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This morning Ryder and I were in the car and heading to Hopkins by 7:10am. Ryder's appointment was at 8:15 and we were checked in and he had been weighed and measured by 8:30am so that wasn't too bad. We only had to sit in the exam room for about 3 minutes before Dr.Lederman came to see us which was really good.
He started off by asking how Ryder's infection history has been since we saw him in May so we went over all of that. Then he did a physical exam on Ryder looking at everything. Once he was finished with all of that he sat down and showed me Ryder's blood work results. He had it all in a nice chart so it was pretty easy to understand once he explained what the numbers meant.
Apparently they use the Prevnar vaccine as the main diagnostic tool for kids when looking at primary immunodeficiency issues. His initial antibody values ranged from 0.1-0.4 which Dr.Lederman explained meant he had no antibodies from the vaccine (even after having the normal 4 doses babies receive). Then he had a booster shot given and more blood work 1 month later which showed values ranging from 10-33 which Dr.Lederman explained shows a response from his immune system, but not to the normal extent that would be expected (pointed out a 6-7 month fetus would have that type of response). Then we looked at the antibody values from 6 months after the booster shot was given which ranged from 0-0.4 which once again shows no antibodies. It was obvious to me at that point that something was not right about Ryder's immune system.
Dr.Lederman told me he feels with the number and type of illnesses/infections Ryder gets along with all of the blood work results that Ryder definitely has a Primary Immunodeficiency Disease. The only actual name he mentioned was the Transient Hypogammaglobulinemia, but said he is no longer transient. He then went on toe say he feels it is in the best interest of Ryder to start him on IV Immunoglobulin treatments which are basically IV antibodies to help increase Ryder's immune system.
The actual product that Ryder will receive is called Hizentra. They went over all of the information about this, showed me a video and discussed the options we have for administering it to Ryder. We decided to go with the weekly at-home infusions (another option was monthly IV treatments at the clinic, but they said many younger kids have more side effects from this option and due to my knowledge of needles from my Diabetes they felt it was best to try the in-home infusions). The first infusion will be given to Ryder at the clinic so they can make sure he doesn't have any reactions to the product. I was told the most common reactions are soreness, redness or swelling at the infusion site, headache, and nausea. They told me if he experiences the nausea they will be able to prescribe a medication to give ahead of time to reduce it. During the first infusion they will teach me how to administer the infusion so all future ones can be done at home on a weekly basis. Dr.Lederman said he was is not able to tell us right now if this will be a life-long thing for Ryder, but it is a very high possibility he will require these infusions for the rest of his life. They also gave me a prescription for EMLA cream which will numb the skin where Ryder will receive the infusion so he shouldn't actually feel the needle insertion, but they told me it will take a while for him to "get used" to the whole process.
I am waiting to hear from the Immunology office, but out hopes are to have the first infusion on Friday as long as insurance moves quick enough and we don't run into any issues with insurance. I have tried looking up the Hizentra online through the insurance company to find out if it needs pre-authorization or what not, but can't find it listed anywhere so not sure if that is a bad sign or not.


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We knew it on these shores as the 200SX Turbo, while the Japanese and Europeans called it the Silvia ZX Turbo. Either way, it served as an excellent herpes vector!
We see an exquisitely mid-80s British couple having a Silvia-style rendezvous, he with the silver manual-trans car and she in the slushbox red one. Sure, they'd both have looked a lot cooler in TVR 280is, but he'd probably have ended up sliding off the road and into a drainage ditch, while she'd have been incinerated by the inevitable electrical fire.


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Artificial intelligence is no longer the domain of clunky, mechanical robots and computers. It thrives inside a test tube where scientists have created an artificial neural network made out of DNA – essentially the beginnings of a brain – that was able to ace "plop" quizzes.
The network is a circuit of interacting molecules that can recall memories based on incomplete patterns. It consists of four artificial neurons made from 112 distinct DNA strands and plays a mind-reading game in which it tries to identify a mystery scientist.
The team, led by bioengineer Lulu Qian at the California Institute of Technology, chose to build its network out of DNA molecules because, before brains evolved, molecular interactions inside single-cell organisms showed limited forms of intelligence such as searching for food and avoiding toxins.
"Molecules can act as biochemical circuits that process information and perform computational tasks," Qian explains in a video describing her team's work published in the July 21 issue of Nature.
Because scientists can synthesize DNA strands with whatever base sequence they want, the researchers were able to program the molecules to function like a simple model neuron that fires only when it passes a certain threshold. Linked together, they behave like a network of neurons.
To play the plop quiz game, the neural network was trained to "know" four scientists, whose identities are each represented by a specific, unique set of answers to four yes or no questions, such as whether the scientist was British.
After thinking of a scientist, a human player provides an incomplete subset of answers that partially identifies the scientist. The player then conveys those clues to the network by plopping DNA strands that correspond to those answers into the test tube.
These plopped-in strands interact with the neural network, which fires or not depending on its answer. To see the neurons firing, a fluorescent molecular marker lit up when activated.
In this way, the network communicates via fluorescent signals to identify which scientist the player has in mind or that it has insufficient or contradictory information. The researchers played the game with the network using 27 different ways of answering the questions. It responded correctly each time.
Beyond playing lab games, the technology has applications for the design of new drugs as well as performing chemical and biological research, the scientists say. For example, biochemical networks designed to go inside a body could help identify a disease and deliver targeted drugs.
But that future is distant, Qian says. For one, finding a way to get the network to function inside a living organism presents a whole new set of challenges than operating inside the test tube.
As for creating an artificial human brain with lab-made DNA? Don't worry just yet. The four neuron network took eight hours to identify each mystery scientist. The human brain consists of 100 billion neurons and can make decisions in a split second.
(Via Discovery News)
More on artificial intelligence:
- Beyond 'Jeopardy': Watson wins
- What will happen when machines outthink us?
- Scientists work on artificial cat brain
- Neuron-like computer hardware finally gets software
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Over on r/nfl, Reddit user marvin02 put together the graph below, showing how Peyton Manning's TD pace through 10 games compares to the five highest single-season touchdown marks in NFL history:
Through nine games, Peyton's 33 touchdowns had him on pace with Tom Brady's record-breaking 50 touchdown season, but he threw for just one against the Chiefs this weekend. (Monte Ball had two rushing TDs to cap off drives where a combined 78 percent of the yards came through the air, which is why the passing TD mark is sort of silly.) He now stands four touchdowns back from Brady's pace, and one touchdown back from the pace of his own 49 touchdown 2004 season.
But how, as a clever commenter asked, is his little brother's interception-filled season stacking up against the all-time leaders? Here's Eli Manning's—and Geno Smith's—interception pace, tracked against the the only four QBs of the post-merger era to hit 30 interceptions on the season:
Eli, like Peyton, got off to a hot start. His 15 interceptions through six games put him ahead of Vinny Testaverde's 1988 pace (he finished with 35, the post-merger record). Unfortunately he's only thrown two in the last four games, opening up a window for Geno Smith to take the league lead. They're both well off the record pace, and would need to have a Tarkenton-level meltdown—the Hall of Fame QB threw 14 interceptions in his last four games in 1978, the last four games of his career—to become the first QBs in a quarter century to hit 30 interceptions.
If you had to pick one QB to make a run, I'd still go with Eli—five of the Giants' six remaining games are against teams averaging at least one pick a game, while Geno only had to face one. Also noteworthy: Richard Todd, Phil Simms, and Scott Bruner combined for 55 interceptions for the Giants and Jets in 1980, so the all-city mark is still within reach.


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I posted this on my facebook page and I thought I should probably post this on here. So I apologize if you're seeing this twice but this is important for you to know. I want to be as transparent as possible:
I was recently diagnosed with HPPD – Hyper Persisting Perception Disorder. It's a disorder characterized by a continual presence of sensory disturbances, most commonly visual, that are reminiscent of those generated by the use of hallucinogenic substances. Researchers are still studying it and trying to discover the true cause. I'd like you to know what I'm not crazy or anything of that sort, I just see things differently.
