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The airwaves have been saturated with the phrase "fiscal cliff."
But what is it, and how would it affect families and businesses across the nation?
According to The Associated Press, the fiscal cliff is the expiration of a large roster of tax cuts due to become effective Dec. 31.
If Washington doesn't act, the looming tax increases, combined with $109 billion in automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect in January, could throw the fragile economy back into recession, economists warn.
If the tax cuts enacted under President Barack Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush, expire, a middle-income family making $40,000 to $64,000 a year could see its taxes go up by $2,000 next year.
"We are a country in real trouble," Frederick businessman Donald Linton said. "I don't know if it makes any difference which person becomes president in November.
"We have dug a deep hole, and if we don't do something soon the interest on the federal debt will be more than all of the income taxes we collect," said Linton, a principal of Linton Shafer Warfield & Garrett Professional Accountants in Frederick.
Taxpayers across the income spectrum would be hit with large tax increases, the AP reports, with households in the top 1 percent income range seeing an average tax increase of more than $120,000, while a family making $110,000 to $140,000 could see a tax increase in the $6,000 range.
Making matters worse, Linton said, Social Security and Medicare are also in financial trouble, and the new health care plan will be a financial drain.
"I believe that the fiscal cliff was brought on by politicians 'playing chicken' with fiscal policy," said Anita Jose, chairwoman of the Hood College economics and management department.
The toxic hyper-partisanship between the Republican and Democratic parties resulted in this sad state of affairs, Jose said.
"Instead of finding sensible long-term solutions to budget deficits and debt reduction, the Congress and president used short-term, Band-Aid measures to temporarily fix the ailing economy and stimulate economic growth," Jose said.
"To use another idiom involving chickens, now the chickens are coming home to roost."
Both short- and long-term measures are needed to address the fiscal cliff and its underlying causes, Jose said.
"In the short run, we should extend the Bush-era tax cuts to people making under $400,000, agree on very modest spending cuts and extend unemployment benefits," Jose said.
In the long run, the U.S. needs a balanced policy with a mix of spending cuts and tax revenue increases, she said.
"Comprehensive reforms in entitlement spending, defense spending and tax policies are key to finding a long-term solution to deficit and debt reduction."
The fiscal cliff is being discussed in local college classrooms.
"Just this week my students have been looking into the fiscal policy problems we will be facing on Dec. 31st," Frederick Community College economics professor Paula F. Lindsay said.
Fiscal policy is the deliberate exercise of the federal government to manipulate spending and taxes to correct either recession or inflation, Lindsay said.
"Despite the long-term burden of debt created by annual deficits, now is not a good time to cut government spending."
Economic recovery is very weak, and the nation's economic growth rate for 2012 is projected to be only 1.7 to 2.0 percent, she said.
If Congress does nothing, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that there will be a reduction in the budget deficit of 5.1 percent of gross domestic product, Lindsay said, meaning a growth rate of only .5 percent, which represents a substantial cost in the short run.
"Alternatively, Congress could reduce the short-run pain by eliminating the fiscal policy restraints without imposing fiscal restraints in subsequent years," Lindsay said. "This would mean considerably more costs in the long run. There are options that fall between these two extremes."
Linton said the government should not raise taxes in the middle of a recession, but should increase spending on capital items to pump up the economy.
"I don't have an answer as to what do we do," Linton said, "but I know time is running short and Congress and the president need to spend more time dealing with it than running for re-election.
"Maybe one day we will get limited terms for Congress so they will run the nation more like a business."
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Now that the Carmelo Anthony sweepstakes has officially begun, you have to wonder how many teams will start to chase Melo.
The reality of the situation is that there won't be many as not many teams can afford Anthony, even with the realization that Melo will be making less money than the $23 million-plus that he just decided to walk away from with the New York Knicks.
So far it looks like Anthony will visit the four usual suspects- Chicago Bulls, Houston Rockets, Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers- that have been linked to him for the better part of a year now.
ESPN's Ramona Shelburne and Marc Stein confirmed that and also confirmed that the Miami Heat and Atlanta Hawks could also find themselves in the race.
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Carmelo Anthony has yet to publicly reveal the process by which he plans to entertain other teams in free agency now that he has opted out of his contract with the New York Knicks, but the Chicago Bulls, Houston Rockets, Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers are among the teams that expect to have the opportunity to make their pitch to him starting July 1, according to sources close to the situation.
Teams can't formally contact free agents until 12:01 a.m. ET July 1, but sources told ESPN.com that the Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat are two more teams that could join the race for Anthony, depending on how things play out before, during and after Thursday's NBA draft.
It remains to be seen how the Knicks fit back into the Anthony sweepstakes and when Phil Jackson will once again make his pitch to Melo, but the one thing Jackson wanted not to happen officially has and the Knicks now have a ton of competition in order to retain Anthony.


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Molinaro, the former Arizona State player from Italy, had a 13-under 203 total at the Country Club of Asheville. She earned $15,000.
