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Hey Mike, welcome to our group. Go Ravens!
Welcome to the Baltimore Metropolitan Social meetup! I am an event organizer for the BMS. I figure you would like to be invited out so consider this an invite to attend any event and event hosts will get you mingling with others. I host many events, just look on the calender and pick one or two to check us out! ~JAX
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Hydrogen produced through renewable energy sources is an emissions-free way to carry clean energy. Hydrogen is most commonly generated from renewables with a device called an electrolyzer, which uses electricity to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen. By converting renewable electricity into hydrogen, the intermittent power of wind and sunlight can be stored for long periods and used in a fuel cell for power at any time, day or night. Electrolysis can also leverage the surplus generation from renewables that would otherwise be wasted. Currently, wind turbines are shut down on windy days when electricity generation outpaces demand. By simply installing electrolyzers, that surplus power could be put to use generating hydrogen.
Landfills, wastewater treatment plants, and food processing facilities are some of the other places fuel cells can produce renewable power. All of these facilities handle organic waste, which can be processed using microorganisms like bacteria in an anaerobic digester to create biogas. Biogas is a mix of mostly methane and carbon dioxide. Many waste treatment plants simply burn off this biogas. However, biogas can be cleaned up with a reformer and used to power fuel cells. This trash-to-energy conversion is free, renewable, and already happening around the country.
How Renewable Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Integrate with the Grid
Cool Examples
Solar Hydrogen Stations
Imagine a gas station that created gas from water and sunlight. Some hydrogen stations already do this today. By linking solar panels to an electrolyzer, power from the sun splits water into pure hydrogen and oxygen. At stations like this, you can fill a fuel cell car with renewable hydrogen and drive hundreds of miles with no emissions.
Powering Breweries
The ancient art of brewing produces a steady stream of organic waste. Passing this waste through anaerobic digesters yields biogas. Breweries can use this biogas to power fuel cells, producing electricity and heatwhich can be used in the brewing process. This waste-to-energy concept makes many breweries nearly energy independent.
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As part of a project with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Boeing is creating an aircraft that can fly continuously on sunlight alone. The planes wide wings are covered in solar panels. But how does it fly by night? A solid-oxide fuel cell from Versa Power Systems powers the plane's electric engine at night using fuel produced from excess solar generation during the day.
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Global Markets: Stocks Rise, Dollar Struggles After Downbeat US Data
By Lisa Twaronite | Reuters - TOKYO
Published: 14th February 2014 12:30 PM
Last Updated: 14th February 2014 12:30 PM
* Asian shares track U.S. gains despite weak retail sales
* Nikkei bucks trend and tumbles as yen rises
* Dollar wallows close to nearly 3-week low vs euro
* China inflation in line with expectations
Asian shares mostly rose on Friday while the U.S. dollar struggled to regain traction after downbeat U.S. economic data pushed it to a nearly three-week low against the euro.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan added about 0.7 percent, on track for its biggest weekly gain since September.
But Japan's Nikkei stock average erased an initial bounce and tumbled 1.5 percent, down for the sixth straight week, as the yen pushed higher.
"Japanese stocks have trouble advancing as overseas investors have become reticent," said Kenichi Hirano, a strategist at Tachibana Securities in Tokyo.
Markets in mainland China and Hong Kong also crept higher, set for their biggest weekly gains since September, recovering from the recent rout from emerging markets despite mixed signals from Chinese inflation data.
China's consumer inflation remained at a seven-month low in January while factory gate prices fell for a 23rd consecutive month, broadly in line with market expectations and consistent with other recent data showing economic weakness.
This gave investors no reason to expect any change to the central bank's monetary policy stance, though it also suggested the economy continues to face headwinds.
"This is a dead cat bounce," said Hong Hao, Bank of Communications International's chief equity strategist. "Everybody's looking for a trade with the selloff, but inconsistent China data does not seem to point to any meaningful improvement."
On Wall Street on Thursday, investors managed to shrug off the dour U.S. economic data. The Dow Jones industrial average , the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite all marked gains, despite a storm that battered many eastern states.
U.S. retail sales fell unexpectedly in January, while separate data showed more claims for jobless benefits last week, against a backdrop of unusually bad weather.
The dollar softened on the reports, which helped point Asian emerging markets currencies towards weekly gains. The Indonesian rupiah hit a near 11-week high on Friday, after data showed that country's current account deficit narrowed sharply in the fourth quarter.
The yield on benchmark 10-year Treasury notes stood at 2.717 percent in Asian trade, compared with Thursday's U.S. close of 2.736 percent.
Yields have rallied this week after the U.S. Congress approved an increase in the debt limit and incoming Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen maintained the central bank's commitment to gradually withdraw its stimulus.
Against the yen, the greenback's early gains unravelled, and it slumped about 0.4 percent on the day to 101.72 yen, moving away from Thursday's session high of 102.58 yen.
The dollar index slumped about 0.1 percent to 80.228, though it remained above Thursday's low of 80.194, a level last seen on Jan. 24.
The euro was holding steady at $1.3679, not far from the previous session's high of $1.3692, which was its highest since Jan. 27.
The common currency had a muted reaction to news that Italian prime minister will resign on Friday, opening the way for the country's third administration in a year.
Investors awaited fourth-quarter growth data out of the euro zone later on Friday. Analysts polled by Reuters expect slightly faster growth in the 17-nation economy.
In commodities trading, U.S. crude slipped about 0.2 percent to $100.14 a barrel after skidding on the previous session's dismal U.S. data. Brent crude also edged down about 0.1 percent to $108.41.
Spot gold added about 0.2 percent in Asian trading to $1,304.86 an ounce, after hitting a three-month high of $1,307.20 earlier in the session.
The U.S. data gave gold futures a lift and helped them post their eighth straight gaining session - the longest winning streak since July 2011.
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Tickets for UFC 170, which is set to go down inside Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Feb. 22, 2014, will go on sale to the general public on Fri., Jan. 10, 2014, at 10 a.m. PT.
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Fight Club members and UFC Newsletter subscribers (Password = NEVADA), naturally, will be able to scoop up tickets prior to them being available for public consumption thanks to two separate special pre-sales.
"Rousey vs. McMann" will feature the quick return of UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey, who will attempt to keep her perfect record (8-0) intact at the expense of Sara McMann's pristine professional mixed martial arts (MMA) ledger (7-0).
In the pay-per-view (PPV) co-main event, former Light Heavyweight champion, Rashad Evans, will introduce Daniel Cormier to the 205-pound division, while Welterweight standouts Demian Maia and Rory MacDonald collide in other main card action.
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Coffee Filter as Wine Strainer
A clever way to repurpose an everyday item.
Mark Weiss
When the cork crumbles, salvage a bottle of wine by slowly pouring it through a filter into a pitcher or carafe. That way your $25 Fume Blanc won't go down the drain.
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Over the past week, Disney Animation has had a rough go of it. To explain: Jenna Busch, reporting for Fan Voice, picked up on a distressing comment made by Lino DiSalvo, a veteran Disney animator at a long lead press day for "Frozen," the studio's forthcoming animated feature. These comments were somewhat unsettling, especially considering they were delivered completely free of context, but the comments were, of course, quickly picked up around the web, most notably by bastion of journalistic integrity Buzzfeed, who complemented their Tumblr-like piece with funny gifs and images taken from other websites. Now Time has actually gotten someone of note to weigh in on the controversy: Brenda Chapman, the former Pixar director who won an Oscar for "Brave," who claims that animation as a whole is "run by a boys club."
First off, let's review the controversial comment that DiSalvo made, "Historically speaking, animating female characters are really, really difficult, 'cause they have to go through these range of emotions, but they're very, very — you have to keep them pretty and they're very sensitive to — you can get them off a model very quickly. So, having a film with two hero female characters was really tough, and having them both in the scene and look very different if they're echoing the same expression; that Elsa looking angry looks different from Anna (Kristen Bell) being angry."
Like we said: this is a distressing comment, for sure, but it's something of a leap to think that he was making some misogynistic comment; Disalvo was talking about the technical problems associated with animated female characters. It's true that female characters often do go through a wide, complex range of emotions (think about the journey of, say, "The Little Mermaid"), so we can't fault him for that. And yes, the characters should be pretty, because princesses often are, and people go to the movies to see pretty people, animated or otherwise.
