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Q1: Holiday meals present an uncomfortable situation for me. My parents are very overweight and have histories of heart problems, so it is really hard for me to bite my tongue when they gorge themselves on stuffing and mashed potatoes and buttered rolls during the holidays. My dad eats the better part of a pie on his own in one sitting! I'm always encouraging them to exercise and eat better because I'm concerned about their health and really want them to be around to watch their grandchildren grow up. But whenever I bring it up, whether over the holidays or other times of the year, they get really upset that I'm judging them. My dad told me to stop telling them how to live their lives — eating makes them happy, so who am I to try to change their ways? What should I do? Do I turn a blind eye while they slowly commit suicide with pumpkin pie?
Q2: I try to lead an active lifestyle to keep healthy and watch what I eat to avoid weight gain. The problem I have is that my wife knows what she needs to do but is not at all motivated to stay active and does not eat a healthy diet. How can I motivate her to take better care of herself for her sake and to set a strong example for our family that we are hoping to have soon? I have tried being supportive but I am afraid of offending her, and she gets very defensive when I make suggestions.
A: "It's really hard to watch the people you love do things you know may cause them discomfort, hurt them or even shorten their lives," says nutritionist Bethany Thayer, a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. "Unfortunately, no matter how hard we try, we cannot control other people's behavior, only our own."
People who are not adopting healthier behaviors generally fall into one of two groups, either the "I won't" category or the "I can't" category, says Thayer, who works at the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.
For those who fall into the "I won't" category, who don't think there is a problem, the best thing to do is to offer understanding that they are not ready right now and let them know that if they ever are ready, you would be happy to help them get the education and support they need, Thayer says.
"Being judgmental or making them feel they are inadequate will only ruin your relationship with the ones you love," she says.
For those in the "I can't" category, who are aware there is a problem but feel it is too big or hard to change, Thayer recommends helping them to recognize their barriers and to develop reasonable strategies — such as scheduling an appointment with a dietitian or other health professional — to move past those barriers.
"The key, no matter what the category, is listening and empathy," she says. So, hard as it may be, accept your loved ones without lecturing or constantly nagging them about their bad health habits.
To be sure, nobody wants a food fight during Thanksgiving dinner. But that doesn't mean the reader in the first question can't offer to bring a dish and then make it a healthy one, says Thayer. "No need to draw attention to the fact that it is healthy unless asked." Even though you can't change someone's behavior, "you don't have to contribute to it," she notes.
"In the meantime, continue being that role model," Thayer says. "Seeing someone they love and respect be healthy and happy may lead your loved ones out of the "I won't" or "I can't" category into an "I might," "I will" or "I am."
Indeed, health habits can be "contagious," agrees Boston psychologist Eric Endlich.
In the second reader question, Endlich says, the wife may be influenced to follow her husband's lead as time goes by. After all, they are living under the same roof. And the prospect of pregnancy can be a health motivator for women.
"Be patient," he says. "Also, rather than trying to give your wife information in the form of suggestions, you might try to gather information from her to better understand her choices." Ask if she or her family were physically active while she was growing up, and inquire about her beliefs and attitudes about nutrition, exercise and health.
"If you get to know her mindset, then you can try to find some common ground — for instance, agreeing that there's not always a lot of time for exercise or that healthy foods may seem less appealing than junk food," Endlich says. "Once you've established some agreement, you can try to address her concerns" such as by finding snacks that are both healthy and tasty, he says.
"In any case, a happy marriage is good for [one's] health, so loving and accepting her is one of the best things you can do for her," he says.
Jacqueline Stenson is a freelance writer in Los Angeles. A former senior health producer for msnbc.com, her work also has appeared in publications including the Los Angeles Times, Health, Shape, Women's Health, Fit Pregnancy and Reuters Health.


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Demon Tribe: Jet Set Radio director launches MOBA, out now on iOS
Demon Tribe is the MOBA that's also a card-battler, that's also an RPG from Jet Set Radio director Masayoshi Kikuchi. It's out on iOS now as a free-to-play title under publisher Sega.
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Sega has been making steady in-roads into mobile games, and has now revealed what it has on its slate for the coming months. This includes an updated Sonic 2 on iOS and an Android version, as well as new game Demon Tribe.
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Demon Tribe, the iOS RPG from SEGA previously known as Project Omega, has a trailer available after the break. The game sees the player transform into monsters who fight demons. The game was directed by Jet Set Radio producer Riichiro Yamada, and supports 3-on-3 battles. No release date just yet, and rumors have it coming […]
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p53 The Gene That Cracked the Cancer Code
Sue Armstrong's latest book, "p53: the gene that cracked the cancer code", written with financial support from the Pathological Society, is newly published by Bloomsbury. In this edited extract, Armstrong meets Alfred Knudson, whose 'two-hit hypothesis' of tumorigenesis is widely considered one of the most significant theories in modern biology. The extract starts at the point in the late 1980s when researchers have realised that wild type p53 is not an oncogene after all.
