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|Genetic correlation of blood pressure responses to dietary sodium and potassium intervention and cold pressor test in chinese population.
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|PMID: 20861867 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review
|We examined the genetic association between blood pressure (BP) responses to dietary sodium and potassium intervention and to cold pressor test (CPT) in a large family-based dietary feeding study. The dietary intervention and CPT were conducted among 1906 participants in rural China. The dietary intervention included three 7-day periods of low-sodium feeding (51.3 mmol per day), high-sodium feeding (307.8 mmol per day) and high-sodium feeding plus potassium supplementation (60 mmol per day). BP responses to high-sodium intervention had strong genetic correlations (ρ(G)) with both BP responses to low sodium (ρ(G)=-0.43 to -0.54, P-values=0.0005 to 0.03) and to potassium supplementation (ρ(G)=-0.41 to -0.49, P-values=0.001 to 0.005) interventions. Most environmental correlations between BP responses to various dietary interventions were significant. The ρ(G) between BP responses to CPT and to high-sodium intervention and potassium supplementation were statistically significant. For example, the ρ(G) between maximum BP responses to CPT and BP responses to high-sodium intervention was 0.37 (P=0.006) for systolic BP (SBP) and 0.41 (P=0.002) for diastolic BP (DBP). The ρ(G) between maximum BP responses to CPT and BP responses to potassium intervention was -0.42 (P=0.001) for SBP and -0.46 (P=0.001) for SBP. Our study suggests that there are common genetic determinants that influence BP responses to dietary sodium and potassium interventions and to CPT.
|H Mei; T K Rice; D Gu; J E Hixson; C E Jaquish; Qi Zhao; J-C Chen; J Cao; J Li; T N Kelly; D C Rao; J He
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|Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-09-23
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|Title: Journal of human hypertension Volume: 25 ISSN: 1476-5527 ISO Abbreviation: J Hum Hypertens Publication Date: 2011 Aug
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Here we go again. Time for a tall glass of "Berry" juice!!!
First off I know this isn't a big deal to most people. In fact im expecting to see responces that say "Who really cares? does it really matter what number he's going to wear?" Also I would like to congratulate all the eric Berry chief fans, and tell all the Chiefs fans who wanted McClain to go cheer for the Raiders. JK JK Looks like the war is over between the two groups and I am certain people are going to change their signatures to make sure people know that they wanted Berry, even though they wanted McClain. But seriously I don't care, we have a great secondary now, with Flowers, as well as page and Carr . I cant wait to see Berry out there. PICK 6!!!
But I noticed on KCCHIEFS.COM that they were selling Berry jersey's with the #29.
I know no one cares, but I hope he end's up wearing #41. I made a post earlier in the month http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2010/4/11/1415303/what-number-will-eric-berry-wear
#29 would be cool but #41, it's gotta be done.

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With DC's recent trade to the Indiana Pacers, Larry Bird gave some thoughts on DC:
"I didn't think he'd have the year he had last year," Bird said. "He's solid. He likes to defend. He always could shoot the ball. We think he's a complete player."
Another interesting element of this trade, and another Bruin connection.....the Pacers' center, Roy Hibbert, has been working with Bill Walton.
"My responsibility, my job is to help Roy build the foundation, give him the tools he needs to learn, give him the ability to learn how to compete and then to be able to transpose that in the body, mind, spirit and soul of someone who's 23 years old and with the weight of the world on his shoulders," said Walton. "In this league, you win when you control the paint and, as a 7-2, 260-pound winner of the genetic lottery, that's what he has to do for this franchise."
"He has to control the paint. It's not his choice, it's his responsibility, it's his duty, it's his obligation. He has to learn how to do that on an individual basis. He has to learn how to do that on a team basis. It's a matter of how hard he's willing to work not just physically but mentally, as well, and to train his mind so that in the heat of battle he can make the correct decisions that are going to allow him to become a great champion and return the Pacers to their rightful place among the hierarchy of the NBA."
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During his time on stage at the Open Compute Summit, ARM CMO Ian Drew made the point that differentiation for its own sake was never worthwhile. He was referring specifically to how ARM was, per the point mentioned above, preparing to offer standardizations in its server designs to allow innovation to happen "at the right layer," as he put it. This strategy appears to apply in a wider context to the other choices made by those building the data center.
OCP effect No. 3: Competiton between vendors
Another claimed OCP boon: The designs allow multiple vendors to create identical hardware, which gives the folks building the data center greater latitude between suppliers. As a result, the competition between such vendors stands to become not about feature sets, but other factors: reliability, support, or maxing out the oft-touted power efficiency of the OCP designs.
What's worrisome is whether or not this will simply spark a new race to the bottom among OEMs, as they compete to see who can pump out the cheapest OCP-compliant design without going broke. That would amount to trading the problem of a too-heterogenous market with another and possibly far more intractable conflict.
In the best of worlds, each manufacturer would find a special sauce to add that wouldn't break OCP consistency. There are some hints of safeguards: the creation of the OCP Solution Providers group, the OCP certification process, and so on. But it remains to be seen how those work out in reality.
OCP effect No. 4: Fallout from OCP licensing models
The OCP's licensing model is set to be expanded so that it includes a more GPL-like license alongside a more "permissive" version, in the hopes that having both will attract a broader segment of hardware makers.
What'll be interesting to see play out, apart from who contributes and to what end, is whether the choice of licensing becomes a reflection of a given company's motives for participating overall. Perhaps those who opt for the more permissive licensing will do it to broaden their reach because they can afford to lose hardware sales to a competitor -- especially if hardware sales aren't their main profit driver.
When InfoWorld's Eric Knorr wrote about Open Compute back in 2012, he was skeptical at first of the project, assuming it amounted to Facebook exercising its leverage over OEMs. But he found reasons to believe OCP would ultimately be about more than Facebook alone. Here's hoping it doesn't just become about the hardware makers alone, either.
This article, "4 ways the Open Compute Project will impact hardware design," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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News: Common & Pusha T On Ending Summer Cruelly: "It's The Best Compilation Of All Crews"
Thursday, Sep 20, 2012 5:40PM
G.O.O.D. Music's Common and Pusha T recently discussed their new Cruel Summer album and why it easily stands in a class of its own as one of hip-hop's best compilation projects to date.
In Common's opinion, the variety of features and diverse artists help the LP stand out.
"It's fun. You get inspired. It's competition you're around artists that have such diverse qualities," Common said of working on the 12-track LP. "Because when you have Pusha T, 2 Chainz, and Kid Cudi, you have John Legend, you got Common, you have Big Sean, you got Kanye West, all these different people rapping about different things." (MTV)
Pusha took it a step further by proclaiming it the best compilation ever.
In the days immediately following the album's release, more than a few reviews continue to nitpick at Kanye's work on Cruel Summer, accusing him of giving it a half effort, but Pusha is clear about his thoughts on the project. "I definitely feel like Cruel Summer lives up to the hype," he says. "I definitely feel like Cruel Summer is the best compilation album of all crews to drop compilation albums. The music level is totally the upper echelon of hip-hop music." (MTV)
The feature-packed LP contains over 20 guest appearances from start to finish.
There are 22 artists featured on the disc -- a veritable "something for everyone." Hip-hop heads were amped when Wu-Tang giants Raekwon and Ghostface first appeared on the Cruel Summer tracklists floating around the internet, and Top-40 fans are sure to be pleased by the inclusion of buzzy young stars like Big Sean and genre mainstays like Jay-Z. It's inspiring to see West continue to highlight those who supported him: Grammy-winning songwriter Malik Yusef (one of the folks behind "All of the Lights") and young vocalist Teyana Taylor (you've unknowingly heard her on "Dark Fantasy" and "Hell of a Life") are also featured on Cruel Summer. It's a narrative not often seen in the media -- where lazy tales of Kanye's sometimes erratic behavior dominate headlines for weeks -- but it's clear to anyone paying attention to music that West not only cares deeply about production quality, but about those around him. (Huffington Post)
If things heat up, Cruel Summer could make a run at debuting atop the music sales chart next week.
