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While you don't need stuff to live a successful Primal lifestyle (well, besides bacon), we humans belong to a gadget-fetishizing brand of ape that has had great success over the years crafting and using various tools to make life easier. A couple weeks ago, I highlighted seven high-tech tools that were designed to improve Primal living; today, I'm focusing on the low-tech stuff. These tools aren't quite as flashy, and they're not quite as sexy, but they are just as useful. They are tools in the classic sense — physical objects that enable or enhance our ability to manipulate the environment to our advantage. So, while the high-tech tools offered helpful information and guidance about recipes, calorie counts, and toxin levels to improve our knowledge base, these low-tech tools offer direct, hands-on experience.
Enough blabbering. On to the tools!
(Make Your Own) Bulgarian Training Bag
A Bulgarian training bag is, basically, half an inner tube filled with sand with the ends twisted into handles to contain the sand. It's highly versatile, able to be used kind of like a mace, a sandbag, and a kettlebell all rolled into one. The bag is very good for wrestlers and grapplers (and anyone else) interested in developing rotational strength; in fact, a Bulgarian wrestling coach invented the Bulgarian training bag to improve the training of U.S. wrestlers, inspired by the feats of strength involving goats and sheep slung across the shoulders of Bulgarian shepherd/strongmen from his childhood. They're quite easy to make, which is what I suggest you do. I never said everything on the list could be purchased. Actually, Bulgarian training bags are available for purchase, but at rather high rates. I think it's more satisfying — and more affordable — to simply make your own. Here's a good guide to doing so.
Once you've got bag in hand, check this link for forty Bulgarian bag exercise ideas. Any training implement inspired by a crazy Bulgarian shepherd swinging a lamb around by its legs gets the Primal stamp of approval.
Training Log
If you're serious about progressing as you exercise, you need a training log. While I'll admit that I don't keep one myself anymore, when I was really serious about training — either endurance or strength — I maintained a training log to track my progress, and I maintain that without the logs I would have had a more difficult time making real progress. See, training logs aren't just about noting what you've done; they're about tracking what you've done right, what you've done wrong, how you felt on a particularly good training day, how you felt on a bad training day, and they're about using this data to enable steady progression. Even if you're doing a wide range of fractal movements and exercises, keep a log. Randomization isn't mindlessness.
Hemingway stood to write and used Moleskin notebooks. I trust his judgment.
Dip Belt
After I messed up my rotator cuff on the bench press, I discovered a deep love for the dip. More conducive to shoulder health (in my experience, at least) than the bench press, the dip offers excellent stimulus to both the shoulder girdle, tricep, and chest — and if it gets too easy, you can easily add more weight with the help of a dip belt. Using dip belts satisfied my desire to lift heavy things with my chest and triceps without subjecting my rotator cuff to pain and suffering. The dip is a truly functional movement (think getting up and over a barrier or fence, climbing up into a tree) and being able to add even more weight than just that of your bodily mass will help you function even more effectively.
You could use a rope, chains, or even a well-constructed dog leash looped around your waist and attached to heavy objects, but it's far easier (and not much more expensive) to get a dedicated dip belt. Here's one and here's another that should both suit you well.


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Harvard Bioscience Announces Allocation Of Tax Basis For Spin-Off Of Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology
HOLLISTON, Mass., Nov. 13, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq:HBIO), a global developer, manufacturer, and marketer of a broad range of tools to advance life science research, announced the allocation of tax basis resulting from the tax-free spin-off of Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology, Inc. Based on the relative fair market values of the respective companies on November 1, 2013, the first day of trading after distribution, 23.63 percent of a stockholder`s pre-distribution tax basis in Harvard Bioscience common stock should be allocated to the shares of common stock in Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology received pursuant to the distribution described in the Information Statement of Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology dated October 17, 2013.
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Andi DiehnThis hat? This is not my hat.
Happy Birthday to me. And to Rebecca, and to Barbara Kingsolver.
"High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!"
-Barbara Kingsolver
It's raining today, and cold, and birthdays are great.
Even this one, which is mostly marked by leaving work to pick a sick boy up from school. Luckily, he's not that sick. And a more appropriate way to take this life – at least, my life – for what it is doesn't exist.
A friend sent me that Kingsolver quote on Facebook, and another Facebook friend mentioned he still had some greeting cards I had made as a child. My best-friend-at-the-time (his daughter) and I pressed flowers and stuck the results under clear contact paper and sold the cards at a local general store called Bramhall's. It was a general store in the old-time sense of the phrase. They sold penny candy (for only a penny!) and ice cream cones and local produce and lobsters. And antiques. And our greeting cards. We were WV Designs and so proud. I don't remember how long we lasted, or how much we sold the cards for, or why we eventually quit. We were eleven, maybe twelve, so that was probably why. Other things, like horses, awaited us.