For clues to what the true nature of p53 might be we need to rewind the clock to the late 1960s to meet paediatrician and polymath Alfred Knudson, then working at the M D Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Here Knudson developed the 'two-hit' hypothesis of tumour formation that was to spark a revolution in cancer research. The two-hit hypothesis is such an important concept in the history of p53, and the information about Knudson the man so sparse, that I decided to seek him out myself to hear his story, and flew into Philadelphia where he lives with his wife, Anna Meadows, a paediatric cancer specialist, on a hot July afternoon in 2012.
That first evening, the three of us took a bottle of white wine from the fridge and went out into the warm summer evening for a meal at one of the Knudsons' favourite Italian restaurants. Next day, Alfred Knudson and I walked together through the city to the College of Physicians, where we sat down to talk in the library. Knudson is now in his 90s, a spare man of medium height with a mop of white hair, deep slow voice like a pint of Guinness and eyes that hold yours unblinking as he speaks.
Born in Los Angeles, California, in 1922, he was the first person in his family to go to university, but felt an academic career was his destiny from his earliest days in high school. Then, he mostly imagined himself as a mathematician or physicist, but the current carried him towards medicine instead. He got a place at the California Institute of Technology where he was required to take courses in chemistry and biology as well as physics and maths and says with a deep chuckle: "I hate to admit how naïve I was, but I came to the conclusion that they already knew everything in physics and it didn't seem like a very interesting field to get into!" Biology on the other hand excited him with its possibilities, and he decided eventually to study genetics, which seemed to combine biology with his love of maths. Still at Caltech when America entered World War II in December 1941, Knudson was advised that his best hope of staying in school was to join the Forces and apply to study medicine. He accepted a place at Columbia University medical school in New York and, on qualifying, decided to study paediatrics. "Children have some interesting genetic diseases, and I'd had a course in embryology and thought, oh, here's a great field that is way behind the times – there are all kinds of possibilities with this."
Knudson's first serious encounter with childhood cancer came during his residency at New York Hospital, when he was required to spend a month at Sloan Kettering Memorial cancer hospital just across the street. "It had a little unit for children's cancers. There were about twenty patients there. I had seen a child with Wilms' tumour before, and somebody with leukaemia – but to see twenty children with cancer just blew me away…"
Knudson re-joined the army for the Korean War, believing they would draft him anyway, but never saw action: he reckoned they had little use for a paediatrician on the frontline. After two years kicking his heels at Fort Raleigh, Kansas, he felt life was passing him by and he was anxious to get back into the world of ideas. He returned to Caltech to do a PhD in genetics and biochemistry in 1953, just months after Crick and Watson had cracked the mystery of DNA's structure. The Institute, on the crest of the wave of genetic research, was buzzing with intellectual energy.
With his doctorate under his belt, Knudson moved on to the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California, to head up a new paediatric unit with a special focus on cancer. But it was at M D Anderson in Houston, which recruited him ten years later to start a programme in genetics, that he developed his two-hit model of tumour formation. Knudson figured that in order to tease out what was happening at a molecular level in cancer it was best to work with one of the less complicated tumour types. "To start out studying something like polyposis was kind of hopeless, you know?" Polyps, he explained, can eventually turn malignant, but the progression to colon cancer can take years and follow many different paths. "But if a kid can be born with cancer it's about as simple as it can get. That was my thinking." Retinoblastoma met this criterion; it was the ideal topic for research.
A rare tumour of the light-detecting cells of the eye, retinoblastoma affects children almost exclusively below the age of five, because it starts in the stem cells of the developing retina that, like the stem cells of all organs of the body, experience an explosion of division and growth during gestation and the early years of life. An early sign of the disease is a milky white appearance to the pupil of the eye. Left undiagnosed and untreated, as it often is in the developing world, it will grow into a grotesque spongy-looking mass that distorts the child's whole face and will eventually kill.
Knudson did not actually see cases of the disease himself – indeed he had given up treating patients by this stage to concentrate on genetic research – but he struck lucky. He discovered that two people – a paediatrician in England and an ophthalmologist at M D Anderson – had kept detailed records of retinoblastoma cases they had seen. Poring over this rich repository of data, he observed that the disease ran in families as well as occurring sporadically, and that there were distinct differences between the two sorts of patients. Affected children from families with the disease typically developed cancer at a much younger age than those with no family history. And they tended to have multiple tumours in both eyes, while the sporadic form of the disease typically leads to a single tumour in only one eye.