Before we get to Chapman's comments, we'd just like to say that is incredibly annoying that all this "Frozen" finger-wagging before anybody has seen the movie. This writer is one of a handful of folks who have seen the finished version of "Frozen," and as both an animation fan and a women's studies minor (yes, seriously), I was blown away by the feminist message of the movie and how prominent that message is. (It should be noted that Jennifer Lee co-directed the movie.) I'll tread lightly because I don't want to spoil anything (or break embargo), but this is a movie that has very little to do with the typical notion of marriage and falling in love (although those aspects are there), and has much more to do with sisterly love and affection, both of which are deeply drawn and highly emotional. There's a musical number that the ice queen Elsa does that is really breathtaking; she's never portrayed as the bad guy even though she's something of a witch. In her ice palace, she's positively empowered.
But back to the controversy: When Chapman, who originally developed "Brave" at Pixar as a "feminist fairy tale" before being taken off the project and replaced by a male filmmaker (the two had to awkwardly share the movie's Oscar win), saw the comments, she told Time, "My immediate reaction was that I was absolutely appalled that anyone would say that." Animators are often goofy, slightly aloof men and taking to press months before their new movie comes out probably isn't the most natural environment for discussion.
"I think that would be a good thing," Chapman told Time. "You're acting them — of course they go through a range of emotions. And so should the guys!" Again: he wasn't whining about them having to go through emotions, he said that it was a challenge to get those emotions right, on a technical level. Chapman, both at DreamWorks Animation and Pixar, had to oversee a legion of similar personalities.
Chapman then talked about her experience on "Brave." "For Merida, when we were designing her, I wanted her to have the mouth that gets really wide, and the grimace," she told Time. "I wanted to let her have an ugly expression or real expression … even beautiful women will have a sour look on their face when they're upset." There was controversy, too, about the physical dimensions of her characters. "At one point they thought I was making the mom too big, her bum too big," Chapman explained. "And that was frustrating for me because I wanted her to feel like a real middle aged woman."
Yes, it's true that there should be more diversity amongst the Disney princesses, although we did just get an African American princess a few years ago in the wonderful "The Princess & the Frog" and the first Pacific Island princess is coming to the mostly top-secret "Moana" in 2018. That gift that everyone has been circulating suggests that there is a decided lack of creativity in the design department of these movies, but that's not exactly fair, either. Disney is trying to create an identifiable "look," just as powerful and memorable as the look that existed amongst the features during the Disney Renaissance phase in the late '80s and early '90s. The similarities to the characters have less to do with sexism and more to do with consumerist needs.
The point is that this discussion is an important one, for sure, and needs to happen. The way that the depiction of women in these movies affects young viewers (in particularly disastrous ways) is something that is hugely serious. In particular, Chapman thoughts are insightful, but they would have been more insightful if she had offered them after seeing the movie. What couldn't be more clear is that "Frozen" is kind of the wrong target. The movie, which opens at the end of November, doesn't deserve this kind of ire, especially since it's all been spawned by comments made by goofy animator more interested in manipulating pixels than chatting with people.
K | November 28, 2013 10:07 PM
Why does this still go on? You don't see and haven't seen the Japanese have any problems with creating all kinds of female characters for their animation over the past 40 years, including their video games! So what's the problem in America? I don't get it. It's really sad.
La | October 20, 2013 6:04 AM
I'd like to inform you, since you're apparently not aware, that people were having a discussion before DiSalvo said anything -- Frozen does have a source material that people can already contrast it with. Frozen is a supposed adaptation of 'The Snow Queen', which I'd recommend reading before you even weigh in on the controversy and call Frozen feminist. On its own as a story that was wholly original, it could be, but I'd be very hesitant to call Frozen feminist for going from 'The Snow Queen' and its male:female character ratio of 4:10 -- all 14 being very well written as characters, I'd say -- and downgrading it to Frozen's ratio of 4:2. The comparisons and derisions come from completely working Hans Christen Anderson's very feminist story and making it into a story that sure, could be feminist, but is markedly less so and has far less female characters to the degree that I'm not sure if they've read the source material they're pulling from.
It's also unnerving that you pitch in your own personal opinion of "the characters should be pretty, because princesses often are, and people go to the movies to see pretty people, animated or otherwise" to defend someone literally saying that female characters in movies have to be pretty -- I don't know about you, but I go to the movies or watch television to see a story. The characters in 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' or shows like that aren't pretty people -- the characters in 'Family Guy' or 'Bob's Burgers' or really show that's mainstream and animated aren't pretty people -- and all of these shows draw in viewers to an incredible degree. Of course, you know, those shows are all marketed towards adult men, and not young girls who we want to impose beauty and self-worth standards on the earliest possible age. It's not like young girls bully and form complexes based on appearance, or develop eating disorders that are directly correlated with wanting to meet the standard of beauty that's pushed upon them, or that any girls and women experience constant harassment that can and does verge on violence for being both attractive or unattractive. So that comment of DiSalvo's doesn't come from anywhere and doesn't feed into something that actively harms girls and women, that's just someone being "goofy", right? Just like you said.
But hey, let me just be honest. If you, an adult who works on a film review website, literally only goes to see movies to look at people who are conventionally attractive, even if those characters are underage and in movies marketed at children, I might as well not even bother trying.
Illyria | October 17, 2013 7:51 PM
Sure Drew, please keep lecturing women about how they're supposed to feel about Frozen and animation being an exclusionary, male dominated industry. It doesn't sound smug or condescending at all...
Brenda Chapman | October 17, 2013 10:12 AM
I couldn't agree with your article more! As was DiSalvo's quote, my comments were taken out of context, as well. It's very disheartening, the lack of integrity that goes into some reporting. The article in question was a jumble of out of context thoughts and quotes and in the end, didn't really come to a point.
I would very much like to set the record straight in regards to my reaction to DiSalvo's quote. If she had continued on with my own quote of my initial reaction of being "appalled", it would have gone against the type of article she wanted to write. I continued on to say that then I put his quote in the context of what he was really discussing, which were the characters specifically in FROZEN. And it made perfect sense. The two characters, I believe, are sisters (what I gleaned from the trailer) - maybe even twins - I don't know because I have not yet seen it. Of course, if they look so much alike, it would be difficult to give them individual expressions and make them feel like different people. I was actually trying to defend the poor guy! His only mistake was to use the word "pretty" instead of "appealing"... which I have no doubt was his meaning behind it. As with the TIME article, my words have been taken out of context way too often - so I did recognize it in DiSalvo's.
My other comments were about the industry in general needing more variety in female characters - both physically and character personality - and NOT at Frozen, which I am very much looking forward to seeing.
Sean | October 16, 2013 5:21 PM
It's really annoying how in the lat few years, these kind of discussions have arises and how it seems as though everything has to be PC now.
And I don't care what gender or race you are, stop using that as your downfall. I want creative films with good quality to them. Brave was not that.
benutty | October 16, 2013 1:48 PM
Is taking a dig at Buzzfeed really necessary though? Such journalistic integrity.
Film Femme | October 16, 2013 1:32 PM
Is anyone else seeing the inherent contradiction of "the conversation needs to happen" vs. reducing the ACTUAL female director of Frozen to a footnote? "It should be noted that Jennifer Lee co-directed the movie." is the only mention of her.
As far as I can tell, as this story spreads, not a single source has bothered to ask Jennifer Lee what she thinks. Interviewing the ousted helmer of a Pixar movie is perfect drama fodder for the controversy machine that is modern entertainment reporting.
It's easy to see that they won't reach out to the helmer of Frozen because she would put the kibosh on the faux outrage and the drama of the story would dissipate. But where's the conflict in that? Clarity is the opposite of what these stories really want.
Asking a different woman from a different studio what she thinks of the story seems entirely as sexist as the controversy itself. Particularly since her experience doesn't include that of the animation studio in question.
yer | October 16, 2013 12:48 PM
She's been butthurt for ~3 years now. Get on with your career lady.
Laura | October 16, 2013 11:48 AM
It seems to me as though you are suggesting that once Disney has made a movie featuring a lead of a different race, they can check a box and go back to work on white movies.
And as far as "consumerist needs" I find it hard to believe that I wouldn't be able to remember a face as a Disney princess if it didn't look exactly like the other ones..
