Jimmie Johnson, Chevy's Jeff Gordon, and Chevy's Kasey Kahne.
Edwards' 199 would be the fastest qualifying lap since 1987, but it will not be an official speed if quals are washed out; it was a partially draft-assisted speed anyway. But it does show how fast the cars are here.
Noticeably off the pace in Friday practice: Kurt Busch, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer, all headliners last weekend at Richmond. However the draft is a great equalizer.
Paul Wolfe, Brad Keselowski's crew chief, watches his Ford running through NASCAR's Talladega inspection station. "Inspection Theater?" Why doesn't NASCAR simply inspect all the cars each week at its Charlotte R&D center? (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Hamlin? He insists he's up for this next step.
"It's really good to get back and run some speed and get adrenaline pumping again," Hamlin says.
His goal is to crack the top-20 in the standings by the Sept. 7th playoff cut and have two wins by that point. That, he says, would get him into the chase.
Pain? "No discomfort inside the car at all," Hamlin says. "The most discomfort I have is getting out of the car. That's why we're choosing to go through the roof. Any twisting we can keep out of will be good.
"Inside the car I feel like I did six or seven weeks ago."
He says he's got the driver change down to a cautious one minute plus a few seconds. "So I think we're going to be plenty good if a caution comes out to come out, to preserve a lap."
For a man with previous back ailments, this all seems a bit rushed, according to some in the garage who have been through similar situations.
How in the world did a doctor give the okay for Hamlin to get back in a race car where he could easily crash again?
"It's a process," Hamlin says carefully. "Any time you come back from major injury it's a process.
"We had an amazing group of doctors that looked my (MRI) scans over, and saw me in person. It wasn't a consensus for Richmond, so we decided to err on the safe side."
Hamlin tries to downplay some of the issues: "Basically what we were going to do this weekend is the equivalent of a quarterback hiking the ball and taking a knee .
"We were going to very much minimize our risks this weekend of reinjuring ourselves...which gives us one more week to heal."
And he says he plans on going the distance next weekend at Darlington.
Michael Waltrip: crashed out by Tony Stewart here last fall while battling for the win. (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Hamlin insists he's got a good game plan now to make the playoffs and race for the championship.
"We're going to have to make a big, big run these next 17 weeks if we're going to be part of the post-season," he says.
"I'm excited about the challenge.
"Our chase has got to start right now. We've got to perform each week like it is a chase race and do everything we can to get wins -- because if we don't win, it really doesn't matter."
Hamlin concedes an early wreck could happen here. "We've seen it here on lap one, and we've seen it on the last lap. I'm going to put myself in what I believe is a safe position."
Racing injured is nothing new. Richard Petty once raced with a broken neck, though no one else knew it at the time.
"If this was the old NASCAR -- if this was the '80s or '90s, I would have been racing at Martinsville (the week following his crash).
"But NASCAR has put in place some great people with their medical staff, and they insured my quality of life is not in danger when I get on the track. I thank them for that.
"...and obviously the format which we have to make the chase.
"If this was the old system, we would be long out of it.
"I just wanted to feel speed again. We're competitors...we have alligator blood."
However Hamlin does, cautiously, concede there is a possibility of a more serious injury here.
"I have to be careful with the answer of this," he says. "There are going to be risks. There is risk.
"Nobody knows (when the injury will be fully healed), and that's what makes this really, really hard.
"With bone healing -- it doesn't matter if you break your arm, you break your leg --or whatever, a bone takes a year to heal.
"But I understand it would take such a significant hit (for a major reinjury) that you probably would be injured from it even if you were 100 percent healthy.
"I've got to let the doctors speak for that... because I don't know the risks exactly, and neither do they. We're just trying to buy myself another week until Darlington.
"But the risk is so minimal it's almost not even there."
Clint Bowyer: a winner here, one of the sport's strongest drivers, a challenger last weekend at Richmond...and a good pick in Sunday's Talladega 500 (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
How this approval really happened isn't that clear. "I will say it's not really NASCAR," Hamlin says. "None of this was NASCAR not approving me. They relied on their medical staff.
"They relied then on my medical staff to give us clearance.
"They don't really have a say-so yes or no."
That's hard to buy, however.
"The only thing that is different is that you're either cleared 100 percent or you're not," Hamlin went on.
All this to keep a long-shot at making the chase.
"When this happened, and we started figuring things out, missing five points races -- if we just did what we did last year, we would make it," Hamlin says.
"It's Game Seven every single week for the next 17 weeks for us.
"We know if we win two races, I'm going to find it very hard to believe we won't be part of the chase.
"Getting to 20th in 17 weeks, we can probably do that. It's just a matter whether we can win the races or not."
Johanna Long: no silver spoon driver here. Just a good ol' blue-collar working girl, trying to make a living on the stock car tour (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
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Here in Warsaw on Thursday, numerous issues were considered in contact groups, informal consultations, workshops and other events under the COP, CMP, SBI, SBSTA and ADP.
Delegates following issues under the SBI had to make up for lost time in June when the SBI did not convene due an agenda dispute.
In the ADP a workshop on urbanization and the role of governments in facilitating climate action in cities took place in the afternoon. The aim of the event was to identify practical approaches to increase pre-2020 emission reduction ambition.
You can find our written reports and photographs for this meeting here » enb.iisd.org/climate/cop19/

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Rebel-on-Rebel Violence Seizes Syria
An al Qaeda spinoff operating near Aleppo, Syria's largest city, last week began a new battle campaign it dubbed "Expunging Filth."
The target wasn't their avowed enemy, the Syrian government. Instead, it was their nominal ally, the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army.
Across northern and eastern Syria, units of the jihadist group known as ISIS are seizing territory—on the battlefield and behind the front lines—from Western-backed rebels.
Some FSA fighters now consider the extremists to be as big a threat to their survival as the forces of President Bashar al-Assad.
"It's a three-front war," a U.S. official said of the FSA rebels' fight: They face the Assad regime, forces from its Lebanese ally Hezbollah, and now the multinational jihadist ranks of ISIS.
Brigade leaders of the FSA say that ISIS, an Iraqi al Qaeda outfit whose formal name is the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, has dragged them into a battle they are ill-equipped to fight.
Some U.S. officials said they see it as a battle for the FSA's survival.
In recent months, ISIS has become a magnet for foreign jihadists who view the war in Syria not primarily as a means to overthrow the Assad regime but rather as a historic battleground for a larger Sunni holy war. According to centuries-old Islamic prophecy they espouse, they must establish an Islamic state in Syria as a step to achieving a global one.
Al Qaeda militants from central command in Pakistan and Pakistani Taliban fighters have also set up operational bases in northern Syria, people familiar with their operations said.
The spread of ISIS illustrates the failure of Western-backed Syrian moderates to establish authority in opposition-held parts of Syria, some of which have been under rebel control for over a year.
The proliferation of the Sunni jihadists and extremists has brought a new type of terror to the lives of many Syrians who have endured civil war in the north. Summary executions of Alawites and Shiites, who are seen as apostates, attacks on Shiite shrines, and kidnappings and assassinations of pro-Western rebels are on the rise.
Estimates on the size of ISIS range from 7,000 to 10,000 fighters. Fighters from ISIS—though it shares the goal of toppling Mr. Assad's Shiite-linked Alawite regime—have frustrated Sunni communities that until recently embraced the military prowess and social services of Islamist rebels, local residents said.
The FSA's fight with extremists is spurring new rebel calls for Western help, after the U.S. put on hold what had looked like imminent strikes on the Assad regime. Instead, diplomacy has taken over, after a U.S.-Russian deal to disarm Syria's chemical weapons.
A parallel effort continues by Gulf states—and to a much lesser extent by the U.S.—to strengthen select rebel units viewed as moderate, according to Western officials familiar with the arms flow to Syrian rebels.
The FSA's Supreme Military Council, and other rebels who want the U.S. to intervene on their behalf, see the rise of ISIS as an opportunity to firmly separate themselves from al Qaeda militants, whose presence they believe is holding the U.S. back.