So what did Knudson make of what he was seeing? Something "outrageously brilliant" in its simplicity and far-reaching implications, said Peter Hall (then Professor of Pathology at Queen's University, Belfast), reviewing the pivotal moments in cancer research nearly four decades later. Here in a nutshell is how Knudson himself explained it to me as we sat together in that quiet library in Philadelphia.
Every gene in the body, except those of the sex cells, ova and sperm, is made up of two copies of itself (or two 'alleles'), one copy inherited from the father and one from the mother. Knudson realised that in those cases of retinoblastoma with a family history of the disease, the gene responsible was inherited – though in the late 1960s no one was yet able to isolate genes or identify them individually. The overwhelming likelihood, he believed, was that only one copy of the gene, one allele — inherited from either mother or father — would be faulty at birth, and the disease would occur only if and when the other allele developed a fault. His reasoning was confirmed by the fact that among the familial cases, not all the siblings of an affected child developed tumours, though they would all have inherited the same genes from their parents and been similarly susceptible.
In those cases in his data set with no family history of retinoblastoma, faults had obviously developed in both copies of the gene quite by chance over time – explaining why victims tended to be older than those with familial retinoblastoma and typically to have no more than one tumour.
All this suggested to Knudson that one faulty copy of the gene involved in development of the retina is not enough on its own to cause tumour growth at that site. The other copy has to develop a fault also. But — and this was the revolutionary suggestion —until the normal copy too develops a fault, it seems to keep the already-faulty copy in check, so that the cell functions perfectly normally. Only when both copies are faulty do the cells start to behave erratically and to develop into a tumour. Put another way, in all of the cases Knudson observed, something seemed to be breaking down, and the cells involved to be losing their ability to function properly. He proposed that what had happened in these cases was that some kind of brake on proliferation of cells was lost. It was such a simple suggestion, but it swam against the tide of cancer research which, in 1971 when Knudson published his 'two-hit hypothesis', was intensely preoccupied with the driving forces of cancer, the newly discovered oncogenes, which implied a gain of function. He was proposing the existence of an equal and opposite force, an 'anti-oncogene' (soon to be renamed a 'tumour suppressor') — that allows cancer to develop when it is knocked out – implying a loss of function.
Here, the car offers a useful analogy for visualising the forces at work inside cancerous cells, as proposed by Knudson. Think of oncogenes as the accelerator pedals, and tumour suppressors as the brakes: a defective accelerator cable might stick, forcing the car to speed up uncontrollably (a gain of function); brake failure (loss of function) will have a similar effect in that the car won't be able to stop. But the analogy can be taken still further, since in most cars there are two brake systems. If one system fails, you still have the other, and generally both sets of brakes have to fail for catastrophe to occur. Likewise, for tumour suppressor genes to be involved in cancer it usually requires both copies of the gene, both alleles, to be disabled. This is the central lesson of retinoblastoma, and the essence of Knudson's 'two-hit hypothesis'.
"There is a war on to rid the human race of cancer and this is a story from the front line. By interviewing the individual scientists, attending their intense conferences and understanding the complex language of cutting edge science, Sue Armstrong has been able to tell the story of this amazing journey of discovery in a way that fascinates and inspires but is still accessible," Sir David Lane
"Sue Armstrong tells a fascinating story of human ingenuity at its best. It is a triumphant account of fundamental scientific discoveries that solve deep mysteries about life and death in cells and genes, but along the way she gives us a very human narrative, full of serendipity, rivalry, obstinacy, coincidence, courage and determination," Matt Ridley, author of Genome.


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Saturday, June 8
Landscape Pleasures at Parrish Art Museum
8:30 a.m.
279 Montauk Highway. Water Mill
Themed "Modernism, Minimalism, and Meadows," this year's Landscape Pleasures benefit is inspired from the landscape and architecture of the new Parrish museum building. Three accomplished professionals in the field will discuss landscape architecture. This precedes the garden tours in Sagaponack and North Haven, including the Perlbinder House, a 20-acre oceanfront property designed by celebrated architect Norman Jaffe. Tickets cost $225 /$175 for members. For more information call 631-283-2118 or visit parrishart.org.
Christopher's 5K Run/Walk
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Agawam Park, 25 Pond Lane, Southampton
Participate in a charitable run named in memory of Christopher Lesta, a young local boy, who was born with Hunter Syndrome and died in 2007. The proceeds go to Duke University Medical Center's Pediatric Blood & Marrow Transplant Family Support Progam. Event includes a kids' fun run, raffle, Chinese and Silent Auction and 5K race. Click here for the race details or visit christophersrun.com to learn more about Christopher Lesta.