"I had an amazing day," Molinaro said. "I've never been in contention for a professional tournament like this and, the first day I was, I won it, so I'm in seventh heaven right now. I played amazing, I'm extremely happy, everything went my way. I mean, I saw putts that were going in and everything went great."
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Windows 7 clean install problem Freeze at "setup is preparing comp..."
Hey guys, my computer is messed up beyond belief. I'm going to explain the whole story to you, so bare with me.
How this all started:
Well, long story short, my motherboard shorted out and caused all sorts of problems. After taking the whole system out and putting it on a test bed (self built system) I was able to start up the system. However, it would not let me start windows no matter what I did. So i resorted to formatting the SSD it was installed on. I then tried to reinstall windows; this did not work. I had many people tell me it was my motherboard that shorted out (it touched the case while I was trying to power on) and I needed to replace it. So i warrantied it to ASUS and I got it back in the mail several weeks later. I put the system back together, tried to install windows, same problem persisted. It would freeze before I could install. I then did research and decided to boot the disk in Safe Mode. This worked! I proceeded through the first steps of installation and then it required my computer to boot. Upon rebooting, I was brought to the "setup is starting services screen". I waited for a good hour or so and nothing happened. I did some more research and decided to Boot into safe mode again only for it to tell me "install cannot proceed in safe mode". I then opened command prompt, while still in safe mode, and opened device manager. I closed all the drivers that had the yellow triangle next to them. I rebooted and successfully made it past that page. The computer rebooted again and the "Setup is preparing your computer for first use" screen appeared only to be frozen like the one before. I booted in safe mode again, opened command prompt and made sure that all the yellow triangle drivers were disabled. All of them were. I tried to disable all drivers I possibly could and rebooted. Still nothing. I tried using a VGA monitor as I was told it might work; again nothing. This concludes this enormous flashback.
Were I am now:
So, I am stuck on this "setup is preparing your computer for first time use" screen with nothing left to do that I know off. This is were you guys come it. What can be done to get past this sceen?
Things I've done:
Purchased new RAM
Formatted my boot drive
warrantied motherboard
tried multiple RAM configs
Tried multiple SATA configs
Disabled drivers both in Bios and Device Manager
Ran in Safe Mode
Tried VGA Monitor (my main monitor is HDMI)
Other thoughts:
I have been working on this computer for almost a month and a half now and I'm getting frustrated with it. I'm only 16 years old and a new to computer building and trouble shooting, so don't expect me to know anything (talk to me as if you were talking to a baby; simple terms in other words) Please help, I need this computer for school projects and such; I've been forced to barrow a laptop from a friend for the time being.
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come on guys its been a week and still no response
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Laptop shuts down randomly or freezes while in sleep mode
Recently I've noticed that my laptop has been shutting itself down after I put it to sleep. Usually when I'm about to call it a night, I put it to sleep as well. Sometimes when I wake up in the morning I see that it's shut down so I have to turn it back on. Then I see a warning that it was shutdown improperly.
I have run memory and processor tests and neither have come up with any issues. My latest theory was that iTunes was causing the issue. I use an airport express router which allows me to use AirPlay to stream from iTunes to my stereo. I was under the impression that this could be the issue because I noticed a correlation, so I began quitting iTunes before I put the machine to sleep. This seemed to fix the issue but a similar issue has returned. Although this doesn't happen as frequently, sometimes when I put the system to sleep it takes a long time or just freezes up. Also sometimes after the delay it will sleep only for a few seconds before waking itself back up.
I have no idea what to check at this point. The last thing I did to it was upgrade it to an SSD in mid-December of 2011. Before that I upgraded the RAM in the summer of 2011 but that's it. It's pretty heavy (Alienware m15x) so it sits in my desk for the most part and I use my iPad instead during my classes.
If needed, I can upload any crash info as requested. The system specs are what I have listed as my configuration
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Shutdowns during sleep are usually blue screen crash related and specifically 0x9f. Try updating the airport express router drivers as they may be the culprit if they were in the past through iTunes. If they are already up to date, re-install them using the following procedure in case they are corrupted.
Also, please follow the http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-d...tructions.html instructions in case there are blue screen crashes occurring. You may not see the crashes if the system is waking from sleep most to run a scheduled task and then trying to enter back into sleep mode or crashing during the call to wake.
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Thanks for the response.
I looked and couldn't find any airport express related drivers (even after showing hidden devices)
I'm not sure if you're familiar with the device but it's basically just a normal router that also has an auxiliary jack for streaming media from itunes to a stereo. It does have an application that manages the network settings but that seems to be up to date. Also the firmware for the router itself is up to date.
I did update the airport express firmware from 7.6 to 7.6.1 last week and it has crashed less frequently since then but that could just be coincidental.
Yesterday I ran a thorough check disk of my hard drive which took about a half hour to complete. I didn't watch it the whole time but so far nothing has gone wrong and I've put the computer to sleep a couple times today.
If this incident doesn't repeat itself within the next couple weeks I'll consider it resolved.