This account of the growing influence of ISIS and its backlash is based on interviews with FSA rebels fighting ISIS, Syrian jihadists who have fought alongside the al Qaeda group or are familiar with its operations, and Western officials.
Representatives of ISIS, a group also known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and in Arabic as al-Dawla, couldn't be reached for this article.
"There's been a real shift in focus [among Syrians in the north]," a Western official working with the opposition said. "A sense of 'We can't get rid of the regime without getting rid of Dawla first.' "
U.S. officials said one reason for the delay in funneling small quantities of light arms to rebels, which began this month, is the difficulty of creating secure pipelines of delivery to intended recipients.
The chaos of the Syrian battlefield, where those fighting to overthrow Mr. Assad sometimes fight side-by-side with those who see Syria as a springboard for global jihad, has compounded U.S. concerns over this process.
U.S. and other Western officials said they were aware of a local backlash and localized FSA counteroffensives against ISIS. They welcomed FSA efforts to draw a line between al Qaeda fighters and the rebels who Western states back.
The extremists pose a threat to the ability of the political opposition, too, to gain legitimacy on the ground and better coordinate with the Free Syrian Army.
In the past half-year, as the Syrian Opposition Coalition, the main opposition body, deliberated over forming what it calls an interim government, extremists have gained ground across the north.
"It's an uphill struggle for the coalition's interim government to establish itself inside Syria in the face of threats from the regime, and extremists, but there is still an opportunity to be missed here," a senior Western diplomat said. "It's still the case that a majority of Syrians are not up for Talibanization. Given a moderate alternative, they will choose that."
The other alternative: A lawless north becomes a launchpad for jihadists, akin to areas of Pakistan and the Arabian peninsula.
"The roots of Waziristan, of southern Yemen have been planted in northern Syria," a Western official working with the opposition said.
The group has moved quickly. In mid-August, ISIS pushed a well-known FSA unit, the Ahfad al-Rasoul brigades, out of the city of Raqqa in northern Syria after tit-for-tat killings and bombings between their fighters.
On Wednesday, clashes broke out in the town of Azaz, near the Turkish border, between ISIS fighters and rebels from an FSA-allied group, leading to some casualties on both sides, opposition activists in the town said. Clashes continued past midnight, activists said.
Along Syria's border with Turkey, ISIS fighters are trying to wrest the four major crossings from other rebel units, in a bid to control supply routes, according to rebels battling the extremists, and Western officials.
In recent weeks, ISIS fighters have adopted a strategy of dropping back—taking rear positions—as rebels with the FSA alliance leave for front lines to fight government forces, allowing ISIS to build a presence in towns and villages left without security or services.
Some Syrians in the villages that dot the Turkish border have changed their lifestyles to dodge persecution by followers of ISIS's fearsome brand of Islamic extremism.
Local men grow beards to pass without scrutiny through ISIS checkpoints. Many Syrian activists and aid workers, wary of their affiliations with Western aid agencies and governments, now say they prefer to work in Turkey and avoid cross-border trips, many border residents and aid workers said.
These jihadists see a long-term mission in Syria. Foreign fighters have begun to move their families to Turkish border areas, locals said.
The trickle of families picked up after the possibility of a U.S. strike on Syrian government targets emerged late last month in response to an Aug. 21 chemical attack near Damascus. U.S. officials said they saw indications the militants hoped they could seize on a U.S. strike to shift momentum against the regime.
As the U.S. threat receded, emboldened ISIS militants ramped up efforts to win local support, said Hamid Ibrahim, a spokesman for FSA leader Gen. Salim Idriss.
"They are telling them: 'We told you that you can't depend on America for freedom. Don't be fooled—you only have us,' " Mr. Ibrahim said.
The Supreme Military Council, led by Gen. Idriss, has been the focus of U.S. efforts to bring a command-and-control structure to rebels—but has now lost to the Islamist extremists most of its ability to operate in some parts of the north.
ISIS fighters recently raided a council arms depot filled with lights weapons and ammunition, funded by the Gulf states and funneled to the council with the guidance of the Central Intelligence Agency, council members said.
From Idlib in the north to Deir el-Zour in the east, Syrian activists are looking for Western help to learn ways to push back against al Qaeda's influence.
In Aleppo and Hama, local rebel police forces are being trained with U.S. funds to put security in the hands of American allies.
The foreign jihadists have become a problem even for some of the hard-line Syrian Islamists who worked most closely with them on the battlefield. One such group is Ahrar al-Sham.
On Sept. 10, a gunfight that broke out at an ISIS checkpoint in Idlib killed a revered leader, Abu Obeida, as he accompanied Turkish and Malaysian relief workers on a distribution mission, unleashing criticism in Islamist rebel circles against ISIS.
ISIS members, posting on social-media networks, said the delegation was stopped because fighters confused the Malaysian flag for the American flag.
They deny intending to kill Abu Obeida, and said they aimed to shoot him in the legs only to keep him from running away after they had ambushed him and stuck him in the trunk of a car.
Gaining Ground
The spread of Iraqi al Qaeda groups in Syria
Late 2011 The Islamic State of Iraq, or ISI, al Qaeda's Iraq branch, moves operatives to Syria to set up a new affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra.
January 2013 Al-Nusra, led by Abu Muhammad al-Golani, announces itself as an official entity in online videos. In the months that follow, al-Nusra becomes a leading Syrian rebel fighting force, attracting thousands of jihadists, including foreigners. It also provides social services in parts of northern Syria—and ends up designated by Washington as a foreign terrorist organization.
April ISI leader Abu Baker al-Baghdadi changes the name of ISI to Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, in an attempt to swallow Jabhat al-Nusra into a broadened entity. Al-Nusra's leader, al-Golani, rejects the plan, pledging allegiance to central al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Spring 2013 In the months that follow, the two groups separate. Syrian jihadists leave al-Nusra for ISIS. ISIS begins to attract thousands of foreign fighters to Syria.
June 13 At conference in Cairo of regional Sunni clerics, over 100 prominent religious leaders sign a document urging jihad in Syria; more foreign fighters flock to the civil war.
Aug. 15 ISIS pushes FSA unit the Ahfad al-Rasoul brigades out of the city of Raqqa, after detonating several suicide car bombs, including one that destroyed the brigades' headquarters there.
Sept. 10 A leader of hard-line Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham is killed after a clash at an ISIS checkpoint in Idlib.
Sept. 11 Al Qaeda chief al-Zawahiri urges Islamists fighting in Syria not to work with the secular opposition. He also calls for 'lone-wolf' or small-scale attacks to damage the U.S. economy.
Sept. 11 Syrian government warplanes bomb a field hospital in al-Bab, a town in Aleppo under ISIS control. Residents and FSA fighters respond by attacking the ISIS headquarters in the town.
Sept. 12 ISIS fighters take over a base in eastern Hama including a depot with dozens of rockets, rocket launchers and armored vehicles.
Sept. 13 ISIS's eastern Aleppo unit declares war on its rivals in a campaign it named 'Expunging Filth,' identifying two FSA units by name.
Sept. 18 ISIS and an FSA-allied unit clash in Azaz, an Aleppo town 2½ miles from the Turkish border. An opposition activist in the town said ISIS attacked the unit for trying to obstruct the al Qaeda group from arresting a German doctor working at an Azaz field hospital.
—Siobhan Gorman contributed to this article.
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Walmart Hostage Video Released: 2 Year Old Taken Hostage by Knife-Wielding Man (VIDEO, PHOTO)
Walmart Hostage Video Released: 2 Year Old Taken Hostage by Knife-Wielding Man (VIDEO, PHOTO)
A Walmart hostage situation has shocked locals in Oklahoma after video footage of the terrifying incident went viral online this week showing a 2 year old toddler being held at knife point.
The hostage incident took place in a Walmart in Oklahoma and the entire ordeal was caught on camera by the store's security camera.
Authorities have since released footage of the video to the public, and the video captures the horrendous ordeal for the little girl.
The video shows 37 year old Sammie Wallace taking the 2 year old hostage with a knife.