She's the daring young diva on the flying trapeze. RCA diva P!nk's latest, The Truth About Love, her sixth studio recording, is on target to be her first-ever #1 album, with a projected total of 200-225k. Her previous high was the #2 slot reached by the last album, 2008's Funhouse. That would be enough to top Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music compilation on Def Jam/IDJ, Cruel Summer, which may have suffered from a brief, one-day absence of the album from iTunes, but is gaining ground quickly, according to one-day sales reports from retailers both physical and digital lucky enough not to find themselves part of Mitt Romney's 47% cut-off. At this point it looks like it will sell in the 170-190k range. We'll keep an eye on the battle as we head into Friday's Weakend Chart Preview. (HITS Daily Double)
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2 Teens Arrested for Underage Drinking, Fleeing Police
Two 17-year-old boys—one from Mokena and one from Frankfort—were arrested on the 1100 block of First Street and charged with underage consumption of alcohol and interference with a village officer when they were caught running from police, according to the report. The officer saw the teens walking down the sidewalk on First Street at 1:50 a.m., and when he approached them in his squad car, they began to run.
After a foot chase, the officer caught the Frankfort teen behind , according to the report. The teen told the officer that he ran because he was out past curfew, and he was only 17, the report stated. The officer told the teen that the curfew age was 16 but arrested him when he smelled alcohol on the teen's breath.
The other teen was arrested at his home on the 19700 block of Scarth Lane after making several phone calls to the Frankfort teen who had been apprehended earlier. Officers also detected alcohol on that teen's breath, the report stated.
Circle K Employee Caught on Video Stealing
Thomas E. Hanley, 21, of the 16800 block of 92nd Street in Orland Hills, was charged with theft after he was caught on video stealing $1,000 from the daily cash deposit for Aug. 17 at the , according to the report. The gas station's manager told police that she noticed that the money was missing from the deposit and that she had seen Hanley putting an envelope with the money in it into his pocket on the surveillance footage for that day. Hanley confessed to taking the money when the manager confronted him about it, and he was in her office preparing a written statement when she called the police. Hanley was released on $1,000 bond, and his next court date is Sept. 12.
Glass Door Smashed, Cigarettes Stolen From Tobacco Store
Two unknown black male suspects were seen throwing something through the front glass door of and running in and out of the store before getting into a silver Monte Carlo that drove away westbound on 191st Street, according to the report. When police arrived on the scene, they found the door shattered, and it appeared the offenders had stolen several cartons of Newport cigarettes.
The manager of the nearby had called police after she and a waitress saw the vehicle driving slowly past the restaurant through the parking lot, the report stated. The vehicle continued to move slowly past the strip mall and stopped at the eastern end of the lot near . The witnesses then saw the Monte Carlo pull up to the stop sign at the intersection of Henry Drive and 191st Street and park.
The two suspects, whom the Denny's manager had seen at the about 15 minutes earlier, got out of the car and walked over to sit on the wall directly across from Haze Tobacco Outlet, while the car pulled up along 191st Street and parked. The Denny's manager and waitress went inside at this point to call 911, while the break-in was observed by a witness in the parking lot across the street, according to the police report.
A clerk at the BP provided police with copies of receipts from the suspects' transactions and showed officers security camera footage of the suspects at the cashier's counter as well as the Monte Carlo parked outside at a pump, the report stated. The footage, however, did not provide a clear view of the vehicle's license plate number, the report added.
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Interstate 35 in Moore has been reopened after a tractor-trailer hauling two other tractor-trailers broke loose Monday, blocking northbound Interstate 35.
There is no word on whether anyone was injured in the accident near South 4th Street.
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MINNEAPOLIS - The Minnesota Timberwolves will play two of their seven preseason games at Target Center.
The Wolves announced their preseason schedule on Monday. It begins with a game against CSKA Moscow at Target Center on Oct. 7. Guard Alexey Shved and former forward Andrei Kirilenko both once played for the Russian team.
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|'Cats conquer Kalida in non-league battle
|Friday, January 17, 2014 9:28 PM
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DELPHOS — This is the time of year when illness, injuries and bad weather can wreak havoc on a basketball team's preparations.
Both boys units from Jefferson and Kalida can commiserate, each with their share of all three.
Naturally, it came down to one more made free throw statistically as Jefferson slid by Kalida 51-50 in non-league action Friday night at "The Stage" of Jefferson Middle School.
The game was postponed from Dec. 14 due to weather.
Jefferson (8-5) was without sophomore rotation player Dalton Hicks due to injury, while Kalida (8-4) senior starter Joe Gerdeman and junior bench player Logan Roebke also were out with injuries.
"This has been one weird season between the weather, injuries and illnesses. This week, we didn't have a practice where at least five of our guys weren't out due to the flu, which has hit the school overall," Jefferson coach Marc Smith explained. "This was a great team victory. We told the kids before that game that we were going to have to show mental toughness to make a play somewhere along the line to win the game and we did. We told them that teams to our north — Kalida, Ottoville, Fort Jennings, any Putnam County team boys or girls — have that mental toughness from the start because basketball is in their families and that's why they regularly send some team to state. We grew up a lot tonight."
Kalida mentor Dick Kortokrax could concur with Smith.
"This week, we had three of our rotation players — including Joe, who averages double digits — that did not practice due to injuries and two could not go tonight. We're not using that as an excuse; it's part of the game," he observed. "Where it hurts more is on the offensive end — and in the skill level — because you don't have that continuity you need to be effective. We called upon a couple of junior varsity sophomores to play varsity; it's what you have to do. We did not have the balance we need to beat a team like Jefferson tonight; give them credit for overcoming what they have gone through."
Both teams shot the same percentage — 42.9 percent — on 18-of-42, though Jefferson was 7-of-18 downtown and Kalida 7-of-20. The hosts were 8-of-13 at the stripe (61.5%) to Kalida's 7-of-8 (87.5%).
Both teams took terrific care of the orb as the hosts only had five turnovers and the visitors four.
As expected between two well-matched teams — with the biggest lead by anyone being five and seeing 18 lead changes and two ties — this one came down to the fourth period. With Jefferson holding a 40-36 lead after 24 minutes, the visitors scored the first five points to take a 41-40 edge on a putback by junior Cole Miller (6 points, 7 boards) at 5:52, only to see the hosts retake it on a putback by senior Austin Jettinghoff (8 counters, 4 boards, 3 assists) at 5:01. There were four lead changes from then on, the last to make it 47-46 on a bomb from the left wing by Jettinghoff (7 markers in the period) with 3:04 left. Neither team could convert until senior Ross Thompson (11 markers, 10 boards) put back his own miss at 1:42 for 49-46. Kalida junior Devin Kortokrax (game-high 19 points) replied with a mid-lane deuce at 1:16 to get his team within 49-48, only to see Thompson answer on a drive at 41 seconds to make it 51-48.
With 6.0 seconds to go, sophomore Trent Gerding — seeing his first serious varsity action of the season — sank two free throws to make it a 1-point game. The Maroon and White fouled Jefferson sophomore Trey Smith (8 points, 7 caroms) for a 1-and-1 with 4.0 ticks showing. He missed the front end, Gerding rebounded and called a halt with no time coming off the clock to the Red and White's consternation. However, Kalida had to go the length of the floor and Kortokrax's 50-footer was way short as time expired.
The first stanza saw three exchanges of the lead early as both teams employed man-to-man defenses that they rarely strayed from: the Jeffcats concentrating on Kalida's duo of Kortokrax and senior Randy Zeller (11 counters — 3 treys — 7 boards), Kalida emphasizing containing Smith, Thompson and Jettinghoff. Zeller netted a pair of rainbows — including the one that accounted for the game's biggest lead of 10-5 at the 2:10 mark — and Thompson two deuces, including the foul-line jumper at 1:05 that got the hosts within 12-10.
After Smith buried two free throws to open the second period at 7:16, a Zeller bomb at 6:15 gave Kalida a lead. There were two lead changes and Kortokrax (10 points in the stanza) nailed a trifecta at 2:10, giving the visitors their last lead of the half — 25-21. Senior Tyler Rice (9 markers, all on triples) popped off the bench to bury his first trey at 1:48, starting an 8-0 closing splurge. When Smith (6 second-quarter counters) sank two singles at 42 ticks, Jefferson led 29-25.