I learned a few days ago that the man who owned Bramhalls, Wedge Bramhall, died. I think of cancer. His wife was my preschool teacher and they were both very kind people who later had four kids, who, I imagine, are terrific kids. I remember him studying our one sample greeting card that we presented with shy confidence on a summer day, the oak shade doing not much to dispel the heat rising from our heads after our bike ride from Sarah's house. This was in the days before helmets and we were wind blown by a hot breeze. "Sure," he said, nodding. "I'll stock your cards. Fifty-fifty."
I don't actually remember his exact words or the percentage he offered. I do recall his face and his willingness to say yes to awkward middle-schoolers who were desperate to do something that mattered.
I'm not cooking dinner on my birthday. Instead we're ordering Chinese food and eating in front of an episode of Doctor Who. Boys will fight over who gets to sit next to their mom, and while most nights this annoys the hell out of me, tonight I will find it endearing and I might even get a little teary because yesterday I looked at old photos of my boys as babies and, gack, I miss them even though they're right here with me. We will eat and I will have a glass of wine and later we'll pile into the big bed and I'll tell them the next installment of The Color Children, which is about five children of different colors – indigo, periwinkle, orange, green, and pink – who live together with no grownups in a big house that eats their enemies. It's a really great house.
The glorious debris – I am surrounded by it, and so, so grateful.
Sunday Afternoon and Life Is the Opposite of Malaise
We aren't an active family. I mean, we do stuff. Just not a lot of stuff. Sometimes it feels like a lot of stuff. But usually it feels that way because it's a lot of stuff at the same time.
But today, oh, today. Today is…fine. It isn't great, it isn't bad, it's just a very reasonable fine. We saw old friends this mornings, we cheered L at a basketball game early in the afternoon, and now we are home, and a chicken is roasting in the oven. The younger boys made popcorn. The older boy started a movie. The dogs are half-asleep on the couches thinking this is exactly the way life should be all the time and mostly I think they're right.
Maybe not all the time. I like the highs, and while I can't say I like the lows, I do see why they are necessary. They remind us of how much worse things could be.
And even the fact of Philip Seymour Hoffman and his stupid death–even that can't quite puncture my general feeling of the opposite of malaise. What is the opposite of malaise? Webster's offers antonyms like joy, well being, calmness, cheer, but none of those are, well, French enough. Joyeux? Still doesn't cut it. You know what I mean. There must be a word out there that means "a French word directly opposite of malaise" and that's exactly what I am right now.
I think I might go build a fire. And read a book. Tallis has a music thing every Saturday morning and it's right near a bookstore, which is wonderful for the bookstore and not so wonderful for my bank account. I am trying to be good. But! Have you heard of A.S. King? She write really great YA books. I am reading all of them. You should too.
I wish for you all a Sunday like mine. Warm, cozy, just active enough. Perhaps with a roast chicken.
Kicking the Ass of the New Year
I used to love swimming, and then I didn't. We'd go the beach and I'd be happy on the sand, maybe wade up to my thighs. I rarely even took off the sundress slipped over my bathing suit (or, more usually, the yoga top paired with skirted bikini bottoms). Was it a body image thing? Am I really that careful about UV rays? I don't think so. I think it was a control thing. In the water, there's less of it. And it's rare for me to go to water without having to think at least a little about keeping boys alive. So, I stayed dry. For years. Even after my kids gained enough ability (except for my oldest, who still can't swim) that I didn't have to worry quite so much about accidentally turning them into floating corpses.
But here I am, on a Sunday night, feeling if not water logged at least pleasingly spongy. I went swimming twice this weekend. In a really big pool. In my new bathing suit. Which is black and even a little pretty.
Maybe this level of pride is unreasonable for this wispy accomplishment, but hell, I'll bask. Our world, have you noticed? is not conducive to accomplishment, unless you play video games. Which I don't, not because I think they're objectionable; I just haven't found one that truly speaks to me and life is too short to settle. And by accomplishment, I mean this easy kind: you decide to do something and then you do it. Ah. Maybe it's only me who has this trouble? The deciding and then the never doing? Anyway, I decided to start swimming, I bought a bathing suit, and then I, yes, went swimming.