According to ABC News, the incident in fact took place a few weeks back on June 17 at a store in Midwest City, Oklahoma. The video shows the small girl shopping with her mother, Alice Keating at the store, when suddenly Wallace snatched the toddler from a shopping cart.
The man is seen holding a knife to the terrified girl's neck as authorities attempt to convince the man to let her go.
The tense ordeal only ends when a police officer fires and hits Wallace at point blank range, killing him instantly.
Midwest City Assistant Police Chief Sid Porter said: "He had a weapon in his hand. A knife-type weapon holding up against the child, threatening the child's life."
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According to WPEC TV, the store was quickly evacuated once the hostage situation arose, and authorities were quick on the scene to start trying to negotiate with the man.
It is reported that they spoke with Wallace for about 30 minutes before he suddenly said that he was going to kill the girl in 60 seconds.
Wallace then reportedly pressed the knife up hard against the child's neck and started counting down from 60. As it became clear that the negotiations were not working and that the girl's life was absolutely in immediate danger the officer shot and killed Wallace.
Former FBI agent Brad Garrett said: "When a subject starts telling you that in 60 seconds he's going to kill a hostage, that's going to move you right up to the point that you will shoot him and that's what occurred in this case."
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Is UV Hazardous to Your Health?
Sure, before you head to the beach, it's imperative to slather on the sunblock. (Note: as far as I know, this is the first time I've used "slather" in a written sentence.) Everyone knows that too many UV rays are bad for you, and that SPF is the remedy. But what about another kind of ultraviolet?
This particular UltraViolet is a new cloud format for movies that is almost ready to make its consumer debut. UltraViolet has almost all of the major movie studios and many electronics manufacturers onboard, as well as many other supporting technology companies. But — and it's a big but — Disney and Apple have not signed on yet.
UltraViolet seems pretty cool. When you buy a movie on Blu-ray, you'll get access to a cloud version that you can stream to your various devices. And, it's "free," because the cost of the rights to stream the movie will be included in the price of the Blu-ray disc.
It's hard to say exactly what studios will do, but I imagine that major movie releases will contain a Blu-ray disc, a DVD disc, and a UV cloud copy that can be accessed on a phone or tablet or whatever (the standard supports up to 12 devices). The whole digital copy download thing, always awkward to use, will probably disappear. Another UltraViolet option is to dispense with the disc altogether and simply sell the cloud version of the movie. In other words, UltraViolet is a bridge to the all-cloud future.
The question is, is that a future that we really want? Will the cloud picture and sound quality be equal to or better than Blu-ray? And what about the bonus material? Will an all-cloud UltraViolet delivery system do to movie quality what MP3 did to CD music quality? Sure, not having to pay for disc pressing will mean more profit for studios, but what about us consumers?


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'Hotel Transylvania' sinks teeth into weekend box office with $43 million debut
LOS ANGELES -- Adam Sandler's monster mash-up "Hotel Transylvania" has brought the weekend box office back to life after a late-summer slump.
According to studio estimates Sunday, the animated comedy debuted at No. 1 with $43 million, one of the strongest starts ever for a movie opening in September.
"Hotel Transylvania" set a new high for September debuts in terms of actual dollars, beating the previous record of $35.7 million for 2002's "Sweet Home Alabama." But factoring in today's higher admission prices, "Sweet Home Alabama" sold more tickets.
This weekend's box office was further strengthened by a solid No. 2 debut for Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's time-travel thriller "Looper," which took in $21.2 million.
Hollywood's overall grosses rose for the first time in a month compared to the same weekend last year.


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Dave Harvey, director of church planting with Sovereign Grace Ministries, gives practical advice to young men considering a calling to pastoral ministry. Harvey writes this book in a very conversational manner, as if sitting at a kitchen table with a young man (a high school student, college student, or young adult). This casual style at times is overused, but Harvey's desire is to make this book accessible to his target audience of young men. Harvey has little to offer women wrestling with their callings to various ministry areas, but his target audience is not women.
The first part of the book deals with the theology of calling. Harvey focuses on the calling of all Christians to godly character and activity (mercy and love) before ever entertaining a calling to a church position. One's call to salvation and to ministry "ultimately says little about us and a great deal about the Caller. . . . And before he calls us to ministry, he calls us to himself" (pp. 35–36). One's identity should be grounded on the gospel and not on one's employment. Based on this identity, ministry is then able to flow out of one's weakness (and even fears) rather than abilities and performance. This is a good reminder for all who are in ministry.
The remainder of the book is a series of six questions based on 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1, with a chapter devoted to each issue: (1) Are you godly? (character qualities of godliness, maturity, and servanthood). (2) How's your home? (leadership at home with one's wife and kids). (3) Can you preach? (giftedness in communicating the gospel). (4) Can you shepherd? (a heart for pastoral care). (5) Do you love the lost? (passion for evangelism). And (6) Who agrees? (external confirmation of one's call by the local church).
The best part of the book is the last chapter titled "While You Wait." If a person is truly sensing a move toward vocational ministry but is not able to act fully on that calling, what is he to do as he waits? How does a person prepare his soul, his life, and his mind for "the joys and rigors of ministry" to come? Harvey offers practical suggestions on things that a young man can do now in his local church (and in educational training) while in preparation. This chapter has excellent advice.
As an introduction to each chapter in the book, Harvey has a short historical profile of a figure in church history who illustrates the diversity of "summons stories" in the lives of pastors. These include Thomas Scott, Charles Simeon, Lemuel Haynes, Martin Luther, David Martin Lloyd-Jones, James Montgomery Boice, Charles Spurgeon, John Bunyan, and John Newton. These brief two-to-three-page profiles add a nice touch to the book's theme.
However, even though Harvey has a strong focus on church-based pastoral ministries for young men, some may become disheartened in their searching process. Harvey even recognizes this himself, stating, "I've been sobered to realize that this book will undoubtedly, to some extent, be an instrument of sorrow in some men's lives" (p. 195). Harvey's love and passion for the local church and for the sacredness of pastoral ministry is evident throughout. Some may feel he has unintentionally devalued all ministries other than the pastorate. What about young men whose calling is not to the pulpit ministry but to other forms of ministry in a local church (e.g., associate pastor, music minister, student minister)? What about young men whose calling is to a parachurch ministry (e.g., teaching in Christian schools, evangelism outreach, homeless ministry)? And what about the new generation of "missionally focused" young adults who see their calling as being outside the four walls of a traditional church? One could wish Harvey had explicitly expressed the value of all ministries done in the name of Christ.
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Google showed off its new Android version 4.4 (or KitKat) operating system, running on a new flagship phone, the Nexus 5. Google uses its Nexus line to show off its new operating systems, and the device and OS are reflections of each other. Seen together, they reveal a Google that is boundlessly ambitious and aiming to take on the world with the things only it can do.
Sundar Pichai, who runs Android and Chrome for Google, says that KitKat has three major themes, which can be summarized as growth, design, and smarts. After crossing the billion activations mark, it now wants an operating system that works for the "next" billion people with Android devices. It wants something that's beautiful and design-forward that's pleasant to look at and intuitive to use. And it wants the experience of the phone to take advantage of what Google can do. All of these are major themes of the Nexus 5 as well.
Let's start with the phone. The Nexus 5, developed with LG, has one driving purpose, which is to serve as a showcase for the operating system. To do that it needs to be something you want to use all the time, every day. Google mostly pulled this off. The phone is nice and light at 4.59 ounces. The specs are also solid. It has a 4.95-inch 1920 x 1080 HD display that has a 445 ppi pixel density, made from Corning Gorilla Glass 3. For taking images rather than viewing them, it has a 1.3 MP front-facing cam and 8MP rear camera. There's a 2.26 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU, 2 GB RAM, dual band Wi-Fi, NFC, and Bluetooth 4. All the stuff you'd expect. There are also nice extra touches as well, like an optical image stabilization feature lets you take sharp photos even with a shaky hand – this worked very well when we tried it out. To reach those next billion users, it's launching in 10 countries, designed to run globally on all manner of networks. There is one model designed for North America, and another for the rest of the world. The Nexus 5 goes on sale today. Without a contract, the 16 GB model costs $349, and the 32 GB model is $399.