Kalida dropped in the first six points of period 3 to retake the lead on two Kortokrax free shots at 5:25. That only started the trend of lead changes once more, with five more in this frame, the last a Rice (2 treys in the stanza) bomb at 3:23 that put the hosts up 38-36. The only other points in the canto came at the 38-second mark when Smith scored inside in transition for a 40-36 advantage.
Kalida finished up with 23 rebounds (7 offensive) as Gerding added four; and 16 fouls. Senior Adam Langhals had four dimes.
Jefferson snapped up 29 boards (12 offensive) and added 12 fouls. Freshman Jace Stockwell had a solid all-around game with 10 markers (2 treys), eight assists and five boards.
"Kalida has used the same successful defensive concept for years: make your third and fourth options beat you. We knew Ross and Trey would get a lot of attention because they are good players," Coach Smith added. "What I saw that will help us was Jace stepping up and hitting some big shots and our bench, especially Tyler (Rice), giving us key minutes. We have had confidence in these guys all year and now they can see it too. We are hoping that their confidence continues to grow and that will only make us better. Again, this was a great team effort. To beat Kalida, you'd better be able to defend the post, rebound and play with mental toughness; we did all three."
Coach Kortokrax credited Jefferson for those "other sources."
"We did a great team defensive job on their big three: they average about 50 (47) points a game. Even Stockwell, in recent games, has started to score more," he added. "In the five games I scouted of Jefferson, I did not see (Rice) score a point. Give him credit for making us pay for leaving him open. That is the mark of a good team; getting others who aren't usually the stars to make plays when they are needed. Our effort was great all night; hand it to Delphos and Coach Smith for winning a tough game."
In junior varsity action, Kalida, behind 13 points each by Drew Hovest (3 treys) and Brandon Verhoff and 12 from Trevor Maag, bested Delphos 68-43.
Jefferson (8-5) — without Grant Wallace — received 18 from Josh Teman (3 triples) and 17 by Ryan Goergens (5 bombs).
Both units return to action tonight: Jefferson at Pandora-Gilboa and Kalida at home versus Columbus Grove.
Adam Langhals 2-0-6, Austin Swift 0-0-0, Luke Langhals 2-0-4, Devin Kortokrax 6-5-19, Randy Zeller 4-0-11, Trent Gerding 0-0-0, Cole Miller 3-0-6. Totals 11-7-7/8-50.
Jace Stockwell 4-0-10, Austin Jettinghoff 3-1-8, Ross Thompson 5-0-11, Trey Smith 2-4-8, Tyler Mox 1-1-3, Nick Fitch 0-2-2, Tyler Rice 3-0-9. Totals 11-7-8/13-51.
Score by Quarters:
Kalida 12 13 11 14 - 50
Jefferson 10 19 11 11 - 51
Three-point goals: Kalida, Zeller 3, A. Langhals 2, Kortokrax 2; Jefferson, Rice 3, Stockwell 2, Jettinghoff, Thompson.
Grant Unverferth 4-0-9, Jordan Kortokrax 0-0-0, Drew Hovest 3-4-13, Trevor Maag 4-3-12, Nathan Vorst 1-0-3, Brady Laudick 3-0-7, Austin Klausing 1-0-2, Trent Gerding 3-1-7, Brandon Verhoff 6-1-13, Austin Swift 1-0-2. Totals 19-7-9/11-68.
Drew Reiss 0-4-4, Josh Teman 5-5-18, Cole Arroyo 1-0-2, Ryan Wittler 0-0-0, Ryan Goergens 6-0-17, Kyle Wreede 1-0-2, Brandan Herron 0-0-0, Christian Stemen 0-0-0, Nick Long 0-0-0, Drake Schmitt 0-0-0. Totals 5-8-9/12-43.
Score by Quarters:
Kalida 21 19 12 16 - 68
Jefferson 9 16 11 7 - 43
Three-point goals: Kalida, Hovest 3, Unverferth, Maag, Vorst, Laudick; Jefferson, Goergens 5, Teman 3.


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As more and more books on Paganism, Wicca, and other earth-based spiritual paths become available, readers are often faced with choices about what to read. One of the things people typically find themselves asking is, "How do I know what books are reliable?," followed almost immediately by "Which authors should I avoid?" As you learn and read and study, you'll learn how to separate the wheat from the chaff, and you'll eventually be able to figure out on your own what makes a book credible and worth reading, and what makes it one that should probably only be used as a doorstop or paperweight.
There are different types of books within the Pagan community, so let's look at what's available, first of all.
- Scholarly works: These are the books that are typically not marketed to a Pagan or Wiccan general audience, but that have still managed to find their way into the Pagan community simply because they're chock-full of information. These are often published by University presses, and are typically written by academic types who may not even be Pagan. Some examples of these would be the works of Ronald Hutton, Peter Beresford Ellis, or John Morehead.
- Wicca 101 Books: Presented in a how-to format, these books typically present a very basic overview of what Wicca and/or Paganism consists of, and usually include a few rituals and spells. Many of them contain the same information simply presented in different ways -- for example, nearly every single one of them will have a chapter on The Wheel of the Year and How to Cast a Circle. The best-known example of this type of book might be Ray Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft.
- Advanced Wicca Books: These are the books that are written for readers who have already gone through the catalog of Wicca 101 books. They often focus on a particular tradition -- usually the author's -- and are presented as a potential option for people who wish to grow magically and already have a foundation of basic Wiccan studies. Good examples of this would be books like Dorothy Morrison's Utterly Wicked, Phyllis Curott's Witch Crafting, or Starhawk's Spiral Dance.
- Miscellaneous everything else: Books on how to read tarot cards, the magical uses of crystals and herbs, spell-a-day books, etc. There are a ton of these, some good and some not so much. They're commonly marketed towards people who want to learn more but who aren't yet interested in tackling scholarly or academic works.
So how do you know if a book is credible or not? Well, for starters, let's look at what kinds of books we're talking about. Scholarly works are -- and should always be -- held to a higher standard than the other books. A book that purports to be scholarly or academic should have at least some of the following contents:
- It should use, as references, other scholarly works written by credible scholars. Primary sources are often cited as well.
- The author should recognize and appropriately deal with the fact that far-fetched claims require some degree of proof. In other words, any claims that are really out-there should be accompanied by support from other scholarly sources.
- There should at some point in the writing process be a peer review or some sort of academic vetting done. Reviews should be done by other academics, not by random members of the Pagan community.
- The work needs to be recent enough that it's not obsolete. In other words, if a scholar releases a book he researched twenty years ago, there's a distinct possibility that some of the information contained in it is no longer relevant or has been debunked in the recent past.
- The author should understand that his own credentials don't necessarily constitute proof of fact, particularly if new ideas are being written about. If someone makes the statements that ancient Celtic Pagans danced naked around a giant toaster oven, he better be ready to provide supporting evidence -- and that means something other than just saying, "Well, because I'm an expert and I said so, that's your bloody proof!"


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" just feel like their drums / guitars have a sludge vibe to them. this doesn't sound like what i would expect from progressive death metal
@greg, i listened to the title track, and is definitely within the same bpm realm as guys like high on fire. it's definitely not atmospheric sludge / post-metal if that's what you're thinking i'm saying.
aka Staff Musings About Metal, Part I"
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Album Rating: 3.5Yep. Groove metal seems more appropriate (aside from prog metal tag).Digging: Royal Blood - Royal Blood
Digging: Royal Blood - Royal Blood
i dont know about that
indie metal
Album Rating: 3.5Gojira transcends labelsDigging: Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring
Digging: Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring
"This isn't sludgy at all, it's groove metal."
One of the better descriptions in my opinion from what I have heard of it so far.
Album Rating: 3.5progroosive
Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound OffGood review, Xeno. I pretty much agree. Also I don't really see anything that great about Mouth of Kala. Yeah, I said it.
This album is similar to The Link in that it's just raw. Though The Link had some cool tribal instruments thrown in for good measure, whereas this just feels a bit flat at points. That's what happens with the Gojira groove, though. It monotones out well before the album's over. With the exception of From Mars to Sirius.