The first time was yesterday evening when M and I escaped for a date, thanks to my visiting parents who were willing to babysit. The nice people at the pool gave us a discount. We swam for half an hour and then sat for a few minutes in the hot tub, and then went to dinner at a restaurant that has a fireplace. It was… a really good night. Until we came home to a lame dog and then M threw up a lot. But still! Date night! Hallelujah!
And then today I took the kids, the ones who swim, and while it was less exercise it was still fun.
And I'm going to swim again on Tuesday, because after my eyes are dilated at the eye doctor's I won't be able to read and write for a couple hours and what else is there to do in this world?
What to do with all this money?
This is a problem I've never really had.
Yesterday I went on a school field trip with my oldest son, and the ride home took two hours longer than usual for a total of four hours on a shrill, cramped, steamy school bus.
(Oh, how I appreciate my own particular kids after spending the day and much of the evening with the offspring of others. Is it me? Is it them? Do my children spring horns when they're out of my range? I don't suspect it, but if so, let me know. While T and I drew our own version of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips on the translucent windows, children around us fought and mouthed off and tossed trash hither thither. I was proud of my quiet, respectful kid.)
Around the three hour mark I finished my book and T dozed off against my shoulder. The woman on my other side offered me a can of espresso, for which I wanted to kiss her. We talked. We talked about how convinced we were that we were crap at our jobs, how difficult it is to stay married while renovating your house, how setting fire to your yard isn't the best way to clear the land for a vegetable garden. Then she told me she'd recently gotten a promotion and to celebrate, she'd bought her husband a mustang.
I thought, but did not say: "When my husband got a raise we each bought new pants at J.C. Penny."'
I liked her a lot, and that can be unusual for me – I'm reserved and shy and a tiny bit suspicious about new people, so when I find someone I can connect with fairly easily I'm thrilled. But – a mustang? "Mustangs are so expensive!" she moaned to me. "Of course it costs way more than my raise!"
I've heard about this trend on the news. The consuming trend. But she was so coherent of it. She knew buying the mustang was a bad idea, and she did it anyway. She didn't mention plans to sell it, but maybe that's just not part of the story she told me. I hope they sell it. Sell it and put the money in the bank. Or invest the money in their house, because it sounds like they are barely able to survive their oddly modeled bedrooms and the weirdly situated kitchen and the flooded basement.
I only just met her, but I'm worried about her.
But, what's that thing about that which we despise in another person is that which we see in ourselves, something something? While no mustang will ever appear in our driveway we do splurge perhaps too often on takeout Chinese food. And M bought an afghan he didn't need today. And I do find it easy to click PURCHASE when I mean to click READ FREE SAMPLE. I am far from innocent. I completely understand what my new friend was reaching for when she bought that car. For just a moment to feel successful, accomplished, worthy of the admiration of her family and friends. Of course it only lasts a day or two, until the payment comes due and once again you are a woman approaching forty who has never, ever earned more than $22,000 a year.
Dear woman on the crowded school bus: let's make a pact and avoid the shops for a while.
And thank you, again, for the espresso. It made all the difference.
Here's a short story I wrote. Actually it's the first chapter of a novel I've given up on. It was previously published on an online literary site I should've researched more thoroughly before submitting to.
Twenty years later, Samantha wouldn't remember his face.
She wouldn't remember the slight cleft in his upper lip, or the v-shaped image of concentration on the bridge between his eyes.
She wouldn't quite remember his name: Kurt? Bart? Something mono-syllabic, short. Once sweet, then a curse.
Twenty years later Samantha would try and fail to recall his clothing – jeans, white T-shirt, black flannel jacket – and even his smell wouldn't quite come to mind, though at the time, lying under him on the damp grass, it was an overpowering and effective scent. And when she smelled it two days later at school she had to fight not to vomit right there in the hallway with a hundred other kids milling around as if it were just another gray, awful Monday.
She wouldn't remember his hair. His hair was blond and wavy, slightly too long for his thin face, but he had a habit of tossing it out of his eyes that had been the first thing to catch her attention. He sat in front of her in history class at Belchertown High School. Whenever he looked up after reading or writing on his desk he had to do that, flip his bangs out of his way, and every time the motion pinched Samantha hard and a slight gust of breath escaped her chest.
His hands: rough, chapped, lacking grace. Twenty years later Samantha wouldn't remember how sharp they felt when they shoved up inside her, further up than her own fingers had ever explored in the safe darkness of her bedroom, under a protective layer of blanket and sheet. And now this, in the open dark of her own backyard, a boy's fingers, uninvited, intent on their own needs. Those fingers were the first sign that time had split into a Before and an After.