Again, thanks for the help. I'll be sure to keep this thread updated
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Thanks for posting back your steps. Appreciate the update and promise for further updates. Best wishes the steps provide more stability during sleep cycles!
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So far so good, no sleep issues since my last post on this thread. I haven't tried leaving iTunes connected to AirPlay and putting the laptop to sleep but I will later today in order to isolate the issue.
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Alright, sounds good. Post back after testing with iTunes.
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Well I can confirm that leaving iTunes open and connected to AirPlay will freeze the machine if I put it to sleep. I can assume that after being frozen for a while the computer will shut itself down thus causing the improper shutdown warning
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|22 Feb 2012
See if the router has a support site to post the issue on a forum or e-mail the company to notify them of the issue. Also, see if AirPlay has a support site to post the issue on a forum or e-mail the company to notify them of the issue.
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I started a thread on the apple support site, let's see what they come up with
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Look forward to finding out what they say. Thanks for keeping us posted.
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Looking forward to more information...good hints...meanwhile my 5D3 still rocks.
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Announcement reminds me of the sensor they announced in development last year that could shoot in 0.01 lux... They had a video of firefly's shot in near pitch black.
So perhaps a new camera great in low light?
High ISO NR is not applied to RAW files, nor is ALO. Long exposure NR is applied to RAW, with that setting the camera takes a dark frame after the exposure (a 40 s exposure means a 40 s dark frame), then subtracts the dark frame before writing the RAW file. That effectively removes hot pixels, but it can actually add random noise.
I'd turn IS off to save battery power during long exposure shooting.
I wonder if the anti-flicker thing is a video or stills technology. If it's video then, meh. If it's meant for stills to help handle low frequency florescents then that's a bit of a game changer for indoor sports.
The 6D is much more capable when it comes to dynamic range than the Crop canons I have used.
The croppers are better than they're being given credit for.
This is a random 160 ISO 70D CR2 I picked up off the web somewhere.
And this is how it looks (white balance not addressed) with the shadows slider pushed to 100 and a stop of +ve EC added in Capture One - about 5 stops in total on the shadows. Default NR, no other changes made.
Looks OK, doesn't it? All the detail that was hidden in shadow is there.
Here is a 100% before crop; and here's after.
Nothing much wrong with this. Yes, there's a little bit of "texture" where the shadows were darkest; but the detail is all there and there's no pattern noise.
Pointedly, it's not at all far from what the "magic" Sony sensors are capable of...
The thing your missing is that detail buried in "shadow" isn't the problem. It's detail buried in READ NOISE that's the problem. "Shadows" extend for hundreds to thousands of levels...read noise usually only intrudes a dozen or so levels into the deepest of shadows. It's those very deep shadows that mark the difference between a Canon sensor and an Exmor.
The image you edited is more along the lines of this:
Being lifted to this with a +3 stop pull:
The "shadows" are not totally buried in the read noise...so they are nearly fully "recoverable". Which is a very far cry from this:
Being lifted to this with a +5 stop pull:
The detail here is not just "in shadow"...the detail is completely buried well into the noise floor on my 5D III sensor. It's near impossible to recover...it's riddled with red banding, and the noise level in the deeper shadows is two or three times what it is anywhere photon shot noise limited, as it'c compounded with dark current and various forms of noise caused by readout. It's these extra two stops...which, when you get right down to it, don't actually represent a ton of tonal levels...maybe 10-30 at most, if that...it's these deep shadow levels where the read noise exists that mark the difference between a Canon sensor and an Exmor.
The inevitable question that comes after I try to make this clarification (either when defending Canon, or when defending Exmor...these days it doesn't seem to matter), is: Why would you ever need those extra two stops? or How often do you actually have detail buried that deeply?
Sure, this isn't an every-day case. Some types of photography NEVER encounter a situation like this because they are always shot at higher ISO where DR is limited by physics. That said...even if the situation is a niche situation, it doesn't change the facts. The facts are...Canon sensors currently suffer about a two stop disadvantage or handicap compared to Exmor, and a one to two stop disadvantage compared to many other sensors on the market, such as the Toshiba sensors used in Nikon's D5000 line.
The next statement that is usually made is, the detail buried way down near the read noise floor in a Nikon RAW file can't possibly be clean, low noise, high color fidelity detail. Here are two images I downloaded way back around the time the D800 was released (shortly after the 5D III was released...about the time Fred Miranda wrote his review of both...I was looking for some real evidence to prove, either way, whether Exmor had better low ISO DR):
These two images, which are large (click on them for full size) show the exceptional quality of detail you can recover out of deep, black shadows.
The images were originally downloaded from here (although the link seems to be dead now):
The difference between current Canon sensors, and an Exmor, is not "you can lift shadows". We've been lifting shadows for years. The difference between the two is that you can lift ultra deep shadows that would otherwise be buried in red-banded read noise on a Canon, by 5-6 stops on an Exmor...and STILL have decent color fidelity and clean, random noise.