Was thinking about reviewing this, but idk now that there's two good reviews already.
This band is decent but I've never really been amazed by anything I've heard by them, so I will likely skip this. Great review Xeno.Digging: Ulver - Bergtatt
Digging: Ulver - Bergtatt
Album Rating: 3.5I cannot fathom where you hear this 'complexity.' While this record is indeed more complex than the rest of their discog, I would never say that it is inherently complex.
the opening riff is in 13/16 the verse alternates between 8ths and 16ths with four 8ths and four 16ths thats 12/16 or 6/8. I cant be bothered to count the instrumental part but the tremolo picking section alternates between 2 different timings and ends in 4/4 then goes back to the 12/16 riff. Its no Meshuggah but the complexity is there when compared to most metal.
I cannot fathom where you hear this 'complexity.' While this record is indeed more complex than the rest of their discog, I would never say that it is inherently complex.
Album Rating: 3.5^Exactly. From the perspective of a guitarist, many parts of this disc are mindblowingly difficult to play.
Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound OffI don't really see this as more complex than anything they've done previously, to be quite frank.
And I say that as a guitarist.
In which sputnik users once again mistake complexity with weird time signatures.
Album Rating: 3.5@AtomicWaste:
Yeah, but it doesn't negate the fact this stuff is (still) complex progressive metal. The point that was argued by the reviewer.
Ah. Really? Come on. Complexity = weird time signatures in this case.
Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound OffWell, to be honest, this is pretty stripped down for Gojira. I would have made the same point.
Listening to From Mars to Sirius and The Way of All Flesh makes it overly abundant.
The Link is sort of on the fence. Again, that album was really kind of raw, just like this one,
but it had a lot of those weird tribal instruments peppered in.
I just don't feel like this is on par with the complexity of either of those albums. The time
signatures are there in all of their stuff, so it doesn't really change things.
Album Rating: 3.5In which sputnik users once again mistake complexity with weird time signatures.
so odd groupings and changes of notes aren't complex? I doubt anyone in the academia world would say they agree but along with the polyrhythms and Meshuggah-esque drum syncopation ideas in their music I'd like to know how it isn't complex.
Album Rating: 4.04.1/5? I listened through a good deal of this record casually and didn't find it that great at all. Should probably try that again.Digging: Emerald Weapon - Part II: Earth Encrypted
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Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound OffThere's nothing complex about time signatures.
Syncopation and polyrhythms, maybe, but time signatures any monkey with a 7th grade level conception of math can work out.
Album Rating: 3.5There's nothing complex about time signatures.
never said it was, all music is in some type of time. its the usage of many different time signatures, odd meter changes and unusual note groupings that make it complex. Isn't Meshuggah considered complex for the same reason?
There's nothing complex about time signatures.
Album Rating: 3.5Not as good as their last albums, They tried to take away the heaviness in order to change up their sound. Although Gojiras combo of grove and heaviness is what they had going for them. Album still good though.
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Heart unit campaigner: 'They're finally listening to us'
Save Our Surgery activist and former patient Joe Barry, 16, said he was glad about the decision to suspend the closure of his local heart unit at Leeds General Infirmary.
"If I was born and this unit wasn't here I wouldn't have survived [the journey] to Newcastle," he said.
"It saved my life and I can't let this happen to anyone else.
"The news today, it's great. All the things that we've put forward to have a look at, it's all happening. After three years of fighting they're finally listening to us."
Lisa Rushworth, whose son Jack was treated at Leeds, said she hoped the hospital would now have a chance to make its case based "on more statistics and actual facts".
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Vertafore's ImageRight solution won first place in the Enterprise Technologies category
May 18, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. - May 18, 2009 - Vertafore, a leading provider of software and services to the insurance industry, is pleased to announce that its ImageRight content management and workflow solution recently won several important industry awards during the ACORD-LOMA Insurance Systems Forum, held at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel in Orlando, Fla.
Vertafore's ImageRight solution won first place in the Enterprise Technologies category of the Vanguards in Insurance Practices (VIP) Awards, sponsored by Insurance Networking News and Celent, an Oliver Wyman company. ImageRight also won the award last year. The third Annual VIP Awards were presented during a black-tie ceremony at the ACORD-LOMA forum.
"Congratulations to Vertafore for returning to the VIP winner's circle," said Craig Weber, senior vice president at Celent Insurance Group, who presided over the awards ceremony. "Vertafore's customers have again recognized that ImageRight delivers the right mix of products and services to engender customer loyalty."
Additionally, Vertafore's ImageRight solution received several honors at the second Annual Insurer's Choice Awards, presented by Tech Decisions and Financial Insights, an IDC Company, at a May 18 breakfast ceremony. Named as the top Overall Property & Casualty Vendor for the second year in a row, ImageRight took first place in the Property & Casualty categories of Operations, Informed (Analytics), Product Development and Workflow, and tied for first place in the Life category of Product Development.
"ImageRight taking top honors in the overall P&C category speaks not only to how its solution set and customer service are viewed, but also to the importance of ECM and Business Analytics within the insurance industry," said David Potterton, vice president, global research for Financial Insights.
Insurer's Choice is a "voice of the market," industry-specific annual ranking that incorporates feedback on all hardware, software and service providers from a large sampling of insurance company respondents and insurance technology users collected via an online survey. Tech Decisions editors designed the survey in cooperation with Financial Insights analysts; Financial Insights completed the analysis of the survey results.
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WVU @ LSU: The Talking Points
- Brandon Hogan's potential return to the field.
- The mounting injury list in Morgantown (Jenkins, Miller, Lazear).
- Bruce Irvin: is he a velociraptor?
- Can WVU's youngsters keep their cool in Death Valley?
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At this point, it may seem like I'm gloating about the good fortunes I've had thus far during my time watching the Angels play in New York. But nothing can top what happened to me early this afternoon at the game, and I absolutely have to share it with the good people of Halos Heaven.
As some of you are aware, the seats I had to Friday night's game against the Yankees just happened to be right next to Arte Moreno and his wife. It was a great experience getting to chat baseball with Arte and enjoy the game, especially in such luxury. But nothing could prepare me for what would happen the next day. As I searched Stubhub late last night for tickets to this afternoon's game, I noticed that someone had put up another pair of Legend Suite tickets for a ridiculously low price (about half as much as I paid for Friday nights game). I immediately jumped on the deal, and ended up paying only a third of the face value. I couldn't believe that I'd be sitting in the Legend Suite again, and for such a great price. I thought "who knows, maybe I'll run into Arte again?" But I wasn't expecting anything.
When my friend Patrick and I arrived at the stadium, we immediately went to our seats. About 3 innings into the game, we decided to retreat from a humidity-strangled heat death outside, and that we'd be more comfortable watching a couple of innings on the flat screen inside the Legends Suite Lounge, located directly behind our section. We each grabbed a hot dog and snagged a seat at the bar. Moments later, we turned around only to be greeted by Arte Moreno and his wife, Carole, as well as one of Arte's good friends:
Arte: "Hey guys, good to see you here again!"
Me: "Hey, Mr. Moreno! Good to see you again!"
Arte: "No please, call me Arte. I'm buying drinks. You guys want a beer?"
Me: "Uhhh...Uhhh... =O...yeah, sure!"
I was thinking to myself, "is this really happening?" We went on to have drinks and hang at the bar with Arte, his wife and his friend. We talked about Angels Baseball, and about how much we appreciate what he's done for the club. They asked us what we thought about Mike Trout and Mark Trumbo. They were also thoughtful enough to ask us about what's going on in our lives, and why we had made the trip all the way out to NYC to watch the Angels play. I explained that I'd be getting married in two weeks, and that this was one of the last things I'd be doing as a bachelor. But I explained that I planned on doing one last thing--and that's when something amazing happened:
Me: Yeah, so when we head back to California, we're going to look into getting a Platinum Suite for the Saturday day game vs. the Rangers this weekend. We planned on having it as my bachelor party.
Arte: Oh, yeah? Well, did you want me to give you a number?