Long Island Tour de Cure 2013
6 a.m.–5 p.m
Pindar Vineyards, 37645 New York 25, Peconic
This American Diabetes Association cycling event is part of the movement to stop diabetes. Featuring routes of various lengths and skill levels, riders help raise money to stop this devastating disease. The routes are safe, supervised and supporters are placed along the way with water and nutritious snacks. All routes start and end at Pindar. After the ride, mingle and enjoy a barbecue, music, a Health and Wellness Village, kids' zone and more. Registration is required at diabetes.org/tourdecurelongisland.
Antiques Fair & Art Prints Appraisal Day
Flowers and Company Antiques Center
9 a.m.–3 p.m. Fair
2:30–4 p.m. Appraisal
245 Montauk Highway, Southampton
Dealer and Collector Yoav Korono specializes in 20th century American and European modern art prints, drawings, and paintings. Enjoy shopping and bring your artwork for Korono to determine its value. This place has antiques and treasures from more than a dozen vendors.
Sunday, June 9
Cause for Paws Cut-a-Thon
Salon Echelon
10 a.m.-4 p.m.
295 Montauk Highway, Suite 14, Speonk
This is the second annual Cause for Pause benefit for RSVP Inc. a/k/a RSVP Animal Welfare & Rescue Group. They offer $25 haircuts and adoptable animals and raffles. Contact [email protected] or call 631-288-4200. Visit rsvpinc.org to learn more about this charity.
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Petra Puppets Presents: Big Mouth Talent Show
Westhampton Library
2 p.m.
7 Library Avenue, Westhampton Beach
Though geared for kids aged 3–8, ventriloquist Steve Petra's Big Mouth Talent Show is great for the whole family. This humorous, creative, musical and interactive puppet show will entertain and make you laugh. Take out a children's book while you're there. Visit petrapuppets.com/library or call the library at 631-288-3335 for more information.
Comedian Jay Mohr
Westhampton Beach Performing Art Center WHBPAC
8 p.m.
76 Main Street, Westhampton Beach
Comedian, actor, author and host of Fox Sports Radio's Jay Mohr Sports talk show, Jay Mohr will entertain mature audiences only in a hilarious and one-of-a-kind show. Check out whbpac.org for tickets.
Bridgehampton Historical Society Annual Spring Benefit
5–7 p.m.
Ludlow Grange, 2782 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton
The music of East End jazz artist, Peter Martin Weiss, will play at this annual cocktail party benefit. Together with a tour of the historic house, barn and garden, the Wölffer Estate Vineyard wines, Plain-T artisanal iced teas and hors d'oeuvres from Loaves & Fishes will make for a lovely evening in the Hamptons. Check out bridgehamptonhistoricalsociety.org for ticket information.
A Night at the Tony Awards-Simulcast and LIVE Entertainment!
Suffolk Theater
7 p.m.
118 East Main Street, Riverhead
Watch a telecast of the Annual Tony Awards LIVE from Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The Twin Forks' most talented musical theater performers will entertain and sing from Tony Award winning musicals from 1947–2012. Laurence Maslon and Bob Spiotto host the evening with special guest, Tony Award Winner from Billy Elliott, Trent Kawalik. Check out suffolktheater.com for tickets.
DanHamptons Pick!
Willie Nelson Live at The Surf Lodge
6 p.m.
183 Edgemere Street, Montauk
What else is there to say? Country music legend Willie Nelson is playing a free, intimate show at The Surf Lodge in Montauk. Be there or regret it later. Call 631-668-1562 or visit thesurflodge.com for info. Show up way early if you want to even think about getting close to the door, let alone make it inside!


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Beautiful Ugly
To Ugly
Everyone in the apartment complex I lived in knew who Ugly was. Ugly was the resident tomcat. Ugly loved three things in this world: fighting, eating garbage, and shall we say, love. The combination of these things combined with a life spent outside had their effect on Ugly.
To start with, he had only one eye, and where the other should have been was a gaping hole. He was also missing his ear on the same side, his left foot appeared to have been badly broken at one time, and had healed at an unnatural angle, making him look like he was always turning the corner. His tail had long since been lost, leaving only the smallest stub, which he would constantly jerk and twitch. Ugly would have been a dark gray tabby striped-type, except for the sores covering his head, neck, even his shoulders with thick, yellowing scabs. Every time someone saw Ugly there was the same reaction. "That's one ugly cat!"
All the children were warned not to touch him. The adults threw rocks at him, hosed him down, and squirted him when he tried to come in their homes, or shut his paws in the door when he would not leave. Ugly always had the same reaction. If you turned the hose on him, he would stand there, getting soaked until you gave up and quit. If you threw things at him, he would curl his lanky body around your feet in forgiveness. Whenever he spied children, he would come running, meowing frantically and bump his head against their hands, begging for their love. If you ever picked him up he would immediately begin suckling on your shirt, earrings, whatever he could find.