Here's an article written by the New Yorker that talks about HPPD. You can do a simple google search to learn more about the disorder:
By Dorian Rolston
May 17, 2013
Early one night in the fall of 1987, a college freshman ate half of a microdot of lysergic acid diethylamide on his way to a party. He was young, but more than a little familiar with mind-altering chemicals: LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, and other, less common psychedelics. This trip, by comparison, turned out to be only a "mild experience." The tingling euphoria, splendid visuals, and sudden bursts of insight mostly wore off by the time he retired to his dorm. But the following morning, some effects still remained.
"I opened my eyes to see what time it was," he said, on the condition of anonymity. "As I looked away, I immediately realized that the light from the digital clock was streaking." Throughout the day, other signatures of the hallucinogen high struck him. When he shifted his gaze from a page he was reading, a ghostly afterimage of the text materialized in the air, hanging legibly for a few moments. When he turned a page, a long cascading series of replicas trailed behind, like a stroboscopic photograph.
The streaking and trailing and after-imaging persisted for days. He began to panic. "I really lost it," he said. "I was sitting in one of my first college classes and, like, hallucinating." He met with psychologists, who could discern little. He called his parents, who could discern less. He became unhinged, wandering campus in a daze, squinting at the world as if through a kaleidoscope. "I broke down," he said. "I could no longer go to class. I couldn't do anything." He quit school, moved back home, and entered rehab. His search for a diagnosis came up empty: no underlying medical condition, nor had the drug been laced with something sinister. Weeks, months, then years went by. The trip just wouldn't end.
Psychedelic lore is littered with cautionary tales. But it remains to be seen whether reports of hallucinogen persisting perception disorder—quite literally, the persistence of hallucinogen-induced perceptions—should count among them. Hallucinogens are enjoying something of a revival: the drugs are being tried recreationally by nearly one in five American adults (approaching that of the nineteen-sixties), while being tested empirically for their powers to heal alcoholism and other addictions, anxieties from impending death, P.T.S.D., major depression, and even cluster headaches. Reading too much into H.P.P.D., some say, could squelch the renewed intrigue—even though, to some extent, the risk factors, causes, and effective treatments remain a mystery. Others, though, suspect that unraveling this mysterious disorder could reveal clues for the more familiar ones. According to Dr. Henry Abraham, a lecturer in psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine who privately sees patients with substance-related disorders, neurophysiological shifts observed in H.P.P.D. patients "may yield useful models for anxiety, depression, psychosis, and even addiction."
A chronic and debilitating condition, H.P.P.D. warps the perceptual faculties: the external senses are marred by a constellation of mostly visual distortions, while the internal ones are paralyzed by a concoction of dissociative symptoms, panic attacks, and depression. The doors of perception are not so much cleansed, as Aldous Huxley famously found after his first experience on mescaline, as they are cracked open and left askew.
H.P.P.D. does not generate hallucinations, technically speaking. Sufferers can appreciate that their perceptual aberrations are unreal—that their surroundings only appear blurred by afterimages (palinopsia) and trails (akinetopsia); shimmered by sparkles and flashed by bright bolts of light; interrupted by transparent blobs of color floating around; electrified by visual snow; magnified or shrunk by "Alice-in-Wonderland" symptoms; adorned by halos around objects, around people's heads. The pseudo-hallucinations are ultimately unconvincing, if deeply unsettling.
Eventually, a sense of permanent unreality casts a pall over the acid-fuelled dreamscape, and sufferers disassociate—from the world, due to derealization, and from themselves, due to depersonalization. At a recent Society of Biological Psychiatry conference, Dr. Abraham presented findings, later published in the S.B.P. 2012 supplement, that suggest up to sixty-five per cent of H.P.P.D patients chronically endure panic attacks, and fifty per cent, major depression. Some patients feel their only relief is suicide.
The cluster of symptoms first appeared in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1986. Ever since, the official diagnosis has been lumped together with "flashbacks." Brief fragments of a trip that occasionally bubble up to one's consciousness, flashbacks may arise from sudden spikes in the cerebral cortex—stirring perceptions, sensations, or emotions mimicking those of the hallucinogen high, in the absence of any chemical. But as the term has been popularized, flashback has been rendered "virtually useless" diagnostically, writes Dr. John Halpern, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and lead author of the most recent literature review of H.P.P.D. In the review, published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Dr. Halpern reasons that by conflating two distinct diagnoses, a strict definition of H.P.P.D. has remained elusive, leaving its prevalence obscured. Yet, "it seems inescapable," he concludes, based on twenty related studies dating back to 1966, "that at least some individuals who have used LSD, in particular, experience persistent perceptual abnormalities reminiscent of acute intoxication, not better attributable to another medical or psychiatric condition."
Peer-reviewed accounts of drug users whose world had been transfigured permanently can be found as early as 1983, prefiguring the initial D.S.M. entry. In a case-control study of a hundred and twenty-three LSD users, Abraham was among the first to catalogue reports from those who flashed psychedelic and never turned off: a struggling shoe salesman whose dark-brown pairs bled into the navy-blues; a confused student whose text jumbled into "alphabet soup"; a distracted office worker whose flower pot slid back and forth along the windowsill. "This isn't flashbacks," said Abraham. "We have to call it what it is: a persisting perception disorder."
Preliminary estimates of the prevalence of H.P.P.D. dismissed the disorder as an outlier, implicating as few as one in fifty thousand hallucinogen users. The most recent large-scale survey, questioning nearly twenty-five hundred users, found that over one in twenty-five were considering treatment for H.P.P.D.-like symptoms. But because participants, recruited from the popular drug information Web site Erowid, did not represent the average dabbler, and because only a small portion of them had actively sought medical care, the tally remains somewhat inconclusive. "Unfortunately," writes Halpern, assessing the scant literature, "the data do not permit us to estimate, even crudely, the prevalence of 'strict' H.P.P.D."
If "strict" cases of H.P.P.D. turn up only rarely in scientific journals, though, at HPPDonline.com, a Web forum tracking research developments and connecting sufferers, nearly nine thousand monthly visitors give some indication of what lies beyond the academic purview. They report burning and throbbing and numbing and tingling. They claim that surfaces undulate ("breathing walls"), objects vanish ("they mix with the floor"), and beams of light splinter into shards of extended rays ("star-bursting"). They share encounters that seem inexplicable—"fluids flowing down from my left temple," "a chemical aftertaste"—and plead for the group's insight. They raise suspicions: "Every time I walk past a certain type of tree the leaves begin to shake." They despair: "I hear my brain."
And they may be making their symptoms worse. While H.P.P.D. sufferers do misperceive their environment, some researchers suspect that severe anxiety—perhaps an underlying condition—aggravates those misperceptions. As noted by Matthew Baggott, a postdoctoral fellow in psychiatric genetics at University of Chicago, fMRI studies generally show close links between the attention and visual systems.
Such observations have raised doubt over whether hallucinogens are the root cause of the disorder, and even whether H.P.P.D. is a bona-fide diagnosis. "The more you focus on the condition, the more it spirals out of control," said Halpern. "So sufferers must practice letting go, which most Americans tend to struggle with." In one study of five hundred Native American Church members, each of whom had taken peyote hundreds, even thousands of times, no H.P.P.D.-like symptoms were reported. "Our culture is still evolving to deal with what it means to be intoxicated by these substances," Halpern reasons. "H.P.P.D. may be an incomplete description of the syndrome."
But if H.P.P.D. is to some extent self-perpetuated—perhaps by a naïve culture, perhaps by anxiety-prone individuals—it is not self-induced. Running a battery of standard neurological tests on dozens of H.P.P.D. patients throughout the nineteen-eighties and early nineties, Abraham and co-authors Dr. Frank Hopkins Duffy, a neurologist, and Ernst Wolf, a neuroscientist, found evidence suggesting the flow of impulses through the central nervous system has been chronically altered. When a light is flipped on, the brain still registers darkness for a while; when a light flickers, it registers a steady beam; when an array of colors is presented, it confuses those in proximity. Jennifer Groh, a professor of psychology and neuroscience and the director of the Neural Basis of Perception Lab at Duke University, has extensively investigated the visual-processing system. While she has not studied H.P.P.D. specifically, Groh has found that the brain is generally unable to distinguish stimuli according to their source; even a single stimulus, artificially induced over and over, is treated as genuine and novel. The so-called staircase-of-eye-movements effect, Groh reasons, would predict some of the symptoms—at least the trailing, after-imaging, and poor darkness adaptation—observed in H.P.P.D. patients. "Their brain may not recognize the stimuli as simply the same repeated request," she says.
