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Likened to a 'gorgeous little jewel box', The Rivoli Bar is an intimate cocktail lounge secluded from bustling Piccadilly, which is located immediately outside but feels a world away. The Rivoli Bar is overtly Art Deco in its design, a sophisticated symphony of camphor wood walls inset with illuminated Lalique glass panels, patterned mirrors, decorative bas relief, and an under lit bar topped with polished cocktail shakers, all overarched with brilliant gilded ceiling domes.
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The bartenders of The Rivoli Bar are experts in the craft of the cocktail; utilizing premium spirits, homemade cordials and bitters, bespoke glassware, uniquely shaped ice and seemingly boundless imagination to create new concoctions or reinterpret old classics. Guests can, for example, imbibe a 'Ramos Gin Fizz' served in a golden goose egg perched within an edible caramel nest or indulge in a spot of time travel with a 'vintage cocktail' created with spirits dating from the 1940s to the 1980s that were discovered in the depths of The Ritz cellars.
With a menu that also features an extensive Champagne and wine selection as well as gourmet cuisine ranging from club sandwiches to caviar, The Rivoli Bar is the perfect destination for hosting lunch or toasting a special occasion.
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The thought that immediately came to my mind was a Remington 870 shotgun.
Hmmm... maybe I should think about picking one up.
Lol thats a good choice i would either be a remington 870 12 ga or a mossy 500 12 ga
I can guarantee that I will not live long enough to see such a world.
I do have 3 12 gauges allready a remington spartan 12 ga a big mossy 535 chambered for up to 3 1/2" and a mavrick 88 whi h ive customised to be my zombie killer lol
This maybe stretching the "single gun" criteria, T/C Encore and all the barrels they make. If not, my Ak
Dude!!! I swear I just started a thread of almost the exact same idea in the general rifle discussion!
But since you say any gun (not just a rifle), and there wont be any more guns, my thoughts are that there won't be any more ammo either. So, I'd definately think a .22 revolver. Plentiful ammo, decent versatility, and ultimate reliability. True that it's only a .22, what elsedo you need when everyone else has no ammo? It is more than capable of taking small game.
I would have to say my M4
Semper paratus.....virtute et armis
pure and simple AK47,
I got a 91/30 for long range shooting, a winchester model 94 30-30 for brush work, a colt M4 .22lr, a rem 870, and a medel 66 .357 mag. So really the only real gun that I need is a semi auto that is tough as all hell.
"come on you sons of b***hs! do you want to live forever?" Sergeant Daniel Daly, USMC, Belleau Wood France June 6th 1918
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A day after the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee headquarters here was attacked by pro-Sri Lankan Tamil groups, three busts of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in different locations were desecrated by miscreants in the wee hours of Thursday.
In a related incident, a petrol bomb was hurled at the office of Seeman, leader of Naam Tamilar Katchi, in Porur. But it failed to explode.
Police sources said one bust at Purasaiwakam and two on Barracks Road in Perambur were found vandalised by the public. As the news spread, a contingent of 65 Congressmen squatted on the Barracks Road demanding action against the miscreants. They were taken into custody. Members of the Youth Congress tried to besiege the office of the Director-General of Police here. They met DGP K. Ramanujam and handed over a petition seeking stringent action.
Meanwhile, police sources said K. Veeralakshmi and six others of Tamilar Munnetra Padai were held in connection with the Wednesday attack on Sathyamurthy Bhavan.
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Tension prevailed in Vepery, Oteri and Perambur localities where statues of the former Prime Minister were found damaged on Thursday, a day after members of a Tamil outfit clashed with Congressmen.
While local party workers held protests, a peeved TNCC president B S Gnanadesikan said "anti-social organisations" which indulge in violence should be banned, adding his party would press the state government for this.
"We will submit a memorandum to the Governor seeking his intervention on this issue," he said.
Cases under several sections of the IPC including attempt to murder and rioting were slapped on the seven, who had tried to storm the Congress office to condemn the Centre's stand in opposing the state government's decision to release the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
Some persons were injured when stones were pelted by some unidentified persons during the protest.
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram this morning met Congress worker Sarvanan, who is undergoing treatment at Royapettah hospital for injuries suffered in the clash.
Petrol bombs hurled at the office of Tamil outfit
In a related incident, miscreants allegedly hurled a petrol bomb at the office of Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) at Porur here. However,none was injured in the incident.
NTK had also staged protest outside TNCC office on Wednesday.
The Youth Congress wing staged a demonstration outside DGP's office here demanding action against persons involved in yesterday's clashes.
It submitted a memorandum to police seeking action against those involved in yesterday's incident besides others such as attack on former party MP R Prabhu's office in Coimbatore.
It demanded adequate security to Rajiv Gandhi statues.
Keywords: Rajiv Gandhi assasination, Rajiv convicts, Naam Tamilar, Seeman, petrol bombs, Congress, LTTE, Sri Lankan Tamils issue


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Luke, the writer of the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, has been identified with St. Paul's "Luke, the beloved physician" (Colossians 4:14). We know few other facts about Luke's life from Scripture and from early Church historians. It is believed that Luke was born a Greek and a Gentile. In Colossians 10-14 speaks of those friends who are with him. He first mentions all those "of the circumcision" -- in other words, ... Continue Reading
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+i liked this very much considr'n these str's about saint luk
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I cant decide! St.Luke or St.Francis of Assisi for my Confirmation patron saint because I am an artist and going to be a surgeon but at the same time I am a fighter for justice and seek what is right for everyone! AGH Dx
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I'm doing a paper on Luke.I need help,as a young man did Luke have Autism? was Luke thrust into a world that doesn't expect anything from him, but Luke is on a quest. Was he sheltered by his grandpartents? Did Luke mother give him up when he was not only a child?
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This is my Martyr project... yup... that's it.
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St. Luke is going to be my confirmation name! Thanks catholic.org!
3 years ago
Great info!!! Good Work!!!!
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I'm choosing Saint Luke for my saint name for conformation. This information is very helpful. Thanks Luke!
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My daughter is studying to be a physician. She is very good, works extremly hard and she wants to help people desperatley. Plese St Luuke help her make her dream become possible. Amen
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coolwebsite ithelps me alot
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omg I just luv the pictures he drew and painted
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Oh my gosh! This was a very helpful source about St. Luke. I think i've learned more about him than I've ever had. Thanks a lot and God bless!!!
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I love saint luke he is a hero! I wish i could give him a jobby as a token of gratitude ! :)
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St.Luke is a great inspiration as we know that he was a doctor,but in this days traditional doctors are not 100% accepted to the church,but ST.Luke participated to God as a doctor meaningfull without any criticisim
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Although I always invoke Saint Luke the Evangelist althrough my life, as my protector. I never knew he was a physician. I find his story fascinating. As a young adult I lived alone. whenever I was afraid, I always prayed to the four Evangelists: St Mattheuw, St Mark, St Luke and St. John. I got the idea from my Great Grand Mother, Eugenie Duval. Thank you for the article
3 years ago
Thnx. for the info...!!!
