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The Happy Outsider
- By Marshall Fine
- | From Jim Nantz, May/June 2011
Joel Surnow walks through the door and sits at a wooden table not far from a couple of guys playing backgammon. The sign outside says Old Oaks Cigar and Wine Company, and the mood inside is convivial. Surnow smiles and lights a Partagas Serie D No. 4, his "go to" cigar. There are about a dozen men inside, but not one even remotely resembles Jack Bauer, Surnow's famous—or infamous—fictional creation of the last decade. So it looks as if, at least this day, the United States is not in danger of nuclear annihilation in the next 24 hours.
Surnow, 56, is the cocreator and co-executive producer of the classic popular TV series "24," on which year after year, for eight seasons, Bauer toiled hour by hour to foil terrorists and their evil deeds. He is also behind this season's controversial eight-part miniseries "The Kennedys," which was canceled by the History Channel in a liberals-vs.-conservatives dispute over how President John F. Kennedy was portrayed and was presented instead on ReelzChannel in April.
It's a little after 6pm on a cool evening in early March, and Surnow has just finished 18 holes of golf with friends (golf is his other passion, besides cigars) and has retreated to Old Oaks, a cigar bar in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks, California, where he is a habitué. It's where cigar lovers gather for a good smoke, fine wine, a game or two and relaxed conversation.
"The first nine holes were bad," Surnow says of his afternoon on the fairways—and in the rough. "The last nine were good. I won $14."
Surnow is known more for talking about his conservative politics than his golf game. He is a good friend of Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich and Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News. Surnow once sarcastically described himself as a "right-wing nut job," and the phrase, however inaccurate, was eagerly picked up by the media.
His "24" incurred liberal wrath for Jack Bauer's persistent use of torture against terrorists to save America from evil deeds. "The Kennedys" raised liberal objections in part because in an early script President John F. Kennedy discussed his frequent need for "strange ass" in the White House and kept a Secret Service agent with a vital message waiting while the president had swimming-pool sex. The furor led the History Channel, which had commissioned the program, to say goodbye in January; it remained homeless until ReelzChannel picked it up the next month.
The real essence of Surnow, though, isn't that he'd rather be Right. It's that his life, as he himself calls it, is a quintessential "American story," the tale of a disadvantaged kid who made good.
"It's about being this person on the outs," Surnow says. "I was this poor kid in Beverly Hills. I'm the Republican in Democratic Hollywood. As Tom Wolfe used to say about living in New York, I live with them but I'm not of them. I don't live on the west side of L.A. I live in the valley. The people I've surrounded myself with have rarely been the people I work with, although I love many of the people I work with. I'm fundamentally very much of an American-suburb guy. That's how I like to live my life. It's not tremendously glamorous—except that what has happened to me is very glamorous."
It's eight hours earlier, and Surnow has not yet wielded a five iron this day. He has sat down in a hotel lobby to talk about his life. He's dressed for golf—tee time is noon—in a white golf shirt and ribbed ivory pants. His neatly cropped hair, more white than black these days, matches his attire. He sports, as he has for some time, a rectangle of hair centered under his lower lip—a soul patch.
When it comes to the essence of Surnow's own soul, it's clear that it was formed in his childhood, spent, as he describes it, "in the slums of Beverly Hills," the part without the mansions. He was born in 1954 in Detroit; his parents were much older—"they had me when they were in their 40s." He had two much-older brothers. "My father was a furniture salesman back then, and my mother sold on the floor of a women's clothing store. I come from multiple generations of salesmen."
The family moved to California when he was eight. "And my father became a carpet salesman. He sold door to door. We had a rough go of it. We lived in a one-bedroom apartment. I would roll out a foldout bed in the living room every night. The mood in the house depended on when my dad would walk through the door and say whether or not he'd made a sale. The days he didn't make a sale, it was a bleak evening. If he did, it was a happy evening."
At Beverly Hills High School, Surnow was "the classic B or C student. Watch out for C students," he says with a laugh. "You'll wind up working for them." He got into the University of California at Berkeley, and finished up at U.C.L.A. film school.
"I spent the next five or six years working with my dad. It was a split existence. I was selling carpeting and writing screenplays, one after another. I had a little bit of success early. I had written a script about my father and it got me some jobs. I was 21, and I failed miserably because I didn't know what I was doing. I was writing out of enthusiasm. I had no real craft."
So by the time he was 22 he was a Hollywood failure. "The word got out—because your reputation moves fairly quickly here—that I was no good, that I was a flash in the pan and didn't really have the goods." So he spent time "learning the craft of writing. I would say that over the next six years I really began to understand the language of writing a script," Surnow explains.
In the meantime, at 25, he married—with "kids (two daughters) at 26 and 27." And then he got his first real writing job, on a short-lived TV series called "Bay City Blues," created by the writer-producer Steven Bochco, whose credits included the long-running hit "Hill Street Blues." The year was 1983; the show told of a group of minor league baseball players—and it lasted all of eight episodes.
But that led to work on another new series, and this one was called "Miami Vice." After a year writing most of the scripts, he had another success, "The Equalizer," about a former secret agent who becomes a vigilante.
"Here I was running a show, writing every script, with a whole year and a half of experience under my belt, which was really far too little experience to have the maturity to run a show like that. But I did reasonably well. The show was picked up for more episodes." But Surnow had just gone through a divorce (he has three more daughters from his current marriage). "And I was burned out."
But the onetime failure now had "a little bit of a reputation." He continued to work in television, as a journeyman writer and producer. And in the late 1990s he ran a show called "La Femme Nikita" on the USA cable network. The program, about a woman falsely convicted of murder who is recruited into a ruthless counterterrorism organization, was for two years the highest rated drama on basic cable.
And then, in 2000, Surnow had an idea. "Every TV season was 22 episodes," he says. "One day between seasons I was thinking that 'OK, my life is going to be a season of 22 episodes.' Then I came up with the number 24. What if you did 24 episodes and everything in an entire season took place in one day, with every episode one hour of that day? I picked up the telephone and called my friend Bob Cochran, with whom I had worked on 'La Femme Nikita.' I asked him what he thought of the idea. And he said, 'It stinks.' And I said, 'You're right. It stinks. You can't do an entire season on one day.' So we hung up the phone."
But Surnow kept on thinking. "It was an idea that just refused to go away. It lingered in my subconscious. About three or four days later, I called Bob up and said, 'I think this is a good idea.' He said he had been thinking about it too and also thought it was a good idea. We got together at the International House of Pancakes in Woodland Hills, two minutes from here. We said, 'OK, what does it mean to do a show like this, what kind of show do we do?' We said, 'What if it's about a wedding and it's 24 hours before two people get married and you follow their families?' We let the idea settle for a half hour, and we said, 'It doesn't have enough heat for 24 hours. What keeps someone awake for 24 hours? A wedding wouldn't do it.
" 'But what if you're protecting a presidential candidate and the word comes down he's going to be assassinated in 24 hours—that might keep you up for 24 hours.' And then we said, 'What if along the way your daughter was taken?' Now we jam those two things together, and all of a sudden we realized the stakes had to be high. It had to be a race against time. Everything that we basically conceived as the format of that first season was born out of that first meeting."