Consistent with Groh's findings, Abraham offers his own account of why H.P.P.D. causes sensory input to linger within neural circuitry, firing even after the stimulus is gone. "What we have proven through psychophysics, electrophysiology, and quantitative analysis," said Abraham, "is that when the brain of an H.P.P.D. person is stimulated by some perceptual force in the environment, mostly visual, the stimulus is disinhibited." Objects of perception, in other words, are not readily disengaged, breaking up an ordinarily seamless flow of conscious experience. If the brain is like a paintbrush, then H.P.P.D. appears to make the bristles sticky, and the old stimuli—colors, shapes, and motions—muddy the new.
Frank Durgin, a professor of psychology and the director of the Perception and Cognition Lab at Swarthmore College, affirmed that Abraham's theory holds promise. "The disinhibition hypothesis is pretty safe as a generic account," said Durgin. "There is a lot of inhibition involved in normal perception. Failure to distinguish and inhibit noise signals is a reasonable first guess about a variety of hallucinogenic effects." The theory seems to be consistent with the current science of perception, according to Irving Biederman, a professor of neuroscience and the director of the Image Understanding Laboratory at the University of Southern California. A healthy brain, Biederman explained, is bathed in inhibitory neurotransmitters—gamma-aminobutyric acid, primarily—in order to mute mild perceptual noise (like visual distortions), and ultimately to safeguard against full-blown cacophony (like seizures). H.P.P.D. patients, he offered, might have "done something structurally to those interneurons, causing perceptual noise to exceed the threshold." (According to some scientists, most psychoactive drugs, including psychiatric medications, can alter the brain's neural structure.) While neither Durgin nor Biederman study such rare perceptual disorders as H.P.P.D., their expertise is illustrative: the symptoms of H.P.P.D. are just the kind of perceptions ordinarily present in the brain, only occluded—or inhibited—from consciousness.
What is least known about H.P.P.D. is treatment. "Unfortunately," Halpern writes, "the literature on this point remains largely anecdotal." Options are limited: palliative care from more drugs (benzodiazepines and anti-epileptics), adjustment through psychotherapy (of the cognitive-behavioral or straight-talking variety), a pair of sunglasses. While the college freshman, now middle-aged, is celebrated by his psychiatrist as "the poster child for healthy adaptation to the disorder," healthy adaptation is no cure.
One day several years ago, he was taking a draw from a cigarette after work when he noticed, for the second time, a sudden shift in his vision. He had finally gotten his life on track—securing a degree, starting a family, building a career—and had managed to bury his past. He occasionally struggled to read fine print, especially late at night, and became disoriented by lane markings, especially on an overcast day. ("And when I smelled pot, I ran for the hills," he said.) But if his inner life was disfigured, few—not even his wife—could tell. Until, he recalls, "something clicked."
What happened next was a blur. "The visuals got ramped up, like somebody raised the volume," he says. "I was sent back immediately into panic mode, going through the emotional roller-coaster ride that I did back in college." Tremors of panic that had been stamped out were swiftly rekindled. "I fell off the grid for a week," he says. He began fearing, perhaps as many others with mental illness do, that the spectre of madness can be raised without warning, that "you may never make it out."
Dorian Rolston is a freelance writer covering cognitive science.
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Sometimes we need to look in the mirror to see what's in front of us. We are faced with a challenging situation and we look everywhere but at ourselves.
Lily is eight years old. She has soft blond curls and a beautiful smile. She makes friends easily in school. She can also be messy, disheveled, and has trouble following directions.
Lily's mother, Karen, is exasperated.
"Mornings are impossible!" she says to me. "By the time Lily leaves for school, I am at the end of my rope. We've had too many power struggles, over everything from her outfit to what she's going to eat for breakfast. Her homework is all over the place. I just end up yelling at her and losing it with the rest of my children. As Lily gets on the bus we are both in tears. When she comes home, it starts all over again. I have to tell you the truth, there are days that I just don't like my own daughter...and I feel terrible about it. We are like oil and water. What can I do to change this situation? How can I make this better?"
I know Karen. She is well groomed and immaculate. She loves everything 'perfect' and in order.
Sometimes the athletic father is given the son who can't hit a ball. And we are disappointed.
But life is not always perfect. Sometimes, the neat mother is given the messy daughter. The athletic father is given the son who can't hit a ball.
And we are disappointed. We struggle with our children and find ourselves in a battlefield. We never realize that we are fighting ourselves; our lost dreams that we've held onto for so long.
"What do you think Lily sees when she sees your face?" I asked Karen. "When she comes down the stairs in the morning, what's the look in your eyes?"
"Here's the truth," Karen replied. "When I was growing up, I was the girl who always got the main part in the play. I was the one who always looked great and brought home straight A's. I met my husband in college and he was the most awesome guy. I always thought that I'd get married, have children and we'd have this perfect family. White picket fence and all, you know the scene.
"But Lily, she just doesn't fit in to the picture. PTA's are upsetting. She always looks a mess. She not coordinated. It's just not what I imagined".
"And maybe she sees that in your eyes," I said. "Maybe she feels your disappointment in who she is. Perhaps the place to start is within. I am not saying that you shouldn't work with her and try to teach her to be orderly and neat. But first, look in the mirror and see your reflection. See what she sees each time you glance at her. You have this expectation of life, even of your mornings, that it will be easy and carefree, just as you've grown used to. Along comes this child who breaks the mold. You are exasperated. Can she not be sensing this?"
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I recall having one of those tough mornings when my children were toddlers. After tantrums and tears, I decided that it would be best to take the children out of the house. We'd all cool off a little. A change of atmosphere and some fresh air can work wonders for both parent and child.
As I watched my children running and playing outdoors, my then four year old son climbed onto my lap. "Mommy, are you angry?" he asked.
"Of course not, sweetie," I answered. "I'm so happy to be outside with you. And don't you see the smile on my face?"
"So why are your eyebrows angry?"
We are constantly communicating with our children. Look how children read our faces. Even our eyebrows transmit a message. Beyond words, our attitude and expressions reveal our innermost thoughts.
Do we impart joy as we parent or do our children hear a deep sigh as they enter the room?
We need to ask ourselves how we convey our feelings toward our children. Do we impart joy as we parent or do our children hear a deep sigh as they enter the room?
You can serve the tastiest dinner, but if it's slammed down on the table or given resentfully, the food is tasteless.
The look on our face as we sit down to read a book to our toddler, the lackluster 'yes' we give as we respond to helping with math homework, the way we drive our children to school in the morning, all tell our children how feel as we interact with them.
And as our children grow, we need to honestly examine our attitudes. Do we scrutinize their achievements through our own hopes and dreams or do we accept each child for who he is?
When we make every effort to communicate joy, love, gratitude and acceptance in our homes, our children respond to our open hearts. We can then try to help each child reach his great potential and find the blessing that lies within his soul.


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What's News: The SEC says Illinois misled municipal bondholders. Samsung is set to unveil its Galaxy S-IV smartphone this week. Rovio will release an Angry Birds-themed animated series across multiple platforms. Photo: Getty Images.
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When Premier Christy Clark takes the wraps off her new and expanded cabinet in Vancouver today, the most urgent to-do list will be the one handed to the minister in charge of fulfilling her promise to establish a liquefied natural gas industry.
Her election platform was grounded in a commitment to LNG development as the route to job creation in the present and prosperity in the future.
But even as the B.C. Liberals laid out some of the most ambitious goals ever for a provincial election platform — $1 trillion in economic activity, a $100-billion prosperity fund, a debt-free province within three decades — they acknowledged how all of it was predicated on acting quickly and decisively.