The act of the apostles is the best part of the Holy Church... this really teaches me about the truth... so maybe, there are not more words to say... but always, the bible has a lot of things that I must learn... Luke let us a great amount of knowledge... and devotion... Amen..!!!
3 years ago
Dear St. Luke, Please pray for us.
3 years ago
Dear St. Luke, you are the author of truth, a true historian, a lover of the poor. Please ensure that the offerings made by good intentioned people be used honestly and for the most deserving cases in the recent floods in Pakistan. St. Luke pray for this to happen. Amen.
3 years ago
St. Luke, you were the favourite of my Scripture class, giving us Christ's life from the moment of Angel Gabriel's Annunciation to His death on the cross. From you we hear of Christ's mercy to the poor, to women, to sinners and to non-Jews. Then, we continued to read about St. Paul's conversion, his journeys, his teachings and his imprisonment from the Acts of the Apostles.
In my needs today, I ask you as patron of physicians, to administer to all who are sick and suffering. Grant a miraculous healing to all children who are born with the terrible afflictions of fragile X. Their suffering pervades all aspects of health, both mental and physical. With your intercession, please come to their aid. A respite is not enough, please grant a permanent cure for these suffering children. I ask this in Jesus name. Amen.
3 years ago
He was a good historian, evangelist, physician and ambassador of goodness to the poor.
He highlights in his gospel the the importance of paryer, Holy Spirit, the role of women, the lost son, the lost coin and the lost sheep. He loved the poor, sinners, the outcast, the mariginazed and all those who were abandoned and neglected by the elite. He was very compassionate to them and healed them as mush he could through powerful word and deed. He was a greater helper and collaborator to Paul during the missionary journey. He has also written the acts of the apostle. I wonder at him. How wonderful is this pagan, is doing such things amazing way. Today we need to take the word to the sinners and outcast o four society so that the Word of god may heal our sisters and brothers who sit in darkness and come to the light. Is there new way and path for missionary works? St.Luke, pray for us
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I am so grateful that my firstborn grandchild was named Luke. He is not only loyal, but helps the poor. Thank the Lord for Saint Lukes's information in the Bible of Our Holy Mother. Maybe he'll be called to be a doctor?!
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|Wed, 04-11-2012 - 7:33am
We are only TTC one day out of the month from here on out using the 0+12 method (TTC 12 hours after +OPK) for a girl.
I took an ovulation test yesterday morning at 9am and it was +. I took one at 8pm and it was-. I took another one this morning at 6am- just to double check and it was still negative.
Based on my temps- it looks like I am ovulating today (unless my temps are lower tomorrow), so either way (even though we only had the one day) it looks like we had good timing- around O.
Most people in our families don't believe in a method to TTC a certain gender. The way I explain it is it doesn't guarentee a girl, it's just supposed in increase our chances.
We did everything we were supposed to do for this method (beyond what I already do- take temps, use opk, take vitamins).... I also am on a "girl" diet to create an acidic environment (that allows the girl sperm to survive while killing off the boy sperm) by not eating red meat, potatoes, and tomatoes and eating plenty of chocolate, dairy, and berries. I also had to douche just before bd and record PH (salvia)- should be acidic b/w 5.0- 6.8 (7.0+ is alkaline)... mine was 6.2, so right in the middle. Honestly, I don't want it any lower than that because it would be unsafe/unhealthy. I propped
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I wonder if I will end up with a girl because of my diet .... I never eat meat (I'm a vegetarian), I do eat dairy daily (cheese and yogurt), I eat berries every day with breakfast and I looooove chocolate! :) I do eat tomatoes and potatoes though.
I'm pulling for you! I can't wait to see pictures of your daughter someday! :)
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Herbert E. Metz, professor emeritus of drama and of English in Arts and Sciences, died of complications stemming from heart failure Tuesday, Aug. 25, 1998, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. He was 77.
Metz taught literature and drama at the University for 40 years. He directed dozens of productions for the Performing Arts Department in Arts and Sciences, including his own original plays "The Artificial Princess" (1959) and "Romance Language" (1973).
"Herb was one of the most popular and effective teachers we've ever had," said Henry I. Schvey, Ph.D., professor and chair of performing arts. "He personified the values of modesty, integrity, generosity and, above all, passion for the theater that we hope to instill in our students."
Metz joined the University in 1955 as an instructor in speech in the Department of English. He became assistant professor in 1962 and associate professor in 1969. In 1972, he also was named associate professor in performing arts, where he headed the drama division. In 1973, he became associate professor of English. Metz was named associate professor emeritus of drama and of English in 1991 but continued teaching part time until 1995.
A native of New York City, Metz earned a bachelor's degree from the City University of New York in 1942 and -- following a three-year stint in the U.S. Air Force during World War II -- a master's degree from the University of Iowa in 1949.
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Three Businessmen
Directed by Alex Cox. With Miguel Sandoval, Robert Wisdom, Alex Cox
UK 1998, 35mm, color, 80 min
Working from a screenplay by his wife, producer and publisher Tod Davies, Cox fuses Buñuel and Beckett in the age of transnational capitalism. One night, two traveling art dealers, a brash American and an uptight Brit, meet by chance in the dining room of a Liverpool hotel. They go off in search of a colleague and a decent vegetarian meal, but after they get lost, their search develops into a globetrotting odyssey as they visit five different countries in the course of a night and the following day. Captured mostly in long takes without inserts or close-ups, the film follows their endless conversation as they wander from dystopic cityscapes into the desert.
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Getting Flash plug-in to work with older CPUs
Version 11 of the Flash plug-in for web browsers has been compiled to use the sse2 feature in the CPU. This was introduced in the Intel Pentium 4, but other chip manufacturers only used it in 64-bit CPUs. If you have a Pentium 3 or earlier, or a 32-bit chip from AMD or VIA, the plug-in will not work. If you have a 32-bit computer and Flash is not working, follow these instructions.
1. Check your CPU by entering this command in a terminal emulator:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
If the Flags line doesnt contain sse2 (sse wont do), then you need to use version 10 of the plug-in.
2. Check that you do have the wrong version. In Firefox, enter the url about:plugins, in Opera opera:plugins, or in Chrome chrome://plugins, and see if Shockwave Flash is version 11.
If (1) and (2) showed that you need to change the plug-in, theres no need to uninstall and re-install: just changing the plug-in library file is sufficient.
3. First find where the file libflashplayer.so is kept. The most likely places are /usr/lib/flash-plugin or /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin. If its not there, look for a nearby folder with the name of you browsers provider e.g. for Firefox, that would be /usr/lib/mozilla and that will contain a symbolic link to libflashplayer.so.
4. Download the Flash package. Currently the address for the last issue of version 10 is
If its not there, check at
5. Open the file with your archive manager (or at the command-line if you prefer). Inside is a folder called 10.3.183.20 and inside that is another archive flashplayer_10_3r183_20_linux.tar.gz and inside that is libflashplayer.so. Extract it.