"When it aired, '24' was an instant hit. It ran for eight seasons, from 2001 to 2010 (Surnow left in 2008). A continuing aspect of the show was the illegal methods that Kiefer Sutherland, as Jack Bauer, used to force information out of terrorists, assassins, and all kinds of assorted bad guys. Partway into the series' run, in the midst of the Iraq war and the bitter dispute over the Bush administration's approval of counterterrorism-interrogation methods like waterboarding that many consider torture, and the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the focus turned more and more to "24" and its torture scenes.
Many commentators expressed their belief that it was the conservative political views of Surnow and fellow producers that were behind the glorification of Bauer's practices. And even the military—including the dean of the United States Military Academy at West Point—urged the producers to tone it down.
The show's producers denied that the show was pro-torture. And Surnow, to this day, dismisses the criticism. "Jack Bauer had been beating the crap out of people for five years," he says. "It wasn't until there was an article by Jane Mayer in The New Yorker, in which she basically made a cause célèbre out of the use of torture on the show, that I was declared to be a Hollywood Republican and friends with people like Ailes and Limbaugh. It wasn't until then that people began to squawk. Kiefer Sutherland shot a guy in cold blood and beheaded him in the second season and there was never a word."
To prove that Surnow couldn't stay away from controversy, he took on "The Kennedys." "After '24' I partnered with my friend Jonathan Koch. He told me that the History Channel was interested in starting a scripted division and that the first idea they wanted to develop was based on the Kennedy family. A good friend of mine, who worked for me on '24,' Stephen Kronish—who by the way is a liberal Democrat from New York—was a massive Kennedy fan. He knew everything about them. He came to my house and spent two hours telling us the comprehensive story of the Kennedys."
The conversation led to a script written by Kronish, and eventually to an agreement for the miniseries. And then, in early 2010, the documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald saw the early script and attacked. He called it a "right-wing political hit job" whose aim was to disparage the Kennedy family's accomplishments.
Work on the miniseries continued. Surnow and his fellow producers hired Greg Kinnear as JFK, Katie Holmes as Jackie Kennedy, Barry Pepper as Robert F. Kennedy and Tom Wilkinson as Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., the family patriarch. The series was filmed and was being readied for broadcast.
Surnow says that the script was "very, very accurate in terms of known history," that the History Channel had been insistent on precise sourcing. "These were not things we made up. The swimming pool scene was documented. The 'strange ass' quote was something he said to Harold Macmillan," a British prime minister. And, he adds, most of the "salacious" material was cut in the final script, because "we had decided without Robert Greenwald's help that we wanted ultimately to make a patriotic series." And then, in January, the History Channel pulled the plug.
The ReelzChannel came to the rescue, but Surnow still criticizes the Left for allowing the cancellation to happen. "We live in a town that has had their panties in a twist for more than 50 years about Senator Joseph McCarthy and somebody trying to censor you. But I didn't see Hollywood getting up in arms about an attack on civil liberties. I didn't see anybody rush to my support."
The talk turns to a more relaxed subject: How did Surnow develop his love of cigars? "In the early 1990s, I had a friend, a wonderful writer and producer, who used to smoke a lot of cigars. He had Cuban cigars, and we would work together and sit around and come up with story ideas while smoking. But I can't really tell you I loved them. I wasn't a committed smoker."
And then, one of his daughters fanned his interest. "She went to flamenco dancing school in Guadalajara, Mexico, and they did a week in Cuba. And when she came back she brought a dozen Cuban Punch cigars. I smoked one, and it was the most delicious thing. And that moment, I got it."
In addition to the Serie D, he enjoys the Montecristo No. 2—"it's like driving a Rolls-Royce." What he loves most is the sense of camaraderie that smoking among friends entails. "A friend calls it a portable campfire. It's a wonderful way to slow yourself down, to relax and enjoy the company of people in an unhurried fashion." He smokes three or four times a week. "It's been a cold winter. I usually smoke in the backyard. When it gets to be summer I'll be there after dinner. Though I do enjoy it more when I smoke with friends. It makes it a more pleasurable experience. That's what it's about. Cigar people are good people. You find you instantly like people who are fellow smokers."
While he smokes, he sometimes thinks about the future. And he's not certain about it. He feels, he says, that he has "conquered" his worlds. There'll be no more writing, he says, and as for network TV, it's too "grueling," a job more suited for people in their 20s, 30s or 40s who still have something to prove. He is thinking about teaching, giving back, passing his knowledge on to the next generations.
And then there is golf.
"Golf has ruined my life," he says with a laugh. "My family doesn't recognize me anymore. I was a competitive tennis player for about 40 years. Friends told me I was going to love golf. But I hated the idea because as a tennis player I considered myself an athlete. And then a friend took me golfing. I had never played, and I was pretty much creating divots. But I had a couple of good shots. And it was like getting the idea for '24.' It just stayed in my subconscious. And suddenly, a couple of days later, I thought, my body hurts from tennis, I'm going to go out and hit some golf balls. And within two or three months-it's about a year ago-I bought my first set of clubs. And then by summer it was half golf and half tennis. And by winter I had given up tennis and was playing golf full time."
What is it about the game? "Golf describes human behavior perfectly," he says. "Ninety-five percent of the time you're stymied, frustrated. And five percent of the time you're given the reward."
He chuckles. "I hate to say it," he says, "but the cliché is right. You know how you used to feel about sex when you were a kid? That you wanted to chase it? Well, golf replaces sex."
Mervyn Rothstein is a contributor to Cigar Aficionado.


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Taylor Swift Wears a Teensy Dress at 2013 American Music Awards [RED CARPET PHOTOS]
Taylor Swift flaunted a lot of leg in a verrry short dress at the 2013 American Music Awards. The '22' singer glimmered in a gold-spangled Julien Macdonald gown and rocked tousled bedhead. She completed the look with strappy metallic sandals.


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Careless Driving Offence
Are you facing a Careless Driving Offence? Traffic Lawyer 4 U are experts in carless driving offences and can help you with your case.
Remember, if any potential prosecution is to be defended successfully, the sooner work begins on your defence the better. Do not be tempted to forget about it and hope it will go away, it won't.
It is an offence to drive a mechanically propelled vehicle on a road or other public place without due care and attention. (Road Traffic Act 1988 s3)
Careless Driving has a very wide definition. The driver does not have to be driving a motor vehicle but any mechanically propelled vehicle and the offence can take place not only on public roads but any other place to which the public has access.
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Karl Lagerfeld's Lesbian Brides at Chanel Couture
The designer sent two female models down the runway, hand-in-hand.
Well here's one way to take on gay marriage: Karl Lagerfeld sent not one – but two -- brides down the runway for the finale of his spring 2013 Chanel Haute Couture in Paris early Tuesday. The two models, in identical feathered wedding dresses and headpieces, walked hand-in-hand down the runway with Lagerfeld's godson, Hudson Kroenig. According to The Guardian, Lagerfeld said it was a symbol of support for the controversial French gay marriage law. "I don't even understand the debate," he said.