If you need that kind of shadow recovery capability...and I stress IF, I still believe a majority of photographers tend to shoot some kind of action at higher ISO, in which case Canon sensors have a very small edge over Exmor sensors at higher ISO...then don't hold yourself back. Canon may release something that can do what a D800 could do over two years ago at some point...but why wait until that unknown future time, when you could solve your problem now with a Nikon, Sony, or Pentax (or any number of other cameras that use Exmor sensors)?
Actual Rumors in Japanese chat forums (got infos from an japanese girlfriend:
- 400.000 Yen (>2900€) (variying 300.000-450.000 Y, most rumors on 400.000)
- designed for sports photography. >10 pps, AF speed on miirrorless camera niveau, fast and accurate AF on moving objects (tracking a lot better than actual 7D)
- operationnal design and ergonomy focused on professional use
- IQ better than 7D, more ISO-range, lesser noise. But IQ/DR is not the main optimization goal ( MK4 5D will be designed as an semiprofessional goldenegglayingwoolmilksaw for an non-professional user)
Lots of talk about features and nick-knacks and specs.
Show me the sensor. The rest doesn't matter to me if the sensor is weak.


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The Hulk first appeared in the comics in The Incredible Hulk #1 published by Marvel Comics in May, 1962.Which two actors played Bruce Banner and his alter ego The Hulk in The Incredible Hulk television series that ran from 1978 to 1982?
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WHAT OTHERS SAY: Consumers, companies need to take data breaches seriously
Given the high-tech way in which the world operates now, protecting data is a business necessity and a matter of safety and security for every consumer.
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Joplin has rebuilt after the tornado using more precautionary building standards, and other communities should follow suit.
WHAT OTHERS SAY: GOP may regret flying too high during legislative session
Will the final flurry of legislative activity by Missouri Republicans result in a fate similar to the mythological Icarus?
WHAT OTHERS SAY: Want the Missouri legislature's attention? Write a bigger check
When Steve Tilley, a legislator turned lobbyist, wrote a check to the House Republican Campaign Committee on May 10, it cast a dark cloud over every vote taken — or not taken — the last week of the session involving one of his clients.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Man can't live on cabbage alone
Americans need credible nutrition advice they can trust, not a choice between quacks and "experts" sold out to junk food companies.
WHAT OTHERS SAY: Ethanol subsidies should be eliminated
Corn producers won't like hearing it, but there are three big reasons to eliminate subsidies for ethanol fuel.
GUEST COMMENTARY: KOMU outlines reasons for not settling with DirecTV
Simply acquiescing to DirecTV's demands would do significant harm to KOMU's viewers and its educational mission.
WHAT OTHERS SAY: Celebrities draw attention to social ills but mask deeper issues
We're mistaking moralism for morality. The real systemic sins are hiding inside the latter. Yet the cycle spins on.
WHAT OTHERS SAY: At least one American city has sensible gun laws
The right to bear arms is not unlimited. Washington, D.C. has gun control laws that should be emulated in Missouri's cities.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Rich are growing exponentially richer
The concentration of wealth is more extreme than you might imagine. The 400 richest Americans possess combined assets of over $2 trillion — as much wealth as all 41 million African Americans.
WHAT OTHERS SAY: Jay Nixon and the summer of 176 vetoes
Missouri's failure to pass a Medicaid expansion bill is a crisis — one that demands bold moves from its governor, writes the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
WHAT OTHERS SAY: Mom was right: The 'five-second' rule does apply
Scientific studies have found that the potential risks of eating food that falls on the floor are minimal.
WHAT OTHERS SAY: Climate change is no longer up for debate
The IPCC panel warned that the planet is indeed warming, that humans are primarily responsible and that we are not anywhere near prepared for the dire consequences.
WHAT OTHERS SAY: Ameren rates are likely to go up
Ameren hasn't disclosed the exact amount of the rate increase yet, but company officials are making the case for more revenue in a more aggressive public relations campaign than we've seen in a while.
WHAT OTHERS SAY: E-cigs aren't cigarettes and need their own regulations
E-cigarettes can help with smoking cessation and should be regulated similar to other "nicotine replacement pharmaceutical products."
WHAT OTHERS SAY: Wildlife, wind energy collide at pristine Missouri refuge
A planned wind-power project near the Squaw Creek refuge is creating a collision of environmental values and causing alarm among people who believe those giant tri-bladed turbines pose too great a risk for eagles, migratory fowl, bats and other flying species.
GUEST COMMENTARY: The sad myths of the superfood industry
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GUEST COMMENTARY: As with much in America, commencement becomes a political issue
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WHAT OTHERS SAY: Pain and frustration at the gas pump
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NOAA and its fellow Natural Resource Damage Assessment trustees in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill have announced the signing of a formal Record of Decision to implement a gulf restoration plan. The 44 projects, totaling an estimated $627 million, will restore barrier islands, shorelines, dunes, underwater grasses and oyster beds.