Most importantly, I think you're missing the point. I'm not mad because I automatically assume the movie will be sexist, I'm mad because on man, in charge of creating role models for little girls, sad that female emotions are hard, and that these women ALWAYS have to be pretty. Real women are not always pretty. When they cry or start yelling, it can be really scary.
I'm still gong to see the movie, because I think it will be entertaining and cute. I will however, hope that Disney learns from this experience and adds some more variety and "ugliness" to their future princesses... And all the other characters too.
Marie | October 16, 2013 11:25 AM
Well I work in animation and I second the "boys club" comment. We have women in production but literally no (or VERY rarely) women director or animation supervisor in the creative side of things, I've been supervised by men most of my career and there is such a thing as the male gaze in how animation is produced.
There are depths and layers to it, it's not all generalities but honestly, despite you vouching for Frozen and saying it's more than what it looks like, characters are characters, and making these kind of statements combined with the generic look Disney is going for, plus the fact that Pixar has yet to deliver its first female-lead character movie (yes it's coming, I know, but it took freaking ages), then comparing it to, say, Miyazaki's incredible list of amazing and complex female characters and all I can say is: we don't have time for this shit anymore. It's time for Western animation to grow up and for people to stop making comments like this, it's not acceptable anymore and I find it difficult to say "let's not be dramatic" because we've been angry about this for years and it's exhausting. I don't know, I have zero patience and tolerance for this anymore.
As a side note, I'm intrigued by your support of Frozen from a feminist POV, and will see it anyway, despite already hating the incredibly lazy, tropey and awful snowman sidekick character (another case of marketing gone wrong, that's a whole other topic on its own).
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After Having Your Tonsils Removed
You will be monitored by a nurse for a few hours after having your tonsils removed. Before you leave the hospital or surgical center, you will be given exact instructions on how to care for yourself at home. Your doctor's orders should supersede the advice of this article but commonly patients are instructed:
- to remain in the care of a responsible adult for at least 24 hours following surgery
- not to drive, sign legal papers, or participate in activities that require them to be awake and alert for at least 24 hours after surgery
- to eat and drink clear liquids if they are experiencing post-op nausea and vomiting (clear liquids include apple juice, soda, soup broth, jello and black coffee)
- to eat food that is easy to chew and swallow
- to elevate their upper body
Patients are usually asked to call their physician or go to the emergency room if they experience the following:
- fever or chills
- excessive nausea and vomiting
- excessive pain
- if they are unable to urinate within 8-12 hours of surgery
- any bright red bleeding
- difficulty breathing or swallowing
You will likely be prescribed oral pain medication to take following surgery. Typical medications used include oxycodone and hydrocodone. Often combination medications like Percocet (oxycodone and acetaminophen combined) and Lortab (hydrocodone and acetaminophen) are prescribed. You should refrain from taking acetaminophen while on a combination pain medication to avoid an acetaminophen over dose.
You should not drive while taking these medications. Make sure you follow the directions and talk to your pharmacist before combining medications. Your pain should gradually decrease and within a few days after surgery most patients start feeling better. Make sure to schedule a follow-up appointment with your surgeon.
American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. Fact Sheet: Tonsillectomy Procedures. Accessed: June 19, 2009 from http://www.entnet.org/HealthInformation/tonsillectomyProcedures.cfm
Medline Plus. Tonsillectomy. Accessed: June 19, 2009 from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003013.htm


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You may hear the term hypoxia when your doctor discusses your medical condition. What exactly is hypoxia, what are the symptoms and signs, and what are the possible causes?
Definition of HypoxiaHypoxia literally means "low oxygen," but is defined as a deficiency in the amount of oxygen that reaches the tissues of the body. It differs from hypoxemia, which means an inadequate amount of oxygen traveling in the blood. Hypoxia may be due to hypoxemia, for example, if an inadequate amount of oxygen reaches the tissues because there is an inadequate amount of oxygen in the blood, or it may be due to other causes.
The lack of oxygen in tissues is also known as "oxygen starvation." If a complete lack of oxygen occurs in the tissues, it is termed anoxia.
Hypoxia may affect the whole body (generalized hypoxia), or a specific organ or area of the body (tissue hypoxia). It can also be classified as acute or chronic, with acute meaning a rapid onset, and chronic meaning that hypoxia has been ongoing for some time.
Types of HypoxiaAs noted above, there are different types of hypoxia, or reasons that there is not enough oxygen in the tissues of the body. These include:
- Hypoxic hypoxia (hypoxemic hypoxia) –- In this type of hypoxia, the tissues do not have enough oxygen because there is a lack of oxygen in the blood flowing to the tissues. Hypoxic hypoxia can be caused by inadequate breathing as well as other causes.
- Anemic hypoxia -- In the setting of anemia, low hemoglobin levels result in a reduced ability of the blood to carry oxygen that is breathed in, and hence, a diminished supply of oxygen available to the tissues. Anemia can be caused by many conditions.
- Stagnant hypoxia (circulatory hypoxia) -- This form of hypoxia is caused by inadequate blood flow, which results in less oxygen available to the tissues.
- Histiotoxic hypoxia –- With histiotoxic hypoxia, an adequate amount of oxygen is inhaled through the lungs and delivered to the tissues, but the tissues are unable to use the oxygen that is present.
- Metabolic hypoxia -– Metabolic hypoxia occurs when there is more demand for oxygen by the tissues than usual. Oxygen may be absorbed, transported, and used properly by the tissues, but due to a condition that raises metabolism, it is still not enough. An example of this is sepsis (a serious and overwhelming infection.)
Symptoms and SignsThe signs and symptoms of hypoxia can vary between different people, and by how long the symptoms have been present. Some of them include:
- Dizzyness or fainting (syncope)
- Shortness of breath (dyspnea)
- Confusion, lethargy, and/or lack of judgment
- Headache
- Rapid heart rate (tachycardia)
- Elevated respiratory rate (tachypnea)
- Euphoria and a sense of well-being
- Tingling, warm sensations
- Elevated blood pressure (hypertension)
- Lack of coordination
- Visual changes, such as tunnel vision
- Elevated red blood cell count (polycythemia) in people with chronic hypoxia
- A bluish tinge to the lips and extremities (cyanosis
Effects of HypoxiaThe organs most affected by hypoxia are the brain, the heart, and the liver. If the hypoxia is severe, irreversible damage can begin within 4 minutes of the onset. Coma, seizures, and death may occur in severe cases. Chronic, milder hypoxia can also cause damage to the major organs of the body.
Causes of HypoxiaIt's not surprising that lung diseases are a significant cause of hypoxia, but there are many other causes as well. Some causes of the specific types of hypoxia include:
Causes of Hypoxic Hypoxia:
- Altitude sickness - The FAA recommends supplemental oxygen for flights over 10,000 feet and over 6,000 feet at night (because a pilot's vision is very sensitive to low oxygen).
- Lung conditions - Inadequate air exchange in the lungs due to illnesses such as COPD, asthma, lung cancer, pneumonia, rheumatoid lung disease, and pulmonary hypertension.
- Hypoventilation – Hypoventilation simply means "not breathing enough." This can be "central" if the brain doesn't tell the lungs to breathe, such as when under anesthesia, due to a stroke or head injury, as a side effect of medications for pain, or as a reaction to illegal drugs. It can also be "peripheral" due to an airway obstruction that interferes with breathing, such as choking (when a foreign body lodges in the trachea or large airways of the lungs), drowning, suffocation, or in a cardiac arrest when breathing stops.
Causes of Anemic Hypoxia:
- Anemia of any cause – This can include iron deficiency anemia, pernicious anemia, and chemotherapy induced anemia.
- Hemorrhage
- Methemoglobinemia - Methemoglobinemia, also known as affinity hypoxia, is an abnormal hemoglobin that doesn't bind oxygen very well.
- Carbon monoxide poisoning - With Carbon monoxide poisoning, hemoglobin is unable to bind oxygen.
Causes of Circulatory/Stagnant Hypoxia:
- Edema - Edema, a swelling in the tissues (like from heart failure), can limit the ability of oxygen present in the blood to adequately reach the tissues.
- Ischemic hypoxia – Obstruction to the flow of blood carrying oxygen, like from a clot in a coronary artery (a heart attack), can prevent the tissues from receiving oxygen.