"LNG is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for greater economic prosperity, but we have to move quickly. Other regions have natural gas as well and also want to seize the opportunity."
Arguably, other regions are well ahead of B.C. in seizing the opportunity to supply natural gas in liquefied form to hungry Asian markets. Qatar. Russia. The U.S.
Indeed, the Australians got there three decades ago, with a far-sighted venture into LNG production that derailed an earlier plan to develop an equivalent industry on the north coast of B.C.
B.C.'s first Green MLA, Andrew Weaver, claims B.C. has already missed out on the boom. "It's a pipe dream," he told reporters after taking the oath of office in the legislative chamber Thursday. "It makes no economic sense to go down this path."
Still, as the Liberals noted in their platform, B.C. has been getting serious consideration from some of the biggest players in the global oil and gas industry:
"LNG facilities are currently proposed by business groups that include some of the world's biggest energy companies — Shell, Imperial, Chevron, British Gas, Petronas, SK E&S of South Korea, Inpex and the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation ... It's no fantasy."
Not a fantasy. But neither are multiple proposals worth even one signed-sealed-and-delivered contract to construct a major terminal on an established schedule and produce a sizable volume of product for shipment to a designated supplier at an agreed-upon price and period of time.
Hence the pressure on the government to secure at least one done deal before the window of opportunity does close, as many an independent observer says it could do in the next few months.
Hence, too, the Liberal platform promise to remove responsibility for LNG from the broad-brush ministry of energy (where it jostles for attention with BC Hydro, mineral exploration and other files) and assign it to a stand-alone "ministry of natural gas development."
They also intend to provide increased staff and other resources to a provincial LNG secretariat "to ensure rapid engagement with proponents." Plus there'd be a cabinet-led committee — members to include the premier herself, the new minister for natural gas development, other government MLAs plus business and community leaders — "to work with the secretariat to capture the LNG opportunity."
As well as finalizing deals to bring natural gas from the northeast to one or more terminals in Kitimat, the new ministry and secretariat would be charged with establishing a second corridor across northern B.C. "to service LNG facilities in and around the Prince Rupert area."
Other elements of the strategy include working out a deal with the federal government to "ensure one comprehensive environmental assessment process for LNG developments," and securing the necessary level of cooperation from affected First Nations in return for ensuring that aboriginal people (along with other northern B.C. residents) will be "first in line for the LNG jobs of the future."
Nor does that exhaust the immediate challenges ahead.
LNG terminals need enormous amounts of power to chill natural gas down to minus 162 degrees centigrade, the target temperature for transporting it by oceangoing tankers. In most places in the world, this is done by consuming sizable quantities of natural gas to "squeeze and freeze" the rest, via a process known as direct drive.
But the Liberals (again quoting the platform) want to "ensure B.C.'s facilities are the cleanest in the world," which is not a reference to the need for improved custodial standards. Rather they are concerned about greenhouse gas emissions and will be discouraging producers from too much reliance on fossil fuels as a source of power.
Instead the government is pledged to get going on "new power sources for LNG manufacturing, including Site C, that will secure future energy for consumers." Site C being the proposed hydroelectric dam on the Peace River, which would not be up and running for a decade at the earliest.
Not surprisingly, the would-be builders of multi-billion-dollar terminals would like to know when substitute power would be available, at what price, and how reliable it would be, before they commit themselves to long-term contracts in a volatile global market for commodities.
So it is not as if the Liberals can go on working through their options in private and voicing generalities in public, as they have done for the better part of two years.
They need to deliver the goods. If they don't, their mandate could evaporate as quickly as LNG at room temperature.


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The artist Richard Phillips was in the lobby of the New Museum on Wednesday night wearing a pair of stark white Alpinestars racing shoes. The new-ish online culture magazine The Aesthete was holding a dinner to honor Phillips' "contribution to the New York art world," as well as a short video the site was hosting that followed Phillips as he sped his custom 1992 Porsche 964 around the road race course at Lime Rock, Conn. The crowd included Johan Lindeberg, Cynthia Rowley and Bill Powers, Aesthete editor Adrian Mainella, Brooke Geahan and Ann Dexter-Jones. Many of the men in attendance were wearing their scarves indoors. Phillips was too, but his footwear stood out.
"Finding the right driving shoes is, I've found, really critical," he said. "I found this out at Watkins Glen this past summer when I was going down the straightaway as fast as I could possibly go and my foot slipped off the brake going into turn one. I quickly got it back on the brake. The instructor that was with me got startled from the…."
Joe Mimran, the fast fashion impresario behind Joe Fresh, interrupted to greet Phillips and introduce him to his wife, Kimberley Newport-Mimran. Mimran is the founder of The Aesthete, but until Wednesday he had been a largely silent backer.
"I've been very close to buying one of Richard's pieces at auction," Mimran said.
"What really caught my imagination initially was Richard's take on beauty."
Mimran's appreciation of Phillips' work had been limited to a studio visit. He had not been on the racetrack with the artist.
"I'm a bit of a chicken," he said.
"You either are not a chicken or you are a chicken," said a gleeful Dexter-Jones, who had made her way over to the pair. "It's like 'a little bit pregnant.'"
"Here's the thing," Mimran replied. "I don't mind risking my life in fashion. I take more risks than anyone can ever imagine financially, but when it comes to speed or heights, I'm a chicken."
"I am not a chicken with speed," Dexter-Jones said, "Heights, my stomach goes over. But I like the thrill because I am missing that chip that says this is dangerous."
Phillips had been quiet.
"I like that," he said.
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Welcome back to Linux.Ars! We have some good stuff for you this week. Axel Liljencrantz has written a helpful introduction to the Friendly Interactive Shell (Fish), a unique and innovative command line environment with a number of useful improvements. Also included in this week's Linux.Ars is an introduction to some of the new Javascript features of Firefox 1.5, and a brief introduction to Viewglob, a shell visualization utility.
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New Javascript features in Firefox 1.5
Developers rejoice, Firefox 1.5 is finally here! The latest release of the Mozilla Foundation's popular web browser includes numerous features that empower developers and improve the versatility of the platform. Support for SVG, the canvas tag, and the Javscript 1.6 standard make this release a cause of developer celebration.
Firefox 1.5 provides support for the latest enhancements to the Javascript language. E4X adds native XML support to Javascript and provides a complete object-oriented interface to XML content. With E4X, developers can manipulate XML content with unprecedented ease. XML tags can be assigned directly to a Javascript variable:
> var xmlcontent = <foo><baz>bar</baz></foo>;
And the tag contents can be extracted with a simple, object oriented syntax:
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E4X also provides support for tag interpolation. Developers can use braces to include values in constructed XML content:
> var xmlcontent = <foo><baz>{3 + 3}</baz></foo>;
With E4X, developers can iterate over tags based on simple queries, similar to the XPath syntax. In E4X, the .. operator is equivelent to the XPath // operator. To iterate over every B tag nested inside of the A tag, you can use the following syntax:
for each (var i in A..B) { // ... }
You can further limit the loop and iterate over only the B tags that include a C tag that contains specific text:
for each (var i in A..B.(C == "value")) { // ... }
Let's look at a more elaborate example. Remember the monkey XML file from the last edition of Linux.Ars? Let's revisit that example now with E4X:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">   <title>Web Development Test Page</title>

Javascript 1.6 also adds support for new Array methods that facilitate functional sequence manipulation. With the map and filter methods, developers can now use anonymous functions to manipulate arrays without resorting to for loops. The following example will produce a new array that contains each value of the initial array multiplied by two:
> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].map(function (x) { return x * 2 })
[2, 4, 6, 8, 10]
The filter method will pass each value of the array to the provided function, and return a new array that only includes the values that cause the function to return true :
> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].filter(function (x) { return x > 3 })
[4, 5]
It is also possible to provide existing functions to the map and filter methods:
function isGreaterThanThree(x) { return x > 3 } [1,2,3,4,5].filter(isGreaterThanThree)
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Crossovers happen in comics all the time, where characters stumble into worlds that look radically different and meet alternate versions of themselves. Such a thing probably won't happen with the kid-friendly Lego Batman 2 and the Dark Knight's ultra-violent exploits in Batman: Arkham City.