Me: A number?
Arte: Yeah, a phone number for someone who can help you with the suite.
Me: =0
Arte: Here, copy this number down in your cell. But DON'T give this number out to anyone else. It's a secret number. In fact, after you call this guy, just pretend like you never had the number in the first place. It's for a one time use. He's going to be pissed I gave you his number, haha. Give this guy a call, and tell him that you need a platinum suite for the game on Saturday, and that Arte said to take care of it. I'll make sure and talk to him, and I'll let him know it's for a bachelor party.
Me: ***utter shock*** Who should I ask for?
Arte: His name is John.
I called the number earlier today, and I got a voicemail. I'm not going to tell you John's last name, but if you're clever, you'll likely be able to figure it out. I'm not sure what to expect, but it sounds like I'm going to get some kind of special deal for a platinum suite not available to just anyone. I'm not going to expect anything, though. And to be honest, I wouldn't be disappointed if I got nothing. The fact that Arte Moreno extended the kind of hospitality and generosity to me that he did was more than enough.
Arte Moreno treated a couple of regular, lowly Angels fans as his friends. He bought us beers; he talked life with us; he took a personal interest in the fans of his team. He didn't have to do any of that--but he did. Instead of some vague, generic speech during a press conference about how much he appreciates Angels fans, he showed it. That experience will forever go down as one of the greatest things that ever happened to me, and I'll never forget it. With that act of kindness, Arte has all the more solidified my support and dedication to this team, and showed me why being an Angels fan is the best ticket in all of professional sports . I'll be a life long fan (and Lord willing, life long season ticket holder), and I'll never root for another baseball team, no matter the circumstances. Thanks, Arte.


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Fagley pensioner says street lights are left on - for five months!
9:00am Thursday 6th December 2012 in News By Dolores Cowburn, Bradford Chief Reporter
Bradford Council has come under fire after a £60,000 money saving scheme to overhaul 50 lamp-posts actually led to them being switched on continuously for five months.
One pensioner living on Flawith Drive, Fagley, said that the lights were so bright that he could read his newspaper in the dark because of the light from outside. He said that they were on all over the Fagley estate including Flinton Grove and Ferriby Close after being installed in June.
Bob Smith, 81, said that the light shined in even when his curtains and blinds were drawn and criticised the Council for wasting money on electricity bills.
Mr Smith, who has lived in Flawith Drive for 20 years, added: "They have been on day and night since the summer.
"They changed all the lamp-posts to save electricity and they have been on ever since.
"When it is dark and I pull the curtains I can still read the paper without the light on because there is a light right outside my house.
"It has affected me because I can't sleep because the light still shines through. The Council is wasting money and I can't understand it."
Mr Smith's friend, Tony Hughes, who alerted the Telegraph & Argus to the problem, said: "I think it is driving them all mad up there."
Allun Preece, principal engineer for Bradford Council, said that the £60,000 scheme involved the replacement of 50 lighting columns. "When we replace the columns we also install energy efficient bulbs," he said.
"The electricity connection to the control unit for the lights was finally connected on Tuesday by Yorkshire Electricity so now they are programmed to operate only whilst it is dark.
"The reason they were on all the time was because they were in 'fail safe' mode before the control unit was connected.
"The control unit enables us to programme the lighting to whatever hours we need them to be on and also monitors faults. These new street lights mean we will save money in the long term."
Eccleshill Councillor Geoff Reid (Lib Dem) said that it was "not a very good example of a way to handle money."
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10:03am Thu 6 Dec 12
Idler60 says...
That about sums up Bradford Council
10:10am Thu 6 Dec 12
mad matt says...
That typifies the whole attitude of Bradford Council - the problem is that it is not the council's money, it's our money, whichever way you look at it.
10:50am Thu 6 Dec 12
Albion. says...
11:04am Thu 6 Dec 12
angry bradfordian says...
Albion. wrote:Yes, it seems that the council have brushed off the incident as Yorkshire Electricity's fault. The real question should be why the lights were installed if it was going to take 5 months before being connected.
Why such a long gap between the work doing and the connection of the control unit?
If you were building a new house you wouldn't leave the lights on for 5 months before it's finished, but I don't suppose it's the council officer's own money that he's so glibly dismissing.
1:41pm Thu 6 Dec 12
Another Landless Peasant says...
1:48pm Thu 6 Dec 12
Albion. says...
Another Landless Peasant wrote:Yes you certainly are off putting.
No doubt some of them would have gone off had I walked beneath them. A strange phenomenon that I have experienced since childhood:
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markjoe says...
Recently I passed two council workers taking up some tarmac on Manningham Lane near dreams. One of them was breaking up the tarmac whilst the other took his time picking up one piece of tarmac at a time then leisurely walking to his van. There was no sense of actually trying to get the job done in a reasonable time its seemed as thought they were trying to make it last as long as they could, which sums up our council perfectly.,
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RollandSmoke says...
Another Landless Peasant wrote:I too have experienced this at a rate that I can't explain as pure coincidence and have mentioned it to my daughter who has since witnessed a couple of incidents
"Streetlight Interference (SLI) is an alleged phenomenon in which it is claimed that certain people, passing near a streetlight at night, cause it to spontaneously extinguish (or if off, come on). Although there are hundreds of reports by both SLIders and witnesses, the subject remains controversial. Though trivial at first glance, closer study shows SLI to be a complex process, rich in paradoxes and contradictions. If true, however, the claims carry profound and exciting implications for science and for our knowledge of human potential."
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About 7am Presentation
The slides (now still images, the actual slides had video on every slide) and the text commentary I used for my presentation at Placing Nonfiction are now available on academia.edu, "About 7am, An Ontographic Video".
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Almost There
Just submitted the PhD. Well, it's a 'PhD by Publication' which means curate a suitable number (and presumably quality) of my published work, write an essay that contextualises this research, and it gets examined. I once started the traditional PhD, on a scholarship, over twenty years ago, but two years in landed a full time teaching position. And started presenting and publishing, discontinued the PhD. Toyed with starting from scratch but family, quite a lot of published work, more work to write and publish. Took a long time, as I felt like a fraud not doing a 'real' PhD, but now I'm old enough to be over it. I have chaired an international conference, written quite a bit (not nearly enough but that's a different sort of problem), run a very good and innovative honours program, been flown around the traps a few times to present, so now I just need the PhD not to prove I can do research, but to comply with the university's demands. (I support staff being required to get a PhD, particularly when so many are not research active, but when you've supervised PhDs, actively publish and so on, well then you just become rather pragmatic, if not mercenary.)
The essays I've curated are all over on academia.edu and the contextualising essay, might leave that for a bit. Bit embarrassed by it at the moment.
I made an informal presentation to the NonFiction Research Group here at RMIT. To get some of the ideas that have been floating around into a bit of shape I did a few brief writing sessions in Tinderbox, being reminded as I did how much I enjoy writing in a small footprint hypertext environment. The presentation was rambling and associative, but a couple of people wanted the 'slides' so I've dumped the nodes into this post, with some additional notes at the end about the questions that were raised that really helped clarify some of the ideas.
This presentation offer several speculative prompts about nonfiction as a placeholder for particular ways of engaging with the world. This includes the ways in which 'nonfiction' can be used to challenge and disrupt academic writing, the role and place of nonfiction in narrative and research questions that nonfiction raises. The intent is ludic.
I am increasingly interested in what others characterise as 'object orientated ontology' and 'post humanities' practice and theory.
I have got here from a very applied theoretical practice located within (what is now being called) the digital humanities where thought, ideas, and media are all material things with their own demands, voices, requirements and forces.
I always struggle intellectually with the way in which I experience and perceive ideas as being always deeply and densely interconnected (what Ted Nelson described as 'intertwingled') and the constraints of our major media forms, methods, and practices – the canonical academic essay and the linear form.
My desire in this presentation is to speculate, in situ, around non fiction and the idea of 'disruption' just to see where it might get me.
Disruptive technologies are those that cause qualitative change within a practice. For example the internet, broadly, is a highly disruptive technology in relation to industrial media industries. (And technology here includes the constellation of hard and soft protocols that all technologies require, produce and enact.)