Causes of Histiotoxic Hypoxia:
- Cyanide poisoning
Tests Your Doctor May Order
- Blood tests - Including a complete blood count (CBC) to look for anemia (low red blood cell count) or signs of infection.
- EKG – To look for any signs of heart damage, or an irregular heart beat.
- X-ray or a CT of your chest – To look for lung diseases, a pneumothorax, or infection.
- Bronchoscopy – To look for a foreign body or another cause of obstruction in the airways, such as a tumor.
- CT or MRI of your head - To look for brain abnormalities that could suppress breathing.
- Echocardiogram - In order to observe the motion of the heart and look for damage or abnormalities in the heart or heart valves.
Treatment for HypoxiaThe treatment of hypoxia will depend upon the underlying cause. While you and your doctor are working together to determine the cause, she may recommend oxygen therapy if you are short of breath or having other symptoms suggestive of moderate or severe hypoxia. If your symptoms are severe, mechanical ventilation with a ventilator may be needed.
Eltzschig, H., and P. Carmeliet. Hypoxia and Inflammation. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2011. 364:656-665.
Federal Aviation Administration. Hypoxia. Accessed 03/09/12. http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/hypoxia.pdf
National Institute of Health. MedlinePlus. Cerebral Hypoxia. Updated 09/13/10. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001435.htm.


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Pierce was hurt during the first half of Friday's game against Houston and missed Saturday's contest against Memphis.
The Nets said tests revealed a non-displaced fracture of the middle finger on the right hand, which could keep Pierce out until January.
Pierce is averaging 12.4 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.8 assists in 15 games this season, his first with the Nets.
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Rum Doesn't Leave Us Drunk
Johnny Depp's latest is hardly fulfilling.
Expectations are a strange thing. Depending on where they lay, a movie can be better in the short–run, even if it fades into obscurity in the long–run. This may be the case with Johnny Depp's new film The Rum Diary, in which the multi–faceted star plays
Jack Sparrow promising young alcoholic journalist Paul Kemp.
A novelist by nature, Kemp flies down to Puerto Rico for a job on the failing San Juan Star, where he meets a stereotypically colorful cast of characters including bewigged editor EG Lotterman (Jenkins), the incomprehensible drug addict Moberg, best friend Salla (Rispolli) and the ever–corporate Aaron Eckhart as the smarmy Hal Sanderson. Kemp meets Sanderson's girlfriend, the enchanting Chenault, (Heard), soon after landing in Puerto Rico. Running into Sanderson himself, Kemp uncovers a dark, industrial plot looming over Puerto Rico. Through a rum–soaked haze (and an unusually subdued acid trip), Kemp darts around the island, cock–fighting, schmoozing and generally avoiding any achievements until late in the film.
That said, Rum Diary is a fine film, exceeding low expectations; it's just unmemorable. Depp portrays Kemp with an almost Jack Nicholson sheen, his sneer framed behind sunglasses for most of the movie. Eckhart performs a decent turn as Sanderson, yet it almost seems as if it's type–cast (The Dark Knight, Thank You for Smoking). All the other actors play their parts well, and Amber Heard portrays Chenault in a generic, damsel–in–distress manner.
Yes, the movie is fun, amusing, and features a couple of nods to Pirates, but it's also forgettable. One of the primary themes appears to be revealing the sleaze under the escapism of tropical getaways, but Rum Diary never digs deep enough to make a point, nor is it gritty enough to pull off the requisite aesthetic. Rather, Rum Diary dresses itself as good, dirty fun, perhaps masquerading as gonzo journalism at times. Indeed, while the dialogue and plot may reek of Hunter S. Thompson, the film itself seems to fit in more with the Peter Sellers Pink Panther films, going so far as to feature a fantastically farcical car chase.
By all means, go watch Rum Diary. Enjoy it, take in the sights of Puerto Rico, laugh at Kemp's antics and contemplate some of the profundity resulting from drug use. However, do not expect the film to stay in the public eye for too long — Rum Diary lacks the qualities of a genuine masterpiece, let alone a cult hit, and will most likely leave the audience asking "Where's all the rum gone?"
2.5/5 stars
Directed by: Bruce Robinson
Starring: Johnny Depp, Giovanni Ribisi
Rated R,120 min.
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I've seen some headlines about contract holdouts, as well as rookie signings. This made me think of a few questions I'd like to pose.
Have the Colts signed any rookies yet?
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Are there differences between rookie and veteran holdouts, in terms of how it affects practice?
Well, I have some more questions, but I have to get back to work. Thanks for any replies...


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IntroductionAs Apache Mahout is about to release its next version (0.3), I thought I would share some thoughts on how it might be integrated with Apache Lucene and Apache Solr. For those who aren't aware of Mahout, it is an ASF project building out a library of machine learning algorithms that are designed to be scalable (often via Apache Hadoop) and licensed under the Apache Software License (i.e., commercially friendly). Mahout has a variety of algorithms already implemented, ranging from clustering to classification and collaborative filtering. For more on Mahout, see my TriJUG talk or my developerWorks article. Instead of going over the litany of things implemented in Mahout, I'll give a quick recap of what the primary features of 0.3 are:
- New math, collections modules based on the time tested Colt project
- LLR (Log-likelihood ratio – See LucidWorks advisor Ted Dunning's blog entry for more info) co-location implementation
- Hadoop-based Lanczos SVD (Singular Value Decomposition) solver — good for feature reduction, which is a common requirement at scale
- Shell scripts for easier running of algorithms, examples
- Faster Frequent Pattern Growth (FPGrowth) using FP-bonsai pruning
- Parallel Dirichlet process clustering (model-based clustering algorithm)
- Parallel co-occurrence based recommender
- Code cleanup, many bug fixes and performance improvements
- A new Logo:
- Lucene/Solr as a Data Source for Mahout batch processing
- Document/Results Augmentation (clustering, classification, recommendations)
- Learning about your data and your users (log analysis with Apache Mahout)
Lucene/Solr as a Data Source for MahoutMost Apache Mahout algorithms run off of Feature Vectors. For those in the Lucene world, a feature vector should feel very familiar. It is, more or less a document, or some subset of a document. Specifically, a feature vector is a tuple of features that are useful for the algorithm. It is up to you to determine what features work best. In many cases for Mahout, a vector is simply a tuple of weights for each of the words in a document. In other cases, they might be the values from the output of some manufacturing process. Do note that the features for having good search capabilities are often different than those needed for good machine learning. For instance, in my experiments with Mahout's clustering capabilities, I need far more aggressive stopword removal to get good results than I do for search. (In fact, for search these days, I often don't even remove stopwords, but instead deal with them at query time, but that is a whole other post.)There are two different ways for Mahout to use Lucene/Solr as a data source:
- Utilize Lucene's term vector capability to create Mahout feature vectors.
- Programmatically access low level Lucene features like TermEnum, TermDocs, TermPositions, etc. to construct features.
Mahout Vectors from Lucene Term VectorsIn order for Mahout to create vectors from a Lucene index, the first and foremost thing that must be done is that the index must contain Term Vectors. A term vector is a document centric view of the terms and their frequencies (as opposed to the inverted index, which is a term centric view) and is not on by default.For this example, I'm going to use Solr's example, located in <Solr Home>/exampleIn Solr, storing Term Vectors is as simple as setting termVectors="true" on on the field in the schema, as in:
<field name="text" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" termVectors="true"/>For pure Lucene, you will need to set the TermVector option on during Field creation, as in:
Field fld = new Field("text", "foo", Field.Store.NO, Field.Index.ANALYZED, Field.TermVector.YES);From here, it's as simple as pointing Mahout's new shell script (try running <MAHOUT HOME>/bin/mahout for a full listing of it's capabilities) at the index and letting it rip:
<MAHOUT HOME>/bin/mahout lucene.vector –dir <PATH TO INDEX>/example/solr/data/index/ –output /tmp/foo/part-out.vec –field title-clustering –idField id –dictOut /tmp/foo/dict.out –norm 2A few things to note about this command:
- This outputs a single vector file, title part-out.vec to the target/foo directory
- It uses the title-clustering field. If you want a combination of fields, then you will have to create a single "merged" field containing those fields. Solr's <copyField> syntax can make this easy.
- The idField is used to provide a label to the Mahout vector such that the output from Mahout's algorithms can be traced back to the actual documents.