But, damn if Wonder Woman, Robin, Joker and Catwoman don't all look great when given the gritty gray-tone treatment from the Arkham City promo art. These would make great variant mini-figs. You listening out there, Lego?
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Twitter sees new record during Euro 2012 final
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Twitter says its users fired off more than 15,000 Tweets per second when Spain made its fourth goal in Sunday's European Championship final, setting a new sports-related record on the social networking site.
The surge in tweets came just weeks before the Olympics Games in London are expected to bring another unprecedented surge of activity by sports fans on social networking sites.
Twitter says total global traffic on its platform peaked at 15,358 tweets per second during the fourth goal Sunday in Kiev, where Spain defeated Italy 4-0. Twitter also registered a total of 16.5 million tweets worldwide during the match.
Among those who tweeted was Pele, the retired Brazilian star. He congratulated Spain and said he was looking forward to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.


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Malfunctioning unit fixed at Connecticut nuclear power plant
WATERFORD -- A spokesman for Connecticut's nuclear power plant says the unit that was shut down last week because of a malfunction is generating electricity again.
Millstone Power Station spokesman Ken Holt says Unit 3 was reconnected to the grid on Wednesday and was expected to reach full power within about a day.
Unit 3 is one of two operating units at the Waterford plant. It shut down Friday when a malfunction caused a drop in the level of water used to cool the reactor core.
Holt said Thursday that a power distribution panel has been reconfigured and re-energized.
Millstone provides half of Connecticut's power. The automatic shutdown was the first at Millstone since last summer, when its other operating unit went offline due to unusually warm water in Long Island Sound.


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The British carmaker Bentley, owned by Volkswagen Group had displayed a W16 powered super sports cars at the Geneva Motor show. The project was conceived as a virtual mid-engined successor to the 1999 Hunaudieres Concept. The front end of this vehicle features an aggressive front splitter and air intake set up to emulate the F22 Jet and is characterized by the trademark Bentley domed grill and twin circular headlights.
The Bentley Silver Wings Concept also features a raised beltline and diminishing character lines that help define the supercar embodiment of this concept and elongate the rear-end of this vehicle. This really is the Bentley of supercars...
Dubbed the Bentley Sport Cars Bentley Silver Wings Concept, the concept is inspired by the brand's racing heritage as well as the F22 Raptor jet fighter. Bentley Silver Wings Concept is the usual hodgepodge of design elements from Aston Martin, Zonda, Saleen and Bentley of course, but it still has a certain charm about it.
Bentley Sport Cars Bentley Silver Wings ConceptThe Silver Wing concept car uses a harmonious mix between mid-engine layout and aggressive design cues. The front end uses an aggressive layout built around Bentley's characteristic domed grille and headlights that draw inspiration from the company's current design language. The exterior also includes large rear air intakes for the rear brakes, and the 20" or 21" alloy wheels.
Shawn Wood and Guohua Cheng are two industrial designers recently graduated from the Industrial Design course at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (TAFA), China. They are two college kids from China have come up with something that will blow your mind completely. The W16 display car, which was a concept called the Hunaudières had a cab-forward design with sleek looks and was done up in British Racing Green. The concept cars had more chrome than Ludacris' Escalade.


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With Kipnis' injury, Tribe's depth put to test
ANAHEIM -- When the Indians assembled their bench over the past two offseasons, the idea was to add versatile players capable of handling a full-time job. That way, if an unexpected injury came up, Cleveland would have replacements at the ready.
On Tuesday, the Indians faced their first test of the season along those lines. All-Star second baseman Jason Kipnis exited with a right abdominal strain and it is unclear how much time he will miss with the injury. It is now up to utility men such as Mike Aviles, Elliot Johnson and Ryan Raburn to help fill in.
"They happen," Indians manager Terry Francona said of injuries. "You don't know when they're going to happen, but you know they're going to happen. ... It usually comes up, so finding guys that are able to play once a week, and also play every day when need be, that's a really hard mix.
"That's why we were so happy when we got Aviles. Raburn fits that. They're hard to find. That's why, when something happens to somebody, we generally just play those guys, because they get their at-bats, they stay ready, they're very professional."
With outfielder Michael Brantley getting a scheduled day off on Wednesday, Aviles started in left field for Cleveland. Johnson got the nod at second base, considering Kipnis is sidelined. The right-handed-hitting Raburn was in the lineup as the designated hitter, because the Angels had left-hander C.J. Wilson on the mound.
All three utility men -- Aviles, Johnson and Raburn -- can handle the corner outfield spots, with Aviles and Johnson also offering contingency plans for center. Aviles also gives Cleveland depth at second base, shortstop and third. Johnson can play all four infield spots and is the Tribe's emergency catcher. Raburn has experience at the infield corners and second base.
"We have a lot of guys that can play multiple positions," Aviles said. "So I think that kind of helps, as far as in the event of injuries. I think [general manager Chris Antonetti] and [Francona] have done a great job of building a roster in that way. You're kind of giving yourself some cushion in case people do get hurt."


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Equities are climbing again this morning, the last trading day of the month. The dollar continues its slide into nothingness (even relative to other debt saturated currencies), bonds continue higher not in support of equities, oil is higher, gold is in new record territory, silver is still working on breaching the $50 mark despite another attempt to cut it down via margin increases, and food commodities are bouncing slightly after declining yesterday.
It's typical that a bullish bias exists on the last and first trading days of the month. There was a small movement in the McClellan Oscillator yesterday, so expect a large price move today. Which direction? Well, let me consult my daily pump you up with fluff POMO schedule…
Yep, another $5 to $10 Billion today and every day. Is it ever going to end? I say that if it does we will see an instant return to another wave of deflation. And if they keep it going commodity prices will continue to the moon. Will they keep it going? They have to, the "Fed" doesn't work for you, they work for the private central banks.
Personal Income and Outlays in March are showing the money printing in action and if this report is even close to accurate then we may be seeing the beginnings of inflation in incomes. If that continues, it will fuel a spiral in inflation expectations that will require more and more money pumping from the "Fed." Again inflation is hot in this report and I'm certain that aspect of it is understated – here's Econopray:
The consumer sector got some lift from income growth in March. Personal income in March grew 0.5 percent, following a 0.4 percent gain in February. The latest was a little higher than the median projection for 0.4 percent. Wages & salaries rose a moderate 0.3 percent, softening from 0.4 percent in February.
Consumer spending slowed somewhat in the latest month but was coming off a robust February. Personal consumption expenditures printed at a 0.6 percent rise in March after jumping 0.9 percent the prior month. Analysts had forecast a 0.5 percent gain. The slowing was largely due to a leveling off in durables after the large advance in this component in February. Durables were a little better than many expected as earlier released unit new motor vehicle sales dipped in March. Of course, higher gasoline prices helped boost the nondurables component. Nonetheless, real PCEs managed to gain 0.2 percent, following a 0.5 percent surge in February.
For PCEs in March, strength was led by nondurables (includes gasoline), up 0.9 percent, after a 1.7 percent surge in February. Durables eased to up 0.1 percent, following a 2.1 percent jump the prior month. Services spending advanced 0.5 percent after a 0.4 percent rise the month before.
On the inflation front, the PCE price index continued to be hot, jumping 0.4 percent and matching the February boost. However, the core rate decelerated a bit to a sluggish 0.1 percent rise in March, following a 0.2 percent gain in February. On a year-ago basis, headline PCE inflation worsened to 1.8 percent from 1.6 percent in February. Core PCE price inflation was steady at 0.9 percent on a year-ago basis. The latest core numbers will let the Fed keep arguing that underlying inflation is still soft.
Year on year, personal income growth for March came in 5.3 percent, compared to 5.2 percent in February. PCEs growth posted at a year-ago 4.6 percent, up from 4.5 percent the prior month.
The consumer sector is holding up a little better than expected despite high gasoline prices. The question is whether the price effects are "transitory" as hoped by the Fed. The income gains are at least helping to offset the impact of higher gasoline prices on consumers' budgets.