I am interested in the ways in which new technologies of writing disrupt writing as a practice and as form. This includes the local and small scale of an individual 'doing' writing and extends to the possibilities that digital networked systems provide for rethinking writing and publishing.
This is not for the sake of technological fetish or the digital cool but is because different ways of writing writing, and of presenting the work, allow for other forms of knowledge to be expressed, created, shared, and enacted. It provides a method and various theories by which to disrupt and critique the scribal monoculturalism of the academy, which, at the end of the day, remains a blindspot apparently immune to the solar flare of critique and criticality.
In the broad terms of 'nonfiction' I think all academic writing is, by definition, nonfiction and so experiencing disruption as a consequence of new technologies.
Object Orientated Ontology
An excellent and very readable introduction to this is Ian Bogost's "Alien Phenomenology". The key terms are 'tiny ontology', 'unit relations', 'ontography', and 'Latour litanisers'.
Tiny ontology refers to Bogost's argument that being is simple and "ought not demand a treatise or a tome." (loc. 495.)
Unit relations simply means that things enter into relations with other things and these become, in their own turn, new things. Bogost simply calls objects units because they are always, no matter what scale (an amoeba, a city) a unit.
Ontography is a bit like cataloguing. Bogost compares it to an exploded view diagram where the innards of something is revealed where the things that make up the thing are itemised and their relations (usually) shown. He is interested in ontography as a system to allow for the inscription of the fullness of things in themselves (without us) and their inter objectivity. Objects always relate to other objects, and certainly do so without needing us.
Latour litaniser is a method of practicing ontography. Bogost, as in much of this book, takes this quite literally as a method of accounting for units and their relations. It is like a listing of things if only to recognise the density of the world as objects and their relations. It is a generative machine that Bogost made that builds lists using extant material online. While Bogost uses this as a way to think about and play with objects, this is very similar to what I think of as an affect engine or assemblage. (Indeed I think this might provide a useful theoretical frame for thinking about these affect engines.)
Some quotes:
as Bryant puts it, a post humanist ontology is one in which "humans are no longer monarchs of being, but are instead among beings, entangled in beings, and implicated in other beings." [41]. (loc 387.)
In relation to what the humanities and sciences have in common in regards to their human centredness:
In short, all things equally exist, yet they do not exist equally. (loc 275).
To wit: both perspectives embody the correlationist conceit. The scientist believes in reality apart from human life, but it is a reality excavated for human exploitation. The scientific process cares less for reality itself than it does for the discoverability of reality through human ingenuity. Likewise, the humanist doesn't believe in the world except as a structure erected in the interest of human culture. (loc 314.)
The Post Humanities
See for example the forthcoming symposium organised by Latrobe's new Centre for Creative Arts on post humanities writing (textobjectext). This is a relatively recent trope that I trace to something like Kate Hayle's "How We Became Posthuman", and is grounded in other recent theoretical 'flavours' such as object orientated ontology and the emerging interest in materialism.
The post humanities is conceived of as the humanities that faces at least partially towards the implications of the digital, technology, and the sciences. It might include the use of 'big data' within writing and the humanities, an application of algorithmic procedures, and interdisciplinary projects and exchanges.
Personally I conceive of the 'post humanities' as an evolution of humanism (as odd as that may sound) as it continues to privilege reason, though with what can be thought of as an ecological turn where we are not understood as stewards or the origin for or of the things in the world. (A very common sense view.)
The Essay Film
The essay film has a long history in documentary. This is the case in terms of practice and theory, with canonical work in both areas. As an outsider listening in to the 'creative nonfiction' conversation this appears to be much less the case in writing.
Corrigan usefully describes the essay and the essay film as:
the essayistic indicates a kind of encounter between the self and the public domain, an encounter that measures the limits and possibilities of each as a conceptual activity. Appearing within many different artistic and material forms besides the essay film, the essayistic acts out a performative presentation of self as a kind of self-negation in which narrative or experimental structures are subsumed within the process of thinking through a public experience. In this larger sense, the essay film becomes most important in pinpointing a practice that renegotiates assumptions about documentary objectivity, narrative epistemology, and authorial expressivity within the determining context of the unstable heterogeneity of time and place. (loc. 96.)
I am very interested in bringing the methods and episteme of the essay film to academic writing.
This difference, if it exists, could perhaps be attributed to the ontological differences between cinema and writing in relation to the fragment.
Academic Writing as an Essay Film
What does it mean to think about academic writing as participating in the milieu of the essay film?
It could mean that the role of the subjective and the personal, is legitimated. (This is not the same thing as opinion, as views are still informed by knowledge, reflection and analysis.) It could also mean that a greater diversity of media are used not merely as sources of research but in the course of making and publishing and reading academic work. It also foregrounds the risk of other forms for the expression of knowledge.
To develop these sorts of knowledge objects probably also means we need new and different 'tools' for writing these sorts of works.
Affect Engines
One of the things that got mentioned recently was about non narrative non fiction. An archive is such a thing. In theory the less 'story' and the more vacant each thing in an archive is then the richer the possibilities of the object.
This is because an archive is always about the possible relations that can form with its objects and this is one of the key distinguishing differences between an archive and a museum.
Some forms of generative practice are also non narrative. Dictionary games, exercises in excising every n word or letter, they are recipes and protocols for generating works but they are not about producing stories, even if stories might sometimes be a result.
This is part of my interest in some Web 2 services as they can be thought of as affect engines. Systems that allow for the collection of things that others place into new relations, often for no explicit or instrumental point, but they let others find emotional points of intersection with them. For example a sad slide show on Flickr, or following system generated trails of stories about Melbourne in Cowbird. Or the new services that are in the pipeline like Qwiki for mobile, Far From Homepage, each of which have a lot of possibilities for academic 'writing' and nonfiction. And then we might think about something as speculative and poetic as "we feel fine".
These affect engines could also be thought of as an affect assemblages.
The term is often used to emphasise emergence, multiplicity and indeterminacy , and connects to a wider redefinition of the socio-spatial in terms of the composition of diverse elements into some form of provisional socio-spatial formation. To be more precise, assemblages are composed of heterogeneous elements that may be human and non–human, organic and inorganic, technical and natural. (Anderson and McFarlane, p. 124.)
Anderson, Ben, and Colin McFarlane. "Assemblage and Geography." Area 43.2 (2011): 124–127.
Bogost, Ian. Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing. Minneapolis: University Press of Minnesota, 2012. Print.
Corrigan, Timothy. The Essay Film:From Montaigne, After Marker. Oxford University Press, USA, 2011. Print.
Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. Print.
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// So I need help… FOR REAL. ? //
I think I have to increase my calorie intake to keep losing weight.
I've been keeping under 500 cals, like 6 days a week.
Most days I eat about 300 calories, and I go to the gym 6 days a week and do cardio and weight lifting
Ummm…. I know I need to increase, but I'm terrified I'll gain.
Will I gain if I increase up to 800-900 cals with eating clean?
Someone please answer…. I'm pretty scared.
quick edit: I know my body is in starvation mode, that's why I'm freaking out. I'm not sure if I could handle eating 1200 calories a day yet, so I'm going to attempt 800-900.


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What to See, Do and Eat at the Palace of Fine Arts With Kids
Back when international exhibitions meant building a town within a town, the Palace of Fine Arts became one of 10 palaces at the 1915 Panama-Pacific World Exposition on the northern side of San Francisco. Built by the famous Californian architect Bernard Maybeck following ancient Greek and Roman designs, the palace offers a romantic outdoors promenade flanked by tall ionic columns of another time and a serene rotunda overlooking a lagoon that swans and ducks call home. Add to that a kid science museum, a theater, and manicured paths, and you'll understand why the Palace of Fine Arts is a beloved city escape for parents.
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The following arrest information was supplied by the Des Plaines Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
A Des Plaines man has been arrested in connection with a burglary that took place at Day & Night Liquors, 1185 S. Elmhurst Road, at approximately 2 a.m. on June 3, stated last week.
Nikko G. Principato, 19, was charged with burglary and two counts of intimidation after two witnesses observed Principato carrying out liquor and cigarettes from the store, according to the report.