One day Ugly shared his love with the neighbor's huskies. They did not respond kindly, and Ugly was badly mauled. From my apartment I could hear his screams, and I tried to rush to his aid. By the time I got to where he was lying, it was apparent Ugly's sad life was almost at an end.
Ugly lay in a wet circle, his back legs and lower back twisted grossly out of shape, a gaping tear in the white strip of fur that ran down his front. As I picked him up and tried to carry him home, I could hear him wheezing and gasping, and could feel him struggling. I must be hurting him terribly, I thought. Then I felt a familiar tugging, sucking sensation on my ear. Ugly, in so much pain, suffering, and obviously dying was trying to suckle my ear. I pulled him closer to me, and he bumped the palm of my hand with his head, then he turned his one golden eye toward me, and I could hear the distinct sound of purring.
Even in the greatest pain, that ugly battled-scarred cat was asking only for a little affection; perhaps some compassion. At that moment I thought Ugly was the most beautiful, loving creature I had ever seen. Never once did he try to bite or scratch me, or even try to get away from me, or struggle in any way. Ugly just looked up at me, completely trusting in me to relieve his pain. Ugly died in my arms before I could get inside, but I sat and held him for a long time afterward, thinking about how one scarred, deformed little stray could so alter my opinion about what it means to have true pureness of spirit, to love so totally and truly. Ugly taught me more about giving and compassion than a thousand books, lectures, or talk show specials ever could, and for that I will always be thankful.
He had been scarred on the outside, but I was scarred on the inside, and it was time for me to move on and learn to love truly and deeply. To give my total to those I cared for. All of us would want to be richer, more successful, well liked, or beautiful. But for me, I will always try to be
"Ugly".…Author Unknown
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This acknowledgement was "To Ugly" and it just made me weep. How many times have YOU seen something or someone so ugly, it made you cringe? Did it ever occur to you that they need love too? This was the perfect siegway to a great story about how people see themselves and live in such a ugly life because of demons that haunt them. And most of it's in their mind. The three ladies in this wonderful and truly heart felt story are beautiful, but they all are harboring silent uglies that only they see. Shelia tell each one's story, beautifully. Forgiving your ugllies is such a haunting task, but a doable one.
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Three friends with different struggles rely on God and each other to get by. Layla Hobbs has so much to offer, including a beautiful singing voice, but obesity and low self-esteem hold her back from life and finding true love. Envy Wilson has always been Layla's backbone. But what about her own dark secrets? She won't share them with anyone, and it's starting to eat away at her from the inside. And then there's Kacie Mayweather. Stricken with cerebral palsy, she's had her share of men—five baby daddies for six children, in fact. But she's never had one man to call her own. They'll need plenty of faith and support from each other to see the real beauty that lies within each one of them and fulfill their deepest desires at last.
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Author Shelia E. Lipsey is a multi-award winning author. Her novels are available at most bookstores nationwide as well as online. Lipsey's books have been called gripping, life-altering, memorable and realistic. Lipsey was recently awarded the 2009 Top Shelf Award for Beautiful Ugly by Black Pearls Magazine. She also won 2009 Shades of Romance Readers' Choice Awards for My Son's Wife in the following categories: Author of the Year, Christian fiction Book of the Year, Christian Romance of the Year, Best Book Cover of the Year, Best Fiction Book of the Year, among several other awards for her novels, Into Each Life and Sinsatiable.
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Following the adventures of Lazarus Jones on his first day on the Detroit Police Force, Ghosthunter sees the plucky rookie called in to investigate a disturbance in an old abandoned school, the scene of a grisly (and ultimately unsolved) mass-murder. Heading out with his senior partner Anna Steele, Lazarus sets off on what he believes is a routine call but, in the true spirit of survival horror, it's not long before the crime-bothering duo are knee-deep in ectoplasm.
After much bickering between the pair, Jones somehow inadvertently sets free a horde of ghosts contained in the school's secret paranormal research lab. An errant apparition materialises, grabs Anna, and drags her away with him to a dark, eerie place (the school canteen, perhaps?). One of the wayward spooks (Astral) also manages to 'bond' with Jones, giving him the gift of supernatural sight, allowing him to see dead people. Nice. Picking up the reins as Laz, you'll start out in search of Anna, and attempt to figure out the mysteries buried deep in the school's past along the way...