6. Now move it to the correct destination. The command will be
su -c "mv -f Downloads/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flash-plugin"
sudo mv -f Downloads/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flash-plugin
Obviously use the correct addresses if mine dont apply.
Thats it: congratulations!
I have found out, that on Pentium III Mobile 1 Ghz I can also use all versions < 11.2.
I currently use version 188.8.131.52, which works fine.
For additional info and discussion see here:
In Linux Mint, the plugin is kept in /opt/mint-flashplugin-11/
oops posted in wrong thread - deleting... well I would if I could figure out how to.
It works for me
Thanks man i have a AMD athlon XP 2400+ & this worked for mee :-)
Addendum to modify the information of post #1
Hmm...it may not be that simple
(Starting to understand why not everyone likes Linux)
Post#1 describes how to replace an existing version of the file libflashplayer.so by an older version. Version 10 of Adobe Flasplayer will work with older CPU's. However the latest version 10 is not the one mentioned in the article.
Actually the most latest version 10 to download from Adobe website.
From http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/
you can download the file 10.3.183.90_archive.zip
This archive contains a lot of maps and folders for different operating systems.
While making your way through the unzipping process, you can remove all the non-linux related items. Keeping only the unzipped Linux stuff makes your work easier to reach the file which you need.
This file (libflashplayer.so) is the one we use as source to replace the file which does not work for your older system.
Regarding STEP 3, the existing locations found on my system were the following
Computer/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so (17,422,820 bytes)
FIREFOX actually uses the same file, in the samefolder. Please note that the file is accessed via LINKS, appearing at other locations made by Mozilla.
The existing file must be replaced by the older file with same name, which was unpacked.
To do this, finally copy the extracted file libflashplayer.so
to the DESTINATION folder /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer
My SOURCE FILE was :
This Terminal (copy) command overwrites the not-working existing file with the old working version. The COPY command keeps the source file for expected later use (instead of using the move command)
cp -f ~/Downloads/fp_10.3.183.90_archive/10_3_r183_90/flashplayer_10_3r183_90_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer
This worked for my old PC with Celeron CPU. However Chromium was removed before executing the procedure, with Firefox only installed. I guess I should install again Chromium, to verify if some links are working now in this browser as well as in Firefox
Thanks for the info
Thanks for the detailed and patient :-) response
had figured this out after posting the query.....yup thts true that why every body does not like linux...
and thats part of the game ...anyway thanks again....
Awesome post. Thanks. I found via a google search. Trying to get an older machine (turned into a Mythbuntu box) to play Flash content, more specifically, iHeartRadio streaming and finally figured out this was the culprit.
Thanks again for this awesome post!
Thanks everyone I've done all this BUT... my libflashplayer.so is protected and nothing I try will move or replace it.
How do I get around this? Ideas welcome.
Do I need to deactivate or uninstall flashplayer and then try and install the older version?
Very grateful for any suggestions. (PS I'm a bit new to this)
To jps07
You might try to first delete the current file before to put the required "old" libflashplayer.so into place ? But did you use the "sudo" after the command prompt when trying to replace the file ?
Regarding 'rights' of a user to execute some commands, you must acquire rights of a "super-user".
Each command must be executed as "super user", meaning that the first word to type after the prompt (and before the command itself) must be sudo.
I'm a beginner myself and must struggle through each command's syntax.
The basic information about "super user" is very well explained HERE.
It is not necessary to un-install and re-installl Flash itself because you might install again a later version which will never work. The idea of this process : to use the old file !
All you need to do to make it work is replace that file with an old version.
If you don't succeed, please 'select' and 'copy' the contents of your attempts in Terminal and 'paste' it into next post.
Thanks Merel I will try this :-)
sh*t..clicked the wrong reply button..re-type..
Hi Merel,
I put
sudo cp -f ~/Downloads/fp_10.3.183.67_archive/10_3_r183_67/flashplayer_10_3r183_67_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer
into the terminal window and it worked! Inasmuch as it's replaced the fp version 12 with the version 10.
However... fp still doesn't work in my firefox (after restart)
Anyone got any other ideas?
By the way thanks for the hint about sudo. I'm beginning to get the hang of this.
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For as long as we humans have lived on Earth, we have been able to use our ears to localize the sources of sounds. Our ability to localize warns us of danger and helps us sort out individual sounds from the usual cacophony of our acoustical world. Characterizing this ability in humans and other animals makes an intriguing physical, physiological, and psychological study (see figure 1). John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) understood at least part of the localization process more than 120 years ago.1 He observed that if a sound source is to the right of the listener's forward direction, then the left ear is in the shadow cast by the listener's head. Therefore, the signal in the right ear should be more intense than the signal in the left one, and this difference is likely to be an important clue that the sound source is located on the right.
level difference
Ultimately, the use of an ILD, small or large, depends on the sensitivity of the central nervous system to such differences. In evolutionary terms, it would make sense if the sensitivity of the central nervous system would somehow reflect the ILD values that are actually physically present. In fact, that does not appear to be the case. Psychoacoustical experiments find that the central nervous system is about equally sensitive at all frequencies. The smallest detectable change in ILD is approximately 0.5 dB, no matter what the frequency.2 Therefore the ILD is a potential localization cue at any frequency where it is physically greater than a decibel. It is as though Mother Nature knew in advance that her offspring would walk around the planet listening to portable music through headphones. The spherical-head model is obviously a simplification. Human heads include a variety of secondary scatterers that can be expected to lead to structure in the higher-frequency dependence of the ILD. Conceivably, this structure can serve as an additional cue for sound localization. As it turns out, that is exactly what happens, but that is another story for later in this article.
In the long-wavelength limit, the spherical-head model correctly predicts that the ILD should become uselessly small. If sounds are localized on the basis of ILD alone, it should be very difficult to localize a sound with a frequency content that is entirely below 500 Hz. It therefore came as a considerable surprise to Rayleigh to discover that he could easily localize a steady-state low-frequency pure tone such as 256 or 128 Hz. Because he knew that localization could not be based on ILD, he finally concluded in 1907 that the ear must be able to detect the difference in waveform phases between the two ears.3
time difference
where a is the radius of the head (approximately 8.75 cm) and c is the speed of sound (34 400 cm/s). Therefore, 3a/c = 763 ms.
Psychoacoustical experiments show that human listeners can localize a 500 Hz sine tone with considerable accuracy. Near the forward direction (q near zero), listeners are sensitive to differences Dq as small as 1–2°. The idea that this sensitivity is obtained from an ITD initially seems rather outrageous. A 1° difference in azimuth corresponds to an ITD of only 13 ms. It hardly seems possible that a neural system, with synaptic delays on the order of a millisecond, could successfully encode such small time differences. However, the auditory system, unaware of such mathematical niceties, goes ahead and does it anyway. This ability can be proved in headphone experiments, in which the ITD can be presented independently of the ILD. The key to the brain's success in this case is parallel processing. The binaural system apparently beats the unfavorable timing dilemma by transmitting timing information through many neurons. Estimates of the number of neurons required, based on statistical decision theory, have ranged from 6 to 40 for each one-third-octave frequency band.