She wouldn't remember his mouth. She wouldn't remember that Before she had thought his mouth sensuous and kind, the kind of mouth that would always listen before uttering anything unforgiving. And that After, after their first date, after a sweet walk along her own street where safety had always been a suffocating given, that his mouth would change into a sneer that didn't know anything about kindness. His mouth had turned into an extension of his terrible fingers but she wouldn't remember that twenty years later.
A mist had started down. Already parts of her were wet: her hair, her calves, her feet. Her feet were bare; one sandal was hooked around her ankle and the other was gone, somewhere between the gate to the street and here, this spot on the grass where one summer she had set up a wading pool that had killed dead the grass underneath. Her mother had been mad.
Now she felt him grasp her breast. She had an inkling that she could rise and walk away if only she could move her limbs – but his weight. His weight had her pinned against the scrawny grass that every spring her mother nagged her father about aerating and replanting and fertilizing, the grass Samantha had killed one summer with a kid's wading pool. The pool had been blue and made the water inside blue like the ocean even though it was only a scant foot deep.
One hand squeezed her breast and the other shoved and shoved and shoved and pinched.
Now his hand moved to the other breast. Like he'd find something different.
Twenty years later she wouldn't remember his breath, the way it caught and held and exhaled into her face, how he smelled like the greasy french fries they'd shared at the mall.
Her parents – if she could scream, she could wake them up. They were in the house over there, her house, the house dark but for the pale pink glow that marked the upstairs bathroom, a night light that had burned every night Samantha could remember. Could she scream? Her mouth was open but felt filled with a plug of tamped air, an invisible gag. She hadn't know this part of nightmares was true, this muteness.
Her hands – violent, grasping, poor desperate hands – reached his face and started to scratch whatever she could feel. She wanted to feel the squish of popped-out eyes but now she was distracted by a low, muffled growling. The growling was her. Finally, some noise, but not loud enough to attract any help and Hart reacted, dragged the blousy tie-died scarf from her neck – the scarf was the only article of clothing she ever borrowed from her mother – and stuffed it into her mouth and grabbed her hands and stretched them way over her head which almost hurt more than his fingers had in her crotch and now she was more afraid.
Hart held a finger to her stuffed mouth and whispered "Shhh." She could smell herself on his finger – a seaweed smell; it took effort not to gag around the scarf. Her gorgeous, powerful scream that would have raised armies of dead to come save her transformed into a snort that burned her nose.
They had had a good time. Three hours ago Hart had arrived on time at the end of her driveway to take her to the mall. They had wandered, found friends, recognized much of the crowd, speculated about strangers. They discovered they both liked horror movies and could quote a few classics at length: "They're dead, they're all messed up." They'd driven home with salsa music loud on the radio, dancing in their seats like they actually liked it. When they'd arrived back in front of her house she'd wondered if he'd simply let her out and drive away and she thought that would be okay; she liked him, but something in his face made her unsure if he liked her back. He was polite, he was kind, but a few times he seemed to be listening to a sound that wasn't her, that she couldn't hear.
Twenty years later she would forget most of the events that transpired there in her backyard, beyond her ability to stop them. She would remember the barking dog a few houses away. The dog's name was Charlie and two summers ago she'd walked and fed the thing while its family vacationed in Florida. The dog had peed on the living room rug and the family blamed Samantha and never paid her as much as they'd agreed to. That Halloween Samantha left rotten eggs in the mailbox. Now the dog wouldn't shut up. Samantha wondered if he was trying to save her, protect her.
Quiet above her. Samantha opened her eyes. She realize she'd closed them. Hart wasn't looking at her. The hand not busy holding her arms above her was jerking on his belt, unzipping his fly.
Her eyes closed again on their own, as if to save her in some small way.
In her own dark space Samantha felt her tissues split and gaseous bile rose up. He might not let her turn her head to vomit and she'd choke and that would be preferable to this. Now something else was inside her, not fingers, something more blunt, something that burned.
The breathing above her turned rhythmic, short. He seemed to reach a fast edge and whimpered, like he was falling. Then, violently, he tore himself from her and she was left wide open to the now soaking rain.
Eyes still closed, she heard him shuffle his pants up and run away from her, then the gate squeaked over by the house and he was gone.
She waited. The rain – she imagined it washing away his remnants. Hair, skin and sperm running off her body into the ground, soaking into the grass and dirt below, leaving her clean. Her jaw clicked when she dragged the scarf out of her mouth and closed her lips against the rain. No reason now, to scream.