In terms of pure aesthetics, The Nexus 5 is very nice looking, but not striking in the way that, say, the HTC One or Gold iPhone 5S are. You can get it in white or black. There are no buttons across the bottom to add clutter. The logo melts into the backside. It's not going to make people notice it, but it's pleasant to look at.
Likewise, KitKat's design has some pleasant features to help you make it prettier, and make it your own. You can rearrange your home screens (not just the apps on them, but the order of the screens themselves)–Google cited maybe having a weekday and weekend setup as a reason you may want to do this. When you're playing music, the entire lockscreen will show album art.
But mostly, this phone is about KitKat, and KitKat is about What Google Knows.
The dialer, for example, takes advantage of Google's database when making calls. Rather than looking up a number in search, and then dialing, you can simply say the name of a restaurant and Google will present you with options to call it, based on the ones in your area. If a business calls you, it shows the company's name – both of these features work even if the business is not in your address book. The camera's HDR function is fantastic in weirdly lit situations to get the most out of color and range. Google Hangouts offer a unified place for both SMS and chat, and make location sharing as easy as tapping the screen. Just hit a location icon in Hangouts to tell your friend where you are. Because onboard storage is finite, Google added API tools developers can hook into so users can pick and choose photos and files to send not just from the Gallery, but also cloud providers like Box or Google Drive. It means you can offload your photos and still easily access them from within apps.
Google Now has also gotten some fancy new tools. It lives on the home screen of the Nexus 5; just swipe all the way to the left and there it is, waiting for you with mind boggling anticipation. It takes advantage of location to show you the things other people are searching about in any particular area. In the example it showed, visitors to Yellowstone will automatically be shown a card for the times the geysers are erupting; in Austin they see when they can view bats in flight. This is a fantastic way to use location to show you things you want to know before you have to ask for them. If you regularly visit particular websites, it will show you important updates from those sites. (But not, it promises, every single story that the New York Times publishes in a day.) If you search for news about Walking Dead a lot, relevant news updates will just appear in Google Now. This is just going to get bigger.
And then there is Search. From the home screen, just say "Okay Google" to launch search–it doesn't work from a locked device like the Moto X, but this should still be a nice feature for using the phone in the car. But the most intriguing thing Google showed today was KitKat's ability to search within apps and display that information in regular search results. Search for a restaurant, for example, and Google will return the normal results–but also will show you an option for OpenTable. Click it and the app launches, right to the restaurant's page, so you can make a reservation. It's launching this with 10 partner apps, but promises that any developer will be able to take advantage of the API, let Google crawl its data, and work right from search. To begin with, Google will only show you data from installed apps, but expects to expand this to show any relevant application, with an option to install the app from Play if you don't have it. Apps are just a way to display information – to connect it and present it. This lets Google start knocking down the barriers from you accessing that information anywhere, while still allowing others to present it to you. It's very promising, and something we've wished for.
Google also lets you give and take with Search now. You can refine it. In today's demonstration, it showed an example of a voice query for "Boston Red Sox pitchers." Search misidentified "pitchers" as "pictures," and returned results for that instead. But by tapping the word "pictures," it presented other similar-sounding options, including the right one. One tap later, and the right results are there. More intriguing was a command to "text Jennifer." Search responded by asking "which Jennifer?" and then "mobile or work?" After identifying the right person and number, it says "what's the message" and then gave an opportunity to review it before sending. It was just super-smart.
But maybe the smartest thing of all is how Google is looking at the rest of the world. One of the problems Google faces with Android is that most people in emerging markets–where it's hoping to snag those next billion users–run low-end handsets that have 512 MB of memory or less. Because of this, said Pichai, most of the new handsets sold in emerging markets run version 2.3 of the Android operating system (or Gingerbread). KitKat was designed specifically to work on those lower-end devices without much elbow room for memory. The OS reduces memory consumption, Google's default apps have been tuned to use less memory, and the system can flush out processes that get very large. Additionally, the API exposes that a device is running on a phone without much memory, so developers can customize their apps to use fewer resources in those situations.
All told, both KitKat and the Nexus 5 are iterative, as almost all the new phones we see today are. But Google's attempt to knock down the walls between search and applications, to rethink the way information flows not just in one direction but back and forth in the context of where you are and what you want, feels an awfully lot like the early stage of a new revolution.
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Re: st: computing elasticities after using lpoly
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Arka Roy Chaudhuri <email@example.com>:
For a worked example, try:
webuse motorcycle, clear
lpoly accel time, deg(1) k(tri) bw(3) gen(x s)
qui levelsof x, loc(xs)
g double schk=.
g double b=.
loc i 1
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gen double w=max(0,3-abs(time-`l'))
reg accel time [aw=w]
replace schk=_b[_cons]+_b[time]*`l' in `i'
replace b=_b[time] in `i'
drop w
loc i=`i'+1
assert float(s)==float(schk)
la var b "Slope"
la var s "Conditional mean"
sc s b x, msize(small small) c(l) name(slopes)
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Austin Nichols <email@example.com> wrote:
> Arka Roy Chaudhuri <email@example.com>:
> You can also get the coefs from an -lpoly- graph by noting the kernel
> type, bandwidth, and degree, then estimating the weighted regressions
> yourself, saving the coefs each time. If you specify the -generate(x
> s)- option you can also get all the X points at which regressions are
> estimated.
> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Arka Roy Chaudhuri <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>> Thanks a lot to Nick and Maarten for all the advice.I really
>> appreciate your help.
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Timberland – have managed to be loved by street kids as well as lovers of the great outdoors
If we say Timberland, the first thing that pops into your mind is probably a waterproof, yellowish leather boot with a grooved rubber sole. It was the classic Yellow Boot that made Timberland famous and with this boot they also conquered the hip-hop and street culture. Today, Timberland design a lot of other shoes, but the focus is still on the waterproof leather boots, and on function that meets expressive and stylish shoes - designed for both outdoor lovers and street kids.
It kicked off with a yellow boot.
Timberland is a company that has been around since 1918, but it wasn't until they launched the now legendary "Yellow Boot" during the 60's that they became famous. Back then the boot was a working shoe for hard working men and women, but that was soon about to change. During the 80's and 90's, Timberland's yellow boots were seen on several hip-hop artists such as Notorious B.I.G. and Wu Tang Klan. The boots spread from the workers to the city kids and still to this day, Timberland have loyal customers in big hip-hop stars like Kanye West, Jay Z and Rihanna.
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Going into the Spartan Race Montana Sprint I wasn't sure if my legs would be fully recovered after the US Army Best Ranger Competition a couple weeks prior, but that wasn't going to stop me from pushing the pace as best I could. I put in a hard week followed by a good recovery week
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Winning 2016 Best Ranger Competition.
It has been a great year, I did my first Spartan Race in June and was immediately hooked. The following months I spent focusing on techniques and maximizing my strong suits in each race. After completing all the OCR worlds champ races back to back, becoming the Spartan World Champion in October was one of
I found out about WTM, much like OCRWC, a couple days after the Spartan World Champs. While still in Tahoe, my brother in law signed up and asked if I was also going. My schedule was free that week so I said why not. Then after looking at some videos and blogs about WTM, I


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Another year in passing and here comes another apocalyptic disease/zombie/vampire movie that aims to entertain further to our already zombie-fied minds. The latest offering is 'I Am Legend' starring Will Smith and directed by Francis Lawrence. This movie is based on the acclaimed book by Richard Matheson, a book published in 1954 that played a big influence to many zombie-related master works such as George A. Romero's 'Night of the Living Dead' and more recently Danny Boyle's '28 Day Later' as well as the excellent follow-up, '28 Weeks Later'.
The synopsis from Wikipedia:
"A genetically reengineered measles virus called Krippen Virus or KV, created as a cancer cure (by a doctor in a cameo by Emma Thompson), rapidly spreads and wipes out the population of the world by the end of 2009, leaving military virologist Robert Neville (Will Smith) the last human survivor in New York City and possibly the world.