There remains the logical problem of just how the auditory system manages to use ITDs. There is now good evidence that the superior olive—a processing center, or "nucleus," in the midbrain—is able to perform a cross-correlation operation on the signals in the two ears, as described in the box below. The headphone experiments with an ITD give the listener a peculiar experience. The position of the image is located to the left or right as expected, depending on the sign of the ITD, but the image seems to be within the listener's head—it is not perceived to be in the real external world. Such an image is said to be "lateralized" and not localized. Although the lateralized headphone sensation is quite different from the sensation of a localized source, experiments show that lateralization is intimately connected to localization.
Using headphones, one can measure the smallest detectable change in ITD as a function of the ITD itself. These ITD data can be used with equation 1 to predict the smallest detectable change in azimuth Dq for a real source as a function of q. When the actual localization experiment is done with a real source, the results agree with the predictions, as is to be expected if the brain relies on ITDs to make decisions about source location.
Like any phase-sensitive system, the binaural phase detector that makes possible the use of ITDs suffers from phase ambiguity when the wavelength is comparable to the distance between the two measurements. This problem is illustrated in figure 3. The equivalent temporal viewpoint is that, to avoid ambiguity, a half period of the wave must be longer than the delay between the ears. When the delay is exactly half a period, the signals at the two ears are exactly out of phase and the ambiguity is complete. For shorter periods, between twice the delay and the delay itself, the ITD leads to an apparent source location that is on the opposite side of the head compared to the true location. It would be better to have no ITD sensitivity at all than to have a process that gives such misleading answers. In fact, the binaural system solves this problem in what appears to be the best possible way: The binaural system rapidly loses sensitivity to any ITD at all as the frequency of the wave increases from 1000 to 1500 Hz—exactly the range in which the interaural phase difference becomes ambiguous.
One might imagine that the network of delay lines and coincidence detectors described in the box vanishes at frequencies greater than about 1500 Hz. Such a model would be consistent with the results of pure-tone experiments, but it would be wrong. In fact, the binaural system can successfully register an ITD that occurs at a high frequency such as 4000 Hz, if the signal is modulated. The modulation, in turn, must have a rate that is less than about 1000 Hz. Therefore, the failure of the binaural timing system to process sine tones above 1500 Hz cannot be thought of as a failure of the binaural neurons tuned to high frequency. Instead, the failure is best described in the temporal domain, as an inability to track rapid variations.
To summarize the matter of binaural differences, the physiology of the binaural system is sensitive to amplitude cues from ILDs at any frequency, but for incident plane waves, ILD cues exist physically only for frequencies above about 500 Hz. They become large and reliable for frequencies above 3000 Hz, making ILD cues most effective at high frequencies. In contrast, the binaural physiology is capable of using phase information from ITD cues only at low frequencies, below about 1500 Hz. For a sine tone of intermediate frequency, such as 2000 Hz, neither cue works well. As a result, human localization ability tends to be poor for signals in this frequency region.
inadequacy of binaural difference cues
anatomical transfer function
Confusion of this kind between the source spectrum and the ATF immediately appears with narrow-band sources such as pure tones or noise bands having a bandwidth of a few semitones. When a listener is asked to say whether a narrow-band sound comes from directly in front, in back, or overhead, the answer will depend entirely on the frequency of the sound—the true location of the sound source is irrelevant.5 Thus, for narrow-band sounds, the confusion between source spectrum and location is complete. The listener can solve this localization problem only by turning the head so that the source is no longer in the midsagittal plane. In an interesting variation on this theme, Frederic Wightman and Doris Kistler at the University of Wisconsin—Madison have shown that it is not enough if the source itself moves—the listener will still be confused about front and back. The confusion can be resolved, though, if the listener is in control of the source motion.6
Fortunately, most sounds of the everyday world are broadband and relatively benign in their spectral variation, so that listeners can both localize the source and identify it on the basis of the spectrum. It is still not entirely clear how this localization process works. Early models of the process that focused on particular spectral features (such as the peak at 7000 Hz for a source overhead) have given way, under the pressure of recent research, to models that employ the entire spectrum.
experimental art
Adequate filtering requires fast, dedicated digital signal processors linked to the computer that runs experiments. The motion of the listener's head can be taken into account by means of an electromagnetic head tracker. The head tracker consists of a stationary transmitter, whose three coils produce low-frequency magnetic fields, and a receiver, also with three coils, that is mounted on the listener's head. The tracker gives a reading of all six degrees of freedom in the head motion, 60 times per second. Based on the motion of the head, the controlling computer directs the fast digital processor to refilter the signals to the ears so that the auditory scene is stable and realistic. This virtual reality technology is capable of synthesizing a convincing acoustical environment. Starting with a simple monaural recording of a conversation, the experimenter can place the individual talkers in space. If the listener's head turns to face a talker, the auditory image remains constant, as it does in real life. What is most important for the psychoacoustician, this technology has opened a large new territory for controlled experiments.
it wrong
Incorporating the ATF into headphone simulations considerably expands the menu of bizarre effects. An accurate synthesis of a broadband sound leads to perception that is like the real world: Auditory images are localized, externalized, and compact. Making errors in the synthesis, for example progressively zeroing the ITD of spectral lines while retaining the amplitude part of the ATF, can cause the image to come closer to the head, push on the face, and form a blob that creeps into the ear canal and finally enters the head. The process can be reversed by progressively restoring accurate ITD values.8
A wide variety of effects can occur, by accident or design, with inaccurate synthesis. There are a few general rules: Inaccuracies tend to expand the size of the image, put the images inside the head, and produce images that are in back rather than in front. Excellent accuracy is required to avoid front–back confusion. The technology permits a listener to hear the world with someone else's ears, and the usual result is an increase in confusion about front and back. Reduced accuracy often puts all source images in back, although they are nevertheless externalized. Further reduction in accuracy puts the images inside the back of the head.
and reflections
The ITD is particularly vulnerable because it depends on coherence between the signals in the two ears—that is, the height of the cross-correlation function, as described in the box above. Reverberated sound contains no useful coherent information, and in a large room where reflected sound dominates the direct sound, the ITD becomes unreliable.