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Propeller shafts are supplied maintenance-free or suitable for lubrication.
In the lubrication design (Fig. 5), the four bearings of a joint are lubricated via a tapered lubricating nipple to DIN 7 3 412 in the center of the joint. In special designs, the lubricating nipple may be placed on the base of the bearing bush.
The grease is forced into the distribution channel 2 via the tapered lubricating nipple 1 and transferred to the universal joint bushes. The grease penetrates between the roller bodies via the channels 3 of the pressure plate and edge 4 of the universal joint pin. When further grease is added, the grease penetrates through the valve-like opening gap of the seal lips 5 and the labyrinth. Excess grease emerges from gap 6 of the labyrinth.
Apply lubrication until grease is exuded from all four bearing bushes.
If it is not possible to lubricate all four bearings fully, the shaft must be dismantled.
In standard designs, the length extension is maintenance-free as shown in the drawings in the table part.
For special lubrication designs, the sliding profile (Fig. 6) is greased from a storage chamber (a) which is filled via pressure lubricating head (b). The storage chamber (a) should preferably be lubricated with the shaft retracted (vehicle loaded) so that an air cushion can form when the shaft is extended. To prevent damage to the cardan shaft or bearings of attached assemblies due to incorrect excess greasing (a) when the springs are compressed, if requested an excess pressure valve (c) can be installed which prevents an unacceptable pressure rise in this chamber.
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2.1. Lubrication Intervals
Unless specified particularly by the vehicle or system manufacturer, we recommend the following maintenance intervals. The data in the tables refers to European and comparable conditions.
Other operating conditions may require lubrication at shorter intervals. If propeller shafts are cleaned with pressurized water or vapour jets, lubrication must be applied after every cleaning.
Lubricating Interval for Joints
* After travelling through water, shorter lubricating intervals are required.
Lubricating Intervals for sliding joints and centre bearing assemblies
The sliding joints and centre bearing assemblies are maintenance-free as standard.
For versions intended to the lubricated by the manufacturer, the same lubrication intervals apply as for universal joints.
2.2 Lubricating Grease
The recommended lubricants are lithium complex greased with a consistency to NLGI-class 2 to DIN 51818.
In particular we recommend the products listed in our leaflet TM 150.
It must be ensured that greases with a different type of saponification are never used, because lithium and sodium greased for example are incompatible.
KLEIN-propeller shafts in normal design are suitable for operating use at ambient temperatures from -35°C to +60°C (for short periods and only occasionally, up to +80°C).
If Propeller shafts are to be used outside this temperature range or in ambient conditions deviating from the norm, please contact us.
2.3 Checking intervals
The given data in the table are mainly for the European market.Control interval for commercial vehicles
Checking "built-in" state
Checking "built-out" state
The propeller shaft is then raise in the middle until is hangs freely. The dial will then now measure any play in the shaft, 0.25 mm is allowed.
Should any damage be found to the parts then take them to an authorised mechanics workshop.The vehicle or assembly must be immediately turned off if there are any strange sounds or vibrations this also goes for anything uncommon with the normal running.Before building in the new shaft, it should be balanced and assembled according to our recommendations (See point 1.2). Before using a newly built in shaft make sure you follow all of the "built-in" checks.If there is some form of elastic deformation to the shaft then this cannot be repaired, it must be replaced. We would also recommend that a complete "built-out" check is performed if the vehicle changes owners as well as checked that the vehicle is accident free.
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SAVE THIS DATE! TRANSWORLD SLAM FESTOct 1 2011
When: October 1, 2011
Where: Milestone Ranch MX Park
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SAVE THE DATE! The popular motocross consumer event hosted by TransWorld Motocross and named the TransWorld SLAM Festival is back and bigger than ever, taking place on Saturday, October 1 at the Milestone Ranch MX Park in Riverside, CA. Last year's event was packed to capacity with fans, pro riders and plenty of dirt entertainment as Wil Hahn was named 2010 SLAM champion, claiming the cover of TransWorld Motocross magazine.
"We're excited to bring such a great event back again and have it out at Milestone Ranch MX Park," said TransWorld Motocross Editor In Chief Donn Maeda. "There is so much to experience during the day and having the pros out to battle against each other for some dough and our coveted cover spot is always a nice topper."
Thanks to Red Bull and all the additional sponsors this year, the festival will again offer free admission and include a day full of activities for all ages including open track riding, kids' learn-to-ride area, freestyle motocross demo, sponsor activities, Miss TransWorld Motocross Online Model Search Reveal, and tons of prizes and giveaway opportunities.


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Piri Weepu will make his first appearance of the year for the Blues on Friday when they take on the Highlanders in Queenstown in their final pre-season hit-out.
The World Cup-winning halfback, who struggled at the franchise last year due to his weight, has shown up in improved condition and said he was looking forward to pulling on the No9 jersey.
"It'll be good to go down there and have a trot,'' Weepu said.
"I watched last week's game and how quick the boys were playing so it's going to be good, it's really exciting.''
Weepu said he was a lot more motivated to make a difference this year as one of the few experienced players in a young squad.
"I'm pretty motivated to make sure I play a bigger role than last year,'' he said.
"I've done a lot of work outside the camp to get myself in better nick than I was last year. I've been trying to maintain that and make sure that when I come into camp I'm not behind the boys.
"I want to help out these younger boys a lot more, not just by saying it but by doing it as well. I guess it's going to be a key role that I'm going to have to take on because the average age in the backline isn't 27, it's 21 or 22 so I need to pass on my knowledge to anyone in the backline in terms of guidance and making them understand what it's like to be a professional rugby player.''
Blues head coach Sir John Kirwan said Weepu had been "outstanding'' since joining the team.
"He's shown great leadership, great guidance of the young guys and great input into what we're doing as a team.
"I didn't know Piri [before coaching the Blues], I'd heard a lot of great things about him in the environment but he's actually been brilliant.''
Weepu returns to a near full-strength side to take on the Highlanders in the Blues' final pre-season match of the year, with Charlie Faumuina making his first start at tighthead prop and Charles Piutau returning from injury to line up at fullback.
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The holiday season is now truly upon us, and with it, the season of culinary indulgence. Yum!
If your festivities in any way resemble mine, chocolate is part and parcel of celebration. Bird-friendly, fair trade or organic chocolate, that is — anything else is less than festive.
You've probably heard the research suggesting that eating moderate amounts of chocolate is good for you. It's packed with antioxidants, magnesium and the amino acid tryptophan. Lovely excuses to indulge!
But our favorite temptation is full of dirty secrets. Destruction of rainforests. Child labour. Impoverished farmers and rich corporations. A high price to pay for a cheap treat!
Thank (the Mayan) gods, chocolate lovers can skip this long list of woes and opt out of high fructose corn syrup, wax and other equally unappetizing ingredients by choosing fair trade, organic chocolate.