So then it must be okay to send oil prices to the moon? Heaven help you if you live on a fixed income.
Wait… are wages really increasing or aren't they? In a separate report, the Employment Cost Index does not show the gains:
HighlightsI took the liberty of drawing a big fat trend arrow for your wages (err, I mean employment costs). CPI, of course, is trumped and reality is much higher than advertised. I'm giving this report on wages the benefit of a doubt, but who really knows as the data is so widely warped that trust in the money printing central's data makes one look like an idiot.
A rise in benefit costs fed an above-trend rise in the employment cost index which however shows no acceleration in wages. The ECI rose a quarterly 0.6 percent in the first quarter vs a run of 0.4 percent gains in prior quarters. Year-on-year, the ECI is up 2.0 percent for no change vs the fourth quarter. Wages rose 0.4 percent, the same pace as the fourth quarter, and are up only 1.6 percent year on year. Benefits jumped 1.1 percent for a 3.0 percent year-on-year increase with health benefits for employers up 3.4 percent. For comparison, the year-on-year rate for the CPI was 2.7 percent in March.
Gee, could that be why confidence is being lost in the dollar? Or could that be why China and Russia are on a gold buying binge? Or why central bankers of the world are exchanging their debt backed money from nothing for gold?
Gold Luring Central-Bank Buyers May Extend Record Rally in Price
April 29 (Bloomberg) -- Central banks that were net sellers of gold a decade ago are buying the precious metal to reduce their reliance on the dollar as a reserve currency, signaling demand that may extend a record rally in prices.
As developing countries accelerate purchases, gold may reach $2,000 an ounce this year, compared with a record of $1,538.80 yesterday in New York, said Robert McEwen, the chief executive officer of producer U.S. Gold Corp. Euro Pacific Capital's Michael Pento, who correctly predicted gold's highs for the past two years, forecast a 2011 high of $1,600.
Prices reached a record 14 times this month on demand from investors seeking an alternative to the dollar after the currency slumped to the lowest since 2009, U.S. debt widened, and the Federal Reserve signaled April 27 that borrowing costs will remain near zero percent for an extended period. The economy in China, the biggest foreign holder of U.S. Treasuries, grew 9.7 percent in the first quarter.
"China is out to have more gold than America, and Russia is aspiring to the same," McEwen said yesterday in an interview in New York. "When you have debt, you don't have a lot of flexibility. China wants to show its currency has more backing than the U.S."
In 2010, central banks became net buyers for the first time in two decades, adding 87 metric tons in official-sector purchases by countries including Bolivia, Sri Lanka and Mauritius, according to World Gold Council data. China, with more than $3 trillion in foreign-currency reserves, plans to set up new funds to invest in precious metals, Century Weekly reported this week. Russia purchased 8 tons of gold in the first quarter.
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China, which has just 1.6 percent of its reserves in gold, may invest more than $1 trillion in bullion, Pento said. "China wants to be an international player, and they need to own more gold than they currently have."
The U.S. Treasury Department projects the government could reach its debt ceiling of $14.3 trillion as soon as mid-May and run out of options for avoiding default by early July. The Fed has kept its benchmark rate between zero percent and 0.25 percent since December 2008 to help stimulate the economy, driving the dollar down 11 percent against a basket of six major currencies during the past year.
"Until monetary policy changes, you're going to continue to see gold go up," said Michael Cuggino, who helps manage $12 billion at Permanent Portfolio Funds in San Francisco.
"Ultimately the best thing we can do to create strong fundamentals for the dollar in the medium term is first, keep inflation low, which maintains the buying power of the dollar, and second, create a stronger economy," Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said on April 27.
Uh, huh. The handwriting has been on the wall for quite some time. But remember, those who produce the money are the ones WHO are really in control. In this nation that would currently be the private banks. They know that the math of debt doesn't work, and I still think that switching to a gold backed money works for them as long as they are still the ones who control and produce the money.
While the U.S. is supposedly the world's largest holder of gold, that gold has not been truly assayed for decades, and in that time the central bankers have been acting as if they own it (you really own it). They have acted freely to swap it all over the globe and even though that gold truly belongs to the people, they won't even allow an audit of their activities. So who knows how much gold there is in reality?
The lesson here is two-fold. First and foremost, what's most important is WHO controls the production of money. Secondly never trust private individuals with your physical gold – always take and maintain delivery of the real thing – paper gold is an outright swindle.
Speaking of swindle, evidently the EU is tired of being swindled:
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Among 16 Banks Probed by EU Over CDS
April 29 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and 14 other investment banks face a European Union antitrust probe into credit-default swaps for companies and sovereign debt.
The European Commission is investigating whether 16 bank dealers, including Citigroup Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG, colluded by giving market information to Markit, a financial information provider. Regulators will also examine whether nine of the firms struck unfair deals with ICE Clear Europe, a clearinghouse for derivatives, shutting out competitors.
"Lack of transparency in markets can lead to abusive behavior and facilitate violations of competition rules," Joaquin Almunia, the EU's competition commissioner, said in an e-mailed statement. "I hope our investigation will contribute to a better functioning of financial markets."
Global regulators have sought to toughen regulation of credit-default swaps, saying the trades helped fuel the financial crisis. The EU's probe into the CDS market adds to separate investigations in the U.K. and U.S into whether banks colluded to manipulate the London interbank offered rate.
Possible Collusion
Bank of America Corp., Barclays Plc, BNP Paribas SA, Commerzbank AG, Credit Suisse Group AG, HSBC Holdings Plc, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, UBS AG, Wells Fargo & Co., Credit Agricole SA and Societe Generale SA will also be investigated for possible collusion in giving "most of the pricing, indices and other essential daily data only to Markit."
The commission said this "may have the effect of foreclosing the access to the valuable raw data by other information service providers." It said some of the clauses in Markit's licence and distribution agreements "could be abusive and impede the development of competition in the market for the provision of CDS information."
The EU will also separately investigate credit default swap clearing agreements struck by ICE Clear Europe with Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and UBS.
'Behaved Badly'
"What we are looking at is whether the main players in the market have behaved badly, have entered into anti-competitive agreements or abused a possible dominant position," Amelia Torres, a commission spokeswoman, told reporters in Brussels today.
Oh yeah… Collusion, "Lack of Transparency," Manipulation, Abusive, and most importantly "Behaved Badly." Uh huh, and just look at the names associated.
Of course we've been preaching about this for years. But nothing will be done that has any meaning because they are the ones WHO have wrongly been allowed to control the production of money, and then they sent the bill to you and me. Ridiculous – these banks and their schemes need to be cut down, a truly healthy economy will prove to be elusive until that occurs.
The Chicago PMI was just released for April. It fell from 70.6 to 67.6 which is also below consensus. "Consumer" Sentiment was also just released for April, and came in very close to March's level at a still depressed 69.8 on their Index.
'Fukushima - gross miscarriage of radiation science'
Someone's smokin' alright - But I think Bernanke plans to keep on tokin'...


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The ¡Viva el Fútbol! video series provides a look into Crew players' Hispanic roots in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. In this third episode, Crew forward Jairo Arrieta talks about the traditional "Pura Vida" phrase, his hometown and his experience with "La Sele."
Playa Samara – Nicoya, Costa Rica. Ranked second best beach in Central America by TripAdvisor.
Casado. Traditional Costa Rican dish consisting of fried plantain, rice, beans, greens and meat.
Pura Vida is a phrase that is internationally representative of Costa Rica and that reflects the Costa Rican way of life. This phrase can be used as a question, an acknowledgement, a greeting or a farewell.
Pura Vida signifies the simplicity of good living, humility, well-being, happiness, optimism and appreciation for what's simple and natural; and it is also closely tied to the country's enormous biodiversity.
Most publications attribute the origin of this phrase to a 1956 Mexican movie called "Pura Vida!" and claim that the phrase was organically adopted by the people of Costa Rica from that point on. Today, the phrase is so ingrained into Costa Rican culture that it is often used by visitors (ex. politicians, musicians etc.) to demonstrate their understanding of the culture and to connect with the local audience.