- The –dictOut outputs the list of terms that are represented in the Mahout vectors. Mahout uses an internal, sparse vector representation for text documents (dense vector representations are also available) so this file contains the "key" for making sense of the vectors later. As an aside, if you ever have problems with Mahout, you can often share your vectors with the list and simply keep the dictionary to yourself, since it would be pretty difficult (not sure if it is impossible) to reverse engineer just the vectors.
- The –norm tells Mahout how to normalize the vector. For many Mahout applications, normalization is a necessary process for obtaining good results. In this case, I am using the Euclidean distance (aka the 2-norm) to normalize the vector because I intend to cluster the documents using the Euclidean distance similarity. Other approaches may require other norms.
<listener event="postCommit"> <str name="exe">/Volumes/User/grantingersoll/projects/lucene/mahout/clean/bin/mahout</str> <str name="dir">.</str> <bool name="wait">false</bool> <arr name="args"> <str>lucene.vector</str> <str>–dir</str> <str>./solr/data/index/</str> <str>–output</str> <str>/tmp/mahout/vectors/part-out.vec</str> <str>–field</str> <str>text</str> <str>–idField</str> <str>id</str> <str>–dictOut</str> <str>/tmp/mahout/vectors/dict.dat</str> <str>–norm</str> <str>2</str> <str>–maxDFPercent</str> <str>90</str> </arr> </listener>From here, one can easily extrapolate how a script could be written to then call Mahout's other methods, namely things like clustering and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for topic modeling. Alternatively, one could set up a process to watch for changes to the vector and then spawn a process to go and run the appropriate Mahout tasks.So, what are the caveats with the above approach?
- If you are running in a commit heavy environment, you may not want to run Mahout on every commit. Mahout is designed for batch processing (well, most of it is, anyway) and most of these jobs are designed to run on Hadoop clusters. In order to do that, you would have to modify the above paths, etc. to have it output to Hadoop's HDFS, which I'll leave as an exercise to the reader (the Mathematician in me always enjoys saying that!)
- If you are running Solr in a distributed environment, you're going to have to set things up appropriately on each node. Hopefully, as the Solr Cloud stuff matures, this will become even simpler and we should be able to do some really smart things to make Mahout and Solr work together in a distributed environment. For now, you're on your own.
- Mahout In Action by Owen and Anil. Manning Publications.
- Various Solr and Lucene books, all linked via LucidWorks.
- http://lucene.apache.org/mahout
- http://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT
- Grant's Blog has a number of articles on Mahout


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Nerdy Accessories by Local Folks at The Shop on Wednesday 12.19!Posted: December 10, 2012 Filed under: Events, Local Creators, Shop Updates | Tags: Geek Boy Press, Nerdy Gifts, Super Sox Leave a comment
Wednesday, December 19th 11am-6pm
Geek Boy Press and Super Sox
Nerdy gifts we're sure they don't already have!
Geek Boy Press
T-Shirts, Aprons, and Tote Bags featuring Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, & other cult classics
Colorful Prints to suit any taste of pop culture, in assorted sizes – some are framed!
Super Sox
Christmas stockings, Oven Mitts, & Accessories inspired by superheros, cartoons, & zombies!
Black Friday Weekend Specials! November 23-25 *SHOP LOCAL*Posted: November 16, 2012 Filed under: Events, Shop Updates | Tags: Black Friday, Clearance, SALE Leave a comment
Friday November 23 – Saturday November 24 – Sunday November 25
Super Markdown Clearance TOYS!
Super Markdown Clearance STATUES and BUSTS!
Newly Discounted Graphic Novels $5 and Up!
Regular Priced Graphic Novels 25% OFF!
All Back Issue Comics in Bins 50% OFF!
Super Markdown Silver-to-Modern Back Issues $3 EACH!
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All-New X-Men Launch Party!Posted: November 7, 2012 Filed under: Events | Tags: events, Marvel, New Comics, Prizes!, SALE, shop news, the comic book shop, X-Men Leave a comment
All-New X-Men Launch Party!
November 14, 2012
All Brian Michael Bendis/Stuart Immonen graphic novels will be 25% off!
For each copy of All-New X-Men you purchase, be entered to win a free year's subscription to All-New X-Men!
Join us in celebrating one of Marvel Now's premiere titles!
Limited Edition Lithographs, Buttons & More!!*
*With purchase of All-New X-Men #1. While supplies last.
Top Shelf Productions October SalePosted: October 12, 2012 Filed under: Creator News, Events, Recommended Reading, Shop Updates | Tags: Craig Thompson, events, Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, Nate Powell, SALE, shop news, Spotlight, the comic book shop, Top Shelf Leave a comment
Top Shelf Productions publishes some of the most interesting and visually engaging alternative comics and graphic novels in the industry right now. Working with talents such as Alan Moore, Matt Kindt, Jeff Lemire, Nate Powell, Craig Thompson, and many other award-winning creators, they continue to deliver unique, quality stories year after year.
Since 1997 Top Shelf has published more than 250 award winning comics and graphic novels. Their most recent accomplishment? The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire reached the New York Times Bestseller List in August of this year. For a publisher that started out as a single anthology showcasing up-and-comers, they've come a long way.
To celebrate our love for Top Shelf and their support of emerging talent, ALL TOP SHELF graphic novels are 25% off during the month of October!
If you're looking for a gift for an alternative/independent reader we recommend starting with our Top Shelf section. Here are a few favorites:
- Andy Runton: Owly (all ages, wordless)
- Jeff Lemire: Underwater Welder, Essex County
- Craig Thompson: Blankets (available in soft or hardcover)
- James Kochalka: American Elf, Dragon Puncher, Johnny Boo (all ages)
- Harvey Pekar: Cleveland
- Jeffery Brown: Incredible Change-Bots, Clumsy, Undeleted Scenes
- Alan Moore: League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century
- Nate Powell: Swallow Me Whole, Any Empire
Halloweekend Spookabration 2012! Saturday & Sunday October 27th & 28thPosted: October 4, 2012 Filed under: Events, Local Creators, Shop Updates | Tags: 501st Star Wars, Costume Contest, FREE Comics!, Free Raffle!, Prizes!, SALE, The Living Corpse Leave a comment
FREE COMICS! Costume Contest! BIG SALE! Prizes!
Come in costume ANY TIME DURING THE WEEKEND for an EXTRA FREE COMIC, GOODY BAG, and a chance to win our COSTUME CONTEST!
In Bins
25% OFF Display Case Books (key issues)
25% OFF New Variant Covers
25% OFF Graphic Novels, Hardcovers, & Trade Paperbacks
25% OFF New & Vintage Toys
25% OFF Statues, Busts, & Lead Figures
25% OFF Gaming
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25% OFF Everything Else**New Comics and Magazines, Prior Holds, Special Orders, and Food/Drinks will not be discounted.
*Sale Prices cannot be used towards Layaway or with Store Credit.
*Local/Independent Creators & Publishers will not be discounted.
Allentown Comic Con August 4+5, 2012 – Another Great Show!Posted: August 7, 2012 Filed under: Comic Cons, Conventions, Events, Local Creators | Tags: Allentown Comic Con, Busty Girl Comics, Dickey Beer, Geek Boy Press, Jeremy Bulloch, Jim Steranko, Oh-No Comics, Paige Halsey Warren, Rampaige, Vince LoGreco Leave a comment
Titus and I just got back from another fantastic weekend at the Allentown Comic Con! Several times a year we set up in the Merchant's Square Mall for a one or two day convention that draws crowds from all over the region, ready to get their geek on.
The show is great to work as a vendor(not too far away, table prices are reasonable, easy load in/out) and as a fan (always different celebrities and guests, variety of panels, lots of vendors). We also enjoy meeting creators and supporting their comics directly. Like farm-to-table food, creator-to-reader comics bears a special weight to the product.
Two independent creators stood out from the crowd this weekend because their comics made me laugh. I stopped at Vince LoGreco's table of original art for his comic strips because they were easy to ready from a distance and were pretty funny! His OH-NO Comics have been collected in two volumes and counting. The other book I couldn't leave without buying is Busty Girl. One hundred webcomics with the woe of endowment will reassure those who are suffering and enlighten those without.
Thank you to The Morning Call of Lehigh Valley for taking photos of last weekend's Mega Show!