Certified organic chocolate promotes farm management systems that preserve soil fertility, protect farmers' health and conserve ecosystems. Where conventional chocolate is heavily dependent on pesticides, organic, shade-grown chocolate relies on natural fertilizers and a healthy relationship with the birds and bugs! Like all organic foods, those chocolate treats are also free of synthetic food additives, dyes and genetically modified organisms.
Fair trade means that farmers receive an equitable price for their product and that labour rights meet internationally recognized standards. Children go to school. Working conditions are safe. And most often, chocolate is purchased directly from the farmers or farm co-ops, so communities thrive. The fair trade certification system also prohibits GMOs and limits the use of agrochemicals.
Luckily, some of the most delicious delicacies win the triple crown: bird-friendly, organic and fair trade.
Sure, ethical chocolate costs more. Chalk it up to those fair wages, the lack of child labour and the cost of making sure critters get to thrive too! Then break a nugget, take a bite and savour the melting bliss. Real chocolate is so rich and wonderful, a little less goes a long way!
We'll soon be sharing chocolate bark around the table and sipping homemade cocoa on our nightly neighborhood walks. What about you? Will you visit a favorite chocolatier this season, indulge in a square of organic delight, or whip up a little homemade chocolate heaven?
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not many devices are supported with Kernel 3.0, so you want the K26 directory
at this point there is a bunch of build numbers. you want the highest build number, which will have the most recent date. as of this posting, that is R22200, built on 18-Aug-2013 10:18.
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kingkong builds are only good on routers with 16+mb of flash. which you probably don't have.
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the nv60 and nv64 builds require 60 and 64kb of nvram. which you probably also don't have.
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mannequin01 wrote:You know feminism is having a massive impact when you see white nationalists dating outside of their race..
outside of the human race? What! they're dating animals?
We are all not as different as everyone thinks.. the differences are mainly terrain-based, but nothing more than that
mannequin01 wrote:we earn the realization of mortality by coming to terms with the capacity for doing.
mannequin01 wrote:..you fail to comprehend what i am saying, you have a typical modern attitude of trivialization of human race, your desperate attempt to unify all races into one
..and ignore distinct characteristics as a representation of a biological legacy which has taking millions of years to form. To imply that it is just environmental and not understand the bigger picture is quite frankly laughable. However, you are not doing it with deceptive intent but rather obliviousness.
If it is not clear to you as of yet, whether it be here or elsewhere, my kind are on the rise.
mannequin01 wrote:The increasing presence of lad culture is a growing resistance to female societal dominance, men utilize excessive consumption with a loud expression as a way of brute forcing their way through imposed limitations and pressures, a sexual play of reclaiming manhood bordering the boundaries of a controlled outlet. Women will try to morph the rape culture concept with lad culture as a way of trying to tame it then stamp it out as a way to divide the men and channel their attention towards women forcing empathy or to push them inwards where they are abandoned to the periphery.
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So the differences that exist within the human race [ there is only one ] are not genetic but cultural
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In her role, Chatterjee has reported on the reasons behind a disturbing health statistic in America — the unusually high rate of infant death among African Americans. In her previous role as an editor for NPR's The Salt, she produced one of her favorite projects, a short online food video series called "Hot Pot: A Dish. A Memory," which featured dishes from a particular country as made by a person who grew up with the dish. The series was produced in collaboration with NPR's Goats & Soda blog.
Before coming to NPR, Chatterjee reported on current affairs from New Delhi for PRI's The World, and covered science and health news for Science Magazine. Before that, she was based in Boston as a science correspondent with PRI's The World. She has also worked as a freelancer and correspondent for NPR's Science Desk. She began her career covering environmental news and policy for Environmental Science & Technology.
Throughout her career, Chatterjee has reported on everything from basic scientific discoveries to issues at the intersection of science, society and culture. She has covered the legacy of the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984, the world's largest industrial disaster. She has reported on a mysterious epidemic of chronic kidney disease in Sri Lanka and India. While in New Delhi, she also covered women's issues. Her reporting went beyond the breaking news headlines about sexual violence to document the underlying social pressures faced by Indian girls and women. She has done numerous stories on how a growing number of Indian women are fighting for better opportunities in education and in the workplace and trying to make the country a safer place for future generations of women.
She has won two reporting grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and was awarded a certificate of merit by the Gabriel Awards in 2014.
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Bengals rookie linebacker Vontaze Burfict had a whopping 18 tackles on Sunday against the Ravens, his highest total in a season in which he was the Bengals' tackling leader. Burfict says Ravens running back Ray Rice deserves the credit.
Early in that game, Burfict and Rice were pushing and shoving after a play, Rice got a personal foul penalty, and Burfict said Rice made him angry — and Rice should know not to make Burfict angry, because you wouldn't like Burfict when he's angry.
"After he did that little cheap shot, I felt like, 'OK, let's go,'" Burfict said, via the Cincinnati Enquirer. "It kind of had me on fire for the rest of the game. Just channeling my emotions in the right way."
Burfict said he's going to channel that same energy in Saturday's postseason game against the Texans.
"It's the playoffs. I should already be there," Burfict said. "I should be ready to go, fired up. I'm excited. I've got another chance to try to get to the Super Bowl in my rookie year. I know some guys with 10 years in the league who haven't made it to the playoffs. I'm blessed with a great team, great teammates, and great coaches. Go into the playoffs and hopefully get this win this week."
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Monday brings word on when we'll find out whether or not the appeal was successful. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the ruling on the appeal is expected to come down on Thursday. That's a few days before the Seahawks are scheduled to host the Rams in the regular season finale. If Sherman's original suspension is upheld, he would miss Week 17 and any potential playoff games other than the Super Bowl.
Schefter reported Sunday that Sherman's appeal hinges on the fact that the cup containing his urine specimen was broken, forcing the collector to put a second cup underneath it to collect any leakage. Sherman is arguing that the seal of that second cup was previously broken, breaking the chain of custody and invalidating any resulting positive test.
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A systematic analysis of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) final regulations for the Real ID Act reveals that the regulations still address only 11 percent of the problems with the act that have been identified, the American Civil Liberties Union said today.
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That just confirms it: Real ID needs to be repealed. It is not only a threat to Americans' privacy but it is utterly unworkable. After 3 ½ years of efforts to implement this law, the tortured remains of the statute that appear to survive in these regulations stand as stark evidence of that fact.
We are still analyzing these regulations and the extent to which they address or evade the many specific problems with the original statute, and will be discussing our findings at 2:00 p.m. EST today.
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Professor Publishes Textbook On Planet's Geologic HistorySOCORRO, N.M. September 26, 2011– Geochemistry professor Dr. Kent Condie has published the second edition of his seminal textbook, Earth As An Evolving Planetary System, the first edition of which appeared in 2005.
| Dr. Kent Condie
Author of Earth As An Evolving Planetary System
Condie is among the scientists who pioneered the study of plate tectonics in the 1970s. His latest book incorporates the latest findings in the fields of geology, geochemistry and geophysics.
"This field is moving so fast, it's moving exponentially," said Condie, who joined the New Mexico Tech faculty in 1970. "It was a challenge to figure out what new things to include in the book."