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Howard A. Rowley, MD Print Friendly PageFaculty, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Howard A. Rowley, MD, earned his medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and completed his residency at the University of California in San Francisco.
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Our doctors provide a wide range of services. The following list represents some, but not all, of the procedures offered by this physician.
- Brain MRI
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PubMed Articles
Nicholas CR Okonkwo OC Bendlin BB Oh JM Asthana S Rowley HA Hermann B Sager MA Johnson SC .
Posteromedial hyperactivation during episodic recognition among people with memory decline: findings from the WRAP study. Brain Imaging Behav. 2014 Oct 21;
[PubMed ID: 25332108]
Boots EA Schultz SA Oh JM Larson J Edwards D Cook D Koscik RL Dowling MN Gallagher CL Carlsson CM Rowley HA Bendlin BB LaRue A Asthana S Hermann BP Sager MA Johnson SC Okonkwo OC .
Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with brain structure, cognition, and mood in a middle-aged cohort at risk for Alzheimer's disease. Brain Imaging Behav. 2014 Oct 16;
[PubMed ID: 25319359]
Okonkwo OC Schultz SA Oh JM Larson J Edwards D Cook D Koscik R Gallagher CL Dowling NM Carlsson CM Bendlin BB LaRue A Rowley HA Christian BT Asthana S Hermann BP Johnson SC Sager MA .
Physical activity attenuates age-related biomarker alterations in preclinical AD. Neurology. 2014 Oct 8;
[PubMed ID: 25298312]
Okonkwo OC Xu G Oh JM Dowling NM Carlsson CM Gallagher CL Birdsill AC Palotti M Wharton W Hermann BP LaRue A Bendlin BB Rowley HA Asthana S Sager MA Johnson SC .
Cerebral blood flow is diminished in asymptomatic middle-aged adults with maternal history of Alzheimer's disease. Cereb Cortex. 2014 Apr;24(4):978-88
[PubMed ID: 23236200]
Okonkwo OC Oh JM Koscik R Jonaitis E Cleary CA Dowling NM Bendlin BB Larue A Hermann BP Barnhart TE Murali D Rowley HA Carlsson CM Gallagher CL Asthana S Sager MA Christian BT Johnson SC .
Amyloid burden, neuronal function, and cognitive decline in middle-aged adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2014 Apr;20(4):422-33
[PubMed ID: 24621494]
Johnson SC Christian BT Okonkwo OC Oh JM Harding S Xu G Hillmer AT Wooten DW Murali D Barnhart TE Hall LT Racine AM Klunk WE Mathis CA Bendlin BB Gallagher CL Carlsson CM Rowley HA Hermann BP Dowling NM Asthana S Sager MA .
Amyloid burden and neural function in people at risk for Alzheimer's Disease. Neurobiol Aging. 2014 Mar;35(3):576-84
[PubMed ID: 24269021]
Racine AM Adluru N Alexander AL Christian BT Okonkwo OC Oh J Cleary CA Birdsill A Hillmer AT Murali D Barnhart TE Gallagher CL Carlsson CM Rowley HA Dowling NM Asthana S Sager MA Bendlin BB Johnson SC .
Associations between white matter microstructure and amyloid burden in preclinical Alzheimer's disease: A multimodal imaging investigation. Neuroimage Clin. 2014;4:604-14
[PubMed ID: 24936411]
Birdsill AC Carlsson CM Willette AA Okonkwo OC Johnson SC Xu G Oh JM Gallagher CL Koscik RL Jonaitis EM Hermann BP LaRue A Rowley HA Asthana S Sager MA Bendlin BB .
Low cerebral blood flow is associated with lower memory function in metabolic syndrome. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013 Jul;21(7):1313-20
[PubMed ID: 23687103]
Rowley HA .
The alphabet of imaging in acute stroke: does it spell improved selection and outcome? Stroke. 2013 Jun;44(6 Suppl 1):S53-4
[PubMed ID: 23709730]
Holmes JH Beatty PJ Rowley HA Li Z Gaddipati A Zhao X Busse RF Brittain JH .
Improved motion correction capabilities for fast spin echo T1 FLAIR propeller using non-cartesian external calibration data driven parallel imaging. Magn Reson Med. 2012 Dec;68(6):1856-65
[PubMed ID: 22389061]
Farbota KD Sodhi A Bendlin BB McLaren DG Xu G Rowley HA Johnson SC .
Longitudinal volumetric changes following traumatic brain injury: a tensor-based morphometry study. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2012 Nov;18(6):1006-18
[PubMed ID: 22883443]
Carlsson CM Xu G Wen Z Barnet JH Blazel HM Chappell RJ Stein JH Asthana S Sager MA Alsop DC Rowley HA Fain SB Johnson SC .
Effects of atorvastatin on cerebral blood flow in middle-aged adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease: a pilot study. Curr Alzheimer Res. 2012 Oct;9(8):990-7
[PubMed ID: 22175654]
Prabhakaran V Nair VA Austin BP La C Gallagher TA Wu Y McLaren DG Xu G Turski P Rowley H .