On shaky legs she wobbled to the house, underpants pulled up and skirt pulled down with liquid fingers. A chilled gob ran down her leg. She grasped the top bar of one of the decrepit, second-hand lawn chairs her father was proud to have found. She smoothed her hair. At the kitchen sink the running water felt like a flood against her hands, a safe flood, and she lifted fistfuls to her face again and again and felt parts of her returning, parts that had escaped when Hart first hooked her ankles with his and caught her as she landed on the grass. At first she wondered if this move was a less graceful chapter in their story, precluded by the one tender kiss they'd shared at the gate to her yard, a kiss that made, she'd thought, a kind of promise of mutual patience and slow swimming toward an easy goodnight. But then Hart changed. Like an asymmetrical face that suddenly turned its ugly side to her. He'd tripped her.
She wanted to shower and then she wanted to sleep. And then she wanted to wake up and have no memories.
Samantha's mother waited in the dark living room and spoke when Samantha went through to the stairs. "Well, hi," Evelyn said in a low voice.
"Jeez, Mom, you scared me," Samantha said, her body tensed and electric. I cannot take one more shock, she thought.
"So, have a good date?"
"Fine. Waiting up for me?"
"Well, yes. I am the parent."
"You don't have to wait up for me."
Strange, Samantha thought, how we fall right into this conversation, the same one we've had so many times before. As if everything was exactly the same as it had been earlier this evening when Evelyn raised her eyebrows at Samantha's short skirt, sparking a rally of comments and defensive comebacks until Samantha stormed out to meet Hart at the curb, his car humming benignly in patient wait.
"Obviously, I do." Evelyn pointedly scanned Samantha's body with her eyes. Samantha did not have to glance down to know that her clothes were skewed, her legs were smudged with mud, her mouth was red and raw. She looked, she knew, like she'd had sex in the backyard. And she had, but not the kind her mother thought.
"You don't know anything," Samantha said, hating the shake in her voice. She should just tell her mother the truth, that would shock that superior look off her face. But the truth, somehow, would not come to the surface.
"I know enough," Evelyn answered, rising from the chair. "I'm going to bed. I suggest you do the same, missy."
Samantha was left alone in the dim light of the living room. That feeling of aloneness would last and she'd remember it twenty years later and debate about forgiving her mother, forgiving herself. The boy would fade, as tragedies do, but the harsh taste of her mother would last a long, long time.
I keep wandering into the kitchen and trying to fill my food craving. After eating a short bread cookie and a handful of salt and vinegar chips I realize – I'm just very tired. It's not a food craving, it's a sleep craving. I didn't get much last night. My nose is stuffed up so whenever I lie down I can't breathe. And a medium-sized boy joined our bed early last night. When the small-sized boy woke up and tried to squeeze in, he and I switched to the medium-sized boy's bed (empty) where I got a couple hours, but then there was the not breathing and on top of everything just a sense of doom, pending failure, low-grade anxiety about everything I have not managed to accomplish.
So. I'm tired. Driving to West Leb to get a birthday present may not have been the smartest choice. But the alternative was to drop the largest boy at his Boy Scout overnight camp. I hate the Boy Scouts. They discriminate against gay people and they take my sons away from me for overnights. In the freezing cold! Damn them. I was afraid I'd get teary, and that would make T teary, and then those damn Boy Scouts might sense weakness. So I made his dad take him. Turns out, he still got teary. But at least he didn't have his nearly unconscious mother sniveling into his hair.
I'm supposed to be working right now. I missed two deadlines last week. Projects are piling up at the office. No wonder anxiety has come to visit, right?
Two injured chickens have been using our mud room as a rehab center. Today M put them out in the sun. They look like two old women sitting on their metal porch chairs, house slippers at the end of their nearly-useless mottled legs, smoking cigarettes and gossiping about whomever walks by.
Maybe some leftover spaghetti will do the trick.
Play well, dears.
Seasonal Daze
I know I'm ready for spring when I strip our bed of its flannel sheets. Not just to wash and replace, but to tuck away in the dark recesses of the linen/BB gun closet until the temperature drops next fall. I've been waking up in the tiny hours with a sharp craving for smooth, cool sleeping surfaces. And fresh mozzarella cheese. Either it's time for spring to arrive or I've got pneumonia. That happened once. I thought I was just hot all the time because it was April and our bed was still in winter mode, but it turned out I had a fever. For three weeks. I'm pretty sure, though, that this year it's a seasonal thing.
What I love about spring:
the noise
the diminished wardrobe
sap buckets
open windows
deer prints in the mud
the once again acceptable taste of white wine and gin. Not together.