The virus killed 90% of the people on the planet; fewer than one percent are immune. The remaining survivors were infected, initially exhibiting the early symptoms of rabies, but then degenerated into an animal state driven by hunger and blind rage. Neville is watched by these "Infected" people, who react painfully to UV radiation. They therefore avoid sunlight and hide in the dark underground, and in buildings (in groups called "hives" by Neville), swarming out at night. Dogs and rats are also susceptible to the virus. By 2012, Neville has not seen another normal human being since the virus' release three years earlier, and suspects that the Infected have succeeded in killing the remainder of the immune survivors. Neville is outnumbered by the infected and running out of time as he seeks a cure."
I remember reading the book 'I Am Legend' by Richard Metheson (published in 1954) briefly during my high school times and recollecting what I've read with what I've seen from the movie in 2007, I can clearly differentiate that there are many divergences. For one, the situation with the dog is clearly different as in the book the dog was found and was then domesticated. But in the movie it was already there as a family pet. But this is just a minor difference. The main variance is largely on the main character, Robert Neville. In the book Robert Neville is depicted as a loathsome bastard that drinks, curses and has problems controlling his sexual drive. However in the movie, he is an ideal family man with a loyal dog (with a knack to shoot semi-automatic rifles and has expertise in explosions). In the movie, he is the hero that discovers the antidote and he becomes a legend that saves mankind from the ravages of the vampire disease. But in the original book, Neville is actually the bad guy. He is in fact the monster. As Neville strives to wipe-out all vampire-kind in existence, he is the killer, the devil and the legend that all vampires fear as they strive to build a new society after human-kind. He is the destroyer that all vampires believe will bring about the destruction to vampire's existence if he is not stopped, hence 'I Am Legend'…
But comparing the book with the movie will be another 'the-book-is-better-than-the-movie' rant so I'm not going touch on the book from now on. As a stand-alone movie, I think it has more positives than the negatives. One of the positive highlights is that the movie managed to achieve an atmosphere of desolation and abandonment so good not since '28 Days Later', where a completely deserted London shocked the audience into disbelief as how did the filmmakers managed to capture such moments on film. This time around, it is New York's turn and what a sight to behold: completely abandoned streets that no one can possibly comprehend such streets can be empty, is shown in eerie magnificence on screen. Where busy cars once roamed the concrete pavements of city roads, it is now replaced by deers wandering in packs across weed-ridden streets searching for food. Truly a visual highlight is needs to be seen to be believed.
Another positive is Will Smith. I believe his performance here may not be perfect or even Oscar material, however he managed to hold the movie well and gave the audience enough weight in his character that allowed the audience to endure 2 hours in the cinema without suffering the feelings of 'oh-God-here-he-is-again'. Mind you, for about 80% of the movie, you will be seeing him A LOT. From hunting deer to talking to mannequins to giving his best impression of 'Shrek', he is on-screen most of the time and he does enough to give you a good sense of entertainment, believability in his character and very much helped to tell the story the way it supposed to be told. Although some scenes may be played over-the-top (the scene when he realized the mannequin 'Mr. Fred' was moved without his knowledge), but all that will be forgiven in the end.
One more highlight is definitely the dog 'Sam', which I believe is one of the best on-screen performance from a dog (maybe a there's a few of them) since 'Lassie'. Mind you I never liked German Sheppards since I was a kid, but this time around it was an exception. Maybe the upcoming 'Lassie' movie will be replaced by a German Sheppard instead?
In the end, the movie was scary at some places, sad at certain parts and down-right creepy along dark corridors of vampire death. Overall it achieved the lonely 'feel' of a post-apocalypse New York spectacularly and successfully created a chilling menace from the vampires that can leave you at the edge of your seat.
Now for one negative which I really must highlight. Considering how much money and effort that put into create a look of an abandoned New York, the CGI for the vampires is absolutely horrendous. Mind you, this is a big-budget blockbuster movie and yet I've seen better CGI effects in movies found in 'Cinemax' than this. The vampires are purely CGI and they are hardly scary, they do not attack in a menacing way and they only scream like they have a bad day of headaches. The scare was solely relied on the camera-work, the sound and editing to create the scary effects and nothing more. The CGI vampires was a complete waste and much can be learned from what was done in Danny Boyle's zombies in '28 Weeks Later' which relied on make-up and acting that really brought out the terror of the undead. Maybe the budget went all the way to Will Smith's pockets instead…
As a conclusion, this movie is really entertaining and contains many elements that are commendable. Not really the best movie in its genre at the moment as there's are many out there that is much more superior to this, however this movie should be enjoyed as a stand-alone effort, detached from the original book, separated from the merits of past movies in its genre and you will get a movie that is simply enjoyable and thrilling. A legend this movie may be not, but a entertaining one this certainly is.
If you are not convinced, Click here for a 3-minute preview for some Will Smith and CGI deers.
Verdict: 7 / 10
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Our Top Ten Bites from Taste of the Nation 2013
Taste of the Nation is one of the best culinary events in Chicago—a fundraiser and party to support Share Our Strength's efforts to end childhood hunger in Illinois and across the country. Guests mingle in Navy Pier's Grand Ballroom while enjoying live music and bidding on silent auction items. More than 70 of Chicago's top chefs and restaurants were represented this year, along with 26 of the city's best mixologists. It's like a never-ending tasting menu of anything you like, and seconds are encouraged.
I tried everything at the event over the course of four hours, and saw trends like lamb sausage (from Avec and Allium) and fresh, compressed and pickled melons (Girl and the Goat, Lula Cafe, Hot Chocolate, Balena). Here are my favorite bites from the party.
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Last week, the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton held a referendum to decide whether or not to renew a contract with a firm that partners with Indian tribes in creating gambling casinos.
The contract was originally signed eight years ago at a time the tribe was on the road to seeking federal recognition, but had not yet achieved it. The Detroit firm, Gateway Casino Resorts, offered their services. At that time, because the tribe had not yet received federal recognition, it was living on their reservation in poverty. It certainly was a good idea to hire a powerful gambling casino firm to set the stage. (The law states that after seven years, any firm partnering with an Indian Tribe has to allow the tribe to retain the casino's full and exclusive operating rights.)
For these past eight years, and in exchange for this current partnership, Gateway worked with the tribe in meeting with eager people who owned different locations where a casino could be built. Gateway also helped in providing financial support for the tribe. Also, in the contract, was a provision that said that Gateway would have the authority to make decisions about the casino project without interference from the tribe. This was in writing in the contract as a "noninterference" clause. [expand]
Since the signing of that contract, the world has changed for the Shinnecocks dramatically. In June of 2010 they received their Federal Recognition. Many levels of government support would follow. It also allowed the tribe to receive financial assistance as other tribes do, in the area of social services, medical and educational services.
Unfortunately, the recognition did not come in time to allow for the financial parts of it to go into effect for fiscal 2011. The federal budget for 2011 had already been set. The tribe would get benefits beginning in 2012—now just days away.
As it happened, this month was renewal time for the contract with Gateway. Many at the tribe felt that the contract had given away too much to Gateway. Perhaps there were other firms they could partner with, firms that would not require the tribe to give up much of their decision-making power. Also, the financial aid provided by Gateway, although appreciated, was not as urgent as it had been before with the imminent arrival of the help from the federal government.
The tribe, which is more like an extended family, discussed the matter prior to their vote on whether to renew the contract. They got an opinion about it from outside counsel, which did say they were concerned about the non-interference clause in the contract. And then, on Thursday, they voted.
The vote was 153 opposing the renewal of the pact, 121 in favor. (Keep in mind that many of the 1,400 Shinnecock members do not live on the reservation and are not eligible to vote.) The pact would be rejected.
"The nation has spoken, by consensus, as it has for thousands of years, and voted today not to finalize gaming agreements with Gateway Casino Resorts," the tribe said in a press release.
Gateway had one of their own.
"We do respect the decision of tribal members to have further review and discussions of the new deal points. We look forward to concluding that process. We have stood by the Shinnecock Indian Nation for the last eight years, and will continue to do so and support its quest for economic justice."