The ghost-hunting action begins in earnest when you set about searching the derelict building's many rooms and corridors in search of Anna, and encounter some of the school's more 'permanent' pupils along the way. It's a case of 'hunt or be haunted', which means it's time to crack open the heavy weaponry. In addition to the standard issue pistol and shotgun (which work on partially-materialised spooks), you'll have access to some altogether more specialised equipment for snaring the more wraith-like ghosts. There's a Spectral Lasso for draining ghostly energy, a Pulse Rifle that runs off spectral energy, and a weapon developed by the military called a 'Techno Gun'. All very handy for reining in any fugitive phantoms you happen upon.
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I have described the 'Marine Lightwheel' phenomenon in detail in previous articles, so will only briefly describe it here for those who haven't read or heard of it, and since the excellent eyewitness accounts of the Milius' crew provide a vivid description. Basically, it seems a nearly unbelievable sight to witness, according to those who've been fortunate enough to have experienced it. It is a rare phenomenon that can only be seen in waters rich in bioluminescent plankton-type organisms that are apparently agitated in a massive area of the water by an electromagnetically related planetary force that discharges in geometrically configured shapes as far as the eye can see, such as huge rimless rotating wheels, expanding and imploding concentric rings, and spinning spirals among others. The electromagnetic energy of a source open to speculation, causes the bioluminescent organisms to fluoresce with a light greenish blue glow, rapidly moving in the shapes of and revealing the vortically spinning energy systems agitating them to flouresce. The displays can "stretch to the horizon", moving like "an underwater Disco light show" at speeds "close to the speed of sound". All made visible by the agitated bioluminescent micro-organisms that fill the water where the, what would otherwise be invisible, seemingly electromagnetic, and wide ranging 'energy discharges' occur.
Imagine standing on the bridge wing of a ship on a dark moonless overcast night. Looking down at the water from a height of about 50 feet. Just above the surface of the sea appears to be waves of white light (low intensity) pulsating out of nowhere with a synchronized rhythm. Outward expanding circles, inward imploding circles, waves, moving snakes and boomerangs! The waves of light appear to be traveling at or near the speed of sound and reach as far out on the horizon as the eye can see. With each pulse, the sea explodes with millions of tiny green lights that appear as emeralds on the surface of the water (bioluminescent). It was Incredible and almost unbelievable. It would be hard for me to believe if I had not seen it myself. The light show continued for about 40 minutes before we steamed out of the area and it faded in our wake.
"Last night the ship passed through a bizarre natural phenomenon. Don't know what it was and have never read about anything like it. There was energy hovering and spinning just above the water. It was pulsating. A little like glowing mist but it spun and moved faster than the waves and made circles and other patterns. It sped out as far as you could see and lasted over 20 minutes. Like the northern lights but on the surface of the water and not in the sky. There was also lightning in the air and tons of florescent plankton in the water and maybe that had something to do with it but not really sure. It was definitely something like St. Elmo's Fire or Ball Lightning and I suspect I will never see it again."
My scientific side kicked in. I did suspect that bioluminescence was at least partially responsible for the light show at hand. Generally this is caused when the ship's wake disturbs species. It tends to glow in a bright green color, much like that of a phosphorescent light stick. It usually splits like a giant V from the ship's hull as we pass through the water. If something biological was being disturbed then what was causing it? Looking at the speed and pattern… I assumed that it was sound. It was obviously slower than light but much quicker than anything that I had ever seen caused by wind or waves.
That theory was quickly put to rest when the spirals began. It wasn't as if something was producing the light at the center and it was following the spiral by growing. More like if you had a giant light that had a spiral cutout blocking part of it and then rotated it. Like something that belonged on a dance floor. The centers of these spirals passed directly down our ships beam. You could pinpoint the exact center. I couldn't believe or begin to explain what I was seeing.
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"Grief," writes Thomas Lynch, "is the tax we pay on our attachments."
It is a beautiful line. It is simple and lovely and true. If you don't feel love, then you don't feel sorrow; to live without a close connection to another person is to avoid all the pain, all the emptiness, all the anguish, when that person dies. Yet we go right on loving, don't we?
Lynch, a poet, essayist and mortician, is the author of "The Undertaking: Life Studies From the Dismal Trade" (1997), among other luminous and moving books. Reading "A Decade of Hope: Stories of Grief and Endurance From 9/11 Families and Friends" (Viking), a new book offering the thoughts of many of those whose loved ones perished in the terrorist attacks against the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, I was constantly reminded of Lynch's work.
Not because any of the voices sound like Lynch's. They don't. Lynch is a brilliant wordsmith, a writer of uncommon lyrical gifts. The people who tell their stories in "A Decade of Hope" aren't professional writers. They are teachers, lawyers, firefighters, police officers, politicians, students. Moms and dads. Daughters and sons. Sisters and brothers and friends.