We're not quite there, yet, despite the cotton sheets rumpled under me right now. It's still red I reach for in the evening. Snow pants still clog the living room floor around the heater vent. If I look hard I can spot a snowflake or two weaving its way down from the skies. But it's coming. Soon.
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Many of the recent advances in genetics were not too long ago thought only possible in the realm of science fiction, so maybe it is only appropriate that science fiction elements are brought in here to explain scientific theories. This graphic novel (which is more of a graphic textbook, if you ask me) includes the full report of Bloort 183, an alien scientist. He comes from an asexual race of beings who resemble sea cucumbers and are being threatened by disease. In seeking a cure, he is charged with researching how life on Earth works.
His report is chock full of information, starting with chemical and biological explanations for how DNA works on the cellular level. From there, Bloort 183's report explains how heredity works, traits get passed on or selected, and how these genetic processes are coming to be manipulated by people. Along the way, many of the major genetic researchers are highlighted, including Darwin, Mendel, Franklin, Watson, Crick, and Thomas Hunt Morgan. Luckily for the reader, the alien monarch who sent Bloort 183 on this mission needs things explained more fully, so what can be dense information gets relayed in more relatable ways.
This book is the creation of Mark Schultz and the brother art team of Zander and Kevin Cannon. Schultz has been working in comics for decades, most famously on sci-fi adventure stories like his Xenozoic Tales (aka Cadillacs and Dinosaurs). He has won multiple Harvey and Eisner Awards and is currently writing the Prince Valiant newspaper comic. The Cannons often work together, on books with Jim Ottaviani and Alan Moore, but Kevin has published his own Eisner-nominated graphic novel Far Arden. Zander's most notable solo work is the Harvey-nominated series The Replacement God. Their expert craft and attention to detail are apparent in the artwork.
This interview segment on NPR sheds more light on what went into the book's making. Along with this media attention, the book has received mostly positive reviews. John Hogan appreciated the mix of serious science information in a not-so-serious format. Berel Dov Lerner thinks that the book is entertaining and informative, even if it does try to tackle a bit much at times. Johanna Draper Carlson was a bit put off by the text heaviness and amount of technical information, but in the comments section it seems like her critiques may be a function of audience.
A preview, video, and other reviews are available here from the book's publisher Hill & Wang.
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To my knowledge so far in life and to my ardent hope as well, the world has more to offer than you or I or anyone else can possibly imagine. Close your eyes and picture France. Do you see the Eiffel Tower, charming cafés, and fashionable Parisians? If you do, I doubt you're alone. Now picture Alaska. Do you see snow-topped mountains, log cabins, whales, and moose? It's only logical. Now picture Greece. What do you see? Before I came to Greece, the first images to come to mind would have been the Parthenon, white houses with blue roofs, and of course the clear blue water. However, having lived here eleven weeks now, I can tell you that Greece is not all ancient temples and whitewashed houses. They're a part of it, just like the Eiffel Tower is a part of France and mountains are a part of Alaska, but there's so much more to Greece than you might first imagine.
Two weeks ago I got to see both sides of the picture. First, my mom came to visit and we went on a short weekend trip to Santorini. It was just as I had imagined, incredibly beautiful, a very popular spot for tourists, and very classic Greece (to my eyes, anyway). When the trip was over, I joined the rest of my classmates in Northern Greece for our final field trip of the semester. We began in Thessaloniki and traveled to Meteora, Volos, Makrinitsa, and Mount Pelion. The water is still blue in the North, of course, and the food and language are the same, but the landscape is so distinctly different, you almost feel like you've left the country. In Meteora (which means "suspended rocks"), enormous, majestic rock pillars have been home to twenty monasteries over the years though only six remain today. And Makrinitsa is a little mountain village with a view looking down on Volos. There are ski resorts nearby (yes, it snows in Greece) and the dark-roofed houses, stone streets, and pine trees seem to mimic Switzerland or Austria. It's something I never would have imagined in Greece and it reminded me that there's so much more to a place than the images you constantly see in books and calendars.
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Dr. Taner Akcam of Clark University will present some of the findings from his new book, The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire. Dr. Akcam will discuss his research involving newly available WWI-era documents contained in the Ottoman Archives, suggesting the Armenian Genocide began as part of a general demographic policy, which was first directed against the Greeks before World War I…only later morphing into genocide, because of 'real or paranoid' security concerns.
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Most people nowadays are well aware that wolves and grizzly bears are controversial species. Regular readers of this blog know that I am passionate about the well-being of these predatory animals. Most people think that all the controversy stems from them potentially eating ranchers' cattle stock. The truth is, that's just a scapegoat. The real motive is money that goes beyond ranching.