The 575-page second edition includes 150 pages of new material, features color throughout (unlike the first edition), and includes an interactive CD and Power Point slides for instructors.
Condie is widely known for his book on plate tectonics, Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution, first published in 1976. Now in its fifth edition, the text is widely used in academia.
"Plate tectonic theory was being born when I worked on my PhD in the early 1960s at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA," he said. "I've seen considerable evolution of the theory over the years."
The latest version of the Earth System book includes new chapters on "Great Events in Earth History" and "Supercontinent Cycles."
The "Great Events" chapter includes detailed examination of 4.5 billion year history of Earth, including the origin of the Moon and of life, the onset of plate tectonics, oxidation of Earth's atmosphere, and major mass extinction events.
"Since the first edition, we now know that the first oxygen was pumped into the atmosphere 2.35 billion years ago –derived from photosynthetic activity in the oceans," he said. "And the research on episodicity in Earth history has benefited from breakthroughs in zircon dating with the uranium-lead method. The precision of this method has increased tremendously, and we can now make more detailed conclusions about Earth history and the evolution of continents and supercontinents."
Condie said scientists now believe that continents started to form much earlier than previously believed. The majority of the planet's continental crust was formed by 2.5 billion years ago and the total mass of the crust hasn't increased significantly since then.
|Dr. Kent Condie's latest edition
The study of the inner workings of the planet has advanced by leaps and bounds as the technology available to seismologists developed during the 20th century and over the past 10 years.
EarthScope – which was declared by Popular Science magazine to be the No. 1 most ambitions experiment in the world – is an example of a new technology opening up new vistas into the Earth's interior.
"Most people know about the extinction of the dinosaurs and the K/T asteroid impact some 65 million years ago," he said. "But there have been many other mass extinctions, which we're learning more about. Some were caused by asteroid impacts. The major extinction at 250 million years ago was probably caused by massive amounts of poisonous sulfur gases introduced into the atmosphere by eruption of the Siberian flood basalts.
Condie said the rate of recent discoveries and breakthroughs in technology have combined to create an exciting time for Earth scientists.
Research into planetary evolution has great implications for finding life on other planets.
"Any planet with the proper initial conditions and with water may develop life, although higher life forms may not always evolve," he said. "We now understand, for instance, that without the Moon we wouldn't have higher life forms on Earth."
Condie uses the textbook for EES 468: Evolution of the Earth, which is required for most Earth and Environmental Science students. Each year, he updates the course with new findings in the field. He has received overwhelmingly positive feedback, perhaps most importantly a request for a second edition because the text has sold so well. The book is about $75 (and available on amazon.com), which Condie said is inexpensive for an upper-level text book.
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Friday, March 14, 2008
Free pattern Friday : Frothy Gothy Wristwarmers
just for April:
Edited to add:
I'm adding some notes at the end of the pattern to allow you to customise to different yarns, lengths, gauges etc.
Frothy Gothy Wristwarmers
based on my Garter lace Mittens
1 x 50 gram ball of any DK [ 8 ply or sport ] yarn that will yield a gauge of 22 stitches to 4" over stocking/stockinette stitch. Exact gauge isn't hugely important but close is good!
1 pair 4mm / US size 5 /UK size 8 needles
Cast on 32 stitches for a short pair - you can make them longer by casting on more. Try 42 or even 52
Row1: k to last 4 stitches, YO, k2tog,YO,k2
Rows 2 -9 Repeat row 1 [ stitch count will increase by 1 stitch per row ]
Row 10: cast off [ bind off] 5 stitches, k to last 4 stitches, YO, k2tog, YO, k2
Row 11: repeat row 10
this establishes the pattern - repeat rows 2 - 11
Repeat from** to ** until you have 5 points on each side of the garter stitch strip or number necessary to fit around wrist ending with row 10
Cast off/ bind off instead of doing row 11.
Seam long edge leaving 2 inches unseamed. This allows the lace to splay out over the back of your hand.
this one hasn't been test knitted yet - so let me know if you pick up any errors.
Additional notes:
Because these are constructed side to side , and only the last 4 stitches of each row affect the pattern, you can change the number of stitches to suit yourself, making the gauntlet longer or shorter.
Just work out the length you want them to finish and multiply by the gauge that you are getting PER INCH in your desired yarn.
If you think about what is happening, you are adding 2 stitches [ the YOs ] in each row but only decreasing once, so the stitch count goes up by 1 in each row and you get a pair of lacy holes. I'm putting 5 sets of these offset lace holes at each end, so therefore there is a corresponding pair of 'cast off 5' - one at each end - before starting again. If you look at my Garter Lace Mittens, it's basically the same pattern but with 4 pairs of holes, adding 4 to the stitch count and therefore requiring 'cast off 4'.
Most of you won't need, or want, to know how this stuff works but it's here in case you do.
and of course:
this pattern is copyright 2008 S.Iacuone for personal and charity use only.
For any other use please contact me.
Knew you'd do the right thing :]
19 comments:
- Sheepish Annie said...
Those are awesome! Of course, I think I just heard April's head pop off...
She'll be fine. Wristwarmers are really quite soothing once you get past the excitement of it all.
Nice job on the pattern!
- 10:27 am
- Robbyn said...
Thanks for the pattern; I love using garter stitch turned-on-its-side as ribbing :)
And, as it happens, I have some lovely DK in the closet!
- 2:06 am
- Jejune said...
Definitely sharing this one with gothy Dotter! Thanks :D
- 9:42 am
- melusine_tricote said...
Really beautiful !
- 7:55 am
- karen_m said...
These look absolutely lovely! I have a bit of an armwarmer fetish and I like the feminine tone to this pattern....it's a good change from all my punk armwarmers. And I do really like the sideways garter stitch....Can't wait to make them!
- 10:27 pm
- Melissa said...
Hi there, just found your pattern and decided to make a pair for my daughter. Is it ok to link back to you on my blog? Thanks for sharing - very nice pattern!
- 4:20 am
These are so neat! Think I will make a pair for my granddaughter.
thanks for the neat pattern.
- 12:16 pm
Dear Susan,I would like to send a private message,is this possible and if so,how do I go about it?
Many thanks,sloknitter.
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- catsmum said...
Dear Janet / sloknitter
as I don't have access to your email address I've left a message for you over on ravelry
- 8:19 pm
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- Robyn-Coffee & Cotton said...
Thank you so much for a beautiful pattern. I am making them for my daughter who is attending college in Sydney. It is 41ºC / 106ºF here in Austin Texas but she tells me it is C-c-c-cold in Australia ;-)
- 2:13 am
hi there
thanks for the awesome pattern...will definitely be making at least 1 pair (probably more...hahaha!!!) for my 11 year old daughter...
- 7:02 pm
- Otter (SkyNorth on Ravelry) said...
WOW! Your cat looks like one of ours - fluffy ball of ginger honey fudge toffee hugs!
Just found this wristwarmer pattern -perfect for son's gf!
As she would say,'Made of Epic Win!'