By contrast, the ILD fares better. First, as shown by headphone experiments, the binaural comparison of intensities does not care whether the signals are binaurally coherent or not. Such details of neural timing appear to be stripped away as the ILD is computed. Of course, the ILD accuracy is adversely affected by standing waves in a room, but here the second advantage of the ILD appears: Almost every reflecting surface has the property that its acoustical absorption increases with increasing frequency; as a result, the reflected power becomes relatively smaller compared to the direct power. Because the binaural neurophysiology is capable of using ILDs across the audible spectrum with equal success, it is normally to the listener's advantage to use the highest frequency information that can be heard. Experiments in highly reverberant environments find listeners doing exactly that, using cues above 8000 Hz. A statistical decision theory analysis using ILDs and ITDs measured with a manikin shows that the pattern of localization errors observed experimentally can be understood by assuming that listeners rely entirely on ILDs and not at all on ITDs. This strategy of reweighting localization cues is entirely unconscious.
precedence effect
The operation of the precedence effect is often thought of as a neural gate that is opened by the onset of a sound, accumulates localization information for about 1 ms, and then closes to shut off subsequent localization cues. This operation appears dramatically in experiments where it is to the listener's advantage to attend to the subsequent cues but the precedence effect prevents it. An alternative model regards precedence as a strong reweighting of localization cues in favor of the earliest sound, because the subsequent sound is never entirely excluded from the localization computation.
Precedence is easily demonstrated with a standard home stereo system set for monophonic reproduction, so that the same signal is sent to both loudspeakers. Standing midway between the speakers, the listener hears the sound from a forward direction. Moving half a meter closer to the left speaker causes the sound to appear to come entirely from that speaker. The analysis of this result is that each speaker sends a signal to both ears. Each speaker creates an ILD and—of particular importance—an ITD, and these cues compete, as shown in figure 5. Because of the precedence effect, the first sound (from the left speaker) wins the competition, and the listener perceives the sound as coming from the left. But although the sound appears to come from the left speaker alone, the right speaker continues to contribute loudness and a sense of spatial extent. This perception can be verified by suddenly unplugging the right speaker—the difference is immediately apparent. Thus, the precedence effect is restricted to the formation of a single fused image with a definite location. The precedence effect appears not to depend solely on interaural differences; it operates also on the spectral differences caused by anatomical filtering for sources in the midsagittal plane.9
and conjectures
The author is grateful to his colleagues Brad Rakerd, Tim McCaskey, Zachary Constan, and Joseph Gaalaas for help with this article. His work on sound localization is supported by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, one of the National Institutes of Health.
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Tea Fiend: Miranda's Tea Guide – Ginger Tea
If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you've probably noticed that I really really (REALLY) love tea. I love a hot cup of earl grey on a cold and slow morning, I love a bubbly and naturally sweet iced tea in the summer time, I love collecting new flavours and I even bathe in the stuff! But the thing I love most about tea is discovering the medicinal properties of the different herbs – meaning that you can drink specific teas to help your body do its thing!
From time to time, I'd like to explore with you these medicinal properties (goodness knows I need another reason to drink more tea, don't I?) in my Tea Fiend series. Just remember, if you are going to explore these options, best to opt for organic tea (I'd be happy to give you a guide to my favourite brands within this series – just ask!), and don't be afraid to try a pre-made blend (it will only taste better that way) or even experiment in blending stand-alone herbs that you like (you never know what you will come up with).
Ginger Tea (Zingiber officinale)
(caffeine free)
Ginger is a gorgeous herb to drink in tea form – it's got a sweetness and heat to it that can be matched easily with a variety of other teas, but on its own, it has fantastic medicinal properties.
For starters, the natural heat within ginger makes it a perfect natural winter warmer! If you get cold hands and toes, ginger is a fantastic herbal tea to drink throughout the day as it gets the blood flowing to really warm you from your head to your toes. This action of stimulating the blood flow can also stimulate the blood flow to your organs, such as those in your digestive system, to stimulate their function. The organs need an adequate blood supply in order to function properly, so stimulating the blood flow in your body can optimise the delivery of nutrients and removal of wastes to better the performance of your organs.
Ginger also benefits the digestive system by reducing nausea, (a safe and effective treatment for nausea in pregnancy) and motion sickness, and can reduce bloating by aiding the breakdown of food due to active digestive enzymes within the ginger. Drink some ginger tea in anticipation of motion sickness if it's something you know you're prone to, or as symptoms arise. If you've over eaten or haven't properly chewed your food, or regularly feel bloated just below your rib cage (your stomach area), sipping ginger tea may be a beneficial remedy for you. It also stimulates digestive secretions required to breakdown food and as such has been shown to reduce reflux, flatulence and colic, as well as stimulate the appetite. To stimulate your appetite, brew yourself a cup 30 minutes before meals to gently get your digestive juices flowing, not only will you have an appetite, but you will be more able to breakdown and absorb those all-important nutrients I keep bangin on about!
Ginger is a natural anti-inflammatory food, meaning that it can be used to reduce the pain associated with common ailments, like period pain, headache, muscle pain and migraine. These conditions are associated with an overproduction of pro-inflammatory chemicals called prostaglandins, which over-stimulate the natural inflammatory processes within the body, causing unnecessary damage to nearby tissues, and pain. Sipping on a brew with ginger in it throughout the day, may be of benefit.
[While ginger tea is a helpful tool for such conditions, an anti-inflammatory diet will have a more potent effect ('Ask Mira' at email@example.com or www.facebook.com/MirandasWellness if you'd like more info)]
The anti-inflammatory effect of ginger is also helpful during cold and flu, while the immune-boosting effects of ginger can help your body to fight off infections.
How to Brew
Infuse 4-6 fresh slices of ginger, or 3-9g dried ginger root in boiling water for 30 minutes and sip throughout the day. Best not to consume more than these amounts in one day.
For nausea:
Brew a pot of 4-6 slices ginger with 1/4-1/2 cup fresh peppermint (or 3-9g dried ginger/6-12g dried peppermint), as both herbs are great for nausea. ***If prone to reflux however, leave out the peppermint as it will exacerbate symptoms***
For bloating/flatulence:
When feeling bloated after a meal or experiencing flatulence, a brew of 4-6 slices ginger and 1-2tsp chamomile can help the digestion of your food and to relieve the discomfort of bloating and flatulence
For inflammation:
Brew a ginger and turmeric chai tea, such as this gorgeous one from Reece Carter Naturopathy for relief within 30 minutes
For cold & flu:
Ginger slices, lemon slices, a sprig or two of thyme and a teaspoon of the strongest manuka honey you can buy (the bigger the number, the stronger it is) is a strong brew to boost your immune system and help to kill off microbes that are making you sick in the first place. The stronger the better for this tea, and best if sipped throughout the day. It may not be the most pleasant tea you've brewed, but it will definitely pack the punch you are after.
Thanks to Lyndal Martin from Life Loves Me Naturopathy, who was my resident herb-nerd for this piece.
Going With Your Gut – Caring for Your Digestive System Part 2: Your Oh-So Important Oesophagus
Your gut is one of the most important systems in your body (and let's be honest, my personal favourite – you guys should know I'm nerdy enough to have a favourite system by now, surely!). Your gut (digestive system) is where your food is broken down from the delicious morsels you gobble up every day, into the nutrients that are then absorbed and used by your body to build every cell and perform every function.
The Oesophagus
Your oesophagus is the tube responsible for the passage of food from your mouth to your stomach. While it seems like a pretty mundane function, the tube lies flat, behind your larynx (the tube you breathe through) and in order for the food to travel down it instead of your larynx, the complex function of swallowing has to occur.