When the witnesses confronted Principato, according to the report, he threatened both of them with bodily harm if they called the police.
The front window of the store was shattered, and the approximate value of the merchandise was $2,600, police stated.
Principato was arrested on June 17, 2012 and bond was set at $25,000. He was given a court date of June 27 at Skokie courthouse.
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Lauren Crandall scored one of FAU's four runs in the win over Bethune-Cookman.
March 10, 2006
BOCA RATON, FL - Two strong pitching performances sparked an all-around effort for the Florida Atlantic University softball team, which swept day one of the 2006 FAU Worth Classic at FAU Softball Stadium on Friday.
Junior Jen Musillo (Tequesta, Fla.) threw 4 1/3 hitless innings and allowed three hits total in a 4-3 win over Bethune-Cookman in the opener. Freshman Kathryn Stauffer (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) broke a personal six-game losing streak as the Owls shut out Rutgers 9-0 in five innings in the nightcap.
Musillo hit the first batter of the game for the Wildcats but then set down 13 consecutive batters until allowing the first hit of the night with one out in the fifth. She finished the night surrendering three runs on three hits and struck out four.
The Wildcats did not cross home plate on Musillo (5-2) until the sixth. Meanwhile, Florida Atlantic put two runs on the board in both the third and fourth innings.
Four different Owls scored runs, with sophomore Lauren Crandall (DeLand, Fla.) and freshman Vanessa Suarez (Orange Park, Fla.) contributing in the third. Musillo and freshman Amy Bukovich (Boca Raton, Fla.) scored in the fourth.
FAU 9, Rutgers 0
Stauffer (2-9) went four innings and gave up just two hits while striking out five Scarlet Knights. Florida Atlantic gave her plenty of run support with two runs each in the first, fourth and fifth innings and three runs in the third.
FAU (9-12) is back in action on Saturday evening at 6:00 p.m. against Bowling Green and at 8:00 against Seton Hall.
Friday, March 10th
Game 1: Campbell 2, Seton Hall 0
Game 2: Bowling Green 7, Seton Hall 5
Game 3: Bowling Green 4, Campbell 2
Game 4: Bethune-Cookman 3, Rutgers 0
Game 5: Florida Atlantic 4, Bethune-Cookman 3
Game 6: Florida Atlantic 9, Rutgers 0 (5 innings)
Saturday, March 11th
9:00 am Campbell vs Bethune-Cookman
11:00 am Rutgers vs Campbell
1:00 pm Bowling Green vs Rutgers
4:00 pm Bethune-Cookman vs Seton Hall
6:00 pm Florida Atlantic vs Bowling Green
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Methuen, MA — Dorothy L. (Chute) Archambault, 83, widow of Warren A. Archambault, former Safety Officer for the Town of Methuen, passed away peacefully December 31, 2013.
Dorothy was born in Methuen on February 16, 1930, and remained a lifelong resident of the town.
She graduated from the Edward Searles High School with the class of 1948, and later graduated from Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, MA, in 1951. Dorothy then passed her State Boards in 1951 to become a registered nurse. After graduation, she worked at the Lawrence General Hospital for most of her career. She also worked at the Cooley-Dickenson Hospital in Northampton, MA, North Adams Hospital in No. Adams, MA, St. Peters Hospital in Albany, NY, and St. Vincent's Hospital in Worcester, MA. At the end of her career, she worked in local nursing homes until her retirement in June 1996.
She was a lifelong member of Saint Andrews Episcopal Church where she was a former choir member and Sunday School teacher. She was a member of the American Nurses Association & the Faulkner Hospital Alumni Association. She was also a member of the Pilgrim chapter #55, Nashua, NH.
She is survived by her two sons, Mark W. and his wife, Karen, of Manchester, NH, and Todd J. and his wife, Alice, of Derry, NH; four grandchildren, Jason and his wife, Olivia, of Manchester, NH, Jeffery of Laconia, NH, and James and Nicole of Derry, NH; five great-grandchildren, Mikayla, Elijah, Aiden, Lacey and Conner, all of Manchester, NH. She also leaves behind her sister-in-law, Ruth Simoes, and lifelong friend, Bill Waites of Salem, NH.
She was predeceased by her son, Dana W. Archambault.
ARRANGEMENTS: Friends and loved ones are invited to call on Friday, January 3, from 4-7 p.m. at the Charles Dewhirst Funeral Home, 80 Broadway, Methuen. A funeral service will be held the following day, Saturday, January 4, at 10:30 a.m. at the funeral home chapel. Burial will be at the Elmwood Cemetery, Methuen.
Memorial contributions, in Dorothy's name, may be made to St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 90 Broadway, Methuen.
To leave an online condolence, please visit www.dewhirstfuneral.com or facebook.com/DewhirstFuneralHome.


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Arron Afflalo recently had a feature article written about him on the TrueHoop network, which is one of the best basketball blogs out there on the net for my money. A portion of the article talks about his experience at UCLA and what Coach Howland taught him that has allowed him to succeed in the NBA, which is relevant given the anticipated talent level that this team next year should have. Here's the original AA on CBH:
Here's where it pays to understand Afflalo's theory of UCLA players in the NBA. Kevin Love, Russell Westbrook, Jrue Holiday ... the list is impressive. Why so much success? Afflalo's theory is brilliant and logical and seems like it must be correct. He explains:
Most players coming into the NBA, you're not going to be asked to be the leading scorer on the team. With that in mind, Coach Howland has done a great job of at least preparing us to be mentally tough and to play defense.
When you get a fiery young player coming into the league that's willing to play defense, I don't think there's a coach in the NBA that won't love that.
So with that opportunity, there's still some talent in the players. With that, you can see a guy like Russell [Westbrook], whose got some energy and can defend, and he can turn into a good offensive player. The same with Darren [Collison].
Kevin Love was a specialist, seemingly, with his rebounding, but he turned into an elite scorer.
The same with Luc [Richard Mbah a Moute]. He has the passion to work. He got into this league and got a deal playing defense, being one of the premier defenders and as his offensive game develops he'll be even more valuable.
I feel like I'm in the process of doing the same.
Just something to keep in mind as we watch our fellow Bruins in the NBA -- AA does a great job representing us as a university and is the perfect ambassador for our school. I hope other recruits are reading what AA has to say -- offense may be fun and flashy, but once you get into the NBA as a rookie, you're going to see the floor if you can play defense and play it well.


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Last July, Canadian actress Laura Vandervoort nabbed herself a super gig as the role of Supergirl in Smallville. Now it seems that she's heading for the seas. She's scored a lead role in Into the Blue 2. Vandervoort will play a girl on a professional scuba team who get hired to find Columbus' hidden treasure. I guess there was more to the story than the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
Meanwhile, that Scott Caan-written story Mercy has got itself a leading lady. Wendy Glenn, who recently played Isabella in The L Word (who played Bev in Lez Girls), will play the title role, who is the love interest of Caan's character. The story is about a cynical writer who writes about love, but doesn't believe it until ... Mercy.
Lastly, there's Kerry Washington. She played Della Bea Robinson in Ray, Jasmine in Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Alicia Masters in Fantastic Four, and Kay Amin in The Last King of Scotland. Now she gets to be married to a doomed husband. She's signed on to play Eddie Murphy's wife in the comedy A Thousand Words. Her character wants her husband to settle down and spend more time with the family, but I doubt he'll have much to say about it, since the guy finds out that he'll die after he utters his next one thousand words.


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A Stevens sign off would signal new era in Supreme Court politics
In the legal gossip world, (hell, even in the real world), a lot is currently being made of the fact that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has only hired one law clerk so far this term. In SCOTUS speak, this kind of dalliance in hiring help is often interpreted as an indication of probable retirement. Not that this was unexpected — Stevens is 89 years old, which makes him the second oldest justice in history.
A friend reminds me that for a long time, there was a tradition that, when possible, a Supreme Court Justice would retire when the current President was of the same party as the President who nominated you. That was the case even when your judicial philosophy might have "drifted" from where it once was.