What gives "A Decade of Hope" its power and originality is just that: The words aren't polished to the high gloss that people who write for a living naturally add to all that they publish. The sentences don't feel fussed over. There are no clever metaphors or finely wrought analogies.
Instead, there are just intensely personal stories of what it has been like for these people — people who lost someone they loved or, in some unimaginably devastating cases, several someones — since 9/11. The stories thus blossom with a kind of ragged, inadvertent poetry — the poetry that grows up naturally around honest and heartfelt words, like grass between paving stones.
"I was totally distracted, and for a long time, I couldn't even read a book," says Jim Smith, whose wife, Moira, was a police officer who died while rescuing people in the south tower of the World Trade Center.
"There are days when I don't want to see people," says John Vigiano, whose sons, John and Joe, a police officer and a firefighter, died on 9/11 in the line of duty. "If there's a real bad day, I get in my car and I go to the beach in winter."
Some people established foundations and charities to commemorate their lost loved ones. Some remarried or moved far away. Some questioned God. Some grew closer to God. Some were angry for a long, long time.
"During the first four years after 9/11, I was not in a good place," says Brendan Ielpi, a firefighter, who lost his brother Jonathan, also a firefighter, in the south tower. "I really didn't care about anybody but myself, and if you didn't like it, tough." He is better now, he says: "I just try to help others, and do my best to raise my family."
Memoirs of grief have long been a popular genre, from the piercing observations of C.S. Lewis about the spiritual crisis precipitated by the death of his wife in "A Grief Observed" (1963) to the searing reflections on cataclysmic personal loss in "The Year of Magical Thinking" (2005) by Joan Didion and "A Widow's Story" (2011) by Joyce Carol Oates.
"A Decade of Hope" is an honorable addition to this literary tradition. It has a raw urgency that at times makes it uncomfortable to read — other people's pain is never easy to witness — but that also makes the book so much more than just a collection of platitudes and bumper-sticker bromides about recovery.
"You can quote me: Cheney can rot in hell," declares Cameron MacRae, whose 23-year-old daughter, Catherine, died on 9/11, and who believes that former Vice President Dick Cheney was wrong to push the Iraq War as a response to the attacks.
We can't ever truly know what these survivors went through; we can't ever understand the depths of their pain. All we can do is listen when they talk. "September 11 was something that was thrust upon me," says Ray Habib, a man who lost his wife, Barbara, in the World Trade Center. "I didn't choose to be part of it, but the fact is that it happened and I am part of it. I'll accept it, I'll absorb it, and I'll do everything I can to continue to deal with it."
Habib would surely nod knowingly at Lewis' words in "A Grief Observed," as the author gropes to describe his life after his wife's passing: "The act of living is different all through. Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."
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OAKHURST (AP) — A Fresno man is recovering after a fall during a hike and a complicated rescue in the Sierra Nevada foothills, authorities said.
Larry Teixeira was hiking with friends when he lost his footing and tumbled about 50 feet down an embankment along the side of the Lewis Creek trail on Sunday, said Madera County sheriff's spokeswoman Erica Stuart. The trail is a scenic hike with steep climbs several miles outside of Yosemite National Park, near the mountain community of Oakhurst.
After the fall, Teixeira, 38, ended up wedged between huge boulders that were perched above a fast-moving river, Stuart said.
Because of his injuries, the height of the boulders and the slippery moss they were covered with, Teixeira was unable to get out from between the boulders, Stuart said.
"He was wedged in so badly the only way he could get him out was a vertical extraction," Stuart said. "He was injured. He wasn't moving. He wasn't walking out, and they couldn't carry him out."
Rescue efforts were especially difficult because the first crews had to cross the river to get closer to him. They had to climb up the embankment he had fallen down so they could find a tree sturdy enough to attach ropes so they could remove Teixeira, who is estimated to weight about 250 pounds, on a litter basket, Stuart said.
It took 24 members of the Madera County search-and-rescue team and crews from other agencies about five hours to get the injured hiker out from between the boulders. He was taken to a hospital where he was being treated for what was described as serious, but non-life threatening injuries.
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Autocar is reporting the 2009 British Motor Show has been canceled due to the Carpocalypse. Whatever. We know it was really because of the bland food, crummy weather and threat of ghost-of-Lucas-related electrical fires.
Show organizer Paul Everitt explains:
"We didn't want the situation of planning a show against a background of uncertainty, so we crystallised debate very quickly: could manufacturers commit to the show for 2010? The manufacturers are all in the process of making redundancies, cutting salaries, cutting working hours and trying to save money. It would have been foolhardy for them to come to us and commit to spending very significant amounts of money at such a time. Unsurprisingly, the people we asked all said they couldn't commit, so we have canceled."