Firstly, the tongue pushes the chewed food up and back in the mouth, while your uvula (the dongly looking thing at the back of your mouth) moves up to stop food going up the back of your nose, and the epiglottis (great word! And also a flap of cartilage) covers the entrance of the larynx to prevent you choking on it (what a handy dude, that epiglottis!). The food then moves from your oral cavity through the upper oesophageal sphincter into your oesophagus, where the smooth muscles in the wall of your oesophagus constrict in progression, pushing the food down toward the lower oesophageal sphincter – the entrance to your stomach – a muscle which relaxes to allow food to enter the stomach. If you put your hands on your throat and swallow, you will be able to feel the upper part of this in action.
Caring for Your Oesophagus
- CHEW CHEW CHEW your food! As I talked about at length in Part 1 of the Going with Your Gut series chewing is an essential part of digestion. However for the oesophagus, it is important for different reasons. Chewing your food at least 15-20 times per mouthful and being mindful and aware of the food you are eating firstly will stop you from choking! Do you rush when you eat your food? And when you do, have you noticed it getting either stuck (corn chips are probably the worst culprit for this) or that you start choking on your food? Chewing and slowing down are great and simple ways to prevent this (and I'd rather you didn't die guys, for some strange reason) and helps your saliva to bond to the food to make it slippery enough to make a smooth journey to your stomach.
While the structure of the oesophagus is designed to withstand the regular friction of swallowing, it can be damaged when reflux allows the passage of food and stomach acid back up into the oesophagus from the stomach, which can irritate the wall of the oesophagus, resulting in a burning sensation – heartburn – and if left untreated, can permanently damage the oesophageal tissue. I have written an article on natural solutions for heart burn, which I wont repeat here, but if it is something you suffer from, be sure to take a look.
- SLIPPERY ELM is a powdered tree bark that contains fibre, vitamin C, zinc, other nutrients and tannins, and is incredibly soothing to any irritated and inflamed tissue in the digestive tract. If you suffer from reflux, drinking a large glass with 1 heaped teaspoon of slippery elm thoroughly mixed in, every day, can reduce the irritation and help the tissue to heal. The remedy was originally used by Native Americans and I've seen it in the health food section of supermarkets, as well as health food stores. I mean, it tastes like river water, but its a whole 5 seconds of your day to drink it, so wash the rest down with water and move on, its completely worth it!
- TURMERIC is a wonder herb that is hard not to love once you realise how powerful it is. I often use this when I have inflammation and have noticed results within 20 minutes of having it. Turmeric is a powerful anti-inflammatory herb, so it's another one that is great for oesophageal inflammation (such as that from reflux, Barrett's Oesophagitis, oesophageal ulcer), because it gets to work topically as soon as you swallow it down. My favourite way to include it is to brew a lovely chai on almond milk using freshly grated turmeric, or in curries, like chicken laksa. Make sure when you have turmeric to ensure you have it with some sort of fat (coconut oil/cream, milk, almond milk) and/or black pepper, to help it absorb.
Look out for next weeks Going with Your Gut blog, all about the stomach
That Time I Did a Detox
I'm sure you would have heard the word 'detox' thrown around the health and weight loss communities at some point or another. But what exactly is a detox? And why would you do one?
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The purpose of a true detox is to clean out your body of the myriad of toxins that accumulate through stress, food allergies, tobacco, alcohol, pesticides, food additives and preservatives, skin care, pollution, medications, drugs, radiation, bacteria, heavy metals, cleaning products, and many other things our bodies come into contact with every day. Our liver is the hard working organ that is in charge of cleaning out not only these toxins, but products of the body, like hormones and lactic acid, on a daily basis. In fact, every minute, the liver filters 2 litres of your blood to remove these chemicals for detoxification.
Detoxification occurs through many pathways within the liver that require specific nutrients in order to properly function. Many vitamins, amino acids and minerals play an important role in each detoxification pathway. If these nutrients are deficient in your diet, are not adequately absorbed, OR they have been depleted (by factors such as an overload of toxins, a disease state, excess alcohol consumption, smoking) these essential pathways do not function as efficiently as they need to, and toxins will slowly build up and cause harm and dysfunction in the body.
When the liver is overloaded with these toxins, you may experience sensitivities to bright lights or strong smells (perfume, chemicals), headaches, fatigue, acne, indigestion, reflux, steatorrhoea (oily/floating stools), or it may even interrupt the metabolism of cholesterol, blood sugar regulation or regulation of hormones in the body. Nasty stuff really.
A true detox looks after your liver, and ensures not only that the body is provided with a super load of the nutrients it needs to process toxins through juices and broths, but encourages the removal of these toxins by waste excretion through urine and bowel movements. Those "detoxes" you can get at supermarkets, pharmacies, on the TV and internet, including the skinny teas, are essentially just laxatives that cause your body to go into starvation mode and lose weight quickly, but also set you up to put it right back on again. They are also pretty dangerous and aren't aimed at helping the function of your liver at all.
I'd like to say it now, before I delve in, that if you would like to do a detox, DO NOT just buy a kit from a shop. If you want to do what is best for your body, consult a health professional, such as a nutritionist or naturopath, who has the knowledge, experience and understanding of the function of your individual body to prescribe a detox specific to your needs. I believe it is unethical to give advice on the internet to nameless, faceless people, whose bodies I have no idea about, for a detox plan. This was an incredibly difficult program that I did, under the advisement of a naturopath, and with my own nutritional knowledge, and I just personally feel uncomfortable about giving specific advice, as I feel doing so could be dangerous.
While I had my own personal symptoms of a toxic liver, and reasons for which I would prefer not to share, I also embarked on this detox, so that one day, when I am a nutritionist, and I have a patient who would like to complete a detox, I can give them a genuine understanding with the knowledge that I've gained through my course.
I originally aimed to complete 12 days of this detox, but I cut it down to 10 days because I don't deal well without protein (ie. I get really grumpy!!).
The detox started with a basic diet and worked it's way down to just juice and broth, then back up again to the original basic diet. I completed 3 1/2 days of juices before I decided to cut my detox down.
Despite the fact that I don't drink much, I rarely drink coffee or eat sugar, I did experience the expected symptoms of intense headache, fatigue, acne, cold extremities and general hunger. I did not, however, experience the surge of energy I had been told that you normally get during a detox, and the hunger was pretty constant. I did lose weight while on the detox, but I don't expect that to stay off for very long, as it's not a sustainable form of weight loss.
My skin felt GORGEOUS from about Day 3 onwards, and still feels incredibly smooth. My acne has improved, but isn't gone completely (it can take up to 3 weeks for it to properly resolve). I have noticed I don't want to eat as many carbs, instead I prefer vegetables and now eat fruit regularly now, which I've always struggled with, even though I love fruit. I'm not entirely sure why. I also feel better and better about myself every day and just cannot believe what I achieved in those 10 days.