One of the best examples of this is Justice Byron White, who was appointed by John F. Kennedy, but who, by the time he retired, was one of the more conservative justices. But, since White had been appointed by a Democrat, he waited until another Democrat was in office (in this case, Clinton) to announce his retirement. The same is true for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who was nominated under Ronald Reagan, drifted to moderate or liberal, but still retired under George W. Bush. And it could also possibly be said of Justice Felix Frankfurter, who was appointed under Franklin Roosevelt and probably would have liked to retire under Dwight Eisenhower, but waited until Kennedy was elected (he ultimately suffered a stroke in 1962 which forced his retirement, but had been in poor health prior to that).
Running with the speculation, if Stevens retires now, it will make two justices in a row who clearly held out longer than they wanted (David Souter famously hated Washington and Stevens has been very, very old for a very, very long time) so that the President in office would be closer to their ideology rather than the party of the president who nominated them.
It's no secret that Supreme Court Justice is one the most politicized roles in Washington — but it has also always been one of the most traditional and bound by custom. It would appear that the most recent presidency has caused even the Court's tradition to unravel in the furtherance of political ideologies.
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Many of us know this legendary rock group's hits, and today, we'll look at some of their songs and lyrics to compare what we've already done and where our beloved Chiefs may go with our pending coaching decisions.
Let's do the rockstar jump after the jump!
"Back in RAC"
-I personally like the hire. For once, our team may actually have a coach that commands everyone's respect. Look no further than reports of "RAC" condemning TJ 2.0 in front of the entire team. In my opinion, one of Haley's biggest problems was playing favorites. Had he not been buddy buddy with TJ, Palko, etc, he may very well still be our HC. Players in the NFL need a coach that they can respect. It was very clear that Haley had started to lose the team (especially after so many butt kickings).
P.S. Romeo says after that awful "Rack City" wrap song, "Nobody's gonna get me on another rap!"
"Who Made Hue"
-I know there are many who have suggested that Hue Jackson would be a good hire for our OC position. However, I disagree. I feel that his attitude would be a cancer in our locker room and among the other coaches. Personally, I don't think he's all that great. The team was 8-8 with him as OC, and they were 8-8 with him as HC. It's not really that impressive when you think about it. For me, I say no to Hue. I'd be happy to be wrong (which has happened several times) if we hired him and won a Super Bowl, but I just don't think his attitude would fit the "Patriot Way." I'm guessing they'll hire an OC that fits that mold instead of Jackson.
"Gibbsen the Dog a Bone"
-I think we'll end up filling the DC position from within the organization because I think Romeo will end up having a major handle on the defense still...maybe even still calling plays for the D. If it aint broke, don't fix it. Therefore, I'm guessing our Chiefs promote from within, specifically, Gary Gibbs (or Emmitt, but I couldn't find a song to rhyme with his name). :)
Either way, we all know It's a Long Way to the Top, but with R.A.C., a new OC to bring High Voltage to our offense, and maybe Hunt and Pioli changing the team's mantra from Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap to Chase the Ace, then we'll be Back in Business.
I could've gone way more in depth with this, but it's almost time for me to leave "work."
God bless and Go Chiefs!
P.S. I'm not an AC/DC fan...just having some fun!


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Slabs from parents back yard in Minnesota
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VERY nice table. What are the dimensions, finish? Iv'e got lots of dead oak I could slab but I'd probably have to use the chainsaw as they are too heavy to lift onto the bandsaw. Very nice job on the project.
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Thank you, I think I brushed on some spar varnish satin on this project. The bottom log slab measures 14" at the widest by 47" long, top slab is also 14" at the widest and 44" long. Height is 16"
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Council members Cline and Cohen call for "Open Government Initiative"
Original post made by Rory Brown on Feb 21, 2007
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To: Mayor Fergusson; Council Member Boyle; Council Member Robinson
From: Council Member Cline and Mayor Pro Tem Cohen
Subject: Adoption of an Open Government Initiative and Appointment of Finance Committee
Date: February 21, 2007
Please accept this request of city council to place on the agenda consideration of adopting an Open Government Initiative (OGI). The OGI would be a broad initiative to set in place programs that would enable our citizens to better access information, become involved more in the city itself and act as a tool to keep our city leaders proactive in working with our community to make decisions.
Considerations under the OGI would include but not be limited to:
• Sunshine Reforms Act -- tightening up of the meeting and posting process to allow for a longer time between posting the agenda and the actual meeting -- two weeks minimum.
• Sunshine Reforms Act -- set forth a mandate for city council and city management to give commissions proper lead time to make recommendations on a particular issue under the purview of those commissions (example: fields and the parks and recreation commission)
• Sunshine Reforms Act -- reform the community services (city council) agenda and procedures literature to limit the overuse of the consent calendar for issues more fit for regular business and put a hard stop on council meetings at 11pm. No exceptions. We cannot continue to make decisions after the community has gone to sleep.
• Re-design the city website to make information more accessible, easier to find and more timely -- and to allow real-time communications with the city council.
• Develop a mandatory schedule to hold regular city council meetings in Belle Haven.
• Appoint a finance/audit committee as oversight to the budget reporting process.
First things first.
As the first pillar of the OGI, we propose that our city council immediately appoint a Brown Act guided audit/finance committee made up of three council members. Residents could be added based upon qualifications. This audit committee will work with the finance director to put in place a structure to manage the numbers -- a set of rules to guide the reporting process and set in place a consistent platform to evaluate costs of running programs and how to present the data clearly. This will allow the committee to review the budget reports from the city finance office for accuracy, raise questions for the finance director and put the report through council to the public without bias. The committee can address future financial matters and make recommendations to council as appropriate. But this is not a policy making body. All policy will be set by the council.
The goals of this audit/finance committee are as follows:
• Creation of a consistent process around the presentation of the budget
• Better and more frequent communication to the community as to the city's financial picture
• Systematic reporting structure that will provide quarterly reports for the community and potentially move to monthly reports.
The proposed finance committee would report into the city finance director and to the city council if approved.
This type of committee has been suggested by many citizens of Menlo Park. And while there are many great projects that our council is pursuing right now, there no more pressing needs than getting our financial picture back into focus.
In light of a very busy council calendar over the next several weeks, we respectfully withhold the Sunshine Reforms and website evaluation requests under the Open Government Initiative until this item have been addressed.
Rich Cline, Council Member, Menlo Park
Andy Cohen, Mayor Pro Tem, Menlo Park
on Feb 22, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Thank you, Andy and Rich. Cohen and Cline are to be commended for their position regarding open government and the establishment of an Audit/Finance Committee. What they are addressing is both the council process and critical issues like budget. This is the foot in the door we have been waiting for. Let's see if the entire Council participates in negotiating their proposals and let's see who on the Council supports these and other reforms. Then, let's see which of these proposals become reality. Now, more than ever, it behooves all of us in Menlo Park to let the Council know what we believe, what we want, and what we expect.
on Feb 22, 2007 at 12:40 pm
This is a huge step on the part of the new council, not only demonstrating unprecedented (at least in recent years) regard for the public and for concerns expressed by many but also showing leadership by Mssrs Cline and Cohen.
on Feb 22, 2007 at 3:33 pm
The best news to come out of this new council so far - kudos to Cline and Cohen!


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Whitney here again with your latest dose of American Idol scoop. This week's post is going to be a little different from my first Idol Thoughts though. Rather than review each of the remaining contestants' performances from the last couple of weeks, I thought I would spend this week sharing my top 10 performances over the past 10 seasons. As I said in my previous post, one of my favorite things to do is to re-watch old footage of Idol. … →
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Everyone hates the typical "book is better" guy. Everyone loves to get to be the "book is better" guy. I'm glad to be able to report after seeing the movie, I don't have to be that guy. I certainly don't mean that as a knock on the book. I mean that more so to give the movie props. Look, they are going to cut things. They are going to change things. If you haven't figured it out by now, that's … →
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Grilled Maine Lobster Tails with Miso Butter
The Brombergs (Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar and Grill, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas) fondly recall eating steamed lobsters at the beach on Long Island. Their modern twist is grilled lobster with miso butter. Miso brings salty umami notes to the sweet, succulent lobster.