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- mlle. said...
i'm trying this pattern-- and am discovering that after the row 10/11 cast/bind-off of 5 stitches my next 'lace point' section is of course then smaller than the original 32 stitches across cast on. so now after my third point i have half as many stitches cast on as when i started...
i am not so intuitive with knitting, what can i do to ensure my arm-warmers do not taper, which would be cute but less useful. much appreciated!!! best, jojo
- 5:03 pm
- catsmum said...
dear mlle
I've emailed you privately but I assume that you are doing a second k2tog at the end of the row.
It's YO then k2tog [ ie the stitch count stays the same as the YO has added what the K2tog took away ] then another YO [ adding one stitch ] followed by KNIT 2 [ NOT Knit 2 together ]
this makes an increase of 1 stitch in each row, and then you cast those extra stitches off to make your point and to bring you back to the starting number
- 5:18 pm
I just finished my first glove in a beautiful varigated liberty wool. So pleased with it! Thanks for the pattern. :)-michelle
- 8:57 am
Isn't every other row a purl?
- 4:49 am
- catsmum said...
nope ... all garter stitch
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As we had planned, the second WebSphere Portal version 8 Installation Twitter chat was held at 1 PM ET. Like last week, the participation is not ideal. We will not have another session. The end of this chat session also the end of our first social workshop. Although we didn't see a lot of direct interactions between support and customers, we have a collection of documents and knowledge left for future references. We also gained experience on how to organize such events. In future, we may ask the suggestions and opinions of our customers. You can also read a request for a potential future session on Portal migration.
Here is a summary of today's chat session from Storify.com.
The statistics of today's session can be seen in the following report from Hashtracking.com:
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
When the Thomas Reuters Foundation published a survey on living conditions for women in the Arab world, comparisons with Israel were inevitable. The results of the survey were shocking. The much touted "Arab Spring" that was supposed to have delivered greater democratic freedoms to many Arab nations appeared to have overlooked that fundamental building block of modern Western democracy: women's rights.
But, in Israel the situation is completely different. "Close to 60 percent of Arab students in universities and colleges are women," renowned expert Dr. Salah Azaiza told Israel Today. "And a great many of those women are seekingmaster's degrees and doctorates" before going on to careers in hi-tech, medicine, politics and every other sphere of society.
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Let me guess, you have been playing USA Today crossword and got stuck on the clue "___ were the days!". Well, you have come to the right place to find the answer to this clue.
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|Sailors' patron saint
|Beauty's admirer
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|With the bow, in music
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|Tony winner Barkin
|"Movin' Out" playwright Twyla
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|Lea females
|Attack, cat-style
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|"Tsk, tsk!"
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|"Sorry, ___ run!"
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|Org. for GPs
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|Island east of Corsica
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|Cheesy sandwich
|Show on which Jimmy Fallon once appeared
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VENICE, Fla., May 3, 2006 – PGT Industries, the nation's leading manufacturer and supplier of residential impact-resistant windows and doors, won three ADDY Awards in the Suncoast Chapter of the American Advertising Federation's advertising creative awards competition. The company won a Gold, a Silver and an AMY – a special award given to the highest scoring entry in the category.
In addition, PGT won four Bronze Telly Awards for its television commercials. The Telly Awards honor outstanding local, regional, and cable television commercials. The 26th Annual Telly Awards received over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and five continents.
The ADDYs are the advertising industry's largest and most representative competition. Winners of the GOLD ADDY Awards go on to compete at the 14 district competitions. District winners are then forwarded to compete in the national ADDY Awards competition.
"We are thrilled to receive such celebrated awards," said Cara Klein, PGT's director of advertising and public relations. "The awards reflect the positive feedback we have received from customers and industry professionals."
The 30-second TV spots and series of magazine ads, produced and created by Miami-based advertising agency Beber Silverstein Group, took a humorous approach to educate consumers on the benefits of impact-resistant windows. The advertising campaign, titled "Plywood," features graffiti messages on plywood-covered windows from hurricane-weary homeowners bemoaning the cave-like conditions inside their plywood-shuttered homes.
Commenting on the spots, agency Creative Director Joe Perz said, "PGT's Plywood Campaign works because it's honest and entertaining. Homeowners, especially those who know what it's like to worry about an approaching hurricane, can certainly relate to the spots. We are fortunate to have a client that lets us do something very different for the category."
Beber Silverstein Group is the agency for all PGT products.
PGT® pioneered the U.S. impact-resistant window and door industry and today is the nation's leading manufacturer and supplier of residential impact-resistant windows and doors. PGT is also one of the largest window and door manufacturers in the United States. In its 25th year, the company employs approximately 2,400 at its 485,000-square-foot manufacturing, glass tempering and laminating, and delivery fleet facilities in Venice, Fla., and its 225,000-square-foot production facility in Lexington, N.C. Sold through a network of over 1,300 independent distributors, the company's total line of custom windows and doors is now available throughout the Southeastern United States, the Gulf Coast and in a growing international market, which includes the Caribbean, South America and Australia. PGT's product line includes PGT® Aluminum and Vinyl Windows and Doors; WinGuard® Impact-Resistant Windows and Doors; Multi-Story Series 800 Windows and Doors; and Eze-Breeze® Sliding Panels.


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To the Editor:
As I come to the end of my law enforcement career, I find the need to thank a few people.
First, I would like to thank the late Dan Gronbeck for taking a chance on a former packinghouse worker with no experience. I hope I never disappointed him.
Second, I need to thank every deputy, police officer, state trooper, reserve, dispatcher and jailer who ever assisted me with a call. Unless you've been there you can never know the comfort felt at the sight of another squad car pulling up to a scene at two in the morning, or a helpful voice on the radio.
I need to thank my family for spending twenty-six years rearranging holiday and birthday celebrations around the nights, weekends and holidays schedule of a road deputy. A special thank you to my son and daughters for understanding when Dad had to miss their school sporting events, concerts and plays because he had to work.
Most of all I'd like to thank my wife who had to accept the late night phone calls and odd hours. Your support meant everything.
It's been a quite a ride. Not all of it good, not all of it bad, but I wouldn't change a thing.
Sgt. Joel Jurrens
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When I set off to Houston, Texas for the next stop on my Summer Adventure Travel Schedule, I went to Twitter to find out where I should eat while I was in town!
The producer of one of my favorite Food Network shows, Diners, Drive Ins and Dives, replied to my tweet to Guy Fieri about where to eat.
He gave me several great recommendations and started a serious Twit-versation!
My favorite of their recommendations I visited was Kenny and Ziggy's.
A New York style Delicatessen right in the heart of Houston, boosting the best pastrami sandwich I've ever had!
I created my own sandwich with half pastrami and half turkey. I spread a little Russian Dressing on top and that was all this mountain of meat needed!
My Dad got the #1 half pastrami, half corned beef, swiss cheese, cole slaw and russian dressing. He let me snag a bite and it was also a killer choice!
My Mom had the roast beef with au jus and sweet potato fries. Her sandwich was good but the sweet potato fries were awesome!