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How to Look for the Northern Lights
'A green band of the northern lights, aka aurora borealis, glows above Blacktail Butte in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
UPDATE – For those looking to get more specific and accurate, be sure to look into Olivier Du Tre's comments below.
Despite only seeing them a total of less than 10 times in my entire life, I still seem to be the one that people look to for information on the northern lights, particularly around Jackson Hole, Wyoming. There are first a couple of common myths that I'd like to debunk.
Northern lights can only be seen in Scandinavia, Alaska, or Canada. False. Northern lights can be seen anywhere. It only depends on the severity of the solar storm that impacts Earth (explained further below). A solar storm in the fall of 2011 was even seen as far south as Alabama and Arizona.
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Northern Lights Over Jackson Hole, Wyoming
The Aurora Borealis, aka northern lights, light up over Grand Teton National Park and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
I was giving up on this so-called great solar storm around midnight last night. Skies had clouded up just after sunset, the impact wasn't as strong as they had predicted, and I was getting tired. Just out of curiosity, I checked the immediate aurora forecast and saw that activity was beginning to pick up to where it might show up down here in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I went out onto my balcony, which faces north, to do a quick test shot just to see if I would even get anything. To my surprise, the clouds had thinned out considerably and were even beginning to clear out, so I grabbed my gear and headed out.
My instincts weren't very good last night because despite getting some nice shots, given another chance (which may happen within the next few days!), I would go to completely different spots, and in general just be more prepared.
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Parking sensors
Parking sensors are proximity sensors for road vehicles designed to alert the driver to obstacles while parking. These systems, which use either electromagnetic or ultrasonic sensors, are marketed variously by vehicle manufacturers under proprietary brand names such as Park Distance Control, Park Assist, Parktronic or EPS ®.[1]
Ultrasonic systems[edit]
These systems feature ultrasonic proximity detectors to measure the distances to nearby objects via sensors located in the front and/or rear bumper fascias or visually minimized within adjacent grills or recesses.
The sensors emit acoustic pulses, with a control unit measuring the return interval of each reflected signal and calculating object distances.[2] The system in turns warns the driver with acoustic tones, the frequency indicating object distance, with faster tones indicating closer proximity and a continuous tone indicating a minimal pre-defined distance. Systems may also include visual aids, such as LED or LCD readouts to indicate object distance. A vehicle may include a vehicle pictogram on the car's infotainment screen, with a representation of the nearby objects as coloured blocks.
Rear sensors may be activated when reverse gear is selected and deactivated as soon as any other gear is selected. Front sensors may be activated manually and deactivated automatically when the vehicle reaches a pre-determined speed — to avoid subsequent nuisance warnings.
As an ultrasonic systems relies on the reflection of sound waves, the system may not detect flat objects or object insufficiently large to reflect sound — e.g., a narrow pole or a longitudinal object pointed directly at the vehicle or near an object. Objects with flat surfaces angled from the vertical may deflect return sound waves away from the sensors, hindering detection.
Electromagnetic systems[edit]
The electromagnetic parking sensor was patented in 1992 by Mauro Del Signore.[3] Electromagnetic sensors rely on the vehicle moving slowly and smoothly towards the object to be avoided. Once detected, the obstacle, if the vehicle momentarily stops on its approach, the sensor continues to give signal of presence of the obstacle. If the vehicle then resumes its manoeuvre the alarm signal becomes more and more impressive as the obstacle approaches. Electromagnetic parking sensors are often sold as not requiring any holes to be drilled offering a unique design that discreetly mounts on the inner side of the bumper preserving the 'new factory look' of your vehicle. Now they also come equipped with a camera to go with the sensor. By 2018 the US is requiring back up camera with sensors on all cars.
Blind spot monitors and other technology[edit]
Blind spot monitors are an option that may include more than monitoring the sides of the vehicle. It can include "Cross Traffic Alert," "which alerts drivers backing out of a parking space when traffic is approaching from the sides."[4][5][6]
See also[edit]
- Automatic parking
- Backup collision
- Backup camera
- Blind spot monitor
- Blind spot (vehicle)
- Intelligent Parking Assist System
- Experimental Safety Vehicle (ESV)
- Intelligent car
- Lane departure warning system
- Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
- Omniview technology
- Precrash system
- Rear-view mirror
- Side-view mirror
- Wing mirror
- ^ "EPS ® Trademark registration".