Former Shinnecock trustee Lance Gumbs told Newsday he'd voted against renewing the contract because of his concerns about losing tribal independence.
"Gateway needs to understand that they are not going to control our tribe," he said.
The net result of this might be a delay in moving forward with a casino project as fast as they might have otherwise. The tribe will either re-negotiate with Gateway or find someone else to partner with on better terms.
The tribe has said they hope NOT to have a casino on the East End and indeed have been in negotiations only with landowners well up the island.


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Asked by Tessa Wiles, Michigan,
I began taking an iron supplement because I thought I might have a case of running-induced anemia. It seemed to help, but now I wonder if I should continue taking the supplement or let it go. Am I getting too much iron?
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Hi Tessa. This question is a good example of why it is probably best to speak with your doctor before taking most supplements.
Iron deficiency anemia (this is the condition you are actually talking about when you describe running-induced anemia) is one of the most common nutritional deficiencies worldwide.
Causes include inadequate dietary iron intake (often found with a vegan diet or in infants and children), iron absorption problems often seen in older adults, and physiologic losses caused by menstruation, pregnancy or lactation. It can also be caused by chronic blood loss which could be caused by a gastrointestinal problem such as an ulcer, cancer or in your case (most likely), through serious athletic training leading to microscopic blood loss.
Weakness and fatigue are common symptoms (I'm assuming that these are probably what you suffered from) as iron is an essential component of the oxygen carrying protein in your blood called hemoglobin. When your hemoglobin levels are low, you carry less energy generating oxygen, which can lead to fatigue. It is also an important component of myoglobin, which delivers oxygen to your muscles, so athletes in particular may feel the effects of iron deficiency even if they are not anemic. Other symptoms include decreased attention span, irritability, decreased immune function leading to more frequent illness, swollen and red tongue, poor performance at work or school, and delayed or impaired cognitive development in infants and young children.
Assuming that your anemia is due to athletic training, I generally recommend that people start with food to replace iron stores. The best sources of iron are red meat, dark meat chicken and turkey, beans, lentils, peas, iron-fortified cereals, dark leafy green vegetables and dried fruit. Meat-derived iron, known as heme iron, is more easily absorbed by the body.
Plant-derived iron, known as non-heme iron, is not as well absorbed and requires vitamin C (or meat) to improve absorption. In addition, absorption is diminished by calcium (dairy products), fiber, tea, and coffee. So if you are a vegetarian or vegan, be sure to consume iron-rich foods with vitamin C rich foods such as citrus fruits and juices, tomatoes, strawberries, broccoli, kiwi, melons, red and green sweet peppers, and dark green vegetables whenever possible.
This is also important when taking supplements, which are also better absorbed with vitamin C and whose absorption is diminished by calcium. Avoid taking iron supplements with milk or within several hours of your daily calcium supplement if you take one or antacids containing calcium.
The concern with an adult taking an iron supplement indefinitely (there is more of a concern for overdose associated toxicity in children), is that there is some evidence, albeit speculative, of an association between excess iron and heart disease risk and diabetes. In addition, while iron deficiency may negatively affect immune function, too much may impair immunity, too. So while you do not need to limit iron containing foods in your diet, especially plant based foods, you should take a supplement only if medically necessary under the supervision of a physician.
At this point, I would see your doctor and have your blood count and iron level checked (your doctor will probably also check something called ferritin, which is the storage form of iron and a more accurate reflection of total iron stores).
Assuming that your levels are normal, and assuming that you continue running, I would take a multivitamin with the Dietary Reference Intake of iron (18 mg per day for women 19-50 and 8 mg per day for women 51 and older) to keep up with training (or menstrual) associated blood loss. Make sure to eat plenty of a variety of iron rich foods to maintain adequate iron stores in general.
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Decline in available liver transplants expected
A new study, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Health Resources and Services Administration, and published in the January 2013 issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), found that the non-use of donor livers climbed through 2010 due to a worsening of donor liver quality, primarily from donation following cardiac death. Diabetes, donor age, and body mass index (BMI) were also linked to a decrease in use of organs.
"For patients with end-stage liver disease, transplantation is the only option for extending life, but organ availability places constraints on the transplant community," explains Dr. Eric Orman with the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. "One of the methods to increase the donor pool is to include donors with less than ideal health status—those with fatty livers, older donors, and donation after cardiac death."
In an attempt to increase available livers for transplant, the transplant community has gradually extended donation criteria. However, previous research shows that poor outcomes may occur following transplant of more inferior organs. In fact, studies have shown an increased recipient morbidity and mortality risk with donation after cardiac death (when circulation ceases) than with standard donation following brain death in which donor circulation is sustained.
For the present study researchers used data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) to indentify 107,259 deceased donors in U.S. between 1988 and 2010. Donors were 18 years of age and older who had a least one organ (liver, heart, intestine, kidney, lung or pancreas) used for transplantation. The mean donor age was 44 years; 41% were female and 68% were white. Split liver donations and donors with BMI less than 14 kg/m2 or more than 50 kg/m2 were excluded.
Analysis indicates that 41,503 donations occurred after June 30, 2004 with 82% of livers used for transplant and 18% unused. The number of unused livers decreased from 1,958 (66% of donors) in 1988 to 841 (15%) in 2004, and then increased to 1,345 (21%) in 2010. Liver non-use was independently linked to older donor age, greater BMI, diabetes prevalence and donation after cardiac death—all of which are on the rise in the U.S.
Researchers reported a four-fold increase in the odds of non-use of livers from donation following cardiac death donors between 2004 and 2010, with the proportion of nonuse climbing from 9% to 28% during the same time period. "Our findings show nonuse of livers for transplantation is steadily rising, and is primarily due to donation after cardiac death," concludes Dr. Orman. "If these trends continue, a significant decline in liver transplant availability would be inevitable."
In a related editorial also published in Liver Transplantation, Dr. Anton Skaro from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Ill. concurs, "Utilization of livers donated after cardiac death increases risk of biliary complications, greater costs and higher graft failure rates, resulting in a reduction of liver transplants using organs donated after cardiac death in the U.S. since 2006." Dr. Skaro suggests that liver transplantation using organs donated after cardiac death should be encouraged for recipients who would have poor outcomes by remaining on the waitlist.
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URL: www.doi.wiley.com/10.1002/lt.23547
Editorial: "Donation after Cardiac Death Liver Transplantation: Another Fly in the Ointment." Neehar D. Parikh and Anton I. Skaro. Liver Transplantation; (DOI: 10.1002/lt.23563) Print Issue Date: January, 2013.
URL: www.doi.wiley.com/10.1002/lt.23563


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- ―Tyrion Lannister quoting a sailor's proverb
Wildfire is a dangerous liquid which is created and controlled by the Alchemists' Guild, an ancient society of learned men boasting arcane knowledge now based in the city of King's Landing. It is a highly volatile material which can explode with tremendous force and burns with a fire that water cannot extinguish, only large quantities of sand.
Wildfire is identifiable through the distinctive green hue of its flames and a bright green color in its liquid state. Pyromancers refer to it as "the Substance", while in the lowest circles it is derisively referred to as pyromancer's piss.
Wildfire plays a key role at the Battle of the Blackwater, during the War of the Five Kings.