I find that sweet potato fries can end up soggy and not as crisp as traditional fries, but these were more like sweet potato strings, thin, crisp and delicious!
Nana got the Reuben. Looks like she liked it!
Guess it runs in the family…
That was just the beginning! Half way done…
I couldn't stop there, the rest of that sandwich of meaty deliciousness was staring me down! Then this happened…
Yup, that entire monstrosity of a sandwich was gone! Little girl, big appetite strikes again!
Thanks to the Match Cut Crew for their tweet on this amazing spot! Will definitely be back next time I'm in town!
If you want to visit Kenny and Ziggys to get in on the Mile High Pastrami Sandwich action, go to their website for the location and hours.


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Charles Epstein Named Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics
Charles L. Epstein, a member of the mathematics department faculty, has been named the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics. Dr. Epstein's research interests include partial differential equations, boundary value problems, medical imaging, population genetics and other fields of mathematical analysis and its applications.
Founding chair of the graduate group in applied mathematics and computational science, Dr. Epstein is also a member of the graduate group in bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the graduate group in genomics and computational biology in the School of Medicine, and the Institute for Medicine and Engineering. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Inverse Problems, as well as on the Committee on the Profession and the Committee on Committees of the American Mathematical Society.
Dr. Epstein joined the Penn faculty in 1985, following an NSF postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton. He received his bachelor's degree from MIT, and his master's degree and doctorate in mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU. Dr. Epstein was named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 1988.
The Thomas A. Scott Professorship of Mathematics was established in 1881 by businessman Thomas Alexander Scott, one-time president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The chair has been distinguished by a legacy of excellence, with previous holders including Hans Rademacher, Eugenio Calabi, Shmuel Weinberger and Herbert Wilf.


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Justin Bieber Gets Gross With a Fan's Phone [Video]
Justin Bieber loves his Beliebers, and that's why one particular move he made onstage recently was baffling. When one Belieber threw an iPhone onstage, Biebs took the phone ... and put it down his pants ... then threw it back into the crowd. WTF?!
After asking fans to refrain from throwing items onstage, one tossed a bandanna to the singer. He dismissed the gift with, "I don't need a bandanna, honestly." He kicked something else offstage before one particularly crazed fan chucked an iPhone to him.
"She's throwing a phone? Look at this!" Bieber said incredulously. "I say, 'Don't throw things on stage!' and this is what they throw. They throw a phone on stage. ... I mean, I do need a new iPhone."
What happened next was sort of gross. Bieber took the iPhone, slid it down the crotch of his pants, then tossed it onto the opposite side of the stage from which it came. It's hard to tell if Beliebers should be honored to catch that iPhone (as they probably were) or actually a little insulted at the potentially sexist insinuation that comes along with it. Plus, uh, he was probably sweaty and just -- gross!


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For the last decade there's been a lot of talk and a plethora of products that seek to merge the gap between fitness and health care. Many of these products and services have had some success; others have been ahead of their time or not lived up to their promise. With progressive technology and sophisticated technology companies becoming interested in this concept, we will now start to see things change quickly. More than 70 million Americans have medical health and lifestyle-related issues that can be solved by changing their exercise and eating habits. Additionally, statistics show that two of the biggest barriers to success are time and access. With a market this size, we are on the cusp of seeing mature technology companies, including PC, software and systems application entities, partner with fitness manufacturers and professionals to affect a large part of this segment. Our industry will benefit from these partnerships as a way to leverage their sophisticated and market-proven systems to launch a new wave that merges health care and fitness. With their understanding of the technology and user issues and solutions, we will see rapid integration of health care and fitness for many who have not been successful with more traditional equipment and club-based programs.
Expect to see in-home integration of health-screening tools combined with customized fitness programs that continue to gain efficacy. This will range from your home PC connecting with devices to track data regarding your vital health measures (e.g. blood pressure, glucose levels, oxygen saturation levels and resting metabolic rate) to more sharply defined customized programs for individuals with health issues. We will also see the emergence of applications that address business-to-business solutions that allow manufacturers to help clubs more effectively run their business using technology. Early attempts at some of these tools proved inefficient, sometimes inaccurate and generally not user friendly.
Essentially, these new programs and technology will help the industry "meet people where they live" — literally. Barriers such as time and access will fall away as our customers track and use health-screening information and apply that information to their personal health programs. Any of us with a computer and Internet access will be able to use and track vital information to create behavioral change.
Amy Acker, a senior vice president for the global telecommunications company Avaya, offered insights into this future. She said that a phone being tested in Korea included a glucose level measuring device integrated into the phone. The test measures glucose levels for diabetics and allows users to download and send the information to health care professionals who can monitor an individual's blood sugar levels.
In the future, Acker predicted that tech companies will partner with fitness equipment and fitness technology companies to integrate similar services into their electronic fitness equipment, allowing views in real time or post workout of key health-screening numbers. This technology will allow doctors, physical therapists and fitness professionals to modify or create individual lifestyle programs using current data and better communicate and triage their services.
Anne Matson, an executive from Intel, said a number of peripherals already exist to track health concerns and fitness goals. Many of these companies design their devices to connect to a PC, so users can download and analyze their health and wellness data and connect with online services. These device vendors work with companies such as Intel to bring to market health technologies that work across various devices and platforms, greatly expanding the way individuals can improve their health while addressing the barriers of access and time. Several online communities, services and professional sites (e.g. WebMD) already allow connection to personal health information and dialogue with others who have similar health issues.
Companies such as Intel and others will increasingly put resources into health and wellness technology solutions to help drive industry standards. Partnering with technology companies who have a depth of experience in understanding simple and intuitive user interfaces will be critical for new products and peripherals to truly have an impact on the health of our customers and patients. It is time for our industry to go beyond our product development teams and work with companies who understand technology to create usable next generation technology solutions.
More health devices will come to market to help individuals manage chronic health problems such as diabetes and asthma to address the leading health-related concerns of Americans. A patient will be able to capture data and send it quickly and directly to their respective fitness and health care professionals. With an increasing lack of hospital beds for our growing elderly population, these in-home devices for PCs will be useful, as well as cost and time efficient, for users.
Finally, as more proof that this is an emerging growth area, the technology executives that we talked to mentioned that they are considering, or are already starting online, a digital health group, conducting research and development to meet this skyrocketing need for managing and improving patients' lifestyles wherever they may live. This need for a one-stop portal is critical considering the growing issue of time-starved, over-programmed Americans who need to address their health challenges.
Adam Hubbard from Nautilus stated that many early attempts at software applications were created without keeping the end user in mind. This was a classic case of creating technology for the sake of technology without getting real-time feedback from potential users.
Gregory Florez is CEO of FitAdvisor Health Coaching Services and First Fitness Inc., which was rated as the No. 1 health coaching online training service by The Wall Street Journal. Gregory can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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LAS VEGAS — If they only had the 28 players on this week's mini-camp roster to choose from, the decision makers at USA Basketball would have plenty of talent for next summer's World Cup of Basketball competition in Spain.