As the show started to wind down during the last hour we were able to move around the room and meet some guests who had been buried behind lines of guests all weekend. Jeremy Bulloch, the actor who played Boba Fett, and Dickey Beer, stunt-man extraordinaire, had already packed to leave but were gracious to tarry for a few more fans. Although he said he would be breaking down at 4:30p, a half-hour before show ending, the charming Jim Steranko stayed long after to meet fans, give autographs, and spin amazing yarns of comic cons past. He told us the secret to his eternal youth and unwavering pompadour is his raw food diet. If you were to see him in action, you'd believe it!
Comic-cons aren't just about selling comics and toys, meeting movie stars, and buying original art pages – they're also where we meet creators, talk comics with strangers, and introduce the next generation to comics, collectibles, and cons. We're fortunate to have a unique and evolving hobby. It is our responsibility to pass our kn0wledge and respect to those who haven't learned it yet, to keep classics alive and while creating new ones.
Walking Dead #100 Release!!Posted: July 13, 2012 Filed under: Events | Tags: ashley, events, Image Comics, Martin, SALE, the comic book shop, the walking dead, Ulysses, Ulysses American Gastropub Leave a comment
Thank you, everyone who came out for the midnight release of the Walking Dead's 100th issue! Lots of great food from Ulysses American Gastropub, brain cupcakes made by Sarah and tons of Image sale prices were enjoyed by all! Here's some pictures of what you might have missed.
Thanks to Ulysses for various types of brains and brain flatbreads!
One of our sale displays: TWD, Image, and Kirkman!
The deals you missed!
Much fun and coffee was had!
Image Comics: What You Need To KnowPosted: July 8, 2012 Filed under: Comic Reviews, Events, Shop Updates | Tags: ashley, chew, image, Image Comics, SALE, shop news, the walking dead, walking dead #100, What We're Reading Leave a comment
Image Comics was founded in 1992 as a place for creator-owned comics to flourish and creators to have full rights over their work. The company, now one of the largest comic publishers in North America, currently puts out some of the most interesting, fun, and intellectually stimulating comics in the industry.
Image was originally founded by 8 creators: Erik Larsen, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Todd McFarlane, Whilce Portacio, Marc Silvestri, and Jim Valentino. These creators, dissatisfied by the major publishers' treatment and policies toward writers and artists, broke off from the mainstream to put out the comics that they felt inspired to design and explore. Image's early titles included McFarlane's Spawn and Larsen's Savage Dragon. Later, Robert Kirkman joined the team and co-created one of their flagship titles, The Walking Dead. The little book that could has been hugely successful and adapted for television.
Why should you care about Image Comics? The answer is simple: their titles are solid. With John Layman, Richard Starkings, Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips, Robert Kirkman, Jonathan Hickman, and Brian K Vaughan currently creating monthly titles, ranging from noir, horror, mystery, political commentary, and more, there's sure to be something that strikes your interest.
This Tuesday evening, July 10 from 7 pm to 1 am, we will be having a midnight release and sale for The Walking Dead's 100th issue. Hitting this milestone is an achievement for a any title, let alone a creator owned, black and white, mature series. We'd like you to celebrate with us by giving you 25% off Image graphic novels, trade paperbacks, and Image front case books, along with 50% off Image back issues in the back issue bins! What better time to try something new than a sale?
Here's some of Image's major titles, along with some shop favorites.
The Walking Dead Nearing it's 100th issue, The Walking Dead has reached a milestone of success for a comic book. These days, creator owned comics are lucky to reach 20 issues. This Robert Kirkman title follows a group of survivors as they travel through a zombie apocalypse, decapitating the undead and dealing with each other along the way.
Invincible from Kirkman and Walker. A creator-owned Super-Hero book!
Chew from John Layman and Rob Guillory.
Elephantmen from Richard Starkings and Moritat
Powers from Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. Think superhero CSI, like Gotham Central.
IKillGiants from Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura.
Morning Glories from Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma
PIGS from Nate Cosby, Ben McCool and Breno Temura
Hoax Hunters from Michael Moreci, Steve Seeley and Axel Medellin.
The Activity from Nathan Edmondson and Mitch Gerads
Green Wake from Kurtis J. Wiebe and Riley Rossmo
The Manhattan Projects from Jonathan Hickman, Nick Pitarra and Jordie Bellair
Mind The Gap from Jim McCann, Rodin Esquejo, Sonia Oback and Rodin Esquejo
Saga from Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Team Superman Sam Update 6.28.12Posted: June 28, 2012 Filed under: Events | Tags: Comics and Kids, Community, Please Help! Leave a comment
It's been a little more than a week since we first heard about and shared Superman Sam's story. We've gotten an overwhelming amount of emails and support from local customers, cosplay groups, and creators in the comics industry. We are especially grateful to Gail Simone, Adam Hughes, and Justin Gray for their participation in spreading the word. THANK YOU, Everyone!!
Yesterday we send the first of several care packages to Sam at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. We were only able to write the personalized messages on about half of the pictures we received and will be sending the rest in waves.
Sam's mom posted a quick Q+A about what they do (and don't) need and what to do if you want to help anyway. PS- He really loves turtles and frogs!!
From SupermanSamuel.blogspot.com:
Feel free to contact Am Shalom 847-835-4800 or B'nai Torah 847-433-7100 if you'd like to speak with someone close to the family who can speak on their behalf.
Prayers help too.
Sam's Hebrew name is Shmuel Asher ben haRav Pesah Esther
Pray in whatever language you know and love. God will understand.
**Send your support directly to Sam: Sam Sommer, E571, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, P.O. Box 1997, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-1997**
The Walking Dead #100 Midnight Release Party + IMAGE SALE!!Posted: June 22, 2012 Filed under: Events | Tags: events, Image Comics, SALE, shop news, the walking dead 5 Comments
You have two choices:
- Get the BIGGEST single comic of 2012 early by coming to our zombie party on TUESDAY, July 10th.
- Have all the gruesome, gory, gut-wrenching details spoiled for you by the populace at large.
Tuesday, July 10th 7p-1a
Here's what you'll miss if you don't come:
25% OFF ALL Image Graphic Novels!
50% OFF ALL Image Back Issues!
25% OFF ALL Image Display Case Books!
**PREPAY for your TWD #100 issues anytime after 7pm and pick them up at your convenience later! (Not before 12:01am)**
Each copy of TWD #100 you buy gets you ONE entry in your choice of door prizes!
Come in zombie gear and get ANOTHER entry!
*Advance Orders ARE eligible for all specials!*
Door Prizes:
- TWD Companion Books: Rise of the Governor, TWD Philosophy, TWD Chronicles (details the comic VS tv show), and TWD Covers
- TWD #100 Poster signed by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard!


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GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Sentencing for a Tupelo man who took part in a multistate cigarette smuggling operation has been rescheduled for Dec. 22 in U.S. District Court in Greenville.
Federal court records show Jerry Burke pleaded guilty in November 2009 to defrauding the federal government and states' governments out of millions of dollars in taxes and fees because of the cigarette smuggling.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Burke was accused of operating the business out of 2 Tupelo warehouses, which were raided in the spring of 2009, and of causing the loss tax dollars to the U.S. and states by selling untaxed tobacco products to other scheme participants.
Several others have been charged with various crimes associated with the scheme.
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Now that the regular paychecks have stopped, your financial focus shifts from accumulating savings to creating monthly income from your savings. During these early years in retirement, when your expenses and spending patterns may closely match what they were just before you retired, you need to be aware of risks to your financial security, including:
Early in retirement when you are active, you may need as much income as when you were working.
- Market downturns — Even though your risk tolerance has become more conservative and you've probably shifted a portion of your investments away from stocks to help lower market risk, the value of your investments can still decrease when the markets perform poorly, and that can affect your retirement income.
- Taxes — If your income is about the same as before retirement, your taxes may be too.
- Medical costs — As you age, health issues can occur, and depending on your insurance coverage, treating an illness could affect your long-term income potential. Keep in mind, Medicare does not kick in until age 65, so there may be a period of time when you will need individual insurance coverage.
- Extended family needs — Many retirees today are part of the "sandwich" generation, meaning they are taking care of aging parents while still providing support to their own children all while maintaining retirement security for themselves. Keeping your own finances in order will make it easier to help others.