Current status and future perspectives of magnetic resonance high-field imaging: a summary. Neuroimaging Clin N Am. 2012 May;22(2):373-97, xii
[PubMed ID: 22548938]
Chen GH Theriault-Lauzier P Tang J Nett B Leng S Zambelli J Qi Z Bevins N Raval A Reeder S Rowley H .
Time-resolved interventional cardiac C-arm cone-beam CT: an application of the PICCS algorithm. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2012 Apr;31(4):907-23
[PubMed ID: 22027367]
Ries ML McLaren DG Bendlin BB Guofanxu Rowley HA Birn R Kastman EK Sager MA Asthana S Johnson SC .
Medial prefrontal functional connectivity--relation to memory self-appraisal accuracy in older adults with and without memory disorders. Neuropsychologia. 2012 Apr;50(5):603-11
[PubMed ID: 22230228]
Farbota KD Bendlin BB Alexander AL Rowley HA Dempsey RJ Johnson SC .
Longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging and neuropsychological correlates in traumatic brain injury patients. Front Hum Neurosci. 2012;6:160
[PubMed ID: 22723773]
Bendlin BB Carlsson CM Johnson SC Zetterberg H Blennow K Willette AA Okonkwo OC Sodhi A Ries ML Birdsill AC Alexander AL Rowley HA Puglielli L Asthana S Sager MA .
CSF T-Tau/Aβ42 predicts white matter microstructure in healthy adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease. PLoS One. 2012;7(6):e37720
[PubMed ID: 22701578]
Wu Y Johnson K Kecskemeti SR Wang K Wieben O Aagaard-Kienitz BL Rowley H Korosec FR Mistretta C Turski P .
Time resolved contrast enhanced intracranial MRA using a single dose delivered as sequential injections and highly constrained projection reconstruction (HYPR CE). Magn Reson Med. 2011 Apr;65(4):956-63
[PubMed ID: 21413059]
Wu Y Kecskemeti SR Johnson K Wang K Rowley H Wieben O Mistretta C Turski P .
HYPR TOF: time-resolved contrast-enhanced intracranial MR angiography using time-of-flight as the spatial constraint. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2011 Mar;33(3):719-23
[PubMed ID: 21287655]
Austin BP Nair VA Meier TB Xu G Rowley HA Carlsson CM Johnson SC Prabhakaran V .
Effects of hypoperfusion in Alzheimer's disease. J Alzheimers Dis. 2011;26 Suppl 3:123-33
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If you thought Andre Villas-Boas had it coming at Chelsea, take a quick look at Roberto Mancini's record when he first joined Man City, and look where they are now: top of the Premier League, playing the most exciting football in England.It proves that patience really can be a virtue in football. (talksport)
Difference is where the teams were at when the respective managers took over, yo. Duh, it's all about context?


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- Publisher: Tenacious Tech
- Release Date: Jan 14, 2012
- Summary: A fast and fun 2 player contest. Clear the screen of your color blocks by tapping as quickly as you can!Go for the direct assault and clear your blocks first, or take a strategic gamble and "stack" the opponents blocks, costing him valuable time. In Y Tap, it is not only your reflexes, but your quick thinking that will win the day!The game comes with high quality graphics and sound effects, and an exciting sound track.… Expand
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What Nintendo game did the Infamous franchise look like in the beginning?
Since 2009, gamers have been harnessing destructive super powers in the popular action adventure franchise, Infamous. Yet, it was recently revealed at one point during the series' development, Infamous had various prototypes, which drew similarities to a particular Nintendo franchise that sees the player fishing, catching bugs, talking to animals, and with the main antagonist being a talking raccoon.
That's right, Chris Zimmerman of Washington-based developer Sucker Punch recently revealed Infamous, for "about a year", looked like Nintendo's popular colorful community simulator, Animal Crossing, but ultimately didn't come together. Sucker Punch, however, "worked hard" to complete that preliminary vision, which included the super hero ideal (a main trait in the final product), but also featured an outlandish gang of balloon-stealing purple gorillas.
The Infamous franchise now centers on powerful super humans and the choices they must make with the immensely destructive abilities they are given, whilst gangs and a disagreeing government system stand in their way. Personally, I choose this plot over the thievery of balloons by some brightly colored primates, but that's just me; what do you think, g1s? Be sure to leave your thoughts in the comments below!
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Soil bulk density, which is the mass of soil per unit volume, has been found to be greater in created wetlands than in reference wetlands in at least two studies (Craft et al. 1991; Bishel-Machung et al. 1996). Soil texture also differed between created (n=44) and reference wetlands (n=20) in Pennsylvania: soils in created wetlands contained more sand and less clay at 20 cm, and reference wetlands were more silty than created wetlands were throughout the soil profile. Created wetlands may lack the redoximorphic features of low chroma and frequent redox depletions that are diagnostic of hydric soils (Confer and Niering 1992; Bishel-Machung et al. 1996).