The beauty of what's been built under the watch of managing director Jerry Colangelo and coach Mike Krzyzewski is that they have plenty of other NBA superstars eager to claim a spot on the roster for the summer of 2014. All-Stars Kevin Durant and Kevin Love were the first two do so, making it official at the end of Wednesday's mini-camp practice at UNLV's Thomas & Mack Center.
Durant and Love won gold medals in Turkey in 2010 and in London in 2012. They're aiming to repeat that feat in Spain next summer and will do so as cornerstones of a team that won't take complete shape until a year from now. They are the first of what could be several other returnees from London to make the commitment for next summer, though Miami Heat four-time MVP LeBron James is not expected to join them.
"I'm excited for this opportunity, to play for Coach K again and to get to play with some of these guys I've played with in the past," said Durant, who suggested that Russell Westbrook and James Harden have also expressed interest in joining the crew that will play in Spain next summer. "This whole program is first class. And I want to be a part of it. We'll see, hopefully we get some more names added to the list and some of these great young guys out here as well."
There was a buzz in the gym from the start Wednesday with Durant and Love, two seasoned All-Stars, observing all of the 25-under mini-camp stars from seats between the two courts. Colangelo and Krzyzewski knew Tuesday night that Durant and Love were on board.
"Kevin [Durant] told us [Tuesday night], 'Coach I wanted to come here and look you in the eye and tell you what I'm doing.' I get chills thinking about it … a guy of his stature and his accomplishment, for these two guys to come here shows what they think of the program and the people involved. To do it face-to-face, we appreciate that very much."
Colangelo referred to Durant as "kind of the face" of the USA Basketball program going forward, a distinction Durant will likely carry through to the 2016 Olympics as well.
"Kevin Durant coming out like he has and saying I'm going for it and I want to play, is a tremendous statement," Colangelo said. "He's his own man. I understand guys talk and influence one another. But Kevin is going to be the face, he's going to be a leader going forward and I think others are going to respond because of his presence."
That's why the, the impact of Wednesday's announcement, speaks to the continuation of Colangelo's larger plan, which was to turn national team work into a privilege and a duty that all players covet and not the drag or burden it appeared to be for many members of the previous generation of stars.
"It starts with infrastructure," Colangelo said. "You have good leadership in place and then you lay the ground work and then you ge the guys to buy in and then it starts to snowball. And right now, I mean where it was,no one really cared. So it's totally flip-flopped to a point now where I get calls from guys during the [NBA regular] season from guys saying, 'How am I doing? How am I playing?' And that's kind of neat. My job is to keep encouraging all of them."
Peer pressure works as well. When the elite stars invest their time the way James, Durant, Love and so many others have in recent years, it becomes a movement among the players. There is a prestige involved with the program now that wasn't there as recently as a decade ago. An invite to a mini-camp this summer could turn into a roster spot one day, if not next summer maybe in a few years.
"Listen, not everyone is going to be on our team," Colangelo said. "That's impossible. It's a numbers game. But I think these guys that come through our program, at every level and certainly the Select Team, they are better players for it and better people for the experience because they are being exposed to this environment, which I think is very healthy for all of them."


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What to Expect from Vladislav Namestnikov
The Lightning recalled center Vladislav Namestnikov and goaltender Kristers Gudlevskis from the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League, vice president and general manager Steve Yzerman announced Friday. Gudlevskis was recalled on an emergency basis due to an injury to Ben Bishop.
According to the Lightning's press release, Namestnikov, 21, has skated in 31 games this season with Syracuse, posting 13 goals and 30 points to go along with 19 penalty minutes. He ranks tied for first on the team for points and assists. The Zhukovskiy, Russia native also ranks tied for first on the Crunch for power-play goals with six. The 6-foot, 183-pound forward has skated in 75 career AHL games over the past two seasons, all with the Crunch, recording 20 goals and 51 points.
He was originally drafted by the Lightning in the first round, 27th overall, at the 2011 NHL Draft.
Gudlevskis, 21, leads the Crunch in games played with 22 in his first season in North America. His four shutouts leads Syracuse and are tied for the AHL lead. Gudlevskis has assembled an 11-8-2 record with a 2.69 goals-against average and .900 save percentage. He began the season with the Florida Everblades of the ECHL, posting a 7-4-0 record with a 1.83 goals-against average and .925 save percentage in 11 games.
A native of Aizkraukle, Latvia, Gudlevskis was selected to represent his native country in the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. He played in four games during the 2013 IIHF World Championships, posting a 2-2-0 record with a 2.22 goals-against average and .925 save percentage.
Gudlevskis was drafted by the Lightning in the fifth round, 124th overall, at the 2013 NHL Draft.
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Gudlevskis is expected to be the back-up goaltender on Saturday, though it's not out of the question he starts against Detroit before he leaves for the Olympics. If he's first off the ice at the morning skate, a "What to Expect" write-up will be posted on BoltProspects.com before game time.
What to Expect from Vladislav Namestnikov
Namestnikov, who is expected to play Saturday against his uncle Slava Kozlov's former team, was drafted out of London of the OHL when he was an extremely thin teenager who possessed skill and a tendency to throw his body into situations with no concern for his well-being.
He made his professional debut last year and it took him half a season before everything started to click. By the playoffs, Namestnikov had transformed from a fast checking liner learning the AHL ropes to a legitimate scoring threat. He carried that on to this year's team where he's been the Crunch's top-line center as long as he's been healthy.
Vladdy centered a lethal line for the first month of the season with JT Brown and Nikita Kucherov – both of whom were recalled to the NHL while Namestnikov was recovering from a broken hand. Had he not sustained the injury, Namestnikov may have received the call instead of Kucherov.when Steven Stamkos went down with a broken leg.
Jon Cooper craves a gritty speed game from his club and Vladdy could be a poster child for Cooper's philosophy. Steve Yzerman handpicked him for his speed, skill, and competitive nature and it's easy to see now what Yzerman and company envisioned for the Michigan native with Russian roots.
Vladdy plays with the skill and vision of a Russian with the grit of a North American. He's the motor on whatever line he's on and won't hesitate to make a hit or get his nose dirty to make a play or win a loose puck. He still has some of that reckless abandon he had in London, but he's much more patient as a scorer and playmaker. He's got an NHL shot and NHL passing ability, everyone is just waiting on him to fully mature physically as he's still very light on his skates.
He had excellent chemistry in Syracuse with Kucherov and "Brownov" on the "Wizards of Ov" line – especially with his fellow Russian, Kucherov. If that line is put back together in the injury-caused absence of Valtteri Filppula on Saturday, there could be instant chemistry again, but like in his first foray into the AHL, it will be a learning process for Vladdy in the NHL.
His natural smarts as a two-way player will help him – he's one of the AHL's best backcheckers – and he's a trustable player. Vladdy was just starting his ascent to becoming an impact pro when Cooper was promoted to the Lightning.
Vladdy's promotion – even for just a game – will give Lightning fans a sneak preview of what's to come from the next center in line to make a permanent jump from Syracuse to Tampa, possibly as soon as next year.
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