- Longevity —Make sure your income strategies account for the chance that you could live another 20-30 years or more.
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- Manage expenses — Create a budget so you can track expenses and income. This will help you avoid overspending early in retirement, which could put you in a bind later on.
- Create a withdrawal strategy — Decide how much you can withdraw from your savings accounts each year and prioritize withdrawals from taxable and tax-deferred accounts.
- Be tax smart — Combine withdrawals from tax-deferred accounts like 401(k)s and traditional IRAs with tax-free accounts like Roth IRAs to manage your taxable income.
- Diversify your investments — Make sure your investment portfolio still provides the potential for some long-term growth along with some protection and stability.
- Go back to work — No, not at your old job. Many retirees get satisfaction from moving into new lines of work, or starting their own business. It can augment income, provide structure, and allow for challenging new opportunities.
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RALEIGH — All five original candidates from a Clayton Town Council election in November are back in the race.
Superior Court Judge Robert H. Hobgood ruled Thursday in favor of an appeal by Alex Atchison, a Clayton council member who lost a re-election bid in November. Atchison, a lawyer at the Raleigh firm of Young Moore and Henderson, said the State Board of Elections had been wrong to limit a special re-vote to only two candidates.
The state board decided in December that Johnston County precinct officials had mistakenly given out 20 ballots in the Clayton Town Council race -- casting enough doubt on the results to merit a special election. At least 18 out-of-town residents were allowed to vote in the race, while two town residents received out-of-town ballots and were deprived of voting in the race. The board said only second-place finisher Art Holder and R.S. "Butch" Lawter, who came in third, needed to be in a special runoff. Holder led Lawter by three votes.
But only 11 votes separated Alex Harding, another incumbent council member, from second-place finisher Holder.
Hobgood ruled that the 18 ineligible votes cast could all have gone to Alex Harding, the top vote-getter. That "directly calls the entire vote total of each of the top three candidates into question," Hobgood said.
Hobgood is ordering the state elections board at its meeting today to call for a new Clayton election with all five original council candidates.
At a Wednesday hearing, Susan Nichols, the lawyer representing the state elections board, opposed such a move.
"If a mistake was made, it wasn't in bad faith," Nichols said.
Nichols contended that Atchison, who finished fourth, and Michael Starks, who finished fifth, could not possibly have won in November. She also chided Atchison for not speaking up earlier. The Johnston County elections office had already mailed out about 29 absentee ballots and gotten six back for the runoff, originally scheduled for Feb. 19, Nichols said.
Atchison's attorney Kenneth Soo of Tharrington Smith LLP countered that his client had complied with all statutory requirements and timelines. Technically, Atchison could not file an appeal until the state board delivered an official copy of the order for a new election, Soo said. Although the state board made a decision Dec. 19, it did not issue paperwork ordering a new election until Jan. 18.
Atchison received his copy by certified mail Jan. 30 and filed an appeal Monday.
Hobgood noted from Dec. 19 meeting records that the state board apparently did not deliberate long.
"[They] considered this matter from 3:00-3:03 P.M. on 19 December 2007, a total of three minutes," Hobgood wrote.
Hobgood's ruling means the Feb. 19 runoff is canceled. Leigh Anne Price, Johnston County elections director, said she had printed about 10,000 ballots for that contest at a cost of about $1,000. She'll now have to order ballots a third time for the Town Council vote, and no date has been set.
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The underworld of London carries many secrets. At least, it used to.
Artist Stephen Walter has found and documented the city's underground complexion in a hand-drawn map of subterranean London. Part of a new exhibition running at the London Transport Museum, Walter's map reveals the buried history of the city, and also the underground infrastructure that keeps it running. From the underground transportation network to homicides to World War II underground shelters, the map bring the under-recognized and maybe even forgotten parts of the city to the surface.
Walter explains how he uncovered the secrets of the underground, and why it's important to think about what's below the surface.
How do you find all this underground information?
I read most things – books, internet. Some maps were online, others at the archives of Transport for London, and Thames Water. A few expeditions.
What sort of expeditions?
I went down into the underground. I wouldn't want to mention which station it was, because I wasn't supposed to be down there. I went down to the entrance of the Brunel tunnel, which is the first subterranean train tunnel in the world under a river. And I went into Abbey Mills, what they call the cathedral of sewage in East London, and saw their pumping rooms.
Why do you think London's subterranean history and present are important?
The space under our feet reveals the history of the world and us as a species. Its can be read like a layer-cake book. It holds secrets and offers a huge amount of untapped space.
How do you think this map of London affects people living in the city today?
I hope it would make them think about what is beneath them, how the infrastructure came to be there and who is running the show.
You've done a lot of other work on maps and London. Why is it such an interesting place to map and draw?
It is one of the major cities of this world and the place of my birth and one that I know a lot about. Like any city, starting from the very first burial grounds - It is a mausoleum and a living palimpsest of all of our desires and aspirations. Of course, the entropy of our systems and aspirations live tooth and jowl alongside the monuments of our success. This only makes it more fascinating.
Is a hand-drawn map a better map?
Yes, it is a living thing.
How do you think your work addresses the question about what a map should do?
I'm not really bothered about what a map should do. It is a record of what I find interesting and have chosen to edit. A map can do anything you want. I suppose the modern established view is now changing away from the authority of the knowledge of institutions and more towards individuals and small groups. So in this sense, maps can democratize knowledge further.
Do you have any other map drawings in the works, or any you've been itching to do?
I'm doing a map of utopia at the moment that's a map basically 500 years on from when Thomas More came up with utopia as a concept for his book. It's much more like a novel really – a piece of fiction led by the descriptions in the original 1531 book. It's a halfway house between a real place and an imagined place, because the infrastructure and the things that are in utopia are found in other real places.
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Titans, Falcons to practice together in Georgia
The Titans and the Falcons plan to meet about halfway in August for a joint practice at a Georgia high school during training camp.
Titans sign S Griffin to five-year deal
The Titans agreed to a long-term contract with S Michael Griffin, who received the franchise tag in March.
Best record doesn't usually translate to title success
Does the fact that the Packers posted a 15-1 record — best in the NFL — a season ago mean they should be Super Bowl favorites in 2012? Maybe not.
Mason's remarkable run
WR Derrick Mason's consistent production for more than a decade was truly special, writes PFW's Mike Wilkening.
Titans to cut TE Graham
The Titans plan to cut veteran TE Daniel Graham, ESPN's Adam Schefter first reported.
Mason expected to retire with Ravens
WR Derrick Mason is expected to retire as a member of the Baltimore Ravens Monday, multiple media outlets reported.
Report: Titans add OG DeVan
The Titans signed former Eagles OG Kyle DeVan on Monday and waived RB Darryl Whiting, according to PFW correspondent Jim Wyatt of The Tennessean.
Titans split work 50-50 between Hasselbeck, Locker
Titans coach Mike Munchak said Friday that QBs Matt Hasselbeck and Jake Locker will split snaps 50-50 in offseason workouts.
Examining the TE position in the AFC South
PFW's Arthur Arkush analyzes the interesting TE situations that are shaping up in the AFC South.
AFC South players in the crosshairs
Here's a look at the players on each AFC South team who will be most heavily scrutinized, including Titans RB Chris Johnson.
WR Britt to undergo another knee surgery
Titans WR Kenny Britt will undergo a "minor" knee surgery this week, which could keep him out of some offseason workouts.
A curious offseason for the Titans
The Titans could regress following a strange offseason that included drafting WR Kendall Wright instead of filling a need for another pass rusher.
Titans sign LB Diles
The Titans signed veteran LB Zac Diles on Monday, the team announced.
Fantasy spin: Titans WR Kendall Wright
Watch WR Kendall Wright to see how he adapts to the pro game and fits into the Titans' offense. He could be worth a draft pick.
Titans opt for Wright instead of bolstering pass rush
In his first draft as lead decision maker, Titans GM Ruston Webster bucked conventional wisdom with the selection of Baylor WR Kendall Wright.
Once free agency began Tuesday, the Titans agreed to terms with Buffalo guard Andy Levitre and Walker, a person familiar with the situation said. The person spoke to The Associated Press Tuesday on condition of anonymity because the deals both are pending the players passing physicals.||||||| Walker has spent his first seven NFL seasons with San Francisco. He has 123 career catches for 1,465 yards and eight touchdowns, and Walker caught 21 passes for 344 yards with three touchdowns last season for the 49ers. He will help replace Jared Cook, a tight end the Titans declined to tag as a franchise player last week because Cook wants to be paid more like a receiver.