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by Fausto Mendez / photo by Fast Co.
When Chris Hardwick isn't hosting the new Comedy Central talk show @Midnight, he's hosting AMC's The Talking Dead, voicing Nickelodeon cartoons, getting nerdy on BBC's The Nerdist, releasing podcasts, cracking up audiences as a stand-up comedian, pitching his next project, or…. well, the list goes on. I think you get the picture. He's obviously Superman's buddy the Flash in a suit & tie, or maybe he knows something we don't.
His achievements in the past few years would make anyone jealous. Thankfully, he's willing to share his secret to success: utterly amazing time management. He shares 7 eye-opening tips in an interview with Fast Co, and the one about overcoming a creative block (similar to a "writer's block") is perhaps the most inspiring.
"Even if what you're coming up with is gibberish at first, you're unsqueaking the wheel, and you might not notice the benefits right away, but after 15 minutes or so, you'll find them. You just have to push through it. There's no trick."
Though he finds value in pushing through a creative or even physical slump, he warns not to over exhaust yourself.
"Your body tells you when you've taken on more than capacity. That's when you start getting really anxious, or getting insomnia … It's important to take some time off to recharge, even if it's just a day or two. Sometimes my girlfriend and I will go to Disneyland, just to take a day off."
Keep in mind that you have limits. Sometimes, pushing through the block isn't worth it, and your relentless drive starts to backfire. Learn how to read your body. Know what it needs in every moment, and give it that.
The Most Important Time-Management Skill: Know Yourself
Knowing your body and decoding its messages are invaluable productivity tools, and that's something I quickly learned after college. It's amazing what a difference my level of performance is now compared to the first year out of school.
For example, knowing the difference between a caffeine comedown and actual exhaustion is critical for a creative professional like myself, but I had no idea how to tell the difference during my student years. I'd caffeinate myself for way too long with way too much, and little did I know that less caffeine in the right moments goes much farther than tons of caffeine all the time.
In a similar lesson, I had to figure out that exercise has a very positive effect on my my mental state. My focus and energy were annoyingly inconsistent as a student. As a professional, I discovered the difference between over-exhaustion and exhaustion from not being fit enough. Little did I know that my brain's energy is directly affected by the state of fitness of my body. The more fit I am, the more my brain can handle, and I could have only learned this lesson by first learning myself.
Knowing yourself is one the most important time-management skills that you'll ever develop. Start there, and everything else will surprisingly fall into place.
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Stanford Grad Robyn Fisher started her business by illegally selling all-natural ice cream on the street next to unemployed chefs. Today, she's the proud owner of the super popular Smitten Ice Cream shop.
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Wired interviewed Stanford Grad Robyn Fisher on her recent successes as the owner of a made-to-order, all-natural ice cream shop that started out as an illegal operation on the street.
Wired: When you launched, it was sort of a pirate ice cream enterprise wasn't it? Not strictly legal?
Fisher: At that time I started getting my ice cream out there in 2009, all these chefs had been laid off from restaurants. So they went to the streets to sell their food, and I joined them. We used Twitter and Facebook and about 12 of us would set up in a park or on the street and say "come and get it before the cops come." It was totally not legal. We would get hundreds of people coming, and it was amazing. I learned so much from all of those street food chefs about pricing, marketing all sorts of things."
Fisher partnered up with laid off chefs to improve her recipes and business model. Around the same time, she also perfected the art of using nitrogen, all-natural ingredients, and a custom mixer to instantly freeze the ice cream sans freezer, and it's not just flashy tech for flashy tech's sake.
The nitrogen technique creates the perfect texture in ice cream because the instant freeze enables her to skip some of the chemicals that ice cream makers inject into their product in order to achieve similar textures. Fisher does a really great job of explaining the science behind the cream during the interview.
"Wired: I know ice cream is cold, but what does the nature of ice crystals have to do with how good the ice cream is?
Fisher: The general gist of it is freezing speed makes all the difference in crystal size, and the smaller, the better for mouth taste and creaminess. Freezing speed is correlated with freezing temperature. So if you can freeze it really, really cold, you can get smaller ice crystals.
And if you can freeze really cold, you can freeze really fast. The benefit of that is if you make small enough batches you can freeze to order. Therefore you don't need any of those extra ingredients that make ice cream far from natural."
Smitten Ice Cream is now one of San Francisco's favorite ice cream spots, and it continues to reach new heights of fame as travelers from around the nation and the world visit the shop during their stay at the Bay Area.
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Pitching is perhaps one of the hardest things to do in business. You're asking for a lot of money and - even more terrifying - faith in you and your ideas. Here's some tips to seal the deal for your next pitch.
Back in March, Kate Rogers published an insightful piece on tips about pitching your ideas to VC investors, but the same tips can apply to many other types of pitches. These tips will stay relevant for decades to come. Here's the second one.
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Don't Say These Five Things in Your Next Business Email to Someone Important
Encourage intelligent and useful responses in your next business email to someone important by avoiding phrases that miscommunicate your intentions or that make you look like a dumb robotic (thoughtless) employee.