- ^ "Mercedes Benz Parktronic system (PTS)". Launch Tech. Retrieved 2008-07-13.
- ^ "Electromagnetic Parking Sensor patent".
- ^ Ford Motor Company (2008). "See It, Hear It, Feel It: Ford Seeks Most Effective Driver Warnings for Active Safety Technology. Increased warnings indicate potentially hazardous lane changes". Gale, Cengage Learning/Free Library. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
- ^ Jensen, Christopher (August 18, 2009). "Are Blind Spots a Myth?". The New York Times. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
- ^ Automobile Blind-Spot Monitoring System, Tri-City Insurance News, January 27, 2006
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|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Parking sensors.
- BMW Technology Guide: Park Distance Control
- Proxel - Operating principle of Electromagnetic Parking Sensor
- Parking Sensors patented in Italy
- "The danger of blind zones The area behind your vehicle can be a killing zone". Consumer Reports (Consumers Union). March 2012. Retrieved August 10, 2013.


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Estates auction sees Prussian silver punch bowl polish off $7,995
NEW ORLEANS – On July 26-28, 2013, New Orleans Auction Galleries achieved $2.3 million during its summer estates auction, offering 1,600 lots of antique and contemporary fine art, sculpture, furniture, lighting, silver, estate jewelry, couture handbags and more. "What made … Read More +
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Alphonse Mucha's Art Nouveau 'Four Seasons' lithographs could sell for $80,000
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They say, the 'devil is in the details,' and with Lalique, that is the case. Because while many pieces appear to be similar, that doesn't always mean they are. Read More +
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After 36 years, the Westchester Glass Club is changing things up. The April 27-28 Collectors Glass Show and Sale will also include quality ceramics. Read More +
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In 2010, Unilever ran a campaign called Share Happy. It was an ice-cream vending machine that prompted consumers to smile onto a screen before they were dispensed the goods. Facial recognition technology made it all possible.
Since that time, Facebook has startled users with its intuitive ability to tag photos for them, and marketers have published speculations as to where this will leave us in the next few years. Associate professor Brian Mennecke at Iowa State University predicts that marketers will use what he calls "mavatars," or marketing avatars that are a representation of the consumer standing before the screen.
Recognition could be as simple as guessing your age by measuring the length of your nose or distance between your eyes to complexly identifying who you are with information from Facebook, Google and other social media. It then takes layers of the consumer's identity and produces a personal ad experience for the 35 year old female pet lover who is no longer the girl walking into the store.
Digital displays at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas already tailor dinner and entertainment suggestions to passersby and entrepreneurs at SceneTap have set up a system that identifies the ages of patrons and male to female ratio at clubs and bars. Lager companies like Kraft and Adidas are also in the works of using face recognition for advertising and coupon customization.
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One man's trash might be another's treasure but hosting a yard sale can be even better than picking through one, thanks to the extra cash and space you'll gain. Choose a good moneymaking day, such as a Saturday near the first or 15th of the month (typical paydays). Then, arrange wares for easy browsing: Group same-priced items (e.g., books, $1) with a single sign, and use office-supply stickers for larger items. And if things don't sell quickly, lower prices. You want to off-load this stuff, remember?


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The three men were due to be hanged on September 9 after India's president rejected their final mercy pleas [EPA]
Judges in India have delayed by two months the execution of three men convicted of the 1991-assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
The three men were due to be hanged on September 9 at a jail in the southern state of Tamil Nadu after India's president rejected their final mercy pleas earlier this month.
However, a court in the sourthern city of Chennai said on Tuesday that it had "stayed the execution of the capital punishment by eight weeks" after a further round of appeals from lawyers and state politicians who oppose the executions.
On August 11, India's president Pratibha Patil rejected the mercy petition of the three men who were linked to neighbouring Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which ordered Gandhi's killing.
A woman suicide bomber blew up Gandhi, who was prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989, at an election rally in Sriperumbudur near Chennai on May 21, 1991.
Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan and others were charged with criminal conspiracy that led to Gandhi's killing.
In 1998, all 26 accused in the case - including the three - were sentenced to die by a special trial court.
In 1999, the Supreme Court confirmed the death sentences of four, Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan and Nalini, an Indian Tamil woman married to Murugan who was also convicted in connection with the assassination.
The death sentence of Nalini was commuted to life imprisonment after her mercy petition was accepted.
The capital punishment of the others was reduced to varying terms of imprisonment.
In 2006, the Tamil Tigers expressed "regret" for the murder.
The death penalty is rare in India. The last execution was in 2004 when a 41-year-old former security guard was hanged for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl.
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