Walker had four catches for 54 yards and a touchdown in the 49ers' loss at Seattle on Sunday night.||||||| Walker took advantage of some increased playing time after Vernon Davis went down with a concussion. He could be a decent tight end option if Davis can't play next week.
Walker is active for Sunday's NFC championship game against the New York Giants.||||||| Walker has been out since breaking his jaw in two places Dec. 24 in Seattle.
Walker left with a jaw injury Saturday after taking a knee to his face.||||||| He was taken to the locker room with a towel to his face. Justin Peelle replaced him.
Walker made two receptions for 53 yards in the 49ers' 34-13 loss to visiting Seattle on Sunday.||||||| Walker turned in his best performance since making six catches for 66 yards in a loss to visiting Minnesota on Dec. 9. However, the 24-year-old tight end was hurt during the game, though he thinks his injured elbow will be fine. While he looks to build on this strong performance, he should also have plenty of time to recuperate as the 49ers' next game isn't until Nov. 10 at Arizona.


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The Cleveland Browns announced this afternoon they have released RB Jamal Lewis.
"I enjoyed getting to know Jamal and having the opportunity to coach him last season," said Browns head coach Eric Mangini. "We want to thank him for his contributions to the Cleveland Browns and wish him nothing but the best moving forward. I'm sure he will be successful in whatever he decides to pursue."
Lewis, 30, came to the Browns in 2007 when a lot of folks didn't think he had much left in the gas tank. He turned a few heads by rushing for over 1,300 yards and then another 1,000 the next.
However, injuries caught up to him as he was placed on IR late in the 2009 season for concussion-related issues.
The last time we heard from Lewis, retirement was an option. It's unclear at this point if that's the case but after 10 years and over 10,000 yards, it's got to be on his mind.
Despite being run ragged by the Ravens over seven years in Baltimore, he had a long, productive career.
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The Damon system uses a unique slide mechanism that minimises the friction and binding associated with conventional braces. With the Damon System teeth align more quickly and comfortably. Most cases can be treated without extractions. No one likes to have teeth removed and a smile with a full display of teeth often produces a broader, natural smile and nicer profile. With the Damon System treatment time is typically shorter than with conventional braces, and shorter treatment times means fewer appointments and a beautiful smile faster. You may be surprised at how fast. The days of having braces tightened are over. Damon System braces have a unique slide mechanism that reduces pressure on your teeth and allows them to move comfortably to their centre positions.
At Integrated Dentalcare not only do we align the teeth but we also look at the postural relationship of the jaws to the rest of the body. The postural evaluation is extremely important because an altered biomechanical relationship will always produce postural accommodations. The bite plane and eye plane need to be parallel and level with the ground otherwise receptors in the neck and jaw are triggered and the body will make adaptations which are not normally favourable. Not only does the body react to jaw misalignments but the head also makes accommodations which is why some people have one eye higher than the other and one cheekbone more prominent than the other.
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Lollipop Chainsaw
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Lollipop Chainsaw Review
Review By butters @ 10:07am 13/06/12
If you've seen any media for Lollipop Chainsaw you'd know that it features a lot of butts, well mostly that of a young cheerleader. After reviewing the game it can be said that there are actually a lot of buts. The game features a strong cast of characters but they fail to develop or be even remotely explored. The game features combo attacks that can be upgraded but you can finish the game with a healthy mix of jump and attack buttons. There are some great sequences of scripted button-pressing but it features no escalation in difficulty. Level bosses are awesomely conceived but too easily defeated. In essence, Lollipop Chainsaw is a lot of great ideas rolled into an enjoyable package but lacks the attention to detail that knocks it out of the park.
In what instantly brings to mind images of Buffy, you play as Juliet, a young cheerleader with a secret slaying skill, although rather than vampires, it's zombies. Actually the zombie killing thing is a family affair with your rock 'n' roll dad and two sisters. And of course Buffy wasn't actually a cheerleader, having only made first alternate in episode three of the first season, then calling it quits after her friend's mum started a whole voodoo thing on the squad… but anyway.
The brainchild of Suda 51, you can see his handiwork coming through in a number of ways. One is the instant feeling that the third-person styling is taken from Shadows of the Damned and the other the esoteric inclusions of alternate gameplay modes -- a welcome break from the overall zombie slaughter. From loading screens that flash back to the 16-bit side-scrolling era to Pac-Man-style mini games, Suda 51 brings a fun departure from the zombie horror theme, a sort of frantic Left 4 Dead/ Dead Rising feel but light-hearted, as though Bruce Campbell dropped in for a cameo.
A Bruce Campbell cameo would perhaps explain the chainsaw, Juliet's zombie-slaying weapon of choice. The chainsaw is essentially the only weapon available, excluding a small upgrade during the game. Using it in combination with your pom-pom stun attack you can slice and dice your way through zombies, collecting coins for every kill to buy various upgrades and new attacks. Performing sparkle attacks by killing multiple zombies at once will give you platinum coins for splurging on bonus music and outfits.
The combat system works through various combinations of the four buttons, a fine system should you be looking to score yourself an A-plus for clearing the level, but functionally, liberal helpings of dodge sprinkled with standard attacks work fine for most situations. More interesting is the cast of characters, Juliet's two sisters, her dad and her boyfriend. It's a shame then that overall there is little in the way of actual development. Sure throw in some funny quips and all is well, but Lollipop Chainsaw fails to advance beyond a quirky zombie game because it lacks the substance of any real character. In some ways it's a fun but easily forgotten game, much like the impending zombie apocalypse, which seems understated for all the destruction caused.
One aspect not easily forgotten is the boss battles. If you're tired of unimaginative level bosses head this way because Lollipop Chainsaw brings you a fantastic selection of crazy zombie bosses. Most are heavily rock 'n' roll influenced and to use but one example -- I have never had a zombie shout "cocksucker", have the letters appear as big blocks in front of him, then shoot across the screen to attack me. Awesome. The rest, particularly the penultimate and final bosses, can be left to your own discovery.
It's almost a shame, having outdone themselves on the boss design that there is such small variety throughout the levels, which themselves are rather A to B affairs. With some small exceptions: Most of the level design is repetitive, a simple advancing along a linear path slaying group after group of similarly dressed, uninspired zombie chainsaw fodder. The biggest shame perhaps is that Lollipop Chainsaw doesn't hit its stride until it's too late, finally breaking from the earlier mold to give you things that are fresh and exciting -- but even then there is not enough of it.
With all the ingredients of a left-of-field zombie masterpiece Lollipop Chainsaw entertains but fails to live up to the expectations you have when Joan Jett starts blaring at the menu screen. It's a game that Maxwell Smart would say "missed it by that much". Liberal helpings of humour and zombie gore are great but the repetitive level structure and not-so-intricate fighting system leave you wanting more. The online component allows you to compete in levels you have completed, but unless you enjoy mastering the fighting system, it won't hold much appeal.
A whirlwind of fun for sure, but too many opportunities are missed. At least the cathartic nature of zombie slaughtering does help you push through to unveil the end boss, which in a definite way is its own reward, along with the post credit ending, which you should stick around for.
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Or just more blog fantasies? Bob Stoops' biggest fan writes (last paragraph most important):
I want to see USC and OU play. I don't know if LSU is third or what, but there's no question the Sooners and Trojans are the two best. I'm not complaining about the BCS. It is what it is. Until the college presidents agree to a playoff system, there's not going to be a perfect system, and the BCS generally has worked pretty well.
Pete Carroll has assembled the most talented team in the country. Bob Stoops is the best coach. There's no one even close. He has won with power running teams and with passing teams. Why does he always seem to have these big, talented defensive ends when our local NFL team can't find even one?
NFL scouts love the Sooners. One guy told me the basic difference between OU and Texas players is that OU players get better while they're in college. OU coaches apparently do more one-on-one work. Texas coaches apparently emphasize more team stuff.
I'm hearing there's a sense of urgency at the University of Texas about the state of the program. Mack Brown may sense things slipping, and that's why he's apparently considering changes to his coaching staff on both sides of the ball. -- Richard Justice
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