While I am so proud of myself for having a red hot go at this detox, I have learnt that it's not suited to everyone, and those with mental health fragility might be better served by a long term detox that includes the protein that is needed for neurotransmitter production, rather than this one. However, I can see the benefits of this detox, and I've really learnt to appreciate every nutrient and every food that I put into my body just that little bit more. After all, food, in general, is my vice.
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Ask Mira: Natural Remedies for Reflux & Heartburn
Today's 'Ask Mira' is a question from the lovely Georgia, who posted a question on my Facebook page (www.facebook.com/MirandasWellness);
Hey Miranda! I think this page is a great idea, so many cool recipes I want to try! I was wondering if you have any foods or recipes that would help acid reflux? I'm looking at your delicious food but I can't really eat much and it's making me hungry!
Thanks Georgia – this is a great question! Reflux and heartburn are incredibly common, so I'd like to answer this question in 3 parts:
- What is reflux and heartburn?
- What causes reflux and heartburn?
- How can I reduce and relieve reflux and heartburn?
I'd like to explain it all to you so that I know you understand what is happening to you and why. This way you will understand how the remedies will help you and be more likely to try them (well, that's my theory, anyway!).
Reflux or gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) occurs when stomach contents, including stomach acid and partially digested food from the stomach is forced into the oesophagus, and sometimes into the mouth and oral cavity. This causes pain, burning in the chest, and regurgitation, and if left untreated, may damage the lining of the oesophagus or lead to oesophageal cancer. Heartburn is a symptom of this reflux, and occurs when stomach acid repeatedly passes through the sphincter at the base of the oesophagus. Stomach acid burns the lining of your oesophagus, because unlike the stomach, it does not have a layer of mucous over the tissue to protect it from the highly acidic fluid.
There are a few different reasons why you may be experiencing reflux and heartburn, but by figuring out which reason it is, it will be easier to know what treatment will work for you.
Firstly, reflux can be caused by both an excess of stomach acid, or, a lack of stomach acid. While an excess of stomach acid can occur, and causes reflux because it can't be contained in the stomach, it is a lot more likely to not have enough stomach acid. There are a couple of ways to test this.
- When you experience heartburn, take a large drink of water. If the heartburn subsides, it is likely you have too much stomach acid, as the water helps to neutralise the acid. However, if it makes it worse, it is likely you don't have enough stomach acid, as the neutralising effects of the water make it even harder for your food to break down.
- You could also try 1 tbl organic apple cider vinegar in warm water as it has an alkalising effect.
Reflux can also be caused by the food you are eating;
- Do you experience reflux after specific foods? Such as, coffee, chilli, tomato, chocolate, alcohol, citrus, high fat meals, bread, pasta
- Do you eat past the point of being full for most meals?
- When you eat your food, do you relate to Fat Bastard from Austin Powers? As in, you see food, and your first though is 'GET IN MA BELLEH!!!" before you wolf it all down in three minutes?
If you answered yes to any of the questions above, dietary intervention is going to be a very powerful healing tool for you, but we'll discuss particular remedies in the next section.
Your reflux may also be caused by a dysfunction in the emptying of the contents of your stomach into your small intestine, or by reduced function of the lower oesophageal sphincter, making it unable to keep the stomach contents in the stomach.
Reflux and heartburn can also be aggravated by smoking, stress, weight gain, some medications, pregnancy and hiatus hernia.
- Avoid the foods in your diet that aggravate your symptoms; tomato, chilli, coffee, caffeine, chocolate, alcohol, citrus, high fat foods, breads, pasta, etc. This will be hard, but it is achievable, temporary and essential for reducing your symptoms
- Start your day with a glass of warm water and either the juice of 1/2 a lemon, 1/4 grapefruit or 1 tbl organic apple cider vinegar, before breakfast. This drink not only stimulates your digestion, but helps your body detoxify, due to the bitter flavour.
- Quit smoking. This is a big aggravator of reflux and will aggravate the inflammation caused by oesophageal erosion by stomach acid (try the Quit Buddy app https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/quit-now-my-quitbuddy/id527485761?mt=8)
- Slow down when you eat and chew your food! This will stop you from filling your stomach too much and make it easier to digest your food. It will also stimulate digestive secretions, such as stomach acid, pancreatic enzymes and bile that are essential for the digestion and absorption of nutrients from your food. There are two ways to achieve this; either put down your fork between mouthfuls and don't pick it up until ALL the food is chewed and swallowed; OR make sure you chew each mouthful a MINIMUM of 20 times.
- Drink water away from meals. This puts lets pressure on your oesophageal sphincter and also means you will absorb more nutrients from each meal, because they aren't being washed away.
- Regular exercise (every day). This reduces stress, and aids weight loss which may be aggravating your symptoms
- Elevate the head of your bed with pillows. Utilise gravity if you get reflux at night, by elevating your head, allowing the contents of your oesophagus to slowly empty back into your stomach.
- Avoid peppermint tea, as it relaxes your lower oesophageal sphincter, allowing the contents of your stomach to empty into your oesophagus easily.
If you find that these remedies do not help, please consult your doctor.
Thanks again for your question Georgia, I hope that this was easy to understand and helps you out.
If you would like to ask me a question, either leave a comment below, or go to my Facebook page (www.facebook.com/MirandasRecipes).
Heartburn information Australia – http://www.heartburn.com.au/
ABC Health & Wellbeing – http://www.abc.net.au/health/library/stories/2006/09/25/1831764.htm
My Dr Australia – http://www.mydr.com.au/gastrointestinal-health/gastro-oesophageal-reflux-what-causes-it
Iwai, W, Abe, Y, Iijima, K, Koike, T, Uno, K, Asano, N, Imatani, A & Shimosegawa, T 2012, 'Gastric Hypochlorhydria is Associated with an Exacerbation of Dyspeptic Symptoms in Female Patients', Journal of Gastroenterology
Kaltenbach, T, Crockett, S & Gerson, L 2006, 'Are Lifestyle Measures Effective in Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: An Evidence Based Approach', Archives of Internal Medicine, vol.166, no.9, pp.965-971
Kumar, P & Clark, M 2009, 'Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine', 7th edn, Saunders Elsevier, Sydney, pp.249-252
Mahan, L, Escott-Stump, S & Raymond, J 2012, 'Krause's Food and the Nutrition Care Process', 13th edn, Elsevier, USA, pp.8
Sarris, J & Wardle, J 2012, 'Clinical Naturopathy: An Evidence-Based Guide to Practice', Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, Australia, pp.75-80
Tortora, G & Derrickson, B 2009, 'Principles of Anatomy and Physiology', 12th edn, John Wiley & Sons Inc, USA, pp.936-938


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Unlike teasers one and two, number three does not feature flashes of Demi smoldering fiercely into the camera. It's much darker and more shadowy than the first two, featuring someone (we assume it must be Demetria herself) rising from a pool of quicksilver-y looking liquid. The whole third teaser — all 10 seconds of it — is actually quite reminiscent of the opening credits of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
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This Your Dollars @ Work post is a spotlight on Pathfinders for Autism, a 2013 Autism Speaks Chapter Grant recipient. With funding from Autism Speaks, Shelly McLaughlin and Trish Kane at Pathfinders for Autism developed Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorders, a well-rounded first responder curriculum which meets the mandated autism training requirements that all Maryland officers must undergo.