Sounds reasonable, but where will the myriad cottage-industry British automakers introduce their latest wares? Given the recent history of British brands, the Mumbai Auto Show might be a good call. [Autocar]


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The Diamondbacks finally completed a deal for Justin Upton, netting a five-player package from the Braves headlined by versatile Venezuelan Martin Prado. Also going to Atlanta is 3B Chris Johnson, who has the unenviable task of replacing future Hall of Famer Chipper Jones. Total assets used: Three draft picks and two amateur free agents to get a potential MVP left fielder and a platoon thirdbaseman.
Arizona had for some reason soured on Justin Upton, with even the team owner talking shots at him for not being healthy. Still, they valued him highly enough that they held out for a pretty good deal. Prado may not be a power hitter, but he's a very productive one. Randall Delgado replaces some of the young pitching the D-Backs have traded away this off-season. And when you consider that they got three other prospects too, there's a chance for this to go very well for Arizona.
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Heck, I want to build one for a game session now!
not knocking it, if i could, id build one myself, it would make commuting to work so much easier. god help who ever cuts me off in traffic, lol.
Sorry, didn't mean to sound like I was taking it personally. If I ever come across like that, I'm not mad or anything. I'm just one of those guys who have that New York attitude and cut to the point.


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Now-a-days, you have frameworks that need to be setup [as a part of your environment], include paths that need to be changed, modules that need to be installed, web servers that need to be configured for your routing, etc. Then you might not just have MySQL, but Redis, Mongo, Couch, Memcached, Postgres, or any other dozen other servers. Then in Production you might have load balancers, multiple web servers, clusters of databases, and the list goes on. Simply put: web development environments are complex.
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Harrison becomes first line of defense
ANAHEIM -- Left-hander Matt Harrison received a promotion on Tuesday. He is now next in line for succession to the Rangers rotation in case of injury now that Colby Lewis is sidelined for the rest of the season because of his impending hip surgery.
The only problem is Harrison isn't ready. He threw a bullpen session on Tuesday at Angel Stadium and will start for Triple-A Round Rock on Friday. He is hoping to throw 65 pitches in his third outing on medical-rehabilitation assignment.
"It's definitely unfortunate what's happened with Colby," Harrison said. "He was trying to pitch through a lot. I have a lot of thoughts and prayers for him and his family that he can get back as quickly as possible. I'm just taking it day to day. Everything is progressing well. I'm just getting ready for my next start. Hopefully if they need me I'll be ready."
The Rangers don't need him right now. Yu Darvish, Derek Holland and Matt Garza are locked into the rotation, and Martin Perez is coming off two strong starts against the Angels. Alexi Ogando is the one bringing up the rear. He has made three starts since being activated off the disabled and is 0-1 with a 4.61 ERA. He has yet to make it through more than five innings.
"Of course he needs to pick it up," manager Ron Washington said. "But he's not hurting, so since he's not hurting, I'm not concerned. He'll figure it out. Right now it's his command. He may go out tomorrow and find it. We know he can get outs. We haven't had any discussions on him. We just want him to get better."
Harrison will likely need two or three more starts before he is an option for the rotation. He has been sidelined since April after undergoing two surgeries to fix a herniated disk in his lower back.


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Isaac Bernheim was a German immigrant, born in Schmieheim. He arrived in America in 1867 with just four dollars and began working in New York. The company he worked for went bankrupt and he was forced to make his living as an itinerant salesman. Bernheim travelled on horseback through Pennsylvania to sell goods to housewives, though this was short-lived; his horse died and he was unable to continue. Following a move to Paducah in Kentucky, Isaac Bernheim began work bookkeeping for Loeb, Bloom & Co, a spirits company. In 1872, he opened his own spirits company with Nathan Uri and his brother, Bernard. Bernheim Brothers & Uri acquired a distillery in New Haven in 1889 and in 1896 purchased the Pleasure Ridge Park Distillery, renaming it Bernheim Distillery Co. Their first brand of whiskey was named I W Harper and they had great success. Eventually, the Schenley Distilling Corp acquired the company in 1937. Today's Bernheim has little connection with Isaac's original. The new, modern construction was built in 1992 by United Distillers, a subsidiary of Guinness. Bernheim uses advanced technology, sitting close by the Brown-Forman headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky. The land was acquired with two moth-eaten distilleries, the Astor distillery, the producer of Henry Clay bourbon, and the Belmont distillery. These were demolished and replaced by the new, modern building. The new Bernheim distillery began producing a handful of United Distillers' wheat bourbons. Popular brands produced at Bernheim include I W Harper and Bernheim Original.
Bernheim was the first straight wheat whiskey to be launched on the US market and is bottled at seven years of age. More info
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