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Crew defender Agustín Viana welcomes us into his house to talk about his youth in Uruguay, his love for the countryside and the traditional mate beverage.
Midfielder Matías Sánchez joins us over a traditional asado to talk about his hometown and how he stays close to his country.


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Photos by Ruairi Henchy.
Urgent: Call for Protective Presence
"We were just informed by Israeli police that we will be evicted from our house in the Old City of Jerusalem tomorrow morning. Protective presence is required as of 8 am or earlier if possible. Please spread the word." Rafat Sub-Laban, 15 March 2015
The above call for support appeared on Facebook on Sunday. Rafat Sub-Laban, a 26-year-old student of human rights at al-Quds University, and his family of eight people, had just received an eviction order at their house in the old city of Jerusalem.
"At 8.30am settlers arrived with the police to take over the house. When we didn't open the door, they threatened to break it," Rafat told the Palestine Monitor, a few hours after he and his family – with the support of human rights activists and journalists – managed to turn away the immediate danger of being forced to leave their house. By the end of the day, the court stayed the eviction order, leaving the final demolition until after the Israeli elections on Tuesday.
The settlers, accompanied by Israeli police, had been on the verge of breaking the door when the family's lawyers arrived, pointing to the appeal Rafat's family had filed against the eviction order.
This is not the first time the family has been confronted with the direct threat of being evicted from their home. In the beginning of February 2015, Israeli settler leader Eli Itay, from the extremist settler organization Ateret Cohanim, along with an alleged lawyer, made a first try to evict Rafat Sub-Laban and his family.
During the attempted eviction in February 2015, even when Rafat's lawyer managed to make it clear to the settlers and the police that there was no legal basis for the family's expulsion and that the family was in the process of appealing the eviction order issued by the Israeli Magistrate's Court back in September 2014, the settlers kept trying. Eventually they left, realizing that with the journalists and activists in and around the house, they wouldn't succeed. Before they left, Rafat Sub-Laban told the Palestine Monitor that he overheard a policeman say to a settler among the group, "that they ought to come back in the night when we are asleep and no journalists or activists are around."
Rafat's older brother, Ahmad, told the Palestine Monitor that the property is legally theirs, and thus, they should have the right to stay. "There is a clear discrimination law that allows the Israelis to claim property that belonged to Jews before 1948, " he said, "but the same law does not allow Palestinians to get their property back from which they were expelled in West Jerusalem or even the lands of 48."
"It's sure that when they tried to evict us one day before the elections that it was a message for the settlers who they're trying to get votes from that they are supporting [Jewish] settlement in Jerusalem," argued Ahmad.
According to Haaretz, the house used to be owned by Jews, when in 1950 the Jordanian government gave the house to the Sub-Laban family. After Israel's occupation of Jerusalem in 1967, all property in East Jerusalem fell into Israel's hands. "Unlike Palestinian refugees who left their property on the western side of the Green Line and cannot demand their property back," Haaretz columnist Nir Hasson wrote, "Jews who abandoned property on the eastern side of the Green Line are legally allowed to demand its return."
In the 1980s, the Jerusalem Municipality ordered the family to do restoration work on their home, but the Israeli custodian wouldn't allow them to proceed. Rafat told the Palestine Monitor that "no reasons were given" at the time. "It's simply a matter of policy to refuse allowing Palestinians living in such property to hold any maintenance work and to force them to either leave the house or hold the maintenance without a permit, which would revoke their protected tenancy status," said Rafat. "Many families have been evicted for conducting maintenance work without a permit."
Rafat's family was forced to move out of the house for safety reasons. "We had to relocate temporarily because the house needed the maintenance, and also because when settlers took over the house next door in the 1980s, they expanded their house at the expense of our house's entrance, thus blocking access to our house. The only access was through the settlers kitchen, by jumping through their window," explained Rafat.
Soon after Rafat's family had left the house, the Israeli custodian evicted all the Palestinian neighbors in the building through court orders, and settlers quickly took over their homes. The Palestinian tenants – the Sub-Laban family among them – were barred from returning.
After a 20 year legal battle in Israeli courts, the Sub-Laban family was finally permitted to move back into their home in 2001. "An Israeli judge in charge of our case against the guardian of absentee property visited the house. He ruled in our favor to hold the maintenance required and reopen the house [to us]," Rafat told the Palestine Monitor.
In 2010, the guardian of absentee property transferred ownership of the house from Israel's custodian to a trust working with the extremist settler organization Ateret Cohanim, an organization that aims to increase the Jewish presence in the Jerusalem's Old City, "under very suspicious conditions," Rafat said. "No one knows how the property was passed."
"The court, the police and Israeli authorities take their part for granted in all this - no questions asked," Rafat argued, symbolizing the often found Palestinian desperation when confronted with Israel's legal maze.
The last step in the legal battle was when the District Court ruled in October 2014 that the Sub-Labans were absentees. The judgement hinged on the eyewitness testimonies of two Palestinians, one of whom testified in court that the Sub-Laban family was not living in the house. Ahmed would not be drawn on their identity, only saying that they were "Palestinian collaborators."
Meanwhile, the battle against eviction goes on in Jerusalem, and includes many more than the Sub-Laban's family. 208 people were displaced due to Israeli authority imposed demolitions and evictions in occupied East Jerusalem in 2014. In 2013, the number was even higher, at 298 people.
Ahmed Sub Laban told the Palestine Monitor that their family lawyer appealed to the Israeli High Court on Thursday March 19 to compel the police to postpone the eviction until the High Court's final decision on May 31. "We hope we are successful," he said. "If not, the police can come to evict us any time because they already decided not to wait for the court decision when they came on Monday."
The Sub-Laban's family lawyer told Haaretz the evacuation would most likely be postponed until the Israeli High Court hears the family's petition in about two months, despite the fact that the Jerusalem District Court recently rejected the family's request to delay the evacuation.
For anyone interested in following the Sub-Laban family's battle, please check out Rafat's Facebook page.
*Additional reporting by Ruairi Henchy
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Thomaston woman, Jamie Bennett, arrested after cocaine found in system of her 17-month old child
THOMASTON >> A 31-year-old town woman was arrested Tuesday after police say cocaine was found in the system of her 17-month-old child.
Jamie Bennett, of 249 Clay St., was arrested and charged with risk of injury to a minor and second-degree reckless endangerment after the drug was found in the child's system during a hospital evaluation on March 18.
According to police, they received a complaint from the state Department of Children and Families after Bennett brought the child to St. Mary's hospital in Waterbury on March 17, claiming that the child was lethargic and hadn't eaten after falling down a small flight of stairs the day before.
The child was later transferred to Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford for further treatment and evaluation after being unresponsive to commands. At CCMC, the child was found to be dehydrated and the presence of cocaine was detected.
After the child's condition improved, custody of the child was given to another family member.
Following the issuance of a warrant for her arrest, Bennett turned herself in to Thomaston Police.
She was held on a $15,000 cash-only bond and later arraigned in Bantam Superior Court.


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These are the minutes of a meeting of some of the MacPython developers (Jack Jansen, Bob Ippolito and Ronald Oussoren) at Mar 15 2004
Do we want to unify MacPython and PyObjC?
- If not: where is the IDE/PackMan/etc going?
- If yes: how are we going to organise this?
We decided to keep the ../PyObjC and Python CVS repositories separate. Some things will move from the Python repository to the ../PyObjC repository, or, actually, their replacements will: the next version of the IDE, ../PackMan and ../BuildApplet will live in the PyObjC repository.
../PyObjC will move the the Python license, we have a message from the main
old contributors that they are okay with this.
What is our timeline?
We would like to have a MacPython distribution in summer. This distribution will consist of the new IDE, PackMan, BuildApplet, ../PyObjC and bug fixes for the Panther Addon distribution. For the Jaguar distribution it will also contain Python 2.3.X for whatever X is current then, for the Panther Addon distribution it will rely on Apple-installed MacPython.
Who is our audience?
- Only 10.3?