Season 2
Thanks to his reluctant agent, Lancel Lannister, Tyrion is alerted to Cersei's plan to use wildfire in the defense of King's Landing against the impending attack by Stannis Baratheon, throwing it from the walls with catapults. Wisdom Hallyne of the Alchemists' Guild shows Tyrion their stocks. Bronn derisively says he doesn't believe the pyromancers' claims about wildfire, as there are always charlatans on the side of battlefields selling "pig shit" to soldiers and claiming it has magical properties. Hallyne insists that the abilities of wildfire are indeed very potent. Bronn then points out that even if this is true, wildfire is too unstable to be used safely in such a manner by inexperienced troops: the moment one of the catapult teams drops a single jar, it could burn the whole city to the ground by accident. Hallyne then opens the guild's vault to reveal to an awed Tyrion that they have amassed over 7,800 jars of wildfire, enough "to lay King's Landing low". Tyrion agrees and commands Hallyne to begin producing wildfire for his purposes instead.[1]
While discussing the defense of the city with Varys and Bronn, Tyrion identifies the Mud Gate as the city's most vulnerable spot and the most likely location for Stannis to attempt a landing. Tyrion resolves to make a stand there. When Varys asks him what can they use to defend the city, Tyrion replies "pig shit".[2]
When Stannis Baratheon's fleet arrives at Blackwater Bay, Ser Davos Seaworth (commanding the vanguard of the assault) is bemused to see only one ship from the royal fleet emerge to challenge them. He realizes the ship is unmanned so he halts his archers, but then sees the ship is emptying wildfire into the bay from pipes at its rear. Tyrion loaded all eight thousand jars of wildfire into the ship. At Tyrion's command, Bronn fires a burning arrow into the wildfire, which detonates the ship in a massive explosion that pulverizes all of Stannis' ships closest to the blast. The spreading fire then engulfs nearby ships. Hundreds, if not thousands, of sailors and soldiers under Stannis's command are burned alive. Stannis resolves to continue the assault regardless of the losses of ships and men.[3]
Season 3
While touring the Great Sept of Baelor with Margaery Tyrell, King Joffrey Baratheon points out an urn containing the ashes of Prince Aerion Targaryen who died drinking wildfire, believing that the substance would turn him into a dragon (Aerion was wrong).[4]
While convalescing at Harrenhal, Jaime Lannister reveals to Brienne of Tarth that the real reason he killed Mad King Aerys II Targaryen is because he was planning on burning the entire capital city to ashes with wildfire, rather than let it fall to the rebels. When it began to appear that the rebels would win the war, the Mad King had his pyromancers hide caches of wildfire all over King's Landing - under the Great Sept of Baelor, under the slums of Flea Bottom, under houses, stables, taverns, and even under the Red Keep itself. Tywin Lannister arrived at the capital city at the head of a Lannister army, before the rebels, but as soon as the Lannister army was inside the gates they betrayed the Targaryens and proceeded to sack the city. The Mad King was going to burn the entire city and all of its half a million inhabitants, convinced (somewhat like Aerion Brightflame) that he would burn along with everyone else, but that the flames would transmute him into a dragon to destroy his enemies. After King Aerys gave this suicidal order, Jaime realized he could not allow it to happen. First, he killed the pyromancer, and then he killed the Mad King in front of the Iron Throne itself, to make sure that his Wildfire plot was never implemented. Jaime subsequently told no one, thinking that Eddard Stark would never believe him, and no one knew that he had in fact saved the city.[5]
Behind the scenes
- In the German dub, "Wildfire" was renamed to "Seefeuer" which means "sea fire", one of the Byzantine names for Greek Fire. Wildfire (and for that matter, Greek Fire) aren't exclusively used in naval combat, though they are very effective against wooden ships.
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, wildfire is a very unstable material similar to real life napalm or Greek fire. In real life, "Greek fire" was actually used by the Byzantine Empire in medieval times, and thus was actually a technology known to medieval peoples.
Wildfire's use under controlled conditions was popular with some of the members of House Targaryen and some worshipers of the eastern god of fire, the Lord of Light, such as Thoros of Myr, who used to coat his sword with a thin layer of wildfire and then set it ablaze to scare his enemies in combat.
The alchemists refuse to divulge how wildfire is created, claiming that it is done with magical spells (a claim dismissed by others, particularly the maesters). Wildfire is stored in clay pots in bare stone cells under the Alchemists' Guildhall in King's Landing. Each cell is built under a chamber full of sand, which can be emptied into the cell below to extinguish the fire in case of accidents. Wildfire grows more volatile with age and can only be disposed of through hazardous means. Wildfire is highly combustible and can be set alight even by bright sunlight. It is described as having an emerald green coloring once ablaze, which is so strong that it can turn the air around it green.
See also
- Wildfire on A Wiki of Ice and Fire (spoilers from the books)
- Greek Fire on Wikipedia
- Hellburners on Wikipedia


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I went in search for a surplus DC gear motor that could be adapted to the mount clamp, and found a 250 RPM 12V motor with a plastic disc attached to its shaft. I marked and drilled some holes in the disc to screw the mount clamp into. Now I'm ready to build a stand to attach the motor to and bear the weight of the entire sentry gun. There's no way the plastic toy tripod it came with is up to the task, so I'm checking out some t-slot aluminum instead.
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ONARCHITECTURE- Lynchburg's Pied Piper: Will Kuttner lure us to the Hill City?
Singer-songwriter Lauren Hoffman (right) hangs out with the folks who recently bought Kuttner's Starlight Café in Lynchburg, Carri Sickmen, her partner, Julie Kotowski and their daughter, Ruby.PHOTO BY COURTENEY STUART
Although touting a small southern town named Lynchburg as the next popular hotspot would present a challenge to even the most savvy PR firms, it hasn't deterred former Charlottesville developer Oliver Kuttner. He's been singing Lynchburg's praises for some time now.
Kuttner began buying up real estate in the Hill City over two years ago, and now that Lynchburg City Council has given the thumbs up to his plans to develop 350,000 square feet of old warehouse and factory space on Kemper Street, which he purchased for a mere $1 million, Kuttner– no stranger to bold words– seems to have ramped up his rhetoric.
Over the last month, Kuttner has been the subject of at least a half-dozen stories in the Lynchburg press, in which he has been emphatically touting the Hill City's charms. During a presentation to a group of the city's young professionals last month, he called the city the "greatest real estate in the nation," according to a News Advance story, and even made a startling attempt to dismantle Lynchburg's reputation as ultra-conservative– due in large part, perhaps, to a recently deceased religious leader who called it home– by pointing out how easy it was to buy rock cocaine.
"I can walk three blocks from here and I can tell you where you can buy all the crack you want, right now, this minute, guaranteed," he told the crowd. "You can call this a conservative town if you want, but it's a split town."
Clearly, Kuttner's flamboyant enthusiasm can take unusual turns.
"I convince one person to move, then he tells his brother, who tells his cousin, and then the cousin's parents decide to move," says Kuttner. "I've indirectly brought hundreds of people from around the county here."
Still, he admits it hasn't been easy to lure expatriots from Charlottesville.
"There's been a lot of resistance from Charlottesville about moving to Lynchburg," he says, "but I try to explain to young people, if you don't have money, there's no future in C'ville. Charlottesville is a beautiful city, but it has priced itself out of the range of most of those people.
"In Lynchburg there are beautiful, historic houses just three blocks from downtown, and they're $117,000," he says.
At the center of Kuttner's effort to lure young people to town is the Starlight Café, a coffeeshop and restaurant he opened last October. Named after Kuttner's other brainchild, luxury express bus service the Starlight Express, the Café is in Lynchburg's former Greyhound station on Fifth Street downtown, which is also the southern terminus of Kuttner's New York-Charlottesville-Lynchburg route. The Café sits like a blue island of urban cool in a veritable wasteland of urban blight. Given the setting, it's hard to imagine the business could ever survive, but Kuttner says it has become a hub of activity.
"It's a really great place," he says. "There's a very mixed clientele, everyone from the mayor and city council to a guy looking for a job... it's the anti-Starbucks."
Two month's ago, Kuttner sold the Starlight Café to two transplanted Charlottesvillians, Carri Sickmen and Julie Kotowski, who last Saturday put on a show that just about any Charlottesville venue would be proud to host: Jim Waive and the Young Divorcees, David Sickmen, Lauren Hoffman, Sarah White, and Robbie St. Ours. It was a grand new opening for the café, and according to Sickmen, the crowd fawned over the imported talent.
Sickmen's brother, David, founder of the hillbilly rock band the Hackensaw Boys, says Lynchburg reminds him of Charlottesville back in the early '90s, when even struggling young musicians could afford to live downtown.