With the prevalence of autism now estimated by the CDC at 1 in 68, it is critical for all first responders to learn best practices for responding to emergency situations involving a person with autism. Through the 2013 Chapter Grants program, Autism Speaks was excited to provide $5,000 for the development of a vital training curriculum for first responders! The goal is to train those who serve the autism community on a daily basis and often in high-stress situations, where a practical understanding of autism can mean the difference between safety and harm. The training provides law enforcement and first responders with "scenario-based" instruction with practical application in the field and a balance of factual information and practical tips and strategies. Participants leave their sessions with a comprehensive understanding as to why this autism training is important and how it will play into their daily work experience.
Unfortunately, as the weather gets warmer, the number of people with autism who wander from safety will continue to rise. Having a comprehensive safety plan is imperative for families of the many individuals with autism who are prone to wandering. But when a wandering emergency occurs, trained first responders will know to ask what social and sensory elements may or may not work in finding that individual safely. This autism training can assist first responders in the difficult job they do every day — protecting and serving our community — by helping them to understand how best to interact with individuals with autism. For families of people with autism prone to wandering, knowing that local first responders participated in training about autism brings some peace of mind.
Autism Speaks staff recently attended one of the Pathfinders for Autism first responder trainings being offered to law enforcement officers from Harford County Sheriff's Office in Maryland. Pathfinders for Autism staffmembers Shelly McLaughlin and Trish Kane presented alongside Detective Janelle E. Myers of the Harford County Sheriff's Office.
"The training provided law enforcement with a valuable opportunity to learn about autism through real life scenarios and engaging activities," said Autism Speaks staffer Meaghan Pawley. "We could tell it struck a chord with many of the attendees because they asked to be involved in future autism training events."
The Pathfinders for Autism curriculum will be used by the Autism Speaks Programs & Services team to provide additional first responder autism awareness trainings in communities across the country. For more information please email email@example.com.
For information about scheduling Pathfinders for Autism training in Maryland, download the Pathfinders for Autism First Responder Training brochure here or visit www.pathfindersforautism.org.
Your Dollars @ Work is a blog series highlighting the important work of past recipients of Autism Speaks grants to give you a glimpse into how your donations are changing lives of so many in the autism community! Check out previous entries here.


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- " good overall! the room felt just a bit cold though "
- 15 Nov 2014 Daniel Spain
- " This is the greatest place to stay. Stuff was really friendly, helpful. We went together to many hikes and to the most beautiful secret beaches. We had barbeque and pizza nights for free :-) and went out every night to have party. I was here for 2months and after my first week i decided to stay here for the whole time. Rooms are clean and nice, with own shower, but what i really loved is the terrace upstairs, we had so many good nights there, sometimes guys played on gitar and sang :-) "
- 18 Sep 2014 Anonymous Hungary
- " This place overall was excellent! The location, staff, and atmosphere wants me to go back again. "
- 16 Sep 2014 Ryan
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- 11 Sep 2014 Lindsay Australia
- " The best hostel I've ever stayed in - run by nice, good people and filled with nice, good people. The fact it was located in Hawaii was a bonus. "
- 06 Sep 2014 Matthew Australia
- " Everything was awesome!! If I will go Hawaii again, I will defiantly stay again:) This hostel staff was so friendly. The hostel is close to everything.(beach and restaurant..). I ate a breakfast and I met a lot of new friends at the rooftop. but they don't have a ATM and vending machine. "
- 04 Sep 2014 Na Eon South Korea
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- 01 Sep 2014 Bonny USA
- " Hostel is in a great location in Waikiki. Clean rooms with comfortable beds. A few small things could be done better - only 4 lockers in room with 6 beds, no luggage storage room (luggage just kept next to reception desk). Rooms a bit small with 6 beds - 4 beds would be a better size. But this is Waikiki, so hostel stacks up well against competition. "
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- 30 Aug 2014 David France
- " Free beer or pizza nights on rooftop terrace surely help to find new friends. Good location, reasonable price but pretty small rooms. No idea why the bus directions says go to Lemon Rd when the hostel is just one block from Kuhio Ave on Cartwright Rd (i.e. first left). "
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U.S. House Unanimously Passes Peters' Common Sense Bipartisan Bill to Cut Red Tape for Michigan Auto Dealers & Consumers01/08/14
U.S. House Unanimously Passes Peters' Common Sense Bipartisan Bill to Cut Red Tape for Michigan Auto Dealers & Consumers
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representative and Congressional Auto Caucus Co-Chair Gary Peters applauded the U.S. House passage of a bipartisan bill he authored with Congressman Bob Latta (R-OH) that eliminates redundancies and red tape and invests in Michigan auto manufacturers, dealers and consumers. The Peters-Latta initiative, H.R. 724, eliminates a redundant and outdated provision of The Clean Air Act that requires auto dealers to provide consumers with a certificate confirming a vehicle's compliance with The Clean Air Act, even though all cars and trucks sold in the U.S. must comply with The Clean Air Act when they leave the factory. Peters' simple and straightforward bill eliminates unnecessary paperwork for small businesses and consumers. The bill passed the House today by a vote of 405 – 0.
Peters said:"I'm proud to offer a common-sense solution to cut red tape for Michigan auto dealers and consumers, and I'm glad that Congress was able to put aside politics to deliver for Michigan small businesses and our middle class families. Auto dealers and consumers should be able to focus on business not additional paperwork."
He continued,"As Co-Chair of the Congressional Auto Caucus, I believe Michigan cannot have a strong middle class without a strong manufacturing sector, and we can't have a strong manufacturing sector without a thriving auto industry. I will continue to fight for common-sense ways to invest in our manufacturing base and in our auto industry to support job creation and economic growth."
Earlier today, Rep. Peters took to the House Floor in support of his bill. To see the speech click here.
Peters' bill has earned critical support from the National Auto Dealers Association (NADA), the Auto Alliance, the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, Global Automakers, and the American International Automobile Dealers Association. A letter in support is attached.
The National Automobile Dealers Association President Peter Welch praised Peters' efforts on behalf of small businesses,"NADA commends Rep. Peters for his leadership to reduce regulatory burdens on small business auto dealers by repealing this unnecessary mandate."
In 2009, Rep. Peters was an outspoken champion for the auto rescue and fought to secure the loans needed to restructure Chrysler and GM. He has been instrumental in drafting legislation to support the American auto industry. Rep. Peters helped write and pass the Small Business Jobs Act and authored the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) which provides necessary credit so that small businesses can grow and create jobs.
- Auto Industry Letter in Support of HR 724 (01/08/14 03:38 PM PST)
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