- Only existing Python users, or new blood too?
- OSA scripters?
- anyone else?
- Try and keep the audience broad!
Both 10.2 and 10.3 are widely used, so we should try to cater for 10.2 too. 10.1 is too much work.
We need to make sure existing Python users migrating to the Mac feel comfortable with MacPython. They seem so at the moment, we need to keep it that way.
AppleScripters may be an interesting audience in the future, but we have to have more infrastructure finished before we actively target them.
Another interesting audience is education. For this we definitely need the new IDE.
What do we want in Python 2.4?
- new IDE
- new packman
../BuildApplet on steroids
- new icons
- new OSA support
- new/improved toolbox modules:
- Quicktime
- launch services
- more?
- Python as OSA language?
- running gui scripts with python in stead of pythonw
- x11 integration
Because our first aim is the summer MacPython distribution for 2.3.X we are concentrating on what is needed for that: IDE, packman, ../BuildApplet and icon. The others are optional (or not doable before 2.4).
Bob is going to go after the icon artist again to try and get glasses on the snake, which will hopefully make it acceptable to people with snake-fobia.
Ronald has a ../PackMan in ../PyObjC. Jack is going to look at it. The old ../PackMan will be dropped as soon as possible.
BuildApplet will be rewritten to be a front-end to bundlebuilder. Usability to the (relative) novice is going to be important. We envision that you drop a script on it, and then get a dialog with options (build standalone, use stdio console, include icns file, include plist file, include nib, etc). Defaults for these will be picked up similar to what old ../BuildApplet did, i.e. if you drop foo.py on ../BuildApplet it will look for foo.icns and if it is found fill it in, etc.
BuildApplet will not only be able to save the resulting applet, but optionally also the bundlebuilder call you would use to create it. ../BuildApplet should be a GUI only, if it needs functionality this will be put into bundlebuilder.
Whether ../BuildApplet will be a front-end to bundlebuilder or to Bobs next generation bundlebuilder remains to be seen, probably the latter. In that case it would also acquire functionality (but somewhat hidden so as not to daunt newcomers) to select which modules to include/exclude, etc.
We talked a little abou toolbox module naming, and the need to get rid of mactoolboxglue in the Python core library, but postponed most of that.
On the pythonw issue: for 2.4 we should add something like MacOS.NeedWM() (in addition to the existing WMAvailable()). This would test whether WM access is available, and if not print a decent human-readable error message and exit. We would then use this in EasyDialogs, probably Tkinter, etc etc etc. Not before 2.4, though.
We could make life for X11 lovers easier by creating a standard place to put X11-dependent modules, such as non-aqua _tkinter. /Library/Python/2.3/x11 comes to mind. The script x11python would then prepend this location to sys.path. By providing that script and an x11-version of _tkinter we could make this the standard.
Who is going to work on the new IDE, and when...
- There's still the license...
- what are our other options?
We talked a lot about this, but unfortunately I (Jack) didn't take notes.
Fortunately Ronald did take notes
We've discussed some of the alternatives:
The ../PyOxide license might be a problem, it is also not written in Python
- Xcode is too project-based for newbies and/or use in a teaching environment, otherwise we could try to create some add-ons for Xcode to transform it into a Python IDE.
The long term view is to create an IDE that can do everything, but for the summer release we'll focus on a functional replacement for the current MacPython IDE (perfect is the enemy of good enough). In the long run we'd like to see:
- Must be able to print both scripts and script output. This is essential for use in a classroom environment.
- User scripts run in a seperate executable (like IDLE). This functionality is in idlelib, that might be usuable. There's also the HAP debugger, which can be used for debugging over TCP/IP (e.g. from another machine).
- A generic inspection/browsing interface. This could then be used for inspecting:
- python objects in the debugger
- application state of apple-scriptable application ("OSA debugger")
- C state of application (using GDB)
- It should be possible to execute statements in specific stackframes from the debugger (bdb can do this, but most frontends to it can not) The inspector should offer an interface for customizing the inspection of specific classes and instances (the Xcode debugger has this, and that's very convenient)
- Integrating external editors would be nice (added when both Bob and Ronald noted that 'vi' keybindings would be nice to have)
- It should be possible to work with projects, but standalone python files should also work.
There are various components that could be reused: ../PyObjC has examples containing a classbrowser and python interpreter widget. Drawbot has a python editor widget that includes syntax coloring.
The working name for the new IDE is PyDE, the code will be located in the PyDE module of the ../PyObjC repository. The module has been created, but is mostly empty.
In the *very* long run Jack would like to see a VB/hypercard tool that would allow you to paint a GUI, attach code to interface elements and would then create a normal Cocoa application (a NIB file and a "normal" MVC application). The application would be able to read back the generated code to allow modification. This requires a significant amount of work.
Serious bugs/omissions/problems to fix:
- Does the installer problem (839865) still exist?
- bundlebuilder NG
- Interaction between Apple-Python and User-installed-Python
- linking of extensions
- where to put scripts, includes, etc (i.e. layout for
- /Library/Python and ~/Library/Python)
We're going to investigate the installer problem, it could be that it is 10.2 only. Besides the referenced problem there is also the (null) problem if you build a ../RootDiskOnly installer. The ../PyObjC and Python installer builder modules are going to be merged.
bundlebuilder2 is going to be a package, so it can include PyMacApp. It's going to have a different name (appbundle and various others flew around, Bob will pick something). It's also going to have other new nifty things.
We think that we can switch to linking extensions with "-undefined dynamic_lookup" on Panther without any adverse effectrs on compatibility. This would solve the main problem between the two pythons. What remains to be seen is whether we can somehow coerce distutils to also use dynamic_lookup when building with Apple-installed Python (which wasn't built that way).
For 2.3.X we put scripts in /Library/Python/2.3/bin and includes in /Library/Python/2.3/include through some ../PackMan magic. ../PackMan will also try to pass the include directory to later builds.
For 2.4 configure and distutils need to be taught about the DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable, so it will become possible to develop for 10.2 on 10.3, and so extensions built with 10.2-python on 10.3 are automatically 10.2 compatible.
(Ronald) We also discussed createing a bdist_packman command for distutils. This would create a tarfile like bdist_dumb, but using a symbolic name for the special directories (e.g. SITE_PACKAGES/Foo/foo.py instead of /.../site-packages/Foo/Foo.py). ../PackMan will use these tarfiles instead of the bdist_dumb files it is currently using for binary installs.
Packman will install scripts and include files into /Library/Python instead of inside the framework (scripts is definitely for the summer release, not sure about the include files). Binaries/scripts will be installed into /Library/Python/2.3/bin. This is a bit messy for Python 2.3 (/Library/Python/2.3 is also the site-packages directory), but Python 2.4 will use the correct directory structure (site-packages will be a sibling of bin, just like in ~/Librrary/Python).
What do we need to integrate, and when?
needs different name (cf. MacApp)
- optional, or always use this?
- Can we make the plist-file dependencies optional?
- needs a different name, preferrably short. OSA? Scripting?
- or is aeve still an option?
- how well do we know it?
- DSP's OSA stuff
- if/when it gets done...
PyMacApp is goint to be renamed, and there's no reason to make it optional (at least, not for Panther). The plist-file dependency is not going to be optional, because of the "explicit is better than implicit" dictum.
Bob is going to talk to Hamish on AppScripting.
We are going to bug DSP until he delivers OSA.
Internal things
- Use new header files, not universal, for bgen
- Or use a different tool? What?
- How about our flaky installer builder, switch to Apple tools?
Not for the summer release.
What do people still have up their sleeve?
Bob's ../PackMan helper
Jack's ../PackManPro (non-existent)?
What do we need from the general Python community?
- In other words: which PEPs do we need to write;-)
- distutils
- installation database
- python/vendor/admin/user installation
- also for include, scripts, etc
- more?
- packman
- bug fixes to vendor-supplied python?
The various people mumbled promises to put some work into this, at some point.
- Should we come up with killer examples?
- OSA scripting
- CGI scripting
- Should we get someone to write a book?
The general feeling is that it is slightly too early to go for a book.