"Back then, I lived in Belmont, and people would say, 'Wow, isn't that dangerous?'" he laughs. Sickmen says he learned a lesson when he failed to invest early in Charlottesville real estate. In the Hill City, he hopped aboard the home ownership bandwagon early, purchasing an 1820 house for a fraction of what it would cost in Charlottesville. He moved down two months ago and is working full time helping Kuttner restore the warehouse and factory space on Kemper Street.
But despite his hectic construction schedule, Sickmen says he's planning to get back into music. Saturday's show, he says, marked the end of his brief musical retirement.
None of the other acts in Saturday's line-up have moved to Lynchburg yet. In fact, Hoffman headed to Israel for at least a month the day after her Starlight performance and may stay much longer. Indeed, while Saturday's concert may have been a success, there's no sign of a mass exodus of young Charlottesvillians to Lynchburg. Nonetheless, both Sickmens hope the Starlight Café will become a place for people to get a look at Lynchburg– and then maybe come to stay.
"For a young artist," says David Sickmen, "you can't beat this place."


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Something in the way she moves: Abbey Road preservationist has C'ville ties
We say zee-bra, she says zeb-ra. Actually, we say crosswalk, and the one iconically depicted on the cover the Beatles' Abbey Road album is now a protected English landmark, thanks in part to a former Charlottesville resident.
Even a crosswalk?
"We list anything that has special architectural significance," says Emily Gee of English Heritage, Britain's department of historic structures, which on December 22 landmarked the Abbey Road zebra. Earlier last year, the governmental body put the Abbey Road Studio, where the Beatles recorded the album, on its list.
Gee says the photograph for the 1969 album was Paul McCartney's idea, and the London street was closed down for 15 minutes so the four former Liverpudlians could take their now-immortal stroll.
More recently, a debate erupted about whether a crosswalk was an architectural structure, says Gee. Ultimately, preservationists determined that the lamp poles on either side counted as structures.
"And the paint on the street is a chemical structure," informs Gee. "We checked." And of course the crossing met the criterion of having "special historic interest," she adds.
Gee's parents moved from England to Charlottesville when she was eight, and that helped spark her interest in architecture. "I have a vivid memory of the Venable [Elementary School] brochure that my parents showed me just before we moved here in the early 1980s and was in awe of its steps and colonnaded portico; I thought I was going to learn in the grandest building in the new world," she says.
While here, she was a frequent visitor to Monticello, another well-known local design. Gee–- who notes that the porch is the "most distinctive feature" of American architecture–- returned to Charlottesville to get her graduate degree in architecture from UVA.
"So I guess that the similarities and differences in the English and Virginia landscapes had a pretty profound effect in making me aware of the buildings around me."
"I think that Emily brings a real awareness of modern relevance to the listing process, no doubt in part to her training at UVA, which taught her about the social context of buildings, as well as their architectural interest," says Matthew Shaw, curator of the U.S. Collection at the British Library–- and Gee's beau.
England claims the invention of the zebra crosswalk (in 1934 by Lord Hore-Belisha), and for more than 40 years, Beatles' fans have been striding across Abbey Road's zebra in imitation of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Gee reports that there have been no fatalities from irate drivers.
"They have to stop by law," she says.
Sir Paul was pleased enough about the landmarking to release a statement. "It's been a great year for me and a great year for The Beatles," declared McCartney, who was honored for lifetime achievement by the Kennedy Center in December. "Hearing that the Abbey Road crossing is to be preserved is the icing on the cake."
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The story is horribly scattered but nothing wrong with the intent. Pretty cool that a local person is involved with the preservation of that iconic pop landmark. And the Beatles do matter.
My understanding is that some of the oxygen molecules President Obama has inhaled today may have spent some time in Charlottesville. Likewise the water molecules running through the White House toilets.........
The Beatles are cool and so is Emily!
I dont really dig the Beatles. I think they are overrated.
John: you better see a doctor.
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HOUSTON – With his club looking for a second half spark, Brad Davis provided the necessary magic to clinch another home victory for the Houston Dynamo and put the club's name in the history books in the process.
The Eastern Conference battle looked destined to finish even, with neither team able to gain a foothold on the second half, but in the 81st minute Davis took a Kofi Sarkodie pass and clipped in a cross that went untouched and nestled in the far-side netting.
Davis' goal proved the clincher in a 2-1 win that extended Houston's home winning streak to five games this season and 35 games unbeaten dating back to July 2011. The result allowed the Dynamo to rise above Real Salt Lake into sole possession of the all-time MLS record for consecutive home games unbeaten in all competitions, the third longest such streak in all of North American sports.
OPTA Chalkboard: Houston make possession count in physical game
Will Bruin got the scoring started on the day by making his return from a hamstring injury in style, heading home his second goal of the season to give the Dynamo a 1-0 lead in the 26th minute. Davis did the heavy lifting, earning every bit of his assist by turning Wells Thompson inside-out to get space and swing in a perfect cross, and the striker made no mistake, heading his shot to the far post and out of Chicago goalkeeper Sean Johnson's reach.
The goal was a just reward for a first 25 minutes that were all Dynamo. Houston dominated the ball early in the game and looked the more dangerous side, coming close to scoring when Davis' 20-yard free kick drew an athletic one-handed save from Johnson in the 18th minute.
The Fire responded after the goal, putting more pressure on Houston's defense and evening things up three minutes later.
On a long throw-in, Houston was unable to clear the ball and Sherjill MacDonald set up Daniel Paladini, who laid a ball down past Corey Ashe to Chris Rolfe. The former US striker took his chance well, blasting a first-time shot to the near corner to make Houston pay and put the game at 1-1 going into the half.
The second half was more physical and chances were tough to come by until came close to breaking the deadlock in the 63rd minute when Ricardo Clark led a break down the field to set up Andrew Driver, who had a strong showing in place of the injured Boniek Garcia. However, Sean Johnson did well to bat down the shot, with no Dynamo player on hand to clean up the spill.
The teams continued to trade blows and in the 70th minute Chicago's speed off the bench nearly turned the game.
Patrick Nyarko, who made his return after missing a last week's 3-1 win over New York with a quad injury, got behind Ashe and played fellow sub Maicon Santos in. The Brazilian striker got his foot to the ball after getting past Bobby Boswell but his attempt rolled wide. Rolfe nearly poked it home at the back post but Jermaine Taylor was there to shield the Fire striker.
Jeff Larentowicz nearly brought the Fire back for the second time on the day when he headed a Joel Lindpere free kick off the crossbar minutes after Davis' goal, the Fire's final clear chance on the day.
Both teams are back in action next Saturday, as Houston will head north to face Toronto FC while the Fire will host Midwestern rivals Columbus Crew the same day.
Houston Dynamo (4-2-0; 12 points) vs. Chicago Fire (1-4-1; 4 points)
April 14, 2013 – BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston, TX
Attendance: 18,942
Scoring Summary:
HOU: Will Bruin 2 (Brad Davis 2) 26
CHI: Chris Rolfe 1 (Dan Paladini 3) 29
HOU: Brad Davis 2 (Kofi Sarkodie 3) 81
Houston Dynamo: Tally Hall; Kofi Sarkodie, Bobby Boswell, Jermaine Taylor, Corey Ashe; Andre Driver (Warren Creavalle 71), Adam Moffat, Ricardo Clark, Brad Davis; Giles Barnes (Cam Weaver 86), Will Bruin (Brian Ching 75).
Substitutes not used: Tyler Deric, Eric Brunner, Luiz Camargo, Jason Johnson.
Chicago Fire: Sean Johnson; Wells Thompson, Austin Berry, Jalil Anibaba, Gonzalo Segares; Logan Pause, Dan Paladini (Patrick Nyarko 57), Jeff Larentowicz, Joel Lindpere (Dilly Duka 85); Chris Rolfe, Sherjill MacDonald (Maicon Santos 60).
Substitutes not used: Paolo Tornaghi, Hunter Jumper, Corben Bone, Michael Videira.
Misconduct Summary:
CHI: Dan Paladini (caution) 55
HOU: Corey Ashe (caution) 93
Referee: Edvin Jurisevic
Referee's Assistants: Eric Proctor, James Conlee
4th Official: Ismail Elfath


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