Business emails are a tricky thing; actually, navigating the social norms of non-business email can be rather weird too. Email culture carries a lot of influence from the good-ol' snail mail days, and it's also influenced by well-intentioned manners (or lack of) that can turn fairly standard conversations with important folks into awkward moments of miscommunication. With that in mind, you should probably avoid the following five phrases in your next business email - whether or not the recipient is "important" - in order to sound like a real and intelligent person that deserves a real and intelligent response.
Of course, you may find that there really are situations in which the following five phrases should be used, but more often than not, they are overused without a second thought - thrown in because we don't know what else to write.
Don't Say, "I Hope You Are Well."
Please, don't say this unless you really know the person and actively do things to show that you care because if you don't actively care, the recipient will assume that you just want something from them. And that's actually OK, but successful people tend to be very realistic. So if you're trying to manipulate them, they will sense it right away. After all, they didn't get to where they are by being naive to manipulation. They don't like it, and they try to gravitate towards people that don't try to manipulate them.
Don't Say, "I Thought I Would Reach Out."
Obviously, you had that thought; otherwise, you wouldn't have reached out. Important people don't have time for thoughtless conversation. By limiting your email's content to what is immediately relevant, you show the recipient that you understand how valuable their time is. Important people always value time over anything else, so if you throw in meaningless phrases like this, you are basically saying one of two things: 1. Your time is not valuable. or 2. I'm too stupid to understand how valuable your time is, so I don't deserve a response.
Don't Say, "Can I Pick Your Brain."
As I noted earlier, there are times when these overused phrases are certainly appropriate, and this is probably one that is harder to misuse. But the reason it's often misused is not because it's not relevant, not polite or utterly thoughtless. Actually, it's misused because you asking for a very important person to spend their extremely expensive time and wisdom on you, not on anything else that he or she would like to get done today. If the recipient is not in a good mood, what seems like a compliment may actually be interpreted as an insult.
Don't Say, "Bounce an Idea Off You."
This is probably better than "can I pick your brain" because at least you're going into it with the attitude that you're going to contribute to the brainstorming that you'd like the recipient to do. It's not just the recipeitn doing the work; however, it suffers from the same major problem. You probably misunderstand how much it costs for the recipient to do anything for anyone.
Don't Say, "Sincerely Yours."
It's really weird that we still say this. The phrase really belongs in a love letter, and even just "sincerely" doesn't sound right. Of course, you are being sincere, so why would you need to say it? The fact is you don't need to say it, and if you can come up with anything that's more meaningful or relevant, you'll probably stand out amongst the other tens, hundreds or thousands of emails that the recipient received today.
Thanks to Fast Company for the original list of five phrases, but FC's article didn't suggest substitutions for these phrases. We offer the following suggestions.
What to Say Instead
If you're looking for some good substitutions when avoiding the above phrases, the best thing to do is to say something real. In other words, say something useful or relevant. I might also suggest being entertaining or funny, but that could cause more problems than it solves. If you are not familiar with the recipient's sense of humor, you should probably avoid humor at all cost.
More importantly, if you're asking for something, such as to "bounce an idea off" the recipient, bring something valuable to the table that you can offer in return. I know this can be really hard in some situations, such as when a student reaches out to an experienced executive, but even the inexperienced have valuable info or stories to share. Everyone sees the world from a different perspective, and the important people that you're trying to reach via email are surrounded by people - more like robots - that never have anything important to share. So you really make yourself stand out if you can offer something useful in return for the favor.
No matter what happens, you should always thank the recipient for sharing their valuable time with you. That's actually the signoff I use in most of my serious emails. Later on, I may choose a less serious signoff, such as "may the force be with you", but I certainly make sure the recipient knows that I know their time is extremely valuable. While the above five phrases can be easily misinterpreted in many situations, thanking someone for their time is always a safe bet.
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text: We probably could have used about 20 more servings of everything. The combat archers didn't get fed. Some people went through the line more than once before the fighters even got served. That's something we'll need to find a way of addressing in the future. ~ihon One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested." — E. M. Forster On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Hillary Greenslade <hillaryrg at yahoo.com>wrote: > Just wondering about the volume of food. > Was there enough? Was anything left? Did something run out too fast? > > Wanted to know for future reference, so we know if we need more of less of > any one item. > Curious? Hillary > _______________________________________________ > Stargate mailing list > Stargate at lists.ansteorra.org > http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/stargate-ansteorra.org >


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Like I've heard myself
Blah blah blah and all the bullshit about true love and all "true" stuff in our lifes. Let's just fall into our music, that's the best way to survive in such a mess
Things are just changing a lot lately
And finally Flea! A few days spent but was worth it :D
Another drawing of John.
And my second drawing Anthony Kiedis and John Frusciante ;)
Please visit my deviantart account!
Anybody has tried a meditation? I'd like to hear about any experiences connected with that.